# Show Me the Money! (ID the movie/TV show from the amount) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 17, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978 "2008-09-17T13:33:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/61 "2008-09-18T18:52:03Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > pr3: $570 - $20 for the job, $50 for the date, $500 for expenses > > I’m going to take a guess with “10 things I hate about you”? > > pr5: $1000 reward for a hairpiece, dead or alive > > Wallace & Grommit’s Curse of the Were Rabbit??? Nah, that can’t be it… No, 'fraid not. Like I said, all three movies have a common theme. I’ll give a hint: the protagonists share a profession. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/62 "2008-09-19T20:36:58Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > pr3: $570 - $20 for the job, $50 for the date, $500 for expenses > pr4: $250, just this once, then you retire > pr5: $1000 reward for a hairpiece, dead or alive Still no takers? Another hint: they’re all sports movies. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/63 "2008-09-19T21:51:38Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > “Thirteen dollars; bad luck.” (I just saw this one again the other night.) That’s the amount that Brian Dennehy’s character tells Paden he owes him in _Silverado_. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/64 "2008-09-19T22:19:02Z")
GO1: $1000 reward GO2: $1 GO3: $50,000 ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/65 "2008-09-19T22:27:39Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > GO1: $1000 reward > GO2: $1 > GO3: $50,000 GO2: The amount of the bet between the Duke brothers in _Trading Places_. Last chance for mine: > [@](#): > > W2: 180 guineas > W3: 10,000 florins > > W2: Unlike the above, the answer is “very clean”. > W3: If you don’t know this one, “you’re a weedy pigeon, and you can call me Susan if it isn’t so!” Both British; 2 is a movie, 3 is TV. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/66 "2008-09-19T22:32:42Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > GO2: The amount of the bet between the Duke brothers in _Trading Places_. Well, not what I was thinking of, but clearly correct nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/67 "2008-09-19T22:39:19Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > GO2: The amount of the bet between the Duke brothers in _Trading Places_. That’s what I was going to say. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/68 "2008-09-19T22:42:17Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > X2: $30,000,000 The money Richard Pryor had to spend in _Brewster’s Millions_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978/69 "2008-09-20T00:32:53Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > That’s the amount that Brian Dennehy’s character tells Paden he owes him in _Silverado_. Yes. And later, when Cobb hires Paden, the first time he pays him he takes thirteen dollars out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-the-money-id-the-movie-tv-show-from-the-amount/463978.md?page=3)