History Main / FundraiserCarnival

* In the print compilation book for the webcomic ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'', there is a bonus story centered on Layla's kissing booth at a FundraiserCarnival, with Brooke complaining about how demeaning the entire kissing booth concept was. It included jokes involving the problems with having an innocent HornyDevil or an AlphaBitch in the booth. It ended with Layla in the booth, and Brooke thinking to force her to back down by buying a ticket herself. To her surprise, Layla was willing to kiss a girl for this, and that this only got more customers because GirlOnGirlIsHot.

* The ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "Wheel of Death" is set around a travelling carnival setting up in Cabot Cove in exchange for giving a share of the profits to a charity chaired, inevitably, by Jessica Fletcher. It turns out that the owner is lying to both the charity and the IRS about how mich profit they're actually making.

* ''Series/VeronicaMars's Neptune High had a Winter Carnival to raise money for the senior trip. Justified in that it's a very affluent school district.

* In ''Series/GeorgeLopez'', the family works the dunk tank at one of these.

Not to be confused with the SchoolFestival, the carnival-like Japanese Cultural Festival events that often appear in anime high schools; those are actually common in Japan.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After Wonder Woman manages to recover and restore the sunken ship of the notorious local pirate Capt. Storm the Holliday Girls use it to put on a sort of pirate themed festival to raise funds for Holliday College.

* Cheap, unsafe rides (optional)

* The MacdonaldHall book ''Go Jump In The Pool'' has the students running a carnival to raise money to build a swimming pool.

* Shows up briefly in ''EverybodyHatesChris''.

* In the print compelation book for the webcomic ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'', there is a bonus story centered on Layla's kissing booth at a FundraiserCarnival, with Brooke complaining about how demeaning the entire kissing booth concept was. It included jokes involving the problems with having an innocent HornyDevil or an AlphaBitch in the booth. It ended with Layla in the booth, and Brooke thinking to force her to back down by buying a ticket herself. To her surprise, Layla was willing to kiss a girl for this, and that this only got more customers because GirlOnGirlIsHot.

* ''{{Daria}}'' has an episode where the library roof collapses, so they hold a medieval fair to raise funds for its repair. What's interesting is from the size and scale of the fair you can be sure they're spending about the amount they could fix it with in the first place.

Not to be confused with the SchoolCarnival, the carnival-like Japanese Cultural Festival events that often appear in anime high schools; those are actually common in Japan.

Not to be confused with the carnival-like Japanese Cultural Festival events that often appear in anime high schools; those are actually common in Japan.

* In the print compelation book for the webcomic ''EerieCuties'', there is a bonus story centered on Layla's kissing booth at a FundraiserCarnival, with Brooke complaining about how demeaning the entire kissing booth concept was. It included jokes involving the problems with having an innocent HornyDevil or an AlphaBitch in the booth. It ended with Layla in the booth, and Brooke thinking to force her to back down by buying a ticket herself. To her surprise, Layla was willing to kiss a girl for this, and that this only got more customers because GirlOnGirlIsHot.

* ''TheOnion'' has parodied this at least once, with a mention that some years it actually costs more money than it brings in.

* ''InTheHeights'': The whole neighborhood has a carnival after the power goes out.

* On ''Series/Diff'rentStrokes'', Arnold's school has a carnival and Willis gets hired as one of the workers for it. It becomes a Very Special episode after Arnold is electrocuted by a faulty microphone and stops breathing - and Willis then admits he lied about knowing CPR, something that was one of the qualifications for the job he was hired for.

!!Examples:

* There's a school carnival in the film version of ''{{Grease}}'', although it doesn't figure into the plot.
* In ''NeverBeenKissed'', the school throws a carnival to raise money for the senior prom.
* There's an on-campus charity fund raising carnival of sorts at the end of ''RevengeOfTheNerds''.
* There's a childrens's charity fundraiser featured in ''ShesTheMan''. It's while she's there that Viola first kisses Duke (at the kissing booth) and falls for him.

* ''TheBradyBunch'' once built a Dunk Tank for a school carnival.

* In ''George Lopez'', the family works the dunk tank at one of these.

* In ''MarriedWithChildren'', after Peggy goes overboard with yard sales, Al decides to have one himself. It fails spectacularly, so he turns the back yard into "Bundyland".

* In ''TheMonkees'' episode "Monkees Mind their Manor" there is a medieval faire to raise money to buy Davy's inherited Manor for the local villagers.
* Used in the second episode of ''NoOrdinaryFamily''.
* The Homecoming dance in ''PrettyLittleLiars'' was this combined with a CharityBall.

* VeronicaMars's Neptune High had a Winter Carnival to raise money for the senior trip. Justified in that it's a very affluent school district.

* In ''NeverBeenKissed'', the school throws a carnival for the seniors (or something like that).

When a school has a fundraiser, they need ideas how to carry it out and bring in big money for the cause. One of those ideas, in RealLife as well as on television, will include a carnival, and this is the option that wins out overall. Why shouldn't it be? carnivals make money, and money is what the school needs. If done properly, carnivals can have a lasting effect as they can make a large number of people aware of your cause at the same time.

* The third season episode "Bulletin Board" of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' has picnic for the entire staff and a nearby orphanage. With some elements that could appear on a carnival: Klinger has a kissing booth. People can buy snacks. There's a sack race and a spoon race. During a game of tug of war, where most of the major cast ends in the mud pit, incoming choppers abruptly end the picnic. The goal wasn't to raise money, but morale.

* ''DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has had at least two of these episodes.

* In ''DaddyDaycare'', the two main characters need to buy a property to save their daycare business, so they throw a carnival.