History Main / MorningRoutine

* A regular gag in ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930'' is for Dagwood to oversleep then run out of the house to his carpool. HilarityEnsues.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'': One strip alternates between Jeremy and his girlfriend, showing the her putting on makeup, combing her hair, etc. while Jeremy takes several panels to emerge from sleep. The final panel has Sara, now a living exhibition of cosmetic technology, asking Jeremy how he gets his hair to look as if he got out of bed, to which he confusedly replies that he gets out of bed.

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* In ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' the morning of the Vera Misham trial opens with both Klavier and Apollo getting ready for the trial in their homes. They style their hair, pick out their clothes and go over their plan to have Kristoff lose the jury's sympathy to cover up that they framed him.

* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'': Kaname's mourning routine is juxtaposed against Sousuke's to highlight how damn weird the latter's mindset is. While Kaname has exactly the routine one would expect from any OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, Sousuke wakes up [[AnOddPlaceToSleep under the bed]] immediately pointing his PillowPistol at a cat on his windowsill, makes himself a "satisfying breakfast" consisting of several slices of salami and a tomato, and checks to make sure he's packed an adequate amount of C4 and ammunition in his school bag.

* In the beginning of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', Tohru Honda is shown waking up, admiring the beauty of the day, and then saying good bye to the photo of her mother and taking a walk before she goes to school.
* Some ''Anime/SailorMoon'' episodes tend to start this way, usually as a set up to a "[[LateForSchool Usagi is late]]" joke.
* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' had this with Chiyo-chan in the episode that was focused on her, showing how she gets up early so she can prepare her lunch and then goes to wake up her parents.
* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': Aki wakes up, grind and brew coffee, and read the newspaper while smoking on the balcony, all before Denji wakes up (and Power moves in).
* Episode one of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' shows Madoka's morning routine, starting with her waking up from [[DreamingOfThingsToCome a strange dream]], waking up her family members, getting dressed, eating breakfast; all sorts of everyday normal activities. Used to show Madoka's roots in normality, and provide contrast for the changes the come.
* In ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'', Umi is introduced by her morning routine of making food for the family and hissing the flags. This routine is shown or varied several times again.
* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' wakes up before dawn, puts on his armor, and inspects the farm's perimeter. After, that he trains until the sun comes up, then uses the light to do maintenance on the defenses. He sits for breakfast with Cow Girl, then goes into town. If he were to ever find a skulking goblin, he would kill it with 100% certainty.
* In the first episode of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Nanoha is shown waking up and getting ready for school. The same scene plays out in her first scene of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', but with indications that Nanoha is eagerly awaiting the day she can see Fate in person again. 14 in-universe years later, the first episode of ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' would have a similar scene [[GenerationXerox following Nanoha's adopted daughter Vivio]] as she gets ready for her first day of fourth grade.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': In "A Human Work", this is done to compare Misato's [[NotAMorningPerson slobbish ways]] with Shinji. Then the same sequence happens again, but with MusicalisInterruptus and a mutual JawDrop from Shinji and [[AnimalReactionShot Pen Pen]] as Misato exits her room done up neatly in her uniform because she's attending a conference.
* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', after the ActionPrologue that takes place a few episodes after the start of the show, the first scene is of Miho, the main character, waking up in the morning, and hastily going through her daily routine before realizing that she's not at home anymore.
* Episode 3 of ''Anime/{{Free}} Dive to the Future'' shows Rin waking up, making breakfast, and jogging from his apartment to the Sydney Aquatic Center.
* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' juxtaposes Kaname's mourning routine against Sousuke's to highlight how damn weird the latter's mindset. While Kaname has exactly the routine one would expect from any OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, Sousuke wakes up [[AnOddPlaceToSleep under the bed]] immediately pointing his PillowPistol at a cat on his windowsill, makes himself a "satisfying breakfast" consisting of several slices of salami and a tomato, and checks to make sure he's packed an adequate amount of C4 and ammunition in his schoolbag.

* A regular gag in ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' is for Dagwood to oversleep then run out of the house to his carpool. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Fanfic/BeautifulFictionsBabylon'' begins with Ed and Al getting ready for the day while Edward struggles and hides his chronic pain and terminal illness. He shaves, he dries his hair using alchemy and has breakfast with Al.

* ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' opens with Tracy waking up, coiffing her hair with copious amounts of hairspray, and preparing for school, all while singing and dancing.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' starts out with how Shrek spends his morning - basically the opposite of cleaning himself up, since he's an ogre.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' starts out with what presumably is how every ogre spends their morning.

* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'' opens with Fog getting up on the morning of October 2 1872. He is shown doing some stretching exercises, then making a cup of coffee and deciding (after one sip) that it needs "precisely two more drops of milk", which he promptly adds. (Normally, making Fog's morning coffee would be his butler's job, but Fog has just fired his butler, though he hires Rigodon as a replacement the same morning, unknowingly hiring Rigodon's friend Tico at the same time.) This scene establishes that Fog is very particular, especially when it comes to punctuality, and its very ordinariness provides a contrast with the adventure he will shortly be embarking on.

** Mirrored and {{inverted}} by Gavin in the [[https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/57/ opening page of Chapter 3]], where he barely does anything besides [[RingRingCrunch smashing his alarm clock]]. Heck, he only dresses up when his mother tells him it's time.
** Inverted once more by Jessica in [[https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/366 Chapter 15's opening]]. She simply goes back to sleep.

* ''Webcomic/Rain2010'':

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* NewTransferStudent:

** Chapter 1's [[[[https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/5 opening page]] has Rain feeding her pet rabbit Puddle, taking a shower, drying her hair, putting on her bra falsies, and then applying makeup.
** Mirrored by Gavin in the [[https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/57/ opening page]] of Chapter 3, where he barely does anything and [[RingRingCrunch smashes his alarm clock]]. Only dressing up when his mother tells him it's time.

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* In the beginning of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' Tohru Honda is shown waking up, admiring the beauty of the day, and then saying good bye to the photo of her mother and taking a walk before she goes to school.
* Some ''Anime/SailorMoon'' episodes tend to start this way, usually as a set up to a [[LateForSchool "Usagi is late"]] joke.

* In ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'' Umi is introduced by her morning routine of making food for the family and hissing the flags. This routine is shown or varied several times again.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. In "A Human Work" this is done to compare Misato's [[NotAMorningPerson slobbish ways]] with Shinji. Then the same sequence happens again, but with MusicalisInterruptus and a mutual JawDrop from Shinji and [[AnimalReactionShot Pen Pen]] as Misato exits her room done up neatly in her uniform because she's attending a conference.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' juxtaposes Kaname's mourning routine against Sousuke's to highlight how damn weird the latter's mindset. While Kaname has exactly the routine one would expect from any OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, Sousuke wakes up [[AnOddPlaceToSleep under the bed]] immediately pointing his PillowPistol at a cat on his windowsill, makes himself a "satisfying breakfast" consisting of several slices of salami and a tomato, and checks to make sure he's packed an adequate amount of C4 and ammunition in his schoolbag.

* ''{{ComicStrip/Zits}}'': One strip alternates between Jeremy and his girlfriend, showing the her putting on makeup, combing her hair, etc. while Jeremy takes several panels to emerge from sleep. The final panel has Sara, now a living exhibition of cosmetic technology, asking Jeremy how he gets his hair to look as if he got out of bed, to which he confusedly replies that he gets out of bed.

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* [[{{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}} "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep..."]]

* ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada'' offers not just Andy's morning routine but the routine of about a dozen other women as well, to contrast the way she gets ready to the way the other women do.
* ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' begins this way.

* ''[[Film/{{Oblivion 2013}} Oblivion]]'' interweaves Jack's morning routine with his [[AfterTheEnd voice-over about the end of civilization]]. He takes off for work in his [[FutureCopter Bubble Ship]], and then the movie's title card is shown.
* The film ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'' opens with Patrick Bateman's everyday morning routine, showing the materialistic and sociopathic nature of our VillainProtagonist, who is putting on his MaskOfSanity.

* The first ''Literature/{{Harry Potter|and the Philosophers Stone}}'' book starts off by showing the Dursleys' morning routine. ("Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work.") Although the second chapter takes place on Dudley's birthday, it's apparently a fairly typical morning for Harry as he's woken up by Aunt Petunia and forced to make breakfast.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. The episode "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak" opens with a TrainingMontage of Oliver Queen training Roy Harper, Laurel Lance learning boxing from Ted Grant, and [[KingpinInHisGym Malcolm Merlyn teaching Thea Queen]], causing Thea to wonder what normal people do in the morning. AnswerCut to [[NonActionGuy Felicity Smoak]] doing sit-ups before a workout video and brushing her teeth.

* ''Series/{{Skins}}'', both UK and US, have this is in the first episode.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}''. In the first episode of season two, we see a stranger (later revealed to be Desmond) going about his routine until he hears an explosion. The shock reveal is that his seemingly normal living space is actually inside the hatch that the main characters just blew up
** In Season 5 we see Pierre Chang's morning routine as a member of the Dharma Initiative.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The morning after demons steal everyone's voices in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", Buffy goes through her morning routine in the fraternity dorm, noting only a distraught woman rushing past. It's only when she tries to talk to Willow that she realises something is very wrong.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. The ADayInTheLimelight episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E09HarmsWay Harms Way]]" shows Harmony's morning routine with a uniquely vampire twist -- she [[GameFace vamps out]] so she can brush her teeth easier (not easy to do when you can't see yourself in the mirror) and uses her SuperStrength to pick up a dresser to retrieve her shoe.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015''

* ''Series/ForAllMankind''

* In Music/{{Rebecca Black}}'s infamous Music/{{Friday}} music video, she sings about getting up, getting fresh, and eating cereal. Although she does none of this.

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* A regular gag in ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' is for Dagwood to oversleep then run out of the house to his carpool. HilarityEnsues.
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* The subject of a WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail where Strong Bad gets up at noon, answers an email and keeps eggs on the couch.

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* Many a ''WesternAnimation/{{Spongebob|Squarepants}}'' episode begin with him getting up to his blasting foghorn alarm clock and ready for work.
** [[DayInTheLimelight "Rise and Shine"]] focuses on [[CloudCuckooLander Patrick's]] morning routine. HilarityEnsues.
* [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Ralph Wolf]] has his morning routine, from wake-up to clocking in for work, down to a Rube Goldberg science in one of Chuck Jones' wolf/sheepdog installments.

* Many of the WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit films (particularly ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'', ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'') has Wallace being woken up and prepared for the day by one of his {{Rube Goldberg Device}}s.

** "The Perfect Game" shows [[ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}} Agent Poindexter]]'s SuperOCD with this. Along with {{Undercrank}} to make his movements look alien and robotic, the opening scene underscores how odd Dex is by showing how everything in his apartment has to be absolutely perfect. When he's done reading the newspaper, he puts it on a perfectly squared pile of other newspapers. He rinses his coffee cup, puts it on a rack to dry, then makes sure the handle is perfectly aligned with its neighbor. When he closes the door to his apartment that causes a framed photo to fall off-kilter, so he opens the door back up to fix it.

->''"You are okay."''

This can also be used as an EstablishingCharacterMoment -- we know someone is SuperOCD if he follows a strict schedule and [[FatSlob a slob]] if he sniffs his armpit and decides he can skip the shower.

* Seb from ''Literature/{{Seb}}'' has a strict routine that involves lying in bed for exactly four minutes after his alarm goes off. If his routine is off by even a minute, the whole day feels wrong.

* The 1967 Carl Reiner sitcom ''Good Morning, World'' about two morning DJs for an LA radio station, started with a kind of stop-motion animated photo montage of Dave's alarm clock going off at 4:30, his eyes opening, stumbling around, shaving, pulling on (mismatched) socks and a suit & tie, driving (still dark out), arriving at the station, putting on a record and hailing "Good Morning, World!" into the microphone. (This was based on writers Bill Persky, Sam Denoff and William B. Williams' personal experiences on WNEW. Williams used to say "Hello, world!")

[--Wait, [[FridgeLogic why do they brush their teeth]] [[BrickJoke before they have breakfast?]] [[spoiler: Food tastes better that way.]]--]

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. In "The Big Ride" there's a ContrastMontage between celebrity superhero Starlight in her luxury apartment versus her boyfriend Hughie Campbell, now a fugitive, doing his MorningRoutine in the subbasement cleaning closet of a gangbanger hideout.

This can also be used as an EstablishingCharacterMoment-- we know someone is SuperOCD if he follows a strict schedule and [[FatSlob a slob]] if he sniffs his armpit and decides he can skip the shower.

Like the WhiteVoidRoom, it's something of a cliche and is commonly perceived as an opening that serves until the plot takes hold. Then again, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools like all tropes]], it can be used to great effect-- for instance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8-Rqo-VT4 the opening sequence]] of ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. Surprisingly, SliceOfLife works can avoid this for quite some time -- mainly because there's a choice of ''other'' routines.

* The beginning of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' has Rapunzel sing through her morning routine, including spending a lot of time brushing her hair.