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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlyerS2E12BadEggs Bad Eggs]", Joyce catches her daughter doing an EnterStageWindow, and since Buffy can hardly admit she's been out vampire slaying or saving the world, she ends up grounded.

* In ''VideoGame/ThePKGirl'', [[HelloInsertNameHere the protagonist]] heads out one night to confront the villains, and returns in the morning to find that the heroine, Laurie, has been kidnapped. While rescuing her, she asks him this question. Katryn, playing up her role as TheVamp and TheDragon, naturally replies, "With me." While technically true, it leaves out [[MotiveRant a few]] [[DeathTrap key details.]]

* In keeping with ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'''s general theme of using a family of superheroes to riff on standard familial interactions, one scene uses this trope to parody typical scenes about interrogating a cheating spouse. Bob "Mr Incredible" Parr comes home after saving people from a fire (compelled by ChronicHeroSyndrome) even though the SuperRegistrationAct permanently forced all superheroes into their {{secret identit|y}}ies and forbade them from using their powers. His wife Helen "Elastigirl" Parr confronts him when he gets back, in an exchange resembling one between a suspicious wife and an unfaithful husband -- complete with rubble from the burning building in place of AffairHair!

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Joyce catches her daughter doing an EnterStageWindow, and since Buffy can hardly admit she's been out vampire slaying or saving the world, she ends up grounded.

* In keeping with ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'''s general theme of using a family of superheroes to riff on standard familial interactions, one scene uses this trope to parody typical scenes about interrogating a cheating spouse. Bob "Mr Incredible" Parr comes home after saving people from a fire (compelled by ChronicHeroSyndrome) even though the SuperRegistrationAct permanently forced all superheroes into their {{secret identit|y}}ies and forbade them from using their powers. His wife, Helen "Elastigirl" Parr, confronts him when he gets back in a manner resembling a suspicious wife questioning her unfaithful husband -- complete with rubble from the burning building in place of AffairHair!

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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Joyce catches her daughter doing an EnterStageWindow after a night of vampire slaying. Her response is [[YouAreGrounded predictable]], being completely unaware at that point that Buffy's calling is to GoToSchoolSaveTheWorld.

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* ''{{Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind}}'': The last time Joel saw Clementine before she had him erased was when she stumbled in the door at 3 A.M. after drunkenly scraping his car against a fire hydrant. The fight coming from Joel's reaction was Clementine's impetus to the procedure.
* ''Series/MadMen'': From the first episode Don [[spoiler:regularly cheats on his wife. It's not 'til later she asks where he has been]].
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'': In the first episode, Tony is shown covering for his sister to avert such a scene.
* ''Series/TheWire'': In its fifth season, Jimmy has such a scene with his lady, who knows he's cheating.

* ''MonkeyDust'' turns this into a recurring gag with Clive, a character who disappears from his wife for extended amounts of time (usually an evening, sometimes as long as years) and, when questioned as to his whereabouts repeats the plot of a film, book or (in one memorable episode) nursery rhyme. The actual explanation is typically something immensely revolting, humiliating and sexual.
* Double-barreled example from 1994's ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110907/ Prêt-à-Porter]]'': a fashion designer sneaks back into his hotel room, having spent the night cheating on his supermodel wife with her identical twin sister, only to find that ''she'' didn't spend the night there, either (for exactly the reason you're thinking - [[HorribleHollywood it's that kind of movie]]). So when they catch up with each other at the {{fashion show}} later and he asks this question of her, she ends the conversation by replying, "I was with my sister, where were ''you''?"

-->'''Shaggy:''' Hey, gang! Like, where were ya? We've been lookin' all over for you!
-->'''Daphne:''' Shaggy! Scooby!
-->'''Velma:''' Where were you two all night?
-->'''Shaggy:''' (''he and Scooby exchange knowing glances'') Like, you wouldn't believe it if we told ya!
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "The Girl in the Fireplace", the Doctor stumbles in drunk after partying with the French aristocracy to find his companions StrappedToAnOperatingTable and about to be dissected by clockwork androids. Rose promptly does a LikeAnOldMarriedCouple version.
-->'''Rose:''' What have you been doing?! Where've you been?!\\
'''The Doctor:''' Well, among other things, I ''think'' I just invented the banana daiquiri a couple of centuries early. Do you know they'd never seen a banana before?

->I call and I call\\

Where were you last night?

* ''{{Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind}}'': JimCarrey's lady went to the bar without him and stayed out late.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Doctor stumbles in drunk after partying with the French aristocracy to find his companions StrappedToAnOperatingTable and about to be dissected by clockwork androids. Rose does a LikeAnOldMarriedCouple version.

-->-- [[strike:Music/{{Nightwish}}]] [[CoveredUp Ankie Bagger]], "Where Were You Last Night?"

* ''MadMen'': From the first episode Don [[spoiler:regularly cheats on his wife. It's not 'til later she asks where he has been]].
* ''{{Skins}}'': In the first episode, Tony is shown covering for his sister to avert such a scene.
* ''TheWire'': In its fifth season, Jimmy has such a scene with his lady, who knows he's cheating.

* ''ScoobyDoo And The Goblin King'' (one of the franchise's made-for-DVD movies) has Scooby and Shaggy--after saving all creation and earning the respect of the Goblin King who allows them to retain their memories of the events--pulling up in the Mystery Machine to greet Fred, Velma and Daphne (who had their memories erased):

* Wendy asks Van this in episode 3 of ''GunXSword.'' (He was hungover thanks to one shot of tequila, because he CantHoldHisLiquor.) Played comically, because it reveals that although she's [[MayDecemberRomance far younger than he is]], she's already nagging him.

* In ''ThePKGirl'', [[HelloInsertNameHere the protagonist]] heads out one night to confront the villains, and returns in the morning to find that the heroine, Laurie, has been kidnapped. While rescuing her, she asks him this question. Katryn, playing up her role as TheVamp and TheDragon, naturally replies, "With me." While technically true, it leaves out [[MotiveRant a few]] [[DeathTrap key details.]]

* ''ScoobyDoo And The Goblin King'' (one of the franchise's made-for-DVD movies) has Scooby and Shaggy--after saving all creation and earning the respect of the Goblin King who allows thgem to retain their memories of the events--pulling up in the Mystery Machine to greet Fred, Velma and Daphne (who had their memories erased):

-->-- [[strike:{{Nightwish}}]] [[CoveredUp Ankie Bagger]], "Where Were You Last Night?"

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->''I call and I call''
-> ''Just to make things right''
-> ''Have I lost the fight?''
-> ''Where were you last night?''
-->Nightwish, "Where Were You Last Night?"

Daddy scratches his key against the doorknob, stumbles in reeking, and tries to get to bed without Mommy hearing. Your teenage daughter didn't come home last night yet shows up in the afternoon with her friend who wears too much makeup. These are scenes where Jane is home, John wasn't, and that's a problem.

Another sort of phrase you often hear in these scenes is, "I called the office" and "YouAreGrounded!". This trope covers any scene where one character's in trouble with another because he wasn't at home. The most common versions of this trope are a cheating spouse or a youth partying against parents' objections.
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!!Examples:

*''EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'': Jim Carrey's lady went to the bar without him and stayed out late.
*''MadMen'': From the first episode Don [[spoiler:regularly cheats on his wife. It's not 'til later she asks where he has been]].
*''{{Skins}}'': In the first episode, Tony's shown covering for his sister to avert such a scene.
*''TheWire'': In its fifth season, Jimmy has such a scene with his lady, who knows he's cheating.
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