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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"You have had Roger to yourself for nine wonderful years, but after tomorrow I'm the woman of the house and you're off to a year-round boarding school... possibly in Tibet! Ah, ha, ha, ha!"''|Clarice Kensington, ''It Takes Two'' (the Olsen twins' take on ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'')}}
You're a [[Card-Carrying Villain]], about to marry a lovable, but chronically [[Genre Blindness|Genre Blind]] single parent. It's perfect! You can have endless sex with someone who is obviously a bombshell and you can spend their giant fortune any way you want!
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== Anime & Manga ==
* A non-villainous example occurs in ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]'', when Asu and Kyou move in with their aunt she intends to send Kyou to a boarding school, but they convince her that it would be better for them to remain together.
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== Comic Books ==
* In the horror anthology comic ''[[The Witching Hour]]'' in a story published around 1980 or so, a young boy is sent away to a very distant and exclusive boarding school by his [[Evil Stepmother|Evil Stepparent]]. Unbeknownst to the E.S.P., the school was a [[Wizarding School|Witches' School]] (this was a generation ''before'' Harry Potter). When the boy returns for vacation, he uses his supernatural powers to discover that the E.S.P. had murdered his father, seduced his mother, and taken credit for his late father's work. The E.S.P. then dies a horrid, screaming, fear-filled death that the police couldn't possibly label murder.
== Film ==
* Pretty much every version of ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]''.
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'': "Darling, haven't you ever heard of a delightful little thing called boarding school?"
* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'', after Biff marries Lorraine in 1985-A, Marty is sent to (and expelled from) various boarding schools.
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** [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|Plays a little differently today, don't you think?]]
*** The threat wasn't funny even then. The film came out in 1991, and the First Gulf War was going down at about that time, including several bombings of that city.
* In [[The Movie]] of ''[[The Cat in the Hat]]'', Alec Baldwin wants to marry Kelly Preston and send her son off to military school (same dif).
* ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]'' was a weird case. One, the kids were not the children of the married (Uncle Fester and serial murderess [[Black Widow|Debbie Jellinsky]]). Two, they ''were'' shipped off. Three, it wasn't a boarding school but a summer camp. And four, they didn't prevent Debbie from executing her scheme—Fester, being an Addams, proves harder to kill than her other victims, and when Fester escapes and Debbie turns her wrath toward the entire family, it is little Pubert who ends up literally short-circuiting her plans.
* In ''[[Three Men and a Little Lady]]'', Sylvia's fiancée Edward reveals his true colors when, among other things, he's tricked into admitting that he wants to ship her daughter Mary off to a boarding school almost as soon as they're married.
* A heroic version in the [[A Little Princess (1995 film)|1995]] and [[A Little Princess (1939 film)|1939]] film adaptations of ''[[A Little Princess]]''. In both films, Sara's father Captain Crewe has her sent away to Miss Minchin's boarding school because he has to go away to war, in comparison with the original book where there wasn't a war.
== Literature ==
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{{quote|'''Brighton''': (''in Eastern European accent'') I'm Dracula, and I'm going to suck all your blood and bury you alive!
'''Gracie''': You don't scare me!
'''Brighton''': (''in normal voice'') All right, fine. I'm C.C. (''[[Rich Bitch|C.C. Babcock]], their dad's business partner''), and I'm gonna marry Dad and send you away to boarding school!"
'''Gracie''': (''runs away screaming'') }}
* On ''[[Roswell]]'', Liz's father uses this seriously as a threat, when it seems like Max is having a corrupting influence on his formerly straitlaced daughter (they get arrested for armed robbery as part of a botched scheme to find Max's spaceship): he demands that both of them stay away from each other, or off she goes to Vermont—he's already sent a deposit! Then, later in the season, Liz's father forgives Max and gives him a second chance, only to have Liz haul ''herself'' off to the boarding school when she suddenly start to feel as if knowing Max has ruined her life.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' episode "Mommy Fearest" has Sedusa doing this to the girls while disguising herself as a woman (Ima Goodlady) that the Professor goes ga-ga for...
* Also happens in one episode of ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' where a [[Rich Bitch]] has set her eyes on Uncle Scrooge. She plans to send Huey, Dewey and Louie to military school and Webigail to finishing school ("I don't want to be finished!") {{spoiler|Fortunately, his old love from the Klondike shows up and spoils the plan}}.
* Happens to Eliza in ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]] Movie''.
* Almost happened to ''[[Polly Pocket]]'' in "Pollyworld''. Ironically, it wasn't Polly who stopped her would-be [[Wicked Stepmother|Stepmother]]. What saved Polly was an [[Accidental Public Confession]].
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