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12	->'''Carr:''' These here spoons, you keep with ya. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. No one will sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sittin' on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man loud-talkin' spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor-walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in--
13	->'''Luke:''' -- the box.
14	->'''Carr:''' ''[to Luke]'' I hope you ain't gonna be a hard case.
15	-->-- ''Film/CoolHandLuke''
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17	Our protagonist is in a [[WorkingOnTheChainGang Chain Gang]] prison and has violated one of the SmallTownTyrant sheriff's rules. So they send him to the Punishment Box (more commonly, "The Box.") The Box is commonly a small metal shed in the middle of the compound (in some cases too small to even ''sit down'' in), exposed to sun. They put you in and you are tortured by sweating it out in 120-plus degree heat, basically frying you alive. Unless it's a cold night, in which case you have to keep from freezing to death.
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19	Various forms of this have been an unfortunate TruthInTelevision (see Website/TheOtherWiki for a few examples), which is probably where the trope originates from.
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21	Although the box could be made of cardboard, especially in comedic examples, this is not to be confused with CardboardPrison. See also IronMaiden, which is even less beneficial to your health, and ClosetPunishment.
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23	!!Examples:
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28	* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', a particular incident similar to this is PlayedForLaughs. A strip shows Sealand ignoring his "Papa" Sweden and watching TV. Sweden gets a big cardboard box, writes "England" on it, and then sneaks up behind Sealand, and throws the box over him and shakes it with him inside, calling it a "Dambolis" with Sealand saying "Please stop it!". It's even funnier because the strip is presented as a step-by-step of how to make a Dambolis (it will take 3 minutes, it claims).
29	* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Gamagoori briefly mentions that Honnouji Academy has a "time out chamber" which students can be sent to for months at a time. This being Honnouji, it's not surprising.
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33	* In ''Fanfic/ThreeStrikes'', [=McKinsey=]'s infamous threat of solitary is explained as confinement in a small metal shack in the beating hot sun.
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37	* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', Ginger is put on a coal bin every time she's caught trying to escape. Like many other scenes in the film, this is an homage to ''Film/TheGreatEscape''.
38	* In ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', orphans who disobey [[{{Jerkass}} Miss Hattie]] get put in the (cardboard) Box of Shame.
39	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has [[spoiler:Sunnyside's sandbox]] used for this purpose, complete with a ShoutOut to ''Film/CoolHandLuke'', with [[spoiler:a brainwashed Buzz]] as Carr and [[spoiler:Mr. Potato Head]] as Luke.
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43	* ''Film/BlackMamaWhiteMama'': Lee (played by Creator/PamGrier) and her fellow prisoner Karen get into a fight during a meal and are punished by being put in a sweatbox barely big enough to hold both of them. For [[FanService some reason]] they are both stripped to the waist and they struggle to avoid touching the hot metal with their bare skin.
44	* ''Film/BootCamp2008'': After being recaptured after their escape, Sophie and Ben are imprisoned in concrete oubliettes where they are subject to the tormenting of the guards and other teens, and the extremes of the weather.
45	* The Japanese prison camp in ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'' has a metal punishment box that stands outside in the sun. Prisoners don't get any water.
46	* 'The box' in ''Film/CoolHandLuke'' is probably the TropeCodifier here.
47	* The hot box used in ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' on the plantation owned by the sadistic Calvin Candie. It's a metal enclosure in the ground exposed to the humid Southern heat, which was used on Django's wife Broomhilda as punishment for trying to escape Candyland.
48	* In ''Film/EscapePlan'', [[HellholePrison The Tomb]] is home to one of the most punishing examples of solitary confinement. Prisoners in solitary are kept in a small enclosed space that's probably no wider than a casket, with barely enough room to stand up, and a set of powerful halogen lamps that shine bright intense light and heat on them like a reptile in a terrarium, while the lights go on and off after an amount of time. These lamps are a torture instrument designed to inflict sensory overload (bright lights, intense heat, loud buzzing of the lamps), sleep deprivation, and accelerated dehydration on a prisoner, essentially weakening them without laying a hand on them, or cooking the belligerent prisoners in an oven.
49	* ''Film/DasExperiment'', based on the infamous StanfordPrisonExperiment, recycled in Germany.
50	* ''Film/Fortress2ReEntry'': Brennick is sent to one after being caught stowing away in a cargo crate bound for a supply shuttle. It is a very small cell that is cut off from the temperature control system of the prison, with a cupola window that gives him a pretty scenic view of the Earth, and that's not when he is subjected to the blinding light, extreme heat, and solar radiation from the Sun, or the frigid cold and darkness from the empty void of space.
51	* In ''Film/TheGreatEscape'', it was The Cooler and it was reserved for attempted escapees. The fact that Creator/SteveMcQueenActor's character had been in it so many times, and had survived, led to him being termed The Cooler King. His bouncing a baseball around the Cooler has become a StockShoutOut.
52	* The classic prison expose film ''Film/HellsHighway'' (1932) features a sweatbox in which prisoners are held erect by a metal collar. Early in the film, one prisoner passes out inside [[https://youtu.be/elnY5XoV8Pk?t=691 and is strangled]], leading to a mess-hall riot.
53	* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', pirates who [[YouHaveFailedMe have failed]] are put into the "Boo Box", a chest which is also inhabited by several scorpions.
54	* In ''Film/{{Life\|1999}}'' prisoners are punished with time in "The Hole," which is an outhouse sized shed with no light or plumbing out in the sun in the South.
55	* Also called the hot box in the 2005 remake of ''Film/TheLongestYard''. It's basically a tiny shack where prisoners bake in the desert heat for days at a time -- and sometimes the guards "accidentally" forget to give them food and water.
56	* In ''Film/{{Matilda}}'', the sadistic headmistress is fond of [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment (among other things)]] using the "Chokey," a closet lined with massive spikes and blades, thus like an iron maiden in which there is just barely enough room to stand.
57	* In ''Film/MermaidDown'', PsychoPsychologist Dr. Beyer locks misbehaving patients in tiny, padded isolation rooms in the CreepyBasement.
58	* Parodied in ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' where Tina Fey's character opens the slot of one during a musical number, and the guy inside sings.
59	* Discussed in ''Film/ShockCorridor'', where the hero is threatened by the warden to receive this treatment.
60	* In ''Film/StirCrazy'', Creator/GeneWilder asks for an extra day in The Box when they come to get him out. He's just TooKinkyToTorture.
61	* In ''Film/SullivansTravels'', Sullivan gets put into one when being caught reading the newspaper while WorkingOnTheChainGang.
62	* In ''Film/TakeTheMoneyAndRun'' Virgil escapes from prison but is recaptured and sent to a labor camp. When ''that'' fails to break him, they lock him in a sweatbox [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment with an insurance salesman]].
63	* In the Ozploitation movie ''Film/TurkeyShoot'' the main protagonist is put in a cage out in the sun where he's forced to hold up a heavy weight.
64	* The hot box, an old truck, in ''Film/VonRyansExpress''.
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68	* In ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Captive of Gor]]'', Elinor is locked into a slave box for eighteen days to break her spirit after repeated minor offenses.
69	* In ''Literature/DragonAndSlave'' by Creator/TimothyZahn, there are sheds that do this.
70	* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' has the Chokey, more or less a non-lethal Iron Maiden.
71	* ''Literature/TheRunningGrave'': Private detective Robin Ellacott has infiltrated the Universal Humanitarian Church, which is actually an evil {{Cult}}. Robin's worst moment comes when the cult punishes her for minor offenses by locking her up in a box for eight hours. The terror of the experience nearly breaks her.
72	* In ''Literature/SoulMusic'', [[TheGrimReaper DEATH]] joins the Klatchian Foreign Legion "to forget". legionnaire Beau Nidle gets The Pit, the Foreign Legion's version of The Box. And still remembers everything.
73	* In ''Literature/TheTalisman'', during the part of the book that takes place in the Sunlight Gardener Home, rulebreakers are sometimes locked in a refrigerator-shaped container simply called "The Box".
74	* In ''Literature/AnUnkindnessOfGhosts'', Aster is put in the brigbox, a cell too tiny for her to stand up or lie down, just sit with her knees curled to her chest.
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78	* In ''Series/SevenDays1998'', Frank's background includes several days in such a box while being a captive (a form of interrogation). He never cracked ''that'' way, but the project recovered him from a madhouse.
79	* On ''Series/AdamRuinsEverything'', Emily is put in a solitary confinement cell, where she [[GoMadFromTheIsolation hallucinates Adam and Kendra talking about why solitary confinement is a horrible and inhumane punishment]].
80	* In the ''Series/TheATeam'' episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E4BadTimeOnTheBorder Bad Time on the Border]]", Hannibal Smith is kept for some time in a box of corrugated scrap metal in the heat as the sun rises higher (the villain taunts him that it's not even noon yet). While it doesn't kill him (or even stop him from making with the wisecracks), it's heavily implied that it would have killed him eventually had the bad guys not decided to dump him off the back of the truck instead.
81	* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Jaynestown", Jayne's former partner is kept prisoner in solitary confinement, in a small (looks to be maybe 5 foot by 5 foot) box on stilts in the middle of a swamp. It's said he was held there for four freaking years. It's a wonder he could stand and walk as nobody could survive a hot box for that long.
82	* In "The One with Chandler In a Box" from ''Series/{{Friends}}'', after Chandler kisses Joey's girlfriend behind his back and says he'd do anything to get Joey to forgive him, Joey concocts a punishment of putting Chandler in a large box[[note]]As Joey mentions in the episode, this is a call back to when Joey willingly locked himself inside their entertainment center, which allowed the roommates to be robbed of just about everything they owned.[[/note]]. Chandler then spends Thanksgiving dinner inside the box (and Matthew Perry really did stay inside the box for his scenes).
83	-->'''Rachel:''' So now, what exactly is the point of the box?
84	-->'''Joey:''' Chandler?\
85	'''Chandler:''' ''(counting on his fingers through a small hole in the top)'' The meaning of the box is threefold: One, it gives me the time to think about what I did; two, it proves how much I care about my friendship with Joey; and three...it hurts!
86	* ''Series/{{Hornblower}}'', "The Duchess and the Devil": Midshipman Archie Kennedy tells Horatio that when he attempted to escape from Spanish prison, he was put in a small hole in the ground covered by a grate. The oubliette had neither room to stand upright or lie down, and he couldn't walk for a month after the punishment. The exposition was a ChekhovsGun, as Horatio was held there too, facing rain, cold, hot sun and rats.
87	* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' episode "The Slam": David gets put in one. Strangely enough, he doesn't HulkOut. Another prisoner in the box next door tells him how to survive: find a rock to suck on, put your head in the least exposed place possible, and don't move around.
88	* ''Series/KungFu1972'': Caine finds himself in a two-man Box, and teaches the other man in the box to meditate so as to avoid the torturous aspects of being in the box. The guards & other prisoners are amazed that they're able to leave under their own power instead of being carried out.
89	* ''Series/{{Life\|2007}}'': During a college professor's annual "study" recreating the StanfordPrisonExperiment, a small box is used for putting "prisoners" in solitary confinement, though the heat/cold portion of the torture is skipped.
90	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': Earl goes to prison to cover up the fact that Joy really did the crime in question. The prison there has a 2 person "Hot Box;" there's a chain link fence between the two sides of the box, but there's also a hole in the fence big enough to put your arm through.
91	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' does a shout-out to ''Cool Hand Luke'' in "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E22TheDayTheEarthFroze The Day the Earth Froze]]," when Frank gets angry and refuses to push the experiment button even as Forrester threatens him with forceps and electro-shock, but falls into line when Forrester shouts, "''The box'', Frank!"
92	* In ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', SHU is depicted as such. Both times [[spoiler:Piper]] is put in the SHU, she's depicted as desperate and even slightly crazy from the isolation. As if that's not enough, the food is even more disgusting and inedible than the usual prison fare.
93	* A frequent occurrence in ''{{Series/Oz}}'', in which the guards would often throw a troublesome inmate into a special cell called "The Hole" for solitary confinement, usually stripped naked and given a bucket (in lieu of a toilet). Most of the show's cast spent some time in the Hole at one point or another.
94	* ''Series/{{Profit}}''. It's the central object at the heart of the show. More specifically, it's a box emblazoned with the Gracen & Gracen logo. As a child, Jim Profit practically lived in it thanks to his abusive parents. A television set, visible from a small hole cut in the box, was his only way of learning about the outside world. Even as an adult, he still has that box...
95	* The abusive Sierra Academy in the ''Series/QuantumLeap2022'' episode "[[Recap/QuantumLeap2022S1E8StandByBen Stand By Ben]]" has these as extra punishment for the teenagers sent there. At the end of the episode, one of the teenage characters is being dragged to one of the boxes when her reporter uncle shows up with a news crew and catches the abuse on camera.
96	* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Paradise", a group of colonists who crash-landed on a planet 10 years ago use a particularly nasty variant of this trope -- a metal box left out in the blisteringly hot sun that leaves the victim trembling and delirious from heatstroke -- as [[AllCrimesAreEqual punishment for any transgression]]. Like stealing a ''candle''.
97	* The heroes are subjected to this punishment in ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' episode "Devil's Island" when they arrive on the eponymous French PenalColony and are mistaken for prisoners.
98	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Trevor" starts with a guy being punished by going into a small shed. The kicker, this was before a major tornado was about to hit. Of course, not only the guy survives, he somehow becomes an IntangibleMan and murders the warden who put him in the shed.
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102	* Done in the ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Series/KungFu1972'' (referenced above).
103	* ''Mad'' did it again in a "Monroe" comic where Monroe goes to summer camp. A counselor tells him to behave or they'll put him in "the box." The other counselor tells Monroe not to worry, he's just kidding; [[BaitAndSwitchComment the state doesn't let them use "the box" anymore.]]
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107	* ''ComicStrip/{{Crock}}'' has two never-seen prisoners who talk to each other from adjacent metal boxes.
108	* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', the PointyHairedBoss once threatened to put Dilbert in "the Box" if he didn't work harder. Dilbert asked if "the Box" was bigger than his cubicle.
109	* In ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Rat has the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Box O' Stupid People]]," as well as several variations for different kinds of people he doesn't like.
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113	* In ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', Cecil expresses fear, or maybe just mild annoyance, about the possibility of having to attend "another HR re-training session in the dark box."
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117	* In Paul Green's one-act play, ''Hymn to the Rising Sun'', one of the convicts, a newcomer, is unable to eat or sleep in his horror over the fate of the Runt, who has been imprisoned in the sweatbox for eleven days, on bread and water rations, for masturbation.
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121	* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', the slaver town of Paradise Falls has a converted personal fallout shelter appropriately called The Box.
122	* Referenced in the ''VideoGame/FalloutTactics'' intro cinematic.
123	--> '''Paladin Rychek:''' There are three simple rules to follow with Brotherhood equipment: If you damage your weapon, you will spend a week in the box. If you damage your armor, you will spend a week in the box. If you ''lose'' either, [[ThisIsUnforgivable I'll kill you myself]].
124	* ''VideoGame/{{League Of Legends}}''' Thresh, a sadistic jailer-turned-undead TortureTechnician, has his ultimate ability named "The Box" in reference to one of these.
125	* In ''[[VideoGame/MegamanLegends The Misadventures of Tron Bonne]]'', some servbots sometimes can start not to obey you; when it happens Tron sends them to the punishment chamber (a minigame that basically is about applying VideoGameCrueltyPotential on the servbot).
126	* Camp Whispering Rock in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' has some old "geodesic psycho-isolation chambers" that used to be used as punishment for troublesome kids.
127	* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': [[spoiler:Randal]] is put in one during the prison chapter. [[spoiler:Randal is hurried to find a way to escape, because due to the time loops it's pretty much a AndIMustScream fate for all of eternity, as he points out.]]
128	* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' has the "punishment sphere", which make the oppressed masses too frightened to ever riot no matter what. For some reason, constructing this city improvement is not on the list of atrocities that will turn the other civilizations against you. The quote you get the first time you build one reveals that one, the surface of the sphere is semi-transparent, and two, the family members of the punished [[ForcedToWatch have to watch their loved ones go through whatever is done inside it]], which neatly explains why building one puts an end to rioting.
129	* Found during the first Prague level in ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', set in a prison. One of the first objectives of the level is Bentley rescuing Sly from the box after [[spoiler:he and Murray were betrayed by Neyla in the last level]]. Sly got thrown in there for fighting, giving Bentley the best opportunity to bust him out [[spoiler:by launching a train at the prison.]]
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133	* ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'': Tiffany is frequently punished by being put in the "box of shame". It starts out as a [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2011/02/25 simple cardboard box]], but eventually expands into a [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2017/04/22 decent sized metal box with chains]], [[LuxuryPrisonSuite and an interior resembling a luxury hotel room]]
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137	* A common trope found on ''WebOriginal/FluffyPony'' works is the "sorry box", a type of punishment for bad behaviour that takes advantage of fluffies' inherent claustrophobia and fear of isolation. Of course, they, being as unintelligent as they are, feel anything that can contain them is a sorry box meant to punish them, even if they could easily escape their confinement (which they usually don't even attempt). In their most extreme depictions, fluffies can be tricked into thinking they are in a sorry box just by making them face a corner.
138	* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' has a reference to it:
139	-->''(Tristan says something stupid)''
140	-->Joey: Do you want to go back in the box?
141	-->Tristan: Please don't make me go in there!
142	* From ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation's'' review of ''Dark'':
143	-->'''Imaginary father:''' All right son, we've had fun on [[Platform/Xbox360 this boat]] over the years, but now it's time to sink it to the ocean floor and let all the bottom feeders live on it.\
144	'''Imaginary son:''' But Daddy, couldn't we just put a better engine on the boat and not have to destroy all our cherished memories?\
145	'''Imaginary father:''' I think someone needs to go back in the naughty box!
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149	* In the "Boiling Rock" episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the titular prison has "The Cooler", a small refrigerated cell designed to contain fire benders. Plays the trope straight in that it's a small, confined box they're put in as punishment, and inverts the effect in that it's a punishment because it's ''freezing'' rather than hot.
150	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', an amnesiac Bruce Wayne becomes a captive of a forced labour camp made up of homeless people owned by a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit. The main punishment for failure to work is being placed in a corrugated iron box in the hot sun. Being Batman, he regains his memory and breaks out.
151	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' when Dog's disregarding of Rancid Rabbit's outrageous pool rules get the pair locked up, Cat deliberately gets them thrown into a hot box to teach Dog the value of the rules. Eventually, Dog breaks down and begins saying a MadnessMantra of "I will obey the rules", just when their time in the hot box is up...[[{{Jerkass}} only for Rancid]] [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem to decide to keep them in it for another two months]], [[HourglassPlot resulting in Cat realizing]] that ''[[DumbassHasAPoint Dog]]'' [[DumbassHasAPoint was right]].
152	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "The Label Police", Snap and several other zoners are sent to "Label Prison" because [[ItMakesSenseInContext they ignored certain labels on their items]]. When they attempt to escape, the cops place them in "the box" -- a giant cardboard box.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': On the short "Dexter Detention", it turns out that the detention room on Dexter's school has a tiny (as in, not even three-feet-tall-if-that-much Dexter fits inside without being shoved in) hole on the ground for "solitary confinement". Dexter almost ends up [[GoMadFromTheIsolation going insane]] within ten seconds of being put inside--until an animal burrows in, inspiring Dexter to [[FastTunnelling turn the hole into an escape route]].
154	* Happy Peppy Gary and Happy Peppy Betty on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' are shown punishing kids by putting them in the "Fun Box", an inhumanely small cage. They even gave it a happy, peppy theme song.
155	* The ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' episode "Precious Pig" gives us the "Shunning Cave", a realistic deep cavehole which Fanboy as sent to as punishment for supposedly trying to murder the class pig (in reality, he was teaching the pig karate). The cave is revealed to be an actual cave when Fanboy steals the pig back and disappears into it.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': In episode "I Stand Corrected", Weasel and Baboon are sent to a correctional institute that utilizes one of those boxes. Jailkeeper Red Guy doesn't seem to understand how they work considering he only locks ''himself'' inside them and gives ridiculously long sentences for them, culminating with 6 years.
157	* Used in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' in the episode ''Cool Hand Johnny'', where the female Warden throws Johnny into The Box, a small wooden shed in the corner of the prison yard after he hits on her. At first Johnny is non-plussed at the punishment until she throws [[FateWorseThanDeath CARL]] in there with him for 30 days, at which point Johnny breaks down and begs her for mercy. When she comes back to let them out 30 days later, they've somehow started up a party inside.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Bobby is put into one of these at a military school when his grandfather Cotton takes over in an attempt to make him a man. It most assuredly does not break him. As Hank points out, you can keep pounding at something soft, but it'll never make it harder or break it.
159	-->''I've slept on a mattress. I've slept on cement. I'm a mattress guy.''
160	* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', the Box is just a square drawn on the playground floor. T.J. at first laughs it off, but eventually it breaks him when he [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Goes Mad From The Isolation]]. It's only effective once; his friends are able to force him back into the Box and help T.J. realise that its "power" is purely symbolic.
161	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' has Space Ghost telling Zorak to do what he says, or he'll go to The Box. Zorak frightfully whispers "The Box?" before complying with Space Ghost's orders. Notable because Zorak is usually impossible to intimidate.
162	* In ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', Baloo stays at a Thembrian penal colony which he has mistaken for a fitness camp. He is frequently sent to what he calls a "solar powered sauna."
163	* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Slave Island", several characters are enslaved with power negating collars. When Storm and then Jubilee attempt to escape, they are punished by being put in hot boxes. Since Storm has {{Claustrophobia}}, she starts cracking up before Gambit rescues them.
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