History Main / StagingAnIntervention

Now, sit down there while we [[DescribeTopicHere describe Staging an Intervention]].

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[[SelfDemonstratingArticle We need to talk.]]

* 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]]".

* 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.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFqGisahJ7s This hilarious vid]] from One Shot Questers has the 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."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFqGisahJ7s This hilarious vid]] from One Shot Questers has the group holding 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."

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

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFqGisahJ7s This hilarious vid]] from WebVideo/OneShotQuesters has the group holding an intervention for their friend Duke, who is addicted to buying dice. ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players and other people who have whole collections of dice are often called "Dice Goblins."

* This hilarious vid from ''WebVideo/OneShotQuesters'' has the group staging an intervention for Duke, who is addicted to buying gaming dice. ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players and other people who have whole collections of dice are often called "Dice Goblins."

[[caption-width-right:349: [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife You're ruining your life]]. We're here to do something about that.]]

* [=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 came to that drunk, too.

* [=SnapCube’s=] ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'': the scene directly after Eggman pisses on the moon is one where Shadow and Rouge set up an intervention. He apparently did that while he was drunk… and came to the intervention drunk, too.

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife You're ruining your life]]. We're here to do something about that.]]

* ''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.''

* 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.

* 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 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]].

-->Christopher Robin''': That's right, an in..terdi..vention. And we're having one for you, and this is it.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''

** In one, a man's friends stage in intervention for his addiction to internet gambling...[[HypociticalHumor 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.

* 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]].

* ''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]].

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' spoofed this with Nella, Elisa, and the girls of ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' intervening in Chick's hatred for ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''.

** In the episode "Three Gays of the Condo", while waiting for Marge to reveal their weekly family activity, Homer and Bart have this exchange:

** "The Heartbroke Kid" has Bart's family and friends staging an intervention concerning his overeating and to send him to a fat camp.

** The VerySpecialEpisode had Quagmire and the other holding an intervention for his sister to get her out of an abusive relationship.

** 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.

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

** It's one person to another, but Film/IndianaJones finds Marion Ravenwood drunkenly winning a drinking competition, and (taking advantage of the "don't open your eyes" thing) tricks her into flying across the map to an American rehab center rather than the "Ark of the Kervernant".

* [[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 Matt Striker with [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext chloroform and then lost him to a rival kidnapper]], but was still better for the individuals involved.[[/folder]]