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* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': The exact mount of Scrooge's [=McDuck's=] fortune is never specified (among other things, it keeps increasing), so the writers went the EleventyZillion route of just making up numbers for it.

* In the ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' doujin, "Long, Long Distance," Tenko goes clothes shopping with Himiko. Tenko offers to pay, but ends up being horrified when Himiko shows her the price tag, and decides that she'll put her master into debt if that's what it takes to buy the clothes.

* Used at the end of the movie ''Film/SmallSoldiers''. The father of the family nearly killed by dangerous action figures yells at the CEO of the company that made them, saying something like "Not even you have enough money to make up for this." His secretary then, silently, prints out a check. The father reads it, and then says something like "OK... I guess you do..." The audience never sees just how much the check was for.

* A running gag in ''{{Film/Entourage}}'' is exactly how much Turtle has made from the IPO of his tequila company with Mark Cuban. Johnny admits Turtle hasn't directly told even his closest friends and family, but it's enough to have a beach-side mansion all the characters live in, and be able to put up $8 million dollars to help Vincent's latest film as a personal loan.

* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', Rainer and Daria visit an information broker and are haggling over the price. Getting sick of this of this, Daria scribbles something down on a card, says this is their final offer and hands it to the broker. The broker glances at the card and immediately agrees.
* A variation in ''Film/AMatterOfLifeAndDeath'' about much more than money. When the heavenly court rules that the defendant may continue living, the Judge takes the form containing the man's scheduled death date, and writes in a new date. He shows it only to the defense counsel ("Very generous, milord") and the prosecutor ("That's a bit much, isn't it?")

* This is an issue for Robert B. Parker's ''Literature/{{Spenser}}'' novels because of their use of ComicBookTime. When Spenser first appeared in the early 70s, his daily rate was specified as $100 a day. Later that became $200 a day. Eventually Spenser would seem say, as narrator, things like, "I told the client how much I charged, we argued about it, they complained it was too much, I told them to bite me, and finally they paid me what I had asked for in the first place."

--> "That ''is'' skinning me alive and it ''will'' be worth my while."

* During an extended flashback in ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'', a somewhat shady individual is proposing to acquire the seeds of a Soviet-developed cash crop for a British corporation. The CEO of the corporation, idly doodling on a blotter-pad as he discusses the matter over the phone, asks for a specific price. Said shady individual, "named a figure that stopped his doodling abruptly." But since the oil this plant produces is going to take a huge chunk out of their bottom line then they stump up anyway.

* In ''Series/AlmaGemea'', characters constantly demand or offer "a good amount" of money and often give each other large amounts of banknotes. Bills, cheques and similar documents also appear frequently. However, the actual numbers are never revealed. Examples include the price of Madalena's dresses, Olívia's bills, the price of the rose planation's lands, and Cristina's absurdly high separation proposal.

* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'': In "Lovely, but Lethal", a cosmetics executive writes an offer to industrial spy on the back of a magazine and hands it to him. He laughs at it, so she writes a second offer on the magazine. The magazine later becomes an important clue (it arrived that day, so the figures must have been written not long before he died).

* Subversion: On ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', Millionaire Mrs. Louder is trying to buy out Drew's house in a land-grab, but Drew doesn't want to sell. Mimi has a solution, but wants to be paid for providing it. Mrs. Louder offers $650, and when questioned on why that specific sum, replies that her corporation has spent millions of dollars scientifically calculating that exact amount as the minimum sum that poor people think is "a lot".

** Inverted in season one when Rachel gets her first paycheck from Central Perk and is visibly disappointed by the amount. Her friends assure her it's perfectly decent amount for a first job before tipping her generously.

** This trope was later toyed with when Lorelai and Sookie are opening their own inn. They have cash flow issues during construction, and Lorelai borrows $30,000 from Luke. While the amount is state aloud, the terms of the loan (interest, schedule, etc) are working out on a napkin so that diner patrons won't overhear.

* On ''Series/HappyEndings'' the Car Czar is so impressed by Jane's negotiating skills that he offers her a job with proposed salary written on a slip of paper. Jane counters with her own slip of paper which she keeps on her at all times.

** A corporate lawyer a tries to get Marshall away from the environmental group he dreamed of working by writing down his starting salary on a napkin.

** When telling his kids about Barney finally revealing how much money he spends on suits each year, narrator Ted only refers to it as a "crapload". Later in the episode we find out that when Barney became a corporate executive his starting salary was "16 craploads" a year. It is also revealed that Robin's family is very rich and has a net value of "6,000 Canadian craploads".

* A sketch on ''Series/TheSketchShow'' played with this, which a woman discusses with a repairman his prices using onomatopoeia (whistles for high prices, "eh" for low prices, etc.) At the end of the sketch, the woman asks how much it would be if she helps install it, and he replies, "£50".

* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'' has the Resource stat, indicating in vague terms how much wealth (be it in cash, properties, stocks, holdings, etc.) a character has at their disposal, and what kind of lifestyle they can maintain. One dot means they can subsist at working class level, and five dots indicate an obscene amount of dosh. Zero dots, to the dismay of any player who didn't bother with the stat for whatever reason, means the character is flat broke and likely lives as a hobo.

* Played straight in ''Mother 2'', but averted in ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}''. During localization, for some reason a couple of vague references meaning roughly "[[EleventyZillion a bajillion]] dollars" were changed to real numbers (Ness' family's debt to Porky's family is "a hundred thousand dollars or more" and the Diamond "could pay off a million dollar debt easily").

* In the ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' novel ''Literature/TheShatteringPreludeToCataclysm'', it's never specified how much Gazlowe charges to rebuild Orgrimmar aftre the fire, or how much Baine and Stormsong pay him for the supplies to retake Thunder Bluff, but it's suggested that it's a considerable amount of money. This may be to avoid having to scale it with how expensive things are in the game.

* In the ''XCOM'' [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown remake]], the shadowy council provides your funding in "credits". Considering you get an achievement for earning 1000 credits in a month of operations and how comparatively little it costs for the Engineering department to, say, build a spacefaring fighter craft from the ground up (with some scrap metal taken from various alien objects), then outfit it with a [[{{BFG}} fusion cannon]] capable of blowing an alien BATTLESHIP out of the sky with two shots, it can be assumed that "credits" are worth a hellalotta money[[note]]The developers likely switched to the more abstract funding to both simplify gameplay, and to avoid the uncomfortable question of how much alien defense is actually worth: in the original game, it was only worth about seven million dollars a month. New York City spends more than that on police in a ''week''![[/note]].
** There is however a way to translate "credits" to real world money: There are RealLife satellite launches. X-Commander is required to build and place satellites for about 30 or so credits. Given that this pays for the "much better than a communications/GPS" hardware and the cost of sending said hardware into orbit, the ballpark amount of funds for those Heavy Plasmas can probably pay the annual running costs of a small nation...

* In ''VisualNovel/KindredSpiritsOnTheRoof'', the math club, [[ClubStub which solely consists of Kiri and the club advisor Tsukuyo]], has a budget too small for them to do anything ambitious, but does allow them to recruit members.

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' never discusses the specific amount of money any of the characters make. This is typically not brought up, but there are a few instances where specific amounts of money are referenced such as when Dora is going over the books for her coffee shop and when her brother Sven is discussing how much money he has made by writing various country songs. The latter is apparently enough to make him continue writing them even though he thinks they're garbage. When Marigold stumbles into her very profitable (non porn) internet streaming gig, more than once the strip goes out of its way to avoid mentioning specific amounts out loud.
* When Syndey gets her first biweekly paycheck from Archon in ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'', she takes one look at it and asks if it's for the entire year. The commentary puts this as "You can get ten superheros, or you can get a jet." Extrapolate from that [[https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+does+a+jet+cost+to+buy how you will]].
* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The expedition's true objective is to illegally salvage [[TheBeforetimes Old World]] books, "forget" to mention it to the people who funded the expedition as a research operation and sell them for a lot of money. The flash-back establishing the monetary value of Old World books involves a book transcriber accidentally knocking an Old World original off his desk, getting yelled at by his boss because of how precious it is, taking the opportunity to ask how much it's worth, and being amazed at the answer. The book transcriber from this flash-back went on to be the expedition's organizer. The story being set in an AfterTheEnd world in which a small country's currency has become the one used in all the known surviving countries and the standard of living has changed only makes what would qualify as "a lot of money" harder to nail down.

* Cartoon shorts in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and TheFifties often threw around figures in the low millions when the subject of obscene wealth was mentioned. (Often in a OnOneCondition story.) This led to the very datedness effect that many of these other examples strive to avoid.

** And this is Hades he's buying off, the guy who was known in Roman Mythology as Pluto, which means "The Rich One". As God of the Underworld, he's given domain over not just the afterlife but also the all the gold and other minerals that are still in the ground.

** In another episode, Homer needs a operation to stop him snoring. Dr. Hibbert gives them a price we never see. We ''do'' see Homer's response: "Do it for free."

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', although this case is justified as Cleveland's son inherits a large amount of money from Cleveland's first wife OnOneCondition - Cleveland is ''not'' allowed to know how much. Instead of losing the money as these as they always do in these kinds of scenarios the issue isn't brought up again.

** In the episode "D.W. Unties the Knot", D.W. wants to have a fantasy wedding after seeing one on TV, and asks Muffy Crosswire if she can have it at her huge estate. Muffy calculates how much it would cost to rent (minus a 10% friends' discount) and shows it to D.W. and her friend Emily. When Emily says she only has a dollar on her, Muffy will only give them the space inside a small chalk square, though she gets excited upon learning the occasion is a wedding and offers the estate. Not realizing the wedding was for D.W. herself, a 4-year-old, Muffy goes all out and plans the ultimate fantasy wedding with a unicorn theme. Only on the day of the wedding does Muffy realize that D.W. is the bride, who refuses to go through with it once she realizes what it means to get married. Since it's "customary" for the father of the bride to pay for the wedding, Muffy presents Mr. Read with the bill. Even with catering costs deducted, the amount is enough for him to gasp and drop his tray of hors d'ouevres.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "Yes Without My Zeke", independent filmmaker Randy tries to rent out the titular restaurant to film one of his projects. Bob is hesitant to do so, as Saturdays are generally the days he gets the most customers, until Randy hands him a check. We don't see the amount, but it's enough to get Bob to immediately close for the day.

--> '''Garfield:''' Is a cheuque allowed to have that many zeroes on it?

* Several deals, settlements and contracts do not disclose terms.

* A form of bidding used in Japanese fish markets, for top class/dollar fish prized by chefs, has bidders slipping their bid in a small piece of folded paper to a seller. They don't wave numbers in the open or yell or take the time to outbid, because time is so critical that a mere minute of haggling could affect the quality of the fish.

* on ''Series/HappyEndings'' the Car Czar is so impressed by Jane's negotiating skills that he offers her a job with proposed salary written on a slip of paper. Jane counters with her own slip of paper which she keeps on her at all times.

* In one of the 1970s or 1980s ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' cartoons, an extremely high price was whispered in somebody's ear, twice. Each time, the flabbergasted listener blurted, "... AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS?!?"

-->''''Chelle:''' This limo [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-07-05 costs more than any of us make in a year]].\\

* At the end of the ''Radio/AbsolutePower'' episode "Big Brother", when Martin gets the firm their Downing Street retainer back:

Those film and theatre adaptations that do name a figure give a value that in those days was roughly equal to the salary of a semi-skilled laborer... for three or four years (For example, ''[[Film/{{Scrooge1970}} Scrooge]]'' has Scrooge pledge 100 guineas, or £120. For most of the film, Bob Cratchit was supporting a family of seven on £39 a year).

* In a ''Series/{{Will And Grace}}'' episode, Karen laments that her husband has put her on a strict budget. When Grace looks at the figures Karen wrote out, she replies that if ''Spain'' can live on that amount, so can she.

* In the original radio series of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', the following exchange takes place in the fourth episode, regarding [[spoiler: the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything]]:

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', quest rewards are never specified in dialogue; this is because [[GameplayAndStorySegregation you get paid the same number of credits as every other quest at that level]]. Instead, expect to hear phrases like "rest assured, the Republic/Empire will compensate you well for this". Especially egregious in the case of the [[HiredGuns Bounty Hunter]], who has the [[{{Catchphrase}} repeated line]] "let's get more specific about my pay". Somehow, the meaning of "specific" manages to elude every quest-giver in the galaxy.

* Both played straight and averted, on separate occasions, in the webcomic ''ScandalSheet!''. Played straight when Max shows Foster his first paycheque for working at The Comet -- Foster's eyes grow large and he says "That's a lot of zeros." However, it's averted later when Foster receives a large amount of money [[spoiler: from his former co-worker at the porn studio, who found his script for ''Thigh-tanic'' and produced it, with enormous success]]. The amount is specified to be ten thousand dollars.

* ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'': The expedition's true objective is to illegally salvage [[TheBeforetimes Old World]] books, "forget" to mention it to the people who funded the expedition as a research operation and sell them for a lot of money. The flash-back establishing the monetary value of Old World books involves a book transcriber accidentally knocking an Old World original off his desk, getting yelled at by his boss because of how precious it is, taking the opportunity to ask how much it's worth, and being amazed at the answer. The book transcriber from this flash-back went on to be the expedition's organizer. The story being set in an AfterTheEnd world in which a small country's currency has become the one used in all the known surviving countries and the standard of living has changed only makes what would qualify as "a lot of money" harder to nail down.

* In one of the 1970s or 1980s Franchise/SpiderMan cartoons, an extremely high price was whispered in somebody's ear, twice. Each time, the flabbergasted listener blurted, "... AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS?!?"

--->'''Homer's Lawyer''': I think you should take his offer.

* PlayedForLaughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. Dale gets a job at a [[BikiniBar Hooters knockoff]], and he and the waitresses unite in demanding financial compensation from the manager as an apology for the sexual harassment they suffer. Dale hands the manager a piece of paper with the desired amount written on it. Since it's [[TheDitz Dale]]...

* In one episode of ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', one of the warehouse workers asks Michael for a raise. Michael has him write down how much he wants on a piece of paper (hidden from the camera) and laughs when he sees the amount, even though it's equivalent to just a ten percent raise. It turns out that the raise would put his income higher than Michael's, who has never asked for a raise in the fourteen years he's worked at the company. The employee then spreads the information regarding Michael's income to their colleagues who mock him for his comparatively paltry earnings.

** In "101 Mitigations," Homer accidentally destroys Comic Book Guy's first issue of ''Radioactive Man'' while taking his car on a joyride and faces the high possibility of a prison sentence. Hoping to settle the matter, Lisa goes online and finds another issue of the same comic available for purchase, to which Homer says, "[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder How much could an old comic cost?]]" In response, Bart whispers in his ear for a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously long time]].

** In "101 Mitigations," Homer is brought to court by Comic Book Guy after accidentally destroying his first issue of ''Radioactive Man'' while taking his car on a joyride and faces the high possibility of a prison sentence. Hoping to settle the matter, Lisa goes online and finds another issue of the same comic available for purchase, to which Homer says, "[[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder How much could an old comic cost?]]" In response, Bart whispers in his ear for a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously long time]].