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== Films -- Live Action ==
* In ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', Captain Von Trapp tells Maria she must put on a better dress than the one she has on before meeting his children as their new governess. Maria states she doesn't have one, as she is a nun and when nuns enter the convent, their worldly clothes are given to the poor. The Captain then asks why she still has the one she's wearing now. Maria replies: "The poor didn't want this one."
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* The [[Steve Miller Band]] song "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" is all about this trope, as even a mugger won't take the protagonist's money.
* The [[Weird Al]] song "[[Drives Like Crazy]]" is about a woman whose driving is so bad, "even hitchhikers just say no".
* The page quote comes from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPx-fw0mI8 "The Thing"], a song sung by Phil Harris. What the titular thing actually ''is'' is never revealed -- a [[Sound Effect Bleep|bass drum beat]] plays instead of words whenever it would be named -- but whatever it is, it's so unwanted that the singer is unable to enter Heaven with it in his possession (apparently, he ''could'' take it with him, and didn't have a choice about it).
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