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In media involving certain businesses, it is inevitable that a specialized inspector, or critic, will come sooner or later to rate the business, usually holding its fate by his/her rating. Cue the employees working hard to keep everything in good condition to get a passable rating.
[[Hilarity Ensues]] if someone unrelated gets [[Mistaken for Special Guest|mistaken for the inspector]]. Compare [[House Inspection]].
However, this inspector is not to be confused with [[The Inspector]], unless a criminal investigation is in the offing.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Ratatouille]]''
* ''The Inspector General'' is a [[Danny Kaye]] movie, in which a vagrant is arrested in a small European town, and is mistakenly believed to be an inspector from the crown. It's based on the below-mentioned play, ''The Government Inspector''.
* An old Polish comedy featured a story about a hapless lab technician who accidentally takes a [[wikipedia:Hydrometer|hydrometer]] with him after leaving work. He goes to a restaurant, orders a drink and absentmindedly starts stirring the drink with the hydrometer. The restaurant manager sees this and thinks that the guy is a government inspector testing if the restaurant is watering its drinks. As the protagonist is leaving the restaurant he is handed an envelope with money as a bribe to not report the restaurant. Once he figures out what happened he starts regularly going to restaurants with lab instruments and supplements his income with the bribe money.
* ''[[We Bought a Zoo]]''
** Ferris seems very harsh and acts like a jerk, but once he can't find any faults with the restored zoo, he passes them and wishes Benjamin good luck, although he still maintains that the zoo will probably fail and refuses to attend, as this would count as fraternization. There's also no proof beyond MacReady's word that Ferris stole his ideas.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In George McDonald Fraser's semi-autobiographical tales of Army life, ''The General Danced At Dawn'', the General of the title story is conducting a full inspection of the Gordon Highlanders, who lurch from one catastrophe to another. The only things that save the Scottish soldiers are Highland dancing and bagpipe music - at the General's instigation, the Regiment dance progressively longer and more complex Highland dances until they break the world record with a 256-some. This pulls in Arabs and German prisoners-of-war to make up the numbers.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** Another episode had a health inspector episode.
* In ''[[The Nanny]]'' episode "The Butler, the Husband, the Wife and Her Mother", Niles is anticipating the arrival of inspectors of the Professional Butler's Association to determine whether he's qualified to join. Unfortunately, Fran's mother Sylvia is trying to impress their in-laws by telling them that Fran's married to Maxwell Sheffield, and with Maxwell out at the time they arrive, Fran makes Niles pretend he's Maxwell. Worse, the inspectors arrive to evaluate Niles' performance. When Maxwell returns, Maxwell has to pretend he's Niles.
* In ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'': a "rich" socialite from back home comes to visit the Clampetts, with the Hidden Agenda of trying to marry Jed for his money. She gives the place the once over.
{{quote|'''Adeline''': I just wanted to see where some of these things is from. I see most of 'em is from France and England.
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* In one episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', a health inspector visits the Krusty Krab. Mr. Krabs and Spongebob "kills" him with a bad Krabby Patty (thinking he was the fake inspector mentioned on TV) and try to bury him, but he's still alive.
** In another episode, the Krusty Krab gets a visit from a prominent food critic. Despite everyone's best efforts, the critic gives a bad review, except for SpongeBob, which leads to Mr. Krabs going overboard with making everything SpongeBob-themed, down to serving rotten patties that look yellow and spongy.
* ''[[Bob's Burgers]]'': Pilot episode.
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'': a health inspector visits the boys while they're working at Burger World.
* ''[[Futurama]]'': The beginning of "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back".
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