![]() Smurf #1: Is it really that much further, Papa Smurf? The Smurfs did this first in the comic book story The Astro Smurf, when they were carting Astro Smurf and his spaceship to the inside of an inactive volcano, which became a constant running gag.Given Dick is driving a guy with Super Speed, it makes sense he'd bore easily. ![]() The Flash and Nightwing one-shot opens with Wally West asking this. ![]() During the "Civil War" tie-in issues of Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man realises that Spidey is feeling really out of it when he doesn't take the opportunity to do this.Along their journey, Spider-Man starts asking "So are we there yet?" while everyone else says "No." He continues asking until they finally get there, much to everyone's annoyance. In Marvel Zombies 2, after the zombified heroes ate just about everything in the universe, they decide to go back to Earth to find a way to make more food to satisfy their endless hunger.The first issue of Mark Waid's run, is just one example. As the "big kid" of the team, you can count on Johnny for this in Fantastic Four.until the father, who's playing the game on his phone, realizes she's been looking over his shoulder and is trying to give him the answer to the current puzzle. Subverted in an advertisement for the Wheel of Fortune mobile app in which a girl keeps saying "Are we there yet?" Her parents keep saying "No" because they assume it's this trope.An ad for Pokémon Stadium 2 features a variant where a kid is standing in a game shop repeatedly asking the clerk "Is it here yet?".Years earlier, the Simpsons advertised Ramada Inns, where they did the same thing. This happens in a commercial for Universal Orlando's The Simpsons Ride, where Bart and Lisa keep on asking "Are We There Yet?" over and over.Of note, the kid has a very shrill voice, the commercial most commonly airs on mornings and a lot of people use radio alarm clocks. A British radio commercial for a product we can't recall has a kid asking this with growing impatience before a GPS device shuts him up by telling that the destination is still several hundred miles away.The boy threw a small tantrum when the answer was yes. ![]() The boy kept asking the question's Brazilian equivalent "Já chegamos?" (Have we already arrived?) until they finally arrived.
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