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* In an episode of "Chowder", Schnitzel has to take Chowder to the bank, where he starts playing with a man's boney "necktie deformity". Cue Schnitzel taking the fall as usual:
** Dogman: "Guards! Guards!"
** Bird guard: "What seems to be the problem here?"
** Dogman: "Zis man made me feel... uncomfortable."
** Bird guard: "YOU SICK MONSTER! It's the timeout booth for you."
** Dogman: "Guards! Guards!"
** Bird guard: "What seems to be the problem here?"
** Dogman: "Zis man made me feel... uncomfortable."
** Bird guard: "YOU SICK MONSTER! It's the timeout booth for you."
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* In an episode of "Chowder", ''WesternAnimation/Chowder'', Schnitzel has to take Chowder to the bank, where he starts playing with a man's boney "necktie deformity". Cue Schnitzel taking the fall as usual:
** Dogman: "Guards! Guards!"
** Bird guard: "What-->'''Dogman:''' Guards! Guards!\\
'''Bird guard:''' What seems to be the problemhere?"
** Dogman: "Zishere?\\
'''Dogman:''' Zis man made me feel... uncomfortable."
** Bird guard: "YOU\\
'''Bird guard:''' YOU SICK MONSTER! It's the timeout booth for you."
** Bird guard: "What
'''Bird guard:''' What seems to be the problem
** Dogman: "Zis
'''Dogman:''' Zis man made me feel... uncomfortable.
** Bird guard: "YOU
'''Bird guard:''' YOU SICK MONSTER! It's the timeout booth for you.
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*In an episode of "Chowder", Schnitzel has to take Chowder to the bank, where he starts playing with a man's boney "necktie deformity". Cue Schnitzel taking the fall as usual:
**Dogman: "Guards! Guards!"
**Bird guard: "What seems to be the problem here?"
**Dogman: "Zis man made me feel... uncomfortable."
**Bird guard: "YOU SICK MONSTER! It's the timeout booth for you."
**Dogman: "Guards! Guards!"
**Bird guard: "What seems to be the problem here?"
**Dogman: "Zis man made me feel... uncomfortable."
**Bird guard: "YOU SICK MONSTER! It's the timeout booth for you."
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* ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfQuest'': One episode features the town of Effluvium, where mundane things like stepping on the grass, sneezing, picking your nose, and hopping on one foot will earn you ''four consecutive life terms at best'' by a KangarooCourt. It later turns out that this is because the "prison" is actually a giant subterranean monster that will destroy the town if the villagers fail to keep it well fed, [[LaserGuidedKarma which ends up happening after the protagonists manage to escape from its stomach]].
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** In the episode “Shuffleboarding”, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick disguise as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, and arrest people for such “crimes” as chewing gum loudly, not tying their shoelaces, wasting food, and ''being too old''.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy thinks up several horrible punishments of what [[LouisCypher Lucius]] will do to him when he finds out what he's done. He laughs them off. When [[YesMan Samy]] tells him that he'll take away his TV privileges, he reacts with horror.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "A Better World," the Justice Lords' fascist rule is such that one man is arrested on the spot simply for complaining about his restaurant bill.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "A Better World," the Justice Lords' fascist rule is such that one man is arrested on the spot simply for complaining about his restaurant bill.
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* On In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy thinks up several horrible punishments of what [[LouisCypher Lucius]] will do to him when he finds out what he's done. He laughs them off. When [[YesMan Samy]] tells him that he'll take away his TV privileges, he reacts with horror.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In"A "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E11And12ABetterWorld A Better World," World]]", the Justice Lords' fascist rule is such that one man is arrested on the spot simply for complaining about his restaurant bill.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In
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** In another episode he has to take care of an endangered caterpillar and almost kills it by mistake. He is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for "attempted insecticide" and "aggravated buggery." Made especially ridiculous because, as Homer put it, God clearly ''wanted'' it to die. (The species is [[TooDumbToLive sexually attracted to]] ''[[KillItWithFire fire]],'' for example.)
** Another episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]", involves Bart failing to catch a fly ball in a championship baseball game when Springfield was one out away from winning in the bottom of the ninth, causing Shelbyville to win, and the entire town relentlessly boos Bart horribly (except his family). They sing a song on the radio about how horrible he is. They throw lots of food at him. And when Bart is about to jump off a water tower, they tell Bart they're not mad anymore, and when he falls off and ends up in the hospital ''they continue to yell at him even though he almost died''.
** Principal Skinner talks about the horrible thing he did in the Vietnam War. He stole cupcakes.
** Skinner also behaves this way when the teacher's edition textbooks of Springfield Elementary are stolen, leaving the teachers completely unable to teach any new content. (The thief eventually turns out to be [[spoiler: [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode Lisa]]]].) Upon finally finding the textbooks, Skinner's first reaction is relief; his second is moral outrage: "Who's responsible for this monstrous crime?!"
** One episode has Mayor Quimby ordering the police to do this to fill the new but largely empty prison they'd just built.
** Another episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]", involves Bart failing to catch a fly ball in a championship baseball game when Springfield was one out away from winning in the bottom of the ninth, causing Shelbyville to win, and the entire town relentlessly boos Bart horribly (except his family). They sing a song on the radio about how horrible he is. They throw lots of food at him. And when Bart is about to jump off a water tower, they tell Bart they're not mad anymore, and when he falls off and ends up in the hospital ''they continue to yell at him even though he almost died''.
** Principal Skinner talks about the horrible thing he did in the Vietnam War. He stole cupcakes.
** Skinner also behaves this way when the teacher's edition textbooks of Springfield Elementary are stolen, leaving the teachers completely unable to teach any new content. (The thief eventually turns out to be [[spoiler: [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode Lisa]]]].) Upon finally finding the textbooks, Skinner's first reaction is relief; his second is moral outrage: "Who's responsible for this monstrous crime?!"
** One episode has Mayor Quimby ordering the police to do this to fill the new but largely empty prison they'd just built.
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** In another episode he "The Frying Game", Homer has to take care of an endangered caterpillar and almost kills it by mistake. He is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for "attempted insecticide" and "aggravated buggery." Made especially ridiculous because, as Homer put it, God clearly ''wanted'' it to die. (The species is [[TooDumbToLive sexually attracted to]] ''[[KillItWithFire fire]],'' for example.)
**Another episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]", Bummer]]" involves Bart failing to catch a fly ball in a championship baseball game when Springfield was one out away from winning in the bottom of the ninth, causing Shelbyville to win, and the entire town relentlessly boos Bart horribly (except his family). They sing a song on the radio about how horrible he is. They throw lots of food at him. And when Bart is about to jump off a water tower, they tell Bart they're not mad anymore, and when he falls off and ends up in the hospital ''they continue to yell at him even though he almost died''.
** In "Special Edna", Principal Skinner talks about the horrible thing he did in the Vietnam War. He stole cupcakes.
** In "Separate Vocations", Skinner also behaves this way when the teacher's edition textbooks of Springfield Elementary are stolen, leaving the teachers completely unable to teach any new content. (The thief eventually turns out to be [[spoiler: [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode Lisa]]]].) Upon finally finding the textbooks, Skinner's first reaction is relief; his second is moral outrage: "Who's responsible for this monstrous crime?!"
**One episode "This Little Wiggy" has Mayor Quimby ordering the police to do this to fill the new but largely empty prison they'd just built.reopened.
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** In "Special Edna", Principal Skinner talks about the horrible thing he did in the Vietnam War. He stole cupcakes.
** In "Separate Vocations", Skinner also behaves this way when the teacher's edition textbooks of Springfield Elementary are stolen, leaving the teachers completely unable to teach any new content. (The thief eventually turns out to be [[spoiler: [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode Lisa]]]].) Upon finally finding the textbooks, Skinner's first reaction is relief; his second is moral outrage: "Who's responsible for this monstrous crime?!"
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** In "Treehouse Of Horror IX"'s "Hell Toupee", Springfield has a "three strikes" crime law, and the penalty for strike 3 is death. Snake has his strike 3 by smoking inside the Kwik-E-Mart, and he's immediately executed on the electric chair.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Zoidberg accidentally destroys the Professor's model ship and decides to frame Fry in order to avoid blame. He later becomes wracked with grief and self-loathing after Fry has to pay for the damages to the amount of ''ten dollars''. Justified, as to Zoidberg, ten dollars is a VERY large amount. He's too poor to realize that Fry simply rummaged his pockets to pay off the debt.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
** Bureaucrat Morgan Procter is dragged off by other bureaucrats because it turns out years ago she mis-stamped a form incorrectly.
--->'''Hermes:''' Yes, but you only stamped it ''four times!''\\
''(everyone gasps)''\\
'''Morgan:''' No, no! I was young and reckless!
** Zoidberg accidentally destroys the Professor's model ship and decides to frame Fry in order to avoid blame. He later becomes wracked with grief and self-loathing after Fry has to pay for the damages to the amount of ''ten dollars''. Justified, as to Zoidberg, ten dollars is a VERY large amount. He's too poor to realize that Fry simply rummaged his pockets to pay off the debt.
** Bureaucrat Morgan Procter is dragged off by other bureaucrats because it turns out years ago she mis-stamped a form incorrectly.
--->'''Hermes:''' Yes, but you only stamped it ''four times!''\\
''(everyone gasps)''\\
'''Morgan:''' No, no! I was young and reckless!
** Zoidberg accidentally destroys the Professor's model ship and decides to frame Fry in order to avoid blame. He later becomes wracked with grief and self-loathing after Fry has to pay for the damages to the amount of ''ten dollars''. Justified, as to Zoidberg, ten dollars is a VERY large amount. He's too poor to realize that Fry simply rummaged his pockets to pay off the debt.
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** Princess Bubblegum and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on the earl of Lemongrab-- they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." How does the earl react? He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds. And how does he attempt to punish those responsible? Round up EVERYONE in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon, no trials!
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** Princess Bubblegum and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on the earl of Lemongrab-- they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." How does the earl react? He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds. And how does he attempt to punish those responsible? Round up EVERYONE in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon, no trials!trials! And poor Peppermint Butler (who earnestly tried to convince Lemongrab that it was a harmless prank) got sentenced to ''12'' years.
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** In one example they steal a balloon and fully intended to give it back. It pops. Torment ensues. Eventually, they give in and turn themselves in to the police, and get thrown in prison. Then they learn it is Free Balloon Day, and stay in prison for all of three seconds before being let free.
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** In one example they example, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick steal a balloon and fully intended to give it back. It pops. Torment ensues. Eventually, they give in and turn themselves in to the police, and get thrown in prison. Then they learn it is Free Balloon Day, and stay in prison for all of three seconds before being let free.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' features ComicBook/BlackLightning acting like this in a dream sequence, during which he shoots lightning at people for the heinous acts of... putting sprinkles in coffee, not cleaning up after their dogs, driving an SUV, wearing white after Labor Day, and making "Smell That Pig IV". At one point he attacks Batman because he doesn't like his costume.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' features ComicBook/BlackLightning acting like this in a dream sequence, DreamSequence, during which he shoots lightning at people for the heinous acts of... putting sprinkles in coffee, not cleaning up after their dogs, driving an SUV, wearing white after Labor Day, and making "Smell That Pig IV". At one point he attacks Batman because he doesn't like his costume.
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'''Clay:''' And [[BigEater the hot dogs]]! (runs after Jack Spicer, [[BerserkButton losing his hat]] in the process and [[OhCrap not even caring]]) Come back here with them doggies, you no-good low-down snake, you yellow-bellied dirty little sidewinder [[BewareTheNiceOnes I'M GON' GET YOU]]!
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'''Clay:''' And [[BigEater the hot dogs]]! (runs after Jack Spicer, [[BerserkButton losing his hat]] in the process and [[OhCrap not even caring]]) Come back here with them doggies, you no-good low-down snake, you yellow-bellied dirty little sidewinder [[BewareTheNiceOnes I'M GON' GET YOU]]!YOU]]!
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** In the early episode "Opposite Day" when Squidward decides to move out, the realtor warns him the sale would fall through it it's surrounded by "bad neighbors".
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PetAlien'' episode "The Sheriff was an Alien", Gumpers, playing the role of a sheriff, locks Dinko in jail for ''3 million years'' for the crime of cheating at cards.
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** In "Lois Kills Stewie", after Stewie takes control of all electricity in the United States, he's able to use the threat of the country being without power to coerce the government into making him {{President|Evil}}. One of his new laws is that uttering the phrases "irregardless", "a whole nother", or "all of the sudden" is punishable by being sent to a work camp.
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** In "Lois Kills Stewie", after when Stewie takes control of all electricity in the United States, he's able to use the threat becomes [[TakeOverTheWorld ruler of the country being without power to coerce the government into making him {{President|Evil}}. One world]], one of his new laws is that uttering the phrases "irregardless", "a whole nother", or "all of the sudden" is punishable by being sent to a work camp.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]" combines this with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal to stop the kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria, the latter gets sentenced to a week's detention.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]" combines this with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal to stop the kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria, the latter ''Eddy'' gets sentenced to a week's detention.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]" combines this with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal to stop the kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria, the latter is given a week's detention.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]" combines this with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal to stop the kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria, the latter is given gets sentenced to a week's detention.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]" combines this The with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal to stop the kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria, the latter is given a week's detention.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]" combines this The with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal to stop the kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria, the latter is given a week's detention.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", Eddy is given detention for allegedly impersonating the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement and nothing happened to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", Eddy is given detention for allegedly impersonating Ed]]" combines this The with SelectiveEnforcement and MisplacedRetribution. When Edd impersonates the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]). Meanwhile, to stop the others students were ''terrorizing kids from picking on Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where cafeteria, the latter has is given a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement and nothing happened to them]]. week's detention.
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* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' the FBI burst into Peter's living room and shoot the VCR when he attempts to tape Monday Night Football with the expressly-written consent of ABC, but not the NFL.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Inan early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", the FBI burst into Peter's living room and shoot the VCR when he attempts to tape Monday Night Football with the expressly-written consent of ABC, but not the NFL.NFL.
** In "Lois Kills Stewie", after Stewie takes control of all electricity in the United States, he's able to use the threat of the country being without power to coerce the government into making him {{President|Evil}}. One of his new laws is that uttering the phrases "irregardless", "a whole nother", or "all of the sudden" is punishable by being sent to a work camp.
** In
** In "Lois Kills Stewie", after Stewie takes control of all electricity in the United States, he's able to use the threat of the country being without power to coerce the government into making him {{President|Evil}}. One of his new laws is that uttering the phrases "irregardless", "a whole nother", or "all of the sudden" is punishable by being sent to a work camp.
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** Fillmore himself is treated, by many people in the show, like an unstable/possibly violent ex-convict for his past crimes. What are those crimes, you ask? Directly ripped from the opening sequence: Chalk boosting, locker rigging, a comic book poker ring, cutting class, milk counterfeiting (non dairy creamer), and backtalkery. For this sordid past, he has many TheAtoner moments. This is before we even get into the scooter jacking ring, tartar sauce smuggling, and the time Fillmore's pet was almost killed by a boy in return for the answer sheet to a particularly hard test. Another episode features a psychotic, monotone, genius IQ boy who had to be locked up in total isolation because the spray paint tagging he was doing all over the school were so traumatizing they could make people physically ill.
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** Fillmore himself is treated, by many people in the show, like an unstable/possibly violent ex-convict for his past crimes. What are those crimes, you ask? Directly ripped from the opening sequence: Chalk boosting, locker rigging, a comic book poker ring, cutting class, milk counterfeiting (non dairy (non-dairy creamer), and backtalkery. For this sordid past, he has many TheAtoner moments. This is before we even get into the scooter jacking ring, tartar sauce smuggling, and the time Fillmore's pet was almost killed by a boy in return for the answer sheet to a particularly hard test. Another episode features a psychotic, monotone, genius IQ boy who had to be locked up in total isolation because the spray paint tagging he was doing all over the school were so traumatizing they could make people physically ill.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "It Takes A Village To Defeat A Hedgehog", Shadow considers the poorly-made bookshelf Sonic and friends spent the episode trying to build an embarrassment on behalf of ''all hedgehog kind''.
** Not to mention in the episode "Just A Guy", Team Sonic and the entirety of the village (except for [[OnlySaneMan Tails]]) gets pissed off at Sonic when he calls Mike the Ox "just a guy", [[{{Hypocrite}} constantly hitting him with insensitive remark after insensitive remark while chiding Sonic for being insensitive]]. It frustrates Sonic so much that he straight-up quits being a hero. [[TenMinuteRetirement Thankfully, it doesn't last]].
** Not to mention in the episode "Just A Guy", Team Sonic and the entirety of the village (except for [[OnlySaneMan Tails]]) gets pissed off at Sonic when he calls Mike the Ox "just a guy", [[{{Hypocrite}} constantly hitting him with insensitive remark after insensitive remark while chiding Sonic for being insensitive]]. It frustrates Sonic so much that he straight-up quits being a hero. [[TenMinuteRetirement Thankfully, it doesn't last]].
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** Inthe ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "It Takes A Village To Defeat A Hedgehog", Shadow considers the poorly-made bookshelf Sonic and friends spent the episode trying to build an embarrassment on behalf of ''all hedgehog kind''.
**Not to mention in the episode In "Just A Guy", Team Sonic and the entirety of the village (except for [[OnlySaneMan Tails]]) gets pissed off at Sonic when he calls Mike the Ox "just a guy", [[{{Hypocrite}} constantly hitting him with insensitive remark after insensitive remark while chiding Sonic for being insensitive]]. It frustrates Sonic so much that he straight-up quits being a hero. [[TenMinuteRetirement Thankfully, it doesn't last]].
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** Not to mention in the episode "Just A Guy", Team Sonic and the entirety of the village (except for [[OnlySaneMan Tails]]) gets pissed off at Sonic when he calls Mike the Ox "just a guy", [[Hypocrite constantly hitting him with insensitive remark after insensitive remark while chiding Sonic for being insensitive]]. It frustrates Sonic so much that he straight-up quits being a hero. Thankfully, it doesn't last.
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** Not to mention in the episode "Just A Guy", Team Sonic and the entirety of the village (except for [[OnlySaneMan Tails]]) gets pissed off at Sonic when he calls Mike the Ox "just a guy", [[Hypocrite [[{{Hypocrite}} constantly hitting him with insensitive remark after insensitive remark while chiding Sonic for being insensitive]]. It frustrates Sonic so much that he straight-up quits being a hero. [[TenMinuteRetirement Thankfully, it doesn't last.last]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", Eddy is given detention for allegedly impersonating the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement and nothing happened to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", Eddy is given detention for allegedly impersonating the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement and nothing happened to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", when Double D impersonates the principal, ''[[MisplacedRetribution Eddy]]'' is given detention for it. Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement and nothing happened to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", when Double D impersonates the principal, ''[[MisplacedRetribution Eddy]]'' Eddy is given detention for it.allegedly impersonating the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement and nothing happened to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", when Double D impersonates the principal, ''[[MisplacedRetribution Eddy]]'' is given detention for it. Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", when Double D impersonates the principal, ''[[MisplacedRetribution Eddy]]'' is given detention for it. Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet and nothing happens happened to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy": In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", Eddy is given detention by the school system for allegedly impersonating the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy": ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", Eddy when Double D impersonates the principal, ''[[MisplacedRetribution Eddy]]'' is given detention by the school system for allegedly impersonating the principal ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]).it. Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy": In "Smile for the Ed", Eddy is given detention by the school system for impersonating the principal (which was actually Edd's doing). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy": In "Smile "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E2SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed", Ed]]", Eddy is given detention by the school system for allegedly impersonating the principal (which ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing).doing]]). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
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* One ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' episode involves having the titular character be discharged from the Mounted Police for doing the unthinkable...[[spoiler:eating his peas...with a ''KNIFE''!]] His horse was also discharged. ''His'' crime? [[spoiler: It was his knife.]]
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* One ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' episode involves having the titular character be discharged from the Mounted Police for doing the unthinkable... [[spoiler:eating his peas...peas... with a ''KNIFE''!]] His horse was also discharged. ''His'' crime? [[spoiler: It was his knife.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy": In "Smile for the Ed", Eddy is given detention by the school system for impersonating the principal (which was actually Edd's doing). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy": In "Smile for the Ed", Eddy is given detention by the school system for impersonating the principal (which was actually Edd's doing). Meanwhile, the others students were ''terrorizing Eddy in the cafeteria to the point where the latter has a nervous breakdown'', [[SelectiveEnforcement yet nothing happens to them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** The Earl of Lemongrab has some... er, interesting concepts when it comes to punishing those who do wrong. Making a mess? Thirty days in the dungeon. Asking questions? Thirty-TWO days in the dungeon. Refusing to clean up mess, or asking who exactly Lemongrab is talking to? Three hours dungeon. Harmless prank? Seven years dungeon, no trials. Assuring Lemongrab that the prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!! (Lemongrab isn't evil--he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.)
** Princess Bubblegum and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on the earl of Lemongrab-- they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." How does the earl react? He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds. And how does he attempt to punish those responsible? Round up EVERYONE in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon, no trials!
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Marceline]] writes a heart-breaking, soul-crushing, tear-jerking ballad which questions if her dad even loves her because.... he ate her fries. A bit HarsherInHindsight, as in "Memory of a Memory" we see Marceline's dad ate her fries [[spoiler: while they were ''scavenging for food in a post-apocalyptic wasteland'', and Marceline was still human (well, half-demon) while her father had always been a demon, so dying of starvation was a real possibility for her]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had Stan arrested for egging a house. While the judge did rule it as a misdemeanor at his sentencing, the police response was pretty exaggerated. In which, Stan was tackled by one officer, while another officer kicked him in the chest a few times before drawing his gun on Stan and another officer arrives to pepper-spray him in the face with two more squad cars arriving and a police helicopter shining it's spotlight on Stan.
* In "[[Recap/ArthurS1E30ArthursFirstSleepoverArthursNewYearsEve Arthur's New Year's Eve]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Franince Frensky tells Arthur that the New Year's Police arrest anyone who doesn't immediately throw out their old calendars when midnight ushers in New year's Day. Arthur has an ImagineSpot of his Grandma Thora being arrested by these police, who are depicted wearing party hats.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
-->'''Guard:''' Your Majesty, these juveniles were arrested for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking vandalism, traveling under false pretenses, and malicious destruction of cabbages]].\\
'''Cabbage Merchant:''' [[OffWithHisHead Off with their heads!]] One for each head of cabbage!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]]: Killing a man because he recommended you to relax, which wound up making you late? That's this trope alright, even ''if'' Fugate mistakenly believes Hill intently sabotaged him as it was his law firm that filed the injunction he ended up being late to; it's even lampshaded:
-->'''Batman:''' Give it up, Fugate. Hill committed no crime against you.\\
'''Clock King:''' He did worse. He made me late!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "The Laughing Bat", ComicBook/TheJoker [[CostumeCopycat dresses as Batman]] and attacks "criminals" for offenses like jaywalking and going through [[ExpressLaneLimit the ten-item lane]] with eleven items.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' features ComicBook/BlackLightning acting like this in a dream sequence, during which he shoots lightning at people for the heinous acts of... putting sprinkles in coffee, not cleaning up after their dogs, driving an SUV, wearing white after Labor Day, and making "Smell That Pig IV". At one point he attacks Batman because he doesn't like his costume.
* In season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Grandad, Riley, Huey, and Jasmine all sneak into a movie without paying for it and are treated to a warning about movie piracy that insists that pirating movies makes you the most horrible, evil, violent person on earth. The boys all ignore it but by the time the completely over-the-top announcement is over, [[TheWoobie Jasmine]] is bawling her little eyes out and begging for them to take her out of the theater out of guilt. This is based off a series of strips in the comic (which is in turn based off a series of PSA's about movie piracy) where they show various people's over-the-top tearjerking plights thanks to movie piracy - one of which is a bootlegger who can't sell ''his'' pirated movies anymore.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
** Almost all the villains are built on this. Simple things most kids don't like doing such as homework, washing dishes, eating vegetables, and going to the dentist are blown to world-destroying proportions.
** One episode features a hardware store owner who wants to eliminate two aviators who bought their plane parts from him. Why? Because they ''kept smudging his counter with chili''. DisproportionateRetribution much?
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', with the episode "The Ultimate Enemy." Danny cheats on a test, and what are the consequences? Not a detention, or a lecture, or auto-failing the test. Rather, [[spoiler:circumstances make everyone he truly cared for ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg plus his English teacher]]) die, which also brought [[LocalHangout The Nasty Burger]] along with them in a horrendous explosion, which was caused by an exploded pack of hot sauce, which caused the boiler to leak, which eventually caused said explosion, which also took his family, his friends, and his English teacher along with it, and Danny's ghost half separating to became an ''OmnicidalManiac with no humanity or morals whatsoever'']].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Dexter Detention", Dexter is sent to detention after unwillingly helping a student cheat. The detention warden seems to think getting under his wing is unforgivable, calling the kids there "criminals" and forcing them to [[WritingLines write lines]] and worse punishments. Then in the end, apparently escaping detention is enough to send Dexter to the state prison.
* One ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' episode involves having the titular character be discharged from the Mounted Police for doing the unthinkable...[[spoiler:eating his peas...with a ''KNIFE''!]] His horse was also discharged. ''His'' crime? [[spoiler: It was his knife.]]
* Used in the WartimeCartoon ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath''. A boy is made to stand in the corner of a classroom wearing a DunceCap because he expressed sympathy for a rabbit that got eaten by a fox. Unfortunately, this is set in Nazi Germany and the lesson (that the fox should be admired for eating the rabbit because MightMakesRight) works as his PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher intended: the boy becomes a mindless, ruthless and evil prospective soldier for the Nazi regime.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', the first ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short nearly ends with Vicky getting fired after Timmy proves he doesn't need a babysitter. Then his parents see a pepperoni in his teeth, and conclude [[YankTheDogsChain if he can't do proper tooth care, he can't be trusted alone]].
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' the FBI burst into Peter's living room and shoot the VCR when he attempts to tape Monday Night Football with the expressly-written consent of ABC, but not the NFL.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', a police-procedural-type show set in a school, is the undisputed master of this, both for the title character and the show in general.
** Fillmore himself is treated, by many people in the show, like an unstable/possibly violent ex-convict for his past crimes. What are those crimes, you ask? Directly ripped from the opening sequence: Chalk boosting, locker rigging, a comic book poker ring, cutting class, milk counterfeiting (non dairy creamer), and backtalkery. For this sordid past, he has many TheAtoner moments. This is before we even get into the scooter jacking ring, tartar sauce smuggling, and the time Fillmore's pet was almost killed by a boy in return for the answer sheet to a particularly hard test. Another episode features a psychotic, monotone, genius IQ boy who had to be locked up in total isolation because the spray paint tagging he was doing all over the school were so traumatizing they could make people physically ill.
** Fillmore once inflicted this on the school mini-golf team. They (somewhat understandably) refuse to let him join them since he was a juvenile delinquent. How did this pre-HeelFaceTurn Fillmore react? [[DisproportionateRetribution By challenging them to a game with their trophies and other memorabilia as the stakes, mercilessly beating them and breaking their spirits]]...yikes...
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Zoidberg accidentally destroys the Professor's model ship and decides to frame Fry in order to avoid blame. He later becomes wracked with grief and self-loathing after Fry has to pay for the damages to the amount of ''ten dollars''. Justified, as to Zoidberg, ten dollars is a VERY large amount. He's too poor to realize that Fry simply rummaged his pockets to pay off the debt.
* In the episode "Wanted: Wade!" of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Wade pulls a tag off of a couch, then sees that the tag [[MattressTagGag says that it's against the law to remove it.]] This causes him to run frantically around and have a dream where the police are after him for ripping off the couch tag. In that dream, tearing a tag off a pillow is so bad a crime it even gets two hardened robbers of banks and gas stations to grab the bars of the cell and want out when Wade admits his "crime" to them. Later, Wade sees a police car on the farm and gets him into his panic. When Orson tries to convince Wade he won't go to jail for it, a voice tells them and Roy "We know you're in there, come out with your hands up! We have you surrounded!", and Roy, Wade, and Orson run for it.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GirlstuffBoystuff'' has Talia and Reanne having an ImagineSpot of Ben getting arrested by the Video Store Police for spoiling movie plots out loud and "enjoying ''Honky Tonk Heatwave''".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode, "Axed by Addition," Pete does this to ''himself.'' Among genuinely abusive and/or totalitarian actions he regrets doing to PJ, he also lists the heinous crimes of making him use "the manly deodorant" and a ''handkerchief.'' His overdramatic delivery of the latter suggests he finds it ''more'' reprehensible than everything else he mentions, which includes sending him to obedience school for not cleaning his room.
* Pepper in ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' believes removing a friend from her My Face account is more heinous than ripping their spleen out of them.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy thinks up several horrible punishments of what [[LouisCypher Lucius]] will do to him when he finds out what he's done. He laughs them off. When [[YesMan Samy]] tells him that he'll take away his TV privileges, he reacts with horror.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "A Better World," the Justice Lords' fascist rule is such that one man is arrested on the spot simply for complaining about his restaurant bill.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/DaffyDoodles" begins with this ominous bit of narration that describes what role Daffy Duck is playing this time around:
-->In a large eastern city, a demon is on the loose. The people are terrified. The police baffled. With diabolical cleverness, the monster strikes without warning... [[MustacheVandalism and draws moustaches on all the ads]].
* OncePerEpisode on ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', Coop berates the MonsterOfTheWeek with a list of everything evil they did in that episode and a declaration that he's going to kick their ass because of it. The final item on the list is always something extremely innocuous and is always the thing Coop claims is the most heinous act out of all of them.
* Type 3 is used in the ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' episode "Toot Toot", which is about Bessie farting during a meeting and getting kicked out of the Honeybees for it. It sends her into a HeroicBSOD, and the other Honeybees are suffering without her. However, just as Bessie was about to burn her manual, she realizes that farting is a natural function and that there is a badge called the "Toot-Toot" Badge, which is rewarded for those who go through farting in public with dignity.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Pinkie Pie invokes this with her deadly-serious attitude towards keeping secrets in "Green Isn't Your Color".
--->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend forever! '''''FOR-EV-ER!!!'''''
** Rarity simply cannot abide crimes against fashion and/or fabulosity. She's willing to yell at a rampaging dragon just for damaging her clothes, rather than [[SkewedPriorities abducting her]].
** Later, in "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle actually suffers a psychotic breakdown when she thinks that she'll be unable to write her weekly [[AnAesop Aesop of the week]] letter to the princess and therefore be... gasp... '''tardy'''!
** Also, in "The Cutie Pox", it turns out Pinkie Pie ate not two, not three, but''' ''six'' '''corn cakes (and possibly even more than that)!
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "NOPONY breaks a Pinkie Promise!"]]
** Twice in "Read it and Weep", as not only does the plot revolve around non-egghead Rainbow Dash being into reading, she also gets the hospital's staff on her case because they thought she had broken in to steal a patient's slippers.
** "Peeved" is apparently a strong curse-word in Equestria, as a mother covers her child's ears and glares after Fluttershy struggles to drop a P-Bomb.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In the season 1 finale "Young Blood, Old Souls", Luz and King plan to get deliberately arrested so they can sneak themselves into the Conformatorium, break out, and rescue Eda. They do this by deliberately ignoring a "Keep Off the Grass" sign in front of a guard.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Candace is thrown out of the museum for yelling. She meets another kid, who was thrown out of the same museum for stealing a pterodactyl. He's impressed by how hardcore she is.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** When the Mayor gets called out for HoldingOutForAHero to the girls, he jumps into a Hot Air Balloon with Miss Bellum and starts to punch criminals with an extendable glove from the air. It starts by hitting a genuine mugger but then escalates to him hitting people he only ''thinks'' are committing a crime.
** The episode where Buttercup was exiled from Townsville because she refused to take a bath (though to be fair, she had recently fought a monster that seemed to be made of raw sewage).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'':
** The show liked to revisit the unwritten code of honor kids must live by on the playground. Everything from how a scuffle is conducted to weird superstitions is treated as deadly serious, and God help you if you don't automatically know all the rules; if you're ''really'' lucky, you'll have friends who not only do know the rule you broke, but how to restore your honor as well.
** The word "whomp" is treated a ''so bad'' a swear that ''SWAT teams'' are brought in and the kids are out in ''court''.
** In the episode where the kids protest the tearing down of an old jungle gym by staying on it endlessly, Prickly decides to initiate "Plan P", which Ms. Grotke calls "extreme". The plan: [[spoiler: calling the kids' parents]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Get Schwifty", a giant alien head appears in the sky and starts creating catastrophic weather. A religion called "Headism" forms around said head, where people such as goths, "movie talkers", and "inappropriate joke tellers" are executed via "Ascension" (AKA being [[{{Balloonacy}} strapped to several balloons and floating up into the sky]]).
* Inverted for comedic effect in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch: After Paris Hilton is arrested, Nicole Richie decides to break her "best friend/meal ticket" out of jail, in a parody of ''Series/PrisonBreak''. To get herself arrested, she robs a bank. The tellers say that will probably only get her a fine, so she shoots him. The guard throwing her in jail proclaims:
-->"Stupid celebrity! Armed robbery AND murder? You'll be locked up for forty-five ''days.''"
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything was once chased out by his friends]] because ''he likes'' '''''rainbows.'''''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Fear of Flying", Homer is banned from the bar for loosening the lid on a sugar dispenser, in the aftermath of pranks which involved ''setting Moe's clothing on fire'' and ''loading his cash register with a live cobra''.
** In another episode he has to take care of an endangered caterpillar and almost kills it by mistake. He is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for "attempted insecticide" and "aggravated buggery." Made especially ridiculous because, as Homer put it, God clearly ''wanted'' it to die. (The species is [[TooDumbToLive sexually attracted to]] ''[[KillItWithFire fire]],'' for example.)
** Another episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]", involves Bart failing to catch a fly ball in a championship baseball game when Springfield was one out away from winning in the bottom of the ninth, causing Shelbyville to win, and the entire town relentlessly boos Bart horribly (except his family). They sing a song on the radio about how horrible he is. They throw lots of food at him. And when Bart is about to jump off a water tower, they tell Bart they're not mad anymore, and when he falls off and ends up in the hospital ''they continue to yell at him even though he almost died''.
** Principal Skinner talks about the horrible thing he did in the Vietnam War. He stole cupcakes.
** Skinner also behaves this way when the teacher's edition textbooks of Springfield Elementary are stolen, leaving the teachers completely unable to teach any new content. (The thief eventually turns out to be [[spoiler: [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode Lisa]]]].) Upon finally finding the textbooks, Skinner's first reaction is relief; his second is moral outrage: "Who's responsible for this monstrous crime?!"
** One episode has Mayor Quimby ordering the police to do this to fill the new but largely empty prison they'd just built.
** The episode "You Only Move Twice" manages to parody this beyond its normal comedic, parodying use during the end theme, which is a riff on Bond movie themes: where the singer would be regaling the audience with Hank Scorpio's foul deeds, she sings about the [[BenevolentBoss more benign aspects of his business plan]] [[AndThatsTerrible as if they were horrible crimes and deceitful traps]].
---> ''Beware of his generous pension,''\\
''And three weeks' paid vacation each year;''\\
''And on Fridays, the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!''\\
''He loves German BEEEEEEER!''
** In "Lisa on Ice", Lisa believes that getting an F in second grade gym will one day lose her the presidency, and get her sentenced to a lifetime of ''horror'' on Monster Island ([[FalseReassurance don't worry, it's only a name]]).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "It Takes A Village To Defeat A Hedgehog", Shadow considers the poorly-made bookshelf Sonic and friends spent the episode trying to build an embarrassment on behalf of ''all hedgehog kind''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E9ChristianRockHard Christian Rock Hard]]", after the boys download a song, armed police immediately show up in a helicopter. They are taken to the station and shown how the artists they stole from are "suffering", such as how they can't buy a private island or get new features for their private jets.
** Another notable example occurs in "Butt Out," when their parents act as if smoking is "the worst thing" Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman have ever done, never bothering to comment upon the fact that they've just burned their school to the ground!
** ''South Park'' uses Type 3 a lot, like when Stan was exiled from the town for refusing to vote on the school mascot election between [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche]].
** Eric Cartman repeatedly insulted his friends, abused them (often brutally) and betrayed them just for the sheer joy of it. He also made at least two attempts to murder a large group of the population, convinced women to have abortions for his own profit and, having arranged to have a couple murdered [[spoiler:(one of which was his father)]], made them into chili and fed it to their son. But ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eating the skin of all the fried chicken]]'' was the last drop that finally prompted his friends to ignore him. Kyle even mentions that Cartman did a lot worse before.
** In "Toilet Paper", the boys' [=TPing=] of a teacher's house results in a full-scale police investigation, complete with PerpSweating. Kyle, who participated reluctantly, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone becomes wracked with guilt]], seeing flashbacks of the event in his nightmares. That being said, the family in question reacts to it appropriately: moderate annoyance. The police officer openly admits he's taking it so seriously because he has nothing better to do.
** In "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", Mr. Mackey calls the police when he discovers someone has taken a dump in the urinal. He becomes completely obsessed with finding the culprit, at one point declares, "I'm gonna catch this sonofabitch if it's the last thing I DO!!"
** "I Should Never Have Gone Ziplining" has the boys going on a ziplining trip. The whole thing is a mildly crappy experience with the sort of things you'd expect of a disappointing vacation: the tour guides are annoying, the other people are annoying, the journey to get to the ziplines is way too long and the actual ziplining only lasts a few minutes. The boys and the narrative, however, treat the entire thing like an unforgettable traumatic event that they barely survived, a la ''I Shouldn't Be Alive.''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In the early episode "Opposite Day" when Squidward decides to move out, the realtor warns him the sale would fall through it it's surrounded by "bad neighbors".
** In one example they steal a balloon and fully intended to give it back. It pops. Torment ensues. Eventually, they give in and turn themselves in to the police, and get thrown in prison. Then they learn it is Free Balloon Day, and stay in prison for all of three seconds before being let free.
** Squidward was once sentenced to ten years in prison for stealing a wallet and running (he wasn't driving) a stop sign.
** [=SpongeBob=]'s cousin Blackjack, Squidward (again), the Tattletale Strangler, Mrs. Puff, and [=SpongeBob=] himself all have gotten sent to jail for the unspeakable crime of littering. Though the Tattletale Strangler was probably arrested for strangling people who tattled on him (hence the nickname), he was just caught for littering.
** In "The Algae's Always Greener", [=SpongeBob=] is ashamed of himself for accidentally giving a customer a large soda when they ordered a medium. "I've soiled the good Krusty Krab name! [[OverlyLongGag Soiled it, soiled it, soiled it, soiled it...]]"
** In "Little Yellow Book", after Squidward reads [=SpongeBob=]'s diary, he's alienated by the entire town, his house gets foreclosed, and he gets chained in the middle of the town for the citizens to {{Produce Pelt|ing}}. There's a ''reason'' why fans consider him the show's biggest [[JerkassWoobie woobie]], and the fact that the town themselves [[{{Hypocrite}} was reading it along with him]] makes it even worse.
** In the computer game ''Employee of the Month'', [=SpongeBob=] goes to a fancy restaurant called Sublime Seafoods to get a jacket needed to gain access to Oxygen Springs; once he is seated, the lobster waiter greets him and is ready to present an array of fancy foods, but when [=SpongeBob=] asks for a krabby patty, this infuriates the waiter enough to realize he's from Bikini Bottom which sells foods that are "despicable", resulting in him banned from the restaurant. However, the waiter forgot to remove his jacket, thus letting him in to Oxygen Springs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': In ''The Origin of the Beginning of the Incredible Taz-Man'', Mr. Thickley attempts to persuade Taz to make the mailman his arch-enemy for the heinous crime of delivering junk mail to Taz's family.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'''s episode "Breakfast Cheese", the Titans treat the H.I.V.E. loitering near a "no loitering" sign as an excuse to beat them up. This is even what kicks off the plot of the episode, as Starfire realizes that pounding someone into oblivion just for loitering is way too harsh and that the Titans have gotten more bloodthirsty thanks to all the fighting.
-->'''Beast Boy:''' Look at them loitering so hard...\\
'''Robin:''' Disgusting!
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** One episode had Plucky and Hampton steal a candy bar and go through inner torment before they give it back.
** Also, one beer shared between three people will turn all of them into stereotypical wino bums, who will then steal a car to go joyriding before dying in the inevitable crash.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'', Chode was sentenced to death for littering on a NeatFreak planet. Also as he was being arrested, a person who accidentally missed hitting the trash can with his trash was instantly vaporized.
* {{Inverted|Trope}}: One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' has the culprit going through the whole YouMeddlingKids speech for something that wasn't even technically illegal.
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' plays this for comedic effect in a few episodes, but one incident with normally [[TheQuietOne calm, soft-spoken, steady]] Clay stands out:
-->'''Kimiko:''' It's Spicer! He took [[SealedEvilInACan the seed]]!\\
'''Clay:''' And [[BigEater the hot dogs]]! (runs after Jack Spicer, [[BerserkButton losing his hat]] in the process and [[OhCrap not even caring]]) Come back here with them doggies, you no-good low-down snake, you yellow-bellied dirty little sidewinder [[BewareTheNiceOnes I'M GON' GET YOU]]!
** The Earl of Lemongrab has some... er, interesting concepts when it comes to punishing those who do wrong. Making a mess? Thirty days in the dungeon. Asking questions? Thirty-TWO days in the dungeon. Refusing to clean up mess, or asking who exactly Lemongrab is talking to? Three hours dungeon. Harmless prank? Seven years dungeon, no trials. Assuring Lemongrab that the prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!! (Lemongrab isn't evil--he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.)
** Princess Bubblegum and Finn decide to play a harmless prank on the earl of Lemongrab-- they leave a sign beside his bed that says "YOU REALLY SMELL LIKE DOG BUNS." How does the earl react? He clenches his fists, starts shaking, and opens up his mouth wide to scream loudly in sheer outrage for several seconds. And how does he attempt to punish those responsible? Round up EVERYONE in the castle, to sentence them to seven years in the dungeon, no trials!
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Marceline]] writes a heart-breaking, soul-crushing, tear-jerking ballad which questions if her dad even loves her because.... he ate her fries. A bit HarsherInHindsight, as in "Memory of a Memory" we see Marceline's dad ate her fries [[spoiler: while they were ''scavenging for food in a post-apocalyptic wasteland'', and Marceline was still human (well, half-demon) while her father had always been a demon, so dying of starvation was a real possibility for her]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had Stan arrested for egging a house. While the judge did rule it as a misdemeanor at his sentencing, the police response was pretty exaggerated. In which, Stan was tackled by one officer, while another officer kicked him in the chest a few times before drawing his gun on Stan and another officer arrives to pepper-spray him in the face with two more squad cars arriving and a police helicopter shining it's spotlight on Stan.
* In "[[Recap/ArthurS1E30ArthursFirstSleepoverArthursNewYearsEve Arthur's New Year's Eve]]" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Franince Frensky tells Arthur that the New Year's Police arrest anyone who doesn't immediately throw out their old calendars when midnight ushers in New year's Day. Arthur has an ImagineSpot of his Grandma Thora being arrested by these police, who are depicted wearing party hats.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
-->'''Guard:''' Your Majesty, these juveniles were arrested for [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking vandalism, traveling under false pretenses, and malicious destruction of cabbages]].\\
'''Cabbage Merchant:''' [[OffWithHisHead Off with their heads!]] One for each head of cabbage!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]]: Killing a man because he recommended you to relax, which wound up making you late? That's this trope alright, even ''if'' Fugate mistakenly believes Hill intently sabotaged him as it was his law firm that filed the injunction he ended up being late to; it's even lampshaded:
-->'''Batman:''' Give it up, Fugate. Hill committed no crime against you.\\
'''Clock King:''' He did worse. He made me late!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "The Laughing Bat", ComicBook/TheJoker [[CostumeCopycat dresses as Batman]] and attacks "criminals" for offenses like jaywalking and going through [[ExpressLaneLimit the ten-item lane]] with eleven items.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' features ComicBook/BlackLightning acting like this in a dream sequence, during which he shoots lightning at people for the heinous acts of... putting sprinkles in coffee, not cleaning up after their dogs, driving an SUV, wearing white after Labor Day, and making "Smell That Pig IV". At one point he attacks Batman because he doesn't like his costume.
* In season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Grandad, Riley, Huey, and Jasmine all sneak into a movie without paying for it and are treated to a warning about movie piracy that insists that pirating movies makes you the most horrible, evil, violent person on earth. The boys all ignore it but by the time the completely over-the-top announcement is over, [[TheWoobie Jasmine]] is bawling her little eyes out and begging for them to take her out of the theater out of guilt. This is based off a series of strips in the comic (which is in turn based off a series of PSA's about movie piracy) where they show various people's over-the-top tearjerking plights thanks to movie piracy - one of which is a bootlegger who can't sell ''his'' pirated movies anymore.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
** Almost all the villains are built on this. Simple things most kids don't like doing such as homework, washing dishes, eating vegetables, and going to the dentist are blown to world-destroying proportions.
** One episode features a hardware store owner who wants to eliminate two aviators who bought their plane parts from him. Why? Because they ''kept smudging his counter with chili''. DisproportionateRetribution much?
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', with the episode "The Ultimate Enemy." Danny cheats on a test, and what are the consequences? Not a detention, or a lecture, or auto-failing the test. Rather, [[spoiler:circumstances make everyone he truly cared for ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg plus his English teacher]]) die, which also brought [[LocalHangout The Nasty Burger]] along with them in a horrendous explosion, which was caused by an exploded pack of hot sauce, which caused the boiler to leak, which eventually caused said explosion, which also took his family, his friends, and his English teacher along with it, and Danny's ghost half separating to became an ''OmnicidalManiac with no humanity or morals whatsoever'']].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Dexter Detention", Dexter is sent to detention after unwillingly helping a student cheat. The detention warden seems to think getting under his wing is unforgivable, calling the kids there "criminals" and forcing them to [[WritingLines write lines]] and worse punishments. Then in the end, apparently escaping detention is enough to send Dexter to the state prison.
* One ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' episode involves having the titular character be discharged from the Mounted Police for doing the unthinkable...[[spoiler:eating his peas...with a ''KNIFE''!]] His horse was also discharged. ''His'' crime? [[spoiler: It was his knife.]]
* Used in the WartimeCartoon ''WesternAnimation/EducationForDeath''. A boy is made to stand in the corner of a classroom wearing a DunceCap because he expressed sympathy for a rabbit that got eaten by a fox. Unfortunately, this is set in Nazi Germany and the lesson (that the fox should be admired for eating the rabbit because MightMakesRight) works as his PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher intended: the boy becomes a mindless, ruthless and evil prospective soldier for the Nazi regime.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', the first ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short nearly ends with Vicky getting fired after Timmy proves he doesn't need a babysitter. Then his parents see a pepperoni in his teeth, and conclude [[YankTheDogsChain if he can't do proper tooth care, he can't be trusted alone]].
* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' the FBI burst into Peter's living room and shoot the VCR when he attempts to tape Monday Night Football with the expressly-written consent of ABC, but not the NFL.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'', a police-procedural-type show set in a school, is the undisputed master of this, both for the title character and the show in general.
** Fillmore himself is treated, by many people in the show, like an unstable/possibly violent ex-convict for his past crimes. What are those crimes, you ask? Directly ripped from the opening sequence: Chalk boosting, locker rigging, a comic book poker ring, cutting class, milk counterfeiting (non dairy creamer), and backtalkery. For this sordid past, he has many TheAtoner moments. This is before we even get into the scooter jacking ring, tartar sauce smuggling, and the time Fillmore's pet was almost killed by a boy in return for the answer sheet to a particularly hard test. Another episode features a psychotic, monotone, genius IQ boy who had to be locked up in total isolation because the spray paint tagging he was doing all over the school were so traumatizing they could make people physically ill.
** Fillmore once inflicted this on the school mini-golf team. They (somewhat understandably) refuse to let him join them since he was a juvenile delinquent. How did this pre-HeelFaceTurn Fillmore react? [[DisproportionateRetribution By challenging them to a game with their trophies and other memorabilia as the stakes, mercilessly beating them and breaking their spirits]]...yikes...
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Zoidberg accidentally destroys the Professor's model ship and decides to frame Fry in order to avoid blame. He later becomes wracked with grief and self-loathing after Fry has to pay for the damages to the amount of ''ten dollars''. Justified, as to Zoidberg, ten dollars is a VERY large amount. He's too poor to realize that Fry simply rummaged his pockets to pay off the debt.
* In the episode "Wanted: Wade!" of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Wade pulls a tag off of a couch, then sees that the tag [[MattressTagGag says that it's against the law to remove it.]] This causes him to run frantically around and have a dream where the police are after him for ripping off the couch tag. In that dream, tearing a tag off a pillow is so bad a crime it even gets two hardened robbers of banks and gas stations to grab the bars of the cell and want out when Wade admits his "crime" to them. Later, Wade sees a police car on the farm and gets him into his panic. When Orson tries to convince Wade he won't go to jail for it, a voice tells them and Roy "We know you're in there, come out with your hands up! We have you surrounded!", and Roy, Wade, and Orson run for it.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/GirlstuffBoystuff'' has Talia and Reanne having an ImagineSpot of Ben getting arrested by the Video Store Police for spoiling movie plots out loud and "enjoying ''Honky Tonk Heatwave''".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode, "Axed by Addition," Pete does this to ''himself.'' Among genuinely abusive and/or totalitarian actions he regrets doing to PJ, he also lists the heinous crimes of making him use "the manly deodorant" and a ''handkerchief.'' His overdramatic delivery of the latter suggests he finds it ''more'' reprehensible than everything else he mentions, which includes sending him to obedience school for not cleaning his room.
* Pepper in ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'' believes removing a friend from her My Face account is more heinous than ripping their spleen out of them.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy thinks up several horrible punishments of what [[LouisCypher Lucius]] will do to him when he finds out what he's done. He laughs them off. When [[YesMan Samy]] tells him that he'll take away his TV privileges, he reacts with horror.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': In "A Better World," the Justice Lords' fascist rule is such that one man is arrested on the spot simply for complaining about his restaurant bill.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/DaffyDoodles" begins with this ominous bit of narration that describes what role Daffy Duck is playing this time around:
-->In a large eastern city, a demon is on the loose. The people are terrified. The police baffled. With diabolical cleverness, the monster strikes without warning... [[MustacheVandalism and draws moustaches on all the ads]].
* OncePerEpisode on ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', Coop berates the MonsterOfTheWeek with a list of everything evil they did in that episode and a declaration that he's going to kick their ass because of it. The final item on the list is always something extremely innocuous and is always the thing Coop claims is the most heinous act out of all of them.
* Type 3 is used in the ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' episode "Toot Toot", which is about Bessie farting during a meeting and getting kicked out of the Honeybees for it. It sends her into a HeroicBSOD, and the other Honeybees are suffering without her. However, just as Bessie was about to burn her manual, she realizes that farting is a natural function and that there is a badge called the "Toot-Toot" Badge, which is rewarded for those who go through farting in public with dignity.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Pinkie Pie invokes this with her deadly-serious attitude towards keeping secrets in "Green Isn't Your Color".
--->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Losing a friend's trust is the fastest way to lose a friend forever! '''''FOR-EV-ER!!!'''''
** Rarity simply cannot abide crimes against fashion and/or fabulosity. She's willing to yell at a rampaging dragon just for damaging her clothes, rather than [[SkewedPriorities abducting her]].
** Later, in "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle actually suffers a psychotic breakdown when she thinks that she'll be unable to write her weekly [[AnAesop Aesop of the week]] letter to the princess and therefore be... gasp... '''tardy'''!
** Also, in "The Cutie Pox", it turns out Pinkie Pie ate not two, not three, but''' ''six'' '''corn cakes (and possibly even more than that)!
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "NOPONY breaks a Pinkie Promise!"]]
** Twice in "Read it and Weep", as not only does the plot revolve around non-egghead Rainbow Dash being into reading, she also gets the hospital's staff on her case because they thought she had broken in to steal a patient's slippers.
** "Peeved" is apparently a strong curse-word in Equestria, as a mother covers her child's ears and glares after Fluttershy struggles to drop a P-Bomb.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': In the season 1 finale "Young Blood, Old Souls", Luz and King plan to get deliberately arrested so they can sneak themselves into the Conformatorium, break out, and rescue Eda. They do this by deliberately ignoring a "Keep Off the Grass" sign in front of a guard.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Candace is thrown out of the museum for yelling. She meets another kid, who was thrown out of the same museum for stealing a pterodactyl. He's impressed by how hardcore she is.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** When the Mayor gets called out for HoldingOutForAHero to the girls, he jumps into a Hot Air Balloon with Miss Bellum and starts to punch criminals with an extendable glove from the air. It starts by hitting a genuine mugger but then escalates to him hitting people he only ''thinks'' are committing a crime.
** The episode where Buttercup was exiled from Townsville because she refused to take a bath (though to be fair, she had recently fought a monster that seemed to be made of raw sewage).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'':
** The show liked to revisit the unwritten code of honor kids must live by on the playground. Everything from how a scuffle is conducted to weird superstitions is treated as deadly serious, and God help you if you don't automatically know all the rules; if you're ''really'' lucky, you'll have friends who not only do know the rule you broke, but how to restore your honor as well.
** The word "whomp" is treated a ''so bad'' a swear that ''SWAT teams'' are brought in and the kids are out in ''court''.
** In the episode where the kids protest the tearing down of an old jungle gym by staying on it endlessly, Prickly decides to initiate "Plan P", which Ms. Grotke calls "extreme". The plan: [[spoiler: calling the kids' parents]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': In "Get Schwifty", a giant alien head appears in the sky and starts creating catastrophic weather. A religion called "Headism" forms around said head, where people such as goths, "movie talkers", and "inappropriate joke tellers" are executed via "Ascension" (AKA being [[{{Balloonacy}} strapped to several balloons and floating up into the sky]]).
* Inverted for comedic effect in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch: After Paris Hilton is arrested, Nicole Richie decides to break her "best friend/meal ticket" out of jail, in a parody of ''Series/PrisonBreak''. To get herself arrested, she robs a bank. The tellers say that will probably only get her a fine, so she shoots him. The guard throwing her in jail proclaims:
-->"Stupid celebrity! Armed robbery AND murder? You'll be locked up for forty-five ''days.''"
* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything was once chased out by his friends]] because ''he likes'' '''''rainbows.'''''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "Fear of Flying", Homer is banned from the bar for loosening the lid on a sugar dispenser, in the aftermath of pranks which involved ''setting Moe's clothing on fire'' and ''loading his cash register with a live cobra''.
** In another episode he has to take care of an endangered caterpillar and almost kills it by mistake. He is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for "attempted insecticide" and "aggravated buggery." Made especially ridiculous because, as Homer put it, God clearly ''wanted'' it to die. (The species is [[TooDumbToLive sexually attracted to]] ''[[KillItWithFire fire]],'' for example.)
** Another episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer The Boys of Bummer]]", involves Bart failing to catch a fly ball in a championship baseball game when Springfield was one out away from winning in the bottom of the ninth, causing Shelbyville to win, and the entire town relentlessly boos Bart horribly (except his family). They sing a song on the radio about how horrible he is. They throw lots of food at him. And when Bart is about to jump off a water tower, they tell Bart they're not mad anymore, and when he falls off and ends up in the hospital ''they continue to yell at him even though he almost died''.
** Principal Skinner talks about the horrible thing he did in the Vietnam War. He stole cupcakes.
** Skinner also behaves this way when the teacher's edition textbooks of Springfield Elementary are stolen, leaving the teachers completely unable to teach any new content. (The thief eventually turns out to be [[spoiler: [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode Lisa]]]].) Upon finally finding the textbooks, Skinner's first reaction is relief; his second is moral outrage: "Who's responsible for this monstrous crime?!"
** One episode has Mayor Quimby ordering the police to do this to fill the new but largely empty prison they'd just built.
** The episode "You Only Move Twice" manages to parody this beyond its normal comedic, parodying use during the end theme, which is a riff on Bond movie themes: where the singer would be regaling the audience with Hank Scorpio's foul deeds, she sings about the [[BenevolentBoss more benign aspects of his business plan]] [[AndThatsTerrible as if they were horrible crimes and deceitful traps]].
---> ''Beware of his generous pension,''\\
''And three weeks' paid vacation each year;''\\
''And on Fridays, the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!''\\
''He loves German BEEEEEEER!''
** In "Lisa on Ice", Lisa believes that getting an F in second grade gym will one day lose her the presidency, and get her sentenced to a lifetime of ''horror'' on Monster Island ([[FalseReassurance don't worry, it's only a name]]).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "It Takes A Village To Defeat A Hedgehog", Shadow considers the poorly-made bookshelf Sonic and friends spent the episode trying to build an embarrassment on behalf of ''all hedgehog kind''.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS7E9ChristianRockHard Christian Rock Hard]]", after the boys download a song, armed police immediately show up in a helicopter. They are taken to the station and shown how the artists they stole from are "suffering", such as how they can't buy a private island or get new features for their private jets.
** Another notable example occurs in "Butt Out," when their parents act as if smoking is "the worst thing" Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman have ever done, never bothering to comment upon the fact that they've just burned their school to the ground!
** ''South Park'' uses Type 3 a lot, like when Stan was exiled from the town for refusing to vote on the school mascot election between [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical Turd Sandwich and Giant Douche]].
** Eric Cartman repeatedly insulted his friends, abused them (often brutally) and betrayed them just for the sheer joy of it. He also made at least two attempts to murder a large group of the population, convinced women to have abortions for his own profit and, having arranged to have a couple murdered [[spoiler:(one of which was his father)]], made them into chili and fed it to their son. But ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eating the skin of all the fried chicken]]'' was the last drop that finally prompted his friends to ignore him. Kyle even mentions that Cartman did a lot worse before.
** In "Toilet Paper", the boys' [=TPing=] of a teacher's house results in a full-scale police investigation, complete with PerpSweating. Kyle, who participated reluctantly, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone becomes wracked with guilt]], seeing flashbacks of the event in his nightmares. That being said, the family in question reacts to it appropriately: moderate annoyance. The police officer openly admits he's taking it so seriously because he has nothing better to do.
** In "Mystery of the Urinal Deuce", Mr. Mackey calls the police when he discovers someone has taken a dump in the urinal. He becomes completely obsessed with finding the culprit, at one point declares, "I'm gonna catch this sonofabitch if it's the last thing I DO!!"
** "I Should Never Have Gone Ziplining" has the boys going on a ziplining trip. The whole thing is a mildly crappy experience with the sort of things you'd expect of a disappointing vacation: the tour guides are annoying, the other people are annoying, the journey to get to the ziplines is way too long and the actual ziplining only lasts a few minutes. The boys and the narrative, however, treat the entire thing like an unforgettable traumatic event that they barely survived, a la ''I Shouldn't Be Alive.''
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In the early episode "Opposite Day" when Squidward decides to move out, the realtor warns him the sale would fall through it it's surrounded by "bad neighbors".
** In one example they steal a balloon and fully intended to give it back. It pops. Torment ensues. Eventually, they give in and turn themselves in to the police, and get thrown in prison. Then they learn it is Free Balloon Day, and stay in prison for all of three seconds before being let free.
** Squidward was once sentenced to ten years in prison for stealing a wallet and running (he wasn't driving) a stop sign.
** [=SpongeBob=]'s cousin Blackjack, Squidward (again), the Tattletale Strangler, Mrs. Puff, and [=SpongeBob=] himself all have gotten sent to jail for the unspeakable crime of littering. Though the Tattletale Strangler was probably arrested for strangling people who tattled on him (hence the nickname), he was just caught for littering.
** In "The Algae's Always Greener", [=SpongeBob=] is ashamed of himself for accidentally giving a customer a large soda when they ordered a medium. "I've soiled the good Krusty Krab name! [[OverlyLongGag Soiled it, soiled it, soiled it, soiled it...]]"
** In "Little Yellow Book", after Squidward reads [=SpongeBob=]'s diary, he's alienated by the entire town, his house gets foreclosed, and he gets chained in the middle of the town for the citizens to {{Produce Pelt|ing}}. There's a ''reason'' why fans consider him the show's biggest [[JerkassWoobie woobie]], and the fact that the town themselves [[{{Hypocrite}} was reading it along with him]] makes it even worse.
** In the computer game ''Employee of the Month'', [=SpongeBob=] goes to a fancy restaurant called Sublime Seafoods to get a jacket needed to gain access to Oxygen Springs; once he is seated, the lobster waiter greets him and is ready to present an array of fancy foods, but when [=SpongeBob=] asks for a krabby patty, this infuriates the waiter enough to realize he's from Bikini Bottom which sells foods that are "despicable", resulting in him banned from the restaurant. However, the waiter forgot to remove his jacket, thus letting him in to Oxygen Springs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': In ''The Origin of the Beginning of the Incredible Taz-Man'', Mr. Thickley attempts to persuade Taz to make the mailman his arch-enemy for the heinous crime of delivering junk mail to Taz's family.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'''s episode "Breakfast Cheese", the Titans treat the H.I.V.E. loitering near a "no loitering" sign as an excuse to beat them up. This is even what kicks off the plot of the episode, as Starfire realizes that pounding someone into oblivion just for loitering is way too harsh and that the Titans have gotten more bloodthirsty thanks to all the fighting.
-->'''Beast Boy:''' Look at them loitering so hard...\\
'''Robin:''' Disgusting!
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** One episode had Plucky and Hampton steal a candy bar and go through inner torment before they give it back.
** Also, one beer shared between three people will turn all of them into stereotypical wino bums, who will then steal a car to go joyriding before dying in the inevitable crash.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'', Chode was sentenced to death for littering on a NeatFreak planet. Also as he was being arrested, a person who accidentally missed hitting the trash can with his trash was instantly vaporized.
* {{Inverted|Trope}}: One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' has the culprit going through the whole YouMeddlingKids speech for something that wasn't even technically illegal.
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' plays this for comedic effect in a few episodes, but one incident with normally [[TheQuietOne calm, soft-spoken, steady]] Clay stands out:
-->'''Kimiko:''' It's Spicer! He took [[SealedEvilInACan the seed]]!\\
'''Clay:''' And [[BigEater the hot dogs]]! (runs after Jack Spicer, [[BerserkButton losing his hat]] in the process and [[OhCrap not even caring]]) Come back here with them doggies, you no-good low-down snake, you yellow-bellied dirty little sidewinder [[BewareTheNiceOnes I'M GON' GET YOU]]!
