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A pizza is ordered. If it fails to arrive within a certain time frame, it's free! <ref>This practice was at one point used in [[Real Life]], but was mostly ended because so many delivery drivers got speeding tickets or caused accidents.</ref>
Can be done from the perspective of the irate customer or the put-upon delivery
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== Card Games ==
* In ''[[Ninja Burger]]'', the rule is "Delivery in thirty minutes or we commit [[Seppuku]]." Based on Greenwich Mean Time for locations in geosynchronous orbit. And there's one city they don't deliver to ({{spoiler|Detroit. Anything but Detroit.}}). Aside from
** They even mention that [[Stock Unsolved Mysteries|Jimmy Hoffa]] is one of their best customers. And yes, they do deliver to the Bermuda Triangle.
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* [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe]]
** There is a story where Scrooge McDuck orders a pizza, and, being his regular parsimonious self, deliberately sabotages the delivery, so that it would take longer than the thirty minutes and he wouldn't have to pay for it. Unfortunately for him, it's well enough time for the pizza to get cold and wet, and he doesn't get to enjoy it very much.
** [[Donald Duck]]'s neighbor Jones, with whom he's in something of an [[Escalating War]], also tried to sabotage a
* In a ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' comic, the two have only thirty ''seconds'' to deliver a pizza with absurdly many toppings.
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* ''[[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
* 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.
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* ''[[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
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