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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]].
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* On ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Earl and Randy wanted to take advantage of "special brownie night" at the Crab Shack. They switched the price tags on the brownies, so that those who wanted to buy the pot brownies ended up buying regular ones, and then Earl and Randy could sell the actual pot brownies later. Darnell intended to take the regular brownies to share with his mother, and is stopped by angry would-be stoners, who then proceeded to stone him. [[Narm|It was Biblical.]]
{{quote| "Number [whatever] : Got Crabman [[Incredibly Lame Pun|stoned]]"}}
* In the ''[[Raising the Bar]]'' episode "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Kellerman's client, a middle-aged woman, was arrested because the police found a large quantity of white powder in her car. . . while she was on the way to the laundromat. After lab tests confirmed that the powder was laundry detergent, the police [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop|showed their customary regard for the law]] by charging the defendant with selling a [[Beat Bag]].
* Shows up in [[The Wire]] when Bubbles steals a gang's ground stash, only to find the gang was selling vialed baking soda. He feels extremely guilty, having seen the gang beat up some innocent addicts for his theft as he was escaping. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] at [[Wham! Episode|the end of season four]] when Bubbles prepares a {{spoiler|hot shot of cyanide for a fiend who constantly attacks him for money and drugs, expecting the fiend to take it, shoot up and drop dead. The effort fails when the fiend misses Bubbles during the day and Sherrod steals Bubble's stash that night, shooting up with the vial filled with cyanide}}.
* ''[[Downton Abbey]]'': Thomas invests in some black-market food that turns out to be inedible.
* On the American version of ''[[The Office]],'' Michael tries to frame Toby for drug dealing by planting marijuana on him. He tries to buy some from the warehouse guys and they sell him a salad at a ridiculous price. For [[Rule of Funny|bonus points,]] it looks nothing like marijuana.
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