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Laborious Laziness
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In pursuit of a lazier way to do a task, a character will wind up spending magnitudes more time and effort developing and executing that lazier way than it would have taken to do it the normal way. This is often a trait of the Professional Slacker and Ridiculous Procrastinator. To quickly illustrate, say Alice's mother has gone to work and ordered Alice to keep the dog's food and water bowls topped up. Alice doesn't want to interrupt her rigorous TV-watching schedule to get up off the couch to do so, however. But she is an inventive little devil, so she spends an hour constructing a laborious contraption that will, when she pulls and steps on the correct sequence of levers, pulleys and footpads, automatically fill both bowls without her having to leave the sofa. She then returns to her TV watching schedule, satisfied that she has found the 'easy' way of completing the task... despite the fact that even the most inattentive viewer will quickly realise that simply pausing the TV, getting up off the sofa and filling them both by hand would take, at most, five minutes and would require a lot less physical effort (and messing about with levers and such) than Alice's supposedly 'easier' solution does. In fact, her strategy is so effortful and contradictory that it can fairly be described as working hard so that she won't be working hard. A frequent variation (and method of communicating An Aesop that 'laziness never pays off') is that the character's efforts to avoid work just end up causing them a whole heap of trouble, misery and pain (physical and / or emotional) which could have been avoided entirely had they just sucked it up and done what they were supposed to do in the first place. For example, in constructing her Rube Goldberg Device, Alice might kickstart a chain of events which results in the kitchen flooding due to a busted tap, the bag of dog food exploding all over the house, a broken window, a plastic flamingo lodged into the wall, Alice getting swept off the sofa by a malfunctioning pulley in the chaos only to break her leg and her mother ending up very, very angry with her. Note that situations where investing some time and energy now will genuinely save effort in the long run (for example, if Alice builds an automatic dog feeder that she could use every day from then on) are not examples of this trope. Contrast Complexity Addiction when a whimsical or obsessive character makes a straightforward procedure complicated. Instead of avoiding work, they are making a dull task interesting. Related to Short Cuts Make Long Delays. See also Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat. May or may not overlap with Duct Tape for Everything and Deliberate Under-Performance. A Professional Slacker as well as someone who is Ambitious, but Lazy may end up doing this, or think of a better idea. The 'easy' solution will frequently engage with some form of Awesome, but Impractical. |
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Sayu from Genshin Impact regularly attempts to skive off her ninja training in favor of napping. Her primary method for doing so is by using the very ninja skills she's trying to avoid practicing. | |
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Okadu Realm: Jai and Grae cannot be bothered to get out of bed and so construct a ridiculously complicated contraption to transport them by means to their shower. | |
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In one Strange Planet strip a parent notes that their offspring has spent their time cleaning their room to justify not doing their homework. They compliment the child on learning a useful productivity strategy. | |
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Bleach: When Isshin Shiba was 10th Division captain, there was a constant battle between him and his lieutenant, Rangiku, to push work onto the other to avoid doing any themselves. Shiba goes to enormous lengths to find new places around Soul Society to hide, while Rangiku goes to even greater lengths to track him down, drag him back to the office and make him do the work. In the time it takes them to do all this, the work gets completed by Third Seat Hitsugaya, while the effort to avoid it leaves Shiba and Rangiku tired, bruised and sweaty. | |
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Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: The Big Yellers are a tribe of Orruk Kruleboyz (the subspecies of Orruk that venerates cunning and dirty tricks) who are infamously lazy; so lazy, they live in cog-work fortresses filled with booby-traps, and automated shooting ranges to practice their archery skills (as just shooting someone with a crossbow save you the trouble of the walk over to them). One imagines they force the Hob-grots to do the heavy lifting, but they presumably still had to design all of that themselves. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homie The Clown", one sign of Krusty's wasteful spending is purchasing a brand new home instead of simply hiring somebody to clean his messy home. In "King-Size Homer", Homer dedicates himself to gaining a dangerous amount of weight to qualify as disabled and work from home. Why? Because he didn't want to do a few minutes of basic calisthenics at the plant. In "Bart Carny", Bart and Lisa have been tasked to clean the back yard but they're too lazy to do so. In "I'm With Cupid", Apu is showering his wife, Manjula, with elaborate gifts everyday leading up to Valentine's Day. Homer and a few of the other guys start to get annoyed because their wives wish to be treated that way as well, so they end up spending the day trying to follow him around and see what he's up to, and try to put a stop to it. Flanders eventually lampshades this, noting that instead of spending a whole day trying to stalk and sabotage Apu's plans, they could be trying to put that effort into actually doing something nice for their wives. He gets thrown out of the car for that. "I am Furious (Yellow)" has Homer lose the remote, and rather than walking across the room to the TV set to change the channel, he starts tearing apart the couch looking for the remote. (It was eaten by the family dog.) |
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Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation: "Normally, if given the choice between doing something and nothing, I'd choose to do nothing. But I will do something if it helps someone else do nothing. I'd work all night, if it meant nothing got done." | |
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Tanya Degurechaff of The Saga of Tanya the Evil is a reincarnated HR manager in an alternate universe. Thus their goal remains the same - to have as easy and comfortable life as possible and they will go through any lengths to achieve it. Even acting as a ruthless war commander and conquer any country necessary. | |
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Supergirl : Silver Age villain Shayla got sent to the Phantom Zone before the destruction of her planet because she wanted to be an astronaut but decided to invent an energy draining device to pass the physical rather than devote her energy to fairly passing the test. Someone died when she accidentally took too much energy, and Shayla got sentenced to the Phantom Zone. | |
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Stardew Valley: If you use more than 10 placed staircases to complete the 100-floor Skull Cavern quest, the quest-giver chides you for not doing it fairly... then acknowledges that you must have worked just as hard mining enough stone to build them all and grants you the reward anyway. In this case, it's arguably less about being lazy and more about luck RNG and monster attacks. | |
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Roger the Dodger of The Beano may be an example of this; on some occasions, his parents and teachers try to point out that his elaborate dodges to get out of schoolwork or housework take up more effort and cause more damage than he'd expend or create if he just did what they were asking him to do in the first place. One notable example is an Annual storyline where Roger literally travels around the world just so that he can sneak in through the back door of his house to avoid getting in trouble for sneaking out the front. | |
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In the Unikitty! episode "R & Arr", Unikitty and Puppycorn go to absurd lengths to stay on the couch so "Lazy Sunday" won't end. Richard even points out that all the effort they're putting into avoid doing their chores could have just been used to do the chores. | |
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Sloth from Fullmetal Alchemist is an extreme version. Father gets him to spend decades (if not centuries) digging a giant tunnel because Sloth is literally just too lazy/apathetic to say no. Despite that, Sloth spends a lot of time griping about how much work he has to do, when he could've avoided that in the first place by just refusing to do it. | |
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Jeff of Community will go to absurd lengths to get out of work — in the pilot alone, he tries to bribe/blackmail a teacher into giving him not just the test scores for his upcoming test, but every single test he'd ever have in his studies, goes along with a study group he hates as part of a plan to have sex with Britta, and spins a master plan manipulating six different people he's just met into having a screaming match with each other, all of which would seem to take the better part of a day (although for Jeff, manipulating people is more of a hobby than a chore). As one of them pointed out, this is all to avoid doing the work for what is basically a simple Spanish test that would take him, at most, half an hour to study for the normal way. By the end of season three, he's mostly grown out of it. Lampshaded in "Documentary Filmmaking Redux" where he proudly boasts, apparently without noticing the irony, that he's "always willing to go the extra mile to avoid doing something." | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: 2010-01-22: A man spent six hours making a chart proving that it's not his turn to do the dishes. 2010-10-30: When an engineer hears that water is free in his new apartment but electricity isn't, he gets all excited about using the shower to power a dynamo. The landlord lampshades how it's this trope applied to saving a small amount of money. In "Batocrat", Batman reveals that he does the superheroing as part of an effort to keep the proletariat from questioning how his alter ego draws a billion dollar salary from a company he inherited and which he puts no labour into. So actually he's putting quite a lot of work into maintaining this state of affairs. "Potemkin": |
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Franklin: "Franklin's Day Off" has An Aesop of sorts about this. Franklin spends most of the episode dealing with problems he wouldn't have had if he had just done the work was supposed to do instead of putting it off, such as needing a rake that was holding up the Blanket Fort he didn't take down in order to rake up leaves which have buried a bicycle pump that he wouldn't have had trouble finding if he had put it away properly in the first place. | |
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Rick and Morty: Summer Smith confesses in "Lawnmower Dog" that she gets C-grades on purpose because she believes intelligent people are jerks, and even when she manages to break this habit to achieve Honor Roll in "Night Family", it’s only because she has her Night Person do her studying for her. Even her interest in adventures can wane rather quickly depending on the situation: she gets tired of the decoy situation rather quickly in "Mortyplicity", and the Gaia camping adventure barely retains her attention at all in "Childrick of Mort". | |
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In Dilbert Wally has been shown to be very active in his efforts to not do any work, and is largely successful. He was based on a former co-worker of the creator, Scott Adams, who realized that the severance package was more beneficial than working, so he became fiercely dedicated to being extremely unproductive. To quote Wally: | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In one series, Calvin built a time machine to travel two hours into the future and get a copy of his homework from himself after it was already finished. The time machine works; the homework-getting doesn't. In another series, Calvin didn't want to make his bed, so he and Hobbes spent all afternoon trying to build a robot to do it for him. They couldn't get the robot to work, but since they spent so long on it, the bed never got made. Mission accomplished! This is a recurring gag through most of the strip's run. Calvin is perfectly willing to work hard as long as no-one forces him to, so he'll often end up spending more energy on avoiding something than it'd take to actually do it. For instance, he once wanted to have his Mom bring him to the library to do research on snakes, though he had to stop and ask why he'd want to learn during his summer break. To which Hobbes said: |
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As noted in the page quote, Garfield is prone to this sort of thing. In the comic quoted, the lazy cat nails the TV to the ceiling above his cat bed so he can watch it without getting up. Think about how much effort it would've taken to hoist that television up there and then keep it in place while he nailed it there, and then think about how much effort it would've taken to simply get up and walk over to where the TV was. On another occasion, Garfield, Jon and Liz are watching TV together when the remote control stops working. Jon and Garfield go to a shop to buy new batteries. When they come back, Liz points out the set is five feet away. Garfield comments, "Girls". |
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Married... with Children: Al Bundy even tried to walk over to the TV but eventually grew tired of it and agreed to have sex with Peggy for the remote. | |
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In Fungus the Bogeyman, Bogey bicycles are specifically designed to be slow. | |
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Discworld: Victor Tugelbend in Moving Pictures is the master of this trope (which the narrator acknowledges). He has a trust fund from a deceased relative that's only supposed to support him while he's in school, but he much prefers the comparatively easy life of a Wizarding School student vs. being an actual wizard and its life of constant danger (Ridcully, introduced in the same book, would put an end to Klingon Promotion among Discworld wizards, but Victor has no way of knowing that). Victor studies extensively to keep his grade just low enough to not pass, but high enough that he doesn't lose his trust fund to failing grades, due to the specific stipulations of said fund. He also exercises regularly because being thin means less weight to drag around, and physical activity takes less effort if you're in good shape. It's a kind of enlightened laziness. In Making Money, Moist is told that "a certain kind of man will scheme for two days to earn what he could have made by honest work in one." Subverted by Moist reflecting that honest work may be more efficient, but scheming is more fun. Equal Rites has an aside pointing out how much work bandits have to do to set up a decent ambush with falling rocks etc., and how much easier it would be to just get a job. One past student at Unseen University, seeking an easier way to copy out lines when issued this common school punishment, developed a whole series of increasingly-complex mechanisms that would write multiple pages at once. Not only did the development of these gadgets take up more time and effort than simply writing the lines would have, but eventually a malfunction in one high-tension prototype catapulted its inventor out a window to his death. |
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At the start of Charlotte, Yuu Otosaka is a middle school student who realizes he has the power to possess people for five seconds, so he uses it on the best kids in his class in order to cheat off their tests. However, he realizes that he'll be taking the high school entrance exam with students from other schools, and it won't be as easy to tell who's a star student. So what does he do? He scouts out various cram schools to find promising students, so he can know who to possess when he takes the test. If he was smart enough to come up with a plan like that and determined enough to see it through, one would think that he'd actually do well studying. | |
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In Making Money, Moist is told that "a certain kind of man will scheme for two days to earn what he could have made by honest work in one." Subverted by Moist reflecting that honest work may be more efficient, but scheming is more fun. | |
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The DuckTales (2017) episode "The Great Dime Chase" sees a version of this in action, as Louie's attempts to avoid doing hard work result in him being forced to put in greater effort than if he'd just done what Scrooge had told him to do in the first place. | |
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Seen in the Not Always Friendly story "Irony is Effortless": Someone ripped and converted a game's soundtrack because he was too lazy to look it up on the Internet. | |
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Sans in Undertale is a self-professed slacker, to the point where he avoids doing his actual job (border patrol) by doing a different job (hot-dog sales). Two jobs means twice as many legally allowed breaks! | |
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xkcd: Sometimes optimizing efficiency, automating a task, or figuring out the best approach takes more time and effort than plowing ahead. | |
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Pat and Mat have this as their entire reason for existing. Instead of painting windows, making jam, fixing car etc. the usual way, they will build rickety contraptions to automatise the task, which always results in ruining half of the house. | |
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Don't Worry Darling: Jack and the other men joined Victory because they wanted to be completely cared for by their loving, doting wives. However, the "upkeep of their chosen wives" requires them to constantly keep the captive women hydrated, provide nutrition, and administer sedatives, while also having to feed themselves since the food made within Victory is not real either. In short, by robbing their "wives" of their agency and independence in the real world, the men have to work even harder to completely care for them, the exact opposite of what Frank had been preaching to them. | |
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In Ever After, Rodmilla de Ghent refuses to tend to the manor, considering it beneath her as a Baroness. Instead, she spends all her time trying to set her daughter Marguerite up with Prince Henry by constantly hawking anything that'll fetch a price to buy eye-catching jewelry and dresses, bribing footmen to spy on the prince for her, stalking the prince's whereabouts, and playing games and intrigues to get the royal family's attention. Imagine how much she could get done if she put a fraction of that effort into actually running the manor and bringing honest income. | |
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Equal Rites has an aside pointing out how much work bandits have to do to set up a decent ambush with falling rocks etc., and how much easier it would be to just get a job. | |
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A very dramatic version appears in Good Will Hunting: Will would rather take his time breaking his back in construction work and as a janitor and lie that this makes him content and alienate everybody he meets than use his immense math prowess in a white-collar work that makes more money for probably less effort (for him, at least) and get over his Freudian Excuse (that gets solved by his therapist just repeating "it's not your fault" a dozen times and his best friend finally calling B.S. on him). | |
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George Costanza of Seinfeld is perhaps the Ur-Example of this trope. In nearly every episode he goes to great lengths to avoid work, effort, or even discomfort. He puts so much effort and scheming into being lazy that one wonders if it wouldn't just be easier to to the original task in the first place. | |
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Psychonauts 2: The Big Bad's actions for his grand plan is possibly the epitome of this. Gristol Malik, aka Nick Johnsmith, has infiltrated the Psychonauts organization as a mail delivery man, in the process gaining the adoration and respect of nearly everyone in the organization through his hard work (with the exception of the leader Truman Zanotto, who would be part of his grand plan), all the while devising a complex scheme that involves brainwashing the unstable Dr. Loboto, and by proxy carrying out two world-domination conspiracies, swapping his brain with Truman so he can impersonate the man in his quest to find Maligula, and also manipulating Raz into helping him do so. And what was his big reason for doing all of this? He was pissed off at his tyrannical family being cast away from his homeland of Grulovia, and thus he couldn't live a life of luxury eating large amounts of caviar anymore, and wanted to use Maligula as a way to get his throne back so he could go back to being a rich idiot. The stupidity of this is only further exacerbated in that his current living situation is a five-star hotel penthouse where he can leave cans upon cans of caviar all over the place like moldy pizza boxes, his planning capabilities and the fact that he was well-educated as a child meant that he could have easily landed a cushy job if he wanted to, and he had the love and respect of an entire organization of psychic super-spies; the love and respect that he earned unlike his family being utterly hated when they were still royalty. It's only his utter lack of common sense and enormous sense of entitlement that drives him into doing all of the above. | |
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Yoh from Shaman King has this as his stated goal, he'll work hard now to become the Shaman King so that, after, he can be as lazy as he wants. | |
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Legends of Chamberlain Heights has Malik admonish his older brother Montell about how much effort he puts into being a lazy stoner, such as making a nest of snacks next to the couch before he gets high. | |
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The Phineas and Ferb episode "Elementary, My Dear Stacey" sees Dr. Doofenshmirtz attempting to steal Big Ben and move it next door to his apartment because his worsening eyesight is making it harder for him to read his wristwatch, leading to this exchange when a skeptical British agent asks him for clarification: | |
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In Ennui GO!, Izzy spends a whole week coding an algorithm to calculate what meals take the least amount of work (and rotate it so she's not living on jam sandwiches all the time) so she doesn't have to do dishes. Hiring a chef and/or maid never occurs to her either. | |
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For someone who claims that she just wants to be left alone to laze around all day and enjoy a comfortable, shut-in lifestyle, Yuna of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear is constantly going through hell and high water, revolutionizing the the world and vastly improve the lives of others in her selfish quest to acquire creature comforts for herself. She saves an orphanage from bankruptcy and having to beg for scraps on her quest to get a cheap and reliable source of chicken eggs, she defeats a Kraken, exposes and overthrows a corrupt Guild Master, and arrests a horde of murderous bandits for the sake of rice, soy sauce, and other Japanese-like ingredients, and she becomes a legendary restaurant owner and chef that even the Royal Family's Cook bows down to in awe because she wanted junk food like potato chips and pizza. | |
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Ransom Thrombey from Knives Out initially seems like your fairly average Idle Rich man, albeit a very self-aware one. But beneath that laidback exterior is a man willing to go to downright insane lengths to maintain his easygoing lifestyle, up to and including arranging a complex, high-maintenance scheme to murder his grandfather and frame the man's nurse so he'll be the sole inheritor of the family fortune and thus be able to continue being jobless. | |
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The one-time Don Ramón from El Chavo del ocho decided by himself to go look for a job was after he read a phrase "The thing that takes the most work is not having a job". | |
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Teen Titans (2003): When Cyborg and Beast Boy were searching for a lost remote, Cyborg took Raven's suggestion of walking over to the TV for a tasteless joke. | |
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One gag of Gaston Lagaffe has Prunelle really determined to find Gaston and to force him to work, while Gaston do every possible efforts to hide and avoid him. In the end, Gaston, with a defeated expression, directly ask Prunelle to give him the work because doing it will be less exhausting than avoiding it. | |
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Widdershins: Acedia is the embodiment of laziness. Literally. While she's not stupid, a case could be made for her not thinking this through: | |
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In Dan Vs. "The Boss", Dan goes to great lengths to avoid doing any real work on his first day at the office and doesn't understand why he's so tired. Chris tells him that looking busy is usually harder than actually being busy, and suggests that maybe Dan should just do his job. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Eviless would rather start an intergalactic war than give up her slaves, since then she'd have to get up to do more than hurt people for fun and wouldn't be able to rely on her telepathy for everything she wants. Luckily her laziness results in her plans being fairly sloppy even when there are ways to better carry them out at hand ensuring Wonder Woman can easily prevent them. She causes the most trouble when she teams up with more enterprising villains to form Villany Inc., relying on them to try to take down Paradise Island. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Reese once gets 0% on a True/False quiz that means he will be forced to repeat his school year. Getting an absolute zero on such a test was extremely unlikely even for an idiot, and he admits that did this on purpose- figuring out what the right answers were and intentionally getting them wrong, because he just didn't want to graduate yet. | |
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The Futurama episode "Benderama" starts with Bender furious that he's been asked to fold two sweaters, because that's "two things." He uses Farnsworth's replicator to make two copies of himself to do it for him, both of which are equally unwilling to do the job and equally willing to duplicate themselves, resulting in a near-apocalypse. By the end of the episode, he's the only one who can save the planet, which he refuses to do until Fry offers to fold the sweaters for him. | |
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The title character of Atelier Annie: Alchemists of Sera Island has this as her motivation for doing anything, as she hopes that by working hard, she will marry a rich man and be set for life, never having to work again. | |
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Shiromi Kosegawa in Saki, mainly in "Saki Biyori". In the first Miyamori chapter of Saki Biyori, she pulls a hand cart to bring a kotatsu to school, wanting to rest under it but knowing that she won't be able to get out once she does. In the second Miyamori chapter, she rests in various places around the mall, under the pretense of doing things such as waiting for a friend or trying on shoes, but ends up moving around the mall quite a bit, as Sae points out. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: Richard is a master of this. In "The Laziest", he manages to set off an unlikely chain of events started by blowing on a piece of paper in order to get pizza from the kitchen without having to get off the couch. The same episode shows he literally won a laziness contest back in "the summer of '83" against the previous champion, Larry the rock, meaning Larry is being quite literal when he calls Richard "lazier than a rock". Also, in one episode, Gumball travels back in time to avoid changing the title of an email. Granted, it was in his imagination, but he was planning to do it for real. |
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In Home Improvement, when he isn't trying to add his trademark "MORE POWER" to common tools, Tim is usually trying to come up with some convoluted gadget to make easy, mundane tasks even easier, which usually causes him more trouble than it's worth. We say usually, because one of his few successes came from this: he built his wife an all-in-one washer/dryer machine that worked completely automatically, even adding in detergent and softener in the correct amounts. Said washer/dryer remained a fixture of the Taylor household until the end of the series. | |
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In FoxTrot, Peter tells his friend Steve about all the job leads his father is sharing with him, and his persistence in doing so. | |
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Zits has one strip◊ where Jeremy wants to put away some groceries, but his mother had just cleaned the kitchen floor. So he goes through all the trouble to jump across the kitchen counters so that he doesn't have to step on the floor when he could have simply taken off his shoes. | |
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Sometimes the title character from Beetle Bailey. According to him, when it comes to slacking, no effort is wasted. An example is when he refuses to go through the obstacle course and tries to hide from Sarge. Sarge discovers him and ends up chasing him through the very same obstacle course. That is nowhere near the only case — he's also been known to unfold a sleeping-bag, change into his pajamas, brush his teeth, fluff his pillow, and finally tuck himself into bed... while slacking off for five minutes on the job. Quoth Plato: "No-one puts more effort into slacking off than Beetle." Another strip features an extremely long chase-sequence where Sarge pursued Beetle through a huge variety of environments — up cliffs, through forests and swamps and across rooftops, with brief interludes of searching when Beetle found a temporary hiding-spot in a trashcan or at the bottom of a pond with a reed... but in the end, Sarge catches up with him and drags him home by one leg, even as he digs his fingers into the ground to resist. What was he trying to get away from so ardently? The Escape and Avoidance Course, naturally.... |
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The Engineer in Team Fortress 2 has the Rancho Relaxo, a taunt where he takes out a mechanical lawn chair with an umbrella and sits in it while drinking beer. More trolly players will often activate the taunt and then stay that way for the whole game, in full view of everyone - but since it makes the Engineer helpless, they frequently have to take the effort to set up a full base to defend themselves, find isolated places, exploit mobility methods to get out of reach... in short, it's not much different from the effort that it would take to play and actually win the game. | |
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Victor Tugelbend in Moving Pictures is the master of this trope (which the narrator acknowledges). He has a trust fund from a deceased relative that's only supposed to support him while he's in school, but he much prefers the comparatively easy life of a Wizarding School student vs. being an actual wizard and its life of constant danger (Ridcully, introduced in the same book, would put an end to Klingon Promotion among Discworld wizards, but Victor has no way of knowing that). Victor studies extensively to keep his grade just low enough to not pass, but high enough that he doesn't lose his trust fund to failing grades, due to the specific stipulations of said fund. He also exercises regularly because being thin means less weight to drag around, and physical activity takes less effort if you're in good shape. It's a kind of enlightened laziness. | |
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Wonderella calls another Super Hero to ask him to defeat the giant monster attacking the city because she had planned to take the day off. He points out that she's much more powerful than he is and could just Curb Stomp the monster and be back within fifteen minutes. An hour later, she's still unsuccessfully calling up other superheroes to avoid doing it. | |
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Lelouch of the Wings of Rebellion: Shirley believes that the only thing Lelouch's ever dedicated any serious effort to is avoiding hard work, unaware of his status as a Noble Fugitive. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door has a one-off group of villains known as Robin Food and his Hungry Men. They're MO is to rob the school lunches of kids and give it to the elderly. What Robin doesn't know (or does and chooses to ignore it) is that the senior citizens he gives the food to don't actually want it, as it wreaks Hell on their digestions. So what brought this mission of his? Robin and his men are actually the cafeteria staff at the Sure Would Retirement Home, and they steal kid's lunches because they're too lazy to cook the old people's food like they're supposed to. | |
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Throughout South Park, Eric Cartman has often put aside his usual lazy attitude to attempt various elaborate methods of achieving his goals rather than take the obvious option. These range from trying to avoid studying for a test by attempting to deliberately trigger a flashback of history (one such method involved using TiVo to record fifty hours of the History Channel and an elaborate system to drop him and the TiVo box into a pool of water), to opening his own real estate firm to put his mother out of business so that she could devote herself to him full-time. | |
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The Toasterverse: When Steve wants Tony to handle the sweeping in Avengers Tower, Tony decides to build an army of flying, self-replicating roombas controlled by a Hive Mind in order to handle the chores instead. | |
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In The Two Maples by Evgeny Schwartz, Baba Yaga complains at one point (possibly lying) that it's very hard to live while doing nothing; even when she was a schoolgirl, the regular kids slept peacefully after having done the homework, while she had to stay awake the whole night figuring out how to manage next day at school while knowing nothing. | |
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Homestar Runner: In "Lookin' At a Thing in a Bag", Strong Bad creates a convoluted scheme to trick Homestar into buying drinks for himself, Strong Mad, and The Cheat, which involves going out to The Stick and pretending to look at a thing in a bag. In the Strong Bad Email "diorama", Strong Bad says that he used to be able to make up books for book reports in school, but the Internet has made it so hard one might have to make up fake web-pages for the book, author, and publisher, or even write the fake book yourself. |
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Hana in My Heavenly Hockey Club studied hard to get into a top-tier high school just because it was the school closest to her home and hence would let her sleep the longest amount of time possible in the morning before classes. | |
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SuperThings: The episode "Trasher Litters The City!" has Trasher, being told by Badnilla to clean his room to the point that "it's the cleanest place in Kaboom City", decides that flooding the city with his garbage slime would be a far easier thing to do, getting away with a loophole. Fred Fetid points out to the audience that this is probably more effort than just cleaning his room. | |
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Forestdale: In order to avoid doing a simple homework assignment, Izabell Carroll is willing to break into her elementary school during winter break, fill the entire building with snow, and then crank the air conditioning up to it's maximum setting to turn it all into ice, ensuring that school would be cancelled for several more days during the cleanup. At this point she's being more stubborn than she is lazy. | |
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Ciaphas Cain combines this with being a Professional Coward in the analogous sense. He goes out of his way to make his life as lazy and comfortable as possible while serving in the army in a galaxy where everything is trying to kill you. It's theoretically efficient and rational, but the catch is that he relies on his Fake Ultimate Hero reputation to do this — so every time he has a choice between really looking like a coward or being a hero, he goes to whatever lengths it takes to be the hero. | |
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LazyTown: Robbie Rotten prides himself on being lazy, and schemes to make the rest of the town as lazy as he is, but due to these elaborate schemes, he's easily one of the most active people in the entire town. To the point that he once helped the town avoid winning a Medal of Dishonor for being the laziest town out there. | |
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Orange Cassidy's gimmick is being lazy and detached, putting the least amount of effort possible into everything he does (unless, of course, you push him too far). A common way he portrays this is by wrestling with his hands firmly in his pockets. While this might seem like a casual sign of disinterest in kayfabe, it makes performing wrestling moves incredibly difficult. | |
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The Exodus: Richard applies this to both his everyday life and how he plays Engineer in Team Fortress 2. As he explains, not doing anything at all makes his wife mad, so he makes a point of regularly getting up and doing just enough to make her happy before returning to lazing about. Similarly, he's a master of "turtling" (camping in one place while his sentry gun does all the work), but makes sure to occasionally switch things around before anyone starts punishing him for lazing about. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "diorama", Strong Bad says that he used to be able to make up books for book reports in school, but the Internet has made it so hard one might have to make up fake web-pages for the book, author, and publisher, or even write the fake book yourself. | |
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In Aliens in the Attic, Tom is accused of this when he gets Cs and Ds in his report but manages to hack the school computer system to give himself As and Bs; as his father points out, if he's smart enough to hack the system he's smart enough to get the good grades in the first place. This is justified as Tom was deliberately "dumbing down" to try and fit in with the other kids. | |
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Taken to a ridiculous extreme in one Over the Hedge arc where Verne is trying to convince RJ to learn to read, but RJ is too lazy to do so. Verne finally wins RJ over by pointing out that by learning to read, he could read the closed captions on television shows, freeing up his ears to listen to music or the radio. In short, RJ could be even lazier than he already is, or, in RJ's words: | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter's father finds the idea of walking over to the TV so horrible he doesn't have the courage to tell Dexter people used to do it before the remote control was invented. (He thought Dexter was screaming because the remote was missing, he was actually screaming because he was wearing a pair of x-ray specs and had just watched his father sit spreadlegged in his recliner.) | |
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