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* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': In "A Human Work", this is done to compare Misato's [[NotAMorningPerson slobbish ways]] with Shinji. Then the same sequence happens again but with MusicalisInterruptus and a mutual JawDrop from Shinji and [[AnimalReactionShot Pen Pen]] as Misato exits her room done up neatly in her uniform because she's attending a conference.

* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'': The opening credits show a rooster crowing. We then go to Shaun, Blitzer and the Farmer all getting up and getting ready for the day; with the Farmer shaving, Blitzer putting on deodorant, and Shaun blow drying his wool. Blitzer then stands to attention as the Farmer leaves the farmhouse and gets [[AmusingInjuries hit with the door]] in the process, while Shaun leads the other sheep in aerobics. Finally, Blitzer grabs a cup of tea while the Farmer unlocks the barn and the flock immediately [[{{Masquerade}} starts acting like normal sheep]]. Two variations on the scene also appear in TheMovie.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': In "The Morning Zoo", Principal Pixiefrog has a daily routine, where he'd rummage into the office, throw his hat in Mrs. Warthog's face, and give a completely disrespectful, apathetic announcement.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Final Desmithation", [[VillainOfTheWeek Jennith Chunt]] has a morning routine, consisting of... sleeping on a bed of loose grains and dragging herself across Chinese silver grass.
* Many ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episodes begin with him getting up to his blasting foghorn alarm clock and ready for work. "[[DayInTheLimelight Rise and Shine]]" focuses on [[CloudCuckooLander Patrick]]'s morning routine. HilarityEnsues.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' opening credits show a rooster crowing, and then Shaun, Blitzer and the Farmer all getting up and getting ready for the day, with the Farmer shaving, Blitzer putting on deoderant and Shaun blow drying his wool, then Blitzer standing to attention as the Farmer leaves the farmhouse, and getting [[AmusingInjuries hit with the door]], while Shaun leads the other sheep in aerobics, and finally Blitzer grabbing a cup of tea while the Farmer unlocks the barn and the flock immediately [[{{Masquerade}} start acting like normal sheep]]. Two variations on the scene also appear in TheMovie.

* Many of the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' films (particularly ''WesternAnimation/TheWrongTrousers'', ''WesternAnimation/ACloseShave'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'') has Wallace being woken up and prepared for the day by one of his {{Rube Goldberg Device}}s.
* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'' opens with Fog getting up on the morning of October 2 1872. He is shown doing some stretching exercises, then making a cup of coffee and deciding (after one sip) that it needs "precisely two more drops of milk", which he promptly adds. (Normally, making Fog's morning coffee would be his butler's job, but Fog has just fired his butler, though he hires Rigodon as a replacement that very morning, unknowingly hiring Rigodon's friend Tico at the same time.) This scene establishes that Fog is very particular, especially when it comes to punctuality, and its very ordinariness provides a contrast with the adventure he will shortly be embarking on.

%%If you came here hoping to explain that brushing your teeth before eating actually prevents tooth decay, do us a favour and don't. While it's possible, since teeth are at their strongest before eating and brushing strengthens them before the acids in food have a chance to break them down, that is not remotely funny and in fact kills the joke. You don't want to be a joke murderer, do you? Of course not. Please think of the joke and restrain your justifying edits.

* In Music/RebeccaBlack's infamous Music/{{Friday}} music video, she sings about getting up, getting fresh, and eating cereal. Although she does none of this.
* Music/TheBeatles, "A Day In The Life".

* This also happens at the beginning of Kesha's "Tik Tok."
* Jewel's "You Were Meant For Me"

* Chop Suey! by Music/SystemOfADown starts out referencing this:

* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' lets you play through such a routine as a twisted TutorialLevel of sorts.
* The main character of the Gamecube ''VideoGame/CustomRobo'' gets up to go to work each morning. Getting dressed takes three seconds. But whether he gets woken up by his landlady, by cellphone, or by himself carries some amusement.

* The subject of a ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' where Strong Bad gets up at noon, answers an email and keeps eggs on the couch.

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', Grace [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-5-page-5/ is introduced with her morning routine]]: Her phone alarm going off ([[NotAMorningPerson possibly for the 5th time]]), begrudgingly getting up, having a shower, [[MustHaveCaffeine drinking a coffee]], getting dressed, and applying makeup. The first hint that she's not your average girl is the [[StringTheory conspiracy board]] in the background as she's leaving the house.
* ''Webcomic/{{Huckleberry}}'''s first issue uses half a page to show the protagonist waking up, singing "awful shower songs", and having a big breakfast. The following issue also shows him waking up... then skips ahead to the actual plot.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the Squirrel Prophet storyline ends with [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2015-02-13 part of Sarah's morning routine]].

** [[https://rain.thecomicseries.com/comics/5 Chapter 1's opening page]] has Rain feeding her pet rabbit Puddle, taking a shower, drying her hair, putting on her bra falsies, and then applying makeup.

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': The second season opener quickly flashes through all the rooms of the various study group members as they get up. Their decor and morning routine tells us a lot about them (e.g. Jeff is exercising in an almost bare room, Shirley is cuddling with her two children, Pierce has a trippy looking water-mattress, Annie's is perfectly pretty and organised, but has bars on the window, etc.)

* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Tim and Al discuss their respective morning routines in one episode. Al's is to get up, say "Oh boy, another wonderful day of working side by side with Tim." And the next part is to consider calling in sick. Tim's is to get up, scratch, and get in the bathroom.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The morning after demons steal everyone's voices in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", Buffy goes through her morning routine in the fraternity dorm, noting only a distraught woman rushing past. It's only when she tries to talk to Willow that she realises something is very wrong.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': The ADayInTheLimelight episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E09HarmsWay Harms Way]]" shows Harmony's morning routine with a uniquely vampire twist -- she [[GameFace vamps out]] so she can brush her teeth easier (not easy to do when you can't see yourself in the mirror) and uses her SuperStrength to pick up a dresser to retrieve her shoe.
* The second season opener for ''Series/{{Community}}'' quickly flashes through all the rooms of the various study group members as they get up. Their decor and morning routine tells us a lot about them (e.g. Jeff is exercising in an almost bare room, Shirley is cuddling with her two children, Pierce has a trippy looking water-mattress, Annie's is perfectly pretty and organised, but has bars on the window, etc.)
* ''Series/Daredevil2015'':
** The episode "[[VillainEpisode Shadows in the Glass]]" has Wilson Fisk's morning routine done as a RuleOfThrees, showing his [[LonelyAtTheTop luxurious but lonely life]]. The third time is different as [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Vanessa is now living with him]].
** "The Perfect Game" shows [[ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}} Agent Poindexter]]'s UsefulNotes/ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder with this. Along with {{Undercrank}} to make his movements look alien and robotic, the opening scene underscores how odd Dex is by showing how everything in his apartment has to be absolutely perfect. When he's done reading the newspaper, he puts it on a perfectly squared pile of other newspapers. He rinses his coffee cup, puts it on a rack to dry, then makes sure the handle is perfectly aligned with its neighbor. When he closes the door to his apartment that causes a framed photo to fall off-kilter, so he opens the door back up to fix it.
* The ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E3MakingFriendsAndInfluencingPeople "Making Friends and Influencing People"]] has Simmons' morning routine now she's left SHIELD, including her getting up, exercising, choosing her outfit, going to work and saying hello to a friendly security guard [[BreadMilkEggsSquick at the HYDRA lab she now works at]].
* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' episode "Don't Let The Good Life Pass You By" opens with a montage Doug Forcett going about his morning routine set to the Mama Cass song of the same name. The editing and choice of music are a reference to the ''Lost'' episode mentioned above.
* ''Series/ForAllMankind'':
** The EstablishingCharacterMoment of Margo Madison has her waking up and going through her morning routine ''in her own office'', showing how she is MarriedToTheJob.
** RecycledInSpace when Edward Baldwin is shown going through his daily routine while alone on the Moon base. This suggests that he's holding it together [[GoneMadFromTheIsolation despite everything that's happened]], but unwanted interuptions to his routine (like a Soviet cosmonaut infringing on 'American' territory) soon bring out the worse in him.
* The 1967 Carl Reiner sitcom ''Good Morning, World'' about two morning [=DJs=] for an LA radio station, started with a kind of stop-motion animated photo montage of Dave's alarm clock going off at 4:30, his eyes opening, stumbling around, shaving, pulling on (mismatched) socks and a suit & tie, driving (still dark out), arriving at the station, putting on a record and hailing "Good Morning, World!" into the microphone. (This was based on writers Bill Persky, Sam Denoff and William B. Williams' personal experiences on WNEW. Williams used to say "Hello, world!")
* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Tim and Al discuss their respective morning routines in one episode. Al's is to get up, say "Oh boy, another wonderful day of working side by side with Tim." And the next part is to consider calling in sick. Tim's is to get up, scratch and get in the bathroom.

* The ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' opening sequence is Dexter's typical morning, but shot so that his normal morning routine reminds viewers at every turn of who he [[SerialKiller really is]]; his floss becomes a garrotte, him pulling on his shirt becomes a sheet laid over the face of a corpse, and so on. It's very effectively creepy, and won an Emmy.
%% Needs Context * ''Series/{{Skins}}'', both UK and US, have this is in the first episode.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'' did this in the opening credits for the first season. Adrian Monk's morning routine serves to demonstrate his OCD tendencies: his closet is full of identical suits, he disinfects his toothbrush with boiling water before brushing his teeth, etc.
* Given an interesting twist at the very beginning of ''Series/TheWestWing''. We see Sam wake up in the morning. Next to a prostitute. Who is asking who POTUS is - and why he has such a funny name. [[spoiler:It's the President of the United States.]]

* ''Series/TheBoys2019''. In "The Big Ride" there's a ContrastMontage between celebrity superhero Starlight in her luxury apartment versus her boyfriend Hughie Campbell, now a fugitive, doing his Morning Routine in the subbasement cleaning closet of a gangbanger hideout.

* ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1'' starts this way, with Arthur Dent getting out of bed and starting his routine before being interrupted by a bulldozer trying to tear his house down.

* Seb from ''Literature/{{Haze}}'' has a strict routine that involves lying in bed for exactly four minutes after his alarm goes off. If his routine is off by even a minute, the whole day feels wrong.

* ''Film/CatchUsIfYouCan'' opens with Steve and his flatmates being woken up by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day, and exercising in a nearby playground.
* ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada'' offers not just Andy's morning routine but the routine of about a dozen other women as well, to contrast the way she gets ready to the way the other women do.

* ''Film/{{Grease}}'': The film begins with an animated montage of all of the main characters going through their morning routine to get ready for school.

* ''Film/MishimaALifeInFourChapters'' starts when it's protagonist wakes up [[spoiler: for the last time.]] The prolouge is over by the time he's dressed and out the door.

* ''Film/TheSeventhContinent'' has lots of repetitive shots of the main family doing mundane morning activities in parts one and two, emphasizing the emptiness and loneliness that they are going through.

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* ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' opens with two stories during the opening credits: Elle's friends delivering a letter to her, and Elle getting ready in the morning.

%% Needs Context * ''Film/StrangerThanFiction'' begins this way.
* The film ''Film/{{Zodiac|2007}}'' has this, complete with the child of the cartoonist confessing to swallowing his toothpaste. The sense of panic among the populace over the school bus threat is reflected in the cartoonist taking his kid away from the bus at the last minute and driving him to school.
* The opening scene of ''Film/TurnerAndHooch'' shows Turner's morning routine which establishes his character as an absolute neat freak.
* The film version of ''Film/{{Grease}}'' begins with an animated montage of all of the main characters going through their morning routine to get ready for school.

* ''Film/Hairspray2007'' opens with Tracy waking up to her alarm clock, getting up and getting ready for school, then walking there while singing, dancing and greeting people who, judging by their reactions, appear to be used to seeing her every morning.
* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' had one of these at the beginning, showing the protagonist going to the store across the street to get a Coke. Later on, when the ZombieApocalypse comes, the exact same routine is repeated... except now there are zombies and bloody traces around, which Shaun [[FailedASpotCheck fails to notice]] and just grabs a Coke as usual.

* In ''Film/AllThatJazz'', Joe Gideon's morning routine includes Vivaldi's "Concerto Alla Rustica" on cassette tape, eyedrops, smoking in the shower, taking pills with Alka-Seltzer, and finally declaring into a mirror: "It's showtime, folks!"

* The film ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' opens with Patrick Bateman's everyday morning routine, showing the materialistic and sociopathic nature of our VillainProtagonist, who is putting on his MaskOfSanity.
* ''Film/TheSeventhContinent'' has lots of repetitive shots of the main family doing mundane morning activities in part one and two, emphasizing the emptiness and loneliness that they are going through.
* ''Film/TheIpcressFile'' opens with Palmer calmly getting out of bed and going through his morning rituals of getting dressed and having breakfast - all to the tune of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7R42K0 John Barry's insanely cool theme music]].

* ''Film/ElectraGlideInBlue'' opens with Frank's routine, which involves putting on some music, cooking two pork chops, and cleaning his dentures, before he's murdered. We then see Wintergreen's routine, which involves having sex with his girlfriend Jolene, working out, and putting on his uniform.
* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' opens with a rather humorous sequence showing Kong waking with a yawn, taking a leisurely stroll through his (at this point danger-free) territory, washing his head in a waterfall with a relaxed groan — hearing "Over the Mountain (Across the Sea)" by Bobby Vinton further sells it. [[MoodWhiplash And then]] we see Kong fashioning a tree into a spear and hurling it at the containment dome's fake sky in anger, with a later scene in the film showing he's made several more identical impacts during the time skip.
* ''Film/CatchUsIfYouCan'' opens with Steve and his flatmates being woken up by their organ alarm clock, getting ready for the day, and exercising in a nearby playground.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' had one of these with Carl after [[spoiler:the death of Ellie]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' starts out with how Shrek spends his morning - the opposite of cleaning himself up, since he's an ogre.
* The beginning of ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' has Rapunzel sing through her morning routine, including spending a lot of time brushing her hair.

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* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' the morning of the Vera Misham trial opens with both Klavier and Apollo getting ready for the trial in their homes. They style their hair, pick out their clothes and go over their plan to have Kristoff lose the jury's sympathy to cover up that they framed him.
* In ''Fanfic/BabylonBeautifulFiction'' begins with Ed and Al getting ready for the day while Edward struggles and hides his chronic pain and terminal illness. He shaves, he dries his hair using alchemy and has breakfast with Al.
* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': As revealed in chapter 20 of the sequel ''Picking Up the Pieces'', Blazen Sun's starts with his awakening exactly at sunrise, and then performing his morning meditations before eating and reporting to work.