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* In an episode of ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'', Jim and his gang successfully enter the Hall of the Gods by giving the gatekeeper a $1 bribe.
* In ''[[The Weekenders]]'', Carver attempts to bribe a man with "his friend Mr. Washington." When the man points out how stupid attempting to bribe with a dollar is, Carver replies that he was actually offering him a quarter.
* In ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Arnold's grandmother]] attempts to bribe someone with, "Maybe a picture of Lincoln will change your mind..." -- and shows the guy [[Literal
* ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'': When Princess became the Mayor of Townsville, in a flashback we learn that the Mayor rejected 30 million dollars, 10 billion, but sold the city for a room filled with candies.
* In ''[[Dan Vs.]]'' "Art", Dan attempts to get records of failed art school applicants:
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* The German satirical magazine ''Titanic'' offered a cuckoo clock, sausages and ham to delegates of the FIFA World championship committee to support the German bid to host the 2006 [[The World Cup|World Cup]]. A $20 value for arguably the biggest sporting event in the world. [[wikipedia:Titanic (magazine)#2006 FIFA World Cup bribery affair|Amazingly it worked]], as one of the delegates who was supposed to vote for South Africa got very confused and abstained, causing the final vote to be 12-11 in Germany's favor. South Africa did get the World Cup in 2010.
* On November 8, 2009, Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals offered an official $1 during a replay challenge on one of his own catches. Even though he was joking, he got hit with a $20,000 fine.
* [http://notalwaysright.com/bribery-adjusted-for-inflation/502 This] [[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]] entry has a customer, convinced that the cashier knows when the store will get more Wiis but is trying to keep it secret, try to bribe him with $20 for the info. As the cashier points out, even assuming he ''did'' have secret knowledge of the store's shipments, $20 is not worth the punishment he'd get for giving out such a secret.
* People find it amusing when politicians and bureaucrats revealed to have accepted bribes turn out to have accepted what seem to be ridiculously small bribes in exchange for their favour. A few million dollars, people can respect that. A few thousand dollars worth of ''furniture'', on the other hand...
* [[Roger Ebert]]'s contests on his blog, such his limerick contest and photo caption contest have always given tiny rewards of "a shiny new dime." In the case of the caption contest, it became satirical [[Serious Business]] when the winning entry was accused of plagiarism, and the prize given to another, only to find that it wasn't and for the original winner to receive his dime after all.
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