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Buffet Buffoonery
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The basic idea of the buffet is that, for a fixed price, you can enjoy "all you can eat" from a series of tables and serving platters. This means that there are more and less economical ways to handle a buffet, which of course opens the door for a variety of comedic events: Military-level strategizing over how to eat the most expensive food to get the most for your money, often punctuated by comments about how you have to 'beat the house' or 'avoid the decoys' of cheap items like bread. Rules-lawyering over what 'all you can eat' really means. The restaurant might argue, for instance, that an extra crumb is food the customer didn't eat (and is obligated to pay additional money for). Or they might refuse to let a customer leave until they've really consumed ALL they can eat. Customers going to extremes to eat as much as possible (fasting before going; staying in the buffet for absurd lengths of time (such as the whole day... and in some extreme cases for years), sitting or even standing right in front of the buffet), sometimes even eating all the food and leaving others hungry. Other customers and/or employees being horrified at the eater's Jabba Table Manners is optional, but often implied. The restaurant going broke because the Big Eater showed up. Take in mind that in Real Life: One of the key rules about buffets is that it's "all you can eat" both within a certain period of time after you paid (usually around half an hour to an hour or so, and then you need to pay for another serving) and for however long the buffet is active for the day (so you can't pay $2.50 and eat "free" forever — or until the restaurant closes, if you feel like allowing it to close because you haven't eaten "all you can eat" yet). Also, the buffet will supply food as long as supplies are available — once the available vittles reach a certain level, more won't be made until after the buffet time ends (or maybe even the next day). Many restaurants now offer "all you care to eat" in order to get rid of the hairsplitting surrounding the specific words "all you can eat". Restaurants always have the legal freedom to refuse to serve (or even kick out and ban) customers, especially if they are being rude to everybody else or are just being annoying in general. There will always be items on the menu that are not part of the buffet and will not be provided unless you order normally — so, sorry, that filet mignon with beluga caviar and champagne will always cost $500. |
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In Fillmore!, Fillmore and his dad strategize about which foods to eat to get the most value for their money. His mother even chastises Fillmore that it's all a normal person can eat and to not eat the poor owner out of business. | |
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In one issue of The Mighty Thor, Volstagg encounters an all-you-can-eat buffet. He declares that it made a decent snack after cleaning it out as the staff look on in horror. | |
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In The Whiteboard, it's stated that the Chinese restaurant where Pirta used to work had to discontinue its buffet due to Doc eating a whole Tibetan yak's worth every time he went. | |
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The Simpsons: In one episode, an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet nearly goes out of business once Homer shows up and eats for hours, actually forcing the restaurant to go on food runs several times to keep the pantry supplied (which he eats). Homer was finally kicked out when it became clear to the restaurant's employees that Homer wasn't going to stop eating even if it was midnight and the restaurant had long since closed and they wanted to go home. The guy in charge, Captain Macallister, has Homer thrown out, leading to a lawsuit for "false advertisement". In the end, they come to an agreement: the owner just charges people to watch in horror as Homer eats endlessly. Homer does it again in the episode when he helps redecorate Moe's bar. Homer once drove a Pizza Hut out of business by abusing their "Free Soda Refills" policy. When Homer took the family to a brunch buffet, he made sure to tell the kids to stay away from the "sucker" foods like bread rolls (he punched the server offering him oatmeal), and stuffs himself with so much shrimp he can't move, proclaiming that "he won". |
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Sibylline Sounds: Aibu is always hungry and never seems to get full. He has been banned from every buffet he has visited for eating too much. | |
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Happens in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: This comic has a customer gloating to an apathetic restaurant clerk about how he filled his pay-by-weight salad with cheeses, dressings, cashews, and olives. Of course, now he has to eat the result. The votey extra panel reveals he got a heart attack from it. Another comic had the customer suggest a similar scheme, pointing out there was nothing keeping him from focusing on winning rather than making a salad he actually wants. The waiter points to the note on the menu stating "the salad is a metaphor for life." |
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Dilbert has done several of these. In one strip, Dogbert and a buffet waiter got into an elaborate argument over whether or not "all you can eat" applies to food that you take but don't eat. Another Dilbert strip features Dilbert going out on a date with an obese woman. He tries to take her to a buffet, but she said that she's already been banned for life, presumably for eating too much. And then there's Dilbert's dad. He went to an all-you-can-eat buffet during the Christmas shopping season of 1992, but never left, because he hadn't yet eaten "all he could eat." His family didn't even realize what he'd been up to until June of 1996, and all evidence suggests that he's still there today. In an episode of the animated series, Dilbert actually meets his dad at the restaurant, where he's become a shaman-like figure for the people of the mall. And in yet another strip, Dilbert and Dogbert notice that one of these places now is open 24/7 and ponder how you could theoretically pay once and stay there forever. |
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Garfield In one strip, Garfield and Jon are looking for a restaurant, and Garfield points to a place called "Ernie's Eat Till You Explode". ("Let's just say I have good feelings about it," says Garfield.) In the bumper panel on a Sunday strip, Garfield's just been tossed out of an all you can eat buffet and complains that that wasn't all he could eat. |
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In "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran, the couple goes to a buffet on their first date. Because they want to save money, the woman fills up her bag. (The man merely fills up his plate.) | |
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Married... with Children episode "Turning Japanese" had Marcy, in an attempt to keep the hideous and embarrassing Bundy family away from her boss to keep her from getting an important promotion, pays for Al, Bud and Kelly to eat at an all you can eat seafood restaurant. Unfortunately, their food-starved antics cause the family to be ejected from the establishment and it later comes out that they're infected with a strain of botulism by the episode's end. However, they were just happy to have food. | |
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Piranha Club has a series of strips where Sid took advantage of a buffet to feed his Extreme Omnivore Big Eater piranha Earl. After the first visit almost made them bankrupt, the restaurant started trying to keep Sid out, culminating in making him wait indefinitely for a table. This just leads to Sid feeding the vestibule couch to Earl instead. | |
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Discworld: In Going Postal the wizards, notorious diners all, are seen to construct elaborate architectural models using celery and lettuce leaves so as to increase the depth of a bowl by up to three times its intended size. The Unseen University Diary says that student wizards are not allowed to go for the All-You-Can-Gobble-For-A-Dollar menu at Harga's, because they gobble far too much, and have also been banned from the salad bar at the Groaning Platter, following the invention of the Tiny Salad Bowl of Holding. In Carpe Jugulum, Nanny Ogg tries to counter the vampires who have taken over Lancre Castle by putting booby-trapped vol-au-vents, with a lot of garlic in them, on the finger-food menu. This is, of course, an example of Buffet, the Vampire Slayer. note It doesn't work. wrong kind of vampire. On a previous visit to the castle in Lords and Ladies, Nanny is distracted by the breakfast sideboard. "Hey, they've got three kinds of eggs! Boiled, scrambled and fried. That's what I call posh." By the time Granny and Magrat try to bring her back to the plot, she's made herself a fried egg and ketchup sandwich. |
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Implied in Irregular Webcomic!, where Professor North Dakota Jones is such a Big Eater that he orders for two at all-you-can-eat restaurants. Regrettably, we never actually see it take place on screen. | |
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In a Ziggy one-panel, a waiter is seen saying to Ziggy: "I say that's all you can eat, that's who!" | |
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In the Slayers fanfiction Slayers Demiurge, cooks take it as an article of religious faith that you do NOT have an All-You-Can-Eat special on the opening day of a new restaurant, because if you do, she will come. The head chef mocks this superstition, claiming that Lina Inverse is a myth. Then a certain red-haired sorceress walks through the door, and proceeds to eat him out of business. | |
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In Going Postal the wizards, notorious diners all, are seen to construct elaborate architectural models using celery and lettuce leaves so as to increase the depth of a bowl by up to three times its intended size. | |
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The "restaurant going broke" variant of this trope is a popular gag in the KanColle fandom. | |
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The Nanny uses this joke a lot, mostly with Fran's Big Eater Jewish Mother Sylvia, but even Fran herself indulges in it on occasion. One episode has her hiding shrimp from a cruise buffet in her purse. | |
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One episode of CatDog centers around the pair trying to sneak into a buffet that they'd been banned from thanks to Dog's overeating ("Just because it says 'All you can eat' doesn't mean you're supposed to eat it all!") | |
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In one episode of Garfield and Friends, Garfield goes to the buffet, and after eating everything, the owner cries about how he's been wiped out. Garfield complains, "False advertising. You didn't have all I could eat." Then he hopes that the owner will restock before dinner time since he [Garfield] is still hungry. Later, Jon tries to take him and Odie to the buffet for dinner, but Garfield is banned and has to sneak in. | |
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Fooker of General Protection Fault has been banned from multiple restaurants with all you can eat specials for eating too much. | |
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Nothing Nice to Say has an early strip where Mitch takes massive advantage of a diner's All You Can Eat Enchiladas offer, to the point that the waiter threatens to clean his table and kick him out the next time he uses the bathroom. Mitch replies that's why he brought a bedpan. | |
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In Carpe Jugulum, Nanny Ogg tries to counter the vampires who have taken over Lancre Castle by putting booby-trapped vol-au-vents, with a lot of garlic in them, on the finger-food menu. This is, of course, an example of Buffet, the Vampire Slayer. note It doesn't work. wrong kind of vampire. | |
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Used as a side gag in one of the Grimtooth's Traps books. Grimtooth commented that he'd gone to a diner for its all-you-can-eat elf special, and was told after his first plate, "You've had your elf; that's all you can eat!" | |
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I'm Alan Partridge: Alan Partridge brings his own (oversized) plate to the buffet. | |
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On a previous visit to the castle in Lords and Ladies, Nanny is distracted by the breakfast sideboard. "Hey, they've got three kinds of eggs! Boiled, scrambled and fried. That's what I call posh." By the time Granny and Magrat try to bring her back to the plot, she's made herself a fried egg and ketchup sandwich. | |
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Archie Comics: In one story, Jughead finds such a buffet with the rule that the price only covers what he can fit on his plate. Jug proceeds to make a massive tower of edibles that soon gets him kicked out of the restaurant. | |
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The Now Show Book of World Records has an entire section on unlimited salad bars, and how you opt for them thinking "It's a salad; it's healthy", and then find yourself loading your plate with multiple servings of cold sausage pasta, rollmop herring, and boiled eggs, none of which count as one of your five a day. | |
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps has a buffet sequence that borders on Mundane Made Awesome. It starts with the Klump family walking up to the restaurant in silhouette before announcing themselves. ("Klump, party of six. And we are hungry!") Cut to a fast-paced montage of them practically attacking the buffet line. It ends with a pan shot of the table with all of the food trays empty... except for the fully stocked salad tray. | |
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Taken to the extreme in the Wishfart episode "Spicy is Paradisey". Puffin wishes from Dez to be able to eat forever so that he can eat all he can eat at a buffet. He proceeds to eat non-stop for 5,000 years and turns into a living mountain that constantly demands food from a cult led by the buffet's owner (who is determined to uphold her restaurant's policy). Dez's descendant and Akiko have to set things right by convincing them to stop trying to satisfy Puffin's appetite. | |
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Dilbert: Young Dilbert's father had a very Literal-Minded interpretation of "All You Can Eat" at a seafood restaurant. By the time he and Dilbert meet again when Dilbert is an adult, he makes it pretty clear that he's going to stay until he's had absolutely "all he could eat"... which pretty much means dropping dead inside the restaurant. | |
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In Rhapsodies Nancy accuses Paul of doing this at a New Year's Party. | |
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In The Twelve Tasks of Asterix, one of the tasks is to finish a meal cooked by Calorofix the Belgian, a chef famous for making meals for the Titans. Obelix cleans him out (eating — as the first course — a boar with french fries, a flock of geese, several sheep, an omelette made with eight dozen eggs, a whole school of fish, an ox, a cow and two veal ("because to separate ze family... zat would not be right!"), a huge mound of caviar (with a single piece of toast), a camel, and an elephant stuffed with olives)... and is STILL HUNGRY after eating all of this... | |
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A skit on Saturday Night Live, possibly one of their "Limits of the Imagination" thriller spoofs, had a couple go to an "All-you-can-eat" restaurant and be later told "It's not all you CARE TO eat, it's all you CAN eat!" and they look and see the other patrons are being force-fed. | |
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One episode of Home Improvement had George Foreman as a guest star with a running gag about him being a Big Eater. He told Tim about the time he went to a seafood buffet and ate eight plates of shrimp. When he tried to eat a ninth plate of shrimp, "I was TKO- totally keeled over," and said that it taught him the important lesson of needing to know one's own limits: eight plates of shrimp. | |
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In FoxTrot, Peter cleans out an entire buffet, leaving nothing for his family. In another strip, he takes advantage of the all you can eat special at the pizza place where his friend Steve works at, and eats for six hours straight, only stopping when Steve tells him to leave at midnight (seeing as the special has ended, and his manager is pissed. Peter pushes his luck further and asks if he can have some to go.). In this later strip, he believes "all you can eat" is a requirement. | |
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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist: Patient Barry Sobel recounts his father's suspicious nature, extending to all-you-can-eat steak restaurants — he insists "Don't eat the breadsticks! By the time you get to the steak you're too full. That's how they get'cha!" | |
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Zits: An "all-you-can-eat" pizza place hurriedly closes its Venetian blinds and flips the "closed" sign when it sees a group of teenage boys approaching. | |
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A Shadowrun novel ponders the question how this would work in a world where trolls (9-foot-tall metahumans) exist. Their suggestion: Trolls are allowed if they bring a customer along who isn't a troll. | |
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In Beetle Bailey, restaurants have been known to post disclaimers saying that their "all you can eat" doesn't apply to Sergeant Snorkel. Or go bankrupt or receive advance warning and close early. | |
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A Hägar the Horrible strip has Hagar carrying away the entire contents of a smorgasbord. | |
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Played for drama in an episode of CSI where the investigators were going over the steps of the Victim of the Week. The man was a Big Eater because of a neurological disorder that made him feel eternally hungry (to the point that his sister had to keep him restrained Hannibal Lecter-style for years in order to prevent him from overeating himself to death)note The cause of this is what’s known as Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic disorder with one of the symptoms being constantly hungry which leads to obesity and some intellectual disabilities , and once the sister's boyfriend (who knew nothing about this issue but took pity on the man being bound to a chair) cut him loose, he went straight to a hotel's buffet and had to be kicked out by security because he was attacking other people that were trying to serve themselves. | |
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One episode of World's Dumbest... featured a man that called 911 for being kicked out from a buffet after eating the entire stock of the day's "all-you-can-eat" special. The man later protests the place's "false advertising" with a poorly done picket sign and is eventually banned from the eatery. | |
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Early in Tales of MU, Mack and some of her friends go to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Because Mack is a half-demon, she doesn't actually need human food to live and her bigoted religious grandmother who reared her never actually gave her any (and told her she should feel thankful that she got anything at all). Mack therefore has atrocious table manners when her friends start introducing her to food, and at the buffet she gets hooked on barbecued ribs, eating not only the meat but the bones as well. Naturally, this freaks out the other patrons and she gets thrown out and banned. | |
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A Family Guy gag features Britney Spears rapidly consuming a comically large amount of food at a buffet, including standing right by the serving tables instead of sitting down, while her hapless dietitian completely fails to stop her. | |
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Citizen Dog set a whole series of strips inside an all-you-can-eat buffet, with Fergus the dog first asking the waitress to confirm the exact meaning of "all you can eat". He proceeds to bring tons of plates of food back to the booth; his owner Mel reminds him that multiple trips to the buffet are allowed, which Fergus already understands. When Mel goes to pay at the end, Fergus is trying to bring half of a watermelon out with him; the waitress politely informs him that all buffet portions must be eaten on-site. Cue the final panel with Mel and Fergus back in their booth, Fergus munching away. | |
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Krush Groove has the Fat Boys performing their song, "All You Can Eat" while living it in a Sbarro's restaurant. They eat everything including the pictures of food on the wall. | |
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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: Fred's cousin invites the gang on his cruise, which includes an all-you-can-eat buffet. Scooby and Shaggy laugh at this and proceed to empty the buffet several times. Rather than being offended or upset, the chef takes it as a challenge to actually provide them with all they can eat. | |
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The Critic episode "Lady Hawke" had a scene where Jay is showing Olivia around New York, and they pass a Chinese Buffet, with Jay hungrily staring through the window. The staff recognizes him and panics. | |
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During the Friends Vegas storyline, when Joey learns breakfast at the casino is a buffet, he says, "Here's where I make my money back!". Over the course of his subsequent conversation with Chandler, Chandler gets distracted by watching him load pretty much all of the scrambled eggs onto his plate. | |
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On Hill Street Blues, a man sat right in front of the salad bar and refused to leave until he'd "eaten all he could." | |
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