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* Creator/JudithKerr's book ''Literature/TheTigerWhoCameToTea'' has Sophie's Dad suggest that they go out to a cafe after the eponymous character eats everything in the house including the food that Sophie's Mum was cooking for dinner.

** Arlo Guthrie's episode subverts it: After failing to cook a proper meal and instead getting assaulted by everything in the kitchen, Kermit suggests to the Chef that he send out for pizza. However, in the ending, the Chef serves an entire meal of vitamin pills.

** Arlo Guthrie's episode subverts it: After failing to cook a proper meal and instead getting assaulted by everything in the kitchen, Kermit suggests to Chef that he send out for pizza. However, in the ending, Chef serves an entire meal of vitamin pills.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Creator/LilyTomlin's Edith Ann character from ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'' made a few appearances on the show. In one of these spots, Edith Ann tells about the time she made a sandwich for her dog, Buster, using mustard, peanut butter, salami, cheese, lettuce, pickles, raisins, pretzels, tuna, oatmeal, and a black olive. Buster doesn't want to eat it, and Edith Ann is forbidden by her mother to make sandwiches until she is six.
-->'''Edith Ann:''' But that's okay, because Buster and I going to use the telephone and just call out for pizza. Buster likes pepperoni with double cheese, and so do I. And that's the truth. ''[[[BlowingARaspberry Blows a raspberry.]]]''
* The song "Eighteen", a parody of Music/AliceCooper's "I'm Eighteen", is an animated segment featuring a girl who decides to have a sandwich for lunch. When she sees eighteen different varieties, she can't make up her mind which one to have and decides to send out for pizza.
-->''There's eighteen.\\

* The song "Eighteen", a parody of Music/AliceCooper's "I'm Eighteen" is an animated segment featuring a girl who decides to have a sandwich for lunch. When she sees eighteen different varieties, she can't make up her mind which one to have and decides to send out for pizza.

* A particularly infuriating example comes from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', where Bloo and a new imaginary friend eat all of the food that was supposed to go towards making dinner for the house. When this is discovered Frankie decides to order some takeout, but she's forced to go out ''again'' to get more food to actually make something. Cue her coming back to see that the house [[HypocriticalHumor ordered pizza while she was out]], making her entire second trip useless.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** "Chuckie Gets Skunked": When Chuckie ends up bathing in Grandma Minka's Borst she and Grandpa Boris brought over for dinner—which ends up getting rid of the skunk smell, Stu says he'll go pick up pizzas to replace it.
** "The Turkey Who Came to Dinner":
*** While it's not takeout, given it's decided the Turkey will live because they befriended the babies and the other food was destroyed when the microwave overheated, the adults settle for serving Reptar Cereal instead.
*** The fact that the Turkey doesn't arrive soon enough to begin with and everyone can't agree on how they want to make said Turkey prompts a bunch of them to travel to a supermarket that actually happens to be opened to see what they can all get their hands on.
** "Discover America": When all the food for the cookout ends up wrecked, pizza is once again the substitute used to replace it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': One short is a take on the famous "Witch's scene" from ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', in which the three witches (played here by Dot Warner, Hello Nurse and Slappy Squirrel) recite the lines from the same scene in the play, while Yakko translates it into something the audience will understand. His version makes it sound like they're just trying to cook dinner (with Wakko throwing in assorted odd ingredients as they name them), and at the end he hops into the scene to ask what they're actually cooking up. Even the "witches" aren't sure, until their brew summons forth Mr. Director, to their great horror. After trapping him back in the cauldron and sending it blasting off, Yakko suggests that they just send out for pizza.

** Another has a pizza guy showing up at the door, Roger claiming they didn't order any, then paying for it and telling Andy the forces of fate have ordered dinner for them (and it's apparently not the first time).

* ''Webcomic/TheOatmeal'': In the strip "[[https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cook_home Why I don't eat at home]]", Matt is about to order from Mr. Chang's Chinese Pizza Barn, but sees a TV commercial talking about why fast food is bad for you. He decides to cook Pekingese Bison Casserole from a recipe book labeled ''Recipes! Super EZ! (Haha Not Really)'', but ends up making a grey pile of sludge that taunts him about his lack of cooking skills. Finally, he just gives up and orders from Mr. Chang's, looking very happy as he shovels pizza into his mouth.

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* In ''Comicbook/AnyasGhost'', Anya deliberately ruins the dinner her mom made [[spoiler:because Emily (after being exposed as a murderer) had put rat poison in it to frighten Anya into doing what Emily wants]] and instead offers to pay for pizza.

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May be used as an alternate for a MasochistsMeal. Compare ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping, which can involve gifts bought when pressed for time. See also PekingDuckChristmas.

* One ad for Foodpanda features a man being so distracted playing a videogame that he forgets he invited company over to watch the game. They are naturally not happy that the man forgot about the visit and thus didn't have any food prepared for the guests either. Fortunately, his significant other suggests using Foodpanda to quickly order food and have it delivered to them.

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So you have plans for supper. Problem is, nothing's going right. Either the oven's broken, the food is frozen or inedible, no pans are available, and/or you're pressed for time. No need to fear; there's always at least one restaurant nearby to resolve this plight so no one goes hungry!

* WesternAnimation/HorridHenry: After his mother’s plan to go to a girly shopping centre goes awry (due to the car running out of fuel) and his dad’s fishing goes wrong (case in point, [[EpicFail the poles are set on fire and his clothes are stolen by a trash man]]), Henry reveals that he has a voucher for a fast-food restaurant, which the actually decide to [[PetTheDog take him up on.]]

*** While it's not takeout, given it's decided the Turkey will live because they befriended the babies and the other food was destroyed when the microwave overheated, the adults settle for serving Reptar cereal instead.

** "Chuckie Gets Skunked": When Chuckie ends up bathing in Grandma Minka's Borsh she and Grandpa Boris brought over for dinner—which ends up getting rid of the skunk smell, Stu says he'll go pick up pizzas to replace it.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats'':