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* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' sees this a lot, usually with the Winchester's getting their asses handed to them by the [[Big Bad]].

* There is a celebrity episode of ''[[Lingo]]'', in which one team dealt the other an unmatched 500-0 beatdown. I repeat, a celebrity episode. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1beGehEBg here].

* The vast majority of villains on ''[[Smallville]]'' get one of these at the hands of Clark. Really, most episodes revolve around him having to find out who the villain is and/or figure out how to separate them from their chunk of [[Kryptonite Factor]]. Once that's done, everything goes into slow motion, Clark walks up to the motionless bad guy, and takes them down with one punch. They've been getting a little better about not doing that, though.

** And then every time the Cylons come directly up against Galactica with her back against the wall, the [[Curb Stomp Battle]] goes the other way, as human Battlestars are ton-for-ton superior to Cylon Basestars, and the Cylon fleet is so spread out that they can never concentrate enough fleet power to finish off the Galactica.

* This is the ''normal'' outcome of an attack by the Shadows against a Younger Race in ''[[Babylon 5]]''.

** A later episode posed a problem because the bully weighed only 150 lbs: It took a while to find a fighter that small. The diminutive fighter managed to finish both rounds ''in less than a minute'' and the bully had to stop in the middle of the post-fight monologue to vomit.

* To say that [[My Name Is Earl|Earl Hickey]] is not good at fighting would be putting it mildly, his every fight ending on the losing side of one of these. He once got pummeled senseless by the one-legged girl's boyfriend, a man with a single arm and no legs.

* In ''[[Survivor (TV series)|Survivor]]: Palau'', almost all the young and physically fit contestants ended up on one tribe while almost all the older and more physically feeble contestants ended up on the other tribe. Guess which tribe ended up losing '''all''' the immunity challenges and all but two of the reward challenges? The tribe who...''wasn't'' the most physically able but had a strong teamwork spirit and intelligent leaders who carried their tribe to victory while the more physically strong tribe floundered about with nary a clue about how to strategize or work together.