Discussion Main / ChainOfDeals

• There is a children's story about a woman who wants her son to go to school on time. He refuses, so she tells a cane to beat the boy up. The cane doesn't want to, so she tells a fire to burn the cane. When the fire refuses, she orders a puddle of water to put out the fire, then orders a cow to drink the water when refuses too, tells a butcher to kill the cow, orders a rope to hang the butcher, tells a mouse to gnaw on the rope, and finally tells a cat to eat the mouse, which it agrees to in return for a saucer of milk, and in the end the boy goes off to school. One has to wonder what the moral of the tale is, given that the sociopathic main character callously attempts to orchestrate the deaths of several people, animals and curiously sentient objects just because they refuse to carry out her murderous intents.

This is an example, but needs the title (and could do without the editorializing -that'd be for the Fridge Logic subpage of the work page).

• Example from a forgotten story in a magazine: The protagonist was named Scipio (after the Roman general) and he lived in a small town. His goal for the story required him to trade things with different people in succession with the end result of allowing a collector to complete his prized set of Napoleonic silver plates if the collector did what Scipio wanted him to do. This story of Scipio trading things to accomplish something apparently a regular feature in this magazine.

Needs at least the title of the magazine.

The Disney Afternoon television show Tailspin included an episode with Chain of Deals as the premise. Baloo went around making deals until finally being able to cash in on the final trade. He had a small fortune in his plane but had to takeoff quickly as someone was chasing after him. He lost almost all the money but was able to make good on a promise to Kit Cloudkicker.

never mind.

Cut this from the page, since it was jarring and doesn't really need to be there. Still kind of fun, though. Thus, it gets saved on the discussion page.

• Skin Horse features an increasingly absurd chain as main character Tip tries to deal with an increasingly bizarre string of escaped/lost sentient lab experiments.