Ceiling Banger: Difference between revisions

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Living in an apartment has a big issue. They aren't soundproof, so noise from one carries to the other. This is true [[Truth in Television|in real life]] as well as in media.

Compare [[Big "Shut Up!"]],

 

 

== [[Advertising]] ==

* Inverted in a commercial for [[What Were They Selling Again?|something]], where a student is studying and can hear Prozzak's 'Omabolasire' coming from upstairs. The student then bangs on the ceiling with a broom and yells "Turn it up! I can't hear the words!"

* 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 ''[[Crayon 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.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In the movie ''[[Office Space]]'', Peter's neighbor Lawrence is constantly banging on the walls and listening in on his life. He even joins in on a supposedly top-secret conversation from the other side of the wall.

{{quote|'''Peter:''' "Oh, it's okay... Lawrence is cool."}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Reminiscent of an [[Ogden Nash]] poem which included something like:

* An old joke / fable type thing: A man was staying in a hotel room and complained to the manager that he was kept awake all night by the guest in the room above him. They visited the room above and found a farmer who had arrived back in the hotel, exhausted, in the middle of the night. The farmer apologised and explained that he just flopped on his bed, and shoved off his boot which landed heavily on the floor. Realising his mistake and the noise, he had taken the other boot off and placed it carefully on the floor. The manager asked the original complainer, "You were kept awake all night from thump?", to which the man replied "I was waiting for the second boot to drop!"

{{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]] ==

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

** It would probably help, at this point, to point out that said crabby neighbors weren't just intolerant of noise in spite of being well aware that the people upstairs had young children-they were portrayed as horrible human beings without anything resembling a redeeming feature, so the landlady wasn't just being stingy when she slapped them with the bill, she was eagerly searching for grounds to evict them.

*** Bear in mind that in spite of all the myriad and sundry lease violations they committed before damaging the ceiling, the landlady couldn't evict them because she wasn't willing to put in the effort to document said violations so that she would have proof in case they tried to contest the eviction.

 

== [[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.