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One good indicator of a BrokeEpisode is some commodity to be lost due to not having enough money to pay the bill for it.
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One good indicator of a BrokeEpisode is some commodity to be lost due to not having enough money to pay the bill for it. Or sometimes it'll simply be a mistake that causes the MagicalComputer or some vital piece of AppliedPhlebbotinum to be unavailable [[ContrivedCoincidence at the most drama-inducing moment possible.]]
TruthInTelevision for some payment plans, particularly for electricity or gas; up until the mid-1980s, the standard method of paying for these in Britain and possibly some other countries was to actually feed coins into a device rather like a parking meter, and someone from the supplier would come round once a month to collect it. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensuing]] as the protagonist fumbles around trying to put a coin into the meter and turn the handle by torchlight was once a SitCom staple. The modern equivalent uses RFID-based "keys" that can be charged up with funds at the post office or most convenience stores, leaving you royally shafted if the meter is ticking down and everything's about to shut.
TruthInTelevision for some payment plans, particularly for electricity or gas; up until the mid-1980s, the standard method of paying for these in Britain and possibly some other countries was to actually feed coins into a device rather like a parking meter, and someone from the supplier would come round once a month to collect it. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensuing]] as the protagonist fumbles around trying to put a coin into the meter and turn the handle by torchlight was once a SitCom staple. The modern equivalent uses RFID-based "keys" that can be charged up with funds at the post office or most convenience stores, leaving you royally shafted if the meter is ticking down and everything's about to shut.
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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': in one episode the BBC ran out of money, and the gas & heat had been turned off in the flat they used as their studio.
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* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': in one episode the BBC ran out of money, and the gas & heat had been turned off in the flat they used as their studio. The narrator is pleased to announce that the pawn shop has accepted to buy his watch, wich should get them a few more minutes of broadcasting.
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** It gets better - Shake, being immune to learning lessons, solves the problem by stealing power from Carl's house, which burns down due to "bad wiring" (Carl is [[ItMakesSenseInContext too wasted to care]]).
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* In one episode of ''TheRealGhostbusters'', the Ghostmaster curses the Ghostbusters so no plumbing or electrical devices within forty feet from any of them would work. After they defeated him and broke the curse, they were watching television to celebrate until it stopped working because Peter forgot to pay the electric bill.
** In another episode, a ghost family moves inside the Ghostbusters' headquarters. When the busters return and find themselves unable to open the front door. Peter asked if they forgot to pay the rent and Egon answered that the place is theirs and they don't have to pay rent.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer once forgot to pay for the insurance. When he remembered, he left an envelope with the money at the insurance company, where he found a message saying they'd not return until 15:00. He was then worried something would happen before then.
** In another episode, a ghost family moves inside the Ghostbusters' headquarters. When the busters return and find themselves unable to open the front door. Peter asked if they forgot to pay the rent and Egon answered that the place is theirs and they don't have to pay rent.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer once forgot to pay for the insurance. When he remembered, he left an envelope with the money at the insurance company, where he found a message saying they'd not return until 15:00. He was then worried something would happen before then.
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* In the "Joker's Millions" episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries,'' Joker's running out of everything. No money for bullets, gas, gadgets, and so on.
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* In the "Joker's Millions" episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries,'' ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries,'' Joker's running out of everything. No money for bullets, gas, gadgets, and so on.
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* Happens in ''TheDarkKnightRises'' after [[spoiler: Bane ruins Bruce's fortune. Electricity to Wayne Manor is shut off not long after, because he can't afford it anymore.]]
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* Happens in ''TheDarkKnightRises'' ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' after [[spoiler: Bane ruins Bruce's fortune. Electricity to Wayne Manor is shut off not long after, because he can't afford it anymore.]]
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* One issue of ''JudgeDredd'' taking place on the moon has a band of robbers suffocating because they hadn't paid the oxygen bill for their hideout.
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* Happens in TheDarkKnightRises after [[spoiler: Bane ruins Bruce's fortune. Electricity to Wayne Manor is shut off not long after, because he can't afford it anymore.]]
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* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': in one episode the BBC ran out of money, and the gas & heat had been turned off in the flat they used as their studio.
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* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': in one episode the BBC ran out of money, and the gas & heat had been turned off in the flat they used as their studio.
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* When ''DumbAndDumber'' finally noticed a sign of someone desiring to harm them, (and it's a miracle they did since they believed their pet bird's head [[WhatAnIdiot fell off its body]]) they assumed it was over the unpaid gas bill.
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* A pair of aristocrats joke that this is the cause of a [[http://mountaincomics.com/2012/03/01/mountain-time-337/ skeleton falling out of the sky]] in one ''Webcomic/MountainTime'' comic.
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* ''NaziZombies'': Nikolai Belinski sometimes says this in the beginning of Kino der Toten.
--> ''"Who didn't pay electric bill?"''
--> ''"Who didn't pay electric bill?"''
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* In the "Joker's Millions" episode of ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries,'' Joker's running out of everything. No money for bullets, gas, gadgets, and so on.
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* ''MegasXLR'': one episode was devoted to Coop trying to figure out why his TV wasn't working, and after "juicing" and destroying a planet-sized monster to save a satellite, his mother asks him if he paid the bill.
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* Subverted in the ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Super Squatter". Master Shake refuses to pay the bills because they're too expensive and flushes them down the toilet. Frylock ends up giving him a talking down to when their electricity, water and heat get shut off.
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* Subverted in the ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Super Squatter". Master Shake refuses to pay the bills because they're too expensive and flushes them down the toilet. Frylock ends up giving him a talking down to when their electricity, water and heat get shut off.
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* In the opening cutscene from ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'', the shield protecting Jade's house from alien invasion gets shut off because the bill wasn't paid.
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* In the opening cutscene from ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'', ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'', the shield protecting Jade's house from alien invasion gets shut off because the bill wasn't paid.
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* According to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', this is why [[StreetFighterAlpha Dan Hibiki]] missed out on [[StreetFighterII The Second World Warrior Tournament]]; since he's in PerpetualPoverty, he didn't pay his phone bill. Thus, his childhood friend Blanka was unable to contact Dan and tell him about the tournament.
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* According to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', this is why [[StreetFighterAlpha [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Dan Hibiki]] missed out on [[StreetFighterII [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII The Second World Warrior Tournament]]; since he's in PerpetualPoverty, he didn't pay his phone bill. Thus, his childhood friend Blanka was unable to contact Dan and tell him about the tournament.
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* ''[[{{ptitleaq93ou7hn02v}} SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Subverted. [=SpongeBob=] thinks Gary did this when the electricity goes out, but it was actually caused by the Blue Jellyfish cutting the wires.
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* ''[[{{ptitleaq93ou7hn02v}} SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': ''SpongeBobSquarePants'': Subverted. [=SpongeBob=] thinks Gary did this when the electricity goes out, but it was actually caused by the Blue Jellyfish cutting the wires.
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* Subverted in the ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Super Squatter". Master Shake refuses to pay the bills because they're too expensive and flushes them down the toilet. Frylock ends up giving him a talking down to when their electricity, water and heat get shut off.
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* According to ''StreetFighterIV'', this is why [[StreetFighterAlpha Dan Hibiki]] missed out on [[StreetFighterII The Second World Warrior Tournament]]; since he's in PerpetualPoverty, he didn't pay his phone bill. Thus, his childhood friend Blanka was unable to contact Dan and tell him about the tournament.
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* According to ''StreetFighterIV'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'', this is why [[StreetFighterAlpha Dan Hibiki]] missed out on [[StreetFighterII The Second World Warrior Tournament]]; since he's in PerpetualPoverty, he didn't pay his phone bill. Thus, his childhood friend Blanka was unable to contact Dan and tell him about the tournament.
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* Played hilariously straight in the Italian movie ''AmiciMiei'' (My Friends), where a woman tries to commit suicide by letting the gas leak... and fails because her husband didn't pay the bill.
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* Played hilariously straight in the Italian movie ''AmiciMiei'' ''Amici Miei'' (My Friends), where a woman tries to commit suicide by letting the gas leak... and fails because her husband didn't pay the bill.
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* Played hilariously straight in the Italian movie ''Amici Miei'' (My Friends), where a woman tries to commit suicide by letting the gas leak... and fails because her husband didn't pay the bill.
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* Played hilariously straight in the Italian movie ''Amici Miei'' ''AmiciMiei'' (My Friends), where a woman tries to commit suicide by letting the gas leak... and fails because her husband didn't pay the bill.
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* MacHall had this once. Ian neglected to pay the electric bill in lieu of buying some new video games. Oops. (Of course, in a later strip when the power goes out again, Ian is immediately blamed, even though that time it wasn't his fault)
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* MacHall had this once. In ''MacHall'', Ian neglected neglects to pay the electric bill in lieu of buying some new video games. Oops. (Of course, in a later strip when the power goes out again, Ian is immediately blamed, even though that time it wasn't isn't his fault)
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* MacHall had this once. Ian neglected to pay the electric bill in lieu of buying some new video games. Oops. (Of course, in a later strip when the power goes out again, Ian is immediately blamed, even though that time it wasn't his fault)
* MacHall had this once. Ian neglected to pay the electric bill in lieu of buying some new video games. Oops. (Of course, in a later strip when the power goes out again, Ian is immediately blamed, even though that time it wasn't his fault)
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* ''[[{{ptitleaq93ou7hn02v}} SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': subverted, SpongeBob thinks Gary did this when the electricity goes out, which was actually caused by the Blue Jellyfish cutting the wires.
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* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] once explained to his teacher that he couldn't do his homework because his parents didn't pay the ''[[GravityScrew gravity]]'' bill.
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* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] once explained In one ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strip, Calvin explains to his teacher that he couldn't do his homework because his parents didn't pay the ''[[GravityScrew gravity]]'' bill.
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* It was the basis for a whole episode of ''{{Bottom}}'', where the TV rental money got spent elsewhere and Richie and Eddie had to resort to playing chess - with [[HilarityEnsues hilarious consequences]], as usual.
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* The plot of the ''MickeyMouse'' short "Moving Day" is set in motion by the fact that Mickey and Donald haven't paid the rent in six months.
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* The plot of the ''MickeyMouse'' short "Moving Day" is set in motion by the fact that Mickey and Donald DonaldDuck haven't paid the rent in six months.
