I Was Young and Needed the Money: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Robin uses this to explain her past career as a teenage, pseudo-80's, Canadian pop star. Of course, Barney slap bets Marshall that it's porn, resulting in Robin revealing the whole truth by saying "Porn? I wish, it would be less embarrassing."

* Played with in ''[[Stark Raving Mad]]'': an episode focused on Ian's extreme reluctance to discuss what he was doing during a particular year and a half of his life, going so far as making up a cover story about having spent it in a mental institution. After insistent prodding by Henry, he finally snaps and starts closing all his blinds, orders Henry to lock the door, warns him that what he's about to see "will disgust [him]" and produces a tape that he's "deeply ashamed" of and that he only keeps as a "reminder of how far [he] can fall". And when the tape starts playing we see that it's...{{spoiler|a cheesy musical.}}

'''Henry'''...I understand. }}

* From ''[[Scrubs]]'', "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby":

'''Perry:''' And, did you tell him not since the 80s when you were trying to make it as an "actress"? }}

* Apparently Wilson, from ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', was in a porno back in college. He swears that [[Hurricane of Excuses|it wasn't a porno when they were shooting it, and he was doing it as a favor to a friend that he had]] ''no idea'' would become an ''actual director'', [[Hurricane of Excuses|and said friend added some scenes in afterwards so he could release it as a porno...]] The fact that Wilson is entirely absent from all the sex scenes does lend credence to his story. House just wanted to see him squirm.

* [[Stephen Colbert]] was once a male prostitute, but classy. Actually, that was his street name: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Butt Classy]].

* Melanie from ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' appeared nude in a magazine to get money for college after her parents had cut her off for being gay. They apparently changed their minds after about three weeks, but by then she had already paid that year's tuition and the next.

* Another example, in ''[[Grey's Anatomy]]'', Izzie gets humiliated when Alex discovers pictures of her as a lingerie model. However, it turns out that those photo shoots paid for med school - so she comes out on top.

* Unsurprisingly, Karen on ''[[Will and Grace]]'' once starred in an adult film called ''Next to Godliness'' in which she plays a neat-freak dominatrix.

* [[Castle|Detective Kate Beckett]] worked as a teenage model once.

* Erin in ''[[Blue Bloods]]'' worked as a cocktail waitress at Roxy's (a famous NYC nightclub). She told her parents she worked at a roller skate rink. The part about wearing roller skates was true...

== Music ==

* Used in the [[Steve Taylor]] song "Cash Cow" as a line setting up the following:

...and a little more money! }}