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* In ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'', in the ''VS Minecraft'' shorts, apparently building is this. [[SoreLoser TNT throwing during building contests]] is a regular occurrence, and in ''PvP'', Green starts a brawl over a conflict in building space.
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* ''Podcast/KingdomSmarts'':
** The premise of the podcast is ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fangirl Shannon Manor explains the series to ''KH''-ignorant Jake Mason of ''Creator/HeyJakeAndJosh'' one half hour at a time. Because of this, they take keeping Jake as spoiler-free as possible very seriously. One episode during their ''Kingdom Hearts II'' episodes opens with Jake explaining that he literally yelled at a co-worker at his day job to not say anything about ''Kingdom Hearts III'' to avoid getting spoiled about the game.
** As the podcast's fan community has grown, keeping Jake in the dark has reached the point that the show's fans on Twitter use a specific hashtag which Jake keeps muted, "[=#KHFree=]", when discussing events the show has not yet reached. Later episodes also regularly end with a warning not to use [=KHFree=] in conjunction with other hashtags nor when sending tweets directly to the ''Kingdom Smarts'' Twitter, as doing so negates Jake's muting.
** The premise of the podcast is ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fangirl Shannon Manor explains the series to ''KH''-ignorant Jake Mason of ''Creator/HeyJakeAndJosh'' one half hour at a time. Because of this, they take keeping Jake as spoiler-free as possible very seriously. One episode during their ''Kingdom Hearts II'' episodes opens with Jake explaining that he literally yelled at a co-worker at his day job to not say anything about ''Kingdom Hearts III'' to avoid getting spoiled about the game.
** As the podcast's fan community has grown, keeping Jake in the dark has reached the point that the show's fans on Twitter use a specific hashtag which Jake keeps muted, "[=#KHFree=]", when discussing events the show has not yet reached. Later episodes also regularly end with a warning not to use [=KHFree=] in conjunction with other hashtags nor when sending tweets directly to the ''Kingdom Smarts'' Twitter, as doing so negates Jake's muting.
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* ''Podcast/MysteryShow'': Creator/JakeGyllenhaal's height is Serious Business to the folks at celebheights.com. David mocks them while also becoming [[NotSoAboveItAll overly invested himself.]]
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* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happens a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive in the top in the domain get enough recongnition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explictly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.
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* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happens a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive in the top in the domain get enough recongnition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explictly explicitly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.
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* Invoked in Creator/ProZD's "Chairem Anime" series, in the installment about [[https://youtu.be/xEfFy-uZ8_g anime timeskips and spinoffs]].
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-->'''Tomoko:''' Everything's changed. It's been three years since Refigerator-senpai killed Lamp-senpai and left our village. My outfit is now black, because things are Serious Business now, in ''Chairem Anime: Sofaden.''
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* Along the same vein, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did not appreciate]].
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* Along the same vein, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'':
** The show is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did notappreciate]].appreciate]].
** This happens in ''Johnny Cage vs. Captain Falcon''. Captain Falcon won't let Johnny star as him in a movie unless he beats him in a fight to the death. Johnny even comments at one point that "[[LampshadeHanging you sports types really take auditions seriously!]]"
** The show is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did not
** This happens in ''Johnny Cage vs. Captain Falcon''. Captain Falcon won't let Johnny star as him in a movie unless he beats him in a fight to the death. Johnny even comments at one point that "[[LampshadeHanging you sports types really take auditions seriously!]]"
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* [[http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-01-17/ Board games]] are apparently serious business to Rat in ''Comicstrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''.* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
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* [[http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-01-17/ Board games]] are apparently serious business to Rat in ''Comicstrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''.''Comicstrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
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* Would you believe noodles? In the European/Korean animated series ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'', the noodles made at the local Chinese restaurant are such SeriousBusiness that in one episode, when the chefs believe themselves disgraced because of a just-barely-unfinished bowl of noodles, they go to a '''''{{DEATH COURSE}}''''' to redeem themselves, while in another, when they split up into three separate restaurants over a fight, it causes a sort of ZombieApocalypse, with most of the inhabitants of the village wandering as an aimless, lifeless, pathetic mob, mumbling and moaning about the lack of noodles until they reunite. And God help you if you run out of chopsticks. The world will scream.
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* Would you believe noodles? In the European/Korean animated series ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'', the noodles made at the local Chinese restaurant are such SeriousBusiness that in one episode, when the chefs believe themselves disgraced because of a just-barely-unfinished bowl of noodles, they go to a '''''{{DEATH COURSE}}''''' to redeem themselves, while in another, when they split up into three separate restaurants over a fight, it causes a sort of ZombieApocalypse, with most of the inhabitants of the village wandering as an aimless, lifeless, pathetic mob, mumbling and moaning about the lack of noodles until they reunite. And God help you if you run out of chopsticks. The world will scream.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' is what the writers call "perhaps the first vegetarian horror movie." To keep some kind of tension, given that the monster is no threat to people, it turns out that everyone in town is insanely protective of their vegetables. For them, country fairs are serious business. "We're simple folk! It's all we have!" NB: In real life, competitive growing ''is'' sometimes taken quite seriously, and incidents of sabotage and theft are not unknown.
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** From the short ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'': "No crackers, Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!" Cue dramatic music and a frantic race against time.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' is what the writers call "perhaps the first vegetarian horror movie." To keep some kind of tension, given that the monster is no threat to people, it turns out that everyone in town is insanely protective of their vegetables. For them, country fairs are serious business. "We're simple folk! It's all we have!" NB: In real life, competitive growing ''is'' sometimes taken quite seriously, and incidents of sabotage and theft are notunknown.unknown.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':
** Jack Skellington found out the hard way that impersonating SantaClaus is a major crime that amounts to being blasted out of the sky. Well, when it involves kidnapping, breaking and entering, and unknowingly terrorizing people with loathsome and occasionally lethal gifts, despite how good the intentions are.
** This also applies to Halloween, at least in Halloween Town. Since the city is a PlanetOfHats with scaring people as its hat, the town council spends literally the entire year preparing for each Halloween, drawing up plans as early as November 1st. The Mayor actually has a minor panic attack when Jack is not at home to go over the plans with him. No wonder Jack had gotten sick of Halloween.
* For most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', this is averted, with food only being given relatively reasonable import (it ''is'' a movie about chefs, after all, so a little of this is to be expected)... until the climax, [[spoiler:when Remy's cooking -- and the revelation of his role as the chef -- are enough to ''induce a HeelFaceTurn'' in a stick-in-the-mud critic.]]
** From the short ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'': "No crackers, Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!" Cue dramatic music and a frantic race against time.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' is what the writers call "perhaps the first vegetarian horror movie." To keep some kind of tension, given that the monster is no threat to people, it turns out that everyone in town is insanely protective of their vegetables. For them, country fairs are serious business. "We're simple folk! It's all we have!" NB: In real life, competitive growing ''is'' sometimes taken quite seriously, and incidents of sabotage and theft are not
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':
** Jack Skellington found out the hard way that impersonating SantaClaus is a major crime that amounts to being blasted out of the sky. Well, when it involves kidnapping, breaking and entering, and unknowingly terrorizing people with loathsome and occasionally lethal gifts, despite how good the intentions are.
** This also applies to Halloween, at least in Halloween Town. Since the city is a PlanetOfHats with scaring people as its hat, the town council spends literally the entire year preparing for each Halloween, drawing up plans as early as November 1st. The Mayor actually has a minor panic attack when Jack is not at home to go over the plans with him. No wonder Jack had gotten sick of Halloween.
* For most of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', this is averted, with food only being given relatively reasonable import (it ''is'' a movie about chefs, after all, so a little of this is to be expected)... until the climax, [[spoiler:when Remy's cooking -- and the revelation of his role as the chef -- are enough to ''induce a HeelFaceTurn'' in a stick-in-the-mud critic.]]
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* ''Radio/TrueCapitalist'': Ghost is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:{{Troll}}s) [[HilarityEnsues seems to think otherwise]].
* ''Podcast/MikeAndTomEatSnacks'': the Snack is very serious business. People's careers are made and destroyed by how Mike and Tom rates snacks (according to them), and often fans can get upset by their ratings.
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* ''Radio/TrueCapitalist'': Ghost is convinced his show is this. Most of his audience (Read:{{Troll}}s) [[HilarityEnsues seems to think otherwise]].
* ''Podcast/MikeAndTomEatSnacks'': the Snack is very serious business. People's careers are made and destroyed by how Mike and Tom rates snacks (according to them), and often fans can get upset by their ratings.
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* On Website/LiveJournal and its spinoffs, [[JournalRoleplay roleplay]] is very serious business, as evidenced by the "Roleplay Secrets" community, a daily post of (usually) nasty things anonymous roleplayers have to say about other roleplayers, allowed to rag on anything from their characterizations to ''the size of their avatars''. Similar is the "RP Anon Meme", which started as a bi-monthly explosion of hateful anonymous discussion and eventually became a constantly-running community of (slightly less hateful, slightly more [[{{Troll}} spammy]]) anonymous discussion. People have actually made ''death threats'' over pretendy funtime games on the internet.
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* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Alex takes the position as the secondary main character very seriously.
* Along the same vein, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did not appreciate]].
* In ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', Lie Ren, usually TheStoic and TheQuietOne, will take certain things a little overboard -- he has a TrainingMontage for playing tag, scoffs as how Team RWBY pillow fights and blows up at his own team for their inability to dance right.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XQduS6IfA If UNO Was an Anime]]'' does this with UNO, based on the [[http://dot-emcee.tumblr.com/post/124928460247 .emcee]] comic.
* Along the same vein, ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' is a web series which pits two fictional characters against each other in... well, a battle to the death. The show features fairly extensive research on the combatants involved, but many of the outcomes are taken a bit too seriously by various fans of the losing side. While many complaints [[JustifiedTrope are indeed]] founded into research that could have swung the battle but the team missed ([[ChekhovsSkill subtle]] or [[CriticalResearchFailure obvious]]), others are simply founded on how the critic [[FandomRivalry likes Character X more than Character Y]], and other complains are just... [[InsaneTrollLogic not really founded on anything]]. One of the biggest examples of this has to be [[spoiler:Goku losing to Superman. Twice. ''Dragon Ball'' fans did not appreciate]].
* In ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'', Lie Ren, usually TheStoic and TheQuietOne, will take certain things a little overboard -- he has a TrainingMontage for playing tag, scoffs as how Team RWBY pillow fights and blows up at his own team for their inability to dance right.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XQduS6IfA If UNO Was an Anime]]'' does this with UNO, based on the [[http://dot-emcee.tumblr.com/post/124928460247 .emcee]] comic.
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* Creator/FreddieWong's ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool'' is set in a world where video games are SeriousBusiness. Losing a game at the title school can get you ''expelled''.
* In the Website/YouTube series ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', playing an {{MMORPG}} is very serious business. More serious, apparently, than parenting or social interaction. It's based on Creator/FeliciaDay's two-year addiction to VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft, so it's definitely TruthInTelevision.
* ''WebVideo/MovieTriviaSchmoedown'' is the most serious business movie trivia contest the internet has ever seen. There's championship belts. There's tournaments. There's wrestling inspired storylines. Search around in the right places you'll find a list of statistics. Over Movie. Trivia.
* In Dominic Fear's Kenny Bassender (Full Title: ''Kenny Bassender's Quest for Greatness with the Underground Association of Puppydog Racers'') movie, Kenny Bassender is a normal person who isn't special. Until he starts playing a game called Puppdog Races, where he is the flawless. So great, that the other members of the Association try to kill him. Not the whole society (it still is in normal present day America), but very serious.
* [[http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5825493270005637835# This]] (subtitled) episode of the Québecquois series "Tom et ses chums" ("Tom and his pals") has the titular character playing a game of D&D with old friends. What he doesn't realize beforehand is that they've kept playing the same party every week during the years he hasn't seen them (meaning they have absurdly high-level characters), and for them (barring the GM), this is very serious business. When they demand that his new character start at level 1 (making him useless since the encounters are tailored for a high-level group), and then belittle him for being a peasant, he gives up and decides to be TheLoonie.
* [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/community/myvideos/74334-thebanjokid/video/4029-Banjo+Kid+Reviews%3A+Hell+Girl Cake is serious business!]]
* Website/CollegeHumor: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM For the Nazi Party,]] grammatical correctness is apparently very serious business:
-->'''Monsieur La Padite:''' I swear, I do not know where Mademoiselle Dreyfuss is at.\\
'''Hans Landa:''' ...[[TranquilFury Did you just end a sentence with a preposition?]]
* [[http://youtu.be/jCIFnmmnoSE This video. More specifically, at 1:30.]] "Being a lawyer, as the internet says... IS SERIOUS BUSINESS."
* ''Hiring'' a boat is Serious Business. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU&feature=channel_page Just ask Andy Samberg and his friends]].
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65lERfzNNE League of Extraordinary Industrial Retards]] go on a quest to kill [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and [[Music/VNVNation Ronan Harris]] and prove to the world that {{Industrial}} music is serious business.
* ''WebVideo/RhettAndLink'': Do ''not'' mess with the [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xj613a_trail-mix_fun trail mix]] that Rhett's mom made!
* The premise behind many ''WebVideo/HitlerRants'' parodies, where Hitler melts down over anything from getting his UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade account banned, getting a Wii instead of a [=PS3=] for Christmas, and so on.
* ''WebVideo/PittsburghDad'' and the Pittsburgh Steelers. God help you if you're a Ravens fan!
* In the Trailer for [[LetsPlay/MarioPartyTV LP Every Mario Game]], Steeler's biggest strength is stated to be that he takes Mario Party seriously. (It's also listed as his greatest weakness.)
* This is [[ForTheFunnyz part of the indicative]] behind CausticCritic shows like ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'', ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' and ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''. Reviewers on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses treat most anything they review as SeriousBusiness, PlayedForLaughs. Deconstructed in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' when [[spoiler: Holokara]] takes things a step further and plans threaten a DeathFromAbove against Marvel over the handling of Spider-Man, which is NOT played for laughs.
* ''Series/{{Noob}}'' takes the "{{MMORPG}} are serious business" route also, but is much more nuanced than ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' due to them mostly showing up in reports about video game addiction in mainstream media in France. SkewedPriorities happens a lot and the top guilds ask for people joining them to have a lifestyle that can only happen if you're single and unemployed. At the same time, people that arrive in the top in the domain get enough recongnition to appear in advertisements and live off it. Characters are also seen doing other stuff than playing, while a small portion of the cast is explictly doing it for fun and being able to enjoy the company of their guildmates.
* ''WebVideo/ProjectLibrary'' has been described as "a Creator/MichaelBay movie with books", full of fight scenes and action clichés, but set in a library and whose plot revolves around an overdue book.
* In ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut Night Shift'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] and Gabriel Mortom admitted that the things they said over the weeks have been awful but the ones that seems to get the most attention is that Yahtzee mentioned that 30 fps looks the same or better than 60 fps, causing an outrage in the comments section.
* In ''WebVideo/RosyTheRascal15'''s Locos Doritos video, Jerry eventually goes ballistic over his bag of Doritos being stolen, including up to [[spoiler: shooting Amy, who was trying to talk him down]].
* LetsPlay/{{Jayuzumi}} tends to run into these players a lot when playing video games and using soundboards to prank others. This happens mostly in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', and to a lesser extent in ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''.
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* ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' has roleplaying games as serious business. "You don't understand man. He TOUCHED my dice!"[[note]]Ask any hardcore gamer in Real Life. Touching someone else's dice/mini/whatever without permission can be considered a breach of etiquette, and with some players, is indeed Serious Business.[[/note]]
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
** In one strip, Calvin throws an enormous hissy fit after losing a game of checkers to Hobbes, culminating in him passing out in exhaustion. When Hobbes points out that it's just a game, Calvin cheerfully replies: "I know! You should see how I act when I lose in real life!"
** Chewing gum is Serious Business in this universe. Calvin is an enthusiastic reader of a magazine called "Chewing" which is dedicated to it, and informs an incredulous Hobbes that as many as twelve such publications exist.
** So is a SnowballFight.
** And he treats his snowman creations like modern art. Though he certainly puts more thought into them than most kids. This is [[CloudCuckooLander Calvin.]] ''Everything'' comes to life, and most of it [[EverythingTryingToKillYou tries to kill him.]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
** An early strip had Lucy repeatedly shouting "OLEE-OLEE-OLSEN-FREE-O!" Violet came by and pointedly told her that the expression was "Ollie-Ollie-Oxen-Free." This left Lucy more thoroughly humiliated than she'd ever been in her life.
** Once, when Lucy caught Linus about to throw a snowball at her, she angrily demanded that he take that very snowball apart ''snowflake by snowflake''. ("No pieces! No chunks! One snowflake at a time!") Poor Linus was out in the snow until nightfall.
** Linus and his blanket. When he had to go without it for a couple of weeks, he fainted several times...''in a single day''.
** Linus also had a pretty intense crush on his teacher, Ms. Othmar. When she was fired for going on strike, he threw an enormous tantrum and vowed to turn the whole matter into a federal case. He also snottily told his substitute teacher that, sure, he'd learn the lessons the way ''she'' taught them, but she still wasn't Ms. Othmar.
** Schroeder. How dare you mock Beethoven in his presence!
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' once had a ShowdownAtHighNoon having ended in defeat for the older cowboy, treating it with all the gravity you'd expect... except it was at ping-pong.
-->'''Older gunslinger''': Well, you won. Now every player in the world will come after you, looking to make a name for himself... Welcome to Hell, kid.
* [[http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/7000/100/7165/7165.strip.gif This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip illustrates how to apply the principles of SeriousBusiness in the workplace. This comic was based on one of Scott Adams' coworkers, who actually said "I will fight you to the end of the earth!" To him, it was serious business.
* [[http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-01-17/ Board games]] are apparently serious business to Rat in ''Comicstrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''.* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'':
** In one strip, Calvin throws an enormous hissy fit after losing a game of checkers to Hobbes, culminating in him passing out in exhaustion. When Hobbes points out that it's just a game, Calvin cheerfully replies: "I know! You should see how I act when I lose in real life!"
** Chewing gum is Serious Business in this universe. Calvin is an enthusiastic reader of a magazine called "Chewing" which is dedicated to it, and informs an incredulous Hobbes that as many as twelve such publications exist.
** So is a SnowballFight.
** And he treats his snowman creations like modern art. Though he certainly puts more thought into them than most kids. This is [[CloudCuckooLander Calvin.]] ''Everything'' comes to life, and most of it [[EverythingTryingToKillYou tries to kill him.]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
** An early strip had Lucy repeatedly shouting "OLEE-OLEE-OLSEN-FREE-O!" Violet came by and pointedly told her that the expression was "Ollie-Ollie-Oxen-Free." This left Lucy more thoroughly humiliated than she'd ever been in her life.
** Once, when Lucy caught Linus about to throw a snowball at her, she angrily demanded that he take that very snowball apart ''snowflake by snowflake''. ("No pieces! No chunks! One snowflake at a time!") Poor Linus was out in the snow until nightfall.
** Linus and his blanket. When he had to go without it for a couple of weeks, he fainted several times...''in a single day''.
** Linus also had a pretty intense crush on his teacher, Ms. Othmar. When she was fired for going on strike, he threw an enormous tantrum and vowed to turn the whole matter into a federal case. He also snottily told his substitute teacher that, sure, he'd learn the lessons the way ''she'' taught them, but she still wasn't Ms. Othmar.
** Schroeder. How dare you mock Beethoven in his presence!
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' once had a ShowdownAtHighNoon having ended in defeat for the older cowboy, treating it with all the gravity you'd expect... except it was at ping-pong.
-->'''Older gunslinger''': Well, you won. Now every player in the world will come after you, looking to make a name for himself... Welcome to Hell, kid.
* [[http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/00000/7000/100/7165/7165.strip.gif This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip illustrates how to apply the principles of SeriousBusiness in the workplace. This comic was based on one of Scott Adams' coworkers, who actually said "I will fight you to the end of the earth!" To him, it was serious business.
* [[http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/2010-01-17/ Board games]] are apparently serious business to Rat in ''Comicstrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''.* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
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* In ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', the frenzy over Toys/BeanieBabies (see the RealLife section) was mocked in a storyline that saw Uncle Duke steal Alex Doonesbury's collection and hold them for ransom. The whole thing is treated as seriously as an actual kidnapping.
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* While the plot of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' just happened to be about two monsters who worked for the eponymous company, ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' gives the impression that ''every'' course and program the school offers is related to the scaring industry in some way.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames'': Pretty much everyone treats the Friendship Games like this, with Luna even name-dropping the trope and the Humane Five getting slightly offended when Sunset wonders what all the fuss is about, since it's not as important as, say, stopping the Sirens. [[spoiler:Heck, Principal Cinch and the Shadowbolts even try to harness Equestrian magic — something they hardly understand — just to ensure they win the Games.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' is what the writers call "perhaps the first vegetarian horror movie." To keep some kind of tension, given that the monster is no threat to people, it turns out that everyone in town is insanely protective of their vegetables. For them, country fairs are serious business. "We're simple folk! It's all we have!" NB: In real life, competitive growing ''is'' sometimes taken quite seriously, and incidents of sabotage and theft are not unknown.
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* In the FinalBattle of ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'', when a large number of Dino Attack agents used the comm chatter to crack jokes or make silly references, one Dino Attack agent attempted to ShooOutTheClowns by telling them to stop making jokes and references and start concentrating on the battle, using the comm chatter only for coordinating attacks and strategies. This example is largely PlayedForLaughs, since this one Dino Attack agent is apparently the only one trying to use the comm chatter for its intended purpose in the battle, yet everyone completely ignores him (or, in one agent's case, openly mocks him with a quote from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'') and continues using the comm chatter for less-than-serious commentary.
* Unfortunately, this was very much the case OutOfCharacter in ''RolePlay/CampusLife'' for a good long while. Pretty much ''whenever'' someone does something that even ''slightly'' annoys another role-player or breaks the narrative flow too much, you can pretty much ''guarantee'' a massive fight's about to break out in RP Discussion. At one point it got so bad a user ended up getting banned for three days and the current Admin at the time experianced a massive CreatorBreakdown that resulted in the RP getting ported over to ''another'' Forum. Though things ''have'' calmed down quite a bit since then, it still tends to pop up every once in a while.
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* In the storylines of many ballets, DancingIsSeriousBusiness. The hero of ''Theatre/SwanLake'' dooms his beloved to spend eternity as a swan because he mistakenly dances with the wrong woman at a ball. The titular heroine of ''Giselle'' dances herself ''to death'', and later spares the man she loves from the same fate by offering to dance in his place to appease an evil ghost queen who is forcing him to dance again and again. In ''The Sleeping Beauty'', Aurora pricks her finger not from ''spinning'', but from ''dancing'' with the spindle despite her mother's warnings that doing so would be dangerous.
* ''Theatre/{{Chess}}'':
** The Arbiter in this musical not only takes his job of refereeing a chess championship incredibly seriously, he also seems to think it makes him a badass. "I'm on the case, can't be fooled/ any objection is overruled/ I'm the Arbiter, I know the score/ from square one/ I'll be watching all sixty-four..."
** Not to mention The Russian in "Argument". His first priority is to win a game of Chess. Once he has won, he can attend to the secondary things in life, such as his love affair, which is falling apart at that moment.
* The play ''Teh Internet Is Serious Business'' by Tim Price, staged by the Royal Court Theatre in London, autumn 2014. It is about the "hacktivist" groups Anonymous and [=LulzSec=].
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''; the continuing story of a battle fought over "the galaxy's most important box canyon with a base at each end." (There was more here, but it seems to have been lost. Anyone?)
** The others still appear to be referred to as privates when not being addressed by name, so either it was a throwaway line that was just Wash being insulting, or the writers themselves forgot Wash said it.
** The red and blue teams are simulation Troopers. They are a part of the Army, just a part where the soldiers are considered expendable. Its also hinted that the simulation war was a testing ground for Project Freelancer exclusive, which they used to test stuff, train their Agents and recruit new Soldiers (as seen with Donut). [[spoiler:And to hide the Alpha.]] [[NoNameGiven Sarge]] still qualifies as an example, since no one else of the Blood Gulch Crew takes the war serious.
** In one PSA, Grif states that "some games are serious business." Apparently, he once "played Donkey Kong so well that he cured kidneyism. It was the best day ever. The End."
* ''[=DigitalPh33r=]'' regularly parodies the concept in his ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' movies with unnamed characters brutalizing things in game and/or shouting to the heavens "THIS IS SUCH A BIG DEAL!!!"
* The classic Flash film ''Craziest'' is about someone who considers TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}} a religion.
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Serious Business is when a story revolves around an activity where a sizable portion of the in-story population takes it ''far'' more seriously than they should. If the popularity of [[MundaneMadeAwesome some mundane object]] rivals that of Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheBeatles, and Music/MichaelJackson combined, or if there are mainstream ''schools'' devoted to it instead of teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, then it's Serious Business.
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It's often a SillyReasonForWar, and can turn a casual conversation into a heated CavemenVsAstronautsDebate. Someone who just can't let it go may become a SingleIssueWonk. Frequently "opposed" by the CavalierCompetitor. Compare StopHavingFunGuys. In musicals it's often demonstrated that DancingIsSeriousBusiness. For the saying that "TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness", see {{GIFT}}. Related to ImNotHereToMakeFriends. Not to be confused with MundaneMadeAwesome, though the two tropes overlap ''plenty.''
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It's often a SillyReasonForWar, and can turn a casual conversation into a heated CavemenVsAstronautsDebate. Someone who just can't let it go may become a SingleIssueWonk. If competition is involved, you can almost ''guarantee'' that SecondPlaceIsForLosers. Frequently "opposed" by the CavalierCompetitor. Compare StopHavingFunGuys. In musicals it's often demonstrated that DancingIsSeriousBusiness. For the saying that "TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness", see {{GIFT}}. Related to ImNotHereToMakeFriends. Not to be confused with MundaneMadeAwesome, though the two tropes overlap ''plenty.''
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It's often a SillyReasonForWar, and can turn a casual conversation into a heated CavemenVsAstronautsDebate. Someone who just can't let it go may become a SingleIssueWonk. Frequently "opposed" by the CavalierCompetitor. Compare StopHavingFunGuys. In musicals it's often demonstrated that DancingIsSeriousBusiness. For the saying that "TheInternetIsSeriousBusiness", see {{GIFT}}. Related to ImNotHereToMakeFriends. Not to be confused with MundaneMadeAwesome, though the two tropes overlap ''plenty.''
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