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* The UsefulNotes/AtariLynx game ''VideoGame/KungFood'' was based around this trope -- the player is a scientist who's been mutated by chemicals in his fridge into a two-inch-tall green humanoid, who must battle past [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient leftovers]] to escape the refrigerator and return himself back to normal.

* The ''Literature/BoneChillers'' story, "The Thing Under the Bed". A filthy boy who treats his bedroom's luxury water-bed (a second-hand bed his parents won in a raffle two years ago, and gave it to their son) as ThePigPen, disposing leftover wrappers from snacks and uneaten food beneath it, found out there's ''something'' living in the bed's darkest corners ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what'd you expect from the title?]]). With some help from his bestie, they uncover a gigantic, worm-like monstrosity who then goes on a rampage across the bathroom, larder and kitchen before the boys managed to destroy the monster via the kitchen sink's waste disposal. It turns out the water-bed's former owner is a MadScientist experimenting on mutating worms - the protagonist disposing trash under his bed for two years unintentionally allowed the worm to grow to a gigantic form. [[SpaceWhaleAesop Moral of the Story: Do not accept water-beds from strangers, else you'll be devoured by mutated worms]].

* The Thing From the Fridge is a first-level monster in ''VideoGame/ImprobableIsland''.

** When WebVideo/PushingUpRoses and WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows did a Let's Play of the game Todd actually quoted the title of the ''Garfield and Friends'' cartoon mentioned below, making the connection.

* ''VideoGame/House2020'': If you save Tabby's mom from slipping on the wet floor she falls asleep on the chair after eating the sandwich. Then the fridge opens a ghastly arm sprouts out of it, grabs the mom and pulls her inside. If you act quickly and chop off the arm then a monster crawls out of the fridge and chases Tabby.

-->"Once, you bought a pork pie. You left it overnight because you weren't very hungry. You left it for a week because you were busy. You left it for a month because you're lazy. You left it for a year because you were scared."

* [[https://alum.mit.edu/slice/investigating-milk-mits-historic-dairy-product There's a carton of milk,]] simply referred to as the Milk, that's been sitting around the MIT for over ''two decades''. At this point, it's a brown-ish fluid that may or may not be so toxic ''not even microorganisms live in there anymore''.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': After the turtles return home from the farm, Donatello inspects the fridge. After finding a pizza, he asks Mikey "Do you like penicillin on your pizza?"

* In the ''Grossbusters'' comic in ''[[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet Magazine]]'', Kermit sets up a business destroying garbage, and Piggy hires them to clear the mess out of her fridge, but Fozzie presses the wrong button and turns it into a BlobMonster. (A monster in the female lead's fridge is basically the one similarity this TheRealSpoofbusters story has with ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''.)

-->'''[[Series/StargateSg1 Samantha Carter]]:''' I didn't think I had any food in the refrigerator.\\
'''[[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione]]:''' You didn't but we did find your high school science experiment in there.\\

* In the very first episode of the HGTV show ''Good Bones'', Mina and Karen find an old chest freezer in the basement of the fire-damaged house that they purchased to renovate and sell. Unfortunately, the freezer has been sitting without power for 6 months and when the demo team opens it, they find meat and other food still left inside and rotting. The freezer then gets tossed into the dumpster with the debris from demolition.