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Shockingly Expensive Bill
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A character gets the bill for a service they used and is shocked by the price on it. This is usually due to hidden or undisclosed fees that were added on by the unscrupulous merchant. It can also be due to a clueless character ordering expensive room services or meals without realizing the cost, or in cases like Extremely Overdue Library Book, neglecting to pay for something over a long period of time. This presents a conundrum for them as the character doesn't have the means to pay the outstanding balance. Possible outcomes include: Work Off the Debt Faint in Shock Spit Take or Wild Take Obstructive Bureaucrat if you complain to the administration Asking if they got the wrong check Finding out that your check is even more expensive Or finding out that your check is exactly the same Asking if you have the bill or the establishment's telephone number Running away without paying Trying to coerce someone else into paying for it Driven to Suicide, in more extreme cases The bill is often related to room service, fancy restaurants, bar tabs, credit cards, medical services and, in recent decades, cell phones. It's almost an Obligatory Joke in an episode where a hospital is essential to the plot. A less comical example is a form of extortion racket where a crooked business owner presenting the bill—often a sleazy strip club or bar in a Wretched Hive— is a front for The Syndicate. Any "mark" who refuses to pay the inflated bill is free to "discuss" it in the back alley with the owner's large burly "associates". This may overlap with Undisclosed Funds if the exact amount of the bill is never shown and Long List if the price is due to the quantity of fees added up. This trope also includes reactions to looking at the price tag. There is almost always a random number of cents in the price. See also Forgot to Pay the Bill, Ridiculous Future Inflation, and Adam Smith Hates Your Guts. |
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In the second act of La Bohème, the Bohemians find they've run up an enormous bill at Café Momus (and, inexplicably, Schaunard's fortune has already been spent). Musetta steps in and passes the bill off on her Meal Ticket, Alcindoro, who takes one look at the bill and faints. | |
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In Twilight Princess, Link has to threaten a certain character with one of these in order to get him to divulge some plot-important information. The description says that the total amount is 'astronomical'. | |
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Occurs in National Lampoon's European Vacation when Audrey calls her boyfriend on a hotel phone from England. And decides to wait on hold while he goes to have dinner. The hotel stay itself is prepaid, so her father is first confused when told there's a bill to settle, then horrified. | |
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After Star Fox 64's credits, The Stinger is of General Pepper receiving an invoice for the Star Fox team's services rendered amounting to $64 per point of your final score. Score low enough and he won't care enough to comment, but if you hit a score of 780, he'll call the resulting bill for saving the system steep but Worth It. If you've scored over 1094 points, Pepper will let out a Big "WHAT?!". | |
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Battle Chess: In the event that a Pawn takes the King, the Pawn withdraws a tax statement and shows it to the King, whose eyes go wide, clutches at his chest, and promptly dies from a heart-attack. | |
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In the third chapter of Tokyo Ghoul :Re, Urie hands in his receipts for his monthly investigation expenses. Sasaki is comically horrified and confused when his subordinate tosses him the receipts for ¥198,220 ($1,777.98 USD) in taxi fares. | |
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In the Area 88 OVA, Mickey is shocked when McCoy hands him an $50,000 maintenance bill for his F-14. McCoy reminds him that an F-14 is expensive to maintain. | |
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The Rising of the Shield Hero: In Chapter 76 of the webnovel, when Queen Mirelia was about to banish her, she changes her mind and instead hands her a piece of paper, which is a bill for the money demanded of her by the guild. She pales in shock at the outrageous amount she owes, a sign of her careless spending of the royal treasury. Naturally, she whines that she can't pay it. | |
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Black Jack: The good doctor tends to charge somewhere in the equivalent of several million US dollars. He rarely collects that fee, though - it's usually a test to see if the prospective patient is determined enough to go through with it. If you can afford it, however, he'll make damn sure you pay. | |
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The Whiteboard: Doc's tab at Howie's is long enough to stretch from the bar to a booth on the far side of the building, fortunately he paid for himself the time Red agreed to buy for the whole gang, who only cost him $125. A later story had Doc receive a power bill that made him balk at six-hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. Which was even more impressive considering they have over a dozen in-house nuclear reactors. |
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In Great Teacher Onizuka, Urumi is blackmailing Onizuka, and orders him to take her and some of her classmates to an expensive sushi restaurant, where they order several platters of expensive fatty tuna. Eventually, Onizuka snaps and buys five more servings for himself and starts eating like there's no tomorrow. Cue heroic music. Then he orders five more servings of abalone and sea urchin. And a sashimi boat. And 10 MORE servings of salmon roe, ark shell, and sweet shrimp. His plan from the beginning was to Dine and Dash, which he does, still clutching the sushi boat, with his students running behind him, pursued by the chef. Then he gets hit by a car and forces the driver to pay his bill. And then goes back to the same restaurant and orders more food. The bill (which the driver has to pay) ends up being over 200,000 yen.note More than $1800 in 2021 currency | |
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In the YouTube Poop video Wallace and Gromit: The Hearse of the Square Babbit, the titular duo charge ridiculous fees for their rabbit catching business: one poor sap is charged £25,000 for a single rabbit. If the clients can't pay, Wallace and Gromit will cheerfully release the rabbits and drive away. | |
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One Mastercard commercial featuring The Simpsons characters shows Homer having to pay $75 for quick snip of a tiny tuft of hair on top of his head. | |
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Dominic Deegan: A more justified use in the "Battle for Barthis" arc in that the bill in question covered both rebuilding the entire town of Barthis after it was destroyed and repaying Gregory's debt to the kingdom. | |
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In D3: The Mighty Ducks, The Eden Hall varsity hockey team invites the freshman hockey team to a fancy dinner and then sticks them with the bill. The freshman team ends up washing dishes, and they swear to get revenge on varsity, leading to a prank war. | |
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In the Naruto Land of Sound filler arc, Jiraiya visits a bar and is presented a ridiculously large bill. When he notes this, the bartender calls in a number of armed thugs since he's being "unruly". | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Ed becomes enraged when he gets the bill from Ling about the food he and Lan Fan ate in the hotel. | |
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In later editions of the RPG Paranoia, getting slapped with one of these by a oh-so-helpful service agency is yet another way in which a player-character can end up being hopelessly screwed. | |
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Why are ET's eyes so big? Yours would be too if you saw his phone bill. | |
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Toriko: Being a Big Eater, the titular character is prone to getting these from the restaurants he visits. Of course, he's also frickin' loaded, so he's able to pay his bills without hesitation. Komatsu is the one who typically gets shocked at how much Toriko spends for his food. | |
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In the first episode of Chuck Chicken, Chuck takes a job to stop a volcano from erupting for a $10,000 reward. Not only does the mayor not pay him for unwittingly filling the volcano with holes using Don and Dex's drilling vehicle, when Chuck accidentally makes the whole volcano collapse, he's charged $10,000,000 (1,000 times what he planned to earn) for it. | |
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In Case 3 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Furio Tigre was involved in an accident that led to a woman being taken in for surgery and the bill for the procedure was one million dollars. Naturally, nobody would pay such a sum, if the woman wasn't the granddaughter of a mob boss. | |
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Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers: In "The Wacky Wario Bros.: Money Mayhem", while Wario and Waluigi mess up and dance in their new mansion, a tax collector sends them a furniture, strippers and housing bill, which reads that they must pay $199,230,203,020,320,302,232,322,323.note In words, that's 199 septillion, 230 sextillion, 203 quintillion, 20 quadrillion, 320 trillion, 302 billion, 232 million, 322 thousand, and 323 dollars. Wario instead ignores the bill and kills the tax collector. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: In the arc where Calvin breaks his dad's binoculars, Calvin calls a store asking how much a replacement pair would cost. | |
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One episode of You're Under Arrest! has Yoriko during her day off running into a young man (later revealed to be a foreign prince from a Mid-Eastern country) who's having an argument with a restaurant owner for not paying the bill. Yoriko offers to pay for him, and gets shocked when she sees it goes up to 30,000 yen. | |
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While an amount isn't stated, when Spike asks in the first episode of Cowboy Bebop why they're so broke when they just caught a bounty, Jet reels off a massive list of collateral damage that took up the entire amount they'd earned. | |
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In Garfield: Garfield noticed that Jon racked up a bill of $542.16 for using the Dial-A-Compliment service in the July 28th, 1994 strip. In the September 5th, 2013 strip, Jon gets a very expensive bill for his refrigerator being cleaned. The cleaner stated that he lost his two best men in there because of the expired meatloaf. In the December 27th, 1980 strip, Jon screams in shock at his electric bill complaining it's been raised again. Garfield falls asleep on top of the bill. |
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Final Fantasy XIV: Played for Laughs in the Hildibrand 3.3 quest, "The Gigi Situation." During one of his many poses, he knocks over an expensive vase and then gets the bill from a very angry shopkeeper. In the Stormblood expansion, Gosetsu's katana ends up in the hands of a Hingan merchant. Alphinaud, as a gift to Yugiri, buys it back for the asking price without even attempting to haggle, sending the bill to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. While the player never find out exactly how much he paid, we DO see Tataru's reaction to the receipt - immediately upon reading it, she demands Alphinaud meet her at the office for a talk. During their travels, Alisaie points out that a good-quality katana like Gosetsu's is worth enough to buy a housenote which, for the player, starts at 3 million gil for the smallest plot, before even getting to the building that goes on it and furnish it. "Which you would know if you bothered to check the price." The next time the player regroups with Alphinaud, he's so afraid of reinvoking Tataru's wrath that he refuses to even buy so much as a cup of tea without counting every penny he has, much to Alisaie's consternation. |
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This is the central plot of Ralph Breaks the Internet. Ralph and Vanellope drive up the price of an auction to win a replacement steering wheel for Sugar Rush, are presented with a bill for 27,001 dollars, and must find a way to make the money before the auction expires. | |
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Used as the last joke on the Alice Cooper episode of The Muppet Show when Gonzo appears in a flash of fire and brimstone. In his hand is something even worse than a Deal with the Devil: the bill from Special Effects, which is enough to frighten everyone on stage. Similarly, in the tv special The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years, the Muppets from all the various projects, from Sam and Friends to Fraggle Rock are gathered together in a banquet hall. In the final scene, Jim Henson is at a table and is given an absurdly large bill. |
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The bill Conrad van Orton gets hit with by Consumer Recreation Services in The Game (1997) turns out to be a lot more than he anticipated; fortunately, Nicholas agrees to split it with him. | |
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One Popeye arc had Olive Oyl inheriting twenty million dollars. Getting a big head, she decides to make a movie about herself with the money, but expenses soon tally up to twenty-five million dollars. Olive goes mad from the shock and trying to cure her becomes the focal point of the next arc. | |
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Spy X Family: The bill from renting a castle and all the furnishings for Anya to play being saved from a castle as an award for being enrolled cost a high price. | |
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Not Always Right has a few instances of this as well. One entry in the Laser-Guided Karma section of the page has a customer who for all intents and purposes should have expected that to happen, because she'd only bought a few free minutes because she'd trusted her teenage girls with phones and they were "responsible adults." Cue her coming back in a few weeks later to get the charges (which were about 500 dollars each) taken off her bill, throwing a fit when they wouldn't (including smashing the phone when she threw it at the worker) then very nearly tearing the front of her brand-new, expensive car off by hitting a streetlight as she attempted to angrily drive away. | |
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Persona 4: Yosuke reacts with shock when he finds out Teddie has eaten 10 bowls of ramen on the receipt. And before that, Yosuke says he almost pissed in his pants when he found out the price of the clothes bought for Teddie. | |
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In Persona 5, Sojiro takes the Player Character and Futaba out for sushi near the end of August, and is shocked when the bill comes back as 120,000 yen. Since he owns a coffee shop that doesn't see much business, this is a lot for him. | |
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In "Zio Paperone e lo slogan invincibile", a Donald Duck story, Rockerduck causes widespread panic in the city by accidentally adopting a panic-inducing Brown Note as his advertising slogan. Not only his sales plummet, but he soon gets visited by the furious mayor, who gives him "the biggest fine ever". Cue Rockerduck screaming when he looks at the amount to pay. | |
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In Law's ending in Tekken 5, after using up the prize money to pay his son's hospital bill, Paul comes to him in a rickety bike carrying loads of wreckage with him. As he collapses in front of his friend, he hands him the bill for the wreckage, having pegged it on Law, who does a Wild Take. When Paul asks him to pay, Law simply knocks him out and runs away. Likewise in Tekken 8, after Law has won the right to the Mishima Zaibatsu, he is given a bill for the damages the Mishima Zaibatsu racked up thanks to Jin causing World War III. The resulting bill has so many zeroes that Law straight up dies from shock. |
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Likewise in Tekken 8, after Law has won the right to the Mishima Zaibatsu, he is given a bill for the damages the Mishima Zaibatsu racked up thanks to Jin causing World War III. The resulting bill has so many zeroes that Law straight up dies from shock. | |
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One "Majima Everywhere" event in Yakuza Kiwami has Majima disguise himself as a bartender, then offer Kiryu a variety of liquors. He then demands a ludicrous amount of money for it. This is done with the full expectation that Kiryu will refuse to pay and give Majima an excuse to fight him over it. After the fight, Majima is greatly amused that he managed to pawn off rotgut as top-shelf booze to Kiryu. | |
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Partway through Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, Kenshiro accidentally breaks an old woman's vase. He is then told it's worth one hundred million IDL. This leads to a chain of events that results in him becoming the manager of Eden's nightclub, opening up the "Manager Ken" minigame. And yes, the game expects you to pay it all back... if only to finish a Side Quest. Plotwise, you can ignore it completely after you unlock the minigame. | |
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Dead Ringers: A 2022 episode has Today reporting on a family who were alarmed when they received an energy bill of one million pounds. They complained to the energy company, who apologise for the mistake and send them the corrected bill... of two million pounds. | |
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The final scene of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York has Buzz being delivered his little brother Kevin's room service bill. Their father, Peter, is not happy. | |
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In White Christmas, Bob's reaction to the estimate on how much the Christmas show is going to cost is "Wow!", which is apparently "Right up there between 'ouch' and 'boing'." | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In Twilight Princess, Link has to threaten a certain character with one of these in order to get him to divulge some plot-important information. The description says that the total amount is 'astronomical'. In Spirit Tracks, Renzo demands a full 5,000 rupees from Linebeck III in order to repair the Broken Bridge to the Ocean Realm. Linebeck himself decides that Link is paying for that, giving that he wants the bridge to be repaired. |
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Late for Dinner: one of the main characters tries to order food after spending a few decades in cryogenic stasis. When the girl at the counter tells him how much it is, he exclaims "That's highway robbery!... Ma'am." | |
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Adrian Mole: In The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Adrian runs up a huge phone bill accepting reverse charge calls from Pandora in Tunisia. He desperately tries to hide this from his parents, until the phone is cut off. In Cappuccino Years, the following printed notices are placed on the seats at William's Nativity play, which are blatantly ignored by the audience: |
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Rebuild World: Akira is left with a 60 million aurum bill for medical treatment following his fights with the three Relic Thieves, only half of which was covered by his original payment. Hearing this nearly makes him lose consciousness then and there, but Kibayashi instead offers him a deal: the government will cover his bill and give him 100 million aurum in exchange for having his combat record wiped and not breathing a word of this to anyone. For Akira, it's a no-brainer given how little stock he put into said record. This is part of a Government Conspiracy by local officials to cover for their incompetence, and they told the hospital to do every procedure they could in order to force Akira to either give in or come under Indentured Servitude to pay it off. Later Akira is being taken to an expensive restaurant with Impossibly Delicious Food by Shiori, who is the bodyguard to the Ojou Reina, as part of an apology. Due to Akira being a Big Eater, the restaurant staff are shocked by the bill he racks up but Akira never learns of it besides that he couldn't afford it on his own. At one point Sheryl is given a tally of all the money Akira is owed for everything he’s done to help her and her gang in order for her to be able to pay him back, and it comes up as nearly 4 billion aurum, one billion of which was from a single day where Akira lost his up-armored Cool Car. Akira doesn’t really care about it, but Sheryl uses it in a gambit to get money out of the other gangs. Carol, whose side job is as The Oldest Profession, charged a hunter named Babalodo 10 billion aurum for one night with her. He ends up stealing from his team, and trapped in Indentured Servitude in the aftermath. At one point when Akira is unable to access his home city and the Friendly Shop Keeper there he usually buys equipment from, the Intrepid Merchant Katsuragi comes to him with equipment he figures Akira can’t afford yet, inflated to "the wasteland price", in order to try and get Akira into his debt and thus profit off of him like that. Katsuragi's plan ends up Gone Horribly Right when Akira spends 18 billion aurum on the equipment which leaves Katsuragi collapsed in a fit of laughter and Sheryl in shock. |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "The Tape Recorder", Walter Denton purchases an expensive reel-to-reel tape recorder, and bills it to Madison High. Truth in Television, as tape recorders cost hundreds of dollars at the time. | |
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Bloom County: Opus managed to rack up $3,000 from "dial-a-mom". | |
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In Case 1-4 of The Great Ace Attorney, Naruhodo and Susato spent a single night in a very luxurious hotel, only to discover that the bill was £3 (about £430 or $587 as of the 2021 English release). Susato laments that they spent the equivalent of a roof over their heads for an entire year in a Japanese lodging house. | |
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At the beginning of Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, one of the first items Zak picks up is an unpaid phone bill. If you read it, Zak will exclaim "$1138! I'd better pay this soon!" | |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: Inko is such a Big Eater than when Majima took her out to a fancy restaurant when she was a kid for her birthday, she ate so much that the bill came out to 200.000 yen. By today's conversion ratio, that's over 1.300 dollars. He teasingly gives her crap about it almost twenty years later. | |
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General Protection Fault: Fooker got his very first mobile phone and started using it for all sorts of things. Unfortunately, he used pay as you go... thud. | |
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Fletch: while Fletch is at the country club he orders lots of food and liquor and tells the waiter to put it on another guest's bill. When the other guest gets the bill he's shocked by the amount and tries to find out who did it. | |
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In The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan's father Max loses his temper over Jordan about the multi-paged American Express bill confirming that Jordan has spent over $430,000 in only one month. Jordan claims the bill was for business expenses, but then it turns out he spent the money for dinners and prostitutes. Jordan isn't too worried though, mainly because of the illegal ways he is earning wealth at Wall Street. | |
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King Dedede in Kirby: Right Back at Ya! has ordered so many monsters from Night Mare Enterprises that this trope was inevitable. In the episode "Waddle While You Work", the N.M.E. sales guy calculates the final cost as 1,170,411,246,413,708,686 D-bills. | |
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Persona: Persona 4: Yosuke reacts with shock when he finds out Teddie has eaten 10 bowls of ramen on the receipt. And before that, Yosuke says he almost pissed in his pants when he found out the price of the clothes bought for Teddie. In Persona 5, Sojiro takes the Player Character and Futaba out for sushi near the end of August, and is shocked when the bill comes back as 120,000 yen. Since he owns a coffee shop that doesn't see much business, this is a lot for him. |
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Miraculous Ladybug Salt-Shots has a Downplayed example in My Compensation. Part of Alya taking advantage of Marinette's generosity involved her helping herself to "free pastries" from her parents' bakery. By the time Alya's parents learn about this, she's racked up a bill of over seven hundred Euros. Factoring in the money she stiffed Marinette out of by foisting off all of her babysitting responsibilities onto her, and it comes to over a thousand Euros. Marlena and Otis promptly inform their daughter that she's grounded until she can Work Off the Debt. | |
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In Muhyo and Roji, Goryo charges Rika, a high school girl, 5 million yen ($50,000 US in the localization of the manga) for exorcising a spirit, and says she can split it with her friend Yumi if it's too much. The two girls are rather disturbed, especially after hearing that Goryo allowed another client to be possessed for not paying. | |
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In Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire, this happens left-and-right in New Hong Kong and throughout the Gallimaufry, most routinely with Buck's hiring fees; and also with cheapskate bar owner Al's reaction to a not-so-good deal on 20,000 gallons of super-cooled mega-joy juice. | |
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In the '40s film I Accuse My Parents, the start of Jimmy's life as a mob courier is when he gets a $77 check for his birthday dinner - a small fortune for a young man making $25 a week selling shoes. The local mob boss had tricked him into going to a restaurant far more expensive than he could afford so that he could ensnare the kid into working for him - he needed a new guy the police wouldn't be watching to transport stolen goods. | |
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Magyk, the first book in the Septimus Heap series, describes a situation in which two feuding sisters abused the Message Rat service by using the message rat Stanley to convey their arguing messages, eventually descending into simply sending him back and forth with nothing to say. It was their mother that received the shockingly expensive bill, resulting in the cancellation of the service. | |
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Meter Maid's ending in Twisted Metal 4 has her deliver a bill for all the traffic violations Sweet Tooth has committed. According to Sweet Tooth's midget clown sidekick, the total for the tickets run into the millions, but Meter Maid offers to waive it in exchange for some..."community service." Sweet Tooth eagerly agrees, only instead of sex with Ms. Fanservice, he ends up stuck in a lecture on safe driving. | |
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A variation in My Dress-Up Darling where nothing is actually spent yet, but the prices alone are eye-boggling. After getting into a discussion about professional cameras, Gojo looks up several cameras online with increasingly-higher prices that frighten him, especially considering that several of the photographers at the event during Marin's first cosplay had professional cameras. Marin is aware of this and suggests to just stick to their smartphones for the time being. | |
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Tim Allen's character in the The Santa Clause jokingly suggested that he call 1-800-SPANK-ME as an emergency number. After the movie was released to VHS, Disney got hit with complaints alleging that children were racking up huge phone bills. Unbeknownst to the parents, 1-800-SPANK-ME turned out to be a real number for a phone sex hotline. To prevent repeat occurrences, Disney removed the scene from later home entertainment releases and television airings. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Avdol and Kakyoin are hospitalized for injuries they suffered during the battle with N'Doul. Polnareff initially struggles to read the bill, but is horrified to find that the hospital bill is 46,350 Egyptian pounds. Diamond is Unbreakable: Josuke is shocked to find out that a huge chunk of his savings was spent on Joseph buying a ton of baby supplies. |
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In What's Up, Doc?, Howard goes to a drugstore to pick up some buffered aspirin. Judy (who he hasn't actually met yet) picks out a clock radio and behind Howard's back, tells the cashier to put it on her "husband"'s tab. The cashier tells Howard that the total is around $16. | |
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In True Potential, anybody dumb or naive enough to treat Naruto to ramen will find themselves with one of these. | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Downplayed; when Tohru explains how dragons get energy, the topic of Kanna using her tail to plug into the electrical outlet makes Kobayashi realize that's what has been causing the electric bill to run high. | |
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The Zeekeeper's bill to help take down Bowser's Castle in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team. The mystical guardian figure actually treats the thing like a rockstar/actor's expenses bill, complete with hotel, dining, souvenirs, medical and insurance, ending up with a charge of 80 million coins. Mario's reaction when Prince Dreambert and Dreamy Luigi say he'll pay said bill is priceless (beforehand he even says Mario will hand over every single coin he's got). | |
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Stardust Crusaders: Avdol and Kakyoin are hospitalized for injuries they suffered during the battle with N'Doul. Polnareff initially struggles to read the bill, but is horrified to find that the hospital bill is 46,350 Egyptian pounds. | |
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In the Rhapsody in Blue segment of Fantasia 2000 a woman brings her Henpecked Husband and fluffy little dog to "Le Pampered Pooch". After she buys a huge stack of items, the clerk presents her husband with a bill that unfolds multiple times until it reaches the floor. | |
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In One Piece: The Movie, though it seems like Luffy and Zoro's gorging of Ganzo's udon is gonna cost them a fortune, it all only comes up to a meager 11 berries. And even then, the two can't actually pay for it. | |
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In Return to Planet Tad, Tad's mother gives him her old cell phone as a birthday gift. She and his father forbid him from calls other than from or to them, but don't specifically forbid the use of text messaging. He soon starts text messaging like crazy and also uses the phone to update his online blog. It transpires that the phone did not come with a text message plan and when his parents are hit with a $127.40 bill (20 cents times 637 text messages), they forbid him from doing anything with it other than talking to them on it and also require that his ringtone be "I'm a Little Teapot." | |
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Dragon Ball: After the first Budokai tournament Muten Roshi treats the gang to dinner, not taking Son Goku's Big Eater tendencies into account. The bill ends up taking most of his prize money for winning the tournament. | |
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In Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger, Shogo asks the clerk of Gread Treid for information on Raise, a lost white magic for bringing the dead back to life. He and his friends are floored when she asks for an upfront payment of 600 million Gil, an impossible amount for all but the wealthiest people to pay. | |
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In only the fifth episode of Pokémon: The Series titled "Showdown in Pewter City", Ash and Misty discuss the upcoming Gym battle against Brock over a meal. After Ash refuses help from Misty, she angrily leaves the restaurant and Ash is left to stare at the bill and subsequently yell for Misty to come back. The bill originally read ¥1150, which just barely qualifies for this trope, but the 4Kids Entertainment dub changed it to a dollar sign without bothering with exchange rates (or even just adding a decimal point to make it $11.50 since assuming "1 yen = 1 cent" will almost always get you in the ballpark), which makes it a rather more potent example. | |
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In Spirit Tracks, Renzo demands a full 5,000 rupees from Linebeck III in order to repair the Broken Bridge to the Ocean Realm. Linebeck himself decides that Link is paying for that, giving that he wants the bridge to be repaired. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "extra plug", Strong Bad plugs his new energy-sucking "'Lectric Boots" into the King of Town's power grid (disguising it as an "auxiliary food-related thing"). While we don't see the bill, the King does complain "This electricity bill is pretendous!" Played with in "environment". Strong Sad and Marzipan complain that Strong Bad's Lappy drains too much energy, enough that his monthly electric bill "uses eight trees' worth of paper", and Strong Bad is shocked that this is considered out of the ordinary. |
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In the Metroid (Manga), Samus saves the day out of a desire to help others, but that doesn't mean she expects to do it for free. | |
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The Quintessential Quintuplets: In Chapter 57, Itsuki meets Shimoda, a former student of her late mother Rena who works now as a cram school lecturer. Shimoda invites Itsuki to a local cafeteria and treats her to all the cake she wants to eat. Naturally, Shimoda is left with a rather big bill to pay after Itsuki leaves. | |
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Ace Attorney: In Case 3 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Furio Tigre was involved in an accident that led to a woman being taken in for surgery and the bill for the procedure was one million dollars. Naturally, nobody would pay such a sum, if the woman wasn't the granddaughter of a mob boss. In Case 1-4 of The Great Ace Attorney, Naruhodo and Susato spent a single night in a very luxurious hotel, only to discover that the bill was £3 (about £430 or $587 as of the 2021 English release). Susato laments that they spent the equivalent of a roof over their heads for an entire year in a Japanese lodging house. |
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In the Strong Bad Email "extra plug", Strong Bad plugs his new energy-sucking "'Lectric Boots" into the King of Town's power grid (disguising it as an "auxiliary food-related thing"). While we don't see the bill, the King does complain "This electricity bill is pretendous!" | |
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StacheBros: In the Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon episode of "Luigi Time!!!", Luigi receives a very expensive bill for Mario's de-paperization operation, the amount of which we don't find out, and tries to convince Toadsworth not to charge them for it to no avail. However, after Luigi deals with a Boo infestation in the hospital, Toadsworth decides to let them go free of charge. | |
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The entire plot of The Misadventures Of Tron Bonne centers around paying off an absurdly expensive loan to a Loan Shark which Tiesel took out to buy the Gesselschaft. Said loan shark, Lex Loathe, holds Tiesel hostage until Tron can scrounge up the money, which she does by raiding towns, stealing stuff, and even via a little bit of dungeon crawling. When she gets enough, he points out that she also owes interest. When she gets enough for that, he points out she owes interest on the interest. At this point she just goes in guns blazing and rescues Tiesel. | |
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In Innerspace, after Tuck's pod is injected into Jack, he starts trying to figure out what's going on while Jack is ringing up items at his job. His attempts screw with the scanner, causing the items to ring up at hundreds of dollars each. | |
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In Tales of Xillia 2, Ludger is pinned with a massive bill by Rideaux for some medical treatment he gave him without consent, and proceeds to give him additional charges for keeping Elle in his custody (abusing his position in the local MegaCorp to do so). He ends up with a bill of twenty million gald in total, and you're required to pay it off little by little as you progress through the story. | |
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Similarly, in the tv special The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years, the Muppets from all the various projects, from Sam and Friends to Fraggle Rock are gathered together in a banquet hall. In the final scene, Jim Henson is at a table and is given an absurdly large bill. | |
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