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== Comic Books ==
* In one ''[[Sandman]]'' story, this is Dream's punishment for an author who kept a Muse captive.
{{quote| You say you need the ideas? Then you shall have them.<br />
Ideas in '''abundance'''. }}
* Subverted in a classic Charles Addams cartoon, which shows a young boy – perhaps five years old – sitting in an armchair, contentedly puffing smoke rings from a huge, ornate meerschaum pipe. Says the child’s disgruntled mother to a sheepish father: “So much for ‘Oh, let’s let him have a puff; he’ll be so sick he’ll never want to try it again!’”
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== Film ==
* In ''~[[Brewster's Millions~]]'', a recently-deceased relative of the title character employs this trope in his will: Montgomery Brewster must spend $30 million within 30 days, in order to get his actual inheritance of $300 million. [[On One Condition|There are several catches, though]]: at month's end, he's not allowed to own any assets of any kind, he can't simply give money and/or valuables away (beyond the $1.5 million he's allowed to donate to charity, that is), he mustn't destroy anything that's inherently valuable, and the final catch that makes this Radish Cure truly work in the end--during the 30 day period, he's not allowed to tell anyone else why he's spending his $30 million so foolishly.
** In the 1985 movie, the relative cites this trope as his motivation behind the will in the first place, since his father used the typical "letting your kid smoke... a whole heap of smokes all at once" tactic to prevent him from ever wanting to smoke.
 
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* Used in an old Disney cartoon, where [[Donald Duck]] catches Huey, Dewie and Louie with a carton of cigars, and makes them smoke them all--only to find out they were a gift for him.
* A second season episode of ''[[Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats]]'' series involved a (court-ordered) attempt to get Heathcliff to stop stealing fish from the fish store using this method ([[It Makes Sense in Context|otherwise, he would have to go to jail]]). It ends up working too well...
{{quote| '''Grandpa Nutmeg''': Heathcliff not only doesn't want to eat fish, he can't even stand to hear the ''word'' fish.}}
 
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