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Alice is all work, all the time and never has time to have fun, fun is not productive. Meanwhile, Bob only cares about having fun all the times and claims to be allergic to work. If only there was some sort of golden mean...
Usually, a scenario to give [[An Aesop]] about balance between responsibility and leisure, this has been seen incarnated in different ways through media but at times is just the essential characteristic between two characters. Compare [[All Take and No Give]].
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* Cameron Diaz is the All-Play character to Toni Collette in ''[[In Her Shoes]]''.
* ''[[Metropolis]]'' is kind of like this, except that most of the population lives in constant toil and misery in order to facilitate the lazy decadent lifestyle of the privileged few. The moral of the story is that a compromise between the extremes needs to be found, but it's more about reforming the straw capitalist state than about the virtue of moderation.
* ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]''.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Averted in Highlights' ''Goofus and Gallant'' where you are meant to always root for Gallant, the All Work.
== Religion And Mythology ==
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