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Ridiculous Exchange Rates
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What happens when you combine Acceptable Targets and the classic fascination tourists have with foreign currency? This trope, of course. Jokes about the worthlessness of Ruritanian currency are a comedy staple. Sadly, with the advent of the Euro and the retirement of the Italian lira, some favorite targets have gone. Other currencies lost include the Belgian Franc and the Slovene tolar. Fortunately for comedians, there are always more countries competing to have the most absurd exchange rates. Or the highest number of zeroes after that first 1. However, jokes where a small amount of American currency makes a tourist one of the wealthiest people in the country are a serious case of Artistic License – Economics. See also Ridiculous Future Inflation. Not to be confused with money printed via counterfeiting, which is sometimes referred to as "funny money". If the money is literally worthless and completely useless as currency, it fits better under Worthless Currency. |
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The Jetsons: George once won the lottery. The prize was worth 7.5 million dollars when he won. However, the economy of Venus suffered a collapse before he exchanged it in American dollars, turning the prize worthless. | |
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In the last issue of Sonic Universe, the Chaotix Detective Agency receives a large reward of Meropan Sand Dollars for successfully solving a case. To their dismay, Meropan Sand Dollars are sand dollar exoskeletons, and have such a miserable exchange rate that the reward is effectively worthless. | |
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A justified example can be found in The Colour of Magic. Twoflower comes from a land where gold is about as valuable as lead, and the gold coins he's using as money are supposed to be fiat currency (later books revealed it's backed by silver). As a result what he thinks is enough travel money for a few weeks visiting Ankh-Morpork has enough value locally to purchase half the city outright. He never actually figures this out, and continues to tip people more than the value of a house. | |
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Linus Tech Tips: The Techquickie episode "Nvidia's on a roll..." (October 5, 2020) has Linus say Apple is suing an Ontario recycling firm for reselling over 100,000 Apple products that should have been recycled. He also says that Apple is suing for 23 million US dollars in damages, which he says is about "100 trillion Canadian shillings". Doing the math, one US dollar is approximately 4.3 million Canadian shillings. | |
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TaleSpin: When Baloo recovers an idol from Colonel Spigot he trades it in for a 13 million torbit reward. He calls Rebecca, bragging that he's going to buy the Sea Duck back, while Louie figures out the exchange rate from torbits to shaboozis (Cape Suzette currency). Eight shaboozis worth of gas (plus ice cream tab, tax, and tip) wipes out the whole reward. Suddenly completely broke, Baloo is forced to do an immediate about-face, meekly telling Rebecca he'll be back to work tomorrow and asking if he can reverse charges on the call. | |
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In the Anzio Battle OVA of Girls und Panzer, Yukari infiltrates Anzio's school-ship for reconnaissance purposes. While there, she buys lunch at a stall, and is told that it's 3 million liras. When asked what that is in local currency, the price changes to 300 yen (somewhere between $2.50 and $3.00 depending on exchange rates). | |
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Inverted in an episode of Cheers: Frasier tips a bellhop the equivalent of $100 US because he's overestimated the exchange rate. Soon the entire staff of the hotel shows up hoping for extravagant tips. | |
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The Simpsons: In "The Old Man and the C Student", a representative for Russia asks the Olympic committee for Russia to host the Olympics as it would stimulate its economy and help its exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 7 rubles... which quickly escalates to over a thousand rubles. In another episode, the family visits Canada. They pay for some cheap trinket with American cash, causing the shocked Canadian who took their money to proclaim that he was now set for life. (This was before the 2000s decline of the U.S. Dollar's trading power, when "Oh, it's only a Canadian dollar" actually meant something.) In the season 2 episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", Bart takes an old foreign coin collection of his to a bank to exchange it for American currency. He is disappointed to find out that the whole collection is only worth three cents. Then again, the collection (a gift from his aunts) was likely a cheap airport souvenir and probably just as worthless in its country of origin. Played with in "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo". When Homer exchanges his American dollars into Japanese yen, he (and the rest of the family) thinks that everything in Japan is very expensive because of the large prices. In reality though: 100 yen is worth about 1 American dollar. This doesn't stop Homer from buying what he calls a "50 dollar pretzel." In one of the Halloween episodes, Homer attempts to smuggle souvenirs out of an unidentified Middle Eastern country without paying export duties. When he is caught, he is surrounded by armed policemen who demand he pay a fine "... of two American dollars!" |
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In the Timeline-191 series, the Confederate States of America win the Civil War and remain their own country, but then lose the world's equivalent of World War I. This causes Confederate banknotes to rapidly decrease in value, to the point where people have to race to spend any money they get their hands on before prices rise again. It takes a few years to get the economy under control again, by which time the banks had started printing one billion dollar notes (now rendered worthless themselves by federal decree, not that anyone would be able to give change for them anyway). At one point in the economic collapse, the Hitler Expy jokes about it at a political rally by saying "Bet you a million dollars", then taking a million dollar bill out of his pocket and throwing it away. | |
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Horrible Histories: Interbellum hyperinflation complicates an episode of “Who Wants to Be a German Millionaire?�, as the purchasing power of the Mark keeps dropping between rounds until it is not enough to buy the wheelbarrow the contestant needs to carry the money home. It start at 64 million German Marks, then 128 million, then 128 billion, then 128 trillion, all which can afford just a wheelbarrow, then that not being enough to afford the wheelbarrow just a few seconds later. | |
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The Canadian dollar having Ridiculous Exchange Rates was a running gag on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, mostly because regular Colin Mochrie was Canadian. | |
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In The Fifth Elephant, Wolfgang von Uberwald mentions that the winner of a deadly contest gets the considerable sum of four hundred crowns. Our hero, Commander Vimes, determined to show no fear, sneers: "What is that in Ankh-Morpork dollars, do you know? About a dollar fifty?" | |
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In Dubloon, there's a man who is eager to sell you his goodies for 1 million Farquads (he doesn't accept dubloons). Once an exchange service is open, you can find out that 1 million Farquads is worth 1 dubloon. | |
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Dilbert has the fictional country of Elbonia, where someone wanted to buy something, and asked if "this" was enough, however much he actually had. The reply was something along the lines of "a minute ago, yes, but now it costs a hundred times more". The inflation rate has risen to one billion percent daily in these strips. | |
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In one strip of Piranha Club (back when it was Ernie) sleazy con man Sid Fernwilter tries to pay with various rather obviously phony credit cards; the proprietor of the store refuses. He wants to write a check; the proprietor, who knows Sid's reputation, refuses. Finally Sid asks if the proprietor would accept "cold hard cash" and confirms that this is "actual money". The proprietor accepts... and is paid in 30000 "Irkutskian Slobotniks". | |
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Discworld: In The Fifth Elephant, Wolfgang von Uberwald mentions that the winner of a deadly contest gets the considerable sum of four hundred crowns. Our hero, Commander Vimes, determined to show no fear, sneers: "What is that in Ankh-Morpork dollars, do you know? About a dollar fifty?" A justified example can be found in The Colour of Magic. Twoflower comes from a land where gold is about as valuable as lead, and the gold coins he's using as money are supposed to be fiat currency (later books revealed it's backed by silver). As a result what he thinks is enough travel money for a few weeks visiting Ankh-Morpork has enough value locally to purchase half the city outright. He never actually figures this out, and continues to tip people more than the value of a house. |
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In one of the Richie Rich adventures, a would-be revolutionary in an unnamed Eastern-ish European country accidentally sets off his superweapon and levels an enormous swath of the country (luckily, Nobody Can Die, or even get hurt beyond scrapes and comically shredded clothes). As the leaders wail that it will cost billions to rebuild, Richie asks how much that is, to which his local companion says, "About 23 dollars." Richie promptly pulls a stack of bills from his pocket and everyone rejoices. | |
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In an episode of Metalocalypse, Nathan, now the governor of Florida, tries to solve the US' funding problem by introducing a new currency called Death Dollars and printing a lot of them. Needless to say, the money was totally worthless and ruined the already mostly destroyed state by driving them into an irreparable recession. | |
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The Guns of the South highlights the discrepancy in value between the Confederate paper dollar and the gold dollar. One of the things that baffles the Confederates about the Rivington Men is their insistence on the equal value of Confederate paper money and gold, something even the staunchest Confederate fire-eater won't. This includes charging fifty dollars in paper for a repeating rifle. Fifty gold dollars is a reasonable price for a high-end off-the-shelf rifle, but fifty paper dollars might not be enough for a pocket knife. It is implied (while never stated outright) that the time-travelers might be taking the Confederate bills back to their own time and selling them to collectors, thus recouping their value (and perhaps more, since the bills are in new or nearly-new condition.) And, as they hail from South Africa, gold is readily available to them. Earlier in the narrative, Nate spends a gold dollar in a tavern, which gets him a quart of whiskey, a room for the night, a cooked breakfast for two and (most importantly in this context) ten dollars in paper in change. Later on, Nate goes to buy a hat, and ends up paying ten dollars in paper for it. He notes that he could have paid a dollar and some change in silver instead, but that no-one spends metal money unless they absolutely have to. |
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If Mortadelo y Filemón ever get paid for being successful in a mission in foreign currency, expect the exchange rate to drop from fantastical to abysmal in the course of the story. For example, in Los mercenarios, they are initially offered 100,000 percebos, equivalent to about a million pesetas. When they complete the mission and go to exchange the money, they learn that the currency has devalued so much that 100,000 percebos are now worth 17.50 pesetas. | |
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A show called Goodness Gracious Me (about Indian immigrants in Britain) included "The Six Million Rupee Man". | |
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In Snow Crash, most world currencies are exchangeable, with the exception of Federal Reserve Notes, which are used pretty much exclusively by employees of the almost-defunct US Government and considered effectively worthless by everyone else. The remains of the US government draft a memo to prevent old billion-dollar bills from being used as toilet paper, because a single square of toilet paper is worth more more than a $1bn bill. | |
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In The Mandalorian, the value of Imperial credits has gone down the crapper now that The Empire is no more. The titular Bounty Hunter is willing to take half the value of the commissions in another currency just so he won't have to take the credits. When he's hired for a job by a surviving cell of the Empire, they pay him with pure metal ingots instead of credits, implicitly because any money they do have is worthless now. Also keep in mind the metal, Beskar, holds special significance to Mandalorians (They craft their armour from it) so it was especially likely to get one to work for them. | |
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Inflation exists as a mechanic in Europa Universalis; while the player is unlikely to let it get too out of hand, some AI can get into a bankruptcy loop that results in both an incredibly unstable country and having to pay three or four times as much as everyone else for everything. (Inflation points increase the price of all things that cost money by 1% each, and are gained by event, reliance on gold, or minting coins — the equivalent of printing money). | |
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Early in The Daily Show, they would regularly do a graphic reporting the U.S. domestic box office take over the last week in Italian lira. This was for the inevitable joke about how the films in question were grossing billions, potentially even trillions. Obviously, dropped when Italy adopted the euro. | |
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In Euro Trip, the characters make it to Slovakia by accident and find they only have $1.83 US on them — which, apparently, makes them close to being millionaires and grants them access to a lavish hotel room. (Naturally, this joke doesn't work anymore since Slovakia adopted the euro.) | |
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In the DuckTales (1987) episode "Dough Ray Me", the boys want extra allowance money, and go to Gyro's place in the hope of getting some cash for chores, but stumble into an invention that uses sound to duplicate objects, which they use to multiply a dollar coin Mrs. Beakly gave them earlier to leave her alone. Unfortunately, the sound of any bell causes the coins to multiply, and soon after Duckburg is buried in dollar coins, driving up costs, and rendering McDuck's fortune worthless. | |
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Civilization IV has inflation as a feature. Even if you're playing solo for practice, don't put off building those wonders; they become much, much, much more expensive as you progress up the tech tree. | |
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Another bit in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe has the survivors of a colony ship crash (who were deemed a completely useless chunk of their home planet's population) have a fiscal policy update at their staff meeting. They note that since they have chosen the leaf as their form of currency, everyone is extremely rich. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a bit of inflation, with current exchange rates being three deciduous forests per ship's peanut. The proposed solution is a massive deforestation campaign to increase the value of currently held leaves. | |
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Marjane's mother is described in Persepolis as having issues with the way the prices are rising in the 1980s Iran. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In "Volcano Valley" Donald orders a model plane for his nephews but is sent a real plane by mistake. He initially refuses to sell it for three dollars, but accepts 300,000 Volcanovian pezozies- which turns out to be worth about three dollars. One Don Rosa Donald Duck story featured a wanted poster citing a reward of "one bajillion pecos ($20)". In "The Lentils of Babylon" the Beagle Boys shamelessly took advantage of it: unable to grow more of the titular lentils, their scheme was to export them to Duckburg where they'd can them with linel oil to make sure nobody would eat them and sell them to a certain African country, who'd sell it to their neighbours, and so on until the Beagle Boys buy them back... And due how the exchange rates interacted with each other they ended up having ten times what they spent to export them to Duckburg and can them, at which point they'd export them back to Duckburg and start back over. Their scheme would have generated an infinite and legal profit had Scrooge not happened to like the taste of the lentils with linen oil and decided to make an economic empire out of it... |
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Played with in the Top Gear Vietnam special, where the presenters were sent to Vietnam and given 15 million đồng to buy a vehicle (complete with said đồng being delivered to them in shoe boxes full of paper cash). The presenters' initial glee at finally being given a reasonable budget for one of these challenges quickly fizzled out when they realized that it equated to about $1,000 US (or £487 in their case). | |
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The Venture Brothers: Dr. Venture is initially very pleased at the amount of the check he receives for lecturing at a Mexican university, then he dejectedly notes it's in pesos. | |
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Something*Positive had a gag where PeeJee gave Davan her lucky (Canadian) quarter. It didn't work—and PeeJee and Aubrey got mad, his apparently negative karma having killed the coin's good luck. Davan shoots back that it's "not like it was real money anyway", to which Aubrey grudgingly agrees. | |
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Neopets has serious issues with hyperinflation, caused by the fact winning Neopets is a walk in the park, although the staff introduced policies aiming to reduce this amount, such as the selling of an item by a NPC account (read here for more details). | |
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In Canadian Bacon, Bud (John Candy) and co. get pulled over for driving a truck covered in Canadian insult graffiti written in English, but not French. The fine is $1,000 Canadian, or $10 American... and they have to add the French translations to the truck. | |
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Seinfeld. The well-meaning Kramer takes a trip of Japanese tourists all over the city, not realizing that their several thousand yen is only a few hundred US dollars. Sure enough, they run out of money very quickly. In another episode, he and Jerry go to Italy and he's aghast at Jerry paying the taxi driver several thousand lira, again not realizing that it's only a few American dollars. |
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In Tropico 3 Absolute Power El Presidente can choose to print more money; while giving money in the short term, it permanently raises the price of everything else, the more money printed the more the economy becomes inflated. Eventually everything becomes too expensive to afford. | |
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Street Fighter: Two of Bison's mooks steal a chest-full of his money at the end of the movie, only to find out that it's just worthless notes with Bison's face on them (intended to be made official currency after he conquers the world). When Sagat finds out that Bison was attempting to pay him with Bison Dollars earlier, he points out the money isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Bison them explains each Bison Dollar shall be worth 5 British Pounds. For that is the exchange rate the Bank of England will set once he kidnaps their queen! Which is not how currency exchange rates are determined at all. Not even close. But then, that's the joke.note Economically speaking, that would be the equivalent of blackmailing the Bank of England into printing more pounds directly into Bison's pocket. Which would of course cause inflation, to a degree depending on how greedy Bison was. That is, assuming the Bank of England would even agree or that Bison would even be successful at his plan in the first place, which forms another part of the joke; he's so insane he's incredibly confident the plan will work. | |
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M*A*S*H episode "Change Day": The Army issues new scrip (Military Payment Certificates, meant to be used in place of US currency), and everyone at the base has to trade in their old scrip on a certain day, after which it becomes worthless. Soldiers aren't supposed to use scrip to buy from local merchants, but they do it anyway. Charles devises a Get-Rich-Quick Scheme to buy the old scrip from the merchants for cash at 10% of face value, then trade it in and pocket a 900% profit. Hawkeye and B.J. get an MP to block the road so Charles can't make it back to camp for the exchange, buy $400 in old scrip from him for $40 cash, and trade that in to replace a soldier's stolen money, leaving Charles to eat a huge loss. If this seems uncharacteristically mercenary of Charles, that's because it was a leftover script where he took the place of Frank Burns. | |
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The film version of The Dukes of Hazzard has this exchange between the Dukes and a college kid they've suckered into analyzing a core sample they've given him: "How does 24,000 yen a year sound?" "Sounds like 40 bucks." It's actually about $240. | |
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In an episode of Family Matters, Waldo is sent to prison in the fictional country of "Santo Porto" for trying to steal treasured artifact: A cheesy "I Heart Santo Porto" salsa bowl, technically the oldest bowl in the country. Carl and Urkel spend the episode trying to break Waldo out of jail until they're told that his bail is only $30 in US currency. | |
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In an episode of Cow and Chicken, the two titular characters take a plane towards Canada after entering a funny home video contest, and they win 20,000 Canadian dollars... but little did they knew, that the exchange rate was $1 US = $80,000 Canadian, which means they just won 25 American cents. | |
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Referenced on one episode of Mock the Week during "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?" One of the guesses was "How much does a KitKat cost in Zimbabwe?", the answer was 691 million. | |
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In One Piece, Luffy and his fellow Straw Hats enter Skypiea, a nation ten thousand meters in the air. The Skypieans use the "extol", which is fixed at 10,000 to the beli, the usual currency on the Grand Line. Usopp takes advantage of the ignorance Skypieans have about the relative prices of goods in the different currencies to be able to get away with trading rubber bands for "Dials", which are manufactured for different purposes (for example, a Tone Dial records and plays back voices). In a scene early in the Skypiea arc, Gan Fall states that he charges five million extols when he gets called by a device he leaves with the Straw Hats. It sounds like a huge amount until later on the characters are informed of the exchange rate; he was effectively charging only 500 beli. | |
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In one arc of The Tick, Tick and Arthur go adventuring in a fictional African nation called Van Buria (founded by US President Martin Van Buren) and come back with a briefcase full of local currency. It turns out to be worth $8 US. | |
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Toy Story 2 hilariously inverts the trope when Al organizes shipping his Woody's Roundup toy collection to Japan over the phone and gets a quote on the price: | |
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?: When the show picked up popularity in other countries, it became an Artifact Title because of this trope. A bit of controversy happened in certain countries when contestants won the grand prize, only to find out that 1 Million in their own currency resulted in a very comparatively small amount of money (Greece and Portugal changed their top prizes to €250,000; for example.) Contestants were outraged and demanded that they be paid the equivalent of 1 Million US Dollars. Some countries changed their show's title to reflect this outcome, such as "Who Wants To Be a Euro-Millionare". | |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Germany is in a lot of debt to France and all his money is worthless. So Germany gets Italy to make cuckoo clocks for him, and pays him to do so. Italy is thrilled to receive all this money, even though he knows it's worth less than the paper it's printed on. | |
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Because Due South came out when the Canadian dollar was worth quite a bit less than the American dollar, this came up a lot. In particular during a car chase in a taxi: | |
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In the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC for Portal 2, Cave Johnson reminds the test subjects that he's transporting into alternate dimensions to let him know if they come across any dimensions that are made entirely out of money. He then quickly adds that he's only interested if they're made of U.S. currency and if they encounter any made of pesos, they should just "keep walking". | |
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From Kid Radd: Radd is thrilled to get a $1,000 paycheck from his first week. Bogey says the amount is in binary, meaning it's really $8. | |
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In Broken Angels Sanction IV's economy is so bad, on account of the nuclear civil war going on, that their Standard Archaeological Find Token (saft) exchanges with the UN Protectorate dollar on a 230 to 1 basis. Kovacs gets a bit riled up when a crime boss offers just five million for a spaceship he'd just stolen, and even more when he says that was in saft, not dollars. | |
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FoxTrot used this: Jason gets paid $10, adds it to the money he had under his mattress, and announces that he's a millionaire (in Turkish lira). He spends the rest of the week running around acting like a stereotypical rich guy, reverting back to his normal self after he spends his money ("Wow, five whole comic books," snarks Peter). | |
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Robot Chicken spoofed The Six Million Dollar Man with the Six Million Peso Man (who upon being completed immediately disappears past the US border). | |
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This quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy mentions three cases of funny money: | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy mentions three cases of funny money: |
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In the Shadowrun campaign "Virtual Seattle", the setting is a somewhat post-apocalyptic America where the currency is the New-Yen and the dominant global economy is Japanese. In one event, the players are trying to steal information from a military ship when a Russian submarine unrelated to either party attacks. The Russians, if communicated with, will offer to pay the PCs one million Rubles if they join forces and let the Russians keep the ship once the PCs get the information they are after. Even though there was no published New-Yen to Ruble exchange rate, the players all assumed it was a Funny Money offer and declined the alliance. Ironically, a later supplement established an exchange rate of 3 Rubles = 1 Nuyen, meaning that the offer was, if anything, grotesquely highballed. |
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In Warhammer, the Border Principalities have known for their instability and consequently any currency issued by them is viewed as worthless. | |
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Team Fortress 2's economy has suffered from inflation issues for as long as it's existed. The primary currency is metal (the game's main crafting component). The exchange rate for a single key (the other main currency) went from around eight refined metal in 2014 to fifty in 2019. Keep in mind that producing a single piece of refined metal through conventional drops can take weeks, and that a key is worth $2.50; trying to hack out a profit in more than pennies without buying a few keys is borderline impossible. This owes to the fact that metal is produced by Random Drops, while keys need to be bought from the ingame store—the playerbase (especially bots) is constantly pumping more metal into the economy, leading to its value slowly cratering. On the bright side, this means that you can buy every single actual stat-affecting weapon for basically nothing. | |
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Doctor Who: Played with on an intergalactic level in "Voyage of the Damned". Mr. Copper, a tour guide on an alien cruise ship, has a credit card loaded with "Earth currency" for the guests to buy souvenirs with. At the end of the episode he decides to stay on Earth and build a life with the money. When the Doctor asks how much he put on the credit card Mr. Copper reveals it has £1 million, which he assumed wasn't much. This also creates an unintentionally ridiculous situation thanks to Writers Cannot Do Math. Earlier in the episode a debt of 5000 credits was stated to be an insane amount that a working class family could never pay back, but by that conversion it's only £100. |
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Flight of the Conchords: Bret and Jemaine somehow rent their small New York City apartment on the salaries of holding signs and playing gigs to a single audience member. In the final episode, it's revealed that they've been paying their rent with New Zealand dollars instead of American, so they owe a huge sum of back rent. | |
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In the online game/community NationStates, each nation can name its own currency, whose value — relative to other in-game currencies and real-world currencies — is determined by the player's policy decisions. Quite a few fall into this territory. | |
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Early on in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Owen proposes that they pay the mortgage off in Canadian dollars, presumably thinking they're worth less. Peter corrects him, and Owen then thinks they have to pay $120,000 (Gordon tells him he didn't need to add the numbers together). | |
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Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh: Tip tries to make some spare money by taxing Boov around all day; at the end of the day she and Oh count the large piles of currency they have collected only to find out the 6,034 Gleeblos they have are worth $3.00 USD. | |
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Megatokyo has an exchange where Largo returns from his new job as "Great Teacher Largo", bragging about the money he made. Piro scans the bills and notes that Largo's salary for the day is 5,000 yen, or 50 US dollars. | |
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In the Joe Oriolo Felix the Cat cartoon "Penelope the Elephant", Rock Bottom kidnaps a lost elephant from Felix that he intended to return to her Rajah for a 50,000,000 bakshee reward. Rock Bottom makes it there ahead of Felix, but to the former's shock, it turns out the reward money is worthless—50,000,000 bakshee is only worth 10 cents in American money. He's so flabbergasted at this outcome, he angrily throws the meager award aside and goes into shock, while Felix gets the last laugh. | |
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In an episode of Family Guy, when on a South American island Peter gets $37 out of his wallet. This makes him the richest man on the island. | |
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The browser-based Kingdom of Loathing has a contributor reward called "Mr. Accessory" (nicknamed "Mr. A") that gives a + 15 to all stats for the price of $10. Those who donated $10 Canadian could receive a "Mr. Eh?", that initially gave a + 12 to stats, which was meant to reflect its relative monetary value. As implied, the value of the bonus is adjusted upwards as the Canadian dollar rises (and downwards as it falls) — eventually requiring a Word of God acknowledgment that it would never be more powerful than a Mr. A. | |
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One episode of Simon & Simon saw the brothers imprisoned in an imaginary Latin American dictatorship, sentenced to pay a hefty fine (something like "a hundred thousand pistartes", or whatever the fake currency was). While in jail, they meet an ex-pat American and relate to them their doubts about paying such a "large" amount. When told about the fine, the ex-pat says, "Guys... that's about fifty bucks!" The brothers Simon are soon out of jail. | |
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On I Love Lucy, Ricky freaks out over Lucy's 1,000 franc spending spree during their trip to France. She reminds him that it's a much smaller amount in U.S. dollars. | |
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Friends also jokes about the Italian lira. After Monica's new rich boyfriend Pete invites her for Italian food and then takes her to a restaurant in Italy, she insists on paying for the meal. He advises her to "throw another thousand on that" because so far she's paid "about 60 cents". | |
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In The Goon Show episode "Robin Hood and his Mirry Mon", the Sheriff makes Robin an offer: Two shirts for five shillings and eleven pence. "Or in Canadian money, $6000". | |
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, the exchange rate between Mushroom Kingdom coins and Beanbean Kingdom coins is absolutely insane. In the beginning of the game, however many Mushroom coins you have — usually at least a hundred — turns out to be worth exactly ten Beanbean coins. By the end, however, the Mushroom currency has apparently devalued off-screen dramatically, to the point where 99,999,999,999,999 Mushroom coins is equal to 99 Beanbean coins — which causes Mario and Luigi to Face Fault in shock. | |
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