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* ... as well as [[Morning Glory]], also by screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is the fourteenth executive producer at Daybreak in eleven years.
* In ''[[Star Wars|The Empire Strikes Back]]'', Darth Vader goes through several commanding officers, often [[You Are in Command Now|promoting the person under them in the process]]. One amusing scene has him force strangle the elderly Admiral Ozzel who [[You Have Failed Me...|had failed him]] while talking with his ship's Captain, Piett. As the admiral gasps his last, he then says "You are in charge now, ''Admiral'' Piett", having promoted him on the spot. Piett's face is priceless as he doesn't know whether to look grateful or worried.
** The Prequels have the Jedi High Council which over the course of 13 years goes through half their original twelve members. Some positions even had to be replaced more than once.
** Arguably worse than the ''[[24]]'' example mentioned below is the position of Queen of Naboo. Granted it is stated to be an elective monarchy with monarchs serving two four-year terms and they can step when they want, but that doesn't change fact in Legends Naboo had four queens over the course of less than two terms. <ref> [[The Phantom Menace]] took place months into Queen Amidala's first term and afterwards she served the maximum eight years before stepping down. The Next Monarch was Queen Jamillia from [[Attack Of The Clones]] who served the minimum four years before being replaced by Queen Neeyutnee from ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]''. Neeyutnee was in turned replaced by Queen Apailana from ''[[Revenge Of The Sith]]'' after maybe one year or so (The Clone Wars officially occurred over three years) but Apailana was assassinated by The 501st Legion only one year after that movie in ''[[Star Wars: Battlefront (series)| Battlefront II]]'' and got replaced by Queen Klyantha. That adds up to about 7 years with four queens. </ref>
* Mr. Thackeray was one of a string of teachers in ''[[To Sir, With Love]]''; the kids drove one of his predecessors to suicide.
* The live-action ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]]'' movie. The villainess brings in a priest, ''[[Ghostbusters|Ray Stantz]]'' and even a wrecking crew. Eventually, the protagonist's father, a psychic psychiatrist, is contacted to try and exorcise the house.
* [[This Is Spinal Tap|Spinal Tap]]'s drummers have a tendency to expire in a number of strange ways. Two of them spontaneously combusted.
* ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''. The family go through nannies at such a rate, the agency finally suggests they get a
* The therapists [[Good Will Hunting|Will Hunting]] goes through before Robin Williams comes along.
* ''[[Rango]]'' discovers that the position of sheriff of the town of Dirt is like this, complete with a brief shot of a cluster of graves in the town cemetery.
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'''Corinne:''' Huh! ''(Pushes button on list, revealing it's a '''very''' long list folded over several times)'' }}
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]:'' It's implied that no one stays Jay's partner for very long.
* ''[[Cars]]'' (2006): "Jay Limo" (Jay Leno) jokes "I don't know which is harder to find, Lightning McQueen or a crew chief who'll work with him" after an entire pit crew resigns in protest. {{spoiler| Doc Hudson becomes his new crew chief by the end of the film, but this trope still occurs in the sequels due to [[The Character Died with Him|Paul Newman's passing in 2008]].}}
* In the original "Yours, Mine, and Ours", after the Frank's wife died he tried to get a house keeper to mind his 10 children, all of whom were angry over their mother's death and fathers negligence (he spent much of his time gone in the Navy.) They were all shown storming out horrified at the children. The final housekeeper actually set up the first real meeting between the main couple when she embarrassed his eldest daughter to the point that she fainted, necessitating a trip to the infirmery where the Helen works.
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** Equally, Kings/Patricians before Vetinari and Archchancellors before Ridcully used to have quite short tenures; one king was killed mere seconds after his coronation, and became known to history as King Loyola the Aaargh. Patricians always seemed to end up going crazy and needing to be replaced or assassinated, while the wizards were firm believers in [[Klingon Promotion]]. Vetinari got around this by [[Vetinari Job Security|being irreplaceable]], Ridcully by being virtually unkillable.
*** The last patrician before Vetinari, Mad Lord Snapcase, lasted about a decade. Homicidal Lord Winder is also implied to have lasted a good while. The Archchancellors, by comparison, were replaced once per book, implying tenures counted in single-digit months.
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* In the ''[[Misfits]]'' world, ''do not'' become a parole officer. You will die, your body will never be found, and, seemingly, [[Police Are Useless|the authorities will ignore your disappearance]].
* A high-ranking Vulcan on ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' tells T'Pol that before her, no Vulcan liaison had lasted more than a few weeks on the Enterprise.
** ...and then there's the [[Red Shirt]] security team from [[Star Trek]]'s original series, who are a trope in their own right.
== Music ==
Some groups or bands have historically had a high turnover rate:
* It's said that no guitarist other than John Frusciante was meant to play for the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]]. Over the course of 27 years, they have gone through 9 guitarists, most of whom didn't last more than a few months.
* [[The Other Wiki]] has a [[wikipedia:Members of The Fall|page]] dedicated to cataloging all the former members of The Fall.
The lyrics to some songs reference the trope:
* ''Le blues du businessman'' (Claude Dubois) begins « J'ai du succès dans mes affaires / J'ai du succès dans mes amours / Je change souvent de secrétaire » without explaining how the businessman obtained such a high turnover rate for secretaries.
== Other ==
* Sheriffs in most Western parodies.
** If this were music, maybe [[Eric Clapton]] shot them? But he didn't shoot no deputy, oh no...
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' featured, in one episode, a series of flashbacks to the many babysitters who couldn't handle the Freeman boys. They never find one who can. Even the new guy, Uncle Ruckus, lasts about five minutes.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' ran this with babysitters, before finding a character who was ''[[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|in no way whatsoever]]'' like Mary Poppins. She is still driven mad by the anxiety of looking after the family.
* In ''[[South Park]]'' many nannies attempted to tame Eric Cartman's horrifying behavior; all rapidly became mad.
** However a suitable caretaker is eventually found... however, it's [[The Dog Whisperer]], who only manages to deal with Cartman's cruelty and racism by treating him like a disobedient yappy dog.
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