* On an episode of FamilyMatters, when Laura tries to buy a used car, the salesman insists on trying to sell her another one because it's "a pretty color." When she goes back later [[SweetPollyOliver dressed as a man]], she's able to convince him to sell her the car she wants at a discount...until he sees through the disguise, at which point she ''still'' gets a discount [[WoundedGazelleGambit by crying instead]].
* Popped up in ''[[{{ptitle8eqs7y5l}} 21st Century Fox]]'', when Jenny goes shopping for a new FlyingCar. Being a rocket scientist and astronaut, she's looking for something sleek and fast, but the car salesman keeps trying to sell her on family-cars (and cars with wide backseats, IfYouKnowWhatIMean) for various sexist reasons. Also qualifies as TooDumbToLive, since he's a rabbit and she's a fox. Only the timely intervention of the rabbit's more level-headed wife prevents Jenny from making lunch of him...
* There's an example in LesBidochons, though it concerns houses rather than cars. When the salesman is through explaining the merits of the house, Raymonde wants to ask something, to which the salesman gives a condescending smile and goes "Certainly, ma'am. Would you like to know about the furinture colors, or the drapes, or the...". Then Raymonde floors him with a technical question about things like what materials are used for the walls.
* In ''{{Futurama}}'' this happens when [[AsianAirhead Amy]] goes to buy a car (she's SpoiledSweet and her parents are paying, so it's all played for laughs). It's also inverted, when a salesman tries to sell Fry a car by questioning his masculinity. A deleted scene also contains DoubleSubversion where the salesman points out the "special mirrors", Leela tells him to stop patronising them...and then proceeds to ask "what makes these mirrors so special?".
* This is likely a part of the reason Ash and Emily go to the used car place together in ''{{Misfile}}''. Emily deliberately plays the sweet, naive girl who listens to everything the salesman says, and then Ash chimes in and shows him up with her savviness. The trope is DoubleSubverted here because Ash actually [[GenderBender used to be a boy]].

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* This tendency of car salesmen was addressed in ''{{Blink}}'' by MalcolmGladwell. In the 1990's, Chicago professor Ian Ayers did an experiment where he send a number of people of differing sex and ethnicity, but the same age, dress, behavior etc, to try and buy a car and negotiate the best deal they could out of the dealer. White Men got the best offer, followed by white women, then black women and finally black men, who typically ended up being offered a price hundreds of dollars higher than white men even after lengthy negotiation. Bob Golomb, on the other hand, was a highly successful salesman because he didn't make assumptions and treated everyone equally. One example he gave was of a farmer who was a regular customer. "Now if you saw this man, with his coveralls and his cow-dung, you'd figure he was not a worthy customer. But in fact, as we say in the trade, he's all cashed up."

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* On an episode of ''FamilyMatters'', when Laura tries to buy a used car, the salesman insists on trying to sell her another one because it's "a pretty color." When she goes back later [[SweetPollyOliver dressed as a man]], she's able to convince him to sell her the car she wants at a discount...until he sees through the disguise, at which point she ''still'' gets a discount [[WoundedGazelleGambit by crying instead]].

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* There's an example in LesBidochons, though it concerns houses rather than cars. When the salesman is through explaining the merits of the house, Raymonde wants to ask something, to which the salesman gives a condescending smile and goes "Certainly, ma'am. Would you like to know about the furinture colors, or the drapes, or the...". Then Raymonde floors him with a technical question about things like what materials are used for the walls.

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* Popped up in ''[[{{ptitle8eqs7y5l}} 21st Century Fox]]'', when Jenny goes shopping for a new FlyingCar. Being a rocket scientist and astronaut, she's looking for something sleek and fast, but the car salesman keeps trying to sell her on family-cars (and cars with wide backseats, IfYouKnowWhatIMean) for various sexist reasons. Also qualifies as TooDumbToLive, since he's a rabbit and she's a fox. Only the timely intervention of the rabbit's more level-headed wife prevents Jenny from making lunch of him...
* This is likely a part of the reason Ash and Emily go to the used car place together in ''{{Misfile}}''. Emily deliberately plays the sweet, naive girl who listens to everything the salesman says, and then Ash chimes in and shows him up with her savviness. The trope is DoubleSubverted here because Ash actually [[GenderBender used to be a boy]].

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* In ''{{Futurama}}'' this happens when [[AsianAirhead Amy]] goes to buy a car (she's SpoiledSweet and her parents are paying, so it's all played for laughs). It's also inverted, when a salesman tries to sell Fry a car by questioning his masculinity. A deleted scene also contains DoubleSubversion where the salesman points out the "special mirrors", Leela tells him to stop patronising them...and then proceeds to ask "what makes these mirrors so special?".

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