History Main / LintValue

* Series/{{Sesame Street}}: Elmo is told his food total adds up to “a gazillion dollars” when playing cash register with Gabby. He responds that he has a ‘T-Rex and a Go Fish card.

* The 4th Series of ''[[Series/TopGearUK Top Gear]]'' shockingly subverted this trope when one of its presenters Creator/JeremyClarkson won a cheap car challenge with a car that he bought for ''one pound''.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', Scoutmaster Lumpus attempts to pay a restaurant bill with the contents of the Bean Scouts' pockets: buttons, lint, string, a frog...
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' has the two walking into the local Maxi-Mart and asking the clerk how much party stuff they can buy with whatevers in their pockets (a few coins and some lint). The clerk says none, but he gives them some plastic forks and some day old doughnuts (that he picks out of the trash). The duo are satisfied with that, and we actually do see the clerk taking the coins as they leave.

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Not to be confused with [[CommonplaceRare lint as an actual, valuable commodity.]] Compare ComicallySmallBribe.

* In the ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' animation "Shark'd," Gawr Gura pays for her trademark shark hoodie with some sand from the beach she washed up on. The clothing store doesn't seem to object to this, perhaps because she had nothing to wear otherwise. She later tries to pay Haachama for a kebab with sand as well, but Haachama slaps Gura with a [[PaperFanOfDoom paper fan]] hard enough to knock her out.

Not to be confused with [[CommonplaceRare lint as an actual, valuable commodity.]]

* A current (May 2018) advert for Cadbury's Chocolate has a feelgood fuzziness about it, where a little girl is seeking to buy a bar of chocolate for her mother, but only has a few pennies, buttons, gimcrack rings and accessories and other pocket junk. The sweet little girl tentatively offers the miscellaneous pocket junk to an impassive and not especially sympathetic-looking Asian corner-shop owner, leading the viewer to wonder how unsympathetically he will say "no." or "Get out of my shop". But his stony heart is softened, he smiles, then offers up the largest possible bar of chocolate to the little girl in exchange for the crap. Then he calls her back and says "you forgot your change" and returns a toy ring...

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' [[http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=082911 here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' has the Flying Dutchman offer Mr. Krabs whatever is in his pockets in exchange for ''Spongebob's soul''. This turns out to be 62 cents. Mr. Krabs [[TheScrooge accepts]].

* In the movie of ''Film/TheLittleRascals'', the gang tries to buy materials from a lumber yard to rebuild their clubhouse, but run into a small snag- they only have a few dollars (which they assume is more than enough) which is enough for a piece of wood the size of a dollar note.

* A current (May 2018) advert for Cadbury's Chocolate has a feelgood fuzziness about it, where a little girl is seeking to buy a bar of chocolate for her mother, but only has a few pennies, buttons, gimcrack rings and accessories and other pocket junk. The sweet little girl tentatively offers the miscellaneous pocket junk to an impassive and not especially sympathetic-looking Asian corner-shop owner, leading the viewer to wonder how unsympatrhetically he will say "no." or "get out of my shop". But his stony heart is softened, he smiles, then offers up the largest posdsible bar of chocolate to the little girl in exchange for the crap. then he calls her back and says "you forgot your change" and returns a toy ring...

* In ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' Creator/ChrisRock [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c appears at Hammer & Slammer's BBQ joint.]] Since an order of ribs costs $2.50 and you get 5 ribs, he orders 1 rib for 50 cents. They reluctantly agree, then Rock pulls out a huge roll of cash and asks for change for a $100 bill. Rock later recycled the character when he was on ''Series/InLivingColor'' and ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. This is based on part of Rock's stand-up routine, where he describes working at UsefulNotes/McDonalds and dealing with customers who only have $0.40 and try to negotiate for a single [=McNugget=], or a burger consisting of only the bun and pickle.

* In ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' Creator/ChrisRock [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c appears at Hammer & Slammer's BBQ joint.]] Since an order of ribs costs $2.50 and you get 5 ribs, he orders 1 rib for 50 cents. They reluctantly agree, then Rock pulls out a huge roll of cash and asks for change for a $100 bill. Rock later recycled the character when he was on ''InLivingColor'' and ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. This is based on part of Rock's stand-up routine, where he describes working at UsefulNotes/McDonalds and dealing with customers who only have $0.40 and try to negotiate for a single [=McNugget=], or a burger consisting of only the bun and pickle.

This is a ComedyTrope where a character or characters try to buy some item (which is normally at least somewhat expensive), and tries to do so with nothing more than a few pennies of spare change, or lint, or some sort of ineffectual barter. Usually this trope is invoked just after the seller has told the character all he has to offer, all the options and all the flexibility in deal making. Either out of desperation or out of a literal interpretation of the idea of making a deal, the character then makes his own pitch, almost ALWAYS starting with the phrase, "What can I get for..."

* Seen in the ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' strip where Bowser gets his flying clown car.

* In ''ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' Creator/ChrisRock [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c appears at Hammer & Slammer's BBQ joint.]] Since an order of ribs costs $2.50 and you get 5 ribs, he orders 1 rib for 50 cents. They reluctantly agree, then Rock pulls out a huge roll of cash and asks for change for a $100 bill. Rock later recycled the character when he was on ''InLivingColor'' and ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. This is based on part of Rock's stand-up routine, where he describes working at UsefulNotes/McDonalds and dealing with customers who only have $0.40 and try to negotiate for a single [=McNugget=], or a burger consisting of only the bun and pickle.