A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Difference between revisions

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A plot where one non-rich character has a huge and very sudden increase in expendable income. This might be for any reason, such as winning a lottery, inheriting the fortune of a rich friend or a long lost family member, getting a better job, crime, inventing the latest popular gadget, or even because something was delivered to the wrong address. Simultaneously, however, they are handed the [[Idiot Ball]].

*** For double irony, the family, sitting homeless on the street, decides their only chance is to try to win the lottery again. Cut to the exact same scene with Lois saying she can't believe they won and lost all that money TWICE.

* In the ''[[Animaniacs]]'' episode "Temporary Insanity", Yakko Warner tricked Plotz into signing a check worth zillions. As soon as Yakko showed it to his siblings, Plotz ripped it out.

* ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' fell victim to this trope when he inherited some money Buzz Buzard decided to con out of him.

** However, it was Buzz's turn to fall into the trope in [[The New Woody Woodpecker Show]]. Buzz and Woody were on a [[Scavenger Hunt]] where incomplete proverbs were the clues to the items they had to find. They were tied when there was only one item left to be found and the clue was "A (space) and his money are soon parted". Claiming to have no idea of how to solve that clue, Woody proposed that he and Buzz shared the money prize. As Buzz was enjoying the money, Woody introduced Buzz to the game's host as the fool to be soon parted from the money.

[[Category:Truth in Television]]

[[Category:Plots]]

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