History Main / ColdCash

* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Cuckoo", Vera is interviewing a drug dealer who protests his innocence until Vera him that they found ten grand in cash hidden under the fish fingers in his freezer.

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* Parodied in a Creator/CarlBarks [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look. He apparently didn't realize that many burglars also like to take some late-night snack when they're at it.
* In the Violent Tendencies storyline of the ComicBook/RobinSeries, Robin, Spoiler and Violet are lead by the Penguin to a fish processing place with the money hidden under the ice. It's fake, but Violet tries to steal it anyway, until they're ambushed by the Korean Mafia.

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* The 1971 film ''Film/{{Shaft}}'' shows the title character storing cash in the freezer.
* ''Film/CoyoteUgly''. Violet's best friend tosses a roll of cash into her freezer in case of emergency... and even that is cleaned out after robbers ransack the apartment.
* Apparently done in the ''Film/ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'' movie... the trailer shows the main character pulling her credit card out of the freezer, where she's stored it in a block of ice to try and prevent herself from actually using it, although this is also seriously recommended by financial recovery sites as a method for reducing credit card use.

* In ''Film/UptownGirls'', one of the first scenes features Molly Gunn taking money from her freezer before going to a party. In her case, is to show both how rich and how much of a [[BrainlessBeauty airhead]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} disconnected from reality]] she used to be.

* In the ''Literature/SouthernSistersMysteries'', Patricia Anne keeps her silver flatware in the freezer, and to foil thieves who know about the valuables-in-the-freezer trick, she keeps it in the pull-out drawer under the peaches and blueberries, in a heavy freezer-paper wrapping with "shrimp" written on it. Fred still thinks this is a bad place to keep it.

* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' had a hitman hiding his payoff money inside his fridge. Detectives easily find it because he put it in a box of ''corn flakes'', and remark he was only "half-right" about the hiding-valuables-in-the-fridge trick.

* Almost subverted in an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1''. Colonel Mayborne is strongarmed by Jack O'Neill into revealing some top secret information that is stored on Mayborne's computer. The only way that Mayborne can start up his computer without it setting off a booby-trap and frying itself is to insert a special floppy disk into the drive. Where does he keep the disk? In the tiny gap between the fridge and freezer sections of his fridge-freezer, rather than in the deep freeze altogether.

* The "freezing room" in ''Series/EstateOfPanic'', including a deep freeze with ice cream bars that had money hidden in them.
* ''Series/{{Hustle}}'': 'Liability' Finch keeps his entire stash hidden in his freezer.
* In ''Series/ModernFamily'', Luke keeps his money in the freezer after hearing about [[LiteralMinded frozen assets]].
* ''Series/ElleryQueen'': In "The Adventure of Colonel Nivin's Memoirs", a search of the Queens' apartment fails to find the files the searchers were looking for because Ellery had absent-mindedly placed them in the refrigerator.

* ''Series/DCIBanks'': In "The Buried", Banks and his team are searching a suspect's flat and find a bag of cash hidden in the freezer. Banks makes a joke about 'frozen assets'.
* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "My Brother's Keeper'', Lucien is musing that one of the confusing things about the case is that no one can work out where the money from the sale of the farm went. Jean remarks offhandedly that she knows where she would hide a large sum of money. The next scene has Lucien sneaking into a suspect's house and finding the cash in a biscuit tin at the bottom of the deep freeze.
* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': In "Always a Thief", a thief hides a BriefcaseFullOfMoney in the deep freeze of the restaurant where the murder occurred. When Dennis Stanton catches him retrieving it, he makes the obligatory 'frozen assets' joke.

* Variant: In ''Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches'', the key to the study (in which some items of value can be found) is hidden in the refrigerator.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': One Crook Of The Week hid the ledger of his crimes in the freezer. In the fishsticks box.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In the Picayune Pot story arc, Boris Badenov (as gangster Baby Face Braunschweiger) hides out with stolen money in what he thinks is a regular building but is actually an ice factory. Rocky makes two blocks of ice come out--one with Baby Face, the other with the bank money.
-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Well, whaddayaknow. [[{{Pun}} Frozen assets!]]

* Jade Goody (best known from UK ''Series/BigBrother'' in 2002) wrote in her autobiography that when she was a child, her mother was involved in spending money using stolen cheque books. When she was caught doing this, young Jade managed to rush into the house before the police got in, and she hid all the cheque books which were lying around in the freezer.

Expect an {{Pun}} about 'frozen assets'.

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* Parodied in a [[Creator/CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse McDuck]] comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look. He apparently didn't realize that many burglars also like to take some late-night snack when they're at it.

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* Gloriously lampshaded in ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' when their house was robbed. When Blanche discovered her jewels missing from their hiding place in the flour, Dorothy tells her everyone hides their valuables in the flour and the freezer.
-->'''Blanche''' The freezer's my other hiding place.\\
'''Dorothy''' It's everybody's. The robbers know that. They don't even open drawers anymore.
** At the end of the episode, it's discovered that the jewels were actually hidden in the freezer which was the one place the robbers did '''NOT''' look.

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* The 2006 film ''Film/TheSentinel'' has Creator/MichaelDouglas as a framed Secret Service agent who finds a foreign operative who is part of the conspiracy, and when doing a search of his apartment, rips the magnetic seal around the refrigerator door and finds fake passports and bricks of cash inside the door.

Expect an IncrediblyLamePun about 'frozen assets'.

-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Well, whaddayaknow. [[IncrediblyLamePun Frozen assets!]]

%%* ''Film/{{Shaft}}''

* The 2006 film ''Film/TheSentinel'' has MichaelDouglas as a framed Secret Service agent who finds a foreign operative who is part of the conspiracy, and when doing a search of his apartment, rips the magnetic seal around the refrigerator door and finds fake passports and bricks of cash inside the door.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', robbers looking for the resident GadgeteerGenius's latest invention crack into his safe, and find his lunch. Reasoning that the inventor's a little absent minded, they look in the fridge and sure enough, the invention is in there.

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-->''Members of the jury, an Englishman's freezer is his castle''...
-->'''Horace Rumpole''', ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey''

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* Parodied in a [[CarlBarks Scrooge]] [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse McDuck]] comic where Uncle Scrooge fills his vault with refrigerators filled with his cash because fridges are the last place robbers look. He apparently didn't realize that many burglars also like to take some late-night snack when they're at it.

* ''Film/{{Shaft}}''

* The WhoopiGoldberg movie ''Film/{{Burglar}}'' has her robbing someone's apartment, as a thief-for-hire, looking for jewelry belonging to the woman who hired her. The loot is discovered inside boxes of frozen foods hidden in the freezer.

* In the Wim Wenders movie ''Until the End of the World'' (1991), the main character, Claire Tourneur, uses a futuristic looking fridge to stash the bills bank robbers gave her for transporting their loot into Paris.

Cold Cash refers to people using the refrigerator or freezer as a place to store valuables, usually cash.

* ''{{Shaft}}''
* ''CoyoteUgly''. Violet's best friend tosses a roll of cash into her freezer in case of emergency... and even that is cleaned out after robbers ransack the apartment.
* Apparently done in the ''ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'' movie... the trailer shows the main character pulling her credit card out of the freezer, where she's stored it in a block of ice to try and prevent herself from actually using it, although this is also seriously recommended by financial recovery sites as a method for reducing credit card use.
* The WhoopiGoldberg movie ''{{Burglar}}'' has her robbing someone's apartment, as a thief-for-hire, looking for jewelry belonging to the woman who hired her. The loot is discovered inside boxes of frozen foods hidden in the freezer.

* One ''TalesOfTheUnexpected'' short story had a couple hide a diamond in the ice tray, but a burglar found it anyway. [[spoiler:Turns out he'd helped himself to a drink and swallowed it.]]

* Gloriously lampshaded in ''TheGoldenGirls'' when their house was robbed. When Blanche discovered her jewels missing from their hiding place in the flour, Dorothy tells her everyone hides their valuables in the flour and the freezer.

* ''{{Fillmore}}'': One Crook Of The Week hid the ledger of his crimes in the freezer. In the fishsticks box.

* ''RockyAndBullwinkle'': In the Picayune Pot story arc, Boris Badenov (as gangster Baby Face Braunschweiger) hides out with stolen money in what he thinks is a regular building but is actually an ice factory. Rocky makes two blocks of ice come out--one with Baby Face, the other with the bank money.

* ''{{Hustle}}'': 'Liability' Finch keeps his entire stash hidden in his freezer.

* In the online segment "Ask a Spy" from ''BurnNotice'', Michael reveals that hiding valuables in the freezer isn't a good idea because professional thieves will find the loot easily.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMeetsTheBooBrothers'': Shaggy has an Uncle who once hid a jewel inside a refrigerator. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Shaggy's Uncle indeed.]]

* ''RockyAndBullwinkle'': In the Picayune Pot story arc, Boris Badenov (as gangster Baby Face Braunschweiger) hides out wi9th stolen money in what he thinks is a regular building but is actually an ice factory. Rocky makes two blocks of ice come out--one with Baby Face, the other with the bank money.

* ''RockyAndBullwinkle'': In the Picayune Pot story arc, Boris Badenov (as gagster Baby Face Braunschweiger) hides out wi9th stolen money in what he thinks is a regular building but is actually an ice factory. Rocky makes two blocks of ice come out--one with Baby Face, the other with the bank money.