History Main / SockItToThem

* Upon Paul Kersey's return to New York after his business trip in ''Film/DeathWish'', he 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.

* ''VideoGame/TheEscapists'': Combining a soap with a sock creates a sock mace, a mid-tier weapon. Combining a sock with a battery creates a "super" sock mace... that is "super" InNameOnly, since it has the exact same attack power as the regular sock mace.

* A sock full of coins is used as a ''murder weapon'' in ''Manga/DetectiveConan''.
** And in another, it's a sock full of ''aquarium rocks''.

* A unique weapon of the [[TabletopGameWarhammer40k Angry Marines]] is a powered adamantium-weave sack of doorknobs.

* A unique weapon of the [[TabletopGameWarhammer40000 Angry Marines]] is a powered adamantium-weave sack of doorknobs.

* A unique weapon of the AngryMarines is a powered adamantium-weave sack of doorknobs.

* The infamous "blanket party" scene from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', where everyone wraps a bar of soap in a towel, and participates in a run-by pummeling of Private Leonard "Gomer Pyle" Lawrence after he screwed up one too many times, resulting in [[IWillPunishYourFriendForYourFailure consequences for everybody]]. Also marks the start of Leonard's [[SanitySlippage slide into madness]].

* ''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.

* ''Film/{{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. [[VerbalTic 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." \\

* This is the signature weapon of ''InLivingColor'''s Homey D. Clown, an ex-convict clown with a chip on his shoulder. He mostly uses it to [[DopeSlap punish dimwits]].

* The infamous "blanket party" scene from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', where everyone puts a bar of soap in a sock, and participates in a run-by pummeling of Private Gomer Pyle.

* Referenced in the first ''{{Starfist}}'' novel: as a child from a lower-class background sent to an elite school, Joseph Dean decided to take matters into his own hands when tormented by a bully over his EmbarrassingMiddleName. He calmly and efficiently laid the bully's head open with "a field-expedient cosh made from a gym sock and a chunk of broken concrete," which got him kicked out of the school but also flagged as a potential recruit for military service.

* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{iCarly}}'', where Sam lays into a writer with a sock full of ''butter''.

* The weapon of choice for [[spoiler: Irisu]] in ''VideoGame/IrisuSyndrome,'' at least in the bad endings.

* A sock full of coins is used as a ''murder weapon'' in ''DetectiveConan''.

* ''FamilyGuy'': After Meg gets out of prison, [[AlphaBitch 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.
* ''TheSimpsons'': When Homer and his buddies become a vigilante force because the police can't catch the ClassyCatBurglar stalking the neighborhood, Jimbo joins. He's told that his WeaponOfChoice should be sack full of door knobs (a news anchor interviewing Homer later mentions that beatings with such a weapon have skyrocketted).

* Used in an ImagineSpot in ''JohnnyWander'', as the characters discuss what to do with $50 worth of small change.

* In the WesternAnimation/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.

* 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 Private Gomer Pyle.
* ''TheGrifters'' has a discussion on the pain and damage that can be inflicted with a sack filled with oranges.
* ''{{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. [[VerbalTic 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." \\

* ''HeavenlyCreatures'' ends with a murder committed with a brick in a nylon stocking.
* ''{{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.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{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]].

* Brock Samson from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''' is said to have once killed a guy with a sock full of party snaps.