![]() ![]() In a Communist country, citizens are in an hours-long queue for food. Ed clears out the line by spoiling who the killer was in the novel. A Sunday strip for Crankshaft has a line for a book signing.Robotman and Monty: Moondoggie gets a job in a bank (temporarily) - he amuses himself by moving the velvet ropes around to get the customers to line up to a blank wall, creating " The Twilight Zone bank".According to Charles Schulz, this really happened to him. He lets Lucy go in front of him, and she becomes the 1,500th candy bar winner. A classic Peanuts strip shows Charlie Brown waiting in line at the theater, hoping to be one of the first 1,500 children to get free candy bars.A FoxTrot Sunday strip had the majority of the strip devoted to a ridiculously long airline check-in queue, with the final panel having Andy remark that she thinks she has forgotten the tickets.I'm waiting to pay, and the cashier puts me on hold instead of the person on the telephone. After I wait ten minutes, they open a new line for all the people behind me who have waited two minutes. Mom: Fifteen people in line and the teller goes on break without a replacement. If the line is filled with tryhards desperate to get inside an exclusive place or event, it's Wannabe Line. If the queue uses sequential tickets instead of simple position in line, it's Take a Number. If people plan for a ridiculously long wait in line, it's a Ticket-Line Campout. Spending a great deal of time (a significant part of an episode, if not its entirety) queuing for something only for it to be the wrong queue, or for the till at the end to shut just as the character(s) get to the front.įrequent butts of this gag are banks, amusement parks, the Department of Motor Vehicles, or any similarly over-bureaucratic institution.Queuing for something that should be urgent, quick or will be unpleasant."It's a queue! It must be important! Let's queue!" People see others standing in line and assume that whatever they're waiting for is important, or at the very least worth the wait.The line is insufferably long or service slow, often to such a degree that people grow beards, raise families etc.Usually a comedy trope, the joke being one or more of the following: People standing in line to do various tasks. Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) ![]()
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