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* Inverted in this commercial for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fnj55c7ajs Heineken] where an usher shows two men to their seats in the upper level just as someone spills beer all over them. The two men are surprisingly content with having to deal with what they've been given, but their usher, even ''more'' surprisingly, has a heart and decides to escort the gentlemen to the front row where they are personally served Heineken beer.

* A Wendy's commercial for the chain's 99¢ Crispy Nuggets had two people deliberately buy cheap seats and proceed to upgrade to increasingly better ones by offering people in front of them the crispy nuggets in a trade.

* Bob Uecker's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc3UGda8T8c Miller Lite commercial], where he uttered the immortal words, "I must be in the front row!" and ended up in the nosebleed section. Apparently the Milwaukee ball stadium, Miller Park, now has a section of $1 seats [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/DSC00928.JPG in the nosebleeds AND with obstructed view]{{Dead link}} called "The Uecker Seats."

* A Dutch shampoo commercial of Fructice features this.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Spoofed in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]''. Witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are given tickets to the stalls (quite good seats), but they insist on trading them in for seats in the Gods<ref>though the prize for worst seat probably goes to the poor sod sitting next to Nanny Ogg</ref> right up in the rafters because the name sounds grander. They aren't displeased by this though.

 

* ''[[Happy Days]]'': Richie knows the keyboardist of Johnny Fish and the Fins from summer camp so he gets his friends free tickets (after the band stays in his house to escape from their rabid fans), but they're in the nosebleed section. Nobody believes Richie actually knows the guy and thinks he's lying and got bad seats because that's all he could afford. The girl he asked to go with him goes with someone else instead because the other guy has better seats, so instead Richie takes his dad. Then his friend from the band gives him a [[Shout-Out]] during the concert and suddenly he's a big man again. The girl comes up to where Richie is sitting and wants to be with him, but he says, "Sorry. That's my dad's seat."

* On ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' Drew, Oswald and Lewis were all going after the same girl. Drew and Oswald each got tickets for a concert. Drew's were "restricted view" but he managed to convince [[The Ditz|Oswald]] that that was better and traded tickets with him.

* A classic ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, "Porky's Baseball Broadcast", included one character who was constantly looking for his seat throughout the game. He finally finds his seat at the bottom of the ninth inning, just in time to stop and witness the big play that brings home the winning run... except his view is completely obstructed by a support beam. The man stays perfectly still, staring directly at the support beam long after everyone else has cleared out, at which point he pulls his chair out of the ground and starts trashing the stadium in a fit of rage.

* [[Arthur]] doesn't buy his ticket for the big concert on time so he gets a much worse seat than all his friends. He has various [[Imagine Spot|fantasies]] about how bad a seat it will be. Luckily for him, his father is catering the event so Arthur can get to go backstage and meet the band, and Binky, the resident [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]], offers Arthur one of his tickets, which are in a great section.

** Another episode "Dancin' Homer" had Marge and the kids sitting in the nosebleed section near the players' ex-wives when they watch the Capital City baseball game with Homer filling in as the mascot.

** In another episode, we have a guy stuck behind Marge's gigantic hairdo at a football game. She tells him to just push through it.

 

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