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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[Triptych Continuum]]'': Some of Twilight's library patrons had overdue books for months, if not years.
== Film ==
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]: Dog Days'', Greg found a book, titled ''How to Make Sock Puppets'', which he had in his procession for a long time. He got worried that he'll get arrested if ever he returned to the library.
* In [[Shel Silverstein]]'s book ''A Light in the Attic'', there was a poem about someone, who finds a book that was 42 years overdue, admits that it was theirs, and does not know what to do.
== [[Live-Action
* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode, "The Library", this is pretty such the entire plot as Jerry is confronted by a library investigations officer named [[Meaningful Name|Joe Bookman]].
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'': In "The Private Ear" episode, one of Greg's [[Dark Secrets]] that he doesn't want anyone to know about, but trusts Marcia to never reveal ... until Peter lets on to his big brother that he knows that the librarian isn't going to be very happy and that he'd better pay up big time, and that he might have to really face the music with the folks.
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* ''[[FoxTrot]]'': In one strip, Paige finds out that she had months-overdue library books because when she entrusted Jason to return them, he hid them in her closet.
* ''[[Bloom County]]''. In one strip Binkley was awakened by a visit from the creature that lives inside his Closet of Anxieties. The creature had found a book in the Closet and goes to fetch Mrs. McGreevy. As Binkley suddenly remembers that Mrs. McGreevy was a librarian, a giant axe was flung over Binkley's head and hits the wall. Mrs. McGreevy appeared, holding another axe, and says:
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* At least once in ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', the librarians bring ''guns'' to enforce the returned of overdue books.
== Oral Tradition, Myths and Legends ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', you can find a very overdue library book in the bedroom of a [[Procrastination Giant]]. This library book was so overdue that if it weren't for the bookplate, you'd have thought it predated the invention of the library.
== Western Animation ==▼
* In one ''[[Time Squad]]'' episode, the team was visited by elderly versions of themselves from the future. They were meant to warn them about something, but due to senility, they can't remember what it was. At the end of the episode, they finally remember that they wanted to warn the present team about a library book that they should return, because the financial penalty for it being several decades overdue is astronomical.▼
* In an ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur episode]]'', "Unfinished". Arthur looked for a new copy of a long-out-of-print book called "93 Million Miles in a Balloon" when the last few pages of his copy of the book are missing (and later revealed to have been in the pocket of his jacket and ruined in the wash). He finds out that the Elwood City Library did have a copy of the book, but it was checked out ten years ago and never returned, as whoever last borrowed it moved out and left no forwarding address. Ms. Turner vowed that if that man ever returns to the Elwood City Library, she will personally revoke his library card.▼
== Web Animation ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'' Tarvek thought he must had an overdue book when he was kidnapped from Castle Wulfenbach by the Immortal Library. He was reassured his borrowing record was still perfect, but it was definitely a library not to forget to return books to.
== [[Web
* In ''[[The Spoony Experiment]]'', when Spoony reviewed the 1989 fantasy film ''The Lords of Magick'' he implied that he borrowed the VHS tape from the library twenty years ago.
* The owner of the game store in ''[[Acts of Gord]]'' rented out games, rather than books, but had a similar problem. A few of his customers are mentioned as keeping a game for so long that Gord simply bills the customer's credit card for the price of the game, as the late fees eventually exceed the cost of the game.
== Real Life ==▼
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Mental Floss made [http://mentalfloss.com/article/55621/11-ridiculously-overdue-library-books-were-finally-returned a list] which had this trope's name all over it.▼
▲* In one ''[[Time Squad]]'' episode, the team was visited by elderly versions of themselves from the future. They were meant to warn them about something, but due to senility, they can't remember what it was. At the end of the episode, they finally remember that they wanted to warn the present team about a library book that they should return, because the financial penalty for it being several decades overdue is astronomical.
▲* In an ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur episode]]'', "Unfinished". Arthur looked for a new copy of a long-out-of-print book called "93 Million Miles in a Balloon" when the last few pages of his copy of the book are missing (and later revealed to have been in the pocket of his jacket and ruined in the wash). He finds out that the Elwood City Library did have a copy of the book, but it was checked out ten years ago and never returned, as whoever last borrowed it moved out and left no forwarding address. Ms. Turner vowed that if that man ever returns to the Elwood City Library, she will personally revoke his library card.
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Mental Floss]] made [http://mentalfloss.com/article/55621/11-ridiculously-overdue-library-books-were-finally-returned a list] which had this trope's name all over it.
* In Sept. 29, 1965, someone borrowed the book "Who Has Seen the Wind", but didn't return it [https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/overdue-library-book-returned-52-years-apology-note/story?id=47886937 until 52 years later.]
* Arthur Edwin Boycott checked out "The Microscope and Its Revelations" in 1894. The book wasn't returned [https://hellogiggles.com/reviews-coverage/books/the-longest-overdue-library-book-was-finally-returned-and-will-make-you-feel-much-better-about-that-one-you-lost-in-college/ until 120 years later], by his ''granddaughter''.
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