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Definitely an example of [[Truth in Television]].

 

== Advertising ==

* There was an Australian McDonald's ad where a boss asked his secretary to get him an order, who then asked someone else to get them something. It kept going down until the list reached a guy in a dingy basement sort of office. He then makes the work experience kid get the stuff, which has accumulated several A4 pages.

 

== Literature ==

* In [[Mark Twain]]'s ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'', this is not actually played for laughs, but rather used as social satire to show how ridiculously overblown royal ceremonies were in Tudor England.

* In ''[[Land of Oz|Ozma of Oz]]'', the Tin Woodsman's army consists of 100 soldiers, only one of whom is not an officer. The one time they actually fight, All the generals give the order to attack, which is then passed down to all the officers of the next rank down, and so forth until every officer has sounded the order to charge in decreasing order of rank, at which point the one private attacks the Nomes.

{{quote|'''Vernon''': Get the mail, Dudley.

'''Dudley''': Make Harry get it.

'''Vernon''': Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley. }}

 

* The teaser of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'''s [[Lower Deck Episode]] is one long shot in which we follow the progress of an order from Captain Janeway to the schlub who ends up carrying it out.

* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' uses this amongst a group, when faced with acquiring evidence from a chemical toilet. (Played with in that the ''last'' link in the chain, who's dating the guy in front of her, simply rolls her eyes and tells him to get on with it.)

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'':

 

== Web Original ==

 

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