History Main / WishingWell

** The star item introduced with ''Lucky Palms'' in ''Videogame/TheSims3'' is a wishing well (that looks more like a fountain). Sims can wish for Wealth, Love, Power, Happiness or a Child y throwing a coin in it, One can even fish in it and catch awesome fishes regardless of their fishing level. Coins can be stolen from it, and sometimes the Sim might get a Lucky Coin to play in casinos with by doing so.

* ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'': In "The Wishing Well", the kids find a well in the strawberry patch. Sam tells them that it's a wishing well, and that when he was young, he wished on it to become a fireman. In case the series title didn't give it away, that wish came true.

* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse and Penfold go on a trek to find the mystic inkwell of Merlin the Magician (episode "Where There's a Well, There's a Way"). Dropping a coin in the inkwell will make that person's wish come true. A hooded figure, Copper-Conk Cassidy, trails the heroes in hopes of finding the inkwell first so he can envelope the world in darkness and rule.
* A scene from the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] cartoon "Believe It Or Else" shows a native figure from India approaching a wishing well:
-->'''Native:''' O wishing well...o wishing well...I wish I had a million dollars.\\
'''Voice from well:''' (''echoing and slowly'') So do I!
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' features a wishing well in the shape of a walrus named Wyatt (though when he was first introduced in the episode "[[Recap/DragonTalesS2E5 One Big Wish]]", he was named Willie) who grants wishes to anyone who drops a coin in the well. For example, in the aforementioned episode, Max is tired of being small and makes a wish in the well to be bigger. Unfortunately, the wish works too well, and Max keeps growing bigger... and ''bigger''... and ''BIGGER''... and '''BIGGER'''... to the point where he's [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever gigantic]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' has one of these in the garden that's mysteriously walled off. She learns why when Amber tries to get a wish from it: it's a JackassGenie that will twist your wishes against you. Her father finally manages to negate her wishes, and warns her to stay away, saying that he paid a terrible price for it once. [[spoiler:As we learn in the finale, he wished to have children, and that's how the first queen suffered a DeathByChildbirth]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/PajamaSam Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When it's Dark Outside]]'', Sam meets an anthropomorphic wishing well in Darkness' garden. When Sam tosses in a penny and tries to make a wish, the Wishing Well wishes for him. When Sam asks why he did that, the Wishing Well says, "Who's the [[ExactWords Wishing Well]] here, you or me?".

** The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' Quickie following "Attack of the Mutant Guppies" has Orson collecting water from a well. When Wade asks Orson if he could make a wish in the well, Orson tries unsuccessfully to tell him that the well isn't for making wishes, it's for collecting water. Wade eventually manages to convince Orson to let him make a wish, and as he tosses in a coin, he wishes that nothing else would ever scare him. Just then, the Mutant Guppies pop out of the well and scare Orson and Wade.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Day of Doom", Garfield makes a wish in a well for no more Mondays. At the end, it turns out that the well is actually part of a race of well-like aliens.

** In the radio episode, "The Wishing Well Dance", a wishing well is placed in front of Madison High School to raise money. Mr. Boynton wants a lock of Miss Brooks hair; unfortunately unbeknownst to everybody else it's to make a pillow for his pet frog McDougall. Still, swayed by the seemingly romantic wish, during the course of the episode, Mrs. Davis, Walter Denton, Harriet Conklin, Stretch Snodgrass and ''even Mr. Boynton himself'' covertly cuts off locks of Miss Brooks' hair to grant Mr. Boynton's "wish".

* Very early in the ''[[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Thimble Theater]]'' strip, Popeye would stroke the head feathers of a wish-granting creature called a Wiffle Bird and wish for the strength to defeat his foes (soon changing to eating spinach). Much later the Wiffle Bird would appear in the Al Brodax Popeye cartoons to grant wishes to anyone.

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' has one of these in the garden that's mysteriously walled off. She learns why when she tries to get a wish from it: it's a JackassGenie that will twist your wishes against you. Her father finally manages to negate her wishes, and warns her to stay away, saying that he paid a terrible price for it once. [[spoiler:As we learn in the finale, he wished to have children, and that's how the first queen suffered a DeathByChildbirth]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' features a wishing well in the shape of a walrus named Wyatt (though when he was first introduced in the episode "One Big Wish", he was named Willie) who grants wishes to anyone who drops a coin in the well. For example, in the aforementioned episode, Max is tired of being small and makes a wish in the well to be bigger. Unfortunately, the wish works too well, and Max keeps growing bigger... and ''bigger''... and ''BIGGER''... and '''BIGGER'''... to the point where he's [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever gigantic]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' features a wishing well in the shape of a walrus named Wyatt (though when he was first introduced in the episode "One Big Wish", he was named Willie) who grants wishes to anyone who drops a coin in the well.

-->-- '''''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'''''

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* ''WebGame/TrickOrTreatBeat'': Some levels have a wishing well that you can search for coins, candy, or the level's special bonus.
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In German and Celtic folklore, springs were considered sacred places, where wishes would be granted by a god (alternatively, the waters were housing some aquatic deities). This carried on with the introduction of wells. Basically, throw a coin in there, and you would get a wish granted. Today still, loads and loads of money are thrown by wishers in wishing wells all over the world. It was estimated that people threw ''3 millions pounds sterling'' in those yearly.

* A short silent sketch on ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' has Benny as an old man with his old wife comes across a wishing well. He throws a coin in, his wife disappears, replaced by a young bikini-clad bird. She then throws in a coin, and a muscular stud appears. He throws a coin in, and the bikini-clad girl disappears. Benny throws one last coin, and the muscle man disappears and his wife reappears

* In ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', Snow White wishes for a prince at one of these.

->''"Make a wish into the well,''
->''That's all you have to do,''
->''And if you hear it echoing,''
->''Your wish will soon come true..."''
-->-- '''''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'''''

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* The premise of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' special ''Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island'' involves Daffy and Speedy discovering a magic talking wishing well while stranded on a desert island, and selling it's uses for cash.

* A scene from the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] cartoon "Believe It Or Else," a native figure from India approaches a wishing well: