You Are Grounded: Difference between revisions

The kiddie version of [[Turn in Your Badge]].

 

 

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** Buffy's mother Joyce was portrayed as a lackluster by-the-book parent early on, hence the random groundings.

** And of course it's [[Played for Laughs]] in that all teenage girls think being grounded means the end of the world. Which in Buffy's case is [[The End of the World as We Know It|literally true]].

** {{spoiler|Arthur Petrelli says this jokingly to his son Peter after he stole his abilities.}}

* Subverted in ''[[Family Ties]]'' when the father informs the oldest daughter that she's grounded, at which point she informs them that they can't ground her, she's over 18. "Darn, that used to work so well," the father moans.

{{quote|'''Big Pete''' (to Dad)''':''' It's just parasites. ''[[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|Really big]]'' parasites.}}

* Subverted in [[Privileged]]: Megan grounds Rose for {{spoiler|attempting to cheat on her history final}}. Rather than attempt to fight against it, Rose goes out of her way to prove to Megan how seriously she's taking the punishment, bringing her favourite items to Megan voluntarily and being extra-helpful around the house. Also subverted in that Megan actively ends the grounding rather than it just vanishing next episode.

** To Butters they probably aren't worse consequences it's just, he's screwed up. And his family is worse. Remember the episode with Paris Hilton?

** While they don't fear it as much as Butters, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman will also go to absurd lengths to avoid being grounded: for example, in "Butt Out," they decide that getting swept up in a battle between big tobacco and anti-smoking activists and facing down a torch-and-pitchfork wielding mob would be less trouble than getting grounded for three weeks.

** Also used in the movie. Remember the Mole: "You realize that by doing zis, we could be grounded for two, maybe even three weeks."

** Another episode featured her being grounded by her [[Bumbling Dad]], who was surprisingly competent at keeping her in her room, forcing her [[Non-Human Sidekick]] to have to save the day.

* This happens to Will ''all the time'' in ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'', as her mom gets stricter as the series goes on. Because the series is [[An Arc|arc-based]], Will's groundings usually carry over between episodes, to the point where by about the mid-point of season one, she's perpetually grounded. Seeing as how the consequence of staying home (the girls' powers depend on Will being there to transform them) are nothing less than ''the end of the world'', Will usually just sneaks out of her room anyway, accepting the consequences of being grounded as [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|an unfortunate consequence of her]] [[Comes Great Responsibility|great responsibility as a heroine]].

*** Eventually he gets fed up when Kevin is in danger and needs his help. He points out that his parents simply don't have the power to enforce their punishment (and the only reason it works is because he's already a basically good kid to start with), transforms, and jumps out the window.

* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|Jimmy Neutron]]''. All the time. For starters, in the pilot episode.

* Happens about two times in ''[[Totally Spies]]'' The is where Clover ended up grounded due to a late curfew (though in truth was due to a mission). She manages to sneak out thanks to a WHOOP gadget that displays holograms. The second was in a movie where the girls' moms forbid their spy work after they find out their secret. Doesn't help that a brainwashed [[Alpha Bitch|Mandy]] and her friends are trying to kill them at the time.

* Happent to Beezy on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes|Jimmy Two Shoes]]''. Unfortunately, in Miseryville, [[Not So Harmless Punishment|it means being]] [[Buried Alive]]. In a sandbox.