Laundromat Liaisons: Difference between revisions

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Laundromats are a convenient setting when the plot requires characters to [[You All Meet in An Inn|meet and strike up a conversation]]. People don't generally like to leave their laundry unattended, so they have a couple hours of nothing to do but wait for the machines. They might as well pass the time by chatting with the person next to them on the bench. [[Romantic Comedy|Romantic comedies]] often use this to set up a [[Meet Cute]]. It can also be played for the awkward, like an [[Uncomfortable Elevator Moment]] only stretched out to several minutes (on stage). Or it can be [[Rule of Creepy|creepy]]: how is Alice to get out of this conversation without abandoning her laundry?

 

 

It's not uncommon for the characters to get a peek at each others' laundry, invoking tropes such as [[Black Bra and Panties]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Big Daddy]]'': The main character has his laundry done by a professional laundry service. When he finds out where the [[Love Interest]] does her laundry, he takes a bundle of clean clothes to the laundromat in hope of [[Invoked Trope|invoking]] this trope.

* ''[[Fire Birds]]'': [[Ace Pilot|Preston]] and Guthrie catch up with each other at the laundromat and discuss why their previous relationship didn't work out.

* Forms the premise of ''[[The Laundromat]]'': two lonely women regularly meet late at night in a laundromat to converse.

* ''[[When Night Is Falling]]'' has a woman who teaches at a conservative Christian college meet a performer from a traveling performance-art circus at a laundromat. A clothing mixup brings the teacher to the circus for the next step in the courtship.

 

* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'': Most of the main characters live in the same apartment building; its laundry room frequently appears as a place for two of the characters to chat.

* ''[[Caroline in The City]]'': Dell and Charlie try to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this by going to a laundromat singles night.

* ''[[Chapelles Show]]'' spoofed this by using slow motion to turn an ordinary day at the laundromat into a sexually charged romantic encounter.

* ''[[Friends]]'': One of the first times Ross and Rachel really started to bond was when he took her on her first trip to the laundromat.

* On ''[[Happy Endings]]'', Penny meets a guy at the laundromat. She went there in ratty old sweats, which were her last piece of clean clothing, and she assumed that was why he looked like a [[Rummage Sale Reject]]. It's only when she meets him later wearing the same type of clothes that she realizes she is dating a [[Hipster]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

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