History Main / IfIWereARichMan

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. Given that he's NotInItForYourRevolution, Vila will start going on about this trope every time the rebels are seeking a MacGuffin that will make them rich or enable them to overthrow the Federation (it's TemptingFate of course, as FailureIsTheOnlyOption). It's often pointed out that he'd quickly get bored and start [[MasterOfUnlocking looking for something to break into]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer Simpson has a few of these.

** He imagines what his life would be like if he robbed the Kwik-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 "Senator", while Marge go-go dances in a swimsuit next to him. By the time he decides he will rob the place, he has already done his shopping and is driving away from it.

** Lisa had one, briefly -- when the FBI informed the family that Homer had stolen the trillion-dollar bill, Marge says it's going straight in the college fund. Lisa -- this was before much of her development into the hippie of the family -- yells "Who needs college?! We're trillionaires! Let's buy dune buggies!"

* Seven of ''OffWhite'' does this. The things she has fantasized about include fancy stilettos, pink googles, comics, fur coats, rings, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers frag grenades, anti-tank rocket launcher...]]

* ''Literature/TheTwelveChairs'' / ''Literature/TheLittleGoldenCalf'': This is [[MagnificentBastard Ostap Bender]]'s motivation in both books he appears in. The third and final part of ''The Little Golden Calf'' is actually a deconstruction: even after Bender gets his long-desired wealth, it turns out to be near-useless in the Soviet Union, where he can't be openly rich, while goods and services are mostly gained for government favors, not money.

--->'''Vimes:''' What he couldn't do with fifty thousand dollars ...\\

* Happens on an episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' when they take a IneptAptitudeTest. Zack (the slacker doofus) gets the result of "millionaire". Cody (the studious dork) gets "custodial engineer". Cody's even in the fantasy to sweep up...

* One storyline in ''Webcomic/RobAndElliot'' features the titular characters earning 10 million dollars in merchandising fees. While they wait for their residuals to arrive they fantasize about throwing money around like confetti, rolling around in piles of cash and tossing wads of dollar bills at each other like snowballs...only for their fantasy to immediately be cut short by the arrival of a lone check for the money.

--->'''Homer:''' You heard the monkey, make the trade.

-->-- '''BarenakedLadies''', "If I Had $1,000,000"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' comic book story "X Marks the Baboon", I.R. Baboon finds a treasure map and imagines himself attending a fancy party and owning several diamonds [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a rubber band collection]].

** When they considered what they might get for copying DavidLetterman, they just imagined sitting on the couch with piles of cash and some chicks.

->''If I had a million dollars\\

Yep! Like a llama, or an emu''

* The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' cast imagine [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/643.html what life would be like in the school now that the place is oil rich]], and the fantasy includes stuff like Kelly [[PrettyInMink wearing a full length mink coat]] and Screech [[UnfortunateImplications being an Arab sheikh]].

* Travie [=McCoy=], "Billionaire" ("I wanna be a billionaire...so f@#$%^n' bad...")

-->--'''BarenakedLadies''', "If I Had $1,000,000"

** Subverted with Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, who, even when making money hand over fist by being the manager for the Disc's only rock band, woud still need several billion years to become richer than his wildest dreams.

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

* Happens on an episode of ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' when they take a IneptAptitudeTest. Zack (the slacker doofus) gets the result of "millionaire". Cody (the studious dork) gets "custodial engineer". Cody's even in the fantasy to sweep up...

* ''OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' 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.

* {{ABBA}}, "Money Money Money" ("All the things I could do, if I had a little money!")

* We don't get the details, but in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'' when Vimes hears that the bounty for the dragon is fifty thousand dollars:
-->What he couldn’t do with fifty thousand dollars ...\\

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* ''KenanAndKel'': Kenan once sued a cannery for ten million dollars and imagined what he'd do with the money. Kel had his own fantasy. With ham.

* One musical number in ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' inverts this with "What Do the Simple Folk Do?", which features a lord and lady wondering about the peasantry. At the end, they decide that the peasants wonder what the nobles do.
** The song is originally from ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}''.

* When the ''{{Scrubs}}'' gang enters the lottery, they imagine what they'd do with millions of dollars. This provides a few opportunities for other characters to do JD's "imagine for a bit, oblivious to the world, then come back with a bizarre statement" thing. Dr. Cox imagines putting Jordan into a box. "I gotta call my glass guy."

* Jackie has one of these in the ''That70sShow'' episode when she find out that Hyde has potential, judging by his SAT score. "Now we don't have to be poor!" After, Hyde remarks "Was there a string quartet? If we're rich, we're getting Led Zepplin or something" and Fez complaining about always being the butler/servant in their fantasies.

* 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Bobby comes to the mistaken assumption that his father is a millionare[[labelnote:*]]He overheard Hank talking about his $1000 bonus, assumed it was his daily paycheck, and then added it up through bad math[[/labelnote]]. What follows is an ImagineSpot where the Hills are portrayed as a combination rich hip-hop artists and {{Scrooge McDuck}}, with a pair of white tigers, a personal helicopter, and a dollar sign-shaped swimming pool.

* The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' cast imagine [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/643.html what life would be like after oil is found]], including Kelly [[PrettyInMink wearing a long fur coat]] and Screech [[UnfortunateImplications being an Arab sheikh]].

* The ''SavedByTheBell'' cast imagine [[http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/643.html what life would be like after oil is found]], including Kelly [[PrettyInMink wearing a long fur coat]] and Screech [[UnfortunateImplications being an Arab sheikh]].
* One musical number in ''TheMuppetShow'' inverts this with "What Do the Simple Folk Do?", which features a lord and lady wondering about the peasantry. At the end, they decide that the peasants wonder what the nobles do.

* ''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.

* Ben Jonson's "The Alchemist" has many characters fantasizing about what they'd do with the Philosopher's Stone. Sir Epicure Mammon gets the longest speech; he plans on feasting on exotic delicacies like quail tongue and lampreys, and he'd be so rich that feather mattresses would be too coarse -- he'd have to have air ... he'd set up a system of aqueducts to carry milk and rose-water to everyone....

* One of the guys at the bar in ''MandatoryRollerCoaster'' fantasizes about being rich enough to go to the doctor.

* In TheMusical ''InTheHeights'', 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 ''{{Firefly}}'' spin-off comic ''Better Days'' has these for almost the entire crew. They range from [[BadassPreacher Shepherd Book]]'s HookersAndBlow ("Kidding. Reckon I'd give it to the abbey.") to River's fantasy wedding. [[CloudCuckoolander To a fish]].