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* In ''[[Comfort Woman (novel)|Comfort Woman]]'', Beccah sneaks out to go on a school trip to the beach without telling her mother Aikiko, who is terrified of her being attacked by evil spirits. She gets a bit of coral lodged in her foot and gets a bad infection, which reveals the whole thing to Aikiko, who ends up keeping her daughter cooped up 24/7 for the next year.

* [[Fablehaven]] averts this with Seth, who does occasionally slip away and break rules whenever it's extremely beneficial. It's played straight with Kendra, though, whose ability to get away with anything is so bad that she even drags Seth down.

* Paula Danziger employs this trope in a few of her books, particularly with heroines who decide to put themselves first for once after spending most of the book placating or looking after other people.

** In ''There's a Bat in Bunk Five'', Marcy spends most of her time as camp counsellor trying to reach out to Ginger, a troubled and seriously obnoxious girl who makes life hell for both Marcy and the other youngsters in her cabin. Eventually, Marcy pretty much gives up on Ginger and starts enjoying her time at camp on her own terms, even starting up a romance...''then'' Ginger decides she wants to talk, when Marcy is occupied. Ginger throws a hissy fit and runs away—Marcy gets lectured on how she was focusing on her own fun and not looking after the girls.

* Josh from ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' fits this trope. Drake and/or Megan can often slip through the cracks when it comes to mischief, but that ability falls far short of Josh.

* On ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Elaine skips the boss's dinner party or whatever event and tells him she has to visit her father in the hosptal. She is in fact going to the Yankees game with George and Kramer. When Kramer is hit by a foul ball, their picture is snapped and appears in the sports section the next day, which of course, Elaine's boss never fails to read.

** On the other hand, most of the episode is about people trying to convince her that she shouldn't feel bad about it and that it was a complete coincidence.

* On [[The George Lopez Show]], this was one of George's catch phrases. "I can't do [[Funetik Aksent|NUTH-EEN]]!"

* Pretty heavily subverted in [[That '70s Show]]. The main characters smoke pot nearly every episode, but have only been caught twice or so. Even then, they didn't receive much punishment.

* In a ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode about underage drinking, not only do the kids end up in jail for underage consumption, two of them proceed to get into an offscreen drunk-driving accident and die.

* On an episode of ''Two of a Kind'', [[Straight Man|Kevin]] is convinced to call in sick at work and go to a ballgame instead. He wins a car because of this- and ends up on the big screen and the evening news. When his boss calls, {{spoiler|the trope is revealed to be subverted; he was just asking to test drive the car}}.

* This is first seemingly played straight in one episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' and then shown to be a subversion in a later episode . When a cop fails to clean his gun one day, he is involves in a big shootout and it jams. He gets into trouble over this and Internal Affairs even suspects him of being in cahoots with the bad guys. In a later episode his gun jams again and we find out that he has been negligent in maintaining his weapons for a long time and has in fact been getting away with it for all that time. This time though {{spoiler|he is killed}}.

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