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Contrast with [[Infinite Supplies]]. Compare [[Broke Episode]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' crew spend every single episode complaining about their lack of food, fuel and money - to the point where they end up eating dog food and ages-old rations. Despite failing to capture a bounty in almost every episode, they never actually starve -- although one episode does show them not only out of both money and food but out of fuel as well, a situation which gets remedied mostly by accident. And when they actually do get a bounty head, either [[Yank the DogsDog's Chain|some circumstance will conspire to ensure that they don't get anything for it]], or [[Destructive Saviour|the repair, medical and other bills from the massive destruction they caused going after bounties will cancel out whatever money they made]]. And, on top of it all, [[Ms. Fanservice|Faye]] is shown to be a gambler. In the entire series, there is exactly ''one'' time that they manage to successfully cash in on a bounty (Session 8: Waltz for Venus), but the amount is so little that they're ''immediately'' looking for another bounty.
** Actually, we do see them manage to get paid for a few bounties. Beyond the ones in episode 8, they turn in a bounty in Episode 10 which then ends with Jet capturing another of personal interest. Faye hands in the Teddy Bomber in session 22 and in [[The Movie|Knocking On Heaven's Door]] we see Spike and Jet nab a few criminals robbing a convenience store. Also, while it 'is' true that we rarely see them acquire funding, it has been confirmed through dialog that they DO catch a reasonable amount of bounties. You know, the golden mean of "enough to not die" and "too little to thrive".
** Ditto for the protagonists of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''. Shinichiro Wantanabe likes his characters broke, I guess.
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* A regular theme in the manga series ''[[Lucu Lucu]]'' is that the characters are genuinely, and realistically living in poverty for most of the series.
* ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]'': Meisuke "Nube-sensei" Nueno often doesn't have enough money even to eat properly, as he is often seen eating a single ramen for one (or two) days. He was outright haunted by the actual God of Poverty once.
** It's explained that he ''could'' make more riches, but that would involve leaving his work post as a teacher and/or doing either illegal or shady things, [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules|which he refuses out of principles]]. As ''much'', he'll use once or twice his demon hand to cheat at the Pachinko games, where his students can't see him.
*** Lampshaded by the principal in one episode, when he asked Nube where all his salary went.
* In ''[[Excel Saga (Manga)|Excel Saga]]'', various individuals fit this trope since the manga was poking fun at the recession Japan was going through. But the heroines in particular are always starving since they cannot hold down a temp job. However, their "emergency food ration" survives to the last episode.
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** "I Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher
** "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi
* "Still Fly" by the Big Tymers is about a guy who can't even afford everyday stuff because he [[What an Idiot!|wasted all his money on fancy cars, clothes, jewelry, and entertaining (married) women.]]
 
 
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