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== American Style ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* In ''[[The Money Pit]]'', the protagonists buy a [[Big Fancy House]] for a huge discount - and the repairs become a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091020031326/http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5826/herculean.html HerculeanTask].
* In the war movie / comedy ''[[Father Goose]]'', Cary Grant is a drifter/former teacher sailing around Southeast Asia who has pretty much nothing but his boat and a two hundred dollar debt. He gets coerced into joining the British as a coastwatcher when old friend and Royal Navy officer Trevor Howard threatens to confiscate the boat.
* Helen Hayes plays this role in ''[[Herbie Rides Again]]''.
* In ''[[Spaced Invaders]]'', the trope is [[Played for Laughs|played]] [[So Bad It's Good|so straight it's funny]].
* In Mildred D. Taylor's YA novel ''[[Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry]]'' and its sequels, which are set in Mississippi during the Depression, the fact that the black Logan family owns its own land gives them relative freedom and dignity compared to the other black families in the area, who are all sharecroppers and thus totally beholden to the people whose land they live on and farm. ([[Truth in Television]] for the era, obviously—after Reconstruction, the sharecropping/tenant farming system that set it was in some ways practically indistinguishable from slavery.)▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
▲* In Mildred D. Taylor's YA novel ''[[Roll
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''To the Manor Born'' is a [[Britcom]] about the relationship between a downwardly mobile noblewoman and the nouveau-riche businessman who bought her family estate.
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'' its revealed that Bill's family is a land poor family with a European touch to it, they used to be wealthy plantation owners, but modern times have reduced their income to near nothing causing the family to live alone in a large manor with no servants and likely a rising debt.▼
* [[Newhart]]: Dick Loudon buys a New England Inn and fixes it up. He is a subversion because the Inn is usually shown as working well and Dick becomes something of a power in the town despite being a foreigner (this is apparently one of those towns where "foreigner" means "moved in less then twenty years ago"). But earlier episodes show some difficulty in getting going including having to get the Inn working by personal manual labor rather then hiring a staff.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
▲* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'' its revealed that Bill's family is a land poor family with a European touch to it, they used to be wealthy plantation owners, but modern times have reduced their income to near nothing causing the family to live alone in a large manor with no servants and likely a rising debt.
== Japanese style ==
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