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When your characters need to see what's going on in that room over there, but they don't quite wanna risk coming all the way out into the open...

...when your characters ''all'' want to see rather than just sending one person to check so s/he can come back and tell the others, what do you do?

 

 

 

Though [[Scooby Doo]]'s [[You Meddling Kids|Meddling Kids]] gets credit for [[Trope Namer]], this trope may be [[Older Than You Think]].

 

Not to be confused with the [[Dagwood Sandwich|tall, stacked sandwiches]] enjoyed by Scooby and Shaggy.

 

* Done in episode 19 of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist|Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]''.

* At least once on [[Eureka Seven]], with the crew snooping on Renton and Eureka. [[Butt Monkey|Moondoggie is always on the bottom]].

** It makes sense she didn't fall. She was standing up in the back without leaning on another one of the girls, so nobody would have made her topple over.

* [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c179/8.html Here] in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. With the inevitable conclusion [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v20/c179/13.html here].

* Ash and two Pokemon form one in a sewer during the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode "Leading A Stray!"

* ''[[FLCL]]'' episode "Full Swing". Haruko, Naota's father and the robot Canti look through the center of a door.

* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]''

** Original series episode 7. While Taro is in the hot springs changing room his 3 personal maids form one around the corner of the door.

* Happens twice in ''[[Persona 4: The Animation|Persona 4]]''. Once when Chie and Yosuke spy on Kanji and Naoto and again when the rest of the group spies on Kanji and Hanako on the camping trip.

* In ''[[Ghost Stories]]'' the group does this and Hajime (in the [[Gag Dub|English Dub]]) points out how he's "on top".

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', the French taunters do this.

* Happens in ''[[The Spanish Inn]]'' when the tenants want to find out how the negotiation between Xavier and the landlord is going, but don't dare get involved themselves.

* Happens in the animated version of ''[[Asterix]] and Cleopatra''. Caesar sends three triplet Egyptian mercenaries to capture Getafix on the building site. They stack at the corner of a tent.

 

* A Thanksgiving episode of ''[[Friends]]'' had half the cast looking around a bolted door like this for most of the episode. It was lampshaded by [[Deadpan Snarker|Chandler]], who referred to them as "the floating heads".

* The kids in ''[[El Chavo del Ocho]]'' did it when spying on Doña Clotilde's house.

* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' has the three main characters look around the corner like this in one episode.

* Done in an episode of [[Hannah Montana]] where Oliver, Lilly and Miley are stacked up like this watching Jackson fail to convince Robbie Ray to up his curfew.

* The 2000 [[Made for TV Movie|TNT Original]] version of ''[[Don Quixote]]'' did this at one point, with Don, Sancho Panza, and Sancho's donkey all peering around a boulder.

* ''[[Misfits]]'' has one with Curtis, Simon, and Rudy pondering the presence of Seth the Power Broker in the Community Centre.

 

== Theatre ==

 

 

== Video Games ==

* While the main couple in ''[[Tales of Hearts]]'' is having their penultimate Sweet Moment, the rest of the party spies on them this way from behind a nearby pillar. They fall over on their own.

* Happens frequently in [[LEGO]]-themed games such as those based on ''[[Star Wars]]''.

 

 

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Questionable Content]]'' once, [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=676 here].

* [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-8/08-heroic-bsod/officespace/ This] ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked!]]'' strip.

* ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'': The squirrel girls express their fear of open spaces by hugging a doorway in a [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=490 Stack.]

 

== Web Original ==

* In the "Gay Chicken" episode of ''[[Commodore HUSTLE]]'', Alex, Kathleen and Kathleen's cat do this when Morgan asks if he can stay with them for a few days.

{{quote|'''Graham''': ...we're full.}}

 

 

* [[Played With]] in one episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' that focuses on SpongeBob trying to train Gary, his pet snail, for the coming snail race. After unsuccessfully trying to get Gary to practice sprints a couple of times, but Gary immediately goes to watch the television, Squidward leans in a nearby window to taunt Spongebob and boast about his purebred snail's chances of success. Cue Patrick leaning in the window above, boasting about ''his'' "snail"(it's actually a rock). Squidward lampshades when he asks what Patrick is standing on, cutting to the outside of the windows to see Patrick actually standing on Squidward's back. When Squidward later leaves, Patrick falls out of the window he's in and then pops back in Squidward's window.

* Jay, Cole and Zane do it behind a column in the first episode of ''[[Ninjago]]'': The Way of the Ninja.

* Done in ''[[Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels]]'' with the goofy spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch.

* The ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short "Johann Mouse" has five people popping their heads through a door.