History Main / SapientHouse

* Disney Channel has a comedy movie ''Film/SmartHouse'' featured PAT as the intelligence running a futuristic house won by the protagonist. She's played by Kathy Sagal of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' fame, so HilarityEnsues.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Casita, the Madrigal family's home, sprung from the same magical "miracle" that saved Alma and her children. It has a friendly, playful personality and is able to move parts of itself around to help out, for example by shuffling tiles to move objects around, and even once creating an extra staircase for a special occasion. (Then it plays a game with some child party guests where they try to climb the stairs and it tips them back down.) It cannot speak like a human, but communicates via gestures and seems to have a language of its own, involving clattering tiles, which at least some of the Madrigals understand. In addition, individual bedrooms are BiggerOnTheInside, verging on being a PocketDimension, tailor suited to each Madrigal's desires and magical abilities.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'': Casita, the Madrigal family's home, sprung from the same magical "miracle" that saved Alma and her children. It's able to move parts of its walls, floors, windows, and doors around to help out with chores. In addition, individual bedrooms are BiggerOnTheInside, verging on being a PocketDimension, tailor suited to each Madrigal's desires and magical abilities.

* A minor ComicBook/DoctorStrange villain, the House of Shadows, is a being from another dimension that takes the form of cottages, houses, new floors of apartment buildings or condominiums that it integrates itself into, etc. whenever it comes to Earth. Similar entities include the House of Hate from ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Comics'' #58, the House that Death Built from ''Marvel Tales'' #112, and the House from ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' Vol. 2, #1.

* The ''Literature/{{Shivers}}'' novel ''The Haunting House'' deals with one of these, and makes a point to spell out what the differences are between them and haunted houses.

* In Nickelodeon's ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' episode "Doug on His Own", the title character and Porkchop watch a scary movie called "The Evil House on the Prairie", which is about a cursed house that comes alive and eats every living thing that enters it. [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms Probably not a good idea to watch a scary movie]] when one is left home alone for the first time [[spoiler:since the film's plot revolves around Doug and Porkchop's situation]]. Doug's decision to watch that movie soon [[ImagineSpot comes back to haunt him]] when a [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight thunderstorm]] [[PowerOutagePlot blows out the power]] and he and Porkchop go down into the basement to fix it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{King}}'' has The Tower Of Derision from its titular episode. It's a tower that can manifest a face on its inner and outer walls, and uses it to hurl insults at anyone who tries to climb it until they can no longer take it, and run out, crying.

** The original "Treehouse of Horror" episode has a segment in which the Simpsons go to live in a haunted house which can talk.
** "Treehouse of Horror XII" has a segment, "House of Whacks", featuring a SmartHouse and parodying ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', the title character's house is run by a snarky, put-upon AI known only as "Zim's Computer." There's also the episode "Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain," when [[MinionWithAnFInEvil GIR]]'s mind is downloaded and spends months goofing off, then goes on a rampage through town (with the house transformed into a dog-like mecha) for [[TrademarkFavoriteFood tacos]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The eponymous Owl House is embodied by Hooty, an eccentric and incredibly chatty owl's head on the front door. It's occasionally shown that the rest of his house is also part of his body which he can feel through. However, Hooty's head can be detached and reattached as necessary if he wants to go somewhere else.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' has this as a twist. Drawn to an old mansion after the disappearance of two teens, the team know something is going on when all the residents are wearing different period clothes, despite it being Halloween. One of the residents, a woman in a French maid outfit, repeatedly runs around hurriedly, repeating "Mason must feed soon." Resident ladies' man Venkman realizes in the finale that she actually is French and is saying "Maison," leading the boys to realize the house itself is the malevolent entity and the people inside are just the spirits of its previous victims.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Some episodes imply that Squidward's moai house is sentient, albeit PlayedForLaughs. In "The Secret Box", it attempts to eavesdrop on [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's conversation, while in "Funny Pants", when [=SpongeBob=] is crying all day and night over his supposedly broken laugh box, the moai suddenly gains a pair of giant blue hands to cover its ears in annoyance. In “Growth Spout,” after [[ItMakesSenseInContext Mr. Krabs steals food from Squidward]], the house remarks (using the front door as its mouth) that it “needed to lose a little weight anyway.”
** [=SpongeBob's house became this in=] "Procrastination" when it was set it on fire. The house chews out [=SpongeBob=] for not writing his 800-word essay on "What Not to Do at a Stoplight", telling him to stop wasting time. Luckily, it was AllJustADream.
--->'''[=SpongeBob's Pineapple House=]:''' [=SpongeBob, why?! Why did you set me on fire, SpongeBob?! Why didn't you just write your essay?!=] ''STOP WASTING TIIIIIME!!''
* "Mike the Evil Living Building" from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "The Big Superhero Wish!"
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' involved the gang investigating a SmartHouse with a state-of-the-art AI that was supposedly haunted. [[spoiler:The culprit is revealed to actually be said AI, who was sick of people crediting her creator for all the things ''she'' could do.]]
* The titular house from the [[WesternAnimation/MiscellaneousDisneyShorts Disney animated short]] ''The Little House'', adapted from the children's book of the same name. Like in the book, the story is told from the house's perspective. In the cartoon, the house's neighbors qualify too, although they are much less animate than her and can apparently only move their eyes.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'', [[spoiler:Morgan]] is a sapient castle. She functioned as a hotel before a CynicismCatalyst made her misanthropic.
* ''WesternAnimation/HereComesTheGrump'': In "Visit to a Ghost Town", Terry and Dawn are in an abandoned town where all the buildings talk.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "House Calls" revolved around a doctor who somehow used music to make his house alive, but ''she'' gets very jealous of anyone else coming near him which includes Courage and his owners.

* In ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', Lindesfarne and Fenton's tree house.

* Wally's house in ''ARG/WelcomeHome'' is considered a character in its own right -- it can move its doors and windows, communicate with creaks and bangs, and its windows are giant moving eyes. While this is presented as just a typical puppet show quirk at first glance, it quickly becomes apparent that this is meant to be unsettling.

** [=SpongeBob's house became this in=] "Procrastination" when the title character set it on fire. The house chews out [=SpongeBob=] for not writing his 800-word essay on "What Not to Do at a Stoplight", telling him to stop wasting time. Luckily, it was AllJustADream.