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Bob wants a soda/candy bar/whatever from a vending machine. He puts the dollar into the machine, it ejects the bill. He puts it back in, the machine ejects it again. Bob takes the bill out, smooths out the wrinkles, puts it back in. The machine makes a "Ka-ching!" noise, Bob is thrilled.

Eventually, Bob is ironing out the dollar on an ironing board he just pulled out of {{Hammerspace}} trying to get the machine to accept it.

And it ''still'' won't.

Maybe he'll try to use coins instead. They end up in the coin return. And don't even ask about what happens if he tries the credit card reader.

Commonly PlayedForLaughs.

Compare VengefulVendingMachine.

Has nothing to do with NoExportForYou, unless the snack you're trying to get is not officially sold in your country. Also not to be confused with DeniedFoodAsPunishment.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', there is a vending machine that eats people's money without dispensing its drinks. Mikoto Misaka says it's because the machine is old. She gets drinks from it by hitting or [[ShockAndAwe shocking]] it, but she's often forced to run afterwards because taking something from a vending machine without paying is illegal.

Has nothing to do with NoExportForYou. Unless the snack you're trying to get is not officially sold in your country. Also not to be confused with DeniedFoodAsPunishment.

-->Velasco: You know, you shouldn't let Benson see you do that.
-->Muncy: Who do you think taught me how to do it?

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': Apparently the squad room vending machine does this often enough that Captain Benson responds to a complaint from a new detective by simply sticking her arm in the slot and fishing out a bag of cashews, which was apparently as far as she could reach.
** In a later episode, someone actually wants a bag of cashews, so the now not-so-new detective sticks ''her'' arm into the machine and retrieves some.
-->Velasco:You know, you shouldn't let Benson see you do that.

-->Velasco:You know, you shouldn't
let Benson see you do that.

Has nothing to do with NoExportForYou. Unless the snack you're trying to get is not officially sold in your country.

* Used in the short ''Blair Witch'' parody by Toxic Bag, ''The Bag Witch Project'', in which some gamers hopelessly lost in the hallways of a convention center search in vain for [=GenCon=]. They keep moving in circles and winding up at the same vending machine, which invokes this trope every time they return.

* A vaguely similar joke occurs on ''Dave's World''. In the episode "Cyberspace", a program is described for an evil ATM which, after the customer inserts the card and enters the PIN, gives out nothing, not even the card back.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Near the start of "Blendin's Game", Dipper and Mabel try to get some candy from the vending machine in the Mystery Shack's gift shop. The kids are naturally upset when it gets stuck (with Mabel crying "Everything is terrible forever!"), but Soos shows them a way to not only unstick the machine, but open it up so they can get all the candy they want.

* Done in ''Disney/ChickenLittle'' when [[PunnyName Runt of the Litter]] tries to get a soda. A particularly cruel example, since the characters' ''lives'' actually depend on the acquisition of said soda. When the machine won't take his dollar, Runt goes into a ferocious rage, thrashing and pounding the machine, much to the astonishment of the others. The machine reluctantly spits a single soda bottle out.

-->'''Gyro''': You miserable piece of rust! ''I'' am man, ''you'' are machine! [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Do as I command or I will pull your plug]]!

Maybe he'll try to use coins instead. They end up in the coin return.

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** In "Rock Bottom", [=SpongeBob=] tries to get a candy from the machine across the street from the bus stop, but everytime he tries he misses the bus. He finally comes through, but as he reaches for the candy bar inside the bus pulls up, going back and forth as [=SpongeBob=] sticks his arm in and out, even reving up as he touches the candy bar. Finally, he makes a dash for it and the bus rides off without him. To top it off, someone comes and takes the candy bar, and as [=SpongeBob=] crosses the street to catch him, three busses in succession go by.

* Taken to the extreme in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' episode "All That Jazz", where Murphy is trapped under an Evil Vending Machine for ''months''.

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* In ''Film/SilentMovie'', there's a Coca-Cola machine that has multiple dispensers, and fires the Coke can at high speed out of whichever dispenser you aren't watching.

* The film version of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' starts with R.J.'s attempt to get a bag of chips out of a machine. He does get it, eventually.
* In Music/TheMonkees' ''Film/{{Head}}'', Micky is staggering through a desert, nearly delirious - he finds a Coke machine out there, drops in a coin...and nothing comes out. As he pounds on it screaming maniacally, the Coke jingle plays merrily on the soundtrack.
* Used in the short ''Blair Witch'' parody by Toxic Bag, ''The Bag Witch Project'', in which some gamers hopelessly lost in the hallways of a convention center search in vain for [=GenCon=]. They keep moving in circles and winding up at the same vending machine, which invokes this trope every time they return.

* One of the most outrageous puzzles in ''VideoGame/{{Stationfall}}'' involves getting your purchase out of a vending machine when it becomes stuck. [[spoiler: It involves an ostrich.]

* One of the most outrageous puzzles in ''VideoGame/((Stationfall}}'' involves getting your purchase out of a vending machine when it becomes stuck. [[spoiler: It involves an ostrich.]]

The machine ejects the bill again.

* Done in ''Disney/ChickenLittle'' when [[PunnyName Runt of the Litter]] tries to get a soda. A particularly cruel example, since the characters' ''lives'' actually depend on the acquisition of said soda.

* A RunningGag in ComicBook/{{Luke Cage}}'s own comic was the soda machine in his old office (an old model that gave you a Styrofoam cup of soda) that tormented him. He was actually lucky if it ''just'' didn't give him the soda. One time it dispensed the soda before dispensing the cup, another time, the cup was upside down. Once it somehow gave him a cup of chicken soup. ('''[[CarchPhrase "Christmas!"]]''' shouted Cage.) One time it gave up and ''did'' give him the soda, ''after'' he had already given up and left! The machine was eventually destroyed when a villain bombed the whole office, but it's curse remained, as Cage tended to have bad luck with crazy vending machines since then.