Labor
Routine
Routine noun - An established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity.
Nearby Word: routinely
Both words in one sentence
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Other segments took more of a documentary approach, but were still ficitious and played for laughs, like the history of a labor strike in the world of professional miniature golf.Tropes: Call Back: Frequently made back to other episodes, and occasionally to their stand-up routine.
Source: Series / Cheap Seats - A less malicious mind-controller might just force his zombie slave to perform routine manual labor or perform a dance for simple entertainment, without the motive of triumphant gloating about how he has obliterated someone else's free will.
Source: Playing with Puppets - One of its signature episodes, "Love's Labor Lost" had ER residents Mark and Susan grossly mishandling a routine delivery (possibly deconstructing this trope, as it's possible that the very reason they screwed up was because they didn't have the necessary ob/gyn experience).
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