History Main / RunningIntoTheWindow

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012]], Pete, being a mutated pigeon, has a tendency to do this.

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* In ''LightNovel/TheDevilIsAPartTimer'', while Emi is at a convenience store with her back to the entrance, an assassin lunges at her... only to smack into the sliding glass door.

* Happened to the Crocodiles in [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2012/04/01 this]] recent PearlsBeforeSwine strip.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'', Z walks toward a sandwich in a picnic but ends up walking into the plastic wrapping, which he thinks it's SomeKindOfForceField.

* On ''Series/ModernFamily'', Claire is worried that a dog Phil's father brought will walk into the back door. The dog doesn't, but their son Luke does.

* The first clip in the Daisy Fuentes-John Fugelsang era of ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'' to win the $100,000 top prize was security camera footage of this trope.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-08 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. Ellen ''expected'' a window of a secure government facility to have glass and braced for impact when she was thrown toward it; it did not and she merely had to contend with a two story drop.

* Happens to ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' in the second act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS3E3WaterboyBogus Waterboy Bogus]]".

* One fatal real life example proved crucial to proving the existence of [[MorallyAmbiguousDucktorate necrophilia among ducks]].

!'''Examples'''

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* ''Film/OverTheHedge'': Verne and the other animals try to escape from Gladys' house after trying to get food from her house, only to run into a sliding glass door.
* Happens in the chase sequence at the beginning of ''Film/CatsAndDogs''. Buddy sees the cat he's been chasing sitting just outside an open door, dives at it...WHAM.
* Played straight in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', when Johnny enters a long-abandoned mall and runs into a plastic display case, apparently not being able to see through the [[WhatAnIdiot frosted, moisture-covered glass]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'', Z walks toward a sandwich in a picnic but ends up walking into the plastic wrapping, which he thinks it's SomeKindOfForceField.
* A frightened Nemo keeps running into the aquarium walls in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
* In the 1967 ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', archvillain Dr. Noah (Creator/WoodyAllen), in his underground lair, meets up with his uncle James Bond (Creator/DavidNiven), and lowers a big sheet of invisible glass between them. When James sums up his plans for world domination as compensation for his feelings of sexual inferiority, Noah angrily steps forward - forgetting about the glass and smashing it to bits.
* In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', James Bond is trying to navigate Scaramanga's lair and walks into a clear glass wall.
* Near the end of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', Neytiri walks into a window, then feels around it until she finds an opening.

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* In the play ''What I Meant Was'' by Craig Lucas, a mother forgives her son for (among other things) pretending he didn't know her when she walked into a plate glass window at his grade school and broke her nose.

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* Birds are prone to flying into windows because they don't know that they're actually glass, so they end up hurting themselves real bad.
** There are a few instances of birds having left clear impressions of their bodies on windows after flying into them (apparently due to residue from their feathers).

* Music/JustinBieber has walked into a glass wall in 2010 and 2013, suffering a concussion from the second incident.

* In ''LightNovel/HatarakuMaousama'', while Emi is at a convenience store with her back to the entrance, an assassin lunges at her... only to smack into the sliding glass door.

* In the 1967 ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', archvillain Dr. Noah (WoodyAllen), in his underground lair, meets up with his uncle James Bond (DavidNiven), and lowers a big sheet of invisible glass between them. When James sums up his plans for world domination as compensation for his feelings of sexual inferiority, Noah angrily steps forward - forgetting about the glass and smashing it to bits.

* On ModernFamily, Claire is worried that a dog Phil's father brought will walk into the back door. The dog doesn't, but their son Luke does.

* ICarly: Spencer invokes this in the episode "iPrank." He pranks Sam and Freddie by having a clear, nearly invisible plexiglass wall placed in front of the elevator so whoever exited it would smack into it.

* Several types of insects who follow the lightsource (for an example, flies and bees) are known to repeatedly run into glass and they can even starve to death trying to fly through it even if there is an obvious way out of the house.

* In ''The Cosby Mysteries'', a FemmeFatale tries to shoot BillCosby, only to discover he's standing behind a sheet of bulletproof glass he's set up in the room between them.

* In the pilot of ''The Cosby Mysteries'', a FemmeFatale tries to shoot BillCosby, only to discover he's standing behind a sheet of bulletproof glass he's set up in the room between them.

* In the pilot of ''The Cosby Mysteries'', a FemmeFatale tries to shoot Cosby, only to discover Cosby is standing behind a sheet of bulletproof glass he's set up in the room between them.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-08 this strip]] of ElGoonishShive. Ellen ''expected'' a window of a secure government facility to have glass and braced for impact when she was thrown toward it; it did not and she merely had to contend with a two story drop.

* Inverted in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjaOUjUPUc this]] Super Bowl Doritos commercial.

** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/10/22/ Garfield tried to sneak up on Odie, only to run into a patio door.]]
** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/12/07/ A bird runs into the window while Garfield was explaining about windows.]]
** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1993/09/12/ Jon mistook a window that Garfield cleaned for being left open.]]
** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/2000/07/11/ Jon ran into the sliding glass door after noticing a dead bird on the lawn from flying into said door.]]

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-08 this strip]] of ElGoonishShive. Ellen ''expected'' the window of a government facility to have glass; it did not and she received a swift trip to the getaway car.

* In the 1967 ''CasinoRoyale'', archvillain Dr. Noah (WoodyAllen), in his underground lair, meets up with his uncle James Bond (David Niven), and lowers a big sheet of invisible glass between them. When James sums up his plans for world domination as compensation for his feelings of sexual inferiority, Noah angrily steps forward - forgetting about the glass and smashing it to bits.

** The first clip in the Daisy Fuentes-John Fugelsang era of ''AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'' to win the $100,000 top prize was security camera footage of this trope.

* ICarly Spencer invokes this in the episode "iPrank." He pranks Sam and Freddie by having a clear, nearly invisible plexiglass wall placed in front of the elevator so whoever exited it would smack into it.

A character is walking along when he notices a window that is apparently open. He wonders aloud who left the window open as he walks over to close it, only to run directly into the glass, revealing that the window is so clean that it gave the impression that it was open. Or a character looks over at the kitchen area to see an open area so they run over to it, only to run into the glass again, revealing it to be a sliding glass door that also gave it the impression of being an open door.

This is a {{Comedy}} trope where a character will mistake a clean window or a sliding glass door for an open door then run into the window or door when they try to go through it.

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!'''Examples'''

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* A series of Windex window cleaner commercials featured a pair of birds who were musing about how said cleaner is so bright that birds could get hurt flying into the windows that were cleaned.
* Inverted in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpjaOUjUPUc this]] Super Bowl Doritos commercial.

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* ''Film/OverTheHedge'': Verne and the other animals try to escape from Gladys' house after trying to get food from her house, only to run into a sliding glass door.
* Happens in the chase sequence at the beginning of ''Film/CatsAndDogs''. Buddy sees the cat he's been chasing sitting just outside an open door, dives at it...WHAM.
* Played straight in ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'', when Johnny enters a long-abandoned mall and runs into a plastic display case, apparently not being able to see through the [[{{What An Idiot}} frosted, moisture-covered glass]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'', Z walks toward a sandwich in a picnic but ends up walking into the plastic wrapping, which he thinks it's {{Some Kind Of Force Field}}.
* A frightened Nemo keeps running into the aquarium walls in ''FindingNemo''.

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* In the play ''What I Meant Was'' by Craig Lucas, a mother forgives her son for (among other things) pretending he didn't know her when she walked into a plate glass window at his grade school and broke her nose.

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* This was used four times in ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/10/22/ Garfield tried to sneak up on Odie, only to run into a patio door.]]
** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/12/07/ A bird runs into the window while Garfield was explaining about windows.]]
** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1993/09/12/ Jon mistook a window that Garfield cleaned for being left open.]]

* Happened to the Crocodiles in [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2012/04/01 this]] recent {{Pearls Before Swine}} strip.

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* On {{Modern Family}}, Claire is worried that a dog Phil's father brought will walk into the back door. The dog doesn't, but their son Luke does.
** In another episode, Cameron walks into the back door screen on Jay's home.
* {{iCarly}} Spencer invokes this in the episode "iPrank." He pranks Sam and Freddie by having a clear, nearly invisible plexiglass wall placed in front of the elevator so whoever exited it would smack into it.

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* Birds are prone to flying into windows because they don't know that they're actually glass, so they end up hurting themselves real bad.
** There are a few instances of birds having left clear impressions of their bodies on windows after flying into them (apparently due to residue from their feathers).

* In ''{{Antz}}'', Z walks toward a sandwich in a picnic but ends up walking into the plastic wrapping, which he thinks it's {{Some Kind Of Force Field}}.

* One fatal real life example proved crucial to proving the existence of necrophilia among ducks.

* This was used four times in {{Garfield}}:

* A frightened Nemo keeps running into the aquarium walls in {{Finding Nemo}}.

* Film/{{Over The Hedge}}: Verne and the other animals try to escape from Gladys' house after trying to get food from her house, only to run into a sliding glass door.
* Happens in the chase sequence at the beginning of {{Cats And Dogs}}. Buddy sees the cat he's been chasing sitting just outside an open door, dives at it...WHAM.
* Played straight in Film/{{Battlefield Earth}}, when Johnny enters a long-abandoned mall and runs into a plastic display case, apparently not being able to see through the [[{{What An Idiot}} frosted, moisture-covered glass]].
* In {{Antz}}, Z walks toward a sandwich in a picnic but ends up walking into the plastic wrapping, which he thinks it's {{Some Kind Of Force Field}}.

** [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/2000/07/11/ Jon ran into the sliding glass door after noticing a dead bird on the lawn from flying into said door.]]

* One fatal real life example proved crucial to proving the existence of necrophilia among ducks.