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== Film ==

* In the 1954 film ''[[White Christmas]]'', Bob Wallace ([[Bing Crosby]]), gets the estimate on how much the Christmas show is going to cost over the phone. His reaction: "Wow!", which leads to an exchange with Phil Davis ([[Danny Kaye]]):

'''Phil''': Wow! }}

* The stake at the beginning of the 1997 film ''[[The Spanish Prisoner]]'' is not shown to the audience, but is presumably an impressive sum.

* In ''[[News Radio]]'', Mr James shows Dave the amount he was offered for the radio station, written on a piece of paper, and we don't see it. Dave thinks it's not excessively generous until Mr James points out he has to unfold the paper.

** Played with in another episode, when Mr James is trying to convince Dave and Lisa to get together and he writes down something on a piece of paper in order to sweeten the deal.

'''Mr James''' - I'm willing to say that out loud if that's what it takes. }}

* In ''[[Friends]]'', Chandler cuts short of telling Monica how much money he has in his bank account, writing it down and showing her instead; in context, this is because he doesn't want to say it in front of Rachel and Phoebe, but Monica shows them the figure anyway. It's described as "the budget of Wedding Scenario A", to give the audience a general idea of how much it must be.

* Subverted in [[The Honeymooners]]: a rich old widow who Ralph had befriended dies, and leaves Ralph "my fortune" in her will. Ralph gets excited about the riches coming his way, but it turns out she meant Fortune, her pet parrot.

* [[Gilmore Girls]] sets up its fundamental conflict (independent-minded Lorelai is forced to accept the help of her parents in order to provide for her daughter's elite education):

* A ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' episode has Joe and Helen meeting with the insurance adjuster after the loss of their house and all its contents in a fire. The meeting goes poorly, to say the least, and ends with the adjuster saying "I'm sorry, but we can't do any better than this", at which point he writes down a figure on a piece of paper and leaves. Joe and Helen look at the paper with trepidation, shrug for a moment, then begin dancing with joy. "We're rich! We're rich!"

* On ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', when Sheldon mentions that Raj's parents are rich, the most detail he goes into is that they're "[[Richie Rich]]"-rich, which is apparently "halfway between [[Batman|Bruce Wayne]] and [[DuckTales|Scrooge McDuck]]."

* In ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Xanatos tells his father the exact amount that the rare coin that started his fortune was worth... but then goes on to say that his current fortune is "well, considerably more."

* In an early episode of [[The Simpsons]], Homer sues Burns for hitting Bart while in a car. After Burns destroys Homer's credibility in the eyes of the jury, he offers to settle with Homer. He writes down a number on a piece of paper, and slides it across the table, grinning and saying "I think you'll find this number much more feasible." [[Subverted Trope|There's a big zero on the paper.]]

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