You remember the theme from The Beverly Hillbillies, don't you? It tells the story of how poor mountain man Jed Clampett was out looking to shoot himself some dinner when he came upon some bubblin' crude. Well, before you knew it Jed was a millionaire ($25 million, to be exact). Of course, that was back in 1962.
Today, old Jed is worth about $11 billion dollars! That's according to Forbes' list of the 15 wealthiest fictional characters according to today's real-world commodity and share markets. The Clampett patriarch is listed fifth on the list, between Futurama's Mom ($15.7 billion) and The Simpsons' C. Montgomery Burns ($8.4 billion). Number one of the list is Ducktales' Scrooge McDuck, who is worth a whopping $29 billion! Man, what I wouldn't do to be one of his nephews.
Other television characters on the Forbes list are Family Guy's Carter Pewterschmidt (Lois' father), Thurston Howell III, and Gomez Addams. Surprisingly, Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire, who owns a mansion and a yacht, missed the cut.
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12-28-2007 @ 1:17PM
rndmnme said...
Proving that even fictional characters aren't richer than Bill Gates....
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12-28-2007 @ 1:51PM
Robert said...
no Donald Trump? I thought he was a fictional character.
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12-28-2007 @ 2:35PM
Tele-Toby said...
Only Trump's hair is fictional.....
12-29-2007 @ 10:19PM
Sean said...
While it probably isn't well known enough, the members of Dethklok from Adult Swim's Metalocalypse should probably be somewhere on the list: they're the 12th largest economy in the world, afterall.
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12-30-2007 @ 7:54AM
Mike said...
I dirty sexy money Jeremy Darling told the poor girl he or his family was worth 35 billion...so for now tripp is worth 35 billion and I thought Simon was worth even more.
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12-31-2007 @ 12:52PM
I miss my stars! said...
I thought Jed had 63 million in the bank.
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