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The Graph Shows the Trend
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To demonstrate how some situation has been progressing, a line graph is brought out as a prop, showing a line clearly proceeding upward or downward. The axes may be unlabeled, especially in parodies. Sometimes someone realizes the graph is on the easel pointed in the wrong direction and fixes it, and now the line is going in the opposite direction. In comedy uses, the line is sometimes drawn out Off the Chart and goes into the ceiling or floor, or just lies there in coils. | |
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Cheers: One episode has Sam and Norm march into Rebecca's office to show her a chart of her recent sexual activity. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "HOMR", when Homer complains that being smarter hasn't made him happier, Lisa explains that actually happiness is inversely related to intelligence. "I made a graph. I make a lot of graphs." | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin consistently presents these to his father, informing him that his "approval rating" is going down. | |
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In one The Order of the Stick strip, a graph compares Belkars evilness (in kilonazis) with his projected evilness without Roy's influence. (And also with the hypothetical child of Cruella de Ville and Sauron, as a baseline.) | |
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Dave Barry Slept Here has a chart of the "Level of Colonial Tension" following the passage of the Irritation Acts. The vertical axis is unlabeled, and the points on the horizontal axis are labeled as days of the week. | |
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Jetsons: The Movie has Spacely Sprockets showcasing the profits of the new Asteroid mine in such a fashion. The line goes up until it reaches the end, before crashing directly down and through the floor. Considering the mine is being sabotaged, this might actually be the correct profit margin. | |
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The Belgian comic Le Chat has this illustrated gag: "A businessman with small-paned windows would rather see a plane take off than lightning crashing down". | |
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In the Futurama episode "Ghost in the Machines", Bender has died, and in a meeting Hermes shows a graph indicating how requests to "bite my shiny metal ass" have gone down 98%. When Scruffy interrupts the meeting using a vacuum made from Bender's body, Hermes asks him to do it later. Scruffy responds with "bite my shiny metal ass", and the chart adjusts automatically. | |
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In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, when Uka Uka is chewing out Cortex and his cronies, he shows a line graph showing their evil-spreading has been dropping. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Mr Verres, being a "never-ending barrel of exposition" often produces graphs that it doesn't entirely make sense for him to have in advance. (It's eventually revealed he literally has a "summon chart" spell.) The most random is when he produces a graph that clearly shows Elliot is more of a stick-in-the-mud than Ellen, to explain why Elliot has to attend Grace's party. Elliot lampshades it later: | |
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The Most Beautiful: The progress of the women at the military lens factory is illustrated by a line graph that trends up when they are dedicated and working well, and trends down when various factors (fatigue, internal bickering, a broken leg) slow them down. | |
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In chapter 78 of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Kashima shows a line graph◊ of Hori's affection, steadily going downwards since they met, with a few peaks when she took the Theater Club seriously. | |
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How I Met Your Mother has a rather offbeat example of this. There is an episode where Marshall has an obsession with making graphs of trivial things. So much so that the gang stages an intervention. | |
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