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** "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS3E6 Big Trouble]]" sees Tilly getting grounded for the first time ever after she let Melissa leave muddy hoofprints all over the house shortly after Bill cleaned it. Bill is typically used to saying and doing this to Cricket, he always says his name instead, but there's a first time for everything, and Tilly decides to go bad after this. It doesn't really go too well for her.

** "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS3E6 Big Trouble]]" sees Tilly getting grounded for the first time ever after she let Melissa leave muddy hoofprints all over the house shortly after Bill cleaned it. Bill is typically used to saying and doing this to Cricket, he always says his name instead, but there's a first time for everything, and Tilly decides to go bad after this, but it doesn't really go too well.

** In "Space Chicken", Bill wants Cricket and Tilly to try to "make an impression" around their new neighbors, but Cricket misinterprets his advice and literally tries to impress the citygoers by launching a chicken into outer space. When he accidentally launches one into Big Coffee next door, Bill explains this is exactly what he's talking about, and in return, Cricket is grounded for not listening to him properly and has to stay in his room for the rest of the day. Luckily, he manages to escape his room via a secret escape passage and continue to disobey him.

** "All Grown Up": Tommy spends time in his room for stealing his father's scorpio medallion. While Stu is using it for disco dancing, Tommy created a fake medallion out of a dog treat (which Spike eventually ate) and stole the real one for Angelica so she could use it to get picked onto stage at a concert. [[spoiler:The medallion was later found buried in the sandbox in the backyard after Spike mistook it for another dog treat.]]

** "All Grown Up": Tommy spends time in his room for stealing his dad's medallion (Stu's using it for disco dancing, Tommy stole it for Angelica so she could use it to get picked onto stage at a concert).

-->'''Eddy:''' This stinks. I got grounded forever. Over.\\

-->'''Edd:''' Oh look, Eddy's spare house key. (''drops keys on the ground and turns away with a smug smile'') Oops. How careless of me. I seem to have misplaced them. (''Kevin picks up the key with an equally sadistic grin, enters the house and proceeds to beat up Ed and Eddy'') Kevin's Justified Pummel Disorder: symptoms are a bruised right eye, followed by a sore rear end, and a rapid release of hot air from an overinflated ego!

-->'''Stephen''' You... have some kind of ability to ''UN''GROUND people?! ...Whoever you touch become ''ungrounded'' is that it? Your evil magic is not welcome here, darkling!

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'': The third shot has ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} grounded and ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} and ComicBook/WonderGirl try to bail her out. Problem? [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Her Cousin]]. And his mother.

Teen (or younger) character is grounded at an inopportune time (usually near the end of Act 2). Often, the person 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 (or that the younger character has misbehaved or otherwise did something wrong). So they restrict the youngster's social life for a time (which is usually left unsaid in most instances in media) by banning them from leaving the house and/or having friends over. Of course, if the character is of school age and the grounding takes place during term time, chances are they will be allowed out to go to school - unless they have also been suspended or expelled. In addition, for teenagers, if grounding takes place when they have a job, they will be allowed to go to work - unless they have been fired or they quit.

** In "Ruled Out", Timmy is grounded and confined to his own bedroom jail cell for disobeying his parents when they care for him again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'': In the episode ''I'll Get By with a Little Help from My Elf'' Juniper ends up getting grounded as a result of actions from a helper elf.

Teen (or younger) character is grounded at an inopportune time (usually near the end of Act 2). Often, the person 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 (or that the younger character has misbehaved or otherwise did something wrong). So they restrict the youngster's social life for a time (which is usually left unsaid in most instances in media) by banning them from leaving the house and/or having friends over. Of course, if the character is of school age and the grounding takes place during term time, chances are they will be allowed out to go to school - unless they have also been suspended or expelled.

* ''Series/StuckInTheMiddle'' takes this UpToEleven with a form of punishment known as "Lockdown", where a sibling is confined to their room without any fun stuff such as electronic devices.

** At the end of the episode "The Sweet Spot", all of the Loud Kids are [[ExiledTotheCouch forced to sit on the couch for the entire weekend]] until they can learn to get along after their big fight over the titular seat destroys [[TheAllegedCar Vanzilla]] and cancels an upcoming long road trip. [[spoiler: Lincoln tries to go for another [[HereWeGoAgain sweet spot on the sofa during the punishment.]]]]

** Krelboyne Picnic: Malcolm is grounded by Lois at the beginning of this episode, for pouring perfectly fine soup down the toilet, in an attempt to avoid the titular picnic by feigning an illness, and to add insult to injury, she charges her son for the cost of the soup.

** In [[HalloweenEpisode "October 31st"]], Kim is grounded at the end of the episode (shortly before Ron gave Josh the other half of his horse costume) after her parents and Ron found out that she'd lied to each of them-- to Ron to get out of trick-or-treating with him and to her family to get out of helping them with their haunted house at the hospital-- to go to a party instead.

** In the episode "Tick, Tick, Tick", Kim gets detention for being late to class three times. She escapes twice: once when Mr. Barkin evacuates the room after mistaking [[TeamPet Rufus]] for a mutant escapee from the science lab, and once when she realizes that Drakken's [[StickyBomb nano-tick]] is stuck to her and she runs off to get it removed before it detonates. Ron soon joins her in the punishment after Drakken and Shego are defeated.

** "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E6ThreeSquaresAndAnEd Three Squares and an Ed]]" provides the page quote above. This 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.

** In "A Tattler's Tale", Lola takes the blame for all the disasters the other siblings confessed in their Secret Secrets Club, resulting in her being punished.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Doug and Skeeter win tickets to a Beats concert, but when Skeeter rocks out at the dinner table, resulting in food falling on his father, Skeeter gets grounded and can't go. Doug decides to stay with Skeeter instead of going to the concert, and they jam to music... annoying Mr. Valentine so much that he makes Skeeter un-grounded. But at this point it's too late for them to go to the concert.

-->'''Edd:''' Oh look, Eddy's spare house key. (drops keys on the ground and turns away with a smug smile) Oops. How careless of me. I seem to have misplaced them. (Kevin picks up the key with an equally sadistic grin, enters the house and proceeds to beat up Ed and Eddy) Kevin's Justified Pummel Disorder: symptoms are a bruised right eye, followed by a sore rear end, and a rapid release of hot air from an overinflated ego!

-->'''Edd:''' Kevin's Justified Pummel Disorder: symptoms are a bruised right eye, followed by a sore rear end, and a rapid release of hot air from an overinflated ego!

** ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' also fits this trope, with Penny Proud being grounded on a regular basis, even on her birthday in TheMovie!

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': 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 punishment for both running into him, causing his bowling trophy to break, in an effort to teach them respect for other peoples' property. Dexter knows [[LethallyStupid Dee Dee]] will [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo find some way to get into his laboratory and destroy it like she always does]], and fearing there's no way to stop it, [[PayEvilUntoEvil he retaliates by destroying her bedroom]]. [[spoiler:When Dexter investigates after destroying Dee Dee's room, he finds out Dee Dee never even entered his lab and was asleep the whole time.]] After Dad fixes the trophy and Dee Dee is let out, the episode goes down south when Dad condemns Dexter to the doghouse after seeing the destruction he caused to Dee Dee's bedroom, [[spoiler:though not before Dee Dee breaks the trophy again]]. 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.

** One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' "Me No Know", when Vince is caught by his parents coming out of the movie theater after deciding to see ''Nitwits'' a film they had forbidden him from viewing. He ends up being grounded for a week without TV privileges. However, he still has to go to school.