Ceiling Banger: Difference between revisions

* The first few episodes of "[[Welcome to The NHK]]" have the main protagonist, Satou, being driven half mad by his next door neighbor (next door but sharing the same wall), who keeps playing the same J-Pop song, nonstop, 24 hours a day. A number of times he angrily kicks the wall and yells for his neighbor to turn the music down.

* In an episode of ''[[Shin Chan]]'' (the [[Gag Dub]]), Shin gets into a stomp competition with the landlady on the floor below. At least to him it was a competition. She was just ornery about the stomping.

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

* Mentioned and averted in [[Fight Club]]. The Narrator mentions he lives in a high priced apartment for urban professionals with thick concrete walls and floors:

{{quote| '''Narrator:''' Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-shows at full volume. Or when a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your floor-to-ceiling windows and sails flaming into the night. I suppose these things happen.}}

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The first-season episode Meadowlands of ''[[The Sopranos]]'': Meadow and Hunter are playing music way too loud, prompting longer and louder "HEEEEYYY!"s from Tony, who pounds the wall as he shouts.

* In ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'', this trope is used for a classic gag. Mindy is complaining about a ceiling banger below her apartment and Mork suggests she make the best of it making by making a game of it. When Mindy asks how, Mork stomps on the floor and uses the ceiling banger's subsequent banging to sweep Mindy into a square dance with himself as the caller.

* Happens in a couple of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episodes, most notably in the one where [[Unreliable Narrator|Future Ted]] tells his kids that they were annoyed by the loud bagpiping of the neighbors. Also referenced in another episode where Lilly tells Ted she can hear Robin's orgasms because the walls are thin.

* Bernard does it in an episode of ''[[Black Books]]'', despite the fact the couple making the noise are not actually upstairs, and causes a huge chunk of plaster to fall on a slumbering Fran in the process.

 

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* In the DS game ''[[Touch Detective]]'', your first case has you visiting the main character's [[Cloudcuckoolander|extremely ditzy friend]] in her apartment. While you're talking, she hears her upstairs neighbor comes in, excuses herself for a moment, then starts ''banging on the ceiling with a stick of some sort'', receiving some stomps in reply. When your shocked main character asks what she's doing, she explains that she's just greeting her neighbor in morse code. The problem? As you find out when you visit the neighbor, your friend ''never explained this system at all'', and the neighbor is just trying to get her to shut up with their "replies". You, of course, explain the mistake. It's implied that the neighbor goes along with it from then on, but it's not really brought up again, so who knows?

* ''[[The Sims]] 2 Apartment Life'' lets you be on either side of the equation: Your sim may have a noisy neighbor, and decide to bang on the wall, or your sim may ''be'' a noisy neighbor, and have his/her wall banged upon.

** However, dorm walls in [[The Sims]] 2 University never have the same problem; a Sim can sleep in his/her dorm room even if a wild party is going on in common space.

* In ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', one citizen of Monstro Town complains that he keeps hearing strange noises and incoherent muttering next door. Mario tries to investigate, but the door is always locked. Later in the game, Mario can open the door, and it turns out his neighbor is {{spoiler|Culex, a powerful sorceror drawn in [[Non Standard Character Design|the normal ''Final Fantasy'' art style]], and the house is actually a portal to his personal dimension, an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]. Culex was about to invade Mario's dimension when Mario arrived.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Parodied in a cutaway gag on ''[[Family Guy]]''. A guy sneezed, and that set off the woman in the apartment below. The guy sighed at this overreaction, and she threatened to call the police.

* An animated insert on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' has an insomniac living on the second floor of a three-story apartment building. His upstairs neighbor snores and his downstairs neighbor sneezes. (Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApODTRgHN2s here].)

 

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