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Very much [[Truth in Television]], though with the advent of online pre-purchasing, it is slowly becoming a [[Dead Horse Trope]], at least in the sense of buying tickets. After all, most entertainment companies prefer to lock in whatever revenue they can as soon as possible (''especially'' before possibly negative reviews come in). Product releases and Black Friday sales are another matter, especially when it comes to game consoles.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There's an ad currently{{when}} running which plays with this trope: it turns out the product is already on the shelves, and the store is already open.
* A recent{{when}} commercial for a prescription acne treatment shows a teenaged boy camping out—complete with tent—in a store's skin care aisle, waiting in vain for a product that will work for him. After he uses advertised product, his restored social life is shown by his chatting with a girl in an outdoor ticket line . . . under the same tent.
* Carl Hurley, stand-up comedian, often tells a story about a time in college when he and his friends camped for several days in line for sports tickets. They finally get up to the front, the ticket operator asks what they want, and Carl blurts out the first thing that comes to mind, "I want a double cheeseburger with fries." Cue dead silence, the ticket operator telling him they don't serve food there and him trudging off in defeat while the people in line whisper about how tragic it is, him waiting all those days in the wrong line.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
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* One ''[[Luann]]'' strip is a collection of "Things that are very hard to move". One is "The first person in line for ''[[Twilight (novel)|New Moon]]'', represented by a man seeing a tent in front of a cinema, with a sign saying "LINE STARTS BEHIND ME!" taped to the tent, and another saying "LINE STARTS HERE V" taped to the wall behind it.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* Carl Hurley, stand-up comedian, often tells a story about a time in college when he and his friends camped for several days in line for sports tickets. They finally get up to the front, the ticket operator asks what they want, and Carl blurts out the first thing that comes to mind, "I want a double cheeseburger with fries." Cue dead silence, the ticket operator telling him they don't serve food there and him trudging off in defeat while the people in line whisper about how tragic it is, him waiting all those days in the wrong line.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Debbie Ridpath Ohi drew a webcomic called ''Waiting for Frodo'' about people waiting in line for the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'' movies. She seems to have plans for a ''Waiting for Bilbo'' comic for ''The Hobbit'', but it's still on the first strip... though with ''[[The Hobbit (film)|The Hobbit]]'' currently in Development Hell, there's no rush.
* [http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0353.htm This] ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' strip, and following ones.
* In the ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' prequel, ''On The Origin of
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* One of Acclaim's more notorious publicity stunts in its dying years was to pay a guy to say he was camping outside a game store for ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]: Evolution''. A week later, the guy was gone from the store, and never returned.
* During the lead-up to ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' a group of fans gained a little notoriety for lining up for weeks outside Graumann's Chinese theater... a theater that announced that it wouldn't be showing the film.
* A certain spoiler about [[Harry Potter]] was repeatedly announced by those trolling a line for ''The Half Blood Prince'', specifically how {{spoiler|one
** ''Wondermark'' had [http://wondermark.com/321/ a funny take] on the lines for ''Harry Potter''.
* Are you going to a rather big anime convention? Did you remember to pre-register? No? Well then, have fun!
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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Ticket Line Campout]]
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