History Main / GarageSale

* The [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad Email]] "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin garage sale.]]"

** ''Series/HighRollers'': One of the special bonus games during the Wink Martindale era was called "Wink's Garage Sale," which -- depending on the roll of a die, awarded the contestant either a prize or [[{{Zonk}} a worthless gag gift]]" (such as a Mickey Mouse phone that might have been purchased at a Goodwill store).

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Al steals Woody from one of these.

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* The ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' episode "Love 'Em and Flea 'Em" begins with Two-Tone looking through a yard sale box for something she can wear to impress Mooch, hoping he'll ask to go to a dance with her. Her quote about yard sales has become quite {{memetic|Mutation}} among fans of the series.

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* In ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' Ray's parents have a yard sale; his father wants to charge $20 for a used thermos, claiming it was once used by Music/ElvisPresley.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E4TreehouseOfHorrorVIII Treehouse of Horror VIII]]" Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink, which leads to Bart reenacting ''Film/TheFly''.
** The episode "Two Bad Neighbors" begins with a neighborhood-wide yard sale before a HalfwayPlotSwitch shows Homer feuding with new neighbor UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush. When Flanders notices that someone bought the house, he notes that at least something was sold.

* A joke related to someone wanting to buy the garage itself.

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* A child is put in charge of sales and ends up selling items for much too little due to inexperience. Or they attempt to sell something they want to get rid of, like an annoying sibling.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Bang for Your Buck" has Mojo Jojo selling off some of his weapons because he's bankrupted himself building weapons. HilarityEnsues when one little old lady mistakes a disintegrator for a hairdryer. The girls and the Gangreen Gang compete to get enough money for a giant laser, but it is eventually sold to the Mayor.

* A child is put in charge of sales and ends up selling items for much too little due to inexperience.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E9RoadToRupert Road to Rupert]]" Brian accidentally sells Stewie's teddy bear Rupert in a garage sale, leading the two to go on a {{road trip|episode}} to find him.

* The ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Garage Sale". Lois puts Reese in charge to prove that he can handle things responsibly, and he ends up destroying an old computer worth thousands of dollars because he believed it was junk. Meanwhile, Dewey decides to start selling the family's furniture and appliances after everyone continuously ignores him.

* The Series/{{Stargate SG-1}} episode "Citizen Joe", the titular character Joe Spencer, finds an Ancient Communication Stone at a garage sale, and immediately buys it. This action allows him to see snippets of Jack O'Neill's life as the leader of SG-1, & later Stargate Command.

* The Series/{{Stargate SG-1}} episode "Citizen Joe", the titular character Joe Spencer, finds an Ancient Communication Stone at a garage sale, and immediately buys it. This action allows him to see snippets of Character/{{Jack O'Neill}}'s life as the leader of SG-1, & later Stargate Command.

* The [[Series/Stargate SG-1]] episode "Citizen Joe", the titular character Joe Spencer, finds an Ancient Communication Stone at a garage sale, and immediately buys it. This action allows him to see snippets of [[Character/Jack O'Neill]]'s life as the leader of SG-1, & later Stargate Command.

* The ''Series/Stargate SG-1'' episode "Citizen Joe", the titular character Joe Spencer, finds an Ancient Communication Stone at a garage sale, and immediately buys it. This action allows him to see snippets of ''Character/Jack O'Neill'''s life as the leader of SG-1, & later Stargate Command.

* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3250 Uncle Sam holds one]] in ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}''.

** The episode "Two Bad Neighbors" begins with a neighborhood-wide yard sale before a HalfwayPlotSwitch shows Homer feuding with new neighbor GeorgeHWBush. When Flanders notices that someone bought the house, he notes that at least something was sold.

Also known as a yard sale, estate sale, etc. In the UK they're additionally known as car boot sales and jumble sales.

* the person holding the sale trying to convince someone that a worthless piece of junk is a valuable antique.

* An ad for AT&T cell phones shows a garage sale in which the mother refuses to let her family sell their old, unused minutes since they're still perfectly good.
* '''[[BillyMays Wow! A yard sale!!]]'''

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' Al steals Woody from one of these.

* In the movie of ''{{Ghost World}}'' Enid has one of these, but ends up pissing off all her customers.

* There's a BabySittersClub book where the baby-sitters are running a fundraiser event with the local elementary school, and a few kids get the bright idea to run a garage sale! Cue a bunch of kids being yelled at for trying to sell daddy's books ("But you never read them!") or mommy's new shoes. I think the book was called ''Dawn and the Big Sleepover''.

* In Owl's Well That End's Well by Donna Andrews, the Protaganist and her fiance have bought as is a house previously inhabited by an elderly obsessive pack rat. In order to clear out the clutter, naturally they hold a yard sale. This gradually morphs into 30+ families selling things at the sale, a costume discount, a murder and another yard sale on the rest of their property when the original sale is closed due to the murder.

* on ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'' Ray's parents have a yard sale; his father wants to charge $20 for a used thermos, claiming it was once used by ElvisPresley.
* In one of the episodes of ''DeadLikeMe'', George goes to her mother's garage-sale to buy a doll that used to belong to her when she was alive. In another, Mason sells all of his earthly possessions at one when he thinks he's moving on[[spoiler:--only to find out that he's not at the end of the episode.]]
* ''Series/CharlesInCharge'' one of the Powell's kids is left in charge of a family yard sale, and decides to move it ''inside'' the house when it starts raining, resulting in several non-sale items getting sold/stolen.
* The ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Garage Sale". Lois puts Reese in charge to prove that he can handle things responsibly, and he ends up destroying an old computer worth thousands of dollars because he believed it was junk. Meanwhile, Dewey decides to start selling the family's furniture and appliances after everyone continuously ignores him.

* ''{{Achewood}}:'' Teodor has a sale to make money for rent. With Roast Beef's help, he makes over 1800 dollars "selling chipped egg cups and gummy scissors to people who squashed the backs of their shoes down with their heels instead of working their heels all the way into their shows."

* One arc of ''{{Nodwick}}'' has the party holding a massive yard sale to get rid of the incredible assortment of junk they've looted from dungeons and had Nodwick cart home. Complications ensue when Piffany sets up a lemonade stand and the lemonade gets spiked with LovePotion.
* [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3250 Uncle Sam holds one]] in ''{{Sinfest}}''.

* In a Treehouse of Horror episode of ''TheSimpsons'' Homer buys a matter transporter from Professor Frink, which leads to Bart reenacting ''TheFly''.
** Another episode of ''The Simpsons'' begins with a neighborhood-wide yard sale before a HalfwayPlotSwitch shows Homer feuding with new neighbor GeorgeHWBush.
** Homer buys Flanders' barbeque grill and his living room furniture at a very low price when Flanders puts a yard sale when his left-handed business was failing.
* On ''FamilyGuy'' Brian accidentally sells Stewie's teddy bear Rupert in a garage sale, leading the two to go on a {{Quest}} to find him.
* Timmy's parents on ''TheFairlyOddparents'' got a "priceless" Ming vase at a garage sale for $1.

* One ''PowerpuffGirls'' story has Mojo Jojo selling off some of his weapons because he's bankrupted himself building weapons. HilarityEnsues when one little old lady mistakes a disintegrator for a hairdryer.
* ''[[RockosModernLife Rocko's Modern Life]]'' has Rocko and Heffer holding a sale to make money to pay their pizza tab. Rocko makes enough money by selling his childhood pogo stick, then realizes he can't part with it and buys it back. Fortunately, he still ends up in the black because the melted action figure Heffer donated is bought by an art lover who mistakes it for a sculpture
* In the ''PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Finding Mary McGuffin," Candace's favorite old doll is accidentally sold at their garage sale and Phineas and Ferb play detective to get it back. [[HarmlessVillain Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] also buys a used [[ThingOMatic Inator]] at a garage sale and tries to figure out what it does.

* In an episode of ''{{Rugrats}}'' the kids misunderstand the purpose of a yard sale and somehow manage to get ''everything'' in the house - including the furniture - out on the lawn, where their relatives assume that each item was put up for sale by one of the others, and sell it to some random passerby for far less than it's worth. Each adult thinks the sale was quite successful, until they come back inside and find the house completely empty.
* Happened in ''BeavisAndButthead'' when the duo watch over Tom Anderson's yard sale. They end up selling his stuffs inside his house at very low prices, believing they ripped the buyers off.
* Mr. Krabs from ''SpongeBobSquarePants'' has a yard sale of all his garbage and lies through his teeth to get people to buy his junk, including selling [=SpongeBob=] a soda-drink hat with a "#1" on the front. He finds out moments after [=SpongeBob=] leaves that the hat is actually worth a fortune and spends the rest of the episode trying to get it back.
* The ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' episode "Love 'Em and Flea 'Em" begins with Two-Tone looking through a yard sale box for something she can wear to impress Mooch, hoping he'll ask to go to a dance with her. Her quote about yard sales has become quite [[MemeticMutation memetic]] among fans of the series.

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* A garage sale can be seen in the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' level Hard Rain... with various firearms and deadly melee instruments on sale.
* In ''VideoGame/KillingFloor'', one of the "Get to the Trader" quotes is "Time for a car boot sale, I feel..." Only in this case, the car boot sale is run by an [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts incredibly heavily armed woman charging for powerful ordnance in a]] [[TechnicallyLivingZombie not-zombie]] [[ZombieApocalypse apocalypse]].
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* ''CharlesInCharge'' one of the Powell's kids is left in charge of a family yard sale, and decides to move it ''inside'' the house when it starts raining, resulting in several non-sale items getting sold/stolen.