History Main / MurphysBed

--->'''Grandpa Phil:''' Not only is it bright and airy, but it comes with your very own private... ''[releases the bed, only to reveal Oskar sleeping in it]'' Murphy Bed!\\
'''Oskar:''' ''[laughs]'' Good morning!\\
'''Grandpa Phil:''' Oskar! I thought I told you not to sleep in here! And give me that salami-- that's tomorrow's dinner! ''[chases Oskar out]''

** Played straight in "Rhonda Goes Broke", Oskar is hiding in one that the Lloyds eventually use when they move into Arnold's boarding house after [[BrokeEpisode they end up going broke]]. Rhonda also later gets trapped in it after the secret is finally revealed. [[spoiler:[[StatusQuoIsGod She eventually becomes rich again by the end of the episode]].]]

** Also in "Rhonda Goes Broke", Oskar is hiding in one that the Lloyds eventually use when they move into Arnold's boarding house after [[BrokeEpisode they end up going broke]]. Rhonda also later gets trapped in it after the secret is finally revealed. [[spoiler:[[StatusQuoIsGod She eventually becomes rich again by the end of the episode]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold has an electronic futon in his bedroom that he can activate with his remote control. This is inverted in "Helga's Parrot" when Helga uses it to hide from him and Lila when she tries to steal back the parrot her father purchased after it hears her secret.

** Also in "Rhonda Goes Broke", Oskar is hiding in one that the Lloyds eventually use when they move into Arnold's boarding house after [[BrokeEpisode they end up going broke]]. Rhonda also later gets trapped in it after the secret is finally revealed. [[spoiler:[[StatusQuoIsGod She eventually becomes rich again by the end of the episode.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'': Inverted in "For Your Ed Only" where Eddy attempts to hide Sarah's diary (which he stole after wrecking Sarah's bedroom after a scam gone wrong) in a lawn chair. It keeps snapping open.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddnEddy'': Inverted in one episode where Eddy attempts to hide a diary in a lawn chair. It keeps snapping open.

* The ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' episode "Grateful Bed" features a man getting trapped inside his own Murphy bed.

** Homer rents the worst apartment in Waverly Hills in order to send Bart and Lisa to a better school. The room is so thin, the bed won't down all the way hitting the opposite wall.

** ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' takes this further, only when a Murphy Bed is broken does it have a chance to snap shut when a Sim's sleeping but if it malfunctions when a Sim pulls it down, it doesn't just crush them, it ''beats the ever-living woohoo out of them'' before snapping back up to leave the Sim dazed at best or in an eventual urn at worst.

** In ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'', Bond's death is faked in the opening by having him trapped in a fold-out bed in a hotel, which is then peppered with bullets by {{mook}}s.
** One is also used to get [[GirlOfTheWeek Solitaire]] out of the way during his final confrontation with the film's GiantMook in ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''.

* In ''[[Film/PapyFaitDeLaResistance Papy fait de la résistance]]'', set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII France, the Bourdelles are hiding a wounded British pilot in their cellar, when the Gestapo led by [[LesCollaborateurs Adolfo Ramirez]] surprises them. They immediately hide the pilot by closing the folding bed he's in, pressing him upside-down against the wall for the whole raid.

'''Mom''': Let's not blame the bed

* ''Series/LoveAmericanStyle'': In "Love and the Vertical Romance", a wife tries to cure her husband of his phobic fear of beds.

* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'': A RunningGag is that the putout bed in Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo's room at the Happiness Hotel would spring back into the wall, usually when someone was on it. The final appearance of the gag has it spring up with ''all the Muppets'' on it.

* In ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', a RunningGag is that the putout bed in Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo's room at the Happiness Hotel would spring back into the wall, usually when someone was on it. The final appearance of the gag takes it UpToEleven when it sprung up with ''all the Muppets'' on it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': Hank apparently installed a number of Murphy beds throughout the Venture compound during a caffeine binge (some of which have yet to be discovered) When Dean later went to the attic to clean up the place, he opened a door he didn't recognize, and was subsequently clobbered by a falling bed.

But woe to the ChewToy, the CosmicPlaything, TheWoobie, the well-deserving villain, or the victim of a particularly cruel fate or KickTheDog moment. For them, no place in the universe is safe, especially where they [[MurphysLaw least expect it]]. At the worst possible moment, snap! Covers go flying at unlikely velocities, mattresses fold like origami, and furniture morphs like a Transformer as it consumes its victims.

* In the ''Series/FullHouse'' episode "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang", Jesse's attempt at installing a hide-a-bed in the attic gets him stuck in the wall space at one point, with his head in the closet next to the bed. It also overlaps with HoistByHisOwnPetard, since HE is the one designing the bed, but he hasn't installed the button on the wall for the bed yet, so he needs help getting out of it.

* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': In one episode, Cousin Ernie is given a fold-up rollaway bed to sleep on and doesn't realize that he was supposed to un-fold it first. Lucy finds him sleeping ''through'' the bed, sideways.

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* ''Comicbook/GastonLagaffe'': One of Gaston's invention is a switch-operated folding relaxing chair ([[CapsLockNumLockMissilesLock conveniently next to many other switches that do something else]]). Before he tested it, he went home, but curiosity got the better of Fantasio and of course, he pressed the wrong switch...

* Creator/RogerEbert's Movie Glossary claims that the "upper bunk guy sandwiching the lower bunk guy" thing happens in ''Film/BlackSheep1996'' and ''Film/StepBrothers''.

* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' has the protagonist hiding the priest Cornelius in the bed in his apartment. When it slides back into the wall, it auto-cleans it. So he is covered in plastic when the bed comes back out; Bruce Willis' character quickly rips open the plastic to stop him from suffocating.
* In ''Film/TheGreatEscape'' all the prisoners sleep in wooden bunks with the mattresses supported on planks. As these also supply the only readily available source of wood, a scene halfway through has Hilts removing all but the bare minimum to make pit props for the tunnel. Enter Cavendish, who bounds onto his third-tier bunk and proceeds to crash through all three levels to the floor.

* ''Series/AlloAllo'': One is used as a hideaway in one episode. It gets stuck. With Mme Fanny and M Leclerc inside...

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* One episode of ''AudioPlay/OmeHenk'' sees him in a rundown hospital, where he is repeatedly launched against the ceiling by someone meddling with the settings of his hospital bed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': In "[[Recap/TotalDramaXtremeTorture X-Treme Torture]]", DJ has to skydive from a helicopter while his team maneuvers a fold-out bed/sofa on the ground to cushion his fall. When he lands on it, the entire thing folds up and traps him inside, and his team members [[WithFriendsLikeThese just walk away while whistling to themselves.]]

* ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'': This causes the death of Creator/KevinBacon's character.

* [[http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL0919437820080709 A man in St. Petersburg, Russia]] was lounging on an unfolded sofabed after drinking. The next morning he and his wife got into an argument and she kicked the bed in a rage, then stormed out. Unbeknownst to her, the kick released its spring-loaded folding mechanism. It folded up with her husband in it and killed him instantly (strong springs + inertia + leverage + being extremely unlucky = broken spine). A few hours later she returned to continue and found him like this.

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* ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. Cunliffe presses the button on his remote to activate the bed which inevitably hits him on the head. In an earlier episode the same character wakes up to find the artificial gravity has changed and he's actually sleeping on the wall.