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[[File:helga-arnold-dishes.jpg|link=Hey Arnold!|frame| Oh, shut up and rinse...]]
{{quote|"''I am not gonna go back in there, tell them the truth, and wind up washing dishes. <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Gilligan Cut]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> I can't believe I told them the truth, and I wound up washing dishes.''"
|'''Helga'''|''[[Hey Arnold!]]!''}}
Characters go to a place where they are expected to pay money for something they have already consumed and can't return—usually (but not always) a restaurant. However, they are unable to pay for some reason. The owner is called out, and agrees to let them work off their debt, almost always by washing dishes.
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* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'': Jon and one of the girls he dated had to wash dishes (and some cars) to pay a restaurant bill (and some broken dishes) because Jon forgot his wallet at home. {{spoiler|just one of the several ways on which he blundered with that date}}.
* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': "Prickly Pining Dining" ends with the Jelly Beans cleaning the bathroom and Scoutmaster Lumpus working as the restuarant's stuffed moose head.
== Real Life ==
* [[Jon Bon Jovi]] runs a pair of restaurants in [[Joisey|New Jersey]] called [https://jbjsoulkitchen.org/ JBJ Soul Kitchen Community Restaurants] where one can pay for their dinner either with a donation or by volunteering in the kitchen.
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