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Often involves the character's face holding in place (and slowly changing expression) while everything else happens around it. For added hilarity points, a character may look up at the clock after boredom has set in to see that a very short amount of time has passed.
Often involves the character's face holding in place (and slowly changing expression) while everything else happens around it. For added hilarity points, a character may look up at the clock after boredom has set in to see that a very short amount of time has passed.


Compare [[Writers Block Montage]].
Compare [[Writer's Block Montage]].
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== Films ==
== Films ==


* In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', after the "Skid Row" number there is a brief montage of the three employees of Mushnik's flowershop sitting around being bored to show a complete lack of business.
* In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', after the "Skid Row" number there is a brief montage of the three employees of Mushnik's flowershop sitting around being bored to show a complete lack of business.
* The opening number of ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'' is both this and an [[I Want Song]], showing Rapunzel's frustration after being stuck in a tower for her entire life up to that point.
* The opening number of ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'' is both this and an [["I Want" Song]], showing Rapunzel's frustration after being stuck in a tower for her entire life up to that point.


== [[Western Animation]] ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'', "Squidville": Squidward moves into a new neighborhood where everyone has the same interests and hobbies as he does, and gradually gets sick of it.
* ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'', "Squidville": Squidward moves into a new neighborhood where everyone has the same interests and hobbies as he does, and gradually gets sick of it.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', "Schnit-Heads": Heifer joins a sausage cult and started eating nothing but delicious sausages. At first he enjoyed it but then he get bored.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', "Schnit-Heads": Heifer joins a sausage cult and started eating nothing but delicious sausages. At first he enjoyed it but then he get bored.
* In ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash goes through one of these in "Read it and Weep" while stuck in the hospital recovering from an injury. Subverted when she glances up at a clock, showing that the montage ''wasn't'' a montage - everything we just saw happened in real time.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rainbow Dash goes through one of these in "Read it and Weep" while stuck in the hospital recovering from an injury. Subverted when she glances up at a clock, showing that the montage ''wasn't'' a montage - everything we just saw happened in real time.
* When [[Pinky and The Brain]] begin a seven-month submarine journey, Pinky doesn't take it so well. The montage could have accounted for more than half the time, but it turns out to be only 15 minutes.
* When [[Pinky and The Brain]] begin a seven-month submarine journey, Pinky doesn't take it so well. The montage could have accounted for more than half the time, but it turns out to be only 15 minutes.