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* ''Literature/StregaNona'' is a SorcerersApprenticePlot starring the titular grandmotherly witch and her magic pot that produces pasta on command. The apprentice in question, Big Anthony, wants some pasta, so while Strega Nona is out, he says the magic words to produce the pasta. However, he doesn't know that he has to blow three kisses to make the pasta pot stop making pasta. His punishment for having flooded the entire village with pasta is having to eat all of it.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' episode "Giggleyum", after Smidge's favorite flavor of cake frosting stops being made, she, Poppy, and Branch attempt to replicate it themselves but instead make the titular Giggleyum, which is so addictive that Sky Toronto's company soon becomes unable to keep up demand. Rather than let everyone know there's a shortage, Poppy lets the other Trolls keep eating the stuff until they get sick of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' had an episode where Mung tried to cure Chowder's insatiable love of thrice cream by having the Thrice Cream Man become his new friend and letting Chowder eat him while the two play together. The plan works when Chowder becomes sick of eating him and has a [[ArtShift stop-motion]] AcidRefluxNightmare, but the Thrice Cream Man wants Chowder to keep eating him and threatens to destroy the catering company.

Compare BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, ExactWords, LiteralGenie, and ReversePsychology. Can overlap with JackassGenie on the parents' part if they fulfill the child's wish by giving them only the negative aspects of what they want, without any of the good. If the child's punishment is essentially self-inflicted (i.e. s/he ''steals'' the forbidden fruit and experiences its unpleasant consequences), it becomes a case of ThePunishmentIsTheCrime.

Definitely TruthInTelevision, as many a parent has managed to give his beer-craving teenage son a disgustingly warm beer.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In "Film/ElmoSavesChristmas", Elmo wishes it could be Christmas every day, which leads to everyone being bored of Christmas, the carolers [[LostVoicePlot losing their voices]], pine trees being endangered, Maria forgetting how to do her job, the economy failing, and Big Bird crying because he hasn't seen Snuffy for a year. Even the Count, who should be happy throughout it all because he now has an infinite number of Christmases to count, gets sick of the endless Christmas.

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->''"Daniel talks to Amanda, who says that the first time Jigsaw kidnapped her it was because she was a junkie, and that this time must be cause she started cutting herself. Oh yeah Amanda, you don't want to let Jigsaw catch you doing that. He'll make you smoke that whole pack of razors!"''

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' offers a darker example of this technique. After capturing a [[TheCartel Santa Blanca]] buchon noted for [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply his heavy addiction to the cartel's cocaine]], Bowman interrogates him by holding him at gunpoint and forcing him to snort lines of coke non-stop until he either cracks and gives up useful intel to further hurt the cartel, or inevitably dies of an overdose. While the buchon initially laughs this threat off, he eventually recognizes that his body won't take any more and he gives in to the torture.

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' offers a darker example of this technique. After capturing a [[TheCartel Santa Blanca]] buchon noted for [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply his heavy addiction to the cartel's cocaine]], Bowman interrogates him by holding him at gunpoint and forcing him to snort lines of coke non-stop until he either cracks and gives up useful intel to further hurt the cartel, or inevitably dies of an overdose. While the buchon initially laughs this threat off, he eventually recognizes that his body won't take it any more and he gives in to the torture.

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' offers a darker example of this technique. After capturing a [[TheCartel Santa Blanca Cartel]] buchon noted for [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply being heavily addicted to the cocaine the cartel produces]], Bowman interrogates him by holding him at gunpoint and forcing him to snort lines of coke non-stop until he either cracks and gives up useful intel to further hurt the cartel, or inevitably dies of an overdose. While the buchon initially laughs this threat off, he eventually recognizes that his body won't take it any more and he gives in to the torture.

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' offers a darker example of this technique. After capturing a [[TheCartel Santa Blanca Cartel]] buchons (one noted for being heavily addicted to the cocaine the cartel produces, at that), Bowman interrogates him by holding him at gunpoint and forcing him to snort lines of coke non-stop until he either cracks and gives up useful intel to further hurt the cartel, or inevitably dies of an overdose. While the buchon initially laughs this threat off, he eventually recognizes that his body won't take it any more and he gives in to the torture.

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' offers a darker example. After capturing a [[TheCartel Santa Blanca cartel]] buchons (one noted for being heavily addicted to the cocaine the cartel produces, at that), Bowman interrogates him by holding him at gunpoint and forcing him to snort lines of coke non-stop until he either cracks and gives up useful intel to further hurt the cartel, or inevitably dies of an overdose. While the buchon initially laughs this threat off, he eventually recognizes that his body won't take it any more and he gives in to the torture.

* In ''Otis Spofford'' by Creator/BeverlyCleary, the title character's teacher has him make spitballs exclusively as punishment for shooting them (he gets bored of it because his mouth gets dry). Cleary also includes a story in her autobiography of some boys who chewed garlic in class. The principal finally bought a dollar's worth of garlic--this was in the 1930s--and had them chew it all.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if Wrex leads the krogan, he and "Eve," the first female of their species immune to [[SterilityPlague the Genophage]] in generations, become close friends and, implicitly, romantic partners. "Eve" respects him, but also feels that he's too much of a ChivalrousPervert and DirtyOldMan, and too excited at the prospect of fertilizing a bunch of newly-fertile krogan females. As of the ''Citadel'' DLC, she's dealing with this by ''encouraging'' star-struck lady krogan who want their first batches of new children fathered by the heroic savior of their race, and poor Wrex confides in Shepard that he's gotten sick and tired of having to sneak out of his own house through the bathroom to avoid them, and that even his alien biology is becoming exhausted and sore from all the breeding.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In "Elmo Saves Christmas", Elmo wishes it could be Christmas every day, which leads to everyone being bored of Christmas, the carolers [[LostVoicePlot losing their voices]], pine trees being endangered, Maria forgetting how to do her job, the economy failing, and Big Bird crying because he hasn't seen Snuffy for a year. Even the Count, who should be happy throughout it all because he now has an infinite number of Christmases to count, gets sick of the endless Christmas.

* Another King Midas variation happened in an old ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoon, where Yogi met a fairy godmother who would grant him a wish. Naturally, Yogi wished for "pic-a-nic" baskets, so she made it so everything he touched turned into one. Unfortunately, this led to Yogi eating so much that he got sick of them. Then it got worse; he accidentally turned Boo-Boo into a picnic basket (a walking, talking picnic basket) then the Ranger saw him with Boo-Boo and thought he had pilfered one, leading to another accident, with Yogi winding up with a walking, talking picnic basket that was ''angry'' at him. Fortunately, the fairy godmother found out what was going on and broke the spell; the Ranger punished Yogi by putting him in jail for two weeks, but Yogi didn't mind. At least that meant two weeks away from "pic-a-nic" baskets.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' had an episode where Mung tried to cure Chowder's insatiable love of thrice cream by having the Thrice Cream Man become his new friend and letting Chowder eat him while the two play together. The plan works when Chowder becomes sick of eating him and has a [[ArtShift stop-motion]] NightmareSequence, but the Thrice Cream Man wants Chowder to keep eating him and threatens to destroy the catering company.

* Another children's book, ''Strega Nona'', is a SorcerersApprenticePlot starring the titular grandmotherly witch and her magic pot that produces pasta on command. The apprentice in question, Big Anthony, wanted some pasta, so while Strega Nona was out, he said the magic words to produce the pasta. However, he didn't know that you have to blow three kisses to make the pasta pot stop making pasta. The Radish Cure comes in at the end: Big Anthony's ''punishment'' for having flooded the entire village with pasta ... is having to eat all of it.

** A useful trick parents can use to put their LittlestCancerPatient children off unhealthy foods and prevent obesity/tooth decay?

* ''Fanfic/AGlassOfWine'': Misato orders Asuka to smoke one cigarette she lifeted out of Kaji's desk drawer. Asuka starts shuddering and coughing right away, and she stomps the cigarette out.

* Cliff and Claire do it on ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' when Rudy complains about not being allowed to stay up late, choose her own clothes, etc. They agree to let her stay up as late as she likes.
** Played with a second time when Vanessa comes home drunk. They play a "drinking game" with Vanessa, but when it comes to her turn, she figures out it's tea.
* Loren does this on an episode of ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' when a boy keeps stealing his cigars. He finally tells the boy he can have them- as long as he smokes them all in the store, in one sitting.

* In an old Sunday strip, Jon tries to cure ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} of his gluttony by offering him a huge pile of food, saying, "he's either going to get sick eating all that food, or he's going to burst trying". It doesn't work; after eating it all, Garfield is still hungry, asking Jon if he's going to finish his hamburger.

* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fic FanFic/BetterLeftUnsaid, Kurenai catches Naruto with a cigarette he stole from Asuma. She forces Naruto to smoke an entire carton to make him sick and prevent him from ever smoking again. Unfortunately, Kurenai forgot to factor in Naruto's HealingFactor, resulting in him simply becoming addicted to cigarettes.
* ''FanFic/RaisedByJagers'' has a young Agatha Heterodyne refuse to go to bed one night while in the care of Mamma Gkika. So Mamma Gkika, ever wise, decides to let Agatha stay up as long as she wants.