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Along with being brave and violent, Scottish people are also often stereotyped as being thrifty, if not outright stingy, with their money and belongings. Within Scotland itself, people from Aberdeen may be stereotyped as being especially thrifty. Probably Truth in Television, since Scotland has always been a poor area compared to England, not to mention being considerably less fertile than the south. Thrift is a necessity under such circumstances. This would be perhaps supported by the fact that among Englishmen people from Yorkshire have a stereotypical reputation for thrift. On the other hand, Ireland has in large periods of its history been considered even poorer but the Irish are stereotyped as impulsively generous. Part of the reason for the Scottish reputation for thriftiness is the dominance of the (Calvinist) Presbyterian Church of Scotland, especially in the Lowlands, and the importance of the Scottish school of economics in the tradition of Adam Smith. Indeed, the Scottish reputation for thrift probably comes from the early 18th century, shortly after the union with England, when a lot of business-savvy Scottish Covenanters (i.e. Serious Scottish Presbyterian Calvinists) started to come to England to start commercial ventures; the role of these Scottish businessmen in the Industrial Revolution—also pairing up with very thrifty English Nonconformist Protestants—cemented the association of the Scottish people with fiscal caution. All this has tended to make large parts of the world look on the Scots as embodiments of the Protestant work ethic who are "all work and no play", combining the stereotype of the Thrifty Scot with that of the Dour Scot. Another major factor attributed to this trope was the massive failure of the Darien Scheme to establish colonies in Panama, which bankrupted many Scottish nobles and pushed forward the 1707 Act of Union. See The Scrooge and All Jews Are Cheapskates for examples of non-Scots who don't like to spend more money than they have to. |
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Viz once introduced Norbert Colon as being "even meanernote i.e. stingier than a Scottish person". | |
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Looney Tunes: In "The Blow-Out", a cash-strapped Porky finds a nickel lying on the ground, but it gets snatched by a Scottish terrier decked in a kilt and bonnet. In "My Bunny Lies Over The Sea", the Scotsman whom Bugs Bunny messes with is shown as being thrifty. He has only one bullet that he has kept in the family for years, and he is tricked into lowering Bugs' golf score because Bugs makes it seem like an auction and his immediate reaction is to want a lower number. |
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In Of Thee I Sing, countries from around the world send baby carriages to the White House. The wee little one at the end is "Compliments of Scotland." | |
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In the feature length version of The Wizard of Speed and Time, Brian Lucas (no relation) goes to the studio accounting department to get funds to make the Wizard film. There he finds Angus McTavish, CPA, who tells him to put the P.O. (purchase order) in the IN box, and he might get some funds released during the next fiscal quarter. McTavish goes back to scanning over massive paper spreadsheets all over his desk: | |
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One of the first claims discussed on Would I Lie to You? was from Scottish multimillionaire Duncan Bannatyne of Dragons' Den fame, saying that he'd banned his employees from buying paper clips, forcing them instead to use only the ones that came in with the mail. | |
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Scrooge McDuck, of DuckTales (1987) fame, is perhaps Disney's best-known example of this trope. His thriftiness varies from a virtue to being outright miserly depending on the story. It's widely believed he was based on both Ebeneezer Scrooge of A Christmas Carol and Andrew Carnegie, the latter being a fabulously wealthy Scottish industrialist. Later in life Carnegie became a philanthropist, but Scrooge remained quite ungenerous with his wealth and adhered to this trope. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Scrooge McDuck hails from Scotland, probably because of his love of money. Despite being the richest duck on Earth, Scrooge resents spending even the smallest amount of money. In The Micro-Ducks from Outer Space, when the micro-ducks (who are all no more than three inches tall) offer Scrooge a bag of gold coins in trade, Scrooge has to examine them under a microscope to see them properly and comments "How about that? Gold coins no bigger than a Scotsman's tip!" Scrooge's whole family is noted to be thriftier than most Scots, and when Scrooge is revealed to be the thriftiest of the family in history, the ghosts of his ancestors carry him in triumph. In occasional stories, a single thriftier family member is seen: Scrooge's cousin Douglas, a rather batty gold miner who's so ridiculously stingy he considers Scrooge a spendthrift. In one story they fight to see who can get better discounts from a barber, and in another Douglas pursues Scrooge during a chase with Magica De Spell to demand Scrooge carry out the chase in less expensive ways. |
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In "My Bunny Lies Over The Sea", the Scotsman whom Bugs Bunny messes with is shown as being thrifty. He has only one bullet that he has kept in the family for years, and he is tricked into lowering Bugs' golf score because Bugs makes it seem like an auction and his immediate reaction is to want a lower number. | |
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In Disney's The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, in the The Wind in the Willows segment Angus McBadger is in charge of Toad's finances and thus is very concerned about money. However since Toad is an Upper-Class Twit whose various manias and hobbies have threatened to bankrupt him, and his tendency to cause huge amounts of damage without a care, this is very justified. | |
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Only an Excuse? sometimes portrays the Celtic board like this, such as suggesting they invaded the pitch after a supporter threw a 50p piece at the ref. | |
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An episode of Dad's Army involves Frazier maniacally hanging onto his stash of gold coins despite all Captain Mainwaring's attempts to get him to put it into his bank. | |
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The Professionals Lampshaded in the episode "Fugitive" when George Cowley reprimands Bodie for supporting "that popular misconception of the Scots. You couldn't find a more generous race." While he's saying this he's refusing to share the sweets he's eating, and it's implied that earlier he used Bodie to pay a 12p fine on his overdue library books (by handing him the books as 'cover' when Bodie had to enter the library). In "Where The Jungle Ends". Cowley orders Bodie to buy a suit for the mission because he has to look like a politician's bodyguard. At the end of the episode as Bodie is walking off with Doyle, he explains they're actually walking off to the tailor to return the suit. |
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Brave: Downplayed when Merida chooses to open King Fergus's private reserves after telling the clans of Dingwall, MacGuffin, and Macintosh that their sons should be able to choose love for themselves in due time. A perturbed Fergus decides to use the small drinking vessels. | |
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Jommeke has a character named Mic Mac Jampudding who is basically a walking Scottish caricature. He will always try to avoid spending money on anything. In the album "The Jubilee" he brings a bottle of mountain water to Jommeke's birthday, which he bottled himself in order not having to buy it in a store. | |
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Several ones pop up throughout The Men from the Ministry, such as Sir Calvin McFrugal, the financial advisor of the Ministry of Works who considers having two chocolate-biscuits during the elevenses insane extravagance. | |
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The Crown: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother finds herself in an accidental Queen Incognito situation when Captain Terry, the owner of the Castle of Mey (which she wants to buy) on the far northern coast of Scotland, doesn't recognise her on sight. When the captain finds out that she is the widow of George VI and mother of the Sovereign, he asks her why he never told her. She says that it's partly for the wonderful sensation of not having the pressure of being royal and partly because he would have doubled the price if he had known. His response? | |
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There's a famous cartoon from Punch! showing two stereotyped Scotsmen in kilts: | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: While he doesn't have a typical Scottish accent (he talks like a stereotypical 17th-18th Century English pirate), Eugene H. Krabs otherwise fits the bill here EXTREMELY well. His fellow crabs at a convention in "Kracked Krabs" also fit this trope, and they actually compete to see who is the cheapest one of all. Krabs wins by a landslide when he attempts to steal his and SpongeBob's hotel room while checking out after being asked to leave. And yes, you did read that correctly, he didn't just steal FROM the hotel room, he tried to steal the entire room. | |
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Judge Dredd once exploited this trope during a Cal-Hab day parade where he was chasing a perp through a crowd of Cal-Habbers. When he announces that a half-cred note has been dropped, causing everyone but his perp to duck to look for it, allowing Dredd to nail the perp. | |
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The characters Hamish and Dougal, created by Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer originally for the Sound Charades round in I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. The Catchphrase "You'll have had your tea?" is intended to be heard as "You're not expecting me to feed you, right?" | |
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Classic Doctor Who serial "Terror of the Zygons" used this stereotype as a punchline for the last episode. The majority of the action took place in Scotland but for the finale the action moved to London. At the end the characters go back to Scotland so that the Doctor can retrieve the TARDIS, which he and Sarah leave in. The local duke whom they had rescued then berates the Brigadier (who had been earlier wearing a kilt) for calling himself a Scotsman, yet not getting the Doctor and Sarah to give him their unused return train tickets to London so he could get a refund. | |
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Asterix and the Britons has a gag where our heroes need to track down a barrel of magic potion that's been hidden among identical wine barrels. A smiling barkeep turns dour on seeing they're ordering one cup for three, asking if they're Caledonian (the Roman name for Scotland). | |
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Flashman's father-in-law is a wealthy Scotsman who does not approve of Flashman's profligate ways and often threatens to stop supplying him with money. | |
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The "Poet McTeagle" sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus chronicles what are ostensibly the poems of Scotland's greatest poet, but are actually all requests for money. | |
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In the wartime cartoon "The Spirit of '43", Donald Duck's thrifty side is represented by a Scottish duck (who coincidentally looks like Scrooge but predates him by a few years). | |
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Little House on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder was of Scottish descent on her mother's side. A couple of times in the books, Pa makes an admiring comment about Ma's Scottish resourcefulness with food when they're living in the middle of nowhere. | |
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Tessie the Typist: The cover to #22 shows Tessie's kilted and red-bearded boss, the stern-looking Mr MacTavish, refusing to let her take a vacation in the country. Instead a sunlamp and suntan oil are delivered to her desk, in the expectation that she'll work in beachwear and tan in the office. | |
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Middenface in Strontium Dog is one of these, and usually asks Johnny for a loan whenever he appears. | |
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In the Disney cartoon "Pigs Is Pigs", the conflict in the story is partially because the Scottish McMorehouse doesn't want to pay an extra 4 cents to have the guinea pigs shipped as "pigs" rather than as "pets". | |
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