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** Referencing ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest|One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest]]'', there's a scene where an elderly Native American man dramatically throws a water fountain through the window and jumps out, prompting the Old Jewish man to yell after him. Later in the scene, the man throws the fountain back through ''another'' window and jumps up again because he forgot his hat.
{{quote|"You know, the door was ''open'', [[The Nicknamer|Chief Break-Everything]]!"}}
*:* Barney actually pulled off the parody in an earlier season—after Homer refused beer after being hospitalized from an exploding Duff can, Barney (unsuccessfully) smothers him with a pillow and does the fountain-through-the-window gag.
{{quote|'''Moe:''' He ''really'' needs a girlfriend.}}
*:* When the family travels to Japan, Homer does this repeatedly by walking through ''shoji'' doors, apparently not getting the concept that they ''slide''. He even does this when he and Bart go to ''prison''! (But only [[Self-Restraint|after the bail is paid]], and the door is actually ''opened''.)
*:* Subverted for laughs in the episode where Marge becomes a cop. One obstacle was a brick wall that she thought she had to climb. Chief Wiggum remarks "Huh, women. Always having trouble with the wall. They can't seem to use the door." The shot then goes to the rest of the recruits (all male) walking nonchalantly through a door.
* In an episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the now-addleminded Baxter walks through the wall five feet to the left of the door to April's office. April manages to trick him into leaving. When he realizes this and comes back, he walks past the hole he made earlier, past the door, and breaks through the wall on the other side.
* In the Imaginationland trilogy of ''[[South Park]]'', this becomes a [[Running Gag]], with Cartman always breaking through the window in the room, in a different spot if necessary.
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'''Bizarro:''' Okay.
''(smashes door to pieces)'' }}
*:* The evil Kryptonians Jax-Ur and Mala just fly through any building they meet in a straight line. This is used to emphasize how they don't care about the humans at all. In the same fight, Superman flies around the buildings.
* An early ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' episode "Injustice For All" [[Narm|ruins]] a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment when five of the heroes bust into the villains' lair. Hawkgirl breaks down the door, Superman breaks the wall next to the door, and Green Lantern goes through the window next to the hole Superman made.
* An episode in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has Jack and Maddie bursting through a wall in order to ask Sam and Tucker if they had seen their son. They leave by busting open ''another'' part of the same wall. Knowing this to be a common occurrence, Maddie disappointingly tells Sam to send the bill their way.
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* Lampshaded by [[The Joker]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AnRnO-KAfI&feature=related this clip] of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]''.
* In the ''[[Regular Show]]'' episode "Jinx": after Rigby locks the door to escape [[Mirror Universe|Ybgir]], Mordecai says that won't do any good- there's a big hole in the wall from when Ygbir escaped.
* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "An Itch of His Own" starts with the Mighty Angelo the Flea breaking down the door to his dressing room of a flea circus; inside he leaves a note to his manager that he's going on vacation, with a P.S. noting, "I'll fix the door when I get back."
 
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