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== Advertising ==

* In a Capital One commercial, a group of Vikings takes a vacation to Hollywood (Thanks to Capital One, of course). One short scene shows one Viking's goat being allowed into a club, only for the Viking to follow and be blocked by the bouncer.

== Film ==

* In ''[[Pretty Woman]]'', Julia Roberts's [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]] goes into a store on Rodeo Drive and gets treated badly by clerks, even though she has plenty of money. Later, after being served in a different store because of the intervention of a kind concierge, she returns to the first dressed to the nines and asks if they get commission (extra pay depending what they sell personally). They do, so shes gets to give them a short [[What an Idiot!]] talk.

* Inverted in ''[[Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist]]'': it's left as a mystery for half the movie ''why'' Norah seems to know every bouncer in New York, who just let this [[High School]] girl in at the front of the line. Turns out {{spoiler|her dad's a record producer}}.

* In ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', Brent is distressed to find that his status as a [[Former Child Star]] is no longer enough to get him into a fancy restaurant while Flint gets to walk right in.

{{quote|"You're letting ''that'' guy in? That guy's a nerd!"}}

== Literature ==

* In one of the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' books a waiter at a posh restaurant grudgingly serves a group of junior navy officers and their friends and probably would not have seated them at all if it had been a busier time of the day. He does not realize that they are heirs to some of the wealthiest people in the region and one of them is actually in direct line to the Manticorean throne.

* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': a rather meta sketch found a few funny ways to play with it, with the cast of the show itself trying to trade on their fame and finding that "New Cast" didn't rate next to "Old Cast".

{{quote|"Look! It's Rob Lowe (in his "Brat Pack" days)! Wait at the bar! Wait at the bar!"}}

* The ''[[Pretty Woman]]'' example is spoofed on ''[[The Office]]''. Dwight is denied service at a store for his appearance, so Andy and Kelly give him a makeover with the purpose of going back and humiliate the attendants who rejected him. Only when they get there, they find that the reason Dwight was not let in was that {{spoiler|he appeared to have blood on his hands (it was actually beet juice).}}

* In the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "Robots vs. Wrestlers", the gang tries to gatecrash an extremely selective high-society party by having Lily pretend to be one of the people on the guest list (long story), only to have said guest turn up and cockblock her. Ted eventually has to flirt with the guest until she invites them along, only for everyone to realize the party is snooty and dull (Marshall declares it "Douchepocalypse 2010") but being unwilling to leave after putting so much effort into getting in. [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Eventually, they ditch it for a Robots vs. Wrestlers fight]] [[Slobs Versus Snobs|in a dingy, sleazy hole in downtown New York.]]

== Video Games ==

* The whole point of reputation rewards in [[World of Warcraft]]. You will need to reach a specific fame level with a specific faction in order to buy some of their items, some of which will require you to be exalted among their ranks before they will consider selling it to you. Should your reputation fall beneath the required level for some reason (such as becoming accepted by their opposing faction) you will not be able to use the item anymore.

* In ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 2'', Larry (who's recently won the lottery) goes to a fancy restaurant at one point. The waiter proceeds to make him wait, seating five upper-class couples before pulling out a folding table and seating him there. {{spoiler|And there's a pin in his food, which will cause his death if not removed.}}

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Grazia's in ''[[Grandmaster of Theft]]'' is a restaurant which only serves the rich or famous. [[Magnificent Bitch|Cassidy]] offers a free dinner here as bait for [[Smug Snake|Narcissa]], to setup negotiations and advance plan.

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Cecil:''' Wait at the bar. Wait at the bar.}}

* On ''[[American Dad]]'', Stan and Francine went to a restaurant and the [[French Jerk]] concierge appeared uninterested in serving them until Stan mentioned he was in the CIA. Subverted in that the concierge apparently doesn't hold the CIA in high regard and instead of a table they're led to an alley outside the restaurant where a vagrant pees on their feet.

== Real Life ==

* This has happened a lot with Studio 54:

** David Lee Roth tells stories of coming off [[Van Halen]]'s wildly successful first tour and not being able to get into Studio 54.

** Nile Rogers wrote the song ''Le Freak'' in response to being shut out of Studio 54. The original chorus of the song ("aaaaaaaaw fuck off!"; replaced in the version that got released by "aaaaaaaw freak out!") was a direct stab at Steve Rubell, owner of Studio 54.

** Steve Rubell purposely cultivated this policy, allowing only certain Celebs in (or [[Show Some Leg|any girl willing to humiliate herself]] for the honor) to make Studio 54 look like the most happening place to be.

* [[Urban Legend]] has it that a shabbily-dressed man walked into a bank for parking validation, only to be turned down and condescended to by the teller. He then proceeded to close his accounts with the bank and take the money—which amounted to over a million dollars—to a competitor. The legend is based on [http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/barrier.asp John Barrier], a man who made his millions off of home remodeling, who did the deed in 1998, shifting his money from an institution he'd banked with for 30 years to a competitor (entities that would become part of US Bank and Bank of America, respectively.)

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