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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Slick", where Lilo and Mertle take turns at stealing a salesman experiment off of each-other in order to raise the most funds for the hula hall.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'': Spongebob and Patrick decide to become door-to-door chocolate salespeople. HilarityEnsues. This is surprisingly the most often quoted episode, and regarded by some to be the ''best'', or at least most memorable, episode in the series.

* ''WesternAnimation/StickinAround''
* ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'': Opie and all the boys in town are trying to sell salve to win a pony.
* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': Bobby gets several cases of hair tonic to sell; Greg buys one bottle out of pity and it turns his hair orange.
** Another time, Marcia joined the Greg's [[ScoutOut Frontier Scout]] troop to prove that [[ADayInHerApron a girl could do anything a boy could do]]; Greg then forced Peter to join Marcia's Sunflower Girls (Greg was too old) and sell cookies to prove the other way around. Naturally she succeeds and he fails. As Pete goes from door to door he's required to say the Sunflower Oath:
-->I am a little sunflower / Sunny, brave, and true. / From tiny bud to blossom, / I do good deeds for you.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey''

* Coconut Nut Clusters from ''Series/{{Reno 911}}''. Jones and Kimball end up pretty badly mangled. Everybody else has a pizza party without them.

* One sketch from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' centered around an encyclopedia salesman who managed to get himself invited into people's homes by claiming to be a burglar.

* These kinds of fundraisers, as well as regular door-to-door sales, are not unusual.
** In recent years, these have become discouraged.

* Coconut Nut Clusters from ''{{Reno 911}}''. Jones and Kimball end up pretty badly mangled. Everybody else has a pizza party without them.

* ''TheAndyGriffithShow'': Opie and all the boys in town are trying to sell salve to win a pony.
* ''TheBradyBunch'': Bobby gets several cases of hair tonic to sell; Greg buys one bottle out of pity and it turns his hair orange.

* ''StickinAround''

* ''HappyDays'': Fonzie gets a job as a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman; he doesn't last long.
* ''InvaderZim'': Zim uses special visors to show people the horrible world which will be if they don't buy his candy. He ends up selling 1.2 million bars but the secret top prize turns out to be nonexistent: it was just made up to make kids work harder. His consolation prize is a can of tuna.
* ''JimmyNeutron'': Jimmy builds a robot to sell candy, which succeeds until the robot begins selling all of Jimmy's inventions. He ends up tying with Cindy and they have a horrible time sharing the reward. (a trip to Retroland)
* ''KimPossible''

* ''PhineasAndFerb'': Candace sells Fireside Girls cupcakes as part of a ZanyScheme to get into a concert.

* ''SpongeBobSquarepants'': Spongebob and Patrick decide to become door-to-door chocolate salespeople. HilarityEnsues. This is surprisingly the most often quoted episode, and regarded by some to be the ''best'', or at least most memorable, episode in the series.

* ''HeyArnold'': Arnold and Gerald collect the rent in the boarding house, as a way for Gerald (and us) to meet the inhabitants.

* ''MyGymPartnersAMonkey''

* ''BeavisAndButthead'': The TropeNamer minus the "Episode" in which the protagonists go around houses for charity. HilarityEnsues even more than SpongebobSquarepants.
* In an episode of ''{{Doug}}'', Doug and the rest of his scout troop have to sell chocolate bars door-to-door. No one buys them, until they realize it was because cement got mixed up with the ingredients where the bars were made. The episode is actually ''called'' "Doug Door-to-Door".

* An early ''{{Daria}}'' episode involves characters going door to door selling various things (candy bars, phone services, etc.). Unlike most examples, however, it only serves as 1/3 of the episode's plot.

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->I am a little sunflower / Sunny, brave, and true. / From tiny bud to blossom, / I do good deeds for you.

* In the episode "The Trial of Henry Blake", from ''Series/{{Mash}}'', one of the charges brought against Henry is that he let Radar try to sell shoes to everyone. When Henry returns from his trail, he's welcomed by the camp -- with everyone wearing the wing-tipped shoes Radar was selling.

The protagonists (often schoolchildren) have to sell something for fund raising, usually candy, and there is a reward for the person who sells the most. After initial failure, the protagonist will employ a ZanyScheme to sell obscene amounts of it and end up with a mountain of money. The LonelyRichKid will just spend their own. More often than not, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption the reward ends up being lame.]]

* ''LiloAndStitch''

* ''BeavisAndButthead'': The TropeNamer minus the "Episode" in which the protagpnists go around houses for charity. HilarityEnsues even more than SpongebobSquarepants.

* ''BeavisAndButthead'': The TropeNamer minus the "Episode" in which the protagnists go around houses for charity. HilarityEnsues even more than SpongebobSquarepants.

--> '''Fish:''' "[[MemicMutation Chocolate? Did you say... chocolate?!]]"

* ''{{Recess}}''

* ''{{Friends}}'': Ross accidentally injures a Girl Scout while she was selling cookies door-to-door, so he takes over selling cookies for her and gets into a competition with the girl who sold more than him; he ends up buying the cookies himself.

* HeyArnold: Arnold and Gerald collect the rent in the boarding house, as a way for Gerald (and us) to meet the inhabitants.

* MyGymPartnersAMonkey
* In the episode ''The Trial of Henry Blake'', from ''[[MASHTheSeries M*A*S*H]]'', one of the charges brought against Henry is that he let Radar try to sell shoes to everyone. When Henry returns from his trail, he's welcomed by the camp -- with everyone wearing the wing-tipped shoes Radar was selling.
* BeavisAndButthead: The TropeNamer minus the "Episode" in which the protagnists go around houses for charity. HilarityEnsues even more than SpongebobSquarepants.

* Coconut Nut Clusters from {{Reno911}}. Jones and Kimball end up pretty badly mangled. Everybody else has a pizza party without them.

--> '''Fish:''' "Chocolate? Did you say... chocolate?!"

* ''InvaderZim'': Zim uses special visors to show people the horrible world which will be if they don't buy his candy. He ends up selling [[BeyondTheImpossible 1.2 million bars]] but the secret top prize turns out to be nonexistent: it was just made up to make kids work harder. His consolation prize is a can of tuna.

* ''SpongeBobSquarepants'': Spongebob and Patrick decide to become door-to-door chocolate salespeople. HilarityEnsues.

* ''SesameStreet'':
-->'''Kermit''': You tried to sell me a nose warmer and I don't have a nose. You tried to sell me earmuffs and I don't have ears. You tried to sell me a toothbrush and I have no teeth....