History Main / OnTheMoney

Our heroes for some reason need money and are trying to get some money. They need 382,243.50 tropebucks in order to finish their [[ZanyScheme Elaborate Scheme]].

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* In ''FullMetalPanic'', there's the novel side story "Golden Days With Captain Amigo," where Kurz convinces Sousuke to go on a treasure hunt with him. They "borrow" without permission an [[HumongousMecha M6 AS]], and get into the cave. They actually end up having gold and jewels, which amount to being worth 10 million dollars. Both Kurz ''and'' Sousuke, seeing the possibility of a ''much'' nicer future (leaving Mithril and having an early retirement), get very excited, and take the treasure chests out of the cave. However, the cave ends up collapsing, causing the M6 AS to explode. Of course, it turns out that the M6 AS was worth 10 million dollars, and the treasure is taken from them to pay for it. (However, it ''is'' mentioned that the executives rounded the cost of the AS to be higher, so that they ''could'' take all the treasure from them.)

* Inverted in ''SympathyForMrVengeance''. When Ryu tries to get a kidney for his sister on the black market, he's swindled out of $10,000 won. That happens to be the exact sum of money necessary for a transplant should an organ become available legally.

* Another inversion is found in the "Cartmanland" episode of ''SouthPark''. Cartman inherits a million dollars, and buys a failing theme park with the intent to keep it all to himself. He lets other people in so that he can cover maintenance costs, and the park becomes a huge success. Cartman sells the park back to the original owner, angry that he can no longer have the park to himself. He ends up not only coughing up the million dollars for taxes he owes and a lawsuit settlement for Kenny's family (since Kenny's death this episode happened on one of Cartman's roller coasters), but he even ends up owing several thousand dollars.

* In ''Bowling King'', Shautieh Ley needs to get 3 million Taiwan dollars to pay off his love interest's debt... and it just so happens that the prize money for the big bowling tournament is 3 million Taiwan dollars.

* ''Ransom of the Red Chief''. Ouch!

* One ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short has Daffy Duck playing a sadistic radio quiz show host and Porky Pig as his much-suffering contestant. Once he wins the prize, Porky calls up the station owner and asks his price for the station. As it turns out, it's the exact amount of the prize money ''to the cent.'' Cue demonic grin and switching of roles.

Our heroes for some reason need money and are trying to get some money. They need 382,243.50 tropebucks in order to finish their [[ZanyScheme Elaborate Scheme]].

* In ''{{DGrayMan}}'', Allen had to pay off his master's debt as a child. He often spent the exact amount of money on food directly afterward.

* In ''ACivilAction'' the protagonist is told how much money his law firm needs to stay in business. Later, he's offered exactly that amount to settle a big case, suggesting that the rival law firm had inside information.

* One ''LooneyTunes'' short has Daffy Duck playing a sadistic radio quiz show host and Porky Pig as his much-suffering contestant. Once he wins the prize, Porky calls up the station owner and asks his price for the station. As it turns out, it's the exact amount of the prize money ''to the cent.'' Cue demonic grin and switching of roles.

* Brutally inverted in ''SympathyForMrVengeance''. When Ryu tries to get a kidney for his sister on the black market, he's swindled out of $10,000 won. That happens to be the exact sum of money necessary for a transplant should an organ become available legally.

* Inverted by ''HayateTheCombatButler'' (at least in the manga), when Hayate is given 1,000,000 yen to go shopping with, then somehow manages to stumble into disaster after disaster, until he has nothing left.

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', the [[MagicLand Magic World]] tournament prize is exactly how much the group need to [[spoiler:buy back Ako, Akira and Natsumi from slavery]].
** Even though it's halfway a ''InvertedTrope'' due to the fact that the tournament prize is a nice and clean 1 Mil

* In the ''BlackCat'' manga, Sven was ''just'' talking with Train about how they have a $15 million debt when one of Chronos' leaders, Karl, asks Train to talk with him. Karl proceeds to tell Train that he wants him to catch Gyanza, and informs him that the bounty he's offering for people to catch him is... guess what? $15 million. It makes you wonder if Sven should've said that they were in more than a $15 million debt while talking to Train...

** Eventhough its halfway a ''InvertedTrope'' due to the fact that the tournament prize is a nice and clean 1 Mil

* ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'', at least in the manga. Upon completing the [[TrainingFromHell Death March,]] the Devil Bats need to get enough money to fly back to Japan. (Don't ask how some 16~ year old kids are permitted to gamble, even ''if'' one of them has {{blackmail}} on damn near everyone.) Monta and Sena get extremely lucky, but eventually lose it all. Cue Hiruma playing blackjack and counting cards, winning the money they need and then some.
* ''{{DGrayMan}}'', Allen had to pay off his master's dept as a child. He often spent the exact amount of money on food directly afterward.

* In the first ''{{Spider-Man}}'' movie, Peter needs a certain amount of money to buy a new car and impress MJ. Luckily, that's exactly how much he could win by lasting three minutes with Bonesaw in the steel cage. Since he actually knocked Bonesaw out in less than that, the promoter decides to give him a fraction of the promised reward. Too bad Peter didn't just say, "I just knocked out your best cage fighter in less than two minutes without breaking a sweat. You and me are alone in a room with a huge pile of money. You should seriously reconsider trying to rip me off."

* Brutally inverted in ''SympathyForMrVengeance''. When Ryu tries to get a kidney for his sister on the black market, he's swindled out of 10,000 won. That happens to be the exact sum of money necessary for a transplant should an organ become available legally.

* Done straight in one episode of ILoveLucy.

* The plot of Pikmin 2 involves this. The president of the company Captin Olimer works for took out a huge loan (10,000 pikos, to be exact) are are at a loss as to how to repay it. Luckily, the planet Olimer was just on happens to have trinkets which are VERY valuable...

* One of the emails in [[http://www.27bslash6.com/foggot.html this exchange]] from 27b/6 mentions one of the potential benefits of homosexuality being "the gift of dance", which "would come in extremely useful if I needed five hundred dollars and saw a poster advertising a dance competition with a first prize of five hundred dollars."

** A more straight example occurs in an earlier episode where Cartman needs $3.000 dollar for the paternity tests to find his father. The other 3 kids just send a videotape showing Cartman having a girly teaparty with his toys to AmericasFunniestHomeVideos, to win the $10.000 grand prize, but they end up with the second prize instead after already promissing to pay for Cartmans test if they win. Guess what the second prize is.

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* ''PinkyAndTheBrain'': The cost to fund Brain's latest scheme is precisely the yield of a perfect run on that episode's {{Jeopardy}} parody. [[spoiler:He loses - [[ForegoneConclusion of course]] - when the Final "Gyp-parody" question was about the same phrase he'd been ignoring from Pinky for the entire episode.]]

* In ''A Civil Action'' the protagonist is told how much money his law firm needs to stay in business. Later, he's offered exactly that amount to settle a big case, suggesting that the rival law firm had inside information.

* ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'', at least in the manga. Upon completing the [[TrainingFromHell Death March,]] the Devil Bats need to get enough money to fly back to Japan. (Don't ask how some 16~ year old kids are permitted to gamble.) Monta and Sena get extremely lucky, but eventually lose it all. Cue Hiruma playing poker and counting cards, winning the money they need and then some.