History Main / SoapPunishment

* In the MissingEpisode of ''DextersLaboratory'', "Rude Removal", Dexter accidentally creates evil versions of himself and Dee-Dee who spout {{cluster f-bomb}}s in front of their mom. When the regular versions trap them and feel like all's well, they spot Mom with a large bar of soap waiting to wash their mouths out.
-->''Dexter:''' [[OhCrap Oh]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck.]]

* In the MissingEpisode of ''DextersLaboratory'', "Rude Removal", Dexter accidentally creates evil versions of himself and Dee-Dee who spout {{cluster f-bomb}}s in front of their mom. When the regular versions trap them and feel like all';s well, they spot Mom with a large bar of soap waiting to wash their mouths out.

* Maguila Gorilla was occasionally a victim of this punishment for "lying". ({{Cassandra Truth}}s, actually)

* Maguila Gorilla was occasionally a victim of this punishment for "lying". ({{Cassandra Truths}}, actually)

* Maguila Gorilla was occasionally a victim of this punishment for "lying". (CassandraTruths, actually)

* In an episode of ''TomAndJerry'', Jerry does this to Tom after he lies about being sick to his owner (when in reality he just didn't want to go outside on a rainy day).

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* Used in the {{Smosh}} episode "If Cartoons Were Real". The {{South Park}} parody has Stan's mouth being washed with soap.

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''Might'' be balancing on the line of ValuesDissonance to [[YourMileageMayVary some folks]] in RealLife as of lately, but mostly always PlayedForLaughs in movies, television, etc.

* In an episode of TomAndJerry, Jerry does this to Tom after he lies about being sick to his owner (when in reality he just didn't want to go outside on a rainy day).

* Happened in ''Film/AChristmasStory'' to Ralphie. After sending him to bed, his mother sticks the soap in her own mouth, just to see what it tastes like.

-->-- ''AChristmasStory''

* Happened in ''AChristmasStory'' to Ralphie. After sending him to bed, his mother sticks the soap in her own mouth, just to see what it tastes like.
* In ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the lead weasel is threatening Eddie to tell him where Roger is and to "cut the bullschtick". Eddie tells him to watch his mouth or he'll "wash your mouth off" and shoves a bar of soap into his mouth.

* ''TheCatcherInTheRye'': Holden Caulfield tries asking Ward Stradlater if Stradlater gave Jane Gallagher the time. That, by the way, is ''old'' slang for having sex with someone. Stradlater responds "What a thing to say. Want me to wash your mouth out with soap?"

* Used in ''{{Dinosaurs}}'' when Baby learns rude words off the television. When Fran washes his mouth out, every time a bubble from his mouth pops it echoes the word.

* Elmyra does this to Brain every time she thinks he is swearing (when he is actually just indulging in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness) in ''PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain''.
* ''{{Animaniacs}}'': In "Roll Over, Beethoven", Yakko, Wakko and Dot do this to Beethoven after he describes himself as a 'pianist'.
* ''KingOfTheHill'': In "That's What She Said", Hank washes out the foul mouth of a new employee with soap.

* KingOfTheHill: In "That's What She Said", Hank washes out the foul mouth of a new employee with soap.

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* The response to the player swearing in ''The Very Big Cave Adventure'':

--> ''AChristmasStory''

* A recent [[http://www.spike.com/video-clips/f840d9/general-motors-gm-soap-in-your-mouth Super Bowl commercial]] showed a montage of kids with a bar of soap in their mouths for no apparent reason. Then we learn that the ad was for a new car with an automatic retracting roof. A kid says "holy " when he sees it in action, hence the soap in the mouth.

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* A recent [[http://www.spike.com/video-clips/f840d9/general-motors-gm-soap-in-your-mouth Super Bowl commercial]] showed a montage of kids with a bar of soap in their mouths for no apparent reason. Then we learn that the ad was for a new car with an automatic retracting roof. A kid says "holy <expletive silenced>" when he sees it in action, hence the soap in the mouth.

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* The autobiography of Aileen Porter, ''PapaWasAPreacher'', tells about how she got her mouth scrubbed out with soap for saying "I'll be John Brown" within her father's hearning.

* Happened in ''AChristmasStory'' to Ralphie.

A common punishment, mostly for children, after they have said a dirty word is to get their mouth washed out with soap.

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-->'''Ralphie as Adult:''' [narrating] ''Over the years I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap. My personal preference was for Lux, but I found Palmolive had a nice, piquant after-dinner flavor - heady, but with just a touch of mellow smoothness. Life Buoy, on the other hand...''
-->'''Ralphie:''' ''YECCHH!''

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[ClassicDisneyShorts Another Victim]] of [[AChristmasStory Soap Poisoning?]]