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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
* 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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* [[The Drew Carey Show|Drew Carey]] and friends camped out to get tickets to the first new Cleveland Browns game; the guy in front of them at the window only wanted one ticket, and Drew convinced him he should get some for his friends as well. So he got four. Turned out those were the ''last four tickets''.
* ''[[Mock the Week]]'' has the panel speculating on how nice it would have been to be camping right at the front of the line for ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Deathly Hallows'', dressed as Darth Maul, and then at the point of sale say, "''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'', please."
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'' has Eric camping out to get tickets to Styx. The next day, he is the only person in line.
* An episode of ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' has the kids trying to persuade the parents to let them camp out for Michael Jackson concert tickets.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' has Lily and Robin camping outside a wedding boutique so Lily can get a dress when their sale starts in the morning. Unfortunately, just as they're setting up camp, a nearby car alarm goes off. For twelve hours they sit in their folding chairs, unable to sleep, unable to think as the car keeps blaring incessantly. When the car's owner finally shows up in the morning to turn it off, every woman in the line attacks him.
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** In one strip from shortly before ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' was released, Peter (who works at a movie theater)'s boss is preparing him for ''Star Wars'' fans, saying that they are normal people despite all the things they like to do, one of which is "Camp out in theaters before the big day"
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in another strip where Peter is working at the same movie theater, when Jason and Marcus ask him where the line to ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' is, which at the time of the strip, wouldn't come out for six months. After Peter explains this to him:
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'''Marcus:''' The popcorn has unlimited refills, right?
'''Peter:''' Sir, about my hourly pay... }}
* 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]] ==
* ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' games are always released on a weekend in Japan, specifically to prevent people people from skipping work or school in order to camp out to get the new game on a weekday. For some time, there was bill in the Japanese Diet to make this a legal requirement (though almost certainly this was a publicity stunt.)
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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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]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Homer Simpson camps for some Springfield Isotopes tickets, and is pleased when there's only one person ahead of him in line (despite a random man telling Homer that he could have saved himself the trouble by actually going to work and earning the money to buy the tickets ahead of time). However, that person proceeds to buy every one of the 30,000 tickets, despite only having ten dollars.
** Don't forget the line for ''Itchy & Scratchy: [[The Movie]]'', which was long enough to extend through a drawbridge (with a man who falls off, yelling, "I regret nothing!") and all the way to the Simpsons' house.
** Kent Brockman picks an interviewee out of the line waiting to mail their taxes on April
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* Subverted in ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Luanne's boyfriend Lucky convinces Bobby and Luanne to spend a week camping at the front of the ticket line for Lucky's favorite band. When the week is over {{spoiler|they're still the only people in line to buy tickets}}.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", Rainbow Dash drags Fluttershy along at the crack of dawn in order to buy some of the Apple family's cider on the first day of cider season. Unfortunately, there's already a ''huge'' line of ponies camping out by the time they get there.
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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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