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== Film ==
* In ''[[A Christmas Story]]'', Ralphie collects label after label from containers of Ovaltine, coming to hate the stuff, but drinking it anyway because he knows if he collects enough labels he'll get that coveted [[Little Orphan Annie (Comic Strip)|Little Orphan Annie]] decoder ring. When he finally gets the ring and decodes the secret message, he discovers that the message reads: {{spoiler|Be sure to drink your Ovaltine}}.
 
 
== Literature ==
 
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Have Space Suit - Will Travel]]'': Clifford Russell enters a Skyway Soap contest with the grand prize of a trip to the Moon. Each soap wrapper sent in counts as an entry. He wins a used spacesuit, and as a result ends up going on an adventure that takes him to the Moon...and beyond.
* In the Dorothy Sayers novel ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey|Murder Must Advertise]]'', Lord Peter Wimsey comes up with a marketing campaign based on this scheme while working undercover in an advertising agency.
 
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== Western Animation ==
 
* Just a throw-in joke and not a story line, but here's an obligatory ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|Simpsons]]'' example:
{{quote| '''Bart:''' Nice jacket!<br />
'''Milhouse:''' Thanks, it cost me 50,000 Bazooka Joe comics! }}
* In "Girl of Steal" from ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot (Animation)|My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'', the [[Cool Toy]] is the Musique. Tucker wants one so badly that he steals box tops from everybody in the neighborhood then brings them to the Musique store and has a fit when the store manager tells him he has to send the box tops in and wait for the Musique to arrive in the mail.
* In the ''[[Angry Beavers]]'' episode "Box Top Beavers", Dag picks brands of cereal that have cheap toys in the box, while Norb picks brands of cereal that give you cool toys for sending in the box tops. When Dag decides to go for the cool prize (a ''[[Refuge in Audacity|street sweeper]]''), and finally finishes eating 10,000 boxes of cereal, he finds out that the sponsors have discontinued the promotion, and the brothers infiltrate the factory to get the prize.
* An episode of ''[[The Raccoons]]'' has Bert attempting to win a bike by putting together a jigsaw puzzle from pieces that come in a brand of crisps (not knowing that [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Cyril Sneer]] deliberately left out one piece of the puzzle so no one can win). [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* On ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', Boris and Natasha produce counterfeit box tops to get all the prizes and undermine the world's economy. [[General Mills]] (which not only sponsored the show, but owned it outright) was not amused and forced the producers to [[Aborted Arc|end the story earlier than planned]].
** The drama in that arc is that Bullwinkle had an impossible number of ''legit'' box tops because he 'couldn't decide what to get.'
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' had our titular character devouring 100 boxes of Kelpo Krunch practically all at one sitting, all in order to get the box tops needed to send in for a free toy. He then realizes he didn't necessarily have to eat ''all'' the cereal in the aforementioned boxes.
* In ''[[Hey Arnold]]'', Arnold and Gerald need to collect 50 cereal box coupons to earn a children's telescope so they can see an upcoming passing comet. Since they collected half of the coupons, they invite their friends and neighbors for the remaining cereal.
 
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