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Severely Specialized Store
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A Severely Specialized Store is a retail outlet that only deals with an incredibly narrow product range, typically one or two items of a very specific type. As this trope is almost always invoked due to Rule of Funny, the store's products will be exactly what the characters need in their moment of crisis (unless it's closed when they get there). How such a business manages to stay in operation, or why the character can't just go to a general-purpose merchant, is never raised. In fantasy stories, the extremely specialized store might be a fun way to highlight how different the fictional world is. A wizarding world might have wand stores or an Evil Chancellor world might have monocle shops. An infrequent variation is the inverse of this trope — a store that sells everything except for one thing, typically what the protagonists need to solve the current crisis. Also see Crippling Overspecialization, The Magazine Rule. Contrast We Sell Everything and Wrong Restaurant. |
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In Megas XLR, Coop or the Monster of the Week often demolish bizarrely (and hilariously) specialized buildings during the fight. The implication generally being that they're unneeded and thus conveniently empty. | |
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Cleopatra of Clone High purchases her lip balm exclusively from the Lip Balm Shelter. | |
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On Roundhouse, two Amazingly Embarrassing Parents look for envelopes at the mall. The map indicates a store named "Gee, I Can't Believe There's a Store in This Mall That Sells Nothing But Envelopes, Can You?" | |
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In the fourth Freddi Fish game, there's a shop called Just Buckles, which, yes, only sells belt buckles. In the same game, Gill Barker proclaims himself the area's greatest purveyor of wheel nuts and bubble gum, which are indeed the only two things he sells. Naturally, Freddi needs to pick up a belt buckle, a wheel nut, and a pack of bubble gum in order to finish the game. A similar case occurs with the assorted shops in the fifth game; the final two games in the series were big on only providing Freddi with exactly what she needs for the story. | |
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Bleak Expectations: In desperate need of a vicar to thwart a demonic invasion (as you do), Pip Bin and Harry Biscuit go looking at Vicarbox and House of Prayer. They sell vicars. | |
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In BoJack Horseman, resident Cloud Cuckoolander pair Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter open a store called "Halloween in January". It's a Halloween store that's only open in January. | |
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The Simpsons: Ned Flanders owns a "Leftorium" store for left-handed products. It was initially a bust, until Homer started feeling bad for enjoying Flanders' misfortune and scrounged up as many left-handed customers as he could. In "Blood Feud," there is a store called "Sweet Home Alabama" that just sells things from Alabama. When Homer wants to buy a hammock in Cypress Creek in "You Only Move Twice," his boss mentions there's an entire hammock district downtown. "The Joy of Sect" shows Springfield Airport has "Just Crichton and King Bookstore", a parody of small bookstores overstocking on only the most popular authors, especially those found in airports. The cashier will not entertain a request for Robert Ludlum. |
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Earlier seasons of MythBusters frequently featured the show's presenters visiting specialist stores in the San Francisco area. Perhaps most notably, The Bone Room selling animal and human bones and skulls. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Throughout the cities there are chip shops that specializes in selling only enhancements chips that are for boosting abilities when equipped to Socketed Equipment. | |
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In Death Road to Canada, one store you can encounter during an Always Be Looting event is a store that sells umbrellas. Just umbrellas. There's also the Toilet Emporium. | |
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An entire joke in an episode of Code MENT (which ended up spreading as a meme) is this. When Lelouch calls Suzaku for help, the latter tells him that he's shopping for clothes but can't find any. It eventually turns out that Suzaku's at the soup store. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "Get Lit Upon a Situpon", after being told the planet will be destroyed by a earthquake and only syrup will protect him, Frylock heads to a "Syruporium" store to stock up, only to discover all the syrup has been purchased by others who were told about the coming earthquake. | |
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In Double Homework, the boutique that Tamara opens after she graduates sells only black clothes. Lampshaded in its name: "Nothing But Black." | |
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Andy Griffiths' Just Series: In the "Just Stupid" story "Busting", Andy wonders why there's a store in the mall that sells nothing but cat-shaped ornaments. | |
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Legends & Lattes: At opening, the titular shop sells coffee in two varieties (with or without milk), and nothing else. Once Viv hires a baker, they begin steadily expanding the menu with cinnamon rolls and other pastries, but the drinks menu remains sparse until Viv acquires a supply of ice to add cold coffees as an option. Since almost no one in the city of Thune has heard of coffee before, there isn't any demand for more specialized varieties Viv doesn't have experience with. | |
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In Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Fin comes across (what else?) a chainsaw store. | |
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Taken to its logical conclusion in Dragon Age: Inquisition, where one of the stores in Orlais has exactly one item available for purchase, and you aren't even told what it is until you purchase it for a price tag of 10,000 royals. Apparently the shopkeeper's business model is based on people offering him tribute in hopes that he will lower the price. It is a golden nug statue, which you use to lure giant nugs you can ride around. | |
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A magic-themed sketch on The Bozo Show saw a trick go wrong when the dove involved in it flew away. Rusty, as Bozo's assistant, wondered where he was going to get another one. "Doves 'R' Us," Bozo suggested. | |
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Harry Potter: Wandmakers, like Mr. Ollivander, sell wands and nothing else. Justified as each wand must fit its owner, much like a shoe or clothing store. Wands are also major purchases, as a wand does not appear to ever 'wear out' (except for wands that have unicorn hair cores, which would need to be replaced after a decade or so of magic using - like Ron Weasley's original wand, which was a hand-me-down), and since they are central to a wizard's power, it is worth buying the highest quality you can afford. A wand store is basically a place that sells a product that must fit like a suit and and important as a home. A great deal of the Wizarding shops seem to be this way, some more justified than others. Potage's Cauldron Shop sells nothing but cauldrons, and Scrivenshaft's is a borderline example, selling almost nothing but quills. (Arguably Scrivenshaft's is no odder than stores that only sell fountain pens, and they exist in Real Life.) |
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We Bare Bears: In "Losing Ice", Darrel works at a store that only sells mousepads. | |
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The Interdimensional Cable episodes of Rick and Morty feature an ad "Real Fake Doors" (which only sells fake doors that won't open). There's also the Jerry Daycare, a daycare center for the explicit purpose of being a place where different versions of Rick can leave their Jerrys if he happens to come along on an adventure. | |
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mezzacotta: In Comments on a Postcard comic #5006, the author recounts going into a beachside store called Cecil's. The only items the store had in stock were art supplies and batteries. | |
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Not a store, but Number Two's listing of the evil organization's corporate holdings in the first Austin Powers movie include a factory in Chicago that produces nothing but scale models of factories. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Who Gives a Buck?", the O-Town Mall has stores that consist entirely hyper-specialized stores, one of which is "Just Dog Bowls," where Rocko buys Spunky a new dog bowl. | |
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The WordGirl episode "Kid Math" features the Ray Amplifier Emporium, where Dr. Two-Brains gets, you guessed it, an amplifier for his latest ray. It's later revealed that the store also merged with the Giant Cage Outlet. One guess what that one sells. | |
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The Discworld novel Going Postal has Dave's Pin Exchange, which sells only pins (pin collecting serving as a parody of stamp collecting), with the owner being very adamant that he doesn't sell nails. However it's later expanded to Dave's Pin and Stamp Exchange, and by Snuff is Dave's Pin, Stamp and Smell Exchange. (Don't ask.) | |
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Parodied on Portlandia with the "Two Girls, Two Shirts" shop, whose entire inventory consists of two shirts. | |
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The Berenstain Bears: One book features the "Honey Store". | |
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Madam & Eve has a restaurant that only serves Mielies◊ (ears of corn). | |
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DuckTales (2017): In "Let's Get Dangerous", St. Canard apparently has an "abandoned toy warehouse district". | |
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Discussed by Silly Seal in Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics when he asks Doctor Doom where he got his royal throne. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The Polearm Shop. More general armories are also shown, but one strip has Roy go to a Polearm Shop. It's a reference to the "Cheese Shop" sketch, so not only is the shop overspecialized, it doesn't actually have any polearms at the moment. Fortunately for the shop owner, Roy doesn't have a weapon with which to kill him with for wasting his time like in the original sketch. One brief establishing shot in a gnome city shows the huge store "Hats and MORE!" and next to it, the much smaller "Just Hats." |
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UHF features a commercial for "Spatula City." It sells spatulas "And that's all!" | |
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Drawception: This game features a store that appears to sell only knives, called "Knives R Us". | |
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The Owl House: A stall near Eda's is "Just Skulls 2", for buying, trading, and selling skulls. | |
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The first Pokémart you find in the second and third-generation games carries only regular Pokéballs, regular Potions, and three types of status-effect healers, despite appearing to have many shelves of merchandise. The first Mart in Gen 1 doesn't even have Potions. Every game also has a massive department store that's the exact opposite of this trope. Later games justify it by having each Pokémart's available stock be dependent on how many badges the player has. | |
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Though not given any particular focus, Teen Girl Squad has Manolios Ugly One, who likes to advertise his store which specializes only in selling used and broken electronics such as a broken VCR and smashed tape. | |
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One job undertaken by the Myth Adventures crew required them, as a cover operation, to open a boutique that sold nothing but garters. Granted, they were enchanted garters with special perks, e.g. serving as a Bag of Holding. | |
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The mall features in Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is packed with these, including "Reggie's Used Toilet Paper Discount Warehouse". | |
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In The Legend of Zelda series, stores that sell more than three or four items are a rarity (and most stores have at least one exclusive item). Parodied on Cracked with a photomanipulation of a Real Life storefront: "I Sell Three Things (And That's It)". Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games | |
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Among the many strange prizes to be on The Red Green Show's "Possum Lodge Word Game", there was once a coupon for "Tinsel Town: the only store that sells only tinsel all year round." | |
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Mighty Magiswords features a Popcorn Store, a Evil Toupee Store, several broccoli stands (some right next to each other) and, of course, the Magisword store. | |
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Pixelface has an episode where the other characters enter Clairparker's game to do some shopping at the mall. Riley and Romford are looking for sausages and a remote control, respectively. They find everything they are after at a store called 'Sausages n' Remote Controls'. | |
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This is a recurring gag in Axe Cop. Need an awesome ramp to drive to the moon? Go to the awesome ramp store. Unicorn horn? Can be found at the unicorn horn store. | |
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Game Grumps: Lampshaded in the first episode of their playthrough of The Dog Island. | |
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In an episode of The Loud House, Luan goes to a store that sells only cats and hats to buy a new hat for her ventriloquist's dummy Mr. Coconuts. | |
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One of the Kid History "Kid Snippets" videos takes place at the "Hot Dog Bun Store". Hot dogs sold elsewhere. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: The series premier has Jimmy bringing his pants to life, which goes to the "House of Blue Pants" to create more of its kind. Jimmy counters by using rugs he got from "Rug World" to generate static electricity. While looking for it, he sees other stores called "Cheese World" and "Mime World", One of the hour-long specials showed that Retroville has a store called "Ventriloquist Dummies R Us." One episode had "Lucky Tony's House of Garlic" as Jimmy was being chased by two vampires (which was right across the street from House of Blue Pants). Later when he is chased by two werewolves he comes across the "Hi Ho Silver Store". |
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Bob's Burgers: The Store Next Door in the opening sequence that changes with every episode tends to be comically specialized (such as "Talk To The Hand Glove Store" or "Betty's Machetes"). | |
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Odd Squad: In "Odd Squad in the Shadows", the Squad mistakes Mr. Sides for a supervillain. However, when they visit him, they discover he is actually a local businessman who runs a restaurant that serves nothing but side dishes. He later admits "this was a terrible business model". | |
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In Matchu, after Chu suggests getting a catapult, Wheezy sarcastically suggests going to the Catapult Store to get one. Turns out there really IS a Catapult Store. | |
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Played with in Hell or High Water, where Hamilton and Parker eat at a restaurant with a very limited selection: | |
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Pokémon: The first Pokémart you find in the second and third-generation games carries only regular Pokéballs, regular Potions, and three types of status-effect healers, despite appearing to have many shelves of merchandise. The first Mart in Gen 1 doesn't even have Potions. Every game also has a massive department store that's the exact opposite of this trope. Later games justify it by having each Pokémart's available stock be dependent on how many badges the player has. Pokémon X and Y has the Poké Ball Boutique, which sells every variety of Pokéball but nothing else, and the Stone Emporium, which sells evolution stones. Also, the first fashion boutique that the player encounters (in Santalune City) sells only hats and hat accessories, and no other clothes like the other five. |
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Big City Greens: In "Green Christmas", there's the Big City Dodgeball Emporium that sells only dodgeballs. | |
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Peg + Cat: "The Long Line Problem" features Richard wanting to buy a new toy from the "Yellow Store", which sells only yellow products. | |
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Sunset Overdrive: Smartphone #29 is an emailed invoice from "Hinden's Dirigibles & Weaponry, Inc.", which sells: | |
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Generally in weapons stores in the Final Fantasy games, you find a selection of weapons for all of your characters, typically one or two of each type. In Rocket Town, however in Final Fantasy VII, there's a merchant who comments "A gun is a MAN'S weapon! Ain't nuthin' else'll do!" and will only sell you one weapon, a Shotgun for Vincent Valentine. The rest of his inventory is armor. On the second and third discs, he doesn't even sell this, just S-Mines that you can use as attack items and the selection of armor. | |
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One episode of The Fairly OddParents! had a store called "TV's R Us". | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy Has quite a few of these such as Carpet World, Lamp Chops, Twigs & Things etc. | |
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Saturday Night Live On early episodes, there was a series of sketches detailing "The Scotch Boutique", which sold nothing but varieties of Scotch Tape. Apparently, while somewhat of a failure when the store first opened, it apparently started doing major business when a new shopping mall opened up, and all the other local stores needed the tape to hang up their "Out Of Business" signs. Another sketch had Patrick Stewart running an erotic bakery that only made cakes of women peeing on things. "The Change Bank. We make change. That's all we do." "Welcome to Everything Scottish, where if it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!" |
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The Amanda Show had several sketches centered around a family that commits this trope. They've made stores that only sold Beef Jerky, Soup and a lot more. Even the spoof of the teen soap genre "Moody's Point" had the titular Character that ONLY sold beeper polish. Another recurring segment literally had a store that sold live people! | |
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A Zits Sunday strip features an establishing panel of the inside of the local mall; stores named Just Burlap, Wineglasses in an Hour (a parody of Glasses in an Hour), and Things That Start with Q can be seen in the background. | |
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In Season 6 on Hermitcraft, Zedaph opens up a shop called "Warts, Quartz and Shorts", which exclusively sells netherwart, quartz blocks, and colorful pants. And yes, he did pick those items purely for the sake of the name, there is no in-game reason to sell these things together. | |
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This was a common gag on Tom Goes to the Mayor Tom once opened a store called "Big Cups", which only sold big cups. One episode featured two bear trap stores next door to each other, owned by rival twin brothers, both played by Jack Black. |
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Elementals of Harmony: "Even on the Battlefield" mentions such a store, derived from the canon "Quills and Sofas" proprietor, a sister who sells bandages, among other things: | |
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In an episode of Northern Exposure, Shelly is interested in going to the Mall of America; she mentions that they have a whole store that's just socks. (This is true in Real Life. It's called "Just Socks.") | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic In "Owl's Well That Ends Well", Spike needs to get a quill for Twilight Sparkle. So of course, he goes to Quills and Sofas ... which just so happens to be out of the former. In "Canterlot Boutique", Sassy Saddles turns Rarity's new boutique into this when she has Rarity, a skilled and inventive dressmaker, mass-produce two hundred copies of the same dress, which she markets and sells at the exclusion of all other designs. |
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The Polearm Shop. More general armories are also shown, but one strip has Roy go to a Polearm Shop. It's a reference to the "Cheese Shop" sketch, so not only is the shop overspecialized, it doesn't actually have any polearms at the moment. Fortunately for the shop owner, Roy doesn't have a weapon with which to kill him with for wasting his time like in the original sketch. | |
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Sylvia runs a shop where she sells only potions in Potionomics, and nothing else. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! Generictown has "Queenie's Pawn Shop," which literally sells chess pawns. A sign reads, "We also have checkers! Black and red! Buy a checker today!" | |
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A variation appears in a skit from All That, with a retail store that sells only a single pair of pants (not just many of the same style, one single item). One of the employees naturally finds the whole operation insane, quits, then comes back to buy the pants himself, thus rendering his former coworkers' jobs completely pointless. | |
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Incredible Crew has the Shorts and Spoons Superstore which sells only shorts and spoons ("No pants! No forks! And you have to buy one of each!") | |
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Green Eggs and Ham (2019) briefly features Lem's Kites, Snorkels and Pole-Vault Poles, which sells exactly that and no more. It is, we are informed, "Plummeting out of business". | |
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Freaked has the massive conglomerate Everything Except Shoes. The Big Bad eventually mutates the CEO into a massive tennis shoe just to screw with him. | |
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Hey Arnold!: Helga's father owns a store franchise specializing in pagers/beeper, called "Big Bob's Beepers", a questionable idea in 1996 which Comic-Book Time made ridiculous even when the original run ended in 2001. In the episode where Bob's wife Miriam temporarily runs the business, it seems to be a more generalized electronics outlet, even saying its full name was "Big Bob's Beepers and Cellphones". Conversely, The Jungle Movie explicitly shows Bob only sells beepers even in 2017 because he's just that out-of-touch. | |
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Family Guy: The episode "Pawtucket Pat", which involves a mob of angry white men protesting the removal of a statue, features a store that sells only tiki torches and New Balance shoes (both of which have been co-opted as symbols of the alt-right movement). When the owner sees the mob, he switches the sign on the door from "Closed forever" to "Open for one more day". | |
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The Burnable Garbage Day has the Mysterious Vending Machine that sells only one thing: Batteries. However, in the Endgame+, it also has a chance to sell one of the four parts needed for the Golden Ending. | |
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Ryan George has the recurring "Sandwich with a Pretty Big Pickle in it" fast food chain, which sells moderately large pickles in hot dog buns. They also offer a kid's meal, which is the same sandwich cut in half. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing had a couple of limited-time-only examples. The Traveling Trader only ever sold one item at a time (except for his first appearance, when he had a whole three different products), and unlike all other stores, he only accepted "Twinkly Wads" as currency. The Bookmobile was a straighter example, as he claimed to possess "a lot of wonderful books" but all he actually had for sale was thousands of copies of "Eldritch Intellect: Journey into a Mind of Horror". | |
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Inverted in Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman: To help Captain Underpants regain his powers, George and Harold need to get some fabric softener to counteract the spray starch that removed them. They run to a new store that opened nearby, which turns out to be "Everything Except Fabric Softener." | |
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In the recurring Bob & Ray skit "Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife," the characters started a restaurant called "House of Toast," with a rather limited menu. This is Truth in Television now. |
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Pokémon X and Y has the Poké Ball Boutique, which sells every variety of Pokéball but nothing else, and the Stone Emporium, which sells evolution stones. Also, the first fashion boutique that the player encounters (in Santalune City) sells only hats and hat accessories, and no other clothes like the other five. | |
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