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A subtrope of [[Men Can't Keep House]] and [[Vetinari Job Security]]. Contrast [[Just Fine Without You]] and [[House Husband]]. See also [[Doom It Yourself]]. Do not confuse with [[Gender Bender]].
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* Sometimes inverted when a [[Meido|maid]] character utterly fails with housework. Doubly ironic when her master is more adept than she is.
* In ''[[Ranma One Half]]'s'' third OVA, Kasumi got sick and nobody else could cook. Half-way through the OVA, the kitchen exploded.
* In the ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'' story "Manami's Big Adventure," Kyousuke volunteers to help take care of the Kasuga apartment while Manami takes the day off, and goads sister Kurumi and dad Takashi into helping him. This results in the expected devastation of their home, including a toxic "stew" made by [[Lethal Chef|Kurumi]] which [[Fire
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* The Canadian series ''The Week The Women Went''.
* One episode of ''[[Lois and Clark (TV)|Lois and Clark]]'' had Clark's parents doing this. Martha spent all day reading the newspaper, playing checkers, watching TV, etc. Jonathan had to cook, clean, shop, and run around exhausting himself trying to finish the three-page list of chores his wife had. At the end of the episode, he asks her if he ''really'' just sits around doing nothing all day while Martha works so hard. She tells him yes... but only when they're visiting Clark, and she knows he works hard when he's at home. She just wanted to prove that men aren't the only ones who work.
* Being a [[The Fifties|1950s]] sitcom, ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' did this a couple times. It also subverted the trope once; when Aunt Bee goes out of town for a few days, Andy and Opie do ''too'' good a job as housekeepers, making her feel useless... until they trash the kitchen [[Family
* [[Rumpole of the Bailey|Rumpole]] faces a more realistic form of this when Hilda takes "industrial action" in "The Summer of Discontent." The house doesn't get enough time to go to pot, but [[Lethal Chef|Rumpole sets fire to his steak]].
* ''[[Outnumbered]]'' - episode 4.2
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