History Main / BobFromAccounting

** [[ShoutOut Wait,]] [[Discworld/MakingMoney WHAT?!]]

** Of course, that doesn't really make any sense, since "wizard" isn't a job (in fact, there are many jobs within the wizarding world) and there's no technical reason an accountant has to be a Muggle.

* This trope forms the core of one of EddieIzzard's StarTrek routines. Stevens from Accounts decides to go on an away mission to figure out why a landing party consisting of Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] routinely expenses several hundred packed lunches. Things look bad for Stevens as the Captain points out he's wearing a red jumper.

* Mentioned among the victims of the anglerfish attack in ''Webcomics/WhatTheFu''.

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Whenever a throwaway character is introduced, he will often be labeled as someone from the "Accounting department", usually to serve as the straight-man for a joke. Said character's name will also tend to be common and monosyllabic, such as Bob or Bill or Ted, altogether creating an impression of a [[FlatCharacter staid and two-dimensional]] person.

* In the season two episode of ''{{House}}'' where the hospital organised a charity poker tournament, Wilson finally won by beating "Berman from accounting" (not sure about the name).

* Henry from ''UglyBetty'' (he's from accounting!) subverts this one by being an actual featured character.
* Completely averted on the US version of ''TheOffice''. The Dunder-Mifflin Scranton Accounting department consists of three very well-fleshed-out characters named Oscar, Kevin, and Angela. Drop-in characters within the company tend to be from Corporate or (occasionally) another branch.

* ''CodeNameKidsNextDoor'' had an episode with Nigel teaming up with Moosk, an accountant turned tie-hunting HuskyRusskie action hero.

** Also, in the sketch where people are simply falling off a building past a window, one of the two office workers recognized one of them as "Wilkins from accounting".

* ''CodeNameKidsNextDoor'' has a Moosk from accounting mentioned once by Nigel.

* A lot of Chandler's workmates from ''{{Friends}}'' get this treatment, including "Financial Services Lowell" and "Bryan from Payroll".

Once their function in the joke has been fulfilled, they will usually never be mentioned again.

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* ''{{Sealab 2021}}'': a character from the never-before-or-after-mentioned Accounting department serves as an additional foil to Murphy's inane scheme.
* In the ''SouthPark'' episode "Make Love, Not {{Warcraft}}," one of the programmers tells the prophecy of the Sword of A Thousand Truths to his colleagues. The leader asks who foretold the prophecy and the programmer says it was Saltzman from Accounting.

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* JonathanCoulton. ''Re: Your Brains.''
--> "Heya, Tom, it's Bob, from the office down the hall..."

* One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyr]] youth in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Carpe Jugulum'' "pretends to be an accountant". It's the Vampire equivalent of being a one of those people who congregate in dark basements and drink cow's blood.

* One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyr]] youth in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Carpe Jugulum'' "pretends to be an accountant".It's the Vampire equivalent of being a one of those people who congregate in dark basements and drink cow's blood.

* One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyr]] youth in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Carpe Jugulum'' "pretends to be an accountant".It's the Vampire equivalent of being a [[Goth]].

* One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyr]] youth in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Carpe Jugulum'' "pretends to be an accountant".It's the Vampire equivalent of being an Goth.

* One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyr]] youth in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Carpe Jugulum'' "pretends to be an accountant".It's the Vampire equivalent of being an EmoGoth.

* One of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampyr]] youth in the ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Carpe Jugulum'' "pretends to be an accountant".

* MontyPython loved accountant characters -- for example, the one who wanted to become a lion tamer despite his aptitude test showing that he was in no way suited to anything that exciting.