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Black Market Goods and Shortage: A leader of a special interest group uses her political ties to shut down the restaurant where SpongeBob works. The restaurant owner then uses SpongeBob’s house to start selling his food again illegally.

The Simpsons, "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochy Show"

Diminishing marginal utility: Bart says that he loves his mom, but doesn't need to see her every day.

The Simpsons, "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part I)"

Monopoly power, substitutes: Mr. Burns tries to eliminate all substitutes for electrical power by blocking out the sun.

The Simpsons, "Bart Gets an Elephant"

Marginal cost, marginal revenue, pricing strategy, law of demand: Bart wins an elephant in a local radio contest, but Homer discovers that having an elephant can be quite costly - even if he earns revenue from selling rides to the folks in Springfield.

The Simpsons, "I Love Lisa"

Demand Elasticity: Homer forgets to buy Marge a Valentine's Day gift until the last minute, so his demand is almost perfectly inelastic. He ends up paying Apu $100 for a box of chocolates.

The Simpsons, "The Front"

Game theory, strategic thinking: Lisa knows that Bart will always choose "Rock" when playing rock-paper-scissors.

The Simpsons, "Two Cars in Every Garage, Three Eyes on Every Fish"

Private Property Rights, Tragedy of the Commons, and Negative Externalities: Bart and Lisa catch a three eyed fish while fishing in a public property lake being polluted by a nuclear power plant.

The Simpsons, "Maximum Homerdrive"

Diminishing Marginal Utility: Homer is in a steak-eating competition.

The Office, "Moroccan Christmas"

Supply and demand: Dwight buys all of the season's hottest gift, "Princess Unicorn" doll, from local stores and then charges desperate parents $200 for the doll.

The Office, "Broke"

Fixed and variable costs: Michael Scott starts his own paper company and manages to take away a good deal of business from Dunder Mifflin. However, the pricing model is unsustainable because he has failed to fully appreciate the difference between fixed and variable costs.

The Office, "The Job"

Functions of money and currency debasement: Dwight Shrute creates his own currency.

The Office, "Christmas Party"

Deadweight loss of gift giving: The Office staff set up a Secret Santa exchange but Michael turns it into Yankee Swap. Great way of introducing the idea of the deadweight loss of gift giving.

The Office, "Goodbye Toby"

Public Goods and Free-Riding: Dunder Mifflin purchases a fireworks display which is then used as a backdrop for marriage proposals.

SpongeBob SquarePants, "Krabby Land"

Changes in demand, changes in market size and the availability of substitutes: Mr. Krabby adjusts the price of Kiddie Meals when the children are released from school and based on the availability of the playground.

SpongeBob SquarePants, "Patty Hype"

Factors of production: SpongeBob illustrates each of the factors of production as he sets up Pretty Patty production.

South Park, "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes"

Monopoly and barriers to entry: Wonderful spoof of Wal-mart.

South Park, "Gnomes"

Competition, market power: A national coffee company (Harbucks) moves into town, creating dire effects on local enterprises.

South Park, "Butters' Bottom Bitch"

Principle of substitution: Butters' decides to sell hugs for $2 when he discovers that not everyone can afford kisses at the Kissing Booth for $5.

Smart Guy, "The Soda Wars"

Law of Supply and Elasticity of Demand: When the price of soda at TJ's school increases, TJ goes into business selling his brand of soda. Even as he must raise his price, the quantity demanded for his soda remains constant.

Seinfeld, "The Soup Nazi"

Market power; barriers to entry; price discrimination: Customers are willing to put up with the quirks of a grumpy soup maker because he sells such a unique product until Elaine discovers his recipes.

One Tree Hill, "Sympathy for the Devil"

Supply/Demand, profit, black markets, elasticity of demand: Sam buys several items from the vending machine at $0.50 and sticks her chewed piece of gum on the coin slot, forcing the next student who wishes to use the vending machine to buy from her instead of the machine. Sam then raises the price to $2. The next student pays $2 for the bag of chips as he has no other option other than to not buy a snack at all -- illustrating relatively inelastic demand. Sam explains to Jamie that the profit is $1.50.

Man vs. Food, "The Sasquatch Hamburger"

Diminishing marginal utility: Adam Richman, the show's host, travels the country engaging in unusual food eating contests.

Lost, "White Rabbit"

Common Property: A group of plane crash victims on an island consume too much of their community water supply.

King of the Hill, "Mutual of OmAbwah"

Moral Hazard: Bobby comes to the realization that if something breaks, one must only file an insurance claim in order to get a new one.

King of Queens, "Dog Days"

Externalities; Coase theorem: Doug's neighbor has a dog whose barking annoys Doug and Carrie. Doug and his neighbor work out a private solution to the externality problem.

King of Queens, "Noel Cowards"

Tastes/preferences; moral hazard: Arthur buys Doug and Carrie a Duzenburg for Christmas. Richie suggests that they leave the car under the overpass so it will get stolen and they can collect the insurance money.

King of Queens, "Train Wreck"

Sunk cost: Arthur is upset because he prepaid for a tombstone that reads 19something to 19__; This means if he doesn't die before the end of 1999, he's "screwed".

King of Queens, "Crappy Birthday"

Sunk cost: Doug would rather watch the pay-per-view fight than spend Carrie's birthday with her. Richie suggests Doug tell her he has already paid for the movie.

Johnny Bravo, "Johnny's Telethon"

Perfectly elastic demand: Johnny goes to the store to buy his favorite beef jerky and discovers that the store is closing because a competitor has decided to charge one penny less.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "Underage Drinking: A National Concern"

Price Discrimination, inelasticity, monopoly, and business ethics (Great discussion starter!). The Gang suddenly finds that their normally vacant and unprofitable bar overrun with underage drinkers. The Gang exploits the inelastic demand from the underage drinkers by watering down the drinks to make more profit.

House, M.D., "The Greater Good"

Comparative Advantage and Specialization: Though House has the absolute advantage in running tests and exotic diagnoses, his team has the comparative advantage in running tests. Thus, there are gains from trade as each party specializes.

House, M.D., "Instant Karma"

A successful businessman is convinced his wealth is the source of his son's illness so he decides to give away all of his money.

Grey's Anatomy, "Love/Addiction"

Gains from exchange: Christina decides to get rid of her wedding gifts (for her wedding that was canceled) by trading them for favors.

Grey's Anatomy, "Into You Like a Train"

Choices; trade-offs: A serious train accident leaves the doctors having to choose between two patients. If they save one, the other will die.

Grey's Anatomy, "No Man's Land"

Trade-offs; opportunity costs: A man discovers he has a brain tumor. Surgery is available, but only at the great risk of the patient losing his memories and personality. However, without the surgery, the patient will not have very long to live.

Green Acres, "Lisa's Vegetable Garden"

Cost-benefit analysis; profit and loss: Lisa decides to create a vegetable garden to make Oliver happy, but her spending on the garden creates a problem for Oliver.

Futurama, "Three Hundred Big Boys"

Diminishing marginal utility of income: Mom (a wealthy character) blows her nose with a $300 bill while Klompers looks on (saddened).

Futurama, "Three Hundred Big Boys"

Inflation, money supply: The government gives all citizens $300. Prices immediately rise.

Futurama, "The Cyber House Rules"

Effect of government subsidies; incentives: Bender decides to adopt ten kids to get the subsidy from the government.

Futurama, "A Head in the Polls"

Law of supply: the price of titanium rises, so Bender is willing to sell his body.

Futurama, "A Big Piece of Garbage"

Externalities; discounting the future: Earthlings used to send their garbage up in space to get rid of it, now there is a threat of it coming back.

Futurama, "A Fishful of Dollars"

Compound interest: Fry discovers that his bank account interest (for over 1,000 years) has made him a billionaire.

Futurama, "Fry and the Slurm Factory"

Inelastic demand; addiction: Fry continues to drink Slurm soda even after he knows that it is made from worm excrement.

Friends, "The One Where Joey Loses His Health Insurance"

Effect of insurance on consumption of medical care; discount rate: Joey has a hernia, but won't get treated until he has an acting job so he can have insurance from his union.

Friends, "The One with the List"

Opportunity Cost: Ross chooses between Rachel and Julie, describing the pros and cons of each choice.

Family Matters, "Bakers Dozens"

The factors of production: The Winslows produce Lemon Tarts, illustrating each of the major factors of production.

Family Guy, "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar"

Opportunity cost: After hearing a time share pitch, Peter must choose between a new boat and a mystery box as his gift. He chooses wrong.

Family Guy, "Death Has a Shadow"

Shifts in demand, normal vs. inferior goods: Peter loses his job, goes on welfare, and due to an accounting glitch receives $150,000 a week.

Everybody Hates Chris, "Everybody Hates Food Stamps"

Substitutes, generics, food stamps: The family goes to the grocery and uses the food stamps that they obtained to buy many generic brands in order to save money.

Colbert Nation, Interview with Evan Osnos

Externalities of cashmere farming.

Boston Legal, "Can't We Just Get a Lung?

Denise's fiance needs a lung transplant; he arranges to pay for the college education of a man who is dying of an inoperable brain tumor; that man just happens to be willing to donate a lung to Post.

Boston Legal, "Till We Meat Again"

A local government wants to outlaw the sale of red meat because of health concerns.

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