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15	->'''Eddy:''' ''What happened to the stairs?!'' \
16	'''Ed:''' My parents took 'em down 'cuz I am ''grounded''. \
17	'''Edd:''' That's disturbing.
18	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS3E6ThreeSquaresAndAnEd 3 Squares and an Ed]]"
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20	Teen (or younger) character is grounded at an inopportune time (usually near the end of Act 2). Often, the person doing the punishing does not 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 the grounding takes place when they have a job, they will be allowed to go to work - unless they have been fired or they quit. But in either case, said parent may also tell said kid "I don't want to hear a peep out of you", meaning that they must be ''absolutely quiet'' until they have been released, mostly to prevent any temper tantrums they may throw due to their perceived unfairness of the sentence.
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22	The punished character usually sneaks out the window or similarly blows off the punishment to finish off the story. After the story is completed, the grounding or suspension is never mentioned again. Similarly, if a character is grounded at the ''end'' of an episode, you can expect that in the next episode, said grounding will no longer be in effect, or mentioned at all.
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24	The grounding is the one common absolute that links every television show (especialy sitcoms), cartoon, network, production company, and franchise in history and beyond together. It is the Iron-clad law of film, television and print. It is the snake biting its own tail, as the groundings of real-life are influenced by the groundings of media, and vice versa.
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26	The kiddie version of TurnInYourBadge. A possible consequence of being CaughtComingHomeLate. If the punishment is blatantly excessive, it's GroundedForever. Contrast with HandsOffParenting which involve parents who rarely, if ever, punish their children.
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28	TruthInTelevision as parents do ground children and teenagers for bad behavior or conduct (on the other hand, it is ''much'' more widespread in the US than elsewhere, especially prolonged grounding). Stricter parents, especially in [[ValuesDissonance older time periods]], are also liable to say DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff.
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30	'''Note:''' There is one situation where an adult will be told this with a straight face: Pilots who, either due to misconduct or more mundane circumstances (such as bad weather), are restricted from flying. In the punitive variations, this is actually either TurnInYourBadge or being made to be a DeskJockey.
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33	!!Example Subpages:
34	[[index]]
35	* YouAreGrounded/{{Film}}
36	* YouAreGrounded/LiveActionTV
37	* YouAreGrounded/WesternAnimation
38	[[/index]]
39
40	!!Other Examples:
41	[[foldercontrol]]
42
43	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
44	* This happens to Nobita ''all the time'' in the American adaptation of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''. He always gets grounded, unlike in the Japanese version where he gets sent out of the house by his mom (a typical Japanese household punishment used by parents). Doraemon is occasionally grounded along with him.
45	* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', in a filler episode in the Frieza Saga, Chi-Chi tries to invoke this to Gohan when she was speaking to him through the monitor when he was in Namek when the planet was going to explode, after the latter ignored her and Master Roshi's questions when they were talking to him (it was justified, as he had no time to answer their questions). Chi-Chi does apologize for yelling at him and ungrounds him in the next episode though. This however only exists in the original English Dub of the series; as trying to Americanize anime - even when trying to be faithful to the original story - was commonplace around that time; even when it comes to localizing dialogue.
46	* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'': Yotsuba is "dirted", as she puts it, for riding her bicycle to Fuuka's school, across town alone, without permission ([[{{Determinator}} to deliver milk]]). She's un-grounded at the end of the next chapter after helping her father and Jumbo build a bookshelf.
47	[[/folder]]
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49	[[folder:Comic Books]]
50	* ''ComicBook/LevelUp'': After Dennis told the angels that he's quitting medical school, the one with the red hair tells him that he is grounded. The red haired angel tells Dennis to study in his room. He didn't took this well, so he ran away.
51	* ''ComicBook/MagicTrixie'': Magic Trixie gets grounded by her parents in the first book for [[spoiler:taking her baby sister to school as her Show And Tell]].
52	* In one of the comic adaptations to ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Kimberly ends up screwing up and gets herself grounded. Preferring her to listen to her father and not get in trouble by teleporting away, the Rangers come up with an idea to get Kimberly out with a promise to make up for everything.
53	* ''ComicBook/MsMarvel2014'': Kamala Khan gets grounded for the rest of the month for being late in her first appearance (''All-New Marvel Now! Point One'') and is [[GroundedForever grounded till an undisclosed time]] at the end of the 2nd issue of her own book for sneaking out to a party, then in issue 6 she is sent to counseling to the Mosque when she repeatedly climbed out of the window to do who knows what (Superheroing).
54	* Professor Utonium grounds ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls until they clean their room in "Bless This Mess" (issue #27, DC run). Everytime the girls do clean their room, Him shows up secretly and messes it up again.
55	* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': After Ariana dressed in lingerie and propositioned Tim Drake, who turned her down, and her uncle saw her thus dressed and tried to kill Tim while chasing him out of the house Tim arrives home only to have his father yell at him about what a disappointment he is and ground him, angrily cutting off any attempts on Tim's part to explain what actually happened.
56	* In the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Nico once grounded Molly for apparently wandering off after a battle and supposedly making up a story about being kidnapped (she actually ''had'' been kidnapped after her powers caused her to fall asleep, but her adventure was so bizarre that Nico didn't believe it.)
57	* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsPoeDameron'', Poe is told this with a straight face by General Organa. As he's a pilot, it's meant in the literal sense. It's not a punitive version, however--she's forcing him to take some time off to deal with his grief after the loss of a member of his squadron.
58	* ''ComicBook/{{Stray\|2015}}'': This was what convinced [[TheProtagonist Rodney]] to quit being the Rottweiler for five years. After one mission, The Doberman and Rodney got into a fight over a decision Rodney made to let a perp go because he was trying to feed his family. Rodney felt he made the right call, but the Doberman felt otherwise, and tried to ground him for his insubordination. Rodney hung up the Rottweiler costume in resignation... and apparently walked out of his dad's life.
59	* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'': This Cassie Sandsmark's weakness. Since her father Zeus wouldn't help raise her, yet knew a super powered demigoddess might be too much for her mother to handle, he gave Cassie's mom the right to deny Cassie use of her powers.
60	[[/folder]]
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62	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
63	* ''ComicStrip/{{Crabgrass}}'': Kevin has this happen to him several times due to his antics.
64	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} in ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}''; since Jason is such a major nerd that he ''voluntarily'' stays indoors all day, his punishment is being (threatened with being) banned from the house, rather than grounded in it.
65	* In one comic strip of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Jon berates Garfield for not chasing any mice, threatening to ground him if he does not start to catch mice. The gag ends with Jon realizing this would actually do Garfield a favor, since the cat is enormously lazy.
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68	[[folder:Fan Works]]
69	!!!{{Crossover}}s
70	* ''Fanfic/CardcaptorRad'': Rachel does this to Rad; the next time he messes up badly, she throws in a ban on watching TV as well.
71	* ''Fanfic/CNAkumas'': Marinette's parents agree to let her join the class trip to Townsville at the last minute; however, they also declare that she'll be grounded when she gets back, as punishment for changing her mind.
72	* Kyon has been grounded twice in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero''. He still managed to stay a night at Tsuruya's without his parents noticing in that time.
73	* Not long before ''Fanfic/ManehattansLoneGuardian'' begins, Ebony is grounded by Gray for stealing some cake from one of her friends, leaving her unable to go with the rest of the family on a trip outside the city. While the grounding ends on its own terms eventually, this still puts the pediophobic Ebony in the unfavorable position of being the first to interact with Leviathan directly.
74	* In ''Fanfic/OrangeRoseGathering'', Parker gets grounded after a violent outburst. Part of his punishments include doing all the chores around the Cerise residence, preventing Chloe from being able to do those chores for a little extra spending money.
75	* ''Fanfic/PhineasAndFerbInDimmsdale'': When Trixie's mother learns that her daughter [[spoiler:went on a date with Timmy]], she punishes her by not only grounding her, but systematically stripping all of Trixie's possessions out of her room so that she won't have anything to entertain or distract herself with.
76	* ''Fanfic/ShedSomeOfThisBlackLightToSurroundingTowns'': After Yuugi's fight with [[spoiler:Wolfram]], Jii-chan calls him and declares that he's banned from ever going to I-Island until after he's graduated from Yuuei.
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78	!!!''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
79	* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme'' has Calvin grounded in the middle of Chapter 4.
80	* Calvin has been grounded at the end of several episodes in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', usually after whatever wacky escapades he and Hobbes have been having end up destroying something of note.
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82	!!!''Manga/DeathNote''
83	* In ''Fanfic/ACureForLove'' L is amused when this happens to [[EvilOverlord Kira]].
84	* ''Fanfic/AGunToLovesHead'' sees Mello get grounded for his attempts to [[spoiler:''murder'' L and Light]], much to his dismay. Especially since he doesn't even get to have any chocolate for the whole week.
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86	!!!''Franchise/HarryPotter''
87	* ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'': Archie and Harry are both restricted to half an hour per day outside the house after they [[spoiler:are revealed to have been lying about their schooling; Archie was in America and Harry claims to have been homeschooling herself rather than admit to being illegally at Hogwarts]].
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89	!!!''Franchise/{{Hellaverse}}''
90	* In ''Fanfic/HelluvaDad'', Striker regularly grounds Jake for misbehaving or disobeying him.
91
92	!!!''Franchise/{{Hilda}}''
93	* ''Fanfic/HildaTheWitch'': Johnanna grounds Hilda for a week after learning that her daughter [[spoiler:stole a vase]]. Later, she grounds her for half a year after she [[spoiler:breaks her promise to Bran to stay put and accidentally gets him killed]].
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95	!!!''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''
96	* ''Fanfic/{{Anger Management\|TLH}}'': Lincoln gets grounded for beating up Lynn after she beats up his stuffed Bun-Bun. Later on, Lynn gets grounded herself for deliberately trying to provoke her brother into a "rematch".
97	* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Lincoln's parents ground him for biting his textbook and blaming Martin for throwing it, not realising that it was a raccoon who bit the textbook and that Lincoln was telling the truth when he blamed Martin. Later, he extends the grounding to two weeks after Lincoln (accidentally) hits Leni and then to three weeks after Lincoln gets into a fight with Martin and Chandler.
98	* ''Fanfic/TheFoolWhoCriedFoul'': Luan gets grounded and forbidden from performing at the Chortle Portal after she's [[NotMeThisTime framed for]] ruining Lucy's poetry slam.
99	* ''Fanfic/LincolnIsDone'': Lynn Sr. grounds Lincoln for a day when he thinks he clogged the toilet. Then he learns ''Lola'' was actually responsible and grounds her for a full ''month''. Later, when she and the other girls follow Luna despite being warned against it, Lola's grounding gets extended to three full months.
100	* In ''Fanfic/MallRats'', Lincoln mentions that his parents would ground him for a week if he tried reciting the edgy slogans on some hoodies he sees in front of him.
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102	!!!''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}''
103	* In ''Fanfic/MoreFamilyMoreHappinessRight'', Massimo grounds both Alberto and Giulia after they had a very violent physical fight with each other after Giulia drank from Alberto's mug.
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105	!!!''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug''
106	* ''Fanfic/TheBabysittingFiasco'': After her parents discover that she and Nino have been dumping their babysitting duties on Marinette to go on extra dates (and pocketing the money they were being paid for their supposed services), Alya ends up grounded for ''at least'' a month; it's explictly noted that was a ''minimum'' sentence, along with heavy implications that Alya's refusal to [[NeverMyFault admit any fault]] is ensuring said sentence will stretch out even longer. Nino is also grounded by his parents.
107	* ''Fanfic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'': After attacking Marinette and Cole with deliberately sharpened fingernails and [[EyeScream ripping open several of Cole's stitches]], Alya's parents ground her. This specifically includes being banned from working on the Ladyblog, and they post a notice on the blog itself explaining the reason for the hiatus. This is noted to cause several akumatizations.
108	* ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'': Once Marinette's classmates learn that their "everyday Ladybug" was ''actually'' [[TheUnmasking Ladybug all along]], they expect to be EasilyForgiven for their fickleness. When she refuses to let them [[AllTakeAndNoGive take advantage of her anymore]], Alya convinces her classmates that they can go over her head by harassing Marinette's ''parents'' until they make their daughter take her [[FairWeatherFriend Fair-Weather Friends]] back. This ultimately gets Alya and the others grounded.
109	* ''Fanfic/LongCon'': After Lila's mother learns about [[ConArtist what her daughter's been doing]], she not only grounds her, but confiscates all of her electronics and everything she either tricked her friends into giving her or spent the money she got from them on.
110	* In ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'', Alya gets grounded for forgetting that she was supposed to babysit her younger sisters. This forces her to put the Ladyblog on hiatus for a time, and naturally does not help her mood, as she ''already'' felt she was being [[DisproportionateRetribution unfairly punished]] by Ladybug ''and'' Marinette had just put her foot down and declared they needed a break from each other.
111	* ''WebComic/ScarletLady'''s take on "The Collector" sees Adrien get grounded for 'losing' his father's secret book about the Miraculous. Notably, Gabriel originally threatened to pull him out of school entirely, only for Adrien to make clear that if he did that, he'd ensure that it blew up into a PR scandal. Being grounded for a month is considerably less awful... though that doesn't stop Chloé from reacting as though this is the ''worst possible thing'' that could have ever happened [[ItsAllAboutMe to her]].
112	* ''Fanfic/ASmallButStubbornFire'': After Marinette runs off during an akuma attack, followed by Sabine getting a call revealing that Marinette has been missing school, Sabine [[AngerBornOfWorry angrily]] grounds her daughter, becoming even more determined to figure out what's been going on with her daughter.
113	* Played interestingly in ''[[Fanfic/TatteredRemainsOfBrokenDreams Tattered Remains of Broken Dreams (Yours, Not Mine)]]'': After Marinette's [[FairWeatherFriend Fair-Weather Friends]] tear up her school sketchbook, Sabrina gets grounded by her father. Not as a direct punishment for the vandalism itself, but because said sketchbook held all of the projects their "everyday Ladybug" had been working on for them, and the class has been running themselves ragged trying to handle everything with her help. Roger grounds his daughter as a way of forcing her to ''take a break'' and focus on her studies.
114	* ''Fanfic/{{The Wolves in the Woods\|MiraculousLadybug}}'': When Alya bursts into Ms. Mendeleiev's class and starts threatening Ben right in front of her, the teacher calls her mother so she can [[EngineeredPublicConfession hear all of the threats Alya's making]]. This results in her grounding Alya, forcing her to put the Ladyblog on hiatus.
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116	!!!''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia''
117	* ''Fanfic/ConversationsWithACryptid'': In ''Kidnapping of a Cryptid'' Izuku is on medical leave from Yuuei due to his kidnapping but in spirit, he's grounded. Izuku is forbidden to do any hero work due to his impending surgery and his parents fully intend him a long recovery due to Izuku's previous neglect of his health.
118	* ''Fanfic/DandelionsInTheWind'': Shinsuke says this to Katsuki after he finds him [[spoiler:in a ruined building next to a weakened Dabi]].
119	* ''Fanfic/DekuIThinkHesSomePro'': As soon as they see each other for the first time following the Stain incident, Aizawa promptly informs Izuku that he's been grounded. Izuku accepts this as fair.
120	* ''Fanfic/{{Dekugate}}'': As punishment for [[spoiler:running out during the hurricane]], Toshinori informs Izuku that he'll be grounded once they return home from Nabu Island, barred from having any access to social media or going anywhere without parental approval.
121	* ''Fanfic/FailureToExplode'': Katsuki's parents are absolutely ''furious'' with him after learning how he attempted to attack Izuku at school after learning he'd [[OffendedByAnInferiorsSuccess succeeded where he failed]] and [[PointOfDivergence gotten into U.A.]]. Katsuki digs himself deeper by revealing he'd always gotten away with this ''before'', and he finds himself grounded for the rest fo the school year.
122	-->'''Masaru:''' You are going to leave Midoriya alone for the rest of the year, and continue to leave him alone after graduation. Don't talk to him unless he says 'hi' first, don't text him, don't email him, don't anything in terms of him. If I hear a repeat of today, or you doing something similar to anyone else, that's it. You're done and we aren't even going to look for post-high school programs. Am I understood? On top of that, you are grounded until the end of April. No going anywhere after school, no hanging out with your friends on the weekend. Just come straight back home.
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124	!!!''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
125	* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': Dimmed Star grounds Spike for [[spoiler:waking the injured Scootaloo up]], even after Zecora had warned him to [[spoiler:let her sleep]].
126	* In ''Fanfic/SunsetsWonderfulLife'', the CMC attempt to confront the Dazzlings by themselves, without letting their sisters or anyone else know what's going on. Naturally, they get grounded for this.
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128	!!!''Franchise/{{Naruto}}''
129	* ''Fanfic/LittleUzumaki'': After Neji beats up Hinata during their match at the Chuunin Exams, Hiashi decides against using the Caged Bird Seal to punish him. Instead, he grounds and spanks him, treating him like a SpoiledBrat.
130
131	!!!''VideoGame/{{Omori}}''
132	* ''Fanfic/TimeToDisinfect'': After their recital fails, Mari and Sunny get grounded for a week, though Mrs. Rodriguez is able to convince their mother to let the pair have lunch with Kel.
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134	!!!''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''
135	* ''Fanfic/LearningHowToBeAWitch'': When Lucila learns that Luz disobeyed her and caused the whole mess in ''Understanding Willow'', she grounds her for a full week.
136	* ''Fanfic/LuzsCrimes'': After learning why her daughter has been committing so many crimes, as well as her reasons for doing so, Carmila comes to a compromise with her, but still grounds her for the rest of the day and the following weekend.
137
138	!!!''Franchise/{{Persona}}''
139	* ''Fanfic/{{Continuance}}'': During Golden Week, Souji Seta[[note]]aka Yu Narukami, the protagonist[[/note]] makes a return visit to [[VideoGame/Persona4 Inaba]] under the pretext of gathering information on the town's businesses. When Yuuma, his ControlFreak father, doesn't like what Souji brings back, he grounds and forbids him from visiting Inaba again for the foreseeable future. Later on, after Souji ends up on the cover of a magazine after a chance encounter with [[IdolSinger Rise]], he gets into a heated argument with his father, during which Yuuma starts to threaten him. Souji, however, isn't fazed, saying "And what are the repercussions this time? You can't ground me any more than you already have, Father."
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141	!!!''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''
142	* ''Fanfic/ADashOfLogic'': "A Pal for Gary" ends with the revelation that Gary sees [=SpongeBob=] as ''his'' pet, as he gives him a stern scolding and grounds him to spend the night in the doghouse without supper as punishment for bringing Puffy Fluffy to their home.
143
144	!!!''Literature/{{Worm}}''
145	* ''Fanfic/ToFillTheVoid'': When Zoe witnesses her daughter Emma bullying the heavily-pregnant Taylor, she ''immediately'' grounds her, threatening to send her to a reform camp run by a DrillSergeantNasty.
146
147	!!!''Franchise/XMen''
148	* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/82162 Stars From Home]]'', Charles grounds Scott when he claims to have broken the laundry room door. (He didn't and Charles knows that, turns out he's grounded for lying.) Scott sneaks out anyway and [[PoorCommunicationKills leaves a really vague note]].
149	-->'''Charles:''' If you ever do anything like that again...\
150	'''Scott:''' [[GroundedForever Grounded for the rest of my natural life?]]\
151	'''Charles:''' No, no. I'll have you resurrected and re-ground you.
152	[[/folder]]
153
154	[[folder:Literature]]
155	* This was a minor threat in early ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books, before the war became more and more divorced from normal life. The only time a grounding ends up affecting the plot is ''The Andalite's Gift,'' and even then, Jake is able to get out of it by cleaning the garage. Because his mom's been after his dad to do that for''ever'', and he's more than happy to dump it off on his son. This is phased out with the introduction of the [[MechanicalLifeforms Chee]], androids who had been impersonating and living among humans since the days of the pyramids, and were more than happy to cover for the Animorphs if needed. And by the ''very'' end of the series, it was completely moot because things had become so bad that the Animorphs were basically on the run and could no longer even live in a regular family structure.
156	* Sister Bear is grounded in ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears and the Slumber Party'' by Mama Bear after things go south at Lizzie's slumber party. It's actually Papa Bear who is the voice of reason and admits that they as parents were partially to blame for not knowing just how wacky things had ended up with the slumber party (which had basically become a little bear cub girl equivalent of a bad college frat party). The grounding then gets cancelled the next day, and Sister and Mama go back to Lizzie's house to clean the mess up.
157	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': In ''Double Down'', Greg's punishment for "goofing off" instead of playing at a school concert is being grounded with no video games. Greg says that the only thing he can do is practice his instrument, which he thinks is the point.
158	* ''Literature/EveAndAdam'': Terra tries pretty hilariously to keep Eve in the hospital.
159	* In ''Literature/TheEvolutionOfEmily'', Emily's [[MyBelovedSmother overprotective mom]] walks in on her kissing August and responds by grounding her. She considers pulling Emily out of school, but Dad talks her out of it.
160	* ''Literature/JuniperSawfeather'': In ''Echo of the Cliffs'', June climbs down a cliff to the shore in pursuit of a mermaid. The mermaid drags her out into the ocean, almost drowning her. As punishment for endangering her life, June's parents ground her for two weeks, which means no phone, no internet, and no talking to Haley or Carter. Their house's internet connection is so spotty that June barely misses it, and it's not hard to get around the rest of her punishment. She lives next door to Haley and their rooms face each other, so they can just open their windows and talk whenever they want, and a week into her grounding she gets a job at the pet store where Carter works so they can see each other during their shift change.
161	* ''Literature/TheKingdomKeepers'': This actually benefits Finn in the first book, since being grounded allows him to go to bed earlier without attracting suspicion, which allows him to cross over.
162	* ''Literature/TheMarvellousLandOfSnergs'': Main character Joe is grounded by his guardians after dropping a rock on the meal of one sailor.
163	* In ''Literature/TheMermaidsMirror'', Lena tells her parents that she's seeing a movie with her friends when she's actually surfing, [[FantasyForbiddingFather which her father has banned her from doing]]. When she gets home, her parents [[GoToYourRoom order her to her room]] and ground her for the next few days. Her dad picks her up after school because he doesn't trust her not to get into trouble while walking home.
164	* In ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'', Sheila grounds her stepdaughter Zoe who has to break out of her room to save her pet rat.
165	* ''Literature/RoysBedoys'':
166	** In the aptly-named "You're Grounded, Roys Bedoys!", Mrs. Bedoys grounds Roys for stealing an eraser.
167	** In "Don't Watch Grown-Up Movies, Roys Bedoys!", Maker's mother grounds him for watching a "grown-up movie".
168	** At the end of "Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?", Mr. Bedoys grounds Roys for not asking permission to go to Maker's house.
169	* In ''Literature/TheSirenSong'' by Anne Ursu, Charlotte is grounded because she went to go save all the children in London and her hometown from certain death. Her parents do not believe her, despite her note:
170	-->"Zee and I know whats making everyone sick. we had to go save the world. Love, Charlotte. PS, Don't Worry"
171	* In ''Literature/SkippyDies'', after Lori and Skippy kiss, Skippy stops seeing her and freaks out, thinking something happened to him. As it turns out, Lori wasn't avoiding him, she was merely grounded by her Dad as punishment for skipping out of the Halloween Hop.
172	* ''Literature/UntilWeMeetAgain'': [[TheProtagonist Cassandra]] gets grounded at the start of the book for sneaking into a neighbour's swimming pool. [[spoiler:It happens again when her mother meets Lawrence.]]
173	* ''Literature/YoungWizards'': In ''Deep Wizardry'', Nita and Kit are grounded for staying out incredibly late (on wizardly business, but Nita's parents don't know that). They sneak out after that, get caught when they come back in, and ultimately wind up explaining exactly what they were doing, why they have to keep doing it, and that they're going to have to do it whether they get permission or not.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:Music]]
177	* In the Music/AaronCarter song, "Aaron's Party (Come Get It)", ends with Aaron getting grounded when his parents find out about the WildTeenParty he threw.
178	* In Music/TheBeachBoys' [[Music/SummerDaysAndSummerNights "I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man"]], the narrator's father grounds him to his room for getting home late, and goes to extreme lengths to punish him, such as boarding up his windows, selling his surfboard, cutting off his hair while asleep, yanking his phone out of the wall, taking away his radio (and using it), and eating steak while only giving him breadcrumbs and water to eat.
179	* Schlendrian tries this on his daughter Lieschen in ''Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht'' to get her to stop [[MustHaveCaffeine drinking coffee]] and quickly gets desperate; perhaps the apex (or nadir) is when he forbids her from ''standing by windows''. Lieschen isn't fazed by any of it until Schlendrian forbids her from marrying, which changes her mind ''very'' quickly ([[TakeAThirdOption or]] [[LysistrataGambit not]]).
180	[[/folder]]
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182	[[folder:Roleplay]]
183	* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Benedict's absence from home one night, so he could try and figure out his newfound superpower, leads to him getting grounded until the finals come around.
184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Video Games]]
187	* In ''VideoGame/DontStarve: Hamlet'', Wilba the Pig Princess is grounded for losing the Queen's crown. Finding and returning it as another character satisfies the Queen, who allows Wilba to [[PromotedToPlayable go adventuring again]].
188	* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': Klee is routinely placed in "solitary confinement" due to being a MadBomber, althro innocently so.
189	* In ''VideoGame/GoneHome'', Sam gets grounded after getting into trouble at school.
190	* In ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject Pegasus Prime'', Temporal Security commissioner Jack Baldwin says this to you, word for word for being late to work ''four times'', which is serious, what with you being a [[TimePolice time cop]] and all. He then orders you to do data cleanup for a solid week, including [[JustifiedTutorial reviewing TSA agent procedures]].
191	* One of the 90s CD-ROM games released by Her Interactive, ''[=McKenzie & Co.=]'', had this as Disc 5 was inserted to continue the dating sim. Either Kim or Carly are grounded for skipping school and going to a party, thus giving either girl a NonStandardGameOver, causing one of their boyfriends to get the heartbreaking ending.
192	* In the ''Franchise/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode ''The Tomb of Sammun-Mak'', we meet a pair of tomb-guardian father and daughter:
193	-->'''Nefertiti's father:''' Nefertiti! You are grounded for life!!\
194	'''Nefertiti:''' I've been grounded for life ''my whole life''!!
195	* In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', this is used by and ''weaponized'' by Butters' dad. He targets areas of the battlefield, and then grounds the kids in said areas, dealing damage while afflicting the targeted kids with the Grounded status (basically similar to Petrify in that they can't do anything and it doesn't wear off over time). Conveniently this attack is a NoSell on the PlayerCharacter, the New Kid, who also have the power to ''un''ground their peers, thereby curing them of the status effect. Butters' dad is completely baffled by these powers.
196	-->'''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!
197	* In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', when the Hall Monitor's health drops enough he does a desperation attack of calling the New Kid's parents. If you fail to stun or defeat him before two turns, the call succeeds and the New Kid gets a phone call from his dad telling him he's grounded. This is considered a NonStandardGameOver.
198	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', one quest in Drustvar involves you searching for an old man's grandson and some of his friends, who had the [[SarcasmMode brilliant]] idea of going on an archaeological expedition into an area full of troggs. After you save all the kids, the old man notes that the children could have the makings of being good architects when they're adults... which will be around the time they're no longer grounded for that stunt. The actual length of the grounding(two months) is lenient by comparison.
199	* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': Princess Asalia will sneak out to go to a wedding early in the game, and King Eryk will prevent her from leaving the castle for a while after that as punishment. The end of the grounding period isn't explicitly stated, but it seems to be done by the time Maya is forbidden to enter the castle, as Asalia is still regularly seeing her after this and has to leave the castle to do so.
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203	* ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'': At the end of the Kubitarou case, one of Akira's companions will be comatose. The other one will be temporarily grounded (Seiji by his father, Kaoru by her agency) to justify the inclusion of two new companion characters, though they do make a return in the Tsukuyomi case.
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206	[[folder:Webcomics]]
207	* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', Yoshi's father grounds him after Yoshi's briefly brought in for questioning regarding his association with Trudy, as well as his other hacking activities, but Yoshi sneaks out and meets with her in the middle of the night.
208	* During the Literature/{{Cinderella}} play in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Cinderagatha gets grounded after Mamma Gkika (who has been smashing Agatha's projects to keep her from going to the science fair) has a close encounter with a hive of specially-bred quilting bees.
209	* In Bleedman's ''Webcomic/PowerpuffGirlsDoujinshi'', Buttercup fears the prospect of being grounded. Mostly because as a flying superheroine, she interprets it in aeronautical terms [[VisualPun (that is, not being allowed to fly)]].
210	* This happens to the Cake Twins in ''Blog/SliceOfLife'' after they sneak into a haunted house on Nightmare Night.
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213	[[folder:Web Originals]]
214	* ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesTeamDattebayo'':
215	-->'''Souichiro:''' Light! For being [[SerialKillerKiller Kira]], and squandering our family's reputation, [[EasilyForgiven you are GROUNDED, mister]]!
216	* Platform/GoAnimate:
217	** Users in the site seem to take a certain joy in making characters, sometimes original, sometimes a character from a kid's show, get grounded. Actually, not ''just'' grounded, usually "Grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded [[OverlyLongGag grounded grounded grounded grounded grounded]]". Very often for exceedingly long periods of time, sometimes for [[DisproportionateRetribution extremely minor things]] (even getting grounded for literally ''nothing''), and sometimes for doing rather bizarrely cruel things (such as causing an earthquake at school, breaking teachers' legs, getting school faculty arrested...).
218	** {{Deconstructed\|Trope}} in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jihYz-YgA Caillou has had enough!]]", in which Caillou is grounded by his dad simply for watching ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. This time, his mom finally takes action, and calls Boris out. Boris initially tries to defend himself by saying Caillou needs to behave better and that his groundings work, but Doris says otherwise. Eventually, though, Boris calls Caillou an "out-of-control brat" and paints himself as the OnlySaneMan, even going as far as to ground Doris. This results in a slapfight, and Doris grounds Boris, condemning him to the closet as Caillou and Rosie (who heard everything) rush to call the police. The next video, "Caillou's Terrible Fire Drill!", sees Caillou freaking out during a fire drill, and Boris, of course, grounding him. However, Doris tells Caillou to disregard him, as the events of the previous video have stuck, and Boris is still being held hostage in the closet.
219	* An episode of Phailhaus from the ''WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun'' crew pulls this when the Word of the Day was 'condign' (and the timeout lasted ''a year'').
220	-->'''Matt:''' Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty! For tonight, we [[{{Pun}} condign]] in Hell!\
221	'''Graham:''' That's it, mister. You are on a one Phailhaus timeout.
222	* In ''Literature/TheSagaOfTuck'' when Tuck's family find out about [[spoiler:his female alter ego Valerie]], they not only ground him for six weeks, they fine him $500 and -- worst of all to him -- cut off his phone and network privileges. To be fair, he had feared it would be even worse than this, and they did later reduce it to two weeks' grounding. Subverted in that HilarityEnsues and the two weeks expire without much notice. He is, however, grounded the entire time. Also subverted similarly during Valentine's Day. The occasion of the grounding being removed (what else do you call it? "expired"?) is cause for a celebration, which probably ought to get him grounded a second time.
223	* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' episode [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE45Techno Techno]] Strong Bad grounds The Cheat for abusing his own light switch to throw a rave. As punishment, he is forced to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink break open his glowstick and pour it into Homestar Runner's Mountain Dew]].
224	-->'''Strong Bad:''' I heard they have to pump your stomach if you drink that stuff...
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