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Door Dumb
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Simply put, this trope is when a character is unable to open a door because they're pushing when they're supposed to pull (or vice-versa, or some other variant altogether). Sometimes the door is clearly marked "PULL", although sometimes it's not. Practically always Played for Laughs. Most of the time a person who tries to open a door the wrong way will reverse course when it refuses to budge. If the door still doesn't open, that's when people get confused. Many places with double doors like to keep one of them locked, so visitors might mistakenly attempt to pass through the wrong side. Those with an excess of strength or firepower and a deficiency of restrain may manage to open the door in their preferred direction, create their own, less stubborn, aperture, to the detriment of the attached structure, or even cause the door to malfunction if it was automatic. Compare We Have the Keys, which is another situation where opening a door is far more difficult that it should be. |
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One strip of The Far Side has a Midvale School for the Gifted student stuck pushing a door clearly marked PULL. | |
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In Prep & Landing, Lanny is introduced trying to pull open a push door, right after he's described as graduating at the top of his class. ("It was a small class.") | |
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An early gag in Tommy Boy has Tommy frantically race to his college for his final exam, until he reaches the door at the entrance which appears to be locked. After frantically pulling on the knob and shouting desperately, he slumps down on the steps dejected, then watches another student calmly walk up and open the adjacent, unlocked door. | |
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The Haven episode "Thanks For The Memories" has a sad example. Audrey Parker enters a magical barn that is about to disappear for 27 years. Her boyfriend Nathan Wuornos, in a blind panic and desperate not to lose her, ineffectually tackles and pounds on the door that opens outwards. However, it was magically sealed shut, so it wouldn't have mattered if he pulled it anyway. | |
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Played with a sliding door in That '70s Show. Kelso see's Hyde and Jackie making out from the Forman kitchen. Enraged he goes to open the sliding door with little success. Eric unlocks the door for Kelso only to run through the screen door immediately after. By this point, Hyde and Jackie are gone. | |
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Oliver & Company: Fagin tries to pull open a door to Sykes' warehouse, even after being told to push it over the intercom. When Sykes irritably corrects him, Fagin grins sheepishly, then slowly pushes the door. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: In "Brain Food", Beast Boy is fruitlessly trying to push a door, then Raven opens the door saying "Pull, don't push". After that, he does the same thing with a book. | |
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In The Backyardigans episode "Knights Are Brave and Strong", Uniqua has to get through the gate the Guardian of the Gate guards. Even the Guardian himself can't open it — because the whole time he never thought of pulling on the handle instead of pushing. It says something when apparently an entire kingdom has never been able to open a door because nobody thought of opening it the other way. | |
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Samurai Warriors: During Goemon Ishikawa's final mission, he needs to break into the enemy fortress but can't get through the gate. He must ask either Keiji Maeda (whom he considers a rival) or Okuni (the romantic interest who's the primary source of his rivalry) for help. Asking Keiji results in the two of them struggling intensely and finally succeeding in pushing the gate in. Asking Okuni results in her easily pulling the gate out. | |
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On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds La'an is thrown back in time to the 2020s with an alternate timeline version of James T. Kirk. Because in his timeline, Earth is a hellscape and he has spent very little time planetside, he has a great deal of trouble figuring out how to use a revolving door. He doesn't have an issue with cars or hot dog carts, however. | |
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A story featured on the live version of What the Fuck Is Wrong with You? was about a thief who got stuck inside the store he had just robbed because of this, before another customer entered and showed him which way the door swung. The kicker: The thief was a regular customer at said store. Nash couldn't help but bring up The Far Side strip mentioned above. | |
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In a volume of Amelia Rules!, one character spends the entire story pushing the "pull" door; Amelia finally breaks down and points this out only to discover he's doing it deliberately as a science fair project. | |
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There is an episode of Married... with Children in which this is a running gag. Kelly was trying to open the door in the wrong direction, and in order for her to succeed she is told to do it otherwise. And then she explains it to an FBI agent who is just as stupid. | |
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The translated lyrics of one of the opera songs in the Discworld novel Maskerade may relate to this, though it's unclear whether the person singing the aria is pulling against a door that opens outwards (thanks to a mislabeled sign), or if the door is just stuck. Probably the latter as one of the lyrics specifies that the damn door "sticks no matter what the hell I do". | |
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, on a bonding outing, just as Gina tells Holt she invited the best and brightest (of those available), Hitchcock and Scully enter the room and tell them, "Sorry for being late. Turns out the front door was a push, not a pull". | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: While going to save Eddie and Jessica at the Acme warehouse, Roger tries to pull open a rotating window, muttering "Wouldn't you know? Locked!". He then leans against the window, causing it to rotate inward and make him fall inside. | |
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The Peanuts Movie sees Peppermint Patty get rather savage while trying to open a door... only for Charlie Brown to open it in the opposite direction. Provides the current page image. | |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers: When Mickey and Donald can't pull open the door to the tower where Princess Minnie is being held, Goofy tries to ram it down by running into it. But then Mickey notices a "PUSH" sign on the door and opens it just before Goofy can hit it. | |
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One episode of The John Larroquette Show has Bobcat Golthwait as a neurotic safety inspector that always tried to open the door wrong, whether it was push or pull. | |
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Soul Eater: Played for Drama when Maka and Soul first fought Crona in a church. Maka tries to retreat but was in too much of a panic to notice the doors open inward — something Crona had just said, among many other things ("Hey, everyone! These doors open inward! THEY ONLY OPEN ONE WAY!"). Much later in the manga when the two are in the same church, Crona gives a rant about not being able to live by this worlds' rules, which is highlighted by seeing the same doors and "opening" it outward by knocking it off its hinges and breaking it in half. |
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In The Outer Worlds, you encounter a woman who has locked herself inside a closet and can't get out. With a sufficient Engineering check you can ask about the handle, to which she reveals that she never tried turning the handle upward, which promptly opens the door. | |
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Don't Wet Your Pants: Like in Don't Shit Your Pants, if you tell your character to "open door", he will try to push the door open but it won't budge so you have to tell him specifically to 'pull' the door open. | |
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A commercial for the upcoming-at-the-time Pokémon Crystal has a team of explorers encountering a huge door with some writings on it, and try to push it open. Near the end, the camera cuts to a wide shot of the door, which clearly says "PULL" in Unown letters. We also see two natives discussing it: | |
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In the classic Soviet comedy Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, Shurik is tricked by the Big Bad into being placed in a mental institution. Shurik convinces a nurse to let him speak with the head doctor. He walks to the doctor's office and tries several times to pull open the door before giving up in frustration. The nurse simply pushes open the door. | |
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In the very first episode of Animaniacs (2020), the Warners return to their Watertower only to have trouble opening it. After many attempts to push it open, Yakko remembers how it is supposed to open. | |
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The Palaververse: In Treasures, Daring is fighting to open a trapdoor while under physical danger and it takes an explosion rattling it trigger a realization that pulling on it wasn't the right way. Instead, she had to push it upwards: | |
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The Daily Derp: "Derpy Tip: Don't overlook the obvious." | |
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Warehouse 13 gives us this funny exchange... | |
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Kaeloo: The characters on this show are so stupid that on separate occasions, three different people have managed to get themselves stuck inside a car because they tried to pull the door inwardly instead of opening it outward. | |
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In Final Fantasy IX you encounter something that seems to be a door, but Zidane pushes, hits, and takes a running flying kick at it without success. Then he leans against it and it opens by pivoting in the middle. | |
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On New Girl, the guys point out that Nick is angry all the time, and a flashback shows him struggling to push on a pull door because "I push when I want to!" | |
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In 30 Rock, when Jack Donaghy is replaced by Don Geiss' Too Dumb to Live, Cloudcuckoolander daughter, the scene that sets up her character shows her pulling in desperation at a bathroom door with the words "push" printed on it very clearly. | |
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On Sequential Art, Scarlet and Art end up both trying to push the same door at the same time from either side. | |
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Happens twice with Septimus Heap: In Queste, Septimus and Beetle are trying to push a snow-blocked door open. Jenna proposes to open it on her own, and she does it simply by pulling the doorhandle, opening the door. Also happens in Syren, but with a bulkhead hatch and in far more urgency. |
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A variation in Joker (2019): Arthur approaches a door with a motion sensor just as someone else approaches from the other side. Since it opened when he approached, he thinks the motion sensor is on his side. When he approaches the door again later, it doesn't open, and he can't figure out why. | |
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A variation in Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!. The door to the break room is heavily secured with all kinds of biometric sensors and dozens of weapons tracking your every movement. How do you open? Push. It's not locked. However, the "push" command is not on the list of options and has to be typed in. | |
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In an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon once walked to a door... and bumped into it, not realizing that it was a pull door. | |
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Paper Mario: The Origami King has a few amusing instances of this trope: The outdoor section of Overlook Tower features a door Mario can't get through, and has to find another way past (namely, using Deadly Dodging to blow a hole in the nearby wall). The door can then be opened from the other side, and from both sides thereafter. Why? Because Mario and Olivia don't realize it opens outwards until they try pushing it from the other side. Later on, in Shogun Studios, Mario can encounter a Folded Shy Guy who's desperately trying to push a door open... not realizing that it's a sliding door, as a nearby Toad comments. |
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Acts of Gord gives us this narration: | |
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In the Danny Phantom episode "Public Enemies", after some ghosts overshadow Danny's classmates, they contemplate doing the same to his parents until Walker informs them they can be useful. They then see Jack crash into a door until Maddie opens it and informs him that it's pull, causing Walker to realize that only Maddie might be useful. | |
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A variation in The Parent Trap: Annie, in Hallie's house, has trouble opening the back door, because she is trying to turn the knob instead of pushing it. In this case, it actually isn't visually obvious, but it is something that Hallie would presumably be aware of, which provides yet another clue to the housekeeper that something's up with "Hallie". | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the girls get locked in a room and ineffectually push and tackle the door; then Spike and DJ Pon-3 arrive and reveal it opens inward. The novelization provides a better reason why they couldn't escape: the door was bolted shut and DJ Pon-3 had to pry it open with a crowbar. | |
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The TARDIS herself gives the Doctor a dressing down in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Wife" for consistently opening the TARDIS doors the wrong way — the sign on the door reads "Pull to open", which apart from a brief repair of the chameleon circuit in "Attack of the Cybermen", have consistently done so since the very first episode. The doors open freely either way, but after about 700 years of walking past the sign and still making that mistake, the Doctor can well be described as door dumb. Although on a real police box, the 'PULL TO OPEN' refers only to the hatch on which it is printed. Pulling the small handle on the panel opens a compartment containing a telephone that can be used to call the police. |
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In a Hägar the Horrible strip, Hagar's army is about to push a battering ram into a castle door, when Hagar shouts, "Hold it! Can't you guys read?" The door is revealed to have "Pull" signs on it. | |
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Garrett from Crystal Heroes does this with a Bookcase Passage, repeatedly trying to shove the bookcase to the left with all his strength, after which Isaac casually pushes it open to the right. | |
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In Boy Meets Boy, Skids spends hours trying to push open a door with a "pull" sign after Harly was kidnapped by anime fans. | |
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Happens twice in Ed, Edd n Eddy. The first case is in "Read All About Ed", when Ed tries to deliver a paper to a fenced-in house, but can't pull the tall fence door open. He then tries to leap clean over the door, only to get his pants snagged on the top of the frame. When he calls Edd for help, Edd pushes the door open, smacking Ed into the fence in the process. The second case is in "Too Smart for His Own Ed", and this time it's Edd that falls victim to this. After Ed wins the spelling bee, Edd is left flustered and unable to think clearly, so when he tries to enter the cafeteria and can't push the door open, he thinks it's locked at first, until Ed of all people points out he was supposed to pull it. (Spelling pull right, but reading it backwards.) | |
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Happens a few times on World's Dumbest..., usually involving a burglar trying to escape the scene of the crime. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: In "Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D.", Numbuh Three goes to open the double sided door to the fast food restaurant, after trying to open from the left side and failing. Numbuh One opens it from the right without any trouble. | |
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Sponge Bob Square Pants Employee Of The Month: Patrick runs into trouble with a set of double doors in the cutscene before Chapter 3. First, he attempts to pull open the right door and gives up when it doesn't work. Then a small child exits through the door on the left, which swings inward. Patrick then pushes open the left door to enter.note It is possible that the door on the right was actually locked, but the game doesn't address it. | |
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Deconstructed in the very first sketch of I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, to an almost nightmarish degree. A man turns to leave after finishing a job interview in a public setting and accidentally pulls the door to go out. Both he and the interviewer immediately recognize his mistake, but rather than admit weakness or fault, he repeatedly insists "it does both", and continues to pull so hard that the frame and hinges break apart and he's left drooling from the exertion. It does not help that he occasionally looks back to smile as though nothing's wrong. | |
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Played with in Pucca. Abyo was trying to enter the restaurant by pushing the door, then another client exit, and Abyo discovers he has to pull. He then entered the building... and the door hit him like it was a double door. | |
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In one episode of Hey Arnold!, Harold tries to push a door open, and Helga has to point out to him the "Pull" sign. But when he finally figures it out, he pulls the door too hard and hits himself in the face with it. | |
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In Ptolemy's Gate from The Bartimaeus Trilogy, when Nathaniel is trying to get into a room full of the government's most precious magical treasures, he turns a door handle and pulls, only to find it apparently locked. He immediately starts panicking about various magical safeguards he might have to overcome, only to then have a thought. He pushes on the door handle and this time it opens. | |
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A Captain Underpants Captain Underpants book has a brief scene showing a button next to the door for the teacher's lounge that says "Push button to open door". George and Harold change the letters to say "Push on butt to open door". Guess what the faculty members do. | |
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Cattivik: In one story, the only obstacle between the protagonist and the apartment he intends to rob is a door that he fails to open, in spite of first pulling, then pushing, then trying to break it open, then begging and threatening it, then trying to destroy it with napalm, the bombs of a B-52, an alien spaceship (in a Shout-Out to Independence Day) and even a nuke. As Cattivik surrenders in desperation, one of the people from the apartment exits and calmly opens the sliding door. Cattivik takes it about as well as you'd expect. | |
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One episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation has Data and Worf exploring a recently-discovered ancient space station. Worf, used to automatic doors, walks into a door and then notes that it's most likely been sealed with age and no longer works. Data is able to easily open it by utilizing the handle. | |
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