History Main / IfIHadANickel

* ''{{Film/Arthur}}'', on his own wealth: "I wish I had a dime for every dime I had."

** Another episode had Meg combine this with CurseCutShort: "If I had a nickle for every time my parents walked out instead of teaching me to drive, I'd be one rich-"

** In [[PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossTheSecondDimension the movie]], Doofenshmirtz noted if he had a nickle for every time he'd been doomed by a puppet...he'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird [[NoodleIncident it happened twice]].

* ''{{Batman}}'' (1966): "Devilishly clown prince of crime! If I only had a nickel for every time he's baffled us!"

* In the {{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/NightWatch'' Nobby Nobbs says that if he had a dollar for every watchman's funeral he'd attended he'd have $19.50. He did the math right, it's just that one of them hadn't actually been dead and woke up before they buried him.

** It seemed, though, that Brian himself didn't understand the expression well enough to explain it to them. He seemed to be dumbfounded not only because they were unfamiliar with the expression (which is indeed a bit ignorant), but also because he hadn't thought about the expression enough to immediately know the answer to the question.

* In AdventureTime, after he [[spoiler: frees Tree Trunks from the power of a crystal apple]], Jake tells [[spoiler: Tree Trunks]] if he had a penny for every time someone has been [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity driven mad with magic power]]...he'd be Abraham Lincoln. Incidentally, this is a pretty common event in their world.

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* '''PhineasAndFerb''''s clip show episode plays with this trope from Doofenshmirtz, Phineas, and Linda. Doof and Linda realize that the total amount equals that of a candy bar.

* '''Phineasandferb''''s clip show episode plays with this trope from Doofenshmirtz, Phineas, and Linda. Doof and Linda realize that the total amount equals that of a candy bar.

-->'''Phineasandferb''''s clip show episode plays with this trope from Doofenshmirtz, Phineas, and Linda. Doof and Linda realize that the total amount equals that of a candy bar.

* {{Superman}}, as Clark Kent, in ''Superman III'': "If I had a dime for every kid who asked me to get Superman's autograph..."

* Brian on ''FamilyGuy'' used this expression (without spelling out the "I'd be rich" part of the thought), and when asked what the expression meant, he appeared to be unable to explain how the sentence is supposed to continue after the word "nickel." Ironically, [[WallBanger the scene was being used to establish that the questioning character was stupid]].

-->'''Violetta''': If I had a Belgian chocolate mimmoth for every ''hour'' I've had to listen to Tarvek blather on about those stupid muses, I'd weight a thousand kilos.

* In the {{Discworld}} novel ''Nightwatch'' Nobby Nobbs says that if he had a dollar for every watchman's funeral he'd attended he'd have $19.50. He did the math right, it's just that one of them hadn't actually been dead and woke up before they buried him.
** And in ''Lords and Ladies'', Mustrum Ridcully says that is he had a penny for every time he'd been kicked out of the tavern in Lancre, he'd have $5.38.

* In the {{Discworld}} novel ''Nightwatch'' Nobby Knobbs says that if he had a dollar for every watchman's funeral he'd attended he'd have $19.50. He did the math right, it's just that one of them was a joker and pretended to be dead.