Line #65 Main/RadishCure


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2	[[caption-width-right:263:That'll learn 'em!]]
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4	->''"Daniel talks to Amanda, who says that the first time Jigsaw kidnapped her it was because she was a junkie, and that this time must be cause she started cutting herself. Oh yeah, Amanda, you don't want to let Jigsaw catch you doing that. He'll make you smoke the whole pack of razors!"''
5	-->-- ''WebVideo/TheKillCount'' on ''Film/SawII''
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7	Alice wants something she shouldn't have. Knowing this, somebody else responds by giving it to her, as much or as frequently as she wants, to the point where she can't stand it anymore and voluntarily refuses it. AnAesop is had by all.
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9	This trope is named for a ''Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle'' story about a little girl who hates taking baths. Her family lets her go unbathed for ''quite'' some time (maybe a week, but [[MST3KMantra don't think about it too hard]]). Eventually, she is covered in a layer of dirt thick enough that her parents secretly plant radish seeds there. The seeds sprout in a day or two, and when the girl sees them, a FreakOut ensues. She screams for a bath, her parents have her take a shower instead, which she willingly stays in for hours until she is spotless, and she never wants to go without her nightly bath again.
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11	This seems particularly common in kids' stories where the moral is "your parents know best, and they really do love you, even when they don't give you what you want."
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13	A once-common subtrope of this, now a DeadHorseTrope, is parents who catch their kids with cigarettes forcing them to smoke a whole carton, which will make them so sick they'll never want to touch a cigarette again.
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15	Compare BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor, ExactWords, LiteralGenie, and ReversePsychology. Can overlap with JackassGenie on the parents' part if they fulfill the child's wish by giving them only the negative aspects of what they want, without any of the good. It also can overlap with BehavioralConditioning, as several examples are a form of aversion therapy. If the child's punishment is essentially self-inflicted (i.e. they ''steal'' the ForbiddenFruit and experience its unpleasant consequences), it becomes a case of ThePunishmentIsTheCrime. Could lead to MayItNeverHappenAgain.
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17	Definitely TruthInTelevision, as many a parent has managed to give their beer-craving teenage child a disgustingly warm beer. Accordingly, this trope can often be averted in real life too; for some, [[TrademarkFavouriteFood no excess amount of their favourite food or beverage will ever be enough to make them go off it.]]
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19	One should note that beyond the obvious health risks involved, on a purely educational level this method can quickly become a BrokenAesop. When your kid asks for chocolate and you reply by saying he'll never be allowed to eat anything else again, you're pretty obviously ''not'' giving him "what he wanted", you're just being mean.
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22	!!Examples:
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27	* Hello Flo, a company that takes care of... women's hygiene, has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEcZmT0fiNM this story]] about a preteen girl on the edge of puberty who gets tired of waiting for menarche (and the [[RiteOfPassage coming-of-age]] [[SheIsAllGrownUp it implies to her]] and her friends), and decides to fake it. Her mother isn't fooled, nor does she find her daughter's [[AllPeriodsArePMS simulation of snappish mood swings]] particularly amusing. Mom's solution? Why, an event this momentous calls for an all-out over-the-top traditional "First Moon" celebration, of course! Then, even after the embarrassment finally forces the daughter to confess, her mother isn't sending back the gifts, particularly that "starter pack" from Hello Flo. (Hey, just because she doesn't need it ''right now'' doesn't mean she isn't going to...)
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31	* Invoked, though not actually carried out, in ''Manga/Change123''. Hibiki and Mikiri, Motoko's more childish personalities, are messy and lazy, and when they are required to begin leading a day to day existence, they don't bother cleaning the apartment and eat junk food instead of cooking. [[OnlySaneMan Terhuaru]] scares them into starting by pointing out that if they continue living-off of junk food, they'll eventually get a stomach ache, and that an unclean apartment will eventually be filled with cockroaches.
32	* See ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', when Nozomu and Kafuka board up Komori, plus probably some others.
33	* Used ''twice'' on Ranmaru in ''Manga/TheWallflower''. His father, exasperated with his womanising and hoping to cement an ArrangedMarriage, reminds him of when he was a child and loved pudding. So when young Ranmaru asked for a pudding bigger than his head, he got sick of it less than halfway through. With that anecdote in mind, the father starts sending Ranmaru from place to place full of women. Ranmaru refuses to back down, continuing to entertain all the women to the point of exhaustion.
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37	* John Moloney mentions this.
38	-->'''John:''' I remember when I was 14, my mother caught me masturbating, that was very embarrassing. Thankfully, she was quite understanding. Also when I was 14, my dad caught me smoking cigarettes and he made me smoke 20 in a row, and I thought, "Well, thank God it wasn't him who caught me masturbating!"
39	* Norm [=MacDonald=]'s take on it:
40	-->'''Norm:''' My dad caught me smoking a cigarette behind the house, so he pulled me into the house by my arm, stuck a gigantic cigar in my mouth and forced me to smoke that entire cigar! ''[{{beat}}]'' So that's how I got started on cigars...
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44	* Subverted in a classic Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon, which shows a young boy -- perhaps five years old -- sitting in an armchair, contentedly puffing smoke rings from a huge, ornate meerschaum pipe. Says the child's disgruntled mother to a sheepish father: "So much for 'Oh, let's let him have a puff; he'll be so sick he'll never want to try it again!'"
45	* In the ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' story "Calliope", this is Dream's punishment for an author who kept a Muse captive and was implied to be regularly raping her for inspiration. It reached the point where he had so many ideas coming through his head that he was writing on the wall in his own blood.
46	--> You say you need the ideas? Then ideas you will have.\
47	Ideas in '''abundance'''.
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51	* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's mom lets him smoke a cigarette his grandpa left behind. He really doesn't enjoy it, but the [[SpoofAesop Aesop he learns]] was ''not to trust his mother''.
52	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In an old Sunday strip, Jon tries to cure Garfield of his gluttony by offering him a huge pile of food, saying, "he's either going to get sick eating all that food, or he's going to burst trying". It doesn't work; after eating it all, Garfield is still hungry, asking Jon if he's going to finish his hamburger.
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56	* ''Fanfic/BabyBoomShawnaCanon'': Chapter 2: Marinette's thoughts on having an AliensMadeThemDoIt incident with her crush, makes a metaphor with getting a tasty food in overly large quantities and bad format:
57	--> She knew that some people might say she ought to be happy. She’d always wanted to be closer to Adrien, after all. But that was like telling someone you like chocolate cake and them expecting you to be happy when they try to drown you in a giant vat of frosting. She’d only wanted to see Adrien smile at her, to hold his hand and—maybe, in her wildest daydreams—to kiss him. Not this. Especially not ''like'' this.
58	* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fic ''Fanfic/BetterLeftUnsaid'', Kurenai catches Naruto with a cigarette he stole from Asuma. She forces Naruto to smoke an entire carton to make him sick and prevent him from ever smoking again. Unfortunately, Kurenai forgot to factor in Naruto's HealingFactor, resulting in him simply becoming addicted to cigarettes.
59	* ''Fanfic/RaisedByJagers'' has a young Agatha Heterodyne refuse to go to bed one night while in the care of Mamma Gkika. So Mamma Gkika, ever wise, decides to let Agatha stay up as long as she wants.
60	-->"Und vot did hyu learn, sveethot?" Gkika asked.\
61	"That little girls need their sleep even if they don't think they do," Agatha recited dutifully. "Can I take a nap?"
62	* In [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/SMMiniMangas/SMMangaChibiChibiCookiesNeptune.jpg this]] ''Anime/SailorMoon'' fan-art, Sailor Neptune tries to make Chibi-Chibi sick of cookies in order for her to stop stealing them... [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard only to get sick herself.]] And Chibi-Chibi just continues to happily eat away despite having a large BalloonBelly.
63	* ''Fanfic/AGlassOfWine'': Misato orders Asuka to smoke one cigarette she lifted out of Kaji's desk drawer. Asuka starts shuddering and coughing right away, and she stomps the cigarette out.
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67	* The film ''Film/{{Austenland}}'' revolves around a woman who's obsessed with the works of Creator/JaneAusten, to the point where she go to a resort modeled after an estate from [[RegencyEngland Regency-era England.]] Despite spending her life's savings, she could only afford the lowest tiered package. After several bad experiences, such as being led on by an actor, and being molested by the owner's drunk husband, she decides to cut her loses and goes home, where she decides to take down her Jane Austen memorabilia.
68	* ''Film/BrewstersMillions1985'': A recently-deceased relative of the title character employs this trope in his will: Montgomery Brewster must spend $30 million within 30 days, in order to get his actual inheritance of $300 million. [[OnOneCondition There are several catches, though]]: at month's end, he's not allowed to own any assets of any kind, he can't simply give money and/or valuables away (beyond the $1.5 million he's allowed to donate to charity, that is), he mustn't destroy anything that's inherently valuable, and the final catch that makes this Radish Cure truly work in the end--during the 30 day period, he's not allowed to tell anyone else why he's spending his $30 million so foolishly. The relative cites this trope as his motivation behind the will in the first place, since his father used the typical "letting your kid smoke... a whole heap of smokes all at once" tactic to prevent him from ever wanting to smoke. It might count as a deconstruction of the Radish Cure, though, as throughout the film Brewster 1) still wants the money and 2) has serious trouble trying to actually spend the amount without gaining assets (thus carrying out the terms of the cure). Even at the climax of the movie, when things are down to the wire, he still has $20,000 to spend.[[note]]Brewster arguably does ''not'' comply with the terms of the will; he's not allowed to own any assets of any kind, and he winds up with an asset in the form of future services owed to him.[[/note]]
69	* This is Film/NannyMcPhee's stock in trade. When the kids don't want to stop making a mess of the kitchen and go to bed, she magics them into being ''unable to stop'', which results in almost throwing the baby into the soup. She only breaks the spell when they beg her to. The next morning, they fake being sick to avoid having to get out of bed, so she traps them in their beds and makes the sickness real. Although really, this has less to do with instilling an aversion to the thing they want to do and more to do with scaring them into [[DefeatMeansFriendship behaving by demonstrating her powers]].
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73	* "I caught my son with a cigarette and forced him to eat the whole carton. Now he ''eats'' them."
74	* '''First businessman''': "I own a chocolate factory and I let every new employee eat whatever he wants. After a week, he hates chocolate." '''Second businessman''': "I wish I could do that. I own a bank."
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78	* Subverted in ''Alvie Eats Soup'' where Alvie's parents want him to eat more than just soup so they try doing this trick but he just doesn't get bored of it.
79	* In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'', Stacey uses this among other ReversePsychology techniques when she first sits for the [[SpoiledBrat Delaney siblings]]. The kids are supposed to clean up their playroom, but they try to get out of it by claiming that they ''like'' a messy playroom. Stacey agrees that messy playrooms are better and starts pulling everything off the shelves, scattering art supplies, and generally trying to make the playroom as much of a mess as possible, until the kids stop her by admitting they don't like the mess and agreeing to clean it up.
80	* William Dean Howells' short story ''Christmas Every Day'' has a little girl [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor wish]] for... well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The Christmas Fairy agrees to grant her wish for a year, which eventually leads to so much worldwide misery – mass poverty from all the shopping, no room to store all the presents, tree- and turkey shortages, etc. – that by the end, the girl never wants to see Christmas again and needs to be persuaded to let it come even once a year. This story has inspired [[ChristmasEveryDay a trope of its own]], with countless [[WholePlotReference Whole Plot References]] in different media, with the ''Series/SesameStreet'' special ''Film/ElmoSavesChristmas'' as probably the most famous retelling.
81	* ''Literature/EllenAndOtis'': In one chapter of ''Otis Spofford'', Otis's teacher has him make spitballs exclusively as punishment for shooting them. Otis sees this as a CoolAndUnusualPunishment at first, until he realizes that it prevents him from participating in class and also dries his mouth out once he's run out of spit.
82	** In her autobiography Cleary included a story about some boys who chewed garlic in class. The principal finally bought a dollar's worth of garlic--this was in the 1930s--and had them chew it all.
83	* ''[[Literature/FrancesTheBadger Bread and Jam for Frances]]'' is right up there with ''Literature/MrsPiggleWiggle'' as ''the'' classic example of this trope. In this story, Frances the badger only wants to eat bread and jam, and is unwilling to try any other foods. Her parents decide to give her bread and jam for every meal, and while she's happy about it at first, she eventually gets tired of it and asks to try some spaghetti at one meal. The story ends with her bringing a lunch to school that consists of a wide variety of foods, with no jam to speak of.
84	* There's a children's book called ''Literature/TheChocolateTouch'' based on the legend of King Midas where a boy who eats too much candy unwittingly buys a magic chocolate from TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday. After he eats it, everything he puts into his mouth turns to chocolate, making him thirsty and sick and ruining some possessions, like his trumpet. Finally he accidentally turns his mother into a chocolate statue by kissing her on the cheek, runs back to the shop's proprietor and tells him he's learned the error of his ways, and is allowed a ResetButton.
85	* Done in ''Literature/TheGreatBrain is Back'' when Tom, in an experiment to find out why men smoke, gets caught smoking a cigarette in the barn. Papa tells him he may not smoke cigarettes outside, but he's free to have a pipe or cigar in the house anytime. Tom lasts about a few minutes before turning green, and when his girlfriend says she doesn't like the smell anyway, he concludes that men smoke in order to repel women.
86	* In ''[[Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie Little Town on the Prairie]]'', Miss Wilder attempts to employ this trope by commanding Carrie Ingalls and her seatmate to put their books away and rock their desk as punishment for rocking it while studying. It's mostly an effort to get at Laura by picking on her little sister, and it backfires dramatically (and awesomely) when Miss Wilder demands that sickly little Carrie, abandoned by her seatmate, continue to rock the desk by herself - Laura declares that ''she'll'' rock the desk if Miss Wilder wants it rocked, and she proceeds to do just that, [[BotheringByTheBook so loudly that nobody in the entire schoolroom can hear the lesson]].
87	* The ''Literature/LittlePrincess'' book "I Want Two Birthdays", where the Princess wants (and gets) to celebrate her "birthday" every day, but she doesn't get bored of birthdays so much as the presents become undesirable.
88	* In the ''Literature/LittleWomen'' chapter "Experiments," Marmee lets her daughters go for a week without doing any chores. At first it's fun, but eventually boredom sets in, and then Marmee and housekeeper Hannah give the girls a taste of their own medicine by taking a day off too, leaving no one to do the necessary work around the house. Thus the sisters learn the value of [[AllWorkVsAllPlay balancing play with work]] – particularly Beth, whose pet canary dies because she neglected to feed it.
89	* ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'' subverts this after the [[SadistTeacher exaggeratedly cruel headmistress]] Agatha Trunchbull catches Bruce Bogtrotter stealing cake and forces him to eat a entire cake in front of the rest of the school. Though little Brucie initially hesitates after figuring out what the punishment is, he ends up willingly finishing the whole thing as a middle finger to Trunchbull, while his schoolmates cheer him on. It helps that he's fat and thus used to eating a lot.
90	* ''Literature/MrMen'': Used on Mr. Greedy in his book; the giant punishes Mr. Greedy for his gluttony by forcing him to eat all of the GiantFood. Mr. Greedy feels sick afterwards and promises the giant he'll stop being a glutton.
91	* Named for the classic ''Literature/MrsPiggleWiggle'' example. In fact, ''all'' of the early ''Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle'' stories had this basic form, not just the Radish Cure one. Some other examples:
92	** A boy who doesn't want to clean his room is allowed to slack off on cleaning his room until his toys pile up so much that he can't leave his room at all and will miss seeing the circus if he doesn't get around to finally cleaning up.
93	** A boy who hates sharing his things with other children is given locks, labels, and paint that he can use to lock up or write his name and the message "DON'T TOUCH!" on all of his possessions, down to even his lunch food. This causes him to become a laughingstock among his peers who [[ReversePsychology take all the "DON'T TOUCH!" messages as an invitation to touch]], and he's eventually shamed into taking off all the messages.
94	** Three children who want to stay up well past their bedtime are allowed to do just that, which has the predictable outcome of them being too tired during the day to focus on or enjoy anything they do. The chapter ends with them practically begging their parents to let them go to bed on time.
95	** Two sisters are making their parents miserable by constantly bullying, arguing with, and yelling at each other. Mrs Piggle Wiggle instructs the parents to copy the girls' behavior so that they can see what it looks like. It doesn't take long for them to beg for their parents to stop fighting and promise to be nicer to each other.
96	** The plot outline changed a little after the author added magic powers to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's repertoire. For example, the Whisper Sticks - sweet candy canes given to two little girls who whisper incessantly, so that they can't do anything ''but'' [[AndIMustScream whisper]] and end up in a huge fight.
97	* ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. Arguably, this [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation could be Wonka's]] real thoughts behind the children meeting their various fates. They all were taken out of running when they went to steal or use something that clearly wasn't safe but they still wanted. In adaptations, Wonka seems decidedly unconcerned with rescuing or stopping the kids, so...
98	* ''Literature/StregaNona'' is a SorcerersApprenticePlot starring the titular grandmotherly witch and her magic pot that produces pasta on command. The apprentice in question, Big Anthony, finds out what the pasta pot can do and wants to impress the villagers, so while Strega Nona is out, he says the magic words to produce the pasta and shares it with everyone. However, he doesn't know that he has to blow three kisses to make the pasta pot stop making pasta. His punishment for having flooded the entire village with pasta is having to eat all of it. He got off lucky since the angry villagers wanted to ''hang'' him with the pasta instead.
99	* One of Jean de la Fontaine's ''Tales in Verse''. TheCasanova aristocrat sleeps with the wife of his servant and to prove to the servant that monogamy is impossible, serves him eel pie daily. This is at first a delicacy, but soon becomes unbearable.
100	* In the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''[[Recap/WarriorCatsCodeOfTheClans Code of the Clans]]'' a young One-Eye and Dappletail break the warrior code by stealing [=RiverClan=]'s fish. Hailstar of [=RiverClan=] and Pinestar of [=ThunderClan=] agree to give them the fish, whereupon the two young cats discover that they ''hate'' the taste and vow to never take them again.
101	* In the picture book ''Literature/GregoryTheTerribleEater'', Gregory is a young goat who likes human food, but his parents are trying to get him to eat garbage. It works too well, and he starts eating everything in the house. So they go to the dump and bring home a huge meal for him: eight flat tires, a barber pole, a broken violin and half a car. He eats almost all of it, then gets a terrible tummy ache, tossing and turning all night. The next morning, he requests a reasonably sized breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs, two pieces of wax paper and a glass of orange juice.
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105	* In ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', Rudy complains about not being allowed to stay up late. Her parents, Cliff and Clair, agree to let Rudy stay up as late as she likes. The result is a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome where she spends the next day at school falling {{asleep in class}} and unable to pay attention because she didn't get enough sleep, which gets her in trouble at school. As a result, Rudy starts going to bed on time.
106	* Loren does this on an episode of ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' when a boy keeps stealing his cigars. He finally tells the boy he can have them - as long as he smokes them all in the store, in one sitting.
107	* In an early episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Malcolm swears at his father, who is deeply hurt, and considers that it's hard to punish a child for swearing - 'if it was smoking I'd have him go through the whole pack until he was gasping for air'. This gives him an idea. Later, he hands Malcolm a long list of terms of abuse, and asks Malcolm to read everything on the list to 'the man who held you in his arms the moment you were born'. Malcolm gives up somewhere in the middle, but when Hal attempts to let him off, he quickly exclaims ([[GoneHorriblyRight not wishing to let Hal down again]]) that he can finish the whole list. He does.
108	-->'''Hal''': [''After Malcolm finishes, in shock''] Good. Very thorough.\
109	'''Malcolm''': Dad, will you please finish teaching me how to skate?\
110	'''Hal''': [''still in shock''] Of course. But let's not make eye contact for a couple of weeks.\
111	'''Malcolm''': You got it.
112	* In one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', Father Mulcahy cures a dog of its liquor stealing habits by giving the dog all the whiskey it can drink. One massive hangover later, and the dog refused to touch alcohol ever again.
113	** In another, Col. Potter tries assisting a patient contemplating suicide due to his wound disfiguring his face. When the patient gets to the knockout gas and angrily demands that he be left alone to die, Potter opens the valves and forces the mask onto the man, causing him to panic and back out (which was Potter's whole point: the soldier's desire to live was much stronger than his desire to die, he just needed to see it for himself).
114	* In the British puppet comedy ''Series/{{Mongrels}}'', Marion the cat gets hooked on [[GRatedDrug catnip]], so Vince the fox tries to help him kick the habit by giving him a ton of catnip to munch on:
115	-->'''Vince:''' Classic aversion therapy! My dad did the same to me when he caught me smoking cigarettes. Unfortunately he also did it when he caught my sister doing heroin.\
116	''(cut to brief scene of a dead female fox with an arm full of needles)''
117	* In an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', Hilda develops a case of "Bat Breath", where every time she opens her mouth, bats fly out, from eating pomegrantes. Zelda soon develops a cure for Bat Breath, allowing Hilda to eat all the pomegranates she wants. At the end of the episode, she's eaten so much pomegranate that she doesn't want to eat it ever again.
118	* Inverted in ''Series/TheSarahSilvermanProgram'' - After being offered Tab by his boyfriend (who insists he at least try it once), Steve pretends to become obsessed with it. But, the boyfriend starts offering him more and more of it, turning it into an EscalatingWar.
119	* On ''Series/TheOrville'', Isaac suggests this for disciplining Claire's teenaged son Marcus, who's been acting up and was caught drinking alcohol with his friends: force him to drink more until he can't stand the taste of the stuff. Claire points out that this will ''kill'' Marcus.
120	* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'':
121	** In the episode "Jan the Only Child," Jan's siblings pull this on her when she wants privacy and wishes she were an only child. They refuse to speak to her, be in the same room with her, or associate with her at all, until she is begging for their companionship again.
122	** In the episode "Greg Gets Grounded," Greg attempts LoopholeAbuse when he's forbidden to drive the car for a week as a punishment, [[ExactWords driving a friend's car instead]]. So Mike and Carol agree that from now on, ExactWords will be the rule. This means that Greg is forced to do every task he ever promises to do precisely when he says he'll do it – no putting it off till later or getting anyone else to do it for him. Naturally, this makes life harder for Greg and teaches him a lesson.
123	* In on episode of ''Series/GullahGullahIsland'', after the kids complain about all the rules around the house, Ron and Natalie decide to let them go for a day without any rules. Of course chaos ensues and the kids learn the value of rules by the end.
124	* ''Series/That70sShow'': In "Eric Gets Suspended", the "make them smoke all the cigarettes" version is used when Eric gets in trouble at school for smoking. Except he was actually covering for Donna, so later his dad has to apologize.
125	-->'''Red:''' I'm sorry I made you smoke all those cigarettes.\
126	'''Eric:''' ''[joking]'' Nah, I kinda liked them.\
127	'''Red:''' Don't...\
128	'''Eric:''' No, really! I'll bet they go great with beer!\
129	'''Red:''' So does ''a swift kick to the ass''.
130	* ''Series/DifferentStrokes''. Drummond attempts this with Willis after catching him sneaking liquor, showing how even an older and experienced drinker like himself can easily become intoxicated when drinking too much too quickly. Unfortunately, the only lesson Willis learns is therefore to space out his drinks so as not to get drunk.
131	* An interesting variation in ''Series/RescueMe'': Tommy attempts to cure his daughter's alcoholism by giving her a booze baptism, dunking her head in a baptismal full of hard liquor. It works, as, the next time she takes a drink, she immediately [[VomitIndiscretionShot spits up]].
132	* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': In "Cry Wolf", two young boys like to play at being International Rescue; and on their radio, they accidentally call out the real International Rescue, causing Scott to fly out to them. Scott explains the seriousness of the situation to the boys and their father, and on the spot, he decides to take the boys to their base to show them their equipment, hoping that this will cure them of making false calls again.
133	* ''Series/GrangeHill'': When the Students' Action Group stages a sit-in in the secretary's office, the headmaster gives them ten minutes to leave the room. After this time, he does not ask them if they want to come out, but locks them in, and leaves them there for some time, almost causing one pupil to have a PottyEmergency.
134	--> '''Pupil:''' I'm going to have to get out of this, I want to go to the loo.
135	--> '''Jessica:''' You should have gone before we came.
136	--> '''Pupil:''' I didn't know how long we'd be, did I?
137	--> '''Jessica:''' (gloomily) Probably much longer.
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141	* In Numbers 11 of Literature/TheBible, the Israelites have had nothing to eat but manna since they were liberated from Egypt. They complain about this to God and have the nerve to suggest ''they had better food to eat in Egypt'' (as in, when they were slaves crying out to God to rescue them). God becomes so angry at them that He prescribes the following punishment: they shall indeed have meat. Lots of meat, and ''only'' meat, until it ''comes out of their nostrils'' and becomes ''loathsome'' to them. This ends up being [[UnbuiltTrope subverted]]: before the complainers can even finish their first meal, they are struck dead by a plague. [[DoubleSubverted The message gets across loud and clear, regardless.]]
142	* In ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', [[{{Yandere}} Inanna/Ishtar]] asks [[TheHero Gilgamesh]] to be her consort, but he refuses, [[TheLongList citing what happened to pretty much all of her other boyfriends and husbands]]. Enraged, she [[DaddysGirl runs to her daddy, Nanna the moon god]], and asks for Gugalana, the Bull of Heaven. (Actually, the first husband of her older twin Ereshkigal. This becomes important [[Literature/InannasDescentToTheNetherworld later]].) Nanna warns her that giving her the Bull of Heaven will cause a drought and says no, but Inanna/Ishtar pitches a fit, threatening to cause a ZombieApocalypse if Gugalana is not given to her. Nanna gives in, and [[spoiler:Enkidu and Gilgamesh destroy Gugalana.]]
143	* The legend of King Midas and his golden touch. Specifically, Midas is a greedy king but then he gets a curse where everything he touches turns into gold. He doesn't get bored of gold so much as things become very inconvenient for him when he accidentally turns his food and his friends into gold.
144	* In an Italian FairyTale, this is actually a plot point: there's this beautiful princess who loves eating figs and is quite the BigEater, so the King offers her hand in marriage to whoever manages to make her tired of eating figs. The hero succeed thanks to a magic wand which refills his basket of figs whenever he strikes it on the ground.
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148	* In "Episode 83: 1943 Frankford Junction Wreck" of ''Podcast/WellTheresYourProblem'', Liam talks about a time he managed to this to himself, with Alice also mentioning the "punish a child for smoking by making them smoke the whole pack" subtrope. When Liam turned 18, he decided to import a one-kilogram jar of Nutella for his birthday. He ate so much Nutella that he eventually got sick of it, to the point that even ''mentioning'' Nutella makes him queasy.
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152	* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In "Film/ElmoSavesChristmas", Elmo wishes it could be Christmas every day, which leads to everyone being bored of Christmas, the carolers [[LostVoicePlot losing their voices]], Christmas trees being endangered, Maria and Luis forgetting how to do their job, the economy failing, and Big Bird crying because he hasn't seen Snuffy for a year. Even the Count, who should be happy throughout it all because he now has an infinite number of Christmases to count, has actually gotten sick of counting and has had enough of the endless Christmas.
153	* In the ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong'' episode "Too Sick to Go to the Circus," Charlie Horse and Hush Puppy [[PlayingSick Play Sick]] to get out of school. Shari teaches them a lesson by pretending to be fooled and treating them like they really are sick, giving them FoulMedicine and keeping them home not only from school, but from their class's trip to the circus.
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157	* There is a play about a German man who worked at a radio station and had to edit a four-hour speech by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler (to decide which three minutes to cut). He had to listen to the speech three times to make the decision, and as he said, before he started this work, he was a Nazi, but after hearing it the third time, he wasn't a Nazi anymore.
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161	* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', if Wrex leads the krogan, he and his estranged mate "Eve," who happens to be the first female of their species immune to [[SterilityPlague the Genophage]] in generations, show signs of rekindling their relationship. "Eve" respects Wrex, but is annoyed that he may be too excited at the prospect of [[ChivalrousPervert fertilizing a bunch of newly-fertile krogan females]] after the Genophage is cured. If all goes well, then as of the ''Citadel'' DLC, she's dealing with this by ''encouraging'' star-struck lady krogan who want their first batches of new children fathered by the heroic savior of their race. Poor Wrex confides in Shepard that he's gotten sick and tired of having to sneak out of his own house through the bathroom window to avoid them, and that even his alien biology is becoming exhausted and sore from all the breeding.
162	* ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' offers a darker example of this technique. After capturing a [[TheCartel Santa Blanca]] buchon noted for [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply his heavy addiction to the cartel's cocaine]], Bowman interrogates him by holding him at gunpoint and forcing him to snort lines of coke non-stop until he either cracks and gives up useful intel to further hurt the cartel, or inevitably dies of an overdose. While the buchon initially laughs this threat off, he eventually recognizes that his body can't handle any more and he gives in to the torture.
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166	* The old ''Lil' Audrey'' cartoons had an episode where the titular Audrey refuses to eat her dinner in favor of gorging on candy, even having secret stashes of it everywhere when her nanny tries to confiscate it. Eventually she's sent to her room as punishment, where she has a stomachache-induced DreamSequence of being force-fed nothing but candy. This is more than enough to convince her to eat dinner when she wakes up.
167	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'', Peyton tries to do this to himself in order to lose weight. Since whatever happens to his body on Chaotic and Perim doesn't affect his body on Earth (since humans on Chaotic and Perim are actually copies whose memories are transferred to the original when they return to Earth), he tries stuffing himself with food until he gets sick on Chaotic, in the hope that the memory of the experience will reduce his food cravings on Earth. It doesn't work.
168	* Downplayed in the ''WesternAnimation/CharlieAndLola'' episode "Snow is My Favorite and Best" where Charlie asks Lola to ''imagine'' what it would be like if it only snowed to make her realize you can have too much of a good thing.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' had an episode where Mung tried to cure Chowder's insatiable love of thrice cream by having the Thrice Cream Man become his new friend and letting Chowder eat him while the two play together. The plan works when Chowder becomes sick of eating him and has a [[ArtShift stop-motion]] AcidRefluxNightmare, but the Thrice Cream Man wants Chowder to keep eating him and threatens to destroy the catering company when Chowder won't comply.
170	* Used in an old Disney cartoon, where WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck catches Huey, Dewey, and Louie with a carton of cigars, and makes them smoke them all--only to find out they were a gift for him. Even more karmic because when he noticed them with the box he didn't even think of asking, he just went berserk, shoved the cigars into their mouths and lit up in a montage more befitting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown (at one point a sick Huey even tried to drag himself away just for Donald to grab him by the ankle, drag him back into the room and give him another cigar).
171	* The ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' episode "Just Desserts" has Timmy wish that every meal would be desserts. Eventually, the all-sugar diet leaves everyone extremely fat and so lacking in energy that they can barely move their arms, which becomes a problem with [[ItMakesSenseInContext the added weight sends the planet hurdling into the sun.]] Timmy has to feed his fairy godparents spinach -- which he normally can't stand -- to give them the energy to intervene, which becomes a SpaceWhaleAesop about the importance of eating a healthy diet.
172	* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Trading Places" has Peter forcing Chris to smoke a whole carton of cigarettes, even though what he did was smash Peter's new motorcycle. Chris is reluctant at first but then starts enjoying the cigarettes. Made even funnier by Peter, apparently forgetting the purpose of the punishment, giving Chris advice on how to smoke more enjoyably.
173	** The gag would be repeated again in the British segment of "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2", only this time, it was a "carton of [[HaveAGayOldTime fags]]". At least in that segment, he was actually responding to Chris being caught smoking.
174	** During a group intervention to convince Quagmire's sister to leave her [[DomesticAbuse abusive fiancé]], Peter did it again and tried making her smoke a whole carton of cigarettes.
175	* A second season episode of the ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' series involved a (court-ordered) attempt to get Heathcliff to stop stealing fish from the fish store using this method ([[ItMakesSenseInContext otherwise, he would have to go to jail]]). It ends up working too well...
176	--> '''Grandpa Nutmeg''': Heathcliff not only doesn't want to eat fish, he can't even stand to hear the ''word'' fish.
177	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
178	** In the episode "Keeping Up with Our Joneses," Hank Hill made Bobby smoke a whole carton of cigarettes as punishment for catching him smoking. The plan backfired spectacularly; not only did Bobby end up hooked, but Hank and Peggy fell victim to their own past cigarette habits as well.
179	** In their addiction support group, Bobby mentions that he's been an addict since his dad "let" him smoke a whole carton, to horrified reactions. Hank tries to correct him, in that he ''made'' him smoke them as a punishment (though he doesn't mention that he was trying to punish Bobby for smoking in the first place), to even more horrified reactions.
180	** While attempting to use the Radish Cure on Bobby, Hank even bothered to correct him on how to hold the cigarette, stating [[DoWrongRight there's a right way to do everything, even wrong things]].
181	* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'':
182	** [[ZigZaggingTrope Zigzagged]] in "I Want Baked Beans", where Princess doesn't want to eat anything but baked beans so she's allowed to have only baked beans but eventually grows bored of them and wants other food... however, the adults imply that they weren't trying to invoke the trope and she could have just asked.
183	** Inverted in "I Don't Want Help", where Little Princess ''doesn't'' want something (namely any help) so the adults agree not to help her but then she realizes she needs help.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/NeighborsFromHell'': Marjoe mentions this is how she was able to convince her children not to take drugs. Considering [[LethallyStupid everything else]] she has done in the show's 10 episode run, this is nothing.
185	* There is one ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' short where a girl and her father are fighting over control of the television. She is obsessed with the anime ''Manga/InuYasha'', so the father decides to make her sick of ''[=InuYasha=]'' by pretending to be even more obsessed with the show than she is until she finally gives up watching it and lets him control the television again.
186	--> "Dad wins."
187	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Angelica Orders Out," after Angelica uses Stu's voice-changing invention to disguise herself as an adult over the phone and order lots of desserts from a deli, her mother punishes her by making her eat all the flan she ordered. Having never actually tried flan before, Angelica realizes too late that she doesn't like it.
188	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
189	** Homer Simpson had a literal IronicHell version of this as a punishment for his donut addiction, which was {{subverted\|Trope}} [[{{Unishment}} when Hell ran out of donuts and he still asked for more]].
190	** They also had an episode where Bart was storing ten thousand cartons of cigarettes for TheMafia, and Homer threatens to make Bart smoke each and every one of them.
191	* A non-food example occurred in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants.'' In the episode "Squidville," after his house is destroyed by another of [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's shenanigans, Squidward moves to Tentacle Acres, a cephalopod-only gated community, and declares it his version of heaven since everyone thinks like him, and shares his passions. After living there for some time, he gets bored and starts engaging in similar shenanigans as [=SpongeBob=].
192	* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': ''Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E3TheSadStoryOfHenry'' combines this with IronicHell and ThePunishmentIsTheCrime. Henry stops inside of a tunnel and refuses to move because he does not want the rain to spoil his new coat of paint which he is so proud of. After multiple attempts to force him out of the tunnel end in failure, his punishment is to be left right where he is. His rails are taken away and the tunnel is blocked up to leave him trapped and unable to do anything but sit and watch other trains go by. Sitting in the tunnel keeps people from looking at his paintjob and eventually spoils his paintjob anyway as he gets dirty. He eventually is let out in a later episode, having learned his lesson.
193	* In the ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' episode "Giggleyum", after Smidge's favorite flavor of cake frosting stops being made, she, Poppy, and Branch attempt to replicate it themselves but instead make the titular Giggleyum, which is so addictive that Sky Toronto's company soon becomes unable to keep up demand. Rather than let everyone know there's a shortage, Poppy lets the other Trolls keep eating the stuff until they get sick of it.
194	* Another King Midas variation happened in an old ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoon, where Yogi met a fairy godmother who would grant him a wish. Naturally, Yogi wished for "pic-a-nic" baskets, so she made it so everything he touched turned into one. Unfortunately, this led to Yogi eating so much that he got sick of them. Then it got worse; he accidentally turned Boo-Boo into a picnic basket (a walking, talking picnic basket), then the Ranger saw him with Boo-Boo and thought he had pilfered one, leading to another accident, with Yogi winding up with a walking, talking picnic basket that was ''angry'' at him. Fortunately, the fairy godmother found out what was going on and broke the spell; the Ranger punished Yogi by putting him in jail for two weeks, but Yogi didn't mind. At least that meant two weeks away from "pic-a-nic" baskets.
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198	* UsefulNotes/NewZealand High School Principal Marg [=McLeod=] did the standard cigarettes variation with a number of her students at UsefulNotes/{{Wellington}} Girls' College, as a way to help those girls who wanted to quit - though not just a single carton. It reputedly succeeded.
199	* An actual therapy for smokers. The trick is that they have to take a puff regularly, from multiple cigarettes for a set amount of time. The thing is that Nicotine quickly becomes an overdose, and can make a person sick. After a while the body associates smoking with suffering and actually forces the person to never smoke again.
200	* New employees in candy stores/factories are often encouraged to eat all the candy they want. It doesn't take long until they aren't eating any.
201	* Chemotherapy patients experience a strange variation on this: the body associates the introduction of poison into the bloodstream with having consumed something poisonous, hence the common symptom of nausea. This is the body quite appropriately acting to rid itself of a potentially dangerous meal, as it would do for food poisoning or if you tried eating that colorful mushroom you found in the woods. Chemotherapy patients are warned not to eat their favorite foods on days that they receive treatment, because the body will begin to associate that food with being sick. Eventually the very thought of pizza or cheesecake will make them nauseous thanks to Pavlovian Conditioning. Many treatment centers give patients a "scapegoat food" to help avert this; generally an obscure and unlikely to be missed type of hard candy, or an obscure flavor of ice cream.
202	* Creator/ChuckBarris once gave an example about how too many TV shows about the same thing (crime dramas, westerns, game shows, etc.) can turn the audience off. In an interview in ''Magazine/TVGuide'' magazine, he said, "One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces is obviously nauseating."
203	* A tragic example near the end of 2015 a mother forced her son to drink enough alcohol to induce alcohol poisoning resulting in his death, especially tragic given he was also on medication that reacted poorly to alcohol as well (although he'd have likely died even if he hadn't been on the medication). Her excuse? "That's how my momma taught me not to want to drink."
204	* A cautionary tale of this style of punishment occurred in 2022, when a four year old girl was forced to drink half a bottle of whiskey by her mother and grandmother, as punishment for ''[[DisproportionateRetribution accidentally]]'' taking a sip. Predictably, the girl died of alcohol poisoning -- with a blood alcohol of nearly twice the lethal level -- and both women were indicted on charges of first degree murder. Making the story even sadder is that the mother is believed to have not intervened because a similar punishment was used on her as a child, and so she did not find it abnormal until her daughter stopped breathing.
205	* Tony Robbins also had this trick done to him with alcohol when he was a child, with more success. In his case it was done with beer.
206	* A necklace was invented with food scents, such as chocolate or pizza, with the premise that if you smelled it all the time, you would stop wanting the food.
207	* Creator/EricaJong invokes the concept in describing her reaction to porn films: "After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live."
208	* This can backfire, as [[https://coconuts.co/jakarta/news/elementary-school-kids-indonesia-caught-smoking-teachers-punish-forcing-smoke-video/ one elementary school in Jakarta, Indonesia found out.]] After catching some schoolboys with cigarettes, the teachers "forced" them to chain smoke under this logic. [[{{Unishment}} However, the students enjoyed the entire experience, with a viral video showing them taking drags while other students from the school laughed,]] and the teachers were humiliated by (and presumably faced reprimands for) the incident.
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