History Main / KeyUnderTheDoormat

* Bart did this in an episode of ''TheSimpsons''. In order to get into the locked school, he...yeah. Homer also dit it one episode TWICE, the first time to get into the nuclear power plant, the second time to get into the reactor! And furthermore, even the key inside the plant was hidden under a small rock lying on the pristine floor, potentially subverting this trope.

* Bart did this in an episode of ''TheSimpsons''. In order to get into the locked school, he...yeah. Homer also dit it one episode TWICE, the first time to get into the nuclear power plant, the second time to get into the reactor!

* In a recent ''{{Lost}}'' flashback, young Miles found a dead man's apartment key under a white stone rabbit. White rabbits are a motif on the show. As Miles talks to dead people, it was implied that the man told him where the key was.
* Lowell did this on ''{{Wings}}'', revealed in an episode where the whole gang goes to Boston to be in the audience of a talk show. Thinking that he may have left his iron turned on at home, he announces to the camera his address and key hiding place, asking someone to check for him. Predictably, this leads to thieves stealing everything he owns. ("Except the iron...which was off!").

* In the ''DoctorWho'' telemovie with [=Paul McGann=] in, the car-key version was done with, of all things, the ''TARDIS''.

* In the ''AllStarSuperman'' movie the key to the Fortress of Solitude is kept under the doormat. Lois is bemused and asks where the big gold key (a staple in Silver Age comics) went. Supes remarks that the doormat method is more secure. This is because the thing is made out of dwarf star material and is '''really''' heavy.

* In the ''AllStarSuperman'' movie the key to the Fortress of Solitude is kept under the doormat. Lois is bemused and asks where the big gold key (a staple in Silver Age comics) went. Supes remarks that the doormat method is more secure. Of course, given that the place is kept in a secret part of the Arctic, presumably anyone who can find the Fortress and get there has another way of getting in anyway.

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* The very first item you pick up in ManiacMansion.

->''"20 bucks says I can get in in 20 seconds"''\\
-- '''[[HouseMD Dr. Gregory House]] before performing the trope.'''

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* In the movie ''Following'' a burglar named Cobb uses a key under a doormat to break into an apartment.

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* ''{{House}}'' has them breaking into Cuddy's house at one point. The key is under a vase while Chase is busy telling House that's not going to work.

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* In ''AloneInTheDark'' you can sometimes find a car key in the sun visor, saving you the tedious business of hotwiring the vehicle.

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* In the online flash game MOTAS, there is a key under a doormat. The doormat is on top of a grate for some reason, so after you accidently knock the key down you have to go down and get it.

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* The parents of [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Jean Grey]] keep their spare keys under a fake rock. Unfortunately, Hercules (in the ''Comicbook/{{Avengers}}'' crossover where she resurfaces after ''The Dark Phoenix Saga'') kicks the door down before she could get to it.

* The parents of [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Jean Grey]] keep their spare keys under a fake rock.

* ''Mrs. Piggy Winkle'' does this in the story by BeatrixPotter.

-- '''[[House Dr. Gregory House]] before performing the trope.'''

* The parents of [[XMen Jean Grey]] keep their spare keys under a fake rock.

* In ''TheRailwayChildren'' movie, the man who takes the children to the house in the country from the railway station says that the people who live out there ususally leave their keys under the door.

* In the second episode of ''XMenEvolution'', Rogue accidentally touches a football player and takes his running/tackling skill and memory. And the knowledge that a spare key to his house was in the gutter above the door.

* In the first episode of ''Two and a Half Men'', Alan gets into Charlie's house as his fake key-hiding rock is kept out in the open, due to Charlie often coming home so drunk he wouldn't be able to find it if it was in a pile of rocks.
* ''Fringe'' has Olivia go to a alternate universe where she breaks into her counterpart's apartment because they hide the spare key in the same place. However, they do not keep their [[spoiler:guns]] in the same place.