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* ''[[The Far Side]]'' once had a [[Showdown At High Noon]] having ended in defeat for the older cowboy, treating it with all the gravity you'd expect... except it was at ping-pong.
{{quote|'''Older gunslinger''': Well, you won. Now every player in the world will come after you, looking to make a name for himself... Welcome to Hell, kid.}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140903180005/http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/7000/100/7165/7165.strip.gif This] ''[[Dilbert]]'' strip illustrates how to apply the principles of [[Serious Business]] in the workplace.
** This comic was based on one of Scott Adams' coworkers, who actually said "I will fight you to the end of the earth!" To him, it was serious business.
* In ''[[Welcome to Tranquility]]'' Captain Cobra and Mongoose Man are not just enemies, but "enemies to the DEATH." Unfortunately, their advancing years are actually bringing them pretty close to that goal line and they have both retired from super-activites, heroic and villainous alike. So, what is left for them to be enemies over? Why, the apple tree that looms over both their properties, of course, and who has proper ownership over the apples that fall down on either side of their fence. Just ask Sheriff Lindo, apples are ''serious business''.
* Beef is Serious Business in the [[Crapsack World]] of ''[[Give Me Liberty]]''. Fast-food restaurants wage wars for farmland, people commit suicide for hamburgers, and there's even a 94th Amendment outlawing red meat.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100122131320/http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-01-17/ Board games] are apparently serious business to Rat in ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]''.
* The people of a Hannoverian village who want to celebrate the birthday of their ex-king (Hannover was conquered by Prussia in 1866; some people nursed a grudge because of this, and pro-Prussian [[Wilhelm Busch]] wrote this story as a [[Take That]]).
* One ''Cthulhu Tales'' comic had an unnamed "Maine Cheetahs" baseball fan ([[Bland-Name Product|according to Google, no such team exists]]) for whom baseball was ''such'' serious business, he went so far as to ''invoke Cthulhu'' in order to win them their first World Series in seventy years. [[Eldritch Abomination|It doesn't appear to end well for anyone concerned]].
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