![]() ![]() One man burbles enthusiastically about the product, a beautiful woman purrs sensuously over it, but it's the final applicant who gets the part despite being awful, thanks to his enormous nose. Inverted with actors auditioning to sell an air-freshener.A vintage 1984 French animated advertising for La Vache qui rit ( The Laughing Cow ) shows the difficulties of choosing the right mascot among several cows.aired a commercial showing a luckless man dating a variety of creepy, awkward, or unpleasant women, before cutting to their slogan and services.There was this commercial for the self-help section of FHM magazine that aired in Singapore, depicting a guy who can't say anything but lame pickup lines, or score a job interview to save his life.If the person is reviewing locations instead of people, see House-Hunting Montage.Īmour. Compare the Reality Show equivalent, Hopeless Auditionees. If the montage focuses on the interviewer's reactions, it may overlap with Bill. The advent of speed dating provides an increasingly common premise for the appearance of this trope in any Romantic Comedy. The series of awful interviewees is then a Rule of Drama plot device to force them to hire someone they don't want to have around. Alternatively, the interviewer already has someone who would fit the job just fine, but is trying to avoid hiring them for some personal reason. That, or the interviewer calling it a day, only to find the perfect person for the role outside of an interview situation a scene or two later. The montage usually ends with someone perfect (or at least, not QUITE so horrible) for the role coming along and being hired. This may be a job interview, a performance audition, speed-dating, or any number of situations. Expect him to say " Get Out!" and/or "Next!" a lot. They are all dreadfully unsuitable (and often slightly unhinged) leaving the poor interviewer traumatized to some degree. However, that trope focuses on the interviewer, whereas in Terrible Interviewees Montage, the interviewees are the problem. Cracked, The 5 Stages of a Successful Relationship (in a Romantic Comedy)Ī sub trope of the Travelling Salesman Montage, specifically of the job interview iteration. ![]()
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