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* One ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' ColdOpen had Will sneaking back in from being out late and after evading Geoffrey and a seemingly sleeping on the couch Aunt Viv and Uncle Phil and dancing in silent victory, his Aunt then mutters, "Good night, Will!" As his Uncle then shouts, "You're grounded!", which makes him [[SoreLoser stomp up to his room in response.]]
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* One ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir' episode "Something for Nothing"' ColdOpen had Will sneaking back in from being out late and after late. After evading Geoffrey and a seemingly sleeping on the couch Aunt Viv and Uncle Phil and dancing in silent victory, his Aunt aunt then mutters, "Good night, Will!" As his Uncle uncle then shouts, "You're grounded!", which makes him [[SoreLoser stomp up to his room in response.]]
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* ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'': In ''Sunny Makes a Splash,'' Gramps comes home late from his date with Myrtle, which makes Sunny's mom upset. Sunny hears her mom yelling at him for it and says if he stays out late again he's grounded -- to which he says she ''can't'' ground him, he's her ''father''.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'' features a variant when Alya and Nino are caught returning from one of their "secret dates". They had been lying to their parents for months, making them believe that they were babysitting their siblings when they were actually manipulating Marinette into covering for them, and always made a point of returning home before Alya's father got back from work. Imagine their surprise when they find that Otis took the rest of the day off after being alerted to what was going on by his wife and was waiting for them alongside Marlena.
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* ''Series/GrowingPains''. Maggie has a nightmare of herself and Jason being completely ineffectual elderly parents to a rebellious teenage Chrissie and not only catching her sneaking in late, but doing so for the umpteenth time. To top it off, this time she's been gone for ''days''.
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* In the movie fragments for Wilbur's story in ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'', Carl catches Wilbur sneaking into the house past his curfew, but he doesn't tell Wilbur's parents when he begs him not to.
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* Narrowly averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''. Hogarth stays out all night looking for a place for the titular giant to stay, finally convincing Dean to let him stay in the scrapyard until further notice. He sneaks back into the house through his window, and is about to climb into bed when his mother walks in. He starts putting the blanket back, acting like he was making the bed and is drowsy from waking up early. His mother completely buys it.
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* ''Series/LabRats'': In one episode, Donald pulls this on the teens by using an invisibility cloak he'd invented to hide in the living room.
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* ''Fanfic/AGameForTheFool'': After sneaking out for a night-hunt, Wei Wuxian has to make a break for it after learning that Jiang Fengmian has discovered that a child has been joining them. Fortunately, he's able to make it back to his room without being caught, and Jiang Cheng backs up his claims that he'd never left in the first place.
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* Harriett Potter in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' gets caught in [[spoiler: a gang brawl in the Lower Alleys]], causing her to arrive home well past curfew -- and her dad is in the living room. And her identity swap with her cousin, living each other's lives for most of the year, means that she's not very good at answering his security questions.
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* Harriett Potter in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' gets caught in [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a gang brawl in the Lower Alleys]], causing her to arrive home well past curfew -- and her dad is in the living room. And her identity swap she'd secretly swapped identities with her cousin, living each other's others' lives for most of the year, means meaning that she's not very good at answering his security questions.questions.
* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverHell'': After spending the night clubbing with Loona, Octavia attempts to sneak back into her bedroom only to find Stella waiting for her there.
* ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'' has Master Splinter catch his children sneaking back into the lair after visiting Brooklyn. Leonardo insists that [[ICanExplain he can explain everything]] to their father's satisfaction, but fails.
* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverHell'': After spending the night clubbing with Loona, Octavia attempts to sneak back into her bedroom only to find Stella waiting for her there.
* ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'' has Master Splinter catch his children sneaking back into the lair after visiting Brooklyn. Leonardo insists that [[ICanExplain he can explain everything]] to their father's satisfaction, but fails.
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---> "We always say something like, "Baby, I'll be back by 5:30, quarter 'till six at the latest." Then we come rolling in, like...February."
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* Happens in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' with Jeremy sneaking home after his curfew and thinking he's got away with it, but his parents are laying inside his bedroom door in a sleeping bag. He faints.
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* In ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', a sequence of Peter sneaking in late after the prom [[BaitAndSwitch is framed as though a burglar is breaking into the house.]] We hear but don't see something clicking, somebody saying, "Freeze, mister!" and the response, "Aaaaah! Don't shoot!". Not a burglar holding Roger at gunpoint - Jason and Marcus catching Peter in the act with a flashlight and a dart gun.
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* In ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', a sequence of Peter sneaking in late after the prom [[BaitAndSwitch is framed as though a burglar is breaking into the house.]] house]]. We hear but don't see something clicking, somebody saying, "Freeze, mister!" and the response, "Aaaaah! Don't shoot!". Not a burglar holding Roger at gunpoint - Jason and Marcus catching Peter in the act with a flashlight and a dart gun.gun.
* Happens in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' with Jeremy sneaking home after his curfew and thinking he's got away with it, but his parents are laying inside his bedroom door in a sleeping bag. He faints.
* Happens in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' with Jeremy sneaking home after his curfew and thinking he's got away with it, but his parents are laying inside his bedroom door in a sleeping bag. He faints.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'' the turtles return home late only for Splinter to say he was worried about where the turtles have been. The turtles lied about what they were doing until Leonardo told the truth.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'' ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'', the turtles return home late only for Splinter to say he was worried about where the turtles have been. The turtles lied about what they were doing until Leonardo told the truth.
* In ''Film/BoogieNights'', Eddie's mother is waiting for him when he returns from a night out at Jack Horner's house. She makes a horrible scene which causes Eddie to leave home and move in with Jack.
* In ''Film/{{Footloose}}'', Ariel's father waits for her when she returns home late at night after curfew.
* In ''Film/{{Footloose}}'', Ariel's father waits for her when she returns home late at night after curfew.
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* In ''Film/{{Footloose}}'', Ariel's father waits for her when she returns home late at night after curfew.
* In ''Film/BoogieNights'', Eddie's mother is waiting for him when he returns from a night out at Jack Horner's house. She makes a horrible scene which causes Eddie to leave home and move in with Jack.
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* ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington From the Highlands]]'' reverses the usual parent-child version of this trope. At the end of the story, Anton sneaks back into his cabin to find his teenage daughter waiting up for him.
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* ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington From ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': ''From the Highlands]]'' Highlands'' reverses the usual parent-child version of this trope. At the end of the story, Anton sneaks back into his cabin to find his teenage daughter waiting up for him.
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* Played for laughs in ''Series/BlackBooks'', when Manny comes home from an evening out with friends to find Bernard sitting in a chair waiting up for him, with Bernard proceeding to yell at him like a parent who's been waiting for an errant child all night. For context, Manny is a middle-aged man and Bernard is merely his employer/landlord.
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* Played for laughs PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/BlackBooks'', ''Series/BlackBooks'' when Manny comes home from an evening out with friends to find Bernard sitting in a chair waiting up for him, with Bernard proceeding to yell at him like a parent who's been waiting for an errant child all night. For context, Manny is a middle-aged man and Bernard is merely his employer/landlord.
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* On the show ''Series/TeenWolf'' Scott came home, closed the window, turned on the lights and BAM! There was Derek, sitting in a chair expectantly. Stiles went to Scott's house, went to his room, closed the door, turned on the lights and saw Scott sitting in a chair.
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* On the show ''Series/TeenWolf'' ''Series/TeenWolf'', Scott came home, closed the window, turned on the lights and BAM! There was Derek, sitting in a chair expectantly. In another case, Stiles went to Scott's house, went to his room, closed the door, turned on the lights and saw Scott sitting in a chair.
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* The Music/StephenFoster song "My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman" has these lines:
-->Not often I go out to dinner\\
And come home a little "so so,"\\
I try to creep up through the hall-way,\\
As still as a mouse, on tip-toe,\\
She's sure to be waiting up for me\\
And then comes a nice little scene...
-->Not often I go out to dinner\\
And come home a little "so so,"\\
I try to creep up through the hall-way,\\
As still as a mouse, on tip-toe,\\
She's sure to be waiting up for me\\
And then comes a nice little scene...
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* The Music/StephenFoster Country singer Music/CollinRaye has a song "My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman" has these lines:
-->Not often I gocalled "That's My Story" in which he insists that he fell asleep in the backyard[[note]]He was actually up all night playing cards with his friends[[/note]] only to find out to dinner\\
And come home a little "so so,"\\
I try to creep up throughthat his wife put the hall-way,\\
As still ashammock in storage a mouse, on tip-toe,\\
She's sure to be waiting up for me\\
And then comes a nice little scene...week ago.
-->Not often I go
And come home a little "so so,"\\
I try to creep up through
As still as
She's sure to be waiting up for me\\
And then comes a nice little scene...
* {{Inverted|Trope}} in "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew" by Eddie Morton, where he says his wife was shocked to catch him coming home at two in the morning ... because she never expects him until dawn.
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* Country singer Music/CollinRaye has a song called "That's My Story" in which he insists that he fell asleep in the back yard[[note]]He was actually up all night playing cards with his friends[[/note]] only to find out that his wife put the hammock in storage a week ago.
* Mindy [=McCready's=] "Guys Do It All The Time" starts out with her coming home at four in the morning to an angry boyfriend, only for her to point out the DoubleStandard that men often go out drinking with their buddies until the wee hours and expect not to get hassled about it.
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* Mindy [=McCready's=] "Guys Do It All The Time" starts out with her coming home at four in the morning to an angry boyfriend, only for her to point out the DoubleStandard that men often go out drinking with their buddies until the wee hours and expect not to get hassled about it.
* Inverted in "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew" by Eddie Morton, where he says his wife was shocked to catch him coming home at two in the morning ... because she never expects him until dawn.
* Inverted in "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew" by Eddie Morton, where he says his wife was shocked to catch him coming home at two in the morning ... because she never expects him until dawn.
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* Mindy [=McCready's=] "Guys Do It All The Time" starts out with her coming home at four in the morning to an angry boyfriend, only for her to point out the DoubleStandard that men Music/StephenFoster song "My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman" has these lines:
-->Not often I go outdrinking with their buddies until the wee hours and expect not to get hassled about it.
* Inverted in "I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew" by Eddie Morton, where he says his wife was shocked to catch him comingdinner\\
And come homeat two in a little "so so,"\\
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As still as a mouse, on tip-toe,\\
She's sure to be waiting up for me\\
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-->Not often I go out
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* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
*** One episode has Harold walking in with his wife there waiting, unknowingly to him, with wonderful news.
*** This is played straight and inverted in an episode where the Professor begins dating a disguised Sedusa. The first time it's used, she scolds the girls for being out at night despite them being superheroes. Later on, the roles get reversed when the girls sit in the living room waiting for her to come home after a crime-spree.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', Bubbles is in curlers sitting in chair angrily waiting for Donny the Unicorn to come home from a visit with a new friend. From the episode "Odd Bubbles Out".
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
*** One episode has Harold walking in with his wife there waiting, unknowingly to him, with wonderful news.
*** This is played straight and inverted in an episode where the Professor begins dating a disguised Sedusa. The first time it's used, she scolds the girls for being out at night despite them being superheroes. Later on, the roles get reversed when the girls sit in the living room waiting for her to come home after a crime-spree.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', Bubbles is in curlers sitting in chair angrily waiting for Donny the Unicorn to come home from a visit with a new friend. From the episode "Odd Bubbles Out".
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* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
*** OneThe ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "All About Steve" has Harold walking in with his wife there waiting, unknowingly to him, with wonderful news.
*** This is played straighta [[RuleOfThree three-fer]]. Stan comes home and inverted in an episode where the Professor begins dating a disguised Sedusa. The first time it's used, she scolds the girls for being out at night despite them being superheroes. Later on, the roles get reversed when the girls sit in walks into the living room waiting for her to come home after room, where Steve confronts him over having a crime-spree.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', Bubblesblack man else pose as him at a CIA softball game because he's ashamed that his son is in curlers sitting in chair angrily waiting for Donny a weak nerd. Then he enters the Unicorn to come home from a visit with a new friend. From kitchen, where Francine chews him out about the episode "Odd Bubbles Out".same. Finally, he goes to the bathroom and is greeted by a bruised-up Roger, who tells him [[ItMakesSenseInContext "I got beat up by a taco"]].
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*** One
*** This is played straight
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', Bubbles
* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' attempts to pull this [[spoiler:on Hollyhock]] in Season 4, sitting in the dark for ''five hours'' to invoke it. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, he realizes only after trying to turn the light on that the bulb had burned out, prompting him to run out of the room to replace it, and ''then'' pull the trope off.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' season 4 episode "Deep Throats" plays this trope straight with [=Brian=] waiting in the living room to confront [=Meg=] with [[spoiler:her relationship with Mayor West]].
* A recurring sketch on BlackComedy ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'': A sad looking man arrived home late at night to find his wife waiting up for him. He explains his lateness with an elaborate, detailed and dubious story. Skeptical wife asks him what he's really been doing. Man confesses to something disturbingly degrading. Funnier than it sounds.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Brother from the Same Planet", Bart comes home from spending time with his "bigger brother" Tom. He opens the door to find Homer sitting on the stairs in the shadows. Homer confronts him about where he was.
-->'''Homer:''' You've been out gallivanting around with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? ''Haven't you?!''
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' season 4 episode "Deep Throats" plays this trope straight with [=Brian=] waiting in the living room to confront [=Meg=] with [[spoiler:her relationship with Mayor West]].
* A recurring sketch on BlackComedy ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'': A sad looking man arrived home late at night to find his wife waiting up for him. He explains his lateness with an elaborate, detailed and dubious story. Skeptical wife asks him what he's really been doing. Man confesses to something disturbingly degrading. Funnier than it sounds.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Brother from the Same Planet", Bart comes home from spending time with his "bigger brother" Tom. He opens the door to find Homer sitting on the stairs in the shadows. Homer confronts him about where he was.
-->'''Homer:''' You've been out gallivanting around with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? ''Haven't you?!''
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppermintRose'' begins with Rose stuck at home because [[YouAreGrounded she was grounded]] for coming home late the previous night.
* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
*** This is played straight and inverted in an episode where the Professor begins dating a disguised Sedusa. The first time it's used, she scolds the girls for being out at night despite them being superheroes. Later on, the roles get reversed when the girls sit in the living room waiting for her to come home after a crime-spree.
*** One episode has Harold walking in with his wife there waiting, unknowingly to him, with wonderful news.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', Bubbles is in curlers sitting in chair angrily waiting for Donny the Unicorn to come home from a visit with a new friend. From the episode "Odd Bubbles Out".
* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
*** This is played straight and inverted in an episode where the Professor begins dating a disguised Sedusa. The first time it's used, she scolds the girls for being out at night despite them being superheroes. Later on, the roles get reversed when the girls sit in the living room waiting for her to come home after a crime-spree.
*** One episode has Harold walking in with his wife there waiting, unknowingly to him, with wonderful news.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', Bubbles is in curlers sitting in chair angrily waiting for Donny the Unicorn to come home from a visit with a new friend. From the episode "Odd Bubbles Out".
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Brother from the Same Planet", Bart comes home from spending time with his "bigger brother" Tom. He opens the door to find Homer sitting on the stairs in the shadows. Homer confronts him about where he was.
-->"You've been out gallivanting around with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? ''Haven't you?!''
* A recurring sketch on BlackComedy ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'': A sad looking man arrived home late at night to find his wife waiting up for him. He explains his lateness with an elaborate, detailed and dubious story. Skeptical wife asks him what he's really been doing. Man confesses to something disturbingly degrading. Funnier than it sounds.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "All About Steve" has a [[RuleOfThree three-fer]]. Stan comes home and walks into the living room, where Steve confronts him over having a black man else pose as him at a CIA softball game because he's ashamed that his son is a weak nerd. Then he enters the kitchen, where Francine chews him out about the same. Finally, he goes to the bathroom and is greeted by a bruised-up Roger, who tells him [[ItMakesSenseInContext "I got beat up by a taco"]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' season 4 episode "Deep Throats" plays this trope straight with [=Brian=] waiting in the living room to confront [=Meg=] with [[spoiler:her relationship with Mayor West]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' attempts to pull this [[spoiler:on Hollyhock]] in Season 4, sitting in the dark for ''five hours'' to invoke it. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, he realizes only after trying to turn the light on that the bulb had burned out, prompting him to run out of the room to replace it, and ''then'' pull the trope off]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppermintRose'' begins with Rose stuck at home because [[YouAreGrounded she was grounded]] for coming home late the previous night.
-->"You've been out gallivanting around with that floozy of a bigger brother of yours, haven't you? ''Haven't you?!''
* A recurring sketch on BlackComedy ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'': A sad looking man arrived home late at night to find his wife waiting up for him. He explains his lateness with an elaborate, detailed and dubious story. Skeptical wife asks him what he's really been doing. Man confesses to something disturbingly degrading. Funnier than it sounds.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "All About Steve" has a [[RuleOfThree three-fer]]. Stan comes home and walks into the living room, where Steve confronts him over having a black man else pose as him at a CIA softball game because he's ashamed that his son is a weak nerd. Then he enters the kitchen, where Francine chews him out about the same. Finally, he goes to the bathroom and is greeted by a bruised-up Roger, who tells him [[ItMakesSenseInContext "I got beat up by a taco"]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' season 4 episode "Deep Throats" plays this trope straight with [=Brian=] waiting in the living room to confront [=Meg=] with [[spoiler:her relationship with Mayor West]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' attempts to pull this [[spoiler:on Hollyhock]] in Season 4, sitting in the dark for ''five hours'' to invoke it. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, he realizes only after trying to turn the light on that the bulb had burned out, prompting him to run out of the room to replace it, and ''then'' pull the trope off]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppermintRose'' begins with Rose stuck at home because [[YouAreGrounded she was grounded]] for coming home late the previous night.
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* One ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' ColdOpen had Will sneaking back in from being out late and after evading Geoffrey and a seemingly sleeping on the couch Aunt Viv and Uncle Phil and dancing in silent victory, his Aunt then mutters, "Good night, Will!" As gis Uncle then shouts, "You're grounded!", which makes him [[SoreLoser stomp up to his room in response.]]
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* One ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' ColdOpen had Will sneaking back in from being out late and after evading Geoffrey and a seemingly sleeping on the couch Aunt Viv and Uncle Phil and dancing in silent victory, his Aunt then mutters, "Good night, Will!" As gis his Uncle then shouts, "You're grounded!", which makes him [[SoreLoser stomp up to his room in response.]]
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* ''Literature/WetMagic'': As Francis and Mavis are sneaking home early in the morning after rescuing the mermaid, they're caught by Mrs. Pearce, who owns the house where the family is staying. She assumes they went shrimping, and they let her believe it. She agrees not to tell their parents as long as they don't do it again. That morning, Bernard and Kathleen have a wonderful time at the beach while Francis and Mavis are asleep, and Mrs. Pearce tells them they got what they deserved by missing out on the fun.