History AgonyOfTheFeet / LiveActionTV

** In "The One with Monica's Boots", Monica bought a very fashionable and expensive pair of boots that turned out to be extremely painful to wear.
** Monica's foot is stung by a jellyfish in "The One with the Jellyfish".

* There's an episode of ''Series/{{Wings}}'' where cabdriver Antonio orders a $300 pair of Italian leather loafers from his home country. When they arrive, they are 2 sizes too small, but for whatever reason he refuses to send them back and insists on wearing them. He spends the rest of the episode taking baby steps, wincing all the while.

* In the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Hidden", Clark Kent has lost his powers. He stubs his toe and comments that it really hurt.

* In the first season of ''Series/Ozark'', Marty Byrde has two of his toenails ripped out with pliers after he lies about the disappearance of a cartel henchman.

* ''Series/GoodOmens2019'': the demon has to walk on the sacred ground to save his friend. It burns, but this scene was the reason why Crowley had to be [[FunnyAneurysm portrayed by a good comedian]].

** Theon's ColdBloodedTorture begins with the application of an Instep bore that leaves him with a pronounced limp.

* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': As punishment for helping Moira escape, Offred's feet are whipped into pulp (the fate that befell Moira in the novel).

* Variation occurred on ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' with Marcia's "Oh, my nose!" moment that replayed over and over in FlashBack.

* In the ''Series/TheMiddle'' episode "Halloween III: The Driving", Sue accidently runs over Axl's foot, spraining it.

* Horribly averted on ''Series/CriminalMinds''. When Reid is kidnapped by a serial killer in Season 2, the man tries to force a confession out of him by beating him on the soles of his feet. There's nothing funny about it.
** That's a pretty common torture technique in real life -- the soles of the feet are one of the most sensitive parts of a person's body.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]] has another instance of the Doctor kicking the console in frustration, briefly giving him a limp.

* After being kidnapped by dog soldiers, ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' has her boots taken away after one too many escape attempts. Sure enough, her feet end up so bruised and cut that she can barely walk by the time Sully rescues her, slowing them down.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}''

* Nastier version in ''Series/MadMen'': Cosgrove rides a lawnmover into the office to celebrate bringing in an account with John Deere. Later on, it gets brought out, with the blade spinning, during the party celebrating Joan's last day and ridden by a secretary who didn't know how to drive it until she runs over someone's foot. It rips apart a good part of the front of his foot, splatters blood everywhere, he couldn't feel anything while Joan made a tourniquet, and he ends up losing the whole foot (and he could have died).
* In the ''[[Series/{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'' episode, "Fallen Idol," Father Mulcahy is outraged at Hawkeye for demeaning Radar the way he did, and is persuaded to resort to violence to let his anger out, so he kicks the iron stove in the Swamp; he found the act unsatisfying, and believes he broke his toe.
** Another episode had BJ get an ingrown toenail - then got the same foot run over by a cart in Post-Op.
** In the episode where Margaret disappeared, Frank was cleaning his gun and accidentally shot BJ in the foot.

* When the ''Series/MythBusters'' build team tested "fire walking", they wanted a second test made by someone who didn't know the technique. Cue Adam charging across hot coals, followed by Adam being wheeled inside for first aid while on the phone with his wife, explaining why he's hurt.

* In ''Series/PrincessReturningPearl'', when Qian Long punishes Xiao Yan Zi by making her write lines, she gets so frustrated when Zi Wei keeps tearing up her messily written pages that she kicks the table. Later when she goes to hand in her lines, he asks her why she's limping and she starts to complain that writing lines make every part of her body hurts, and the worst hurt is her toes, much to his confusion because how can writing hurt your toes?
** The [[Heartwarming/PrincessReturningPearl heartwarming]] and funny moment which involves a lovers' quarrel between Xiao Yan Zi and Yong Qi which eventually was resolved with the help of an axe being dropped on both their feet. Not at the same time, of course.

* ''Series/{{Zoo}}''- In the second episode of season 2, Jamie unknowingly gets a nail stuck in her right big toe while hiking through the Canadian wilderness to reach Caraquet. She doesn't realize it until late in the episode and by this time, gangrene has set it. [[spoiler: She settles for having newcomer Logan amputate it in the following episode]].

* In ''Series/TheITCrowd'', Jen forces on shoes that are several sizes too small for her, despite a shoe store employee's warnings that this would cripple her. To compound this issue, a Japanese businessman accidentally jumps on her foot, causing her to clutch her foot and hop, and many swearing gags.

* In an episode of ''Series/SledgeHammer'', the title detective drops a bowling ball on his partner's foot, causing her to clutch it and hop around.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Justified}}'' sees Raylan blowing a gunman's foot off with a 12 gauge.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''
** The new series has the Doctor kick his precious TARDIS. He promptly sits down in the command chair to massage his foot.
** Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor seems especially prone to this trope.

** The [[{{Heartwarming/PrincessReturningPearl}} heartwarming]] and funny moment which involves a lovers' quarrel between Xiao Yan Zi and Yong Qi which eventually was resolved with the help of an axe being dropped on both their feet. Not at the same time, of course.

* An episode of ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' contains a subplot about an ingrown toenail that has been bothering Jane and making her surlier than usual. Maura's doctors-without-borders boyfriend just happens to be in town for a visit and cures it the [[WorstAid old-fashioned way]], by using hedge snips as nail clippers.

* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook:'' A man is abducted by people living in a garden center, who steal his shoes. When he tries to leave, their leader confidently states he cannot, unless he can walk over a gravel path barefoot. The man can't even get three steps before the pain is too much.
* ''Series/FleshAndBone'' has several examples including a ballerina quite graphically removing her big toenail, beating her bare foot with a pointe shoe and discovering that [[spoiler: broken glass has been placed in her pointe shoes]].
* After being kidnapped by dog soldiers, ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' has her boots taken away after one too many escape attempts. Sure enough, her feet end up so bruised and cut that she can barely walk by the time Sully rescues her, slowing them down.
* In the "Mindhunters" episode of ''Series/ColdCase'', after finding the bodies of several women reported missing over the years, the autopsies note considerable damage to their feet--sprains, strains, fractures. The coroner describes it as "consistent with running barefoot over rough terrain for many hours". It turns out that this is precisely what their killer did--make them strip to their underwear, then run until they simply couldn't run anymore, then shoot them once they were too exhausted to fight back.
* In ''Series/{{Roots|1977}}'', bounty hunters cut off half of [[spoiler:Kunta Kinte]]'s right foot to stop him from any more escape attempts. [[Series/Roots2016 The 2016 remake]] shows this in graphic detail, so as not to shy away from the brutality of it.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. In "Family Matters", Samuel Campbell captures the Alpha Vampire, and has him bound to a chair with his feet literally nailed to the floor. [[BreakingTheBonds It doesn't hold him]].
* Showing his status as an utter klutz, Michael Skupin's time on ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' was spent accumulating several gnarly cuts and gashes on ''the first day'' as a castaway, one of which was a cut on the sole of his foot from carelessly walking barefoot in the wrong place and getting gouged. Tragically, this, among a head wound and several knife cuts to his hands and fingers, was not just a slew of AmusingInjuries-- Michael's casual attitude toward his injuries and constant carelessness finally resulted in ''serious'' injuries when he fell in his tribe's camp fire and got his hands badly burnt, resulting in the first-ever evacuation in the show's history and an everlasting reminder to fans of the show that this is not a joke to play the game and you can get hurt.

* In one episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory,'' Sheldon is jealous that Burt the geologist got a grant and he didn't. He tries to "let go of his anger" by throwing a rock and winds up dropping it right onto his foot, and then he kicks it with his other foot.
* In the second episode of ''Series/PrisonBreak,'' Michael refuses to tell Abruzzi the location of Otto Fibonacci. The mobster responds to this by snipping off two of Michael's toes with a pair of hedge trimmers.
* Series/TheHandmaidsTale : As punishment for helping Moira escape, Offred's feet are whipped into pulp (the fate that befell Moira in the novel).

* An episode of ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'' contains a subplot about an ingrown toenail that has been bothering Jane and making her surlier than usual. Maura's doctors-without-borders boyfriend just happens to be in town for a visit and cures it the [[WorstAid old-fashioned way), by using hedge snips as nail clippers.

* In ''Series/{{Roots}}'', bounty hunters cut off half of [[spoiler:Kunta Kinte]]'s right foot to stop him from any more escape attempts. [[Series/Roots2016 The 2016 remake]] shows this in graphic detail, so as not to shy away from the brutality of it.