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What's In It For Me?
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This is a Stock Phrase used when questioning the benefit to oneself of doing something one is asked to do, often implying that self-interest can make or break their decision, or at least serve as a tiebreaker. And even when it's asked and answered to satisfaction, they might ask Dude, Where's My Reward?, since they might end up doing the job and not get paid. |
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Psych episode "A Very Juliet Episode" | |
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Road to Avonlea episode "The Dinner" | |
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Monarch of the Glen episode #1.5 | |
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Lovejoy episode "One Born Every Minute" | |
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Dawn of War 2: Retribution: Space Pirate Bluddflagg asks this of Adrastia when she reveals she wants to use him as Hired Guns to kill a renegade space marine. After pointing out that giving him money (which Bluddflagg can't use) is pointless, and giving him guns is even moreso as he'd inevitably just use them on her, Adrastia offers Bluddflagg a good fight by letting him and his crew fight a set battle against two Imperial regiments. Bluddflagg accepts, on the condition he also gets Adrastia's hat in the bargain. Negotiations immediately break down. | |
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An early Dilbert comic has Dogbert meet some aliens who promise to share the secrets to ending hunger, poverty, and disease. Dogbert replies with the trope name and the aliens leave the planet in response. Dogbert walks away wondering whether there was a better way to handle that. | |
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The Hair Bear Bunch asks this to Professor Rockabuilt in "No Space Like Home," after being proposed the plan of landing a spaceship on Mars. The Professor promises a hero's welcome, a ticker tape parade, an invitation to the White House and a phone call from the President. His evil laugh before the bears blast off indicate ulterior motives (saying earlier he wants to reap a fortune from Mars' natural resources). | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who. Played for Black Comedy in "Spare Parts" when the Doctor gets the help of an amoral black market organ dealer by promising one of his hearts. | |
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Wiseguy. During the Garment Trade arc, a Chinese-American activist trying to unionise sweatshop workers delivers the line straight when she's pretending to be open for bribery (she's actually wearing a Hidden Wire). | |
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In The Transformers: The Movie, after the nearly-dead Megatron is thrown into the depths of space by Starscream, he is "rescued" by Unicron, who commands him to destroy the Matrix of Leadership. Megatron's reaction is predictable: | |
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The Equalizer. McCall is up against a slum landlord and tries to get the help of a business rival who was forced out of a lucrative deal due to threats the landlord made against his family. He rejects the idea of helping McCall out of altruism claiming, "I was born without a social conscience." McCall points out that revenge might be more to his taste. | |
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The Mighty Boosh | |
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Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over | |
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Prison Break episode "Fire/Water" | |
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Anamaria's first line in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is an angry response to Jack trying to rally up a crew ("What's the benefit for us?"). The benefit ends up being a beautiful ship. | |
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The Truth. William De Worde has published information in his newspaper about Lord Vetinari's apparently committing a murder, much to Commander Vimes' distress. Vimes asks him: (1) not to bleed too much when someone attacks him over what he wrote (2) not to ask Watch personnel about the case and (3) not interfere with the investigation. | |
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Kiss Me Deadly | |
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Danger Mouse: In "The Great Bone Idol," Baron Greenback hires Count Duckula to find said idol, with which he plans to control every dog in the world: | |
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In The Hot Gate, the subject of personal benefit from cooperating with one another comes up in a conversation between "Comet" Parker and one of the engineers for the 143rd. | |
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Leverage episode "The Nigerian Job" | |
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Escape 2000 | |
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Blackadder The Third episode "Duel and Duality" | |
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Lost Girl. A variation when Kenzi first suggests to Bo that they team up. Bo asks what's in it for Kenzi; the latter points out that Bo's superpower makes her the biggest kid on the block, so it's a good survival strategy for Kenzi to make friends with her. | |
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K'nuckles from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack manages to make this question even more selfish than usual when asked by Dr. Barber to mind his shop while he is away since Flapjack is asked along with him and only tries at the last second with his trademark lack of subtlety to replace me with ...I mean US. | |
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Agent Cody Banks: Cody attempts to leave for a mission, but his little brother (whom he just told him was a "junior agent") reminds him he's grounded. Cody then offers him to be a "junior junior agent" (to let him go on his mission). The usual line comes, then cut to Cody leaving the house, then to his little brother with a considerable amount of allowance money. | |
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Escape from L.A. | |
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True Blood episode "Never Let Me Go". Eric is dying when a boy appears. | |
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Gossip Girl episode "Chuck in Real Life" | |
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Family Guy: Peter as a response to spending time with his children! | |
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Ella Enchanted | |
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The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Invader from the Dark Dimension" | |
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