History Main / CashLure

* In ''Film/UsedCars'', Rudy uses a $10 bill on a fishing line to attract a customer from ''across the street'' at a competing car dealer. When the customer is chasing the money ''and not looking at traffic'', HilarityEnsues.

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* [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1979&addr=790107 This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip from 1979 featured Jon pulling this trick on Garfield. Jon used a blueberry muffin instead of money. Garfield retaliated by knocking down the table Jon was on.
** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1996&addr=960223 Garfield pulled it on Jon with the last cookie.]]
** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1999&addr=990606 A mouse did it to Jon.]] ''More than once''.
* According to a ''ComicStrip/{{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.
-->'''Spike:''' I'll wait for ten more hours, but then that's it.
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* WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's nephews Mortie and Ferdie once placed a purse on the floor to pull a prank on Donald Duck, 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.
** On April Fool's day, Huey, Dewey and Louie placed a dollar bill coming off a wallet (found at the city dump) and dropped it with a string to pull a prank on Donald. The string didn't work, allowing Donald to keep the wallet and the dollar. Later on, they tried something similar with an empty wallet and no strings (they reasoned Donald wouldn't need to see any money this time). Unlike them, Donald knew those old wallets had secret pockets and decided to search them for money. He found a ''ten''-dollar bill.

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* In ''[[Creator/MarxBrothers Go West]]'', Harpo 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.

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* According to a ''ComicStrip/{{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.
-->'''Spike:''' I'll wait for ten more hours, but then that's it.

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* In "You Can Lead Eeyore to Books" from ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'', Winnie the Pooh and his friends use a tied carrot to lure Eeyore to Owl's library so that he can pick out a book of his own after he doesn't like the ones they suggest to him.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.

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** In "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back", Bart tries it himself with a dollar bill and a special fishing line. ''Nobody'' falls for it, with Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel outright saying that even ''he's'' not that gullible. Shortly after giving up, Bart notices a quarter on the ground and tries to pick it up, but it was glued there by [[Franchise/{{Archie}} a bunch of teenagers from Riverdale]].

* Mr. Burns does it in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', the [[AlluringAnglerfish wallet anglers]] that inhabit the sewers of The City use a "living wallet" as bait.

* One ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' intro panel comic has Black Spy pulling this on White Spy, with a dollar tied to a string leading to a guillotine. The version of this gag ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' has Black successful in defeating White this way, only for White's headless body to make a final successful grasp at the dollar and slump over after.

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* Appears in the censored version of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime, to replace Bulma using a lure of panties to catch [[LovablePervert Oolong]] transformed as a fish. It also sets up Goku catching him and saying "[[IncrediblyLamePun Would you look at that]], [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars a fishful of dollars!]]"

Compare CoinOnAStringTrick, where the victim (usually a vending machine) believes they've ended up with the money.

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

* MickeyMouse's nephews Mortie and Ferdie once placed a purse on the floor to pull a prank on Donald Duck, 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.

* In ''[[Creator/MarxBrothers Go West]]'', Harpo 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.
* ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'': Commander Clement wants to get some information out of Harvey "Blind" Pew but doesn't want to pay for it. Each time he drops a coin into Pew's cup, Clement yanks it back out again with a string.

* Mr Burns does it in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when it's revealed that Lois' mother is Jewish, Carter, her husband, [[AllJewsAreCheapskates attempts to bait her with money]]. [[StereotypeReactionGag She doesn't fall for it.]]

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

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', the [[AlluringAnglerfish wallet anglers]] that inhabit the sewers of The City use a "living wallet" as bait.

* MickeyMouse'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.

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

* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' and ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', you can catch the fish man merchant Maniro by baiting your hook with a gold bar.
* The Fishin' Lakitu from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' tries to lure you witn a 1-Up Mushroom on a fishing rod. If you pick it up, he'll start throwing spinies.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Next Top Villain," the Lightning Bolt Society pull a variant of this prank by gluing a quarter to the ground for people to try (and fail) to pick up. They end up falling for it themselves however. Later, [[BrickJoke Tails falls for it too.]]

* When Alex Rodriguez left [[UsefulNotes/{{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.

* In {{Film/The Wrong Guys}}, the bullying Grunsky brothers used this trick as children, to lure Richard into a snare trap that suspended him by his ankles. Years later, as adults, Richard and his friends find themselves and the Grunskys working together to escape a dangerous criminal, and Richard remembers the trick. They successfully bait the criminal, and he winds up helpless. [[HopeSpot Temporarily]].

** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1996&addr=960223 Garfield pulled it on Jon with the last cookie]].
** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1999&addr=990606 A mouse did it to Jon]]. ''More than once''.

* [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1979&addr=790107 This]] ''{{Garfield}}'' strip from 1979 featured Jon pulling this trick on Garfield. Jon used a blueberry muffin instead of money. Garfield retaliated by knocking down the table Jon was on.

* In ''[[MarxBrothers Go West]]'', Harpo 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.