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If the buyer ''sees'' the genuine article, but that's not what they get, it's [[Good for Bad]]. For cases where the scam ''is'' reported to the police, see [[Stupid Crooks]]. |
If the buyer ''sees'' the genuine article, but that's not what they get, it's [[Good for Bad]]. For cases where the scam ''is'' reported to the police, see [[Stupid Crooks]]. |
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Beat Bag is a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Pig in |
Beat Bag is a [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Pig in a Poke]]. |
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== [[Literature]] == |
== [[Literature]] == |
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* This apparently happens <s> a lot</s> all the time to Mr. Tulip in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld |
* This apparently happens <s> a lot</s> all the time to Mr. Tulip in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]''. "In a street where furtive people were selling Clang, Slap, Chop, Rhino, Skunk, Triplin, Floats, Honk, Double Honk, Gongers, and Slack, Mr. Tulip had an unerring way of finding the man who was retailing curry powder at what worked out as six hundred dollars a pound." |
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* In [[Holes]], X-Ray was arrested for selling drugs, but they turned out to be bags of chopped-up aspirin. Then he got arrested for selling aspirin without a pharmaceutical license. |
* In [[Holes]], X-Ray was arrested for selling drugs, but they turned out to be bags of chopped-up aspirin. Then he got arrested for selling aspirin without a pharmaceutical license. |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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* In ''[[ |
* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', when Doc Venture was in college ([[Everyone Went to School Together|with several other characters]], Baron Underbeit gave another friend oregano to smoke claiming it was a rare drug from his homeland. Turns out the poor sap was allergic (which Underbeit didn't know at the time). |
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