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No casino would be complete without its one-armed bandits, and no fight scene ''in'' a casino would be complete without somebody being knocked ''into'' a slot machine. This invariably sends the reels spinning into a triple 7 jackpot, resulting in a waterfall of coins raining down on the unconscious foe.
 
This is definitely ''not'' [[Truth in Television]] -- as—as modern slot machines rarely dispense actual coinage (preferring in-house chips instead) and are primarily electronic instead of mechanical (so there are few moving parts that a physical impact could jostle). Besides, if getting a jackpot really ''was'' as easy as bashing it, everybody would be doing it, right?
 
But given that the jackpot itself is a [[Million-to-One Chance]], it [[Rule of Cool|sure looks cool]] when it happens.
 
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== [[Film]] ==
* Appears in the climax of ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'': [[Big Bad]] Dorian Tyrell is knocked into a slot machine, which flashes Jackpot.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* A similar, but slightly different, situation. In one episode of ''[[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', Frank gets drunk in the Officer's Club, starts dancing with, as I recall, Nurse Kellye, gets Father Mulcahy (at the piano) to play a faster song, and Frank ends up hurtling into the nearby slot machine, which jackpots. Frank is pretty much unconscious by the time the jackpot triggers, though.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Seen in the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Joker's Wild".
 
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