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Note this need not be something "racy" (and probably won't be, if the trope is being [[Played for Laughs]]); just something the performer would rather not have done, but did it anyway just for the money.
Compare [[Money, Dear Boy]], which is when the performer's ''current'' choice of work is so bad that he or she is only in on it to get money from it, and [[Paying Their Dues]], when the Old Shame was done for the sake of career advancement instead of merely monetary reasons.
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== Fan Works ==
* In [[DC Nation]], Hotshot's teammates discover that he "starred" in a film valled [[Bi the Way|"Bi The Shore"]] while in college. The females on the team rent it out and have a screening, playing it for all the [[Snark Bait]] it's worth.
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** In another episode, Joey tells his agent that he's frustrated that she hasn't been getting him any good jobs lately. She replies, "Well you're just going to say no again, but ''gay porn?''"
* 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.}}
{{quote|'''Ian''': ''{{spoiler|The Grinning Americans}}''. I was living in Florida. Flat broke. No direction. I saw an ad in the newspaper. They were holding auditions, it was fast money. You get sucked into the life, Henry. Now you know.
'''Henry''': So wait a minute, you would rather have people think you were in a mental institution than...
''[Cut to more {{spoiler|musical}} scenes]''
'''Henry''': ...I understand. }}
* From ''[[Scrubs]]'', "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby":
{{quote|'''Jordan:''' Nice job, Perry. Your son just asked me if ''my'' vagina's ever been on television.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' your companion [[Felicia Day|Veronica]] will say this when you talk to her sometimes. Used as a joke, because she always cuts off whatever you were going to ask.
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* In the first Halloween episode of ''[[South Park]]'', Cartman tells his friends that the reason why his mom posed for ''Crack Whore'' magazine was because "...she was young and needed the money," with Stan telling Cartman that the pictures for the magazine were taken last month. Granted, Cartman's mom doesn't seem to have any source of income beyond whoring herself.
* Part of a chain of excuses in ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'' when Daffy markets Bugs' design for an automatic carrot peeler.
* Death himself (as in, [[The Grim Reaper]] from ''[[Family Guy]]'') claims he once "did some films I'm... not especially proud of" when he was young, to explain his ability to swallow the meat off a turkey leg in one gulp.
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* [[Vanessa Williams|Vanessa L. Williams]]'s ''[[Penthouse]]'' photoshoot was explained as such. She still lost her Miss America crown over it, however. The issue featuring Vanessa Williams' photoshoot ended up being banned as the centerfold (Traci Lords) was revealed to be underage at the time she posed for her picture, rendering all her porno pics and films child pornography.
* [[Danny Slavin]], who played Leo Corbett in ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'', only did it because he needed money for law school. Understandably, it took a lot of convincing to get him to return for the tenth anniversary [[Reunion Show]]<ref>Not helped by the fact that, during the filming of the [[Reunion Show]] between ''Lost Galaxy'' and [[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|its successor]], the producers tried to screw the actress who played ''LG'''s [[Big Bad]] out of her paycheck; Slavin walked off the set in protest and only returned for the tenth anniversary as a personal favor to one of the producers.</ref>
* Before her acting debut and during her model years, [[Cameron Diaz]] was videotaped topless for a softcore S&M-themed photo-shoot. The resultant pics and short film were never released officially, albeit they appeared to have been illegally uploaded in a Russian website
* Tom Morello (of [[Rage Against the Machine]] fame) was a male stripper for a time.
** So was actor [[Channing Tatum]]. He's even getting a film produced about this time in his life, directed by Steven Soderbergh (he is playing himself).
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