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Note there are rarely any bachelor''ette'' auctions. However, there are occasional "basket auctions." In these, a woman will bring a basket to auction, and men will bid on the basket so they may have lunch with the ladies. An example of this is in a ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' episode where Rory is "purchased" by her boyfriend's rival, and Lorelai forces Luke to buy her so she won't be bought by bachelors Miss Patty has found.
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== Comic Books ==
* In [[Harley Quinn]]'s comic, Harley (who is, at the time, in an [[Anti-Hero]] mood) wins Bruce Wayne at a charity event, after getting into a fierce bidding war with another socialite. Naturally, this leads to bad guys crashing the event, Bruce ending up gassed and in a [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage]] situation (where he has a bizarre dream with Harley as his lover ''and'' taking the role of Robin) and Harley pulling a [[Big Damn Heroes]] when he wakes up. (It's her book, after all.) At the end of the episode, Harley meets up with Batman (who wants to thank her for the help) and she kisses him, then claims Bruce is a better kisser!
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* ''My Night With You'', a ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fanfic, did this. Here, the rich old lady was instead an hideously obese hippopotamus woman. Also uses the "purchased by love interest" point.
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* ''[[Road Trip]]:'' There's a bachelorette auction at a party, where [[Betty and Veronica|the Veronica]] is to be auctioned off, and knows that a creepy guy will try to get her. She begs the protagonist to bid on her, and the auction leader then ignores any further bids.
* Played straight in ''[[Coyote Ugly]]'' when Violet needs to pay off a $250 fine caused by a mistake she'd made, she auctions off her own love interest to the bar's female patrons. At first shocked and embarassed, he goes along with it anyway (easily getting her the required amount due to his looks and charm), and later forgives her after all is said and done. Also subverted at the end of the movie when she auctions off her father. Unlike the earlier auction, this was simply a pretense for hooking him up with the cute redhead who was there with him; the two had already shown interest in each other, but Violet's dad had been a bit anxious about actually asking the woman out.
* In a gender inversion, Batman and Robin (in the [[Batman and Robin (film)|movie of the same name]]) are at an auction and try to outbid each other for Poison Ivy, with Batman winning and paying for it with his Bat credit card.
* ''[[White Chicks]]'' had a Bachellorette auction where one of the Wayans Bros (Marlon). dressed like a socialite was being bid on. The other brother (Shawn) then went through the crowd to make the bids go higher to humiliate the host, who was an unlikeable bitch.
** Actually Shawn went through the crowd to ensure that the bid wasn't won by Terry Crewes character who had been pestering Marlon throughout the film, making sexual advances etc. This fails of course.
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* In ''[[Charmed]]'', the second part episode "Oh My Goddess". Phoebe arrive at the auction as the love goddess: all guys start to do auctions on her, forgetting they're the ones that should be bought. Finally she go back home with all of them, and never so much money was won.
* ''[[The Nanny]]'' did this with both Fran and Niles on the auction block to work as a nanny and butler respectively. Fran is bought by the biggest donor's son. Niles on the other hand is bought by {{spoiler|C.C. for less than $40}}
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' did a variation where rather than bid on dates with the men, people would bid to get the celebrity handymen to come over and do home repairs. Unfortunately for Tim, Al got his [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]] Bob Vila to participate, causing his potential bids to plummet (if his general tendency to [[Doom It Yourself]] hadn't done so already). Bob went for hundreds of dollars, while Tim's situation got so dire that his wife Jill (who was running the thing as the auctioneer) had to step in and make a bid herself because nobody else would.
* ''[[One Tree Hill]]'' had an auction complete with a guy in a bird suit, shirtlessness and an awkward robot dance.
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== Theater ==
* The plot of ''[[Oklahoma!]]'' revolves around a basket auction and who will be accompanying (and bidding on) who.
* In ''[[Paint Your Wagon]]'', a Mormon comes to California with two wives, and is forced to give up one of them. Elizabeth, the less favored wife, offers herself up for auction. Ben places the winning bid and marries her.
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== Webcomics ==
* In ''[[The Devil's Panties]]'', comic artist Jennie Breeden does at least two weeks' worth of strips a year about "Geek Auctions" she has attended. With special emphasis placed on any strippers or [[Ho Yay]] encountered.
* In webcomic ''[[Too Much Information]]'', Ace gets dragged into a
* There was an ''[[Octopus Pie]]'' arc where Marek entered a bachelor auction to raise some money and gave Hanna some money to make sure she got him. She was outbid before she even finished. He ended up spending the date talking about Hanna to the winner.
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* The ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' episode "The Cat and the Claw" has a straight dramatic example. Bruce Wayne participates in a bachelor auction and while there is some competition for him, the auction is won by Selina Kyle (Catwoman).
* An episode of ''[[The Raccoons]]'' used a Bachelor Auction as a [[Framing Device]] for a [[Clip Show]] for the backstory of the three main Bachelors involved; Bert Raccoon (bought by a little girl for a picnic), Cedric Sneer (bought by his girlfriend) and Cyril Sneer (bought by the reporter he was trying to avoid).
* In ''[[
* One ''[[El Tigre]]'' episode has this as an excuse for the Rivera men to get out of the house so their pets could have their [[Day in The Limelight]].
* Happens in ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' in the episode "Eligible Bachelors" when Bugs and Daffy participate in a charity bachelor auction to raise money for literacy. Bugs gets bought by Lola, Daffy gets bought by Granny. They both have a wonderful time with their dates, anyway, as Bugs and Lola are [[Ship Tease
* ''[[The Emperor's New School|The Emperors New School]]'' does this in an episode. Of course Kuzco is one of the bachelors and noone wants him. Only Yata bids on him out of sympathy... using Kuzco's credit card of course, since he told her to do it.
* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'': In one episode, Trixie and Spud, who share the title of [[Student Council President]], held a bachelor auction for charity in behalf of hungry puppies and kids who get sick from playing video games in the car (there was no cause ''both'' of them would agree on). The cheerleaders joined up to buy [[Jerk Jock|Brad]]; Fred ended up being bought by his mother; Jake loaned Danika five dollars so she could outbid nerdy girl Vicki; and Trixie unwittingly bought Spud. Trixie was so upset at Jake for being superficial she spent a good deal of the episode trying to push Vicki towards Jake, only to learn {{spoiler|Vicki was a siren}}.
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