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* ''WesternAnimation/RoboRoach'' has Reg win the lottery in one episode and is presented a giant cheque, but is then immediately dinged with various taxes, with Rube chiming in with "giant novelty cheque fee," ultimately leaving him with next to nothing.
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* The pilot of ''Series/CodeLISA'' has the boys see one on television and wish for it. It teleports back a couple of seconds later, to illustrate that magic is temporary in this 'verse.
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* The first episode of ''Series/WeirdScience'' has the boys see one on television and wish for it. It teleports back a couple of seconds later, to illustrate that magic is temporary in this 'verse.
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* Some (though not all) banks will actually accept giant novelty checks as valid so long as the necessary information -- name and bank account number of the payer, the bank where the paying account is located, amount, instruction to actually pay ("Pay to the order of...") -- is on there, because [[LoopholeAbuse there's no overarching rule that a valid check has to be a certain size]]. The novelty check itself won't be entered because it's physically cumbersome, but if the teller/manager is in a good mood they'll have a laugh and copy the information down on their own standard checks.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Chuckie is Rich", Chaz won ten million dollars in a sweepstakes with a giant check presented by [[Series/WheelOfFortune Pat Sajak]].
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** Springfield Elementary qualifies for and receives a government grant after Lisa gets an A+++ on a test ([[spoiler:though she cheated]]). The comptroller presents the school with a giant check.
---> '''Principal Skinner''': "I know a liquor store where we can cash this right now!"
---> '''Principal Skinner''': "I know a liquor store where we can cash this right now!"
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* [[https://campaignbrief.com/nab-gives-away-giant-cheques-i/ In a clever social experiment]], a bank in Australia put up giant checks on billboards valued at $2400 AUD. Naturally, passersby assumed that these were just ordinary advertisements, until it was revealed that if you signed your name on one, tore it down and took it to a branch, you could cash it in for the aforementioned amount.
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* In one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiZAyP4yx_U his videos]], Alpharad gets to hand out one of these with a value of two thousand dollars. And he is naturally excited about it.
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--> '''Happy:''' No no, I want mine now.
--> '''Official:''' I don't have any checks to ''give''.
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* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' has a two-second gag of Maeby receiving such a check and attempting to cash it. However, the bank doesn't have any double doors, the pen is chained to the counter, and Maeby is [[spoiler:pretending to need a wheelchair ]] at the time, so she finds the process very difficult.
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* In one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiZAyP4yx_U his videos]], Alpharad gets to hand out one of these with a value of two thousand dollars. And he is naturally excited about it.
-->'''Jacob''': [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat When I was a kid, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. All I knew was that I wanted to hand out comically large checks.]]
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* During the 1990s it was common for golf tournaments to play this trope straight by having the sponsor present the winner with a giant check in a ceremony immediately following the tournament. This was lampshaded in a commercial for the PGA Tour where Davis Love III offers a fan his check after a victory. The fan's overly excited reaction prompts Davis to ask a bystander, after the fan departs, whether the fan thought the check was real. The next shot was of the fan waiting in line at the bank holding the oversized check.
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** Homer, Bart and Grandpa use one as part of a scam they pull on Abe's fellow residents at the retirement castle. Homer and Bart show up wearing disguises and claiming Grandpa won ten million dollars. When Grandpa fakes a heart attack, Homer and Bart trick the other residents into bribing them for the check. One of the victims turn out to be a disguised agent who arrests Homer and Bart.
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** Homer, Bart and Grandpa use one as part of a scam they pull on Abe's fellow residents at the retirement castle. Homer and Bart show up wearing disguises and claiming Grandpa won ten million dollars. When Grandpa fakes a heart attack, Homer and Bart [[ViolinScam trick the other residents into bribing them for the check.check]]. One of the victims turn out to be a disguised agent who arrests Homer and Bart.
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* Following the 1983 announcement that Chrysler Corporation had repaid the $800 million loans that were [[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/14/business/chrysler-confirms-early-repayment.html credited with saving the company from collapse]], Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca had a giant check in the background in the announcement.
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* Done at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''. When Chris makes the offer at a chance to win an even bigger some, some helicopters airlift a novelty check so big it DWARFS THE ISLAND.
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** After Bart and Todd decide to call it a draw in a miniature golf tournament, each one receives a giant check worth half the money prize.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Chuckie is Rich", Chaz won ten million dollars in a sweepstakes with a giant check presented by [[Series/WheelOfFortune Pat Sajak]].
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* The winner of ''Series/MakingIt'' receives a giant ''wooden'' novelty check carved out of a log. It's heavy enough that at least two people are needed to present it.
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* On ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Michael Scott organizes a fun run as a benefit. The giant check is made out to "Science" and presented to a stripper in a sexy nurse's costume. The cost of having the giant check printed was over 50% of what they'd raised anyway.
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** Michael Scott organizes a fun run as a benefit. The giant check is made out to "Science" and presented to a stripper in a sexy nurse's costume. The cost of having the giant check printed was over 50% of what they'd raisedanyway.anyway.
** In another episode, Michael tries to turn a controversy around by publicly apologizing to a disgruntled client in front of reporters. His apology includes a giant check for "six months of free paper". The client is not impressed.
** Michael Scott organizes a fun run as a benefit. The giant check is made out to "Science" and presented to a stripper in a sexy nurse's costume. The cost of having the giant check printed was over 50% of what they'd raised
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* The ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'' was a parody of reality shows in which all of the supposed participants were actually actors, with the exception of the chosen "schmo," or "schmoes" in the case of the second season. At the end of each season, they were made to think that one of the other supposed participants had won, before the truth of the whole scheme was revealed and they were presented with giant novelty checks.
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* The ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'' was a parody of reality shows in which all of the supposed participants were actually actors, with the exception of the chosen "schmo," or "schmoes" in the case of the second season. At the end of each season, they were made to think that one of the other supposed participants had won, before the truth of the whole scheme was revealed and they were presented with giant novelty checks.
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* The ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'' was a parody of reality shows in which all of the supposed participants were actually actors, with the exception of the chosen "schmo," or "schmoes" in the case of the second season. At the end of each season, they were made to think that one of the other supposed participants had won, before the truth of the whole scheme was revealed and they were presented with giant novelty checks.
