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* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s chapter books ''Chair Person'', ''The Four Grannies'' and ''Who Got Rid Of Angus Flint?'' has been collected as a volume called ''Stopping For A Spell'' whose back cover describes all three stories in terms of this trope.
* As in the page quote - E. Gorey's short story ''The Doubtful Guest'' involves a ''highly'' annoying [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Penguin-like creature]] constantly angering a family.
* [[Ogden Nash]] wrote a poem about The Thing That Would Not Leave called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180127035958/http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/polterguest.html Polterguest, My Polterguest]''.
* A children's book called ''[[The Trolls]]'' has a woman tell her nieces and nephews about growing up in Vancouver with her eccentric family. One of these family members was their great-uncle Louis, who came for two weeks and stayed for six years. {{spoiler|He only left after he insisted he saved the narrator's younger brother from a pack of trolls and the narrator's mother ordered him out in disgust.}}
* In the story ''[[Fudge|Superfudge]]'', the Hatcher family is constantly annoyed by Fudge's friend Daniel. At one point, Daniel looks ready to invite himself to stay for dinner with them, but Mrs. Hatcher tricks him into leaving by pretending that they're having peas and onions with their dinner (two foods that he hates).
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* Casey Jones is a mild version of this in one episode of the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''. He doesn't stay that long, comparatively, but he does a fair amount of damage to the furnishings before he goes. The Turtles (especially Mikey) even make several "Thing That Would Not Leave" jokes.
* In ''[[Scooby Doo|The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]]'', [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Vincent Van Ghoul]] was staying with the crew while his home was being fumigated, he was mostly staying in bed and made unreasonable demands. Daphne called him "The Thing That Wouldn't Leave", and after their trip through the funny papers, the gang groaned when they learned the fumigation was going to take longer.
* Nergal becomes one of these to Billy's family in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In an episode of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' titled "The Bing That Wouldn't Leave" involves Norbert and Dagget rescuing a chameleon named Bing who won't leave them alone. They try all sorts of schemes to get rid of him, and eventually try passing him along to one of their other friends, but they find out Bing's reputation for clinginess proceeds him.
* In ''[[Static Shock]]'', Richie hangs out at the Hawkins household so often that Sharon says he ought to pay them rent. Virgil and his father don't seem to care too much, though.
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