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Paying in Coins
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You go to a store, and buy your things. You check out, and you don't have more than the total. No credit cards either. Instead, you must pay in exact change, but all you got is a really huge number of coins. This is either used as a last resort without going in debt, Just for Fun, protesting the recipient, or as a metaphor of something. The clerk can either try to count all of it, or trusts the customer and accepts the coins. In reality, we've found methods of exchanging large sums of money without actually presenting large sums of money. For instance, you get a mortgage to buy a house. You get a paycheck every week, not $300 in cash per week. You have cashier's cheques to move large sums of money from one bank account to another. And in the United States and Canada, debit cards and prepaid cards are so common for use by people who don't have credit cards that almost nobody buys travelers checks anymore. However, if you walk into a car dealership and offer to buy a car on the spot without financing, holding fists full of $100 bills, then this trope comes into effect. On more expensive things, such as a luxury yacht, a Briefcase Full of Money can be used instead if a Zillion-Dollar Bill isn't available. May be the result of Ridiculous Future Inflation and Ridiculous Exchange Rates. Cheap Gold Coins is a related trope. Truth in Television. |
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With Betrayal at Krondor, like Fallout, there was a heavy emphasis on bartering for goods and juggling an individual inventory encumbrance, but there were also silver and gold coins you could pick up (that went into your coin purse); you would have to farm quests several times to get the thousands of coins needed to buy new things (over looting the corpses of your enemies for slightly used, but sometimes rare and valuable, supplies that has to take up your limited pack space). | |
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Megas XLR: In "All I Wanted Was a Slushie", after having spent most of his cash that ends us being lost thanks to the R.E.G.I.S, Coop tries paying for a mega-slush in coins and then has to start counting again after losing track. | |
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Gilmore Girls: Rory was short on cash at one point and paid for a coffee in change. A minor example, since the total was only around $2.50, but still in the spirit of the trope. | |
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In The Belgariad, This was one of Silk's scams against toll collectors. He pays a bribe with Mallorean half-pennies, lampshading this with the fact that they are currency, just a pitifully small amount. This was also a callback to an earlier scam, where he just used gravel instead of the gold pebbles and dust the miners were expecting. | |
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The Simpsons: Homer once tried to pay a $900 gas bill by sending a water-cooler bottle full of pennies in the mail. When he puts it down next to the mailbox, it falls into the earth. Offscreen, in "Bart the Lover", the family pays for a doghouse from the change inside a Swear Jar. Bart pays for his fat camp in "The Heartbroken Kid" with two bags of change robbed from the vending machines he got fat eating from. When Homer starts getting fed up with Marge's nervous penny-pinching in "Mobile Homer", he takes her savings jar and uses it for the down payment of a motor home. |
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Game On: At the end of "Palms, Pigs, and Bad Debts", Mandy pays Martin her rent arrears in 50p coins (all gotten from the gains she made from the Claire Box). There are at least a thousand pounds that are paid in 50p coins and it's enough to be stored in several bags. | |
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Invoked on iCarly. Carly, Sam and Freddie agree to promote a new sneaker on their show, and got paid $8000 a week. They were to be cut a check, but Sam then insisted on cash. Cue a bunch of ad executives digging in their pockets for $8000 in bills. When they got bought out of the contract for $30,000, Carly then insists on being paid in cash. | |
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A Looney Tunes cartoon called "Wild Wife" details all of the annoyances a typical 1950s housewife has to go through in her day. One of them was going to the bank and having an old woman deposit a large amount of money in pennies. The housewife switches to another line when it clears up, only to be cut off by another old lady doing the same thing. | |
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In Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Online Supermarket requires whomever uses the skill, once their order is assembled, to pay for it before delivery. Since there are no credit cards and no paper money, the person ordering is Paying in Coins (by putting them onto a magic square that appears and acts like a "coin slot"). Once their payment is complete, their order magically appears in front of them. | |
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A satire site claimed that Samsung paid off its $1.05 billion fine to Apple by sending them dumptrucks full of nickels. Snopes covers it here. | |
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The player can invoke this in Odin Sphere. You have to manually select the coins you want to pay with when buying things. The coins vary from the cheap Ragnanival Silver (worth 1G) to the rare and valuable Commemorative Coin (worth 20G). It's not only possible but recommended to buy expensive things and pay them with a truckload of Ragnan Silver, for several reasons: one, stacks of coins take up valuable inventory space, so getting rid of small change is crucial until larger backpacks become available. And two, the Pooka restaurant and cafe only accept the Valentinian coins, in specific denominations for specific recipes, requiring the player to save those coins for the restaurants rather than spend them at other stores. (In the remaster the currency system has been streamlined so that coins no longer take up inventory space and Valentinian coins are only accepted at the Pooka restaurants, so the trope ceases to apply.) | |
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On The Coneheads, Prymaat zaps a vending machine and they use the quarters to pay for a motel room. | |
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In The Hebrew Hammer, Mordecai finds himself in Duke's, a skinhead bar, while chasing a lead. Amusingly, the racist bartender has a bottle of the Jewish wine Mordecai requests and he repays the bartender's naked loathing with a handful of shekels dropped onto the countertop. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "Super Computer", Carl tried to pay for a hooker's services with a giant jar of pennies, and is offended she wouldn't accept it. He gets knocked out a moment later by the Phlebotinum of the episode. The hooker leaves, dragging the jar of pennies with her. In the penultimate episode, Carl gives Shake $20 in Susan B. Anthony coins to pay a hooker with, because he loves the irony of paying for a sex act with a feminist icon. |
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In the Uncle Grandpa episode "Mustache Cream", the titular character is in a rush to purchase some mustache cream, only to be directed by Mr. Gus towards the long line of people in front of the cash register. At the front is a woman who asks if she can pay in pennies, to Uncle Grandpa's dismay. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "Imposter's Home for Umm...Make 'Em Up Pals", Goofball orders pizza for dinner and sticks Frankie with the bill. Having spent all her money on groceries (ironically because Mr. Herriman refused to let her order pizza for dinner), Frankie pays the delivery guy $45.50 in quarters from her "Frankie Was Right" jar. In "Read Em' and Weep", Cheese sends a letter to Frankie, having mistaken her for a man trying to sell him something he wants to buy on television. He sends her $8.95 in pennies, and she is not amused. |
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A Returner's Magic Should Be Special: Pram sells his sword to Wujuken for 90 copper, which Desir then buys back for 40 silver. | |
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One The Order of the Stick strip in Dragon has Haley claim that copper pieces are almost entirely useless (mostly to trick Belkar into leaving them for her to stuff in a Bag of Holding). An Imagine Spot shows an adventurer with a huge heap of copper pouring off a table and pooling around his feet, attempting to buy a single potion from a very unimpressed shopkeeper. | |
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Not Always Right: This customer has way too many coins in his fanny pack. "THEY'RE BREEDING!" These customers do it as a prank ... which backfires when the cashier calmly keeps them there and counts it all out ... twice. It would have been three times, but at that point they magically produce a twenty, scoop up as many coins as they can, and flee. This guy tried it in Canada ... where they can refuse to accept it. This guy pays for a $29.99 World of Warcraft subscription with a bag full of quarters. On Black Friday. |
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The Young Ones: Used as a combination Brick Joke and Funny Background Event in "Summer Holiday". When Neil is giving his long moan about banks, one of the things he says is "And anyway, whichever queue we're in, the guy in front of us is bound to be from the penny arcade across the road, cashing up the whole year with millions of pennies". Later, during the actual bank robbery, the customers hit the floor and one of the people in the queue is shown to have a wheelbarrow full of coins. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei and her friends raise $700 in the form of mostly $5 bills and present it to the SkyDome ticket booth attendant in a lunchbox full of cash. | |
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Crankshaft once took his bus to a museum and paid for the kids' lunch using two full Swear Jars of pennies. | |
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In The People vs. Larry Flynt, Flynt paid a $10,000 contempt-of-court fine by having two hookers bring a garbage bag full of one dollar bills into the courtroom. | |
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In the German comic strip Oskar, the family uses pennies to pay for their new car. It's The Alleged Car, but still. | |
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Darwin Awards has this unconfirmed account: | |
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In the The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Moral Decay", the girls receive Sacagawea dollars for cleaning up the house, but then Bubbles receives another Sacagawea dollar from the Tooth Fairy after Buttercup accidentally knocks one of her teeth out. Buttercup then proceeds to knock the teeth out of numerous villains and starts hoarding the money she receives, eventually going too far and continuing to punch the teeth out of the villains when they're minding their own business. When the villains knock Buttercup's teeth out as retribution after Blossom and Bubbles learn what she was doing behind their backs, the Professor uses Buttercup's bag of Sacagawea dollars to pay off her dental bills. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In Zio Paperone e il segreto di Cuordipietra, Flintheart Glomgold abducts Huey, Dewey and Louie, takes them to an artificial island and demands a cubic hectare of money from Scrooge as ransom. Scrooge pays the ransom in coins and it does more than merely annoying Glomgold. The cubic hectare's weight is so much the island sinks with it. Scrooge already has a special submarine to reclaim the coins. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In 1st Edition, a gold piece is worth 200 copper pieces. Many monster treasures have thousands of almost worthless copper pieces. Since moneychangers often charge a significant fee (e.g. 10%) for changing copper pieces into higher denomination coins, a PC might decide to pay for a purchase with bags full of coppers, providing they have the means to carry so much weight around. A module for Edition 3.5 has an example where doing this is to your advantage. You run across some barbarian halflings who use a barter system — which means 1 gold piece (weighing about 1 third of an ounce, or 7.5 grams) is not much use to to them. However, the equivalent in copper pieces (100cp = 1 gp in this edition) means 2 pounds of metal they can melt down and use. One The Order of the Stick strip in Dragon has Haley claim that copper pieces are almost entirely useless (mostly to trick Belkar into leaving them for her to stuff in a Bag of Holding). An Imagine Spot shows an adventurer with a huge heap of copper pouring off a table and pooling around his feet, attempting to buy a single potion from a very unimpressed shopkeeper. While adventurers work primarily with finances involving gold, platinum and magic items, commoners count their income in coppers and maybe silvers and can be very grateful for your generosity. If you're planning to stay in the region for some time, unloading those sacks of "worthless" copper at a local farm can easily earn you lifelong friends, free room and board, somewhere safe to stash important things, and maybe even a hideaway from the law. All for a heavy sack of junk that could barely buy you a potion. |
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In the Fallout series, the first game's currency was bottlecaps; something problematic since it had weight and took up inventory volume. This could lead to situations where you would prefer to carry more valuable trade items (like the weightless healing supplies) rather than thousands of caps. Amended in the following games where a separate non-inventory coinage was added or caps became weightless. | |
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In the Chowder episode "Schnitzel Makes a Deposit", the woman in the bank line ahead of Schnitzel and Chowder deposits two hundred dollops in change. As if the elderly and slow teller wasn't enough, Chowder kept causing the elderly bank teller to lose count and had to keep starting over. | |
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In Interesting Times, one of the Lemony Narrator's comments about Six Beneficial Winds's low-grade unpleasantness is that he keeps change in a small purse, and counts it very carefully when buying things, especially if there's a queue. | |
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An episode of Seinfeld had Kramer collecting change to use the apartment's dryer so his clothes would be warm when he got dressed. Then, after deciding to use Jerry's oven instead, tries to pay for George's calzones with loose change, pissing off the store owner. The episode's stinger has him paying a debt by tossing a pillowcase of coins at someone, knocking them over. | |
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Room For Rent has Joyce resort to this for a few cans of catfood after her credit card was declined, aptly showing just how bad her financial situation has gotten. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In the U.S. Acres segment, "Grape Expectations, Part One", Roy goes to the supermarket to buy a new grape to replace the one that Wade ate before the Big Cock-a-Doodle comes to the farm to inspect the harvest. The customer ahead of Roy buys $81.77 worth of groceries, but pays for them in coins, much to Roy's horror. | |
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Untold Legends: Loren Haggard, the vendor in the market, sells weapons, armor, jewelry accessories that buff stats, items that buff weapons/armor, and Health/Power/Rejuvenation Vials for gold coins (Aven doesn't have credit cards or checks, but the gold doesn't take up space or have weight). He likewise buys all of types of extra (especially if you don't have the level for using it or you have a better item) but for less gold than he'd sell for. | |
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Princess Princess has a crossover Omake where Tohru and Yujirou runs into a kid who intends to buy a hamburger with nothing but 1 yen coins, and freaks out when he loses one. He doesn't even get the price right, meaning that he wouldn't be able to get what he wants even if he didn't lose his money. Tohru and Yujirou ended up pitying the kid and buying him a meal set. | |
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Super Playify: Convictor complains about (in-game) being paid in one-dollar bills. | |
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In Craig of the Creek episode "Turning The Tables", Craig, JP, and Kelsey pay for their meal with a sock full of saved up coins. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls series, the main currency is the Septim, a simple Gold Coin with the profile of Tiber Septim on one side (hence the name) and the Imperial Dragon on the other (which leads to their informal name of "drakes"). As no higher integer of currency exists, making large purchases (such as high-level equipment or player houses) essentially entails dumping thousands of gold coins on the lap of the seller. Thankfully, Septims are weightless, which leads to players carrying around thousands or even millions of them (thanks to the series plentiful Money for Nothing). | |
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Fate/Grand Order: One of Ibaraki-Douji's vile acts is paying Emiya in small-denomination QP for a load of snacks near the end of the second Summer event. | |
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Whomp!: "Hope For Change" | |
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In the SuperMarioLogan episode, "Evil Chef Pee Pee!", when Bowser Junior accidentally kills Chef Pee Pee by dropping a frozen water balloon on his head, Craig the Devil comes to collect his soul. Junior makes a deal with Craig to bring him back to life, and Craig makes Junior buy a Hershey's candy bar with pennies. | |
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In The Thin Blue Line, Fowler and Goody are in an slow queue at the bank, headed by a customer paying in coins, very slowly. When Fowler suddenly shouts, the customer knocks over his pile of coins, and has to start again. | |
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Impractical Jokers: In one game, Joe has to hide from a hooker after paying her with Canadian quarters. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "One Krab's Trash" the guy that offered Mr. Krabs $100,000 for the hat emphasized that it's in cash. Also the same for the others trying to buy the hat. In "The Cent of Money", Mr. Krabs' hospital bill was paid entirely in the coins he stole throughout the episode. A case of Laser-Guided Karma, as those coins caused him to go to the hospital in the first place. In "Sponge-Cano!", a customer try to pay for his Krabby Patty with pennies. Squidward doesn't let him. (He was in a real bad mood) In "Squid's On a Bus", SpongeBob pays the bus fare with tons of pennies, and later gets Patrick to do the same. |
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In an episode of Johnny Bravo, a demon tries to get Johnny do some evil deeds, including going into an 10 items or less line at a grocery store with 11 items and then paying in Canadian pennies. This plan backfires though as one of the pennies is a rare coin that the cashier has been trying to find her whole life. | |
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In Snoopy Presents: For Auld Lang Syne, Lucy is able to rent a run-down ballroom for her party with all of the nickels Charlie Brown has paid her throughout the year. | |
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In Happy Endings, Max has to pay rent in pennies, pouring them out of a jug into the landlord's desk, because he had no job. At the end of the episode, he offers to pay for dinner after winning a lot of money, but pours out pennies from the same jug, because "pennies are the only currency I trust." | |
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Not too long before he started The Completionist, Jirard Khalil worked at Best Buy, until one day he quit due to his racist manager demanding he upsell an entire home theater plan to an Arab customer who only wanted an HDMI cable. Having had a wonderful time doing a livestream the day before, he got the idea to start making The Completionist, and later got all of his equipment (and whatever else he could afford) from the very same Best Buy he quit so he could still take advantage of his employee discount, totaling roughly $2,700, making sure his former manager was working that day. This trope is used as a form of revenge, as Jirard pulled out all of his money from his bank account in one dollar bills, and even got a loan from his father which he had changed into one dollar bills, which he used to pay for all the equipment, because it's Best Buy policy to have a manager thrice-count the money whenever that much money is spent in that many bills. | |
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In an old episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ted owes Murray a few dollars, and keeps putting him off by asking if Murray has change for a $500 bill. At the end of the show, Murray indicates he does this time...in nickels. The bags come out from under the desk... | |
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When Strong Bad stumbles upon the Compe in a catalog, he immediately pulls out his bag of 80,000 pennies to pay for it (it crushes his mailbox). | |
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Intruder in the Dust: Lucas pays his defense attorney's fee (which is admittedly under a dollar, given how the case never went to trial) in pennies and then demands a receipt, at least partially to rub in how Gavin prejudged him and thought he was guilty. | |
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Done in an episode of Family Guy where Stewie is held up in line in a supermarket due to Bruce, after quibbling over having one item over the 10 Items Or Less limit, asks to pay for it all in pennies. | |
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In Confessions of a Shopaholic, the title character has racked up a sizeable debt and is hounded throughout the film by an Evil Debt Collector. After he embarrasses her on national TV, she finally pays it off — by filling his office with jars of coins. | |
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Wander over Yonder. In the episode "The Nice Guy," Wander is in a convenience store, buying a drink for Sylvia, and tries to pay for it with hundreds of pennies that he kept in his shoes. | |
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In The Goon Show episode "The Canal", Bluebottle (as the accredited agent of Lloyds of London) arrives to pay out insurance of £40,000 — in pennies, counted one by one. He gets as far as 4,000,832 pennies (roughly £16,670) before Eccles drops the hat he's counting them out into, and has to start again. | |
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In the Shadowrun universe, the Great Dragon Lofwyr buys the majority of heavy industrial corporation Saeder-Krupp stocks with gold from his hoard, although it isn't specified if it's tons of gold coins or in another form. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: An Ice Cream Man's deep-seated grudge against Dexter in "Ice Cream Scream" turns out to be from Dexter paying for an ice cream (the most expensive one on stock, by the way) with a ridiculously large jar of pennies, an accident which manages to systematically ruin the Ice Cream Man's entire life. After the Ice Cream Man explains this to Dexter and the latter apologizes, Dexter buys a regular ice cream (which costs $1.50)... and pays with a $100 bill. The Ice Cream Man's anguished shriek says everything. The episode "Repairanoid" has an electrician coming to Dexter's house, discovering his lab, and repairing what he can, figuring it's just a normal part of the house. Although the electrician's $40,000 bill shocks Dexter's mom (she doesn't know about Dex's lab) at first, she quickly shifts to an agreeable tone and takes out her purse to pay — by withdrawing coins one at a time and counting them. The electrician doesn't protest, and the episode ends as she just begins the payment. |
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American Underdog: After running out of gas during a snowstorm, Kurt runs a few miles back to the nearest gas station where he pays with a couple dollar bills and whatever change they could scrounge together in the vehicle. | |
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Inverted in one episode of Mr. Bean: The Animated Series, the titular character needed change for parking but only has a 100-pound note with him. So Bean walks into a hardware store, buys a screw with said note, and realize the cashier to be the same guy he cuts off in traffic earlier. Said cashier proceeds to deliver some payback by returning Bean's change in pennies, which stacks all the way to the ceiling much to Bean's horror. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "The Stanchurian Candidate", when Stan is at the grocery shop, Robbie expects him to pay in pennies because he's old. | |
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In Alex Rider: Eagle Strike, Damian Cray pulls a lethal version of this on one of his henchmen. The henchman agreed to work for Cray in exchange for a $2million bribe, and when he screws up and attracts unwanted attention from a journalist, Cray punishes him by locking him in a bottle-shaped chamber and giving him his money — $2 million in quarters, crushing him to death. | |
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