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[[File:Howl spring cleaning fever.jpg|frame|link=Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|That is some ''serious'' [[Trash of the Titans]].]]
To some people, especially [[Neat Freak]]s, cleaning is [[Serious Business]]. They'll bust out the brooms, vacuums, etc. and clean to an extreme point, to go as far as going to clean other people's houses.

This is often a pregnancy trope in sitcoms; a woman displays nesting syndrome and becomes maidzilla during some unknown stage of pregnancy. Often [[Played for Laughs]].

[[I Thought It Meant|This trope is not limited to springtime.]]

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'': Keroro treats the Hinata family's annual New Year's Eve cleaning, like nearly everything else, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|like a major military operation.]]
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'': Chiri Kitsu, who goes to other people's houses to clean them and throw out questionable items, even if the owner of the house wanted to keep them.
* ''[[Toradora!]]'': The male protagonist, Ryuuji, feels the need to clean other peoples' houses, and even the school bathroom.

== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (novel)|Howl's Moving Castle]]'', "Chapter Five: Which Is Far Too Full Of Washing"
* ''[[Lake Wobegon|Lake Wobegon Days]]'': Diane, who treats it like a military operation. The War On Dirt. It begins: "One fine Saturday morning, Diane opened her eyes and smelled something bad from under the blanket. Ed had been doing that a lot lately."

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Friends]]'': Monica would go on these binges, even washing random cars parked on the street.
* ''[[Full House]]'': To Danny Tanner, spring cleaning is like Christmas and he has the whole family help out. 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': Andy is prone to fits of this and dragoons the rest of the family into helping her.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209161045/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2415 Monique suffers an attack.]

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]''
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': The show used this as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhmfoACm0b8 part of the basis] for their [[Musical Episode]].

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[[Category:Index Syndrome]]
[[Category:Just for Pun]]
[[Category:Cleanliness Tropes]]
[[Category:Spring Cleaning Fever]]