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Steve is immediately suspicious and notices that the stereo's serial number has been scratched off, which he then reports to Carl. Family Matters: One episode has Eddie buy a stereo for his car from someone Weasel knows for an absurdly low price.In Everybody Hates Chris, Chris is able to sell truckloads of cookies by falsely saying they "fell off the truck this morning".Although he rightly points out that "these things don't just fall off the back of a truck of their own accord, they've got to be pushed" when pointing out that his job is actually difficult. In Dad's Army, it's anything that Walker supplies.Used in The Sopranos when Tony gives his neighbor a box of expensive cigars.His father is proud that Jerry made such a smart move (which is why Jerry claimed it). Seinfeld: Jerry buys his father a $200 organizer, but claims he got it for $50, hinting that it may have come from this source.Occurs a lot in Only Fools and Horses, usually as part of whatever Zany Scheme Del Boy's cooked up to make a bit of money this week.In The Drew Carey Show, Lewis sells Mimi some experimental make-up from DrugCo saying, "Let's just say it fell off the back of a truck." When Mimi asks where he got it, he says "Like I said, it fell off the back of a truck!" implying that it really fell off the back of a truck.In the Rivers of London book Whispers Under Ground, Peter describes the illegal markets that float around London: "When things fall off the back of a lorry, a nazareth is where they end up." A goblin market is "a nazareth for things that were a bit too odd to be travelling by lorry in the first place".

Of course, if someone wasn't covering up the warning sign, it probably wouldn't happen nearly as often.

In The Silver Crown, many of the objects in Otto's mother's house really did fall off the back of a truck, as there's a sharp turn nearby that often leads to trucks driving into a ditch.In White Oleander, Rina's boyfriend Sergei offers Astrid a necklace that he found "lying in the street." She isn't fooled.America (The Book) claims that this type of good is a major benefit of supporting organized labor in its section on lobbyists.

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Pretty much all the characters are professional thieves of one sort or other and are using the phrase with heavy irony.

The Borrible Trilogy: Mentions of things falling off the backs of lorries are followed by comments about how bumpy the roads are in London, or what a useful thing gravity is.

Discworld: While Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler is best known for selling nearly-inedible foods, he has been known to deal in "absolutely anything that could be sold hurriedly from an open suitcase in a busy street and was guaranteed to have fallen off the back of an oxcart".

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(This is, of course, the series that named Hold Your Hippogriffs.)

In Harry Potter, Mundungus Fletcher claims that a bunch of cauldrons he has "fell off the back of a broom".

Cue Uncle Joe rolling in, to Sparky's surprise, a military-grade supercomputer mainframe that someone stole and sold him for scrap money.

Steel: When John Henry Irons tells his friend "Sparky" Sparx that they are going to fight crime, Sparky sarcastically points out that all of the resources they have on hand is what is inside of John Henry's uncle Joe's junkyard and that's it.

In Bedknobs and Broomsticks during the Portobello Road sequence, the main characters are offered something that "fell off the back of a lorry.".

In The First Wives Club, Brenda's Sicilian uncle reveals that when her ex-husband opened his first store, the merchandise fell off the back of one of their trucks.

The main character is sick of her husband's organized crime connections, and says angrily, "Everything we own fell off the back of a truck!" As soon as they take the bait, they're ambushed by Spetsnatz troopers and attack helicopters.

Red Dawn (1984): A literal example, several boxes of food fall off the back of a Soviet supply truck as a convoy stops for a moment before driving off.

Alan: What, you're telling me that, in all the time you've run deliveries, nothing has ever just.