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* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "The Amulet and the Anthem", Sofia's amulet curses her to croak like a frog when she brags to her friends about singing the Enchanchian anthem at a festival, leaving her unable to directly apologize to them. After [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] teaches her that actions speak louder than words, she makes it up to her friends by inviting them to sing with her, which lifts the curse.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Cereal Offender", after Lincoln's sisters ruin his chances at getting a cereal he wanted and get him into hot water with Mom, they all feel terribly guilty and decide to make it up to him buy buying the cereal for him.
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "The Amulet and the Anthem", Sofia's amulet curses her to croak like a frog when she brags to her friends about singing the Enchanchian anthem at a festival, leaving her unable to directly apologize to them. After [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] teaches her that actions speak louder than words, she makes it up to her friends by inviting them to sing with her, which lifts the curse.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "The Amulet and the Anthem", Sofia's amulet curses her to croak like a frog when she brags to her friends about singing the Enchanchian anthem at a festival, leaving her unable to directly apologize to them. After [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle]] teaches her that actions speak louder than words, she makes it up to her friends by inviting them to sing with her, which lifts the curse.
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* {{Home Improvement}}: This gets lampshaded in an episode where Tim buys the flowers ("Tail between legs Taylor Special" and Tim is a fairly known customer at the flower shop) before making his wife angry. {{Hilarity Ensues}} and Tim ends up trying to sell the flowers to his neighbor.
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* In ''Webcomic/DatingATeamMagmaGrunt'', Brendan bought his girlfriend a bunch of Jigglypuff plushies (one of which was over 4 feet tall) as an apology for jokingly comparing her to on Octillery.
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* In ''Webcomic/WildeLife'', Oscar [[http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/160 sends a bouquet of blue roses]] to his sister as an apology for his random disappearance. However, he still doesn't want her to come looking for him, so he [[http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/164 doesn't include a return address.]]
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* Lampshaded in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' with Hajime's list on how to calm girls down:
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2. Apologize and keep quiet \\
3. [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale It can't be helped even if you get hit]] \\
4. Give some valuable presents later.
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4. Give some valuable presents later.
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** In "The Winchester Tapes", Charles [[NoodleIncident apparently had upset Radar]], and insincerely brings him [[DrinkOrder an entire case of grape nehi]] to butter him uip in order to contact his former commanding officer to get him transferred back to Tokyo General Hospital
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* In ''Manga/OniisamaE'', when Junko falls out of favor with Fukiko and is about to get kicked out of the Sorority, she tries to give her a bouquet of red roses (Fukiko's favorite flowers) as an apology. It doesn't help her case.
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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Neelix brings Kes flowers to apologize for his jealousy. When she starts eating them, he drags her off to Sickbay (she's pregnant, as it turns out).
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* Happens a few times in ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'':
** To "apologize" for his abusive actions, Rick presented Terri with roses. The first time he hurt her, he gave her a ''huge'' bouquet of them. Unfortunately, this is TruthInTelevision as some abusive spouses/significant others use gifts to keep the victim with them longer.
** To "apologize" for his abusive actions, Rick presented Terri with roses. The first time he hurt her, he gave her a ''huge'' bouquet of them. Unfortunately, this is TruthInTelevision as some abusive spouses/significant others use gifts to keep the victim with them longer.
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* In ''Literature/Boundary'' Madeline gives a gift of chocolate and hand-made artificial flowers to Joe as an apology after they have an argument. She acknowledges that it's GenderFlipped from the traditional format, but she's not aware of a traditional gift for a woman to give a guy as an ApologyGift.
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* In ''Literature/Boundary'' ''Literature/{{Boundary}}'' Madeline gives a gift of chocolate and hand-made artificial flowers to Joe as an apology after they have an argument. She acknowledges that it's GenderFlipped from the traditional format, but she's not aware of a traditional gift for a woman to give a guy as an ApologyGift.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. After yet another MagicMisfire, Willow bakes cookies for the Scooby Gang. And has to detail Giles' car.
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** After yet anotherMagicMisfire, MagicMisfire in "Something Blue", Willow bakes cookies for the Scooby Gang. And has to detail Giles' car.car.
** Xander ends his SnarkToSnarkCombat with Cordelia (their relationship broke up after he was caught cheating) by paying for a prom dress she can't afford. Series/{{Angel}} uses the same trick in his spin-off series, as mentioned above.
** After yet another
** Xander ends his SnarkToSnarkCombat with Cordelia (their relationship broke up after he was caught cheating) by paying for a prom dress she can't afford. Series/{{Angel}} uses the same trick in his spin-off series, as mentioned above.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. After yet another MagicMisfire, Willow bakes cookies for the Scooby Gang. And has to detail Giles' car.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. The crew of Serenity are surprised when Jayne buys them an [[OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap expensive bushel of apples]]. Only [[TheCaptain Mal]] is aware it's a belated apology for betraying them in the previous episode.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. The crew of Serenity are surprised when Jayne buys them an [[OnlyElectricSheepAreCheap expensive bushel of apples]]. Only [[TheCaptain Mal]] is aware it's a belated apology for betraying them in the previous episode.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", Grampa tries to give Homer a bouquet of flowers as an apology for calling him an accident. Homer slams the door in his face, so he pushes the roses through the mail slot.
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* In the {{Denouement}} of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "Robot", the Doctor realises that Sarah Jane is angry with him (for being [[TheNthDoctor suddenly different]], trying to leave in the TARDIS without her, going off to fight despite being in a manic post-regenerative state, and [[ShootTheDog killing]] a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds that loved Sarah) and tries to talk to her. When she doesn't respond positively he takes a bag of sweets out of his pocket and [[NoSocialSkills rather awkwardly]] asks her "Would you like a jelly baby..?" Amazingly, this works, and offering jelly babies to people becomes one of his standard ObfuscatingStupidity moves ever after.
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** In "The Winchester Tapes", Charles [[NoodleIncident apparently had upset Radar]], and insincerely brings him [[DrinkOrder an entire case of grape nehi]] to butter him uip in order to contact his former commanding officer to get him transfered back to Tokyo General Hospital
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* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': One episode involves Po accidentally attacking the reformed criminal Hundun and his waiters when he's forced to investigate Hundun's noodle shop to satisfy his paranoid dad. When he finds himself proven wrong [[spoiler: about Hundun trying to get after his dad]], Po decides to give the rhino an apology basket full of pears([[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Which both Hundun and his dad agree can never have too many pears]]). [[spoiler:Averted when it's revealed that Hundun really is still evil and planned everything to get back at Po for breaking his horn]]
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There are a few standard apology gifts that show up consistently in media of all times. For couples, flowers (particularly roses) are a standard gift for a man to give his romantic partner when he's done wrong. If someone has REALLY screwed up (or has a lot of money to throw around), jewelry may be offered instead of flowers. Food is also a popular apology gift, especially homemade food or, in a romantic relationship, [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolate]]. But of course, there are other gifts that may be offered instead.
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instead. A common gag based on this is a spouse being given a gift automatically assuming (often correctly) that their lover's about to admit to something serious.
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* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', Leo tries to make up for his ForgottenAnniversary with an elaborate dinner and evening at home, including a very beautiful pearl necklace. Sadly, the problems in his marriage can't be made up for that easily, since the incident was the last straw for his wife, who couldn't endure him being MarriedToTheJob.
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Compare BuyThemOff, in which the apology is not sincerely intended. If the screw up is one of epic proportions and requires considerably more than roses or jewelry to make up for it, see IMustMakeAmends or RedemptionQuest.
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Compare BuyThemOff, in which the apology is not sincerely intended. See also RedemptionQuest, which can sometimes be related.
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Sometimes you screw up, and you know it. Your girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, roommate, sibling, parent, or partner in crime is mad at you, and with good reason. How better to say "I'm sorry" than with a heartfelt gift?
Sometimes the gift is meant as proof of your sincerity . . . sometimes it may stem from a sense that just words aren't enough to make up for the wrong. Either way, when you give someone a gift as part of an apology, you're following a time-honored storytelling tradition.
There are a few standard apology gifts that show up consistently in media of all times. For couples, flowers (particularly roses) are a standard gift for a man to give his romantic partner when he's done wrong. If someone has REALLY screwed up (or has a lot of money to throw around), jewelry may be offered instead of flowers. Food is also a popular apology gift, especially homemade food or, in a romantic relationship, [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolate]]. But of course, there are other gifts that may be offered instead.
Compare BuyThemOff, in which the apology is not sincerely intended. See also RedemptionQuest, which can sometimes be related.
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* In ''Anime/MyDaddyLongLegs'', after Jervis hurts Judy's feelings by harshly criticizing her novel, he shows up outside her dorm with flowers . . . twice, because she wasn't there the first time. Persistent fellow!
* In ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'', in the CrystalDragonJesus festival near the end of the series, baubles of different colors are given to people, with yellow signifying an apology.
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* ''Nest Heads'' strip for [[http://www.gocomics.com/nestheads/2013/07/19#mutable_976443 July 19th, 2013]]. A guy gives his girlfriend flowers and a balloon with the word "Sorry" on it after having a spat with her over their relationship.
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* Happens in the end of the ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'' novella "A Talkative Dead Man": a stranger who accidentally broke Sir Max's favorite cup earlier pops up unexpectedly and presents him with a new one. It quickly turns out that nobody except Max recalls ever seeing this man and that the cup once belonged to the legendary King Mönin.
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* In Season One of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', Lucille Bluth reveals that most of the items in her jewelry collection were gifts George Sr. gave her after she discovered his various affairs.
* Happens twice in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.
** In season 4, when Rita is annoyed that Dexter doesn't spend time with his family, he buys them all presents. Astor gets a small laptop, Cody some video game, baby Harrison a geeky item of clothes and Rita a home oven for baking bread. Dexter says they are always out of bread, but it only makes Rita angrier -- she would have to bake it. She also thinks that presents cannot fix everything that is wrong in their relationship.
** In season 6, Dexter asks the clerk at the donut shop "What's good for an apology?" when he needs to patch things up with his sister. (FYI, the clerk recommended a cruller.)
* After ''Series/{{Angel}}'' spends half a season being DarkerAndEdgier, driving away his friends, he eventually comes back, tail [[AintTooProudToBeg between his legs]]. However, Cordelia doesn't forgive him until later, when she discovers that Angel had bought her a bunch of nice clothes.
* In an episode of ''ILoveLucy'', Fred tries to play peacemaker between a quarreling Lucy and Ricky, by having a boquet of roses and a box of candy delivered to Lucy on Ricky's behalf.
* ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'':
** In one episode, Hawkeye and Trapper try to butter Frank up with a handful of wild flowers, after they secretly drew a pint of blood from him to give to a wounded POW; Frank is touched, but then they kill the moment when Hawkeye says, "Glad there's no hard feelings Frank, because there's a new heart procedure we'd like to try, and you're just the right type."
** During a company picnic, Margaret gives Frank the cold shoulder since he won't loan her money to buy her sister a wedding present; Frank tries to butter her back up with a balloon, only for her to pop it with a hairpin.
** In another episode, Frank tries to make peace with Margaret (this after she had gotten engaged earlier in the season), by presenting her with an American-made Japanese umbrella; of course, Frank isn't able to curb his lust, and Margaret throws it at him as he runs out of her tent.
** In "The Winchester Tapes", Charles [[NoodleIncident apparently had upset Radar]], and insincerely brings him [[DrinkOrder an entire case of grape nehi]] to butter him uip in order to contact his former commanding officer to get him transfered back to Tokyo General Hospital
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Episode "The Shiny Trinket Maneuvers"'s [[TwoLinesNoWaiting A-Plot]] revolves around Sheldon attempting to make up with his girlfriend Amy via "empty financial gesture" after he insults her work and devalues a career milestone she reached with [[InsufferableGenius his usual level of tact]]. At first Amy is entirely unimpressed with him for even attempting this, but then she opens up the bag and sees he got her a tiara. She switches gears and begins freaking out with glee.
** In another episode of ''Big Bang'', Sheldon apologizes to Howard (Sheldon's responses to an FBI agent's questions led Howard to not get security clearance to work on a big project) by giving Howard [[ThisIsMyChair his spot on the sofa]], which he demands back again before the end of the episode.
* {{Home Improvement}}: This gets lampshaded in an episode where Tim buys the flowers ("Tail between legs Taylor Special" and Tim is a fairly known customer at the flower shop) before making his wife angry. {{Hilarity Ensues}} and Tim ends up trying to sell the flowers to his neighbor.
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* In a flashback on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', we see the evolution of Francine and Muffy's newfound friendship: Muffy copies Francine's answer, but claims innocent to protect her name and reputation, leaving Francine to take the punishment; later, Francine sees a fruit basket and a balloon Muffy left on her desk in detention, to which Francine pops the balloon, and throws the basket into the trashcan.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter tries to regain the respect of his kids after he said that he hated them, but his attempts at doing so failed. This prompts him to buy all of them an Xbox, and the kids automatically love him again.
* Shows up a couple of times in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''
** In "Squidville", Spongebob and Patrick went to find Squidward in Tentacle Acres while bringing a cake which the word "sorry" was engraved on with frosting in compensation of destroying his house, although they never really done it since both are confused on which Squidward-like characters is the real Squidward.
** "Good Neighbors" had Spongebob and Patrick giving Squidward a similar "Sorry For Bugging You So Much" cake as an apology for ruining Squidward's relaxing Sunday. However, Squidward did not accept it, so the situation only got worse.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': One episode involves Po accidentally attacking the reformed criminal Hundun and his waiters when he's forced to investigate Hundun's noodle shop to satisfy his paranoid dad. When he finds himself proven wrong [[spoiler: about Hundun trying to get after his dad]], Po decides to give the rhino an apology basket full of pears([[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Which both Hundun and his dad agree can never have too many pears]]). [[spoiler:Averted when it's revealed that Hundun really is still evil and planned everything to get back at Po for breaking his horn]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Fairy Idol" had Timmy give his fairies apology cookies because he had been overusing their magic at the beginning of the episode. Cosmo, being TheDitz, accepts the apology, but Wanda does not accept until a later scene where Timmy cries because he thinks that they are dead.
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* This runs a lot in relationships when words fall short. A proverb says "An action is worth a thousand words" (still this is from the "a picture is worth a thousand words").
Sometimes the gift is meant as proof of your sincerity . . . sometimes it may stem from a sense that just words aren't enough to make up for the wrong. Either way, when you give someone a gift as part of an apology, you're following a time-honored storytelling tradition.
There are a few standard apology gifts that show up consistently in media of all times. For couples, flowers (particularly roses) are a standard gift for a man to give his romantic partner when he's done wrong. If someone has REALLY screwed up (or has a lot of money to throw around), jewelry may be offered instead of flowers. Food is also a popular apology gift, especially homemade food or, in a romantic relationship, [[ChocolateOfRomance chocolate]]. But of course, there are other gifts that may be offered instead.
Compare BuyThemOff, in which the apology is not sincerely intended. See also RedemptionQuest, which can sometimes be related.
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* In ''Anime/MyDaddyLongLegs'', after Jervis hurts Judy's feelings by harshly criticizing her novel, he shows up outside her dorm with flowers . . . twice, because she wasn't there the first time. Persistent fellow!
* In ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'', in the CrystalDragonJesus festival near the end of the series, baubles of different colors are given to people, with yellow signifying an apology.
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* ''Nest Heads'' strip for [[http://www.gocomics.com/nestheads/2013/07/19#mutable_976443 July 19th, 2013]]. A guy gives his girlfriend flowers and a balloon with the word "Sorry" on it after having a spat with her over their relationship.
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* Happens in the end of the ''Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho'' novella "A Talkative Dead Man": a stranger who accidentally broke Sir Max's favorite cup earlier pops up unexpectedly and presents him with a new one. It quickly turns out that nobody except Max recalls ever seeing this man and that the cup once belonged to the legendary King Mönin.
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* In Season One of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'', Lucille Bluth reveals that most of the items in her jewelry collection were gifts George Sr. gave her after she discovered his various affairs.
* Happens twice in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.
** In season 4, when Rita is annoyed that Dexter doesn't spend time with his family, he buys them all presents. Astor gets a small laptop, Cody some video game, baby Harrison a geeky item of clothes and Rita a home oven for baking bread. Dexter says they are always out of bread, but it only makes Rita angrier -- she would have to bake it. She also thinks that presents cannot fix everything that is wrong in their relationship.
** In season 6, Dexter asks the clerk at the donut shop "What's good for an apology?" when he needs to patch things up with his sister. (FYI, the clerk recommended a cruller.)
* After ''Series/{{Angel}}'' spends half a season being DarkerAndEdgier, driving away his friends, he eventually comes back, tail [[AintTooProudToBeg between his legs]]. However, Cordelia doesn't forgive him until later, when she discovers that Angel had bought her a bunch of nice clothes.
* In an episode of ''ILoveLucy'', Fred tries to play peacemaker between a quarreling Lucy and Ricky, by having a boquet of roses and a box of candy delivered to Lucy on Ricky's behalf.
* ''[[Series/{{Mash}} M*A*S*H]]'':
** In one episode, Hawkeye and Trapper try to butter Frank up with a handful of wild flowers, after they secretly drew a pint of blood from him to give to a wounded POW; Frank is touched, but then they kill the moment when Hawkeye says, "Glad there's no hard feelings Frank, because there's a new heart procedure we'd like to try, and you're just the right type."
** During a company picnic, Margaret gives Frank the cold shoulder since he won't loan her money to buy her sister a wedding present; Frank tries to butter her back up with a balloon, only for her to pop it with a hairpin.
** In another episode, Frank tries to make peace with Margaret (this after she had gotten engaged earlier in the season), by presenting her with an American-made Japanese umbrella; of course, Frank isn't able to curb his lust, and Margaret throws it at him as he runs out of her tent.
** In "The Winchester Tapes", Charles [[NoodleIncident apparently had upset Radar]], and insincerely brings him [[DrinkOrder an entire case of grape nehi]] to butter him uip in order to contact his former commanding officer to get him transfered back to Tokyo General Hospital
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Episode "The Shiny Trinket Maneuvers"'s [[TwoLinesNoWaiting A-Plot]] revolves around Sheldon attempting to make up with his girlfriend Amy via "empty financial gesture" after he insults her work and devalues a career milestone she reached with [[InsufferableGenius his usual level of tact]]. At first Amy is entirely unimpressed with him for even attempting this, but then she opens up the bag and sees he got her a tiara. She switches gears and begins freaking out with glee.
** In another episode of ''Big Bang'', Sheldon apologizes to Howard (Sheldon's responses to an FBI agent's questions led Howard to not get security clearance to work on a big project) by giving Howard [[ThisIsMyChair his spot on the sofa]], which he demands back again before the end of the episode.
* {{Home Improvement}}: This gets lampshaded in an episode where Tim buys the flowers ("Tail between legs Taylor Special" and Tim is a fairly known customer at the flower shop) before making his wife angry. {{Hilarity Ensues}} and Tim ends up trying to sell the flowers to his neighbor.
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* In a flashback on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', we see the evolution of Francine and Muffy's newfound friendship: Muffy copies Francine's answer, but claims innocent to protect her name and reputation, leaving Francine to take the punishment; later, Francine sees a fruit basket and a balloon Muffy left on her desk in detention, to which Francine pops the balloon, and throws the basket into the trashcan.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter tries to regain the respect of his kids after he said that he hated them, but his attempts at doing so failed. This prompts him to buy all of them an Xbox, and the kids automatically love him again.
* Shows up a couple of times in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''
** In "Squidville", Spongebob and Patrick went to find Squidward in Tentacle Acres while bringing a cake which the word "sorry" was engraved on with frosting in compensation of destroying his house, although they never really done it since both are confused on which Squidward-like characters is the real Squidward.
** "Good Neighbors" had Spongebob and Patrick giving Squidward a similar "Sorry For Bugging You So Much" cake as an apology for ruining Squidward's relaxing Sunday. However, Squidward did not accept it, so the situation only got worse.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'': One episode involves Po accidentally attacking the reformed criminal Hundun and his waiters when he's forced to investigate Hundun's noodle shop to satisfy his paranoid dad. When he finds himself proven wrong [[spoiler: about Hundun trying to get after his dad]], Po decides to give the rhino an apology basket full of pears([[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Which both Hundun and his dad agree can never have too many pears]]). [[spoiler:Averted when it's revealed that Hundun really is still evil and planned everything to get back at Po for breaking his horn]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Fairy Idol" had Timmy give his fairies apology cookies because he had been overusing their magic at the beginning of the episode. Cosmo, being TheDitz, accepts the apology, but Wanda does not accept until a later scene where Timmy cries because he thinks that they are dead.
[[AC: RealLife]]
* This runs a lot in relationships when words fall short. A proverb says "An action is worth a thousand words" (still this is from the "a picture is worth a thousand words").
