You Are Grounded: Difference between revisions

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'''Edd''': [[Sick and Wrong|...That's disturbing.]] |''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'', "3 Squares and an Ed"}}

 

== Film ==

* In Dunston Check's In, Robert grounds his two children, Kyle and Brian for using a fountain to spray one of the hotel employees for taking their Frisbee (they hit Lionel Spaulding and some other guests by mistake). Brian notes that it isn't bad to be grounded in a five-star hotel. Later on, while Kyle is walking Neal, Neal encounters Dunston and jumps into a dumpster. The two get "double-grounded," and Robert only manages to assign Brian his punishment before he has to leave to deal with Dunston breaking into a guest's room.

'''Robert''': Think of something you really like. You got it? NO THAT! }}

* Subverted in ''[[Mean Girls]]'': Cady gets grounded, but her dad has spent decades in the African wilderness.

'''Cady's Dad:''' Are they not allowed out when they're grounded? }}

* In [[Charlie Bartlett]], Charlie and his mother actually ''negotiate'' how long his punishment will last, and he is the one who suggests being grounded as punishment.

* In ''[[Young Wizards|Deep Wizardry]]'', Nita and Kit are grounded for staying out incredibly late (on wizardly business, but Nita's parents don't know that). They sneak out after that, get caught when they come back in, and ultimately wind up explaining exactly what they were doing, why they have to keep doing it, and that they're going to have to do it whether they get permission or not.

* ''The Siren Song'', by Anne Ursu has this. Charlotte is grounded because she went to go save all the children in London and her hometown from certain death. Her parents do not believe her, despite her note:

* This actually benefits Finn in the first ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'' book, since being grounded allows him to go to bed earlier without attracting suspicion, which allows him to cross over.

 

* 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.

* [[The Adventures of Pete and Pete]] episode "Grounded for Life" sees Little Pete confined to his room for the summer...but he tunnels out. With a paperweight. He's got everything figured out--except how to cover up the dynamite explosions from busting away large rocks...

* 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.

* An unusual example occurs in the ''[[That 70s Show]]'' episode "The Crunge", when Eric realizes that he got a pathetically low score on his SATs because his girlfriend distracts him from studying, so he asks his father to ground him so he could concentrate.

* An episode of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' has Robby Ray ground Miley and Jackson as part of a plan to teach to teach them about teamwork.

* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' has the medieval royalty variant that's still so like modern times.

'''Morgana''': And you, Uther...you will go to hell. }}

* Chi Soo's father from ''[[Flower Boy Ramyun Shop]]'' refuses to let him go out after he has an attack at the swimming pool, but he sneaks out with the help of a woman he charmed several episodes earlier.

== Video Games ==

* In the ''[[Sam and Max]]'' episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', we meet a pair of tomb-guardian father and daughter:

'''Nefertiti''': I've been grounded for life ''my whole life''!! }}

 

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'': In the episode "The Old Switcharooms", the title character suffers this at the hands of his dad, who makes him switch rooms with Dee Dee as a punishment for running into him (causing his bowling trophy to break). The episode then goes down south, when Dad condemns his son to the doghouse. Dexter assumes their dog won't do much harm to his lab...after which the scene cuts to the dog flooding the place with nuclear waste.

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'': Referenced in the above quote, an entire episode involved Edd and Eddy attempting to bust a grounded Ed out of his house. However, it all goes south when they are found out, and the episode ends with all the boys grounded.

'''Eddy''': THREE DAYS?! WHAT MAKES YOU SO SPECIAL?! Over. }}

* ''[[Rugrats]]'', "All Grown Up": Tommy spends time in his room for stealing his dad's medallion (dad's using it for disco dancing, Tommy's using it to get picked onto stage at a concert).

** Also subverted similarly during Valentine's Day. The occasion of the grounding being removed (what else do you call it? "expired"?) is cause for a celebration, which probably ought to get him grounded a second time.

* An episode of Phailhaus from the ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' crew pulls this when the Word of the Day was 'condign'.

'''Graham''': That's it, mister. You are on a one Phailhaus timeout. <br />

** Worth noting; this timeout lasted ''a year.'' }}