Lottery Ticket: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

 

== Literature ==

* The title story of the short story collection ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=oNJF3jMhcg8C&client=firefox-a Yuck!]'', by Joe Schrantz, features a woman swallowing a multi-million-dollar winning lottery ticket after a fight with her husband over what to do with the money; the ticket is later recovered from her feces, but is swallowed again by somebody else, which can't be very healthy.

* One of the ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' books has Winston winning the lottery when he mixes up his jacket with a man he met at the convenience store. Jessica and Lila start lavishing Winston with attention. Elizabeth realizes that the jacket does not belong to Winston and convinces him to give the jacket and the ticket back to the old man. Funny how she didn't point out that Winston is 16 and is ineligible to win the lottery, much less buy a ticket.

* The premise of the book "One In A Million". The main character {{spoiler|wins the lottery, but before she gets a chance to tell her husband, he announces that he is leaving her for another woman.}}

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Spanish show ''[[Aqui No Hay Quien Viva]]'' had a an episode in which a lottery ticket, won by the whole building, (a Christmas tradition) won the (third) price. The community president's wife attempts to convince her husband to keep the money, and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. One of the rare examples where the ticket is legit and it does get chashed.

* The Connor family in ''[[Roseanne]]'' actually ''did'' win the lottery during the final season (at least, until we find out that it, and much that came before it, was [[All Just a Dream]]). Commonly considered to be the show's [[Jump the Shark]] moment.

* In an episode of ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'', Kel wins the the Illinois Lottery and $64 million. The ticket is legit, and all arguing is avoided when Kel generously agrees to split the money down the middle with his best friend Kenan. Just before Kenan and Kel head out to cash the ticket, a customer enters the grocery store where Kenan works and insists to be served. In their haste to fill the woman's grocery bags, the duo accidentally places the lottery ticket in the woman's grocery bag, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] as they try to get it back from her house. [[Status Quo Is God|They fail]].

** An alternate take on this was featured in an episode of ''Sabrina The Teenage Witch'': Sabrina is allowed access to a crystal ball that can answer any question. Her first question was, [[Misapplied Phlebotinum|oddly enough]], "What if Kenan and Kel won the lottery?". We then see a short segment of the two losing the ticket and coming to the conclusion that is was inside a sandwich that Kel just took a bite out of.

** It wasn't a lottery ticket but rather a $1 bill with a serial number selected for a special cash prize.

* On ''[[Suddenly Susan]]'', Todd tricks Vicki into thinking she has won the lottery. She quits ''The Gate'' after telling everyone in the office what she really thinks of them, and must beg for forgiveness when she learns of the ruse.

* Subverted in the pilot of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]''- Earl gets a scratchie ticket worth a considerable amount of money (not in the millions, but it may as well be to him), but loses it- part of the chain of events that cause him to discover Karma, and he eventually gets the ticket back and cashes it in.

** Later in the series, {{spoiler|Earl gives all of his winnings to the person he believes should have had the ticket - making Earl practically penniless.}} Randy tries to help Earl by buying another scratch card, but just as they think they're about to win another quarter of a million, they find it is a fake ticket.

* One of [[Ed]]'s cases involved coworkers who played a practical joke on a co-worker by using a year old lottery TV drawing tape to make him think he had the winning ticket. Unfortunatly before they could tell him it was a joke he told the boss off and quit his job.

* ''[[Meet The Browns]]'' The Colonel borrows a dollar from Brown (who borrowed it from Cora) and purchases a lottery ticket. It's a $100,000 winner. Brown and Cora want half of the money and soon, they are fighting with The Colonel and his fiancee Edna. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. At the end, The Colonel and Edna decide to give Brown and Cora half of the money. {{spoiler|The Colonel's winnings were a mere $500. Edna explains that he had to split the jackpot with 199 other people who also had the winning numbers. Brown and Cora's half came to $250. They didn't take the money.}}

 

== Western Animation ==

* Done several times on ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]''. Here, though, the money Stroker wins is real each time, he just loses it at the end of the episode due to bad luck. He even remarks in one episode, "I have a disturbing trend of not getting paid for doing my job."

* In ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', Eustace won the lottery but because of an earlier robbery from the bank holding the prize money (Done by himself and Muriel while being brainwashed), he only earned 17 cents.

* In one episode of the animated ''[[Mother Goose and Grimm]]'', Mother Goose's lottery ticket (the number being [[Overly Long Gag|5498666246838409804441989859893259]]) is announced as a winner. Unfortunately Grimmy ate the ticket, so throughout the episode Mother Goose and Hamm tries to get it out of him, while Dracula (who now works at a grocery store Mother Goose got the ticket from) tries to steal it from them so he can leave the store behind and move back to Transylvania. In the end, when the characters decided to simply give up, it was announced on TV that Mother Goose's number was a mistake and the correct winning number is simply 3, which is the number Hamm had. Unfortunately Hamm gave the ticket to Igor, Dracula's assistant.

* [[Donald Duck]] wins a new car in a radio raffle drawing, but due to an error in announcing the winning number, he had thrown his ticket away thinking it was a loser. His nephews hear the correction, realize he's won, and cash the ticket in secret to surprise him. When they show up with the new car, Donald thinks it's a prank and unknowingly destroys his own winnings in a rage.

* At one episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Garfield buys a lottery ticket and wins ten million dollars. He and Jon then move into a mansion and Jon even gave an interview. However, when Jon falsely claimed during the interview that he was the one to buy the ticket, an enraged Garfield appeared to make it clear who bought it. Unfortunately, the lotto announcer showed up soon after to inform that, since Garfield is legally too young to buy lottery tickets, he and Jon have to give the ten million dollars to the next winner, who happens to be the very same reporter who was interviewing Jon.

** In ''[[The Garfield Show]]'' episode "Ticket to Riches", Jon believed to have won 54 million dollars and started a spending spree before even collecting the money. he bought a pizza parlor, a mansion, seven cars (one for each day of the week) and tailor-made suits. He even quit his job. Soon after donating his old clothes to charity, he figured out he forgot the ticket in one of them. They (Jon, Garfield and Odie) fail to rescue them on time but fortunately the ticket was in a pair of pants he didn't donate. Unfortunately, when Jon finally tried to claim the money, he is told that the number "3" at the end of his ticket was actually an "8" covered by some sauce and he won nothing.

* ''[[Wheel Squad]]'': In one episode, the neighborhood believed they won the lottery but learned their bet wasn't placed on time for that drawing.

* One of the old ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons featured Olive Oyl winning a sweepstake. When she told Popeye about it, he imagined themselves living a wealthy lifestyle until she told him she lost the ticket. After all the trouble Popeye went through to recover it, he learned the prize was a pet bird.