History Main / TheExitIsThatWay

* In 2022, after a big win against the Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr excitedly embraced his teammate and longtime friend Davante Adams and began to make his way into the tunnel... only for Adams to inform him it was the wrong tunnel.

** PlayedForDrama in "Ellie"; after Ellie gets chewed out by Bartlet in his office, she starts to leave, only to indicate she has no idea where the exit is. He points it out to her.

* Kevin Hart discusses this in his special ''Seriously Funny''. He talks about when he gets in a fight with his wife and storms out the house, only to run back in to get his keys and wallet. Or even worse, pack his son's baby bag so he can go with him.

* A two-in-one example from ''Series/{{Castle}}''; Castle is dating a Hollywood actress. Beckett is [[UnresolvedSexualTension pretending not to be bugged by this]]. They have an argument about her intentions, which ends with Castle turning around to get a cup of coffee from the squad room and Beckett turning to go to the murder board. Unfortunately, both are pulling an Exit Is That Way, meaning they must turn around and walk sheepishly past each other to get to where they actually want to go.

-->'''Guy:''' That train's going to Cottage Grove - you're gonna get screwed! ''[the train doors close and trap Diane unside]''

* Variant on ''Series/AmericanIdol'': "Other door" practically became a CatchPhrase in the seventh season. The audition rooms were always double-doored, but only one of these doors ever opened, and, having entered through one of those doors, auditioners would inevitably try to leave through the other one. Which did not open. This also happened to Simon once. And one contestant somehow managed to burst through the locked door, to the judges' amazement. (This seemed to be a problem at ''every'' location they visited, making you wonder if they weren't setting the doors up like that on purpose to further embarrass the contestants.)

* Done by the title character in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', when after Eddie refuses to help him, he walks out in a huff... or tries to, anyway. Eddie helpfully shouts "That's the closet!"

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* Inverted in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15299694 Born Of The Same Impulse,]]'' where Tony visits Stephen and wears out his welcome after [[OpenMouthInsertFoot making one too many insensitive remarks.]] Stephen sends out his guest by saying, "You know where the door is." In response, Tony deliberately goes towards the opposite direction of the exit, and begins packing Stephen's stuffs to bring him out of the house.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' when Xenilla ''enters'' a pregnant Princess Cadance's bedroom to give her a wellness check and breakfast through her closet. He'd built a portal door with Sunburst and Key Ring that links any two doors together in a close proximity, so Cadance is very confused upon his entry and exit via her and Shining's wardrobe closet.

--->'''Atta:''' I've got to go... uh.. check on the bird. [''walks off'']\\
'''Atta:''' ''[reappearing]'' Bird's.. um.. ''that'' way...\\
'''Flik:''' ''[seeing all the other insects looking at him with "isn't that sweet" expressions]'' What?

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}''

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'':
** Dorothy tries to walk out on a boyfriend [[spoiler:who just revealed to her that he's married]]. Semi-justified since they're in a hotel room.

* In 2022, after a big win against the Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Derek Carr excitedly embraced his teammate Davante Adams and began to make his way into the tunnel... only for Adams to inform him it was the wrong tunnel.
-->'''Adams:''' Derek... almost pulled us into the wrong tunnel. He was a little excited and I'm like, "Yeah, I'm excited, too, but we gotta go this way."

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* In the movie of ''Film/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Zaphod has just set their course for the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, only to have Marvin point out that the restaurant is at the ''other'' end of the universe.

* In the ''Series/TopGear'' Botswana special, [[NoSenseOfDirection James May]] manages to set off in the wrong direction - towards Zimbabwe. (At a time when Creator/TheBBC were ''banned'' from Zimbabwe.) Fortunately he quickly realises his error.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' TV series episode "Hercules and the Twilight of the Gods" has a CallForward to the example from the film: All the baddies of the Norse pantheon march off in much the same way, with cries of "Ragnarok!", and a prominent sign indicates that they are, indeed, heading to Mount Olympus. Loki interrupts to let them know that, since they're ''Norse'' monsters, they should be heading to ''Valhalla'' instead.