Exploding Closet/Playing With

Basic Trope: A closet or cabinet door is opened, and an avalanche of junk spills out.

• Played Straight: Alice opens the closet to put a box away or get something, and is subsequently buried under junk.
• Exaggerated:
  • Kitchen Sink Included
  • The closet is a very big Hammerspace that a crowd, 10 elephants, a house, among others can be stored inside, yet it's still stuffed.
• Inverted: Alice stuffs her Trash of the Titans into the closet.
• Justified:
  • The closet is Bigger on the Inside
  • The closet is simply filled with old items, and haven't been checked since 108 years ago.
• Subverted:
  • Alice opens a drawer, not a closet.
  • Alice opens the closet, sees the junk about to fall out, and closes it quickly.
• Double Subverted:
  • But the drawer is overstuffed and explodes.
  • The junk bursts through the door anyway, leaving a giant mess.
• Deconstructed: Alice is a compulsive hoarder, or a very unhealthily messy person.
• Reconstructed:
• Parodied:
  • A skier skis down the slope of junk.
  • A Camp Gay guy struts over the junk pile and out of the closet.
  • A bomb is heard, and the room is once again messy.
  • Alice opens the closet and sees stock footage of a landfill.
  • Alice suffers Amusing Injuries from this.
  • Alice is not opening a closet per se, but some form of Hammerspace
• Lampshaded: "Bob, how many times do I have to tell you, don't overstuff the closet!"
• Averted: Alice opens the closet and nothing happens.
  • Or, she doesn't open the closet.
• Enforced: Rule of Funny.
• Invoked: Bob overloads the closet, knowing Alice will open it later.
• Exploited: Alice tricks Charlie into opening the closet, which she knows is overfull.
• Defied:
  • Alice refuses to open the closet.
  • "I'm pretty sure I need the Hammerspace cabinet, I don't want shoes and all to explode on me!"
• Discussed: "Alice, you have a serious shoe problem. I went to get my coat, and I got buried under an avalanche of heels."
• Conversed: "How did they even manage to close the door?"
• Played For Laughs: Almost always is.
• Played For Drama: Alice's family stages an intervention for hoarding.

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