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* In the ''WesternAnimation/Cyberchase'' episode ''The Snelfu Snafu'', the Cybersquad get jobs to earn some Snelfus. Jackie gets a job packing chocolate candies into boxes, but she quickly gets overwhelmed when the speed picks up and winds up covered in a mountain of chocolate.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode titled The Cat that Laid the Golden Hairball, as well as the [[Music/CatHairballs music video]] the episode inspired, has Stimpy hwarfing up hairballs onto a conveyor belt that Ren would then stamp with approval. At first the pace is happy and manageable, with Stimpy easily keeping pace with Ren's demands. However once Ren tells Stimpy to pick up the pace things get more complicated. Stimpy starts running out of places to lick and hwarfing starts to become more and more difficult. Eventually Stimpy is completely farmed dry and passes out on the conveyor belt and gets rolled over to ren who [[PainToTheAss painfully stamps Stimpy on the butt.]]

* ''Series/ILoveLucy''. The episode "Job Switching", the TropeCodifier. Lucy and Ethel get jobs wrapping chocolates, and are threatened with the sack if any chocolates get past them unwrapped. When the conveyer belt speeds up past their ability to keep up, they try hiding the unwrapped chocolate in their hats and mouths. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI here]].

[[caption-width-right:311:Conveyor belt madness.]]

** In the cartoon "Disney/DerFuehrersFace", the assembly line in front of Donald has bombs to screw caps on and pictures of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to salute to. It mentally, then physically exhausts him as the belt speeds up. [[spoiler: Luckily, it's AllJustADream, but still...]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode titled The Cat that Laid the Golden Hairball, as well as the music video the episode inspired, has Stimpy hwarfing up hairballs onto a conveyor belt that Ren would then stamp with approval. At first the pace is happy and manageable, with Stimpy easily keeping pace with Ren's demands. However once Ren tells Stimpy to pick up the pace things get more complicated. Stimpy starts running out of places to lick and hwarfing starts to become more and more difficult. Eventually Stimpy is completely farmed dry and passes out on the conveyor belt and gets rolled over to ren who [[PainToTheAss painfully stamps Stimpy on the butt.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RenandStimpy'' episode titled The Cat that Laid the Golden Hairball, as well as the music video the episode inspired, has Stimpy hwarfing up hairballs onto a conveyor belt that Ren would then stamp with approval. At first the pace is happy and manageable, with Stimpy easily keeping pace with Ren's demands. However once Ren tells Stimpy to pick up the pace things get more complicated. Stimpy starts running out of places to lick and hwarfing starts to become more and more difficult. Eventually Stimpy is completely farmed dry and passes out on the conveyor belt and gets rolled over to ren who [[PainToTheAss painfully stamps Stimpy on the butt.]]

* In the [[WesternAnimation/RenandStimpy]] episode titled The Cat that Laid the Golden Hairball,

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]", five of the mane cast are assigned to sort cherries on a conveyor belt. Three of them walk away, leaving Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie to get completely overwhelmed as the conveyor belt speeds up. And Pinkie starts shoving cherries into her mouth.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. One episode had them making cartoons. Dizzy made one called "I Love Dizzy" where he worked at a cake factory and this happened.

* ''Series/ILoveLucy''. The episode "Job Switching", the TropeCodifier. Lucy and Ethel get jobs wrapping chocolates, and are threatened with the sack if any chocolates get past them unwrapped. When the conveyer belt speeds up past their ability to keep up, they try hiding the unwrapped chocolate in their hats and mouth. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI here]].

* An episode of ''{{Series/The Thundermans}}'' had Max & Phoebe doing this with pizzas in the kitchen of a local pizza shop. The round plain crusts came out and they had to put on the sauce and cheese. They get fired by the heavily Asian owner when they jam the machine with a lot of dough and it explodes.
* On an episode of ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'' Auntie Macassar is working at a factory making mouse-shaped catnip toys and has the job sticking on the noses. Out of tiredness from working over she accidentally hits the switch herself that speeds up the conveyor belt. Finally too tired to keep up with the flow of new toys, she shuts down the line herself before collapsing from tiredness.

** In one short, a worker explained to another how their goal was to put a precise, uneven number of chocolates into each box. Said chocolates were dispensed in smaller boxes containing 1,000, 100, or 10 chocolates, with the final dispenser dropping singles. Thus, to put 3,947 chocolates into a box, the simplest way would be to dispense three boxes of 1,000, nine boxes of 100, four boxes of 10, and seven singles. After the first box, one dispenser would randomly fail, and another dispenser would have to be adjusted to compensate for the failure; e.g., the thousands dispenser would fail, so the hundreds dispenser would have to dispense 39 boxes of 100 to cover the same amount.
** In another sketch, a new worker is the sole human posted at a "make a box" assembly line. The machine spits out flat cardboard pieces which the worker has to fold into a five sided cube (with an open end to fill it with whatever). Each one is different and the final one is an ImpossibleTask--the flat piece of cardboard just can't be folded it into a box shape.
* ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' did an ''Series/ILoveLucy''esque bit where they got temp jobs as giftwrappers at a department store, with the gifts coming faster and faster.

* In the ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' video game ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', Nancy has to sort pieces of taffy that roll past her on a conveyor belt. The belt doesn't actually speed up, but the taffy pieces' types become more varied and unpredictable as the minigame progresses.
* A ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]'' minigame called "Cake Factory" involved two teams of two trying to make cakes in an assembly line. The game gradually becomes more challenging when the conveyor belts randomly increase and decrease speed.
* The Mac game ''Factory'' is about assembling products carried through a factory on a conveyor belt. In order to meet quotas within the time limits you often find yourself turning up the speed, which if you aren't careful, quick and cleaver can make the entire system foul up leaving you with half assembled products going out for delivery.
* ''Panic Button'' was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YrjZVh_AQ a game for the Tandy Color Computer 2]] where you had to assemble items from parts brought down the assembly line. The eponymous Panic Button was a way to temporarily stop the works when the speed ratchets up too high.
* A minigame in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 4'' involved making burgers -- the more burgers you made, the faster the conveyor moves, [[EndlessGame until you ultimately miss one]].
* This can happen in the computer game ''Chocolatier'', where the factory's production is determined by a minigame where the player fires ingredients into a machine to make the product. The more successful the player is, the faster the machine goes, and therefore the more chocolates they can make, but inevitably it'll get to the point where they can't keep up and miss the machine. The player can miss up to eight times.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. One episode had them making cartoons. Dizzy made one called "I Love Dizzy" where he works at a cake factory and this happens.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' referenced the ''I Love Lucy'' episode in one of their Christmas episodes. Robot Santa's elves have to crank up the speed in the toy factory to make the quota in time, and the highest setting is "Lucy Speed".

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this in an episode with Peter and Quagmire trying to pack pills into plastic vials. Peter's nose starts to bleed and he passes out after swallowing several of the pills at once.
* In ''Series/SesameStreet's'' SpinOff miniseries called ''Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures'', in the episode "Bakers", Bert tells Ernie to leave the pie-making machine speed to "Slow"...but Ernie thinks that they'll never get their order done at this rate, so Ernie decides to set the machine to "Fast". HilarityEnsues.

* In the ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' episode "Samantha's Power Failure", Samantha, her twin sister Serena, and their Uncle Arthur are stripped of their magical powers for refusing to disavow Sam's marriage to Darrin, and Serena and Arthur are obliged to take jobs at a malt shop on a chocolate-dipped, nut-covered frozen banana assembly line. Though things go smoothly at first, eventually the assembly line speeds up, and they end up covered in melted chocolate. Notably, William Asher, Elizabeth Montgomery's husband, directed both ''Series/ILoveLucy'' and ''Bewitched''.

* In the NancyDrew video game ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', Nancy has to sort pieces of taffy that roll past her on a conveyor belt. The belt doesn't actually speed up, but the taffy pieces' types become more varied and unpredictable as the minigame progresses.

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* DonaldDuck:

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' referenced the ''I Love Lucy'' episode in one of their Christmas episodes. Robot Santa's elves have to crank up the speed in the toy factory to make the quota in time, and the highest setting is "Lucy Speed".
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', Scratchy is dead, so Itchy builds a Cloning Machine to churn out new Scratchys to kill. But the machine is going so fast he can't keep up--so he builds a Killing Machine for the conveyor belt to deliver the newly made clones into.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Family Guy}}'' did this in an episode with Peter & Brian trying to pack pills into plastic vials. Peter's nose starts to bleed and he passes out after swallowing several of the pills at once.
* In ''Series/SesameStreet's'' SpinOff miniseries called "Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures", in the episode "Bakers", Bert tells Ernie to leave the pie-making machine speed to "Slow"...but Ernie thinks that they'll never get their order done at this rate, so Ernie decides to set the machine to "Fast". HilarityEnsues.

* ''{{Neopets}}'' has a game version of this called ''[[http://www.neopets.com/games/game.phtml?game_id=538 Hungry Skeith]]'', where the goal is to sort jellies by colour. Sometimes, ice cream cones will [[RuleOfFunny accidentally(???)]] appear on the belt--these are to be fed to the hungry Skeith.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] Main/ConveyorBeltODoom where the characters are attached to the conveyor belt and no task is with the belt.

** In the cartoon "Disney/DerFuehrersFace", the assembly line in front of Donald has bombs to screw caps on and pictures of AdolfHitler to salute to. It mentally, then physically exhausts him as the belt speeds up. [[spoiler: Luckily, it's AllJustADream, but still...]]

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* ''Film/ModernTimes'' is the TropeMaker. Creator/CharlieChaplin has a job tightening some kind of widgets with a wrench. When the conveyor belt speeds up, Charlie winds up jumping on top of it, and he is sucked into the gears of the machinery.

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* In the NancyDrew video game ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', Nancy has to sort pieces of taffy that roll past her on a conveyor belt. The belt doesn't actually speed up, but the taffy pieces' types become more varied and unpredictable as the minigame progresses.
* A ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]'' minigame called "Cake Factory" involved two teams of two trying to make cakes in an assembly line. The game gradually becomes more challenging when the conveyor belts randomly increase and decrease speed.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup The Last Roundup]]", five of the mane cast are assigned to sort cherries on a conveyor belt. Three of them walk away, leaving Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie to get completely overwhelmed as the conveyor belt speeds up. And Pinkie starts shoving cherries into her mouth.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. One episode had them making cartoons. Dizzy made one called "I Love Dizzy" where he works at a cake factory and this happens.

* Creator/CharlieChaplin has a job tightening some kind of widgets with a wrench in ''Film/ModernTimes''. When the conveyor belt speeds up, Charlie winds up jumping on top of it, and he is sucked into the gears of the machinery.

** In the cartoon "DerFuehrersFace", the assembly line in front of Donald has bombs to screw caps on and pictures of AdolfHitler to salute to. It mentally, then physically exhausts him as the belt speeds up. [[spoiler: Luckily, it's AllJustADream, but still...]]

** In the cartoon "DerFuehrersFace", the assembly line in front of Donald has bombs to screw caps on and pictures of AdolfHitler to salute to. It mentally, then physically exhausts him as the belt speeds up.

** In the cartoon "DerFuehrersFace", the assembly line in front of Donald has bombs to screw caps on and pictures of an {{Expy}} of AdolfHitler to salute to. It mentally then physically exhausts him as the belt speeds up.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Hamlogna Conveyer Belt Madness" (pictured above) has Lunk and Tentro as workers assembling Hamlogna sandwiches from multiple conveyor belts at a time. When Zaptor cranks up the speed from below, they're forced to [[FusionDance Mix]] to keep up with the rapid pace

* ''Series/ILoveLucy''. The episode "Job Switching", the TropeCodifier. Lucy and Ethel get jobs wrapping chocolates, and are threatened with the sack if any chocolates get past them unwrapped. When the conveyer belt speeds up past their ability to keep up, they try hiding the unwrapped chocolate in their hats and mouth.

* In the ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' episode "Samantha's Power Failure", Samantha, her twin sister Serena, and their Uncle Arthur are stripped of their magical powers for refusing to disavow Sam's marriage to Darrin, and Serena and Arthur are obliged to take jobs at a malt shop on a chocolate-dipped, nut-covered frozen banana assembly line. Though things go smoothly at first, eventually the assembly line speeds up, and they end up covered in melted chocolate. Notably, William Asher, Elizabeth Montgomery's husband, directed both ''Series/ILoveLucy'' and ''Series/Bewitched''.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Vitamin E-4", Mr. Conklin, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton make a mess when manufacturing the eponymous "vitamin". Notably, ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' was only the second television program produced by Creator/DesiluStudios, sharing with ''I Love Lucy's'' the same cameras and other equipment. "Vitamin E-4" aired only a year after "Job Switching".

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Vitamin E-4", Mr. Conklin, Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton make a mess when manufacturing the eponymous "vitamin". Notably, ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' was only the second television program produced by Creator/Desilu, sharing with ''I Love Lucy's'' the same cameras and other equipment. "Vitamin E-4" aired only a year after "Job Switching".