History Main / TravellingSalesmanMontage

-->-- ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', Strong Bad Email #117, "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail117.html montage]]"

Will typically show the person approaching various people with increasing desperation, and always ends with a rapid-fire series of doors being slammed in his face, women slapping him, getting laughed at, etc.

* In the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'', former vaudeville performer Harry Greener sells silver polish door to door partly to give himself an outlet to keep performing vaudeville routines before launching into sales patter. However, he was unsuccessful as a vaudeville performer, and is even less so as a salesman; one woman cuts him off before he can get more than a few sentences into his patter, a man mowing his lawn turns tail and runs as soon as Harry goes from a magic trick to a sales pitch, and another woman simply slams the door on him. By the time he gets to accountant Homer Simpson's house, he is a dishevelled mess.

* When Van Alden becomes a door to door salesman in ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', he tends to get a ''lot'' of doors slammed in his face.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has this when Peggy is a saleswoman attempting to sell energy supplement snacks. She gets the door slammed on her from every house she goes to and skips Bill's house who is willingly to buy her products.

* In Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the team is travelling the Earth Kingdom looking for new Airbenders to help rebuild the Air Nation. After their first interview fails, we get a montage of Tenzin going door-to-door and telling people of all the great things about being an Airbender, and being utterly baffled when no one agrees on how much fun it would be to shave your head, give up all your worldly possessions, and be best friends with sky bison.

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* In '' Series/PamAndTommy'', Rand and Milton go around pitching their stolen sex tape to a series of reputable porn companies who all shoot them down because they do not have releases.

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* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck in the PSA film ''The Volunteer Worker'', and later in ''Donald's Dream Voice''.

* Happens to DonaldDuck in the PSA film ''The Volunteer Worker'', and later in ''Donald's Dream Voice''.

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* In Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the team is travelling the Earth Kingdom looking for new Airbenders to help rebuild the Air Nation. After their first interview fails, we get a montage of Tenzin going door-to-door and telling people of all the great things about being an Airbender, and [[{{Adorkable}} being utterly baffled when no one agrees on how much fun it would be to shave your head, give up all your worldly possessions, and be best friends with sky bison]].

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Anya has a scene like this when she's trying to convince various women to wish for vengeance on [[spoiler: Xander after he left her at the altar]].

* While in the development stage, an earlier version of ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' had Nick as the central protagonist and a deleted scene shows Nick being repeatedly rejected by every bank in town as he tries to secure a loan to finance a theme park he wants to build. Some of it is due to FantasticRacism, some due to his [[MortonsFork lack of preexisting credit]], and some due to his [[InnocentlyInsensitive inadvertently offending the lenders with his expressions]]. Finally, pathetically, he tries one last time with TheMafiya...and succeeds.

Ain't it a drag?"''

* Happened to Linus once in a ''{{Peanuts}}'' Sunday strip where he goes door-to-door around the neighborhood to tell people about the Great Pumpkin. The strip itself has six people slamming doors in his face as soon as he tells them why he's there; according to the letter he writes to the Great Pumpkin afterwards, he actually visited 50 houses and it happened at every one of them.