History Main / TravellingSalesmanMontage

* Daffy Duck goes through one of these at the beginning of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes movie ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''.

* [[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]].

* Inverted in SecondhandLions, where an early scene shows many salesmen trying to get the brothers McCann to buy their wares...only to get shot at by the brothers.

* [[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]].

* In ''CoolRunnings'', a variety of businesspeople laugh when asked to sponsor the Jamaican bobsled team.

* Daffy Duck goes through one of these at the beginning of the LooneyTunes movie ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''.

* ''AtomicRobo''. In "The Ghost of Station X", a team from Tesladyne is trying to track down an entire house that was covertly shipped in one piece from New York. There are no records remaining (erased by the conspiracy), but they figure someone involved in a move like that must not have forgotten. After a series of increasingly incredulous responses from movers, skycaps, stevedores, pilots and shipping clerks when they ask if they'd helped move a whole house by air freight, one actually says yes.

* Inverted in {{Secondhand Lions}}, where an early scene shows many salesmen trying to get the brothers McCann to buy their wares...only to get shot at by the brothers.

* A {{Terrible Interviewees Montage}} happens in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' when Cam Mitchell, shortly after we first meet him, is trying to find replacements of the title team.

* In the ''OrderOfTheStick'' prequel ''On the Origin of [=PCs=]'', Roy is subjected to one of these when interviewing for his final party member.

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

* Of course, the salesman montage in the [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad email]] "montage", featuring The Cheat and a Wagon Fulla Pancakes, backed with the snippet of song quoted above.

* Used in the introduction of ''OwMySanity'', to show how much David's life sucks.

* The protagonist of ''GoodbyeLenin'' and his co-worker go through one of these selling satellite dishes. They eventually succeed.

* ''AtomicRobo''. In "The Mystery of Station X", a team from Tesladyne is trying to track down an entire house that was covertly shipped in one piece from New York. There are no records remaining (erased by the conspiracy), but they figure someone involved in a move like that must not have forgotten. After a series of increasingly incredulous responses from movers, skycaps, stevedores, pilots and shipping clerks when they ask if they'd helped move a whole house by air freight, one actually says yes.

* ''WaterlooRoad''.
* Of course, the salesman montage in the [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad email]] "montage", featuring The Cheat and a Wagon Fulla Pancakes, backed with the snippet of song quoted above.

* In the ''OrderOfTheStick'' prequel ''On the Origin of [=PCs=]'', Roy is subjected to one of these when interviewing for his final party member.
* Daffy Duck goes through one of these at the beginning of the LooneyTunes movie ''Daffy Duck's Quackbusters''.
* The movie of ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' has a montage of Bridget going for several unsuccessful job interviews in TV. When she admits "I've got to leave my current job because I've shagged my boss", she is hired at last.

* A {{Terrible Interviewees Montage}} happens in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}'' when Cam Mitchell, shortly after we first meet him, is trying to find replacements of the title team.
* In CoolRunnings, a variety of businesspeople laugh when asked to sponsor the Jamaican bobsled team.
* Used in the introduction of ''OwMySanity'', to show how much David's life sucks.
* ''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.

* Several story arcs in ''{{Powers}}'' include a montage sequence of people responding to questions about the current case. Unlike most of the examples, these sequences end in a success (i.e. Walker and Pilgrim finally find somebody who has a useful lead).

* The protagonist of GoodbyeLenin and his co-worker go through one of these selling satellite dishes. They eventually succeed.
* In ''EdwardScissorhands'', Peg repeatedly strikes out while trying to sell Avon products to her neighbors. After having yet another door shut in her face, she gets the idea to drop by the creepy castle on the hill where she discovers Edward.

* [[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 alter]].

* ''GroundhogDay'' features a sequence in which Phil Connors is attempting to use the knowledge he's gaining in multiple repetitions of the day to seduce his coworker Rita. At first, he seems to be making progress, as he learns what mistakes not to make, but he's ultimately unable to recreate the exact circumstances of the day on which he got the closest to succeeding, leading to a montage of him being slapped in the face at different points during the day until he finally gives up.

* [[MalcolmInTheMiddle Malcolm]] finds himself subjected to this as he tries to raise funds for a charity 10K. The montage suddenly cuts from people slamming the door in his face to people happily signing up to pledge money, and then we Malcolm giving a thumbs up from [[InspirationallyDisadvantaged Stevie's wheelchair]], while Stevie himself sits at the curb, looking pissed.

* ''TheMuppets Take Manhattan'' - Kermit & company trying to get a talent agent to book their musical.