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[[File:bulging-closet-200_4516.gif|frame]]
{{quote|''"No, don't open that door, McGee!"''|'''Molly''', ''[[
A character opens a surreptitiously bulging door to a storage area, and is buried in an avalanche of junk, followed by a skier or something if the authors are feeling particularly silly.
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Apparently, all household junk is rubbery and spongy enough that you can squeeze a roomful of the stuff into a single foot-deep closet, as long as you're strong enough to force the door shut afterward. Given the fact that many of these knickknacks can be comfortably squeezed into (and pulled out of) [[Hammerspace|thin air]], this may not be that inexplicable.
Alternatively, the closet could just be [[Bigger
Sometimes [[Truth in Television]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* Happens in the very first episode of ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* A minor [[Running Gag]] in Belgian comic ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]''. We are once shown Gaston's technique for filling the dreaded cabinet so that things don't fall out: he lays it down and quite literally shovels everything in.
* In the comic ''[[Suske
== Comic Strips ==
* In ''[[
{{quote| '''Calvin's Mom:''' Back to work, kiddo.<br />
'''Calvin:''' YOU made THIS mess! YOU clean it up! }}
* ''[[
* A [[Running Gag]] in the newspaper strip ''Big Nate'', with Nate's school locker exploding with an impossible volume of crap whenever he opens it (with Nate able to swiftly find whatever he wants to in the debris).
* Snoopy's doghouse, in [http://gocomics.com/peanuts/1963/02/16/ a 1963] ''[[
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Happen with the Wardrobe in ''[[
* The "broom closet" Hoggle opens accidentally in the oubliette in ''[[
{{quote| '''Hoggle:''' Well, can't be right all the time.}}
* [[The State Room Sketch]] in ''[[A Night
== Live-Action TV ==
* Happened once in, of all places, ''[[Star Trek:
** The fact that tribbles are still falling on Kirk's head after the trap is open is [[Retcon|explained somewhat]] in the ''[[Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Trial and Tribble-ations", when it is revealed that the tribbles are being thrown out onto him by people trying to identify which one is a bomb.
* ''[[Zoboomafoo]]'': Whenever the Kratt Brothers want to go on an adventure, they open the closet and just shield themselves from the falling safari gear. Then they pick up what they need from whatever fell on the ground and leave. Also subverted, as a female guest-host who occasionally visited was able to open the closet, take out what she wanted, and close it again, without any problem. Of course, the next time the guys opened the closet, they again had all their stuff raining down on them.
* In an episode of ''[[
* Happens to [[House (TV series)|House]] in "Clueless".
* ''[[ICarly
** In an episode, Spencer is going on a camping trip and needs to get his sleeping bag out of the Shays' storage locker in the basement. Guess what happens next.
** In another, Sam rigs Lewbert's cupboards to bury him with golf balls.
* Used twice in one episode of ''[[Three's Company
* A ''[[
* An episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show (TV)|The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' has Rob imagining the world has been taken over by aliens through the use of walnuts (it's a long story). The episode climaxes with Rob opening open a hall closet and a ton of walnuts cascading out...followed by his wife Laura.
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== Radio ==
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[
== Video Games ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Sam
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
** Used early, when Agatha cleans up a lab by stuffing a nearby closet with all the junk, and then the overlord's son Gilgamesh [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021220 decides to open it to get something]. ("That's the ''worst'' filing system I've ''ever seen''.") The bump on the head actually ''helps'' him clear up his thoughts.
** It's also used in a wallpaper that shows Agatha, Gilgamesh, ''[[OT 3|and]]'' Tarvek housecleaning; Krosp has just opened a door and a huge pile of ''skulls'' have fallen out. The featherduster Agatha's holding seems rather inadequate to the task ahead....
* In ''[[Sequential Art (
* ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[
* ''[[
** In the short ''Fool Coverage'', insurance salesman [[Daffy Duck]] rigs up one of these to convince Porky Pig he needs a policy. Naturally, it backfires and Daffy's the one who ends up buried in junk.
** In ''Thumb Fun'', Daffy overstuffs the trunk of Porky's car to similar effect.
** ''Literal'' exploding closets are utilized in some shorts, as when a character finds himself in a dark closet and lights a match only to find it is filled with explosives, with [[Made of Explodium|predictable results]].
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
* ''[[Codename
* This happens in the ''[[
* [[
* Happens in the opening of ''[[
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