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4	[[caption-width-right:349:Scrooge [=McDuck=] takes a swim in his literally liquid assets.]]
5	->''"Aaahhh! IT'S NOT A LIQUID!! It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard, floor-like surface! Aaahhh!"''
6	-->-- '''Peter Griffin''' [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing this trope]], ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E1LotteryFever Lottery Fever]]"
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8	The greedy character finally has his desired fortune piled under his feet, he couldn't be any more glad. So how does he enjoy this moment? He dives into the pile and [[SandIsWater gleefully swims around]] like it was the best swimming pool ever, or rest on it like you would while floating peacefully. Furthermore, the mass of gold, gems and other assorted valuables will behave like a fluid in other scenarios, flowing out of holes like water and possibly even being subject to waves on its surface.
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10	As the page quote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDL2W0HcJw&t=0m10s demonstrates]], [[ArtisticLicensePhysics pooling together large quantities of small, solid material won't magically give it the properties of a liquid]], as anyone who's ever laid down on sand at the beach can tell you. In fact, diving into a pool of gold coins won't be much different from diving into a giant solid block of gold. Likewise, you still wouldn't be able to swim through a vast amount of coins even if you stood inside an empty container then had the coins poured in; the heavy mass of currency moving around your legs would make it difficult to even walk around. But, you can't let a little thing like physics get in the way of demonstrating a perfect example of just how wealthy a character can be. The effect can also be achieved (much more realistically) with dollars/bills, which are softer and, when pooled together, much more malleable (though you ''may'' run the risk of a few papercuts depending on how crisp the bill are).
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12	It doesn't have to be actual currency; it could be jewels, treasures, some valuable fluid or pretty much anything the character wants.
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14	Subtrope of ConspicuousConsumption. May overlap with MoneyFetish and SandIsWater. Often a part of an IfIWereARichMan fantasy.
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16	Not to be confused with LiquidAssets, or with the standard usage of "pooling" funds, that is, raising them among a group of people to be distributed in case of some emergency, or as a prize. See also DragonHoard.
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19	!!Examples:
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24	* ''Advertising/{{Cryptoland}}'': The De-Stress Room is full of coins. Christopher takes the opportunity to swim in it.
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28	* In ''Manga/MedakaBox'', the goal of the swim team is to garner enough money to fill a swimming pool and then swim around in it.
29	* One of the Q&A sections in the Vol. 0 ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' that was distributed in the Anime Final movie showing revealed that Haruna became rich in the [[MagicalLand Magic World]] by successfully introducing the BoysLoveGenre to its citizens. She's then shown wearing a swimsuit and gleefully swimming in the money she gained.
30	* Halekulani from ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is first seen bathing in a huge tub of money.
31	* A few examples from ''Franchise/LupinIII'':
32	** In the ''Anime/LupinIIIPartIII'' episode [[Recap/LupinIIIS3E43 "Farewell, Cinderella"]], the King and Juliet swim around a pool filled with money. Bonus points for Juliet for jumping from a high platform and being able to do some backstroke swimming.
33	** In the ''Anime/LupinIIIPartII'' episode, [[Recap/LupinIIIS2E63 "Charity Begins At Home"]], the target keeps his gold under his bed, in a vault shaped like a small swimming pool, just so he can play this trope.
34	* The classic ''Anime/AstroBoy'' story "Invasion of the Robot Bombs" featured a crime boss who did this. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Eventually so much gold got absorbed into his skin that he came down with heavy metal poisoning and died]].
35	* Played with in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' when Kaguya imagines herself as an elderly woman sitting in a bathtub full of bills, reflecting how despite the fact that she's technically winning the ''TabletopGame/GameOfLife'' inspired board game the student council is playing, she feels like she's losing because she's alone while Shirogane and Fujiwara are married with 9 kids.
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39	* In the ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' story "Box Full of Evil", one of the people opening the titular box demands from the demon within "Enough gold to lie down in and a gold crown upon my head." He gets it [[spoiler:[[JackassGenie sort of.]] The demon tells him that the treasure he seeks is already hidden within a wall of the castle, then possesses his sister and [[ForcedTransformation turns him into a monkey]]. At the end of the story, he's killed by being thrown though a wall, lands on top of a large pile of money, and a crown falls on his head.]]
40	* Larfleeze, leader of the [[Characters/GLOrangeLanternCorps Orange Lantern Corps]], swims in a pile of collected orange power rings.
41	* Scrooge [=McDuck=] of the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' is probably the best-known example, as well as the page image. This originated in the comics but is probably most well-known because of his animated incarnation in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. At times in the comics, there are even things that happen (or [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity don't happen]]) to Scrooge because swimming in coins made his pores covered in metal.
42	-->''"I dive around in it like a porpoise! And I burrow through it like a gopher! And I toss it up and let it hit me on the head!''"
43	** Lampshaded in that Donald Duck and his nephews will occasionally try it, and break their heads on the metal (the first time they saw him do it, they feared for his sanity/health). Scrooge even managed to trick the Beagle Boys into trying this in ''ComicBook/OnlyAPoorOldMan'', the first comic with Scrooge as protagonist. And then when he had to prove his identity against a doppelganger, he used this ability to do so, noting that it took him ''years'' of practice to be able to do it.
44	** In some stories, Donald can also do this, thanks to observing Scrooge doing it all day. He's nowhere as proficient as his uncle, however.
45	** Also, it only works with money, even for Scrooge. While diving around in his cash-filled train wagons in the second-to-last album of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'', he comes to an abrupt halt on a pile of coals.
46	** In one story, they actually turn the vault into a tourist attraction, with people taking rowboats onto the gold.
47	** In another story Rockerduck had built his own money bin and started a competition on who could build the best one. Eventually Scrooge grew tired of the competition and pulled this with ''Rockerduck''[='=]s money in front of witnesses, forcing him to try it himself... And then put his cash back in the banks and destroy his own money bin after cracking his head and nearly ''drowning'' in the cash before Scrooge saved him. Points for actually coming close to pull it off, though.
48	** Subverted in ''The Last Lord of Eldorado''. After having found a pile of coins on a treasure cruise, Scrooge tries to dive into it. Instead he cracks his head because the coins were fused together after spending hundreds of years on the bottom of the sea.
49	** Of course it's DependingOnTheWriter, but according to the Don Rosa continuity, that money piled up in the bin is nowhere near Scrooge's entire fortune, just what he made personally before (briefly) retiring. Most of his assets are (unsurprisingly) spread out over his global business empire—having a swimming pool of coins is just sentimentality.
50	* Expect ComicBook/RichieRich's Aunt Noovo or some rich relative of his to be swimming in a pool of money.
51	* Referenced in ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine''. Multiple characters with healing factors are gathered to cure a plague, with Deadpool specifically mentioning that he wants enough money to fill a pool. Gabby tries to point out that this won't actually work.
52	* At the end of a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] comic story which had been one huge parody of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Burns attempts this with a room filled with all the treasure he'd collected in the story. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome He ends up in a full-body cast afterwards.]]
53	* In ''ComicBook/ZiggyPigSillySealComics'', Silly Seal has a vault full of money that he swims in, serving as a ShoutOut to [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge [=McDuck=]]].
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57	* Toby ''attempts'' to do this in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11208933/23/Harry-by-Proxy Harry by Proxy]]''. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Unfortunately, he severely injures himself upon contact with the gold]].
58	-->'''Toby:''' [[ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcduck Scrooge McDuck]] lied to me. It's not a liquid. It's a great many pieces of solid matter that form a hard floor-like surface.
59	* Harry attempts this much more successfully in ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOk'', when he first sees the piles of gold in his Gringotts vault. It helps if you're a NighInvulnerable dragon -- although it then takes 20 minutes and eight goblins to get him back out.
60	* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1350670/3/Harry-Potter-and-the-Dream-Come-True Harry Potter and the Dream Come True]]'' Remus claimed that Sirius had a diving board fixed to the wall of the Potter vault in Bangladesh, which they and Harry's father could "literally" swim in.
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64	* Subverted in ''Film/SawII'' with the dirty needle trap. Despite summaries suggesting that [[spoiler:Amanda]] was wading through a pool of used hypodermic needles, it's more like a level ground surface that she's just sifting through.
65	* According to the ''Studio 54'' movie, Steve Rubell would take his nightclub's receipts home in cash, dump it on his bed, and roll around it. Then he'd likely throw up.
66	* In ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', Oscar jumps into and rolls around in a huge pile of gold coins in the royal treasury at the Emerald City.
67	* In silent short film ''Film/TheMysteryOfTheLeapingFish'', the bad guy literally sleeps on a pile of money.
68	* In ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'', Jordan and his wife have sex atop some money spread on their bed. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome (the actors apparently had lots of paper cuts that day)]]
69	* Smaug in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'' slithers through his immense hoard as if it were lightly-packed sand. This may be more justified than most examples given his tremendous size, and corresponding weight and strength, compared to Bilbo, who generally has little issue standing and climbing on it.
70	** Later dwarves try to kill him by dousing him with liquid gold. They fail, and he emerges from the resulting pool with a fabulous golden plating.
71	* A variant in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has the Joker build a giant pile out of the money he extorted from the mob. He then slides down it like it was a hill of snow. Rather than ConspicuousConsumption, it's a sign of just how ''little'' money means to him.
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75	* In the SF novel ''Rocheworld,'' a multimillionaire discovers she's been selected for a one-way interstellar expedition. Since she'll never need money again, she instructs her broker to liquidate ''everything'' into ''cash.'' She also contacts the owner of a staggeringly rare gold coin, and arranges to purchase it for a number equal to her approximate net worth. He shows up at a warehouse with the coin in a protective briefcase, expecting a check or similar. She emerges from the warehouse adjusting her clothes, and says, "Don't try to swim in the bills. Paper cuts." She then puts the coin in her pocket, walks away, and takes it with her when she leaves the Solar System.
76	* In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', a book in Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' series, Eustace sleeps on the money of a [[DragonHoard dragon's hoard]], and this winds up [[spoiler:turning him into a dragon]].
77	* In the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' novel ''Scourge'', Kuberr and anyone near him can swim through a pile of coins because of his control over gold.
78	* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Literature/ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/QueenOfTheBlackCoast", Belit does this.
79	-->''With a cry Belît dropped to her knees among the bloodstained rubble on the brink and thrust her white arms shoulder-deep into that pool of splendor.''
80	* The Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith story [[http://eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/243/the-weird-of-avoosl-wuthoqquan "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan"]] has this, although the titular greedy merchant discovers all too late [[spoiler: that a huge pit of jewels is less like water and more like {{quicksand\|Sucks}}]].
81	* In the ''Literature/GotrekAndFelix'' novel ''Dragonslayer'', one of the Dwarf Slayers succumbs to GoldFever ''in the middle of the fight'' with the Dragon and dives into its hoard. He's later crushed under the Dragon, with several coins embedded into his corpse by the weight.
82	* In Creator/BrandonSanderson's ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'', Shadesmar, the [[AlternateDimension Cognitive Realm Refection]] of Roshar, features seas of glass beads, with embedded crystals in them. These seas have to be navigated as if they were an actual liquid. In the Physical Realm, glass beads filled with polished gemstones are the most usual form of currency, and have been since Time Immemorial.
83	* In ''Literature/DearDumbDiary,'' Jamie has an ImagineSpot of Angeline, a girl she hates for no reason, taking a bath in pure money, complete with hot and cold running diamonds, jewel-encrusted soap and a "rug of extraordinary fluffiness".
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88	* A Dutch lottery show once had a game where people were standing knee deep in a big tank of coins and had one minute to grab as much coins as they could and stuff it into their pockets (in overalls covered with pockets). And yes, they could keep it too.
89	** Similarly, in the UK in TheNineties, ''Noel's House Party'' featured "Grab A Grand" in which the contestant was placed in a wind chamber full of banknotes with the goal of collecting £1000 in a minute.
90	* Alluded to in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' when Marshall jokes with his loan officer about getting the loan in singles so he can fill up a swimming pool and dive through it.
91	* In ''Series/BreakingBad'', when Huell and Kuby are sent to pick up a ''huge'' pile of cash, Huell refuses to do any heavy lifting until he's had the chance to lie down on it for a few minutes.
92	-->'''Huell:''' I gotta do it, man. ''[lies down]''\
93	'''Kuby:''' We are here to do a job, not channel Scrooge [=McDuck=]! [...] Ah, screw it. ''[joins him]''
94	* On ''Series/FamilyTies'', Alex lands a job with a financial firm by telling the interviewer he loves money so much that he's rolled around naked in it.
95	* In one segment of an episode of ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'', was about a woman who spent her days frolicking in the cash she embezzled from her rich husband. One day an earthquake strikes [[DeathByMaterialism and multiple bags of money fall on top of her, suffocating her.]]
96	* In one episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Salem the cat has money brought to him in singles for the express purpose of [[http://dgcatanisiri.tumblr.com/post/127699535466 rolling around on it.]]
97	-->'''Salem:''' I'm rich! Rich, I tell you!\
98	'''Hilda:''' Salem, it's only a few hundred dollars.\
99	'''Salem:''' I'm well-off! Well-off, I tell you!
100	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': One victim of the week steals a ton of money from a drug dealer and is later found dead having laid down to sleep on it, causing Marcus to describe him as "[[LampshadeHanging pulling a Scrooge McDuck]]".
101	-->'''Sherlock:''' [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure Who or what is a Scrooge McDuck?]]
102	-->'''Joan:''' Think [[CorruptCorporateExecutive your father]], but as a duck.
103	* In an Earboy sketch from ''Series/AllThat'', Ross Perot bathes in a tub of money.
104	* ''Series/GhostsUS'': When a vault is discovered under Woodstone, Jay talks about diving into gold coins like Scrooge [=McDuck=].
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108	* Done frequently in the animations for ''Pinball/{{Monopoly}}''.
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112	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', after Earl wins a lawsuit, he has enough money to fill a swimming pool.
113	* A sketch from ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' has then-French President Jacques Chirac (wearing an OldTimeyBathingSuit) swim into a pool filled with franc bills from his numerous embezzling. He invites his wife Bernadette to join him now, because after the change to euros the pool will not be as deep.
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117	* Results in a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome for the Storyteller in the final episode of Season 4 of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme''.
118	-->'''Storyteller:''' It took place in the spring of 1908, a year which found me even more than usually rich. As a result I took time off from diving into my swimming pool full of gold florins to recover from the various head injuries thus sustained.
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122	* The Western Paladin in the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card [[https://scryfall.com/card/7ed/140/greed Greed]] does this.
123	** The card [[https://scryfall.com/card/clb/210/young-red-dragon-bathe-in-gold Young Red Dragon]] shows a dragon bathing in melted gold.
124	* This is considered standard behavior for dragons in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. One book devoted to them, the ''Draconomicon'', points out how improbable this is considering the volume of the coins and the size of most dragons (even taking into consideration that they are typically three times as rich as monsters of the same power level). The book even mentions that some dragons will convert their treasure into smaller denominations just to make wallowing in their wealth more practical.
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128	* If you watch the Orkz' [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pile O' Gunz]] in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' long enough, a gretchin will take a dip in it this way.
129	* In the UpdatedRerelease of the ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' game, you can swim around in Scrooge's money vault. The Platform/{{Steam}} and Platform/PlayStation3 versions even award an achievement/trophy for doing it.
130	* The ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' fangame ''[[http://rattus.storynexus.com/s Rat Sending Simulator 2kXX]]'' contains an area called Gold Zone. Naturally, you get an option to try diving into the gold, but...
131	-->'''Thunk!'''\
132	If there were an onomatopoeia for an unwise tourist slamming face-first into a giant pile of gold, that'd be it. You obtain nothing more than a headache and regrets.
133	* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': If Deacon is with the player while they're getting rewarded bottle caps (the Wasteland equivalent of money) for a job well done, he'll reference this sometimes:
134	-->'''Deacon:''' You ever wanna fill a bathtub with caps?
135	* Mog speaks of doing this once the party resolves the paradox in the Bresha Ruins in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2 Final Fantasy XIII-2]]'' [[spoiler:but the prize turns out to be a [[JokeItem coupon good for free toilet paper.]]]]
136	* In ''VideoGame/HiFiRush'', [[spoiler:the third phase of Roquefort's boss fight takes place within the Vandelay company's vault, which is filled to the brim with coins, gold bars and even statues. Roquefort can even swim within the pile of coins to try and catch Chai off-guard (which can be used against him by dodging the attack and making him dive head-first into a statue, briefly stunning him for Chai to whale on). He eventually [[DeathByMaterialism meets his end]] when he ends up getting BuriedAlive beneath quarter three's earnings.]]
137	* ''VideoGame/Leprechaun1982'': When the PlayerCharacter reaches the pot of gold, he dives in.
138	* The opening animated cinematic of ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'' includes a scene where the Phantom Thieves treat a pile of jewels as if it was snow, with Joker letting himself fall backwards into the solid, pointy gems while the others playfully throw them at each other like snowballs.
139	* In the prologue of ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'', the [[ShoutOut StoogeMac Bank]] has a pool vault, complete with a "No Diving" sign.
140	* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': Fafnir, a very greedy dwarven prince that turns into a dragon, is amongst the roster. If he wins the match, his victory animation involves taking a dip in his DragonHoard, swimming there and turning into a dragon in the middle of the swim to enjoy his hoard.
141	* In ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV''[='=]s Block 9, you go through the treasury, which at several points have piles of gold. You ''can'' sink into the gold, and completely submerging yourself in it has the same effect as [[SuperDrowningSkills submerging yourself in water]].
142	* ''VideoGame/WarioWareGold'': Wario at one point takes a bath in a tub filled with gold coins.
143	* One of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Akiyama, runs a loan business. One family takes advantage of his loan in order to fill a hot tub with bills and lounge in it naked.
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147	* In [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/481-luigistreasure/ this]] ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' comic, [[VideoGame/LuigisMansion Prof. E. Gadd]] suggests that Luigi should drop by the vault and "take a Scrooge swim in all the cash [he's] accrued". Luigi takes him up on it, but doesn't make it off the diving board after discovering that the vault also includes all the dust, spiders, mice, and other crap he sucked up with the Poltergust.
148	* In ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', Sydney [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-782-death-by-die/ wants to do this]] with dice, and is super disappointed that [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-368-billions-of-bullions/ the geokinetic who mined a swimming pool-sized cache of gold]] keeps it as gold bars rather than in "Scrooge [=McDuck=] form," to be dived into.
149	* ''Webcomic/VGCats'' shows us what [[Creator/ValveSoftware Gabe Newell]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=300 does with all that money.]] (Note, however, that he's just swimming in paper bills, which isn't as impressive.)
150	* Subverted in this ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip with [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/09/02 trading pins]] instead of money.
151	* [[Webcomic/JasonAndThePrincesOfTheUniverse Jason]] does this in an ImagineSpot.
152	* One ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' strip in the "Rise and Fall of Atari" story shows Atari bathing in money.
153	* In [[http://www.chivalryandknavery.com/ck721.html Chivalry and Knavery]], after defeating a dragon Kira fills a bathtub with her share of its hoard.
154	* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Baron Oublenmach imagines he'll be able to do this after getting a reward for ringing the Doom Bell. In reality [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Franz]] just showers him with an (admittedly gigantic) handful of gold coins after disappointingly learning Oublenmach had technically aided the Heterodynes so he couldn't just eat him.
155	* In ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'' comic [[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/all-that-glitters "All That Glitters"]], Thief gathers her loot into a pool and tries diving in like Scrooge [=McDuck=]. It doesn't work for her.
156	* In [[http://www.deviantart.com/dragon-fangx/art/Trader-Lydia-Wishes-1-411929653 this]] ''Webcomic/TraderLydia'' strip, [[LiteralGenie Shasha]] grants a guy's wish that he had a million dollars, resulting in him [[ExactWords having previously had the money]] and then having lost it and ending up wearing a BankruptcyBarrel. Lydia is then shown flailing around in the money and saying she can't swim in it.
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160	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Homestar is shown bathing in a tub of gold coins while singing the ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales\|1987}}'' theme in an easter egg for the toon "Ever and More"
161	* Website/CollegeHumor: {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3KRQSpORW0 this parody video]], where Scrooge [=McDuck=] from ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' accidentally breaks all of his bones after jumping into his pool of money, resulting in him being immediately rushed to the hospital where he then dies. A funeral is held for him, where he is buried with all of his money, and as a result his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie go crazy over their granduncle's death and end up in prison, their uncle (and Scrooge's nephew) Donald Duck becoming very angry with them and refuses to pay their "duck bail", before finally going bankrupt and committing suicide.
162	-->''[=DuckTales=]! (Whoo-hoo!)\
163	Get to the ER before his brain swells! (Uh-oh!)\
164	Stabilize his neck, Oh, no! His heart failed!\
165	Book a funeral, time for mourning\
166	Happened so fast without warning\
167	This peaceful bird's now a duck angel! (Uh-oh!)\
168	Kids can't cope and wind up in a duck jail! (Uh-oh!)\
169	Donald's pissed and he refused to pay the duck bail! (Uh-oh!)\
170	Family falls apart, now there's no more [=DuckTales!=] (Boo-hoo!)''
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174	* ''Blog/WhatIf'':
175	** It suggests doing this after you [[AWizardDidIt magically]] acquire [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/111/ all the money in the world]].
176	--->[[BlatantLies There are no problems with the science here. Every part of this is possible.]]
177	** The same entry also lists another problem with trying to do this in real life other than the one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' pointed out: that much cash would violate building codes[[note]]At least New York's[[/note]] by exceeding the maximum pressure on the side of the building.
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181	* ''Film/NoobLaQueteLegendaire'' shows [[TheScrooge Gaea]] lying in a room full of gold coins in an early scene.
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185	* Scrooge [=McDuck=] of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' does this as his main pastime. See the comics section for more information.
186	** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' continues this trend and even shows Scrooge [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] it in the first episode [[spoiler: using it to sneak behind Glomgold in the Atlantean treasure chamber]]. The trope is actually {{deconstructed\|Trope}} and justified when Louie sees the money bin for the first time and tries to do it. Scrooge grabs him [[DiscussedTrope and tells him that the only reason Scrooge can do it is that he spent years practicing and mastering the skill]]. Louie, on the other hand, would probably [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome crack his skull open]]. [[spoiler: Louie does eventually get the hang of it, as he's seen swimming through the coins to get away from Magica. Scrooge [[SoProudOfYou has the most delighted look of surprise when he finds out Louie learned]].]]
187	*** Gladstone Gander, at one point, fills a hot tub with [[BornLucky casino chips]] and does a mocking Scrooge impression.
188	** Even in the original animated series, one time the nephews attempted it and failed miserably, prompting them to all look at each other and go, "How does he do that?"
189	* On ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', Squidward does this on a pile of Krabby Patties after he becomes addicted to them.
190	** Mr. Krabs does this with money, and in one episode, a vault full of diamonds.
191	* On ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Cartman proves Kyle wrong and wins money in the process, so he turns it into change and makes a swimming pool out of it so Kyle can see him swim in it.
192	* WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck does this with piles of gold coins in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frQxsuCiJJ8 starting at 2:15]].
193	* Subverted on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Homer is told he could become a "moderately wealthy man" and has a daydream of rolling around in not quite enough cash. Daydream Homer commented that, as a "moderately wealthy man", he could ''rent'' anything he wanted.
194	** And the simulation of Thomas Edison's heirs, after the discovery of his six-legged chair.
195	** Exaggerated in "Behind the Laughter": as the success of the Simpsons merchandise makes the family exceedingly rich, not only are the five of them seen rolling around in their wads of cash, but so is Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II and their rarely seen fish is happily flopping around in it just outside of its bowl.
196	* {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} in a CutawayGag on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Peter jumps into one of these after hitting the lottery and winds up bloody with bones sticking out. It turns out that gold is quite dense, so even though it's malleable, you don't want to jump into a pile of it.
197	* In the TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', Cyril Sneer is seen lounging in his vault with piles of gold similar to Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s.
198	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsTheLegendOfSmurfyHollow'', Gutsy lies down on top of a big patch of smurfberries that he found Brainy picking his smurfberries from after he scared Brainy away, looking like he's doing the backstroke.
199	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'', the titular character swims in a vault full of his homemade "Clarence Dolars" during a [[DreamSequence Dream Sequence]] in the episode "Clarence's Millions", complete with music that parodies the ''[=DuckTales=]'' theme song.
200	* The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mysticons}}'' has [[GenkiGirl Piper]] try taking a plunge into the heaps of coins of the Royal Treasury. "Try" being the operative word; [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she smacks face-first into the unyielding metal]].
201	-->'''Piper:''' [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, that seemed like it was gonna be way more fun. ]]
202	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'':
203	** Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy [[ImagineSpot fantasize about swimming in their newly-acquired money]] in one episode. Complete with a ''[=DuckTales=]'' theme song parody.
204	** In a later episode, they swim in a pile of pennies and react to it like a far more cartoonish version of the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' example above.
205	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven trades a copying wand to Onion for a hard-to-find collectible figure. Onion proceeds to abuse this power and floods the beach with capsules of more figures. Amethyst asks Steven how to move though the pile, and Steven references Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s trick:
206	-->'''Amethyst:''' How do you much in this stuff?\
207	'''Steven:''' Try and act like a rich duck.\
208	'''Amethyst:''' What does that mean?
209	* In the "Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'', Beetlejuice relieves the royal accountant of all the gold coins he's carrying. He is then seen diving off a springboard into a large swimming pool full of said coins and doing the "buckstroke" (backstroke) as Flubbo calls it.
210	* Played straight and then subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''. The villain Moolak turns people into gold coins and stores them inside his flying safe, where he is also hiding. Moolak isn't affected by all the coins he's swimming in, but when Pegasus attempts to teleport inside the safe, he simply runs into a solid wall of coins.
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214	* A waiter at the London Hilton discovered hugely-talented-but-wasted N.I. footballer George Best one morning, on a bed covered with both cash (won at gambling) and the newly-crowned Miss World (1974 Miss USA Marjorie Wallace). The waiter asked: "George, where did it all go wrong?"
215	* Music/HankWilliams, a country music singer, after finally getting out of the poverty that plagued him for much of his life, did this when his first hit record sold a million dollars.
216	* If you wanted to do this with dollar bills (bills are probably the way to go to not be injured, save maybe paper cuts), you'd need about 335,000 if you wanted to a fill a standard-sized bathtub, [[https://www.quora.com/How-many-one-dollar-bills-does-it-take-to-fill-a-bathtub according to this.]] Even if you only filled it halfway in order to swim a little, you'd still need about $167,500 to fill it halfway if you used U.S. one dollar bills.
217	* In 2017, to promote the release of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', one of the attractions at the the D23 Expo was a recreation of Scrooge [=McDuck's=] vault in the form of a pit filled with giant gold foam coins that visitors could (safely!) jump into.
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