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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' gives us TheNotSoHarmlessPunishment variety:

** In one of the many episodes where the family has legal trouble, [[AmbulanceChaser Lionel Hutz]] has an OhCrap moment when he finds out which judge their case is to appear before:
--->'''Lionel Hutz:''' Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog.\\
'''Marge:''' You did?\\
'''Lionel Hutz:''' Well, replace the word "kinda" with the word "repeatedly", and the word "dog" with "son."
** The "Hungry Are The Damned" segment from the first ''Treehouse of Horror'' special does a wildly ZigZaggingTrope version when Lisa finds an alien cookbook called [[ToServeMan 'To Cook Humans'.]] The alien blows some dust off the show the title 'How to Cook For Humans'. Lisa blows more dust off for 'How to Cook Forty Humans'. The alien finally blows the last bit of dust off to reveal 'How to Cook for Forty Humans'. According to the [[WordOfGod DVD commentary]] Creator/MattGroening wanted a final reveal for the book to be 'How to Cook for Forty Humans and Then Eat Them'. Luckily, he was overruled.
** In "D'oh-in In The Wind", Mr. Burns' instructional video featuring Homer doesn't go so well:

-->'''Searcher:''' You gave me a ''machete'' for my birthday!
-->'''Jaeger:''' ''(chuckles)'' Classic Jaeger Clade.
-->'''Searcher:''' I was ''two!''

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* "When I die, I want to go [[PassedInTheirSleep quietly in my sleep]] like my grandfather... not screaming [[FellAsleepDriving like his passengers]]."

* "When I die, I want to go [[DiedInTheirSleep quietly in my sleep]] like my grandfather... not screaming [[FellAsleepDriving like his passengers]]."

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' has a very dark version of this. A minor plot throughout the game is the pursuit of the Ansem Report, written by a man who was studying TheHeartless. Across the game, Sora and his friends gradually collect the odd-numbered Reports, which offer insights into an individual who is curious and concerned about these dark beings. [[spoiler:The last boss before the whole game takes a DifficultySpike is ''[[WhamLine Ansem himself]]'' (possessing Sora's friend Riku). On the return trip to that world, you obtain the even-numbered Reports. These reveal that he '''made''' the Heartless via deliberate experimentation with darkness itself, was willing to expose living beings to them, realized that they were after hearts of both people and worlds, started manufacturing Heartless ''en masse'', and voluntarily turned himself into a Heartless in order to help the Heartless find what they're looking for.]] For better or for worse, the second game reveals [[spoiler:that 'Ansem' was a stolen name, and the guy responsible was unrelated to the wise ruler that the name belonged to.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Omi loses the Heart of Jong to Jack and Wuya. [[TheMentor Master Fung]] tries to cheer them up:

-->'''Jaeger:''' ''(chuckles)'' Classic Jaeger Quade.

** Tim and Al get arrested for scalping hockey tickets and Tim asks another guy at the police station what he was arrested for. The guy says he gave somebody a tattoo.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'', Rob tells Laura that during a high school dance, a girl slapped him for telling her that her slip was showing.
-->'''Laura:''' Well, is that all?\\

* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePheonix'', Harry ends up in detention with the sadistic Professor Umbridge. When Ron later asks him what his punishment was, he replies he just had to write lines. Ron understandably notes that that wasn't too bad, expecting something worse. What Harry chose to leave out not to worry him or Hermione is that he had to write said lines with a magic quill that uses ''his blood'' as ink and carves what he writes onto the back of his hand. He ends up in detention so much that year that the lines he writes eventually permanently scar the back of his hand, on top of bleeding profusely after each detention (which is how Ron finds out the truth, he's suitably horrified).

** We get this line when [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Professor Jirafales]] chastised Don Ramón for threatening El Chavo.
-->'''Chilindrina:''' This is the first time that my dad has threatened to hit El Chavo.\\

* Happened in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' when [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Profesor Jirafales]] chastised Don Ramón for threatening El Chavo.

'''Tim:''' [[UpToEleven Seventy million!]]

* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Jill has Tim take a test of how good a husband he is from [[PanderingToTheBase her magazine]] and he scores in the eighties range...out of three hundred. Tim retaliates with his own test, giving her a score in the nineties.
--> '''Jill:''' Outta what?\\

** In one of the many ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where the family have legal trouble, [[AmbulanceChaser Lionel Hutz]] has an OhCrap moment when he finds out which judge their case is to appear before:

-->'''Gyro:''' ''(smiling)'' No, Mr. [=McDuck=]! You miscalculated! It'll take six months...
-->'''Scrooge:''' ''(cheering up)'' Really! '''Not''' 272 years? Oh, joy! Oh, rapture!
-->'''Gyro:''' No, no! You had the '''years''' correct! Just a tad off on the '''months!'''

-->'''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]''': What is the punishment?\\
'''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]]''': Banishment...\\
'''Phoenix''': Well, that isn't so bad compared to--\\
'''Twilight''': To the moon...[[HurlItIntoTheSun or even the sun]]

-->'''Lamaar''': Qualifications?\\
'''Bart''': Stampeding cattle.\\
'''Lamaar''': That's not much of a crime.\\
'''Bart''': Through the Vatican.\\
'''Lamaar''': Kinky! Sign here.

-->'''Irene''': I got this eating disorder where I gained, like, twenty pounds.\\
'''Charlie''': That's not that bad.\\
'''Irene''': [[BigEater In a week.]]

-->'''Kurt''': I know, you're mad.
-->'''Carey''': No, no, I was mad when you sold our car to buy a new guitar. [[BroughtHomeTheWrongKid I was mad when you came home from the playground with the wrong twins.]]
-->'''Kurt''': It was an honest mistake.
-->'''Carrie''': They were girls.

--->'''Rimmer''': The only thing I lost when I was twelve were my shoes with the compass in the heel and the animal tracks on the soles. Porky Roebuck threw them in the septic tank behind the sports ground. I cried for weeks. ''({{Beat}})'' I was wearing them.

-->'''Melchett''': Now George, you remember when I came down to visit you when you were a nipper, for your sixth birthday? You used to have a lovely little rabbit, beautiful little thing, do you remember?\\
'''George''': Flossie!\\
'''Melchett''': That's right, Flossie! Do you remember what happened to Flossie?\\
'''George''': You shot him.\\
'''Melchett''': That's right! It was the kindest thing to do after he'd been run over by that car. \\
'''George''': ''Your'' car, sir.\\
'''Melchett''': Yes, but that too was an act of mercy when you remember that dog had been set on him.\\
'''George''': ''Your'' dog, sir.\\
'''Melchett''': Yes, yes, my dog. But what I'm trying to say, George, is that the state young Flossie was in after we'd scraped him off my front tyre is very much the state that young Blackadder will be in now. If not very nearly dead, then very ''actually'' dead.\\
'''George''': But surely, Sir, you must allow me to at least try and save him.\\
'''Melchett''': No, George. It would take a superman to get him out of there, not the kind of weed who blubs just because somebody gives him a slice of rabbit pie instead of birthday cake.

-->'''Will:''' Carlton, you seem to be getting it worse than the rest of us.\\

-->'''Vivian:''' I asked him to pass the salt. He told me "Go long".\\

-->'''Woody:''' The last I heard, he was a clown at children's parties.\\

-->'''Henri:''' So, what's the strangest place you've ever made love?\\

-->'''Frank:''' Look, I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me.
-->'''Dee:''' You went to Vietnam in 1993 to open up a sweatshop.
-->'''Frank:''' And a lot of good men died in that sweatshop!

-->'''Hooperman:''' He gave me the finger.
-->'''Betty:''' So? A lot of criminals do that.
-->'''Hooperman:''' Yeah, but he cut his off and [[FingerInTheMail mailed it to me.]]

-->'''Freddie:''' Last night, slept with my socks on.
-->'''Sam:''' So?
-->'''Freddie:''' ''Just'' my socks.

-->'''Anne:''' How was your night with Tanya?
-->'''Ricky:''' We were up half the night.
-->'''Dawn:''' She sang us lullabies.
-->'''Anne:''' Well, that sounds sweet.
-->'''Dawn:''' About all the things they put in sausages.

--> '''Chilindrina:''' This is the first time that my dad has threatened to hit El Chavo.
--> '''Prof Jirafales:''' Really?
--> '''Chilindrina:''' Yes, he always hit him without warning.

-->'''Eliot:''' [[DrivesLikeCrazy Parker, where'd you learn to drive?!]]
-->'''Parker:''' Before I stole cars, I was a getaway driver.
-->'''Hardison:''' Before?! You stole cars when you were ''twelve''!

* ''Theatre/NextToNormal''; The song "There's A World" is a slow, calm SomewhereSong, where the singer is telling someone about a place where they can go where they will be happy. In context, the song is actually about [[spoiler:the embodiment of a mental illness convincing a woman to ''slit her wrists'']].

-->'''The Beast''': What do ''I want''? '''I want to travel the world and see the rich diversity of wonders which fill it--'''
-->'''Agatha''': Oh, now ''that'' sounds--
-->'''The Beast''': AND '''CONSUME THEM! HAHAHAHAHAHA!'''

* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard''

--->'''Customer:''' Wow, it looks great. What all did you have to replace?
--->'''Doc:''' Well, I checked it carefully, and...see this fitting? And the trigger? [[CutASliceTakeTheRest Those I kept. Everything else I had to replace.]]

-->'''Terry:''' That's a red mamba! The 301st most venomous snake in the world!
-->'''Jane Goodall:''' 301st? That can't be too bad then.
-->'''Terry:''' The top 300 all [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife live in Australia]].

-->'''Jason''': Why? You ruined my life!\\
'''Mike''': Oh, my goodness! Exaggerate much?\\
'''Jason''': My wife died because of you.\\

'''Mike''': Well, in that case, maybe it's not exaggerating.

--->'''Homer''': Well, there were script problems from day one.\\
'''Lisa''': It doesn't look like anyone ''read'' the script.\\
'''Homer''': That was the problem.

'''Master Fung:''' ''[{{Gasp}}s, turns deathly pale]'' But that means...the end of life as we know it!

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* In one episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}, on the subject of Parker's past: