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'''Dana Carvey:''' Wait at the bar! Wait at the bar!|''[[Saturday Night Live]]''}}

 

* In ''Selena'', while looking for an outfit for the Grammy award, the singer was being brushed off by a fancy dress-store's clerks on the account of them being casually dressed Mexicans. Then one fan recognized her, and their attitudes quickly changed.

** Which prompted a very polite yet awesome response from Selena, in the midst of a crowd of fans:

* 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.

 

 

 

* ''[[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".

** Several skits had a bar that you could only get into if you had hosted SNL enough times. Originally, it was the Five Timer's club (people who have hosted the show five or more times), and it involved Tom Hanks being inducted into the club. Other members involved Steve Martin, Elliot Gould, and Paul Simon. Ralph Nader tries to crash it, and Jon Lovitz is serving drinks. Also features Conan O'Brien in a bit part as the doorman. The club was referenced again during the fifth appearance of Danny DeVito, John Goodman, Drew Barrymore, and Alec Baldwin. The Martin vs. Baldwin sketch was an extension of this, taking place in the club's "Platinum Lounge" that was only open to Twelve Timers (where drinks are served by Martin Short).

* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'': Basil Fawlty lived by this trope. He either showed fawning obsequiousness for anybody with money, a title, or a sufficiently fancy car, or contempt for everyone else, especially his hotel's residents, out-of-town work crews staying at [[Fawlty Towers]] on business, foreigners, and families with kids.

* ''[[Futurama]]'', "That's Lobstertainment": Fry and Leela, having just escaped the La Brea tar pits, are at first refused entrance to a fancy restaurant. Then the doorman sees the Neanderthal skeleton hanging from Fry's ankle and says, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were with Mr. Stallone."

* In ''[[Re Boot]]'', Cecil, being a [[French Jerk]], sees available seats for Bob and Enzo, but doesn't place the pair in them.

* 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.