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A character (usually a child) needs to make money and fast, and one of the easiest ways they can do it is by selling lemonade. There are several ways this plot can work out. One of the most common is if another character is also running a lemonade stand, and the two get into a competition with each other. If the two characters are normally friends with each other, it may result in a Feud Episode. Another way it can play out is if the character has little or no experience in making lemonade, and the lemonade tastes terrible as a result. Sometimes the "lemonade" is actually pee, often leading to horrified reactions from the customers if they drink it and find out too late what it is. Yet another way this plot can happen is if the character running the stand runs afoul of the law, who consider the stand to be violating vending, health inspection, taxation, or child labor laws, which will result in the character either having to find a way to get a permit or sign the relevant forms, or, more likely, being forced to give up their stand. Can be a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme.

Compare Restaurant-Owning Episode, where the restaurant in question may or may not sell lemonade as one of its drinks.


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    Advertising 
  • In a commercial for Verizon Small Business a little girl uses the product to turn her front-yard lemonade stand into a global business.
  • In a commercial for T-Mobile a lemonade stand advertising lemonade for a dollar ends up charging over two dollars for a cup because of "fees and added taxes".
  • In this commercial for Chipotle, two young kids start off this way, one with an orange juice stand instead of a lemonade stand. The boy, the one with the orange juice, intends to make enough money so he can see a movie with the girl, who he has a crush on, but then she starts to get jealous of his success and they become rivals, growing up to become bitter competing heads of fast food chains. The two of them eventually realize that their obsession with one-upping the other has blinded them to making quality beverages after seeing how artificial their products have become and get together after the automated machines in their factories turn against them, starting a new restaurant with an emphasis on handmade meals together.

    Comic Books 
  • Quantum and Woody: Issue #32 (the future, out-of-order issue that was followed by #18 and the series was meant to eventually lead up to) showed a flashback of Eric and Woody, as children, starting a caffe latte stand... which sells terribly because of the high price.

    Comic Strips 
  • Several strips in Calvin and Hobbes 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. After Hobbes points this out, he instead sells it as "Calvin's Debilitating Disease Drink", and charges people a dollar not to have any. Yet another time, he tries selling lemonade when there's a foot of snow on the ground because "it's an all-natural refrigerator."
  • Lucy's psychiatry stand from Peanuts started out as a parody of the typical lemonade stand, but soon became its own thing.
    Franklin: Are you a real doctor?
    Lucy: Was the lemonade ever any good?
  • The twin girls who visit Lillian in Crankshaft were once cautioned for operating a lemonade stand without a trading permit (the Bait-and-Switch gag being that this was during the storyline where Lillian turned her attic into a bookshop, and it wasn't clear she had a permit).
  • A Baby Blues 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(!!)

    Fan Works 
  • The Rugrats fanfiction The Joys and Sorrows of Young Charles Finster has a chapter parodying the canon episode "Angelica's Last Stand", in which Drew starts a lemonade stand, but is unfair to the other kids.
  • Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, a Naruto High School AU 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 sweetened with honey (which Hanabi thinks will go over well with customers going organic).

    Films — Live-Action 
  • In The Addams Family, Pugsley and Wednesday open a lemonade stand to raise money after Gomez gets evicted from the family mansion. It's made with various poisons, but Lurch likes it.
  • In Problem Child 2, the twins Dolly and Madison are seen running a lemonade stand, charging 2 dollars a glass. They ask Junior to refill the jar, which he does by urinating in it.

    Literature 
  • Angela Nicely: The plot of “The Big Bike Ride!” is Angela, Laura, and Maisie trying to sell lemonade to passing cyclists.
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School: When the town agrees to shut off electronics for the weekend, Greg and Rowley start a lemonade stand because everyone is walking outside. They accidentally buy limes in addition to lemons, and they lose their already-failing business once another kid on their street sets up his own professional lemonade stand. Greg and Rowley decide to sell "fitness water" (actually just hose water) instead.
  • In It's Not Fair!, a Sesame Street 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, whereas his hard work is never appreciated. He eventually snaps and runs off in tears. 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.

    Live-Action TV 
  • According to Jim: In "The Lemonade Stand", Ruby and Gracie start a lemonade stand so they can buy scooters. Jim and his neighbors then get competitive over who has the best lemonade stand.
  • The Addams Family: In one episode, Morticia, mistakenly believing that Gomez is financially ruined, secretly rallies the rest of the family to figure out ways to earn money. Wednesday and Pugsley set up a sidewalk stand, complete with a sign that says "Henbane on the Rocks". A man buys some, thinking "Henbane on the Rocks" is just a trade name.
    Man: Boy, those trade names get wackier every day. Let me have a tall one, son.
    Pugsley: Yes, sir.
    [The man gives them a quarter. Pugsley ladles some henbane into a tankard and hands it to him.]
    Man: Well, always like to help out the small-business man. Cheers!
    Pugsley: Cheers!
    [The man takes a sip, then chokes as steam shoots out of his ears.]
    Wednesday: Would you like some more?
    Man: [gasping] I'd like some help! I'm gonna tell my lawyer about this.
    Pugsley: [to Wednesday] See? Satisfied customers always tell their friends.
  • All That: "The Lemonade Scammer" skit features a little girl {played by Katrina Johnson) who sells lemonade at outrageous prices and when the customers refuse to buy any, she resorts to Inelegant Blubbering until they finally give in.
  • In El Chavo del ocho, Chavo opened a stand where he sold aguas frescas (fruit flavored drinks), first as a two part episode in 1974, then remade as a three episode series in 1977.
  • Fred: The Show: In "Lemon Fred", Fred starts a lemonade stand to raise money to buy a new scooter. No one will buy any of it, so he starts a cafe called Lemon Fred's.
  • In the B-plot of the Good Luck Charlie episode "The Bob Duncan Experience", Gabe and his friend Leo decide to run a lemonade stand, but after they argue about how to organize it, they run rival stands and start being bitterly competitive.
  • Full House: "You Pet it, You Bought it" begins with Michelle starting a lemonade stand to earn some money. She earns $221 by selling her lemonade to some construction workers on a hot day, then ends up spending her money on a donkey, which she names "Shorty", getting the episode's main plot underway.
  • In Jessie, the B-plot of one episode has Jessie helping out Zuri with a lemonade stand in order to make enough money to buy a doll she wants, but ends up running into trouble when Mrs. Chesterfield keeps trash-talking her business and a police officer fines them for not having a license to sell lemonade. Later on, Zuri has the idea of putting her lemonade stand inside an elevator with a heater so the people trapped there have no option but to buy her lemonade to cool off. She makes enough money to pay for the doll, but now needs more to pay the fine, the heater and a swimsuit she bought, and she and Ravi come up with the idea of her giving away cookies that secretly contain chilli inside of them so he can then sell milk to the unfortunate victims.
  • The Noddy Shop has the episode "Take A Stand", where Kate and Truman are running a baked goods stand outside the shop. Truman and Itchy help assist them in order to earn money to buy antique horns for their bicycles.
  • In the Shining Time Station episode "Sweet and Sour", Dan, Becky, and Kara start their own lemonade stand in the station, which also sells cookies. When Schemer and his nephew, Schemee become the kids' business partners, they encourage them to raise the prices and decrease the quality of their products. When Midge Smoot buys some cookies and finds out how awful they taste, she gets upset with Schemer.

    Music 
  • In the Songdrops song "The Duck Song", an unnamed man is running a lemonade stand but a duck keeps asking for grapes instead. This makes the man very angry, but eventually it occurs to him that he could just buy the duck some grapes from the store. By then, however, the duck has changed his mind and wants lemonade instead.
  • The Tenille Townes song "Somebody's Daughter" contains a lyric mentioning this trope:
    Back when she was somebody's sister/Countin' change at the lemonade stand

    Podcasts 
  • In Trials & Trebuchets, Integrity and Winsler set up a lemonade stand called "Lemowand, Etc." at the Autumn's End Festival, where they sell lemonade with hollowed out old magic wands as straws. Things start to go awry when they develop a bitter rivalry with the apple cider stand across the way from them, and when their customers experience various magical side effects due to residual magic left in the old wands.

    Puppet Shows 
  • In "A Trip to the General Store" from Bear in the Big Blue House, the kids of the Big Blue House decide to set up a stand outside the Big Blue House selling lemonade and cookies in order to raise money to spend at the Woodland Valley General Store. However, when they tell Bear that at the rate they're going, they expect to raise enough money by tomorrow or the day after, he agrees to buy out their entire stock, as he has things he needs to get from the store today. He ends barely choking down the lemonade and Ojo explains that the secret ingredient is salt because after all, it looks like sugar, so surely it's the same. Bear passes on eating the cookies, claiming to be saving them for later.

    Video Games 
  • Sesame Street has a Licensed Game where Elmo and Grover make lemonade and sell it to raise money for several different things, including school uniforms and seedlings.
    • Before that, there was another lemonade stand game involving Elmo and Zoe. However, this game was actually endless- any time they ran out of lemonade to sell, a lemon vendor would happen upon them to give them more lemons.
  • The 1973 business simulation game Lemonade Stand, as you might expect, which became a standard pack-in title with Apple and Atari computers of the 80s. Players are tasked with paying attention to the weather forecast to determine a day's potential business, then buying enough supplies and local advertising to make the day profitable. True to life, there's still elements of randomness to contend with. It's now a free, open-source game.

    Web Animation 
  • In Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, Chelsea starts a lemonade stand that, due to comments from Raquelle, turns into a Starbucks parody.
  • In the short Gilbert and the Lemonade Stand, the titular protagonist sees a girl host a lemonade stand and decides to make one himself, getting into a rivalry after their price war results in the girl losing all her lemonade and money to one customer. The resulting conflict results in Gilbert's pitcher being broken, and the two get into a fight on the road, nearly getting crushed by cars. The conflict ends up getting so heated that they shoot real guns at each other, and they end up killed when the girl tried to run Gilbert over, which Gilbert responded to by throwing a Molotov cocktail at the car she was using. Keep in mind that they are less than 10 years old.
  • Subverted in the "X Makes a Lemonade Stand" videos made with GoAnimate, where a video-typical troublemaker character sells their own 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.
  • The Happy Tree Friends episode "Eyes Cold Lemonade" features Giggles and Petunia running a lemonade stand with a faulty sign. The sign rips Giggles's face off and crushes Petunia's head, which results in the now-blinded Giggles making "lemonade" out of Petunia's eye.
  • Mario Fables: 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.
  • Two More Eggs: In the sub-series Panda Bractice, the episode where the pre-teen garage rock band breaks up over Creative Differences is immediately followed by one where Glennis puts the band back together. She finds the drummer Libby working at an "ice clod lemnad" stand, chafing under the authority of a boss who's even younger than her and can't spell "lemonade" correctly. Libby jumps at the opportunity to quit the lemonade business and rejoin the band.

    Web Comics 
  • Unwinder's Tall Comics: One comic involves Unwinder opening a stand to sell "floss candy" (a midwestern-ism for cotton candy) stand. But Unwinder's candy maker is a hand-cranked toy, not real kitchen equipment, and it can only make one very small batch at a time. Realizing he'll only turn a profit if he jacks up the price, Unwinder puts up a fancy gold-leaf sign to advertise his product as "luxury" floss candy.

    Web Videos 
  • Super Mario 64 Bloopers: An episode in the Anime Arc titled "Mario's Lemonade Stand" involves Mario setting up a lemonade stand to pay back for destroying the Anime Cartel's goods in the previous episode. He and Tari eventually get in trouble with Jeeves' milk cafe literally across the street, which devolves into a civil war that Meggy puts an end to.
  • In the SuperMarioLogan episode "Bowser Junior's Lemonade Stand!", Junior opens his own lemonade stand so he can raise $300.00 to buy the Big Jumbo Box of Toys. However, Cody also starts his own pink lemonade stand to raise money for an operation which is revealed in the end to be for a penis enlargement, which becomes more popular than Junior's lemonade stand. The two get into a competition with each other, which culminates in Junior hiring the Loan Dolphin to destroy Cody's stand. When the Loan Dolphin refuses, Junior does it himself. The Loan Dolphin calls Officer Goodman, who tells Junior that it's illegal to destroy someone's lemonade stand, and tells Junior that he is no longer allowed to sell lemonade or lemons in the state of Florida.

    Western Animation 
  • In the Abby Hatcher episode "Fuzzly Lemonade Stand", Melvin makes a lemonade stand. Abby and Bozzly want some too, but Melvin has run out of lemonade, so they try to make more.
  • In the The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin episode "The Lemonade Stand", Tweeg starts up a lemonade stand and sells lemonade that gives people the Tweezles. He later starts selling what he claims to be the antidote. However, Teddy catches on when he notices that tape is covering part of the "lemonade" logo on Tweeg's wagon.
  • In the prologue to the Arthur episode "Arthur's Big Meltdown", one of the ways Arthur tries to earn money to buy the new Bionic Bunny sneakers is by opening up a lemonade stand. As he does this, it starts to rain. Not being one to give up so easily, Arthur tells a customer who passes by, "Made with real organic rainwater!". Not surprisingly, he doesn't earn any money from this.
  • The Bobby's World episode "Bobby's Last Stand" has Bobby trying to earn enough money to purchase a new squirt gun advertised on TV. He and Jackie eventually decide to open up a lemonade stand during a heat wave, only for Jackie to point out that they have no lemons to make lemonade. She then gets the idea for them to make prune juice from dried plums from a nearby plum tree, which actually succeeds in getting them many customers from the elderly crowd. However, things go awry when they accidentally lose all the money they made in a sewer grate and the parents take over their business. It all gets so out of hand that Bobby and Jackie decide to forget about their goal and to just go play inside while the adults continue to fight amongst each other and drive away all their customers.
  • The The Boondocks episode "The Block Is Hot" has Jazmine opening up a lemonade stand, only for her to sell it to Ed Wuncler I in exchange for a pony despite Huey's warning that it won't end well for her. Sure enough, Jazmine is made to work long hours serving hundreds of customers with ridiculous orders and at the end is left with nothing but a large payment for all operating costs and upkeep of her promised pony out of her own money, while Wuncler not only does not hold up his end of the deal, but reveals that the whole thing was a plan to run Jazmine out of business so he could sell his own brand of lemonade.
  • Caillou: One episode of New Adventures has Caillou starting a lemonade stand at the park. A middle-aged woman comes by with her dog Pepper and Caillou plays with him while the woman tries some of the lemonade. After Caillou and Rosie have fun with Pepper, the woman gives Caillou his jar of money.
  • The Captain Flamingo episode "The Last Stand" has Milo and Lisbeth helping Kirsten to get more customers to buy her flamingo-pink lemonade, which has been less than successful thanks to Wendell opening up a lemonade stand of his own on the same street and stealing all her customers.
  • Curious George: In "George Makes a Stand", George starts a lemonade stand so he can buy The Man with the Yellow Hat a new soccer ball after seeing his old one deflated. He buys a box of lemons and uses it as a makeshift table to sell cartons of lemonade. Unfortunately, not a lot of people come by. In the end, he goes to the construction site and he gets plenty of money, and by the time he comes home, The Man with the Yellow Hat has refilled his old soccer ball.
  • Dan Vs.: "The Lemonade Stand Gang" features Dan going up against a group of delinquent children who run a lemonade stand, because they con and threaten people into giving them money and make thousands of dollars.
  • Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood:
    • In "The Lemonade Stand", Daniel and Prince Wednesday decide to start their own lemonade stand when Queen Sara gives them lemonade she made from the lemons on her lemon tree. Daniel and Wednesday soon argue with each other over how they like to collect the lemons (Daniel picks them off the tree, while Wednesday shakes the tree), so Sara helps them resolve their conflict. When the stand opens, Wednesday gets mad at Daniel for giving away all the lemonade to their customers and not giving him a turn, so Daniel gives Wednesday that chance when Mr. Tiger is their next customer.
    • In "Jodi's Lemonade Stand", Daniel, Miss Elania, and Jodi start a lemonade stand at Jodi's house. The development of the lemonade stand goes through several hardships, such as the original sign that Daniel and Miss Elaina made being ruined from the rain and a new one having to be made in its place, and Jodi having to find new lemons to make the lemonade, but it soon opens and Daniel, Miss Elaina, and Jodi start selling lemonade to the citizens of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
  • Denis and Me: The first episode of the series, "Lemonade Stand-Off", Sir Meows-A-Lot starts a lemonade stand to save up money for a new cat toy. Then he has to try to out-do Lady Barks-A-Bit when she also starts a lemonade stand of her own, mainly by trying to make a bigger, flashier stand than hers. It ends with both stands destroyed.
  • In the Dennis the Menace episode "Lemon Aid", Dennis opens his own lemonade stand. When Margaret gets upset over him taking all the credit for it since the idea was hers, as well as him giving her a fifth of the money they make, she starts her own lemonade stand out of spite. Dennis hires Joey as his new partner, and when the two run out of lemons, they take some from Mr. Wilson's lemon tree.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: In "Dexter's Debt", Dexter owes NASA $200,000,000.00, so one of the ways he tries to make the money is by opening his own lemonade stand, where he advertises the lemonade as being "technoganicly nutrified" and charging $2,000,000.00 for it. Unsurprisingly, nobody buys his lemonade, instead buying his sister Dee Dee's "lemonaid", which she advertises as being made with love.
  • The DuckTales (1987) episode "Duck to the Future" begins with Huey, Dewey, and Louie starting their own lemonade stand. The boys spend six dollars to buy supplies to build the stand, but only make fifty-six cents in profits. Scrooge is unimpressed, and gives the boys advice on cutting costs so they can get better at making a profit. Scrooge is sent 40 years into the future by Magica DeSpell, where the boys, having taken his advice, cheat their customers and rip their own employees off for everything they're worth. At the end of the episode, Scrooge tells the boys that the best way to earn money is the honest way.
  • The Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Over Your Ed" has 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 The Fairly OddParents! 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 due to his lemonade "tasting like bile", especially when compared to Vicky's professional-looking one (which actually has slave labor involved). While looking for a secret ingredient to make his lemonade taste better, Cosmo dunks his sweaty 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 (who was one of Vicky's slaves), Doug gives Timmy, Chester, and A.J. jobs selling lemonade at Crash Nebula On Ice.
  • The Fanboy and Chum Chum episode "Battle of the Stands" has the title characters starting a lemonade stand, but must face competition when Yo and Lupe's lemonade stand becomes more popular.
  • The Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Cookie Dough" has 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 seen the idea work in movies, Mac asks him if it was summer in those movies. By 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, he runs a lemonade stand to raise the money for a new roof.
  • Kappa Mikey: "Easy Come Easy Gonard" has Mikey and Gonard setting up a lemonade stand in order to 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 and landing them in the Tatami prison.
  • My Little Pony Tales: In "The Great Lemonade Stand Wars", the girls start a lemonade stand in order to raise the money to buy a new teapot for their clubhouse. When the boys see how much money they're making, they start their own stand, and a bitter rivalry ensues.
  • Olivia: In "Olivia's Lemonade Stand", Olivia, Julian and Ian make a lemonade stand. Francine also sets up a pink lemonade stand, which attracts more customers, so Olivia turns her own lemonade stand into a restaurant that also serves lemonade.
  • PB&J Otter: In "Lemon-itis", Peanut and Jelly want to buy a pair of hover helmets, like the kind Ootsie and Bootsie have. However, the helmets are very expensive. When Ernest is rewarded with a giant lemon for helping the Muskrat family when they were sick, Peanut and Jelly decide to use the lemon to make lemonade and set up their own lemonade stand. However, since none of their clients have any money (except for Ootsie and Bootsie), they give it away for free. In the end, Ootsie and Bootsie give Peanut and Jelly turns with their hover helmets to thank them for sharing their lemonade.
  • Peg + Cat: In "The Lemonade Problem", Peg wants more marbles, so she and Cat set up a lemonade stand with marbles as the price for a cup.
  • In the Phineas and Ferb episode "The Lemonade Stand", Phineas and Ferb start a lemonade stand with a lemonade-making robot, which snowballs into a full-on lemonade store and stadium.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (2016) has a minor example at the beginning of the episode "Poorbucks", where Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup open up a lemonade stand. Said stand isn't important to the episode's plot whatsoever.
  • In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Astronaut Ellen Ochoa", the kids run a lemonade stand to help raise money to send humans to Mars. They use absurd, convoluted methods to acquire lemons and subsequently make lemonade, and the neighborhood animals get in on the project. This is also how they meet Ellen Ochoa, who buys a cup of lemonade from their stand.
  • In the Rugrats (1991) episode "Angelica's Last Stand", Angelica opens up her own lemonade stand, and hires the babies to be her helpers. When Angelica refuses to share the money she makes with the babies, Susie encourages the babies to go on strike. Angelica tries to run her lemonade stand by herself, but without the babies' help, it goes out of business.
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Three Men and a Comic Book", Bart tries to raise money to buy Issue #1 of the Radioactive Man comic book. One of the ways he tries to do so is by running a lemonade stand. When nobody stops to buy lemonade, Lisa tries to help Bart by turning some of the letters on the sign and Bart's hat around to play on the customers' sympathies. This still doesn't work, so Bart decides to sell beer instead. Though it is more successful than lemonade, it does get him in trouble with Officer Lou and Officer Eddie, who tell him he needs a license to sell liquor, but let him off easy when he gives them free beer. Homer is also horrified when he finds out that Bart sold his beer.
    • In "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words", Bart and Lisa start their own lemonade stand before the blue-haired Lawyer shows up and forces them to apply for a vendor's license, where Lisa solves a Crossword Puzzle for the manager, resulting in her becoming obsessed with crossword puzzles and the lemonade stand plot being completely discarded.
    • In "Lemon of Troy", Milhouse is selling lemonade, before the Springfield lemon tree is stolen by Shelbyville kids.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • "Bubblestand" sees SpongeBob set up a stand selling a chance to blow bubbles for 25 cents. Rather than focus on profits or loss, however, the episode revolves around SpongeBob teaching Patrick how to blow a bubble while Squidward is annoyed by the whole setup. Though the product is different, the other details are functionally identical.
    • In "Karate Star", Harold the blue fish ran a lemonade stand before it was destroyed by Patrick as his obsession with karate went to his head and caused him to destroy basically everything in sight.
    • In "Ink Lemonade", Patrick opens his own black lemonade stand. The black lemonade he sells is ink, which he gets from Squidward by scaring him.
  • Taz-Mania: In "Francis Takes a Stand", Taz and Francis X. Bushlad set up competing lemonade stands in hopes of making big money. Hilarity Ensues.
  • In the Timon & Pumbaa episode, "Lemonade Stand Off", on a hot day in the desert, Timon gets the idea to start his own lemonade stand, with him as the Chef and Pumbaa as the Sales Hog. Unfortunately, because Timon's lemonade is infested with bugs, it drives away their customers. When Timon and Pumbaa argue over who was to blame, the two go their separate ways and run their own lemonade stands. A man who has been crawling through the desert for weeks is thirsty and wants some lemonade to drink, but Timon and Pumbaa's sales antics drive him away, which leads to the two destroying each other's stands. At the end of the episode, Timon and and Pumbaa make up with each other and decide to keep their bug-infested lemonade for themselves.
  • The first episode of Tuttle Twins 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.
  • In the VeggieTales in the House episode "Lie-Monade", Larry wants the new Baseball 3 Billion video game. Bob suggests starting a lemonade stand so that he can raise enough money to get it, so Larry does just that. Unfortunately, he only sells one cup in the first day, so he cons everyone out of their money by saying that his lemonade can make you do anything. None of Larry's friends want to play Baseball 3 Billion with him and he feels guilty about scamming them, so he ultimately settles for giving them all refunds and returning the game to the store.

 
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Mario Fables

In the Mario Fables episode Peach's Lemonade, Mario who in this series is portrayed as a jerkass who is rude to everyone for usually no real reason is understandably furious when he figures out that Peach's ''Lemonade'' is actually her URINE. When Peach tries to defend herself by saying that the mushroom people (Toads) liked it Mario points out that maybe it's because they are fucking mushrooms (as in they are very dimwitted). He is also understandably disgusted when Peach revealed that the ''Lemonade'' got it's pinkish color from her MENSTRUAL BLOOD to the point where he vomits and runs away in disgust and horror.

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