The character first appeared on Chance and Community Chest cards in U.S. editions of Monopoly in 1936. Pennybags appears in a "McStroke" cutaway. In a parody of The Shawshank Redemption, he is beaten up by three homosexual prisoners who want to rape him. As declared by Morgan Freeman, he had no chance of winning. Peter jokes with Mahmoud while in the hospital in "Turban Cowboy" that Mr. Monopoly would look funny wearing Islamic headgear.