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Department of Major Vexation
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When a character has occasion to visit a government office, it will be staffed by Obstructive Bureaucrats who are lazy, unhelpful, or even downright rude. And that's after the character is forced to Take a Number and stay Right on Queue in a labyrinth of stanchions for an eternity just to reach the counter in the first place. Sometimes, the Bureaucrat is of the Beleaguered variety. They want to be helpful, but are impeded due to being overworked, inadequately trained, disgruntled from constantly taking abuse from Unsatisfiable Customers, or provided with broken equipment. Expect them to be using The Alleged Computer. The office is almost always the Department Of Motor Vehicles, which is the agency responsible for the registration of vehicles and issuing of driver's licenses in most US states. Since driving is the primary form of transportation for most North Americans, the DMV (or regional equivalent) is the organization that almost every citizen will ever interact with at some point in their lives. If the shenanigans happen on the road as opposed to in the office, it falls under Driving Test. If their issues are a result of outstanding violation ticketsnote Most jurisdictions will refuse to renew a citizen's driver's license if they have unpaid fines, see The Trouble with Tickets. For the darker, non-comedic version, see Intimidating Revenue Service— a government department which inflicts far worse than petty inconvenience. Also compare Soul-Crushing Desk Job, for occasions wherein the office mentally/emotionally destroys the workers, not the customers. |
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Megas XLR: In the episode "DMV - Department of Megas Violations", the titular Humongous Mecha gets impounded and Coop has to go to the DMV to get a new driver's license since his current one was expired. By the time Coop finds out he needs to retake a driving test and the driving instructor refuses to give him an exception to allow him to save the world, citing that exceptions would cause the place to fall apart, Coop ends up having an imagine spot where he destroys the DMV with the MEGAS' excessive firepower while laughing maniacally. | |
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Anna's Quest: A dungeon runned by Devil himself works on that intentionally. Because of that even if you win his challenge you won’t get a form needed to release you. | |
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One of the stories in The Joker's 80th anniversary special issue is a What If? where Batman dies, and the now-purposeless Joker decides to reform... by focusing all his sadism into a job at the DMV. | |
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In Paranoia, both PLC note (Production, Logistics, and Commissary) and HPD&MC note (Housing Preservation and Development and Mind Control) are enormous bureaucracies that Alpha Complex citizens dread dealing with: In the adventure Send in the Clones, an actual flowchart is provided of a typical bureaucratic experience as the Troubleshooters attempt to find their "special mission equipment." It can take multiple game sessions (as in, real time hours) to work through. In the adventure "Down and Out in Alpha Complex," the Troubleshooters are sent deep undercover. Unfortunately, their new identities were assigned jobs but nothing else (no quarters, no mess hall, no background, etc.) Once you "slip through the cracks" in Alpha Complex, getting back in requires bouncing around like a pinball between bureaucratic offices for asinine reasons. And turns out to be impossible unless you find a way to cheat. |
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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer: The de facto first circle of hell is the entrance queue. Here, a damned bank clerk forces the "pre-damned" to fill out thousands of excruciatingly detailed forms and sends them to the back of the line for any error. The clerk isn't even malicious, just so cosmically anal-retentive that he created the system of his own initiative. | |
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MADtv (1995): Inverted when Miss Swan tries to obtain a replacement license after giving hers to a boy who wanted to buy beer. The agent isn't about to win any awards for their cordiality. But, it's Ms. Swan who engages in antics and dishes out the majority of the abuse. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Amy tries to file some forms to organize a block party. However, she runs into a legal error in which a form she must get approved can only be approved after getting another form approved that requires the original form to be approved. The women manage to get around the issue by exploiting another legal error. It allows them to get Hitchcock to reserve space for the party under the pretense of holding a women shaming event. This is due to the horribly misogynistic and archaic forms having never been removed from the system. | |
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City of Secrets: To be able to reach a Mayor’s audience you have to get walk around city to different offices and bring random items. Because of that no one was able to reach it, as it would reveal Mayor’s true identity. | |
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Adrian Mole: A visit to the Department of Health and Social Security is described in detail in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole. Needless to say, obtaining money from the office is not an easy process. | |
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In Zootopia, Protagonists Nick and Judy need to run a license plate but the DMV equivalent, the DMZ, is staffed by sloths. It takes an eternity for Flash, the DMZ agent, to type the plate number into the system. But the Overly Long Gag becomes even more excruciating when Nick asks if Flash wants to hear a joke just as he is about to type in the final digit. It delays the interaction further. | |
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M*A*S*H: The entire U.S. military often becomes this trope, with Radar needing to resort to judicious use of friend-of-a-friend contacts to make crucial (even life-saving) deals. The requisitions department in particular often fouls up along the show's run, sending bulk summer clothes and hammocks during a record cold and sending bulk orders of diapers to a front-line surgical unit. When Hawkeye and Trapper try to requisition an incubator so they can test for diseases, the supply officer says that he can't let them have one. However, he can get them a pizza oven if they'd like. | |
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The Smeet Series: At one point in Vindictive, Ilk and the Raptor Squad go to the DMV to retrieve the impounded Ibris. While Masouri is stuck at the metal detector by the entrance due to his loads of weapons, the others are stuck in line for a long time due to the bored receptionist being more interested in a magazine she's reading, and when they finally reach the desk they find out that they have to take a driver's test in order to get a license and therefore prove they can drive the Ibris, which Ilk ends up failing. | |
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Futurama: Hermes Conrad works for the Central Bureaucracy, a massive organization whose sole purpose seems to be to hinder businesses and governments. Their headquarters is an endless maze of filing cabinets and pneumatic tubes that can take decades to deliver messages. When Hermes sorts a huge pile of undelivered messages with two seconds to spare, he ends up getting demoted because "a good bureaucrat never finishes early." | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball depicts the entirety of Elmore's city hall as this. Trying to get anything officially approved or legally changed means that you have to live by the their standards of time and reality. If you're not sure what line you need to wait in, you'll be told you need to go wait in the line to tell you what line you need to stand in. If you move around the line ropes, you create a literal insurmountable labyrinth of red tape. Physically shoving someone will result in a Delayed Causality where they won't feel it until they're up next for service. | |
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: The eighth task is to retrieve Permit A-38 from a bureaucratic institution known only as "The Place That Sends You Mad", where every employee is entirely unhelpful, busy with something else or slacking. They also know very little about the procedures. This leads both heroes in an endless chain of visiting other offices and being ping-ponged between bureaucrats that keep sending them to other bureaucrats that also won't help and barely know. Asterix manages to turn the tables by asking for a permit that doesn't exist; since the employees themselves cannot be sure the permit doesn't actually exist, they throw themselves into their own loop of paperwork until they're all entirely insane, with one handing Asterix the real Permit A-38 just to get him out of there. | |
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One episode of Family Guy tells the story of Nate Griffin, a runaway slave who is an ancestor of Peter Griffin. After he and his secret girlfriend (the white daughter of the plantation owner) escape to the North, Nate decides to get back at white people by inventing the DMV. | |
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