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Ironic situation where characters spend an entire episode trying to get some minor product or object, but succeed only if they are willing to take excessive or ultimately useless amounts of said object with them. Typically become sick of said booty [[Clingy MacGuffin|but are unable or unwilling to part with it]].

 

 

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'''s infamous "Mushroom Samba" episode had the crew unintentionally end up with a large stash of shiitake mushrooms. The crew ends up having to eat the mushrooms in a variety of dishes because they have no other food available. Possibly inspired by the [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] skit below.

* In one installment of the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' manga, Cologne is sold a veritable mountain of horrible-tasting noodles. Rather than throw them away or demand a refund, she holds an all-you-can-eat contest, and hidden in one special order is a "Noodle of Strength," said to confer the strength of 100 men. Eat up! Just as expected, not only do the male members of the Nerima Wrecking Crew eat and fight over the horrible noodles, but several [[Muggles]], too! [[Hilarity Ensues]]. In the end, {{spoiler|the [[MacGuffin]] noodle was an even worse kind: it provided the ''digestive'' strength of 100 men, and Ranma, the winner, is so hungry he's given ''more'' of the original, horrible noodles.}}

* The ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' episode "Ricochet" has one of the staff of a pirate satellite complaining that there's nothing to eat on board except Honey Crunch Crispies. His partner replies that as a major advertiser the company gave them a year's free supply.

* The characters of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' once attempted to start a bakery which sells only the tops of muffins, but spent most of the episode trying and failing to dispose of the bottoms. They even try giving them to the homeless shelter, which ''turns them down'' because, apparently, it would be insulting to the homeless people to be fed muffin stumps. (You might think they could have saved themselves the trouble by just baking the tops, but this is [[Handwaved]] in the episode: the tops don't taste right unless they are baked with the bottoms attached.)

 

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