A million dollars was a big deal in pop culture during the 1990s.
It was everywhere you looked.
The song If I Had a Million Dollars by The Barenaked Ladies was released in 1992. The lyrics were all about the dream of how you would spend that much money:
If I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
Well, I’d buy you a house
I would buy you a house
And if I had a million dollars
If I had a million dollars
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