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* The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' episode "Madame Blueberry" has the song "My Cheeseburger", in which Jerry Gourd tries to order a cheeseburger at the Burger Bell drive-thru, but finds the restaurant is closed for the night. But he wants that burger so much, and Burger Bell reopens at 10 the next morning, so he decides to wait at the drive-thru until then (until he heads to Denny's for breakfast, but "he'll eat and be back here for lunch."). [[MundaneMadeAwesome The entire thing is portrayed as dramatically as possible; it's a love song between Jerry and his burger.]]

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E4TheReginaMonologues The Regina Monologues]], the double-decker bus tour the family is taking on their trip through London stops at Dame Creator/JudiDench's Fish 'n' Chips. Homer is skeptical of the menu, which causes the employee to beg him to order for fear of retaliation from their BadBoss herself.

-->'''Dushane (GagDub):''' “Don’t make me assume my ultimate form. I will fuckin’ wreck you!”
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%%* That [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-punches-drive-thru_n_412135 memetic incident]] with an incredibly mutty drunk woman going berserk over Chicken [=McNuggets=] at a [=McDonald's=] drive-thru.
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-->'''Manager:''' Now, do you want one six-piece chicken nugget or one nine-piece chicken nugget?

* Creator/JimCummings said that he sometimes orders in character as Franchise/WinnieThePooh, asking for honey.
* Anyone who has worked at a drive-thru restaurant has experienced this at ''some'' point. Sometimes even by their ''own coworkers'' [[TheGadfly for giggles]].
* That [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-punches-drive-thru_n_412135 memetic incident]] with an incredibly mutty drunk woman going berserk over Chicken [=McNuggets=] at a [=McDonald's=] drive-thru.

-->''My wife says "maybe we should park\\

I said I'm wearin' bunny slippers\\
So I ain't leavin' this ride''

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Yeah, let me get 23 cheeseburgers..."]]

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' goes particularly surreal with it. The burger restaurant Blubb-O's has a drive-thru speaker shaped like a cartoon whale, which can spontaneously appear anywhere, even miles away from any restaurant. (In fact, the Drive-Thru Whale, by itself, debuted in a cartoon ''before'' the rest of Blubb-O's restaurant did.) Those who try to place a drive-thru order find the voice on the other end is prone to vaguely disturbing non-sequiturs.

-->'''English Squeaky Voiced Teen''': Please order, or Miss Dench'll be furious. She'll beat us, she will.\\

'''CC:''' You're all doing this on purpossse!

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E4TheReginaMonologues The Regina Monologues]], the double-decker bus tour the family is taking on their trip through London stops at Dame Creator/JudyDench's Fish 'n' Chips. Homer is skeptical of the menu, which causes the employee to beg him to order for fear of retaliation from their BadBoss herself.

A related trope is WrongRestaurant, wherein a customer tries to order a food that the restaurant doesn't sell. Compare with TollBoothAntics, where this happens at a Toll Booth.

* ''Film/MadeasBigHappyFamily'': Near the start of film, Madea is trying order breakfast from Snax. However, breakfast had stopped being served at 10:00, and she had placed her order at 10:30. At the Snax, she goes to up the window to demand her food. When she doesn't get it, she drives her car though the restaurant, attacking the employees, stealing the food, and then driving off.
* ''Film/ZoomAcademyForSuperheroes'' has a scene where the main characters attempt to fly their flying saucer through a Wendy's drive thru. They manage to successfully get their order... after repeatedly hitting the restaurant and knocking over a street light.

-->'''Manager:''' Now, do you want one six-piece chicken nugget, or one nine-piece chicken nugget?

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" is a [[EpicRocking very long song]] about a man who tries to take his wife to a fast-food restaurant and goes through [[ButtMonkey all sorts of mishaps]] in the drive-thru. FIrst, they can't just go inside because he's wearing bunny slippers, then the guy gets into a weird conversation about a guy named Paul, and finally forgets that he didn't find his wallet, forcing him and his wife to dig for change.

* In [[https://tiredoldhack.com/2018/04/14/steamed-hams-but-its-a-choose-your-own-adventure-story/ this]] choose-your-own-adventure game based on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Principal Skinner tries to order from the drive thru despite the fact that he's ''walking''. When the Squeaky-Voiced Teen points this out, Skinner threatens to tell the principal of the high school (Skinner himself is the principal of the ''elementary'' school), so the teen lets him order food anyway.

* In some of WebVideo/BrianHull's videos, he does voice impressions while ordering at the drive thru. In one video, he dressed up (specifically as Edna Mode from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'') but found this embarrassing, so he generally does not dress up.

* In one ''WebVideo/JackValeFilms'' prank, called the "Disappearing Soda Prank", Jack and his friend order soda at a drive thru, drink it, then pretend the glass was empty.

** In "Lisa vs. Mailbu Stacy", Grampa gets a job running the drive-thru at Krusty Burger, which he fails spectacularly at.

** In "The Cad and the Hat", Homer tries to order five meals at the Krusty Burger drive thru, but the attendant keeps getting the math wrong. Leads to a BrickJoke later on, when Lisa looks for her missing hat and the car is stuffed with hundreds of discarded wrappers, including the trunk.

** In "Bucket Sweet Bucket", Plankton hires [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to redo the Chum Bucket, and [=SpongeBob=] builds him a drive-thru window that's much too high for his miniature stature. He then notices that Patrick has built a window down to his height, but it has a metal wall in the frame.\\

'''Plankton:''' See, [=SpongeBob=]? Patrick's using the old noggin. He knows I'll actually want to ''see'' out the window.\\

* That [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/woman-punches-drive-thru_n_412135 memetic incident]] with an incredibly mutty drunk woman going berserk over Chicken McNuggets at a McDonald's drive-thru.

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* In ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'', Jesse gets in a fight at a Chinese drive thru because the voice at the intercom keeps asking "And then?"

* An episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' features J.D. and Turk at a drive thru [[ItMakesSenseInContext with an entire marching band.]]

-->'''Big Smoke''': [[MemeticMutation I'll have two #9s, a #9 Large, a #6 with extra dip, a #7, two #45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.]]

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* In some of WebVideo/BrianHull's videos, he does voice impressions while ordering at the drive thru. In one video, he dressed up (specifically as Edna Mode from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'') but found this embarrassing, so he generally does not dress up.
* A trilogy of WebVideo/DrewGooden WebOriginal/{{Vine}}s feature Drew "pranking" a Wendy's drive-thru by asking if Wendy is there. It backfires every time; one time his window wasn't rolled down, one time he came when they were closed, and one time he was actually at Taco Bell.
* In one ''WebVideo/JackValeFilms'' prank, called the "Disappearing Soda Prank", Jack and his friend order soda at a drive thru, drink it, then pretend the glass was empty.
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-->'''Customer:''' I'd like a number 8 with ranch sauce, please.
-->'''Dan [=McNinja=]:''' ''(over intercom)'' I saw a suspicious figure climbing the mountain by my house! I think he's going to steal a condor egg! Aren't those ''endangered'', officer?
-->'''Customer:''' Uh... ''Ranch. Sauce.''
** The original AltText for that page was Chris Hastings asking if any of his readers worked at a drive-thru, and encouraging them to record themselves pulling this stunt on a customer in RealLife. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvegoe10xY Someone actually did.]]

--->'''Peter:''' Yeah, I'll have 6,000 chicken fa-jitas.
--->'''Employee:''' I beg your pardon?
--->'''Peter:''' 6,000 chicken fa-jitas.
--->'''Brian:''' And a so-sage [=McBiscuit=], please.

--->'''Peter:''' Um, yeah, I'll have three cheeseburgers.
--->'''Lois:''' Peter, for God's sakes, ''she's having a baby!''
--->'''Peter:''' Oh, that's right. A-And a kids meal. And, uh...I-I guess I'll have fries. If I have fries, is anyone gonna have any? 'Cause, you know, I don't wanna be the only one eating them. I'll feel like a fatty.

--->'''Patrick Stewart:''' What time do they stop serving breakfast?
--->'''Stewie:''' It's 3:00!
--->'''Patrick Stewart:''' Some of them serve breakfast all day--
--->'''Stewie:''' NONE OF THEM SERVE BREAKFAST ALL DAY!

--->'''Homer:''' Yeah, what do you want?
--->'''Marge:''' My husband by my side?
--->'''Homer:''' Would you like fries with that?

--->'''Grampa:''' Come in! Mayday! I'm losing your transmission!
--->'''Customer:''' I SAID FRENCH FRIES!
--->'''Grampa:''' What the? ''[to his supervisor]'' Do we sell French ''fries?''

** In "Bucket Sweet Bucket", Plankton hires [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to redo the Chum Bucket, and [=SpongeBob=] builds him a drive-thru window that's much too high for his miniature stature. He then notices that Patrick has built a window down to his height, but it has a metal wall in the frame.
--->'''Plankton:''' See, [=SpongeBob=]? Patrick's using the old noggin. He knows I'll actually want to ''see'' out the window.
--->'''Patrick:''' Wait, you wanted to ''see'' out the window? Weird.

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* In [[https://tiredoldhack.com/2018/04/14/steamed-hams-but-its-a-choose-your-own-adventure-story/ this]] choose-your-own-adventure game based on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Principal Skinner tries to order from the drive thru despite the fact that he's ''walking''. When the Squeaky-Voiced Teen points this out, Skinner threatens to tell the principal of the high school (Skinner himself is the principal of the ''elementary'' school), so the teen lets him order food anyway.

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* Creator/JimCummings said that he sometimes orders in character as Franchise/WinnieThePooh, asking for honey.
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* In a Pepsi TV commercial from the 90s, a guy tries to order a combo meal from a fictional drive-thru, but the sound quality on the speaker is so terrible that he can't understand a word the cashier says. They go back and forth several times, and the customer gets so frustrated that he cancels his order, except for the Pepsi. When he pulls around to the pickup window, he discovers it wasn't the speaker's fault--the cashier [[TheUnintelligible actually sounds like a scratchy intercom all by himself]].

* ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare Warioware Gold]]'': In Orbulon's segment, he goes to a burger joint for some food, often ordering one thing, eating it, then coming back for something else. When he tries to order a burger, the cashier tells them they're out of meat to make any more. Orbulon goes off to collect pigs, thinking that because they're called "Hamburgers" they're made from ham. After you beat his games, he returns to the burger place to try to get them to take the pigs, but the cashier promptly denies him, stating he couldn't even cook them if he wanted, as he isn’t allowed to work the grill yet. Orbulon sheepishly apologizes and goes to return the pigs.

-->'''Drive-Thru Whale:''' Sever your leg please, ma'am. It's the greatest day.

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* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" is a [[EpicRocking very long song]] about a man who tries to take his wife to a fast-food restaurant and goes through [[ButtMonkey all sorts of mishaps]] in the drive-thru.

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