History Main / StagingAnIntervention

* [[Wrestling/{{EC3}} Derrick Bateman]]'s friends isolated and confronted him over how [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale unhealthy]] his relationship with [[Wrestling/KarleePerez Maxine]] was. This ended up getting through to both of them, as Maxine left Derrick for the more manly Wrestling/JohnnyCurtis, who she treated better. Maxine and Johnny wasn't actually better for the rest of the locker room, they once kidnapped Wrestling/WilliamRegal with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext chloroform]], but was still better for the individuals involved.[[/folder]]

* [[Wrestling/{{EC3}} Derrick Bateman]]'s friends isolated and confronted him over how [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOneMale unhealthy]] his relationship with [[Wrestling/KarleePerez Maxine]] was. This ended up getting through to both of them, as Maxine left Derrick for the more manly Wrestling/JohnnyCurtis, who she treated better. Maxine and Johnny wasn't actually better for the rest of the locker room, they once kidnapped Wrestling/WilliamRegal with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext chloroform]], but was still better for the individuals involved.[[/folder]]

* 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 in the way of him using a computer.

* ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'' gets meta with it. In [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/15/the-b-u-t-t-algorithm/ "The BUTT Algorithm"]], the 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.''

* ''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.]]")

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WebVideo/KeyOfAwesome'' 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.

* PlayedForLaughs in the ''WebVideo/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.

** 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 an "intervention" doesn't work that way, and what they are doing is more of an imposition.

* 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.

** 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.

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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.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Homer recalls playing pictionary earlier in the week. It was really an intervention.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* 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!

* There's also the inciting incident in ''Film/TheHangover Part III''.
* In ''Failure to Launch'', 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.

* 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.

* 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 to 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.

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' spoofed this with Nella, Elisa, and the girls of ''ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' intervening in Chick's hatred for ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/Ameri'' 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.

* 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.

* 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."