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Lover's Ledge
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So you're a Lothario, perhaps even The Casanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her (or in very rare cases, his) spouse or father is home! You're a Lover, Not a Fighter, so deciding discretion is the better part of valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convenient but narrow ledge, often in your Goofy Print Underwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. Better hope it's not raining. It's becoming something of a Discredited Trope in modern urban settings as art deco buildings are replaced by glass towers with no ledges and windows that don't open (though it still works with older buildings). The less physically daring version, but more likely to get caught, would be Closet Shuffle. Compare The Precarious Ledge and Balcony Escape. Examples |
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Subverted in Top Gun: Maverick. The titular character ends up with his Old Flame, Penny, at her place. After she reassures him that her daughter, Amelia, is at a sleepover with friends, the latter unexpectedly comes home, prompting Penny to shove Maverick out a second-story window because she "wants to set an example" for her daughter not to bring a guy home on the first date. Maverick awkwardly climbs down the side of the house and recovers his jacket — only to come face-to-face with Amelia, standing on the other side of a window watching him. She tells him not to break her mother's heart before he leaves. | |
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Red Ears: This trope is played with a bunch of times in comics involving a cheating spouse that don't use the Closet Shuffle instead. One of the balsier examples has the lover crash into the apartment below where an Abhorrent Admirer is ready and waiting. | |
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Being A DIK: If the MC stays the night at Josy's home in Episode 2, the two start to have sex when her parents return home earlier than expected and she pushes him out of the window completely naked along with his stuff. | |
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A modern version appears in Melody. The title character has to sneak the protagonist out of her bedroom window so Arnold won’t know that he slept over. | |
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Refreshing Stories: In "Wife accidentally sent the message she was going to send her lover to me," Nana has her lover Ryu hanging by the hands from the edge of the window when Hiroshi came back. While Hiroshi fell for her tears and she almost got away scot-free, Ryu's cries for help ended up blowing her cover. | |
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Aramis is left clinging to a window ledge in the "Friends and Enemies" episode of The Musketeers after Adele's other lover, the Cardinal Richelieu, arrives home early. | |
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An episode of Soap gives us the female variant: Eunice is having an affair with a congressman, and his wife returns from a trip to the beauty salon so Eunice has to hide in a curtained windowseat. Then the congressman's wife decides to open the window to get some air. She opens the curtains to reveal that the window is already open - Eunice has retreated to the ledge. (No goofy underwear, but it is raining pretty heavily.) She eventually escapes the ledge by climbing into another man's room; said man thinks she's the escort he ordered. | |
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Twisted in a very cruel way in The Ledge. The choice of place for Gavin's upcoming death is no accident. | |
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The Woman in Red is a Whole Episode Flashback showing why Gene Wilder is on a ledge in a woman's bathrobe as a crowd gathers below. They think he's a jumper. | |
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There's a scene in Swordspoint in which one character escapes from a tryst with a married woman by climbing down a drainpipe. (The fact that he was carrying on an affair with her husband too probably added to his incentive to get out of there fast.) | |
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Happens to Sam in Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe after he is caught in bed with the wife of an admiral. | |
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Zero Punctuation review of... er, Call of Duty. | |
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A Night Court episode has Harry doing this, then being joined by Dan after the latter is caught in a similar predicament. | |
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