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* One of the speeches on ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. It also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on that day?

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* One of the speeches on ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. It also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on that day?
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* The ''Garfield'' example is [[ShoutOut referenced]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', where the "Potion of the Field Gar" gives you bonus adventures for eating [[TrademarkFavouriteFood lasagna]] - except on Mondays.

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* The ''Garfield'' example is [[ShoutOut referenced]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', where the "Potion of the Field Gar" gives you bonus adventures for eating [[TrademarkFavouriteFood [[TrademarkFavoriteFood lasagna]] - except on Mondays.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Joy" Gumball and Darwin wake up in a bad mood because it's Monday. In an inversion, [[SadistTeacher Miss Simian]] loves Monday because it's when kids are the most miserable.
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* "It Sure Is Monday" by Mark Chesnutt. The narrator partied hard all weekend, but now it's Monday and he's paying a high price for it.
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* One of the speech in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. It also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on that day?

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* One of the speech in speeches on ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. It also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on that day?


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* Devo Spice has a song called [[http://thefump.com/fump.php?id=1311 "I Hate Mondays"]].
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* Francis in ''Left4Dead'' hates Mondays, among other things, but he will tolerate the day if it's Lasagna Mondays.

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* Francis in ''Left4Dead'' ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' hates Mondays, among other things, but he will tolerate the day if it's Lasagna Mondays.

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* Arthur Dent's classic line in ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', "It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
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* In ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Arthur concludes that it must be Thursday because "I never got the hang of Thurdays".

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* In ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Arthur concludes that it must be Thursday because "I never got the hang of Thurdays".
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* Carpenters, "Rainy Days and Mondays"
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--> '''The Doctor:''' Time isn't a straight line. It's all... [[TimeyWimeyBall bumpy-wumpy]]. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible.

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--> '''The Doctor:''' Time isn't a straight line. It's all... [[TimeyWimeyBall bumpy-wumpy]]. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible.possible.
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* In a twist of HolidayMode, creating a new character on a Monday in VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery results in them "feeling exhausted" and starting with less than full of their HP. In rare circumstances this can even outright kill them.
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* Francis in ''Left4Dead'' hates Mondays, among other things, but he will tolerate the day if it's Lasagna Mondays.
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Every Garfield link on the page is dead. It\'d be the bitterest of ironies if they went offline on a Monday.


* ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'' hates Mondays, and it's little wonder since [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day]].
** He also seems to hate certain months, too, [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=February such as Feburary]].
** Oh yes, and he ''especially'' hates [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/09/13/ Monday the 13th]]. '''''Especially''''' if that [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/02/13/ Monday the 13th is on a February]].

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* ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'' hates Mondays, and it's little wonder since [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day]].
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** He also seems to hate certain months, too, [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=February such as Feburary]].
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** Oh yes, and he ''especially'' hates [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/09/13/ Monday the 13th]]. 13th. '''''Especially''''' if that [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/02/13/ Monday the 13th is on a February]].February.
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* ChannelAte believes a sound beating is better than Mondays.
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* In a bit on ''WaitWaitDontTellMe'' riffing on the report that al-Qaeda had office interns, one of the panelists said "We hate America...but we also hate Mondays."

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* In a bit on ''WaitWaitDontTellMe'' ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'' riffing on the report that al-Qaeda had office interns, one of the panelists said "We hate America...but we also hate Mondays."
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* One of the speech in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. I also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on them?

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* One of the speech in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting. I It also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on them? that day?
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* One of the speech in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting.
--> '''The Doctor:''' Time isn't a straight line. It's all... [[TimeWimeyBall bumpy-wumpy]]. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible.

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* One of the speech in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting.
interesting. I also reveals he really like Saturdays, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall perhaps because]] a certain British sci-fi show airs on them?
--> '''The Doctor:''' Time isn't a straight line. It's all... [[TimeWimeyBall [[TimeyWimeyBall bumpy-wumpy]]. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible.
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* One of the speech in ''Series/DoctorWho'' that the Eleventh Doctor gives names several days as not very interesting.
--> '''The Doctor:''' Time isn't a straight line. It's all... [[TimeWimeyBall bumpy-wumpy]]. There's loads of boring stuff. Like Sundays and Tuesdays and Thursday afternoons. But now and then there are Saturdays. Big temporal tipping points when anything's impossible.

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* In ''{{Buffy}}'', the titular character knows that if Dawn is in trouble it must be Tuesday again.

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* In ''{{Buffy}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', the titular character knows that if Dawn is in trouble it must be Tuesday again.



* The secretaries Kathy and Cathy from ''TheKidsInTheHall'' discuss this in one episode. Tanya the temp also hates them. [[http://youtu.be/NubcKsQTuNQ]]
-->'''Kathy''': ''TBIM, huh?''
-->'''Cathy''': ''"TBIM?"''
-->'''Kathy''': ''"Too Bad It's Monday."''



* ''{{Garfield}}'' hates Mondays, and it's little wonder since [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day]].

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* ''{{Garfield}}'' ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'' hates Mondays, and it's little wonder since [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day]].



* In ''{{Portal 2}}'', there's an office where you can pick up a couple of coffee mugs. One mug has "I hate Mondays" on it.

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* In ''{{Portal ''Videogame/{{Portal 2}}'', there's an office where you can pick up a couple of coffee mugs. One mug has "I hate Mondays" on it.



* On ''{{Futurama}}'' Leela's former boss returns a poster to her (a monkey captioned with "I hate Mondays").

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* On ''{{Futurama}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' Leela's former boss returns a poster to her (a monkey captioned with "I hate Mondays").



* The secretaries Kathy and Cathy from ''TheKidsInTheHall'' discuss this in one episode. Tanya the temp also hates them. [[http://youtu.be/NubcKsQTuNQ]]
-->'''Kathy''': ''TBIM, huh?''
-->'''Cathy''': ''"TBIM?"''
-->'''Kathy''': ''"Too Bad It's Monday."''

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* The secretaries Kathy and Cathy from ''TheKidsInTheHall'' discuss this in one episode. Tanya the temp also hates them. [[http://youtu.be/NubcKsQTuNQ]]
-->'''Kathy''': ''TBIM, huh?''
-->'''Cathy''': ''"TBIM?"''
-->'''Kathy''': ''"Too Bad It's Monday."''
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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays because nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day]].

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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character ''{{Garfield}}'' hates Mondays, and it's little wonder since [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays because nothing ever seems to go right for him on that day]].
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* Inverted in ''{{jPod}}'', where a character talks on how Thursdays are the best day of the weel.

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* Inverted in ''{{jPod}}'', where a character talks on how Thursdays are the best day of the weel.week.
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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays due to all the bad luck and trouble that keep happening to him on that day]].

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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays due because nothing ever seems to all the bad luck and trouble that keep happening to go right for him on that day]].
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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays due to all the bad luck and trouble that keep happening to him]].

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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays due to all the bad luck and trouble that keep happening to him]].him on that day]].
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As suggested by the trope name, Monday is one of, if not ''the most'' hated-on days, perhaps because it's the day that many people go back to work/school after the weekend.

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* In ''{{Buffy}}'', the titular character knows that if someone is in trouble it must be Thursday again.

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* In ''{{Buffy}}'', the titular character knows that if someone Dawn is in trouble it must be Thursday again.Tuesday again.
** Which is a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall, since, at that time, Buffy aired on Tuesday.
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* The opening lines of "Friday On My Mind" by The Easybeats:
-->Monday morning feels so bad\\
Everybody seems to nag me.
* "Manic Monday" by TheBangles
* As mentioned in the Real Life section, "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats.
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->"''Whoever invented Mondays should be drug out into the street and shot.''"
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Characters can sometimes hate a certain day of the week, due to bad luck and misfortune that seem to only happen to them on that day. When they start hating it, they often start dreading the coming day on the day before.
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* In ''[[GIJoe G.I. Joe]]'', Snake Eyes hates Tuesdays.
--> "''I still wake up in a cold sweat on Tuesday mornings. Tuesdays was 'debriding day' at the Army hospital burn unit where I recovered.''"
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* In ''OfficeSpace'' the main character is told "somebody's got a bad case of the Mondays" by a coworker when he's kind of grumpy. He asks if anyone's said that, to his next-door neighbor (who works as a construction worker) who tells him "you'd get your ass kicked for something like that."
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* In a bit on ''WaitWaitDontTellMe'' riffing on the report that al-Qaeda had office interns, one of the panelists said "We hate America...but we also hate Mondays."
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* Arthur Dent's classic line in ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', "It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
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* In ''{{Buffy}}'', the titular character knows that if someone is in trouble it must be Thursday again.
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* TheMamasAndThePapas, "Monday Monday:"
-->Every other day, (every other day)
-->Every other day of the week is fine, yeah
-->But whenever Monday comes (But whenever Monday comes)
-->You can find me crying all of the time
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* In ''{{Garfield}}'', the titlar character [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=monday hates Mondays due to all the bad luck and trouble that keep happening to him]].
** He also seems to hate certain months, too, [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/?s=February such as Feburary]].
** Oh yes, and he ''especially'' hates [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/09/13/ Monday the 13th]]. '''''Especially''''' if that [[http://garfield.nfshost.com/1989/02/13/ Monday the 13th is on a February]].
* In ''{{Mutts}}'', there's a strip where Sourpuss says he hates Mondays. Then it rains, leading him to say that Mondays hate him, too. Also a RunningGag.
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* In ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Arthur concludes that it must be Thursday because "I never got the hang of Thurdays".
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* The ''Garfield'' example is [[ShoutOut referenced]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', where the "Potion of the Field Gar" gives you bonus adventures for eating [[TrademarkFavouriteFood lasagna]] - except on Mondays.
* In ''{{Portal 2}}'', there's an office where you can pick up a couple of coffee mugs. One mug has "I hate Mondays" on it.
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* On ''{{Futurama}}'' Leela's former boss returns a poster to her (a monkey captioned with "I hate Mondays").
-->'''Leela's Old Boss:''' I also kept your poster showing your dislike of Mondays!
-->'''Leela:''' Monday Monkey lives for the weekend, sir.
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* As [[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4472389 reported on NPR,]] "In 1979, Brenda Spencer opened fire with a rifle at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, Calif., killing two adults and injuring nine children. She later explained her actions with the statement, 'I don't like Mondays.'"
** This was the subject of a song by the Boomtown Rats, "I Don't Like Mondays".
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* The secretaries Kathy and Cathy from ''TheKidsInTheHall'' discuss this in one episode. Tanya the temp also hates them. [[http://youtu.be/NubcKsQTuNQ]]
-->'''Kathy''': ''TBIM, huh?''
-->'''Cathy''': ''"TBIM?"''
-->'''Kathy''': ''"Too Bad It's Monday."''
* Inverted in ''{{jPod}}'', where a character talks on how Thursdays are the best day of the weel.
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