History Main / SkewedPriorities

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooz1JiZcg9g Mario Party 2 is more TOXIC than I remember...]]", Nick decides to order Chinese food just before the gang starts playing their final minigame Skateboard Scamper. Sophist, baffled by the decision, points out that he could just wait until after they finish the minigame to do this. Nick on the other hand claims that now is the best time, as the order will arrive the moment they finish their session.

* ''[[WebVideo/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'': In a DeadlyGame of a series where his partner is dedicated to building bases, getting good gear, and monopolizing server resources, Scar is more preoccupied with building a reservation and petting zoo for his retextured Jellie Pandas.

* Near the end of the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers[='=] game on ''VideoGame/MarioParty2''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooz1JiZcg9g Western Land]], Nick decides to order Chinese food just before the gang starts playing their final minigame Skateboard Scamper. Sophist, baffled by the decision, points out that he could just wait until after they finish the minigame to do this. Nick on the other hand claims that now is the best time, as the order will arrive the moment they finish their session.

* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: Near the end of their game on ''Mario Party 2''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooz1JiZcg9g Western Land]], Nick decides to order Chinese food just before the gang starts playing their final minigame Skateboard Scamper. Sophist, baffled by the decision, points out that he could just wait until after they finish the minigame to do this. Nick on the other hand claims that now is the best time, as the order will arrive the moment they finish their session.

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': Near the end of their game on ''Mario Party 2''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooz1JiZcg9g Western Land]], Nick decides to order Chinese food just before the gang starts playing their final minigame Skateboard Scamper. Sophist, baffled by the decision, points out that he could just wait until after they finish the minigame to do this. Nick on the other hand claims that now is the best time, as the order will arrive the moment they finish their session.

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': Near the end of their game on ''Mario Party 2''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooz1JiZcg9g Western Land]], Nick decides to order Chinese food just before the gang starts playing their final minigame Skateboard Scamper. Sophist, baffled by the decision, points out that he could just wait until after they finish the minigame to do this. Nick however claims that now is the best time, as the order will arrive the moment they finish their session.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bro, it’s a [[Platform/NintendoDS DS]]. [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Can’t you just close it]]?]]

** Hermes reacts to Ares and Diana teaming up to rescue him from Hades, and ComicBook/{{Ares|DC}} killing Hades to become the new ruler of the underworld with a cheerful ''"What took you so long?"'' before immediately paying more attention to Pegasus than anything else. His reaction to Athena having usurped Zeus is to ask what happened but be far more interested in playing with Athena's computer than hearing the answer to his question.

Common sense tells us that tasks and goals which have severe consequences if they are ignored--such as avoiding death, obtaining food and shelter, taking care of your spouse and children, or not getting fired from your job--are more important than optional desires such as looking fashionable, not missing your favorite television program, obtaining some rare collectible, or saving a trivial amount of money. If there's some kind of emergency, you're supposed to drop everything and deal with it because nothing else is that important. Except there are certain people who seem to have it all backwards, ignoring serious problems while spending their effort on things that are relatively meaningless. They might risk their lives by running back into a burning building to save some easily replaceable possession, spend the money that they need for dialysis treatments on a flatscreen TV, or drive a hundred miles out of their way to fill up at a station where fuel is only ten cents cheaper. Usually, this is to underscore how obsessed they are with a particular object or subject, and it tends to be PlayedForLaughs as long as their foolishness only backfires on them. It's more difficult to laugh about when the character's skewed priorities cause permanent injury to another innocent person.

'''Obscurus Lupa:''' ''[[ApocalypseHow The universe is going to end!]]''

* In the animation "Celebrities babysitting Olivia Rodrigo" by Darianas Eggs, baby Olivia walks into a bar and orders a drink. Taylor, the bartender, seems a lot more bothered that the drink is being ordered at 7 AM than that it's being ordered by a baby.

[[caption-width-right:350:Bro, it’s a [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS DS]]. [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Can’t you just close it]]?]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'': When King Neptune freezes Mr. Krabs, Squidward says, "Oh, no! This is terrible! Who's gonna sign my paycheck?" This becomes a BrickJoke later on in the movie where he confronts Plankton upon finding out that he is responsible for Krabs' freezing and says that messing with his paycheck was his fatal mistake rather than saying that framing Krabs was.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'': From "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth]]", it's mentioned that the red dwarf Glise 710 is headed directly for our solar system, and will pass through the Oort Cloud (a collection of icy objects on the outer edge of the solar system) in about a million years. The red dwarf's gravity could disrupt the orbits of many objects in the Oort Cloud, potentially hurling them at the inner planets. To quote the narrator: "The larger ones could cause dinosaur-level mass extinctions and would be bad for the stock market."

* ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'': In a DeadlyGame of a series where his partner is dedicated to building bases, getting good gear, and monopolizing server resources, Scar is more preoccupied with building a reservation and petting zoo for his retextured Jellie Pandas.

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP Season 1'': After first hearing about [[BigBad Xornoth's]] existence, Scott isn't as concerned over the fact that there's a demon on the server, as he is with the fact that it has a Scottish accent, and that's ''his'' thing!

** What makes this funnier is that the two characters are actually voiced by the same content creator in the bulk of the series.

** Emphasized by the fact that the monster infestation is ultimately resolved by a couple of nameless extras, who had deduced their existence and figured out how to destroy them much sooner than the main characters since they weren't constantly being distracted by pointless interpersonal drama.

** Thunderclash, at one point, has to send a coded message via his medical equipment by modulating his life-signs. He makes sure it's perfectly punctuated, even though this will significantly shorten his life.