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* Hana of ''[[My Heavenly Hockey Club]]''. Just about any food will work, if there's enough of it.
== [[Film]]
* The protagonist of ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' is motivated to do great deeds and work his butt off in training ... for food.
* ''[[Home Alone|Home Alone 3]]'': The brother's parrot only plays along with the scheme if you have ''two'' crackers.
{{quote|"''Double, or nothing''"}}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Dresden Files
** Not a literal bribe, but dealing with the Eldest Gruff could well be considered this.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In
*** Well, the Watch has been reformed so that they don't take bribes other than donuts and beer. Vimes doesn't take the beer, as he's a recovering alcoholic.
** In ''[[
*** Though they had been instructed to take all bribes offered, bring the people in question to a waiting room, and then lock it until Lord Vetinari decides what to do with them. Unfortunately they also dispose of any food bribes afterwards in fear of poison, which in this case even Lord Vetinari considered a crime against good cooking.
* [[Stephanie Plum]] is often bribed by her mother by food. Seeing as how she is a very good cook and Steph is often broke, it is a very powerful motivator. When regular food just won't do, [[I Was Told There Would Be Cake|cake]] will usually seal the deal.
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* In ''[[Recess]]'', the main six try to bribe Brittany A. to give her sister, Ashley A.'s diary back, by using candy. It doesn't work.
** In another episode, the Ashleys bribe T.J. with candy to get him to hang out with them after realizing her found a $100 bill.
* In the ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' episode
* From ''[[Animaniacs]]''; once [[Pablo Picasso]] realizes that the Warner sibs' painting actually sell, he hires them to paint them by giving them frankfurters. ([[A Worldwide Punomenon| "We get paid in Franks,"]] says Yakko.)
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', Sprig is able to get past his little sister by giving her candy, and two episodes later, Anne's offer of Earth-candy sways her in a heartbeat. Justified, of course, as she's a toddler.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Fancy Dinner]]s have long been a way to smooth the waters of diplomacy. In fact in the British Diplomatic service it used to be a requirement to have a high tolerance for liquor
* Cory Montieth mentioned that the choreographer for ''[[Glee]]'' uses candy as a bribe so that they can keep working.
* Napoleon supposedly once faced an enemy army that was ill-supplied. He promised them food if they joined his army. It worked!
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