According to Forbes It’s Richie Rich at #2 with $24.7 billion, and Scrooge McDuck at #4 with $8.2 billion.
Santa Claus is #1, with $infinity.
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There was the one time Richie and Reggie had a race around the world. They agree to a stipulation that neither one can spend any money. Reggie of course brings traveller’s checks.
They bump into each other at various spots along the way around the world. Reggie always gets foiled in his efforts to bring Richie down. In the last part of the race, the leg to San Francisco, Reggie spots Richie with a Polynesian boy in a Singapore harbor. Richie tells Reggie, “I’m going to cross the Pacific in this outrigger.”
Yeah. 5000 miles across treacherous tsunami-laden shark-infested ocean with a couple of backpacks of food, powered by sugar cane poles. Happens every day.
Even though the two made the bet on the condition that neither one spends any money, Reggie cheats (like he did all along the way) and gets a seat on an ocean liner. The yellow-skinned slanty-eyed Chinese captain tells him “San Francisco is honorable first stop!”
Next panel: Reggie exclaims “Hey! This is India! You said we were going to San Francisco!” The captain replies, “We go to Frisco the long way.” Or maybe that was actuarry wrong way.
How is Daddy Warbucks #3? He used to lose his entire fortune about once every five years.
And I thought the McDuck fortune was estimated at “eight skyrillion dollars.”
Not many people know this, but in the 70’s Richie changed his name, moved to Redmond, WA and started a Software Company. His house still looks the same though and I think he still has that swimming pool with gold coins.
Man, that happens in my pool every now and again. Those coins just get everywhere! In cracks you didn’t know you HAD!
Not just you, Bart & Lisa noticed it too
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Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of
Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich]
Lisa: Hey, they do look alike!
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Matt Groening himself believes this, so that’s probably why Bart and Lisa do, too.
“Maybe he realized how hollow the pursuit of money is and took his own life.”
I think Richie is referred to as “The Poor Little Rich Boy” because even though he has money, he has no friends. That isn’t true, though. Richie has friends! Maybe he has nothing to do with his money anymore, after having bought everything shaped like a dollar sign in the world.
And 'member kids, using copy and paste with your tags is a good way to make it look like you don’t know how to spell a 5 letter word two times.
And that’s one to grow on.
I watched an interview with Groening many years ago where he was describing a story he wrote as a kid in school. It was something about Caspar the friendly boy and how he got to be a ghost. I don’t think he got a good grade on it.
Or Casper even.
Not to sound like a commie or anything, but isn’t it kind of weird to make a comic book character who’s interesting soley because he is rich? Talk about indoctrination to greed…
You beat me to it, Ike. A dollarmation dollar indeed was.
I missed the communist island, but I sure liked evil light-bulb-headed villain Dr. NR-Gee. And the time Richie accidentally invented the Harrier aircraft. Jesus, I can’t believe I remember all this.
Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of
Richie Rich. [shows comics of Casper and Richie Rich]
Lisa: Hey, they do look alike!
Bart: Wonder how Richie died.
Lisa: Perhaps he realized how hollow the pursuit of money really is and took his own life.
The Commies challenged him to a series of Olympic-style feats of physical prowess, and cheated a lot. And Richie bested them all.
Damn, I didn’t see THAT coming.
And yeah, what ABOUT that Little Lotta? I tried becoming morbidly obese in order to gain Super-Strength, but it didn’t work!
So then do Richie/Casper eventually go to Hell for their sins and become Hot Stuff?
Speaking of which…
Hot Stuff??? Dude get over yourself. You wear a freaking diaper.
quote:
Richie Rich is a fucking cocksucker
So… that’s how the little tyke got all his money, eh?
I can’t believe Richie Rich had the audacity to perjure himself in court before the assembled lords, testifying falsely that he heard his would-be patron, Sir Thomas More, speak against the king’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shameful! (Alnd I thought John Hurt played him well in the movie.)
Anyone here catch the Richie Rich spoof in National Lampoon back in the late 80s/early 90s? Richie ends up on trial for something or other, and the prosecution brings in some of his ‘friends’ as character witnesses/assassins.
“He paid me $10,000 to hold his ‘Little Richard’ while he was in the bathroom.”
“He ordered his chauffer to back up and run over the bum he hit a second time, to make sure the guy wouldn’t squeal.”
IIRC, he spends a night in the hoosegow before his trial, and indeed he did prove the thread title to be true. Might still have that one waaaay in the back of a closet someplace. Dark, yet amusing.
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Dammit Sofa, there goes my coffee.