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Not to be confused with [[Commonplace Rare|lint as an actual, valuable commodity.]]
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* In a commercial for the [[McDonald's]] Dollar Menu, a guy goes to various places to find out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyzYI3TV8IQ what he can get for a dollar.]
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* In the movie of ''[[The Little Rascals]]'', the gang tries to buy materials from a lumber yard to rebuild their clubhouse, but run into a small snag- they only have a few dollars (which they assume is more than enough) which is enough for a piece of wood the size of a dollar note.
{{quote|You know what they say; wood doesn't grow on trees...}}
* In ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'' [[Chris Rock]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNQRqAoT-2c appears at Hammer & Slammer's BBQ joint.] Since an order of ribs costs $2.50 and you get 5 ribs, he orders 1 rib for 50 cents. They reluctantly agree, then Rock pulls outt a huge roll of cash and asks for change for a $100 bill. Rock later recycled the character when he was on ''[[In Living Color]]'' and ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
* In the film ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy and her [[Valley Girl]] friends watch Pike and his buddy deposit a handful of change on the table at a diner and ask if the amount is sufficient for pie.
* In ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In an homage to the above, the
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▲* In an homage to the above, the television series [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] Season Two premiere "Anne" showed Buffy working as a waitress; two young runaways who spent all their money on matching tattoos deposit a handful of change on the table and ask if it will get them anything.
* In the song "[http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiMEATBALL.html One Meatball]", a man has fifteen cents, and buys one meatball at a restaurant. He is refused bread to go with it.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Seen in the ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' strip where Bowser gets his flying clown car.
* Subverted in ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' [http://awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=082911 here].
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', [[Kid Hero|Aang]], who only has three copper pieces, tries to haggle with a pirate who is selling a [[Making a Splash|waterbending]] scroll for 100 gold pieces. He offers one copper piece. Then, okay, how about ''two'' copper pieces? (He gets kicked out of the shop.)
* Implied in an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' where the family is stranded in another country without money—they go to the black market to be smuggled back into America, where there's a sign already posted that they do not except lint or bits of string as payment.
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