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Daddy scratches his key against the doorknob, stumbles in reeking, and tries to get to bed without Mommy hearing. Your teenage daughter didn't come home last night yet shows up in the afternoon with her friend who wears too much makeup. These are scenes where Jane is home, John wasn't, and that's a problem. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Two other phrases you often hear in these scenes are, "I called the office" and "You Are Grounded!!". This trope covers any scene where one character's in trouble with another because the first wasn't at home. The most common versions of this trope are a cheating spouse or a youth partying without parents' permission. Examples |
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In keeping with The Incredibles's general theme of using a family of superheroes to riff on standard familial interactions, one scene uses this trope to parody typical scenes about interrogating a cheating spouse. Bob "Mr Incredible" Parr comes home after saving people from a fire (compelled by Chronic Hero Syndrome) even though the Super Registration Act permanently forced all supers into their secret identities and forbade them from using their powers. His wife Helen "Elastigirl" Parr confronts him when he gets back, in an exchange resembling one between a suspicious wife and an unfaithful husband — complete with rubble from the burning building in place of Affair Hair! | |
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Skins: In the first episode, Tony is shown covering for his sister to avert such a scene. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", Homer and his friends go on a drunken, destructive rampage through the school after their baseball team wins a game, and Lisa asks this question the following morning. | |
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Mad Men: From the first episode Don regularly cheats on his wife. It's not 'til later she asks where he has been. | |
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Twice in Double Homework: The morning that an online article about the protagonist going to the nightclub with Lauren surfaces, Johanna doesn’t show up for school. The protagonist, who’s getting worried, texts her to make sure she’s safe, and her response? “I’m safe.” Then, the protagonist enlists a reluctant Tamara to help him find Johanna, but to no avail. After all that, Johanna turns up safe and sound in her room. When Johanna and Tamara pick the protagonist up from the middle of nowhere, they ask where he was the previous night, and how he got to the middle of the woods. He can tell them either a half-truth or an outright lie. |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (one of the franchise's made-for-DVD movies) has Scooby and Shaggy—after saving all creation and earning the respect of the Goblin King who allows them to retain their memories of the events—pulling up in the Mystery Machine to greet Fred, Velma and Daphne (who had their memories erased): | |
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Wendy asks Van this in episode 3 of GUN×SWORD. (He was hungover thanks to one shot of tequila, because he Can't Hold His Liquor.) Played comically, because it reveals that although she's far younger than he is, she's already nagging him. | |
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In The PK Girl, the Player Character heads out one night to confront the villains, and returns in the morning to find that the heroine, Laurie, has been kidnapped. While rescuing her, she asks him this question. Katryn, playing up her role as The Vamp and The Dragon, naturally replies, "With me." While technically true, it leaves out a few key details. | |
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Twice in Daughter for Dessert: The first sign that something’s up with Amanda is that she doesn’t come home for a whole night... and then doesn’t show up for work the next day. And when she shows up, she makes an obviously false excuse. The protagonist doesn’t come home after Mortelli takes him to the woods (in the middle of the work day) and beats him up. His whole staff is worried about him. |
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The last time Joel saw Clementine before she had him erased was when she stumbled in the door at 3 A.M. after drunkenly scraping his car against a fire hydrant. The fight coming from Joel's reaction was Clementine's impetus to the procedure. | |
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The Awful Truth: Jerry comes home to find that not only is his wife not there, she's spent the night in the country with another man. | |
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Doctor Who. In "The Girl in the Fireplace", the Doctor stumbles in drunk after partying with the French aristocracy to find his companions Strapped to an Operating Table and about to be dissected by clockwork androids. Rose promptly does a Like an Old Married Couple version. | |
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The Wire: In its fifth season, Jimmy has such a scene with his lady, who knows he's cheating. | |
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The George Lopez Show: In The Stinger for "George Goes to Disneyland", George comes home after dark and stumbles upon Max, who asks tells him that he called the factory and that they said he couldn't come to work because of a "tummy ache". Max then turns on the lights to reveal George decked out in Mickey Mouse gear. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In "Bad Eggs", Joyce catches her daughter doing an Enter Stage Window, and since Buffy can hardly admit she's been out vampire slaying or saving the world, she ends up grounded. | |
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Monkey Dust turns this into a recurring gag with Clive, a character who disappears from his wife for extended amounts of time (usually an evening, sometimes as long as years) and, when questioned as to his whereabouts repeats the plot of a film, book or (in one memorable episode) nursery rhyme. The actual explanation is typically something immensely revolting, humiliating and sexual. | |
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Double-barreled example from Prêt-à-Porter: a fashion designer sneaks back into his hotel room, having spent the night cheating on his supermodel wife with her identical twin sister, only to find that she didn't spend the night there, either (for exactly the reason you're thinking - it's that kind of movie). So when they catch up with each other at the fashion show later and he asks this question of her, she ends the conversation by replying, "I was with my sister, where were you?" | |
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