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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor includes a mission where [=SpongeBob=] [the player] has to help Patrick find his lost shorts. Patrick is seen wearing a pink barrel and looking very sad.

* A non-finance-based variation comes at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Love That Pup'" when Tom is shown donning one of these after Spike the bulldog [[NotHyperbole follows through on a threat to skin him alive]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Mikey ends up splitting a seam in his pants. One of the attempts his friends come up with to cover the rip is to make barrel pants like they've seen in cartoons. Unfortunately, Mikey falls victim to one of the classic downfalls of barrel pants in those same cartoons; falling over and rolling down a hill uncontrollably.

* ''WesternAnimation/Chowder'': In the episode ''The Birthday Suits'', Chowder, Mung, Schnitzel and Truffles lose their fruit costumes after they shrink too much to fit. Now in their underwear, they stumble upon Gazpacho who is lamenting what to do with four empty barrels. Instead of going for this trope however, the gang takes Gazpacho's clothes, leaving him to still ponder how to use his barrels.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AladdintheSeries'' episode "Never Say Nefir" ended with Iago wearing one after gambling at a casino, claiming he'd "lost his shirt" (i.e. was completely featherless).

** [[https://inducks.org/story.php?c=D+91068 "Barrel Bargains"]] has Donald bid for a barrel at an auction. He wins the auction, but doesn't have the money to pay, so he puts his own sailor suit up for bid and storms off while wearing the barrel.

** One story has uncle Scrooge and a foreign maharajah try to outspend each other for the title of "Richest man in the world" by erecting magnificent statues. The contest ends when the maharajah runs out of money, and since he mortgaged his fancy robes for his projects, he ends up begging in the streets while wearing a barrel for clothes.

* Long ago, ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' managed to beat the Sea Hag at gambling so badly she ended up wearing one of these.
* The very first issue of German politics magazine "DER SPIEGEL" contains a cartoon where (symbolic) Germany wears a barrel. Since it appeared almost[[note]]4. Januar 1947[[/note]] directly after WWII, a ''very'' justified depiction.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12011689/35/The-Shock-of-it-All The Shock of it All]]'' Harry adds an anti-bullying ward to the Hogwarts wardstone after recharging it. When Draco, Crabbe and Goyle try to attack Harry, they end up wearing barrels in the entrance hall. Crabbe's says that he's a brainless monkey, Goyle's that he's a mindless fool and Draco's says "Bully, and Wuss."
* ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'': Narcissa shows up at Hogwarts wearing a barrel after Lucius kicks her out of their home. Crystal is more focused on [[SkewedPriorities how badly the barrel clashes with Narcissa's skin tone]] than she is on Narcissa now being poor, until she realizes this means that she and Draco won't have the money they need for their wedding. Eventually, Narcissa borrows more clothes from Trelawney and plays the barrel like a drum for the talent show.

* In a 1957 film ''Film/JetPilot'', though no barrel is worn or shown onscreen, after Creator/JanetLeigh's character had accidentally lost her slacks (offscreen) and gotten locked outside, Creator/JohnWayne's character cracks (paraphrased), "Why are you ''behind'' that barrel? Why don't you get ''in it''?"

* Although no one wears it, there is the barrel in the neighbourhood of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' where the titular Chavo seems to reside. Quico did once, because Don Ramón was wearing Quico's clothes.

* A part of Brazilian game show named ''Topa Tudo por Dinheiro'' ("Agree to Everything for Money") consisted of an employee making an unusual proposition to a random person and the contestant had to guess if the random person would accept for less than a certain amount of money; for that amount or more; or not accept at all. At least one occasion had the random person was offered to exchange his/her pants for a barrel and some cash.

* Ross and Moose end up wearing these during the ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' episode about theft, when their clothes (and most of the set) have been stolen. Moose's still has water, and a rubber duck, in it.

* Nicely subverted in one ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' strip. Old Master Q walks into a casino and walks out with one such barrel, much to the amusement of passer-bys. But then Master Q gets into his apartment where he's alone, and [[KansasCityShuffle proceeds to empty out the stacks of cash he won from the casino hidden inside said barrel]].

* There was a fairly popular early 1990s ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement called ''The Book of Marvelous Magic'', which contained a cursed item called a Barrel of Poverty. The first person to look inside of it would have all of his personal items, including all clothing, weapons, armor and even spell components, magically transported back to his home, wherever that was. The Barrel would then become non-magical, but would grow straps to allow the now naked adventurer to wear it to avoid embarrassment and because it was slightly better than no armor at all.

* In ''VideoGame/JonesInTheFastLane'', failing to buy new clothes for one of your character every once in a while will eventually cause the character to resort to wearing a barrel. Others walk around using censor bars.

* [[MeaningfulName Cooper]], a multiplayer only character in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver'', wears one of these which he also uses as ImprovisedArmor.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AladdintheSeries'' episode "Never say Nefir" ended with Iago wearing one after gambling at a casino, claiming he'd "lost his shirt" (i.e. was completely featherless).

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Vacation Vanhonk is seen wearing one in "Sir Gyro de Gearloose". Not because he's broke, but because the automatic dressing machine Gyro built for him only dresses itself . . . and presumably won't let Vanhonk wear any of his clothes either!

** In one episode where Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda and Timmy's grandfather go into the world of black and white cartoons, Cosmo inadvertently causes TheGreatDepression and two investors appear wearing these.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' episode "Baboon Man and Boy Weasel", Baboon and Weasel are a pair of costumed crime-fighters who investigate a pants thief after his victims are left wearing barrels.

* Clarabelle Cow wears one in the WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse short "Ye Olden Days", after Mickey and Minnie use all her clothes to make a BedsheetLadder.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' episode "Day of the Naked Aliens", Dinko destroys all of the clothing in [=DeSpray=] Bay, believing them to be mind-controlling the population. The following morning, the now-furious population of [=DeSpray=] Bay show up on Tommy's doorstop wearing barrels to cover themselves.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' short where he and Olive were about to get married, Bluto sabotaged Popeye's preparations, leaving our hero with no choice but showing up wearing a barrel, causing Olive to reject him and agree to marry Bluto. Popeye got his revenge by [[spoiler:disguising himself as the Justice of Peace and reminding Bluto of the duties married men usually have to follow, causing Bluto to get cold feet and run away]].

* This happens to Mikey Blumberg in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Mikey's Pants", when Gretchen suggests that he use a barrel the way that people in cartoons do after he rips his pants and he and the gang try to keep Ms. Finster from finding out. [[EpicFail He tries, but falls over and rolls into kindergartner territory]].

* A non-finance-based variation comes at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "Love That Pup'", when Tom is shown donning one of these after Spike the bulldog [[NotHyperbole follows through on a threat to skin him alive]].

** TheStinger of the episode guest-starring Crystal Gayle shows Statler and Waldorf to be wearing barrels after having their long underwear stolen by the prairie dogs.

* [[http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=265 This]] ''Webcomic/NobodyScores'' zig-zags the trope. Jane Doe arrives wearing a barrel, probably in poverty, but really happy and with a protege - also in a barrel and holding a hypodermic needle.

* Appears often in ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' as the result of characters either having had stolen up to their clothes or having to pay for something with up to them (as when one man departs a car workshop wearing a barrel, and an evil smile drooling with greed can be seen on its interior)

* The page image for GoneSwimmingClothesStolen shows [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] in one, which really raises more questions than it answers.