History Main / IfIWereARichMan

* {{Futurama}}: Mom started to wonder about what she would do if she had all the money of the world but stoped when she remembered she ''does'' have it.

* {{Peanuts}} had a strip in which Lucy tells Charlie Brown that if she had a million dollars, she'd spend it all on marshmallows.

** One of the Treehouse of Horror episodes overlapped this with TheButterflyEffect. After going back in time and destroying all the dinosaurs by sneezing, Homer walks back into his house to find that he's rich, the kids are well-behaved, and [[ObnoxiousInLaws Patty and Selma]] are dead. When he asks Marge for a donut, she's perplexed and he freaks out and time-travels again, just before it starts raining donuts. Wealth fantasy + butterfly effect = perfect Homer world

* As seen in the pic, ''{{Pokemon}}'s'' Team Rocket has these often.

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[[caption-width-right:250:Yet her partner is heir to a fortune.]]

->''I eat filet mignon seven times a day,\\
My bathtub's filled with Perrier.\\
What can I say? This is the life...''
-->--'''WeirdAl''', "This Is the Life"

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->''If I had a million dollars...\\
Well I'd buy you an exotic pet.\\
Yep, like a llama, or an emu...''
->--'''BarenakedLadies''', "If I Had a Million Dollars"

->--'''WeirdAl''', "This Is the Life"

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* Kotaro in ''{{Papuwa}}''. Keeping in mind that this DudeLooksLikeALady (to the point that some viewers have ''refused'' to believe that he's a boy), he occasionally has fantasies along these lines... which involve him living in a castle in an elaborate dress, like a princess. As it happens, his family actually ''is'' rather wealthy, he just doesn't know it.
* Hasn't [[TheSlayers Lina Inverse]] done this?

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** [[ShoggothOnTheRoof If I were a Fishman?]]
** Ah... you know what, to hell with it. Who wanted the fish?
** Of course, River ''is'' insane, and her words [[TalkativeLoon never come out quite the way she wants them to.]] It may have made sense in ''her'' mind, but the way it came out....

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* What would Lawrence from ''OfficeSpace'' do if he were a rich man? "...two chicks at the same time, man."
** What would Peter Gibbons Do? "Nothing."
** "Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit."
* The new film version of the musical ''MammaMia!'' has the heroine and her friends sing 'Money, Money, Money' by ABBA while having a fantasy about lying around on a private yacht being waited on by handsome sailors.
* Played with in ''HighSociety'', where two reporters, while taking in the luxurious home of the high society family they're writing a story about, sing "''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!''" ("I Don't!"), listing in the song all the luxuries they could afford if they were rich, and for each one, claiming not to want it. By their expressions and the effort they put into the song, it's implied to be a case of [[SourGrapesTropes Sour Grapes]], however.

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* This is [[MagnificentBastard Ostap Bender]]'s motivation in [[TheTwelveChairs both]] [[TheLittleGoldenCalf books]] he appears in.

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* ''{{Only Fools and Horses}}'' is ''made'' of this trope. ''Every single business deal'' Del enters into is part of his get-rich plan. He is [[CatchPhrase constantly saying]] "This time next year, we'll be millionaires!" He and Rodney actually sing the song in the hilarious episode "And the Unlucky Winner Is ...", when they thought they'd won a million pasetas. Of course, because they told [[FawltyTowersPlot all those lies]], they are unable to collect the money.

* The ''[[SavedbytheBell Saved by the Bell]]'' cast imagine what life would be like after oil is found as shown here [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/643.html]]

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* The BarenakedLadies song "If I Had a Million Dollars.", as referenced in the above quote.
** And the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brobdingnagian_Bards Brobdingnagian Bards]] cover/parody [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRJUrE5E7U "If I Had a Million Ducats"]].

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-->'''Tevye''': May God smite me with it. AND MAY I NEVER RECOVER!
* The song "Disgustingly Rich" from the obscure Rodgers and Hart musical ''HigherAndHigher''.

* The ironically titled song "Money Isn't Everything" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''{{Allegro}}''.

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* [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] has a few of these.

** Bart got in on this once. After being told of winning $500 in a lawsuit, he imagines hitting Vegas, betting it all on roulette. And loses. He still chuckles after the dream plays out.
*** He once found a $1000 bill Mr. Burns lost and made an additional $2000 showing it to people, then fantasized it letting him having "Bart's Moon Party [[ShapedLikeItself from Outer Space]], with [[StarWars R2-D2]] playing the bass" (sung by imaginary singers [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike and then by Homer, in reality, a couple minutes later]]).
* So does [[FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]], though he usually think of some ridiculous thing he would spend the money on. In fact, in the very first episode, a computer error at the welfare office resulted in them getting a huge check from the government, which he used in part to build a moat around the house (to keep the Black Knight away, of course).

* BeavisAndButtHead do this when they hear that there's a reward being offered for their missing friend. Butt-head imagines laying next to a pool while a girl brings him a drink. Beavis does the same thing...except his girl brings him a detonation plunger.

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->--'''BarenakedLadies'''-"If I Had A Million Dollars."

What can I say? This is the life..."
->--'''WeirdAl'''-"This is the Life".

* Played with in ''High Society'', where two reporters, while taking in the luxurious home of the high society family they're writing a story about, sing "''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire!''" ("I Don't!"), listing in the song all the luxuries they could afford if they were rich, and for each one, claiming not to want it. By their expressions and the effort they put into the song, it's implied to be a case of [[SourGrapesTropes Sour Grapes]], however.

* The [[SavedbytheBell Saved by the Bell]] cast imagine what life would be like after oil is found as shown here [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/643.html]]

* The song "Disgustingly Rich" from the obscure Rodgers and Hart musical ''Higher And Higher''.
* In TheMusical ''In The Heights'', there's a song called "$96,000", which is all the characters fantasizing in counterpoint about what they'd do if they were the ones with the winning lottery ticket.
* The ironically titled song "Money Isn't Everything" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Allegro''.

* The mid 1960s hit sing, "Money (That's What I Want)" So bluntly obvious Disney did a music video of the song starring Scrooge [=McDuck=]

** In one instance, upon hearing of an opportunity to earn "become a moderately wealthy man", Homer imagines himself rolling in a small pile of money and shouting, "I'm sort of rich! I can rent anything I want!" Another has him making $11 on the stock market, and fantasizing about getting a carwash.
** One of his odder ideas was becoming a 100-foot tall gold-plated demigod. Or living in a house made of pearls and losing his teeth to his breakfast, a bowl of pearls. Or having his own recording studio.
** In another, he imagines what his life would be like if he robbed the Quik-E-Mart, and sees himself sitting in a rocking chair outside a huge mansion, wearing a top hat, smoking cigars, [[HighClassGlass monocle]] and a sash saying "Governor", while Marge go-go dances in a swimsuit next to him.
*** By the time he decides he will rob the Kwik E Mart, he's already driving away from it.

* Done ''[[WallBanger horribly]]'' in ''{{Roseanne}}''. "Guess what?" the last episode says gloatingly. "The entire last season? [[AllJustADream It was alllll a novel. Or a fantasy, or something]]. Oh, and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dan's dead]]. TakeThat, John Goodman!"

** Of course, River ''is'' insane, and her words [[TalkativeLoons never come out quite the way she wants them to.]] It may have made sense in ''her'' mind, but the way it came out....

A subtrope of ImagineSpot. If the character is pretending to be rich (and not just imagining it), then the trope is MockMillionaire.

[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jessie_fantasy_01.jpg]]
[[caption-width:250:Yet [[FridgeLogic her partner is heir to a fortune]].]]
-->''If I had a million dollars...\\

-->-'''BarenakedLadies'''-"If I Had A Million Dollars."

-->''I eat filet mignon seven times a day,\\

--> '''WeirdAl'''-"This is the Life".

[[caption-width:250:(Yet [[FridgeLogic her partner is heir to a fortune]].)]]

[[caption-width:250:Yet [[FridgeLogic her partner is heir to a fortune]].]]

-->''If I was a rich girl (na, na...)\\
See, I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl.\\
No man could test me, impress me, my cash flow would never end.\\
Cause I'd have all the money in the world, if I was a wealthy girl.''
--> '''Gwen Stefani'''-"Rich Girl."