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* ''[[King of the Hill]]'': Bobby is put into one of these at a military school. It most assuredly does not break him.
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* 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
* In an episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'', An amnesiac Bruce Wayne becomes a captive of a forced
* Happy Peppy Gary and Happy Peppy Betty on ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' are shown punishing kids by putting them in the "Fun Box", an inhumanely small cage. They even gave it a [[Tastes Like Diabetes|happy, peppy theme song]].
* In ''[[Tale Spin]]'', Baloo stays at a Thembrian penal colony which he has mistaken for a fitness camp. He is frequently sent to what he calls a "solar
* In the "Boiling Rock" episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the titular prison has "The Cooler," a small refrigerated cell designed to contain fire benders. Plays the trope straight in that it's a small, confined box they're put in as punishment, and inverts the effect in that it's a punishment because it's ''freezing'' rather than hot.
* 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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