Lottery Ticket: Difference between revisions

In a third and even rarer variant, the ticket will be legit, but will turn out worthless because the characters will spend so much time arguing amongst themselves and not notice the deadline for cashing it in has passed.

 

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* An early episode of [[The Steve Harvey Show]] has Bullethead winning a pair of Chicago Bulls tickets. Sophia, Sara, and Romeo pay a lot of attention to him and treat him nice in the hopes of going to the game with him. In the end, Bullethead chooses to take Steve to the game because Steve didn't treat him differently.

* An episode of [[Due South]] had Ray Vecchio and his sister Frannie arguing over a winning lottery ticket, with each claiming it was his or her money that actually bought the ticket (they had each put in $5). In the end no one got the money because the ticket was ruined by [[It Makes Sense in Context|chickens pecking at it]].

 

 

* At one episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Garfield buys a lottery ticket and wins ten million dollars. He and Jon then move into a mansion and Jon even gave an interview. However, when Jon falsely claimed during the interview that he was the one to buy the ticket, an enraged Garfield appeared to make it clear who bought it. Unfortunately, the lotto announcer showed up soon after to inform that, since Garfield is legally too young to buy lottery tickets, he and Jon have to give the ten million dollars to the next winner, who happens to be the very same reporter who was interviewing Jon.

** In ''[[The Garfield Show]]'' episode "Ticket to Riches", Jon believed to have won 54 million dollars and started a spending spree before even collecting the money. he bought a pizza parlor, a mansion, seven cars (one for each day of the week) and tailor-made suits. He even quit his job. Soon after donating his old clothes to charity, he figured out he forgot the ticket in one of them. They (Jon, Garfield and Odie) fail to rescue them on time but fortunately the ticket was in a pair of pants he didn't donate. Unfortunately, when Jon finally tried to claim the money, he is told that the number "3" at the end of his ticket was actually an "8" covered by some sauce and he won nothing.

* ''[[Wheel Squad]]'': In one episode, the neighborhood believed they won the lottery but learned their bet wasn't placed on time for that drawing.

* One of the old ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons featured Olive Oyl winning a sweepstake. When she told Popeye about it, he imagined themselves living a wealthy lifestyle until she told him she lost the ticket. After all the trouble Popeye went through to recover it, he learned the prize was a pet bird.