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12 [[caption-width-right:350:"I got you a dollar!"]]
13A type of prank involving a tied dollar bill, or some valuable object or even food, left on the ground and then pulled away when someone attempts to pick it up. May be used as a lure.
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15Compare CoinOnAStringTrick, where the victim (usually a vending machine) believes they've ended up with the money. Often a form of MotivationOnAStick.
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18!!Examples:
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22* In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isqYaFRQaLs ad for State Farm]], a woman who doesn't have State Farm is taunted by a fisherman who says that he got her a dollar.
23-->'''Fisherman''': (''pulling away the rod'') Oooh, ya almost had it. Gotta be quicker than that.
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27* Appears in the censored version of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime, to replace Bulma using a lure of panties to catch [[LovablePervert Oolong]] transformed as a fish. It also sets up Goku catching him and saying "[[{{Pun}} Would you look at that]], [[Film/AFistfulOfDollars a fishful of dollars!]]"
28* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' has a variant; Urumi puts a 10,000-yen bill on a small string-and-stick attached to Onizuka's headband, and tells him he can have the money if he catches it in his mouth while bicycling at 60 kph (with her riding on the back of the bike, of course).
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32* ''ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics'':
33** WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's nephews Mortie and Ferdie once placed a purse on the floor to pull a prank on Donald Duck, who tried to prank them back by picking a quarter from his pockets and pretended to take it from the purse. The boys cried for the money and Donald told them the money wasn't theirs. Unfortunately for him, a random passerby overheard the conversation and believed Donald robbed the kids. The passerby socked him and gave them the quarter.
34** On April Fool's day, Huey, Dewey and Louie placed a dollar bill coming off a wallet (found at the city dump) and dropped it with a string to pull a prank on Donald. The string didn't work, allowing Donald to keep the wallet and the dollar. Later on, they tried something similar with an empty wallet and no strings (they reasoned Donald wouldn't need to see any money this time). Unlike them, Donald knew those old wallets had secret pockets and decided to search them for money. He found a ''ten''-dollar bill.
35* Done by the Prankster in an old ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic. Seeing the obvious string, no one picks up the dollar assuming it is a prank. However, the string actually triggers an explosive to blow a hole in the wall of a bank.
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39* [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1979&addr=790107 This]] ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip from 1979 featured Jon pulling this trick on Garfield. Jon used a blueberry muffin instead of money. Garfield retaliated by knocking down the table Jon was on.
40** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1996&addr=960223 Garfield pulled it on Jon with the last cookie.]]
41** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1999&addr=990606 A mouse did it to Jon.]] ''More than once''.
42* According to a ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strip from 1985, this is Spike's favorite AprilFoolsPlot, with a purse on a string. Because he's in the desert, however, no victims come by.
43-->'''Spike:''' I'll wait for ten more hours, but then that's it.
44* One ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' intro panel comic has Black Spy pulling this on White Spy, with a dollar tied to a string leading to a guillotine. The version of this gag ''Series/MadTV1995'' has Black successful in defeating White this way, only for White's headless body to make a final successful grasp at the dollar and slump over after.
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48* [[Literature/GoodOmens Crowley]] pulls a variant in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9660397/4/Not-Quite-The-Devil-You-Know Not Quite The Devil You Know]]'', gluing a coin to the sidewalk. It's Crowley's way of corrupting humanity; coveting the coin is Greed, and everyone who tries to pull the coin is invariably angry, or Wrathful.
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52* In ''Film/GoWest'', Harpo uses this on Groucho. Groucho is trying to fleece Harpo & Chico out of all their money but H&C reverse it by giving Groucho a 10 and getting 9 change, over and over again.
53* The old "duck on a dollar" trick from ''Film/TheLittleRascals''.
54* In ''Film/UsedCars'', Rudy uses a $10 bill on a fishing line to attract a customer from ''across the street'' at a competing car dealer. The customer is chasing the money ''and not looking at traffic''.
55* In ''Film/TheWrongGuys'', the bullying Grunsky brothers used this trick as children, to lure Richard into a snare trap that suspended him by his ankles. Years later, as adults, Richard and his friends find themselves and the Grunskys working together to escape a dangerous criminal, and Richard remembers the trick. They successfully bait the criminal, and he winds up helpless. [[HopeSpot Temporarily]].
56* ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'': Commander Clement wants to get some information out of Harvey "Blind" Pew but doesn't want to pay for it. Each time he drops a coin into Pew's cup, Clement yanks it back out again with a string.
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60* In "You Can Lead Eeyore to Books" from ''Series/TheBookOfPooh'', Winnie the Pooh and his friends use a tied carrot to lure Eeyore to Owl's library so that he can pick out a book of his own after he doesn't like the ones they suggest to him.
61* One of the bits on ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' is called "Street Fishing".
62* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Gordy played this prank on Mr. Sweeney to cheer Ned up. It didn't work (and because Sweeney was on the second floor and the window was open, he fell straight onto Gordy and the others).
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66* The cover of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'' features a baby swimming in the water, a lure in front of him with a dollar bill hooked on its end.
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70* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' and ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', you can catch the [[FishPeople fish-man]] merchant Maniro by baiting your hook with a gold bar.
71* The Fishin' Lakitu from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' tries to lure you with a 1-Up Mushroom on a fishing rod. If you pick it up, he'll start throwing spinies.
72* ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'' has the ''Lure'' Gag track, which offers $1, $5, and $10 bills you can use to bait a singular Cog. In return, the gags have low accuracy, and you have to grind in order to get said bills.
73* ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' has an enemy that lures Wario in with a coin on a fishing rod- when he attempts to collect it, he's instead pulled up to a higher area.
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77* The "Couch Fishing" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''.
78* Used in the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'' episode "[[Recap/CaptainFlamingoS1E9TenPinPerilWhackAMax Whack-a-Max]]" where Milo uses a dollar tied to a string to distract the big kids from playing the Whack-a-Mole game in which Max is stuck in. It backfires when they eventually retrieve the dollar to continue playing the game.
79* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when it's revealed that Lois' mother is Jewish, Carter, her husband, [[AllJewsAreCheapskates attempts to bait her with money]]. [[StereotypeReactionGag She doesn't fall for it.]]
80** Another episode has Peter doing this so he could have [[AnvilOnHead an anvil fall on someone's head]]. He then proceeds to fall for his own lure and get hit by the anvil.
81* Used to distract Grunkle Stan in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Double Dipper", when one of the Dipper clones dangles a dollar bill on a fishing pole in front of him.
82-->'''Grunkle Stan:''' Yeah, right, like I'm gonna fall for that... (''beat, [[DoubleSubversion dives for the bill]]'') ''Gimme that floating money!''
83* Used in the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' episode "Johnny Bench" where Johnny uses twenty bucks tied to a string to lure Bumper out of the woodshop class so that he can use his bench to trick Mr. Teacherman that he made that bench but he then saw what he did to it by using someone else's bench, causing the plan to backfire as he has to make a bench made entirely by him or else he will go to summer school.
84* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheKidsFromRoom402'' started with Mr. Besser falling victim to the classic dollar bill with a string prank. The prankster later placed a coin with sellotape for another prank. At the end, someone dropped a ten-dollar bill and Mr. Besser, wrongfully assuming it was another prank, didn't try to pick it up.
85* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E8PJ "PJ"]], Lilo and Stitch first meet the titular [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments Experiment 133]] (PJ) as they almost arrive at home when said experiment tricks Stitch into chasing a twenty dollar bill on a fish line, causing Stitch to jump in a mud puddle. Moments later in the kitchen, Pleakley tries to pull the same prank on ''himself'', holding the line with the bill in one hand and pulling it away when he tries to reach it with his other hand. Although he [[EasilyAmused easily amuses]] himself, no one else laughs, though PJ then sucks up the line and the bill through his GagNose almost immediately thereafter, causing Pleakley to wonder where it went and Lilo and Stitch to laugh.
86* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
87** Mr. Burns does it in one episode to bait children: dangling a large denomination bill on a string out of the window of his limousine and then driving away as Bart tries to pick it up.
88** In "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back", Bart tries it himself with a dollar bill and a special fishing line. ''Nobody'' falls for it, with Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel outright saying that even ''he's'' not that gullible. Shortly after giving up, Bart notices a quarter on the ground and tries to pick it up, but it is glued there by [[ComicBook/ArchieComics a bunch of teenagers from Riverdale]].
89* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Next Top Villain," the Lightning Bolt Society pull a variant of this prank by gluing a quarter to the ground for people to try (and fail) to pick up. They end up falling for it themselves, however. Later, [[BrickJoke Tails falls for it too.]]
90* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Frankendoodle", [=SpongeBob=] does this to Squidward.
91* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', the [[LuringInPrey wallet anglers]] that inhabit the sewers of The City use a "living wallet" as bait.
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95* When Alex Rodriguez left [[UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} the Mariners]] to play for the Rangers (and eventually [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity the Yankees]]), he got a cold reception when he came back to play against his former team. One of the disgruntled Seattle fans put a dollar bill on a fishing line and cast it out onto the field when A-Rod showed up to bat. The fan was ejected from Safeco, but not before the rest of the Seattle crowd cheered his protest.
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