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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 they can come back and tell the others, what do you do?

The Scooby Stack! We've all seen it in cartoons and comedies: one head pops out from behind a corner or doorframe. Another head pops out above the first. And one more above that. Given the heights involved, it may seem that the one on the bottom is on his or her hands and knees, and/or maybe the one(s) above him are on somebody's back.

Because Cartoon Physics works differently, you can even get a Scooby Stack of people popping out from behind a tree or other item too thin for the thinnest person to hide behind.

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Though Scooby-Doo's Meddling Kids gets credit for Trope Namer, this trope may be Older than You Think.

Occasionally thwarted by someone surprising them by opening the door so they all fall on top of each other.

Not to be confused with the tall, stacked sandwiches enjoyed by Scooby and Shaggy.

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Done by a four-member gospel choir in a video ad for Gain Flings laundry additive.

Asian Animation

Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Animals & Plants episode 1, the goats peak around the door to the knowledge treasure-house and their heads are all in a column.

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Used in this fan-made YouTube video featuring five of the Disney Dudes forming a boy band after Cinderella, Belle, Mulan, Ariel, and Jasmine break up with them.

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Done in episode 9 of RWBY by team JNPR and three of the four members of RWBY as Wiess realises they're late for class and rushes off. Lampshaded when JNPR all fall on top of each other.

College University did this once - with Parks, Jay, and "Macho Man" Randy Savage.

Hardly Working deconstructs this in its sketch "Snooping ": Each consecutive person on top crushes the bottom guy more and more until his head explodes .

": Each consecutive person on top crushes the bottom guy more and more . In the "Gay Chicken" episode of commodoreHUSTLE, Alex, Kathleen and Kathleen's cat do this when Morgan asks whether he can stay with them for a few days. Graham : ...we're full.

The painters in Nukazooka's "Chroma Crisis - A Splatoon Fight" hear a car honking, so they peer around a corner to see who it is ( it's the property owner, who gives his approval of their paint job ).

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Western Animation