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Picked Last

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Picked Last	comment	A common phenomenon in gym class. Whenever two captains are elected from a group of kids to pick teammates from the remaining kids (be it for dodgeball, basketball, baseball or any other team sport), the ones who are the least talented, most nerdy or simply staggeringly unpopular are always the ones left to pick from last, but a special type of humiliation is always reserved for the very last kid remaining. "Picked Last" isn't even a fitting term for what this really entails as the kid isn't actually "picked" by a team but rather is forced to be taken by one because there's no one else left to pick from. This almost always happens to any Geek characters when the story focuses on a recreational activity. If this is supposed to be observed as a comedic event, it may be the fate of a Ridiculously Average Guy who is somehow less preferable to the geek, or, even more humiliating, that bit of Fridge Logic in the above paragraph is disregarded with the captains choosing players that aren't even supposed to be choices when only one kid is left; this may include adults or inanimate objects. Sometimes this character gets relegated to doing some trivial task, like water boy or scorekeeper, so they don't even get to play. Usually, this character may be The Woobie, especially if it's clear that he really likes the sport even though he may lack any real talent, effectively taking the fun out of the game for him when he's left to be Picked Last. In these cases, the character may be given a moment to shine in the spotlight by the end of the story by becoming a team captain for a day and getting to do the actual picking, by making a great play in the game, or even both. Sadly, this may be the one aspect of the trope's overall use in fiction that isn't Truth in Television. A part of Gym Class Hell. Compare The Benchwarmer.
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Picked Last / int_12fd5db0	comment	In Megamind, Megamind was always picked last in school during the brief time that he tried to fit in as a normal kid. It's even exaggerated; we see him standing next to a cute girl who gets picked before him, then the camera pans out to show that the girl is on crutches.
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Picked Last / int_136342f1	comment	In Mort, at the hiring fair, the title character is still waiting to be apprenticed at midnight, long after the walleyed kid with the stoop has been chosen by the local beggar.
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Picked Last / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Strongly implied, if even this, on Hercules. Despite and to some degree because of his amazing strength, nobody wanted him on his team for games because of his Person of Mass Destruction aspect. When he is shown trying to join a game, he's told that they already have five and they want to keep it an even number.
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Picked Last / int_2342a881	comment	In the Mission Hill episode "Kevin Vs The SAT's", Kevin, George, and Toby try to pad their resumes with curricular activities, and pick volleyball as an option, thinking that since the teams consist almost entirely of women, it will be easy. They're quickly proven wrong as the players are just as vicious and competitive as the men. When picking out teams, the three are passed over in favor of a girl who is missing an arm and another girl who is pregnant. Finally, one of the team captains says she doesn't want any more players and tells the other she can have "the homos". George is relegated to holding the captain's cigarette while she plays while Kevin and Toby are put in the back of the field and make an embarrassing showing of themselves.
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Picked Last / int_23465101	comment	On Wings, after Helen marries Antonio to help him get a green card, she learns that she could potentially go to prison for doing so:
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Picked Last / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons episode "King of the Hill" simultaneously plays this straight and subverts this in a few ways with Bart and Rod Flanders picking teammates for a game of Capture The Flag. Bart picks Nelson over his best friend Milhouse, who naively comments on how he must be "saving the best for last." Rod, on the other hand, chooses his brother Todd as his first pick. "Deep Space Homer" had Homer all excited for the Employee of the Week awards because, as he notes from the rulebook, every employee must win the Employee of the Week award at least once, and everyone else has won it, so it's his turn at last. He doesn't seem terribly upset about being last picked, but he is upset when the award instead goes to an inanimate carbon rod.
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Picked Last / int_2858b08a	comment	In one episode of Full House, this happens to Joey when Danny and Jesse are choosing sides for a football game. Even little Michelle is picked before him. When no one else is left, he asks someone to pick him before a stray dog shows up. Jesse takes him but makes Danny agree to spot them a touchdown.
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Picked Last / int_2a162f17	comment	In 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Lt. Pug picks Lucky and Tripod as team leaders for cohesian drils in one episode. Spot is the last picked and Lucky even tries to pick a bucket instead because she is a chicken and the rest are dogs. She gets her own back later in the episode, though.
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Picked Last / int_38182417	comment	Mirror Mirror (1990): As part of her ostracization, Megan is picked last, and very reluctantly, by Alpha Bitch Charleen when the water polo teams are picked in gym class.
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Picked Last / int_3b34143f	comment	While he attended Muggle primary school, Harry Potter was always picked last, but not because he wasn't any good. Nobody wanted Dudley's gang to think they liked him and end up getting beaten up for it. A bit ironic because had anyone had the guts to try picking him, it's very possible he would have been quite good, given how he ends up a natural at Quidditch.
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Picked Last / int_3c0b88bf	comment	The music video for Marshmello's "Happier" shows this happening to the bullied protagonist during a soccer game.
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Picked Last / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: In one Sunday strip, this happens to Calvin during a school baseball game. Calvin gives a disapproving Aside Glance while the captains of both teams argue over who gets stuck with him.
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Picked Last / int_43366464	comment	Pair of Kings: Before any team captain would pick either of the titular Kings at school, they'd pick the girl walking on crutches and the janitor.
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Picked Last / int_455e3038	comment	In one episode of King of the Hill, Hank and his friends find a kickball and decide to start playing. When their other family members and neighbors come to join the game, they split into teams. Dale is picked last, even after Connie, a 12-year old girl who wasn't the most athletic person to choose from. Team captain Bill is obviously disappointed at having Dale on his team.
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Picked Last / int_46518682	comment	In Why Are You So Mean to Me?, a book based on Sesame Street, Grover attends a school picnic with his classmates at Bluebird Park. After lunch, it is time to play baseball, and Truman and Jill pick their classmates for their teams, except for Grover, who has never played baseball before. Truman ends up picking Grover because the teacher tells him to, saying he needs one more player. When Truman objects, saying that Grover has never played before and will make his team lose, Grover is determined to prove him wrong. Unfortunately, when he tries to bat, he misses the ball every time, proving Truman's point.
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Picked Last / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: In Action, the last two picks for the season's teams are Harold and Izzy. Gwen picks Harold just to shut him up when he won't stop rambling about his credentials, leaving Izzy to go to Trent's team. She refuses to move until he calls her E-Scope. In Island (2023) Part 2, the "bottom of the barrel" picks, as Chris puts it, are Scary Girl, Nichelle, and Ripper. Bowie picks Scary Girl because he didn't recognize her, and Priya picks Nichelle because she's not Ripper, i.e. the guy who used her as a human shield last season, leaving Ripper to be sent to Bowie by default. He's legitimately bewildered by why no one wanted him over anyone else.
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Picked Last / int_4a3437ef	comment	In Magical Diary, if you tell Ellen that she doesn't have to sign up for the Sports Club, she gets annoyed and mentions that people were never eager to pick her for their team, even when she was really good at the sport in question. However, it doesn't seem to have been quite as bad as "always last".
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Picked Last / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: After Penny and Leonard break up, Sheldon is asked whether he's on "Team Penny" or "Team Leonard." He answers, "Whichever team picks last," since that's how it happened when he was in high school (unless there was a kid in a wheelchair). Another episode has them picking for paintball teams. Stuart is shown praying "Pick me" and is overjoyed when selected. He's also the last person, but is happy just to get picked anyway.
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Picked Last / int_504faa8	comment	Death: The High Cost of Living: Sexton says he was always picked last for sports in school, even after the kid with the leg brace, because that guy could at least throw.
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Picked Last / int_52744882	comment	In the body of a Deinonychus and trying to blend with the pack, Will Reilly of Dinoverse sees that the pack leaders are picking "teams" to go out and find food. He's quite affronted to be one of the last picked - in his human life he was extremely popular.
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Picked Last / int_5392bc91	comment	An early episode of The Wonder Years had the final two kids left to pick from being Paul Pfiefer and another student played by Dustin Diamond on numerous occasions. The episode's main focus was Paul's love for playing basketball and sheer lack of ability, which would make him one of the most undesirable players to have on a team. Kevin's protests to Coach Cutlip about how unfair the captain system is have the adverse affect of getting himself named a team captain for a day. Kevin uses his position to pick all of the least talented kids for his team, which also lead to a kid with an great athletic build being the last pick, behind a runt who was half his size.
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Picked Last / int_56505852	comment	How you start off in Tony Hawks Under Ground 2: before the World Destruction Tour starts, Tony and Bam Margera start picking their team members. Since you're the least experienced of the pros they got (Bam even calls you a noob), you're left as a last pick for Bam along with Paulie "Wheels of Fury" Ryan, a 10-year-old kid in a full-body cast riding a motor-powered wheelchair. As it turns out, Paulie is just the kind of bastard Bam needs, so Tony is forced to take you in and prove Bam wrong for passing you up.
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Picked Last / int_5755b96a	comment	Elan in The Order of the Stick is picked last when the party splits. In fact, the strip ends with Roy still looking for another option.
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Picked Last / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	In one episode of Wizards of Waverly Place, when it's discovered that all of Harper's achievements throughout her life was thanks to Alex using magic, one of the spells mentioned was "Picked First for Kickball". Alex laughing says that one should've been obvious.
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Picked Last / int_660a8ba0	comment	Referenced several times in Unseen Academicals.
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Picked Last / int_6806a8b9	comment	The Peter, Paul and Mary song "Right Field". By the end of the song, the kid narrator stranded out in right field manages to catch a fly ball on a big play.
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Picked Last / int_70fa4812	comment	Inverted on the second season of Worst Cooks in America, where the two hosts picked the teams for each other. Both were deliberately trying to saddle their rival with the worst of the worst. The last one chosen commented on this in a Confession Cam, saying they chose to take this as a compliment... while Lampshading the fact they were still apparently "the best of the worst". In the premiere of the third season, Rachel was embarrassed about being picked last, having flashbacks of dodgeball. This suggests, however, that she didn't really understand the elimination process, in which one-by-one Anne and Bobby each picked a chef they wanted for their team and foisted one they didn't want on the other team. Her being in this position, while not the best, certainly at least indicated that they felt she had some potential, compared to some of the others. Otherwise, one of them would have foisted her off on their opponent a lot sooner.
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Picked Last / int_72262aee	comment	In the Avatar: The Last Airbender comic "Gym Time", the last two people to be picked are Mai and Zuko, and Azula chooses Mai. However, since all the teams are filled, Zuko becomes the ball.
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Picked Last / int_757cf125	comment	In an episode of Rocket Power, the class plays kickball during P.E., and Sam ends up getting picked last, with the other student picked before him being a boy on crutches. When it's revealed that Sam actually has talent at the sport, he ends up being picked first the next day and is eventually made one of the team captains.
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Picked Last / int_75de8094	comment	Taking to ridiculous lengths in a sketch on You're Skitting Me, where the team captains pick a teacher, a dog, a rubbish bin and a bush before one of them is forced to take the last kid.
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Picked Last / int_7d3f1bd3	comment	Because Kisaragi in GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class is so clumsy, she had this treatment even when it's badminton they're playing.
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Picked Last / int_86814cd2	comment	Given a positive spin in Final Fantasy IX, when the eight party members split off into teams of two to tackle the elemental shrines (as their guardians all needed to be defeated at the same time to achieve the party's objective). In the end, Zidane was left with Quina, admitting that they weren't exactly his first choice. Quina took this in their stride, however, thanks to Zidane's choice of words:
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Picked Last / int_8745ca28	comment	In Cubix: Robots for Everyone, Dr. K spitefully notes how he was picked "dead last" for every tri-ball game he ever played in.
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Picked Last / int_88652dbc	comment	The Mixels episode "Every Knight Has Its Day" plays for a variation of the idea. During the game of Murpball, Mixadel chooses all of his team members first. Naturally, he chooses all of the buff and imposing students, leaving the smaller and wimpier ones for Camillot's team, including one that's so tiny the ball is bigger than him.
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Picked Last / int_8d8c2d3	comment	Heidi from No One Needed to Know is great at sports, but after she becomes a Bully Magnet, she's picked last in soccer for the first time in her life. Heidi plays harder than she ever has so everyone will regret rejecting her, but she tries so hard to avoid passing the ball that it interferes with her playing abilities, and her team loses.
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Picked Last / int_9068877a	comment	In a Red vs. Blue Special, where teams are picked new to match the new location, Sarge's first pick is Simmons who blurts out, in the most happy way imaginable, "First! I've never been picked first!"
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Picked Last / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Predictably, happened at least a couple times in Recess. Played with a bit, by having the second-to-last pick actually be the worst sports player (e.g. a random kid with a broken leg and crutches, or Gus), but the one picked last is being socially snubbed. "Partners in Crime" takes this trope to its logical extreme when neither Randall nor Menlo are picked at all for a game of tag. Inverted in "Big Ol' Mikey," where Gus is picked first for Gretchen's adult height calculations involving Galileo.
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Picked Last / int_90d76c96	comment	Subverted in Norbit. The final pick is between Norbit and someone else. Norbit's girlfriend Rasputia threatens the kid choosing with violence, so he picks Norbit.
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Picked Last / int_97abe183	comment	One episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has Jimmy getting picked last for basketball due to his short stature.
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Picked Last / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters: In the Season 3 episode "Making the Team," Urkel is demoted from the last man on the bench of a basketball team ... to water boy. However, when — during a game — every available substitute is injured and the team is down to just four players (and Eddie, one of the last players standing, reminds the coach that if he forfeits, he could be fired), the coach is forced to turn to the nerd. Urkel — prepared for the moment — doffs his nerdy clothes to reveal his uniform, and displaying amazing athletic ability, engineers an amazing comeback to win the game. (Jaleel White's real-life passion for basketball was later written in to several episodes about Urkel's "mysterious" basketball ability.)
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Picked Last / int_a309c5a5	comment	On Hannah Montana, this happens to Miley in every gym class and is the setup for the episode "Cuffs Will Keep Us Together." As her alter-ego, Hannah Montana, she has the coordination to dance on stage (sometimes in high heels and usually while singing, no less), but when it comes to sports, she's unable to do things like catch a ball without using her face.
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Picked Last / int_a3362850	comment	The Twisted Toyfare Theatre version of the Secret Wars (1984) storyline had team captains Spider-Man and Dr. Doom select their teams from the heroes/villains/whatever the Beyonder brought to his island. Doom has the second-to-last pick, and the only ones left are a young paraplegic boy and his hated enemy Reed Richards. Naturally, Doom chooses the kid, leaving Richards angry and humiliated.
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Picked Last / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man comics suggest this happened to Peter Parker a lot, unsurprisingly. The "Skin Deep" story shows one of the few cases where this didn't happen to him, because the class had an even more obvious target for once.
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Picked Last / int_bc758ea9	comment	In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, Hamton complains about always getting picked last on the soccer team. At the end, the team apologizes, saying that it's not because they don't like him...
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Picked Last / int_bf1cda2f	comment	Bill from Freaks and Geeks had a history of being picked last. This actually drove him to prank call his gym teacher! After his teacher finds out he was the one who made the call, Bill is awarded the opportunity to captain a team for a day.
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Picked Last / int_c293bd31	comment	In A Drizzle of Education, Drizzle is picked last in gym class back at her old school.
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Picked Last / int_c6400483	comment	The Dorkly Bits short, Chargin' Chuck Gets Picked Last, he doesn't even get picked at all.
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Picked Last / int_ca1bf20c	comment	In the second Beethoven film, Ted goes through this for a baseball game. Neither of the team captains want to pick him, so one of them asks a girl who happens to be there if she wants to play (and to add insult to injury, the girl borrows Ted's glove).
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Picked Last / int_cad1d3f	comment	Bobby's World: In "The Smell of a Tattletale", Bobby is made the official carpool monitor by the moms of his classmates for telling them the wrong things his classmates were doing, giving himself a reputation as a tattletale, as his classmates turn on him. At one point, when they play a game of dodgeball, one team chooses Betty, a girl with a broken arm, instead of Bobby.
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Picked Last / int_cb05e513	comment	In a casual basketball game in The Famous Jett Jackson, J.B. gave up and left when a kid with a broken arm was picked ahead of him.
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Picked Last / int_ccc80720	comment	Sheldon from My Life as a Teenage Robot got picked last for everything as well.
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Picked Last / int_d46cc708	comment	Happens to Eddy in one episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy, despite begging Rolf and Kevin to pick him for their basketball team. Even Plank (who is a plank of wood) got picked before him.
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Picked Last / int_d806f895	comment	In the final episode of each season of Hell's Kitchen, the two finalists get to pick who will cook for them during the final service from a selection of contestants that were eliminated previously. Expect whichever chef is picked last to require some serious soothing to their ego, if they just don't outright phone it in during the service, though there were exceptions to this. The prize for the final challenge is usually getting first pick of the returning chefs, meaning that you avoid getting the last pick as well. Though this doesn't guarantee 100% that the second-to-last pick isn't going to be bitter either. For example, in Season 9, Will won the challenge over Paul and got the priority picks. His final two options were Krupa and Carrie. Everyone, including Will, knew Krupa was the worst option out of the 8 available, but he picked her so Paul would be stuck with Carrie, who had been known to endlessly feud with Elise, who was on Paul's team. It backfired horribly for Will as not only did Krupa do a horrible job in the final service and overcook all of his fish, but Elise and Carrie didn't argue once for the entire service. Take a wild guess as to who won... In relation to a bitter second-to-last pick, in Season 5, Carol was quite bitter that she wasn't picked before Andrea or LA, even though both of them were more consistent than her. She ended up being Danny's final pick only because he didn't want to be stuck with Lacey for obvious reasons.
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Picked Last / int_d963e25e	comment	Little Giants: Not so much picked last but rather not being picked at all which kickstarts the plot. While for some of the characters it was understandable (Can't run very fast, can't catch the ball, afraid to take a hit, etc). One of the characters doesn't get picked simply because she's a girl despite the fact she's more than qualified to be on the team.
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Picked Last / int_dcb07085	comment	Mentioned in Soul Music. Susan is always picked last despite her very patiently telling everyone what a great player she is and how much sense it would make for them to pick her (and actually being right). She can't quite figure out why they don't catch on.
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Picked Last / int_de80fe0e	comment	In Smosh's 2015 Summer and Winter games, Jovenshire is always picked last, to cement his status as the group's Butt-Monkey.
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Picked Last / int_e25322af	comment	In the Homestar Runner cartoon Kick-A-Ball, Homestar points out that Pom Pom was picked last. However, Pom Pom was also picked first... and in fact, Pom Pom was the only person Homestar picked except for a double-sided mouth whisper draft of Strong Sad. The teams ended up being Homestar, Pom Pom, and Strong Sad against everybody else.
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Picked Last / int_e9b0739d	comment	Angelo Rules: Butterfingers always gets picked last at volleyball due to his poor athletic skills. In one episode, Angelo tries to help him getting picked first for once. After trying to teach him to play better to prove himself worthy fails, Angelo bribes the team captains with tickets to Adventure Land in exchange of picking Butterfingers first. It works.
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Picked Last / int_edaffe15	comment	Referenced by Bartiameus in Ptolemy's Gate, the third book of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, when he states that the plotting magicians were the ones that if you picked sides for soccer would be "standing at the end, next to the fat kid and the one with the plaster cast."
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Picked Last / int_f290af20	comment	In The Fire Chronicle from The Books of Beginning, Michael Wibberly is described as always having been picked last at sports, and then, "only if the other team took some handicap, like playing a turtle at first base."
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Picked Last / int_f349915b	comment	Raistlin from the Dragonlance series apparently had this happen to him (due to his frailness) whenever he tried to play physical games with his twin brother and his friends. He eventually just stopped playing with them.
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Picked Last / int_f5799bd9	comment	In The Critic, a flashback to Jay Sherman's childhood shows him being skipped over in favor of a sickly kid wearing a large neck brace. When Jay was the last kid left on the playground, the team captains picked the lunch lady, and "Phil, the Undercover Narc" over him.
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Picked Last / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier was reminded of this when dating a PE teacher. It didn't end well.
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Picked Last / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Happens to Rachel in the episode "The One With the Football". Monica picks Joey and Phoebe for her team while Ross picks Chandler first. In another episode, Joey says he will buy the Knicks and put Rachel on them if they collectively win the lottery:
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