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* In ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', Lynette causes the neighborhood to riot over a suspected pedophile, causing his invalid sister to die of a heart attack. At the end, he informs her that he had never acted on his tendencies because of his sister, and he was now "free" to do that.

** He may also have been screwing with Lynette's head for revenge. The ending is rather ambiguous about it.

* Subverted (via some parodying of the [[Double Standard]]) in an episode of ''The George Lopez Show''; George's wife works the neighborhood into a frenzy over a convicted sex offender living in the neighborhood. When a neighborhood mob shows up on the offender's doorstep, they find out "he's" a "she" - a [[Hot for Student|former teacher who had sex with an underage student]], and had served time for it. The crowd (with the now-doubly indignant exception of the wife) disperses with basically an "Oh. Carry on, then."

** She also says she was going to come around to their houses and explain it personally, but as long as they had turned up as an angry mob, she would do it then. It was a mistake, and she was in therapy for it.. Of course, if she had been a man, she might not even have gotten that much out. George asserts that it can't be rape since the boy would want it. His son later asks for advice on girls. George says to be confident. You see where this is going. He has a talk with Max later, admitting what he said earlier was wrong.