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Laundromat Liaisons
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Laundromats are a convenient setting when the plot requires characters who don't do their laundry at home to meet and strike up a conversation. People don't generally like to leave their laundry unattended, so they have a couple hours of nothing to do but wait for the machines. They might as well pass the time by chatting with the person next to them on the bench. Romantic comedies often use this to set up a Meet Cute. It can also be played for the awkward, like an Uncomfortable Elevator Moment only stretched out to several minutes (on stage). Or it can be creepy: how is Alice to get out of this conversation without abandoning her laundry? The audience doesn't learn anything about the characters from the fact of their being in a laundromat, but by the same token, characters who meet there could plausibly be anyone, from an Everyman type to a budding supervillain. Sometimes the writers play up characterization quirks in laundromat scenes, to compensate for the blandness. Or the characters might be down to their very last clean outfit, making them look like a Rummage Sale Reject or even someone wearing Improvised Clothes. It's not uncommon for the characters to get a peek at each others' laundry, invoking tropes such as Black Bra and Panties. |
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In Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Billy aka Dr. Horrible sees Penny every week at a laundromat and further gets to know her through conversations there. | |
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Forms the premise of The Laundromat: two lonely women regularly meet late at night in a laundromat to converse. | |
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Chappelle's Show spoofed this by using slow motion to turn an ordinary day at the laundromat into a sexually charged romantic encounter. | |
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The Bonzo Dog Band frontman Neil Innes performed a solo song, Front Loader, in which an unworldly geek taking his wash to the laundromat completely fails to notice the single girl doing her laundry finds him to be interesting. | |
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In Great Teacher Onizuka, Urumi first meets Onizuka with a Sexy Surfacing Shot from a pond in the park. He takes her to a laundromat to dry her clothes, and she pretends to seduce him, before calling the cops. | |
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Octave: Yukino meets Setsuko and her brother in a laundromat. It turns out that they own the place. | |
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Collin and Leon from Other People's Business met at a laundromat back in Friendly Hostility. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Most of the main characters live in the same apartment building; its laundry room frequently appears as a place for two of the characters to chat. | |
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Fire Birds: Preston and Guthrie catch up with each other at the laundromat and discuss why their previous relationship didn't work out. | |
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Fahrenheit put a very dark twist on the whole "random people meeting in a laundromat" trope: two random people enter a laundromat, then one of them stabs the other to death, slits his own wrists, and bleeds to death. | |
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Big Daddy: The main character has his laundry done by a professional laundry service. When he finds out where the Love Interest does her laundry, he takes a bundle of clean clothes to the laundromat in hope of invoking this trope. | |
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A Law & Order episode had the detectives think that the murder victim's wife and his best friend (his killer and her second husband) were engaging in this, especially since he had a laundromat in his building and therefore didn't need to use the one she did. It turns out that he was obsessed with her and was trying to invoke this. | |
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Ino-Head Gargoyle: Saejima first meets Shizuka as she's stripping off her underwear at a laundromat. She asks him to scare away the Peeping Toms, and then to dry and deliver her clothes to her apartment. She then leaves with only a Modesty Towel to cover herself. | |
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Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?: In Chapter 5, Satou and Kojima run into each other at a laundromat in the middle of a storm. He offers his shirt while hers is drying, but it ends up becoming a Sexy Soaked Shirt as well when a bottle of detergent falls on them. | |
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40 Days and 40 Nights: The main character meets his eventual girlfriend at the laundromat. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Love & Monsters", a character trying to learn about the Doctor sets up a "chance" meeting with Jackie Tyler at the laundromat, or a laundrette as they are called in the UK. | |
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When Night is Falling has a woman who teaches at a conservative Christian college meet a performer from a traveling performance-art circus at a laundromat. A clothing mixup brings the teacher to the circus for the next step in the courtship. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy: While we don't see it, this is how Dudley's mom started dating his enemy Snaptrap. They met at the laundromat, and she let him borrow her stain stick. | |
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On Happy Endings, Penny meets a guy at the laundromat. She went there in ratty old sweats, which were her last piece of clean clothing, and she assumed that was why he looked like a Rummage Sale Reject. It's only when she meets him later wearing the same type of clothes that she realizes she is dating a hipster. | |
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Caroline in the City: Dell and Charlie try to invoke this by going to a laundromat singles night. | |
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"What the Heart Wants" by Collin Raye begins with, "She met him down at the laundromat. Three a.m. on a washing machine they sat, and talked 'til dawn." Their romance follows. | |
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Friends: One of the first times Ross and Rachel really started to bond was when he took her on her first trip to the laundromat. They end up kissing after she stands up to a bossy woman and Ross is so stunned he walks head-first into the open door of a dryer. | |
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Besties: Several discussions between protagonist Nedjma and other characters, and an eventual gang confrontation, happen at the local laundromat. | |
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