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* Done rather disturbingly in the Cocoa Puffs commercials. The cuckoo will try to give up chocolate, only to see it everywhere until he breaks down and exclaims "I'M CUCKOO FOR COCOA PUFFS!", going on a rampage until he gets his cocoa fix. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|If one didn't know better, one might think that they're comparing a cereal to a]] [[I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!|highly addictive drug...]]

 

* In the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]! Overload'' manga, Sousuke is prohibited by Kaname to bring guns to school for one day. He actually starts getting ''withdrawal symptoms'' from not firing a gun. Everything starts looking like moving targets, he hears gunfire, and everyone starts looking like thug-ish terrorists. He eventually breaks, and starts attacking Kaname's classmates, thinking they're trying to kill her. In the end, Kaname takes him outside and lets him have target practice with an empty can. It ends with [[Spoof Aesop|her seeing the importance of allowing him to shoot guns (lest he start going crazy)]].

* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' has an episode where Mint is told that if she continues her obsession with wearing mascot-type animal costumes, she'll die. This diagnosis conveniently coincides with the Angel Brigade's trip to a planet that is celebrating "wear an animal costume day". While on the planet, she is the millionth customer of a local supermarket, and is awarded several animal costumes. Then she attends an award ceremony where the mayor of the town awards her another one. Then she throws the animal costume people are trying to make her wear into a lake, and [[Honest Axe|gets offered silver and gold animal costumes by the water spirit in the lake]].

* Richard Braun from ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' has this trouble with drinking.

* [[Played for Laughs|Played hilariously for laughs]] in ''[[Heaven's Lost Property]]'', where Sakurai Tomoki is a major pervert, with exceptional love for panties, and he got a hold of a ''huge'' amount of panties after a certain event. It made his [[Childhood Friend]] mad, and... It didn't end pretty. It appears she turned the panties to ''bombs'' that explode each time he looks at them. He had to try and resist looking at his adored panties until he's out of his home... They were quite literally everywhere. In the end, he gave up and embraced ''everything''. He lost his house as a result. Seriously, the sheer hilarity of that cannot be described.

 

== Comic Books ==

* In one [[Donald Duck]] comic, Daisy bets Donald that he couldn't go a day without eating anything. Cue a guy handing him a fresh hot dog (he can't take it with him on the bus), Grandma Duck nominating him as a judge in the local bake-off, and a college roommate dragging him into a restaurant as a celebration of their reunion and ordering everything on the menu. In the end, Donald is undone when Daisy catches him eating a chocolate bar, but he cheats by re-adjusting his wristwatch to trick her into thinking that it's already past midnight. The next week, they go on a date at a luxurious mountain hotel known for its all-you-can-eat buffet, but Donald gets into an accident which injures his mouth, rendering him incapable of eating anything besides soup.

** Donald's not in it, but a later story had Daisy writing in her diary about being determined to stick to her diet, naturally everything she then sees or hears (or smells) is solely about delicious food. In desperation she finally locks herself in her room to avoid temptation... then gives up and bites a chunk out of her notebook in frustration.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Lost]]'': Charlie throws the last of his heroin stash into a fire in early season 1. Being stranded on an island might seem an excellent opportunity to kick the habit. Then in the season finale he comes across a crashed plane... full of heroin.

** And then there's Hurley, who loses the perfect opportunity to get rid of some of that pork on the island when he runs into the Dharma junk food stash in the hatch. And then later ''more food'' literally drops from the sky.

* In the ''[[Married... with Children]]'' episode "A Little of the Top" Al was accidentally circumcised and had to abstain from sex for a full month. For most of their marriage, Al had very little interest in sex with his wife. But now that it was [[Forbidden Fruit|forbidden]], she suddenly became some sort of irresistible sex goddess whose every casual action seemed to turn him on.

* In the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' episode "No Laughing Matter", Hawkeye makes a bet with B.J. that he can go a full day without joking about anything. Naturally, the episode has him being presented with an unusually large number of openings for wisecracks, all of which he lets loose on the PA system at 12:01 AM the next day.

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]''. To make Mom enjoy her mother's day morning, Dexter, Dee-dee, and Dad take away her gloves and try to clean the house themselves (very poorly), which nearly drives the perfectionist Mom insane: https://web.archive.org/web/20111117032435/http://www.trilulilu.ro/alecsutz/fb51900e80d8b0

** And of course, there's the episode where Dexter's Mom bakes some muffins and Dexter has to prevent his dad from eating them (apparently, he's a "muffomaniac" and Mom even says that he only married her because of her muffins). Dad starts to hallucinate that's he's in a land of muffins and is crowned king. All in all, it was a very bizarre episode.

** Also, when K'nuckles wanted to stop hearing stories with happy endings, everybody was telling stories with various different kinds of happy endings.

* In ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', this is the reason Leonard Rockstein/Dr. Rockso couldn't stay clean from cocaine. He technically manages to stay clean for about half a year before finding confiscated cocaine behind the stage of a drug-free concert. He eventually gives in once the security guarding the drugs disappear to handle the concert which had gone haywire. Also note that this happened after a whole episode dedicated to his struggle to get clean early on in the same season. This was done mostly because Dr. Rockso happened to be the show's resident [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], and part of his charm was his insufferable cocaine addiction.

* On an episode of ''[[Moral Orel]]'', Orel was grounded from church for a month. He started seeing churches everywhere, thought everyone was saying the word "church", had very weird dreams and even dressed like a church.

* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' have a 'no laughing' vow forced on them (on threat of being transferred to the school on the tough side of town), just in time for Buzzcut's starting up Sex Ed class.

* One episode of ''[[Dennis the Menace UK]]'' featured an [[Eccentric Millionaire]] who challenged Dennis' town not to watch the telly for a whole month and promised to give the town one million if they win. At the last day, Dennis and his friends convinced him to watch TV (which he claimed he never did before during his whole life). The millionaire decided to give the money anyway.

* One ''[[House of Mouse]]'' era short had Daisy getting fed up with Donald's anger issues, and betting that he couldn't go through their date without flying into rage. Goofy ends up being their waiter. You can see where this is going... {{spoiler|but it's a subversion. Daisy's the one who gets mad. Donald remains perfectly fine during the date. That is, [[Double Subversion|until he gets the bill]].}}

 

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