History Main / TravellingSalesmanMontage

* One of the montages in the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "montage" features The Cheat and a Wagon Fulla Pancakes as "down-on-their-luck door-to-door salesmen".

* In the ''{{Doug}}'' episode "Doug Door-to-Door", Doug faces this when attempting to sell candy for his scouting group.

* In a sequence ultimately cut from ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' but which survives as a deleted scene, we see 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.

* ''WaterlooRoad''.

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

* ''The Secret of My Success.'' After a rapid-fire sequence of rejections, Michael J. Fox declares, "Whatever the exception is, I can fix it. I can be older, I can be taller, I can be anything." The interviewer asks, "Can you be a minority woman?"

* An episode of TheCrampTwins has [[InsufferableGenius Lucien]] accompanying his door-to-door salesman father on a day at work, and loudly mentioning the awful ingredients of the products Mr Cramp is trying to sell, and we get a montage of doors being slammed as he lists all the possible side-effects, ending with Cramp coming home and declaring it his worst day ever. The next day we see [[{{Jerkass}} Wayne]] making sell after sell as he shamelessly lies and makes outrageous promises to persuade people to buy, ending with Cramp coming home and declaring it his best day ever while singing Wayne's praises. [[spoiler: It turns into an OhCrap when Lucien informs him that he failed to notice that Wayne had closed a deal by promising a customer ponies that belong to Cramp's BadBoss's SpoiledBrat daughter]].

->''You can't do it,\\

Ain't it a drag?''

* 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).

* ''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.

* Played straight (and promptly made fun of) in ''{{Hired}}'', a short film by Chevrolet shown on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

A person facing repeated rejection or unsuitability, i.e. via speed-dating, door-to-door selling or people being interviewed.

* [[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 see Malcolm giving a thumbs up from [[InspirationallyDisadvantaged Stevie's wheelchair]], while Stevie himself sits at the curb, looking pissed.

SuperTrope to TerribleIntervieweesMontage.

* ''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.

Subtrope: TerribleIntervieweesMontage

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

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

* ''TommyBoy'', of course. It also had a reverse montage where they quickly get people to buy their parts.

* 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.
* 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.
* ''{{Cocktail}}''. Brian Flanagan has a series of job interviews where he says things like, "I'm willing to start at the bottom;" interviewers tell him "You're aiming too high," and that they can't hire anyone without a college degree.

* ''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]].

* ''{{Cocktail}}''. Brian Flanagan has a series of job interviews where he says things like, "I'm willing to start at the bottom;" interviewers keep telling him they can't hire anyone without a college degree.

* The movie of ''[[BridgetJones 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.

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