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Line 1: {{trope}} One good indicator of a [[Broke Episode]] is some commodity to be lost due to not having enough money to pay the bill for it. {{examples}} == [[Film]] == Line 12 ⟶ 13: == [[Live Action TV]] == * ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': in [[Broke Episode\|one episode]] the [[BBC]] ran [[No Budget\|out of money]], and the gas & heat had been turned off in the flat they used as [[Struggling Broadcaster\|their studio]]. * Frequently happens in ''[[Shameless]]''. * It was the basis for a whole episode of ''[[Bottom]]'', where the TV rental money got spent elsewhere and Richie and Eddie had to resort to playing chess - with [[Hilarity Ensues\|hilarious consequences]], as usual. == [[Video Games]] == * In the opening cutscene from ''[[Beyond Good ~~and~~& Evil (~~Video~~video ~~Game~~game)\|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', the shield protecting Jade's house from alien invasion gets shut off because the bill wasn't paid. * According to ''[[~~Street Fighter IV (Video Game)\|~~Street Fighter IV]]'', this is why [[Street Fighter Alpha ~~(Video Game)~~\|Dan Hibiki]] missed out on [[Street Fighter II ~~(Video Game)~~\|The Second World Warrior Tournament]]; since he's in [[Perpetual Poverty]], he didn't pay his phone bill. Thus, his childhood friend Blanka was unable to contact Dan and tell him about the tournament. * ''[[Nazi Zombies]]'': Nikolai Belinski sometimes says this in the beginning of Kino der Toten. {{quote\| ''"Who didn't pay electric bill?"''}} * It's possible to ignore a household's bills in ''[[The Sims]]'', with the result that power and water can be shut off. This can be a serious inconvenience, but in ''The Sims 4'', at least, this won't affect anything that works "off the grid". Amusingly, things like fish tanks apparently keep working, too... == ~~Webcomics~~Web Comics == * In ''[[Mac Hall]]'', Ian neglects to pay the electric bill in lieu of buying some new video games. Oops. (Of course, in a later strip when the power goes out again, Ian is immediately blamed, even though that time it isn't his fault) * A pair of aristocrats joke that this is the cause of a [http://mountaincomics.com/2012/03/01/mountain-time-337/ skeleton falling out of the sky] in one ''[[~~Mountain Time (Webcomic)\|~~Mountain Time]]'' comic. == [[Western Animation]] == * The plot of the ''[[Mickey Mouse]]'' short "Moving Day" is set in motion by the fact that Mickey and [[Donald Duck]] haven't paid the rent in six months. * ''[[~~Spongebob~~SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Subverted. SpongeBob thinks Gary did this when the electricity goes out, but it was actually caused by the Blue Jellyfish cutting the wires. * Subverted in the ''[[~~Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)\|~~Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "Super Squatter". Master Shake refuses to pay the bills because they're too expensive and flushes them down the toilet. Frylock ends up giving him a talking down to when their electricity, water and heat get shut off. * ''[[Megas XLR]]'': one episode was devoted to Coop trying to figure out why his TV wasn't working, and after "juicing" and destroying a planet-sized monster to save a satellite, his mother asks him if he paid the bill. * In the "Joker's Millions" episode of ''[[Batman: ~~the~~The Animated Series]],'' Joker's running out of everything. No money for bullets, gas, gadgets, and so on. {{reflist}}