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Travelling Salesman Montage
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You can't do it,
So give up now
Whatcha gonna do
When your dough runs out?
Ain't it a drag?
A person facing repeated rejection or unsuitability, i.e. via speed-dating, door-to-door selling or people being interviewed.
Will typically show the person approaching various people with increasing desperation, and always ends with a rapid-fire series of doors being slammed in his face, women slapping him, getting laughed at, etc.
Subtrope: Terrible Interviewees Montage
Examples:
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Comicbooks
- 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).
- Atomic Robo. 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.
Film
Live Action TV
- Anya has a scene like this when she's trying to convince various women to wish for vengeance on Xander after he left her at the altar.
- 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.
- 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 Stevie's wheelchair, while Stevie himself sits at the curb, looking pissed.
- Waterloo Road.
- Played straight (and promptly made fun of) in Hired!, a short film by Chevrolet shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Web Animation
- Of course, the salesman montage in the Strong Bad email "montage", featuring The Cheat and a Wagon Fulla Pancakes, backed with the snippet of song quoted above.
Webcomics
- In the The Order of the Stick prequel On the Origin of PCs, Roy is subjected to one of these when interviewing for his final party member.
- Used in the introduction of Ow My Sanity, to show how much David's life sucks.
Western Animation
- King of the Hill 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.
- Daffy Duck goes through one of these at the beginning of the Looney Tunes movie Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.
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