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->''Jane, we've '''talked''' about this! You can't keep walking into our flat uninvited -- [[ThisIsReality this is not an]] [[Series/{{Friends}} American sitcom!]]''

** Lampshaded on ''MarriedWithChildren'' when Marcy walked in through the Bundy's door and said, "Why do you keep your door unlocked. Any crazed killer could come in and murder you?" Al's reply? "Yeah, like I ever get what I want."

* Parodied in ''{{Birds of a Feather}}'', where Dorien had a habit of just walking into her neighbors' house. At one point, they locked the door. She smashed the glass panel next to the lock, undid it, and came in anyway.

-->-- '''Steve''', ''{{Coupling}}'', a ''British'' sitcom

->''Jane, we've '''talked''' about this! You can't keep walking into our flat uninvited -- [[ThisIsReality this is]] [[ShoutOut not an]] [[Series/{{Friends}} American sitcom!]]''

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* In TeenTitansGo, Robin left the door open while cave-sitting the Batcave while Batman wasw out, and the remaining Titans just waltzed on in.

* When {{Angel}} becomes CEO of the supernatural law firm Wolfram & Hart, Eve (his Liaison to the Senior Partners) keeps doing this to upstage him, except for one episode when she does this [[CovertPervert while Angel is taking a shower]]. At first Eve claims his door was open, then changes to "your door was unlocked". Then Eve admits she has a key. Which Angel wordlessly takes off her.

A common situation in a TV show with limited time to show events, where a character will suddenly appear in another character's home with no explanation. It can be interpreted as merely a shorthand to indicate that the character has in fact knocked and been let in but the scene is too boring to air. However, the trope often appears in contexts where that should not be possible, like when the person entering the house walks in on someone's private affairs, or is a villain, or is out of favor with the resident and walks in just to berate him, etc. Why nobody ever, at the very least, locks their door when they want to be alone is a great mystery.

* A while back, UsefulNotes/TwinCities police officers had a campaign where they'd go up to houses during the night, and leave warnings if the door was unlocked. Eventually, this lead to a pair of officers not-quite-legally entering a house and waking up a homeowner to politely tell him that he is [[http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033838/posts an idiot for not locking his doors, leaving his garage open, and leaving the keys in his ignition.]]

* In the town of Churchill (Manitoba, Canada), it is considered common curtsey to leave your house door and car door unlocked, just in case a stranger needs a place to hide from a ''[[EverythingIsWorseWithBears rampaging polar bear]]''. Car theft is not considered a problem as the town has no roads linking to the rest of Canada.

*** Although on Seinfeld it was averted with every other character, Jerry has to buzz George and Elaine into the building every time they come over whereas Kramer lives across the hall from Jerry.

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' - in many episodes George and Elaine enter Seinfeld's apartment without him first buzzing them in through the intercom. Kramer's appearances are easily explained, since he and Jerry have swapped apartment keys.
** In one episode, though, Kramer's trademark entrances were subverted when a paranoid Jerry locks his door for once. Instead of Kramer bursting through the door like usual, the rest of the cast just hears a loud bang against it.

* In the town of Churchill, Manitoba, it is considered common curtsey to leave your house door and car door unlocked, just in case a stranger need a place to hide from a ''[[EverythingIsWorseWithBears rampaging polar bear]]''. Car theft is not considered a problem as the town has no roads linking to the rest of Canada.

See also: SwissCheeseSecurity and InterruptedIntimacy.

-->'''Jackson''': Jack?
-->'''O'Neill''': He's a barber.
-->'''Jackson''': Broke into your house?
-->'''O'Neill''': Yeah...
-->'''Jackson''': Second week in a row.
-->'''O'Neill''': Mm-hmm.
-->'''Jackson''': Alarm.
-->'''O'Neill''': I'm thinking "dog".
-->'''Joe Spencer''': You could try locking your front door.
* Steve Urkel on ''FamilyMatters'' treated the Winslow house as his own. When asked at one point why he never knocks, he said that if he did, no one would let him in.

* Done frequently on ''TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager''. A notable example happened in the season one episode, "Maybe Baby" when nearly every regular character ended up in Amy's house, arriving in groups of two or three, just to tell her they would support her if she wanted to keep her baby. They have gotten better about it in later seasons (meaning it's more common to see people actually knock on the door and wait for someone to answer it) but it's not completely absent.

A common situation in a TV show with limited time to show events, where a character will suddenly appear in another character's home with no explanation. It can be interpreted as merely a shorthand to indicate that the character has in fact knocked and been let in but the scene is too boring to air. However, the trope often appears in contexts where that should not be possible, like when the person entering the house walks in on someone's private affairs, or is a villain, or is out of favor with the resident and walks in just to berate him, etc. Why nobody ever, at the very least, locks their door when they want to be alone is a great mystery.

* This was a RunningGag on ''EvenStevens'' with the character Beans. Lampshaded in TheMovie when the family is sitting down to dinner and Beans pops up, prompting [[TheDitz Donny]] to say "This kid is starting to freak me out" and another character to propose changing the locks. Possibly averted by the fact that ''everyone'' found Beans weird and unsettling.

*** Although on Seinfeld it was averted with every other character, Jerry has to buzz George and Elaine into the building every time they come over.

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* ''{{Smallville}}'' - this happens so often that characters {{Lampshade}} it. Particularly nonsensical for Lex Luthor, who has cameras and security systems. This is a JustifiedTrope when Clark is involved, but not when it's, for example, Jimmy Olsen.
* From ''StargateSG1'':

* Done in ''WinnieThePooh''. The titular Pooh has set up an elaborate, if hasty furniture barricade in front of his Front door and is patrolling it with a popgun rifle. He hears a knock and is nervously trying to ascertain the identities of his friends knocking at the door, when Tigger bounces the bear, with Rabbit and Piglet walking in behind.

* A ''New Yorker'' cartoon from 2002 has two agents walk into someone's house saying "We're from Homeland Security. You left your door unlocked."

See also: SwissCheeseSecurity.