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A stock symbol of saving money for a rainy day (or just saving money in general) is the good ol' ceramic
Piggy Banks often symbolize wealth and something a thief would go after in a cartoon.
The monetary storage item can also be in the shape of other animals.
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== [[Film]]
* Hamm is one in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* The Jolly Postman series of children's books has a [[Show Within a Show|story within a story]] about a piggy bank. The more money is put into him, the [[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The old ''[[Nickelodeon]]'' show ''Don't Just Sit There'' had a segment where a girl showed viewers how to break their piggy banks if they were too sentimental to do it the regular way. Methods included leaving it on a high shelf and waiting for a cat to knock it over, and simply gritting your teeth and breaking it yourself. Subverted at the end, when her co-host walks by emptying his piggy bank the proper way.
* In ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', an animated link had two characters hunting piggy banks.
* ''[[
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In the 1980s, the NatWest bank issued [http://www.natwestpigs.co.uk/ china piggy banks] to encourage children to
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* Olimar from ''[[Pikmin]]'' has one as one of the ship parts. It contains all his savings.
* Van (from Home) has one of these in ''[[
* Picking these up in ''[[Blitter Boy]]'' grants a nice points-bonus.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The CERAMIC PORKHOLLOW from ''[[Homestuck]]''.
* In the ''[[Touhou]]'' doujin ''[[
* [[Penny Arcade|Gabe]] has a piggy bank that he affectionately calls Tonkatsu (after the Cardboard Tube Samurai's random pig). [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/13/ It contains] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/16/ a great deal] [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/8/19/ of cash money.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Great Piggy Bank Robbery]]'' starring Daffy Duck as "[[Dick Tracy|Duck Twacy]]". A group of gangsters steals many piggy banks (including Twacy's) and he hunts them down.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Bart Simpson]] has done this several times. Not always his own pig either.
** In one of those episodes where Homer loses his job, he stole Bart's piggy bank and broke it for beer money. Soon after he did it, Homer started showing remorse for having stolen his own son's money and even then not having enough for a beer. Then he stopped to check if it really was enough or not. Upon verifying it was not, he resumed moaning.
** In another episode, Homer broke a piggy bank and Marge told how he could get the money without doing it. Homer replied it was too late for the warning. The Brazilian dubbing changed it to have Homer stating the piggy wouldn't have liked it.
* In one ''[[Doug]]'' cartoon where the title character was looking for some extra money saw him break open a piggy bank and only find a note inside which read, "I owe myself five dollars."
* One episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' had a [[Fictional Holiday]] where the kids would break their piggy banks and use the money to buy stuff.
* [[
* The [[Donald Duck]] cartoon "Donald's Crime" has him stealing money from his own nephews' piggy bank for a date with Daisy.
* Honker has one in ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode 'Easy Come, Easy Grows'. Part of the episode involves them trying to stop it from running away.
* ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'' episode "Felix Breaks the Bank" had one episode where Felix tried to break his piggy bank to have money for Candy's birthday present. The piggy then took the hammer and knocked Felix into a [[Dream Sequence]]. When he woke up, Candy was there and assumed the piggy was her gift. She like it so much she hugged it to the point a coin came out of it.
* ''[[
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' had one that released coins from behind as Phineas inserted bills through its mouth.
* ''[[
* An episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
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