History Main / StockMoneyBag

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'': UnclePennybags is often shown carrying bags of money. There was also a sack of money as a playable token from 1999 until it was retired in 2007.

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%%* ''VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob'': A lot of money in the NES version is stored in bags.

%%* ''VideoGame/GunNac'': Landers leave behind floating dollar bags when shot.%%What do they look like?

* ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventures'': One of the areas in the final level, which takes place inside the mansion of the wealthy Max Montana, requires Buster to climb a vertical shaft while dodging round money bags (marked with the $ symbol) shot by cannons. Their speed makes them difficult to evade.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E1SimpsonsRoastingOnAnOpenFire]]" has a grown Bart Simpson come to Ned Flanders's door needing cash. Ned, blinded by faulty laser eye surgery, opens the door. Hearing Bart's voice, Ned knows he's there for a cash bailout, and asks Bart if he brought his "mooching sack." Indeed, Bart concedes that he's brought "just the little one," which is a grey cloth sack about the size of a lunch bag, marked with a black dollar sign.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]": Moe receives bribe money in court. It's a large bag with a dollar sign on it.

* Various coin-collecting minigames in the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series will have money bags (with a coin on the front) that are usually worth 5 coins.

%%* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2'': The occasional "M" bags are worth fifty coins.%%How are these stock bags?

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' has a post-stage minigame where you have three chances to pick from two buckets, each money bag doubling the coins you've collected for the stage -- and a weight ''splitting'' them. After the final boss, your funds are also converted to these, and how many of them you give to [[spoiler:the genie]] affects what kind of new digs Wario gets, from a birdhouse, to a luxurious castle -- [[spoiler:and even his face on the moon for having maxed coins]].

Of course, after the invention and popularity of paper money and consequently the invention of the wallet, the money bag became somewhat of a DeadHorseTrope in real life, although armored car services still use carbon fiber sacks for holding smaller denomination bills and rolled coins for delivery to businesses that need change for their cash registers. Supermarkets and megastores with multiple cashier lanes routinely stock and empty their tills in these pliant, lockable sacks that more closely resemble square pockets than teardrop bindles.

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': In his review of "the worst Christmas Special ever", Doug gets irritated at the caretaker in ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' who pays the patroness of the orphanage two money bags all the time. The character doesn't even mention the amount of money. He just says: "Here are your two money bags, miss."

* In ''Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs'', Stuart MacDonald's mirror trick act involves him using a mirror to multiple his cash. After several multiplications, his pile of cash becomes a bag with a dollar sign on it, which he proceeds to duplicate further with his magic mirror.

* In ''Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs'': Stuart MacDonald's mirror trick act involves him using a mirror to multiple his cash. After several multiplications, his pile of cash becomes a bag with a dollar sign on it, which he proceeds to duplicate further with his magic mirror.

* As the practice of collecting old circulated silver coins (such as pre-1965 90% silver American coins) for the purpose of investment has grown more popular, some bullion dealers sell their bulk silver coins in sacks. It’s quite mesmerizing to watch hundreds of shiny silver coins being poured out from these bags, as seen in [[https://youtu.be/g67uW2fAgn4 this video by a budding numismatist with a bag of mixed dimes]].

%%* ''VideoGame/AiginaNoYogen'' has bags that hold gold.

* In the opening action sequence of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Mr. Potato Head is swiping several such bags from a train car.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'': While meeting with the Coachman, Honest John and Gideon show off a small sack containing the meager sum Stromboli paid them in exchange for Pinocchio. As the Coachman begins to make his proposition, he asks them, "How would you blokes like to make some ''real'' money?" and produces a much larger sack full of gold coins.

* In the [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within a Film]] showing the titular ''Film/ThreeAmigos'', the poor Mexican peasants offer the Amigos a reward of a large bag with a "$" on it.
* In the early Creator/HaroldLloyd short ''Film/TheBigIdea'', a bag marked "$10,000" is found hidden in a vase.

* In ''Film/{{Zachariah}}'', Zach and Matthew rob a bank and run out carrying sacks with dollar signs.

* On ''Series/BreakTheBank1976'', five money bag icons are hidden on the game board. A player wins by claiming three of them.

* UnclePennybags from ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' is often shown carrying bags of money. There was also a sack of money as a playable token from 1999 until it was retired in 2007.

* In some of the ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' games, the enemies drop money bags with a dollar sign on them. Surprisingly, a lot of the games take place outside the United States and even before the dollar was issued for the first time.
* Landers in ''VideoGame/GunNac'' leave behind floating dollar bags when shot.
* Dollar-signed bags are commonly found in ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors''. These also increase the score.
* Snap up a money bag for a ''continue'' in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFight Mighty Final Fight]]''.
* ''Aigina no Yogen'' has bags that hold gold for some reason.
* A lot of money in the NES version of ''VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob'' is stored in bags.
* The ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins'' series takes place in a medieval English setting. Despite that, dollar bags are found.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}}'', Kate Walker has to get her [[CoolTrain clockwork train]] towed by a canal boat to reach its winding station. Problem is, the boat crew demand 100 dollars in payment. When Kate manages to do a number of tasks for the nearby university's rectors, they give her a pouch of coins with a dollar sign on it. Especially strange, given that the game takes place in largely ''European cities''.
* In ''VideoGame/CircusCharlie'', in one of the stages, there are dollar bags inside rings of fire.
* One of the things that yield points in ''VideoGame/SeriousSam II'' is a stock money bag.
* Wallets (which resemble drawstring pouches) in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series always have a rupee on them. The denomination of rupee (determined by its color) indicates the relative capacity of the wallet. As with most examples, this serves as a necessary visual cue, as otherwise they could easily be confused with bomb bags or other items in Link's HyperspaceArsenal.
* The shoot 'em up game ''VideoGame/SpaceBomber'' features sacks of cash as points that the player can collect by the dozens.
* Moneybags in ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' games, appropriately, carries a bag of money (or rather gems) around.
* One of the twelve tokens available in Hasbro's ''VideoGame/{{Monopoly}}'' is a sack filled to overflowing with bundles of currency. The in-game announcer actually calls the token "sack o' money."
* In ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'', the Cashbot Mints have bags with dollar signs on shelves.
* Prevalent in ''VideoGame/BankPanic'' as the bank's customers drop these off at the bank; you need to make sure customers deposit these money bags at all 12 doors in the bank.
* The occasional "M" bags in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2'' are worth 50 coins.
* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' has a post-stage minigame where you have three chances to pick from two buckets, each money bag doubling the coins you've collected for the stage--And a weight ''splitting'' them. After the final boss, your funds are also converted to these, and how many of them you give to [[spoiler:the genie]] affects what kind of new digs Wario gets, from a birdhouse, to a luxurious castle--[[spoiler:and even his face on the moon for having maxed coins.]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Parodies in [[http://www.loadingartist.com/comic/business-plan/ this strip]] from ''Webcomic/LoadingArtist'' where the hero's business plan consists of two steps: (1) buying stock money bags and (2) actually filling them up with money.
* Comes up in ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' when T-Rex comes up with the idea of making laundry bags with dollar signs on them to riff on this trope. [[https://topatoco.com/collections/ryan-north/products/qw-moneybag They were later]] {{Defictionalised}}!

* In ''WebVideo/Jerma985'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzYHiYauoc#t=151 Fast Draw: Showdown]], Jerma spotted a lady running away with a cartoonishly large money bag, he called it a "Scrooge [=McDuck=] Bag".

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS2E2MortynightRun Mortynight Run]]", Rick is handed the sum of 3,000 [[FictionalCurrency flerbos]] in a money bag with a huge ''flerbos'' symbol on it that resembles a dollar sign.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E9MayoredToTheMob Mayored to the Mob]]", Fat Tony hands a sack labeled with a dollar sign to Mayor Quimby. The latter notes that he prefers a less obvious case for his bribe money.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E20TheBoyWhoKnewTooMuch The Boy Who Knew Too Much]]", Moe receives bribe money in court. It's a large bag with a dollar sign on it.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. In one episode, Eddy wants to impress his older brother by making a video that would show him as being very successful. One of the methods involves pretending on camera that he's a wealthy businessman with lots of money bags lying around. Then Double D, who's holding the camera, pans over to Ed, who takes garbage bags out of trash cans and slaps a dollar sign on them.
* ''WesternAnimation/BugsAndThugs'' has the diminutive criminal Rocky rob the City Bank, and emerge with about eight full cloth sacks, which he throws into the rear passenger area of his getaway car. None of the sacks have a dollar sign, though, which is why Bugs Bunny mistakes them for sacks of laundry.