Shopping Montage: Difference between revisions

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A staple trope of romantic comedies, chick flicks and sitcoms. A woman (usually a mother or a mother figure) who wants to spend some Quality Time with her protege (usually, her daughter) takes the protege out on a shopping trip -- buyingtrip—buying dresses and makeup, getting their nails done together, etc. The shopping trip is usually shown as a montage, featuring scenes such as:

* One of the many, [[Broken Base|MANY]] sources of fan anger in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' was a [[Shopping Montage]] centering on Kira and his friends, run parallel to a pitched battles in which Shinn and ''his'' friends were participating, which many fans felt made the ''Archangel'' crew look selfish and lazy.

* ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'' does this with alarming frequency, even for a [[Shoujo]] [[Toku|tokusatsutoku]]satsu.

** The [[Sailor Moon|anime]] has one ending theme animation during SuperS which is the girls having a [[Shopping Montage]] with Chibiusa.

* In ''[[Questionable Content]]'', [[Hilarity Ensues]] when [[The Woobie|Hanners]]' mom stops by and has no idea how to relate to her daughter. Faye suggests they do this, and Hanners' mom agrees. This leads to Hanners' mom forcing her her—hyper-- hyper-neurotic -- daughterneurotic—daughter to try on some clothes, which very quickly leads to them getting kicked out of the mall. Instead, they fulfill the usual bonding aspect of this trope by going to a bar and getting incredibly drunk.