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Ceiling Banger
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Living in an apartment has a big issue. They aren't soundproof, so noise from one carries to the other. This is true in real life as well as in media. And in both, a common way to deal with this is to bang on the wall/floor/ceiling, depending on the direction of the noise, in the hopes that this will quiet the offending noise. And in both, this rarely works, and may even encourage the neighbors. One of the most commonly portrayed versions of this is an old person banging on the ceiling with a broom. If the setting is a dormitory (again both in fiction and out), expect this trope, since: young and frequently inebriated college students are hardly known for their ability to remain quiet and dorms tend to have even thinner walls and even more people in the same amount of space than an apartment building. Right Through the Wall may induce this due to people being entirely too loud about their...business. Compare Big "SHUT UP!". Not related to "Banging" on the ceiling. |
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The Far Side: One strip has the noisy person on the phone with the complainer, saying something like "Well why don't you make me shut up, or do you just talk big?", and the complainer is a giant who completely fills his apartment room. Another has the complainer about to march up there and give the noisy group a piece of his mind, and they are all a bunch of robed cultists performing ritual sacrifices. | |
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In Super Mario RPG, one citizen of Monstro Town complains that he keeps hearing strange noises and incoherent muttering next door. Mario tries to investigate, but the door is always locked. Later in the game, Mario can open the door, and it turns out his neighbor is Culex, a powerful sorcerer drawn in the normal ''Final Fantasy'' art style, and the house is actually a portal to his personal dimension, an Amazing Technicolor Battlefield. Culex was about to invade Mario's dimension when Mario arrived. | |
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An episode of House revolves around this with the cranky neighbor below being a Canadian veteran who lost an arm in Vietnam and suffers from extremely painful phantom limb. It's eventually resolved when House breaks into his apartment, knocks him out, duct tapes him to a chair, and... cures him. | |
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Henrietta Himberg from the first Ricky Rapper book is an extreme case: She sends angry letters to Serena and Ricky due to Ricky's loud drum playing, and ends up dognapping their neighbor's dog Vanessa to force him to stop. It turns out that it's because the sound of drums is her Trauma Button, as she was a circus acrobat who fell off a rope and severely injured herself to the sound of the drums. | |
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Horrible Histories: John Sublett, a.k.a. John W. Bubbles, the inventor of tap dancing, talks about how everyone loves him. Apart from his downstairs neighbour, who keeps pounding on the ceiling and telling him to knock it off. | |
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Community episode "Celebrity Pharmacology" ends with Annie banging on her floor in a vain attempt to quiet the PA sales announcements at the dildo store underneath her apartment. | |
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In The Maze Agency #8, Gabe's downstairs neighbour yells abuse at him and he pounds on the floor with his shoe to get her to shut up. The animosity between them becomes an issue when she is murdered. | |
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In the movie Office Space, Peter's neighbor Lawrence is constantly banging on the walls and listening in on his life. He even joins in on a supposedly top-secret conversation from the other side of the wall. | |
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Used a lot in recent years in For Better or for Worse because of the crabby downstairs neighbours Mike and Deanna have...and Deanna's mom provoking them for being so crabby. The neighbours damage the ceiling while doing this and the landlady had all the proof she needed finding the broken plaster in the trash to hit them with the bill for the repairs. | |
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In Excel♡Saga, Watanabe gets infuriated at all the noise Excel's making in the next-door apartment at the end of episode 1. | |
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An animated insert on Sesame Street has an insomniac living on the second floor of a three-story apartment building. His upstairs neighbor snores and his downstairs neighbor sneezes. (Watch it here.) | |
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The first few episodes of Welcome to the NHK have the main protagonist, Satou, being driven half-mad by his next-door neighbor (next door but sharing the same wall), who keeps playing the same J-Pop song, nonstop, 24 hours a day. A number of times he angrily kicks the wall and yells for his neighbor to turn the music down. | |
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In the DS game Touch Detective, your first case has you visiting the main character's extremely ditzy friend in her apartment. While you're talking, she hears her upstairs neighbor comes in, excuses herself for a moment, then starts banging on the ceiling with a stick of some sort, receiving some stomps in reply. When your shocked main character asks what she's doing, she explains that she's just greeting her neighbor in Morse code. The problem? As you find out when you visit the neighbor, your friend never explained this system at all, and the neighbor is just trying to get her to shut up with their "replies". You, of course, explain the mistake. It's implied that the neighbor goes along with it from then on, but it's not really brought up again, so who knows? | |
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In Antonia's Line, a character known only as the Protestant bangs on the ceiling with a broom whenever the lady above him, Mad Madonna, howls at the moon. | |
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In the pilot of Jessica Jones (2015), the title character is woken by the squabbling couple upstairs and throws her boot at the ceiling hard enough to knock plaster off it onto her bed. We then get a shot of the ceiling with multiple bootmarks and chipped plaster. | |
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The Wizards of Waverly Place "Jalex"-fic Justin Left Stanford is made of this trope. Central to the story is how Alex gets back at Justin for going to college in California (and leaving her) by learning how to use the 'spell locks' to ensure that during his vacation time at home, he can hear and enjoy every moment of her nightly fantasies about him. | |
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The Family Upstairs was all about Mr. Dingbat's failed attempts to get the neighbors upstairs to stop making such a racket. | |
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During Lipstick On Your Collar, Francis Francis's aunt and uncle exchange pounding through the ceiling with the upstairs neighbours (Corporal Pete berry and wife Sylvia) in response to Sylvia playing content loudly, or energetic sex. Seen mostly in episode 2. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one Donald Duck story by Carl Barks, Donald and his nephews move into a terraced house in a neighborhood that's famous for its quietness. Donald, being Donald, manages to quickly get into an Escalating War of ceiling-banging with his new next-door neighbor, with the two using increasingly loud methods to get the other to stop making noise. The only thing that finally manages to stop them is their mellow upstairs neighbor blowing a massive alpenhorn, which temporarily deafens them both. | |
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The Sims 2 Apartment Life lets you be on either side of the equation: Your sim may have a noisy neighbor, and decide to bang on the wall, or your sim may be a noisy neighbor, and have his/her wall banged upon. However, dorm walls in The Sims 2 University never have the same problem; a Sim can sleep in his/her dorm room even if a wild party is going on in common space. | |
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Eulice does this in one of the early strips of Ménage à 3, with a twist: she does indeed interrupt a conversation, but not due to being bothered by the noise. Rather, it is solely to reaffirm a statement in the conversation that she will have Gary's hide in the event the rent is not paid promptly. | |
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Adrian Mole: Adrian plays his Abba records at the highest volume, until the deaf woman next door bangs on the wall. | |
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Nicole's upstairs tenant in Les Diaboliques, attempting to listen to a radio quiz show, is aggravated by her noisily filling her bathtub at 10 p.m. | |
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In 101 Dalmatians, this is Nanny's standard method of gaining Roger's attention when he's working on his music in his attic workshop. Thus, it is a welcome signal to take a break instead of being one of irritation. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, there are two brothers in a house on the first island. The strong brother on the ground floor sometimes knocks things over by ramming into the wall, the smart brother on the top floor responds by banging loudly on the floor/ceiling while yelling for him to stop that. | |
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An odd variant occurs in 68 Kill, where Liza and Chip have noisy, animalistic sex in their car and Violet—who is locked in the trunk—bangs on the trunk lid to remind them that she is still there and can hear them. | |
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In The Lion King 1 ½, it's shown that during the "I Just Can't Wait To Be King" scene, Timon and Pumbaa were sleeping in their new home. Timon then grabbed a twig to get them to keep it down, eventually using it to inadvertently knocking over the animal tower at the end of the song. | |
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This is the Land Of the Livid Dead's first reaction to Rayman and company's noisy dozing in Rayman Origins, causing the tree Rayman's crew is in to shake. Not only do they fail to get the message, but the shaking causes their snoring to increase tempo. | |
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The Foo Fighters song "The Sky Is A Neighborhood" includes this in the chorus. | |
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In the French comedy Delusions of Grandeur, Blaze the valet (Yves Montand) is keeping his master Don Salluste (Louis de Funès) awake by dancing the flamenco and singing in the small room right atop Salluste's luxurious bedroom. Since it's a castle, the ceiling is very high and Salluste has first to build up an improbable pile of furniture and chairs to reach it. Then he bangs the ceiling with the handle of a halberd, to no avail... until the tip goes through all the way, right between Blaze's feet. The sassy valet then pulls on it, making Salluste lose his footing and the pile of furniture collapse underneath him just as he clings to the halberd. Then, he shouts at Blaze to let go, and the latter complies... letting Salluste fall from a good height, the blade of the halberd landing pointy end first and sending a comical vibration throughout the irate nobleman. | |
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In the Hercules: The Animated Series episode "The Bacchanal", during Bacchus' song, Hades is shown doing this in the Underworld, dressed in pajamas with a sleepy-looking Pain and Panic standing off to the side. | |
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Bernard does it in an episode of Black Books, despite the fact the couple making the noise are not actually upstairs, and causes a huge chunk of plaster to fall on a slumbering Fran in the process. | |
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The Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "Sex and Violence" had a brief bit with a man banging on the ceiling with a broom. It was the transition between two sketches, with the family of the working-class playwright being shushed by Michael Palin so he could introduce a man with three buttocks. "We've done that!" All right, all right! A man with... nine legs! "He ran away." Oh, bloody hell. Uh... a Scotsman on a horse! [old ladies applaud] | |
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An episode of My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute has Kirino Squeeing about an H-scene in the Eroge she's playing... so her brother had to slam the wall to quiet her down. Kirino is not amused. | |
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Done in the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "A Glass of Warm Ed", with Sarah banging a lawnmower-toy thing on the floor. | |
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In Mork & Mindy, this trope is used for a classic gag. Mindy is complaining about a ceiling banger below her apartment and Mork suggests she make the best of it making by making a game of it. When Mindy asks how, Mork stomps on the floor and uses the ceiling banger's subsequent banging to sweep Mindy into a square dance with himself as the caller. | |
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Mike, Lu & Og: In "High Rise", Mike introduces the natives to the concept of apartment buildings and mentions that you use a broom to talk to the guy above you. | |
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Guys Being Dudes: One of the factors that drives Sierra to decide Arlo needs to get laid in order to stop his descent into Emo madness is that he's been blasting Metalcore at all hours of the day and night, she lives in the room next to him, and she hasn't gotten a good night's sleep in weeks. | |
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Parodied in a cutaway gag on Family Guy. A guy sneezes, and that set off the woman in the apartment below. The guy sighs at this overreaction, and she threatens to call the police. | |
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Happens in a couple of How I Met Your Mother episodes, most notably in the one where Future Ted tells his kids that they were annoyed by the loud bagpiping of the neighbors. Also referenced in another episode where Lilly tells Ted she can hear Robin's orgasms because the walls are thin. | |
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The I Love Lucy episode "Breaking the Lease" is a prime example of this. After a night of window slamming at the Ricardos' apartment, the Mertzes downstairs complain enough where Ricky and Lucy threaten to move out - only stymied by a 50-year lease. They determine to break the lease by making as much noise as possible - stomping around with heavy shoes, and so on; finally climaxing by bringing Ricky's band into the apartment for a jam session. Fred almost subverts this by charging admission, but after he goes to bed, they ratchet it up by playing the Mexican Hat Dance over an over until the Mertzes give up. All, of course ends happily, as all concerned start crying when the Ricardos are actually packing. | |
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Frasier: A few times with the upstairs apartment, for example when a Hollywood Tone-Deaf Martin is trying to hit the high note in "O Holy Night". | |
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Friends: Mr. Heckles would routinely bang on the floor of Monica and Rachel's apartment and complain about the noise. When he passed away, Chandler noticed that due to the building's weird acoustics, the noise from other apartments actually was heavily amplified and started to bang on the ceiling himself until he realised in horror what he was doing (the Running Gag throughout that episode was that Chandler had found Heckles' old school year-book and was freaking out at their similarities). There was also one episode where the guy who lived above Monica and Rachel was making too much noise, but whenever they went up to complain he was so nice they forgot about it. Phoebe goes up to complain for them, and they end up getting on so well that the noise gets a lot worse. |
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The thin bedroom walls (and the requisite banging) were one of the reasons Commander Murray was so keen to move out of his parents-in-law house in The Navy Lark. | |
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We see Josh do this during an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch when he hears Sonny and Cher playing very late at night and assumes its the upstairs neighbor. The twist, of course, is that it's Sabrina's spell coming into his apartment and has nothing at all to do with the neighbors. | |
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The Goon Show: In "The International Christmas Pudding", Minnie and Henry are trying to sleep in a tent when they are disturbed by banging from the tent upstairs. | |
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Sami attempts this with the CAU (Cranky Assholes Upstairs) in a few of the episodes of The Pittsburgh SOAPranos. They bang and yell right back. | |
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In one "Dial M for Monkey" segment of Dexter's Laboratory, Magmanamus, a giant magma monster that lives in the center of earth, pounds the ceiling of its room with a broom to get the people on the surface to keep it down so he can sleep. When it doesn't work, he goes upstairs. | |
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Mentioned and averted in Fight Club. The Narrator mentions he lives in a high priced apartment for urban professionals with thick concrete walls and floors: | |
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