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Where There's a Will, There's a Sticky Note
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After a Near-Death Experience, being reminded of their advancing age, or having to deal with another person's death, a character decides that it's time to get their affairs in order. However, they don't do this by going to see a lawyer and writing up a will - instead, they either write the name of the intended recipient on the item or ask their friends and family to label their possessions if they would like to inherit them. This trope can come in three flavors: No reference to a legal Last Will and Testament is made - it's all down to the sticky notes. (For obvious reasons, this is a bad idea in Real Life.) It may be justified as the precursor to a legal will in the process of being written, rather than being intended to stand as is. The writer is in imminent peril and thus writes a "will" on the closest thing available. See also If You Die, I Call Your Stuff. Contrast Personal Effects Reveal. Wills are one of the most commonly notarized items in real-life, but do not expect that to be the case in fiction, feeding into this trope. It's possible the writer Couldn't Find a Pen. |
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Lorelei's parents on Gilmore Girls ask Lorelei and Rory to label any items they would like to inherit with Post-It notes. They find this amusingly awkward. | |
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Cheers: In episode "Where There's a Will...", an affable but terminally ill rich dude writes a note on a napkin leaving the gang at Cheers $100,000. Played realistically, as one of the bar patrons, a law student, says that a will has to be verified by three witnesses and thus the napkin is worthless. | |
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In The Baby-Sitters Club series of books, in the weeks approaching her death, Claudia's grandmother Mimi labels many of her possessions with the names of the people she would like to have them when she passes on. | |
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Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation has been carrying his will with him since childhood. It consists of a scrap of paper that says:"upon my death, all my belongings shall transfer to the man or animal who has killed me". Notably, he continues to carry this even after he has a wife and kids, as he doesn't believe in inherited wealth. Ben ultimately talks him into getting an official will by point out that, if he doesn't have one, much of his wealth will go to the government. | |
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In "Bond," the season 7 opener of the The Good Wife, Alicia takes on the case of a woman whose mother just died, leaving either her or her brother to inherit a signed Chagall painting worth $8 million. The mother had labelled everything in her home with Post-It notes designating who should have what, but a recent heatwave has caused the notes to fall off. The ensuing legal battle over the painting ends up involving: an adhesives expert to provide testimony on the Post-It notes; an aerodynamics expert to testify as to how exactly the Post-It notes would have fallen; and an industrial suction expert to talk about the deceased's Roomba, which could have disturbed the notes on them as they lay on the floor. | |
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In the pilot episode for DuckTales (2017), while the triplets and Webby explore Scrooge's garage, Louie starts attaching green sticky notes to things he wants when Scrooge eventually dies. | |
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In one episode of Ghost Whisperer, the Victim of the Week had his belongings labeled like this. | |
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After Bilbo vanishes in The Fellowship of the Ring, he leaves labelled items as gifts for people. One of his enemies does demand to see a will, but as it turns out, it's all in order. It's implied to be the normal way of doing things amongst Hobbits. Chaos arises because everyone in the Shire believes Bilbo's home hides riches from his adventure in The Hobbit. It doesn't, as Bilbo actually only got two small chests filled with gold and silver (as opposed to the mountains of jewels everyone thinks he has), and he spent most of it in the intervening yearsnote His sword and armor (which he took with him in any case) actually were incredibly valuable, worth more than the entire Shire, but even he didn't know that.. But that doesn't stop people from rummaging around Bag End and trying to get more than their share. | |
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In a episode of M*A*S*H, while assigned temporarily to a forward aid station, replacing a doctor that was killed, Hawkeye starts to write a will, leaving his camp items to members of the company. The other doctor says he's seen many wills written there. | |
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In Leftover Soup, Max's will is in the form of an "elaborate post-mortem interactive treasure map on [her] spare hard drive." At one point John, upon having been handcuffed to a sofa for quite some time, decided to be proactive. |
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When Tom has surgery in an episode of Waiting for God, his greedy daughter-in-law insists that everything in his and Diana's apartment be labeled so Diana can't claim anything of his. | |
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One episode of The Fairly OddParents! has Timmy resorting to drafting a will on an Etch-a-Sketch after Vicky gets control of his fairies. | |
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After one of Niles's co-workers passes away in an episode of Frasier, Frasier gives stickers to Niles and Martin and tells them to label any possessions of his they would like to inherit. Later in the episode, Frasier finds a sticky note on his expensive bathrobe labeled "Niles", and mutters, "The vultures are circling." | |
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Succession: After the death of Logan Roy his executor finds an undated private note in the deceased's belongings bequeathing items and positions to the characters. The characters are aware that it's not legally binding, but still try to interpret it in ways that benefit them. | |
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