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* In the 1997 informative video ''Film/TheKidsGuideToTheInternet'' the furniture is ''barely'' used, and lines the walls around the room with the computer dead-center. Sears HomeLife Furniture is thanked in the credits.

* In the 1997 informative video ''Film/TheKidsGuideToTheInternet'' the furniture is ''barely'' used, and lines the walls around the room with the computer dead-center. Sears Homelife is thanked in the credits.

* Played with in an episdoe of ''MurphyBrown.'' Frank normally lives like a rich, tidy bachelor who's never home: His apartment is huge but has nothing in it bu a TV, a chair, and an exercise machine. At one point he tries to construct a normal life, and invites his collegaues over for dinner. They enter to find the place fully furnished. One of them picks a catalog up off an endtable, and notices that the apartment looks ''exactly'' like page 12.

* People (especially housewives) will tidy their house to look like this for when guests come round, even if the guests wouldn't care. They will often ask their children to tidy their rooms even if the guests aren't even going to go into their room. This paints an unrealistic picture of family life but some people think it implies class and/or shows the respect towards the guests.

* Justified with Adrian Monk's apartment in the TV series ''{{Monk}}''. Since the eponymous character suffers from several neuroses, compulsive disorder and (among many many more phobias) a fear of germs and dirt, not only is his apartment spotlessly clean, but also Monk gets jittery if any item is moved even a millimeter from where it's supposed to be.

In the StandardizedSitcomHousing that DomCom families live in, things are always well organized, clean and tidy: no open books are ever left on the coffee table, and no shoes are ever sitting randomly by the front door, no clothes are strewn on the floor (unless {{Chekhov|sGun}} left them there). You'd almost think that they were [[TitleDrop living in]]... [[AvertedTrope yeah, you know the rest.]]

* Played horribly straight in ''TransformersArmada'': Rad's dad complains about his messy room, despite it being 100% clean and completely orderly.

* Averted on ''{{Roseanne}}'' where the house is often messy.

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---> '''Anya:''' "This is a Slayer's house, why aren't there any weapons lying around?!"

* ''TheBigBangTheory'': The guys' apartment is this (due to Sheldon's OCD habits). Penny's, on the other hand, is usually a mess.

* ''{{Pleasantville}}'': the movie revolves around how perfect everything in Pleasantville is, though the plot eventually interferes.
* Used deliberately in ''{{Juno}}'': The [=MacGuff=] and Bleeker houses are realistically average-looking, while Mark and Vanessa live an a pricey new development which Vanessa seems to have decorated with the merchandise from an entire Ikea. After she adopts the baby however, her night table becomes appropriately cluttered.

* A satire of this trope is in ''FightClub'', complete with a catalog overlay.

In the StandardizedSitcomHousing that DomCom families live in, things are always well organized, clean and tidy: no open books are ever left on the coffee table, and no shoes are ever sitting randomly by the front door, no clothes are strewn on the floor (unless {{Chekhov|sGun}} left them there). You'd almost think that they were [[TitleDrop living in]]... yeah, you know the rest.

* This is [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the first few books of ''TheDresdenFiles'' as Harry Dresden is, well, a man living alone. Later on he gets [[spoiler: fairies]] to clean up his apartment for [[spoiler: pizza.]]

* ''MarriedWithChildren'': You'd think the Bundys would be absolute slobs, but apparently, their house is [[YouSuck tidier than yours]]. Their empty kitchen might have prompted the Flanderized joke that the Bundys never actually had food in their house, rather than Peg being a lazy housewife.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Arguably justified in the case of Monica and Rachel's apartment: Monica is a neat freak, and loses it at Rachel when she moves furniture.

** Joey and Chandler's apartment managed to accomplish looking much more lived-in and normal despite the general lack of clutter, though this was probably in part because of the colors used and that most of it looked assembled bit-by-bit rather than carefully arranged and bought-all-at-once feeling of Monica's place.

* People (especially housewives) will tidy their house to look like this for when guests come round, even if the guests wouldn't care. They will often ask their children to tidy their rooms even if the guests aren't even going to go into their room. This paints an unrealistic picture of family life but some people think it implies class.

* Often subverted by real estate agents, who will rearrange a home for sale (called "staging") to best present it to potential buyers. Along with moving furniture around, staging often includes leaving the house as bare as possible. Examples can be seen on the various house selling shows on HGTV. In particular, any extra rooms are left empty: the seller might think that spare room would be wonderful for a nursery, but if the buyers don't have young children and aren't planning on it, the nursery decor could be distracting.

* Played with in ''Film/TheHobbit''. In the main timeline, Bilbo's house is very clean with everything in place, showing up uptight and tidy he is. But sixty years later, Bag End noticeably has more books and things scattered on the floors and tables, showing his CharacterDevelopment.

** The brownstone in ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' likewise looks actually lived-in.

See also: FriendsRentControl, TheBeautifulElite, HollywoodHomely. Contrast with MenCantKeepHouse.

* Arguably justified in the case of [[Series/{{Friends}} Monica and Rachel's]] apartment: Monica is a neat freak, and loses it at Rachel when she moves furniture.