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{{trope}}
{{quote|<poem>'''Dana Carvey:''' And where have I seen you from?
'''Victoria Jackson:''' Saturday Night Live!
'''Dana Carvey:''' Old cast or new?
'''Victoria Jackson:''' ''New!''
'''Dana Carvey:''' Wait at the bar! Wait at the bar!</poem>|''[[Saturday Night Live]]''}}
Should I describe '''No Fame, No Wealth, No Service''' here? I don't think you're famous enough to be worth my time.
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
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== 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
* 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
* 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:
{{quote|'''[[Selena (film)|Selena]]''' (to store clerk): Excuse me, Miss? We don't need the dress.}}
* 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!"}}
* In ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', when Lawrence walks into the Officers Club at Cairo the staff insists his Arab valet could not come in ([[Truth in Television]] as a lot of British clubs did not allow natives as late as [[World War 2]]). Lawrence thereupon says that he [[Asskicking Equals Authority|captured Aquba]] and if he wants his servant in the club his servant is going to be in the club.
== Literature ==
* In ''Airborn,'' the restaurant Matt meets Kate at in Skybreaker barely let him in because his secondhand Academy uniform; he was about to be escorted out until Chef Vlad intervened.
* In [[Uglies|''Extras'',]] the
* 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
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[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!"}}
** 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.
* One episode of ''[[Extras]]'' deals with Andy's attempts to get into the VIP area of a club. Andy finally breaks out as a C-list celebrity and gets shown to the VIP area of a club, which he rubs in to his arch rival who happens to be there. After sitting there for about a minute, he is unceremoniously booted out when David Bowie shows up, and when Bowie leaves the new bouncer doesn't recognise Andy.
** [[Humiliation Conga|"Little fat man who sold his soul... little fat man who sold his dream."]]
** Another episode contains a scene where Andy rescues Maggie from a bitchy saleslady [[Shout-Out|(to the tune of "Pretty Woman")]] only to balk when he finds out the price of the dress she picks out. And the Christmas special depicts Andy's ability, and later [[White Dwarf Starlet|lack thereof]], to get a table at the Ivy without a reservation.
* Happened in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' to Lucille and Lindsay. After being refused entrance to the trendiest bar/nightclub in town, they retreat to <s>
* In ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', Dennis goes to a club with his new wife Adrienne, a well-known fashion model. The bouncer lets her in, but shuts Dennis out, not believing his claims of being married.
* 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).}}
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== [[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 ==
* ''[[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 ''[[
{{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.
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** 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.
* Stephen Fry's second volume of autobiography mentions an incident in a New York restaurant where a waiter was extremely rude and dismissive towards him until he mentioned the name of the person he was dining with (a major Broadway producer) at which point the waiter can't do enough for him.
* [[Urban Legend]] has it that a shabbily
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