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* ''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.
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* In ''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."
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** It's later played straight on three separate occasions. The Smiths have held two for Stan, first to address his anorexia, and then in a later episode for his crack addiction. The third time is for Roger, when his frequently shifting fake personas start to get on everyone's nerves.
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** In "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.
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* ''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.
* ''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.
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* A serious example is an intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin on ''Series/TheSopranos''. It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the mob guys calling Chris out on his addiction, which he doesn't fail to point out. It turns violent when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie beats his face in.
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* A serious example is an intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin on ''Series/TheSopranos''. It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the mob guys calling Chris out on his addiction, which he doesn't fail to point out. It turns violent when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie beats his face in. Tony himself states that if it were anyone else but Christopher, [[BoomHeadshot the "intervention" would have been quite different]].
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* ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' has a sketch with an off-screen intervention. This is because the joke lies in how the character is tricked into going ''to'' the intervention and the fact that that is what it was, so showing the intervention would just make the sketch needlessly long.
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* 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 ''Video/WorldOfWarcraft'' guild, and explicitly don't care about his problems unless they somehow prevent him from logging on.
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* 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 ''Video/WorldOfWarcraft'' guild, and explicitly don't care about his problems unless they are somehow prevent in the way of him from logging on.using a computer.
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** 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 recognizes the intervention and even states it as such. The family denies this and starts to lay out their issues. Michael then says the intervention is more of an imposition.
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** "The Heartbroke Kid" has Bart's family and friends staging an intervention concerning his overeating and to send him to a fat camp.
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* ''Film/MethHead'': Kyle's family tried to throw an intervention but it failed.
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* 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]].
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This occurs when a group of friends, family, loved ones of a character who's caught in a web of bad habits, usually addictions of some sort, that are leading them on a downward spiral, and rather than sit there and watch them self-destruct, they decide to take action. They confront the individual about their habits, and declare that they're not willing to be bystanders any longer. The phrase "We've made you an appointment, and we'd like you to keep it" may be heard, as they drag said individual off to see a professional counselor or to rehab.
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This occurs when a group of friends, family, loved ones of a character who's caught in a web of bad habits, usually addictions of some sort, that are leading them on a downward spiral, and spiral decide to take action rather than sit there and watch them self-destruct, they decide to take action.self-destruct. They confront the individual about their habits, and declare that they're not willing to be bystanders any longer. The phrase "We've made you an appointment, and we'd like you to keep it" may be heard, as they drag said individual off to see a professional counselor or to rehab.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}''. In [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/15/the-b-u-t-t-algorithm/ "The BUTT Algorithm"]], the a character gets a Twitter algorithm that recommends posts relevant to his interests... and it gives him nothing but "news about men's butts!" TheRant below the comic states: ''this page is procedurally generated. no one else is seeing this comic today. it’s about you and how much your dumb butt hangup is ruining your life. this is a web intervention from me and your family.''
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* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}''.''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'' gets meta with it. In [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/15/the-b-u-t-t-algorithm/ "The BUTT Algorithm"]], the a character gets a Twitter algorithm that recommends posts relevant to his interests... and it gives him nothing but "news about men's butts!" TheRant below the comic states: ''this page is procedurally generated. no one else is seeing this comic today. it’s about you and how much your dumb butt hangup is ruining your life. this is a web intervention from me and your family.''
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** One sketch had {{Popeye}}'s friends confronting him over his addition to spinach.
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->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.
->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
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->Ted: love for a married woman.
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->The Gang: for hosting too many interventions. (Called the "Intervention" intervention.)
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' had a whole series of funny interventions, dealing with behaviours from spray-tanning to fake British accents to organising funny interventions. The following are a list of people the gang have held interventions for, and the reasons why (from http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Intervention_banner):
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* 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.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife You're ruining your life]]. We're here to do something about that.]]
We need to talk.
We've put this off for too long. We've watched this going on, and we're not going to take it any longer. Don't try to argue, this is for your own good.
Now, sit down there while we [[DescribeTopicHere describe Staging an Intervention]].
This occurs when a group of friends, family, loved ones of a character who's caught in a web of bad habits, usually addictions of some sort, that are leading them on a downward spiral, and rather than sit there and watch them self-destruct, they decide to take action. They confront the individual about their habits, and declare that they're not willing to be bystanders any longer. The phrase "We've made you an appointment, and we'd like you to keep it" may be heard, as they drag said individual off to see a professional counselor or to rehab.
This is an UndeadHorseTrope. In serious examples, the person being intervened on has a real problem, and the people doing the intervention have good intentions. However, this is often subjected to parody. The person being intervened on may have no so serious addiction, the intervention may be staged as a form of revenge against the person, or may be PlayedForLaughs in other ways.
Contrast ToxicFriendInfluence.
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* Comcast used to do ads where this happened as a form of CableSatelliteMudslinging.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYPN_YPKsE This]] Doritos commercial has woman come home to find her friends staging one of these for her Dorito cravings. They tear up the house revealing Doritos inside a teddy bear, in her closet, in the chimney, and behind a false wall in the refrigerator. When she cites pregnancy craving, her friend pull up her shirt revealing a [[PillowPregnancy pillow]] and another bag of Doritos.
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* ''ComicStrip/MaryWorth'' had the cast hold an intervention to stop Aldo Kelrast from stalking Mary.
* In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' #7, ComicBook/TheAvengers stage an intervention when they see that Spider-Man no longer conforms to their standards.
* MarvelComics 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!
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* ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': Megan's family has an intervention to tell her that she's a lesbian and to send her off to anti-gay camp.
* The sharks in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' do this when one of them gets a whiff of blood.
* There's also the inciting incident in ''Film/TheHangover Part III''.
* 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.
* It's the main plot of ''Film/LifeOfTheParty'' with the twist being that the therapist doesn't show up and the people involved try to wing it.
* About a third of the way into ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', the gang are prepared to confront Gary for his increasingly self-destructive behaviour, after they learn that he lied about his mother's death to get them to go drinking with him. However, they're distracted by an alien invasion. Several aborted interventions occur throughout the film, culminating in a climax that is a bizarre combination of intervention and HumanityOnTrial.
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* Nicholas Meyer's take on legendary detective SherlockHolmes, ''Literature/TheSevenPerCentSolution'' has Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, Doctor Watson and Professor Moriarty arrange to lure Sherlock Holmes to Vienna, Austria in order to receive hypnosis treatment for Sherlock's cocaine addiction from psychologist Sigmund Freud.
* In ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing: Wraith Squadron]]'' Myn Donos ends up with massive PTSD after his entire squadron is killed in an Imperial ambush at the start of the book. After he later has a psychotic break in mid-mission, the other Wraiths throw him into a simulated version of the mission in question, forcing him to face the fact that it wasn't his fault and start recovering somewhat.
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* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' had a whole series of funny interventions, dealing with behaviours from spray-tanning to fake British accents to organising funny interventions. The following are a list of people the gang have held interventions for, and the reasons why (from http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Intervention_banner):
->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.
->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 surrounding himself with cats: his mother is called in to co-ordinate a rescue.
* ''Series/{{Intervention}}''. Possibly one of the few examples of this being taken seriously.
* ''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 an intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin on ''Series/TheSopranos''. It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the mob guys calling Chris out on his addiction, which he doesn't fail to point out. It turns violent when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie beats his face in.
* 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, "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny You have a problem with drugs.]]")
* On ''Series/JustShootMe'' has an intervention for Dennis, who has been dating a woman who keeps humiliating him but he can't get himself to leave her. Nina, who apparently has been in the receiving end of some interventions, is glad to be in on the other side of one.
* 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 ''{{Breaking Bad}}'''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]].
* ''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.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' 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]].
* In the first part of the first season finale on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', the team confronts Nate, who's been in a drunken stupor through much of it, about his habits. He thinks they're pulling an intervention and are going to drag him off to rehab, [[SubvertedTrope but they have other ideas]]. [[spoiler:'They're going to help him get revenge on those responsible for his son's death.]]
* 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]].
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': After Snow White drinks Rumpelstiltskin's potion to make her forget Prince Charming, she starts to get really mean and unpleasant to the point that the dwarves confront her as a group. It backfires when she decides to go kill the evil queen.
* 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 recognizes the intervention and even states it as such. The family denies this and starts to lay out their issues. Michael then says the intervention 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.
[[AC:WebComics]]
* 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.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* The ''Website/ClickHole'' quiz [[http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/which-character-office-are-you-927 "Which Character From 'The Office' Are You?"]] appears to be a normal quiz on the menus of the website, with its thumbnail being a cast shot for the show. Upon actually taking the quiz, however, the heading image is instead a group of people sitting at a table. It turns out these people are staging an intervention for your drinking problem, yet the article is still formatted like a quiz, with the group's statements as the "questions" and your responses as the "answers". The results you get in the quiz are "Michael Scott" (the description of which has nothing to do with the character, focusing more on your drinking), "Roy Anderson" (which the description makes parallels between his drinking problems and yours), "Kelly Kapoor" (which gives a straight character description before pleading you to stop drinking), and "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Your Addiction]]".
[[AC:WebVideo]]
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' spoofed this with Nella, Elisa, and the girls of ''ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' intervening in Chick's hatred for ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''KeyOfAwesome'' parody of {{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.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Homer recalls playing pictionary earlier in the week. It was really an intervention.
--> '''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.
* Parodied in ''AmericanDad'' when Steve becomes addicted to an energy drink, and ultimately starts conning his friends out of money to pay for it. They appear in his room to talk, Steve is touched they want to stage an intervention after all the things he done, but in fact they're just there to violently confront him for cheating them.
* ''FamilyGuy'':
** The VerySpecialEpisode 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' gets one when he gets addicted to tanning creme. Among the people staging this include Phil (Who has a bunch of cigarettes in his mouth) and X (Who has a gambling addiction).
* ''RobotChicken''
** One sketch had {{Popeye}}'s friends confronting him over his addition to spinach.
** A parody of ''AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' had the bears holding an intervention for Tummi over his addition to gummiberry juice.
* 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.
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This occurs when a group of friends, family, loved ones of a character who's caught in a web of bad habits, usually addictions of some sort, that are leading them on a downward spiral, and rather than sit there and watch them self-destruct, they decide to take action. They confront the individual about their habits, and declare that they're not willing to be bystanders any longer. The phrase "We've made you an appointment, and we'd like you to keep it" may be heard, as they drag said individual off to see a professional counselor or to rehab.
This is an UndeadHorseTrope. In serious examples, the person being intervened on has a real problem, and the people doing the intervention have good intentions. However, this is often subjected to parody. The person being intervened on may have no so serious addiction, the intervention may be staged as a form of revenge against the person, or may be PlayedForLaughs in other ways.
Contrast ToxicFriendInfluence.
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!!Examples
[[AC:{{Advertising}}]]
* Comcast used to do ads where this happened as a form of CableSatelliteMudslinging.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYPN_YPKsE This]] Doritos commercial has woman come home to find her friends staging one of these for her Dorito cravings. They tear up the house revealing Doritos inside a teddy bear, in her closet, in the chimney, and behind a false wall in the refrigerator. When she cites pregnancy craving, her friend pull up her shirt revealing a [[PillowPregnancy pillow]] and another bag of Doritos.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* ''ComicStrip/MaryWorth'' had the cast hold an intervention to stop Aldo Kelrast from stalking Mary.
* In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' #7, ComicBook/TheAvengers stage an intervention when they see that Spider-Man no longer conforms to their standards.
* MarvelComics 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!
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': Megan's family has an intervention to tell her that she's a lesbian and to send her off to anti-gay camp.
* The sharks in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' do this when one of them gets a whiff of blood.
* There's also the inciting incident in ''Film/TheHangover Part III''.
* 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.
* It's the main plot of ''Film/LifeOfTheParty'' with the twist being that the therapist doesn't show up and the people involved try to wing it.
* About a third of the way into ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', the gang are prepared to confront Gary for his increasingly self-destructive behaviour, after they learn that he lied about his mother's death to get them to go drinking with him. However, they're distracted by an alien invasion. Several aborted interventions occur throughout the film, culminating in a climax that is a bizarre combination of intervention and HumanityOnTrial.
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Nicholas Meyer's take on legendary detective SherlockHolmes, ''Literature/TheSevenPerCentSolution'' has Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, Doctor Watson and Professor Moriarty arrange to lure Sherlock Holmes to Vienna, Austria in order to receive hypnosis treatment for Sherlock's cocaine addiction from psychologist Sigmund Freud.
* In ''[[ComicBook/XWingSeries X-Wing: Wraith Squadron]]'' Myn Donos ends up with massive PTSD after his entire squadron is killed in an Imperial ambush at the start of the book. After he later has a psychotic break in mid-mission, the other Wraiths throw him into a simulated version of the mission in question, forcing him to face the fact that it wasn't his fault and start recovering somewhat.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' had a whole series of funny interventions, dealing with behaviours from spray-tanning to fake British accents to organising funny interventions. The following are a list of people the gang have held interventions for, and the reasons why (from http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Intervention_banner):
->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.
->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 surrounding himself with cats: his mother is called in to co-ordinate a rescue.
* ''Series/{{Intervention}}''. Possibly one of the few examples of this being taken seriously.
* ''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 an intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin on ''Series/TheSopranos''. It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the mob guys calling Chris out on his addiction, which he doesn't fail to point out. It turns violent when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie beats his face in.
* 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, "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny You have a problem with drugs.]]")
* On ''Series/JustShootMe'' has an intervention for Dennis, who has been dating a woman who keeps humiliating him but he can't get himself to leave her. Nina, who apparently has been in the receiving end of some interventions, is glad to be in on the other side of one.
* 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 ''{{Breaking Bad}}'''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]].
* ''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.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' 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]].
* In the first part of the first season finale on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', the team confronts Nate, who's been in a drunken stupor through much of it, about his habits. He thinks they're pulling an intervention and are going to drag him off to rehab, [[SubvertedTrope but they have other ideas]]. [[spoiler:'They're going to help him get revenge on those responsible for his son's death.]]
* 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]].
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': After Snow White drinks Rumpelstiltskin's potion to make her forget Prince Charming, she starts to get really mean and unpleasant to the point that the dwarves confront her as a group. It backfires when she decides to go kill the evil queen.
* 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 recognizes the intervention and even states it as such. The family denies this and starts to lay out their issues. Michael then says the intervention 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.
[[AC:WebComics]]
* 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.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* The ''Website/ClickHole'' quiz [[http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/which-character-office-are-you-927 "Which Character From 'The Office' Are You?"]] appears to be a normal quiz on the menus of the website, with its thumbnail being a cast shot for the show. Upon actually taking the quiz, however, the heading image is instead a group of people sitting at a table. It turns out these people are staging an intervention for your drinking problem, yet the article is still formatted like a quiz, with the group's statements as the "questions" and your responses as the "answers". The results you get in the quiz are "Michael Scott" (the description of which has nothing to do with the character, focusing more on your drinking), "Roy Anderson" (which the description makes parallels between his drinking problems and yours), "Kelly Kapoor" (which gives a straight character description before pleading you to stop drinking), and "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Your Addiction]]".
[[AC:WebVideo]]
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' spoofed this with Nella, Elisa, and the girls of ''ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' intervening in Chick's hatred for ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
* PlayedForLaughs in the ''KeyOfAwesome'' parody of {{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.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Homer recalls playing pictionary earlier in the week. It was really an intervention.
--> '''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.
* Parodied in ''AmericanDad'' when Steve becomes addicted to an energy drink, and ultimately starts conning his friends out of money to pay for it. They appear in his room to talk, Steve is touched they want to stage an intervention after all the things he done, but in fact they're just there to violently confront him for cheating them.
* ''FamilyGuy'':
** The VerySpecialEpisode 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' gets one when he gets addicted to tanning creme. Among the people staging this include Phil (Who has a bunch of cigarettes in his mouth) and X (Who has a gambling addiction).
* ''RobotChicken''
** One sketch had {{Popeye}}'s friends confronting him over his addition to spinach.
** A parody of ''AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' had the bears holding an intervention for Tummi over his addition to gummiberry juice.
* 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.
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