Dollar's Exercise

Dollar's Exercise is a Treasure Chest segment that aired on the seventh episode of the third season of the Richie Rich cartoon series, as part of The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show. It first aired 6 November 1982 on ABC, and it was the second last new Treasure Chest segment of the series. It was based on a five-page comic book story published either in 1981 or early in 1982.
== Summary ==
Richie discovers in the newspaper an advertisement for a thousand-dollar top prize for the fastest dog in a race. Dollar proves to Richie he is fast, but Reggie informs Richie he is also interested in entering his dog, Bullet, in the contest, and is actually much faster. Reggie has a plan to get Dollar out of the contest - he offers a lot of food that is tempting to Dollar, which he ends up eating, and making him overweight. Richie learned that Dollar had gained weight, and decided to put Dollar on a strict diet and a strict fitness program. After hours of exercising, Richie decided to give Dollar some food - a small amount of dog food, much to his dismay. But then, Reggie decides to place an order for a lot of boxes of pizza. While Richie appears in a thought reminding Dollar he is on a diet, his temptation gets the best of him and decides to eat the pizza. After getting so plump, Richie makes Dollar exercise more to get his weight down, but Reggie speeds up the treadmill, and Dollar soon ends up flying off the treadmill, hurting his nose. Richie is shocked that Dollar won't be able to win Richie the prize.
Then, the day of the race arrives, and Dollar (with a bandage on his nose) and Bullet are the only participants in the race. When the starting gun is fired off, Bullet darts off, and Dollar is lagging behind. But Bullet ends up running in a straight line instead of taking a turn, while Dollar was still moving slowly. Bullet turns around, and attempts to catch up, but Dollar ends up winning by a nose - a big, fat, swollen nose.
== Trivia ==
* This was the first Treasure Chest segment to feature Reggie Van Dough since "T.V. Dollar" in Season 1.
* Although there was a comic book story titled "Dollar's Exercise", this segment was based on the comic book story "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet", which is also one of the phrases that describes Superman.
* Reggie owned a different dog in the Season 1 Treasure Chest segment "T.V. Dollar". In that segment, the dog's name was Houndsworth.
* When the pizza delivery guy delivered pizzas to Dollar, he mentioned he had ten pizzas each of five varieties, meaning a total of fifty pizzas were ordered. The number of pizzas the delivery man was seen carrying was actually eighteen.
== Voice Cast ==
* Dick Beals as Reggie Van Dough
* Sparky Marcus as Richie Rich
* Frank Welker as Dollar the Dog
 
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