History Main / YearsSupplyPrize

* Until recently, rulers often gave their favourite pensions; sometimes they could even been transmitted to the progeny.

* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': The prize for each child who finds a golden ticket in Wonka's chocolate bars is a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate.

* In UsefulNotes/AncientGreece, UsefulNotes/OlympicGames winners often received lifelong payouts and benefits from their cities.

This can also overlap with UndesirablePrize, if the character gets a lifetime supply of something they have no use or need for.

* ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'': The five lucky winners of the Golden Ticket contest all receive a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate.

* In the final "Piedboeuf" sponsored strip from ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'', Gaston uses the sponsorship money to buy a lifetime supply of "Piedboeuf" orange juice.

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* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/AlohaScoobyDoo'', Shaggy and Scooby win a surfing contest [[AchievementsInIgnorance purely by accident]] while trying to escape the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Wiki-Tiki]], with the grand prize being a year's supply of macadamia nuts, which promptly shows up in a truck. Of course, Shaggy and Scooby being [[BigEater Shaggy and Scooby]] the prize lasts all of 15 seconds.

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* In ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'', the main characters wake up to find their house filled with chocolate pudding, and [[WhatDidIDoLastNight they have no idea what happened the previous day]] to figure out where it came from. It turns out to be a ChekhovsGun when they need to figure out which of two groups of aliens they were with the previous night and they ask both groups what they won the previous night. Only the group they were with can confirm they won a lifetime's supply of pudding when they hit a hole-in-one while playing mini-golf.
* In ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', the five lucky winners of the Golden Ticket contest all receive a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate.

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': The prize for each child who finds a golden ticket in Wonka's chocolate bars is a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': winners get a CoolHouse in a specific neighbourhood along with a lifelong stipend. In addition to this, their district earns a year-long supply of additional food.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', the girls are on a game show in which they end up trading the guaranteed prize for what's behind a door. Their prize is a lifetime supply of condensed soup.

* Events in ''Maximum XCrawl'' is often sponsored by corporations. For example, in ''2013 Studio City Crawl'', the first prize is 1 Year Supply of Empire Classic Frozen Dinners.

* In ''Brush Those Teeth'', a LicensedGame for ''Series/SesameStreet'', once the contestants get their teeth cleaned by the player, they win a lifetime supply of either toothbrushes, toothpaste, apples, or carrots, which pile up and fill the screen.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' theatrical short ''Fetch'', Cat desperately tries to find a phone to claim a radio contest prize while Dog chases a tennis ball through town. When the prize is finally brought over to their house, it turns out to be a lifetime supply of tennis balls. Dog is overjoyed, but Cat is still reeling from the last game of fetch. Then the balls get loose all over the road, resulting in [[HereWeGoAgain Dog starting his chase all over again]].

* The grand prize for winning the motocross race in ''You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown'' is supposed to be tickets to the NFL Pro Bowl, but Charlie Brown finds out after he wins that the organizers couldn't get the Pro Bowl tickets. Instead they award him five free haircuts as a ConsolationPrize, which is about a year's worth for a child who keeps their hair short.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' episode "Recipe for Disaster" has Shaggy [[CharlieandtheChocolateParody winning a tour of the Scooby Snax factory]], which is naturally being haunted by a monster. When the monster is caught, the factory's owner thanks the gang with a lifetime supply of Scooby Snax. Predictably, Scooby and Shaggy have it eaten in no time flat.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' episode "Recipe for Disaster" has Shaggy [[CharlieandtheChocolateParody winning a tour of the Scooby Snax factory]], which is naturally being haunted by a monster. When the monster is caught, the factory's owner thanks the gang with a lifetime supply of Scooby Snax. Much like the ''WesternAnimation/AlohaScoobyDoo'' example above, Scooby and Shaggy have it eaten in no time flat.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' theatrical short ''Fetch'', Cat desperately tries to find a phone to claim a radio contest prize while Dog chases a tennis ball through town. When the prize is finally brought over to their house, it turns out to be a lifetime supply of tennis balls. Dog is overjoyed, but Cat is still reeling from the last game of fetch. Then the balls get loose all over the road, resulting in [[HereWeGoAgain Dog starting his chase all over again]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': After Arthur submits D.W.'s jingle for a cereal contest, the Reads are informed that D.W. won and will receive a year's supply of the cereal, which is dumped unceremoniously on their front lawn, forcing them to store it and wonder how they'll eat it all.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' theatrical short ''Fetch'', Cat desperately tries to find a phone to claim a radio contest prize while Dog chases a tennis ball through town. When the prize is finally brought over to their house, it turns out to be a lifetime supply of tennis balls. Then the balls get loose all over the road, resulting in [[HereWeGoAgain Dog starting his chase all over again]].

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* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': The prize for each child who finds a golden ticket in Wonka's chocolate bars is a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': winners get a CoolHouse in a specific neighbourhood along with a lifelong stipend. In addition to this, their district earns a year-long supply of additional food.
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* Until recently, rulers often gave their favourite pensions; sometimes they could even been transmitted to the progeny.

* Some lotteries took to give winners lifelong payouts.

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': The prize for each child who finds a golden ticket in Wonka's chocolate bars is a lifetime supply of chocolate.

* ''Series/iCarly'': In [=iCook=], Carly, Sam, and Freddie win a year's supply of free steaks for beating master chef Ricky Flame.

As a kid, do you remember contests for specific brands which promised a lifetime or year's supply of a specific product? And how it was advertised as, quite literally a truckload of said product arriving on your doorstep, leading you to not want for that product?

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': Because a sponsorship that Cell acquired for the Cell Games, he establishes the prize for beating him is not just the Earth surviving, but also a lifetime supply of Hetap dor the person who beats him. Goku doesn?t consider the prize too impressive.

* In ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', the five lucky winners of the Golden Ticket contest all receive a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate, [[spoiler: but the best-behaved child inherits the entire factory]].

* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': The prize for each child who finds a golden ticket in Wonka's chocolate bars is a lifetime supply of chocolate. (It turns out, though, that that's really just a consolation prize; [[spoiler:the best behaved child will inherit the entire factory]].)

* ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'': After finding one of the backpacks containing his [[EasterEgg Wilson Fisk Science Prize trophy]], Peter mentioned that while he refused to accept [[MarvelComicsTheKingpin Fisk's]] money, he did accept a lifetime supply of backpacks as his prize instead.

* In ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', the five lucky winners of the Golden Ticket contest all receive a tour of Wonka's factory and a lifetime supply of chocolate, [[spoiler: but the best-behaved child inherits the entire factory]]