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* [[Deadpan Snarker|Marco]] makes a joke along these lines in ''[[Animorphs]]'', book 7, ''The Stranger''.
{{quote|'''Marco:''' ''([[The Elevator From Ipanema|elevator music]] is playing)'' Top floor. Ladies shoes. Children's apparel. Everyone out.}}
* The Ministry of Magic in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' has an elevator that announces and describes the departments are on each floor -- thefloor—the punchline being that [[Government Conspiracy|the Department of Mysteries]] is referred to only as the Department of Mysteries.
** [[Riff Trax|"Also housewares, ladies' lingerie, and blatant traps for idiot children."]]
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'': Castin Donn wishes the Empire would label the insides of its turbolift tubes. (Don't even ''ask'' [[A Simple Plan|why he's inside the elevator shaft]]. Just don't.)
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== Radio ==
* On the old [[Abbott and Costello]] radio show, during World War II, [[Mel Blanc]] (acting as [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]), was an elevator operator in a department store, quoting "Cigarettes, Nylons, Rubber Tires, Gasoline, Sugar, and other picture postcards!" -- each—each item listed was rationed for the war effort.
* On ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' episode "The last great adventure of the summer" Agent Cat's Paw announces "Top floor: Lady's shoes, hand bags, international spies."
 
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