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* Done in ''TheGoodies''

* Used to nightmarish effect in the 2010 movie "Victim" where the {{Mad Doctor}} has dinner with his "daughter". In actuality the man he kidnapped who beat his teenage daughter until she was brain dead and subjected to various medical procedures and mind rapes to make him look and believe he was his daughter as an elaborate form of karmic revenge.

* Used to nightmarish effect in the 2010 movie "Victim" where the {{Mad Doctor}} has dinner with his "daughter" (in actuality the man he kidnapped who beat his teenage daughter until she was brain dead and subjected to various medical procedures and mind rapes to make him look and believe he was his daughter).

* Used to nightmarish effect in the 2010 movie "Victim" where the {{Mad Doctor}} has dinner with his "daughter" (in actuality the man who beat his teenage daughter until she was brain dead and subjected to various medical procedures and mind rapes to make him look and believe he was his daughter) with both sitting at each end of the table.

* ''CitizenKane'' puts him and his wife further and further apart as their tables got bigger.

* A furniture-building how-to show with a humorous angle ended with the two hosts at the ends of a massively long table like the cold distant couple in ''CitizenKane'', then segues directly into doing a scene from Jerry Lewis's ''{{Cinderfella}}'' where Lewis goes up and down the length of the table to pass the salt, jabbering incessantly.

Fred:]] [-I said "OH!"-]

-->Barney has just made some remark, {{AC:Fred replies: Oh.\\

Fred:]] [-I said "OH!"-]

-->Barney: What'ya say, Fred?\\
-->Fred:]] [-I said "OH!"-]

[[AC:Barney has just made some remark, Fred replies: Oh.\\
Barney: What'ya say, Fred?\\
Fred:]] [I said "OH!"]

* A scene in ''TheFlintstones'' has Fred and Barney at either end of a long dining table, including this exchange:
[[AC: Barney has just made some remark, Fred replies: Oh.
Barney: What'ya say, Fred?
Fred:]] [I said "OH!"]

* Done in an episode of {{Arthur}}, when Arthur imagines what it would be like if his parents never spoke to each other again.

* Happened in the [[DisContinuity Dis Continuous]] LordPeterWimsey book ''Thrones, Dominations''.

* ''TheIncredibles''

Two people, surrounded by wealth and opulence, sit down to dinner at the opposite ends of a table that is long enough to seat entire football teams. Rather than doing the sensible thing and sitting close together, they sit at the far ends of the table.

* Done a couple of times in the {{Batman}} book ''The Long Halloween''.

* Done several times in the new BBC ''{{Merlin}}'' most often between Morgana and Uther to highlight the increasing emotional distance between the two.

[[{{Film/Batman}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/batman_6065.jpg]]
[[caption-width:600:Could you pass the salt?]]

* Lampshaded in ''[[{{Discworld}} Making Money]]'' and mentioned in ''{{Discworld/Lords and Ladies}}''.
** Also lampshaded and played straight in ''[[{{Discworld}} Unseen Academicals]]''
* Done a couple of times in the {{Batman}} book ''The Long Halloween''.

* Poked fun at in an episode of ''GoldieGoldAndActionJack'' and the first episode of ''BerserkAbridged''.
* Turns up a lot in animation, notably in ''BeautyAndTheBeast''.
* In ''Richie Rich'', the live action movie of 1994, telephones are involved so they can communicate. In this case, Richie sat at the other end on purpose seeing as he didn't like their dinner guest, [[BigBad Lawrence Van Dough]].
* Parodied in ''Coming To America'': the king and queen sit so far away from their son, the prince, that he must talk to them through an intercom. He eventually gets frustrated and just walks to the other end of the table, much to the dismay of the others.

* One episode of ''TheSimpsons'' has them housesitting Burns's mansion and having dinner at the incredibly long table. "Mom, Bart's making faces at me... I think."
--> ''Homer:'' "LOOK HOW LOUD I HAVE TO YELL!!!"
** When Mr. Burns tries to adopt Bart as his son, they dine like this even though it's not all an intimate way to eat.

* Done several times in the new BBC ''{{Merlin}}'' most often between Morgana and Uther to highlight the increasing emotional distance between the two.
* In ''NewsRadio'', when Lisa goes over to Jimmy James' mansion, he had just bought a very long table that he insists she sit at the end of. They had to yell at each other to talk.

* ''TheIncredibles''
* One Gibson Girl print showed this -- the Gibson girl, her titled and otherwise odious husband, and her dream of a happy marriage where she, her husband, and the children would be romping on the lawn.

* Done in TheGoodies
* and in MrBean
* Done in the AlfredHitchcock fim {{Rebecca}}. The table isn't quite as oversized as some examples, but they do sit on opposite ends.