Gambling Addict: Difference between revisions

* The victim of the ''[[Cold Case]]'' episode ''The River''. He got so heavily addicted to gambling on card games that he became financially ruined in spite of working as a rather well-paid surgeon.

* One episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' has Dorothy being this, upsetting Sophia. According to Sophia, Dorothy had been this once before, which got her deep in debt. And she wasn't the only one. From Sophia's account, Salvador, Sophia's late husband, "was a gambler right up to his dying days."

* Pearl Forrester from ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' has a weakness for gambling, particularly slot machines. It even comes into play in one episode when Mike challenges her to a [[Shell Game]] and ends up winning his choice of the movie that he and the 'bots will watch. He picks ''[[Hamlet]]'', but ends up getting [[Be Careful What You Wish For|more than he expected]].

* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Fever" featuring a man who abhors gambling travels to Las Vegas with his wife (who won a contest) and is forced by a drunk to put a dollar token into a slot machine, and winds up winning some money. Despite his efforts to run away from the slots, he hears the slot machine literally calling his name, and winds up addicted to the point where he thinks it's alive, and [[Karmic Twist Ending|he might be right.]]