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* The boys of the ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' can't grasp normal 'commoner' things like the supermarket. Haruhi, in the meantime, feels her blood pressure rising.

* Cave Johnson, the founder of Aperture Science, from ''{{Portal}} 2''. He's rich enough to hire dozens of astronauts and olympic athletes to be a part of his test programs, but he's stupid and inconsiderate enough to get them all killed by his impossibly hard test courses. Admittedly, he was insane from mercury poisoning, but his craziness lead to some AchievementsInIgnorance.

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* Mr. Pewterschmidt from ''FamilyGuy'' turns out to be like this when he [[ResetButton temporarily]] loses his fortune. He can't even go to the bathroom properly.
** When Peter is on a road trip with Carter, [[{{Microsoft}} Bill Gates]] and [[WaltDisney Michael Eisner]] and they reach a toll gate.
-->'''Bill Gates''': What's a quarter?
* WillSmith's kids act like this when Smith moves to SouthPark:
-->Token: I'm just so happy you guys moved into town. You see, I used to be the only rich kid. All the other families here are kinda low to middle-income.
-->Lisa: Why? What happened to all their money?
-->Token: Well, they never really had any money.
-->Lisa: Well, then, why don't their daddies just act in a movie?
* On the ''{{Animaniacs}}'', the Hip Hippos tried to do all their own chores when their maid quit, and failed miserably.
* [[{{Metalocalypse}} Dethklock]] had trouble shopping at supermarket, or "food library", as they thought it was called. In fact, most episodes are about them trying to do things outside their comfort zone. This despite the fact that their music isn't exactly the kind clueless rich people would play.
* Mr. Burns from ''TheSimpsons'' was lost in the "real world" when he lost his fortune.
* The Bluff family from ''{{Doug}}'' seems to have this problem in spades. In one episode, Mr. Bluff is trying to "inspire" Doug with the story of how he started his bumper sticker business all by himself before he remembered he was filthy rich and hired people to do all the hard work for him. In another, Beebe needs to have the meaning of "broke" explained to her.
* Courtney Gripling from '"AsToldByGinger'' seems to have a hard time with this.

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* ''AbsolutelyFabulous''

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* Veronica Lodge of the ArchieComics doesn't know that camping =/= telling your butler to bring you a first class dinner by helicopter to the woods.

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* There was a RealityTV show where millionaires went to live with lower-income folks for a week/month/whatever, that seemed to use this as part of the premise.
* The show ''Undercover Boss'' features the owner/CEO/president of a large corporation working anonymously (with a cover story given as to why a camera crew is following this person around) at an entry-level jobs within the corporation. It's fairly common for them to be really bad at it. The premiere episode actually featured the president of the company being fired (in his fake identity) by his supervisor for being so inept at his job...of cleaning out Porta-Potties.

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* The Carrington sisters in EliteBeatAgents don't know how to eat bananas; they're too used to French or Italian food.
* Mitsuru Kirijo, the {{Ojou}} of ''{{Persona 3}}'', is at a loss as to how to function in a fast food restaurant and (in a classic case of [[{{Irony}} situational irony]]) is unable to buy food at a vendor's stand because it doesn't accept credit cards.
* Luke Fon Fabre of ''TalesOfTheAbyss'' starts out like this, as an effect of his LaserGuidedAmnesia and the fact that ever since he lost his memory, he hasn't been allowed outside his parents' manor. As a result, he doesn't even know how to buy things at a shop.

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* ScottWesterfeld's Literature/{{Leviathan}} has Alek, a sheltered rich sort-of-prince, who, when disguised as a commoner, doesn't even know how to pay for a newspaper.
* Prince Edvard from ''ThePrinceAndMe'' goes to an American college where no one recognizes him and he pretends to be normal student. He actually keeps everyone from realizing who he is (until the tabloids find him) but his disguise is somewhat hurt by the butler who works for him in his dorm room.

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Safe" Simon walks into a General Store and can't figure out what a postholer is. Later this contributes to a [=CMoA=] as River's ItHasBeenAnHonor is "Postholer, digging holes for posts."

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Safe" Simon walks into a General Store and can't figure out what a postholer is. Later this contributes to a [[=CMoA=]] as River's ItHasBeenAnHonor is "Postholer, digging holes for posts."

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode "Safe" Simon walks into a General Store and can't figure out what a postholer is. Later this contributes to a CMoA as River's ItHasBeenAnHonor is "Postholer, for digging holes."

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* London Tipton from ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''.

* Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock.
-->'''Tracy:''' ''(trying to relate to a 'normal' person)'' "Hey, Rolly, you ever lose your remote control?"
-->'''Rolly:''' "Yeah!"
-->'''Tracy:''' "And then your wife start getting all mad because the roof won't close. And the bed that's in the shape of your face is getting rained on?"

* Tracy Jordan on ''30Rock''.

* Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock.

-->'''Tracy:''' ""And then your wife start getting all mad because the roof won't close. And the bed that's in the shape of your face is getting rained on?"

* Tracy Jordan on {{30 Rock}}

->Token: I'm just so happy you guys moved into town. You see, I used to be the only rich kid. All the other families here are kinda low to middle-income.
->Lisa: Why? What happened to all their money?
->Token: Well, they never really had any money.
->Lisa: Well, then, why don't their daddies just act in a movie?

* In Mel Brooks's ''StarWars'' parody, ''Spaceballs'', the bratty Princess Vespa doesn't fare as well as the two smugglers she falls in with when the three of them get stranded in the desert. As the leader of the group struggles across the sands moaning "Water....Water....", Vespa feels like she's dying because she doesn't have "Room service....Room service...."