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[[File:250px-Zimbabwe $100 trillion 2009 Obverse.jpg|link=Truth in Television|frame|The proceeds from [[Austin Powers|Doctor Evil's]] latest scheme didn't go as far as he had hoped.]]
{{quote|"''[[Weimar Germany|They're saying starting next year we're gonna have to start paying our taxes in gold. You know your money's bad when the people who print it don't want it]].''"
|''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]: [[The Movie|Conqueror of Shamballa]]''}}
What happens when you combine [[Acceptable Targets]] and the classic fascination tourists have with foreign currency? This trope, of course.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Germany is in ''a lot'' of debt to France and all his money is worthless. So Germany gets [[The Ditz|Italy]] to make cuckoo clocks for him, and pays him to do so. Italy is ''thrilled'' to receive all this money, even though he knows it's worth less than the paper it's printed on.
* When the New Zealand dollar was going really strong a little while ago, the morning news made some jokes like this at the expense of the U.S. dollar... even though the NZ dollar was still only about 85 U.S. cents.▼
* Since the British pound sterling is one of the largest units of currency in the world, jokes like this come up from time to time in British comedy, along the lines of, "I know a couple of people who just made $100 million US, which I think, if I've done the maths correctly, is roundabout £7.50"▼
** As of the 2007 financial crisis, this was ''inverted'' to jokes about being 1:1 with the euro and US dollar.▼
* A show called ''[[Goodness Gracious Me]]'' (about Indian immigrants in Britain) included "The Six Million Rupee Man".▼
** "We can rebuild him. We have the technology: we just don't have the ideal exchange rate."▼
** '' [[Robot Chicken]]'' did the same gag with the Six Million Peso Man (who upon being completed immediately disappears past the US border).▼
{{quote|'''Mexican Government Man''': "That's 283 American dollars we won't see again..."}}▼
* Australian comedian Adam Hills often jokes about the Barmy Army taunting Australian cricket fans in a bar in Newcastle by singing, "We get three dollars to the pound!"▼
{{quote|"When you're heckling ''the exchange rate'', that's creative!"}}▼
* One comedian's bit on pesos: "I love shopping in Mexico. It's like a giant dollar store. At what point does your money become so worthless that you just say 'Okay, we have to go back to trading chickens; this just isn't working.'"▼
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** The inflation rate has risen to one billion percent in [http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-09-15/ these strips], daily.
* In one strip of ''The Piranha Club'' (back when it was ''Ernie'') sleazy con man Sid Fernwilter tries to pay with various rather obviously phony credit cards; the proprietor of the store refuses. He wants to write a check; the proprietor, who knows Sid's reputation, refuses. Finally Sid asks if the proprietor would except "cold hard cash" and confirms that this is "actual money". The proprietor accepts... and is paid in 30000 "Irkutskian Slobotniks".
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* When the New Zealand dollar was going really strong a little while ago, the morning news made some jokes like this at the expense of the U.S. dollar... even though the NZ dollar was still only about 85 U.S. cents.
▲* Since the British pound sterling is one of the largest units of currency in the world, jokes like this come up from time to time in British comedy, along the lines of, "I know a couple of people who just made $100 million US, which I think, if I've done the maths correctly, is roundabout £7.50"
▲** As of the 2007 financial crisis, this was ''inverted'' to jokes about being 1:1 with the euro and US dollar.
▲* A show called ''[[Goodness Gracious Me]]'' (about Indian immigrants in Britain) included "The Six Million Rupee Man".
▲** "We can rebuild him. We have the technology: we just don't have the ideal exchange rate."
▲** '' [[Robot Chicken]]'' did the same gag with the Six Million Peso Man (who upon being completed immediately disappears past the US border).
▲{{quote|'''Mexican Government Man''': "That's 283 American dollars we won't see again..."}}
▲* Australian comedian Adam Hills often jokes about the Barmy Army taunting Australian cricket fans in a bar in Newcastle by singing, "We get three dollars to the pound!"
▲{{quote|"When you're heckling ''the exchange rate'', that's creative!"}}
▲* One comedian's bit on pesos: "I love shopping in Mexico. It's like a giant dollar store. At what point does your money become so worthless that you just say 'Okay, we have to go back to trading chickens; this just isn't working.'"
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