In Disney's Hercules, a song has a line "He could tell you what's a Grecian urn." For a long time now I thought it was a pun of a similar idiom where someone is so rich they could tell you how much the average man earns. However, I can't find this quote anywhere. Did I just imagine it? It's probably also a pun for Ode to a Grecian Urn, but I can't shake my former assumption.
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It's a reference to a very old, very corny joke. It goes,
"What's a Grecian urn?"
"About $25 a week, unless he owns the restaurant."
Urn-Earn. It's a pretty rapid, blink-and-you'll-miss-it joke for a kid's movie, that you won't get unless you've heard a lot of comedy from the era of Groucho Marx and the like.