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* 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".
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* In the third book of ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'', [[GadgeteerGenius Leo]] appears as a cameo, wearing a T-shirt that says in Latin, "My Cohort Went to New Rome and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt''.
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* Website/BabylonBee: Following the Trump impeachment: "[[https://babylonbee.com/news/mitch-mcconnell-sends-pelosi-shirt-reading-i-impeached-the-president-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt Mitch McConnell Sends Pelosi Shirt Reading 'I Impeached The President And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt']]"
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* Selfdemonstrating/{{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/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" even less appropriate!
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* Selfdemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} 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/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" even less appropriate!
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* The cover art for the single release of "Sicko Mode" by Music/TravisScott has the phrase "I went to Astroworld and all I got was this f**kin' song" written on the center.
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The concept is OlderThanFeudalism, a stylus was found in [[https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/a-2000-year-old-stylus-makes-a-point-about-ancient-roman-humor/ Londinium]] with an inscription that amounts to "I went to Rome and all I got for you was this stylus."
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The concept is OlderThanFeudalism, OlderThanFeudalism: a stylus was found in [[https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/a-2000-year-old-stylus-makes-a-point-about-ancient-roman-humor/ Londinium]] with an inscription that amounts to "I went to Rome and all I got for you was this stylus."
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This trope is a jokey stock phrase on (in most cases) a FunTShirt. It's something of an ObligatoryJoke printed on souvenirs. The trope is so well-known that oftentimes, media that feature it will [[{{Bathos}} play on the absurdity of the t-shirt appearing in a scene]].
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This trope is a jokey stock phrase on (in most cases) a FunTShirt. It's something of an ObligatoryJoke printed on souvenirs. The trope souvenirs and is so well-known that oftentimes, media that feature it will [[{{Bathos}} play on the absurdity of the t-shirt appearing in a scene]].
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Your parents went on their second honeymoon, your best friend went to Paris, or you survived the scariest haunted house in the world without needing to [[BringMyBrownPants change your underwear afterwards]].
And all you got was this lousy T-shirt.
TruthInTelevision. These T-shirts are ''everywhere''.
A SubTrope of FunTShirt.
Compare AndYourRewardIsClothes.
And all you got was this lousy T-shirt.
TruthInTelevision. These T-shirts are ''everywhere''.
A SubTrope of FunTShirt.
Compare AndYourRewardIsClothes.
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Your parents went on their second honeymoon, your best friend went to Paris, or you survived the scariest haunted house in the world without needing to [[BringMyBrownPants change your underwear afterwards]].
afterwards]]. And all you got was this lousy T-shirt.
TruthInTelevision. These T-shirts are ''everywhere''.
A SubTropeThis trope is a jokey stock phrase on (in most cases) a FunTShirt. It's something of FunTShirt.
Compare AndYourRewardIsClothes.an ObligatoryJoke printed on souvenirs. The trope is so well-known that oftentimes, media that feature it will [[{{Bathos}} play on the absurdity of the t-shirt appearing in a scene]].
The concept is OlderThanFeudalism, a stylus was found in [[https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/a-2000-year-old-stylus-makes-a-point-about-ancient-roman-humor/ Londinium]] with an inscription that amounts to "I went to Rome and all I got for you was this stylus."
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.
A SubTrope
Compare AndYourRewardIsClothes.
The concept is OlderThanFeudalism, a stylus was found in [[https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/a-2000-year-old-stylus-makes-a-point-about-ancient-roman-humor/ Londinium]] with an inscription that amounts to "I went to Rome and all I got for you was this stylus."
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.
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* Akane of ''Manga/FlyingWitch'' is known for having awful sense in choosing souvenirs, giving things like crude oil and raw coffee beans. After a trip to Burkina Faso, she brings Makoto a T-shirt that says "Burkino Faso" on the front and "Welcome" on the back. Akane admits she was mostly intrigued by the fact the text was in Japanese.
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* Akane of ''Manga/FlyingWitch'' is known for having awful sense in choosing souvenirs, giving things like crude oil and raw coffee beans. After a trip to Burkina Faso, she brings Makoto a T-shirt that says "Burkino Faso" on the front and "Welcome" on the back. Akane admits she was mostly intrigued by the fact the text was in Japanese.
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* ''VideoGame/{{BIONICLE}}'': In the first ''Mata Nui Online Game'', there's a trader shop on the outskirts of Po-Wahi with a rock carving that says "My friend went to Po-Wahi and all I got was this lousy rock".
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* Selfdemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} gets Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} for Secret Santa, but to his surprise it's Comicbook/KateBishop instead of Clint - making [[http://cbr3.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/SPIDPOOL2016012-int-LR2-5.jpg his gift, a shirt reading]] "[[Comicbook/CivilWarII I killed]] [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" even less appropriate!
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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12905694/19/Raising-Ourselves Raising Ourselves]]'' George jokingly claims that he considered buying Harry's godson Teddy a custom T-shirt reading "My daddy killed Voldemort and all I got was this T-shirt."
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* Turns out to be OlderThan Feudalism, in the form of a stylus found in [[https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/a-2000-year-old-stylus-makes-a-point-about-ancient-roman-humor/ Londinium]] with an inscription that amounts to "I went to Rome and all I got for you was this stylus."
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* In ''[[VideoGame/SPYFox SPY Fox in: Dry Cereal]]'', SPY Fox can allude to this when you click on him inside William's blimp, saying that he should get a shirt saying that he saved the world and all he got was a lousy t-shirt.
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* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' online novella "Houdini and the Space Cuckoos", the Eleventh Doctor has a shirt that says "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut I died at Lake Silencio]] and all my wife got me was this lousy T-shirt".
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* ''Comicbook/WestCoastAvengers2018'' has Kid Omega wearing "I de-vamped Comicbook/{{Jubilee}} and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
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* One of the Zonks on the 1980s version of ''Series/LetsMakeADeal'' was a T-shirt that read, "I got Zonked by Monty Hall!!!!" This was usually awarded as the Zonk in the Door #4 game.
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* After reaching the [[spoiler:NUKE NUKE NUKE]] and the games ends, if you play I was in the War again, your character wears a shirt that says "[[TitleDrop I Was in the War]] and all i got was this lousy t-shirt".
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* ''Series/RedDwarf'': It may be metaphorical in this case, but Lister himself is due for one.
-->'''Lister:''' I've been surviving in space for five or six years. When it comes to weirdy, paradoxy space stuff, I bought the T-shirt!\\
'''Kryten:''' He bought it and I ironed it for him!
-->'''Lister:''' I've been surviving in space for five or six years. When it comes to weirdy, paradoxy space stuff, I bought the T-shirt!\\
'''Kryten:''' He bought it and I ironed it for him!
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* ScienceFiction version: "I went to a planet with no bilateral symmetry and all I got was this lousy F-shirt."
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* ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat for President''. Our anti-hero sees a bored tourist in a shirt with this trope, and picks him out for a [[SchmuckBait free bottle of wine]] so he can be MuggedForDisguise.
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* ''Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat for President''. Our anti-hero sees a bored tourist in a shirt with saying this trope, and picks takes him out aside for a [[SchmuckBait free bottle of wine]] so he can be MuggedForDisguise.
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* 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".
** Also in PAYDAY 2, 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".
** Also in PAYDAY 2, 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".
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* During one arc on ''Series/{{Passions}}'', Charity Standish was imprisoned in ice while a "zombie" version of her took her place; it was ultimately revealed as a succubus and died soon after. The succubus made a return appearance in a short arc sometime later, wearing a shirt that said something along the lines of "I went to Hell and back and all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
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* During the TwistEnding of ''Film/TheGame'', Nicholas is given a shirt reading "I Was Drugged And Left For Dead In Mexico – And All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt."
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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Mentioned in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/original-timeline/398-merry-decent-into-madness Merry Descent into Madness]] while Merry was looking for a shirt to wear.:
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* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In the episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Luau", Sabrina and her twin sister buy these t-shirts for each other.
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