History Main / StagingAnIntervention

* In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' #7, ComicBook/TheAvengers stage an intervention when they see that Spider-Man no longer conforms to their standards.

* Subverted in two ''Series/MadTV'' sketches:

* In season four of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', M'gann, Virgil, Cassie, Jaime and Robotman do this for Gar about his downward spiral due to [[spoiler:Connor's apparent death]]. Gar angrily dismisses it and tries to leave. He's stopped when M'gann reminds him that a condition of membership in the Outsiders is a yearly mental health check with Black Canary, which he's past due on, and he would have to permanently quit the Outsiders and other League-affiliated organizations to get out of attending.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', in a [[NewsParody Weekend Update]] segment.
-->Creator/SethMeyers: NBC announced that Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb will host a primetime special on the network called ''A Toast to 2013'' in which they recount their favorite stories from the past year. But ''whispering behind his hand'' shh, it's actually an intervention.

---> '''Homer:''' I hope it's as fun as ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' was last week!\\

* ''Fanfic/FalseHeaven'': At one point, Aubrey is invited to join her friends for lunch at the lake, only to find that was a pretext so they could sit her down and discuss how she's been taking her anger at Mari out on everyone else in Faraway Town.

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* In the ''Ultra Deluxe'' version of ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', if you take the Reassurance Bucket toward what would've been the ''Confusion'' ending, the lift to the basement of the office will bring Stanley and the Bucket to [[spoiler:a room containing the Baby cutout from the ''Games'' ending, the Broom Closet, the mannequin of his wife from the ''Apartment'' ending, and the Adventure Line™, where the Narrator tries to convince Stanley that he has an unhealthy obsession with the Bucket. The Adventure Line™ guides Stanley downstairs to a device called the Bucket Destroyer, which the Narrator tries to get Stanley to throw the Bucket into. With the game having no mechanic to let go of the bucket anyway, the Bucket Destroyer eventually overloads and explodes, leading to the ''Bucket Destroyer'' ending.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': In ''White Hot Morning'', Marinette get into an argument with Alya when she ambushes her at the museum and attempts to strongarm her into making another bid for Adrien's attention, which culminates in Marinette informing her that she's not interested in him anymore. The very next day, Alya holds an "emergency meeting" at the Dupain-Cheng Bakery, having called in the rest of the GirlPosse for backup as she proposes ''another'' ZanyScheme, sparking an argument as Alya continues to insist that she ''needs'' to keep pursuing him and that she's "not trying hard enough". Her insinuation that Marinette is only dating Luka as part of a half-baked OperationJealousy ploy convinces Marinette that they need to "take a break from being besties", to give Alya a chance to rethink her SkewedPriorities and stop being such a ControlFreak.

* The webcomic ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'' has a subverted intervention in which the goal is to get the character to stop hinting that he has a problem and shut up.
* In one ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' comic ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/01 "Just When I Get Out"]]), Tycho assumes that his "friends" are staging an intervention. He makes an emotional confession of his drinking problem and of thinking that nobody cared, and is grateful and optimistic now that they're rallying around him. Actually, they're there to pressure him into joining their ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' guild, and explicitly don't care about his problems unless they are somehow in the way of him using a computer.

* WebVideo/OnCinema: Tim's friends attempt this in season 8 episode 8 [[spoiler: after Tim smokes an addictive device from Dr San, then gets burns all over his body after sleeping. Tim refuses to listen to them and orders them to leave.]]

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome''[='s=] parody of Music/{{Kesha}}'s song "Tik-Tok" called "Glitter Puke" when it it is revealed that her drunken slut act is actually just an act enforced by her record contract.
* ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'': Two characters try to hold an intervention for [[SerialKiller Larry]] who keeps [[NeckSnap snapping people's necks]] without realizing it. He [[IResembleThatRemark he denies having such a problem then snaps their necks too]].
* [=SnapCube’s=] ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'': The scene in ''Sonic Adventure 2'''s fandub directly after Eggman pisses on the moon while cursing out Obama reveals that Eggman did that while black-out drunk. Shadow and Rouge attempt to set up an intervention... but he comes to that drunk, too.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFqGisahJ7s This hilarious vid]] from One Shot Questers has a gaming group staging an intervention for their friend Duke, who is addicted to buying dice. ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players and other {{Tabletop Game|s}}rs who have whole collections of dice are often called "Dice Goblins."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]", while waiting for Marge to reveal their weekly family activity, Homer and Bart have this exchange:
---> '''Homer:''' I hope it's as fun as ''TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}'' was last week!\\
'''Bart:''' Dad, we weren't playing ''Pictionary''. That was an intervention to stop your drinking.\\
'''Homer:''' What? Are you sure?\\
''(Bart shows Homer a drawing of him drunk while Bart, Lisa, and Maggie cry)''\\
'''Homer:''' Ah, that takes me back.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E17TheHeartbrokeKid The Heartbroke Kid]]" has Bart's family and friends staging an intervention concerning his overeating and to send him to a fat camp.

* After WesternAnimation/{{Chozen}}'s rekindled romance with his prison boyfriend Jamal leads to tensions with his friends, they stage an intervention to try and convince him that Jamal's a bad influence.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Equal Fights", the girls meet a StrawFeminist villain called Femme Fatale, and she [[ToxicFriendInfluence negatively influences them]] into hurting their male friends. Miss Bellum and Ms. Keane soon become concerned with their behavior and hold an intervention to show them what true feminism is, as well as reveal that Fatale [[StrawHypocrite doesn't look out for other women like she says]].

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* Franchise/MarvelUniverse parody comic ''Marvel Now What'' had the Watchers holding an intervention for their most famous member Uatu to deal with his habit of intervening in human events. Except that at the end they realize that holding an intervention violates their code of non-intervention!

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': Referenced by Miles when Miguel explains to him that that [[spoiler: he has to let his father die in order to keep the Spider-Verse from unraveling]]. Miles then notices that many others in the Spider-Society are surrounding him in solemn silence, and he angrily asks if this was an "intervention" meant to let him down easy.

* In ''Film/FailureToLaunch'', the main leads are locked in a room together by their friends, with the guy taped to a chair, so they can work out their problems.

* ''Film/MethHead'': Kyle's family tried to throw an intervention but it failed.
* In ''Film/TheDrummerAndTheKeeper'', Gabriel's bandmates and his sister Alice stage an intervention for his increasingly out-of-control bipolar disorder. They tell him that he'll be kicked out of the band if he can't get his act together, causing him to see a psychiatrist and get medicated.
* In ''Film/TheIntervention'', Peter and Ruby, a married couple, have been quarreling a lot recently, so their friends, led by Annie, plan a weekend together for the express purpose of telling them they need to get divorced. [[spoiler:As it happens, while Peter and Ruby both get upset about this, they end up patching things up and deciding to give their relationship another go. Not only that, but the two of them, along with the other friends along for the weekend, end up staging an intervention of their own for Annie, who's been drinking too much, and who has been projecting her own insecurities about getting married onto Peter and Ruby's marriage]].

* In Creator/PeterBenchley's novel ''Rummies'', protagonist Scott Preston receives an intervention from his family at the start of the book, pointing out that he's an alcoholic and seriously needs help. He winds up spending the rest of the book in rehab for it.

-->Barney: frequent magic tricks, specifically those involving fire.
-->Barney: not taking off the old man suit.
-->Barney: give his father a second chance and have dinner with him.
-->Lily: use of fake British accents.
-->Marshall: refusing to take off a hat.
-->Marshall: constant use of charts.
-->Robin: obsession with spray tans.
-->Ted: marrying Stella before they knew each other.
-->Ted: for his pretentious pronunciations; for example: "encyclopædia". (Not actually seen)
-->Ted: love for a married woman. (He actually threw this one for himself.)
-->Stuart: for drinking. (This was done with other people)
-->The Gang: for hosting too many interventions. (Called the "Intervention" intervention.)
-->Barney: for his plan to move in with Quinn. (Called the Quin-ntervention.)
-->Robin: her obsession with Barney
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** The guys and Penny stage an intervention for Sheldon to make him get a driver's license.
** There's also the example where Sheldon is sacked for insubordination and becomes a recluse, weaving obscure garments and [[CrazyCatLady surrounding himself with cats]]: his mother is called in to co-ordinate a rescue.

* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': When Earl decides to abandon his list, his friends stage an intervention to make him be good again.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' In ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E05TheMagicVoyageOfSinbad The Magical Voyage of Sinbad]]'', TheBigGuy proves his strength by wrestling a bear. The SOL crew's dialogue turns it into the bear staging an intervention for the guy.
* A serious example is the intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin in ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E10TheStrongSilentType The Strong, Silent Type]]". It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the other mob guys calling Chris out on his poor behavior, which he doesn't fail to point out. The final straw is when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie and Sil proceed to beat him up. Tony himself states that if it were anyone else but Christopher, [[BoomHeadshot the "intervention" would have been quite different]].
* On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Jenna puts the idea of an intervention into a few of the other characters' minds in a bid for attention. Things don't turn out so well, when the rest of the cast stages a real intervention.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. In "The Pez Dispenser," Jerry grudgingly hosts an intervention for an old friend.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' has one in the episode where Frasier is depressed from losing his job.
* ''Series/That70sShow'' has multiple pot interventions, including one for Hyde's ''sobriety,'' of all things. (Leo even goes so far as to say, "You have a problem with drugs.")

* In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', after Sherlock takes Joan on as an apprentice her friends do this to her in "Deja Vu All Over Again," thinking that she's looking for a purpose after quitting medicine. They try to pretend it isn't an intervention, but Joan sees right through them after having been a sobriety companion in her second career and helping set up several.
** In a nice touch, one of the friends realises that Joan really is much happier as a detective than she was in either of her previous careers, and apologises for the intervention.
* In ''Series/BreakingBad'''s first season, Skyler calls the family over for an intervention to try to get Walt to take the chemotherapy treatment (and the money offered by Gretchen and Elliot to pay for it) for his cancer, since Walt was unwilling to do that.
* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': [[StepfordSmiler Alison]]'s husband and friends try to stage one about her recent odd behavior (due to her clone Sarah filling in for her), her increasing [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]], and [[spoiler: torturing her husband when she suspected that he was her secret monitor/handler]].
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', in a [[NewsParody Weekend Update]] segment.
-->Creator/SethMeyers: NBC announced that Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb will host a primetime special on the network called ''A Toast to 2013'' in which they recount their favorite stories from the past year. But ''whispering behind his hand'' shh, it's actually an intervention.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E18Intervention Intervention]]" has the Scoobies stage an intervention for Buffy when her odd behavior towards Spike worries them. [[ActuallyADoombot It was actually Spike's Buffybot that was acting out of character]].
** Also happened in the third season episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E7Revelations Revelations]]", after the Scoobies found out Angel was back, Buffy hadn't told them, and was seen kissing him.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Casey is starting to get a little stir crazy after being stuck in Burbank for weeks and his daughter mentions the others are about to have an intervention if he doesn't cool down.
* In one episode of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', the rest of the cast stages an intervention for Ron after he again comes under the control of his [[TheVamp vampy]] ex-wife, Tammy II (whenever this happens, he turns into a weird sex freak).
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In an effort to get Sam Winchester off of [[FantasticDrug Demon Blood]], his brother, Dean, and Bobby Singer confront him and have him locked up in a rehabilitation chamber. [[spoiler: It doesn't stop Sam as he is transported out by Angels as part of their plan to start the apocalypse]].

* In ''Series/HomeAndAway'', Robbie steps on a discarded needle and believes that he may have contracted AIDS (he did not, but he did not know this). He then starts acting like a jerk toward everyone including his family and girlfriend. It is then decided to stage an intervention including the aforementioned people where Robbie is confronted about his behaviour. Robbie reveals that he knew someone who got AIDS in his old school and was treated like a leper and that was why he started acting like a jerk.
* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'':
** In the pilot, the Bluth family holds one for Michael to get him to take charge of the company after Buster proves unable to perform the task. Michael points out that [[YouKeepUsingThatWord an "intervention" doesn't work that way]], and what they are doing is more of an imposition.
** In a later episode ("Spring Break-Out"), it comes to light that Lucille has a drinking problem. It's suggested to hold an intervention. Only problem: they already tried that and it went horribly awry. They decided to have a few drinks themselves to "take the edge off" and became completely plastered by the time Lucille showed up.
* In ''Series/KeyAndPeele'', one sketch features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mlp_Gcc_5Q a baseball player obsessed with "Slap-Ass"]] (high-fiving while slapping a fellow player on the buttocks). After an impromptu intervention by the rest of his team, it slowly becomes more and more obvious that his addiction to Slap-Ass is ruining his life, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything including withdrawal symptoms]].

* ''Series/IZombie'': Liv's family, five months after the party at the lake. They think she suffers from post-traumatic stress and thinly disguise the intervention as the return of "potluck Tuesday".
* ''Series/ManSeekingWoman'': The entire Olympian pantheon stages one for Cupid to confront him about his substance abuse problems and inability to do his job properly.
* In ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', the aliens are forced to stage an intervention for Dick after he becomes addicted to collecting plush toys called Fuzzy Buddies. They get help from Mary, Nina, and Mrs. Dubcek, but Dubcek first wants to be sure the intervention's not for her, as apparently she's "Fallen for that twice now."
* ''Series/CougarTown'' once opened with the Cul-De-Sac Crew staging an intervention for Jules and her habit of lounging around wearing a Snuggie. She just holds out her sleeve and tells them "Feel that!" They feel the sleeve and are visibly impressed. Cut to them all sitting around wearing Snuggies.
* The final season of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' has Peter Florrick set aside longtime campaign manager and partner Eli Gold in favor of a new character to help him run a national campaign. Eli spends most of the season trying to embarrass the new campaign manager to get his job back, and in one episode his daughter Marissa, who was born and raised in Israel, tries to stage an intervention by getting him to come to Israel to work for an opposition MP against UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (whom Eli hates). Eli refuses.
* In the season six premiere of ''Series/{{Californication}}'' Karen, Becca, Marcy, and Charlie stage an intervention for Hank who has been drinking even more than usual due to feeling guilt over his treatment of an ex-girlfriend that he believes led her to attempt a murder-suicide via drugged drinks (with him as the murder victim.) The others wind up either crying or getting upset about various other issues leading Hank to declare: "Worst. Intervention. Ever." Despite this, he does agree to go to rehab by the end of the episode.
* The Gang stages an intervention for Frank in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', for his alcoholism. Of course, they don't care about Frank's health, they only care because he's irritating the rest of them by being messily drunk in the middle of the day. Doesn't work very well since the entire gang are [[HypocriticalHumor also alcoholics]]- and they host the intervention in the bar. In the end they all just decide to get drunk instead.
* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' Malcolm gets one of these when he buys a terrible car. Since it's an intervention for cars rather than drinking, instead of getting someone from AA then get someone from Triple-A.
* Subverted in two Mad TV sketches:
** In one, a man's friends stage in intervention for his addiction to internet gambling...[[HypocriticalHumor while they're all drunk off their asses.]] They get so drunk in fact, that they just turn it into a party while he goes upstairs to his computer with all their credit cards.
** In another, the intervention is for alcoholism, but the man reveals that he's already quit drinking, and has been clean for three weeks...[[ItsAllAboutMe and the group is enraged at him for spoiling the big dramatic intervention they had planned.]] [[WithFriendsLikeThese It ends with them forcing him to start drinking again just so they can have a proper intervention.]]
* The ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' gang does this for Dylan. He blows them off and defiantly gets even higher than before, resulting in him being hospitalized for the next episode and finally admitting that he needs help when he wakes up.
* ''Series/OneTreeHill'' the episode "Can't Stop This Thing We Started." has Nathan, Haley, Karen and even Dan with a counselor stage one for Deb when she is addicted to pills.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Max Holden has his wife Luna, his best friend Cord, and his surrogate mother Renee attempt this regarding his gambling problem. He denies it and storms out in a rage, right to his ex-lover Blair who's been enabling him because she wants to get him back.
* ''Series/PartyOfFive'' has a serious version in the third season episode called, appropriately enough, "The Intervention", when Charlie, Grace, Joe, Julia, Sarah, and a reluctant Claudia confront Bailey about his alcoholism. Unusually for this trope, it doesn't work - it's not until a couple of episodes later Bailey is finally able to snap out of it.

* The sharks in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' do this when one of them gets a whiff of blood.

** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuys13E3BakingBad Baking Bad]]", Brian stages an intervention for Stewie, who is drunk on cough syrup. He also mentions that he's staging another one for Chris concerning his [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbation]] problem.

* The April Fool's Day episode "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedK3 Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged II.9]]" begins with Gohan staging an intervention on his mother, Chi-Chi, to try to convince her to [[EducationMama stop being so hard on him with her demands to emphasize his education]]. A flashback shows the abusive tutor from the filler Garlic Jr. Saga whipping Gohan, implying that as the specific reason for the intervention.

Troper...[[SelfDemonstratingArticle we need to talk.]]

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** Another sketch sees Series/JessicaJones confronted by her friends ([[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis and creator]]) about her drinking problem. When it fails, [[GoKartingWithBowser Kilgrave]] solves the problem by using his CompellingVoice to make her quit.

---> '''Homer:''' I hope it's as fun as Pictionary was last week!\\
'''Bart:''' Dad, we weren't playing Pictionary. That was an intervention to stop your drinking.\\

** There's also the example where Sheldon is sacked for insubordination and becomes a recluse, weaving obscure garments and [CrazyCatLady surrounding himself with cats]]: his mother is called in to co-ordinate a rescue.

** There's also the example where Sheldon is sacked for insubordination and becomes a recluse, weaving obscure garments and surrounding himself with cats: his mother is called in to co-ordinate a rescue.

* WebVideo/OnCinema: Tim's friends attempt this in season 8 episode 8 [[spoiler: after Tim gets burned all over his body after sleeping after smoking a device given to him by Dr San to which he is addicted. Tim refuses to listen to them and orders them to leave.]]

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* In the ''Ultra Deluxe'' version of ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', if you take the Reassurance Bucket toward what would've been the ''Confusion'' ending, the lift to the basement of the office will bring Stanley and the Bucket to [[spoiler:a room containing the Baby cutout from the ''Games'' ending, the Broom Closer, the mannequin of his wife from the ''Apartment'' ending, and the Adventure Line™, where the Narrator tries to convince Stanley that he has an unhealthy obsession with the Bucket. The Adventure Line™ guides Stanley downstairs to a device called the Bucket Destroyer, which the Narrator tries to get Stanley to throw the Bucket into. With the game having no mechanic to let go of the bucket anyway, the Bucket Destroyer eventually overloads and explodes, leading to the ''Bucket Destroyer'' ending.]]

** Played more seriously in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E1TheThinWhiteLine The Thin White Line]]", where the family holds one for Brian regarding his ever-growing coke habit. In a rare sight for this trope, Brian's own therapist is present, and based on the scripts the family members read to him, he had adequately prepared them for it.

** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E3ScreamsOfSilenceTheStoryOfBrendaQ Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q]]" had Quagmire and the other holding an intervention for his sister to get her out of an abusive relationship.
** One cutaway has an intervention concerning Peter wearing a giant novelty hat for months on end.