History Main / SeriousBusiness

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''; the continuing story of a battle fought over "the galaxy's most important box canyon with a base at each end." (There was more here, but it seems to have been lost. Anyone?)
** The others still appear to be referred to as privates when not being addressed by name, so either it was a throwaway line that was just Wash being insulting, or the writers themselves forgot Wash said it.
** The red and blue teams are simulation Troopers. They are a part of the Army, just a part where the soldiers are considered expendable. It's also hinted that the simulation war was a testing ground for Project Freelancer exclusive, which they used to test stuff, train their Agents and recruit new Soldiers (as seen with Donut). [[spoiler:And to hide the Alpha.]] [[NoNameGiven Sarge]] still qualifies as an example, since no one else of the Blood Gulch Crew takes the war seriously.

* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest for Greatness with the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present-day America), but very serious.

* Unfortunately, this was very much the case OutOfCharacter in ''RolePlay/CampusLife'' for a good long while. Pretty much ''whenever'' someone does something that even ''slightly'' annoys another role-player or breaks the narrative flow too much, you can pretty much ''guarantee'' a massive fight's about to break out in RP Discussion. At one point it got so bad a user ended up getting banned for three days and the current Admin at the time experienced a massive CreatorBreakdown that resulted in the RP getting ported over to ''another'' Forum. Though things ''have'' calmed down quite a bit since then, it still tends to pop up every once in a while.

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->''"Somebody said, 'football's a matter of life and death to you.' I said, 'listen, it's more important than that'."''

->''"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."''
-->-- '''Bill Shankly'''
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->''"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. [[DoubleSubversion I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.]]"''

->''"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."''

It's often a SillyReasonForWar, and can turn a casual conversation into a heated CavemenVsAstronautsDebate. Someone who just can't let it go may become a SingleIssueWonk. If competition is involved, you can almost ''guarantee'' that SecondPlaceIsForLosers. Frequently "opposed" by the CavalierCompetitor. Compare StopHavingFunGuys. In musicals it's often demonstrated that DancingIsSeriousBusiness. For the saying that "TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness", see [[ForumSpeak G.I.F.T]]. Related to ImNotHereToMakeFriends. Not to be confused with MundaneMadeAwesome, though the two tropes overlap ''plenty.''

** Chewing gum is Serious Business in this universe. Calvin is an enthusiastic reader of a magazine called "Chewing" which is dedicated to it, and informs an incredulous Hobbes that as many as twelve such publications exist.

* ''Podcast/MikeAndTomEatSnacks'': the Snack is very serious business. People's careers are made and destroyed by how Mike and Tom rates snacks (according to them), and often fans can get upset by their ratings.

* Unfortunately, this was very much the case OutOfCharacter in ''RolePlay/CampusLife'' for a good long while. Pretty much ''whenever'' someone does something that even ''slightly'' annoys another role-player or breaks the narrative flow too much, you can pretty much ''guarantee'' a massive fight's about to break out in RP Discussion. At one point it got so bad a user ended up getting banned for three days and the current Admin at the time experianced a massive CreatorBreakdown that resulted in the RP getting ported over to ''another'' Forum. Though things ''have'' calmed down quite a bit since then, it still tends to pop up every once in a while.

** The red and blue teams are simulation Troopers. They are a part of the Army, just a part where the soldiers are considered expendable. Its also hinted that the simulation war was a testing ground for Project Freelancer exclusive, which they used to test stuff, train their Agents and recruit new Soldiers (as seen with Donut). [[spoiler:And to hide the Alpha.]] [[NoNameGiven Sarge]] still qualifies as an example, since no one else of the Blood Gulch Crew takes the war serious.

** The show is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did not appreciate]].

* ''WebVideo/MovieTriviaSchmoedown'' is the most serious business movie trivia contest the internet has ever seen. There's championship belts. There's tournaments. There's wrestling inspired storylines. Search around in the right places you'll find a list of statistics. Over Movie. Trivia.
* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest for Greatness with the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present day America), but very serious.

* This is [[ForTheFunnyz part of the indicative]] behind CausticCritic shows like ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''. Reviewers on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses treat most anything they review as Serious Business, PlayedForLaughs. Deconstructed in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' when [[spoiler: Holokara]] takes things a step further and plans threaten a DeathFromAbove against Marvel over the handling of Spider-Man, which is NOT played for laughs.
* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happens a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive in the top in the domain get enough recongnition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explicitly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.

* In ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut Night Shift'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] and Gabriel Mortom admitted that the things they said over the weeks have been awful but the ones that seems to get the most attention is that Yahtzee mentioned that 30 fps looks the same or better than 60 fps, causing an outrage in the comments section.

-->'''Tomoko:''' Everything's changed. It's been three years since Refigerator-senpai killed Lamp-senpai and left our village. My outfit is now black, because things are Serious Business now, in ''Chairem Anime: Sofaden.''

--->'''[[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Smith]]:''' What game? ''[[SuddenlyShouting This here's]]'' '''''[[ThisMeansWar WAAAAARRRR]]!!!'''''

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Pretty much everyone treats the Friendship Games like this, with Luna even name-dropping the trope and the Humane Five getting slightly offended when Sunset wonders what all the fuss is about, since it's not as important as, say, stopping the Sirens. [[spoiler:Heck, Principal Cinch and the Shadowbolts even try to harness Equestrian magic — something they hardly understand — just to ensure they win the Games.]]

* The Andrés Guerrero [[https://twitter.com/AndyL4nd/status/1449414032281292800 cartoon]] about [=itemLabel=]'s [[https://itemlabel.com/collections/plush/products/dinkle Dinkle]] depicts him as taking the art of {{chiptune}}s extremely seriously [[spoiler:to the point he kidnaps and kills twenty people in response to being challenged on whether the song he posted online is a chiptune]].

* For most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', this is averted, with food only being given relatively reasonable import (it ''is'' a movie about chefs, after all, so a little of this is to be expected)... until the climax, [[spoiler:when Remy's cooking -- and the revelation of his role as the chef -- are enough to ''induce a HeelFaceTurn'' in a stick-in-the-mud critic.]]

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It's often a SillyReasonForWar, and can turn a casual conversation into a heated CavemenVsAstronautsDebate. Someone who just can't let it go may become a SingleIssueWonk. If competition is involved, you can almost ''guarantee'' that SecondPlaceIsForLosers. Frequently "opposed" by the CavalierCompetitor. Compare StopHavingFunGuys. In musicals it's often demonstrated that DancingIsSeriousBusiness. For the saying that "TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness", see {{GIFT}}. Related to ImNotHereToMakeFriends. Not to be confused with MundaneMadeAwesome, though the two tropes overlap ''plenty.''

* Would you believe noodles? In the European/Korean animated series ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'', the noodles made at the local Chinese restaurant are such SeriousBusiness that in one episode, when the chefs believe themselves disgraced because of a just-barely-unfinished bowl of noodles, they go to a '''''{{DEATH COURSE}}''''' to redeem themselves, while in another, when they split up into three separate restaurants over a fight, it causes a sort of ZombieApocalypse, with most of the inhabitants of the village wandering as an aimless, lifeless, pathetic mob, mumbling and moaning about the lack of noodles until they reunite. And God help you if you run out of chopsticks. The world will scream.

* [[http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/7000/100/7165/7165.strip.gif This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip illustrates how to apply the principles of SeriousBusiness in the workplace. This comic was based on one of Scott Adams' coworkers, who actually said "I will fight you to the end of the earth!" To him, it was serious business.

* Creator/FreddieWong's ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool'' is set in a world where video games are SeriousBusiness. Losing a game at the title school can get you ''expelled''.

* This is [[ForTheFunnyz part of the indicative]] behind CausticCritic shows like ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''. Reviewers on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses treat most anything they review as SeriousBusiness, PlayedForLaughs. Deconstructed in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' when [[spoiler: Holokara]] takes things a step further and plans threaten a DeathFromAbove against Marvel over the handling of Spider-Man, which is NOT played for laughs.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Alex takes the position as the secondary main character very seriously.

* SeriousBusiness/RealLife

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* In ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'', in the ''VS Minecraft'' shorts, apparently building is this. [[SoreLoser TNT throwing during building contests]] is a regular occurrence, and in ''[=PvP=]'', Green starts a brawl over a conflict in building space.

* In ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'', in the ''VS Minecraft'' shorts, apparently building is this. [[SoreLoser TNT throwing during building contests]] is a regular occurrence, and in ''{{PvP}}'', Green starts a brawl over a conflict in building space.

* In ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'', in the ''VS Minecraft'' shorts, apparently building is this. [[SoreLoser TNT throwing during building contests]] is a regular occurrence, and in ''PvP'', Green starts a brawl over a conflict in building space.