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Delegation Relay
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The hero is in the midst of a mission, along with his Five-Man Band and a bunch of Red Shirts. He needs to accomplish some minor and relatively mundane task, which is nevertheless bothersome or unwelcome. So he delegates the job to The Lancer. "Lancer, dig a trench." The Lancer nods, then turns to The Smart Guy. "Smart Guy, dig a trench." The Smart Guy nods, then turns to The Big Guy. "Big Guy, dig a trench." And it goes on and on. The task to be done gets delegated all the way to the unfortunate person who is, socially or literally, at the bottom of the ladder. Occasionally, perhaps with a bit of applied Politeness Judo, the task gets delegated back to the leader himself. For extra fun, the task in question may be trivial to those near the beginning of the relay, but stupendously difficult for those at the end. Definitely an example of Truth in Television. |
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In Eric, during the siege of Tsort, the invading squad unexpectedly discover a small child. The Captain tasks the Lieutenant with guarding the child, who instructs the Sergeant to keep an eye on the kid who tells the Corporal to look after the lad who tells the Private to watch the sprog. The private looks around to see whom he can pass the buck to, and realises that he's the Butt-Monkey. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when the mail arrives one morning, we get this exchange as the Dursleys and Harry are having breakfast: | |
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The Simpsons: An episode has Mr. Burns order a subordinate that a parcel with the power plant profit projections for Pete Porter in Pasadena must be delivered promptly. A Delegation Relay ensues ultimately ending at Homer, who runs the package back to Mr. Burns's office, who angrily tells Homer that his name is on the return address. Also from The Simpsons: |
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The Newsroom. A woman comes into the newsroom with information about Anthony Weiner's infamous tweets. The distasteful task of conducting her pre-interview is delegated down by the entire staff until arriving at Maggie Jordan, the newest producer. | |
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In The Frog Princess, when the king orders his sons to bring him carpets made by their wives, Vasilisa is the only one who actually does any work. The other two daughters-in-law tell their nannies to do it... they pass the work down to the maids... they pass it down to the servant girls... they call an old former soldier to do it. The results are... not quite at a level befitting a royal court. | |
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Dilbert: A Truth in Television closed-circle variant, immortalized in a strip: an employee asking a question directed at higher-ups may find that the task of answering it is delegated back down... to the same employee. Another comic: The Pointy-Haired Boss gives Alice a task. Alice says she's too busy, so the boss tells her to delegate it to Dilbert. He tells the boss he's too busy, so the PHB tells him to delegate it to Wally. Wally says he's too busy (knowing him, though, he's probably just lying to avoid work), so the PHB tells him to delegate it to Asok. He's also too busy, and told to delegate it to Ted. Ted accepts but doesn't mention the fact that he's quitting the next day. The boss thinks, "I solved four problems today." Dilbert's company is out-sourcing their customer support jobs to Asia but the company they outsourced to outsourced it to a different country going on until it was eventually outsourced back to Dilbert's company who underbids everyone else and lies about hold times. The Boss's solution to this? Raise their prices. |
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Discworld: In Eric, during the siege of Tsort, the invading squad unexpectedly discover a small child. The Captain tasks the Lieutenant with guarding the child, who instructs the Sergeant to keep an eye on the kid who tells the Corporal to look after the lad who tells the Private to watch the sprog. The private looks around to see whom he can pass the buck to, and realises that he's the Butt-Monkey. In Guards! Guards!: Captain Vimes tells Sergeant Colon to (force) open a gate. Colon tells Lance-Constable Carrot to open the gate. Carrot knocks gently to ask the people on the other side to open it. |
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Bugsy Malone. "Get Babyface, get Babyface, get Babyface..." and so on down the line until they actually get to Babyface. "Get Babyface... I am Babyface, what am I saying?" | |
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In one episode of The Muppet Show, Ms Piggy asks someone to watch over her dog while she's performing. That person immediately invents an excuse as to why he can't do it and gives the task to someone else. This goes on for a while (including Gonzo's memorable excuse "Oh my God! I left an anvil in the oven!") until the last person realizes that there's nobody else in the room to pass the dog off to. | |
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Popeye: In one strip of Thimble Theater's Great Rough-House War arc, the enemy army is advancing on King Blozo's palace. Not wanting to be killed, Blozo gives his crown to General Bunzo. Bunzo gives the crown to Oskar, his orderly, who passes it on to an office boy. The final panel shows that a dog ended up crowned king. | |
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Carry On Up the Khyber. The Khasi of Kalabar demands proof that the feared Scottish soldiers aren't wearing anything under their kilts. Unfortunately the soldiers have secretly started wearing underwear, so each officer passes the buck down to their sergeant-major who can only stand there embarrassed and refuse to obey the order. | |
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Land of Oz: In Ozma of Oz, the Tin Woodsman's army consists of twenty-seven soldiers, only one of whom is not an officer. The one time they actually fight, all the generals give the order to attack, which is then passed down to all the officers of the next rank down, and so forth until every officer has sounded the order to charge in decreasing order of rank, at which point the one private attacks the Nomes. In Tik-Tok of Oz, Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo fields a similar one-private army with only seventeen men. The private receives orders from his Captains, who get it from the Majors, who get it from the Colonels, who get it from the Generals, who get it from the Queen. Jo Files is the original private, but he so objects to his first proper order (to bind some innocent bystanders as prisoners) that he resigns on the spot. Tik�Tok replaces him, and obeys several orders to march. |
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Maniac Magee: When Maniac comes to live at the home of the McNab brothers, they all see a dog taking a leak on the floor. Oldest brother John tells one of his younger brothers to clean it up. That brother tells the third to clean it up. The third brother ignores them. Maniac finally finds some newspaper and cleans it up himself. | |
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The Young Ones use this when someone has to answer the door. | |
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A variant in Red Storm Rising: General Alekseyev wants to get a tank division moving so he walks up to the divisional commander and chews him out for wasting time. The commander heads off to shout at his regimental commanders, who go to scream at their battalion commanders and so on. Ten minutes later the screaming has percolated down to squad level and so the division finally starts accomplishing some actual movement. | |
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In Ozma of Oz, the Tin Woodsman's army consists of twenty-seven soldiers, only one of whom is not an officer. The one time they actually fight, all the generals give the order to attack, which is then passed down to all the officers of the next rank down, and so forth until every officer has sounded the order to charge in decreasing order of rank, at which point the one private attacks the Nomes. | |
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In Tik-Tok of Oz, Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo fields a similar one-private army with only seventeen men. The private receives orders from his Captains, who get it from the Majors, who get it from the Colonels, who get it from the Generals, who get it from the Queen. Jo Files is the original private, but he so objects to his first proper order (to bind some innocent bystanders as prisoners) that he resigns on the spot. Tik�Tok replaces him, and obeys several orders to march. | |
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In Intolerable Cruelty, Miles Massey tells his partner their key witness will undoubtedly be one with a "funny name". When he announces his choice to the judge — "Heinz, the Baron Kraus von Espy" — the name is echoed by the judge, the bailiff, and two court ushers. | |
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York did a relay giving Kevin's bag to Kevin, from Mom, to Dad, through all the kids (except for Uncle Frank and Buzz), down to Fuller... who then starts a Delegation Relay back up the chain to inform the parents that Kevin missed the flight. | |
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Band of Brothers: Played for Drama with Lieutenant Dike who has a habit of delegating everything to his junior officers and NCOs and then hangs back waiting for more orders from his superiors. This means that he rarely interacts directly with the frontline privates who lose respect for him and start viewing him as a coward. This is contrasted with First Sergeant Lipton who will delegate a task but then supervise to make sure that it is completed correctly. Dike is portrayed as an empty shell while Lipton is considered the true leader of Easy Company. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: "Mind the boat", eventually coming down the parrot, who then passes it on to the mute Mr. Cotton. | |
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Adrian Mole: When Pandora first declares her love for Adrian, she tells Claire Neilson, who tells Nigel, who tells Adrian. Adrian tells Nigel to tell Claire to tell Pandora that he returns her love. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation did this in the first episode where the Borg appeared. A Borg appears on the ship observing, as Picard, most of the command, and a Red Shirt watch. Picard orders Worf to deal with it, then Worf turns to the Red Shirt and tells him to deal with it, with predictable results. The teaser of Star Trek: Voyager's Lower-Deck Episode is one long shot in which we follow the progress of an order from Captain Janeway to the schlub who ends up carrying it out. The show takes the opportunity to throw in a neat little visual metaphor, too: the camera zooms in on Janeway's office on deck 1, where the order originates, and follows the Delegation Relay all the way to deck 15, literally the ship's lowest deck. |
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Transformers: Prime: The third episode: Optimus leaves Arcee in charge of the team (including the humans) while he and Ratchet leave on a mission. Arcee promptly goes off on patrol with Bumblebee and leaves Bulkhead in charge. Repeat until there are only two kid sidekicks left in the entire base. Also, when the Decepticons lose control of their space bridge. |
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The final season episode of M*A*S*H "Give And Take" had the officers passing the buck on being Charity Collection Officer, starting and ending with Winchester. | |
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The Disney Movie The Cat from Outer Space does this as a running gag several times with a set of Army officers led by Harry Morgan who were chasing the titular cat. | |
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In one Archie Comics story, Mr. Weatherbee asked Archie to deliver a message to a teacher. Archie delegated the duty to another student, who did likewise, until the chain went to Big Moose... who forgot to do it. Angry at what happened, Weatherbee demanded that Archie deliver another message to another teacher... who's in Africa. The story ends with Archie writing to Weatherbee in the jungle, saying that he should catch up to the teacher's safari in another week or so... | |
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In The Legend of Sun Knight, the Demon King Grisia enjoys tormenting his minions, particularly his (sort-of) predecessor's General and Dragon, Illu. At one point, he orders Illu to go fetch inventory, which is way beneath the dignity of a general, so Illu orders one of his Elite Mooks to do it. She finds it beneath her dignity as well, so she orders two skeleton minions to do it. | |
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Silent Movie has a meeting at Engulf and Devour. After getting some bad news about profits, Engulf orders Devour to punish the other men present. He slaps each of them in turn, only to get slapped himself by the last one. The next time this happens, Devour tries to invoke this trope, slapping only the first man and telling them to "Pass it on". When it gets to the last man, he slaps first, causing the slap to go all the way up the chain to Devour. | |
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A beautiful circular example occurs on The West Wing when Leo is delegating the relatively pointless task of picking a subject for the next postage stamp: | |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Played for laughs when Ron and Harry are not speaking to each other, and a message reaches Harry, which was passed on by a chain of many people. | |
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The Crown (2016) In "Act of God", an employee of the Meteorological Office takes readings from the equipment on the roof. The readings (predicting the Great Smog of 1953) cause an Oh, Crap! reaction that gets passed up the line to the head of department who responds by writing a Strongly Worded Letter to the Prime Minister that he knows Churchill won't bother to read. In "Gelegnite" we see the convoluted process via 1950's telephone technology that takes place whenever Princess Margaret wants to place a phone call to her sister Queen Elizabeth. |
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Muzzy in Gondoland: When Bob is caught trying to elope with Silvia by the king, the queen, Corvax, and the army that they somehow stuffed into their helicopter, the king gives the command "Take him away" to Corvax, who then passes it to a high ranking soldier, who passes it to another soldier, who passes it to another soldier, who then passes it to all of the other soldiers, who just keep repeating the command as a song as they all march away with Bob. | |
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Ashes to Ashes (2008) uses this amongst a group, when faced with acquiring evidence from a chemical toilet. (Played with in that the last link in the chain, who's dating the guy in front of her, simply rolls her eyes and tells him to get on with it.) | |
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Game of Thrones. During the Battle of Blackwater, Hand of the King Tyrion Lannister is about to put his plan into action, while doing his best to ignore King Joffrey who keeps chiming in with stupid questions. | |
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One episode of X-Men: The Animated Series has Magneto and Mystique turn on Apocalypse. In an example of the "for extra fun" variation, the incredibly powerful Apocalypse summons all his henchmen, then tells the reasonably powerful Mr Sinister to kill them. Sinister then delegates this task to Vertigo, whose only power is giving people vertigo. | |
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Happens in FoxTrot when Andy asks Peter to take the garbage. Peter says that Paige owes him a favour so that Andy should ask her. Paige says that Jason owes her a favour so Andy should ask him. Jason says that Peter owes him a favour so Andy should ask him. Andy asks Peter (again) who then willingly takes out the garbage. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: In the first issue, Soviet agents have to pass a report along to their top spymaster, the Gargoyle. Problem is, they're all terrified off him, so a page follows of one guy passing it along to his superior, who passes it to his superior, who passes it to his superior, who has no-one above him to pass it to, so he passes it to a nearby flunky, who just shoves it under the Gargoyle's door and hopes for the best. | |
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In one Basic Instructions strip, the Moon Emperor delegates the task of executing Rocket Hat to the Moon Minion. The Moon Minion delegates the task to his only subordinate: Rocket Hat himself. After the pummeled Moon Emperor demands to know why the Moon Minion thought Rocket Hat would kill himself, the minion explains that he was just being a good boss by giving his subordinate the chance to exceed his expectations. | |
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Occurs in a Beetle Bailey strip. The general gives his lieutenant a document to deal with; the LT passes it to Sarge, who then delegates it to Beetle, who finally just puts the paper back on the general's desk. | |
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Blackadder: One gag demonstrates Baldrick's Butt-Monkey status when the Prince annoys Blackadder, Blackadder kicks the cat, the cat pounces on a mouse, the mouse bites Baldrick's rear, and if Baldrick wants to do any kicking down Blackadder says he'll have to find an earwig. | |
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In Braveheart, Hamish's Dad gets shot with an arrow. That night, Hamish is handed a red hot poker with the instruction: "You do it. I'll hold him down." Hamish then looks at the poker, and hands another nameless Scot the poker and tells him, "You do it. I'll hold him down." The nameless Scot then does what he's told and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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The Rooster Teeth short "Chain of Thought," which also twists this trope by having the order be carried out by the guy who first ordered it. | |
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A scene in Silicon Valley inverts this, showing a lack of delegation. Someone tells Gavin that a project will be ready in 6 weeks. Gavin leaves, and then the person's subordinate comes over and says that 6 weeks is impossible and Gavin should have been made aware of all the bugs in the current build. A more accurate figure is more like 6 months. The project head responds that he didn't want to upset Gavin, and leaves. Then the subordinate's subordinate comes in, asking "how could you say '6 months'? The project is way buggier than you said." "I wasn't going to tell them that!" This cycle repeats a few times. | |
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Carry On Henry. Conte di Pisa tells Cardinal Wolsey that to annul King Henry's marriage to Queen Marie, the Pope needs to be paid 5,000 pieces of gold. Cardinal Wolsey tells Cromwell, but gives the figure as 10,000, to skim half of it for himself. Cromwell then does the same when he tells King Henry it'll be 20,000 pieces of gold. | |
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Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator: A huge gun fails to fire properly, and the shell just drops out of the barrel. The general turns to the colonel and says: "Check the shell." The colonel turns to the captain and gives the same order. The captain gives the order to the lieutenant. The lieutenant delegates to the private (Chaplin). The private turns to his left... and finds out that there's nobody left to delegate to, so he has to do it himself. | |
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An in-universe comic in Homestar Runner, "Dullard" (a parody of Dilbert), has the boss hand off an assignment to Dullard, saying "I need this on my desk by five." Dullard proceeds to pass it off to a co-worker, who passes it off to a female co-worker, who passes it off to a comb-over co-worker, who passes it back to the boss, all with the same "I need this on my desk by five." | |
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From Spaceballs: | |
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The teaser of Star Trek: Voyager's Lower-Deck Episode is one long shot in which we follow the progress of an order from Captain Janeway to the schlub who ends up carrying it out. The show takes the opportunity to throw in a neat little visual metaphor, too: the camera zooms in on Janeway's office on deck 1, where the order originates, and follows the Delegation Relay all the way to deck 15, literally the ship's lowest deck. | |
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In Kingdom of Loathing, the Mob Penguin Supervisors of the Penguin Mafia have been known to do this: | |
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Code Lyoko has an interesting variant. In "Maiden Voyage", Sissi makes fun of Jérémie for his less-than-stellar performance in Phys. Ed. Jérémie asks Odd if he minds cracking a joke to get her off his back, but Odd, who has his mouth full, delegates the joke-telling to Aelita, who blows a good joke wide open. | |
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In West Side Story the song "Gee, Officer Krupke'' where the Jets are mocking the social system for its handling of juvenile delinquency. The judge declares that it's a psychological problem and sends them to a psychologist who declares that they just need an honest job and sends them to a social worker who declares that they need a year in jail and sends them back to the judge. | |
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In Guards! Guards!: Captain Vimes tells Sergeant Colon to (force) open a gate. Colon tells Lance-Constable Carrot to open the gate. Carrot knocks gently to ask the people on the other side to open it. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation did this in the first episode where the Borg appeared. A Borg appears on the ship observing, as Picard, most of the command, and a Red Shirt watch. Picard orders Worf to deal with it, then Worf turns to the Red Shirt and tells him to deal with it, with predictable results. | |
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