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16	->''"Somebody said, 'Football's a matter of life and death to you.' I said, 'Listen, it's more important than that'."''
17	-->--'''Bill Shankly''', 1981 TV interview
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24	Serious Business is when a story revolves around an activity where a sizable portion of the InUniverse population takes it ''far'' more seriously than they should. If the popularity of [[MundaneMadeAwesome some mundane object]] rivals that of Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheBeatles, and Music/MichaelJackson combined, or if there are mainstream ''schools'' devoted to it instead of teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, then it's Serious Business.
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26	It's often a SillyReasonForWar and can turn a casual conversation into a heated CavemenVsAstronautsDebate. Someone who just can't let it go may become a SingleIssueWonk. If competition is involved, you can almost ''guarantee'' that SecondPlaceIsForLosers. Frequently "opposed" by the CavalierCompetitor. Compare StopHavingFunGuys. In musicals, it's often demonstrated that DancingIsSeriousBusiness. For the saying that "TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness", see [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]]. Related to ImNotHereToMakeFriends. Not to be confused with MundaneMadeAwesome, though the two tropes overlap ''plenty.''
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28	Compare DuelsDecideEverything, ComicalOverreacting. When a relatively minor crime is treated as Serious Business, that's FelonyMisdemeanor. Contrast NotAGame and MatterOfLifeAndDeath. A SuperTrope to OverdramaticDatingCommotion, where dating or the [[MistakenForRomance mistaken thought of it]] is treated like it's a huge deal.
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32	!!Example subpages:
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34	[[index]]
35	* SeriousBusiness/{{Advertising}}
36	* SeriousBusiness/AnimeAndManga
37	* SeriousBusiness/ComicBooks
38	* SeriousBusiness/FanWorks
39	* [[SeriousBusiness/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
40	* SeriousBusiness/{{Literature}}
41	* SeriousBusiness/LiveActionTV
42	* SeriousBusiness/{{Music}}
43	* SeriousBusiness/ProWrestling
44	* SeriousBusiness/{{Sports}}
45	* SeriousBusiness/TabletopGames
46	* SeriousBusiness/VideoGames
47	* SeriousBusiness/{{Webcomics}}
48	* SeriousBusiness/WebOriginal
49	* SeriousBusiness/WesternAnimation
50	[[/index]]
51
52	!!Other examples:
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55	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
56	* Would you believe noodles? In the European/Korean animated series ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'', the noodles made at the local Chinese restaurant are such Serious Business that in one episode, when the chefs believe themselves disgraced because of a just-barely-unfinished bowl of noodles, they go to a '''''{{DEATH COURSE}}''''' to redeem themselves, while in another, when they split up into three separate restaurants over a fight, it causes a sort of ZombieApocalypse, with most of the inhabitants of the village wandering as an aimless, lifeless, pathetic mob, mumbling and moaning about the lack of noodles until they reunite. And God help you if you run out of chopsticks. The world will scream.
57	[[/folder]]
58
59	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
60	* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
61	** In one strip, Calvin throws an enormous hissy fit after losing a game of checkers to Hobbes, culminating in him passing out in exhaustion. When Hobbes points out that it's just a game, Calvin cheerfully replies: "I know! You should see how I act when I lose in real life!"
62	** Chewing gum is Serious Business in this universe. Calvin is an enthusiastic reader of a magazine called "Chewing" which is dedicated to it and informs an incredulous Hobbes that as many as twelve such publications exist.
63	** So is a SnowballFight.
64	** And he treats his snowman creations like modern art. Though he certainly puts more thought into them than most kids. This is [[CloudCuckooLander Calvin]]. ''Everything'' comes to life, and most of it [[EverythingTryingToKillYou tries to kill him]].
65	* [[http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/7000/100/7165/7165.strip.gif This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip illustrates how to apply the principles of Serious Business in the workplace. This comic was based on one of Scott Adams' coworkers, who actually said "I will fight you to the end of the earth!" To him, it was serious business.
66	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
67	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' once had a ShowdownAtHighNoon having ended in defeat for the older cowboy, treating it with all the gravity you'd expect... except it was at ping-pong.
68	-->'''Older gunslinger''': Well, you won. Now every player in the world will come after you, looking to make a name for himself... Welcome to Hell, kid.
69	* ''ComicStrip/{{FoxTrot}}'': Thanksgiving is a big deal for resident {{Big Eater}}s Roger and Peter. There have been several week-long arcs over the years of them preparing to eat as much food as possible when the day comes.
70	* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' has roleplaying games as serious business. "You don't understand man. He TOUCHED my dice!"[[note]]Ask any hardcore gamer in Real Life. Touching someone else's dice/mini/whatever without permission can be considered a breach of etiquette, and with some players, is indeed Serious Business.[[/note]]
71	* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
72	** An early strip had Lucy repeatedly shouting "OLEE-OLEE-OLSEN-FREE-O!" Violet came by and pointedly told her that the expression was "Ollie-Ollie-Oxen-Free." This left Lucy more thoroughly humiliated than she'd ever been in her life.
73	** Once, when Lucy caught Linus about to throw a snowball at her, she angrily demanded that he take that very snowball apart ''snowflake by snowflake''. ("No pieces! No chunks! One snowflake at a time!") Poor Linus was out in the snow until nightfall.
74	** Linus and his blanket. When he had to go without it for a couple of weeks, he fainted several times...''in a single day''.
75	** Linus also had a pretty intense crush on his teacher, Ms. Othmar. When she was fired for going on strike, he threw an enormous tantrum and vowed to turn the whole matter into a federal case. He also snottily told his substitute teacher that, sure, he'd learn the lessons the way ''she'' taught them, but she still wasn't Ms. Othmar.
76	** Schroeder. How dare you mock Beethoven in his presence!
77	* [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2010/01/17 Board games]] are apparently serious business to Rat in ''Comicstrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''.
78	* ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'': One storyline has Megan become addicted to Sudoku and treating it as such. Sherman makes the mistake of telling her that it's "just Sudoku."
79	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
80	** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1985/09/15 Triple-Coupon Day]]. It's almost like a deranged ''Series/SupermarketSweep''.
81	** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2023/09/08 Garfield decided to re-evaluate his relationship with Arlene]] because she likes pineapple on pizza.
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84	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
85	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Foodfight}}'': When Mr. Clipboard stomps on a bag of chips [[ForTheEvulz for no real good reason]] (declaring, "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, LEONAAAAAARD!"), Leonard the shopkeeper's reaction is utter heartbreak and horror, as though a soldier had just been gunned down in front of him.
86	-->'''Leonard:''' That was a perfectly good bag of chips! Never opened... never enjoyed...
87	* While the plot of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' just happened to be about two monsters who worked for the eponymous company, ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' gives the impression that ''every'' course and program the school offers is related to the scaring industry in some way.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'':
89	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Pretty much everyone treats the Friendship Games like this, with Luna even name-dropping the trope and the Humane Five getting slightly offended when Sunset wonders what all the fuss is about, since it's not as important as, say, stopping the Sirens. [[spoiler:Heck, Principal Cinch and the Shadowbolts even try to harness Equestrian magic — something they hardly understand — just to ensure they win the Games.]]
90	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsHolidaysUnwrapped'': PlayedForLaughs with a gargantuan snowball fight outside Pinkie's home, which involves a huge number of characters from all corners of the series absolutely duking it out with massive snow fortresses. Anyone in range of a snowball is a target, regardless of whether they signed on to play, and the entire sequence is presented as a FauxHorrific parody of war films like ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan''.
91	--->'''Sunset:''' Hold up everyone! Pinkie Pie and I aren't in the game!\
92	'''[[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Smith]]:''' [[NotAGame What game?]] '''[[SuddenlyShouting This here's]] ''[[ThisMeansWar WAAAAARRRR]]!!!'''''
93	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':
94	** Jack Skellington found out the hard way that impersonating SantaClaus is a major crime that amounts to being blasted out of the sky. Well, when it involves kidnapping, breaking and entering, and unknowingly terrorizing people with loathsome and occasionally lethal gifts, despite how good the intentions are.
95	** This also applies to Halloween, at least in Halloween Town. Since the city is a PlanetOfHats with scaring people as its hat, the town council spends literally the entire year preparing for each Halloween, drawing up plans as early as November 1st. The Mayor actually has a minor panic attack when Jack is not at home to go over the plans with him. No wonder Jack had gotten sick of Halloween.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pastacolypse}}'' involves a worldwide ban on gluten that everyone takes seriously to the point that, among other things, there are entire clubs themed around a gluten-free lifestyle and illegally having possession of gluten is enough to be charged for a federal crime. Alfredo Manicotti sees the ban as an assault on his lifestyle and after turning into a man-pasta hybrid, decides to create pasta monsters made of gluten to unleash on the world and kill anyone associated with a living a gluten-free life.
97	* For most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', this is averted, with food only being given relatively reasonable import (it ''is'' a movie about chefs, after all, so a little of this is to be expected)... until the climax, [[spoiler:when Remy's cooking -- and the revelation of his role as the chef -- are enough to ''induce a HeelFaceTurn'' in a stick-in-the-mud critic]].
98	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Francis, the dog owned by the Mario Brothers' first plumbing customers, takes it ''very personally'' when Luigi breaks his favorite bone toy by accident, enough that he haunts the brothers during their plumbing job and ultimately ends up sabotaging it.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'':
100	** Music. The Trolls split into groups to protect the music they liked.
101	** Pinky promises. When Poppy promises Biggie that she'll protect him, it causes them to levitate toward each other and unleash a PlanarShockwave seen for miles when they connect.
102	--->'''Cooper:''' (after he feels the shockwave) A pinky promise. ''Dang''...
103	* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'':
104	** From the short ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'': "No crackers, Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!" Cue dramatic music and a frantic race against time.
105	** ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' is what the writers call "perhaps the first vegetarian horror movie." To keep some kind of tension, given that the monster is no threat to people, it turns out that everyone in town is insanely protective of their vegetables. For them, country fairs are serious business. "We're simple folk! It's all we have!" NB: In real life, competitive growing ''is'' sometimes taken quite seriously, and incidents of sabotage and theft are not unknown.
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108	[[folder:Manhua]]
109	* Bowling is apparently a huge deal in ''Manhua/BowlingKing''. No, seriously. Professional bowlers are all either incredibly badass or {{Bishonen}} prettyboys. Oh, and then there's how main character Shautieh Ley's ultimate goal seems to involve taking over the world with bowling somehow; while this isn't explicitly stated, chapter opening pages tend to feature things like a RushmoreRefacement where ''all'' of the faces are Shautieh (and similar ones with the Sphinx, etc.) and Shautieh disrupting other sports events.
110	[[/folder]]
111
112	[[folder:Manhwa]]
113	* ''Manhwa/{{Yureka}}'': comes up from time to time since the setting is in an MMORPG. Notable with Myriah who holds a grudge against Lotto and his friends for [[spoiler:killing her tamed monsters for experience and loot]]. --Done well and within the realm of possibilities, thus barely noticed.
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116	[[folder:Podcasts]]
117	* ''Podcast/KingdomSmarts'':
118	** The premise of the podcast is ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fangirl Shannon Manor explains the series to ''KH''-ignorant Jake Mason of ''Creator/HeyJakeAndJosh'' one half hour at a time. Because of this, they take keeping Jake as spoiler-free as possible very seriously. One episode during their ''Kingdom Hearts II'' episodes opens with Jake explaining that he literally yelled at a co-worker at his day job to not say anything about ''Kingdom Hearts III'' to avoid getting spoiled about the game.
119	** As the podcast's fan community has grown, keeping Jake in the dark has reached the point that the show's fans on Twitter use a specific hashtag which Jake keeps muted, "[=#KHFree=]", when discussing events the show has not yet reached. Later episodes also regularly end with a warning not to use [=KHFree=] in conjunction with other hashtags nor when sending tweets directly to the ''Kingdom Smarts'' Twitter, as doing so negates Jake's muting.
120	* ''Podcast/MikeAndTomEatSnacks'': the Snack is very serious business. People's careers are made and destroyed by how Mike and Tom rate snacks (according to them), and often fans can get upset by their ratings.
121	* ''Podcast/MomCantCook'' notes that several Disney Channel Original Movies seem to exaggerate how popular certain pursuits, such as magic, rollerblading, and coin collecting are, which is deemed to be because they were written by a bunch of middle-aged men.
122	* ''Podcast/MysteryShow'': Creator/JakeGyllenhaal's height is Serious Business to the folks at celebheights.com. David mocks them while also becoming [[NotSoAboveItAll overly invested himself]].
123	* The ''Podcast/PuzzleInAThunderstorm'' guys (Eli and Heath in particular) treat some of their running gags this way, especially getting to ask "What's.... [the thing being advertised]?".
124	* ''Radio/TrueCapitalist'': Ghost is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:{{Troll}}s) seems to think otherwise.
125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:Roleplay]]
128	* In the FinalBattle of ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', when a large number of Dino Attack agents used the comm chatter to crack jokes or make silly references, one Dino Attack agent attempted to ShooOutTheClowns by telling them to stop making jokes and references and start concentrating on the battle, using the comm chatter only for coordinating attacks and strategies. This example is largely PlayedForLaughs, since this one Dino Attack agent is apparently the only one trying to use the comm chatter for its intended purpose in the battle, yet everyone completely ignores him (or, in one agent's case, openly mocks him with a quote from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'') and continues using the comm chatter for less-than-serious commentary.
129	* On Website/LiveJournal and its spinoffs, [[JournalRoleplay roleplay]] is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to ''the size of their avatars''. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more [[{{Troll}} spammy]]) anonymous discussion. People have actually made ''death threats'' over pretendy funtime games on the internet.
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132	[[folder:Theater]]
133	* ''Theatre/{{Chess}}'':
134	** The Arbiter in this musical not only takes his job of refereeing a chess championship incredibly seriously, he also seems to think it makes him a badass. "I'm on the case, can't be fooled/ any objection is overruled/ I'm the Arbiter, I know the score/ from square one/ I'll be watching all sixty-four..."
135	** Not to mention The Russian in "Argument". His first priority is to win a game of Chess. Once he has won, he can attend to the secondary things in life, such as his love affair, which is falling apart at that moment.
136	* The play ''Theatre/TehInternetIsSeriousBusiness'' by Tim Price, staged by the Royal Court Theatre in London, autumn 2014. It is about the "hacktivist" groups Anonymous and [=LulzSec=].
137	* ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'': The sphinx that troubles Thebes treats her riddles like Serious Business. When Oedipus figured out the answer, she actually committed suicide,making the trope OlderThanFeudalism. Even before that, she'd only eat people once they'd actually made an attempt to answer the riddle, and gotten it wrong.
138	* In the storylines of many ballets, DancingIsSeriousBusiness. The hero of ''Theatre/SwanLake'' dooms his beloved to spend eternity as a swan because he mistakenly dances with the wrong woman at a ball. The titular heroine of ''Giselle'' dances herself ''to death'', and later spares the man she loves from the same fate by offering to dance in his place to appease an evil ghost queen who is forcing him to dance again and again. In ''The Sleeping Beauty'', Aurora pricks her finger not from ''spinning'', but from ''dancing'' with the spindle despite her mother's warnings that doing so would be dangerous.
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141	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
142	* While court trials are Serious Business in real life, the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games elevate this to a new level with how over the top their cases get. And while being a lawyer is quite a respectable career in real life, they're practically superstars in the gameverse.
143	** The hotbed of murder and intrigue that is the [[ShowWithinAShow children's television]] industry of ''VisualNovel/{{Phoenix Wright\|AceAttorney}}''. Deadly serious business.
144	** Spirit Mediums, too, seem to take it a little too far. But what mother wouldn't [[spoiler:be an accomplice in a murder framing her niece just so her daughter can be the family's successor?]]
145	** Phoenix's assistant/sidekick Maya considers anything she's interested in to be Serious Business. The sad part is, she usually finds at least one other person who wholeheartedly agrees with her, leaving Phoenix to wonder if he's the OnlySaneMan.
146	** In ''VisualNovel/{{Apollo Justice\|AceAttorney}}'', {{stage magic\|ian}}. To the point that one whole case gets derailed because the Judge wants to know how a trick was done. And the people who do know refuse to tell, because it's against the magician's code to reveal secrets. And if Apollo doesn't figure the trick out, the judge declares the defendant guilty of murder!
147	** Also, Apollo tends to be tired in the morning because he was up all night shouting at the top of his lungs so that his OBJECTIONS are extra impressive. That's dedication, man.
148	** Manfred von Karma takes the serious business of being a prosecutor to its limit. He is so obsessed with having and maintaining a perfect record (i.e. a 100% conviction rate, regardless of whether any of them were actually guilty or not) that he [[spoiler:murders a defense attorney over a penalty]]. And in case that wasn't enough, he also took the man's son under his wing and trained him to be a prosecutor every bit as cold and obsessed with winning as he was.
149	** Everyone in the courtroom (including the main character) react to holes in their story being pointed out as if they had been physically struck.
150	** Miles Edgeworth takes his love for the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Steel Samurai]]'' series very seriously, to the point where, after seeing a Steel Samurai theatre performance and finding out that the titular hero was played by [[TheDitz Larry Butz]], he acts like Larry just murdered his dog.
151	* Downplayed in ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}''. The title character mentions learning how to modify social media passwords ''in a college computer class''. Why on earth would a Gen-Z college student need a computer class to teach her how to use a social media website?
152	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Misericorde}}'', most of the nuns of Linbarrow Abbey love a good game of chess, but Sister Adela is ''very'' passionate about the game and has strong opinions about how it ought to be played. When Sister Moira beats her using an aggressive strategy which Adela views as an affront to the game, Adela angrily [[FlippingTheTable flips the table over]], goes on a heated rant about why that strategy is bad, and challenges Moira to a rematch using "the rules of real chess". The exasperated reactions of the other nuns indicate that this isn't the first time she's done this.
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155	[[folder:Web Animation]]
156	* The Andrés Guerrero [[https://twitter.com/AndyL4nd/status/1449414032281292800 cartoon]] about [=itemLabel=]'s [[https://itemlabel.com/collections/plush/products/dinkle Dinkle]] depicts him as taking the art of {{chiptune}}s so seriously that he [[DisproportionateRetribution goes completely overboard]] responding to [[CantTakeCriticism critics]] saying that his music doesn't qualify as chiptune.
157	* In ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'', in the ''VS Minecraft'' shorts, apparently building is this. [[SoreLoser TNT throwing during building contests]] is a regular occurrence, and in "[=PvP=]", Green starts a brawl over a conflict in building space.
158	* The classic Flash film ''Craziest'' is about someone who considers TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}} a religion.
159	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': This happens in ''Johnny Cage vs. Captain Falcon''. Captain Falcon won't let Johnny star as him in a movie unless he beats him in a fight to the death. Johnny even comments at one point that "[[LampshadeHanging you sports types really take auditions seriously!]]"
160	* ''[=DigitalPh33r=]'' regularly parodies the concept in his ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' movies with unnamed characters brutalizing things in game and/or shouting to the heavens "THIS IS SUCH A BIG DEAL!!!"
161	* ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'':
162	** "The Night Librarian", aka Kuromi, calls out Badtz-Maru for failing to return books to the library, and Keropi for reshelving a book in the wrong place.
163	** My Melody really hates messes, to the point that she stresses when Pompompurin starts consuming messy tacos without a plate. Kuromi gently tells her it's important to set boundaries with your friends.
164	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XQduS6IfA If UNO Was an Anime]]'' does this with UNO, based on the [[http://dot-emcee.tumblr.com/post/124928460247 .emcee]] comic.
165	* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' takes place in a world where video games are ''extremely'' important, to the point that ArtificialLimbs have been developed and nobody seems to have ''considered'' using them for anything other than [[MundaneUtility playing video games better]], and the plot revolves around a gaming MegaCorp [[spoiler:having performed a massively unethical science experiment that led to the apparent death of its subject and scientist]], all for the sake of producing the ultimate gamer.
166	* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', which started out as the continuing story of a battle fought over a box canyon in the middle of nowhere, although only [[BloodKnight Sarge]] seemed to take victory in Blood Gulch that seriously. Or beating the Blues in whatever confrontation they had later.
167	** In one PSA, Grif states that "some games are serious business." Apparently, he once "played Donkey Kong so well that he cured kidneyism. It was the best day ever. The End."
168	* In ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', Lie Ren, usually TheStoic and TheQuietOne, will take certain things a little overboard -- he has a TrainingMontage for playing tag, scoffs as how Team RWBY pillow fights and blows up at his own team for their inability to dance right.
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171	[[folder:Web Videos]]
172	* ''WebVideo/BartBaker'': In Bart's parody of Music/RobinThicke's [[https://youtu.be/J3twwafch4g Blurred Lines]], there is a hashtag cop who comes up to stop the [[HashtagForLaughs hashtag abuse]].
173	->'''Hashtag Cop:''' OK, that's enough. Everyone freeze\
174	(everyone puts their hands up)\
175	'''Music/PharrellWilliams:''' Who the hell is this schmuck?\
176	'''Hashtag Cop:''' I'm a hashtag cop (#BUSTED)\
177	This hashtag abuse is against the law\
178	I'm not kidding (#THICKE)\
179	'''Robin Thicke:''' Someone turn that shit off\
180	'''Hashtag Cop:''' I am warning you (#GOAT)\
181	Stop or I will shoot (#LOSER)\
182	OK, that's it, dude! ''(The Hashtag cop then proceeds to [[KneeCapping shoot Robin Thicke in the knee]])''
183	* This is [[ForTheFunnyz part of the indicative]] behind CausticCritic shows like ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''. Reviewers on Website/ChannelAwesome treat most anything they review as Serious Business, PlayedForLaughs. Deconstructed in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' when [[spoiler:Holokara]] takes things a step further and plans to threaten a DeathFromAbove against Marvel over the handling of Spider-Man, which is NOT played for laughs.
184	* Website/CollegeHumor: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM For the Nazi Party,]] grammatical correctness is apparently very serious business:
185	-->'''Monsieur La Padite:''' I swear, I do not know where Mademoiselle Dreyfuss is at.\
186	'''Hans Landa:''' ...[[TranquilFury Did you just end a sentence with a preposition?]]
187	* In the Website/YouTube series ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', playing an {{MMORPG}} is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction. It's based on Creator/FeliciaDay's two-year addiction to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, so it's definitely TruthInTelevision.
188	* The premise behind many ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' parodies, where Hitler melts down over anything from getting his Platform/XboxLiveArcade account banned, getting a Wii instead of a [=PS3=] for Christmas, and so on.
189	* LetsPlay/{{Jayuzumi}} tends to run into these players a lot when playing video games and using soundboards to prank others. This happens mostly in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', and to a lesser extent in ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''.
190	* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest for Greatness with the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present-day America), but very serious.
191	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65lERfzNNE League of Extraordinary Industrial Retards]] go on a quest to kill [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and [[Music/VNVNation Ronan Harris]] and prove to the world that {{Industrial}} music is serious business.
192	* In ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut Night Shift'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] and Gabriel Mortom admitted that the things they said over the weeks have been awful but the ones that seem to get the most attention is that Yahtzee mentioned that 30 fps looks the same or better than 60 fps, causing an outrage in the comments section.
193	* ''LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV'': In the Trailer for "LP Every Mario Game", Steeler's biggest strength is stated to be that he takes Mario Party seriously. (It's also listed as his greatest weakness.)
194	* ''WebVideo/MovieTriviaSchmoedown'' is the most serious business movie trivia contest the internet has ever seen. There's championship belts. There's tournaments. There's wrestling-inspired storylines. Search around in the right places you'll find a list of statistics. Over Movie. Trivia.
195	* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happen a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive at the top in the domain get enough recognition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explicitly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.
196	* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/community/myvideos/74334-thebanjokid/video/4029-Banjo+Kid+Reviews%3A+Hell+Girl Cake is serious business!]]
197	* ''WebVideo/PittsburghDad'' and the Pittsburgh Steelers. God help you if you're a Ravens fan!
198	* Invoked in WebVideo/ProZD's "Chairem Anime" series, in the installment about [[https://youtu.be/xEfFy-uZ8_g anime timeskips and spinoffs]].
199	-->'''Tomoko:''' Everything's changed. It's been three years since Refrigerator-senpai killed Lamp-senpai and left our village. My outfit is now black, because things are Serious Business now, in ''Chairem Anime: Sofaden''.
200	* ''WebVideo/ProjectLibrary'' has been described as "a Creator/MichaelBay movie with books", full of fight scenes and action clichés, but set in a library and whose plot revolves around an overdue book.
201	* ''WebVideo/RhettAndLink'': Do ''not'' mess with the [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj613a_trail-mix_fun trail mix]] that Rhett's mom made!
202	* In ''WebVideo/RosyTheRascal15'''s Locos Doritos video, Jerry eventually goes ballistic over his bag of Doritos being stolen, including up to [[spoiler: shooting Amy, who was trying to talk him down]].
203	* [[http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5825493270005637835# This]] (subtitled) episode of the Québecquois series "Tom et ses chums" ("Tom and his pals") has the titular character playing a game of D&D with old friends. What he doesn't realize beforehand is that they've kept playing the same party every week during the years he hasn't seen them (meaning they have absurdly high-level characters), and for them (barring the GM), this is very serious business. When they demand that his new character start at level 1 (making him useless since the encounters are tailored for a high-level group), and then belittle him for being a peasant, he gives up and decides to be TheLoonie.
204	* Creator/FreddieWong's ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool'' is set in a world where video games are Serious Business. Losing a game at the title school can get you ''expelled''.
205	* [[http://youtu.be/jCIFnmmnoSE This video. More specifically, at 1:30.]] "Being a lawyer, as the internet says... IS SERIOUS BUSINESS."
206	* ''Hiring'' a boat is Serious Business. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&feature=channel_page Just ask Andy Samberg and his friends]].
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