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'''Bob''': Jackson, huh?... ''[opens wallet]'' He's not in, do you have anything you'd like to tell Abe Lincoln and the Washington twins? }}

* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' has Jack Donaghy offer Josh a comically small contract negotiation offer of $1 for a year of comedy work. Josh is so intimidated by Jack's negotiation skills that he almost takes it.

* At a time when [[The Beatles]] were being offered millions to reunite, a 1976 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch had producer Lorne Michaels making an on-air appeal to the group, offering them a check for $3000 to perform on the show. [[John Lennon]] and [[Paul McCartney]] happened to both be in NYC and watching the show that night, and were amused enough to briefly entertain the idea of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|heading over to the studio just for the hell of it.]] They then talked themselves out of it, sadly.

** In a subsequent episode, George Harrison came on but was dismayed to learn that the $3000 was for ''all of them'', meaning $750 for each ex-Beatle. ("Pretty chintzy.")