Money in the Banana Stand

George Sr. repeatedly says, 'There's always money in the banana stand,' but Michael treats it as a maxim rather than a literal warning. He burns the stand before eliciting the hidden fact that $250,000 was inside its walls.

An irreversible action is taken under an ambiguous instruction without first surfacing the critical latent information that would change the plan.

Michael burns the stand partly in protest rather than as a literal attempt to follow George Sr.'s instruction.