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13->''"Look, I'll tell you a story, all right? I once fell deeply, you know, profoundly in love with tropical fish. Had 60 goddamn fish tanks in my house. I skin dived to find just the right ones. ''Anisotremus virginicus, Holdacanthus ciliaris, Chaetodon capistratus.'' You name it. Then one day I say, 'fuck fish'. I renounce fish. I vow never to set foot in that ocean again. That's how much fuck fish."''
14-->-- '''John [=LaRouche=],''' ''Film/{{Adaptation}}''
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16A character trait mostly in sitcoms, but occasionally played straight. A character gets passionately involved in hobbies for short amounts of time, before putting them aside and starting something else. May set up a series that is essentially Hobby of the Week or something similar.
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18Compare CompressedVice when this is done with character flaws, and NewJobAsThePlotDemands when it's done with ''careers''.
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20If the character supposedly always was an enthusiast in today's hobby rather than picking up something new, see BackstoryOfTheDay. See ExpertInUnderwaterBasketWeaving when the character is shown or described as being good at something with no practical application.
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28* The manga adaptation of ''Literature/BattleRoyale'' takes this to an extreme with Kazuo Kiriyama, who, due to a brain injury he suffered in utero, was unable to display any sort of passion. Hence, after mastering a particular hobby, he'd discard any interest in it. For example, he mastered a violin in a short amount of time, then threw the violin away. Likewise with a painting he created.
29* In the ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' prequel manga, "Little Army", Hitomi, one of the girls who is part of Miho's tank crew, has a habit of quickly switching her focus between hobbies, and her best friend Chihiro worries that tankery is just another phase. Thankfully, Hitomi manages to prove that she's more committed to tankery.
30* Tamaki of ''Manga/MagicOfStella'' can't decide what interests her the most, thus resorting to changing her hobbies yearly.
31* Chapter 60 of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has Tohru trying to pick up a new hobby and asking everyone around her for advice (her previous hobby was traveling, but she can't exactly indulge her wanderlust as a live-in maid). It ends with her fueling her Kobayashi obsession into creating various works of art, much to Kanna and Ilulu's annoyance.
32* Maon of ''Anime/{{Tamayura}}'' grew up changing dreams all the time.
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36* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Fethry Duck, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's scatterbrained cousin, is frequently dragging Donald along on his latest interest.
37* ComicBook/TheJoker is a very twisted version of this. The exact nature of his insanity changes day-by-day to whatever he finds most amusing. A look back through his history will reveal he's been a [[GentlemanThief jewel thief]], a petty vandal, a MadScientist, a nightclub-owning gangster handling more conventional organized crime, or an unhinged butcher of a SerialKiller when he felt like it.
38* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim Drake briefly took up tennis and tried to join the school team, and was willing to go against Bruce to do so and spend less time as Robin or in training despite never showing any interest in the sport before, and then it was never mentioned again.
39* ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'': In the first issue, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has decided to devote herself to her true passion and take a degree in dramatic art. However, she never showed interest in acting before, and it was seldom mentioned again.
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43* In ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', the mother, Andy, does this a lot, sometimes becoming [[CompressedVice briefly addicted]] to the video games [[HypocriticalHumor which she criticizes Jason for playing]].
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47* Played straight in ''Film/{{Adaptation}}'', where the plant expert was formerly an aquarium expert. "Done with fish," as he stated. He was a real person in the non-fiction book on which the movie was based. Sort of.
48* Penelope in ''Film/TheBrothersBloom'' collects hobbies as a result of her social isolation. She demonstrates for Bloom her skills in juggling, rapping, skateboarding, card tricks, breakdancing, multiple musical instruments...
49* In ''Film/HotShots'', the hero's love interest Ramada is doing something different every time he sees her, from trick horseback riding to lounge singing to ''welding''. She's officially a psychiatrist.
50* In the dark marital comedy ''Film/TheRef'', Lloyd rips into his wife for this (among many, many other things).
51* Kyle Clayton from ''Film/WorldsGreatestDad'', dialogue from his father Lance suggests during his younger years he liked things like going to the movies, listening to music, and building model planes and rockets, in the present when he’s an angry JerkAss of a teenager he hates everything except pornography, masturbation, and violent video games.
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56* Creator/PGWodehouse:
57** In ''Psmith in the City'', Literature/{{Psmith}}'s father turns out to have this trait, possibly as a result of his AttentionDeficitOohShiny
58** In the ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'' novel ''Literature/ThankYouJeeves'', Bertie Wooster claims to be prone to these, the current one being banjolele-playing. The events of the book see him split with Jeeves and move to the country solely to pursue this hobby, [[spoiler:[[StatusQuoIsGod only to give it all up by the end]]]].
59--->''Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine -- tense, absorbed, single-minded.''
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62* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne knows how to do various arts and crafts that were never taught to her by her current family because the mother she had in her previous life was really into them, but never stuck to any given activity for very long. When another character uses magic to explore her memories to make sure she's not dangerous, Myne tells them that she frequently lasted longer in the hobbies than her mother did.
63* ''Literature/TheBoyWhoDrewMonsters'': Before Jack Peter started drawing monsters, his obsessions were, in reverse chronological order, toy soldiers, board games, comic books, baseball on the radio, and model ships. There were earlier ones, but his friend Nick doesn't remember them.
64* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'''s Izaya Orihara is evidentially very flighty when it comes to hobbies.
65-->'''Izaya:''' That's why I make it my hobby to stomp on girls' cell phones. HA HA HA HA HA!...Bored now. Stomping on girls' cell phones is no longer my hobby!
66* In the ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'' series, Karl Kullinane was very much like this in his days as a college student, so much so that a prospective love interest wasn't comfortable dating him because she was afraid of becoming his passion of the week, and him not sticking with her.
67* Chet Morton of ''Literature/TheHardyBoys''. He has one [[OnceAnEpisode virtually one every book]], which usually ends up being [[ChekhovsGun very important to whatever case the Hardy Boys were investigating]].
68** [[Literature/NancyDrew Nancy Drew]] and her friends seem to have them as well, and in the books from the 80s onwards, Bess, Chet's quasi-DistaffCounterpart, becomes similarly distinguished by them-- in the mystery at a health spa, she gets into being a health nut, in the one at a bookstore, she's trying to become a poet, and so forth. (Although writing romantic poetry did fit with her established trait of being a hopeless romantic.)
69* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Haruhi starts her high school career by trying out every club on campus, excelling in every one, and quitting since she quickly got bored of them. The main plot is kicked off when main character Kyon suggests that she [[StartMyOwn start her own club]].
70* In ''Gallows View'', Peter Robinson's first ''Inspector Banks'' mystery, we learn that Banks is prone to this sort of behaviour. "That was how the house had come to be so cluttered with the novels of Charles Dickens, wine-making equipment, twenties jazz records, barely used jogging shoes, a collection of birds' eggs, and books on almost every subject under the sun -- from Tudor history to how to fix your own plumbing."
71* ''Literature/TheKitchenDaughter'': In addition to her lifelong love of cooking and food, Ginny has had a number of short-lived obsessions over the years, including round objects, bending spoons with ESP, Turkish rug patterns, letters written by nuns, and detailed drawings of fruit, that consumed her for months and then were forgotten.
72* ''Literature/LosingJoesPlace'': Rootbeer Racinette, a secondary character and later indispensable plot coupon from Gordon Korman's book. He has a running gag where he gets a new hobby every day and later is turned into a variety act by his desperate for money "friends".
73* Keladry states that one of her brothers is like this in ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'', jumping from great-seeming idea to great-seeming idea. (She also thinks that one of three girls that ask her advice about becoming knights could also be this type.) There are some who think that Kel forming crushes on three different boys (Nealan, Cleon, and Domitan, though she only dates Cleon and it never goes very far) fits too, but keep in mind that 1. it was over a period of eight years, almost a ''decade'' and 2. she's a teenager.
74* In ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'s Revenge'', Ducos goes through a series of short-lived hobbies while hiding out in Italy with his ill-gotten gains.
75* Mad King Aerys, PosthumousCharacter from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', is revealed in ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'' to have suffered from a royal variant of this in his youth. He would constantly devise grand and impractical projects such as turning a desert into farmland or conquering the worthless tundra north of the realm populated by savages. He'd always grow bored with the plans and drift off to some new scheme in a few weeks.
76* This trope is OlderThanRadio; Mr. Toad from ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' (published in 1908) with his various "manias" is practically the poster boy for this trope, as he constantly throws himself at every new fad before getting tired of it and taking up something else.
77-->'''Ratty''': Once, it was nothing but sailing. Then he tired of that and took to punting. Nothing would please him but to punt all day and every day, and a nice mess he made of it. Last year it was house-boating, and we all had to go and stay with him in his house-boat, and pretend we liked it. He was going to spend the rest of his life in a house-boat. It's all the same, whatever he takes up; he gets tired of it, and starts on something fresh.
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81* In the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' pilot, Jack Donaghy uses his market research knowledge to correctly guess that every two years Liz Lemon takes up knitting for a week.
82* Edina in ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'' does this, in cycles of three weeks according to daughter Saffie. Phases include Japanese decor, living through a personal organizer, colonic irrigation, modern art and adopting a Rumanian baby (the last, thankfully, a dream).
83* Ellen of ''Series/TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete'' would show up with different passions and/or different jobs. She was absolutely fixated on each one for the episode it lasted for -- marching band, woodshop, and vending machine repair in one episode. Invariably, each one would disappear after it had lost its plot relevance -- except for marching band, which, in a surprising bit of continuity, was mentioned a season before she developed an obsession with it.
84* In the ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode where Sheldon loses his job. He claimed that his unemployment finally gave him the time he needed to pursue his interests, but he couldn't stick to one hobby!
85* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': Greg had sudden hobbies of surfing and photography. Justified in the case of surfing, as Barry Williams was an avid surfer in Real Life; it had just never come up during a plot before.
86* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', Hank Schraeder starts collecting minerals while recovering from a botched hit but loses interest once he can walk again.
87* ''Series/FrontierCircus'': In "Calamity Circus", Tony is shown with an overwhelming desire to master other skills of clowning, and spends much of the episode learning how to be a clown. This is at odds with his personality in other episodes where he is happy being the advance man and shows no interest in actually performing.
88* Chet from ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'' is prone to this. Shot Put, Ventriloquism, Scrimshaw, Spelunking...
89* In the ITV adaptations of Agatha Christie's ''Literature/HerculePoirot'' mysteries, Poirot's sidekick Arthur Hastings is often engrossed in a new hobby that requires expensive equipment: golf, photography, sports cars...
90* In ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim's neighbor Wilson is always involved in some strange new activity just before he gives Tim some advice.
91** The episode ''Workin' Man Blues'' lampshades it when Brad runs into Wilson at the mall.
92--->'''Wilson:''' I'm looking for a new hobby. I've narrowed it down to channeling Aztec spirits or rollerblading.
93* In one ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode, Ted uses Robin's now-empty room to explore several new hobbies, including pottery, woodworking, and grilling meat.
94* The eponymous Joan from ''Series/JoanOfArcadia'' eventually developed this, as God's instructions led her to adopt new hobbies every week, which would often be abandoned by the time the mission was over.
95* Arthur Spooner in ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' is an elderly ManChild on the outer edge of senility who drives [[TheDutifulSon daughter Carrie Heffernan]] to despair with a series of unreasonable demands. A psychologist unwisely advocates giving him what he wants as a sort of aversion therapy, in the hope that the continual demanding will burn itself out. Arthur then ploughs through a dozen or so expensive hobbies in the space of a month, beginning each in a state of high enthusiasm that inevitably burns itself out when the novelty is gone.
96* Hal from ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' took up board games, skating, NASCAR, robot building, painting, and various others. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in one episode that features this happening with DDR: We learn that he and Lois have an agreement that Hal can indulge in these things as long as it doesn't interfere with his job, as they both know the obsession isn't going to last. It's implied that these obsessions contribute to the family's [[PerpetualPoverty ongoing financial difficulties]].
97* Joyce Barnaby in ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' had a tendency to start out episodes involved with some new hobby group. To be fair, given that this usually plays into the episode by revealing other members of the group to be various murderers, other criminals and adulterers it does make sense she doesn't stick to the hobby...
98* ''Series/ModernFamily'': Cam is an avid spectator football enthusiast, a raquetball player, a handbell ringer, a clown, a choir director, a theater director, and someone who arranges Japanese floral arrangements. While his love of theater and football are fairly constant, his love of all the other things can often be temporary and very much fitting for the plot of the week. Phil is also cycling through hobbies somewhat erratically like magic or ultimate frisbee or male cheerleading or spectator sports.
99* Tommy Oliver from the ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' metaseries suffers from this seasonally. He's had brief but intense interest in martial arts (he stays good, but he only did it purely for pleasure in the first season or two), American football, and ''racecar driving''. Most notably, he actually got a job doing that last one immediately following high school graduation, only to show up seven years later as a high school science teacher (with a Ph.D. in Paleontology) who'd retired from being a successful mad scientist who worked with biological experiments. It is unknown how, or if, he ever finds the time to sleep.
100* In each episode of ''Series/ThePretender'', Jarod would engage in fleeting obsessions with an episode-relevant skill and/or some childhood item previously denied him at The Centre, taking the time to learn everything he possibly can about it. This goes along with his talent of being able to become anyone he wants to, meaning he's a very very quick study.
101* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise has various examples:
102** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Sulu has an interest in botany in one episode and in fencing in another. Also, antique firearms. The original 1960s ''Star Trek Writer's Guide'' describes Sulu as a serial hobbyist, but this personality trait was only really played up in the early episodes of the series. It's even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]" when Riley mentions that Sulu's passion for botany has switched to fencing. The botany hobby gets briefly mentioned again in the third season episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E20TheWayToEden The Way to Eden]]". The fencing also comes up in the [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]] [[Film/StarTrek2009 movie]]. It's also used to handwave EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, as Sulu was originally head of the Botany department, but was changed to helmsman to get him closer to the action.
103** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Benjamin Sisko has an ongoing interest in Bajoran history, but the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E22Explorers Explorers]]" has him spending a ''month'' building a replica of an ancient Bajoran space vessel and then personally taking it on a voyage. The vessel is never mentioned again (despite helping him to make a major historical discovery) and he doesn't show any interest in building or historical replicas thereafter. (Though one could HandWave this by the fact that the [[EnergyBeings Bajoran Prophets]] are known to influence him and drive his focus from time to time, and this could possibly be an example.)
104** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': The Doctor, deliberately tries out different hobbies in his quest for individuality.
105* In ''Series/UglyBetty'', Matt turns out to be this. He has an MBA, "half a law degree", nearly became a large animal vet, has a brown belt in karate, and almost finished a marathon before giving up on the last mile. When Betty meets him in an editors' class, his passion has been sports journalism for a while, but he suddenly loses interest right before their final group project is due, deciding to be a painter instead.
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109* in ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' Tim Stoker's younger brother Danny had a habit of this, leading to his death after accidentally getting involved with one of the Stranger's performances.
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113* The Orren, [[FunnyAnimal otterfolk]] of the ''TabletopGame/WorldTreeRPG'' setting, have this as one of their [[PlanetOfHats hats]]. They are stereotypically described as having many interests that they flit between and learning new skills easily, the latter of which is represented in the rules with a chance to gain extra skill levels.
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117* Testament from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', after being done with [[HeelFaceTurn trying to revive Justice]] and being Dizzy's guardian after she went off to being a mother, decided to [[TookALevelInCheerfulness start living out life again]] and picked up all kinds of hobbies along the way. [[labelnote:The full list]]Thinking, subscribing to weekly fashion magazines, carpentry on Sundays, collecting cosmetic items, building plastic model kits (especially mecha kits), visiting popular tourist spots, fishing, pottery, river trekking, uphill biking, listening to opera, muscle training, fortune-telling, tending to bonsai, gardening, watching pro-wrestling, making sweets, mahjong, painting (despite being terrible at it), embroidery, mountaineering, nail art, golfing, astrological observation, visiting hot springs, board games, writing science fiction novels, barbecuing, belly dancing, beach volleyball, watching baseball, building miniature houses, drinking (despite not actually being a drinker themself), snowboarding, watching shark b-movies, buying occult items that are on sale, and recording events in a picture diary.[[/labelnote]]
118* ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'': Royal Cousin Peso pursues new interests primarily in hopes of drawing more attention to himself, tending to swap hobbies out between games. Somewhat {{Downplayed|Trope}} in that he has bounced ''back'' to previous interests at times; while he gave up on his desire to become a great dancer for a while, he eventually decided to combine that with his fresh interest in becoming an IdolSinger.
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122* Aki of ''Webcomic/AkiAlliance'' drops in and out of so many school clubs that the entirety of her class hates her for not sticking with them.
123* Sally of ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' is a "young enough to make sense" example, as she keeps changing what she wants to be when she grows up.
124* This is PlayedForDrama with Tedd of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''. [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1316 According to Ellen]], this is a tendency with him. Tedd is horrified when he realizes she's right as the results of his current work is too important to risk burning out over.
125* According to Roy's mother in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', this is his father Eugene's big problem; When he discovers a new goal, he becomes utterly fixated on it... up until he gets bored and moves on to something else. Apparently, he has such a bad case of this that when he's actually compelled to see a project through, he'll get bitter and ornery. His desperation with Xykon is not because he particularly cares about avenging the Sorcerer's victims, but because he [[BarredFromTheAfterlife can't cross over]] until the lich is destroyed for good.
126* PlayedForDrama with Melody Faire in ''Webcomic/TheRockCocks''. Since retiring from the music business she has bounced from project to project: film director, restaurateur, marine biologist, alpaca farmer, state senator, etc. Her former producer has a grudge against her because she announced her retirement on stage before telling him, violating her contract. Her current project - a nudist resort in the middle of the desert - is something she's long gotten sick of but, since it's been a total failure, she lacks the closure (and more importantly, the finances) to move on, leaving the resort critically neglected and her remaining employees in the lurch.
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130* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Gi", there's a flashback to when Gumball and Darwin quickly got tired of football, tennis, horseback riding and figure skating (in the case of the last one, only Gumball got tired of it). For each one, we get a cumulative counter of how much money they've wasted starting these things and going nowhere with them. When they manage to get their mother to sign them up for Taekwondo lessons anyway, they skip the actual classes and keep the uniforms, acting as if they already knew martial arts.
131* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'' episode "Fancy Prance", it's revealed that Dagget has had literally dozens of "life-long dreams". While helping Norbert with ''his'' life-long dream of performing with the Lipizzaner performing horses, Dagget concocts a new one of being "the crusty-but-lovable manager of the guy pursuing his life-long dream".
132* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "D.W. Flips", D.W. decides she wants to do flips on the balance beam after seeing an athlete do it on television. When she tells Jane about this, Jane reminds her of the other times she wanted to do things, but didn't want to practice them, and gave up after just a few days. First, it was T-ball (D.W. claimed she could only hit balls that moved), then it was ballet (D.W. claimed to have weak knees), and finally, it was violin lessons (D.W. claimed she could have been good at it if her music teacher didn't make her use the bow). By the end of the episode, D.W. gives up after nearly falling off the balance beam in an attempt to do a cartwheel on it, but when she sees a horse, [[IgnoredEpiphany she decides she wants to learn horseback riding now]]. [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Jane refuses to sign her up for lessons.]]
133* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' brings us Mr. Bickles. In every episode, he has a new "dream". Examples include running a seafood restaurant, being a Vegas magician, being a playwright and being a lifeguard. These are the tip of the iceberg. With each new dream, he invests his time and money. He is usually already at work and gushing about how he finally accomplished it. A word of advice: [[BerserkButton Do not ruin Mr. Bickles' dream]].
134* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter Griffin, lampshaded in recent seasons where his family finds out they can distract him just by bringing up some obscure hobby. See also: the Petercopter and the Hindenpeter (exactly what they say on the tin)
135* Bender in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has been through a large number of these, though his love of cooking and folk music have persisted as part of his character.
136-->'''Hermes:''' Since when do you care, or even know, about fox hunting?\
137'''Bender:''' Fox hunting is an ancient and noble pursuit that's fascinated me ever since I first heard of it ten minutes ago.
138* A recurring plot on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is Bobby getting passionately, almost religiously into something for a short amount of time, only to drop it off soon after. This is justified in-series by Bobby being a teenager. Indeed, Bobby usually ends up acting much like an ill-informed adolescent would; [[KnowNothingKnowItAll knowing only the basics of his new hobby (if that)]], while constantly [[OldWindbag refusing to shut up about it]].
139* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': In "Helen's All Thumbs", Helen takes up video gaming and becomes passionate about it. However, she has to give the games up because they make her see things and she neglects feeding her dogs.
140* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
141** The Cutie Mark Crusaders do this a lot. They tend to approach pretty much every new activity with endless enthusiasm and put a lot of effort into it, and then abandon it as soon as it becomes evident that it won't get them their cutie marks. Some of the things they've tried include zip-lining, journalism, musical performance, and hairstyling. [[spoiler: They finally get their cutie marks in the season five episode "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", and their special talent turns out to be helping other ponies with ''their'' cutie marks. The Crusaders realize this only after they decide to [[SweetAndSourGrapes stop focusing so hard on getting their cutie marks]].]]
142** In the episode "Flutter Brother", Fluttershy's brother Zephyr Breeze engages in several different hobbies and career paths, but always backs out at the end due to a massive fear of failure. The episode in question is centered around getting him to stick to one job and realize he's good at it. He eventually discovers he's good at mane-styling and dedicates himself to that. Apparently it doesn't stick, because in "Sparkle's Seven", he's later seen being recruited to the guard (for all of twenty minutes, just so he can fail at keeping ponies out of a restricted area).
143* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Something Ricked This Way Comes" Rick gets into a feud with [[LouisCypher Mr. Needful]] which culminates with Rick starting a "uncursing" business to directly oppose Needful's cursed item store. However, once Rick feels he's won the feud - and the ''very instant'' the business starts to feel like actual work - he announces that he's bored and torches the place.
144* Taken to an extreme in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer has a new 'life-long dream' every time he brings it up, usually followed by Marge reminding him what his last lifelong dream was (such as getting on ''Series/TheGongShow'' or eating the world's largest hoagie). Also, Homer consoles Bart by saying that if he doesn't want to learn the guitar, he can just put it in the closet with his [[CallBack karate uniform]] and unicycle. Bart is 10, though.
145* Randy Marsh in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. As his wife laments in the episode "You're Getting Old": "You do this all the time! First you're obsessed with baseball fights! Then you need to play Warcraft! Then you gotta be a celebrity chef!" Although that episode also reveals that these fleeting obsessions are the result of a mid-life crisis.
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149* Constantly changing interests are actually a symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Without the novelty of a new situation or task to perform, the hobby becomes less stimulating to the ADHD brain, less engaging to the person with ADHD, and therefore more likely to be discarded.
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