History Main / ThatNightFeltLikeMonths

{{Webcomic}} [[StockPhrases stock phrase]] {{lampshading}} WebcomicTime.

No relation to IFellForHours.

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!!Examples:
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* TropeNamer: At the end of Chapter 8 of ''GunnerkriggCourt'', the author notes "That night seemed to go on for months".
* Heard every so often in ''DominicDeegan''; Spark is prone to saying "[[http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-02-25 I feel like I've slept for months!]]" when he hasn't been part of the action for a while.
* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'': [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00405.htm "I know a day is just 24 hours, but that one felt like it took a year and 37 weeks to get through."]]
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': On an imminent battle, Tagon says that "The waiting is always the hardest part," to which Ennesby replies "Yeah. It'll be over in fifteen seconds, but it'll feel like an entire day," with an AsideGlance (and Aside Grin).
* Inverted in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0458.html this]] ''OrderOfTheStick'', where Thog doesn't quite get the idea.
** Played straight [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0198.html here]], [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0485.html here]] and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0572.html here]]
* ''BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=020702 "For having been hanging there for months now, you're awfully cheery."]] This is from the end of the ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'' parody storyline, which would presumably take at most a few days of in-comic time. (Presumably. With how much the FourthWall got abused, it sometimes seems like the characters are more aware of real time than in-comic time.)
* [[http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/23/ This Strip]] of ''BooksDontWorkHere'' takes plase right after Robin falls down a trap door for two days in comic time and right after [[AuthorGuestSpot The Author]] changes the update schedule from 7 days a week to 5.
* ''Webcomic/TooMuchInformation'': when a main character who had been in a wheelchair finally got to start walking again, he commented on how it felt like he'd been stuck in it for months, even though (in webcomic time) it had only been a few days.
* When ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' returned after a [[SeriesHiatus year-long absence]] (in the middle of a storyline!), Miss Mab used a [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_074.php similar phrase]].
* [[http://www.drunkduck.com/POKETTO_MONSUTAA_SPECIAL_SUPER_EX_ADVENTURE_XXXVX_THE_CHRONICLES_OF_RED_BLUE_GREEN_AND_A_BUNCH_OF_OTHER_KIDS_WITH_COLORS_FOR_NAMES/index.php?p=470782 That was a long-ass walk!]] -From a comic with a long name.
* [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/comic.php?current=769&theme=5&dir=prev This]] installment of ''IrregularWebcomic''.
* Twice in [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/ Midnight Macabre]]. Upon leaving after a stressful visit in the first comic posted after a hiatus, Celia declares "That was the longest tea ever. It feels like we were in that house for seven months!", and Gaspar says in his speech to a group of Midnight Macabre fans "I know the changes seem harsh and sudden ... even if it's felt like three years for me ..."
* ''[[http://www.dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter04/dm04-19.htm This]]'' ''Webcomic/DragonMango'' page, although it doesn't happen in the present time. Breaks the [[NoFourthWall fourth wall]], too.
* ''Girly'': [[http://go-girly.com/go/429 "My, it seems like so long ago! It felt like it's been two years, six months, and seven days when it's actually been two months and five days!"]]
* ''[[http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2005-10-07 Experimental Comic Kotone]]''
* ''[[http://www.mopsy.com/w/20011001.html NeverNever]]''
* ''[[http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/killroyandtina.php?view=single&ID=4558 Killroy and Tina]]''
* ''AngelMoxie'' [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/0/7/075.html here]]
* ''AntiheroForHire'':
-->'''Shadehawk''': Sigh, that took altogether too much time. Felt like months.
* NinePlanetsWithoutIntelligentLife:
--->'''Ben''': I feel like I've been on that floor for five months.
* ''MSFHigh'' had one of the characters spending the entire arc waiting to use the bathroom. While he stood outside, the comic underwent a hiatus, prompting one of these lines.
* [[http://nowhereu.comicgenesis.com/d/20050401.html Nowhere University]] has this early on, combines the lampshade hanging with a literal breaking of the FourthWall.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with a bit of a FourthWall nudge in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071112 this]] ''SluggyFreelance'' strip.
** Inverted after a TimeSkip to catch back up to the real-life date, Riff says "I remember it like it was last week". He's talking about the comics posted a RL week earlier, but months earlier for the characters.
* Variation in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'', in which a continuity reboot meant that one character's death was retconned. In her first appearance thereafter, she says "[[http://hellsing.comicgenesis.com/d/20060729.html It's good to be back]]," leading another character to observe that she hadn't gone anywhere.
* One episode of ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' has the group get back from a paintball game, notice the Halloween decorations (which weren't there when they left), and one of them comments, "Wasn't it summer when we left?" Or something like that.
* [[http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2005-10-07&comic=ExCoKo This]] ''TsunamiChannel'' comic, following a hiatus.
* ''FlakyPastry'' [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=239 here]].
* ''CtrlAltDel'' [[http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20080616]], {{lampshading}} both WebcomicTime and LimitedWardrobe into the bargain.
* [[http://russellsteapot.com/comics/2007/he-has-risen.html Russell's Teapot.]] ''"Don't give me that! It's been like six weeks since the last comic!"''
* [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/19980115.html When a ''Roomies!'' story ran through Christmas Break]], Danny and Joe notice that they're still studying for finals in January.
* ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''?[[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20091121.html Bob in 2009, upon being reunited with Ahem]] for the first time since the first story arc, originally printed in 1993.
** Also Jean, when she [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061230.html punches Voluptua]] at the end of the strip's ten year hiatus. "That was worth waiting a decade for!"
* Enjuhneer [[http://www.enjuhneer.com/archives/208-do-the-time-warp Lampshades this]] by having the main character, Penny, decide to go to the con three weeks after it's brought up.
-->'''Penny:'''But time can't work like that! We'd have been freshmen for years now!
* [[{{ptitle23yaaf39}} Ménage A' Trois]] has Gary lampshade this trope [[http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100624.html here]]:
-->'''Zii:''' It's only been a ''month'' since I moved in!
-->'''Gary:''' Really? Feels like two years.
* At one point in {{Homestuck}} the narrator remarks something along the lines of, "It's almost like your birthday and Christmas and both at the same time! But that's impossible and would never happen." The comic was made a few days before Christmas, but was still taking place the same day the storyline started, April 13th, which is John's birthday.
** Later, John (and possibly the author) remarks retroactively how strange it was that he was so excited to see his father they almost had a MeadowRun, considering it had only been an hour or four since they last met. In the real world, it had been more or less a year.
*** [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005038 Further lampshading!]]
** At the very beginning, while John's standing outside, it's concluded that he feels like "it's going to be a very long day."
** [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005073 HAPPY APRIL 13th, 2009 EVERYBODY!!!!!!!]]
** The length of the comic as opposed to the amount of time that has passed for the characters has now even become a significant plot point. In order to escape Bec Noir and reach the reset session, the characters must take a three year journey through an alternate reality to catch up with the real world. They arrive in the new universe on November 11th, 2011, after abandoning their destroyed universes on April 13th, 2009.
* GirlGenius: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100521 "Iz vot Hy call "relativity!"]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Hyu know, 'cause it like ven hyu relatives visit an dun go away!"]]
* ''BoxerHockey'': [[http://boxerhockey.fireball20xl.com/?id=97 "Did anyone else feel like this week lasted like... three years?"]]
* ''[=~College Roomies From Hell!!!~=]'': [[http://www.crfh.net/d/20100827.html The day seems so long... actually this whole term... has felt really... long...]]. (The day at this point had been going on over ''nine months'', and would run at least another six. The term in question had actually nearly entirely been devoted to that day, but the strip as a whole had covered just over a year in nearly ''eleven''.)
* In a text update of ''{{Erfworld}}'', Stanley comments on how the day has been crawling by and nothing seems to be happening. At that point, Book 2 had been the same day for about two RL years. Note that on Erfworld, this is somewhat more literal; in this 'verse, the sun only sets after all sides have had their turns, so days actually are longer if sides drag out their [[TurnBasedStrategy turns]] as long as possible.
* ''ThinkBeforeYouThink'', in [[http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20110211-becky-sings this comic]]. ''"No, it's like every day is several weeks long."''
* When the author of [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/ Dumbing of Age]] was asked if one character was immortal, he replied "[[http://itswalky.tumblr.com/post/15386541165/is-dina-now-immortal Insomuch as she ages a week per year, yes]]".
--> But of course, then [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/blog/there-can-only-be-dina-by-dan-shive/ highlander happens.]]

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* The 2nd season opener of ''HowIMetYourMother'' started with the kids whining about how dad was dragging the story out, and one said, "It's like you've been telling this story for a year."
* The first season of ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' had the OpeningNarration of "I am federal agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life," presumably because the day in question took about half a year. This was later dropped, perhaps because later seasons were split across days.
** Or perhaps because only one day can be the longest day of your life, and he'd have ''seven'' by now.
*** Or because the first series started and ended at midnight, so his day (if he got up at, say, 9am) would have lasted 39 hours. Later series deliberately avoided repeating this.
* John's [[CharacterBlog blog]] of the events of the {{Sherlock}} season one finale and opening of the first episode of season two (which are two halves of the same scene but aired a year apart) contained the line "It felt like I'd held my breath for months".

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* A similar joke appeared in an episode of ''{{Futurama}}'': Leela says "If only we had three or four minutes to formulate a plan," right before a commercial break.
* In TheWildThornberrys movie:
-->'''Eliza:''' Darwin, wake up!
-->'''Darwin:''' Uh? Oh... what? Oh, I've tried to keep track of the days but they've bled into months.
-->'''Eliza:''' Dar, it's only been four hours.

[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* ''[[{{Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries}} Yu-Gi-Oh: Cr@psule Monsters]]'':
-->'''Tristan:''' It feels like we were falling for months. Fifteen months to be exact.
* This exchange from ''Metal Gear Solid: The Abridged Snakes'', which also Lampshades the Lampshading:
--->'''Snake''': God ''finally''! It took forever to find that sniper rifle. In fact, it almost felt like it took seven months.
--->'''Otacon''': Snake! You can't steal jokes from [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Little Kuriboh]]. His [[FanDumb fanboys]] will rape you up teh butt.

[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* From one of the last, long-delayed issues of TheTick: "I dreamed I stopped existing for ''eight months!''"

[[AC:{{Anime}}]]
* ''HayateTheCombatButler'': "It felt like I did three weeks of work in one day."
** Another sign that this story has messed up fans with the timelines. The anime has one line, the manga another and neither of them seem to have any correlation to real-time. And with the fourth-wall breaking, you can never tell which one is used.
* At the end of ''[[SoulEater Soul Eater's]]'' ''Fight to the Death at the Anniversary Celebration'' arc, a single night that was published over 8 months, the narration seems to lampshade this.
** "If you think it will take a long time, it will...and there are probably other people out there now thinking, "now that you mention it, that was really long". But without exception, even after nights like these... Morning will always come in the end."

[[AC:{{Radio}}]]
* ''AdventuresInOdyssey'': After [[DiedOnABus spending several months overseas]], Whit receives an unexpected commission from the Universal Press board that forces him to reschedule his flight. Eugene has trouble believing this.
-->'''Eugene''': You've been gone for what seems like years to the Middle East! What more could they ask you to ''do?!''

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* TelltaleGames' episodic comedy games often use this. ''SamAndMax'' and ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People]]'' have made jokes about events that chronologically happened only hours before, but occurred in the previous episode, released a month earlier. "I can't believe it took us a whole month to drive back from the North Pole!" and "Strong Mad's room should be cleared out in about a month" are among the more obvious examples. WallaceAndGromit's Grand Adventures also features Wallace remarking that an event which took place in the previous episode "felt like a month ago!" even though chronologically it was the day before.
** In ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', this is used for {{foreshadowing}} rather than comedy; in the first episode a notice states that a character is absent and will return in three months' time. Three episodes and three real-time months later, the character appears, despite the fact that in-game [[ComicBookTime only a day or two has passed]].
** Another example from Telltale is Hector: Badge Of Carnage, due to a release gap between episodes 1 and 2, Hector acknowledges the long unanswered cliffhanger by saying, "Can we hurry this up, I fell like I've been staring at this gun for over a year."

[[AC:Real Life]]
* Anyone who lives north of the Arctic circle (or south of the Antarctic circle) really WILL experience nights that last for months.
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* ''BobAndGeorge'': [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=020702 "For having been hanging there for months now, you're awfully cheery."]] This is from the end of the ''Game/MegaMan 3'' parody storyline, which would presumably take at most a few days of in-comic time. (Presumably. With how much the FourthWall got abused, it sometimes seems like the characters are more aware of real time than in-comic time.)

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** In Tales of MonkeyIsland, this is used for {{foreshadowing}} rather than comedy; in the first episode a notice states that a character is absent and will return in three months' time. Three episodes and three real-time months later, the character appears, despite the fact that in-game [[ComicBookTime only a day or two has passed]].