Get Rich Quick Scheme: Difference between revisions

When a character wants to get Big Bux they often don't try more common varieties of accruing wealth like bumping off rich relatives, stealing, or being a miser. They go for a [['''Get Rich Quick Scheme]]''' sometimes resulting in a [[If I Were a Rich Man]] moment and often overlapping with a [[Zany Scheme]] or [[Step Three: Profit]].

Common variations of this trope is that the Get Rich Quick person thinks working is a [['''Get Rich Quick Scheme]]''' or that they fall for someone else's [['''Get Rich Quick Scheme]]'''.

* The basis of every part of ''[[Crystal Caves]]''. The main character, Mylo, keeps bungling into one [[Get Rich Quick Scheme]] after another (he's so famous for this that this got him a entry in the Galactic Encyclopedia) and isn't afraid to cooperate with people with names like [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Mr. Rip Eweoff]]. Each episode involves him trying to collect enough crystals to buy another inevitably fail-prone business (such as the farm of [[Explosive Breeder|Explosive Breeders]]s who turn out to be too explosive in this regard, or a farm of slugs which happens to be built on top of a salt mine). His luck turns around in the end of episode three; after a solar system he just bought explodes, Mylo sets up a burger shop near the resulting scenic nebula.