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{{quote|'''Carr:''' These here spoons, you keep with ya. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. No one will sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sittin' on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man loud-talkin' spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor-walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in --
'''Luke:''' -- the box.
'''Carr:''' ''[to Luke]'' I hope you ain't gonna be a hard case.
|''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''}}
Our protagonist is in a [[Working
Various forms of this have been an unfortunate [[Truth in Television]] (see [[The Other Wiki]] for a few examples), which is probably where the trope originates from.
{{examples|Examples: }}▼
{{noreallife|[[The Other Wiki]] already has [[w:Box (torture)|a list that we don't need to duplicate here]].}}
== [[Anime and Manga]] ==▼
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', a particular incident similar to this is [[Played for Laughs]]. A strip shows Sealand ignoring his "Papa" Sweden and watching TV. Sweden gets a big cardboard box, writes "England" on it, (for some reason) and then sneaks up behind Sealand, and throws the box over him and shakes it with him inside, calling it a "Dambolis" with Sealand saying "Please stop it!". It's even funnier because the strip is presented as a step-by-step of how to make a Dambolis (it will take 3 minutes, it claims).▼
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
▲* In ''[[
== Film - Animated ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' has {{spoiler|Sunnyside's sandbox}} used for this purpose.
* In ''[[Despicable Me]]'', orphans who disobey [[Jerkass|Miss Hattie]] get put in the Box of Shame.
== Film - Live Action ==
* 'The box' in ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]'' is probably the [[Trope Codifier]] here.
* In ''[[The Great Escape]]'', it was The Cooler and it was reserved for attempted escapees. The fact that [[Steve McQueen]]'s character had been in it so many times, and had survived, led to him being termed The Cooler King.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Matilda (
* The Japanese prison camp in ''[[The Bridge
* In ''[[Stir Crazy]]'', [[Gene Wilder]] asks for an extra day in The Box when they come to get him out. He's just [[Too Kinky to Torture]].
* ''[[Das Experiment]]'', based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment, recycled in Germany.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'': In ''Mr. Midshipman Hornblower'', Hornblower, while being held prisoner in Spain, is placed into a small hole in the ground covered by a grate. The hole has neither room to stand upright or lie down, forcing the prisoner to crouch uncomfortably while exposed to the elements.
** The same hole appears in the ''Hornblower'' telefilm ''The Duchess and the Devil''.
* In ''Dragon and Slave'' by [[Timothy Zahn]], there are sheds that
* ''[[Matilda]]'' has "Chokey", which is more or less a non-lethal Iron Maiden.
* In ''[[
== Live
* In ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Paradise", a group of colonists who crash-landed on a planet 10 years ago use the Box as punishment for any transgression.
* ''[[Kung Fu]]'': Caine finds himself in a two-man Box, and teaches the other man in the box to meditate so as to avoid the torturous aspects of being in the box. The guards & other prisoners are amazed that they're able to leave under their own power instead of being carried out.
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' episode "The Slam:" David gets put in one. Strangely enough, he doesn't [[Hulk Out]]. Another prisoner in the box next door tells him how to survive: find a rock to suck on, put your head in the least exposed place possible, and don't move around.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': Earl goes to prison to cover up the fact that Joy really did the crime in question. The prison there has a 2 person "Hot Box;" there's a chain link fence between the two sides of the box, but there's also a hole in the fence big enough to put your arm through.
* In the ''[[
* A ''[[
* The heroes are subjected to this punishment in ''[[
* In ''[[Seven Days]]'', Frank's background includes several days in such a box while being a captive (a form of interrogation). He never cracked ''that'' way, but the project recovered him from a madhouse.
* In ''[[The Wild Wild West]]'' season 2 episode "The Night of the Bottomless Pit", James and Artie go undercover to Devil's Island. James ends up in The Pit - The Box with a deeply-dug floor - as punishment (and to find the man they were looking for).
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Dilbert]]'', the [[Pointy
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Alpha Centauri]]'' has the "punishment sphere", which make the oppressed masses too frightened to ever riot no matter what. For some reason, constructing this city improvement is not on the list of atrocities that will turn the other civilizations against you.
* In ''[[
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
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Joey: Do you want to go back in the box?
Tristan: Please don't make me go in there!
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Bobby is put into one of these at a military school. It most assuredly does not break him.
{{quote|
* On ''[[Recess]]'' the Box is just a square drawn on the playground floor. T.J. at first laughs it off, but eventually, it breaks him. {{spoiler| He overcome this when a random kid ask for him to help find his ball. When TJ was helpless, the kid calls him out, leading TJ to break out his prison.}}
* In an episode of ''[[Batman:
* Happy Peppy Gary and Happy Peppy Betty on ''[[The Fairly
* In ''[[
* In the "Boiling Rock" episode of ''[[
* In ''[[Rugrats]]'', "The Big House", Tommy is sent to time-out in a crib after destroying a cat sculpture by accident, which he apologized to the kid as he was arguing with Big Justin. The head of the daycare didn't see what actually happened and punished Tommy, despite the other two workers correctly believing it was by accident. Big Justin learned how Tommy was able to keep calm during the 5-minutes, as most crack after 2.
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