Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Difference between revisions

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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 Broken Unbreakable Vow]] for general promises rather than abstinence. Often seen with [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]. Compare [[Going Cold Turkey]], when the addiction is broken by a single self-imposed withdrawal phase. Can lead to [[Radish Cure]] where the character learns his lesson as a result of consuming too many "cold turkeys".

See also [[Warm Bloodbags Are Everywhere]] for the [[Horror]] version. See also [[Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow]] for general promises rather than abstinence. Often seen with [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]. Compare [[Going Cold Turkey]], when the addiction is broken by a single self-imposed withdrawal phase. Can lead to [[Radish Cure]] where the character learns his lesson as a result of consuming too many "cold turkeys".

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* 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 ''[[Forty Days and Forty Nights|40 Days and 40 Nights]]'' Matt Sullivan gives up sex for Lent in an effort to move past a pattern of self-destructive relationships. Of course, every person with two X chromosomes sees this as incredibly sexy, others feel it may hamper the power of [[Lysistrata Gambit|their favorite man-control means]], and others just want him to lose. This leads to girls flooding him with offers he can barely refuse, until {{spoiler|one of the girls out-and-out forces herself on him. See [[Double Standard Rape Female On Male]]}}. Expect this result only if you are [[Josh Hartnett]].

* Basically the whole point of ''[[Forty Days and Forty Nights|40 Days and 40 Nights]]'' Matt Sullivan gives up sex for Lent in an effort to move past a pattern of self-destructive relationships. Of course, every person with two X chromosomes sees this as incredibly sexy, others feel it may hamper the power of [[Lysistrata Gambit|their favorite man-control means]], and others just want him to lose. This leads to girls flooding him with offers he can barely refuse, until {{spoiler|one of the girls out-and-out forces herself on him. See [[Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)]]}}. Expect this result only if you are [[Josh Hartnett]].

** 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 [[~~One Hundred and One~~ Dalmatians (Disney)|''102 Dalmatians'']], a reformed Cruella [[Devil]] is freed from prison, only to start imagining the entire London skyline completely covered with spots like a Dalmatian's fur coat, and as a result she reverts back to the psychotic villain she once was.

* At the very beginning of [[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|''102 Dalmatians'']], a reformed Cruella [[Devil]] is freed from prison, only to start imagining the entire London skyline completely covered with spots like a Dalmatian's fur coat, and as a result she reverts back to the psychotic villain she once was.

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* ''[[Lost (TV)|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.

* A variation of this is being played for ''extremely'' cruel comedy on this season 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, you'd end up needing your stomach pumped.}}

* A variation of this is being played for ''extremely'' cruel comedy on this season 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, you'd end up needing your stomach pumped.}}

* 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 (TV)|Mash]]'' 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.

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* 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 ''[[ET the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', showing E.T.'s [[Healing Hands|healing finger]], then changes the channel to a Yellow Pages ad: "Let your fingers do the walking!" Peter then runs away, and meets Chris, who wears a foam finger, and the Evil Monkey, who always points at people.

** 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 ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', showing E.T.'s [[Healing Hands|healing finger]], then changes the channel to a Yellow Pages ad: "Let your fingers do the walking!" Peter then runs away, and meets Chris, who wears a foam finger, and the Evil Monkey, who always points at people.

* ''[[Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]:'' Eduardo has fleas, and he's trying not to scratch. But everywhere he looks, there are people using scratch-and-sniff cards, monkeys scratching themselves in an inappropriate manner, etc.

* 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".

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