Hating on Monday: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"''Whoever invented Mondays should be drug out into the street and shot.''"|[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]}}

{{quote| "''I still wake up in a cold sweat on Tuesday mornings. Tuesdays was 'debriding day' at the Army hospital burn unit where I recovered.''"}}

* In a bit on ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me (Radio)!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' riffing on the report that al-Qaeda had office interns, one of the panelists said "We hate America...but we also hate Mondays."

== Live -Action TV ==

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the titular character knows that if Dawn is in trouble it must be Tuesday again.

** Which is a bit of [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]], since, at that time, Buffy aired on Tuesday.

* The secretaries Kathy and Cathy from ''[[The Kids in The Hall]]'' discuss this in one episode. Tanya the temp also hates them. [http://youtu.be/NubcKsQTuNQ\]{{Dead link}}

{{quote| '''Kathy''': ''TBIM, huh?''<br />

'''Cathy''': ''"TBIM?"''<br />

* One of the speech in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. It also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall|perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on that day?

{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' Time isn't a straight line. It's all... [[Timey-Wimey Ball|bumpy-wumpy]]. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible. }}

* [[The Mamas Andand Thethe Papas]], "Monday, Monday:":

{{quote| ''Every other day, (every other day)<br />

''Every other day of the week is fine, yeah<br />

''But whenever Monday comes (But whenever Monday comes)<br />

''You can find me crying all of the time }}

{{quote| ''Monday morning feels so bad<br />

''Everybody seems to nag me. }}

* ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' hates Mondays, and it's little wonder since [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710153016/http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day].

** He also seems to hate certain months, too, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710154610/http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=February such as Feburary].

** Oh yes, and he ''especially'' hates [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710155436/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/09/13/ Monday the 13th]. '''''Especially''''' if that [https://web.archive.org/web/20120710145401/http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/02/13/ Monday the 13th is on a February].

* In ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'', Arthur concludes that it must be Thursday because "I never got the hang of Thurdays".

* The ''Garfield'' example is [[Shout -Out|referenced]] in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game)|Kingdom of Loathing]]'', where the "Potion of the Field Gar" gives you bonus adventures for eating [[Trademark Favourite Food|lasagna]] - except on Mondays.

* In ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', there's an office where you can pick up a couple of coffee mugs. One mug has "I hate Mondays" on it.

== WebcomicsWeb Comics ==

* ''[[Channel Ate]]'' believes a sound beating is better than Mondays.

* On ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' Leela's former boss returns a poster to her (a monkey captioned with "I hate Mondays").

{{quote| '''Leela's Old Boss:''' I also kept your poster showing your dislike of Mondays!<br />

* As [https://web.archive.org/web/20140301034618/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4472389 reported on NPR,] "In 1979, Brenda Spencer opened fire with a rifle at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, Calif., killing two adults and injuring nine children. She later explained her actions with the statement, 'I don't like Mondays.'"

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