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And remember, [[Truth in Television|if it hasn't happened to you]], [[I Have This Friend|it's probably happened to someone you know]], [[Squick|heaven forbid]].
 
See [[Caught Withwith Your Pants Down]] for the [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|single-player version]]; for the reverse scenario with parents walking in on their adult child getting frisky, see [[Parents Walk in At Thethe Worst Time]]. A subtrope of [[Interrupted Intimacy]].
 
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* In ''[[Yosuga no Sora]]'': {{spoiler|During Sora's arc, Kozue and Nao walk in on Haruka and Sora during climax; Kozue's reaction is to run away screaming hysterically. During Nao's arc, Sora walks in on Haruka and Nao going at it; she kicks Nao out of the house.}}
** {{spoiler|And in the [[Backstory]] of both arcs, Sora secretly sees Nao forcing herself on Haruka.}}
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', Casca, whose mind was reduced to that of a child due to some [[Go Mad From the Revelation|unfortunate events]], walks in on Luca, [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold|her temporary prostitute care-taker]], and Jerome, her [[Love Interest]] customer.
* In ''[[Happy Yarou Wedding (Manga)|Happy Yarou Wedding]]'', Yuuhi keeps trying to cover these up as "wrestling" but the five year old Shouta doesn't entirely buy it.
{{quote| "Why do you need to take your pants off every time?"}}
* In the manga ''[[Ooku]]'', the young Tsunayoshi has a breakdown after discovering {{spoiler|her father having sex with her best friend}}.
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* In ''[[Runaways]]'', when Gert finds out her parents are actually super villains, she says "This is worse than the time I walked in on them doing it!"
* [[Robert Crumb]] once tried to explain such a scene to his son as him and Aline (his wife) playing horse-riding. He didn't find an explanation though for why Aline had to be naked to do this.
* In ''[[Kick -Ass]]'', Dave walks in on his father and his new girlfriend doing it doggy-style on the living room couch.
 
 
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* Happens in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5016858/1/Seal_Shatter this] [[Naruto]] fanfic, with the predictable result/s.
* In the (not for faint-hearted!) [[Pokémon]] fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2053520/1/Latias_Journey/ Latias' Journey]'', the cast enjoys a quiet-before-the-storm party on the night before the final battle. Some of them go for more...[[Pre-Climax Climax|involved]] celebrations than others. So anyway, [[Children Are Innocent|Phanpy]] walks in on [[It Makes Sense in Context|Uncle Brother]] Pikachu going at it with a Weavile. Traumatized, he runs to Aunt Corsola for help, and walks in on ''her'' right in the middle of [[Lovable Sex Maniac|Crawdaunt's]] ''massive orgy''. You can [[Harmful to Minors|probably]] [[Blank White Eyes|imagine]] [[Heroic BSOD|what]] [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia|happens]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|next]].
* In the [[Order of the Stick]] fic the [[Oneiroi Series (Fanfic)|Oneiroi Series]], {{spoiler|Vaarsuvius's}} parents intentionally have sex where their child can see them, leading to this situation often. On the other end, [[Creepy Child|Tiasal]] has walked in on her (more modest) parents an unnamed amount of times and has even seen her grandparents going at it, and she's demonstrated a surprising amount of nonchalance about the whole thing.
* Due to a series of spoileriffic circumstances in ''[[Luminosity (Fanfic)|Luminosity]]'', Elspeth ends up with almost all of her parents' memories. After a person asks a question about how much she can remember, she thinks of the wrong memory, and...
{{quote| ''I ''remember'' my ''parent's honeymoon''!''}}
* [[Played With]] in a recent chapter of [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6254986/1/The_Anagram_of_Suzumiya_Kurumi this] fanfic-- [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Kyon's]] sister walks in on him and his girlfriend having sex. Evidently this happens so often that it no longer fazes her. Also, Mikuru ([[Kid From the Future|who in this fic is Kyon and Haruhi's future kid]]) knows about it, and is a bit shocked, even though she knew it had to happen eventually.
* Toyed with in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''[[Progress (Fanfic)|Progress]]''. Princess Luna's embarrassed enough to flee to a castle labyrinth and [[Through a Face Full of Fur|blush bright red]] after walking in on her roommate and roommate's boyfriend, but as she's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|old enough]] to figure prominently in the local [[Creation Myth]] and more than old enough to be aware of sex ([[Chaste Hero|if only in the theoretical sense]]), she attributes this reaction to her old-fashioned views. Then she has a [[Real Dreams Are Weirder|particularly surreal]] nightmare about walking in on [[Cargo Ship|Celestia with Luna's Acabus]], suggesting the matter to be much more traumatic than Luna is willing to admit to herself.
* In chapter 4 of the ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2379730/1/My_Life_as_a_Teenaged_Von_Neumann_Device My Life as a Teenaged Von Neumann Device]'', [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Sheldon]] freaks out when he walks in on Jenny and Brad after they've just had sex... {{spoiler|with unfortunate consequences, as Sheldon ends up running into the street and getting hit by a car, forcing Mrs. Wakeman to [[Brain Uploading|upload his brain]] into the body of the Silver Shell.}}
** Played for laughs in a later chapter, where Tuck freaks out after walking in on Mrs. Wakeman [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|pleasuring herself in the bathtub]]. And later still, when Tiff Crust walks in on {{spoiler|Mrs. Wakeman having [[Fan Disservice|"old-person sex"]] with [[Foe Yay|Doctor Mog]].}}
 
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* Averted in ''[[Poltergeist]]'', as Carol Ann's request for a late-night glass of water takes place when her parents are only engaged in foreplay, not intercourse.
* In ''[[Rain Man]]'', Raymond walks in on Charlie and Suzanna making love, and as he doesn't understand what's going on, mimics their orgasmic moans until Charlie realises he's in the room and snaps angrily at him.
* Occurs in ''[[The Rebound (Film)|The Rebound]]'' when Sandy's young son walks in on her and Aram having sex on the living room couch. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Not much mental scarring though.
* A very dark version occurs in ''[[Orphan (Film)|Orphan]]'', when Esther catches Kate and John having sex over the kitchen counter.
 
 
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* In ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'', a version of this is the reason why the female protagonist had a falling-out with her grandfather {{spoiler|as a young girl, she walked in on him and his "co-religionists" worshipping via an orgy}}. Not just [[Fan Disservice]] since the participants were elderly, but also rather Satanic looking.
* In ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Memory]]'', Miles has a moment of surprise when he realizes his Aunt Alys (widowed since shortly before Miles's birth) has started sleeping with his former boss, ex-[[The Spymaster|Spymaster]] Simon Illyan. When Alys's son Ivan finds out, he has reaction B, and the reader gets a nice dose of reaction C from the interplay.
** Unlike most instances of this trope, Miles and Ivan are adults. Ivan's reaction has more to do with: a) the fact that [[Squick|this is his]] ''[[Squick|mother]]'' we're talking about, and b) the fact that ''both'' Simon and Alys have public reputations for being extremely prim and proper (well, for Simon it's more "respectable" than "prim"), and [[Naughty Byby Night|what they're doing together]] is... not.
* Robin in [[The Tomorrow Series]] mentions this was how she last saw her parents.
* Briefly discussed in ''[[Head Count]]'' by Ingrid Noll: when Maya is in counselling after {{spoiler|accidentally killing her brother}}, she makes up a dream about being a little bird that flies around and looks into people's windows. Her psychiatrist assumes that she must have walked in on her parents as a child.
* [[Norman Mailer]]'s ''[[The Castle in The Forest (Literature)|The Castle in Thethe Forest]]'' has none less than a young [[Adolf Hitler]] being traumatised after walking in on his parents having sex in the 69 position.
* Parodied in the [[Girl Genius]] novel ''Agatha H. and the Airship City'': Young Agatha was traumatized by walking in on her [[Artificial Human|"construct"]] foster parents recharging themselves.
 
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** Used more than once too, as later in the series, Eric casually walks into the kitchen, where his parents are playing an "adult" version of Marco Polo (don't ask).
** The age-flip occurs in the episode about Jackie's lodge, where at the end of the episode Kitty and Red walk in on Eric and Donna doing the horizontal tango on the kitchen table. The next scene shows Kitty and Red scrubbing the table furiously to cleanse it, eventually deciding that it would just be best to get a new table.
* In an episode of ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'', Brady sees Harry and Charlotte having sex. Charlotte freaks out and calls Miranda, panicking and convinced that she has damaged the boy for life. Miranda is amused and explains to Charlotte that being a toddler, he doesn't even know where his nose is, let alone what sex is.
* J.D. explains his emotional problems thusly in ''[[Scrubs]]'':
{{quote| ''My emotional journey began at 5 years old when I walked in on my parents having sex in a position my father would later playfully describe as "the jackhammer".''}}
* On ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', Gaby and Carlos are having blind sex (he is blind; she's wearing a blindfold). Gaby hears a sound, rips off the blindfold and, lo and behold, there is Juanita drinking from a juice box. They don't know how long Juanita has been there, either.
* Dawson from ''[[DawsonsDawson's Creek]]'' was constantly walking in on his parents having sex, at least in the first season. He also once saw the "preview" to some reconciliatory sex between them, but managed to sneak out unnoticed before "the main attraction".
* Monica from ''[[Friends]]'' first found a video tape of her parents having sex (complete with "Oh Jack" and "Oh Judy"). Then a few episodes later she was hiding from her parents in the bathroom when both walk in, and, well, this quote pretty much sums it up:
{{quote| '''Ross''': Mon? Mon, are you okay?<br />
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'''Erin''': Yeah, I know. Otherwise, what I walked in on my mother doing to him would've been so sick! }}
* An episode of ''Ready or Not'' revolved around sexuality, beginning with Amanda walking into her parents shagging it out.
* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' has the adult version when Gwen walks in on Jack and Ianto. In a hothouse. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* On ''[[Modern Family]]'', Phil and Claire's kids walk in on them having sex which traumatizes both Claire and the kids. Phil tries to deal with it humorously. The family have an uncomfortable talk about it.
* ''[[King of Queens]]'' Doug and Carrie look after Deacon and Kelly's kids at their apartment while they're out of town. One of the kids walk in on Doug and Carrie having sex and draws a picture of it.
* In ''[[Sugar Rush (TV)]]'', Kim finds out about her mother's affair with their home decorator when she walks in on them having very loud sex in the living room.
* Referenced in [http://youtu.be/iD1Xjdr1TbM?t=40s this scene] from ''[[Eastbound and Down]]''.
* In ''[[30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'' Nancy Dononvan has given at least two different excuses to her children when they walked in on her. She comments to Jack that they walk in a lot, but doesn't specify how much "a lot" is.
* In ''[[Mad Men]]'', Sally Draper sees {{spoiler|her step-grandmother giving a blowjob to her [[Honorary Uncle]] Roger Sterling.}} Given that she's pretty precocious (despite being only 12 or 13, she's more aware than the average girl her age, and {{spoiler|has been masturbating herself for at least a year}}), she doesn't seem to be particularly scarred--merely astonished and kinda disgusted.
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Kana from [[Kana: Little Sister]] once catches her brother Taka and his friend Yumi having sex. Aaaaaawkward.
** [[Brother-Sister Incest|Or the other way around, with Kana and Taka being caught by Yumi.]] [[Up to Eleven]] awkward?
* A funny machinima made with [[The Sims|The Sims 3]] milks this trope [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sfVncm8k1U&feature=relmfu for all it's worth].
* In ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'', it is revealed that as a kid, government agent Sasha Nein read [[Dirty Mind Reading|his father's thoughts]] to see what his [[Missing Mom]] was like. It doesn't end well.
** A pretty tragic example, seeing as he was just remembering the woman he loved and it causes Sasha to freak out so badly he runs away from home.
* ''[[You Don't Know Jack]]: The Ride'' includes a question, based on the idea that [[Steven Seagal]] movies all have three syllables (''[[Under Siege]]'', ''[[Hard to Kill]]'', et. al.) and asks the contestant(s) to identify the likely plot to a Seagal movie named ''Primal Scene'' (the correct answer, of course, being the outline of this trope). At the end of the round, players are treated to someone impersonating Seagal's voice and acting style and blandly exclaiming, "Oh no, mom and dad are wrestling!"
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* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had it in a [[Flash Back]] to Bart's first words. He's walking down the hall and sees Homer and Marge fooling around, to which he says "[[Catch Phrase|¡AY CARAMBA!]]"<ref>Interjection denoting surprise</ref> For obvious reasons, Marge thought it better not to bring it up.
** Also happens in "The Haw-Hawed Couple", when Bart and Lisa walked in on Homer and Marge 'Snuggling', despite the boombox playing the fake argument tape Homer and Marge made, leaving Bart traumatized.
*** Until he gets some perspective from Milhouse: "Trust me, Bart, it's better to walk in on both your parents instead of [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|just one of them]]."
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' - "The Son Also Draws":
{{quote| '''Lois:''' Now, you shouldn't be frightened, Stewie. What you saw was actually a very beautiful thing.<br />
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'''Cartman''': Oh, very funny!<br />
'''Kyle''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Hey, it IS Cartman's mom!]] }}
* [[Invoked]] in the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode "I Am the Walrus"; Steve is trying to usurp Stan's role as the Alpha Male of the house, so Stan tricks Steve into walking in on him and Francine being intimate. After brutally averting [[Not What It Looks Like]], he tells Steve that the fact that he mates and Steve doesn't proves he's still top dog.
 
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