Cool And Unusual Punishment / Western Animation

• The Snorch on Aaahh!!! Real Monsters deals these out to students who break the rules or otherwise get on the bad side of The Gromble, including being forced to walk through a field of flowers or listen to opera.
• In Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Toadwart warns Tummi that if he doesn't do what he says, he'll resort to the deluxe torture plan.
  Toadwart: You'll be forced to listen to a medley of popular folk tunes sung by Gad and Zook.
• American Dad!: in the episode "In Country... Club", Roger wants the code to the Pay-per-view channel. When Stan won't give it to him, Roger kidnaps Stan during a Vietnam War reenactment and tortures him by reading the first draft of the Sex and the City film. This was after he had already subjected him to a genuinely brutal beatdown.
• In the Animaniacs feature-length Wakko's Wish, the Warner kids are sent through The Cave of Your Worst Nightmares, which contains horrors they endured in episodes of the TV show: "Baloney" the Dinosaur, a filthy gas station bathroom, and Jerry Lewis look-alike Mr. Director.
  • In the episode where they end up in Hades, the Devil prepares to throw them in a room containing "unspeakable torment": listening to "whiny protest songs from The '60s" for all eternity. The Warners scream in terror and throw the Devil in the room.
  • The Warners themselves tend to be this on people.
• The Betty Boop short "Judge for a Day" has Betty imagining the punishments she would inflict on people she considers "public pests" if she was judge for a day. The punishments involve putting the pests on display for public to laugh at and inflicting on them the same kinds of annoyances they cause to other people. For example, a man who litters chewing gum is stuck in a room covered in gum and a man who uses up all the hot water is forced to take an ice bath.
• Bob's Burgers: In "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", Logan and Louise are punished for disrupting the mother-daughter seminar. Their punishment is to be locked in a closet called the "Ute-room" and forced to watch a loop of Freaky Friday (1976) until they promise to get along and behave.
• One torture session on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: While Buzz is going through a Faked Rip Van Winkle, Zurg has his three comrades captive. Booster, The Big Guy, is in a cell with bouncy walls that all his strength can't break. X-R, the versatile robot, has his extendable limbs in shackles, extending them out as far as they will go, so he can't really do anything. And Mira, who can phase through solid matter simply by concentrating, is in a cell rigged to burst into a cacaphony of light and sound whenever she tries to use her powers. The perfect torture... except, well, Booster is having a ball bouncing around in his cage, and the shackles work better for X-R than any chiropractor could have. As for Mira? Well, okay, maybe it's a little annoying, but it's hardly torture. Zurg starts yelling at the underlings who cooked up this cockamamie scheme.
  • Mira's torture was supposed to be that she was Forced to Watch as her teammates were tortured powerless to do anything, but since they're having great time she was just bored.
  • Near the end of the episode, these tortures start to set in for them. Booster is getting motion sickness while unable to stop bouncing around and XR is starting to actually reach his breaking point.
• In one rather memorable episode of Super Friends, the Legion of Doom stole a powerful matter transmuting device, but in the process, most of them abandoned Cheetah, Sinestro, and Black Manta in order to escape with it, leaving them to be captured by the heroes. As can be expected, those three were very angry at their teammates when they escaped, and decided to teach them a lesson by commandeering the device and using it to play billiards, with them as the balls.
• Codename: Kids Next Door
  • In "Operation U.N.C.O.O.L." had a part where Numbuh 2 asks one of the nerds what he's done with the other operatives- we then see those operatives strapped to a chair forced to watch a Doctor Who-like show called "Dr. Spacetime and The Continuums" with the nerds.
    Numbuh 5: Turn it off! In the name of all that's pure TURN IT OFF!
  • This, along with the opening credits of the episode "Operation: A.M.I.S.H.", seems to imply that the creators don't really like the show.
  • In "Operation: B.R.E.A.K.-U.P.", Numbuh Four's mother tells him that if he breaks one more vase, she will send him to a place even worse than military school: ballroom dancing school.
• In one episode of The Dating Guy, Woody tries to get information out of VJ by tying him to a chair and telling him the entire plot to Gilmore Girls. VJ automatically cracks.
• A bit from an episode of Count Duckula, where the punishment is the only one available, may well be a Homage to Monty Python's Flying Circus:
  Captain: "Men! Tie 'em to the yardarm!"
  Mister Mate: "We ain't got a yardarm, cap'n, I ate it last week."
  Captain: "Well what 'ave we got?"
  Mister Mate: "We've got a comfy sofa..."
  Captain: "I can't say, 'tie 'em to the comfy sofa!'"
  Mister Mate: "It's all that's left, cap'n."
  Captain: "Oh, all right. Tie 'em to the... comfy sofa!"
  • In one episode, Duckula threatens Nanny and Igor to accompany him on a carnival ride by threatening to start singing.
• Darkwing Duck
  • In one episode, Megavolt tried to think up some way to torture his prisoners, one of them was "Make them watch Game Shows".
  • One of Quackerjack's sinister toys is the Mr. History doll, who just sprouts random historic facts with the intention of boring you to death.
    Quackerjack: Get ready for the Industrial Revolution!
• Dexter's Laboratory: In the episode "The Old Switcharooms" Dexter's father makes him and Dee Dee stay in each other's rooms as punishment for running into him (causing his bowling trophy to break). Later Dad confines Dexter to the doghouse, leaving him to worry about the fate of his lab.
• Disenchantment:
  • The dungeon in Dreamland's castle is equipped with conventional torture equipment such as thumb screws and racks, but also a particularly dreaded book of golf jokes.
  • Bean does this, accidentally, while trying to skip actually torturing someone. She offers to cook the guy a last meal, but passes and dithers on every option just because she can't or won't cook them, driving him to screaming agony, which her boss mistakes for actual torture.
  • In Hell, Elfo is forced to watch a replay of his own death, with a bucket of popcorn just slightly out of reach.
  • Dagmar's final fate is to be stuck in a gibbet with Freckles singing loudly and off-key. And since they're immortal, they're there forever.
• In Dragon Hunters episode 32, an old man is interrogated by threatening him with book spoilers.
• Drawn Together,
  • When Captain Hero and Spanky Ham are caught cheating in an Indian casino, the owners, after torturing them (spoofing the film "Casino") threaten that if the two ever return, they will "show them just how bad an Indian burn can be". They then perform a simple Indian burn in the air while laughing maniacally, while Hero and Spanky scream in fright.
  • In another episode, when Pikachu knock-off/Japanese stereotype Ling-Ling refuses to give into an extortionist's demands, he threatens to send his accomplice over to Ling-Ling's house and have him walk around without taking off his shoes.
• DuckTales (1987):
  • In "Duckman of Aquatraz", when Glomgold gets caught framing Scrooge, the judge orders him to always keep a portrait of the world's richest duck in his house. Thus, Glomgold has to put up with Scrooge grinning down at him constantly.
  • Scrooge once recounted how a police officer was sentenced to 30 days wearing skirts for arresting him for wearing a skirt simply because he was wearing a kilt. (Scrooge lucked out: the judge was also a guy who wore a kilt; he wasn't amused.)
  • In the episode where Magica and the Beagle Boys infiltrate Scrooge's mansion, a tied up Burger Beagle (shape-shifted as Huey) gets his glamour spell undone. Scrooge demands where Huey is, and Burger refuses to talk, so Scrooge threatens him with no supper, making him crack.
• An episode of Duckman features the titular detective strapping his partner Cornfed into A Clockwork Orange-type forced-viewing setup, and airing a slide show.
• The Fairly OddParents!,
  • Related: In one episode, Timmy comes into contact with the Yugopotamians, "sadistic" aliens who become recurring characters; at one point, he must brave their "horrifying trials" to save the Earth. These include skipping through a field of flowers, hugging a teddy bear, and "eating the dreaded chocolate".
  • Later in the episode, when they start to forget his "impressive feats" and renege on what he blackmailed them into doing, he leans around a doorway and menacingly eats a flower, immediately terrifying them back into compliance.
  • Subverted when Timmy blithely accepts a challenge from a Yugopotamian, expecting more chocolate-eating and suchlike. He's unpleasantly surprised to find he accepted a gladiatorial death match. He wins by firing pillows at his opponent and choosing an unnaturally cheerful day-care center as his combat arena.
  • Another episode had Timmy freeing the town mascot, Chompy the Goat, from captivity and Vicky getting blamed for it. She is locked in a stockade and given 'an extremely bad hair day until she talks' in the form of a balloon being rubbed against her hair to make it puffy.
  • In Channel Chasers, Timmy's mom mentioned that she punished him by making him eat chocolate. Then she says that, in hindsight, it wasn't a good punishment.
• Family Guy:
  • In the episode "The Former Life of Brian," Dylan, Brian's human son who is older than Brian, makes Meg watch the 178 hours of Monty Python that weren't funny or memorable. To which Meg shouts, "I'm a girl! I don't even like the good Monty Python jokes!"
  • Another episode ends with Cleveland and Quagmire tied up in the basement of a building, forced to watch the DirectTV Help Channel on a continuous loop.
• In Fantomcat, whenever Vile screwed up, Marmagora would feed him to her pet Man-Eating Plant, Gloria.
• In Filmation's Ghostbusters, the Big Bad Prime Evil seemed to be very good at thinking up creative ways to punish his minions when they messed up. For example, in the Five-Episode Pilot, he sent the mummy Airhead and Apparatia on one of the missions, but the heroes beat them after filling Airhead with air until he exploded. So Prime Evil simply made Apparatia sew him back together. (Neither an easy or pleasant job, definitely.)
• Freakazoid!:
  • In the origin episode, the villain (voiced by Ricardo Montalban in a spoof of his role as Khan in Star Trek) tries to coerce Dexter and Roddy McStew by revealing that he has kidnapped Dexter's family and is threatening to show them a videotape of "The Best of Marty Ingels", to which a horrified Roddy responds, "What kind of sadistic creature are you!?"
  • And the episode "Hotrods from Heck", one of the titular hot rods blows himself up rather then endure 7 hours of Tony Danza.
  • In another ep, Freakazoid gives a speeder a ticket...to The Jerry Springer Show. After seeing the speeder's horrified reaction, he decides to just give him a warning.
• Futurama:
  • In "Space Pilot 3000", Fry learns that anyone who refuses the job assignment programmed into their career chip gets fired. From a cannon. Into the sun.
  • The episode "Amazon Women in the Mood" brings us "Death By Snu Snu".
    Fry: (sombre expression) I never thought I'd die this way...(suddenly smiles)...but I'd always really hoped.
  • In "Hell is Other Robots", Bender is subject to many such punishments for his sins in Robot Hell. These include his hard drive being used as a turn table by Beastie Boys for illegally copying their music or being turned into a giant cigar for his smoking habit. But the worst part for Bender is the up-tempo singing and dancing.
  • Still, "Calculon 2.0" shows that the Robot Devil has standards. Even the damned don't deserve to listen to Calculon Chewing the Scenery.
  • "The Late Phillip. J Fry" states that in the year 1,000,000 & 1/2, mankind's ultimate punishment will be enslavement by giraffes.
    Song: Man will pay, for all his misdeeds
    When the treetops are stripped of their leaves! Whoa-oh-oh!
• This precious gem from the first Aloysius Pig episode of Garfield and Friends:
  "You clean your room first, then maybe you can be in charge. Bossing people around. I don't know where you'd get that!"
• Prior to the formation of Gorillaz, Murdoc and 2D had a horribly twisted Meet Cute when Murdoc ram-raided the keyboard shop 2D worked at, hit 2D with the car, and put him into a coma. Instead of jail, Murdoc was sentenced to thirty thousand hours (a total of about three years) of community service, plus ten hours a week of watching the unconscious 2D. Semi-logical, but if you needed proof that theirs is a Crapsack World, remember this is Murdoc Niccals we're talking about.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Codename: Kids Next Door crossover has Mandy inflicting one of the most horrifying tortures known to man on Numbuh 1...making him watch Fred Fredburger act weird and spout non sequiturs. For hours. He's screaming "MAKE IT STOP!" by the end.
• In mainstream The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Grim's punishment for abandoning senior citizens in the woods is fifty hours of dancing.
  • Also, in the half-hour special, "Keeper of the Reaper," the judge orders Billy and Mandy to stop acting out in the courtroom, "or so help me, I'll make you sit in the chocolate pudding chair! The stains will never come out of your clothes!"
• Harley Quinn (2019): When the Joker captures Harley's crew at the end of Season 1, he tortures the notoriously misogynistic Dr Psycho by strapping him to a chair and forcing him to watch videos of feminist rallies.
• In Inspector Gadget (2015), most episodes typically end with Dr. Claw punishing his nephew/Number Two henchman Talon in a way tailored to whatever plan MAD was enacting. Some of these punishments are hilariously non-threatening (e.g. selling Dr. Claw's polish lotion door-to-door).
• Invader Zim,
  • In "A Room With a Moose." Zim cackles over his latest diabolical plan, which will force Dib and his classmates into a pocket dimension consisting of only a room... a room... with a moose! When Dib doesn't see what's so horrible about that, the camera focuses on the moose, chewing on some walnuts... and Dib screams in terror. We never see why. Though it's implied that the walnuts are a placeholder for the school bus, meaning that when the bus containing Dib and his classmates arrive in the moose's pocket dimension, they'll suffer the same fate as the walnuts... As in, they'll be eaten alive!
  • The episode "FBI Warning of Doom" features this blink-and-you'll-miss-it explanation of what happens to those who perform copyright infringement: "They will hunt you down like the dirty monkey you are and force you to wear a moose skin and ride a greased piggy while singing folk tunes. They're forcing me to ride the piggy as I write this. The Piggy is Smelly!!"
• In the Kim Possible movie So the Drama we get a look at one of Drakken's proposed master plans. Which has one of his mooks subjected to a set that looks an awful lot like the "It's a Small World" ride. He decides it's too much.
• In an episode of King of the Hill, when a thief is arrested for trying to steal Hank's truck, the very creative judge sentences him to live in a truck, reasoning that if he goes to jail, he'll just learn how to be a better thief. Hank actually admires the judge for having some common sense.
• Looney Tunes,
  • In "Early To Bet". The gamble-holic cat is subjected to a Wheel o' Punishment chock full of these sorts of things whenever he loses to the dog. "No! Not that! Not the Geshundteit!" Eventually, the dog refuses to play with him, because he's afraid the cat will get hurt.
  • Before "Early To Bet" was "It's Hummer Time", where the punishments are just randomly meted out to the cat when it upsets the dog while trying to pursue a hummingbird. "No! NOT HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"
  • In "From Hare to Heir", Sam applies the "nose in the book" punishment to his accountant for failing to keep the books balanced.
• Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): "Electric Nightmare" had Roll strapped to a chair, where she received... a bad facial.
• Mickey Mouse Works: In one cartoon, Mickey and Minnie find themselves in a place called Topsy Turvy Town where everyone does the opposite. They are arrested (long story) and put in prison, where they find that their "punishment" is rest and relaxation on a beach.
• My Little Pony 'n Friends: In My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), the evil witch Hydia tortures her daughters Reeka and Draggle into confessing why the Smooze was stopped by forcing them to eat ice cream. Under normal circumstances, the witches ate sandwiches made with live bats and other disgusting things. In "The End of Flutter Valley", she punishes them for another failure by making them eat doughnuts.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • When a batshit crazy Alicorn-Amulet-Powered Trixie shows up for revenge, she does everything from manipulating age to removing Pinkie Pie's mouth. Then she puts Rarity in a horrible dress, which literally reduces her to tears.
  • Another earlier example in "The Last Roundup": When Applejack started working at a cherry farm and won't tell the others why she won't return, they decide to send Pinkie Pie in to ramble on and on about random topics until Applejack finally caves in.
  • In "The Cutie Re-Mark Part 2", for nearly destroying the world with a time travel revenge plot, Starlight Glimmer's ultimate sentence... is becoming Twilight Sparkle's student and being friends with the Mane Six.
  • In "Gauntlet of Fire", Spike sentences Garble to return home... and to hug every dragon he meets on the way back, without explaining why.
• In the The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Gettin' Twiggy With It", Mitch is allowed to take Twiggy, the class pet hamster, home, only to cruelly torture her; later, after an accident involving radioactive waste (after Mitch flushes her) causes Twiggy to grow to giant size, Mitch is punished at school by having to run in a giant hamster wheel with Twiggy chasing him. (A lenient punishment, seeing as the Girls were originally going to let Twiggy eat him.
  • Princess Morbucks receives one of the most scathing, yet well-deserved versions of this trope in "Twas The Fight Before Christmas" when her plan to change the Naughty and Nice lists is revealed to Santa Claus after she has a Villainous Breakdown in front of him and the girls, leading Santa to angrily place her on the "Permanent Naughty Plaque", before taking away the superpowers he gave her for Christmas earlier.
• In an episode of Recess entitled "The Box", the character T.J. is forced to stand in a box painted on the ground. Everyone else is told to ignore him or be punished likewise. He goes Partially insane by the end of recess until he realizes it's just a line painted on the ground.
• Robot Chicken:
  • In the season one finale, the Bloopers host is chained up in a dungeon and his captor tells him that he will soon be free....to watch their movies on demand service. The host is okay with that, until the captor reveals that the only movie they have on demand is Christmas with the Kranks. Cue Big "NO!".
  • One sketch shows Rambo captured by two Asian soldiers who do a number of odd forms of torture on him, including reading The Twilight Saga to him, making him play "ET The Video Game", and making him watch "Two Girls, One Cup."
• Rocky and Bullwinkle:
  • In a "Bullwinkle's Corner" segment, Bullwinkle does the "Queen of Hearts" poem, where he's the king, Rocky is the queen, and Boris is the knave who steals the tarts Rocky made. They were turnip tarts, so when Boris promises he'll steal no more, Bullwinkle says, "You don't get off that easy. You stole them, friend, you eat 'em!" With that, he shoves a turnip tart into Boris' mouth, and Boris looks sick.
  • Boris and Natasha did this a lot too. In one episode, Natasha made Bullwinkle talk by having Boris tie him up and then eating a huge sundae in front of him. (It was torture for Boris too, given his reaction.)
• In Rocko's Modern Life, Spunky is sent to the pound for not having his collar (after another, tougher dog took it off him). Rocko goes to rescue Spunky, and is mistaken for a dog. The other dogs in the pound tell Rocko about the conditions they are forced to endure, one of which is being subjected to repeats of a syrupy cartoon called "Mervin the Happy Cat". (one of the dogs even pleads, "Somebody neuter me!" as the show starts up again). This inspires Rocko to run for the position of dog catcher of O-town. He loses the election but wins the war; the plight of the dogs gets noticed and an ordinance is passed to treat them much better, leaving the position of dog catcher nothing more than a "glorified pooper-scooper".
• Sabrina: The Animated Series,
  • Not only is Salem turned into a cat like usual in this version, but also Sabrina's aunts are de-aged into teenagers, and (because they aren't legal adults in the mortal world) are forced to attend high school and share a house with their "legal guardian" Uncle Quigley — despite actually being hundreds of years old. Somehow this is a dreadful punishment for witches.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Treehouse of Horror IV", when Homer sells his soul for a donut, the Devil (Flanders) agrees to Marge's insistence of a trial to determine who owns his soul, but he must remain in Hell until the trial begins. Homer's punishment while he waits is to be forced to eat donuts without rest. He promptly eats and eats and his torturer remarks that nobody has ever lasted so long.
  • In "Homer's Odyssey", Ms. Krabapple punished Bart for acting out on the bus by making him sing in front of everyone. (Bart asked if he could choose the song, but she refused, saying it would be "John Henry Was a Steel Drivin' Man".) This turns out to be an Unishment, because Bart can actually sing it pretty well.
  • In "The Springfield Files", Bart finishes a campfire horror story with the line "...and that's how much college is going to cost for Maggie." Homer's rightfully horrified.
  • From "Marge Be Not Proud", it shows that Homer's not very good at coming up with punishments himself:
    "I've figured out the boy's punishment. First, he's grounded. No leaving the house, not even for school. Second, no egg nog. In fact, no nog, period. And third, absolutely no stealing for three months."
  • Most of Principal Skinner's Vietnam memories are legitimately horrifying, but one of them actually does fit this trope:
    Skinner: I spent the next three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right.
  • In "Take My Wife, Sleaze", the Hell's Satans take offense at Homer using their name; so they barge into his house, and make him eat his biker jacket.
• In the Jetlag Productions version of Snow White, the Queen has a temper tantrum upon learning Snow White is still alive after a third attempt to kill her. She shatters all her mirrors, but when she throws a hand mirror towards her Magic Mirror, she's horrified when the hand mirror simply goes into it and disappears. The voice in the mirror starts mocking her for her petty jealousy and then sucks her in, stating she will never again see her own face. The Queen is last seen banging on the other side of the glass before disappearing.
• Kaos punishes Glumshanks in Skylanders Academy by making him wait in line at the DMV with him.
• In one episode of Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), "Spyhog", Snively tortures Antoine by offending his refined tastes in food: using too much batter for a crepe suzette, and using margarine for escargot.
• South Park:
  • When the Feds workers are trying to force information out of the boys in "Starvin Marvin in Space" they do so by... Having one worker rub his hand against a balloon to make a noise that is apparently hard on the ears. Cartman eventually cracks.
  • In "Mecha Streisand", Barbara Streisand's singing is so torturous to the boys, it causes one of them to tell her where he hid a small artifact ^note the Triangle of Zinthar, which can turn her into a Kaiju he took from Kyle.
  • In "Cartman's Incredible Gift", Cartman is captured by the "left-hand killer" and forced to watch slides of vacation photos.
  • Saddam Hussein actually likes Hell. So how does Satan get rid of him? He asks God to let him into Heaven. The Mormon residents are so nice it's a Fate Worse than Death for him.
• In SpacePOP, Tibbitt tortures the girls' parents with audio of Geela's awful singing.
• Spongebob Square Pants:
  • In the episode "No Free Rides", SpongeBob is dragged through a field of giant clams, cheese graters, and finally, Educational Television!
  • In the episode "Shanghaied", Spongebob and Patrick have only one means of escaping the Flying Dutchman's dastardly clutches... they must run through the dreaded perfume department! Though admittedly they did get sprayed in the eyes a time or two. That's gotta sting.
  • In the episode "Krabby Land", Mr. Krabs being forcefully fed lima beans as a result of the trouble he gave to the children, letting out a Big "NO!" in the process.
  • And in the episode "Patty Caper", Mr. Krabs is made to watch Krabby Patties get sold for free for stealing his own secret ingredient all because he wanted to save $1.99 and tried to frame SpongeBob for it.
  • In the episode "Karate Choppers", Sandy threatens SpongeBob with a drop of Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce to the tongue. That talks.
    "By the powers of naughtiness, I command this particular drop of hot sauce to be really, really hot!"
  • In the episode "Krab Borg" when Spongebob and Squidward think Mr. Krabs is a robot, they read a book called "How to Torture" and then gather some rope, tools and comedy records.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: When Captain Freeman tries to find a way to push Mariner off the Cerritos, she takes Ransom's suggestion to give her all the tedious tasks no-one wants so Mariner will chose to quit. It doesn't work, since Mariner finds ways to make even "Klingon prison stuff" fun. Instead, Freeman promotes her to Lieutenant (Junior Grade), and makes her attend mind-numbingly dull officers events. That works.
• In an episode of Sushi Pack, the leader of the Legion of Low Tide threatens one of his minions to break off a friendship with a member of the Pack under penalty of the worst punishment there is — ridicule. The other members procede to tease her until she begs them to stop.
• TaleSpin, Don Carnage's favorite tool for torturing people was a clawed glove... which he would use to scratch a chalkboard. This, in turn, is a reference to a scene in The Pink Panther Strikes Again. The former Chief Inspector Dreyfuss straps his victim to a chair in... the schoolroom... stuffs cotton in his ears, and utilizes the aforementioned clawed gauntlet. In what is obviously an intentional audio gaffe, the victim of the torture is heard screaming but the sound of the claw on the chalkboard is not.
• The 1964 Tom and Jerry cartoon "Much Ado About Mousing" had Jerry under the protection of an unnamed bulldog. Rather than beating up Tom (as Spike did in the Golden Age cartoons), this dog would roll Tom up into a bowling ball and send him hurtling through garbage cans into water. This happens to Tom at least three times in the cartoon.
• Total Drama
  • One episode featured the contestants being tortured in various off-kilter ways, including eating ice cream until you get brain freeze.
  • Not to mention the punishments Mal gave to Mike's alternate personalities...
• In Transformers: Prime Starscream punishes Knockout for his failure, by putting a huge scratch in his finish. It seems like this trope at first... until you realize that Starscream has effectively mutilated Knockout's skin!
• In Ultimate Spider-Man, the Trapster attacks a school play of Spider-Man, traps Flash Thompson who he thought was Spider-Man, then is subdued by the real Spider-Man and forced to listen to Flash's horrible singing till the police arrive.
• The VeggieTales version of the story of Esther replaces capital punishment with something more suitable for the target audience: banishment to the Island of Perpetual Tickling.
  • In their cover of the Daniel story, the wisemens' series of proposed ways to get rid of Daniel. Including sending him to Ur on a runaway camel, tossing him in the Tigris River to be eaten by a crocodile, doing a Jonah and have him swallowed by a whale, and using "his body as a table to play Scrabble on". Granted they do the lion thing, as true to the Bible, but still.
• In Winx Club, the inmates of Light Rock are subjected to cute animals, happy music and nice environment non-stop until they reform. Only the Trix resisted more than a couple months (instead becoming more evil as revenge), but when the guards recaptured them they were terrified of returning there.
• Woody Woodpecker has an example: In the end of the short Ace in the Hole after Woody ejects himself and the general who is chasing him a plane, all but completely crippling the general of the military airport Woody was working for at the time from the fall, he is forced to tediously shave all of the hair off of a very, very long line of horses, one by one.
• The World of David the Gnome: In the wedding episode, the trolls try to crash said wedding, but the gnomes escape. One of the more dim-witted trolls, Pat, then falls into a pit trap and refuses to tell the gnomes who was behind the party-crashing. David then declares that Pat has decided to stay behind and get an education, to which the other gnomes agree and start listing off the subjects he'll learn, good manners included. Pat starts pleading for mercy and that he'd "rather die" after Lisa mentions he'll graduate with flying colors. After she says she'll teach him to wash with rose-scented soap, he's ready to talk.
• In the Yogi's Treasure Hunt episode "Yogi's Heroes," Dick Dastardly and Muttley capture Snooper and Blabber and torture them by making them watch episodes of Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines.