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Not to be confused with [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]]. Ever. Compare [[Janitor Impersonation Infiltration]] which uses a janitor or maid disguise similarly. May overlap with [[Mugged for Disguise]] if there really was a delivery boy arriving. [[Deadly Delivery]] is when this technique is used by a [[Career Killer]] or other such criminal.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Done for laughs in a DiGiorno frozen pizza commercial.
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* The ''[[Super Mario Adventures]]'' comic had Luigi (in disguise) 'order' pizza for the Koopalings to give Yoshi, Toad and Peach a chance to enter Bowser's Castle armed with a ton of bombs.
* Variation used in ''[[Deadpool]]'' - Deadpool actually HAD ordered a pizza, but [[The Punisher]], who was looking to kill him, was listening in, intercepted the actual delivery guy, and paid him a thousand bucks for his hat, coat, and pizza.
** Deadpool also inverts this in one story. A woman hires him to kill a man who ruined her life, and the target is a delivery guy. So he breaks into someone's house, and orders pizza, resulting in the mark coming to him. And given how despicable the mark is, the home-owner doesn't even mind.
* Detective Walsh does this in ''[[Strangers in Paradise]]'' in order to make contact with Katchoo while she's working for Darcy. Of course, he's delivering pizza.
* In the ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' [[Doujinshi]] ''Rebellion Cycles Conference'', Madoka and Sayaka hear their doorbell ring. Sayaka comments that a normal person shouldn't even be able to get to where they are. Madoka points out that the girl/woman on the other side of the door just said she is the pizza place. After a very small discussion between Madoka and Sayaka, they decide Sayaka should opens the door anyways because who doesn't like pizza? Considering Sayaka got hit in the face with a pizza, apparently the 'delivery person' actually brought a pizza.
* In chapter 4 of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]] S: Heart of Steel'', [[Sailor Moon|Usagi]] uses this combined with [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] to pretend to be a [[wikipedia:Yamato Transport|Yamato Transport]] courier in order to investigate the Crystal Seminar.
{{quote|'''Usagi''': All I know is I gotta give this to a Fleetwood Elton at Cristo's Samovars.}}
== [[Film]] ==
* Parodied in the first film
{{quote|'''Fergie:''' C'mon, Dredd, there is no way in, are you even listening to me? We can't just knock on the wall and say "Hello, Cursed Earth Pizza!"}}
* ''[[Miami Vice]]'' (the movie): Rico gets the drug dealers to open their door by calling out "Milano's Pizza!"
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* ''[[Machete]]:'' Except in this case, the title character uses Mexican gardener infiltration technique.
* In ''[[Sneakers]]'' the delivery boy isn't the infiltrator, he's the distraction (trying to get the guard to sign for a huge shipment of drain cleaner) while the real infiltrator slips by his desk.
* ''[[Ace Ventura|Ace Ventura, Pet Detective]]'' opens with Jim Carrey parodying a UPS delivery guy while rescuing a dog from an abusive owner.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Happens in David Eddings Tamuli series with wine and beer.
== [[Live
* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Ted needs to get a sulky Lily to talk to him so that he can apologize. He knocks on her apartment door:
{{quote|'''Lily''': Who is it?
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* Used in an episode of ''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]''. The villainess Formicida has her mook deliver a box of killer ants to an intended victim by posing as a delivery boy. The real delivery boy is left bound and gagged in a crate, stripped down to his undies.
== [[Music]] ==
* The Coup's "Pizza Man Skit" from ''Steal This Album'' features a repo man who gets in an old lady's house this way, and then takes her TV away. Followed by the song "The Repo Man Sings for You"
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* Mike Meyers (no, not him) claims to have pulled something like this off in his A+ Certification textbook's chapter on computer security; a friend of his in another firm asked him to help test his fancy new firewall, so our intrepid author dug out an old jumpsuit and ID badge, bluffed his way past the receptionist and walked out the door with their server on a parcel trolley.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Toward the end of ''[[XIII]]'', you slip into the evil conspiracy's mansion from a fake catering van.
* ''[[Dragon Age: Origins]]'' has this in the "Captured!" scenario, assuming the player takes the "Wait For Rescue" option. Depending on which party members are chosen for the infiltration, they might pretend to be priests or circus performers, but the default is to be delivering rather odd things such as "items of a personal nature" or "several hundred lovely knitted... scarves."
* In ''
* A possible tactic in many levels of the ''[[Hitman]]'' series.
* Utilized in ''[[Yakuza: Like A Dragon]]'' at one point to sneak into the Omi HQ by the good guys. Hilariously, it's done without even a token attempt at a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]], instead the heroes just wear their usual and carry the delivery items while trying to avoid drawing notice.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Done as [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01132004 part of Roast Beef's hack of Yahoo! Personals] in ''[[Achewood]]''.
* In one ''[[Nukees]]'' strip, Gav claims he can break into a military base using a piece of cardboard. The piece of cardboard is placed on the roof of his car with the words "Gav's Pizza" written on it. It works.
* From ''[[League Of Super Redundant Heroes]]''; in [http://superredundant.com/?comic=956-strategic-toppings this strip], a vampire tries to get to Eva and Alex this way, but Eva is onto him, and orders the pizza with extra garlic.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* In ''[[Futurama]]'', the prank delivery that gets Fry frozen was planned out by {{spoiler|Nibbler}}.
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' once tried to infiltrate the Fearsome Five's headquarters by pretending to be a flower delivery guy. Of course Negaduck hates flowers, so DW had to backpedal and change it to delivering skulls.
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** In fact, this was the basis of an episode. In a rare case of [[Genre Savvy]], Shredder opens a pizza joint that specializes in weird pizzas, planning to stay in business until he gets an order for a pizza that only a mutant turtle could love. Then, he would follow the pizza to the Turtles' lair through a tracking device. The plan falls apart when he a) hires a disguised Michelangelo, and b) the Rat King steals the tracking pizza.
** The Turtles themselves do it in another episode to infiltrate the warehouse where Shredder is holding April hostage. Shredder knows he didn't order pizza, but Rocksteady and Bebop are more gullible.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEq_Fz3bBO8 Does Michael the Terrible Boyfriend count? :p]
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Trash of the Titans", Homer gets backstage at a [[U2]] gig by pretending to have a potato delivery.
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** Stood on its head in another episode: in order to rescue his friends from a [[Right-Wing Militia Fanatic]] named "Mad Dog", Dale orders a large number of flower bouquets to be delivered to Mad Dog's address. Mad Dog sees the delivery people carrying long, rectangular boxes just the right size to hide machine guns, assumes the FBI has finally caught up with him and [[Kansas City Shuffle|is trying to pull this trick]], and runs away.
* In ''[[The Secret Show]]'', the alternate dimension protagonists use this to get into the villain's base.
* In the reboot of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', Mojo Jojo tries to get into the Girls' slumber party this way; unfortunately for him, [[Paper-Thin Disguise| his disguise is pretty bad]], and not only do the Girls catch him, they and their guests [[Cool and Unusual Punishment| submit him to being dressed]] [[Humiliation Conga| in make-up and girly clothes.]]
* In an episode of ''[[Duck Tales]]'', when Launchpad finds out the entrance to the villain's lair is trough a deli, he tries to get in by disguising himself as a bread delivery man; but the clerk isn't expecting bread. Launchpad finds out he ''is'' expecting a delivery of pickles, but when he comes back to try that, he's interrupted by the real pickle delivery man. Not willing to give up, he manages to get in by hiding in one of the guy's pickle barrels which works for a while, until the smell of pickles gives him away.
* In the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Make Em Laugh", The Joker kidnaps Lisa Lorraine this way. Lisa knows she didn't order pizza, but offers to buy it anyway, which is when the Joker opens the box, which contains knock-out gas.
* The Joker uses a variation of the strategy in ''[[The Batman]]'' episode "Strange Minds" to kidnap Yin. He first slips a flyer for a pizza place under the door to her apartment (with a coupon); when she comes home from work, she's too tired to cook and decides to use it. She's suspicious when the operator says there's a "fifteen-seconds or it's free" offer, especially when it seems he actually gets there on time. Unfortunately, by then he has the jump on her.
* In an episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', Courage uses this trick to get in a villain's lair, convincing Eustace to act as the delivery man while he hides in the pizza box. The villain is smart enough to know he didn't order pizza, but his dimwitted assistant who answers the door does not. Eustace doesn't know what's going on, but he doesn't complain; as he says, it's the easiest twenty bucks he's ever made.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* Mike Meyers (no, not him) claims to have pulled something like this off in his A+ Certification textbook's chapter on computer security; a friend of his in another firm asked him to help test his fancy new firewall, so our intrepid author dug out an old jumpsuit and ID badge, bluffed his way past the receptionist and walked out the door with their server on a parcel trolley.
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[[Category:Disguise Tropes]]
[[Category:Action Adventure Tropes]]
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