History Main / StockPunishment

* In an episode of ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', there is a fieldtrip to a SalemWitchTrial themed village. At the end of the episode the AlphaBitch Libby ends up in the stock, but does not get things thrown at her.

* ''ThePrinceAndThePauper'': The prince-as-a-pauper's friend, Miles, gets punished with these.

In which a character has their legs (or arms) restrained and has foodstuffs, preferably [[ProducePelting rotten fruit or veggies]], [[PieInTheFace cream pies]], wet sponges or something else in that line of thought thrown at them by members of the public. Alternatively, stocks can also be used for TickleTorture.

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* ''{{Series/Merlin}}''- a bit of a RunningGag for the titular character- happens in the first episode when he picks a fight with Arthur, three times in one episode. The ChildrenInNeed scene naturally features it.

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* ''LooneyTunes'': There are several.

* Disney's ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'' also has a guy in these tipping his hat to Belle at the start of her IWantSong.

* in TheSimsMedieval sims can end up in the stocks from failing to complete responsibilities, stealing, or [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential just because the player felt like it.]]

** Earlier in the film, there's a flashback to him as a young boy, watching the knights parade into the tournament grounds with his father. There's a man locked in the stocks right next to them, who advises young William not to chase after impossible dreams.

---> Wiggum: Hey, no extension cords!

A point seldom touched on in fiction is that being pilloried could be seriously dangerous. People were allowed to throw things at your head, and you could neither dodge nor block them. If you were lucky they would only throw fruit and vegetables (although ''you'' try getting hit in the face with a turnip and see how harmless that would be). If you were unlucky, they'd throw rocks. And if you were really, ''really'' unlucky, [[PrisonRape it would be as bad as if you'd dropped the soap in a prison shower]].

Rarely occurs with females ([[FetishFuel except when]] [[RuleThirtyFour other]] [[{{Hentai}} stuff]] [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean is done to them instead]]), for [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished some reason]].

In which a character has their legs (or arms) restrained and has foodstuffs, preferably [[ProducePelting rotten fruit or veggies]], [[PieInTheFace cream pies]], wet sponges or something else in that line of thought thrown at them by members of the public.

* In an episode of ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', there is a fieldtrip to a SalemWitchTrial themed village. At the end of the episode TheLibby ends up in the stock, but does not get things thrown at her.

* There's one guy in Disney's ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' who is stuck in these. Used as a joke: he always gets out of things like stocks exclaiming "I'm Free! I'm Free!" and falls into another trap (an open manhole, etc.), muttering "Dangit!"

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In which a character has their legs (or arms) restrained and has foodstuffs, preferably rotten fruit or veggies, [[PieInTheFace cream pies]], wet sponges or something else in that line of thought thrown at them by members of the public.

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* ''{{Merlin}}''- a bit of a RunningGag for the titular character- happens in the first episode when he picks a fight with Arthur, three times in one episode. The ChildrenInNeed scene naturally features it.

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* There's one guy in Disney's ''TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' who is stuck in these. Used as a joke: he always gets out of things like stocks exclaiming "I'm Free! I'm Free!" and falls into another trap (an open manhole, etc.), muttering "Dangit!"
* Disney's ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast'' also has a guy in these tipping his hat to Belle at the start of her IWantSong.

* In an episode of ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', there is a fieldtrip to a SalemWitchTrial themed village. At the end of the episode TheLibby ends up in the stock, but does not get things thrown at her.
* ''Bruno The Bandit'' often ended up in one of these - mostly when the judge had run out of CoolAndUnusualPunishment for him.
* ''Looney Tunes''. There are several, the one I can vaguely remember is one with Daffy.
* ''ThePrinceAndThePauper'': The prince-as-a-pauper's friend, Miles, gets punished with these.

* TheSimpsons did an odd version of this where they were deemed bad parents they were forced to wear portable Stocks 24/7 and then had additional punishments added onto such as standing next to a road while motorists spanked them as they drove by.
---> Wiggum: Hey, no extension cords!

* In the {{Aubrey-Maturin}} series, Captain Aubrey is pilloried after being set up for stock market fraud. The potential danger is made very clear [[spoiler:but, in a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, [[YouAreNotAlone lots and lots of his old shipmates]] turn up to cheer for him and look menacing at anyone who so much as ''thinks'' about throwing things.]] I think ManlyTears were involved.
* Used in the {{Trollz}} story arc where the town was sent back to the Middle Ages. The girls were put in pillories. Among other things, ''croutons'' were thrown at them.

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* In an entirely serious example from the George III-era VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory CostumeDrama ''Garrow's Law'' (coming soon to a US TV station near you...), [[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6894063.ece William Garrow]] exposes Forrester, a professional "thief-taker" - basically a man who is paid to fit people up - as a perjurer. The judge sentences him to two hours in the stocks - a pillory in this case. He gets the rotten fruit treatment, then we see the grandmother of the boy he murdered as part of one such scheme pay the man who turned on him. The man then throws a rock...

* In an entirely serious example from the George III-era VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory CostumeDrama ''Garrow's Law'' (coming soon to a US TV station near you...), a man that [[http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6894063.ece William Garrow]], Forrester, a professional "thief-taker", basically a man who is paid to fit people up, is exposed as a perjurer. The judge sentences him to two hours in the stocks- a pillory in this case. He gets the rotten fruit treatment, then we see the mother of the man he murdered as part of one such scheme pay the man who turned on him. The man then throws a rock...