Brewster's Millions Plots In Cartoons

Brewster's Millions is a novel that has had several film adaptations, with the 1985 Richard Pryor version being the most popular. Even if you haven't seen it, you're probably familiar with the story. A guy's rich relative dies and he inherits a boatload of money but, ah, there's a catch. In Brewster's Millions, specifically, he has to spend a certain amount of it in small increments if he wants to get a lot more. But there are other spins on it where it just comes with ridiculous conditions and some of them have popped up in cartoons. One of the more obvious cartoon examples of this is the movie Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, in which Daffy Duck inherits a lot of money but must use it to do good or it disappears. Literally, which was hilarious to watch. I also remember an episode of the animated Punky Brewster (geddit?) where she and her friends are put in a situation that's pretty much the same as the Pryor movie. I remember that Punky solved her problem by going to the docks and paying people $1,000 for every fish they caught. So what other examples of this situation have you seen in cartoons? Please take the time to describe it instead of simply listing it, because many people probably haven't seen the cartoon in question.
 
The Pryor film was pretty popular back in the 80s, but the only cartoon take-off I can recall:

The Jetsons' 80s' revival had an episode called "Jetsons' Millions", though nothing in common with the movie besides a similar title---basically, George somehow gets rich via having worthless foreign currency that skyrockets in value overnight, causing Mr. Spacely to IIRC be nice/suck up to him, then said currency comes crashing down and Spacely goes into his usual jerk***** mode toward George.
 
There's the Tom and Jerry cartoon "The Million Dollar Cat", where Tom inherits a million bucks but only on the condition that he doesn't harm any living thing, even a mouse. Annoyed by Jerry throughout the entire cartoon, Tom finally snaps. "Gee, I'm throwin' away a million dollars. But I'm happy!!"
 
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