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* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'':
** "[[Recap/RugratsS3E22NewKidInTownPicklesVsPickles Pickles Vs. Pickles]]" begins with Drew and Charlotte trying to get Angelica to eat broccoli, but Angelica refuses to eat it. Drew then tells her that if she doesn't eat her broccoli, she won't get seconds on dessert. Angelica finds this unfair and retaliates by throwing her dinner plate against the wall. Drew and Charlotte punish her by sending her to her room without dessert.
** In "[[Recap/RugratsS6E27ChuckiesNewShirtCavebabies Cavebabies]]", Angelica wants to eat cookies for dinner, but Didi tells Angelica she can't have any cookies until she finishes her spinach. Angelica finds this unfair, and tells Didi that Grandpa Lou always sneaks a few cookies from the cookie jar before dinner. When Didi finds out, she hides the cookie jar, and Angelica makes the babies find said cookie jar for her. The babies do so, and a prehistoric ImagineSpot takes place.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

A character is told by someone (usually Mommy or Daddy) to eat all their vegetables or the penalty is that they won't get dessert. Despite occasionally overlapping with DeniedFoodAsPunishment, this isn't meant to be a form of discipline, it's actually more of a rewarding system. Peas and broccoli are the most common vegetables assigned for eating. Oftentimes, this trope applies to children ([[KidsHateVegetables who have a lot of taste buds that make them dislike vegetables]]) but can be PlayedForLaughs with [[{{manchild}} adults]] as well. Common reactions include protesting, throwing a tantrum, [[DiscreetDiningDisposal trying to hide the vegetables]], or even, begrudgingly, trying to eat them and giving up in the process. For other ways to bribe children, see TheComplianceGame and MonikerAsEnticement.

* Inverted in ''The Topsy-Turvies''; Jinx, the son, is excited by the idea of eating tomatoes for dessert, but his mother tells him that he can't have any tomatoes unless he finishes his cake. Jinx asks his mom if he has to eat it all, and she tells him yes.
* Also inverted in the picture book ''Little Pea.'' The characters are [[AnthropomorphicFood anthropomorphic peas]], whose health food is candy. Little Pea hates candy, but his parents insist that he eat five pieces before he can have dessert. With much grimacing, he does, and then gets his favorite dessert – spinach.

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A character is told by someone (usually Mommy or Daddy) to eat all their vegetables or the penalty is that they won't get dessert. Despite occasionally overlapping with DeniedFoodAsPunishment, this isn't meant to be a form of discipline, it's actually more of a rewarding system. Peas and broccoli are the most common vegetables assigned for eating. Oftentimes, this trope applies to children ([[KidsHateVegetables who have a lot of taste buds that make them dislike vegetables]]) but can be PlayedForLaughs with [[{{manchild}} adults]] as well. Common reactions include protesting, throwing a tantrum, [[DiscreetDiningDisposal trying to hide the vegetables]], or even, begrudgingly, trying to eat them and giving up in the process.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Just Desserts", Timmy destroys all the vegetables his parents gave him while they aren't looking thinking that he'll get dessert next. His parents just give him carrots for dessert, but they try to manipulate him into eating it by telling him that it's carrot cake without the cake.

What can make this ironic is that eating sweets often offset the health benefits of [[AllForNothing what eating vegetables brings]]; too many sweets raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes, tooth decay, hypertension, heart problems and obesity. But this fact is almost never brought up in the works of fiction that invoke this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Treehouse of Horror XI" , Homer asks Marge what's for dessert. Marge objects Homer will not get dessert if he doesn't eat his broccoli. Homer eats his broccoli, and dies as a result. Dr. Hibbert then tells Marge that broccoli is actually one of the deadliest plants on Earth, trying to warn people with its horrible taste.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Beat Your Greens", the Girls are ordered by the Professor to eat their broccoli or no dessert, but the Girls still refuse, apparently agreeing to forgo dessert. Townsville winds up being invaded by broccoli aliens that resist all attempts besides eating to get rid of them.

A character is told by someone (usually Mommy or Daddy) to eat all their vegetables or the penalty is that they won't get dessert. Despite occasionally overlapping with DeniedFoodAsPunishment, this isn't meant to be a form of discipline, it's actually more of a rewarding system. Peas and broccoli are the most common vegetables assigned for eating. Oftentimes, this trope applies to children ([[StockYuck who have a lot of taste buds making them dislike vegetables]]) but can be PlayedForLaughs with [[{{manchild}} adults]] as well. Common reactions include protesting, throwing a tantrum, [[DiscreetDiningDisposal trying to hide the vegetables]], or even, begrudgingly, trying to eat them and giving up in the process.

see also KidsHateVegetables.

** In the episode "The 21-Second Excitation," Raj defends his ordering dessert at the Cheesecake Factory which caused his friends to be late for the movie showing. Raj, a man in his 30s, asserts to Sheldon that he ate all his broccoli!
** In "The Einstein Approximation," Sheldon, obsessed by a physics problem, steals Raj's lima beans to use as part of an atomic model to study particle physics better. Raj protests, saying that he can't have his cookie if he doesn't eat the beans first.

'''Dexter's Mom:''' Now, now, Dexter. [[ShoutOut If you don't eat your veggies, you can't have any cake.]] [[Music/TheWall How can you have any cake if you don't eat your veggies?]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''

A character is told by someone (usually Mommy or Daddy) to eat all their vegetables or the penalty is that they won't get dessert. Despite occasionally overlapping with DeniedFoodAsPunishment, this isn't meant to be a form of discipline, it's actually more of a rewarding system. Peas and broccoli are the most common vegetables assigned for eating. Often times, this trope applies to children ([[StockYuck who have a lot of taste buds making them dislike vegetables]]) but can be PlayedForLaughs with [[{{manchild}} adults]] as well. Common reactions include protesting, throwing a tantrum, [[DiscreetDiningDisposal trying to hide the vegetables]], or even, begrudgingly, trying to eat them and giving up in the process.

* In ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Wall Pink Floyd - The Wall]]'', during the "Another Brick in the Wall" scene, students are told by their disciplinarian, totalitarian dictator that if they don't eat their meat, they can't have any pudding.

* At one point in Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' an [[AbusiveParents abusive parent]] shouts, "IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT, YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY PUDDING! HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT??"

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* In Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', baby Riley is told by her dad she must eat all her [[StockYuck broccoli]] (bell peppers in the Japanese version) or she's not getting dessert. [[BerserkButton This causes Anger to take control]] and leads her to throw a tantrum. Then her dad does an "airplane" and successfully gets the broccoli in.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Hunger Strikes", Dexter refuses to eat his peas and so is refused upside-down pineapple cake as while Dee-Dee and Dad are allowed to have the ridiculously unhealthy and large-portioned desserts that dwarfs the size of the small peas they ate (defeating the purpose of eating those peas). And so Dexter uses his scientific equipment to adjust his taste preferences, but as a consequence, [[GoneHorriblyRight he only wants to eat plants (especially in enormous quantity) and nothing else]]!

'''Dexter's Mom:''' Now, now, Dexter. If you don't eat your veggies, you can't have any cake. How can you have any cake if you don't eat your veggies?

** In the episode "The 21-Second Excitation", Raj defends his ordering dessert at the Cheesecake Factory which caused his friends to be late for the movie showing. Raj, a man in his 30s, asserts to Sheldon that he ate all his broccoli!
** In "The Einstein Approximation", Sheldon, obsessed by a physics problem, steals Raj's lima beans to use as part of an atomic model to study particle physics better. Raj protests, saying that he can't have his cookie if he doesn't eat the beans first.

* In ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', Amanda and her friend who's invited over for dinner are both told by Amanda's parents to eat all their vegetables or no dessert. Therefore, they buy Sugar Veggies (pure sugar that looks just like broccoli but still tastes like sugar) to replace the real broccoli (which they hid from their parents by distracting them with the lie there's chipmunks).
* In the ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' episode "Health and Fitness", Zack is ordered to go on a diet by his mother. After eating all his vegetables, Zack is allowed by Carey to have sweet foods for dessert and while he was expecting cake or ice cream or pie, Carey instead gives him a fruit salad.

** In "Cavebabies", Angelica wants to eat cookies for dinner, but Didi tells Angelica she can't have any cookies until she finishes her spinach. Angelica finds this unfair, and tells Didi that Grandpa Lou always sneaks a few cookies from the cookie jar before dinner. When Didi finds out, she hides the cookie jar, and Angelica makes the babies find said cookie jar for her. The babies do so, and a prehistoric ImagineSpot takes place.

** In the episode "The 21-Second Excitation," Raj defends his ordering dessert at the Cheesecake Factory which caused his friends to be late for the movie showing. Raj, a man in his 30s, asserts to Sheldon that he ate all his broccoli!
** In "The Einstein Approximation," Sheldon, obsessed by a physics problem, steals Raj's lima beans to use as part of an atomic model to study particle physics better. Raj protests, saying that he can't have his cookie if he doesn't eat the beans first.

** In the episode "The 21-Second Excitation", Raj defends his ordering dessert at the Cheesecake Factory which caused his friends to be late for the movie showing. Raj, a man in his 30s, asserts to Sheldon that he ate all his broccoli!
** In "The Einstein Approximation", Sheldon, obsessed by a physics problem, steals Raj's lima beans to use as part of an atomic model to study particle physics better. Raj protests, saying that he can't have his cookie if he doesn't eat the beans first.