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* In ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday The 13th: Pamela's Tale]]'' issue two, in June of 1957, Jason Voorhees is enraged by the sight of Barry and Claudette having sex. That probably led him to [[DeathBySex kill everybody who engages in nonmarital sex]].

** In the episode "White Meg Can't Jump," Stewie walks in on Peter and Lois, causing him to faint and his spirit leave his body. That spirit then sees the scene again and the spirit of Creator/DavidHydePierce leaves that.

* ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' Doug and Carrie look after Deacon and Kelly's kids at their apartment while they're out of town. One of the kids walk in on Doug and Carrie having sex and draws a picture of it.

* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' Tony walks in on his father and his neighbor in ''his'' bed, once again resetting the clock on their attempts at reconciliation. (For added {{Squick}}, years later, viewers learn there was a friggin CORPSE under the floorboards under the bed).

** Also happens in "The Haw-Hawed Couple," when Bart and Lisa walked in on Homer and Marge 'Snuggling', despite the boombox playing the fake argument tape Homer and Marge made, leaving Bart traumatized. He then gets some perspective from Milhouse: "Trust me, Bart, it's better to walk in on both your parents instead of [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown just one of them]]."

* In one chapter of ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossingFlyMeToTheMoon'', Purrl goes off to find her parents for lunch and finds them in the middle of sex.

'''Monica''': Remember that video I found of Mom and Dad?\\

** Then there's the time he walked in on [[BrainBleach his brother and Mimi having sex.]] He had his kitchen ''bricked off'' and his couch '''''sent out to be exorcised '''''.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' David walks into his parents' room and witnesses his parents having sex. He's not only horrified, he scolds them for attempting "that" position at that time of day.

* ''Fanfic/FateStayNightFutureSight'': Illya walked in on Lancer and Akiko having sex.

* {{Invoked}} in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "I Am the Walrus"; Steve is trying to usurp Stan's role as the Alpha Male of the house, so Stan tricks Steve into walking in on him and Francine being intimate since only the Alpha has the right to mate. After NotWhatItLooksLike, he tells Steve that the fact that he mates and Steve doesn't prove he's still top dog. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Then he chases Steve out of the room while yelping like a Walrus]].

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Naturally, media always plays this as a [[HarmfulToMinors traumatic experience]], rather than the person just figuring it is natural, quickly realizing such, or just not understanding why mommy and daddy are playing leap-frog naked ([[FridgeHorror and then after looking back on it all]], will quickly apply BrainBleach to forget about it).

* This [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FuydTstbzbY ad for Ragu pasta sauce]]. It has become one of the more popular ads of 2012.

* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11898648/41/Harry-Potter-and-the-Rune-Stone-Path chapter 40]] of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheRuneStonePath'', teenaged Harry Potter walks in on his adoptive mother Bathsheda Babbling (nicknamed Shiva) and [[spoiler:his birth mother Lily Potter]] having sex on the couch. His thoughts insist that the strangled sound he made was ''certainly'' not a terrified scream, it was a manly utterance of surprise. A quick embarrassed conversation later, he flees for the greenhouses.

* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/2656976 From Pride to Shame]]'', Bolt Uzumaki hides in a closet to prank this father due to his frustration for his parents' divorce and being stuck in his father's shadow. He ends up watching his father have sex with his ANBU captain, Sasuke in his office.

* Ash mentions this having happened with him in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12840662/1/Shudo-cross-Modern-Ash-The-Professor-Who-Observes-his-Charges Shudo cross Modern Ash: The Professor Who Observes his Charges]]'', specifically during the equivalent of ''Recap/PokemonS3E39ForestGrumps''. So it was less ''walking in on his mother with someone'' as one might assume, and more ''Ash was stuck in a forest with mating bipedal bears with anger issues who shoot laser beams at the drop of the hat''. He refers to the experience as mentally scaring.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12660134/1/Empathetic Empathetic]]'', Dawn's Piplup walks in on his trainer having sex with Paul and, believing that he's attacking her, hits him with a Drill Peck. This leads to Dawn having to give Piplup an incredibly awkward discussion on human relations while her boyfriend gets checked for [[AssShove rectal damage]].

* An early ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' had Rudy walking in on the two titular characters doing some [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1996/kk0528.html roleplaying]].
* ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'': Tuck goes to visit his parents at a rather, inopportune moment: [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0335/ "My eyes are burning..."]]. And it seems that his brother had a similar experience [[http://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0336/ years earlier]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': When Poison Ivy was a child, she accidentally caught her father having sex with a maid. However, what traumatized her the most was her father beating her senseless over it and then killing her first plant as additional salt to the wounds.

** One episode had a FlashBack to Bart's first words. He's walking down the hall and sees Homer and Marge fooling around, to which he says "[[CatchPhrase ¡AY CARAMBA!]]"[[note]]Interjection denoting surprise[[/note]] For obvious reasons, Marge thought it better not to bring it up.

* In the manga ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'', the young Tsunayoshi has a breakdown after discovering [[spoiler: her father having sex with her best friend]].

* Taken UpToEleven in Seras' backstory in ''Anime/HellsingUltimate''. [[spoiler: After a couple of gangsters murdered her parents when she was a child and shot her in the gut, one of them [[ILoveTheDead raped her mother's corpse]] right in front of her.]]

** [[BrotherSisterIncest Or the other way around, with Kana and Taka being caught by Yumi.]] UpToEleven awkward?

* Horrifically enforced in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', when Milos walks into an alleyway and witnesses a man having sex with a prostitute. Rather than trying to shoo away Milos, the man ''demands him to watch'', and then ''pays'' him when he's finished. What makes it worse is that the man is a teacher. Milos is thoroughly traumatized and this event brings him a step closer to his [[DespairEventHorizon Despair Event Horizon]].

* Horrifically enforced in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', when Milos walks into an alleyway and witnesses a man having sex with a prostitute. Rather than trying to shoo away Milos, the man ''demands him to watch'', and then ''pays'' him when he's finished. Milos is thoroughly traumatized and this event brings him a step closer to his [[DespairEventHorizon Despair Event Horizon]].

** Frank is horrified when he finds out about this four seasons, telling Bill to never tell Sue about it, as it would probably kill her.

** Subverted in [[TheIngenue the resident pure girl]] Mitsuba, mistook her parents night activity for a wrestling match, which prompted her [[RuleOfFunny to seriously train herself in the martial arts despite her dream to become a perfect housewife]].

%%* In ''Manga/PrincessJellyfish'': [[spoiler: Poor, poor Shuu]].

* ''HarleyQuinn2019'': When Poison Ivy was a child, she accidentally caught her father having sex with a maid. However, what traumatized her the most was her father beating her senseless over it and then killing her first plant as additional salt to the wounds.