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* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD:'' Linda Who's coat gets snagged on a lever that makes a conveyor belt of meals for Robomen turn on. Tom tries to turn it off but that only makes the belt go faster. They have to dispose of the meals to hide the fact that they're there.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' episode "The Snelfu Snafu", the Cybersquad get jobs to earn some Snelfus. Jackie gets a job packing chocolate candies into boxes, but she quickly gets overwhelmed when the speed picks up and winds up covered in a mountain of chocolate.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'':
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': A minigame called "Cake Factory" involves two teams of two trying to make cakes in an assembly line. The game gradually becomes more challenging when the conveyor belts randomly increase and decrease speed.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': In the 8-player minigame Real Smoothie, four pairs of characters have to pick oranges and strawberries provided by a vacuum device and place them to their corresponding smoothie blenders. In each team, the character at the left has to pick the oranges to put them into the orange smoothie blender at their left, while the character at the right has to pick the strawberries to put them into the strawberry smoothie blender at their right. The vacuum device doesn't consistently alternate between providing oranges and strawberries, so the characters have to keep an eye on which fruit is brought next. If a character picks the wrong fruit, the smoothie production stops briefly and the character has to put it back in the center, wasting time. After 30 seconds, the team that puts the most fruit into the blenders wins.

* In the ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' game ''[[VideoGame/NancyDrew Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon]]'', Nancy has to sort pieces of taffy that roll past her on a conveyor belt. The belt doesn't actually speed up, but the taffy pieces' types become more varied and unpredictable as the minigame progresses.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this in an episode with Peter and Quagmire trying to pack pills into plastic vials. Quagmire vomited and Peter's nose started to bleed and he passed out after swallowing several of the pills at once.

Alice and Bob just got a new job at the pie factory! Their job is to box up the finished pies and sort them. The job begins easily enough, but it speeds up and they cannot keep up. HilarityEnsues and they get in trouble for making a mess.

* In ''Series/SesameStreet's'' SpinOff miniseries called ''Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures'', in the episode "Bakers", Bert tells Ernie to leave the pie-making machine speed to "Slow"...but Ernie thinks that they'll never get their order done at this rate, so he decides to set the machine to "Fast". HilarityEnsues.

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* ''Film/ModernTimes'' is the TropeMaker. Creator/CharlieChaplin has a job tightening some kind of widgets with a wrench. When the conveyor belt speeds up, Charlie winds up jumping on top of it, and he is sucked into the gears of the machinery.
* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD:'' Linda Who's coat gets snagged on a lever that makes a conveyor belt of meals for Robomen turn on. Tom tries to turn it off but that only makes the belt go faster. They have to dispose of the meals to hide the fact that they're there.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' has Goofy go to work at the factory while he's suffering badly from a case of Empty Nest Syndrome. After getting yelled at by his boss for getting distracted, Goofy accidentally bumps the lever for the speed of the conveyer belt, and his attempts to keep up with the machine lead to disaster and his boss firing him.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Hamlogna Conveyer Belt Madness" has Lunk and Tentro as workers assembling Hamlogna sandwiches from multiple conveyor belts at a time. When Zaptor cranks up the speed from below, they're forced to [[FusionDance Mix]] to keep up with the rapid pace.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' episode [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat that Laid the Golden Hairball]], as well as the [[Music/CatHairballs music video]] the episode inspired, has Stimpy hwarfing up hairballs onto a conveyor belt that Ren would then stamp with approval. At first the pace is happy and manageable, with Stimpy easily keeping pace with Ren's demands. However once Ren tells Stimpy to pick up the pace things get more complicated. Stimpy starts running out of places to lick and hwarfing starts to become more and more difficult. Eventually Stimpy is completely farmed dry, passes out on the conveyor belt, and gets rolled over to Ren who [[PainToTheAss painfully stamps Stimpy on the butt.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' episode ''The Snelfu Snafu'', the Cybersquad get jobs to earn some Snelfus. Jackie gets a job packing chocolate candies into boxes, but she quickly gets overwhelmed when the speed picks up and winds up covered in a mountain of chocolate.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Hamlogna Conveyer Belt Madness" (pictured above) has Lunk and Tentro as workers assembling Hamlogna sandwiches from multiple conveyor belts at a time. When Zaptor cranks up the speed from below, they're forced to [[FusionDance Mix]] to keep up with the rapid pace.

** For the invention exchange in [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S03E24MasterNinjaII Master Ninja II]], Dr. Forrester invents a buffet on a conveyor belt. Frank tests it, and Dr. Forrester increases the speed until it's moving too fast for Frank to actually eat anything, causing him to let out a Lucy-esque "Ahhhugh!". At the end, Dr. Forrester says, "Well, Joel, not only have we invented the world's fastest buffet, we've invented a ''Lucy'' sketch."

** The short film "The Chicken of Tomorrow" has a scene with a woman sorting chicken eggs into boxes from an assembly line. Crow quips, "I've seen the one where the eggs come out so fast, she has to start putting them in her mouth!"
** For one invention exchange, Dr. Forrester invents a buffet on a conveyor belt. Frank tests it, and Dr. Forrester increases the speed until it's moving too fast for Frank to actually eat anything. At the end, Dr. Forrester says, "There, Joel. I've turned dinner into a ''Lucy'' sketch."

** VideoGame/MarioParty7'': In the 8-player minigame Real Smoothie, four pairs of characters have to pick oranges and strawberries provided by a vacuum device and place them to their corresponding smoothie blenders. In each team, the character at the left has to pick the oranges to put them into the orange smoothie blender at their left, while the character at the right has to pick the strawberries to put them into the strawberry smoothie blender at their right. The vacuum device doesn't consistently alternate between providing oranges and strawberries, so the characters have to keep an eye on which fruit is brought next. If a character picks the wrong fruit, the smoothie production stops briefly and the character has to put it back in the center, wasting time. After 30 seconds, the team that puts the most fruit into the blenders wins.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': A minigame called "Cake Factory" involves two teams of two trying to make cakes in an assembly line. The game gradually becomes more challenging when the conveyor belts randomly increase and decrease speed.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] Main/ConveyorBeltODoom where the characters are trapped on a conveyor belt delivering them to [[DeathTrap their doom]].

* A ''[[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Party 2]]'' minigame called "Cake Factory" involves two teams of two trying to make cakes in an assembly line. The game gradually becomes more challenging when the conveyor belts randomly increase and decrease speed.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this in an episode with Peter and Quagmire trying to pack pills into plastic vials. Peter's nose started to bleed and he passed out after swallowing several of the pills at once.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', Scratchy is dead, so Itchy builds a Cloning Machine to churn out new Scratchys to kill. But the machine is going so fast he can't keep up--so he builds a Killing Machine for the conveyor belt to deliver the newly-made clones into.