History Main / StockPunishment

* ''Dwight in Shining Armor'' Season 3 Episode 5 - Just Deserts: Hexela and Baldric end up in the pillory thanks to an obsessed witch who is over Baldric. Thankfully he put her in her place by putting her in the pillory when he got out of his.

* ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'' Witches Are Sick Of You Saying 'Witch Hunt': A witch (Jen Spyra) is in the pillory and explains what a witch is.

* ''The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'' Witches Are Sick Of You Saying 'Witch Hunt': A witch is in the pillory and explains what a witch is.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' Season 6 Episode 8 - A female ends up in the pillory during the renaissance fair, and eventually Peggy.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' Season 1 Episode 6 - Futura ends up in the Salem witch trials and ends up in a pillory, accused for being, well, a witch.

* ''Starlet (1969): Allison Jordan (played by Shari Mann) is playing a pilgrim in a pillory, while getting whipped. Plus she gets left behind as the crew members go for lunch.

** Season 18 Episode 17 - The Wettest Stories Ever Told: Homer ends up in a portable pillory.

** Treehouse of Horror VIII - First 11 seconds of that segment shows a man in the pillory.

* ''Series/Salem''

Device 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.

* ''Unknown Worlds'' Issue #38, a character name Tom was placed in the pillory. Of course he was freed and was floats up to the air.

* ''Tillie The Toiler'': Tillie tries out a pillory as her John kisses her on the cheek. Of course she wants pay back.

* ''Garth Comic Strip'' - Dancing queen: Garth gets teleported into the medieval times and in a pillory.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' uses this as a joke. There's an old man who is initially stuck in a cage, and then Esmerelda's fight with the guards sets him free. He triumphantly exclaims "I'm Free! I'm Free!" and trips on the cage bar and falls into the pillory "Dangit!" In the climatic battle, he gets unintentionally set free... and then falls into a sewer. ("Dangit!")

** Chiu Ming is introduced wearing a pillory board as he hikes up the mountain, having been framed by a corrupt official. Fortunately the official assigned to deliver him to the temple (who it's implied gave Chiu Ming the money so he could become a monk instead of being conscripted into the army) is decent enough to remove the board while no-one else is in sight so he can rest.

* ''Mad Wolf (1998)'': As a women is stuck in the pillory, she is mocked by colonial soldier, which includes day time scenes and a night time scene.

* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', the president proposed bringing back the stock punishment and public flogging since the United States is in the middle of a ZombieApocalypse and putting criminals in prisons would be highly impracticable. Since the United States needs to dedicate all its resources to rebuild the nation and fight off zombies, publicly humiliating criminals would be more effective in deterring crime.

* In an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Season 1 Episode 23 - The Crucible, there is a field trip 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.
* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'': The season 7 episode, Samantha's Hot Bedwarmer, Serena finds an old women stuck in the pillory. She helps her by using her magic to release the lock by making it levitate.

* ''Series/AntFarm'' Season 2 Episode 9 - ContestANTS: Chyne and Lexi get pied in the face to get a partners for a contest.

** Season 1 Episode 8: Apparently there is a deleted scene with Azure Parsons, Gloriana Embry, in the pillory. Only photos of it exist it on the fan wiki.

* UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte reestablished pillory for some offenders, both as an consequence and as an autonomous penalty; this was legal until 1832.

* Gays were often victims of vicious treatment by the mob; for example Ann Marrow, who [[SweetPollyOliver disguised herself as a man]] and married another woman, ended up [[EyeScream blinded]] by the stones thrown at her by a mob of women.

* The last to have undergone this sentence was Peter James Bossy who, rather than serving a [[SentencedToDownUnder seven year sentence of transportation]], prefered the pillory.

* Comedian Bobby Davro was put in a pillory for a joke at the end of his series ''Public Enemy Number One''. This caused him a broken nose when the pillory fell over and there was nothing to stop him from falling face first onto the studio floor. This is in Real Life rather than Live-Action TV because it wasn't televised, but it was filmed and the BBC used it in a [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYBpZ70y70 health and safety video]]. He'd probably have been alright if Lionel Blair hadn't pulled his trousers down.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' Season 3 Episode 3 - A Change Of Face: With Ben and Gwen switching bodies, they also end up in the pillory.

* In an episode of ''Series/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.

* ''ComicBook/Mosaik'' 385 - Fire, Sausages and Scandal: Characters end up in the pillory

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' Season 2 Episode 1 - A Comedy Of Eras: Stanley is accused of being witch and ends up in the pillory.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' uses this as a joke. There's an old man who is initially stuck in a cage, and then Esmerelda's fight with the guards sets him free. He triumphantly exclaims "I'm Free! I'm Free!" and trips on the cage bar and falls into the pillory "Dangit!" In the climatic battle he gets unintentionally set free...and then falls into a sewer. ("Dangit!")

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* ''Series/TalesFromTheCryptSeason 6 Episode 1 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime: Catherine O'Hara's character, Geraldine ends up in the pillory in a dungeon, seeing flashes of people who she unintentionally killed.

* ''Dwight in Shining Armor'' Season 3 Episode 5: Hexela and Baldric end up in the pillory thanks to an obsessed witch who is over Baldric. Thankfully he put her in her place by putting her in the pillory when he got out of his.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' when Henry and June were visiting Colonial Williamsburg, and ended upin stocks at the end (I guess they were too nineties)