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--> ''"This song is dedicated to every kid who ever got picked last in gym class."''
---> -- Good Charlotte, "Little Things"

* At the beginning of their song "Little Things", {{Good Charlotte}} proclaim: "This is for any kid who ever got picked last in Gym class."

-->'''Ray''': Beef, why do I get a feelin' that our army's made up of ex-kids who were always picked last for kickball?
-->'''Roast Beef''': Can you think of anyone who has a more gigantic and deep-seated fury at the world
-->'''Ray''': Huh. Good point.

* In 101 Dalmatians The Series Lt. Pug picks Lucky and Tripod as team leaders for cohesian drils in one episode. Spot is the last picked and Lucky even tries to pick a bucket instead because she is a chicken and the rest are dogs. She gets her own back later in the episode, though.

* In 101DalmatiansTheSeries Lt. Pug picks Lucky and Tripod as team leaders for cohesian drils in one episode. Spot is the last picked and Lucky even tries to pick a bucket instead because she is a chicken and the rest are dogs. She gets her own back later in the episode, though.

* Makes for CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in a RedvsBlue Special, where teams are picked new to match the new location. Sarge's first pick is Simmons who blurts out, in the most happy way imaginable:
-->"First! I've never been picked first!"

"First! I've never been picked first!"

This almost always happens to any {{Geek}} characters when the story focuses on a recreational activity. If this is supposed to be observed as a [[ComedicSociopathy comedic]] event, it may be the fate of a RidiculouslyAverageGuy who is somehow less preferable to the geek, or, even more humiliating, that bit of FridgeLogic in the above paragraph is disregarded with the captains choosing players that aren't even supposed to be choices when only one kid is left; this may include [[AdultsAreUseless adults]] or [[CompanionCube inanimate objects]].

* Not a gym class, but Raistlin from the {{Dragonlance}} series apparently had this happen to him (Due to his frailness) whenever he tried to play physical games with his twin brother and his friends. He eventually just stopped playing with them.

* ''HarryPotter'' was always picked last, but not because he wasn't any good. Nobody wanted Dudley's gang to think they liked him and end up getting beaten up for it.

!! Examples

--> "We'd pick out the captains and we'd choose up the teams,"
--> "It was always a measure of my self esteem."
--> "Cause the fastest, the strongest played shortstop and first,"
--> "The last ones they picked were the worst."

** By the end of the song, the depressed kid narrator in [[TitleDrop right field]] manages to [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming catch a fly ball on a big play]].

** By the end of the song, the depressed kid narrator in [[TitleDrop right field]] manages to [[CrowningMomentOfHearwarming catch a fly ball on a big play]].

* ''Captain Zed And The Zee Zone'' had a dream sequence where a kid always got picked last for sports. In the dream, out of three players, the captains picked the other two peopl,e and then they picked the bushes and rocks (who grew legs and arms and started playing tennis with them).

This almost always happens to any geek characters when the story focuses on a recreational activity. If this is supposed to be observed as a [[ComedicSociopathy comedic]] event, it may be the fate of a RidiculouslyAverageGuy who is somehow less preferable to the geek, or, even more humiliating, that bit of FridgeLogic in the above paragraph is disregarded with the captains choosing players that aren't even supposed to be choices when only one kid is left; this may include [[AdultsAreUseless adults]] or [[CompanionCube inanimate objects]].

* In the final episode of each season of ''[=~Hell's Kitchen~=]'', the two finalists get to pick who will cook for them during the final service from a selection of contestants that were eliminated previously. Expect whichever chef is picked last to require some serious soothing to their ego, if they just don't out and out phone it in during the service. The prize for the final challenge is usually getting first pick of the returning chefs, meaning that you avoid getting the last pick as well. Though this doesn't guarantee 100% that the ''second''-to-last pick isn't going to be bitter either.

* ''CaptainZedAndTheZeeZone'' had a dream sequence where a kid always got picked last for sports. In the dream, out of three players, the captains picked the other two peopl,e and then they picked the bushes and rocks (who grew legs and arms and started playing tennis with them).

* The PeterPaulAndMary song "Right Field".

* The PeterPaulaAndMary song "Right Field".

* ''CaptainZed'' had a dream sequence where a kid always got picked last for sports. In the dream, out of three players, the captains picked the other two peopl,e and then they picked the bushes and rocks (who grew legs and arms and started playing tennis with them).

* ''Captain Zed'' had a dream sequence where a kid always got picked last for sports. In the dream, out of three players, the captains picked the other two peopl,e and then they picked the bushes and rocks (who grew legs and arms and started playing tennis with them).