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== Anime &and Manga ==
* ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' used this once, to fill part of the [[Stock Footage]] [[Fighter Launching Sequence]].
{{quote|'''Optimus Prime:''' This elevator could use a few windows. First floor, housewares.}}
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Batman|Nightwing and Robin]] are about to enter a hidden base. The control panel hidden in the tree makes an elevator rise out of the middle of the lake. They start slogging to it and Nightwing quips, "Step right in. Next floor, toys, games, electronics, center of the Earth."
* Raven in ''[[Teen Titans Go!|Teen Titans Go]]''{{context}}
 
 
== Fan Works ==
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* [[Deadpan Snarker|Marco]] makes a joke along these lines in ''[[Animorphs]]'', book 7, ''The Stranger''.
{{quote|'''Marco:''' ''([[The Elevator From Ipanema|elevator music]] is playing)'' Top floor. Ladies shoes. Children's apparel. Everyone out.}}
* The Ministry of Magic in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' has an elevator that announces and describes the departments are on each floor -- thefloor—the punchline being that [[Government Conspiracy|the Department of Mysteries]] is referred to only as the Department of Mysteries.
** [[Riff Trax|"Also housewares, ladies' lingerie, and blatant traps for idiot children."]]
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'': Castin Donn wishes the Empire would label the insides of its turbolift tubes. (Don't even ''ask'' [[A Simple Plan|why he's inside the elevator shaft]]. Just don't.)
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{{quote|'''Lift Woman:''' Second floor... stationery, leather goods, tribal head injuries, cricket bats, film stars, dolphinariums.
'''Lift Woman:''' Third floor... cosmetics, books, Irish massage, tribal head-gear, ants... but not complaints about ants! }}
* One episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'':
{{quote|'''Hawkeye:''' Here we are. First floor. Lingerie, sportswear, elephant accessories and recuperating patients. }}
* Kari spoofs this in one episode of ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'':
{{quote|'''Kari:''' Aaand on this level, we have lumber, explosives and women's lingerie.
'''Grant:''' ''(wide-eyed [[Aside Glance]])'' }}
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== Radio ==
* On the old [[Abbott and Costello]] radio show, during World War II, [[Mel Blanc]] (acting as [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]), was an elevator operator in a department store, quoting "Cigarettes, Nylons, Rubber Tires, Gasoline, Sugar, and other picture postcards!" -- each—each item listed was rationed for the war effort.
* On ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' episode "The last great adventure of the summer" Agent Cat's Paw announces "Top floor: Lady's shoes, hand bags, international spies."
 
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== Web Original ==
* Referenced in [http://failblog.org/2008/03/16/floor-of-fail/ this] Failblog caption.
* Paw of [[That Guy With The Glasses]] uses "Level two! More mountains, snow, icicles, and owls!" in his [[Let's Play]] of ''[[King's Quest V]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925192519/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/paw/lppaw/9731-lpkq5p13 here].
 
 
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