History Main / BillBillJunkBill

* In an episode of ''WebOriginal/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':

* [[TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]], examining a series of potential brides:

* Happened several times in ''DextersLaboratory''.

* ''CowAndChicken'': The Red Guy buys some pantyhose for his usual hijinks at the hypermarket and somehow manages to include the titular characters into the purchase at the counter.

* ''{{Futurama}}''. Notable in that Bender tosses the stack of junk ''and bills'' in the trash as soon as he gets to the plot relevant letter.

* In one episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Joker plays out this trope looking for a replacement for Harley Quinn. He takes a ''long'' pause on a large, fat man before dismissing him. Then after he makes his choice, he promptly muses if he should have gone with the fat guy.

* ''{{Mythbusters}}'' tested the rumor that the U.S. post office would deliver an addressed, but unwrapped coconut if it got the right postage. At the end of the episode, Jamie sorts through his mail, reciting "Bill... bill... coconut... bill...", whereupon Adam holds up the successfully-delivered coconut and declares the myth confirmed.

* Frequently used by Colin on WhoseLineIsItAnyway during Hollywood director: "Crap. Crap. Not too bad."

* In an episode of ''YugiohTheAbridgedSeries'':

** On an episode of the DailyShow, Jon Stewart takes it upon himself to answer some of President Bush's questions: "Yes, no, four, the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria, and it's a trick question: the surgeon is a woman."

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* From ''The Rejection Collection'' (cartoons rejected by ''The New Yorker''): A very skeevy man is looking at the backs of milk cartons (i.e., missing children) in a supermarket: "Got him... got him... need him... got him... need him..."

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* From UltimateSpiderMan #54: [[Film/{{Spider-Man}} Sam Raimi, Avi Arad and Tobey Maguire]] are filming a [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Spider-Man movie]] in New York, and [[ButtMonkey Spidey]] finds out he's not entitled to any of the profits. He goes to the set to give them a piece of his mind:

* ''KeepingTheFaith'' The young Jake Schram sorting though his "Heros of the Torah" trading card collection: "Need it, got it, got it, need it..."

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989). When the Joker looks through a collection of Vicki Vale's photographs, he says "Crap" five times for normal pictures, and "Now that's good work" when he gets to the gruesome Corto Maltese picture.
* J. Jonah Jameson does it with Peter Parker's photographs in the first ''Film/{{Spider-Man}}'' movie. ''"Crap, crap, megacrap..."''
* In the vampire spoof ''LoveAtFirstBite'', Dracula does it with the pile of magazines Renfield has brought him: "Filth.. trash.. [pauses to examine a centerfold for a moment] pornography. Give me my ''fashion magazine''."

-->'''Edward:''' Sex, Sex, Money, Sex, Money, Cat...
* In HistoryOfTheWorldPartOne, Empress Nympho lives up to her name by lining up a couple of dozen potential male escorts, having them expose themselves, and then sorting through which ones she wants. It actually becomes quite musical by the end.

* In the 2000 [[TheMovie movie]] version of HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas, the Grinch does this in reverse to the Whos, sending unpleasant mail to random destinations in the post office: "Jury duty! Jury duty! Pink slip! Eviction notice!"

* In ''[[http://sandtree.livejournal.com/tag/sims/ The Sims 2: Election '08]]'' webcomic (for lack of a better term), Obama goes around asking all the other candidates, "Do you like what you see?" The answers? "Too black." "Not enough makeup." "Too Obama!"

* [[HornyDevil Lucy]] going through DevilBear's [[http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=17 mail:]]

** Also in the Season 2 premiere of {{Torchwood}}, when Captain John Hart walks into a bar and orders the patrons to leave - except for those he finds attractive.

The title refers to the most common form of this trope; finding a plot-relevant letter in a stack of bills and junk mail. Most often, it'll be the [[RuleOfThree third one in line]].

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* From [[UltimateSpiderMan Ultimate Spider-Man]] #54: [[{{Film/Spider-Man}} Sam Raimi, Avi Arad and Tobey Maguire]] are filming a [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Spider-Man movie]] in New York, and [[ButtMonkey Spidey]] finds out he's not entitled to any of the profits. He goes to the set to give them a piece of his mind:
-->'''Spider-Man''': You suck! You suck and you suck and you suck and... Okay, ''[[SamRaimi Evil Dead 2]]'' was cool but the rest of you suck!

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* ''{{Keeping the Faith}}'' The young Jake Schram sorting though his "Heros of the Torah" trading card collection: "Need it, got it, got it, need it..."

* One film version of ''PrideAndPrejudice'' has Elizabeth narrating a flashback of her horrible blind dates. Too tall, too short, actually her second cousin, illiterate, etc.
* ''{{Film/Batman}}'' (1989). When the Joker looks through a collection of Vicki Vale's photographs, he says "Crap" five times for normal pictures, and "Now that's good work" when he gets to the gruesome Corto Maltese picture.
* J. Jonah Jameson does it with Peter Parker's photographs in the first ''{{Film/Spider-Man}}'' movie. ''"Crap, crap, megacrap..."''

-->'''Edward:''' Sex, Sex, Money, Sex, Money, Cat....

-->'''Nympho''': Yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, no, no, yes, no, no, yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...YES! Ooowee!

--> Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.

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* Happens in an episode of ''TheMonkees''.

* Shawn Spencer from ''{{Psych}}'' dismisses a room full of nanny candidates with one-word reasons that he later explains to Gus.

--> The Todd: I'm changing you to a yes because you're feisty.
** Also in the Season 2 premiere of {{Torchwood}}, when Captain John Hart walks into a bar and orders the patrons to leave - except for those he finds attractive.

* In an episode of the short lived series ''Veritas: The Quest'', the protagonists find [[ThoseWackyNazis Albert Speer's]] secret bunker. One of them starts going through a record collection in the corner: "[[RichardWagner Wagner]]...Wagner...Wagner...Best Of Wagner..."

-->'''Gabrielle''': We've repeated the same day that many times.
-->'''Xena''': Yes.
-->'''Gabrielle''': But I...
-->'''Xena''': No, No, Yes, No, I tried that, yes both ways, no, I don't know, no again, are there any more questions? Good.

* TheBigBangTheory visits to the comic book store result in this as Sheldon and Howard go through the back issue boxes.

--> "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, ye... what? What?" [looks at shoe] "Size nine. Yes, yes, ..."

-->'''Salem''': Infomercial. Infomercial. Ooh! Hawaiian talk show. No, Infomercial. Yes! The Mod Squad, and it’s a sixties marathon. An entire night of Peggy Lipton. Be still my heart- ''[burps]'' -oh, be still my stomach.

--> '''Jack''': Ian Derby.
--> '''Sandra''': You know him?
--> '''Jack''': Yeah. He's dead.
--> '''Sandra''': Alan Adams?
--> '''Jack''': Dead.
--> '''Sandra''': D.I. John Farley. Oh, I know John! He's -
--> '''Jack''': Dead.
--> '''Sandra''': But he only left last December!
--> '''Jack''': 65% of C.I.D. officers are dead within five years of leaving the job. [flips through photographs] Dead... dead... as good as... alive, but he bores for England... retired but currently under investigation by the C.P.S. ... ditto the D.T.I. ... dead... alive, but don't leave him alone with your kids... "retired sick" - well, insane, really... dead... [[OverlyLongGag dead]]... would be if I got a hold of him... No, I think you'd better advertise.

-->'''Jesse''': Maybe...maybe...if I had to...not in this lifetime...

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--->'''Garfield:''' Quality, quality, quality, quality, quality, quality, dreck, quality... Whoa! Back up there!

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--->'''Bart:''' Okay, let's see ... nymph, fairy, pixie, goblin--\\
'''Hobgoblin:''' That's ''hob''goblin!
--->'''Bart:''' Sorry. Nymph, naiad, wood sprite, Katie Couric...

--->'''Homer:''' Bill, bill, summons, bill...

--->'''Marge:''' Homey, here the responses from the colleges you applied to.
--->'''Homer:''' D'oh! D'oh! D'oh! Woo-hoo! A flyer for a hardware store! D'oh!

--->'''Wiggum''': Safe... safe... razor blade... syringe... ooh, white chocolate!

--->'''Brock:''' Gay, gay, useless, never use 'em... ''[finds a pack of cigarettes]'' Smokes! These I can use. Do they do anything stupid?\\

'''Brock:''' ''[groans]'' ''[crushes them]''
* [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]], examining a series of potential brides:
--->'''Kuzco:''' Hate your hair... not likely... yikes... yikes yikes... and let me guess: You have a "great personality".
* Happens in ''SpongeBobSquarePants''. ''"Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary-- hey! A magazine!"''

--->'''Mad Hatter''': "Stuff. More stuff. Metronome?"

* Shego sorts through a few bills before reaching a plot-significant letter in a episode of''KimPossible''. She immediately throws the bills on a fire.
* Happened several times in ''[=~Dexter's Laboratory~=]''.

* In ''JohnnyBravo:'' "Bills, bills, jury duty, YES! JUNKMAIL!"

--> '''Cashier''': Pantyhose... Pantyhose... Pantyhose... Pantyhose... Cow... Pantyhose... Chicken... Pantyhose... Pantyhose... Pantyhose... Hey, Mister... do you wear all this pantyhose?

* In {{Phineas and Ferb}}, Candace identifies the actual subjects of several supposed shots of a lake monster. "Elephant, log, dolphin, driftwood, tire, driftwood, [[CallBack rhesus monkey wearing a powdered wig]], driftwood, driftwood, ...[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar you're not old enough to know what that is]], driftwood, driftwood... it's usually driftwood."

* The SouthPark season 2 episode "Chickenlover" had the kids being forced to pick out a book to review for school at the book bus. Kyle: "Boring...boring...gay...boring...".

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* Got, Got, Need, Got: The mantra of the [[strike:British]] schoolboy trading in [[strike:football stickers]] any collectible.

-> "Need it, got it, got it, need it..."

* In ''[=~Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth~=]'', after looting a grave: "...auction, auction, vendor auction...".

* ''{{Fluble}}'': [[http://techhouse.brown.edu/cgi-bin/fluble/vault.pl?date=20000926 "Bill... bill... bill... death threat... bill..."]]

** Artie Ziff surfing through he email: "Anti-trust suit... anti-trust suit... *yawn*"

* And in a ''The Far Side'' cartoon, a mummy steps out of his tomb and pronounces upon the archaeologists who disturbed him: "Let's see, now ... that's a curse on you, a curse on you, and a curse on you."

* SabrinaTheTeenageWitch

* [[TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]], examining a series of potential brides:

* Shawn Spencer from ''{{Psych}}'' dismisses a room full of maid candidates with one-word reasons that he later explains to Gus.

* In an episode of the short lived series ''Veritas: The Quest'', the protagonists find [[ThoseWackyNazis Albert Speer's]] secret bunker. One of them starts going through a record collection in the corner: "Wagner...Wagner...Wagner...Best Of Wagner..."

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