History Main / YouGetMeCoffee

* In the episode "Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect" of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms takes control of the San Francisco Police Department's investigation, and their lead agent, Grooms, is ''"not shy about saying so."'' After a few minutes of interrogating the primary suspect, Grooms suggests that Homicide Captain Stottlemeyer get ''himself'' some coffee, so Grooms can be alone with the suspect. Stottlemeyer steps out, fuming at being kicked out of his own precinct's interrogation room.

-->'''Cowley:''' Cold morning. ''(He hands Bodie a hip flask.)''
-->'''Bodie:''' [[INeedAFreakingDrink Ah, yes. Thank you, sir.]]
-->'''Cowley:''' It's empty; needs filling.
-->'''Bodie:''' Well, there's nowhere open at this time...
-->'''Cowley:''' Regard it as a test of initiative. Success will be reflected in your yearly assessment.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' - Estelle and Joshua visit the city of Zeiss to meet with Professor Russell about a mysterious black orbment sent to their father, but which has ended up in their care. They end up escorted to his home and lab by his granddaughter, Tita. Upon arrival, and trying to introduce themselves, they find him completely absorbed in his work, putting the finishing touches on his latest invention. He whizzes away, bumping Estelle aside, and when they catch up with him, he has Tita start helping him with his work, tells Joshua to go fetch a book, and tells Estelle to make him coffee.

* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. An EstablishingCharacterMoment for Emma Peel to show her relationship with John Steed. When Steed first turns up at her apartment she's practising her fencing, so she tells him where the coffee is but makes no move to get it. When he asks about the cream she says it's in the fridge. When he suggests he'll take it black she hands him a foil and they start sparring. Steed wins by [[CombatPragmatist wrapping her up in the curtain]]; she unwraps herself to find Steed has fetched the cream himself.

** In ''Literature/StormFront'', Harry Dresden wants to talk to Lt. Murphy in her office, without a cynical coworker listening. Murphy sends the other cop downstairs to get her some coffee. The other cop, who is smarter than he looks, knows exactly what Murphy is pulling and protests that talking to Harry is a total waste of time. But at her insistence, he goes anyway.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', on Judy's first day, Chief Bogo reports that the missing mammals case has top priority and assigns officers in the bullpen to investigate different areas of Zootopia. When he finally gets to Judy, she's assigned parking duty. When she protests that she's not a "token bunny", he responds "Well then, writing a hundred tickets should be easy."

* Happened in RealLife to Creator/DavidProwse, aka the physical actor for Darth Vader in ''Franchise/StarWars''. Prowse is noted for his amazingly muscular and imposing physique, hence his role as the muscle-bound personal assistant to the old widower in ''Film/AClockworkOrange'', but considerably more modest acting talents. He had auditioned for the lead role in the film ''Film/{{Superman}}'', and reportedly got a phone call from the producer excitedly informing him that they'd made their choice for the starring role, and they wanted ''him''... to be that guy's personal trainer, because Christopher Reeve wouldn't look right for the role at all unless he bulked up to look more like David Prowse. Prowse reports that he had to choke back an overjoyed "Thanks!" right in the middle of the producer's sentence.

* A book by John Douglas, founder of the FBI's profiling unit, describes how the Japanese policemen who attended his profiling course always [[SenpaiKohai arrived in pairs]]: one a higher-status officer, the other a low-ranker who would shine his superior's shoes, fetch his coffee, etc. Douglas insisted that all his students were equal and put an end to this practice.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Lights! Camera! Danger!", Jimmy's father Hugh begs director Quentin Smithee for a part in his movie. Quentin reluctantly says he can be "Donut Boy", and Hugh, being TheDitz, thinks the movie is titled "The Adventures of Donut Boy", an undercover cop who plays by his own rules. It was meant to be this trope instead, but Hugh never realizes this, interpretting Quentin's orders to leave the set as preparation for another scene or to increase suspense. Turns into [[spoiler:HoistByHisOwnPetard]] when Jimmy has Hugh feed donuts to the giant killer robot snake to short-circuit it [[spoiler:(Quentin, being Prof. Finnbar Calamitous in disguise, was trying to kill Jimmy and his friends all along)]].

See also StayInTheKitchen, where an entire gender is asked to get coffee, and ComicallySmallDemand. Sometimes played in situations where the coffee-fetching errand ''is'' as important as everything else, either because [[MustHaveCaffeine it's needed to help the problem-solvers function]] or because the activity [[ThisIsNoTimeForKnitting solves the problem in a way that's not immediately obvious]]. Or sometimes, the coffee isn't important, but it's played that way because the [[NaiveNewcomer coffee-fetcher]] is so naïve that he thinks any task from his boss must be important, or because it just looks that way from the perspective of the [[LowerDeckEpisode the lower decks]].

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes: The Movie'': After Big M. fails to defeat the Supermen, the Commander gives him a new mission: order beef noodles and a glass of juice. Big M. assumes he means he wants him and Little M. to eat before they go through with their next plan, but the Commander is just hungry and will give the actual mission afterwards.

* In the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One Where Rachel Quits", Eachel declares on her last day at Central Perk that now she works in the fashion industry, she will no longer be taking coffee orders. GilliganCut to her at Fortuna Fashions doing exactly that.

* A book by John Douglas, founder of the FBI's profiling unit, describes how the Japanese policemen who attended his profiling course always [[SempaiKohai arrived in pairs]]: one a higher-status officer, the other a low-ranker who would shine his superior's shoes, fetch his coffee, etc. Douglas insisted that all his students were equal and put an end to this practice.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' - After pegging himself as [[TheSmartGuy "the brains"]] and Dee as "[[TheChick the useless chick]]" of their group, Mac starts giving everyone jobs to do as part of their latest ZanyScheme. His instructions to Dee: "continue being useless."

* Part of the rites of passage for newly-recruited grunts on dealing desks in large banks involves running chores of this nature. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], sort of, by the fact that the senior dealers are generally expected to remain at their desks for the entire eight or nine hours of the trading day and can't spend twenty minutes waiting to be served in Starbucks/ the deli.