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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', the goal of the swim team is to garner enough money to fill a swimming pool and then swim around in it.

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the ''[[Hellboy]]'' story "Box Full of Evil", one of the people opening the titular box demands from the demon within "Enough gold to lie down in and a crown for my head". He gets it {{spoiler|[[Literal Genie|Sort of.]] The demon posesses his sister and turns him into a monkey first, and it's only at the end of the story, after he's died, does his body come to rest on a large pile of money, with a crown at his head}}

** Lampshaded in that [[Donald Duck]] and his nephews will occasionally try it, and break their heads on the metal. Scrooge even managed to trick the Beagle Boys into trying this in ''Only A Poor Old Man''.

** Also, it only works with money, even for Scrooge. While diving around in his cash-filled train wagons in the second-to-last album of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', he comes to an abrupt halt on a pile of coals.

** Subverted in ''The Last Lord of Eldorado''. After having found a pile of coins on a treasure cruise, Scrooge tries to dive into it. Instead he cracks his head because the coins were fused together after spending hundreds of years on the bottom of the sea.

** Deconstructed in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRQSpORW0 this parody video], where Scrooge accidentally breaks all of his bones after jumping into his pool of money, resulting in him being immediately rushed to the hospital where he then dies. A funeral is held for him, where he is buried with all of his money, and as a result his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie go crazy over their granduncle's death and end up in prison, their uncle (and Scrooge's nephew) [[Donald Duck]] becoming very angry with them and refuses to pay their "duck bail", before finally going bankrupt and committing suicide.

Get to the ER before his brain swells! (Uh-oh!)<br />

Stabilize his neck, Oh, no! His heart failed!<br />

Kids can't cope and wind up in a duck jail! (Uh-oh!)<br />

Donald's pissed and he refused to pay the duck bail! (Uh-oh!)<br />

 

 

== Literature ==

* In the SF novel ''Rocheworld,'' a multimillionaire discovers she's been selected for a one-way interstellar expedition. Since she'll never need money again, she instructs her broker to liquidate ''everything'' into ''cash.'' She also contacts the owner of a staggering rare gold coin, and arranges to purchase it for a number equal to her approximate net worth. He shows up at a warehouse with the coin in a protective briefcase, expecting a check or similar. She emerges from the warehouse adjusting her clothes, and says, "Don't try to swim in the bills. Paper cuts." She then puts the coin in her pocket, walks away, and takes it with her when she leaves the Solar System.

 

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

{{quote| ''With a cry Belît dropped to her knees among the bloodstained rubble on the brink and thrust her white arms shoulder-deep into that pool of splendor.''}}

* Like Smaug (see below), this is considered standard behavior for dragons in [[Dungeons and Dragons]]. One book devoted to them, the ''Draconomicon'', points out how improbable this is considering the volume of the coins and the size of most dragons (even taking into consideration that they are typically 3x as rich as monsters of the same power level). The book even mentions that some dragons will convert their treasure into smaller denominations just to make wallowing in their wealth more practical.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Super Castlevania IV]]'''s Block 9, you go through the treasury, which at several points have piles of gold. You ''can'' sink into the gold, and completely submerging yourself in it has the same effect as [[Super Drowning Skills|submerging yourself in water]].

 

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** Mr. Krabs does this with money, and in one episode, a vault full of diamonds.

* On ''[[South Park]]'', Cartman proves Kyle wrong and wins money in the process, so he turns it into change and makes a swimming pool out of it so Kyle can see him swim in it.

* [[Looney Tunes|Daffy Duck]] does this with piles of gold coins in ''[[Ali Baba Bunny]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frQxsuCiJJ8 starting at 2:15].

* Subverted on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' when Homer is told he could become a "moderately wealthy man" and has a a daydream of rolling around in not quite enough cash. Daydream Homer commented that, as a "moderately wealthy man", he could ''rent'' anything he wanted.

** And the simulation of Thomas Edison's heirs, after the discovery of his six-legged chair.

{{quote| '''Peter:''' Aaahhh!! It's not a liquid! It's a great many pieces of solid matter, that form a hard floor-like surface! Ahhh!!}}