Honest John's Dealership: Difference between revisions

** In the 4kids dub he's like a car salesman, while the original version is based on a polite and humble Japanese salesman -- but the roles are just about the same.

* Nabiki Tendō from ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]''. In one episode she became Ranma's "financée", rented him out to her classmates, tried to get Ranma to break up with her and pay a "consolation fee", then tried to sell him back to Akane for anywhere from (what's equivalent to) $19 to $50. As she said in another episode:

'''Nabiki:''' I'm on the side with money. }}

* In ''[[Vandread]]'', Rabat (or as [[Word of God]] said, a contraction of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Rat Bastard]]) is a Honest John. Only later we learn his true purposes, but until then, he sells everything from weaponry to cosmetics to ship drive boosters.

* Flash Harry in the ''[[St Trinian's]]'' movies.

* Ferdy the Fence in the movie version of ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]''.

'''Ferdy:''' I can get you one of them, actually. Very good guard dogs. They can watch the back and the front door at the same time. }}

* Limbo in Tim Burton's ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' grabs some random stuff from a space pod and starts hawking it within 20 minutes of touchdown.

* The father of the bicyclist hero in ''[[Breaking Away]]'' was a used car dealer like this. He told one customer that the reason the car he was test-driving had stalled was that it had premium gasoline in its tank instead of regular, and had a heart attack at the possibility of giving a refund for a crappy car.

* [[The Three Stooges]] got in on this more than once. Including one time set in [[Ancient Egypt]], of all places, where they sold used chariots that [[The Alleged Car|were about as good as you'd expect.]] It had a truly comical line from Moe:

 

 

* Mike Thecoolperson (yes, he changed his name) from ''[[The Young Ones]]''.

** Also, Reggie Balowski, the 'International arms dealer, scrap metal merchant and French cabaret chanteuse' of the Balowski family, to whom Mike tries to sell the unexploded bomb dropped on their house.

'''Reggie:''' Usually, yeah... }}

* Sergeant Bilko from ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]''.

== Radio ==

* British spoof radio comedy ''[[Radio Active]]'' featured frequent appearances by, and commercials for, a highly dubious businessman called Honest Ron, whose debt collection methods mainly revolved around half a dozen out of work jockeys with sledgehammers. Adverts for his extremely questionable products and services were invariably accompanied by his trademark jingle, sung in a near-tuneless drone which did not inspire confidence in the prospective buyer:

* In ''[[The Navy Lark]]'' C.P.O. Pertwee will be glad to sell you anything from a pen lid to a Battleship (usually the same one he has sold to 3 other different people too). He has an extended clan of Pertwees that run the navy as their own personal supermarket.

* The [[Firesign Theatre]] album ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?'' opens with a character buying a car from "Ralph Spoilsport", who definitely fits the trope.

* Perhaps as a nod to the Ferengi are the Goblins in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', who are pretty much Ferengi <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN VANA'DIEL!]]</small>

* The goblins in the ''[[Warcraft]]'' universe were first given this characterization in ''Warcraft III'', where they peddled magic items to all sides of the war. It was continued in ''[[World of Warcraft]]''.

"I've got what you need." }}

* Almost every game of the ''[[World of Mana]]'' series features a suspicious merchant who is either an anthropomorphic cat or rabbit named Nikita. Sometimes he is playable, but he's always out to bring "happiness" to his customers. Like selling them overpriced glass beads as jewelry.

* Gheed from ''[[Diablo]] II'', one of the two merchants in Act I, is one of these. He offers you a lifetime guarantee and a two-day warranty on all items (presumably on the basis that he doesn't expect you to last any longer as a hero in a world swarming with monsters). He doesn't, of course, in gameplay terms, charge any more than any other merchants.

* Saxton Hale from the ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' supplementary materials is a [[Testosterone Poisoning|Testosterone Poisoned]] version of this. He actually PRIDES himself in selling "dangerous, cheaply-made products that catch on fire!"

* In ''[[Recettear]]'' you are playing one yourself.

** Not quite - everything you sell is in working order, but you charge through the nose for it. [[Con Man|Euria]] is a better example, selling [[Sarcasm Mode|rare, wondrous]] items and accepting a wider spread of prices for them... with that spread centered at ''500%'' market value.

*** Since he's the ''only'' purveyor of ''anything'' in Free Country, USA, he also operates the black market out behind the concession stand. Of course, since the concession stand sells dangerous crap, naturally the black market sells quality goods. The Cheat even has an adverse reaction to the ferret ointment (which is apparently what Strong Bad looks for in a tube of ferret ointment).

** And then there's Senor Cardgage, but he's [[Lampshade Hanging|well aware of it.]]

 

 

* Wacky Wally, owner of Wacky Wally's Weather Machines, who sells slightly-used devices for controlling the weather to supervillains, in an episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]''.

** It actually became a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Draken.

'''Draken''': No, I will TAKE it. }}

* In the 1943 [[Disney]] cartoon ''The Flying Jalopy'', [[Donald Duck]] runs into Ben Buzzard, the seedy proprietor of a "<s>wrecked</s> Used" ''airplane'' dealership. Ben is even nastier than most characters of this type; not only does he sell Donald the eponymous flying jalopy, he also attempts to knock Donald off as part of an insurance scam.