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* The ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' episode "Double Vision" did this three times. One was Nene, pretending to be a drinks stewardess to watch a boomer designer; then Linna posing as the laundry girl; and finally, Reika/Vision who impersonated a call girl in order to poison him so that she and her allies could kidnap him using a fake ambulance.
* A random post-credits sequence in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' (not quite Main/TheTag in that it had absolutely nothing to do with the episode) had Akira foil just such a plan. The whole thing is rendered in a faux-3-D art style.
* This trope is used once in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', where some of the girls dress as room maids of a high-class hotel in order to kill a mark staying there. It works fine, until one of them bumps into an actual employee, leading to a ShootTheDog moment. This is quite odd, considering that the girls look far too young to work in such an environment in the first place.
* A random post-credits sequence in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' (not quite Main/TheTag in that it had absolutely nothing to do with the episode) had Akira foil just such a plan. The whole thing is rendered in a faux-3-D art style.
* This trope is used once in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', where some of the girls dress as room maids of a high-class hotel in order to kill a mark staying there. It works fine, until one of them bumps into an actual employee, leading to a ShootTheDog moment. This is quite odd, considering that the girls look far too young to work in such an environment in the first place.
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* The ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' episode "Double Vision" did this three times. One was Nene, pretending to be a drinks stewardess to watch a boomer designer; then Linna posing as the laundry girl; and finally, Reika/Vision who impersonated a call girl in order to poison him so that she and her allies could kidnap him using a fake ambulance.
* A random post-credits sequence in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' (not quite Main/TheTag in that it had absolutely nothing to do with the episode) had Akira foil just such a plan. The whole thing is rendered in a faux-3-D art style.
* This trope is used once in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', where some of the girls dress as room maids of a high-class hotel in order to kill a mark staying there. It works fine, until one of them bumps into an actual employee, leading to a ShootTheDog moment. This is quite odd, considering that the girls look far too young to work in such an environment in the first place.TrojanAmbulance.
* A random post-credits sequence in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' (not quite Main/TheTag in that it had absolutely nothing to do with the episode) had Akira foil just such a plan. The whole thing is rendered in a faux-3-D art style.
* This trope is used once in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', where some of the girls dress as room maids of a high-class hotel in order to kill a mark staying there. It works fine, until one of them bumps into an actual employee, leading to a ShootTheDog moment. This is quite odd, considering that the girls look far too young to work in such an environment in the first place.
* This trope is used once in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', where some of the girls dress as room maids of a high-class hotel in order to kill a mark staying there. It works fine, until one of them bumps into an actual employee, leading to a ShootTheDog moment. This is quite odd, considering that the girls look far too young to work in such an environment in the first place.
* A random post-credits sequence in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' (not quite Main/TheTag in that it had absolutely nothing to do with the episode) had Akira foil just such a plan. The whole thing is rendered in a faux-3-D art style.
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* In ''Chaos!'' #3, Evil Ernie poses as a pizza delivery guy to gain access to Lt. Brandon Green's home and wipe out him and his minders.
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* In ''Chaos!'' #3, Evil Ernie ComicBook/EvilErnie poses as a pizza delivery guy to gain access to Lt. Brandon Green's home and wipe out him and his minders.
* In ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet'', two minions of the villain disguise themselves as room service in order to get access to the protagonist's room and the plant "Adele" therein.
* Played with in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. When room service calls at the room that Rath and Electra are staying in, he points his gun at the closed door, obviously well aware of this tactic, but Electra confirms that she did actually order room service.
-->'''Rath:''' You should tell me these things!
* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance from the KGB, Colonel Stok]]. Stok then changes out of his waiter's outfit with relief and changes into his uniform, which is hidden under the silver dinner dish.
* Rather incompetently carried out by Rocco in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': someone else got there first, he hid his gun in the most obvious place on the cart, he brought a six-shot .38 revolver because his bosses didn't tell him there were ''nine'' guys instead of the two he'd been told about (though you'd think he'd be smart enough to bring extra ammunition), and he didn't even bother to tie his hair back to make himself look respectably like a room service attendant. Not to mention, his name tag says Jaffar, and Rocco doesn't look remotely Middle Eastern.
* This is how one of the hitman's assassination attempts goes in ''Film/{{Bulworth}}''.
* ''Film/{{Commando}}''. Matrix has just killed Sully and is searching his room when badass villain Cooke arrives outside. Cindy answers the door with her shirt open and a coy smile, claiming she's "Room service" (implying she's an escort). Cooke is suspicious and makes her stand back from the door, but still misses Matrix hiding behind it.
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills to use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace, and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
* In ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' Grocer refers to a couple of female assassins as "Queens of the hotel hit."
* Played with in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. When room service calls at the room that Rath and Electra are staying in, he points his gun at the closed door, obviously well aware of this tactic, but Electra confirms that she did actually order room service.
-->'''Rath:''' You should tell me these things!
* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance from the KGB, Colonel Stok]]. Stok then changes out of his waiter's outfit with relief and changes into his uniform, which is hidden under the silver dinner dish.
* Rather incompetently carried out by Rocco in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': someone else got there first, he hid his gun in the most obvious place on the cart, he brought a six-shot .38 revolver because his bosses didn't tell him there were ''nine'' guys instead of the two he'd been told about (though you'd think he'd be smart enough to bring extra ammunition), and he didn't even bother to tie his hair back to make himself look respectably like a room service attendant. Not to mention, his name tag says Jaffar, and Rocco doesn't look remotely Middle Eastern.
* This is how one of the hitman's assassination attempts goes in ''Film/{{Bulworth}}''.
* ''Film/{{Commando}}''. Matrix has just killed Sully and is searching his room when badass villain Cooke arrives outside. Cindy answers the door with her shirt open and a coy smile, claiming she's "Room service" (implying she's an escort). Cooke is suspicious and makes her stand back from the door, but still misses Matrix hiding behind it.
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills to use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace, and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
* In ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' Grocer refers to a couple of female assassins as "Queens of the hotel hit."
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* Rather incompetently carried out by Rocco in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': someone else got there first, he hid his gun in the most obvious place on the cart, he brought a six-shot .38 revolver because his bosses didn't tell him there were ''nine'' guys instead of the two he'd been told about (though you'd think he'd be smart enough to bring extra ammunition), and he didn't even bother to tie his hair back to make himself look respectably like a room service attendant. Not to mention, his name tag says Jaffar, and Rocco doesn't look remotely Middle Eastern.
* The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has a sequence where the protagonist is required to pose as a room service waitress and deliver a trolley with a bomb planted on it to a hotel room. In the original French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', it's just a bug.
* The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has a sequence where the protagonist is required to pose as a room service waitress and deliver a trolley with a bomb planted on it to a hotel room. In the original French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', it's just a bug.
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* Rather incompetently carried out by Rocco in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': someone else got there first, he hid his gun in At the most obvious place on the cart, he brought a six-shot .38 revolver because his bosses didn't tell him there were ''nine'' guys instead end of the two he'd been told about (though you'd think he'd be smart enough to bring extra ammunition), and he didn't even bother to tie his hair back to make himself look respectably like a room service attendant. Not to mention, his name tag says Jaffar, and Rocco doesn't look remotely Middle Eastern.
* The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has a sequence where the protagonist is required to pose''Film/JudasKiss'', [[spoiler:Coco kills Junior by posing as a room service waitress and deliver a trolley with a bomb planted shooting him on it to a hotel room. In the original French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', it's just beach at a bug.resort in Mexico]].
* The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has a sequence where the protagonist is required to pose
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* In ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' Grocer refers to a couple of female assassins as "Queens of the hotel hit."
* ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[ClothingDamage slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's to meet the BigBad.
* This is how one of the hitman's assassination attempts goes in ''Film/{{Bulworth}}''.
* ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[ClothingDamage slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's to meet the BigBad.
* This is how one of the hitman's assassination attempts goes in ''Film/{{Bulworth}}''.
* Lampshaded, attempted, and subverted in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' in rapid succession, wherein Riggs and Murtaugh give Leo Getz hell about answering the door, an apparent room service cart comes in and the waiter tries to go for Leo but is stopped via ''DestinationDefenestration''
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* Lampshaded in ''Film/Traffic2000'' when the breakfast service knocks on the door and, when prompted about who they are, respond with "The Mob." Subsequently played straight when [[spoiler:it turns out to be a SarcasticConfession, and the breakfast was poisoned. The real breakfast service shows up moments later, but too late]].
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* ''Film/{{Commando}}''. Matrix has just killed Sully and is searching his room when badass villain Cooke arrives outside. Cindy answers the door with her shirt open and a coy smile, claiming she's "Room service" (implying she's an escort). Cooke is suspicious and makes her stand back from the door, but still misses Matrix hiding behind it.
* Lampshaded, attempted, and subverted in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' in rapid succession, wherein Riggs and Murtaugh give Leo Getz hell about answering the door, an apparent room service cart comes in and the waiter tries to go for Leo but is stopped via ''DestinationDefenestration''
* Played with in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. When room service calls at the room that Rath and Electra are staying in, he points his gun at the closed door, obviously well aware of this tactic, but Electra confirms that she did actually order room service.
-->'''Rath:''' You should tell me these things!
* In ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet'', two minions of the villain disguise themselves as room service in order to get access to the protagonist's room and the plant "Adele" therein.
* Lampshaded, attempted, and subverted in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' in rapid succession, wherein Riggs and Murtaugh give Leo Getz hell about answering the door, an apparent room service cart comes in and the waiter tries to go for Leo but is stopped via ''DestinationDefenestration''
* Played with in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. When room service calls at the room that Rath and Electra are staying in, he points his gun at the closed door, obviously well aware of this tactic, but Electra confirms that she did actually order room service.
-->'''Rath:''' You should tell me these things!
* In ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet'', two minions of the villain disguise themselves as room service in order to get access to the protagonist's room and the plant "Adele" therein.
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* ''Film/{{Commando}}''. Matrix The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has just killed Sully and is searching his room when badass villain Cooke arrives outside. Cindy answers a sequence where the door with her shirt open and a coy smile, claiming she's "Room service" (implying she's an escort). Cooke protagonist is suspicious and makes her stand back from the door, but still misses Matrix hiding behind it.
* Lampshaded, attempted, and subverted in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' in rapid succession, wherein Riggs and Murtaugh give Leo Getz hell about answering the door, an apparentrequired to pose as a room service cart comes in waitress and the waiter tries to go for Leo but is stopped via ''DestinationDefenestration''
* Playeddeliver a trolley with in ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. When room service calls at a bomb planted on it to a hotel room. In the room that Rath original French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', it's just a bug.
* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson andElectra Mary are staying in, he points his gun at travelling by train to their honeymoon, a mook working for Moriarty, disguised as a train attendant, knocks on the closed door, obviously well aware door of this tactic, but Electra confirms that she did actually order room service.
-->'''Rath:''' You should tell me these things!
* In ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet'', two minionstheir compartment to offer them a bottle of wine with the compliments of the villain disguise themselves as room service in order to get access to the protagonist's room staff. Once he's inside, he draws a knife and the plant "Adele" therein.attacks them.
* Lampshaded, attempted, and subverted in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'' in rapid succession, wherein Riggs and Murtaugh give Leo Getz hell about answering the door, an apparent
* Played
* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and
-->'''Rath:''' You should tell me these things!
* In ''Film/AdeleHasntHadHerDinnerYet'', two minions
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* At the end of ''Film/JudasKiss'', [[spoiler:Coco kills Junior by posing as a waitress and shooting him on the beach at a resort in Mexico]].
* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and Mary are travelling by train to their honeymoon, a mook working for Moriarty, disguised as a train attendant, knocks on the door of their compartment to offer them a bottle of wine with the compliments of the staff. Once he's inside, he draws a knife and attacks them.
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills to use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace, and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance from the KGB, Colonel Stok]]. Stok then changes out of his waiter's outfit with relief and changes into his uniform, which is hidden under the silver dinner dish.
* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and Mary are travelling by train to their honeymoon, a mook working for Moriarty, disguised as a train attendant, knocks on the door of their compartment to offer them a bottle of wine with the compliments of the staff. Once he's inside, he draws a knife and attacks them.
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills to use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace, and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance from the KGB, Colonel Stok]]. Stok then changes out of his waiter's outfit with relief and changes into his uniform, which is hidden under the silver dinner dish.
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* At Lampshaded in ''Film/Traffic2000'' when the end of ''Film/JudasKiss'', [[spoiler:Coco kills Junior by posing as a waitress and shooting him on the beach at a resort in Mexico]].
* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and Mary are travelling by train to their honeymoon, a mook working for Moriarty, disguised as a train attendant,breakfast service knocks on the door of their compartment to offer them a bottle of wine and, when prompted about who they are, respond with "The Mob." Subsequently played straight when [[spoiler:it turns out to be a SarcasticConfession, and the compliments of breakfast was poisoned. The real breakfast service shows up moments later, but too late]].
* ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find thestaff. Once room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[ClothingDamage slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's inside, he draws a knife and attacks them.
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skillsto use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace, and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance frommeet the KGB, Colonel Stok]]. Stok then changes out of his waiter's outfit with relief and changes into his uniform, which is hidden under the silver dinner dish.BigBad.
* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and Mary are travelling by train to their honeymoon, a mook working for Moriarty, disguised as a train attendant,
* ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the
* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills
* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance from
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
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* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
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* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' did it too, when Hiro and Ando infiltrate a hotel room in order to retrieve a woman's bag.
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* Inversion: In an episode of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'', Carl Kolchak is waiting nerve-wracked in his hotel room with a cross in one hand and a sharp oak stake in the other to jump the vampiress call-girl he's been hunting for days as she comes through the door (which has a cross drawn on its inside in lipstick!). It turns out that the pimp substituted another girl at the last minute, and HilarityEnsues.
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where Tony and Ziva are required to go undercover as [[UndercoverAsLovers married assassins]]. Since they're being watched by the villains, their own agents surreptitiously drop off necessary surveillance equipment in the guise of room service.
** In the same episode, a pretty female FBI agent does the same thing disguised as a maid, much to Tony's appreciation.
* Used with spectacular non-success by Weasel on an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when Eddie, Weasel, and Waldo wanted to meet a pop star.
* In the early '70s ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a recurring sketch was the Landshark, a huge shark that tried to get into people's apartments by knocking on the door and saying, "Uh, candygram..."
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where Tony and Ziva are required to go undercover as [[UndercoverAsLovers married assassins]]. Since they're being watched by the villains, their own agents surreptitiously drop off necessary surveillance equipment in the guise of room service.
** In the same episode, a pretty female FBI agent does the same thing disguised as a maid, much to Tony's appreciation.
* Used with spectacular non-success by Weasel on an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when Eddie, Weasel, and Waldo wanted to meet a pop star.
* In the early '70s ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a recurring sketch was the Landshark, a huge shark that tried to get into people's apartments by knocking on the door and saying, "Uh, candygram..."
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* Inversion: In an episode of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'', Carl Kolchak is waiting nerve-wracked in his hotel room with a cross in one hand and a sharp oak stake in the other to jump mini-series ''Series/{{Brotherhood of the vampiress call-girl Rose}}'', a maid walks in on the protagonist Saul as he's been hunting struggling with a hitman in a hotel room. She produces a silenced pistol and tries to shoot Saul, but only hits her compatriot (in the original novel she's just an InnocentBystander).
* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "The Phoner," Casey orders groceries delivered to the apartment where she's staying. Unfortunately fordays as she comes through her, the door (which has a cross drawn on its inside in lipstick!). It delivery man turns out that to be the pimp substituted another girl at the last minute, and HilarityEnsues.
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where Tony and Ziva are requiredrapist she's trying to go undercover as [[UndercoverAsLovers married assassins]]. Since they're being watched by the villains, their own agents surreptitiously drop off necessary surveillance equipment in the guise of room service.
** In the same episode, a pretty female FBI agent does the same thing disguised as a maid, much to Tony's appreciation.
* Used with spectacular non-success by Weasel on an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when Eddie, Weasel, and Waldo wanted to meet a pop star.
* In the early '70s ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a recurring sketch was the Landshark, a huge shark that tried to get into people's apartments by knocking on the door and saying, "Uh, candygram..."catch.
* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "The Phoner," Casey orders groceries delivered to the apartment where she's staying. Unfortunately for
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where Tony and Ziva are required
** In the same episode, a pretty female FBI agent does the same thing disguised as a maid, much to Tony's appreciation.
* Used with spectacular non-success by Weasel on an episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when Eddie, Weasel, and Waldo wanted to meet a pop star.
* In the early '70s ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a recurring sketch was the Landshark, a huge shark that tried to get into people's apartments by knocking on the door and saying, "Uh, candygram..."
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* In ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Lucy does this several times on their trip to Hollywood to get close to celebrities.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': Rose did this to Charlie once. Notable as she had to fly in from England to do it.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': Rose did this to Charlie once. Notable as she had to fly in from England to do it.
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* In ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Lucy does this several times on their trip ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', a HoneyTrap claims to Hollywood be delivering tea as a ploy to get close photographed leaving Atticus Aldridge’s hotel room as part of Rose’s mother’s attempt to celebrities.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': Rose did thissabotage their marriage. It happens right after his StagParty, so he’s drunk enough to Charlie once. Notable as she had to fly in from England to do fall for it.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': Rose did this
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* Played with in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "The Town"; a group of enemy agents plan to use this trope to assassinate an Iron Curtain defector [[spoiler:but are stopped when the IMF impersonate their leader and call off the hit.]]
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* Played Used with in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' spectacular non-success by Weasel on an episode "The Town"; a group of enemy agents plan to use this trope to assassinate an Iron Curtain defector [[spoiler:but are stopped ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when the IMF impersonate their leader Eddie, Weasel, and call off the hit.]]Waldo wanted to meet a pop star.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' did it too, when Hiro and Ando infiltrate a hotel room in order to retrieve a woman's bag.
* In ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Lucy does this several times on their trip to Hollywood to get close to celebrities.
* Inversion: In an episode of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'', Carl Kolchak is waiting nerve-wracked in his hotel room with a cross in one hand and a sharp oak stake in the other to jump the vampiress call-girl he's been hunting for days as she comes through the door (which has a cross drawn on its inside in lipstick!). It turns out that the pimp substituted another girl at the last minute, and HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/TheMagician'': Used by a hitman to gain access to Max's hotel room in "The Manhunters".
* Played with in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "The Town"; a group of enemy agents plan to use this trope to assassinate an Iron Curtain defector [[spoiler:but are stopped when the IMF impersonate their leader and call off the hit.]]
* In ''Series/ILoveLucy'', Lucy does this several times on their trip to Hollywood to get close to celebrities.
* Inversion: In an episode of ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'', Carl Kolchak is waiting nerve-wracked in his hotel room with a cross in one hand and a sharp oak stake in the other to jump the vampiress call-girl he's been hunting for days as she comes through the door (which has a cross drawn on its inside in lipstick!). It turns out that the pimp substituted another girl at the last minute, and HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/TheMagician'': Used by a hitman to gain access to Max's hotel room in "The Manhunters".
* Played with in the ''Series/MissionImpossible'' episode "The Town"; a group of enemy agents plan to use this trope to assassinate an Iron Curtain defector [[spoiler:but are stopped when the IMF impersonate their leader and call off the hit.]]
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' where Tony and Ziva are required to go undercover as [[UndercoverAsLovers married assassins]]. Since they're being watched by the villains, their own agents surreptitiously drop off necessary surveillance equipment in the guise of room service.
** In the same episode, a pretty female FBI agent does the same thing disguised as a maid, much to Tony's appreciation.
** In the same episode, a pretty female FBI agent does the same thing disguised as a maid, much to Tony's appreciation.
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* ''Series/TheMagician'': Used by a hitman to gain access to Max's hotel room in "The Manhunters".
* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "The Phoner," Casey orders groceries delivered to the apartment where she's staying. Unfortunately for her, the delivery man turns out to be the rapist she's trying to catch.
* In the mini-series ''Brotherhood of the Rose'', a maid walks in on the protagonist Saul as he's struggling with a hitman in a hotel room. She produces a silenced pistol and tries to shoot Saul, but only hits her compatriot (in the original novel she's just an InnocentBystander).
* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', a HoneyTrap claims to be delivering tea as a ploy to get photographed leaving Atticus Aldridge’s hotel room as part of Rose’s mother’s attempt to sabotage their marriage. It happens right after his StagParty, so he’s drunk enough to fall for it.
* In the ''Series/{{Decoy}}'' episode "The Phoner," Casey orders groceries delivered to the apartment where she's staying. Unfortunately for her, the delivery man turns out to be the rapist she's trying to catch.
* In the mini-series ''Brotherhood of the Rose'', a maid walks in on the protagonist Saul as he's struggling with a hitman in a hotel room. She produces a silenced pistol and tries to shoot Saul, but only hits her compatriot (in the original novel she's just an InnocentBystander).
* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', a HoneyTrap claims to be delivering tea as a ploy to get photographed leaving Atticus Aldridge’s hotel room as part of Rose’s mother’s attempt to sabotage their marriage. It happens right after his StagParty, so he’s drunk enough to fall for it.
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* In the early '70s ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a recurring sketch was the Landshark, a huge shark that tried to get into people's apartments by knocking on the door and saying, "Uh, candygram..."
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': Rose did this to Charlie once. Notable as she had to fly in from England to do it.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'': Rose did this to Charlie once. Notable as she had to fly in from England to do it.
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A classic ploy of {{Heroes}} and {{Villains}} alike for gaining access to their target who is staying at a hotel is to pose as room service personnel. Can turn into a gag if the subject becomes suspicious because they didn't order room service, especially if they are staying at a [[NoTellMotel low-end establishment]] that clearly doesn't offer room service in the first place.
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A classic ploy of {{Heroes}} heroes and {{Villains}} villains alike for gaining access to their target who is staying at a hotel is to pose as room service personnel. Can turn into a gag if the subject becomes suspicious because they didn't order room service, especially if they are staying at a [[NoTellMotel low-end establishment]] that clearly doesn't offer room service in the first place.
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* ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Douglas pulled an UpToEleven version of this as a means of revenge (and profit) against an overbearing movie star who thought she could walk all over MJN Air. In "Cremona", Carolyn is her usual brusque self toward film star Hester Macauley, who retaliates in kind and gains the upper hand by threatening to cancel the contract with MJN unless Carolyn waits on her for the entire flight; Douglas decides to use the bitterness that develops between them to his advantage. He tells Carolyn to get revenge on Hester by telling local fans of her appearance in Quest for Camelot - a role she hated and that has attracted a fanbase she hates even more - that she is staying at the Excelsior Hotel in Cremona. Then, he defuses Hester's anger by getting the fans to pay a fortune to pretend to be hotel staff (including some truly absurd positions like "stablehand" and "cheese butler") to give them a chance to meet her, and uses the proceeds to pay for Hester to stay in the state rooms Martin allowed himself to be talked into booking, while Douglas himself takes Hester's old room.
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* ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Douglas pulled an UpToEleven exaggerated version of this as a means of revenge (and profit) against an overbearing movie star who thought she could walk all over MJN Air. In "Cremona", Carolyn is her usual brusque self toward film star Hester Macauley, who retaliates in kind and gains the upper hand by threatening to cancel the contract with MJN unless Carolyn waits on her for the entire flight; Douglas decides to use the bitterness that develops between them to his advantage. He tells Carolyn to get revenge on Hester by telling local fans of her appearance in Quest for Camelot - a role she hated and that has attracted a fanbase she hates even more - that she is staying at the Excelsior Hotel in Cremona. Then, he defuses Hester's anger by getting the fans to pay a fortune to pretend to be hotel staff (including some truly absurd positions like "stablehand" and "cheese butler") to give them a chance to meet her, and uses the proceeds to pay for Hester to stay in the state rooms Martin allowed himself to be talked into booking, while Douglas himself takes Hester's old room.
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* ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Douglas pulled an UpToEleven version of this as a means of revenge (and profit) against an overbearing movie star who thought she could walk all over MJN Air. In "Cremona", Carolyn is her usual brusque self toward film star Hester Macauley, who retaliates in kind and gains the upper hand by threatening to cancel the contract with MJN unless Carolyn waits on her for the entire flight; Douglas decides to use the bitterness that develops between them to his advantage. He tells Carolyn to get revenge on Hester by telling local fans of her appearance in Quest for Camelot - a role she hated and that has attracted a fanbase she hates even more - that she is staying at the Excelsior Hotel in Cremona. Then, he defuses Hester's anger by getting the fans to pay a fortune to pretend to be hotel staff (including some truly absurd positions like "stablehand" and "cheese butler") to give them a chance to meet her, and uses the proceeds to pay for Hester to stay in the state rooms Martin allowed himself to be talked into booking, while Douglas himself takes Hester's old room.
* ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Douglas pulled an UpToEleven version of this as a means of revenge (and profit) against an overbearing movie star who thought she could walk all over MJN Air. In "Cremona", Carolyn is her usual brusque self toward film star Hester Macauley, who retaliates in kind and gains the upper hand by threatening to cancel the contract with MJN unless Carolyn waits on her for the entire flight; Douglas decides to use the bitterness that develops between them to his advantage. He tells Carolyn to get revenge on Hester by telling local fans of her appearance in Quest for Camelot - a role she hated and that has attracted a fanbase she hates even more - that she is staying at the Excelsior Hotel in Cremona. Then, he defuses Hester's anger by getting the fans to pay a fortune to pretend to be hotel staff (including some truly absurd positions like "stablehand" and "cheese butler") to give them a chance to meet her, and uses the proceeds to pay for Hester to stay in the state rooms Martin allowed himself to be talked into booking, while Douglas himself takes Hester's old room.
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** At the very end of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the McGuffin is to disguise herself as a hotel maid. She fails, but in the original novel she's able to stab Bond with her TrickedOutShoes and nearly kills him.
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** At the very end of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the McGuffin is to disguise herself as a hotel maid. She fails, but in the original novel novel, she's able to stab Bond with her TrickedOutShoes and nearly kills him.
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** Likewise at the end of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', hitmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd deliver a bomb hidden in a food trolley to Bond and Tiffany as they are sailing home on a cruise ship. Despite two prior attempts to kill Bond he hasn't seen them before, but he ''does'' recognize Wint's cologne.
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** Likewise at the end of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', hitmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd deliver a bomb hidden in a food trolley to Bond and Tiffany as they are sailing home on a cruise ship. Despite two prior attempts to kill Bond Bond, he hasn't seen them before, but he ''does'' recognize Wint's cologne.
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* An episode of ''Series/TheFallGuy'' had Colt going after a bounty who will not leave his house for anything. After talking to the law enforcement official who had been watching the house and finding out the guy has been subsisting on takeout delivery, Colt goes up to the front door, posing as a pizza delivery guy (he just happened to have a pizza box in his truck). Subverted in that the guy loudly yells "I DIDN'T ORDER A PIZZA!" before charging out the house and attacking Colt. Fortunately for him, Colt won the fight because the pizza box contained [[spoiler:a barbell weight]].
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* An episode of ''Series/TheFallGuy'' had Colt going after a bounty who will not leave his house for anything. After talking to the law enforcement official who had been watching the house and finding out the guy has been subsisting on takeout delivery, Colt goes up to the front door, posing as a pizza delivery guy (he just happened to have a pizza box in his truck). Subverted in that the guy loudly yells "I DIDN'T ORDER A PIZZA!" before charging out of the house and attacking Colt. Fortunately for him, Colt won the fight because the pizza box contained [[spoiler:a barbell weight]].
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* ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}''. Played with in the episode "Sundowner". Fiore, [=DeBlanc=] and Jesse are hiding in a hotel room from the Seraphim. There's a knock on the door.
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* ''Series/{{Preacher|2016}}''. Played with in the episode "Sundowner". Fiore, [=DeBlanc=] [=DeBlanc=], and Jesse are hiding in a hotel room from the Seraphim. There's a knock on the door.
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** The episode "Hijack" has a variation. Bodie and Doyle are guarding a witness in a hotel, and ready their guns when room service arrives in case of this trope. The hitman is actually waiting in the room next door, and waits till the waiter leaves but Bodie hasn't had time to lock the door before kicking it open.
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** The episode "Hijack" has a variation. Bodie and Doyle are guarding a witness in a hotel, and ready their guns when room service arrives in case of this trope. The hitman is actually waiting in the room next door, door and waits till the waiter leaves but Bodie hasn't had time to lock the door before kicking it open.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': In "Go Away, Ghost Ship," Scooby, Fred, and Daphne hide in a service cart while Shaggy and Velma are dressed as a high rise penthouse room service so they can get in to see a troubled shipping magnate.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': In "Go Away, Ghost Ship," Scooby, Fred, and Daphne hide in a service cart while Shaggy and Velma are dressed as a high rise high-rise penthouse room service so they can get in to see a troubled shipping magnate.
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* ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'': Almost every time the setting has included a hotel, room service has been a viable disguise to catch 47's target alone in their room. These disguises are also widely useful for other objectives too since hotel staff typically have unfettered access to most of the building.
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* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'', when the main characters are relaxing in the White Wing Palace (effectively their hotel room) a group of assassins comes through the door. Durban even lampshades it by saying, “Excuse me, we ordered room service an hour ago.”
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* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'', when the main characters are relaxing in the White Wing Palace (effectively their hotel room) a group of assassins comes through the door. Durban Dunban even lampshades it by saying, “Excuse me, we ordered room service an hour ago.”
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** Likewise at the end of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', hitmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd deliver a bomb hidden in a food trolley to Bond and Tiffany as they are sailing home on a cruise ship. Despite two prior attempt to kill Bond he hasn't seen them before, but he ''does'' recognize Wint's cologne.
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** Likewise at the end of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', hitmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd deliver a bomb hidden in a food trolley to Bond and Tiffany as they are sailing home on a cruise ship. Despite two prior attempt attempts to kill Bond he hasn't seen them before, but he ''does'' recognize Wint's cologne.
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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler:the assassin De Killer gets into his target's room disguised as a bellboy delivering tomato juice.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler:the assassin De Killer gets into his target's room disguised as a bellboy delivering tomato juice. He later kidnaps Maya by claiming there's a phone call for her.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'': The Bat Man of Shanghai opens with Catwoman posing as one.
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* During a Creator/DiscoveryChannel documentary on ([[TheThemeParkVersion actual]]) {{ninja}}, some individuals were asked to act as bodyguards and "protect" a target (prevent his cap from being taken off) and were told that the attacker would strike like a ninja of antiquity would. He disguises himself as a set maintenance personnel to get through the bodyguards. [[spoiler: Though at first they're reluctant to let him in but he succeeds in the end]].
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* During a Creator/DiscoveryChannel documentary on ([[TheThemeParkVersion actual]]) {{ninja}}, some individuals were asked to act as bodyguards and "protect" a target (prevent his cap from being taken off) and were told that the attacker would strike like a ninja of antiquity would. He disguises himself as a set maintenance personnel to get through the bodyguards. [[spoiler: Though [[spoiler:Though at first they're reluctant to let him in but he succeeds in the end]].
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* An episode of ''Series/TheFallGuy'' had Colt going after a bounty who will not leave his house for anything. After talking to the law enforcement official who had been watching the house and finding out the guy has been subsisting on takeout delivery, Colt goes up to the front door, posing as a pizza delivery guy (he just happened to have a pizza box in his truck). Subverted in that the guy loudly yells "I DIDN'T ORDER A PIZZA!" before charging out the house and attacking Colt. Fortunately for him, Colt won the fight because the pizza box contained [[spoiler: a barbell weight]].
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* An episode of ''Series/TheFallGuy'' had Colt going after a bounty who will not leave his house for anything. After talking to the law enforcement official who had been watching the house and finding out the guy has been subsisting on takeout delivery, Colt goes up to the front door, posing as a pizza delivery guy (he just happened to have a pizza box in his truck). Subverted in that the guy loudly yells "I DIDN'T ORDER A PIZZA!" before charging out the house and attacking Colt. Fortunately for him, Colt won the fight because the pizza box contained [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a barbell weight]].
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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler: the assassin De Killer gets into his target's room disguised as a bellboy delivering tomato juice.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the assassin De Killer gets into his target's room disguised as a bellboy delivering tomato juice.]]
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-->'''[=DeBlanc=]:''' Probably just... the towels.
-->''[Fiore looks through peephole, then closes his eye in resignation]''
-->'''Fiore:''' [[OhCrap It's not.]] ''[Seraphim shoots him [[MoeGreeneSpecial through the peephole]]]''
-->''[Fiore looks through peephole, then closes his eye in resignation]''
-->'''Fiore:''' [[OhCrap It's not.]] ''[Seraphim shoots him [[MoeGreeneSpecial through the peephole]]]''
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-->'''[=DeBlanc=]:''' Probably just... the towels.
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''[Fiore looks through peephole, then closes his eye inresignation]''
-->'''Fiore:'''resignation]''\\
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--->'''Archer:''' Who ordered champagne?
--->'''Cyril:''' How should I know?
--->'''Archer:''' Exactly! You're baked! You can't remember! But since when does it take three huge, surly Jamaican guys to deliver one bottle of champagne?
--->'''Cyril:''' Oh, because they're assassins, too!
--->'''Archer:''' Or, maybe one guy's a new waiter, the second one's training him, and the third is from maintenance finally off his lazy ass to fix the A/C!
--->'''Cyril:''' Oh. Yeah. I guess that could happen.
--->'''Archer:''' Point is, you come out of the john waving this around, nobody's gonna bug you for a tip.
--->'''Cyril:''' How should I know?
--->'''Archer:''' Exactly! You're baked! You can't remember! But since when does it take three huge, surly Jamaican guys to deliver one bottle of champagne?
--->'''Cyril:''' Oh, because they're assassins, too!
--->'''Archer:''' Or, maybe one guy's a new waiter, the second one's training him, and the third is from maintenance finally off his lazy ass to fix the A/C!
--->'''Cyril:''' Oh. Yeah. I guess that could happen.
--->'''Archer:''' Point is, you come out of the john waving this around, nobody's gonna bug you for a tip.
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--->'''Archer:''' Who ordered champagne?
--->'''Cyril:'''champagne?\\
'''Cyril:''' How should Iknow?
--->'''Archer:'''know?\\
'''Archer:''' Exactly! You're baked! You can't remember! But since when does it take three huge, surly Jamaican guys to deliver one bottle ofchampagne?
--->'''Cyril:'''champagne?\\
'''Cyril:''' Oh, because they're assassins,too!
--->'''Archer:'''too!\\
'''Archer:''' Or, maybe one guy's a new waiter, the second one's training him, and the third is from maintenance finally off his lazy ass to fix theA/C!
--->'''Cyril:'''A/C!\\
'''Cyril:''' Oh. Yeah. I guess that couldhappen.
--->'''Archer:'''happen.\\
'''Archer:''' Point is, you come out of the john waving this around, nobody's gonna bug you for a tip.
--->'''Cyril:'''
'''Cyril:''' How should I
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'''Archer:''' Exactly! You're baked! You can't remember! But since when does it take three huge, surly Jamaican guys to deliver one bottle of
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'''Cyril:''' Oh, because they're assassins,
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'''Archer:''' Or, maybe one guy's a new waiter, the second one's training him, and the third is from maintenance finally off his lazy ass to fix the
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'''Cyril:''' Oh. Yeah. I guess that could
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'''Archer:''' Point is, you come out of the john waving this around, nobody's gonna bug you for a tip.
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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler: the assassin De Killer gets into his target's room disguised as a bellboy delivering tomato juice.]]
* In VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles, when the main characters are relaxing in the White Wing Palace (effectively their hotel room) a group of assassins comes through the door. Durban even lampshades it by saying, “Excuse me, we ordered room service an hour ago.”
* In VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles, when the main characters are relaxing in the White Wing Palace (effectively their hotel room) a group of assassins comes through the door. Durban even lampshades it by saying, “Excuse me, we ordered room service an hour ago.”
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* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[spoiler: the assassin De Killer gets into his target's room disguised as a bellboy delivering tomato juice.]]
* In VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles,''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'', when the main characters are relaxing in the White Wing Palace (effectively their hotel room) a group of assassins comes through the door. Durban even lampshades it by saying, “Excuse me, we ordered room service an hour ago.”
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* Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd attempted to deliver some RoomDisservice to Film/JamesBond on a cruise liner in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. (They failed.)
** At the very end of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the McGuffin is to disguise herself as a hotel maid. (She fails.)
** This scene was parodied in ''Film/AustinPowers''. Fails when Oddjob-parody Random Task's shoe-throwing is shown to be a completely ineffective means of fighting.
** In Film/DieAnotherDay a Chinese agent poses as a Masseuse. (She fails but lives because she's not there to kill Bond, only to find out what he's doing in Hong Kong.)
** At the very end of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the McGuffin is to disguise herself as a hotel maid. (She fails.)
** This scene was parodied in ''Film/AustinPowers''. Fails when Oddjob-parody Random Task's shoe-throwing is shown to be a completely ineffective means of fighting.
** In Film/DieAnotherDay a Chinese agent poses as a Masseuse. (She fails but lives because she's not there to kill Bond, only to find out what he's doing in Hong Kong.)
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** At the very end of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the McGuffin is to disguise herself as a hotel maid.(She fails.)
**She fails, but in the original novel she's able to stab Bond with her TrickedOutShoes and nearly kills him.
*** This scene was parodied in ''Film/AustinPowers''. Fails when Oddjob-parody Random Task's shoe-throwing is shown to be a completely ineffective means of fighting.
** Likewise at the end of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', hitmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd deliver a bomb hidden in a food trolley to Bond and Tiffany as they are sailing home on a cruise ship. Despite two prior attempt to kill Bond he hasn't seen them before, but he ''does'' recognize Wint's cologne.
** InFilm/DieAnotherDay ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' a Chinese agent poses is sent to Bond's room posing as a Masseuse. (She masseuse. She fails but lives because she's not there to kill Bond, only to find out what he's doing in Hong Kong.)
** At the very end of ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', Rosa Klebb's last gambit to kill Bond and steal the McGuffin is to disguise herself as a hotel maid.
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*** This scene was parodied in ''Film/AustinPowers''. Fails when Oddjob-parody Random Task's shoe-throwing is shown to be a completely ineffective means of fighting.
** Likewise at the end of ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'', hitmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd deliver a bomb hidden in a food trolley to Bond and Tiffany as they are sailing home on a cruise ship. Despite two prior attempt to kill Bond he hasn't seen them before, but he ''does'' recognize Wint's cologne.
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* The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has a sequence where the protagonist is required to pose as a room service waitress and deliver a trolley with a bomb planted on it to a hotel room.
* In the original French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' it's just a bug.
* In the original French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' it's just a bug.
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* The film ''Film/{{Point of No Return}}'' (aka ''The Assassin'') has a sequence where the protagonist is required to pose as a room service waitress and deliver a trolley with a bomb planted on it to a hotel room.
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* Lampshaded in ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' when the breakfast service knocks on the door and, when prompted about who they are, respond with "The Mob." Subsequently played straight when [[spoiler:it turns out to be a SarcasticConfession, and the breakfast was poisoned. The real breakfast service shows up moments later, but too late]].
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* Lampshaded in ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' ''Film/Traffic2000'' when the breakfast service knocks on the door and, when prompted about who they are, respond with "The Mob." Subsequently played straight when [[spoiler:it turns out to be a SarcasticConfession, and the breakfast was poisoned. The real breakfast service shows up moments later, but too late]].
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* ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[KnifeNut slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's to meet the BigBad.
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* ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[KnifeNut [[ClothingDamage slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's to meet the BigBad.
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* In VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles, when the main characters are relaxing in the White Wing Palace (effectively their hotel room) a group of assassins comes through the door. Durban even lampshades it by saying, “Excuse me, we ordered room service an hour ago.”
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* Used by the good guys early in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series. A New Republic Intelligence operation on what's basically a cruise liner in space, a mock conversation between passengers and an attendant is used as the recognition code.
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
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* Used by the good guys early in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series. A New Republic Intelligence operation on what's basically a cruise liner in space, a mock conversation between passengers and an attendant is used as the recognition code.
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
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* Used by the good guys early in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series. A New Republic Intelligence operation on what's basically a cruise liner in space, a mock conversation between passengers and an attendant is used as the recognition code.
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
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* Used by the good guys early in the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series. A New Republic Intelligence operation on what's basically a cruise liner in space, a mock conversation between passengers and an attendant is used as the recognition code.
* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': In the short story ''The Little Things'', a gang of kidnappers has targeted a young noblewoman and plans to get their hands on her by substituting for the room service waiters. Unfortunately for them, the "noblewoman" was one of Inquisitor Vail's undercover identities, and that room service order was for a romantic dinner between her and Cain. It didn't go well for them.
* With this trope in mind, ''Literature/AbleTeam'' nearly shoots a couple of hotel employees when they barge into their hotel in Sri Lanka without knocking. They quickly hide their guns and help them unload the food trolley.
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** The episode "Hijack" has a variation. Bodie and Doyle are guarding a witness in a hotel, and ready their guns when room service arrives in case of this trope. The hitman is actually waiting in the room next door, and waits till the waiter leaves but Bodie hasn't had time to lock the door before kicking it open.
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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Look After Annie", two men wearing white jackets are shown placing pistols under a silver service tray which they carry to the hotel room where controversial politician Annie Irvine is staying. Fortunately it's only Bodie and Doyle testing her security--they're not impressed.
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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. ''Series/TheProfessionals''
** In "Look After Annie", two men wearing white jackets are shown placing pistols under a silver service tray which they carry to the hotel room where controversial politician Annie Irvine is staying. Fortunately it's only Bodie and Doyle testing her security--they're notimpressed.impressed.
** In the ActionPrologue of "Fugitive", a female terrorist posing as a hotel waitress brings a breakfast tray for a senior member of the CIA staying in a London hotel. Two other terrorists who've been waiting in a nearby room then force their way in while the door is open and bundle him out the window.
** In "Look After Annie", two men wearing white jackets are shown placing pistols under a silver service tray which they carry to the hotel room where controversial politician Annie Irvine is staying. Fortunately it's only Bodie and Doyle testing her security--they're not
** In the ActionPrologue of "Fugitive", a female terrorist posing as a hotel waitress brings a breakfast tray for a senior member of the CIA staying in a London hotel. Two other terrorists who've been waiting in a nearby room then force their way in while the door is open and bundle him out the window.
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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Look After Annie", two men wearing white jackets are shown placing pistols under a silver service tray which they carry to the hotel room where controversial workers agitator Annie Irvine is staying. Fortunately it's only Bodie and Doyle testing her security--they're not impressed.
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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Look After Annie", two men wearing white jackets are shown placing pistols under a silver service tray which they carry to the hotel room where controversial workers agitator politician Annie Irvine is staying. Fortunately it's only Bodie and Doyle testing her security--they're not impressed.
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* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Look After Annie", two men wearing white jackets are shown placing pistols under a silver service tray which they carry to the hotel room where controversial workers agitator Annie Irvine is staying. Fortunately it's only Bodie and Doyle testing her security--they're not impressed.
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* Used by the good guys early in the ''StarWars New Jedi Order'' series. A New Republic Intelligence operation on what's basically a cruise liner in space, a mock conversation between passengers and an attendant is used as the recognition code.
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* Used by the good guys early in the ''StarWars New Jedi Order'' ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' series. A New Republic Intelligence operation on what's basically a cruise liner in space, a mock conversation between passengers and an attendant is used as the recognition code.
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* A non-lethal version in ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. While Harry Palmer is sleeping in a hotel in Latvia, a waiter turns up with a silver service dinner. Harry is just saying he hasn't ordered anything when he realises it's his [[ChummyCommies old acquaintance from the KGB, Colonel Stok]]. Stok then changes out of his waiter's outfit with relief and changes into his uniform, which is hidden under the silver dinner dish.
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* In ''Chaos!'' #3, Evil Ernie poses as pizza delivery guy to gain access to Lt. Brandon Green's home and wipe out him and his minders.
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* In ''Chaos!'' #3, Evil Ernie poses as a pizza delivery guy to gain access to Lt. Brandon Green's home and wipe out him and his minders.
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* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills to use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
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* ''Film/{{Cruella}}'': One early scene has Estella putting her seamstress skills to use by making fake hotel uniforms for herself, Horace Horace, and Jasper to pull off a heist in.
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* ''White Sands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[KnifeNut slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's to meet the BigBad.
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* ''White Sands'' ''Film/WhiteSands'' (1992). The protagonist arrives at his motel to find the room being cleaned by two maids. So he doesn't expect a thing when they later knock on his door...until he finds himself with a gun at his head, whereupon the two search him for listening devices by [[KnifeNut slicing off his clothes with knives]], then they steal his briefcase full of money and leave instructions on where he's to meet the BigBad.
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* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and Mary are travelling by train to their honeymoon, a member of the train "staff" knocks on the door of their compartment to offer them a bottle of wine with the compliments of the staff. Once he's inside, he reveals he's actually an assassin working for Moriarty and attacks them with a knife.
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* Variation in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': As Watson and Mary are travelling by train to their honeymoon, a member of the mook working for Moriarty, disguised as a train "staff" attendant, knocks on the door of their compartment to offer them a bottle of wine with the compliments of the staff. Once he's inside, he reveals he's actually an assassin working for Moriarty draws a knife and attacks them with a knife.them.
