History Main / SockItToThem

* ''VentureBros''' Brock Samson is said to have once killed a guy with a sock full of party snaps.

When a character uses a sock with a heavy object inside it as an improvised flail. The most commonly used items in fiction are coins (preferably rolled) and bars of soap. With coins, the most commonly used are nickels and quarters. Five dollars worth of nickels has the same mass as three baseballs, so it's easy to imagine the damage one of these weapons can do if swung fast enough.

* ''Film/DeathWish'' has a scene where Paul Kersey attacks a mugger with a sock filled with quarters.
** Previously, he had been practicing using the sock in his apartment and attacked a chair with.

* The ''{{Dilbert}}'' special book ''Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless'' explained that, though tube socks and a paperweight make useless gifts by themselves, they can be combined into something useful for assaulting the gift-giver.

* The infamous "blanket party" scene from ''{{Full Metal Jacket}}'', where everyone puts a bar of soap in a sock, and participates in a run-by pummeling of Vincent D'Onofrio.

* In the SouthPark episode "Lice Capades", Kenny is accused of having lice and gets beaten by the other kids with socks with a bar of soap in them.

* ''{{Mallrats}}'': "Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but I pulled my back out humping your mom last night. Nootch. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie-Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show." \\

* One ''Series/CSI'' episode featured a padlock in a sock as the murder weapon. Wielded by a PsychoLesbian, no less.

* ''Scum'' had an infamous scene where Carlin (RayWinstone) assaults Richards (the lackey of Banks, the "daddy" of the Borstal) with two snooker balls in a sock.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': A drunk woman challenges Liz to a fight, and tells her she has two minutes to fill a sock up and meet her outside.

* A variation is used in the LooneyTunes short ''Hare Trimmed''. In response to being hit with a glove by Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny takes his own glove, puts a brick in it, and hits Sam with it. When he empties the bag, the brick is completely crumbled.

!! '''Bugs Bunny:''' HA! YOU HAVE INSULTED ZE GREAT LOVER, THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSBURY RULES! TAKE ZIS!!! ''(slaps Yosemite Sam with a glove)''

* ''DeathWish'' has a scene where Paul Kersey attacks a mugger with a sock filled with quarters.

* ''ThirtyRock'': A drunk woman challenges Liz to a fight, and tells her she has two minutes to fill a sock up and meet her outside.

* The Janitor on ''{{Scrubs}}'' claims that his father used to do this. It's unlikely that he was telling the truth, of course.
* In one episode of ''{{Seinfeld}}'', Kramer and Newman reverse their peepholes "so they can tell if somebody is hiding in their apartments with a sock filled with pennies". Later in the episode, an acquaintance is attacked by their superintendent (under the belief that he was sleeping with his wife) [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike a sock of pennies]].
* There was an episode of ''{{Monk}}'' where a guy did this to ''himself'': He tied the sock weapon to a ceiling fan so as to give himself contusions and frame another man.

* ''ArrestedDevelopment'' mentions a sock filled with nickels in a play being put on by the warden.
* Played with in an episode of ''{{iCarly}}'', where Sam lays into a writer with a sock full of ''butter''.

* ''Scum'' had an infamous scene where Carlin (Ray Winstone) assaults Richards (the lackey of Banks, the "daddy" of the Borstal) with two snooker balls in a sock.

* ''DeathWish'' has a scene where Bronson attacks a mugger with a sock filled with quarters.

* ''{{Mallrats}}'': "Phase one: First you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but I pulled my back out humping your mom last night. Nootch. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when phase two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie-Berzerk style, and knock out the fuckin' pin and bickety bam, the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show."
** Ultimately {{subverted}}: The would-be assaulter slips, accidentally tosses the sock full of quarters in the air, and crashes, the sock of quarters landing neatly in the confused target's hands.

* ''FamilyGuy'': After Meg gets out of prison, [[TheLibby Connie D'Amico]] and her friends are teasing her in the school cafeteria. Meg ignores them and buys a bunch of soda cans from a vending machine. She loads them into a bag, and uses the bag on the group BatterUp style.