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Express Lane Limit
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })In a large supermarket, there will be more than one checkout lane clearly designated "N Items or Fewer" (or "N Items or Less," which makes Grammar Nazis complain). This allows customers who don't have a lot to buy not to have to wait in line behind those who do. In fiction, mounting violence ensues when someone blatantly exceeds the limit, or tries to stay under by making up rules about what can be considered as a single item. There's a variant where someone is only a little over the limit in a way that everyone finds acceptable, but wastes a lot of time fretting over the limit out of principle, trying to decide what they don't need and what should or shouldn't count as one item. These days, the advent of self-checkout lanes in supermarkets has made this less common than it used to be. Customers can now judge, based on how many items they are purchasing, whether it's less effort to wait in line for an employee to ring them up, or to simply do it themselves. Alternatively, the lanes are designated as "basket only", placing a limit on volume of purchases rather than quantity. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Going one item over the limit is common fodder for a Felony Misdemeanor. Compare Mattress Tag Gag. Examples: |
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In the ''Good Luck Charlie" episode, "Duncan Vs. Duncan", Amy and Bob are in the 15-items-or-less lane with 17 items. When the lady behind them screams for them to get out of line, Amy loses her temper and scans her face with a pricing gun. Meanwhile, Bob stands by, eating a donut (he claims he was trying to get them down to 15 items). This particular instance isn't seen to the viewers, but is heard about from Bob and Amy. | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Principal and the Pauper", Edna throws away some items from her cart to join Marge and Agnes in a line to talk about Skinner. The Monstromart has a “1000 items or less” express lane. In yet another episode where Apu was living with the Simpsons, he advised Marge against using the express lane in a different supermarket because, while the person in front of her only had one item, it was a lonely elderly person (Grandpa Abe, no less) who would milk the checkout process for as much time as possible just to have some social contact. Instead, Apu directed Marge to a lane with a long line, but the line was composed entirely of single men with one or two items each who just wanted to pay for their stuff and get out. |
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A Looney Tunes-themed ad for Crush had Sylvester speeding toward the express lane with a very loaded cart (ostensibly trying to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, as Tweety was in the vicinity). A siren sounded, two tollgates descended to block the lane, and a guard escorted Sylvester by the wrist. | |
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Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain: In one episode, Brain tried to become a masked hero to get people to respect him. One of his attempted good deeds was preventing a man from using the express lane with one item above the limit. Nobody cared. | |
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A One Big Happy strip had a twist, where a man asked if he could cut ahead of Grandma because he only had one item. She said yes, and he proceeded to pay with a check, causing Grandma to scare him off by ramming him with her basket. The cashier says she's shocked, not because of what Grandma did, but because she didn't do it sooner. | |
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One Mother Goose and Grimm strip had Mother Goose at a "10 items or less" line. The cashier asks Mother Goose to move to a different lane, claiming she has a bag of 10 apples, a carton of 12 eggs, a bunch of 39 grapes, and a box of 1500 Cheerios. She decides just to buy a quart of milk... but the cashier says there are 32 ounces in the quart. | |
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Cracker: One episode had Fitz get into an argument with a cashier while trying to use the express. His argument was that he technically only had two items (lager and some kind of junk food): he just just had multiple examples of each item. | |
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In Doc Martin, Martin's secretary is late to work on her first day because she stopped by the supermarket to get supplies, and got into an argument about whether she was entitled to use the "six items or less" lane (she had 20 items, but claimed the important thing was she had fewer than six types of item). | |
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An episode of Stressed Eric had three such lanes: "Less than ten items but more than four", "less than four items but more than one", and "one item or less" (which the titular character promptly use to checkout one potato. | |
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One Encyclopedia Brown mystery depended on the victim's strict adherence to this trope, and the fact that the non-express checkout lanes at the local supermarket took forever. | |
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In one space arc Arthur, King of Time and Space, Arthur is in a supermarket checkout, and says the total is a bit over what he expected. The cashier reminds him that he recently put a tax on entering the express lane with too many items, and Arthur pays up. | |
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An episode of the Cheat Commandos involves said commandos intercepting Blue Laser at the supermarket and trying to apprehend him for having "Two too many" items at the express lane. The items are actually two twin babies. | |
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The opening line of Martina McBride's "Love's the Only House" deals with her being behind a woman who has 35 things in an express lane. | |
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In the Johnny Bravo episode "Johnny's Inferno", one of the evil deeds that a demon makes Johnny do is going (slightly) over the checkout lane limit. The cashier doesn't have a problem with this, though, much to his disappointment. | |
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In one Pearls Before Swine strip, Rat gets a job as a supermarket cashier, and a customer comes by with a box of corn flakes. After Rat rips the box open and counts a total of 575 corn flakes, he flips out on the customer, with predictable results. | |
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In the Ramona Quimby books, Mr. Quimby works as a supermarket cashier for awhile. The express lane has a nine-item limit, but customers frequently try to sneak through with ten or eleven items. The customers often count the items in each others' baskets and argue among themselves. Naturally, Mr. Quimby dislikes it whenever he has to work the express lane. | |
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QI had David Tennant go on a brief rant about this: | |
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The variant is used in the Family Guy episode "Brian Sings and Swings". | |
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The Batman, when Joker goes Bat-mimic he Joker gasses people for whatever trivial "crimes" he notices. Littering (can hits the bin and bounces out), jaywalking, and 11 items at a ten or fewer checkout; tsk tsk. | |
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One episode of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers had villainous mad scientist Professor Nimnul trying to get a colossal stockpile of prunes (long story) out through an express lane, with predictable results (apart from Nimnul's retort: "I've only got one item - prunes!"). | |
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