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That Night Felt Like Months
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Webcomic stock phrase lampshading Webcomic Time.
No relation to I Fell for Hours.
Examples:
Web Comics
- Trope Namer: At the end of Chapter 8 of Gunnerkrigg Court, the author notes "That night seemed to go on for months".
- Heard every so often in Dominic Deegan; Spark is prone to saying "I feel like I've slept for months!" when he hasn't been part of the action for a while.
- Freefall: "I know a day is just 24 hours, but that one felt like it took a year and 37 weeks to get through."
- Schlock Mercenary: On an imminent battle, Tagon says that "The waiting is always the hardest part," to which Ennesby replies "Yeah. It'll be over in fifteen seconds, but it'll feel like an entire day," with an Aside Glance (and Aside Grin).
- Inverted in this Order of the Stick, where Thog doesn't quite get the idea.
- Bob and George: "For having been hanging there for months now, you're awfully cheery." This is from the end of the Mega Man 3 parody storyline, which would presumably take at most a few days of in-comic time. (Presumably. With how much the Fourth Wall got abused, it sometimes seems like the characters are more aware of real time than in-comic time.)
- This Strip of Books Don't Work Here takes plase right after Robin falls down a trap door for two days in comic time and right after The Author changes the update schedule from 7 days a week to 5.
- Too Much Information: when a main character who had been in a wheelchair finally got to start walking again, he commented on how it felt like he'd been stuck in it for months, even though (in webcomic time) it had only been a few days.
- When Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures returned after a year-long absence (in the middle of a storyline!), Miss Mab used a similar phrase.
- That was a long-ass walk! -From a comic with a long name.
- This installment of Irregular Webcomic!.
- Twice in Midnight Macabre. Upon leaving after a stressful visit in the first comic posted after a hiatus, Celia declares "That was the longest tea ever. It feels like we were in that house for seven months!", and Gaspar says in his speech to a group of Midnight Macabre fans "I know the changes seem harsh and sudden ... even if it's felt like three years for me ..."
- This Dragon Mango page, although it doesn't happen in the present time. Breaks the fourth wall, too.
- Girly: "My, it seems like so long ago! It felt like it's been two years, six months, and seven days when it's actually been two months and five days!"
- Experimental Comic Kotone
- NeverNever
- Killroy and Tina
- Angel Moxie here
- Antihero For Hire:
Shadehawk: Sigh, that took altogether too much time. Felt like months.
- Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life:
Ben: I feel like I've been on that floor for five months.
- MSF High had one of the characters spending the entire arc waiting to use the bathroom. While he stood outside, the comic underwent a hiatus, prompting one of these lines.
- Nowhere University has this early on, combines the lampshade hanging with a literal breaking of the Fourth Wall.
- Lampshaded with a bit of a Fourth Wall nudge in this Sluggy Freelance strip.
- Inverted after a Time Skip to catch back up to the real-life date, Riff says "I remember it like it was last week". He's talking about the comics posted a RL week earlier, but months earlier for the characters.
- Variation in And Shine Heaven Now, in which a continuity reboot meant that one character's death was retconned. In her first appearance thereafter, she says "It's good to be back," leading another character to observe that she hadn't gone anywhere.
- One episode of The Whiteboard has the group get back from a paintball game, notice the Halloween decorations (which weren't there when they left), and one of them comments, "Wasn't it summer when we left?" Or something like that.
- This Tsunami Channel comic, following a hiatus.
- Flaky Pastry here.
- Ctrl+Alt+Del [1], lampshading both Webcomic Time and Limited Wardrobe into the bargain.
- Russell's Teapot. "Don't give me that! It's been like six weeks since the last comic!"
- When a ''Roomies!'' story ran through Christmas Break, Danny and Joe notice that they're still studying for finals in January.
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!?Bob in 2009, upon being reunited with Ahem for the first time since the first story arc, originally printed in 1993.
- Also Jean, when she punches Voluptua at the end of the strip's ten year hiatus. "That was worth waiting a decade for!"
- Enjuhneer Lampshades this by having the main character, Penny, decide to go to the con three weeks after it's brought up.
Penny:But time can't work like that! We'd have been freshmen for years now!
- Ménage A' Trois has Gary lampshade this trope here:
Zii: It's only been a month since I moved in!
Gary: Really? Feels like two years.
- At one point in Homestuck the narrator remarks something along the lines of, "It's almost like your birthday and Christmas and both at the same time! But that's impossible and would never happen." The comic was made a few days before Christmas, but was still taking place the same day the storyline started, April 13th, which is John's birthday.
- Later, John (and possibly the author) remarks retroactively how strange it was that he was so excited to see his father they almost had a Meadow Run, considering it had only been an hour or four since they last met. In the real world, it had been more or less a year.
- At the very beginning, while John's standing outside, it's concluded that he feels like "it's going to be a very long day."
- HAPPY APRIL 13th, 2009 EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
- The length of the comic as opposed to the amount of time that has passed for the characters has now even become a significant plot point. In order to escape Bec Noir and reach the reset session, the characters must take a three year journey through an alternate reality to catch up with the real world. They arrive in the new universe on November 11th, 2011, after abandoning their destroyed universes on April 13th, 2009.
- Girl Genius: "Iz vot Hy call "relativity!" Hyu know, 'cause it like ven hyu relatives visit an dun go away!"
- Boxer Hockey: "Did anyone else feel like this week lasted like... three years?"
- College Roomies From Hell!!!: The day seems so long... actually this whole term... has felt really... long.... (The day at this point had been going on over nine months, and would run at least another six. The term in question had actually nearly entirely been devoted to that day, but the strip as a whole had covered just over a year in nearly eleven.)
- In a text update of Erfworld, Stanley comments on how the day has been crawling by and nothing seems to be happening. At that point, Book 2 had been the same day for about two RL years. Note that on Erfworld, this is somewhat more literal; in this 'verse, the sun only sets after all sides have had their turns, so days actually are longer if sides drag out their turns as long as possible.
- Think Before You Think, in this comic. "No, it's like every day is several weeks long."
- When the author of Dumbing of Age was asked if one character was immortal, he replied "Insomuch as she ages a week per year, yes".
Live-Action TV
- The 2nd season opener of How I Met Your Mother started with the kids whining about how dad was dragging the story out, and one said, "It's like you've been telling this story for a year."
- The first season of 24 had the Opening Narration of "I am federal agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life," presumably because the day in question took about half a year. This was later dropped, perhaps because later seasons were split across days.
- Or perhaps because only one day can be the longest day of your life, and he'd have seven by now.
- Or because the first series started and ended at midnight, so his day (if he got up at, say, 9am) would have lasted 39 hours. Later series deliberately avoided repeating this.
Western Animation
- A similar joke appeared in an episode of Futurama: Leela says "If only we had three or four minutes to formulate a plan," right before a commercial break.
- In The Wild Thornberrys movie:
Eliza: Darwin, wake up!
Darwin: Uh? Oh... what? Oh, I've tried to keep track of the days but they've bled into months.
Eliza: Dar, it's only been four hours.
Web Original
Comic Books
- From one of the last, long-delayed issues of The Tick: "I dreamed I stopped existing for eight months!"
Anime
- Hayate the Combat Butler: "It felt like I did three weeks of work in one day."
- Another sign that this story has messed up fans with the timelines. The anime has one line, the manga another and neither of them seem to have any correlation to real-time. And with the fourth-wall breaking, you can never tell which one is used.
- At the end of Soul Eater's Fight to the Death at the Anniversary Celebration arc, a single night that was published over 8 months, the narration seems to lampshade this.
- "If you think it will take a long time, it will...and there are probably other people out there now thinking, "now that you mention it, that was really long". But without exception, even after nights like these... Morning will always come in the end."
Radio
Video Games
- Telltale Games' episodic comedy games often use this. Sam & Max and Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People have made jokes about events that chronologically happened only hours before, but occurred in the previous episode, released a month earlier. "I can't believe it took us a whole month to drive back from the North Pole!" and "Strong Mad's room should be cleared out in about a month" are among the more obvious examples. Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures also features Wallace remarking that an event which took place in the previous episode "felt like a month ago!" even though chronologically it was the day before.
- In Tales of Monkey Island, this is used for foreshadowing rather than comedy; in the first episode a notice states that a character is absent and will return in three months' time. Three episodes and three real-time months later, the character appears, despite the fact that in-game only a day or two has passed.
- Another example from Telltale is Hector: Badge Of Carnage, due to a release gap between episodes 1 and 2, Hector acknowledges the long unanswered cliffhanger by saying, "Can we hurry this up, I fell like I've been staring at this gun for over a year."
Real Life
- Anyone who lives north of the Arctic circle (or south of the Antarctic circle) really WILL experience nights that last for months.
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