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Wallet Moths
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When a character is poor, there's no better way for him to say "I have no money" (due to Perpetual Poverty or a Broke Episode) than to have moths emerge from his wallet when he opens it. It's also the perfect way to show that a character with tons of money at his disposal is a complete skinflint. Alternately, the character can make a great show of pulling the pockets of his pants inside out (an act that might also be accompanied by the appearance of moths). Double points if the character does both. For the most part, this is an Animation Trope, possibly because actors don't much like fragile flying insects in their pockets, though it isn't often used anymore even in cartoons. Little to no relation with Macabre Moth Motif and Moth Menace. Contrast Bat Scare, in which the startling appearance of flying creatures indicates a location is unexplored or abandoned. Compare other common poverty tropes such as the Bindle Stick, Bankruptcy Barrel, Lint Value, and Shopping Cart of Homelessness. |
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Occurred once in The Simpsons when billionaire C. Montgomery Burns opened up his wallet. | |
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Scary Godmother: When Harry the werewolf orders a few dozen pizzas to the Halloween party, Scary Godmother (understandably) looks at him expectantly. This is all they find, much to SG's annoyance. | |
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The Beano uses it whenever a character takes out a wallet or otherwise searches for money. Unless their gimmick is being incredibly rich, of course; in this case, moths will sometimes fly out wearing tiny top hats or carrying diamond rings. This happens in an Ivy The Terrible comic strip with Ivy's dad pulling at his pockets. In one strip, a very dumb character has his skull x-rayed, revealing a moth instead of a brain. |
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Camp Lazlo: When Scoutmaster Lumpus opens his wallet in "Prickly Pining Dining", a large cloud of dust escapes. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, it happened once when Calvin's dad was paying Rosalyn's baby-sitting bonus and there was nothing left. | |
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In one episode of The Muppet Show, when Kermit checks the theatre's cashbox, he comments, "Three moths and a washer... More than we usually have." | |
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In DuckTales (1987), it's seen to happen in "Duckworth's Revolt". Duckworth relates his duties of the day to Huey, Dewey, and Louie, noting that he was due to dust off Scrooge's credit cards. Duckworth holds up Scrooge's wallet, and the viewer can see several moths fluttering out. | |
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A variant in the American Dad! episode "Dope and Faith", where a moth flies out of Stan's address book to discredit his claim that he has real friends. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: This is pretty much guaranteed to happen to Scrooge McDuck whenever he opens his wallet or change purse, so as to indicate that, because he's a miser, he opens his wallet very seldom. In one story, after the witch Magica DeSpell steals his purse and looks through it, a moth flutters out and thanks her for letting it free. | |
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The Triplets of Belleville: Mme Souza, while trying to order a hamburger, opens her purse, only for a moth to fly out of it. When it lands on the smiling cashier's face, the cashier realizes that her customer has no money. | |
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In the VGA Quest for Glory I, if you look at your money pouch when it's empty, you may randomly get this message: | |
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A variation occurred in the Arthur episode "Misfortune Teller," when Buster showed he had no money; in one of his pockets was a dead moth. | |
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The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Gwenpool references a modern take on this trope when telling MODOK why she absolute needs the next mercenary job. | |
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Liō: Lampshaded in a strip where Lio's dad is shown with a package of "Wallet Moths" used to trick Lio into thinking he's broke. | |
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Justified in the anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind. After Giorno returns a purse stolen by a pickpocket, its owner opens it and a pair of moths fly out. The moths then return to Giorno, who picks them up and turns them back into the paper money that they were before he used his Stand Gold Experience to bring them to life. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle does this in one chapter of "Box Top Robbery", where Bullwinkle happened to have one of them when he opened his wallet containing 27 cents. | |
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In The Mask, the title character has a moth fly out of his pocket to show how poor he is. | |
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Happens in SpongeBob SquarePants (which is strange, seeing as they are underwater and all...) | |
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Fantasia 2000: This occurs to the man in the diner during the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment. | |
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Uncyclopedia has a page advertising wallet moths. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler: The opening has the Thief opening woefully poor Tack's wallet in his sleep, only for a few moths to fly out. | |
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The Screen Song "Romantic Melodies" (with an appearance by Betty Boop) shows a pig open a change purse and a moth flies out of it (for some reason the sound of a bird tweeting can be heard). | |
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When Johnny Bravo does this in "The Perfect Gift", you can hear the moth say in a tiny voice: "I'm free! Free!" | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Happens to Team Rocket regularly. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has Tituss at the ATM. His balance is $2, which he opts to withdraw. The fee is $3. He accepts, and instead of getting his money, a receipt comes out informing him his new balance is negative one dollar. | |
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Occurs in the Mickey Mouse short The Nifty Nineties when Mickey takes out money for tickets to see a vaudeville show. | |
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Happy Tree Friends: In the episode "Mime to Five", when Mime wants to buy a new unicycle, he pulls out his pockets to find them empty, with a moth flying out. | |
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In the The Three Stooges short "From Nurse to Worse", Moe and Larry pry open Curly's money purse (that he keeps around his neck, hidden beneath layers of shirts), and moths fly out. Inside is a single moth-eaten dollar bill. | |
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The Mighty Mouse short "When Mousehood Was in Flower" uses the old "moths flying out of wallet to indicate poverty" gag when Pearl Pureheart's father protests to Oil Can Harry that he's too poor to pay his taxes. | |
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In the Schoolhouse Rock! short "$7.50 Once A Week" a moth flies out of the boy's pocket when he looks for money, not knowing he has already spent his entire allowance. | |
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Shown in The Smurfs episode "The Magic Earrings" when Gargamel tries to see how much money he has for a gift he wants to buy from a traveling salesman and finds out that he only has one penny. | |
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OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Parodied in "I Am Dendy"; K.O. tries to pull a quarter out of his pocket, but a few moths come out instead. He cries out "NO! MY MOTH COLLECTION!" and is briefly distracted trying to catch them. | |
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