* Several of the defendants on ''LawAndOrder'' manage to wriggle out of well-deserved punishments. Not uncoincidentally, most of those who do are [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney filthy rich]].
** ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' doesn't let this happen often. If a criminal does get off, they're going to have a VigilanteExecution performed on them five seconds later.
*** Actually, it does happen in [=SVU=]. Usually with rich folk as well. Perhaps not as common as the other L&O's, but it does happen plenty of times. In "Sick", for example, [[spoiler: Billy Tripley, a rich pedophile]] isn't punished because the ''other'' villains' actions make the case impossible to prosecute. The episode actually ends with the frustrated squad vowing to get him eventually, but the story was never revisited.
**** This, thankfully, doesn't apply to the episodes other villains. The dad of the first [[spoiler: real]] victim is sent to jail for witness tampering, so he's unable to enjoy the money he made off of his sons molestation, and the grandmother of the "second victim", who not only ruined the case by lying about her granddaughter's molestation, but had been keeping her sick to the point where she had only a month to live, is charged with fraud and attempted murder.

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* This trope is most definitely in play when it comes to the wife, Debra, on EverybodyLovesRaymond. While it's true that her mother-in-law Marie was smug towards her, there really was no justification for her to treat her husband Ray the way she did, subjecting him to physical and verbal abuse on many occasions in the mid-to-later seasons of the show. On one occasion, she's annoyed at him and shoves him at full force into a bunch of bookshelves, so hard that the books actually fall off the shelves. On another occasion, she's irritated at him for making a joke about her food, so [[DisproportionateRetribution she pours piping hot marinara sauce--right off the stove--onto Ray's crotch.]] But perhaps the worse was the episode where we learn that Debra actually encourages Ray's own kids to make fun of him behind his back and see him as less of an authority figure. Throughout all this, ''Ray'' always ends up being the one to be humiliated in every episode, and keeps coming back to Debra, who maintains a rather smug attitude, bragging about her supposed superiority to Ray on many occasions. [[AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale If the roles had been reversed, and Ray treated Debra the way she treats him, it clearly would not fly.]]

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* Although PlayedForLaughs, ''{{Friends}}'' had Rachel just about always managing to get away any crap she pulled on the other five characters. Say if they were in an argument or something she'd always wind up being the one to come on top even if she pulled something sleazy and clearly wasn't supposed to be the one to root for. One notable episode that double subverts this case is where Phoebe is taking a literature class and Rachel joins, but doesn't take the class seriously and even steals Phoebe's work to make herself look good. Later on Phoebe, being GenreSavvy and realizing she'll do it again, intentionally shares some false work with Rachel leading her to humiliate herself. But then Rachel gets Monica to join the class in retaliation, and Monica on the other hand takes the class too seriously and winds up causing a bunch of extra work assigned even though it was initially pretty laid back, causing Phoebe and everyone else enrolled to be miserable.
** Chandler counts in the "TOW the Football" from the show's annual [[ThanksgivingEpisode Thanksgiving episodes]]. He and Joey are competing over the affections of a Dutch woman and Chandler particularly acts like a massive dick throughout, including intentionally shoving Joey and later ruining his favorite Jersey out of spite, and at the end takes advantage of Joey's naivete to make him embarrass himself in front of her so she picks Chandler over him. Although his immature behavior quickly causes her to realize he would be a poor date as well, he has very little regret over how quickly he was dumped since he's still rejoicing over getting bragging rights over Joey.

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