Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off: Difference between revisions

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Li'l Jimmy's done it now. His dad is angry, and this is a crime worthy of far more than a [[Time Out]]. And Daddy's getting out the belt. This ain't gonna be pretty.

Of course, in the comedic version, the father takes his belt off, raises his arm to apply some pain, and his pants immediately fall down for want of a belt to hold them up.

 

 

A [[Sister Trope]] for [[Spank the Cutie]], but usually used on boys rather then girls, almost never for erotic purposes and is often treated like an explicit child abuse. Can be coupled with (and the result of) [[Calling the Old Man Out]].

See also [[Corporal Punishment]], [[A Taste of the Lash]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* Kogoro Mouri from ''[[Detective Conan]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[The Boondocks]]'': There's a reason why Granddad's [[Catch Phrase]] is "Boy, where's my belt?!"

'''Riley:''' Homesick. }}

** Although he also uses his belt as a bonus weapon against pimps and hustlers.

** To explain why, the general had put together a cell of middle eastern terrorists and sent them on a plane, which they were to hijack. The plane was then blown up by the Russians, killing the US funded terrorists and the innocent people aboard. Don't worry, he and his associates get a better punishment for it later.

* Any issue of ''[[The Beano]]'' in days gone by would have included at least two instances of this.

* The comic ''[[Love and Rockets]]'' have several kinky references to Hot Wheel tracks.

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* ''[[Pootie Tang]]'' has a ''magic'' +5 belt of whoopass which is the Source Of His Power.

** Possibly justified, as the kid had just killed one of his brothers and attempted a coup. Pretty much every person in that movie pulls something like that on a family member.

* In ''[[Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny]]'', a young J.B. gets the belt for singing a rock song about fucking the devil at the dinner table.

* In ''[[Good Will Hunting]]'', Will describes how his father would add a layer of psychological torment by making him choose what he would be beaten with. He always chose a wrench, the worst of the three options, "Because fuck him, that's why."

* Spoofed in ''[[Troll 2]]'', where the dad fumbles with his belt while yelling at his son for ruining their food... and tightens it to deal with the hunger pains.

* In ''[[Get On The Bus]]'', Flip tells a story about the time he tried out for his school's track team against his mother's wishes. She showed up at the tryouts with a belt so thick nobody could actually wear it, and, well... let's just say Flip hates wearing belts to this day.

 

 

* Subverted in the short story ''The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea'' from ''The Stories Julian Tells''. Julian's father warns him and his little brother to not, under any circumstances, eat the pudding he's just made for her mother when she gets home. Of course, Julian dares his brother into eating it. The father snarls, "There's going to be some beating and some whipping!" What happens next? You guessed it. Their punishment is {{spoiler|to make a new pudding, and they have to beat the eggs and whip the cream}}.

* Happens to Menolly in the [[Dragonriders of Pern]]. When she starts improvising, her sexist father, who is ashamed that a mere daughter has the skills of a Harper, ominously dismisses the class she's teaching and signals to her to lift up her tunic (not what it sounds like, but unpleasant in a totally different way) before belting her savagely. Even Menolly's mother, who's not a great help to the girl at the best of times, is shocked by the injuries inflicted on her [[The Unfavourite|unfavourite]] daughter.

** This is the same book that warns fathers not to drive their children to anger, as well.

*** What about driving them to fear?

*** [[Star Wars|Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.]] [[Bait and Switch|Hate leads to expensive therapy sessions as an adult.]]

* This is used as punishment by Liza's father in ''[[Bones of Faerie]]''.

* Nimbalo The Slayer's father in the ''[[Redwall]]'' book ''Taggerung'' frequently did this, until he finally stood up to the scumbag and ran off. Despite this, Nimbalo's still heartbroken when he discovers that his father was murdered by the vermin they're chasing with his own battle axe.

* In ''Me and My Little Brain'', part of [[The Great Brain]] series, John finally gets fed up with his adopted brother attacking him in mute silence, so he takes his little brother behind the woodshed and delivers an intense spanking. He expects to be whipped even worse by his parents for it, but the discipline breaks through the trauma his little brother had earlier experienced and caused him to open up to humanity again.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

 

* Nikki from ''[[The Parkers]]''

* Rochelle from ''[[Everybody Hates Chris]]''

** Julius [[Up to Eleven|has a different belt for different offenses.]] The list goes; lying, stealing, [[Department of Redundancy Department|lying & stealing]], getting somebody pregnant, and doing drugs. [[Refuge in Audacity|The drugs belt has a gun holster on it.]]

* Bernie from ''[[The Bernie Mac Show]]''

* Pops from ''[[The Wayans Bros]]''

* Logan from ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' even has to get the belt himself, at his age! Just shows how much his father is a [[Complete Monster]].

* James from ''[[Good Times]]'', usually to youngest son Michael (to get him off his soapbox).

* Done between adults in ''[[The Sopranos]]'' when Tony uses his belt to hit his corrupt congressman lackey for sleeping with his mistress. Even though he had (apparently) okayed it earlier.

* In at least one episode of ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', specifically, "Mr. Mc Beevee." Opie is accused of stealing a quarter, and refuses to concede that Mr. Mc Beevee (a telephone lineman, who gave the coin to Opie) is imaginary, and Andy makes an implied threat that if Opie doesn't bend, he could face a whipping. The incident is averted when Andy decides he needs to believe his son.

 

 

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI Here]'s one from a comedian named Russell Peters. "Somebody's gonna get a hurt real bad," indeed.

** Somewhat subverted by comedian Katt Williams:

* Pretty common with a lot of ethnic groups, especially Irish.

** [[Denis Leary]]:

*** Rex Navarette would fondly recall the usage of his mother's '''toe''' on him in Church.

* Steve Geyer recalled how his mother would tell him to bring her something to spank him with. At first, he would bring "a ''belt'' with a ''buckle'' on it", but eventually wised up and started bringing her sheets of notebook paper (don't laugh, he still has paper cut scars back there). Then she moved on to Hot Wheels tracks.

* One black comic (can't remember who) mentioned that her mom once spanked her with a wet towel for lack of anything better. "My ass said 'Motel 6' for a week."

* It also happens with redneck stand-up comics too. [[Jeff Foxworthy]] stated that getting a "time out" in his family meant that "our dad would take time out of his busy day to blister our butts!"

 

== Video Games ==

* In the old school learning adventure game ''Pepper's Adventures in Time'', Pepper meets a young Ben Franklin and chats with him. However, at one point his father calls from upstairs for Ben to bring the candle wick that he'd (forgotten to) pick up at the general store. If you don't give him the bit of string you have in your inventory, Ben eventually goes upstairs to face the music and a smacking sound ensues.

* In ''[[Halo]] 3'', Sgt. Johnson will occasionally yell out in the middle of combat "Don't make me take off my belt!"

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUTlgVrEOo "WHOOP YO KIDS!!"]

* Lurking Dragon's ''Rejuve Universe'' is all about this trope and [[Spank the Cutie]]. To wit, humanity finds some alien technology that allows them to be immortal by "rejuvenating" their bodies.But because aliens were asexual beings, machines doing it can't handle human puberty, so the people have to be sent to childhood. Guess what happens to criminals? Yeah, that's right. They get turned into children and given to strict "spanko" parents that spank them on the slightest provocation, then again and again, for decades of punishment (because everybody is practically immortal, years mean nothing to them). You can find more explanations on [http://www.professor-bob.net/rejuveg.html this page] as well as original stories [http://boyzbeingboyz.com/roguebfl/MS00.php here] (Warning, NSFW link)

'''[[Jew Wario]]:''' You mean like your son, Shia [[Le Bouf]]? }}

* In the [[Newgrounds]] unlockable game "The Last Piece of Cake", a father gets into a fight to the death with his son over the last piece of cake. One of his random taunts is "Don't make me take my belt off".

 

== Western Animation ==

** Usually it's only suggested; at the end of ''Grounded'', Clay [[Tear Jerker|visibly beats Orel's religious epiphany out of him]] because it threatened their Protestant beliefs.

* Just like in the comics version, Granddad of [[The Boondocks]] does/threatens this often...Seeing his [[Indiana Jones]]-esque skills with a belt, you can't blame Riley for freaking and running like hell.

'''Grampa''': All right, I'll show you. [pants fall down] Doggone it! }}

** This elicits Nelson's first ever "[[Catch Phrase|ha-ha!]]"

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