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* ''Series/YoureOnlyYoungTwice1971'': In "Innocents in Peril", Matron discovers that Twilight Lodge is in serious debt. To earn the cash they need, the residents put bets on the horses.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': has "It Happened to Me," in which Sheldon loses his life savings in bad investments. He is shown sleeping on a friend's couch after having to give up his apartment and sell his furniture. He spends most of the episode hiding this from his colleagues, but reveals it to Mac and a perp when said perp is about to jump from a building due to similar circumstances. [[AdoptedToTheHouse Mac lets Sheldon crash in his spare room for several episodes till he can get back on his feet.]]

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' has "It "[[Recap/CSINYS06E06 It Happened to Me," Me]]," in which Sheldon loses his life savings in bad investments. He is shown sleeping on a friend's couch after having to give up his apartment and sell his furniture. He spends most of the episode hiding this from his colleagues, but reveals it to Mac and a perp when said perp is about to jump from a building due to similar circumstances. [[AdoptedToTheHouse Mac lets Sheldon crash in his spare room for several episodes till he can get back on his feet.]]
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* ''Series/{{Jessie}}'': The episode "Four Broke Kids" deals with the Rosses' parents having lost all their money, thus the kids get evicted from their penthouse and all their furniture is repossessed, so they are forced to live in Tony's cramped pad while Mrs. Chesterfield moves into the penthouse in their place. At the end of the episode, the Rosses end up getting their money back when Jessie reveals from the IRS the debt was toward a ''different'' Ross family.


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* ''Series/TheThundermans'': In the b-plot of "Date of Emergency", Cousin Blobbin condenses all this money into a single trillion dollar bill which he keeps in his wallet, but he loses it and gets evicted from his mansion; he is forced to move in with the Thundermans as a result, [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave but he ends up driving them crazy]]. It was revealed in the end that his wallet had been eaten by Doggin, and once she vomits it out, Blobbin is rich again and returns home.
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Not to be confused with BizarroEpisode (which is things turning odd), or when an episode is made with NoBudget.

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Not to be confused with BizarroEpisode (which is things turning odd), or BottleEpisode, which is when an episode is made with NoBudget.



* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': ''[[Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron Asterix and the Cauldron'' is a variant, with the "don't care about money" protagonists trying to recover stolen money in a Gaul broken by UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's military expenditures.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': ''[[Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron Asterix and the Cauldron'' ''Recap/AsterixAndTheCauldron'' is a variant, with the "don't care about money" protagonists trying to recover stolen money in a Gaul broken by UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar's military expenditures.
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** Seen in special "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" where the Goodies fall on hard times and are forced to sell their beloved bike for a can of baked beans.
** Briefly at the start of ''Bunfight at the Ok Tearooms'', and it turns out the reason for them being broke was because Graeme had spent all their money on gold prospecting equipment.

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** Seen in the special "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" where the Goodies fall on hard times and are forced to sell their beloved bike for a can of baked beans.
** Briefly at the start of ''Bunfight at the Ok Tearooms'', and it turns out the reason for them being broke was because Graeme had spent all their but never fear--Graeme has come up with a way to make money on by gold prospecting! When the others point out his prospecting equipment.equipment must have cost a fortune, Graeme agrees--[[WithFriendsLikeThese it's why they're broke]].
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* One episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' had London be forced into poverty after her father makes a bad investment, forcing her to be kicked out of the penthouse suite she lives in and move in with Maddie. StatusQuoIsGod however and by the end of the episode her father strikes oil in the diamond mine he'd lost all his money in before, allowing her to get her life back.

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* One ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': In the episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' had London be forced into poverty after her "Poor Little Rich Girl", London's father makes a bad investment, forcing her into poverty and to be kicked temporarily move out of the penthouse suite she lives in and move in with Maddie. StatusQuoIsGod however however, and by the end of the episode her father strikes oil in the diamond mine he'd lost all his money in before, allowing her to get her life back.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': has "It Happened to Me," in which Sheldon loses his life savings in bad investments. He is shown sleeping on a friend's couch after having to give up his apartment and sell his furniture. He spends most of the episode hiding this from his colleagues, but reveals it to Mac and a perp when said perp is about to jump from a building due to similar circumstances. Mac lets Sheldon crash in his spare room for several episodes till he can get back on his feet.

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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': has "It Happened to Me," in which Sheldon loses his life savings in bad investments. He is shown sleeping on a friend's couch after having to give up his apartment and sell his furniture. He spends most of the episode hiding this from his colleagues, but reveals it to Mac and a perp when said perp is about to jump from a building due to similar circumstances. [[AdoptedToTheHouse Mac lets Sheldon crash in his spare room for several episodes till he can get back on his feet.]]



* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' had an episode where the Howells [[ThemeTuneRollCall (the Millionaire and His Wife)]] hear a radio broadcast stating that they're now broke and the other castaways attempt to teach them life skills they would need after they were rescued and needed to work. [[spoiler:But it turns out that it was Powell Industries that went broke, [[StatusQuoIsGod not Howell.]]]]

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* ''Series/GilligansIsland'' had an episode episode, "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS2E8AgonizedLabor Agonized Labor]]", where the Howells [[ThemeTuneRollCall (the Millionaire and His Wife)]] hear a radio broadcast stating that they're now broke and the other castaways attempt to teach them life skills they would need after they were rescued and needed to work. [[spoiler:But it turns out that it was Powell Industries that went broke, [[StatusQuoIsGod not Howell.]]]]



** The novel ''Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out'' is about Monk getting laid off by the SFPD due to the recession and this keeping him from proving Ponzi schemer Bob Sebes guilty of three murders

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** The novel ''Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out'' ''Literature/MrMonkIsCleanedOut'' is about Monk getting laid off by the SFPD due to the recession and this keeping him from proving Ponzi schemer Bob Sebes guilty of three murders

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* Frequently in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''. [[RunningGag For a while]] the solution was lawyer hunting.
%%* Occasionally in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
%%* ''Webcomic/SquidRow'': frequent.
%%* Sidney Malik's story in ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}''

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* Frequently ''Webcomic/DungeonsAndDoodlesTalesFromTheTables'': The party in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''.Episode 19 find a huge cut of their loot all gone in one day because Eriawynn paid a huge sum for a powerful magic item, the "Non-Fungible Trident", which turns out to be a paper certificate to a weapon they can neither touch nor see. In the next episode, they're reduced to panhandling in the streets of Waterdeep.
%%* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Frequently.
[[RunningGag For a while]] the solution was lawyer hunting.
%%* Occasionally in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Occasionally.
%%* ''Webcomic/SquidRow'': frequent.
Frequent.
%%* ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}'': Sidney Malik's story in ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}''story.

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