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* DarkAndStormyNight plays this to the hilt as the set piece. Complete with and OldDarkHouse.
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* A doctor asked his elderly patient about what his relatives think about his hearing aides. The patient answered that he hasn't told any of them about it and that he had changed his will three times ever since then.
* A doctor asked his elderly patient about what his relatives think about his hearing aides. The patient answered that he hasn't told any of them about it and that he had changed his will three times ever since then.
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* In an episode of ''Married... With Children'', Al Bundy's Uncle Stymie, the only male Bundy to be a success in life (Al credits this to the fact Stymie was the only one who never married), left his $500,000 estate to the first male Bundy to have a legitimate child named after him.
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* In an episode of ''Married... With Children'', Al Bundy's Uncle Stymie, the only male Bundy to be a success in life (Al credits this to the fact Stymie was the only one who never married), left his $500,000 estate to the first male Bundy to have a legitimate child son named after him.him. Considering that the lawyer who read the will would later marry a male Bundy and give birth to Stymie Junior to get the money, Al and the other Bundys who didn't get the money [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot could have challenged the will under claims of undue influence]].
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* A prank on the hidden camera show ''ScareTactics'' involved the victim being told by a man she was hired to take care of that he'd been brought back to life by his greedy heirs while they were searching for his will. The man asked the victim what her name was, then scribbled it down onto his will, claiming to leave his entire fortune to her. The greedy heirs find out--[[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and terror for the victim) Ensued]].
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* A prank on the hidden camera show ''ScareTactics'' ''Series/ScareTactics'' involved the victim being told by a man she was hired to take care of that he'd been brought back to life by his greedy heirs while they were searching for his will. The man asked the victim what her name was, then scribbled it down onto his will, claiming to leave his entire fortune to her. The greedy heirs find out--[[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and terror for the victim) Ensued]].
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* In one case from ''DetectiveConan'', the family of Yukiko's childhood friend comes together at the family estate to hear the reading of the deceased patriarch's will. Things are tense (aside from the inevitable murder) thanks to the arrival of an uncle who nobody had seen since he moved to Brazil 30 years ago--they think he's an imposter aiming to collect some of the inheritance. [[spoiler: It turns out he ''is'' an imposter, albeit one with noble intentions. Someone had sent the real uncle a threatening letter warning him not to come to the reading of the will, unaware that he had actually died about six months earlier and that he had a half-Brazilian son who would inherit his share of the estate. The uncle's best friend posed as him and claimed that the son (who didn't speak much Japanese and had no idea what was going on) was his bodyguard when in reality, he was making sure that the son would safely claim his inheritance.]]
* In one case from ''DetectiveConan'', the family of Yukiko's childhood friend comes together at the family estate to hear the reading of the deceased patriarch's will. Things are tense (aside from the inevitable murder) thanks to the arrival of an uncle who nobody had seen since he moved to Brazil 30 years ago--they think he's an imposter aiming to collect some of the inheritance. [[spoiler: It turns out he ''is'' an imposter, albeit one with noble intentions. Someone had sent the real uncle a threatening letter warning him not to come to the reading of the will, unaware that he had actually died about six months earlier and that he had a half-Brazilian son who would inherit his share of the estate. The uncle's best friend posed as him and claimed that the son (who didn't speak much Japanese and had no idea what was going on) was his bodyguard when in reality, he was making sure that the son would safely claim his inheritance.]]
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** Dumbledore leaves Harry, Ron and Hermione specific items in his will, (they're carefully considered PlotCoupons for his big ThantosGambit.)
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** Dumbledore leaves Harry, Ron and Hermione specific items in his will, (they're carefully considered PlotCoupons for his big ThantosGambit.ThanatosGambit.)
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For the most part, the reading of the will is a case of ArtisticLicenseLaw, rather than TruthInTelevision. In RealLife, the only people who actually see the will (after death) are the lawyer, the executor/administrator/commissioner of the estate, and the probate court. A beneficiary ''does'' have the right to see the will, but he must specifically request it.
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** In another TomAndJerry cartoon, Jerry wrote a will leaving Tom a custard pie. Eager to claim that inheritance, Tom happily yelled: "Lemme have it!" and the pie was thrown at his face.
** In yet another one, Tom was so sure Spike would maul him to death he wrote a will leaving everything to charity.
** In yet another one, Tom was so sure Spike would maul him to death he wrote a will leaving everything to charity.
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*** Be warned: It's '''''[[{{Understatement}} long]]''''' -- 'Print Preview' in Firefox shows ''62'' pages.
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*** Be warned: It's '''''[[{{Understatement}} long]]''''' '''''long''''' -- 'Print Preview' in Firefox shows ''62'' pages.
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A gambit involving a will is more properly a Thantos Gambit. Considering his gambit was flawed, it shouldn\'t be a xanatos gambit
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** Dumbledore leaves Harry, Ron and Hermione specific items in his will, (they're carefully considered PlotCoupons for his big XanatosGambit.)
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** Dumbledore leaves Harry, Ron and Hermione specific items in his will, (they're carefully considered PlotCoupons for his big XanatosGambit.ThantosGambit.)
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* ''KeysToTheKingdom'' involves the will of the Architect of Creation, which can bestow great power.
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* ''KeysToTheKingdom'' involves the will Will of the Architect of Creation, which can bestow great power.power.
** It is also ''[[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids sentient]]''.
** It is also ''[[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids sentient]]''.
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* In ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' two-part episode ''10 Million Dollar Sheriff'', Rosco Coltrane believed he'd inherit ten million dollars from his uncle but it was later revealed that will was inaccurate and Rosco only inherited ten dollars. [[spoiler: Obviously, he only learned the truth after accumulating debts he relied on the ten-million-dollar inheritance to pay]]
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* In ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' two-part episode ''10 Million Dollar Sheriff'', Rosco Coltrane believed he'd inherit ten million dollars from his uncle but it was later revealed that will was inaccurate and Rosco only inherited ten dollars. [[spoiler: Obviously, he only learned the truth after accumulating debts he relied on the ten-million-dollar inheritance to pay]]
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* ''{{MASH}}'': During a posting to an aid station at the front Hawkeye makes out a will. One of the soldiers who works there says he's seen lots of guys do that.
* ''{{MASH}}'': During a posting to an aid station at the front Hawkeye makes out a will. One of the soldiers who works there says he's seen lots of guys do that.
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* In Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Pound of the Baskervilles", Lord Baskerville left his mansion to his second son, who must find the will to prove it, before the first son finds and destroys it.
* A flashback episode of "Pound Puppies" shows that, in order to keep Katrina Stoneheart from inheriting her aunt's Puppy Pound, the puppies needed to find her aunt's will, where it was stated the pound must go to Katrina's niece Holly.
* A flashback episode of "Pound Puppies" shows that, in order to keep Katrina Stoneheart from inheriting her aunt's Puppy Pound, the puppies needed to find her aunt's will, where it was stated the pound must go to Katrina's niece Holly.
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* In the interactive book [[The Dandee Diamond Mystery]], the reader/protagonist's rich and eccentric uncle left the Dandee Diamond to the one who most deserves it. However, before they can figure out who deserves it the most, they must find the diamond and the uncle's only clue in the will was talking to his parrot.
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* In the interactive book [[The Dandee Diamond Mystery]], TheDandeeDiamondMystery, the reader/protagonist's rich and eccentric uncle left the Dandee Diamond to the one who most deserves it. However, before they can figure out who deserves it the most, they must find the diamond and the uncle's only clue in the will was talking to his parrot.
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* In CharlesDickens's ''Bleak House'', there's a long running dispute over a will. By the time it's resolved, the entire fortune has gone in legal fees.
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* In CharlesDickens's ''Bleak House'', there's House'' revolves around a long running dispute long-running legal case over a will. By How long-running? Entire generations of descendants of the original litigants have been born, lived, and died ''before the novel begins''. We never learn what the dispute originally was, by the time it's resolved, of the novel nobody ''remembers'' what it was, and the ultimate conclusion is that legal costs have consumed the entire fortune has gone in legal fees.estate, so nobody gets anything.
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* In the interactive book [[The Dandee Diamond Mystery]], the reader/protagonist's rich and eccentric uncle left the Dandee Diamond to the one who most deserves it. However, before they can figure out who deserves it the most, they must find the diamond and the uncle's only clue in the will was talking to his parrot.
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* In an episode of ''Married... With Children'', Al Bundy's Uncle Stymie, the only male Bundy to be a success in life (Al credits this to the fact Stymie was the only one who never married), left his $500,000 estate to the first male Bundy to have a legitimate child named after him.
* In ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' two-part episode ''10 Million Dollar Sheriff'', Rosco Coltrane believed he'd inherit ten million dollars from his uncle but it was later revealed that will was inaccurate and Rosco only inherited ten dollars. [[spoiler: Obviously, he only learned the truth after accumulating debts he relied on the ten-million-dollar inheritance to pay]]
* In ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' two-part episode ''10 Million Dollar Sheriff'', Rosco Coltrane believed he'd inherit ten million dollars from his uncle but it was later revealed that will was inaccurate and Rosco only inherited ten dollars. [[spoiler: Obviously, he only learned the truth after accumulating debts he relied on the ten-million-dollar inheritance to pay]]
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* A major plot point in ''WashingtonSquare'': Catherine Sloper already receives $10,000 yearly from her mother's estate, and by default she is going at get an additional $30,000 after her father's death. Dr. Sloper already considers Catherine an InadequateInheritor, and makes it very clear to her that if she marries Morris Townsend, he will change his will to completely disinherit her and donate his money to various organizations. [[spoiler: He ends up keeping his word, and Catherine gets nothing from him. Even worse, Catherine never marries, making it a wasted struggle.]]
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* ''{{Greedy}}'' is pretty much entirely about the second and third paragraphs under ''Writing the Will'', above.
* TheUltimateGift uses a will at the beginning of the film to set up the story. The protagonist has to perform the convoluted tasks set forth in the will in order to inherit billions.
* TheUltimateGift uses a will at the beginning of the film to set up the story. The protagonist has to perform the convoluted tasks set forth in the will in order to inherit billions.
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* ''{{Greedy}}'' ''Greedy'' is pretty much entirely about the second and third paragraphs under ''Writing the Will'', above.
*TheUltimateGift The Ultimate Gift uses a will at the beginning of the film to set up the story. The protagonist has to perform the convoluted tasks set forth in the will in order to inherit billions.
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* In the {{Infocom}} game {{Deadline}}, one major scheduled event is the reading of the will, at noon. [[spoiler:Following a character will lead you toward the real, updated will.]]
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* In the {{Infocom}} game {{Deadline}}, Deadline, one major scheduled event is the reading of the will, at noon. [[spoiler:Following a character will lead you toward the real, updated will.]]
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* In an episode of ''AmericanDad'', Stan manages to turn Francine against her adoptive parents by showing her their will, which says everything goes to their birth daughter Gwen. At the end of the episode, Francine's father explains his reasoning: Gwen is [[BrainlessBeauty a total idiot]] and needs all the help she can get, but Francine is intelligent, self-sufficient, and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming married a good man]], so they're not worried about her.
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* In the [[ExpandedUniverse supplemental material]] for TeamFortress2, it is revealed that the driving force behind the ExcusePlot is the [[http://www.teamfortress.com/pumpkinpatch/the_last_will_and_testament_of_Zepheniah_Mann/ last will and testament of Zepheniah Mann]], arms manufacturer and proud owner of a continent worth of useless land and half the diseases known to man, the latter two caused by his layabout, brain defective sons, [[MeaningfulName Blutarch and Redmond]]. He leaves his arms company and personal estate to his personal tracker and nurse, respectively, and his sons get the crap land and a litany of insults.
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* In the [[ExpandedUniverse supplemental material]] for TeamFortress2, ''TeamFortress2'', it is revealed that the driving force behind the ExcusePlot is the [[http://www.teamfortress.com/pumpkinpatch/the_last_will_and_testament_of_Zepheniah_Mann/ last will and testament of Zepheniah Mann]], arms manufacturer and proud owner of a continent worth of useless land and half the diseases known to man, the latter two caused by his layabout, brain defective sons, [[MeaningfulName Blutarch and Redmond]]. He leaves his arms company and personal estate to his personal tracker and nurse, respectively, and his sons get the crap land and a litany of insults.
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* TheUltimateGift uses a will at the beginning of the film to set up the story. The protagonist has to perform the convoluted tasks set forth in the will in order to inherit billions.
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** In ''The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach'', the odd bequest is Great-Uncle Joseph's stomach.
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** In ''The Piscatorial Farce of the Stolen Stomach'', the odd bequest is Great-Uncle Joseph's stomach.stomach, [[spoiler:which happens to be packed with a number of very large high quality diamonds (thoughtfully swallowed by Great-Uncle before he commits suicide)]].
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** For the curious, the entire will (minus some in-universe legal BS), plus some out-of-game annotations, can be found here: http://ancientfiles.dumpshock.com/Dunk_Will.htm
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** For the curious, the entire will (minus some in-universe legal BS), plus some out-of-game annotations, can be found here: http://ancientfiles.[[http://ancientfiles.dumpshock.com/Dunk_Will.htmhtm here]].
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* One of KimNewman's horror stories, "The Cold Stark House", has a particularly nasty version of the jerkass dying guy trope: it turns out in the end that the dying guy enjoys making his relations dance for the inheritance so much that he's done a DealWithTheDevil to make himself and them immortal, and they've now been scheming and back-stabbing for ''centuries'', with no end in sight
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* One of KimNewman's horror stories, "The Cold Stark House", has a particularly nasty version of the jerkass dying guy trope: it turns out in the end that the dying guy enjoys making his relations dance for the inheritance so much that he's done a DealWithTheDevil to make himself and them immortal, and they've now been scheming and back-stabbing for ''centuries'', with no end in sightsight.
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* In {{CharlesDickens}}'s ''Bleak House'', there's a long running dispute over a will. By the time it's resolved, the entire fortune has gone in legal fees.
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* One episode of BBC radio comedy ''The Burkiss Way'' featured the reading of the will of a Lord Hackingbottmo. The will begins with a long list of people who have been left nothing, in increasingly elaborate language ("...nil pennies; the zero sum..."). This is followed by a list of people who have been left vaguely described but clearly unpleasant things ("...a rather nasty substance...something not nice in any way shape or form - and a four year supply of refills..."). An attempt to find someone who has been left something nice then turns the reading into a performance of ''Chattanooga Choo-choo''. This is disrupted by someone finally pointing out that ''Lord Hackingbottmo is the person reading the will out in the first place.''
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* One episode of BBC radio comedy ''The Burkiss Way'' ''TheBurkissWay'' featured the reading of the will of a Lord Hackingbottmo. The will begins with a long list of people who have been left nothing, in increasingly elaborate language ("...nil pennies; the zero sum..."). This is followed by a list of people who have been left vaguely described but clearly unpleasant things ("...a rather nasty substance...something not nice in any way shape or form - and a four year supply of refills..."). An attempt to find someone who has been left something nice then turns the reading into a performance of ''Chattanooga Choo-choo''. This is disrupted by someone finally pointing out that ''Lord Hackingbottmo is the person reading the will out in the first place.''
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* At least one TomAndJerry cartoon has Tom inheriting a great deal of money thanks to an eccentric owner, on the condition that he forfeits it all if he harms any living creature, even a mouse. Jerry then proceeds to be a total JerkAss throughout the cartoon, taking advantage of Tom and waving the telegram in his face to protect himself. Eventually Tom has enough and says "Gee, I'm giving up a million dollars...'''''BUT I'M HAPPY!!'''''" and finally giving Jerry the beating he deserves.
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* In ''StarTrekEnterprise'' just before the crew is set to go into a very dangerous mission we find Dr. Flox doing a very long and lengthy will to his extended family. He explains that he enjoys the thought of his friends and family getting something pleasurable and remembering him after he's gone.
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Wills combine death and the prospect of riches, making them potent plot devices. People will commit crimes to get in the will, or comply with [[OnOneCondition bizarre conditions]], but some are lucky enough to receive a massive inheritance [[DeusExMachina out of the blue.]]
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Wills combine death and the prospect of riches, making them potent plot devices. People will commit crimes to get in the will, or comply with [[OnOneCondition bizarre conditions]], but some are lucky enough to receive a massive inheritance [[DeusExMachina [[UnexpectedInheritance out of the blue.]]
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* Parodied in The Will of Don Quixote, by Hungarian poet Domokos Szilágyi. It starts with the traditional opening formula of a will, but the rest is actually a list of nouns arranged in alphabetic order, with little to no relation to each other.
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* TheFrantics' sketch "Last Will and Temperament", famously rendered with AceAttorney characters: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kGUW6M7W0 "To Jenny, I leave...a boot to the head!"]]
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* TheFrantics' sketch "Last Will and Temperament", famously rendered with AceAttorney characters: Temperament": [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kGUW6M7W0 "To Jenny, I leave...a boot to the head!"]]
** Within the AceAttorney fandom, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo a remix using characters from the series]] is quite popular.
** Within the AceAttorney fandom, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo a remix using characters from the series]] is quite popular.
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Posting link to original, rather than Phoenix Wright, version.
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* TheFrantics' sketch "Last Will and Temperament", famously rendered with AceAttorney characters: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo com/watch?v=J5kGUW6M7W0 "To Jenny, I leave...a boot to the head!"]]
