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A case of [[Truth in Television]]. The forsaken item/activity isn't any more common, but the person who gave it up is [[Forbidden Fruit|more prone to notice its absence]] ''and'' to be tempted by the [[Delicious Distraction]] when it presents itself. If it's an entirely new vice to the character, it's a [[Compressed Vice]].
See also [[Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere]] for the [[Horror]] version. See also [[Frequently
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== Anime and Manga ==▼
== Advertising ==
* 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
* 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]].▼
* The very premise of the manga ''[[My Balls]]''. Due to a series of unusual circumstances, protagonist Kohta has the Queen of Hell [[Sealed Evil in A Can|sealed in his cojones]]. He must not ejaculate for a month or it will be [[The End of the World As We Know It]]. Naturally, Hell itself and everything else in the universe starts tempting him like mad.▼
* Richard Braun from ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'' has this trouble with drinking.▼
* [[Played for Laughs|Played hilariously for laughs]] in [[Sora no Otoshimono]], 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.▼
▲* 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 (
▲* The very premise of the manga ''[[My Balls]]''. Due to a series of unusual circumstances, protagonist Kohta has the Queen of Hell [[Sealed Evil in
▲* [[Played for Laughs|Played hilariously for laughs]] in ''[[
* ''[[Squid Girl]]'':
** When the title character stops eating shrimp (for medical reasons), she starts seeing shrimp everywhere.
** When Sanae stops stalking Squid Girl, she ends up mistaking everybody who's the same height for her crush.
== 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.
* The old kids' comic ''L'il Jinx'' had Jinx, after listening to her [[Shoulder Angels]], decide to ''not'' filch cookies from the cookie jar. Cue being offered cookies, being tempted by things that just ''look'' like cookies.... The inevitable punchline comes when she tells her mother how good she was and her mom notes the jar was empty anyway (she was just baking a fresh batch to fill it). Jinx proceeds to stuff the morality imps in the jar and enjoy
▲* 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 Its Not Heroin|highly addictive drug...]]
== Film ==
* Played with mercilessly by the great McCloskey in ''[[Airplane!]]!'' - "Looks like I chose the wrong week to give up drinking/smoking/sniffin' glue..."
* Basically the whole point of ''[[
** Not to mention the sequence where he tries to go about his day as usual, only to see every woman he encounters as topless.
* In ''Cold Turkey'' a smalltown agrees to give up smoking for a month to win $25mil from a tobacco company. The company tries to get weak-willed townsfolk to fold, and on the last day they airdrop cigarettes from helicopters in an attempt to Break The Townies.
* In ''[[Oh, God!]]'', God wants Jerry Landers to build an Ark for an impending flood. Jerry is resistant, and at one point he sits in his car and all that's on the radio are songs that involve the word "rain."
* In the original ''The Wicker Man'', Sgt. Howie is engaged and waiting until marriage to have sex. Once he gets to Summerisle, sex is everywhere he looks.
* At the very beginning of [[
== Literature ==
* Danny Wallace's ''Yes Man'' tells the story of what happened when he decided to say "Yes" to absolutely everything. Turns out that you give up a ''lot'' of freedom when you remove the ability to refuse an offer, and just like the trope, there are friends of his that either take advantage of this or outright plot to make him fail. {{spoiler|He fails when he refuses to sleep with someone, because he was in love with another woman. However, unlike most British comedy stories, this one has a happy ending: he flies to Australia to be with the woman he loves, something that the friend who he made the bet with in the first place was going to make him do as a "forfeit"}}.
* Ned Robbins in ''[[Jelly Belly]]'' is on a strict diet and has to put up with his family chowing down on delicious, high-calorie foods while he's stuck eating nothing but lean, broiled meats and vegetables. Even when he becomes more serious about losing weight and eating healthier, staying away from junk food is still an effort in and of itself.
== Live
* In ''[[All in The Family]]'' Archie & Mike ("Meathead") have a bet as to who can hold out longer: Archie without a cigar or Mike without food. Archie starts to tempt Mike by eating in front of him; Mike counters by smoking cigars in front of Archie. They finally decide to end in a draw, with Mike eating and Archie lighting up on the count of three. On "3" Mike puts food in his mouth but Archie draws the match away from his cigar, with a "Ha!"
** Also, when Mike finds several cigars Archie stashed:
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'''Mike:''' Don't say "picnic", Gloria.
'''Gloria:''' I'm sorry, honey.
'''Mike:''' Don't say "honey", Gloria. }}
* In "[[
* ''[[Drake and Josh]]'': Drake bets that he can go a set amount of time without ''any'' junk food, and Josh bets the same, but with video games. Megan throws together a contract. Later, Drake gets a bad skin condition caused by lack of junk food. Josh is also tempted when his grandmother sends him a brand new "game sphere". Later, Megan decides to [[Xanatos Gambit|screw them both over by tricking each brother to tempt the other]]. Josh covers the boy's bedroom with candy and Drake starts playing the game sphere with a ''fancy wireless controller''; in the end, both brothers succumb but are unable to tell who did so first. This winds up being a [[Gambit Roulette]] when Megan reveals that the contract didn't say that the person who caved in first would lose, but simply that whoever caved would lose.
* ''[[Father Ted]]'' had a whole episode dedicated to this, called [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|''Cigarettes, Alcohol and Rollerblading'']], in which the cast must give up the titular vices for Lent. In one hallucination the smoke from a guest resolves itself into the words 'lovely [[Separated
** There is honestly nothing funnier than a giant
** Except for maybe a giant rollerblade going "Blah blah blah blah blah..."
* An episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' in which Frasier and his boss, Kate, have resolved they can't have a relationship, and declared that they are two adults who can resist their mutual attraction. At the same time, a romance author who lives in Frasier's building is moving out. When Frasier and Kate get in the service elevator, to avoid the press outside the main door, it stalls and the lights go out. Frasier lights some candles, then knocks a double mattress propped against a wall, dropping it on the center of the floor. The heat forces them to take off their jackets. Then Frasier accidentally sets off a music box that plays romantic music, knocks over a bottle of musk oil trying to turn it off, and when Kate grabs a sheet to soak up the oil, it turns out to be covering a huge blow-up of a bodice-ripper cover. They resist, but only just.
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[
** 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.
* A variation of this is being played for ''extremely'' cruel comedy on this season{{when}} of ''[[Mad Men]]''. In last season's [[Wham! Episode|finale]] it was revealed that {{spoiler|Peggy had gotten pregnant out of wedlock with a married co-worker's baby; during the interval, she's apparently been ''legally declared'' unfit to raise the child, who's been put up for adoption ([[The Fifties]] were really a wonderful decade in which to be a woman). If you were to take a drink for every time babies, pregnancy, or abortion have been mentioned in her presence over the last three episodes,{{when}} you'd end up needing your stomach pumped.}}
* In the ''[[Married...
* In the ''[[
* A starving Lister in the ''[[
{{quote|
'''Lister:''' Van. Bread van. Meat van. FOOD! }}
* In ''[[
* Done in ''[[Strangers
* In the ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
* One episode of ''[[Friends]]'' dealt with Phoebe craving meat during her
** In another episode, Joey (again) is having to abstain from sex for a period of time for a well-paid scientific study, but then has a date with a gorgeous girl and ends up in bed. He manages to subvert the problem by following Monica's advice to "be there for her" without giving in himself.
** In yet another episode, Joey and Ross bet Chandler 50 bucks he can't keep his New Year's Resolution to not make fun of his friends. Shortly afterward, Ross starts wearing leather pants and dating a girl named Elizabeth Hornswoggle. {{spoiler|At the end of the episode he gives them the 50 bucks and lets it all out.}}
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* Happens to J.D. in ''[[Scrubs]]'' after a break up - he even points it out himself as he sits in a bar where a girl first offers to buy him a drink and then strikes a rather flexible pose to further entice him. To no avail though.
* Nice sendup in ''[[Dream On]]''. Martin has to give up coffee. Suddenly ''every one'' of the little film clips in his head is about....
* On ''[[
* On ''[[Barney Miller]]'', Dietrich takes a vow of celibacy to clear his mind and focus his thoughts, right when a ring of high-end call girls are rounded up and deposited in the precinct house.
* In ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' Sam becomes addicted to drinking demon blood, and tries to give it up. Well, they hunt demons, and have a magical knife to kill them with. This happens about every other fight. In several episodes, demons know that their blood tempts him, and are all but [[Accidental Innuendo|forcing themselves down his throat.]]
* The wife of Reba's ex-husband goes on a diet in one episode of ''[[Reba]]''. The fact that she was tempted by a basket of potpourri enough to ask if it was real fruit or if it was "fresh" is proof of her struggle.
* ''[[The Office]]'': Invoked by Jim when corporate announces that all [[Double Entendres]] in the office are to stop including Michael's favorite joke "Thats what she said."
{{quote|
'''Michael: (blurts out)''' ''Thats what she said.'' }}
* In an episode of ''[[
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'''Jerry''': My wife and I have a timeshare.
'''Tom''': In ''Muncie''?!
'''Leslie''': Tom, Muncie is a lovely city. }}
* In ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel
* Done in a ''very'' terrifying fashion in ''[[
* In ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'', George attempts to go "cold porky" from pork scratchings (Which gives his [[Bizarre Alien Biology|alien brain]] super-intelligence, but turns him into a jerk).
== Web Comics ==
* In [http://shazzbaa.com/comment.php?c=380 this]{{Dead link}} [[Today Nothing Happened]] strip, we see it happen in [[Real Life]].▼
* ''[[Bobwhite]]''
▲* In [http://shazzbaa.com/comment.php?c=380 this] [[Today Nothing Happened]] strip, we see it happen in [[Real Life]].
* Jacob from ''[[
▲* ''[[Bobwhite]]''. Cleo is infatuated with Ben and doesn't know whether or not to act on it. She starts seeing Ben everywhere... [http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/?webcomic_post=20090403 because his picture is on all the college's promotional material.]
▲* Jacob from ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]'' is a recovering sex addict...and unwilling [[Chick Magnet]]. This being Shortpacked, it's turned [[Up to Eleven]]: during the "Ultracar meets his creator" arc, he stumbles onto an eccentric millionaire's [[Hot Librarian]] collection and has to fend off their advances. The arc after that, he ends up being propositioned for a threesome by two beautiful women without saying a word himself. {{spoiler|And after all that, he ends up sleeping with Amber's mom, causing him to briefly retreat into his apartment out of shame.}}
* In ''[[
▲{{quote| "TWO CHICKS WANT TO DO ME AT THE SAME TIME MUST FLEE!"}}
▲* In ''[[Sinfest (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]'' Squigley had combined [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2255 porn/pot/alcohol] withdrawal. Going outside [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2257 doesn't help]. [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2258 Though one might have a few doubt when he starts to say there's no escape.]
== Western Animation ==
* When Monty of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
▲* When Monty of ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' tries to give up cheese due to the trouble his cheese attacks cause, it becomes less a case of [[Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere]] and more of Cold Turkeys Are The Focus Of The Investigation, as a pseudo-mob-boss of a rat has rerouted cheese supply in order to increase demand and get rich off of desperate rodentia. In the end, his addiction alternately saves him and very nearly keeps him from rescuing fellow Ranger Gadget from a [[Death Trap]].
* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter's stomach is acting up during a long road trip. Every billboard and sign remind him of it (examples include "Furniture Store; all stools must go!"; "I Love My Shi-Tzu"; "Bob's House of Feces, Next Exit" [to which Peter responds "Oh come on, that's not even real!"]).
** In another episode, Quagmire is forced to keep his perversion under control. After his friends take him to the mall to see how well he can contain himself in public, he sees a handful of attractive teenagers, turns away to see a woman breastfeeding, turns away from that to see [[Serial Escalation|a trio of cheerleaders who walk past a fountain, accidentally drop a pom-pom inside, decide to retrieve it, together, while shirtless, engage in a splash fight and start making out with each other]]. When he attempts to escape, he accidentally crashes into a pile of naked mannequins, then ducks into a surveillance room with full view of the women's dressing rooms.
** In yet an another episode, Peter gets a prostate exam, and thinks he was violated. He tries to watch TV; he sees ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'', changes the channel to ''[[
* ''[[
* Parody: After Bender gives up drinking in ''[[Futurama]]'' (to his detriment, because robots run on alcohol), he is [[Drunken Montage|peppered with flashing neon signs]] for things like "Boring Geology Lecture" and "Church Revival".
** Also, in "Hell is Other Robots", when Bender joins Robotology, Fry and Leela tempt him away because [[We Want Our Jerk Back|his attitude has become so upbeat it's annoying.]]
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* A few [[Looney Tunes]] featured Sylvester going through this while trying to give up eating Tweety, most memorably in "Birds Anonymous".
** For bonus points, the first thing he sees after he gets back from the BA meeting is [[Your Television Hates You|a cooking show talking about how to prepare a turkey]].
** In another [[Tweety and Sylvester|Sylvester and Tweety]] cartoon, after various failed attempts to catch Tweety, Sylvester decides to swear off birds. Right after that happens, a flock of birds perch themselves on Sylvester's shoulders. Sylvester merely mutters, "Sufferin' succotash! I picked a fine time to go on a diet!"
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' dealt with this trope several times.
** In one episode Homer orders a gun. He has to wait an entire week before getting his gun, and all he can see during the week are targets (a truck bearing the Target logo, a row of ducks, his sisters-in-law, Ned Flanders... Ned Flanders again...).
** ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' also uses it when Lisa turns vegetarian and when Homer gives up beer (including literally bombarding him with beer cans)
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** Lisa was addicted to the "Cory Hotline" and is forced to never call it from home. She cheats and uses the school's phone. With Marge's help she resolves to spend a whole day without calling, made incredibly difficult because of withdrawal-like symptoms and Maggie playing with a toy phone. Although it seems that she fell asleep dialing the hotline, Marge finds out she succeeded after all, and only dialed information to know the time and prove she went the whole day.
** In "The City of New York versus Homer Simpson", town drunk Barney Gumble is declared the evening's designated driver. Of course, that's the night that Duff Beer spokeman "Duffman" shows up to put on the party that Barney won (but obviously can't take part in).
** In a comic book, Marge makes Homer agree to eat only one donut a day. As he drives to work, he sees a donut-shaped cloud. Then more such clouds. And then a cloud shaped like an open box full of donuts, with the words "EAT US, HOMER" written on it. Naturally, he does not stick to the plan for long.
*** That was the first issue. He does sort of stick to the plan, but cheats.
{{quote|
** In the episode "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer is attracted to his co-worker, Mindy, and tries to watch television to take his mind off her:
{{quote|
''(Homer changes channels to a nature documentary)''
'''Narrator:''' The Burmese Melon Fly has over a thousand sex partners, and suffers virtually no guilt-
''(Homer changes channels to a bunch of scantily clad women working out on weight machines)''
'''Woman:''' Just do it! ''(Homer runs away)'' Examine your scalp for ringworm. }}
* Seen more than once on ''[[
** Especially the episodes "Idiot Box" and "The Paper", both involving Squidward.
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmjjHkxTItE this] [[Stealth Cigarette Commercial]], Goofy tries to give up smoking, but sees tobacco products everywhere, and people tempt him and offer him cigarettes until he actually wants one.
* ''[[Sitting Ducks]]'' takes place in a universe where ducks and alligators live in segregated districts, where there's constant tension between the hungry alligators of Swampwood and duck denizens of Ducktown. The show focuses on a duck named Bill and his relationship with Aldo, an alligator who swears off eating ducks. This often proves hard to resist for poor Aldo, who constantly must fight ostacization from his species and his own predatory instincts, especially in the episode where he hallucinates Bill and his friends as skinned floating ducks.
* ''[[
* ''[[
** 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.
* ''[[The
** 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.
* ''[[Arthur (
* Michael Swaim from ''[[Cracked.com]]'' wrote an article on Earth Hour when he would not use any electricity for one '''hour'''. The main problem was surviving without internet. [http://www.cracked.com/blog/how-i-celebrated-earth-hour-with-murder/ He ended up going primal.]
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', as part of a [[Springtime for Hitler]], Beezy can't eat for a minute. Jimmy tells him it's a piece of cake, to which he responds "Cake?" Jimmy quickly amends his statement, saying it's easy as pie, to which he responds "Pie?" Finally, Jimmy tells him he's tough as nails...[[Extreme Omnivore|to which he responds "Nails?"]]
* Used in an episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]''. The Ed's, Kevin, Rolf, and Johnny all make a cold turkey bet, each ponying up 25 cents as the bet. Ed can't have gravy, Double d can't use any big words, Eddy can't be loud, Rolf must give up meat, Johnny can't talk to plank, and Kevin (the first to lose) can't call the Ed's dorks. After Eddy spends most of the episode Invoking the trope towards everyone else, the eventual winner is {{spoiler|Ed. After falling into a barrel of gravy, Eddy LOUDLY declares his victory... until he finds out Ed fell into a barrel of butterscotch pudding, which he's allergic to. Ed gets the money and spends it on, you guessed it, gravy}}.
* On an episode of ''[[
* ''[[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.
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* 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]].}}
* In episode 3 of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', Arnold is depressed that he lost his hat. To take his mind off it, he turns on the TV and sees that it's Hat Day at the local ballpark and everyone in the stadium is wearing one. It doesn't help.
* In an episode of ''[[A Pup Named Scooby
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