History Main / CashLure

* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire2'' and ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire3'', you can catch the fish man merchant Maniro by baiting your hook with a gold bar.

* Done by the Prankster in an old ''{{Superman}}'' comic. Seeing the obvious string, no one picks up the dollar assuming it is a prank. However, the string actually triggers an explosive to blow a hole in the wall of a bank.

* According to a ''{{Peanuts}}'' strip from 1985, this is Spike's favorite AprilFoolsPlot, with a purse on a string. Because he's in the desert, however, no victims come by.

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when it's revealed that Lois' mother is Jewish, Carter, her husband, attempts to bait her this way (due to the Greedy Jew stereotype). She doesn't fall for it.

* Appears in the censored version of ''DragonBall'' to replace Bulma using a lure of panties.

* [[MickeyMouse Mickey Mouse's]] nephews Mortie and Ferdie once placed a purse on the floor to pull a prank on DonaldDuck, who tried to prank them back by picking a quarter from his pockets and pretended to take it from the purse. The boys cried for the money and Donald told them the money wasn't theirs. Unfortunately for him, a random passerby overheard the conversation and believed Donald robbed the kids. The passerby socked him and gave them the quarter.

* The "Couch Fishing" episode of ''BeavisAndButthead''.

* In ''BreathOfFire2'' and ''BreathOfFire3'', you can catch the fish man merchant Maniro by baiting your hook with a gold bar.

* In ''[[MarxBrothers Go West]]'', Harpo [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOe2bTVLRxk#t=3m20s uses this]] on Groucho. Groucho is trying to fleece Harpo & Chico out of all their money but H&C reverse it by giving Groucho a 10 and getting 9 change, over and over again.

* The old "duck on a dollar" trick from ''TheLittleRascals''.

-->'''Grunkle Stan:''' Yeah, right, like I'm gonna fall for that... (''beat, [[DoubleSubversion dives for the bill]]'') ''Gimme that floating money!''

* Mr Burns does it in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' to bait children: dangling a large denomination bill on a string out of the window of his limousine and then driving away as Bart tries to pick it up.
* On ''FamilyGuy'', when it's revealed that Lois' mother is Jewish, Carter, her husband, attempts to bait her this way (due to the Greedy Jew stereotype). She doesn't fall for it.

* In the ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Frankendoodle", [=SpongeBob=] does this to Squidward.

* According to a ''{{Peanuts}}'' strip from 1985, this is Spike's favorite AprilFoolsPrank, with a purse on a string. Because he's in the desert, however, no victims come by.

* According to a ''{{Peanuts}}'' strip from 1985, this is Spike's favorite AprilFoolsDay joke, with a purse on a string. Because he's in the desert, however, no victims come by.

** Garfield pulled it on Jon with the last cookie.

* One episode of ''TheKidsFromRoom402'' started with Mr. Besser falling victim to the classic dollar bill with a string prank. The prankster later placed a coin with sellotape for another prank. At the end, someone dropped a ten-dollar bill and Mr. Besser, wrongfully assuming it was another prank, didn't try to pick it up.

A type of prank involving a tied dollar bill, or some valuable object, left on the ground and then pulled away when someone attempts to pick it up. May be used as a lure.

* When Alex Rodriguez left [[{{Seattle}} the Mariners]] to play for the Rangers (and eventually the Yankees), he got a cold reception when he came back to play against his former team. One of the disgruntled Seattle fans put a dollar bill on a fishing line and cast it out onto the field when A-Rod showed up to bat. The fan was ejected from Safeco, but not before the rest of the Seattle crowd cheered his protest.

* Appears on the cover of {{Nirvana}}'s ''Nevermind''.

* ''[[{{Ptitlezrwff4ry}} Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'': Gordy played this prank on Mr. Sweeney to cheer Ned up. It didn't work.

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