History Main / LoversLedge

* A StockSchtick in ''{{Playboy}}'' single panel cartoons.

* ''ComicBook/RedEars'' has played with this trope a bunch of times in comics involving a cheating spouse that don't use the ClosetShuffle instead. One of the more sleazy examples has the lover crash into the apartment below where an AbhorrentAdmirer is ready and waiting.

* There is a ''{{XXXenophile}}'' cover with a woman lying in bed wearing strategically-placed bits of a Tokyo model as her boyfriend puts on a Godzilla suit. A later trade paperback cover (and eventually a [[http://www.amazon.com/Oh-There-Goes-Tokyo-XXXenophile/dp/1889061050 poster]]) added a guy in a Mothra suit on the ledge-- with [[MythologyGag two tiny naked girls]]...

* Happens to Sam in ''BurnNoticeTheFallOfSamAxe'' after he is caught in bed with the wife of an admiral.

* Three men were waiting at the Pearly Gates to Heaven, but were told that there was only one spot left. That spot would go to whoever had the most worthy death. The first man says, "I suspected my wife was cheating, but I didn't have any proof. So I decided to catch her by surprise, by coming home early from work. She was wearing a towel, but her hair wasn't wet, so I knew she wasn't taking a shower. I searched all over for the guy, and finally found him clinging pathetically to my windowsill. I pounded on his fingers until he let go, but he landed in the bushes and survived, so I threw my refrigerator out the window to finish him off. After all the excitement, I fell dead from a heart attack."
"Interesting," replied St. Peter. "Next?" The second man said, "I was minding my own business, riding one of those stationary exercise bikes on top of my apartment building, when the screws came loose, and I fell off the edge of the roof. I grabbed for dear life onto the first open windowsill I saw, but then some idiot started pounding on my fingers. It must have been my lucky day, because I landed in the bushes, alive and unharmed, but then that same idiot threw his refrigerator out the window and crushed me to death with it!" "That, too, is horrible," said St. Peter. "And you?"

* A ''NightCourt'' episode has Harry doing this, then being joined by Dan after the latter is caught in a similar predicament.
* An episode of ''{{Soap}}'' gives us the female variant: Eunice is having an affair with a congressman, and his wife returns from a trip to the beauty salon so Eunice has to hide in a curtained windowseat. Then the congressman's wife decides to open the window to get some air. She opens the curtains to reveal that the window is ''already'' open - Eunice has retreated to the ledge. (No goofy underwear, but it ''is'' raining pretty heavily.) She eventually escapes the ledge by climbing into another man's room; said man thinks she's the escort he ordered.

* A rare female example that is actually [[NotWhatItLooksLike completely innocent]]: In ''[[Film/WhatsUpDoc What's Up Doc?]]'' Barbra Streisand's character Judy has to go out on the window ledge to hide from Eunice, and ends up dangling in nothing but a towel. (Goodness knows [[FridgeLogic how it managed to stay on]]...)

[[AC:Assorted Examples, several NSFW]]
* [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ledge.jpg]]
* http://caricatura.ru/strip/Serdyukov/212/
* [[http://caricatura.ru/erotica/gorbachev/1002/ Metahumorous variant]]
* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/marchenkov/6201/ and again]]
* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/rogozhin/6780/ close enough]]
* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/alexander_shmidt/6227/ "So, you say the love gives wings?.."]]
* http://caricatura.ru/parad/lebedev_eugene/2749/
* http://caricatura.ru/parad/shugaj/7423/
* [[http://caricatura.ru/erotica/dva/1480/ "Why you always pass by? Could drop in once."]]
* http://caricatura.ru/parad/saveliev/7179/
* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/saveliev/5788/ "Hello! How long you're here?"]]
* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/tkachenko/123/ a little mix-up]]
* [[http://caricatura.ru/erotica/kanenkov/1537/ "Adults Only"]] - Sex reversed, "Adults Only"
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy-ps.jpg This]] piece of graffiti by the artist Creator/{{Banksy}}: (it's quite large, and in a very prominent position on a main street in Bristol, UK. )

* Lope de Vega in HarryTurtledove's ''Ruled Britannia'' is introduced in a scene like this. It's a second-story window in [[strike: Elizabethan]] Spanish-dominated England, so he can just make the jump; the real inconvenience comes from the fact that English attire constitutes ''way'' too many separate articles for a last-minute escape.

Compare ThePrecariousLedge.

So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her husband (or [[AlwaysMale very rarely]] his wife) is home! You're a Lover not a Fighter, so deciding Discretion is the Better Part of Valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convenient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. BonusPoints if it's raining.

Becoming a DiscreditedTrope as Art Deco buildings are replaced by Glass Towers with no ledges and windows that don't open. The less physically daring version, but more likely to get caught, would be ClosetShuffle.

So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her husband (or [[AlwaysMale very rarely]] his wife) is home! You're a Lover not a Fighter, so deciding Discretion is the Better Part of Valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convinient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. BonusPoints if it's raining.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy-ps.jpg This]] piece of graffiti by the artist {{Banksy}}: (it's quite large, and in a very prominent position on a main street in Bristol, UK. )

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* A rare female example that is actually [[NotWhatItLooksLike completely innocent]]: In ''What's Up Doc?'' Barbra Streisand's character Judy has to go out on the window ledge to hide from Eunice, and ends up dangling in nothing but a towel. (Goodness knows [[FridgeLogic how it managed to stay on]]...)

* {{Subverted}} in ''Lascars'': where the man on the ledge is the actual boyfriend, trying to escape his enraged girlfriend after a misunderstanding (even has him in his underwear).

* ''The Woman In Red'' is a WholeEpisodeFlashback showing [[HowWeGotHere why Gene Wilder is on a ledge in a woman's bathrobe]] as a crowd gathers below. They think he's a [[InterruptedSuicide jumper]].

* There's a scene in ''{{Swordspoint}}'' in which one character escapes from a tryst with a married woman by climbing down a drainpipe. (The fact that he was carrying on an affair with her husband too probably added to his incentive to get out of there fast.)

There is a ''{{XXXenophile}}'' cover with a woman lying in bed wearing strategically-placed bits of a Tokyo model as her boyfriend puts on a Godzilla suit. A later trade paperback cover (and eventually a [[http://www.amazon.com/Oh-There-Goes-Tokyo-XXXenophile/dp/1889061050 poster]]) added a guy in a Mothra suit on the ledge-- with [[MythologyGag two tiny naked girls]]...

* There's a scene in ''{{Swordspoint}}'' in which one character escapes from a tryst with a married woman by climbing down a drainpipe.

So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her husband (or [[AlwaysMale very rarely]] his wife) is home! You're a Lover not a Fighter, so deciding Discretion is the Better Part of Valor you grab you clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convinient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. BonusPoints if it's raining.

* This piece of graffiti by the artist Banksy: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy-ps.jpg]] (it's quite large, and in a very prominent position on a main street in Bristol, UK. )