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Coat Full of Contraband
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A character is walking down a seedy alley, and is accosted by a man in a trenchcoat. He opens the coat to show a display of fake watches and asks the character, "You wanna buy a watch?" This is a visual way of establishing a place or person as being shady. Often will be parodied by replacing the watches with whatever item is likely to make the people around him go Squee and have a Nerdgasm. Another common variant is for the seller to be wearing numerous wristwatches on the same arm, pushing up his sleeve to display them. Regardless of circumstance, there's also about a 50% chance of the person being mistaken for a flasher, either by the characters or the audience. The merchandise may have fallen off the back of a truck. The shady seller may be Honest John. In places where Pornography is illegal, this can be the guy you go to secretely see to fill your Porn Stash. When adding examples, please remember that the trope is the visual of having the goods inside the coat or otherwise hidden from view. Sister trope of Trenchcoat Warfare where the coat is a coat of arms. |
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The Third Man opens with several shots of some variants of this trope in postwar Vienna's black market, including someone with several watches on his arm, and someone opening a suitcase with a pair of brand-new boots inside. | |
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In the film version of Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession (a.k.a. Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future) there's a guy selling electronic parts that way, coat and all. Which is totally justified. In USSR, electronic parts were not outlawed, but private trade was. And the only reason Shurik even buys from the guy is because it's lunchtime, and all the electronic stores in the neighborhood are closed. | |
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The Far Side: "Hey, buddy.... You wanna buy a hoofed mammal?" Word of God says it was originally going to be "wanna buy an ungulate?" but he erred on the side of Viewers Are Morons. Another one had a caveman in an overcoat, showing another caveman a campfire. |
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The Spiv in MediEvil 2 sells you ammunition and other resources. When you interact with him, the camera zooms in so the store menu appears to be inside his coat. | |
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Rocketship Voyager. When the crew go on space station leave, they're approached the moment they exit the elevator from the landing dome by various shady characters selling drugs, religion or fake jewelry—the latter being taken from the stereotypical coat. | |
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From Hercules: "Hey! Wanna buy a sundial?" Also bonus points for both Phil's reaction and the way the guy is introduced to first seem like a flasher. |
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Ray in the Freddi Fish games, who's pretty much Honest John's Dealership without the dealership, sells these most of the time. Since this is a kids' series, it's never explained what's so dodgy about his merchandise. | |
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In Harry the Hat's first appearance in the Cheers episode "Sam at Eleven", Sam orders Harry to leave the bar, giving him ten seconds - and realising as he looks as his empty wrist that Harry has stolen his watch. Harry returns the purloined timepiece, but opens his coat to reveal numerous watches and asks if Sam wants to upgrade - which just gets him a more forceful order to leave the bar. | |
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Implied in Oliver & Company. Whenever Fagin checks the time, he's revealed to be wearing a line of watches down his arm. | |
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On a Valentine's Day episode of The Simpsons, Otto is portrayed in one story as a shady chocolate salesman who sells Lisa some candy bars. Milhouse then offers to pay for her candy, only to find that he is really an undercover officer for the British police. | |
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Kevin & Kell: A band of roving milk pirates causes a shortage, with milk only available on the "white market": Kevin's criminal dad was first introduced as selling fake Rolexes, as part of an extended Alice Allusion (he's the white rabbit with a watch in his pocket). |
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The "Melee Island citizen" in The Secret of Monkey Island sells maps in this manner. | |
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A Cogsworth-lookalike seen in the House of Mouse short "Babysitters". | |
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Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: Parodied in "Desert Head". A Bandit and his 3 other friends tricked Mario into getting attacked, and then they later throw him into the pyramid where he met Oscarm and John Gayham (who hosts a strange game called Pyramid Puzzle), respectively. The lead Bandit acts shady as first, but then he demands money when Mario comes to him. | |
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In an episode of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, a guy presents a selection of portable video games to Jerry Steiner. | |
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Clyde, the closest thing that Candorville has to a stereotypical black male, is often found selling these. On one occasion he used a similar approach to sell something highly secret—the main character thought it was drugs, but it turned out to be videos that were Guilty Pleasures. | |
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Garfield: The title character once (May 9, 1980) declared his intention to go into the business of "black-market kittens", complete with a trenchcoat with Nermal hanging inside. Never you mind where he got it. Jon buys a bad suit from one of these dealers in the February 13, 1997 strip. In a variant, the July 12, 2000 strip has Garfield ask Jon "Wanna buy a watch?" But instead of in a coat, they're around Odie's tongue. |
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Stripped to Kill: The character identified as the 'mobile entrepreneur' sells a bewildering array of merchandise of dubious provenance out of the trunk of his car: everything from butterfly knives to classical music CDs. He can usually be be found hanging out in the alley behind the strip club. | |
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On Sesame Street, a green Anything Muppet guy (sometimes identified as Lefty) keeps approaching Ernie with offers to sell him letters of the alphabet, among other things. His most famous pitch is the song "Would You Like to Buy an 'O'?" | |
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In the Small Wonder episode "The Hustle", a street vendor calling himself Discount Eddie tricks Jamie into buying a portable TV set that doesn't work properly. Later, Ted confronts Eddie and is sold what appears to be a fur stole. | |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has a slight variation on this. Hermione briefly watches Fred and George sell copies of one of their joke shop items from beneath their cloaks in this manner. To be fair, with Dolores Umbridge around, they had to be sneaky about selling their merchandise outside of the Gryffindor Common Room. | |
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In Ratchet & Clank (2002), the RYNO Salesman apparently kept the RYNO in there, although we don't actually see it there. He only tells Ratchet it was there after he buys it. | |
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Persona 5: There's a guy who sometimes shows up hanging out in a side alley in Shibuya who sells a few items that can't be purchased anywhere else. Though he carries his wares in a briefcase rather than a trench coat. | |
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In the Vegas Strip in Fallout: New Vegas there's a shady-looking guy with a long coat hanging out near one of the casinos. If you approach him, he reveals that he's selling concealable weapons like knives and pistols for people who want to avoid having to go into the casinos completely unarmed, presumably carrying them under his coat. | |
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The merchant from Resident Evil 4 very much gives off this vibe (and Talks Like a Pirate for some reason). He even peels back his trenchcoat in the standard manner when approached. | |
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In The Man Called Flintstone, Fred, getting desperate to buy Wilma a present, purchases a bootleg necklace from one such man for a quarter. Said necklace comes in handy later when Fred uses it as bait to lure the Green Goose into his missile, trapping the Green Goose and his henchmen in it as it launches into space. | |
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A Shortpacked! strip featured a Muppet version of Ethan being accosted by Lefty from Sesame Street (see above), with an unlicenced Transformers toy in his coat, and telling Ethan they can be bought in another room. The final panel has the real Ethan explaining that this is what Botcon is like now that the dealer's room has banned this stuff. | |
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After the club scene in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit is sitting out on a park bench when this shifty-looking guy comes up, sees that the frog is having troubles, and paints out what he thinks is the scenario- and gets everything wrong. After Kermit kindly brushes him off, the guy opens his trenchcoat and asks, "You wanna buy a watch?" | |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: Joey, Dee Dee and Marky spoof this trope in "Black and White" when they find paint after the house has been stripped of its color. Here they wear trenchcoats and have their chests painted to trick Oggy into using the paint. Jack pulls his coat in a similar manner in "Oggy's Night Out", revealing he has a bunch of combs. He uses one and combs his head fur with it. |
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In an episode of The Odd Couple, when Oscar is on a senior citizens' cruise for his ulcer, a guy has a trenchcoat full of junk food for sale. | |
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An episode of The Nanny played with the trope. Fran and Val are sitting on a park bench and a man with a long trenchcoat approaches them and holds it open. The audience only see him from the back, and the dialog at first implies he's flashing them, thanks to many innuendos until we finally see the watches. Later in the same episode, Fran sees the man and tries to summon him over to buy a watch, but he holds open his coat and flashes them instead. | |
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In the Ned's Newt episode "Newt York, Newt York", Newton turns into a few characters to try and "blend in with the locals" when visiting New York City. He turns into a shady watch dealer while in the New York Subway. | |
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One of the generic henchmen in Where in the U.S.A. Is Carmen Sandiego? was a very sneaky, sleazy-looking guy who opened his trenchcoat to reveal sparkling, gleaming watches. | |
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The Goodies: Parodied in the episode "Hype Pressure". Experiencing a 1950s revival, Tim turns into a quick-talking, quick-walking, shady spiv. "Wanna buy a nice pair of fluorescent socks?" In "Fleet Street Goodies", Bill is approached by a stereotypical trenchcoat-wearing flasher. After whipping open his coat to apparently flash Bill, he turns out to be an example of this trope when Bill buys something off him. |
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The standee art for the "Orange" pirate Player Character of Forgotten Waters depicts a skull-faced pirate dramatically throwing open their cloak, which is lined with cutlasses. | |
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In Pool of London, George—one of the sailors on the Dunbar—attempts to smuggle an absurd amount of watches into London: loading down all the pockets on his suit and even stuffing them down his trousers. He is immediately busted by Customs when he loudly states he has nothing to declare before the officers have even asked him. | |
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Easy Andy in Taxi Driver sells his wares (in this case handguns) from a couple of suitcases. He also claims he can get the protagonist anything from illegal drugs to a brand new Cadillac. | |
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Happens in Jumper, somewhat ludicrously. The main character walks down a New York street particularly noted for these sort of dealers in search of a fake driver's license, and he's offered everything, from watches to children, but it turns out at least some or most are meant to ambush and rob the buyer. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Diaz Family Vacation", a seedy guy in a trench-coat approaches Mr. and Mrs. Diaz and opens his coat in front of them. He turns out to be a street peddler selling watches, souvenirs, and other tchotchkes, and Mrs. Diaz buys a set of wind chimes from him. | |
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M*A*S*H: A first-season episode has Hawkeye and Trapper dealing with black-marketeers for some stolen medicine. When one of them is questioned by Frank Burns, he hikes up a pant leg to show a dozen watches arrayed on his shin and offers to sell him one. A Korean peddler played by Richard Lee-Sung appears in several episodes, selling dubious products like watches that run backwards and Hitler's pencil case. |
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Lost has Sawyer doing stuff like this (with necklaces). | |
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The Hustler Kid from Recess normally has a coat full of toys, junk food and other contraband he tries to unload on the other kids. | |
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Robots played with this, where a shady robot asks Rodney if he wants to buy a watch. The watches then say "don't buy us, we're fakes!" | |
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The Sleazy Guy in Discworld sells hourglasses. When Rincewind asks where he got them from, he replies "fell off the back of a donkey cart". | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series. Although Cyrano Jones is not breaking the law (as he takes pains to point out) he produces Spican flame gems, Antarian glow water, and of course tribbles from his coat of many pockets. During the Bar Brawl he steals a drink only to have it removed from his hand by the bartender, whereupon Cyrano produces another glass of booze from his pocket! | |
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Coming to America plays it fairly straight for a comedy when Akeem and Semi are confronted with a man selling them some of the stuff stolen from them earlier in the film. | |
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On Futurama, a shady salesman tries to sell Fry some "bootlegged" alien organs. The salesman tries to sell him some gills, but says they won't come until next week. Meanwhile, he'll take the lungs, since Fry obviously won't need them (and Fry agrees). Leela has to rescue him from the operating table. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has Viashino Racketeer. | |
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Joe Jackson is depicted wearing such a coat on the cover◊ of his album I'm the Man. | |
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The Brave One plays it for realism. Jodie Foster's character goes to buy a gun, but is told there's a thirty day waiting limit after getting a license. A customer notices her look of desperation and approaches her outside the store, offering a pistol for a thousand dollars. Rather than carry an illegal handgun in New York City, he takes her to a back alley and has her wait while he fetches the handgun, throwing in a box of ammunition and impromptu instruction on how to use it. Unlike the Easy Andy scene mentioned above, there's a noticeable lack of Gun Porn. | |
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Recess: School's Out: Hustler Kid, who keeps junk food in his coat, asks Spinelli, "Wanna buy a Winger Dinger?" (Before you start giggling, a Winger Dinger is some sort of candy bar in the show.) | |
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Troublemaker has an Intrepid Merchant, Richard, who sells his wares from his longcoat which he seems to have an unlimited supply of. | |
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In Guys and Dolls, a shady watch seller distracts the Times Square crowd in the Opening Ballet. This also appears in the 1955 film adaptation. | |
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In Into the Woods, the Wolf opens his coat to show a display of candy when he is trying to lure Little Red Riding Hood off the path. | |
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DragonFable's weapon vendor. | |
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Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "licensed" has Strong Bad explaining how he and The Cheat have lent their likenesses to "officially licensed unlicensed merchandise" that is required to be sold out of a trench-coat or off a blanket. Bubs, an unlicensed unlicensed seller, is selling this way ("I'm a public flasher!" "Yeah, right, you ain't got no nudity under there!"), but his goods are actually of a higher quality than what he sells at the concession stand. | |
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Olive, the Other Reindeer: The shady penguin Martini tries to sell Olive wristwatches from such an alley. He also has stationery and pens that he stole from the zoo when he escaped. More than one of these turns out to be a hilarious Chekhov's Gun. | |
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Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler is most noted for selling nearly inedible food, but Guards! Guards! notes that he is also a "purveyor of absolutely anything that could be sold hurriedly from an open suitcase in a busy street and was guaranteed to have fallen off the back of an oxcart." | |
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