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** "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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** In a later book in the series, ''Mirror Dance'', it is revealed that Miles has a framed millifenig on his bedroom wall.
* This quote from ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' mentions three cases of funny money
{{quote| '''The Guide:''' In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems.<ref>In the TV (and possibly radio) version, it uses "doesn't count as money"</ref> Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.}}
** This is also some [[Self Deprecating Humor]], since the Galactibanks are the products of [[Douglas Adams]]' imagination.
** Another bit in [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]] has the survivors of a colony ship crash (who were deemed a [[Idiot Ball|completely useless]] chunk of another planet's population) have a fiscal policy update at their staff meeting. They note that since they have chosen the leaf as their form of currency, everyone is extremely rich. Unfortunately, this has resulted in a bit of inflation, with current exchange rates being three decidious forests per ship's peanut. The proposed solution is a massive deforestation campaign to increase the value of currently held leaves.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''The Renford Rejects'' featured a joke about the Italian lira.
{{quote| "I've just won 10,000 lira!" "That's £3.50".}}
** In ''Ladri di Saponette'' a time-traveler innocently puts ten thousand lire into a collection for a wedding gift circa 1948, bringing him under suspicion both for the amount and because it's a note from 1989.
* In an episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' Waldo is sent to prison in the fictional country of "Santo Porto" for trying to steal treasured artifact: A cheesy "I Heart Santo Porto" salsa bowl, technically the oldest bowl in the country. Carl and Urkel spend the episode trying to break Waldo out of jail until they're told that his bail is only $30 in US currency.
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* In ''[[Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga]]'', the exchange rate between Mushroom Kingdom coins and Beanbean Kingdom coins is ''absolutely insane''. In the beginning of the game, however many Mushroom coins you have- usually at least a hundred- [[Schrodinger's Gun|turns out to be worth exactly ten Beanbean coins]]. By the end, however, the Mushroom currency has apparently devalued off-screen ''dramatically'', to the point where 99,999,999 Mushroom coins is equal to 99 Beanbean coins.
* In an early mission in ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]'', while Rico is buying some information from an informant, Panau is implied to have this kind of money.
{{quote| '''Informant:''' A pleasure doing business with you.<br />
'''Rico:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Considering the value of the Panauan buck, shooting you would have been more expensive.]] }}
* Inflation exists as a mechanic in [[Europa Universalis]]; while the player is unlikely to let it get too out of hand, some AI can get into a bankruptcy loop that results in both an incredibly unstable country and having to pay three or four times as much as everyone else for everything. (Inflation points increase the price of all things that cost money by 1% each, and are gained by event, reliance on gold, or minting coins - the equivalent of printing money).
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** [[Did Not Do the Research|Or the fact that confederate money is highly valuable among collectors]].
* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', Eddy gets a (comically) huge envelope of money from a pen pal in Korea, and immediately tries to buy jawbreakers. Right before he gets tossed out of the store, Edd remarks:
{{quote| '''Edd:''' This is foreign currency, Eddy! Virtually worthless in its present state!}}
* In ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', Gantu realized he was getting paid with worthless bills with his employer's face on them, as they were to be worth something after he took over the universe.
* In ''[[The New Woody Woodpecker Show]]'', [[Woody Woodpecker|Woody]] once found a Russian satellite that crashed and then he sold it to the junkyard for a few dollars. Later on, he learned the Russian Government offered five million units of their currency and he tried to get it back. After managing to get it back and take it to the Russians, he learned the money was worth less than the money he got when he sold it to the junkyard.
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