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'''Anthony:''' Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?\\
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'''Anthony:''' Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he we have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?\\
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill; "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, [[AccidentalTruth through sheer coincidence, surprisingly accurate]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths Earth's one dollar bill; "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, [[AccidentalTruth through sheer coincidence, surprisingly accurate]].
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The most common "clue" used is the EyeOfProvidence on the one-dollar bill, a symbol typically associated with TheIlluminati, implying that America has been taken over (or was always being controlled) by an insidious Shadow Government that's responsible for everything bad that happens to you. Sometimes the clues aren't as obvious and the dollar has to be folded into various positions until it makes a picture.
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The most common "clue" used is the EyeOfProvidence on the one-dollar bill, a symbol typically associated with TheIlluminati, implying that America has been taken over (or was always being controlled) by an insidious Shadow Government ShadowGovernment that's responsible for everything bad that happens to you. Sometimes the clues aren't as obvious and the dollar has to be folded into various positions until it makes a picture.
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* Used as an in-universe [[Magazine/{{MAD}} Mad Fold-in gag]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', asking the question "What higher power do TV evangelists worship?", and folding to reveal the answer "[[GreedyTelevangelist The All Mighty Dollar]]".
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Not to be confused with LiteralMoneyMetaphor. See also FoldThePageFoldTheSpace, where folding paper is used as a PhlebotinumAnalogy for Quantum Physics, and MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot, where a crime like the theft or counterfeiting of cash can lead to a conspiracy.
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SubTrope of ConspiracyPlacement. Not to be confused with LiteralMoneyMetaphor. See also FoldThePageFoldTheSpace, where folding paper is used as a PhlebotinumAnalogy for Quantum Physics, and MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot, where a crime like the theft or counterfeiting of cash can lead to a conspiracy.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill. He proclaims that "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, through sheer coincidence, surprisingly accurate.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill. He proclaims that bill; "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, [[AccidentalTruth through sheer coincidence, surprisingly accurate.accurate]].
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-> '''Anthony''': Look what the Pentaverate did to our currency. Right? Normal five-dollar bill. Right?\\
'''Reilly''': Right?\\
'''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?\\
'''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
'''Reilly''': Right?\\
'''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?\\
'''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
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-> '''Anthony''': '''Anthony:''' Look what the Pentaverate did to our currency. Right? Normal five-dollar bill. Right?\\
'''Reilly''': '''Reilly:''' Right?\\
'''Anthony''': '''Anthony:''' Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?\\
'''Reilly''': '''Reilly:''' To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Anthony''':''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Anthony:''' It's like they're taunting us!
'''Anthony''':
'''Anthony:''' It's like they're taunting us!
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--->''Look at this money''\\
''Who's that honey?''\\
''Look throughout history''\\
''How could you miss me?''
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''Who's that honey?''\\
''Look throughout history''\\
''How could you miss me?''
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'':
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--->''Look at this money''\\
''Who'smoney\\
Who's thathoney?''\\
''Lookhoney?\\
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''Howhistory\\
How could you miss me?''
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' episode "[[Recap/TimeSquadS01Ep25WhereTheBuffaloBillRoams Where the Buffalo Bill Roams]]", the guys meet Buffalo Bill who is depicted here as being a full blown conspiracy theorist. He tries to convince Otto that the United States government has been in cahoots with aliens since 1776 and to prove it he shows him a dollar bill with what appears to be a flying saucer on the back. Otto points out to him that the "flying saucer" is actually barbecue sauce.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' episode "[[Recap/TimeSquadS01Ep25WhereTheBuffaloBillRoams Where the Buffalo Bill Roams]]", the guys meet Buffalo Bill who is depicted here as being a full blown full-blown conspiracy theorist. He tries to convince Otto that the United States government has been in cahoots with aliens since 1776 and to prove it he shows him a dollar bill with what appears to be a flying saucer on the back. Otto points out to him that the "flying saucer" is actually barbecue sauce.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill. He proclaims that "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, through shear coincidence, surprisingly accurate.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill. He proclaims that "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, through shear sheer coincidence, surprisingly accurate.
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** In the [[Recap/InsideJobS1E1Unpresidented first episode]], Rand rants incoherent conspiracy theories to a crowd of people in front of the White House, one of which being a dollar bill he had folded to spell "Boobs". Given that he was doing it to get his daughter's attention and he helped run the Shadow Government, it's likely he was mocking the trope.
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** In the [[Recap/InsideJobS1E1Unpresidented first episode]], Rand rants incoherent conspiracy theories to a crowd of people in front of the White House, one of which being a dollar bill he had folded to spell "Boobs". Given that he was doing it to get his daughter's attention and he helped run the Shadow Government, it's likely he was mocking the trope. It also doubles as a reference to a popular joke with the American $1 bill, where it can be folded to read "Tits of America."
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* Some of the old Polish zloty (PLZ) banknotes had "Banknotes emitted by the National Polish Bank are legal tender in Poland" [[note]]"Banknoty emitowane przez Narodowy Bank Polski s? prawnym ?rodkiem p?atniczym w Polsce."[[/note]] written on the bottom. With a simple fold, the line could be made to say [[MoneyForNothing "...are nothing in Poland"]][[note]]"...s? (hidden under fold)niczym w Polsce."[[/note]], which in the days of Soviet-controlled planned economy wasn't that far off the mark.
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* Some of the old Polish zloty (PLZ) banknotes had "Banknotes emitted by the National Polish Bank are legal tender in Poland" [[note]]"Banknoty emitowane przez Narodowy Bank Polski s? są prawnym ?rodkiem p?atniczym środkiem płatniczym w Polsce."[[/note]] written on the bottom. With a simple fold, the line could be made to say [[MoneyForNothing "...are nothing in Poland"]][[note]]"...s? Poland"]][[note]]" "...są (hidden under fold)niczym w Polsce."[[/note]], which wasn't that far off the mark in the days of Soviet-controlled planned economy wasn't that far off the mark.economy.
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-> '''Anthony''': Look what the Pentaverate did to our currency. Right? Normal five-dollar bill. Right?
-> '''Reilly''': Right?
-> '''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?
-> '''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?
-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
-> '''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
-> '''Reilly''': Right?
-> '''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?
-> '''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?
-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
-> '''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
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-> '''Anthony''': Look what the Pentaverate did to our currency. Right? Normal five-dollar bill. Right?
->Right?\\
'''Reilly''':Right?
->Right?\\
'''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five rightthere?
->there?\\
'''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five Americandollars?
-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
->dollars?\\
''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
->
'''Reilly''':
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'''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right
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-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
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''[{{Beat}}]''\\
'''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
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--->''Look throughout history''
--->''How could you miss me?''
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--->''Look at this money''
--->''Who'smoney''\\
>''Who's thathoney?''
--->''Lookhoney?''\\
>''Look throughouthistory''
--->''Howhistory''\\
>''How could you miss me?''
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[WebAnimation/DarkMatter2525 Reason #2 will B-B-B-B-BLOW YOUR MIND!!!]]]]
-> '''Anthony''': Look what the Pentaverate did to our currency. Right? Normal five-dollar bill. Right?
-> '''Reilly''': Right?
-> '''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?
-> '''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?
-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
-> '''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
-->-- ''Series/ThePentaverate'', Episode 3
When a dollar bill is used to demonstrate that there is an AncientConspiracy woven into the very fabric of society.
The most common "clue" used is the EyeOfProvidence on the one-dollar bill, a symbol typically associated with TheIlluminati, implying that America has been taken over (or was always being controlled) by an insidious Shadow Government that's responsible for everything bad that happens to you. Sometimes the clues aren't as obvious and the dollar has to be folded into various positions until it makes a picture.
While usual examples of the trope happen in [[ConspiracyKitchenSink a world where the conspiracies are real]], the use of money to find clues is still portrayed as ridiculous, [[RightForTheWrongReasons the theorists looking for proof in all the wrong places]] or the "proof" being too vague for anyone without a lot of time on their hands to find credible.
While it doesn't ''have'' to be [[UsefulNotes/AmericanMoney American currency]], the American dollar is the most common example.
Not to be confused with LiteralMoneyMetaphor. See also FoldThePageFoldTheSpace, where folding paper is used as a PhlebotinumAnalogy for Quantum Physics, and MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot, where a crime like the theft or counterfeiting of cash can lead to a conspiracy.
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* ''Film/NationalTreasure'': To figure out when the shadow of Independence Hall will reveal the next clue to find the Templar Treasure, Ben Gates magnifies the painting of Independence Hall on the back of a $100 bill to read the time on the clock tower. The fact that they do find the next clue at the time depicted (adjusted for Daylight Savings Time) lends further proof that the secret treasure might be real.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Parodied in the third episode of ''Series/ThePentaverate''. When Anthony tries to justify his conspiracy-addiction to Reilly, he demonstrates his reasoning by showing her a five-dollar bill. He intricately folds it, only to point to the five on the bill, stating that it represents [[BenevolentConspiracy The Pentaverate]]. When Reilly points out the real reason for the number five -- that it shows that the bill is worth five dollars -- the reasoning flies right over his head.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE the first episode to feature the Lone Gunmen]], a trio of conspiracy theorists who help Mulder and Scully in several cases, Byers tears a magnetic strip out of a $20 bill belonging to Scully, claiming the strip is being used by the covert organisation within the American government to track money being carried through metal detectors at airports. Scully replies that it is simply an anti-counterfeiting device.
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* In the ''Blog/WhatIf'' entry "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/ All the Money]]", it's implied that all US currency is all under the control of an EldritchAbomination that resembles the EyeOfProvidence, this being the reason why the symbol is on the $1 bill.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** One of Bill Cipher's {{Early Bird Cameo}}s is on the [[https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_Cipher?file=S1e8_-12_dollar_bill.png#Season_1_2 -12 dollar bill]] in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E8IrrationalTreasure Irrational Treasure]]", where he replaces the Eye of Providence, complete with limbs and hat.
** Bill Cipher was explicitly modeled after the EyeOfProvidence, and in a [[DeletedScene deleted musical number]] he points this out:
--->''Look at this money''
--->''Who's that honey?''
--->''Look throughout history''
--->''How could you miss me?''
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'':
** In the montage of images in the opening title sequence, two of the images show the $100 dollar bill, one of them normal, the other portraying Benajmin Franklin as a Satanic goat-man with the number 100 replaced with 666.
** In the [[Recap/InsideJobS1E1Unpresidented first episode]], Rand rants incoherent conspiracy theories to a crowd of people in front of the White House, one of which being a dollar bill he had folded to spell "Boobs". Given that he was doing it to get his daughter's attention and he helped run the Shadow Government, it's likely he was mocking the trope.
---> '''Rand''': What does it ''mean?''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E1SexualHealing Sexual Healing]]", the Head Scientist goes to Barack Obama and explains that money has a direct link to sex addiction. He then shows a zoomed image of a $100 bill to reveal the picture of Independence Hall. Obama then reveals that that [[RoswellThatEndsWell the Roswell Aliens carried a virus that was barely contained]], but has been set loose by an Alien Wizard in Independence Hall. Of course, the whole thing is ''itself'' a conspiracy drummed up by the nation's men so that they don't have to take responsibility for their bad sexual habits.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill. He proclaims that "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, through shear coincidence, surprisingly accurate.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' episode "[[Recap/TimeSquadS01Ep25WhereTheBuffaloBillRoams Where the Buffalo Bill Roams]]", the guys meet Buffalo Bill who is depicted here as being a full blown conspiracy theorist. He tries to convince Otto that the United States government has been in cahoots with aliens since 1776 and to prove it he shows him a dollar bill with what appears to be a flying saucer on the back. Otto points out to him that the "flying saucer" is actually barbecue sauce.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Following the 2003 debut of a redesign for the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanMoney $20 USD bill]], people discovered that, [[https://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-$20-Bill-Into-a-Picture-of-the-Twin-Towers by folding it a certain way]], one can make the rear illustration resemble [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the World Trade Center on fire]]. The coincidence became a popular schoolyard parlor trick, and the fact that it was discovered concurrently with the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories resulted in dollar bill origami becoming a popular shorthand for nutty ConspiracyTheorist characters.
* Some of the old Polish zloty (PLZ) banknotes had "Banknotes emitted by the National Polish Bank are legal tender in Poland" [[note]]"Banknoty emitowane przez Narodowy Bank Polski s? prawnym ?rodkiem p?atniczym w Polsce."[[/note]] written on the bottom. With a simple fold, the line could be made to say [[MoneyForNothing "...are nothing in Poland"]][[note]]"...s? (hidden under fold)niczym w Polsce."[[/note]], which in the days of Soviet-controlled planned economy wasn't that far off the mark.
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-> '''Anthony''': Look what the Pentaverate did to our currency. Right? Normal five-dollar bill. Right?
-> '''Reilly''': Right?
-> '''Anthony''': Wrongo! You fold it this way, you fold it that way, you fold it this way, and lookee here what he have. The five. Like the five members of the Pentaverate. It's right there! Think about it. Why would they put a five right there?
-> '''Reilly''': To indicate the bill has a monetary value of five American dollars?
-> ''[{{Beat}}]''
-> '''Anthony''': It's like they're taunting us!
-->-- ''Series/ThePentaverate'', Episode 3
When a dollar bill is used to demonstrate that there is an AncientConspiracy woven into the very fabric of society.
The most common "clue" used is the EyeOfProvidence on the one-dollar bill, a symbol typically associated with TheIlluminati, implying that America has been taken over (or was always being controlled) by an insidious Shadow Government that's responsible for everything bad that happens to you. Sometimes the clues aren't as obvious and the dollar has to be folded into various positions until it makes a picture.
While usual examples of the trope happen in [[ConspiracyKitchenSink a world where the conspiracies are real]], the use of money to find clues is still portrayed as ridiculous, [[RightForTheWrongReasons the theorists looking for proof in all the wrong places]] or the "proof" being too vague for anyone without a lot of time on their hands to find credible.
While it doesn't ''have'' to be [[UsefulNotes/AmericanMoney American currency]], the American dollar is the most common example.
Not to be confused with LiteralMoneyMetaphor. See also FoldThePageFoldTheSpace, where folding paper is used as a PhlebotinumAnalogy for Quantum Physics, and MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot, where a crime like the theft or counterfeiting of cash can lead to a conspiracy.
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!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/NationalTreasure'': To figure out when the shadow of Independence Hall will reveal the next clue to find the Templar Treasure, Ben Gates magnifies the painting of Independence Hall on the back of a $100 bill to read the time on the clock tower. The fact that they do find the next clue at the time depicted (adjusted for Daylight Savings Time) lends further proof that the secret treasure might be real.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Parodied in the third episode of ''Series/ThePentaverate''. When Anthony tries to justify his conspiracy-addiction to Reilly, he demonstrates his reasoning by showing her a five-dollar bill. He intricately folds it, only to point to the five on the bill, stating that it represents [[BenevolentConspiracy The Pentaverate]]. When Reilly points out the real reason for the number five -- that it shows that the bill is worth five dollars -- the reasoning flies right over his head.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E17EBE the first episode to feature the Lone Gunmen]], a trio of conspiracy theorists who help Mulder and Scully in several cases, Byers tears a magnetic strip out of a $20 bill belonging to Scully, claiming the strip is being used by the covert organisation within the American government to track money being carried through metal detectors at airports. Scully replies that it is simply an anti-counterfeiting device.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Original]]
* In the ''Blog/WhatIf'' entry "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/111/ All the Money]]", it's implied that all US currency is all under the control of an EldritchAbomination that resembles the EyeOfProvidence, this being the reason why the symbol is on the $1 bill.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** One of Bill Cipher's {{Early Bird Cameo}}s is on the [[https://gravityfalls.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_Cipher?file=S1e8_-12_dollar_bill.png#Season_1_2 -12 dollar bill]] in "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E8IrrationalTreasure Irrational Treasure]]", where he replaces the Eye of Providence, complete with limbs and hat.
** Bill Cipher was explicitly modeled after the EyeOfProvidence, and in a [[DeletedScene deleted musical number]] he points this out:
--->''Look at this money''
--->''Who's that honey?''
--->''Look throughout history''
--->''How could you miss me?''
* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'':
** In the montage of images in the opening title sequence, two of the images show the $100 dollar bill, one of them normal, the other portraying Benajmin Franklin as a Satanic goat-man with the number 100 replaced with 666.
** In the [[Recap/InsideJobS1E1Unpresidented first episode]], Rand rants incoherent conspiracy theories to a crowd of people in front of the White House, one of which being a dollar bill he had folded to spell "Boobs". Given that he was doing it to get his daughter's attention and he helped run the Shadow Government, it's likely he was mocking the trope.
---> '''Rand''': What does it ''mean?''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E1SexualHealing Sexual Healing]]", the Head Scientist goes to Barack Obama and explains that money has a direct link to sex addiction. He then shows a zoomed image of a $100 bill to reveal the picture of Independence Hall. Obama then reveals that that [[RoswellThatEndsWell the Roswell Aliens carried a virus that was barely contained]], but has been set loose by an Alien Wizard in Independence Hall. Of course, the whole thing is ''itself'' a conspiracy drummed up by the nation's men so that they don't have to take responsibility for their bad sexual habits.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': At the end of "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E31KeepBeachCityWeird Keep Beach City Weird]]", Ronaldo comes up with a new conspiracy based on the diamond on their earths one dollar bill. He proclaims that "polymorphic sentient rocks" have come to "hollow out the earth" as part of the "diamond authority". Like many of Ronaldo's theories, this is, through shear coincidence, surprisingly accurate.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' episode "[[Recap/TimeSquadS01Ep25WhereTheBuffaloBillRoams Where the Buffalo Bill Roams]]", the guys meet Buffalo Bill who is depicted here as being a full blown conspiracy theorist. He tries to convince Otto that the United States government has been in cahoots with aliens since 1776 and to prove it he shows him a dollar bill with what appears to be a flying saucer on the back. Otto points out to him that the "flying saucer" is actually barbecue sauce.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* Following the 2003 debut of a redesign for the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanMoney $20 USD bill]], people discovered that, [[https://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-$20-Bill-Into-a-Picture-of-the-Twin-Towers by folding it a certain way]], one can make the rear illustration resemble [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the World Trade Center on fire]]. The coincidence became a popular schoolyard parlor trick, and the fact that it was discovered concurrently with the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories resulted in dollar bill origami becoming a popular shorthand for nutty ConspiracyTheorist characters.
* Some of the old Polish zloty (PLZ) banknotes had "Banknotes emitted by the National Polish Bank are legal tender in Poland" [[note]]"Banknoty emitowane przez Narodowy Bank Polski s? prawnym ?rodkiem p?atniczym w Polsce."[[/note]] written on the bottom. With a simple fold, the line could be made to say [[MoneyForNothing "...are nothing in Poland"]][[note]]"...s? (hidden under fold)niczym w Polsce."[[/note]], which in the days of Soviet-controlled planned economy wasn't that far off the mark.
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