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* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E8BlendinsGame Blendin's Game]]", Dipper and Mabel risk their lives to give Soos a reality-bending wish so he can be with his father. When he sees the twins are dirty and beaten up from their harrowing adventure, he uses it to clean them off and fix their wounds and clothing, having realized birthdays are about being with people who care about you and his dad never really cared about him. Blendin protests before Soos reveals that he also wished for an infinite slice of pizza.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E8BlendinsGame Blendin's Game]]", Dipper and Mabel risk their lives to give Soos a reality-bending wish so he can be see his father, who was never in his life save for occasional postcards with his father. promises to visit that were never kept. When he sees the twins are dirty and beaten up from their harrowing adventure, he uses it the wish to clean them off up and fix their wounds and clothing, having realized that birthdays are about being with people who care about you and his dad never really cared about him. Blendin angrily protests at this, as the wish could have given him ''anything'' with no risk of time paradoxes, before Soos reveals that he also ''also'' wished for an infinite a slice of pizza.infinitely-regenerating pizza, which everyone agrees was a good wish.
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* In ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'', Kunō gets three wishes from the Wishbringer during the Wishing Sword arc. He finds this a problem since he's already "Gorgeous, brilliant, rich and has a great personality." However, he also recognizes that he now has the power to conquer the world. His three wishes turns out to be: Beating Ranma in a fight once, a date with the pigtailed girl, a small statue to celebrate said date. Other candidates for his wishes include: a date with Akane (while he's about to start his date with Ranma), catching Ranma during a playful game of chase, create a café, bigger boobs for Ranma, find Ranma (not recognizing male Ranma as the pigtailed girl).

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* In ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'', ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Kunō gets three wishes from the Wishbringer during the Wishing Sword arc. He finds this a problem since he's already "Gorgeous, brilliant, rich and has a great personality." However, he also recognizes that he now has the power to conquer the world. His three wishes turns out to be: Beating Ranma in a fight once, a date with the pigtailed girl, a small statue to celebrate said date. Other candidates for his wishes include: a date with Akane (while he's about to start his date with Ranma), catching Ranma during a playful game of chase, create a café, bigger boobs for Ranma, find Ranma (not recognizing male Ranma as the pigtailed girl).
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* At the end of ''Another Fish Story'' by Creator/KimNewman, in payment for his services Derek Leech offers washed-up BMovie actor Creator/LonChaneyJr anything he wants with [[DealWithTheDevil no strings attached]]. Chaney says Leech has already granted it by [[IKnowYourTrueName addressing him by his real name]], Creighton. Given that Leech is planning to bring about the end of the world by exploiting people's greed, he's genuinely impressed.

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* At the end of ''Another ''[[Literature/DiogenesClub Another Fish Story'' Story]]'' by Creator/KimNewman, in payment for his services Derek Leech offers washed-up BMovie actor Creator/LonChaneyJr anything he wants with [[DealWithTheDevil no strings attached]]. Chaney says Leech has already granted it by [[IKnowYourTrueName addressing him by his real name]], Creighton. Given that Leech is planning to bring about the end of the world by exploiting people's greed, he's genuinely impressed.
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* ''Manga/FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd'': One of the rewards for successfully becoming a first class mage is "the privilege", the opportunity to ask Serie, [[TheArchmage a millennia-old elf and the most powerful magic user alive by a considerable margin]], to teach them ''any'' spell she knows. As one of her nicknames is "The Living Grimmoire", there are a multitude of extremely powerful spells to choose from. When [[spoiler: Fern, Frieren's apprentice]] successfully passes the exam to become a first class mage, she requests to learn... a spell for doing the laundry. Serie is less than impressed by this request, though Frieren approves of it, in part ''because'' it annoys Serie.
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E38TheManInTheBottle The Man in the Bottle]]", the couple's first wish (out of four) is to have a pane of glass in their shop repaired, in order to [[GodTest test the genie's power]] first. The couple then proceed [[WastefulWishing to waste their remaining wishes]], but in the end console themselves with the thought that at least the glass got repaired. Guess what happens next.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E38TheManInTheBottle "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E2TheManInTheBottle The Man in the Bottle]]", the couple's first wish (out of four) is to have a pane of glass in their shop repaired, in order to [[GodTest test the genie's power]] first. The couple then proceed [[WastefulWishing to waste their remaining wishes]], but in the end console themselves with the thought that at least the glass got repaired. Guess what happens next.



** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", the Prince of Darkness offers the recently deceased Bluestone the opportunity to visit anywhere in the universe at any time. He is shocked when Bluestone wishes to have sex with Mary Ellen Cosgrove at a high school party in October 1948.
** In "The Trunk", in order to test whether the titular object can really grant his every wish, Willy Gardner wishes for a jug of cool root beer. He is delighted when it appears in the trunk.

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** In "Time "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E10 Time and Teresa Golowitz", Golowitz]]", the Prince of Darkness offers the recently deceased Bluestone the opportunity to visit anywhere in the universe at any time. He is shocked when Bluestone wishes to have sex with Mary Ellen Cosgrove at a high school party in October 1948.
** In "The Trunk", "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S3E14 The Trunk]]", in order to test whether the titular object can really grant his every wish, Willy Gardner wishes for a jug of cool root beer. He is delighted when it appears in the trunk.
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* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05av9iJvgiQ Everything "You Know Is Wrong,"]] aliens offer to transport the protagonist to any time in history. He chooses "[[MundaneUtility last Thursday night, so [he] can pay [his] phone bill on time.]]"

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* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05av9iJvgiQ Everything "You "Everything You Know Is Wrong,"]] aliens offer to transport the protagonist to any time in history. He chooses "[[MundaneUtility last Thursday night, so [he] can pay [his] phone bill on time.]]"

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