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* ''ComicBook/{{The Authority}}'': One of the human who took refuge in a parallel world wears a t-shirt saying "My parents went to a parallel reality and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" as he's coming back to Earth.

* The Dutch government has a responsible disclosure program where if you find a vulnerability in their systems, they reward you with a shirt that has a small logo of their National Cyber Security Center, together with the text "I hacked the Dutch government and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

* In ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'', [[TheChosenOne Tim Hunter]] goes to the [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Dark Tower]], and all he gets is, well, guess.
* ComicBook/TheJoker wears an "[[ComicBook/BatmanADeathInTheFamily I Killed Jason Todd]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt]]" on an alternate cover to [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/5/56044/1614315-batman__1940__619c.jpeg Batman #619]]. It's fairly popular with Joker cosplayers.
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} gets Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} for Secret Santa, but to his surprise it's [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]] instead of [[Characters/HawkeyeClintBarton Clint Barton]] - making [[https://i.imgur.com/cjQIFv3.png his gift, a shirt reading]] "[[Comicbook/CivilWarII I killed]] [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" even less appropriate!
* ''Comicbook/WestCoastAvengers2018'' has Kid Omega wearing "I de-vamped Comicbook/{{Jubilee|MarvelComics}} and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
* In ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'', Kal-AOL complains that "[he comes] all the way from the future, and all [he has] to show is this stupid shirt".
* In ''ComicBook/{{The Authority}}'', one of the human who took refuge in a parallel world wears a t-shirt saying "My parents went to a parallel reality and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" as he's coming back to Earth.
* In the ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsTreehouseOfHorror'' story "The Left Behinders", Kang and Kodos kidnap the right-handed residents of Springfield and [[spoiler:uses them as slave labor to produce T-shirts for space tourists]]. One of the shirts reads "I was left behind on Earth, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!".

* In Craig Shaw Gardner's ''Slaves of the Volcano God'' Roger and his companions are about to be sacrificed to the volcano god Wakka Loa by Doctor Dread, who happens to be wearing a wizard robe and hat because he couldn't find his high priest outfit. The back of the robe has runes which say "MY PARENTS WENT TO CAMELOT AND ALL I GOT WERE THESE LOUSY WIZARD ROBES!"

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} gets Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} for Secret Santa, but to his surprise it's [[Characters/HawkeyeKateBishop Kate Bishop]] instead of Clint - making [[https://i.imgur.com/cjQIFv3.png his gift, a shirt reading]] "[[Comicbook/CivilWarII I killed]] [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" even less appropriate!

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} gets Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} for Secret Santa, but to his surprise it's Comicbook/KateBishop instead of Clint - making [[https://i.imgur.com/cjQIFv3.png his gift, a shirt reading]] "[[Comicbook/CivilWarII I killed]] [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" even less appropriate!

* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'': Finishing [[MacroZone Lab Rats]] on [[HarderThanHard Death Sentence]] difficulty with [[ChallengeRun One Down]] enabled earns you an {{achievement|system}} fittingly titled "I survived Lab Rats on One Down And All I Got Was This Achievement".
** While in the safe house, you can optionally burn your offshore money. Doing so will present you with an image displaying the words "I burnt my entire offshore and all I got was this lousy picture. -Toastie Buns".

* In ''VideoGame/Payday2'', completing the job "Lab Rats" on the highest difficulty will reward you with an achievement titled "I survived Lab Rats on One Down And All I Got Was This Achievement".

* ComicBook/TheJoker wears an "[[ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily I Killed Jason Todd]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt]]" on an alternate cover to [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/5/56044/1614315-batman__1940__619c.jpeg Batman #619]]. It's fairly popular with Joker cosplayers.

* Music/FallOutBoy has a song called "[[LongTitle I Slept With Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me]]".

May overlap with AndYourRewardIsClothes if that's a reward given for completing a task and MyNewGiftIsLame if such an item was purchased for someone else and they dislike it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "For the Future", it's shown that Hexside became a hiding place both during Emperor Belos' draining spell and after the Collector was freed and started turning people into puppets. One of the students there sells T-shirts that insult either Belos or the Collector, with one of them saying "I Survived The Day Of Unity And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!"

* In a similar fashion, ''VideoGame/SonicColors Ultimate'' invokes this trope with the achievement for completing Tropical Resort: "...All I Got Is This Tropical Resort T-Shirt".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In "For the Future", it's shown that Hexside became a hiding place after the Collector was freed and started turning people into puppets. One of the students there sells T-shirts that insult either Emperor Belos or the Collector, with one of them saying "I Survived The Day Of Unity And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt!"

* An archaeological find from Roman-era London makes this trope OlderThanFeudalism. In 2019, [[MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) reported in a [[https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/i-went-rome-and-all-i-got-you-was-stylus-rare-inscribed-roman-writing-implement-discovered blog post]] that their team had unearthed a stylus from the first century AD, inscribed with a short, tongue-in-cheek passage in Latin that acknowledges the souvenir is cheap because their money was spent on the trip to Rome, but they were thinking of you. Basically "I went to Rome and all I got you was this pen."

* The Dutch government has a responsible disclosure program where if you find a vulnerability in their systems, they reward you with a shirt that has a small logo of their National Cyber Security Center, together with the text "I hacked the Dutch government and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."

* In ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'', completing the job "Lab Rats" on the highest difficulty will reward you with an achievement titled "I survived Lab Rats on One Down And All I Got Was This Achievement".

* In Craig Shaw Gardner's ''Slaves of the Volcano God'' Roger and his companions are about to be sacrificed to the volcano god Wakka Loa by Doctor Dread, who happens to be wearing a wizard robe and hat because he couldn't find his high priest outfit. The back of the robe has runes which say "MY PARENTS WENT TO CAMELOT AND ALL I GOT WERE THESE LOUSY WIZARD ROBES!".

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' has two in quick succession after the super-brawl - first is the BigBad of the arc, [[spoiler: Vehemence]], in custody and sporting an "I Fought ARC-SWAT and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!", and not long after is the [[PunnyName Barberian]], who [[HornyDevils Dabbler had slept with to recharge]], sporting "I fought ARC-SWAT and all I got was [blank] and [blank] and my [blank][blank] by Dabbler."