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Line 4: When [[Played for Laughs]], there is almost always a sequence where the writer several times puts a sheet into the typewriter, types a few words, and pulls it out to crumple and throw away, followed by putting a new sheet in, staring at the blank paper for a moment, then pulling ''it'' out, crumpling it and throwing it away. Generally a [[Discredited Trope]] nowadays --— despite that, aside from the outdated typewriter and the fact that not all writers smoke, the basic idea is close to [[Truth in Television]], right down to the inability to leave the desk before finishing that blasted paragraph ''just right''. Really. {{noreallife\|Real Life does not have montages.}} {{examples}} Line 15 ⟶ 17: * Not quite a montage, but the basic imagery is well and truly incorporated into ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's]]'' in the film version; we see the classic crumpled up balls of paper under Paul's desk as the camera pans upward. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * ''[[The IT Crowd]]'', as they attempt to find a way to make the tech department more popular. (Set to the music of ''[[The A-Team]]''.) * ''[[Spaced]]'' has a version where Daisy stares at a blank piece of paper in the (yes) typewriter and keeps glancing at the clock, apparently seconds apart, yet every time she does an hour has passed. Line 26 ⟶ 28: == [[Theatre]] == * It's not really a ''montage,'' per se, but ''[[1776]]'' shows an 18th-century version of the process with Jefferson's inability to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence --— right down to the discarded blank sheet. == [[Web Comics]] == * ''[[Irregular Webcomic~~\|Writer's~~]]'': [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/374.html Writer's block]. ** [[Incredibly Lame Pun\|At least it's]] [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/376.html something he can build on].