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'''Edd''': [[Sick and Wrong|...That's disturbing.]] |''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'', "3 Squares and an Ed"}}
Teen character is grounded or suspended at an inopportune time (usually near the end of Act 2). Often, the parent or principal doing the punishing doesn't have an exceptional reason, or just has a sense that the teen is out of control and needs to calm down.
The punished character usually sneaks out the window or similarly blows off the punishment to finish off the story. After the story is completed, the grounding or suspension is never mentioned again. Similarly, if a character is grounded at the ''end'' of an episode, you can expect that in the next episode, said grounding will no longer be in effect, or mentioned at all.
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'''Cady's Mom:''' She's ''grounded''.
'''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.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': the title character is constantly threatened with grounding or suspension during the show's early seasons because she skips class or comes in late due to vampire sleuthing and slaying. The punished character will sometimes try to protest, only to have to backtrack on the confession once the truth starts to edge out ("I was slaying vampires... I mean...").
** 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]].
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{{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.
* 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.
* Most episodes of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' end with this. In the last season one episode ''starts'' with this after the boys [[Noodle Incident|ruin a wedding]] and at the end Carrie states how they're locked in a vicious cycle of sneaking out and getting grounded, and then exaggerates how long they're gonna be grounded now. The episode ends with her measuring them and as a reply to Zack's question of if he gets a last meal, she says [[Lethal Chef|she's making it]], to which he responds "Aren't I being punished enough?".
** In comparison this isn't as common on ''The Suite Life on Deck'' since Zack and Cody are living by themselves, though in the second half of the pilot Moseby grounds London for running away, and in the [[Crossover]] event "[[Wizards of Waverly Place|Wizards]] on Deck with [[Hannah Montana]]" Moseby blames Zack for Alex pouring blue dye in the hot tub and confines him to his room.
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** If memory serves correctly, this was because (A) he lied to them multiple times, (B) he snuck out multiple times, and (C) he was fighting aliens [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|without their permission]].
*** 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.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': Not so much grounded as she was put under house arrest, Sam sneaks out to save Danny--currently brainwashed by [[Evil Albino|Freakshow]]--and is praised (along with her friends) by her parents for capturing the villain...But they're still grounded.
** In "Fanning the Flames", Jack and Maddie are outraged by their kids' behavior--Danny for being lovesick, Jazz for being obsessed with Ember. They are both grounded. Which is better [[wikipedia:Iron maiden (torture device)|than what their punishment could have been]].
* 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.
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