“not that I can point to any specific examples but just because it seemed like something I had seen before, if anyone knows that I am right in any way feel free to prove it, ”

Rowan Atkinson did a great job of this particular idea in Not The Nine O’ Clock News.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0

He did take some kind of anti-poison pills before the Don showed up, didn’t he?

I just kept waiting for him to tell Jesse “That’s how you slip poison in to somebody’s drink, yo.”

It was, in fact $621,552.33 rather than $60,000. Does that spice up the subplot for ya? No, I didn’t think so. Still, great show! Great episode! Great Scott!