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Closet Shuffle
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Someone has to hide some person from parties out searching for them, or whose presence would be rather awkward to explain. So they quickly herd the person into a closet, into an adjoining room, under a bed, or some other place (the more cramped and uncomfortable the hiding place, the more Hilarity Ensues). A classic screwball comedy usage is to have this keep on happening, with new hiding places becoming harder to find or more obvious. Close cousin to Curtain Camouflage. For added hilarity, combine with The Stateroom Sketch. Might overlap with the other kind of "closet" if the hidden character is a secret same-sex romantic partner. |
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Gargamel and Azrael get into a similar shuffle hiding inside a giant Papa Smurf statue in The Smurfs episode "The Trojan Smurf". | |
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This happens all the time on Desperate Housewives, but the most memorable was when tiny Eva Longoria managed to hide in a suitcase. Not even a very big suitcase. | |
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In A Hard Day's Night, Paul McCartney's grandfather steals a hotel worker's suit and locks him in the closet of the suite where The Beatles are staying. Hilarity Ensues when they come back. | |
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Conan: Andy Richter sneaks into Conan's dressing room. When he sees Conan coming, he hides in the closet. Conan discovers him eventually and yells at him to get out. | |
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In the season 5 opener of Castle, the titular novelist has just had passionate sex with Kate Beckett... when his mother arrives. Poor woman gets shoved in the wardrobe while Castle tries to stall his mother... and then realises that she's left her bra by his bed. To make it funnier, it's later revealed his mother knew she was there all along! |
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Mike Hagen is trapped in a bedroom with a shoe-eating poodle in the film Designing Woman. | |
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Two Looney Tunes examples: In "Racketeer Rabbit", Bugs Bunny does this twice to a mobster named Rocky (based on Edward G. Robinson), once as a prank and once for real. In "Tom Turk and Daffy", Daffy Duck does this repeatedly to hide a turkey from a hunter, then the turkey "helps" him the same way. |
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The Coronation: Izabella has to stuff Afanasii the butler in a closet after her lover Pavel shows up, then has to stuff Pavel in a closet after her other lover, Pavel's father George, shows up. | |
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Momentum: A rare action movie example involving Olga Kurylenko's character Alex. To avoid an awkward situation, her partner (and ex-lover) has her hide under a hotel room bed while meeting a female associate. This inadvertently saves Alex's life, as professional killers arrive on the scene soon after. | |
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A Textbook perfect example occur's in Claymade's The Dark Lords of Nerima with Genma posing as Tōfū trying to hide Ryōga from the Senshi and all the time being interrupted by people who will be recognised and blow the whole gaffe whom Genma has to hide while distracting Ami so she won't notice. | |
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In the Arabian Nights, a woman hides the chief of police, the judge, the vizier and the king in her closet, each time saying her husband will be home soon. This actually isn't true, and it's just a plot by the woman to humiliate the dignitaries. Which she does, because they end up stuck in there so long that they all pee on each other. | |
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In The World God Only Knows: Keima Katsuragi uses his (quite real) sickness to make Ayumi fall for him, but when Chihiro unexpectedly arrives he hides her right next to him, under the bedsheets, and then proceeds to romance Chihiro. He even manages to make them both fall more for him at the same time, but not without making Ayumi pass out covered in sweat due to his hotness. The scene is a lot funnier than it sounds. | |
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An episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody includes a scene that is a direct homage to the closet scene from A Night at the Opera. | |
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Happens in the form of the shower in Rescue Special Ops. Jordan is taking a shower at the RSO base when Heidi comes to talk to him, Vince then walks in and Heidi hides in the shower with Jordan. Vince later reveals to the other members that he knew that the two of them were in there but he didn't tell them that. | |
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Home Movies - while on a field trip to a hotel, the kids sneak off and shoot a movie on location. They're filming in a room when the lodgers come back - Brendon and Melissa hide in the closet, but she gets so anxious and keyed up that she bursts out the door screaming. Jason is found, in costume, sitting on the toilet and demanding some privacy. | |
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In The Marriage of Figaro, the infamously flirtatious servant Cherubino comes to visit Susanna to tell her all about his troubles after hitting on the count's wife. Then the count comes, and since she doesn't want to be caught alone with Cherubino, she hides him under her bed. The count is there to tell her about all the troubles he's having with Cherubino hitting on his wife (and he's there to hit on Susanna, too), and he's in the middle of this when the music teacher, Basilio, decides to come visit her to tell her all about the local news (also mainly Cherubino's exploits)- and Susanna doesn't want to get caught alone with the count, either, so she hides him as well. Of course, by the end of the song, all are discovered. And later, when Cherubino goes to visit the Countess, the Count comes knocking then, too, and the Countess hides him in her closet, and tells the Count it's Susanna, her maid. The Count doesn't believe her, and they argue over it until he's about to tear down the door... and then the closet opens and out walks Susanna - she and Cherubino switched, and Cherubino left through the window. Then the gardener comes to complain about window jumpers... |
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The original Pink Panther movie features this done with Clouseau's wife trying to hide two people from Clouseau. Of course, he doesn't notice, even as their hiding places get less and less hidden. | |
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A particularly nasty varient occurs in College Roomies from Hell!!! with more and more people added to the closet in stead of moving someone around. It starts on the 2005-09-21 strip and ends on the 2005-10-12's. | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: James Bond puts Mary Goodnight in a closet so he can make time with Andrea Anders. Ms. Goodnight is not pleased. | |
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During Sheryl Nome's visit to Alto's school in Macross Frontier they are forced to hide from other students in a locker. If that wasn't awkward enough, Alto's cellphone happens to be jammed between Sheryl's legs when it goes off... and it's set to vibrate. | |
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This is your way of evading Pyramid Head at least once in Silent Hill 2. | |
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In The Moon Is Blue, a few hours after Don has been knocked out by Patty's Overprotective Dad, when he hears someone ringing his doorbell and knocking, he hastily shoves her in his bedroom, remembering to put her purse and jacket in there as well. Unfortunately, when David picks up the phone he overhears her on the bedroom extension, and turns on Don with righteous indignation. | |
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Ménage à 3 features both Sonya and Didi determined to get Gary to sleep with him after hearing of his Urban Legend Love Life. Unfortunately, as they're waiting for him he returns with Yuki, forcing them both (naked) in the closet. At which point Sonya gets bored and starts giving Didi a boob massage. Needless to say, they pop out at the worst time, with... various degrees of plausibility. | |
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The BLU Spy in Cuanta Vida. See the quote above. | |
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Ditto Resident Evil Outbreak, which also lets the characters hide under beds. Some characters, like Mark, are even too big/fat to utilize the lockers. | |
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Class Trip Crush contains several instances of the girls having to scramble for hiding places to avoid being caught in the guys' room by a teacher. It usually results in the protagonist getting unexpectedly up close and personal with one of the guys by hiding in his futon. | |
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In one of the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books, the entire Ace Gang are forced to hide from "Wet" Lindsay in a toilet cubicle, and struggle not to crack up as they hear her talking to her friends. | |
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Once La Reine Margot hides both her husband and her lover in the same cabinet, at the same time. | |
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In the Glee fanfic All New, the Warblers go on a school trip to Europe to visit the show choir at a German school. The first day there, they are split into groups and assigned guides from the German choir. Kurt and two of his fellow Warblers, Adam and Simon, end up hiding from their guides inside a toilet cubicle. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The Fifth Element has a rather spectacular example of this trope involving multiple people and a truly improbable selection of hiding places (including a freezer and a self-making pull-out bed). None of the people he hid enjoyed their hiding places very much. Leelo got wet and cold when the shower began its self clean, the military guys got frozen, and the priest nearly suffocated under the plastic that the bed wraps itself in. | |
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In Jennifer Crusie's Faking It, Davy and Tilda meet when they are both hiding in someone else's closet. | |
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What's New Pussycat? takes this to absurd levels, climaxing in a hotel where all the guests (except the protagonist, he hopes) is hiding an illicit affair with someone else. At one point, in fact, Victor (Woody Allen) lets a woman hide in the closet of the room he's in with his date... then does the same with the man chasing her. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm hides under his girlfriend's bed to avoid being seen by her father. When the father asks what's going on, she gives a Sarcastic Confession. He then sits her down for a heart-to-heart on top of the bed, leaving Malcolm to be tortured in silence. | |
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A common tactic used by the Germans in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is to hide themselves in closets, and then surprise and try to kill players once they are caught off-guard. One can simply shoot the closet first, however, and then watch their corpses fall out of the closet all of a sudden. | |
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A mild-mannered zookeeper in Fierce Creatures winds up in a closet with a half-naked girl and a live sheep. | |
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Inadvertant example in The West Wing when Ainsley, getting a bit stressed while waiting in Leo McGarry's office to meet President Bartlet, has a bit of a panic attack moments before he arrives and flees into what she thinks is a bathroom, but is in fact Leo's closet. Bartlet is, needless to say, a bit bewildered. | |
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Code Geass In the "Cupid's Day" episode, when Lelouch looks in horror at the stampede of girls charging towards him, Rolo immobilizes everyone with his Geass and drags Lelouch into the closet right behind him to make it look like he just disappeared into the air. Lelouch shoves CC under his bed just as Suzaku enters the room in a sound episode from the first season, and in the school festival episode of the second season he pushes her into a basin of tomatoes to keep Shirley from seeing her. |
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Four Weddings and a Funeral does this. | |
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In the Clock Tower series, this is your primary way of evading Scissorman or other pursuers: hide behind a couch, under a bed, in the closet or bathroom or whatever else you can find, and pray the killer doesn't catch on. | |
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Frequently used in Chicken Run, as Rocky constantly begs, "Hide me!" to Ginger. | |
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Trapped in the Closet is entirely built around this trope. | |
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Early in Live and Let Die, an Italian Secret Service agent is forced to hide in Bond's closet when M drops in unexpectedly. Moneypenny sees her, but keeps quiet. | |
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The Woman in Red: Teddy hides from Charlotte's husband on the ledge. | |
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Doctor Who: Due to time travel, the Doctor is forced into this with three versions of River Song and one older version of himself. Played for Drama a bit, when the Doctor realises that one of the Rivers is on her very last date with his older self before she'll die. That's Last Night. See it here. |
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In one of the Flashman novels, the title protagonist reminisces that he once had to hide under a bed when a lady he was with heard her husband coming. He found a private detective already there, and they both had to wait under the bed while the lady and her husband occupy themselves above them. | |
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Person of Interest. Reese decides to get close to the Victim of the Week by dating her. At one point he tells Finch they're going back to his apartment, and as Reese's dating website profile says he loves dogs, Finch has to rush over to the apartment with Bear. Reese and the girl turn up while he's still there, so Finch ducks into a nearby closet only to find Reese's Wall of Weapons. Despite Bear sniffing at the door he doesn't get discovered, and emerges when the girl goes to the bathroom. | |
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Blue Velvet, only it's not Played for Laughs but played for horror. | |
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This is one of the ways you can evade the titular Ao Oni. But on rare occasions, he's smarter than you think... | |
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In an early episode of ER, several staff members sneak upstairs to retrieve a crash cart that has been swiped by another department. To avoid detection, all five of them end up not only crammed into one bathroom stall, they manage to do so in a way that has only one person's feet showing under the door. | |
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Non-comedic example: In The Faculty, while breaking into the teacher's lounge looking for a scoop, Casey and Delilah hide in a broom when they hear teachers approaching. It's from there that they witness the school nurse being taken over and discover a dead body. | |
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In Against The Wall, Abby has to hide under the bed when her drunken brother comes over to visit Brody with whom she is in a Secret Relationship. | |
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The Last Boy Scout introduces Bruce Willis' character as the cuckolded husband in this scene... and as a cop, he correctly sniffs out that the other guy is hiding in the closet and nearly shoots him. | |
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This happens in Victor/Victoria when King tries to find out if Victor[ia] is really a man or a woman. King's poor bodyguard gets the worse end of the deal, being trapped out on the balcony in the snow. | |
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In Zorro, the Gay Blade, the governor's wife makes a pass at Don Diego in his bedroom, then gets shoved in a coffin-like box when her husband arrives. Conversing with Diego, the governor has a fit of temper and runs the box through with his sword, but his wife is unharmed when Diego checks on her once they're alone. | |
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La Reine Margot hides her lover the Duke de Guise in her closet when her husband makes a surprise visit. It shouldn't be a surprise given its their wedding night, but she pretty much forbade him to come to her. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: "The Over-Correction" opens with a How We Got Here Split-Screen Phone Call with four of the main characters each hiding in a different closet. The episode goes on to tell the story of three of the four sneaking around and hiding in Barney's various closets as they try not to be caught. | |
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The I Love Lucy episode "Drafted" involved a misunderstanding which caused Ricky and Fred to think the women were pregnant and Lucy and Ethel to think the men had been drafted. Accordingly, they plan a baby shower and a going away party, respectively, for each other. To keep the parties secret until the right time, they all shove all of their guests into the Ricardos' tiny closet—giving them a huge human knot to untangle at the end of the episode. | |
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One episode has Frasier hiding in Daphne's closet because he promised not to go in her room. And then went in her room. | |
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Friends In an episode, everyone except Rachel and Ross ends up hiding in Monica's bedroom as Rachel and Ross break up in the lounge room. Later subverted when Rachel and Ross had another highly emotional fight with the other four characters trapped in the same room. Joey, in a rare moment of planning ahead, stashed a box of food, drinks, a deck of cards and other entertainments in the room after the last time, just in case. He also included condoms, "just in case [they] had to repopulate the Earth." Ross is also trapped under sofas and beds in multiple later episodes. Another episode had Joey needing to be hidden from Ross when he was checking up on Rachel. Monica and Chandler, in the adjacent room, pull him in while Rachel's back is turned. The result is similar to a Gaslighting; since Rachel doesn't know where Joey is, she spends the rest of the scene looking for him. |
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In the episode of The Burns and Allen Show "Silky Thompson; Gracie Writes 'My Life with George Burns'", Gangster Silky Thompson is hidden in the closet to avoid the police. Just then Harry Morton comes in looking to hide from a man he sold a swamp to. | |
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In the 7th novel of Haruhi Suzumiya, Mikuru from one week in the future drags Kyon into the broom closet to hide from her present-time self. Bonus points in that her present self is actually undressing and she's trying to prevent Kyon from seeing. | |
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