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* The [[Trope Maker]] is ''[[ThreesThree's Company]]''. Its reputation as being a fountain for [[Idiot Plot|Idiot Plots]] is largely based on the only part of the show anyone remembers -- that Jack has to pretend to be gay so the landlord doesn't realize the apartment is a den of sin. You'd think Janet and Chrissy would just avert this entire conflict by getting a female roommate, but it would seem that Jack's cooking really is that good.
* Parodied in ''[[The Adventures of Sam and& Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' Season 1, where the heroes are forced to audition for "Midtown Cowboys", a show where the titular cowboys must hide their herd (of one cow) from a landlord who constantly suspects that they're hiding a cow in their apartment. Featherly's [[Tagline]] is the page quote.
** The [[Tagline]] of the sitcom itself deserves recognition, both for being an [[Expository Theme Tune]] and stupidly catchy. You wouldn't think the single line "They're probably hiding a cow!" could even be MADE into an [[Ear Worm]], but the evidence suggests otherwise.
* Parodied in a strip of ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' with "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/11/8/ That's So Locust]", a show about a ''[[Gears of War]]'' alien that must pretend to be a human woman for the purposes of this trope.
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* On ''[[The Roman Holidays]]'', Mr. Evictus was determined to prove that Gus Holiday had a lion in his family's apartment.
* In ''Love, Sex, and the IRS'', the landlord is obsessed with catching the main characters breaking his no female visitors policy. The play is about the two male roommates pretending one of them is a woman so they can cheat on their taxes by claiming to be a married couple. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|Cruella De Vil]] doesn't care about how she does it as long as she evicts the Dearlys from the farm but one of her attempts included proving they had more animals than the number allowed by their contract. (101 plus the farm animals)
 
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