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* ''[[Mai-HiME]]'', less because of any dislike between the characters than because Akira has a secret to keep from Takumi. Thus, Akira uses a curtain to separate the room, rather than a line.

* Suiseiseki in ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'', who initially dislikes Jun, draws an obviously biased one in his room.

** It's also a [[Shout-Out]] to [[It Happened One Night]], where the blanket separating the male and female protagonists ( {{spoiler|and eventual [[Love Interest|Love Interests]]}}) is also called "the wall of Jericho".

* Happened once in "[[Pokémon]]" where [[Fiery Redhead|Jessie and Misty]] fell onto a small rock ledge on a cliff together. Misty draws a line on the rock to give each of them a side while they wait for rescue. Her side is much larger than Jessie's.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Discworld]]''

* The [[Gordon Korman]] young adult novel ''The Toilet Paper Tigers''. The bratty older brother has laid tape down the middle of the room, and penalizes any (real or imagined) affront with moving the tape to shrink the younger brother's side.

* In ''The War with Mr. Wizzle'' by the same author: After [[Bruno and Boots]] have a fight, Bruno divvies up the room and refuses to talk to Boots. (He does permit him to use the bathroom, though.)

* The page image comes from the children's book ''[[The Berenstain Bears]] Get in a Fight''. Because they both woke up in a foul mood and are having a bitter argument, Brother and Sister divide their treehouse in half.

* There's a children's ''[[Star Trek]]'' book where Worf and his roommate at the Academy do this.

 

 

* Variant: in ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'', Les Nessman, believing that he deserved an office of his own, used masking tape to mark off an area on the floor of the newsroom around his desk which he claimed to be his "office", and demanded that people "knock on the door" and request entry before crossing the taped line to approach his desk.

* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]:'' In at ''least'' one episode, a line was painted or taped, and possibly in several episodes.

* In ''[[Happy Days]],'' Ralph and Potsie acted on the bad advice secretly written by Richie in an advice column about dividing their apartment. This creates a war of sides where each has the entirety of a necessary part of the apartment (Ralph=kitchen, Potsie=bathroom). Eventually, the resulting fight gets so bad that when Richie tries to resolve the situation, he has to make them all stand on the line itself as neutral territory like tightrope walkers, only to have Fonz come and note to the bizarre sight, "And you're doing without a net."

* In the ''Milky Jo'' episode of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' Howard and Vince end up washed up on a desert island and divide it up this way.

* An episode of ''[[The Munsters]]'' had Grampa and Herman split the house down the middle after an argument about who actually owned the place heats up. This includes a painted white line (with some effort being put toward an actual stone wall), and the vindictive act of cutting in half any item halfway across both lines. The whole thing is put to rest when Lilly uses some awkward food placement at the dinner table to get them to rethink the logistics of the layout.

* Done in an episode of ''Sesame Tree'', the Northern Irish version of ''[[Sesame Street]]''. The two characters realise that dividing the room is silly, and they should learn how to share it. [[The Troubles|Clearly no analogy intended there.]]

* In one episode of ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'', Henry and Sally have to share a desk and get into an argument about each keeping to their own side. As the episode goes on the argument takes an increasingly militaristic tone with disputes about how one of them has made excursions into the agreed-upon neutral zone in the middle of the desk. In the end, Helen removes their desk entirely and puts two kiddie tables in its place.

* In the ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' episode "Divided we Stand", Harold and Albert divide the house in two. Even the TV gets divided between them.

* A four-way version happened on ''[[The Monkees]]'' when the four boys were fighting over a girl. The show played with it, noting that each would have access to only one particular vital part of the apartment. Davy's side had the front door, implying he was the only one with the ability to come and go; however, he "would gladly trade Mike for the bathroom right away". Moments later, the whole arrangement is quickly forgotten when a show comes on TV that they want to see and everyone rushes to Peter's side (which contains the television set).

* The ''[[MASH the Series|M*A*S*H]]'' episode "The Billfold Syndrome" has Charles section off the Swamp between himself and Hawkeye and BJ.

* ''[[My Talk Show]]'': Guest William Shatner takes over one section of the house/set and declares it Canadian territory.

* ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'': In a sketch, Russian and American sides of an unnamed European Country are decided after years of negotiation -- down the center of the bedroom of a pair of newlyweds. A painter paints a line down the wall and on the floor. Suddenly the husband (on the Amerian side) needs a passport to visit his wife (on the Russian side).

* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' have done this at least once.

* Alexia does this in the ''[[Pixelface]]'' episode "High Spirits" when the others get angry at her for taking their stuff with permission. She divides the console in half, with her on one side and everyone else on the other.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': Early on, when Vanille and Sazh stop for the night, she grabs a stick and draws a circle around her blanket, and orders him not to cross the line, to much eye-rolling on his part. It then cuts to her distinctly on the wrong side of the line, huddled against his back and sniffling.

 

* Episode 11 of ''[[Freemans Mind]]'' references this. After he hops over a laser tripwire, a Vortigaunt spawns on the other side of it. After killing it, he shouts:

{{quote| ''Gordon''': "Stay on your side of the line! My roommate in college used to do the same thing. Your side is the one where everyone is dead and there are no exits. My side is the one filled with hope, love and submachine guns."}}

 

 

* Parodied in ''[[Clone High]]'': Joan and Cleo are forced to share a room, so Joan paints a line dividing it in half -- a ''horizontal'' line (bunk beds, you see). Cleo gets the lower half, and Joan gradually becomes "like a monkey in every way."

* In ''Arthur'', a babysitter did this to try to stop Arthur and D.W. from fighting. It didn't work, as the two soon begin fighting over a jacket draped over the tape line.

* ''[[South Park]]''

** In one episode, the townsfolk enter a huge argument with themselves over the Iraq war. They eventually decide to split the town into what Skeeter calls the "Pro-War side" and the "Unpatriotic side" (to which Randy responds they should call the Anti-War side the "Rational side" and the Pro-War side the "Redneck side"). Very quickly they realise the flaw in their plan as the town only has one school, post office, grocery store, etc. Eventually, they make a realisation that they're behaving foolishly:

** An earlier episode uses a more sinister variation of the trope. Two visitors from out of town come across South Park, but find it devoid of adults {{spoiler|because the kids had the vast majority falsely arrested for "molestering" them and the remaining adults moved away for fear of being arrested}}. Run by kids, the town has fractured into two units; the area now known as Treasure Cove is apparently led by Stan and occupies the poor side of town, whereas Cartman has seized control of the wealthy side of town and renamed it Smiley Town. Aside from the fact Cartman as dictator is scary enough (add to that the fact only one phone has survived in the entirety of South Park, effectively cutting off communication with the outside world), both sides have an agreement where they essentially play [[Capture the Flag]] with a book from the opposing side- whichever side doesn't have a book by [[Race Against the Clock|8:00pm]] must sacrifice one of its number to "The Provider" (in reality, the town's statue of John Elway with a faulty electrical cord nearby rendering it a [[Death Trap]]). It's only through the outsiders' interference that the kids are prevented from killing everyone in town and the adults are allowed to return.

* In ''Tigger and Pooh and a Musical Too'', a movie from ''[[Winnie the Pooh|My Friends Tigger & Pooh]]'', Tigger and Rabbit did this with ''the entire Hundred Acre Wood'', drawing up a big white line across the entire Wood and declaring themselves mayors of their respective sides.

* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', "All King, No Kingdom": King Julien divides the lemur habitat in half, one side for Maurice and Mort, the other for himself. Naturally, Julien's "half" occupies most of the habitat. Maurice and Mort then throw a party and invite all the animals in the zoo, except for Julien, who starts going crazy with loneliness.

* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', when Lucius and Jimmy are trapped on a [[Far Side Island]], Lucius does this, trapping Jimmy on a very small "half". Being [[The Pollyanna|Jimmy]], he's flattered that Lucius gives him half.

* In ''[[Angelina Ballerina]]: The Next Steps'', Angelina and Marco did this with a poster after they were assigned to work together. Marco didn't want frills and a tutu on his poster, while Angelina couldn't abide by the idea of having soccer balls in the poster. It didn't work work out, and they went through a couple of other hangups, before finally hitting on a working idea.

* On ''[[Cat Dog]]'', Cat and Dog once took this to the extreme by physically sawing all their possessions in half, including their house.

* In ''[[The Smurfs]]'' episode "Romeo and Smurfette," Papa Smurf has Brainy divide the village like this when Gargamel starts a dangerous Smurfette/Handy vs. Smurfette/Hefty [[Ship-to-Ship Combat|Ship War]]. Seriously.

* In the animated ''[[Back to The Future]]'', the kids' room is divided by a red line with "KEEP OUT!" written on each side. Note that unlike most other examples, this is the default state, rather than a one-time thing.

* Happened in a ''[[Time Squad]]'' episode when Tuddrussel and Larry were extra angry at each other: they divide the satellite in two , declare their own side off limits to the other and decide to take a trip to the gun range and kitchen respectively...then they realize that the former is on ''Larry's'' side in the latter on ''Tuddrussel's'' side. Not wanting to switch, they up trying the other's hobby out of boredom, then make up with an added appreciation for each other...[[Snap Back|until the end of the episode]].

* In ''[[The Tick]]'', [[Blob Monster|Thrakkorzog]], [[Evil Overlord|ruler]] of dimensio-err... ''Apartment'' 14-B, has this relationship with his (perfectly normal human) room-mate.

{{quote| '''Thrakkorzog:''' How many times must I tell you: Don't touch my stuff! This is ''my'' side of the living room, and that is ''your'' side of the living room. And, ''must'' you [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|drink straight from the milk carton? It's disgusting!]]}}