Mundane Luxury: Difference between revisions

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** When he's given a million yen so that he can live outside the mansion for three days, he's told to spend all of it and spends the next few panels explaining that he could live in luxury for the next year with that kind of money. Of course, he's spent it all before he even finds a place to stay for the night.

** This trope could also be used to explain why he doesn't realize that he has at least [[Unwanted Harem|a half-dozen attractive women throwing themselves at him]].

* Oddly implemented with Mugi from ''[[K-On!]]'' Mugi is [[The Ojou]], the only daughter of filthy rich family -- and is absolutely delighted by the most mundane of things, like the products sold at a dollar store or [[Burger Fool|getting a part-time job in a burger joint]].

== [[Comic Books]] ==

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* In ''[[History of the World, Part I]]'', [[Spike Milligan]]'s character is given a box of matches. "So rich!", whispers Spike.

* Audrey's song, "Somewhere That's Green" in ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' is basically about this, with her dreaming of living in a tract-house away from Skid-Row with "a fence of real chain-link" and a disposal in the sink.

* ''[[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory]]'' took the Bucket-family's poverty even further. A loaf of bread seems like a banquet, and Grandpa Joe tries vainly to convince them ''not'' to waste money buying his tobacco, something they insist on.

* ''[[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory]]'' took the Bucket family's poverty even further. A loaf of bread seems like a banquet, and Grandpa Joe tries vainly to convince them ''not'' to waste money buying his tobacco, something they insist on.

* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek (2009)]]''; the first thing Scotty asks Spock Prime is if they have sandwiches where he's from; clearly, Scotty hasn't had one for a long time, as he's been working on an ice moon colony in the middle of nowhere.