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== Advertising ==
* A pizza place commercial, aired on a Toronto radio station in the 1980s, satirized this with a reporter giving a play-by-play of a fictitious restaurant's thirty-second delivery, with predictably disastrous results. ("Oh no, there's tomato sauce all over the road! Someone get a serviette!") The commercial's concluding slogan: "No gimmicks. Just great pizza."
* An ad for Western Union shown in Australia had a student order a pizza and then realize he didn't have the cash to pay for it. He phones his father overseas for his allowance, who wires it to him. A split screen shows the pizza being prepared and delivered while the student goes to collect his cash. He gets back to his apartment just before the pizza delivery guy gets there, just before the thirty-minute deadline. After the original version became well-known, it was changed so that at the end the pizza is ruined in the box because of all the weaving through traffic the delivery guy did. The student was not happy with his pizza.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Archie Comics]]'':
** Jughead encounters this problem when he has to deliver a pizza to a house atop a rocky cliff on an island.
** Archie also once went through this problem in a story where he worked at a pizza place a few minutes away from Reggie's house. Reggie pulls off several traps to prevent Archie from making it through his front yard, but Archie accidentally tosses the pizza, it lands in Reggie's face at the last second.
* [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]
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* ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]] 2'': Peter Parker lost a job as a delivery boy due to arriving late having to give the food to the customer for free. His responsibilities as Spider-Man kept getting in the way. Though watching Spider-Man swinging through the skyscrapers of New York with pizza boxes was pretty badass.
{{quote|"Hey! He just stole that guy's pizzas!"}}
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': the pizza delivery is two minutes late, so Michelangelo got the pizza at a discount. Also, the "the address" was a storm drain they christened "122 1/8", making the address a bit of a puzzle.
* The ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' movie: John, who mans space station Thunderbird 5, asks if he can have a pizza sent up to him, and adds "thirty minutes or it's free, right?"
* ''Dirty Work'': In the beginning, [[Norm MacDonald|Norm MacDonald's]] character was fired from pizza delivery after failing to deliver a pizza within thirty minutes because a car accident blocked his route. The [[Jerkass]] customer informed him for being two minutes late. This makes it the fourteenth time the character was fired in the past three months.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[Better with You]]'', Debra Jo Rupp and Kurt Fuller's characters [[Kick the Dog|deliberately make the delivery]] [[Jerkass|guy wait outside their door]] for 12 minutes, just so they don't have to pay.
* An episode of ''[[Due South]]'' utilized this, when Ray called a place far away on purpose in the hopes that the delivery boy would be late and the pizza would be free.
* The guys in ''[[Men Behaving Badly]]'' tried to take advantage of this by deliberately asking for rare and hard-to-prepare toppings to slow down the response time, and eventually pretending there's no-one home in the hope of claiming later that the delivery guy must have gone to the wrong house. Tony messed it up because he wasn't in on the 'pretending no-one's here' bit.
* In the British sitcom ''[[The Thin Blue Line]]'', Inspector Fowler says this while pretending to be a pizza delivery boy so he can gain access to a bank where robbers are holding people hostage.
* The Deputies of ''[[Reno 911!]]'' set up a kid like this. They called in an order for halfway across town and then waited down the block. When the delivery driver came tearing out of the parking lot at breakneck speed, they pulled him over and arrested him.
* ''[[The Red Green Show]]'': Red sets up a number of roadblocks in order to get the pizzas he ordered for free, unbeknownst to him, the pizza guy called back and got directions from Harold on how to avoid all of the Lodge's debris.
* In the short-lived BBC comedy about an understaffed remote RAF base, ''[[All Along the Watchtower]]'', a company offers 50p off the price for every 10 minutes longer than an hour the pizza takes to arrive. When the pizza finally arrives (days later than ordered) the cast are also given several pounds.
* The Australian sitcom ''[[Hey Dad..!]]'' had an episode about a diet, or a hunger strike, or something, that ended with the starving characters giving up and ordering pizza—which then never arrives, because one of the other characters deliberately misdirects the delivery guy in an attempt to get the pizza free.
* The music video for PBS's ''[[Square One TV]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOk4cMfwsIY "Ghost of a Chance"], seems to be based on this trope. The pizza delivery guy is getting lost inside a haunted house to delay him from delivering in time.
* On one episode of ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'', Clarissa and Ferguson are allowed to order pizza while their parents are out, despite their mom's usual strict health-food obsession. They repeatedly time the delivery boy down to ''seconds,'' and then repeatedly send him back with a new order when he's inevitably late.
* In ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]],'' when in the safehouse, Will says ""thirty minutes or less" before opening the door and getting shot by Sark.
* ''[[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]]'': Ellen gets a job as a pizza delivery girl and has to do this in the final episode.
* In an episode of Brazilian series ''A Grande Família'', the delivery boy made it on time but the customer delayed his response until the thirty minutes were off so the pizza would be free. The two of them argued over this.
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' season 8 episode "Gemini", General O'Neill mentions that Thor will deliver in thirty minutes or it's free—except it's not a pizza here, but an Asgard satellite of Replicator disruption.
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* One of the [[Easter Egg|fake hint messages]] in ''[[Nethack]]'' is a plug for a nonexistent pizza delivery shop, promising it "in thirty turns, or it's free!"
* While not as reliable about it as [[Ninja Burger]], ''[[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN]]'' has a semi-secret fast-food franchise (partially concealed by the façaade of a ''different'' semi-secret fast-food franchise) which hires ninja for their thirty -minute deliveries, of varying difficulties and with active opposition a possibility.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Sims]]'', it takes an hour of Sim Time (a minute of gameplay, if you don't speed things up). When the pizza guy arrives and is greeted, a text box comes up with "Dude! I made it from Sim City to your house in less than an hour!" (And then your Sim household pays 40 Simoleons for the damned pizza!)
* One of the Reaper's [[Stop Poking Me]] quotes in ''[[
{{quote|'''Reaper:''' I'm bringin' the pain, and the pizza, in thirty minutes or it's free!}}
* The videogame of ''Spider-Man 2'' uses Peter's pizza-delivery job, as seen in the film, above, as a [[Timed Mission]].
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''Absurd Notions'', the characters call out for pizza when there's 5 feet of snow on the ground. The result:
{{quote|'''Warren:''' But you do have some kind of delivery guarantee, don't you?
'''Pythagoras' Pizza Palace:''' Of course. If it's not there within two hours, the pizza is free.
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* Referenced [http://kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0910.html here] in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''. Kell reminds Kevin (who ordered grass sod, being a rabbit) to tip the driver either way.
* In ''InSONICnia'', the [[Alternate Universe|Hyper]] [[Robot Me|Metal]] [[Goldfish Poop Gang|Triad]] egged Sonic's house, so Sonic gets revenge by ordering 1000 pizzas under their name and address.
{{quote|'''[[The Cameo|Charmy:]]''' Mach Pizza; I've got those 1000 pizzas here, just like you ordered! That comes to $600,000.00
'''Muckles:''' Your guarantee states that you will deliver in thirty minutes.
You have exceeded your time limitations by approximately 7.2 minutes. The cost of those is nullified. }}
* ''[[Dawn of Time]]'' parodies the trope, ''[[Mad Max]]''-style, in a filler arc titled "[http://dawnoftimecomics.com/index.php?id=260 Dawn in Time]".
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** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] when the pizza parlor's owner attempted to make the delivery himself (using a helicopter to get to his destination faster); Garfield pulled out all the stops to make his delivery late. Eventually, Garfield and the owner signed a peace treaty.
** Garfield ''did'' mention there should be a way to get free pizzas without them coming cold. In the end, Garfield wondered if there was some Chinese place that also promised to deliver in thirty minutes.
* In an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', astronauts on the Space Station called pizza deliveries with this policy in order to get unlimited free pizza for the guys at NASA.
* In ''[[Recess]]: School's Out'', Ms. Finster says this phrase when she hears a knock at her door.
* A [[Cartoon Network]] short titled ''Pizza Boy in: No Tip!'' revolved around a delivery boy trying to deliver to the Arctic Circle within five minutes. He somehow managed it, but the Eskimos refused to give him a tip because it had anchovies on it and no whale (surprisingly, no one mentioned the pizza's damaged state), which causes him to [[Rant-Inducing Slight|go berserk]].
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** The "138th Episode Spectacular" contains an outtake from the "Devil and Homer Simpson" segment of "Treehouse of Horror IV", in which Marge hires lawyer [[Ambulance Chaser|Lionel Hutz]] to represent Homer after seeing a Yellow Pages ad in which Hutz promises "Your case won in thirty minutes or your pizza's free". At the end of the clip, Hutz gives Marge a pizza box; when she points out that they actually ''did'' win the case, he tells her the box is empty anyway.
** There's also the time Homer ran a break-up service: "We're there in thirty minutes, or your next break-up is free!"
* An episode of ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'' has Felix charged with delivering a meatball in five minutes or it was free, complete with a continually running timer in the corner of the screen. When he just barely makes it in time, the customer's wife expresses her desire for a meatball of her own, and the countdown clock gives a nasty chuckle as it starts without even letting Felix get back to ''retrieve'' the meatball.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' pizzas use this system, but the man on the box will angrily tell you how long it's been if you try to con the delivery person.
* Cartoon Network's ''[[League of Super Evil]]'' ([[Fun with Acronyms|read the acronym]]) executing an "evil plot" to cause the pizza delivery boy to be late and get free pizza, complete with death traps on their walkway. They've apparently pulled this so many times that the manager of the pizza place has a ''war room'' for the purpose of thwarting their plots against the delivery boys. [[Harmless Villain|Everyone's gotta start somehwere...]]
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'': When Frankie discovers the pizza they ordered for the house is over the budget they have, Bloo runs out a tackles the delivery guy and sits on his head until the thirty minute marker has past.
* An episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has Peggy and Luanne rushing to the pizza store to pick up their order before it gets cold. Luanne [[Blatant Lies|sagely]] reminds Peggy that if they're not there in thirty minutes the pizza is free.
* In a ''[[Histeria!]]'' sketch about Rene Descartes, Toast delivers him a pizza that was actually meant for Galileo, the reason being that Toast can't get to Italy within a half-hour.
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''
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