Comically Small Bribe: Difference between revisions

** The inverted version occurs in ''Labyrinth.'' A refugee from [[Wretched Hive|Jackson's Whole]] hands Miles and Bel Thorne her entire life's savings in cash, hoping it will be enough to engage them as mercenaries to get her off the planet. Bel tells her the price is wrong—then peels one single dollar off the stack, hands her back the rest, and tells her this is more like it. Needless to say, It's Personal for Captain Thorne.

 

* As the preview for ''[[South Beach Tow]]'' shows, at least one car owner tries this on the truck driver, saying "You can buy all the Ho-Hos you want."

* ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' episode "License to Parent":

{{quote|'''Punk kid''': I've got nothing to say to you... but ''Andrew Jackson'' on the other hand...

'''Bob''': Jackson, huh?... ''[opens wallet]'' He's not in, do you have anything you'd like to tell Abe Lincoln and the Washington twins? }}

* In the ''[[iCarly]]'' episode "iWant a World Record", Spencer tried to bribe the representative of the world record book into overlooking the four seconds the webshow was off the air (his sculpture drew so much power that it briefly knocked out the power) with skee ball tickets. Upon realizing that they were tickets and not money, he promptly took them back so he could get a giant harmonica.

* At a time when [[The Beatles]] were being offered millions to reunite, a 1976 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch had producer Lorne Michaels making an on-air appeal to the group, offering them a check for $3000 to perform on the show. [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]] happened to both be in NYC and watching the show that night, and were amused enough to briefly entertain the idea of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heading over to the studio just for the hell of it.]] They then talked themselves out of it, sadly.