History Main / LemonadeStandPlot

* In ''It's Not Fair!'', a ''Series/SesameStreet'' book, on a hot summer day, Ernie gets an idea to run a lemonade stand. Bert likes this idea, and tasks him with buying the lemons. While Bert paints a sign for the stand, Ernie buys oranges instead of lemons. As Bert returns the oranges and buys lemons, he tasks Ernie with finishing painting the sign, resulting in the kitchen being a huge mess. After Bert makes the lemonade and sets up the stand, it is a huge success, but everyone praises Ernie for his idea. A jealous and angry Bert finds it unfair that Ernie makes messes and mistakes and still receives praise, [[DudeWheresMyRespect whereas his hard work is never appreciated]]. He eventually snaps and runs off in tears. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Feeling remorseful]] and realizing how awful Bert feels, Ernie buys him a dustpan and brush with the money he earned selling lemonade as a present.

* A ''Webcomic/BabyBlues'' storyline in which Zoe wanted a new scooter had her open a lemonade and cookies stand (with her mom baking the cookies and her dad building the stand), only for "Zoe's Homemade Lemonade and Cookie Experience" be completely upstaged by the neighbor kids, who had an ultramodern white kiosk called "Cosmic Lemonade" that offered free wifi, contactless payment, valet parking(!), and 20 flavors(!!)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Lemonade Stand", Phineas and Ferb start a lemonade stand with a lemonade-making robot. Later, they make a full-on lemonade store and stadium.

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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Several strips involve Calvin selling lemonade, usually in service of some larger point skewering business and commercialism. In one such story, Calvin charges $15 for "lemonade" that's just water with a whole lemon in it. In another, he tries to pass off dirty ditchwater filled with rotting leaves ("fortified with chlorophyll!") as a health tonic.

* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTuttleTwins'' has the titular twins trying to run a lemonade stand, only for Karinne, the show's resident bully and president of the Cul-de-Sac Kid's Club, to take all the lemonade for herself without paying, because Law 16 of the club allows the president to do so. On hearing about this, their Grandma takes them on an time-traveling adventure so they can learn about human rights.

* One episode in ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers Super Mario 64 Bloopers]]'', "Mario's Lemonade Stand", involves Mario setting up a lemonade stand to pay back goods he damaged in the previous episode. He eventually gets in trouble with a milk selling store literally across the street, which devolves into a civil war.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Over Your Ed" begins with the Eds running an "Ed-O-Gee drinks" stand. Eddy pours too much sugar on the energy drinks, giving an unwitting Edd a sugar high.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Nectar of the Odds", Timmy, Chester, and A.J. want to see ''Crash Nebula On Ice'', but since it is sold out, they try to buy scalped tickets from Francis. Because they cost $15,000.00, Timmy tries to sell lemonade to earn the money. His stand is a bust at first, especially when compared to Vicky's professional-looking one. When he looks for a secret ingredient to make his lemonade taste better, Cosmo dunks his sweat socks in the lemonade, which not only makes it taste better, but grants wishes as well. The lemonade stand becomes a massive success, but when people start wishing for dangerous things, Timmy uses a glass of lemonade to undo the wishes. After Timmy reunites Doug Dimmadome with his long-lost son, Dale, Doug gives Timmy, Chester, and A.J. jobs selling lemonade at ''Crash Nebula On Ice''.

* The ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "[[Recap/FosterHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E5CookieDough Cookie Dough]]" begins with Bloo running a lemonade stand during a rainy winter season to raise money for a new roof for Foster's. Unfortunately, nobody wants to buy lemonade because as Mac points out, nobody's going to want to buy something ice-cold when it's already ice-cold outside. When Bloo points out that he's [[SawItInAMovieOnce seen the idea work in movies]], Mac asks him if it was summer in those movies. At the end of the episode, when Bloo's attempt to make Madame Foster's famous cookies by himself results in him destroying Foster's roof, [[BookEnds he runs a lemonade stand to raise the money for a new roof]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'': "Easy Come Easy Gonard" has Mikey and Gonard setting up a lemonade stand in order to [[WorkOffTheDebt work off the large tab Mikey grew in the Tatami Megastore]]. While it initially works thanks to their fame on the ''Lily Mu'' show, their rising ego and a feud ruins any chance they have of getting the funds.

* Subverted in the "X Makes a Lemonade Stand" videos made with ''Website/GoAnimate'', where the video-typical troublemaker character sells their own [[IAteWhat urine]] advertised as lemonade, which results in a costumer who goes by getting disgusted or sick. The "X Sells Chocolate" videos are a common variant in which the troublemaker sells their excrement disguised as chocolate.

* Subverted in the "X Makes a Lemonade Stand" videos made with ''Website/GoAnimate''. The video-typical troublemaker character sells their own [[IAteWhat urine]] advertised as lemonade, which results in a costumer who goes by getting disgusted or sick. The "X Sells Chocolate" videos are a common variant in which the troublemaker sells their excrement disguised as chocolate.

* ''Website/GoAnimate'': Subverted in the "(Character) Makes a 'Lemonade' Stand" videos. The troublemaker-of-the-day decides to sell [[IAteWhat urine]] when they can't get their hands on any actual lemons. This results in one of the customers getting sick (and the troublemaker getting [[YouAreGrounded grounded]]).

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* ''WebAnimation/MarioFables'': In "Peach's Lemonade", Princess Peach opens her own peach lemonade stand. When Mario tastes the lemonade, he finds out that it's actually Peach's urine, and that it got its pinkish color from her menstrual blood. He is understandably disgusted by this, and after he tells Peach off, he runs away in disgust and horror.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheJoysAndSorrowsOfYoungCharlesFinster'' has a chapter parodying the canon episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS4E10AngelicasLastStandClanOfTheDuck Angelica's Last Stand]]", in which Drew starts a lemonade stand, but is unfair to the other kids.

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* ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox,'' a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' HighSchoolAU story, has Hanabi decide that she wants to make her own money by running a lemonade stand, even though she's already from a rich family; her reasoning is that it'll help her to develop a proper sense of business strategy. Unfortunately, her first outing in running her lemonade stand goes poorly because, while she gets the basics of mixing lemons with water correct, she forgets to add the sugar; Lee is the only one who can drink the concoction with no issue, whereas Suigetsu and Jugo take one mouthful and spew it right back out a second later. Luckily, the boys help Hanabi to come up with a better product--a lemon-grass drink sweetend with honey (which Hanabi thinks will go over well with customers going organic).