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== Comic Books ==
* Brainy Smurf wears one in ''[[The Smurfs|The Gambler Smurfs]]'' after losing everything at gambling (even his glasses).
* In [[Carl Barks]]' "Statuesque Spendthrifts", [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Comic Book)|Uncle Scrooge]] competes with maharaja of Howdoyoustan about who can raise the biggest statue of [[Our Founder|Cornelius Coot]], which to the latter ends with this trope.
* In the album "De fez van Fes" of the Belgium comic book series ''[[De Kiekeboes]]'', we twice see a man in a barrel; one is walking out of a tax office and the other out of a casino.
* In the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' book ''The Daltons Escape'', Luke runs into a man in such attire. The man explains that he was transporting a tequila barrel on donkeyback and the Dalton robbed him of everything, including the tequila (which they drank) and the donkey (which they ate).
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* Mentioned in an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]''. Elaine finds out the man she's dating is poor, and Jerry asks, "Does he wear the barrel with the straps?"
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (which can be like a living cartoon at times) had this on a Weekend Update segment where Lehman Bros. CEO Richard Fuld (played by Jason Sudeikis) comes out wearing a barrel because his company was the first to go under because of the 2008 economic crisis. Lampshaded when Fuld explains that he can't sit down because he's wearing a barrel.
* Ross and Moose end up wearing these during the ''[[You Can't Do That Onon Television]]'' episode about theft, when their clothes (and most of the set) have been stolen. Moose's has still has water, and a rubber duck, in it.
* A part of Brazilian game show named ''Topa Tudo por Dinheiro'' ("Agree to Everything for Money") consisted of an employee making an unusual proposition to a random person and the contestant had to guess if the random person would accept for less than a certain amount of money; for that amount or more; or not accept at all. At least one occasion had the random person was offered to exchange his/her pants for a barrel and some cash.
 
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** Also in a Sierra game, the first ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'' featured a broke guy with just a barrel and an apple he'll sell for 10 bucks. You'll need to buy it. (The guy in question is implied to be Apple's Steve Wozniak).
* There is a gambler in ''[[Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy]]'' who lost all his winnings. For some orbs to get him back on his feet he'll hand over your [[Plot Coupons]]. Mild degrees of discomfort can result when he hands you the coupon he's keeping ''inside'' the barrel.
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]: Legend of the Lost Spatula'' for the [[Game Boy Color]] includes a mission where SpongeBob [the player] has to help Patrick find his lost shorts. Patrick is seen wearing a pink barrel and looking very sad.
* One of the sponsors for the Wrong Answer of the Game in the 2011 release of ''[[You Don't Know Jack]]'' is "Fashion Barrel", a chain of stores that sells wearable barrels.
 
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* Referenced in the opening theme to ''[[Freakazoid]]''; the lyrics "So stay tuned to this station / If not, we'll be unemployed" is accompanied by several characters from the show wearing barrels.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Raging Bender", one of the robots Bender fights as part of his stint as an Ultimate Robot Fighter is a rich-looking robot. Bender seals his victory by forcing a barrel onto him labeled "very poor".
* In ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]]'', Harvey is called out of court by Gigi to buy her things. After a shopping montage, he returns to the court wearing a barrel.
* In the first part of the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' pilot, main villain Aldrin Klordane's lackey Percy is seen wearing a cardboard box in this fashion, not because he's flat broke, but because the police dog Plato tore off the bottom of his pants.
* Spoofed in an old [[Classic Disney Shorts|Goofy cartoon]], "Get Rich Quick": After playing dice, Goofy is seen wearing a barrel, holding it up with both hands. He then hails a taxicab and, in a brilliant subversion, empties the barrel -- full to the brim with his winnings -- into it.
* In the TDA special of ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'', DJ and his mother are both seen wearing these {{spoiler|after countless lawsuits leave them broke and homeless.}}
* Happens to Reggie van Dough in an episode of [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s ''[[Richie Rich]]'' when Richie thought that his father had lost his fortune, as part of his friends helping to earn his money back, Reggie starts selling Richie's goods at absurdly low prices; when he is discovered, the mob strips off Reggie's clothing, forcing him to run off wearing only a barrel.
* A ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episode depicting Garfield's take on the [[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]] had Jon playing the part of a young artisan with Garfield as "[[Parody Names|Alley Katta]]" in a town overrun by thieves. At the start, Jon went out to get a job with the Sultan declaring that "[[Tempting Fate|I have nothing left to lose]]" and, of course, ran back in the room a second later wearing a barrel. Garfield commented that "we'd better jump the story ahead before someone steals the barrel." (Jon [[Snap Back|got his clothes back in the next shot]].)
* ''[[School HouseSchoolhouse Rock]]'' had this happen to the colonists when they were unfairly taxed in the episode "No More Kings".
* A non-finance-based variation comes at the end of the [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] short ''Love That Pup'', when Tom is shown donning one of these after Spike the bulldog follows through on a threat to skin him alive.
* The [[Merrie Melodies]] cartoon "Hollywood Steps Out" features this trope near the end when Harpo Marx uses a slingshot to pop Sally Rand's balloon. She wasn't poor; it was for decency reasons (she was performing a nude bubble dance and the Hays Office would have banned the short outright if she was shown naked after the bubble popped. Plus, [[Rule of Funny|it's just funnier this way]]).
* Used in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0g7WahHF8 this] old ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|Sesame Street]]'' cartoon short.
* After [[Doug]] finds an envelope of money and has it legally declared his, he learns it belonged to an old lady and is conflicted over what to do. In his [[Imagine Spot]] not only is the lady in a barrel, but her dog as well.
* Drakken wears one in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Showdown at the Crooked D".
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "My Bunny Lies Over The Sea", [[Bugs Bunny]] meets a Scotsman [[Man in Aa Kilt|wearing a kilt]] and quickly outfits him with a barrel to cover his "indecency".
** In another one, Daffy was hunting a bear when an explosion made him lose his feathers. Fortunately he had them numbered for emergencies. Unfortunately, he only recovered the ones from the upper part of his body. The bear made a headdress from the others. Daffy put on a barrel and went after the bear when the game warden stopped him because hunting season was now closed. Daffy then announced they hadn't seen the end of him and started to leave, when a part of the barrel fell down, revealing [[Exact Words|"his end"]]. Daffy doesn't seem to have noticed it.
* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' had several anthropomorphic sheep losing everything (including their freedom) to Robotnik in rigged gambling. Once they lost their wool, they were given barrels. Robotnik's casino even had nickel alleys that automatically removed the wool and gave the barrells.
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