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'''Malcolm''': Dad, will you please finish teaching me how to skate?

* In an early episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Malcolm swears at his father, who is deeply hurt, and considers that it's hard to punish a child for swearing - 'if it was smoking I'd have him go through the whole pack until he was gasping for air'. This gives him an idea. Later, he hands Malcolm a long list of terms of abuse, and asks Malcolm to read everything on the list to 'the man who held you in his arms the moment you were born'. Malcolm gives up somewhere in the middle, but when Hal attempts to let him off, he quickly exclaims that he can finish the whole list. He does.

* ''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]], Christmas trees being endangered, Maria and Luis forgetting how to do their 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, has had enough of the endless Christmas.

* In the picture book ''Gregory, the Terrible Eater'', Gregory is a young goat who likes human food, but his parents are trying to get him to eat garbage. It works too well, and he starts eating everything in the house. So they go to the dump and bring home a huge meal for him: eight flat tires, a barber pole, a broken violin and half a car. He eats almost all of it, then gets a terrible tummy ache, tossing and turning all night. The next morning, he requests a reasonably sized breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs, two pieces of wax paper and a glass of orange juice.

* ''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. He got off lucky since the angry villagers wanted to ''hang'' him with the pasta instead.

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. It also can overlap with BehavioralConditioning, as several examples are a form of aversion therapy. If the child's punishment is essentially self-inflicted (i.e. they ''steal'' the ForbiddenFruit and experience its unpleasant consequences), it becomes a case of ThePunishmentIsTheCrime.

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* In "Episode 83: 1943 Frankford Junction Wreck" of ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'', Liam talks about a time he managed to this to himself, with Alice also mentioning the "punish a child for smoking by making them smoke the whole pack" subtrope. When Liam turned 18, he decided to import a one-kilogram jar of Nutella for his birthday. He ate so much Nutella that he eventually got sick of it, to the point that even ''mentioning'' Nutella makes him queasy.
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* There's a children's book called ''The Chocolate Touch'' based on the legend of King Midas where a boy who eats too much candy unwittingly buys a magic chocolate from TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday. After he eats it, everything he puts into his mouth turns to chocolate, making him thirsty and sick and ruining some possessions, like his trumpet. Finally he accidentally turns his mother into a chocolate statue by kissing her on the cheek, runs back to the shop's proprietor and tells him he's learned the error of his ways, and is allowed a ResetButton.

* A tragic example near the end of 2015 a mother forced her son to drink enough alcohol to induce alcohol poisoning resulting in his death, especially tragic given he was also on medication that reacted poorly to alcohol as well (although he'd have likely died even if he hadn't been on the medication). Her excuse? 'That's how my momma taught me not to want to drink.'

* In Numbers 11 of Literature/TheBible, the Israelites have had nothing to eat but manna since they were liberated from Egypt. They complain about this to God and have the nerve to suggest ''they had better food to eat in Egypt'' (as in, when they were slaves crying out to God to rescue them). God becomes so angry at them that he prescribes the following punishment: they shall indeed have meat. Lots of meat, and ''only'' meat, until it ''comes out of their nostrils'' and becomes ''loathsome'' to them. This ends up being [[UnbuiltTrope subverted]]: before the complainers can even finish their first meal, they are struck dead by a plague. [[DoubleSubverted The message gets across loud and clear, regardless.]]

* Tony Robbins also had this trick done to him with alcohol when he was a child, with more success.

* Creator/RoaldDahl:
** Subverted in ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', where the evil Trunchbull forces a dessert-stealing child to eat a monster cake in a single sitting -- he does get a bit nauseated (without throwing up), but manages to finish it and becomes a hero figure for the school. Hooray, strange Dahlish morality fables!
** ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. Arguably, this [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation could be Wonka's]] real thoughts behind the children meeting their various fates. They all were taken out of running when they went to steal or use something that clearly wasn't safe but they still wanted. In adaptations, Wonka seems decidedly unconcerned with rescuing or stopping the kids, so...

* Done in ''The Great Brain is Back'' when Tom, in an experiment to find out why men smoke, gets caught smoking a cigarette in the barn. Papa tells him he may not smoke cigarettes outside, but he's free to have a pipe or cigar in the house anytime. Tom lasts about a few minutes before turning green, and when his girlfriend says she doesn't like the smell anyway, he concludes that men smoke in order to repel women.

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. they ''steal'' the ForbiddenFruit and experience its unpleasant consequences), it becomes a case of ThePunishmentIsTheCrime.

* In Numbers 11 of Literature/TheBible, the Israelites have had nothing to eat but manna since they were liberated from Egypt. They complain about this to God and have the nerve to suggest ''they had better food to eat in Egypt'' (as in, when they were slaves crying out to God to rescue them). God becomes so angry at them that he prescribes the following punishment: they shall indeed have meat. Lots of meat, and ''only'' meat, until it ''comes out of their nostrils'' and becomes ''loathsome'' to them.

* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Trading Places" has Peter forcing Chris to smoke a whole carton of cigarettes, even though what he did was smash Peter's new motorcycle. Chris is reluctant at first but then starts enjoying the cigarettes.
** The gag would be repeated again in the British segment of "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2", only this time, it was a "carton of [[HaveAGayOldTime fags]]".

* On ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', Jan's siblings pull this on her when she wants privacy and wishes she were an only child. They refuse to speak to her, be in the same room with her, or associate with her at all, until she is begging for their companionship again.

* In thr ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' story "Calliope", this is Dream's punishment for an author who kept a Muse captive and was implied to be regularly raping her for inspiration. It reached the point where he had so many ideas coming through his head that he was writing on the wall in his own blood.

* In one ''[[ComicBook/TheSandman Sandman]]'' story, this is Dream's punishment for an author who kept a Muse captive and was implied to be regularly raping her for inspiration. It reached the point where he had so many ideas coming through his head that he was writing on the wall in his own blood.
--> You say you need the ideas? Then you shall have them.\\

* In the ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong'' episode "Too Sick to Go to the Circus," Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy [[PlayingSick Play Sick]] to get out of school. Shari teaches them a lesson by pretending to be fooled and treating them like they really are sick, giving them bad-tasting medicine and keeping them home not only from school, but from their class's trip to the circus.

** During a group intervention to convince Quagmire's sister to leave her [[BastardBoyfriend abusive fiancé]], Peter did it again and tried making her smoke a whole carton of cigarettes.