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"Easy Come, Easy Go" versus "A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted"

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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#1: Aug 12th 2017 at 6:17:40 AM

A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted seems to be a subtrope of Easy Come, Easy Go in cases where money is involved, but neither trope page actually acknowledges this relationship. Hence some examples are mentioned on ECEG which should rather go to AFAHNMASP or are listed on both pages (e.g. Cowboy Bebop, Futurama, Rugrats, BoJack Horseman, Kim Possible, The Simpsons). Am I missing nuances which would justify keeping wealth-related examples on ECEG instead of moving them to AFAHNMASP? Or let me go one step back and ask: Do we need the more specific AFAHNMASP in the first place?

edited 12th Aug '17 6:18:27 AM by eroock

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#2: Aug 12th 2017 at 9:46:39 AM

There is an easy-to-miss sentence in A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted that states, "In shows where Status Quo Is God, the episode's end will have the character's lifestyle restored to exactly what it had been before," with the pothole being to Easy Come, Easy Go. It then says, "If not [i.e. if Status Quo Is God is not in effect], there may be a surprise twist which leaves the character with something after all, perhaps something that couldn't be had for All That Glitters."

What I'm getting at is that it seems like a valid subtrope, especially when you take into account how many examples there are of A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted.

I think the descriptions could make their subtrope-supertrope relationship more clear, though. If there's probably off-page misuse, then there ought to be a wick check and maybe a TRS thread, but as to the question of whether or not A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted is "needed," I'd say sure there's a lot of examples of that.

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