History Main / FelonyMisdemeanor

* As revealed in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', tampering with mail is apparently a big enough offense in the eyes of monsters to warrant lifelong banishment to the supposedly lethal human world.

** In "Little Yellow Book", Squidward [[SarcasmMode commits the horrible crime]] of reading Spongebob's diary and as a result, he's alienated by the entire town, his house gets foreclosed, and he gets arrested--actually, scratch that, the police chain him in the middle of the town and everybody throws tomatoes at him. There's a ''reason'' why the fans consider him the show's biggest [[TheWoobie woobie]].

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': Every single action in a person's life is judged and scored to see whether it had a positive or a negative effect on the universe, which then determines if they get into the Good Place. Positive effects include eating a sandwich, donating to charity, being a vegan, and ending slavery (that's how Lincoln got in). Negative effects include rape, murder, genocide, microwaving fish in an office microwave, being emotionally invested in ''Series/TheBachelor'', or taking off shoes and socks on a commercial airline.
-->'''Eleanor:''' Shoes ''and'' socks? What? No! Who would ''do'' that?\\

* In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', Sam Vimes is steadfastly unwilling to ever be home late for his daily book reading with his son, and in one scene his guards end up manipulating traffic just to give him a clear route home. Vimes does this to avoid a slippery slope, however; "If you start breaking the rules for good reasons, you'll soon start breaking them for bad reasons."
* In ''[[Literature/{{Redwall}} Marlfox]]'', in the C-Plot Lantur is trying to MindRape her mother Queen Silth by gradually making her believe the ghost of her dead husband (whom she murdered years ago) is out for her blood. The Queen becomes more and more paranoid and insane. She berates her rat guards for "Not protecting her" and then asks a random guard if he had seen the ghost, who by logic knew that if he said yes, she would ask him to describe it. So he says no. The Queen replies "Of course you didn't," berating the guard for not doing his job well enough. And immediately has him killed.
* The Cascadia system in the Literature/VattasWar series features felony ''discourtesy''. Seriously, their system is otherwise so lax that you could nearly get away with murder, but you'd ''damn well better formally apologize to your victim.'' After one character is convicted of an already serious crime, the punishment for it is never revealed because he backtalks the judge and is ''sentenced to death.'' Oddly, it's not really presented as a dystopia; the system is weird, but it works for the Cascadians. Also, the Cascadians are well aware that their social norms are weird by most standards and cut foreigners a ''lot'' of slack. The death sentence mentioned earlier was said captain's third count of felony contempt of court. That day. He had already committed a capital crime and been let off with a warning twice.

-->'''Beast Boy:''' "Look at them loitering so hard..."
-->'''Robin:''' "Disgusting!"

* Used in the WartimeCartoon ''Disney/EducationForDeath''. A boy is made to stand in the corner of a classroom wearing a DunceCap because he expressed sympathy for a rabbit that got eaten by a fox. Unfortunately, this is set in Nazi Germany and the lesson (that the fox should be admired for eating the rabbit because MightMakesRight) works as his PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher intended: the boy becomes a mindless, ruthless and evil prospective soldier for the Nazi regime.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing "The Clock King"]]: Killing a man because he recommended you to relax, which wound up making you late? That's this trope alright; it's even lampshaded:

* Howard X. Miller in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''... crushed a poor, innocent flower! [[AndThatsTerrible How could you]]!

* A SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} from the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" when Sheppard Book and Mal are discussing Mal's new [[AccidentalMarriage wife]].

* Used in the WartimeCartoon ''Disney/EducationForDeath''. A boy is made to stand in the corner of a classroom wearing a DunceHat because he expressed sympathy for a rabbit that got eaten by a fox. Unfortunately, this is set in Nazi Germany and the lesson (that the fox should be admired for eating the rabbit because MightMakesRight) works as his PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher intended: the boy becomes a mindless, ruthless and evil prospective soldier for the Nazi regime.

* Due to its dystopian-like state, almost any action in ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'' can be considered as a violation of the People's Charter. Simply talking to another person or running for a certain amount of time is enough to add a few years to one's sentence. And that's not accounting the fact that ''being alive'' is worth a million years of penal servitude.

** Fillmore once inflicted this on the school mini-golf team. They (somewhat understandably) refuse to let him join them since he was a juvenile delinquent. How did this pre-HeelFaceTurn Fillmore react? [[DisproportionateRetribution By challenging to a game with their trophies and other memorabilia as the stakes, mercilessly beating them and breaking their spirits]]...yikes...

** Spongebob's cousin, Squidward (again), and the Tattletale Strangler all have gotten sent to jail for the unspeakable crime of littering. Though the Tattletale Strangler was probably arrested for strangling people who tattled on him (hence the nickname), he was just caught for littering.

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* As revealed in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', tampering with mail is apparently a big enough offense in the eyes of monsters to warrant lifelong banishment to the supposedly lethal human world.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'', this initially seems to be the case with "fish slapping", the in-movie crime of the biblical Ninevites for which they are despised, and for which they will apparently be wiped out. This would be justified in that it's all a story being told by modern day "Pirates", and saying what the ''real'' Assyrians did (i.e., routine torture and execution of captured prisoners, cutting off and tallying the right ears of slain enemies, being executed for failing to maintain the daily quota of said ears, etc) would be inappropriate for their young audience. Ironically, however, in the end [[spoiler:this would actually be {{Subverted}}. Or rather, the ''Ninevites'' are the ones guilty of this. It turns out that "fish slapping" extends to a form of execution called 'The Slap of No Return.' The Ninevites think it's funny, and they intend to have Jonah and his friends executed for [[DisproportionateRetribution accidentally stealing snack food]]. Kind of gives the term "fish slapping" a [[CerebusRetcon whole new perspective]]]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has Yang shouting at Ozpin for the absolutely heinious crime of... giving her mom and uncle the ability to change back and forth into birds at will without any sort of pain or drawbacks to it.

** When [[AffablyEvil Mayor Wilkins]] is making a speech right before Ascending.
--->'''Buffy''': Oh. God. ''[{{beat}}]'' He's ''really'' going to go through the whole speech, isn't he?

* ''Film/YouveGotMail'': While Kathleen and Joe are having a tiff at a dinner party (shortly after small-bookstore owner Kathleen finds out Joe is the part of the corporate Fox Books hierarchy), he nonchalantly scoops some caviar off a dessert plate onto his own. Kathleen is offended by that ("That caviar is a GARNISH!"), prompting Joe to look her in the eye and wordlessly put more caviar on his plate.

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'''Manager:''' Ah you're good kind fine people, for saying that, but I can see it... to me it's like a mountain, a vast bowl of pus!

This trope is when somebody does something wrong, but it's a mild wrong, like a white lie, a low misdemeanor (as in a $20 fine), or something that at most gets a "Hey! Not cool!" from your friends, and then the show treats it as crossing the MoralEventHorizon, or at least coming dangerously close.

* DesignatedEvil: The author tells the audience something was a big wrong, but doesn't support it in any way. It may not appear to the audience that it's wrong at all.

No relation to the notion of a "felony/misdemeanor"[[note]]a crime which can be classified as either a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on the circumstances[[/note]] in some real life jurisdictions, such as California.

* In a similar vein to the [=GameFly=] commercials mentioned above, there was once an ad campaign for Shout Advanced spray. The ad consisted of a woman ''[[ApplianceDefenestration tossing her washing machine and dryer out a second-story window]]'', while screaming to the heavens, "I HATE SET-IN STAINS!" Her neighbor manages to one-up her by throwing the aforementioned appliances through ''the roof''.

** The Team Rocket trio, in certain situations. Go after a group of WILD Remoraid to send to HQ? Ten thousand volts and a one way ticket to the stratosphere. The ''Pokémon'' universe seems to [[JustifiedTrope have a rule]]: Use any method but a Poké Ball to catch Pokémon, and expect LaserGuidedKarma to get you. When Jessie snaked a Yanma right out from under the kid who was battling it (using a Poké Ball), not only did Jessie not get a comeuppance, the Yanma evolved into Yanmega in its first battle. ''All'' their blastoffs involving catching Pokémon also involve them either stealing other people's Pokémon or using a machine to grab them ''en masse''. You'd think TeamRocket would have made the association by now. Meowth mentioned once when they were trying to steal a migrating school of WILD Magikarp that Pokéballs cost money and they have none. Though it's more like they prefer snagging pokémon with traps because it's more evil that way. otherwise how could they afford all those mechs?
** Early in season 1, Ash made the mistake of voicing his opinions on thinking that perfume is stupid. He made the mistake of doing so in Erika's shop, and in front of Erika. Having pressed Erika's BerserkButton via ''gravely insulting what she does for a living'', she responds by not only kicking him out of her shop, but '''[[DisproportionateRetribution indirectly banning him from stepping foot in her gym.]]'''

** Earlier in the same episode, three of the Sisters (10032, 10039 and 13577) react to the discovery that Misaka 19090 has been dieting and reading a women's magazine by chasing her down like red-eyed demons. We never find out what happened. On the other hand, it's a case of DeliberateValuesDissonance here: all Misaka sisters are part of a HiveMind and thus behave exactly the same, with the experiences of one affecting the experiences of all, so if one Misaka behaves differently, the ''entire HiveMind'' is at danger of being affected which could very quickly put them into a dangerous situation...[[GreenEyedMonster and they were well aware the reason she was doing it was because she was trying to get a leg-up on the other Sisters to seduce Touma, the guy they're all in love with]].

* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', Kyouko Sakura: "Don't waste food... [[DisproportionateRetribution Or I'll kill you.]]" Later on we find out she has a very plausible FreudianExcuse to not want to waste food, being that she grew up poor, not knowing when she would get her next meal.

* Pretty much anything that might be considered offensive to the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality devils]] ofrom ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}''. Whether it's selling devil shaped candy, spraying graffiti an a devil statue or even just plain impoliteness, the devils are very eager to introduce people to their [[DisproportionateRetribution death sentence]].

** While she was callous to them, all of Ramona's ex-boyfriends (and [[BiTheWay one ex girlfriend]]) unite to destroy all her subsequent boyfriends and ruin her romantic life.

* ''Fanfic/AGreatAndPowerfulHeart'': Trixie ends jailed and heavily fined over a simple paper work error and letting foals too near her cart. Justified as Sheriff Brass [[spoiler: is an anti-unicorn supremacist]] who had it in for her, and was also trying to recruit her into an unwanted task.

* In ''{{Film/Brubaker}}'' a man who had two felony convictions is arrested for Drunk and Disorderly, and when he wakes up, the toilet in the cell is broken. Everyone in the cell blames him, so he's charged with "Destruction of City Property worth over $50," a felony, which makes him "an habitual criminal" for which he's sentenced to ''life imprisonment.'' As he points out to the warden, "I got life for a toilet."

* In ''Les Malheurs de Sophie'', Sophie is forced to wear a necklace of the parts of a bee she dissected until they fall off, because obviously that is one of the biggest crimes that a six year old kid can commit.

* See ''Literature/TheScarletLetter.'' It's a Victorian novel written about fictional Puritans. Most people forget that it's an historical novel, though, as the present becomes almost as far removed from the book's publication, as the book is from the time of its setting, and think of it as a strictly factual account of Puritan life.

* ''The Return of the Home Run Kid'' by Matt Christopher runs into this problem not on its own merits, but when considered in light of its predecessor. The focus of the story is the main character's baseball training under a fellow who was kicked out of the major leagues for betting against his own team, and said fellow teaches dishonorable tricks like pretending to have been hit by a pitch. Fairly bad, sure? But in the previous book, ''The Kid Who Only Hit Homers'', our hero used magic to ensure that he never struck out, and this was treated as entirely proper. Anyone who considered that poor sportsmanship probably wasn't still reading the books, and anyone who accepted it would have a hard time telling how physical cheating is worse than magical cheating.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''. An officer tells some officer candidates a story from the Napoleonic era: a junior navy officer during ship battle picks up his heavily wounded commander and carries him to a safe place. During that time all other officers on the ship are killed, so the young guy winds up a commanding officer on the ship-and, because he left his post, he stands trial and is cashiered (and is lucky not to be hanged). It seems a gross injustice for the candidates-but the officer explains that the punishment was completely justified: for an officer to have left his post without an order is really very SeriousBusiness, because if a sudden catastrophe happens, it is much more likely to disrupt a unit without a commanding officer.

** According to a disgruntled former member, the Manichees would be willing to put one of their own to death if they fed a starving man an apple, since the apple was considered to a hold a piece of God.

* In an early episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the crew visits a pleasantly peaceful colony called Edo. While playing ball with the local kids, Wesley accidentally breaks a cheap gardening implement and discovers why the colony is so peaceful: every day a new area is randomly and secretly selected as a "punishment zone" and within it, all crime is punishable by death. The idea being that no one commits crime anywhere, just in case they're unknowingly in the punishment zone. [[ContrivedCoincidence Of course that's exactly where Wesley is when he has his accident]]. And since his accident is treated as vandalism, the crew then has to negotiate their way out of having Wesley be put to death for tripping.

* The opening sequence of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' is a borderline case, as the montage shows us the protagonist accomplishing mundane acts of his morning routine (shaving, cooking eggs and bacon, lacing his shoes) in a way suggesting his psychopathic nature. In one of the DVD commentaries it is explicitly stated that the title sequence is set up to show the violence in everyday life.

'''Kenneth:''' It's not just the coffee. I also went to a PG-13 movie. I bought a pair of sunglasses. I tried a Jewish doughnut! I'd always been told that New York was the 21st century city of Sodom, and looks what's happened... I've become one of them! [[AccidentalInnuendo I've been sodomized!]]
* A non-comedic example occurs in an episode of ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'' which features a girl whose angelic voice moved God Himself... but her life is marred by a tragic addiction to ''chewing gum.'' Even earthly human society seemed to consider this a terrible moral failing. Perhaps [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Roald Dahl]] could have written for that show! It's supposed to be a "anything can be bad if taken to extremes" moral, [[BrokenAesop but it falls on its face pretty badly]]. And once you consider that Monica [[DoubleStandard has a caffeine addiction]] that's always played for laughs, it's quite hypocritical of the writers to play an addiction to chewing gum for drama.

** There's also the episode "Hedgefund Homeboys" where Castle tells his daughter Alexis to tell him if she's ever in trouble or does anything wrong after he works on a case involving a bunch of teenagers and a shooting. She later comes to him in tears and reveals that she once jumped a turn stile at the train station late one night, inciting this trope with complete honesty. Castle responds with relief and amusement but Alexis grounds herself for her heinous actions.

** More straightfowardly, the characters in Buffy had a tendency to get incredibly [[BuffySpeak lecture-y]] whenever one of them had a little too much to drink.

** A later episode involving parallel worlds does it again when their world becomes "too good" so any act that can be seen as criminal in anyway is punished to the highest degree.

** The most notable example is the "iMeet WebVideo/{{Fred}}" episode, where Freddie says that he doesn't think Fred's videos are all that funny, and Fred announces he's not going to make videos anymore. Freddie then suffers a HumiliationConga courtesy of everyone at school, and his aunt. And later, Sam beats him with a tennis racket. And then throws him out of a treehouse and jumps on him.

** "Bad Reputation" also brings us Kurt's master plan to become badass--have the Glee Club perform [[Music/MCHammer Can't Touch This]]. In the library. Needless to say,it backfired when the elderly librarian told them it was "cute" and asking them to perform it at her church.

** In "[[Recap/CommunityS4E07EconomicsOfMarineBiology Economics of Marine Biology]]", the Dean goes to absurd lengths to convince a rich kid to enroll at Greendale: he retools all the classes around the kid's interests, transforms much of the campus into a wild party, and hires prostitutes for entertainment. But what convinces the Dean he's gone too far? When he forbids LivingProp Magnitude from saying his CatchPhrase "Pop Pop!" because the rich kid wants that to be ''his'' catch phrase now. After Magnitude stays up all night, struggling and suffering to come up with a new catch phrase, the Dean actually says, "[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone My God, what have we done?]]"

* In ''Series/{{Psych}}'', there is [[NoodleIncident mention of]] a program meant to replace cops with {{robot}}s. Apparently it didn't work out, as a robot ended up [[AIIsACrapshoot strangling]] [[LawfulStupid a jaywalker.]] This may just be a reference to ''Franchise/RoboCop''.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "The Happiness Patrol" features a Type 2. On Terra Alpha, being a 'Killjoy' (i.e. being unhappy) is punishible by death.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' features a Type 2 when Nate is sent to prison. He finds that the warden is making backdoor deals to send innocent men to prison to increase his population and thus profits as it is a for profit prison. Cue jailbreak with new mark thrown in for free.

* In ''Series/TheOrville'' episode "[[Recap/TheOrvilleS1E07MajorityRule Majority Rule]]", the people of Sargus 4 use social media to determine ''everything'', from what is true to whether someone is guilty. If someone does something extremely minor and a video of that goes viral, then that person can quickly accumulate a million downvotes, which automatically makes him a criminal (most businesses won't even service someone with half that many downvotes). What follows is an "apology tour", with the accused attending several talk shows, where he must convince the public of his redemption. During the "tour", if the criminal accumulates 10 million downvotes, he undergoes the local equivalent to a lobotomy, becoming a perpetually-happy vegetable. Yes, that's right, you can get lobotomized for saying or doing the wrong thing, if someone with a smartphone is nearby.

* The offences listed in "You Can Get Arrested For That" by Greg Champion consist mainlo of things like buying an Olivia Newton John record and not eating all your vegetables.

* Even more blatant. Wrestling/MuhammadHassan. His gimmick was of an Arab-American who loved America, but hated the way he was treated after 9/11. Sample quote: "I am an Arab-American, I grew up right here in America. I went to the same schools, I ate the same food, and there was never any animosity between us. But since 9/11, you people tend to generalize or stereotype people like me. We are singled out. We are humiliated. We demand the same rights that any American has!" What happened? Wrestling fans, who are not known for their tolerance of non-whites, automatically made him the villain, and Creator/{{UPN}} pressured WWE to end his career, all due to his character's race.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'', in Junktown a Doctor name Doc Morbid (Seriously) is questionable in his ethics, he won't think twice about removing one of your eyes if you tick him off, and he has a butcher lab in his basement which he sells human meat to a trader saying it's Gecko Meat. Seems enough of a psychopath to kill right? Well it turns out despite all that he is still a good Doctor regardless, and the only Doctor in the city. So people will be pretty pissed if you kill him.

** In the series backstory, it’s mentioned that the last President of the United States prior to the apocalypse was impeached for ''jaywalking''. Though in this case its all but explicitly stated that the jaywalking thing was just an excuse; the ''real'' reason Congress wanted him out of office was because he pretty much kicked off the whole conflict by ordering the annexation of Canada.

** Likewise, you're in a party posing as guest, you go to the back room or kitchen without permission, you get shot on sight. Those are some trigger-happy guards. This kind of behavior is mitigated in ''[[VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney Blood Money]]''.

* In ''VideoGame/GoldeneyeRogueAgent'', you can get unlocks by earning "rogue bonuses" which are awarded for particularly "evil" actions. Said actions are things like headshots, taking human shields, shooting ExplodingBarrels, hacking enemy turrets, etc... all things that are present in many other FPS and which an experienced player will already be doing by this point. Apparently we were evil all this time, who knew?

** A lot of the "incidents" behind the {{Excuse Plot}}s fall into this trope, as apparently things like an unusual number of ghosts appearing, people having lots of parties, and lots of flowers blooming warrant going out and beating the crap out of whomever is responsible. This is mostly justified though, as the denizens of Gensoukyou are varying degrees of [[ChaoticNeutral batshit insane]] and will use any excuse for a fight.

* Some time before the start of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|Cursed Memories}}'', Etna abandoned Larharl and set out to become an Overlord stronger than him, because he committed the heinous crime of... eating her favorite pudding.

** While we're at it, the most of the series come off as the [[LogicalExtreme ultimate]] [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of this trope. You can do whatever you want. Just whatever. Stealing cars, commit mass murder on a public lane, cause damage of cataclysmic proportions on a main highway, Kill the entire police department, shoot down multiple helicopters, enter a militar zone, hijack a jet, ride the aforementioned vehicle above the goddamned city and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking vandalize a graffiti]]. If a cop somehow manages to arrest you, you WILL be punished. Just hope you like 6 hours of your life and less than 1000$ as a fine. This whole thing seems to be just an egregious case of {{GameplayAndStorySegregation}}, though.

* In the second game of the ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger'' series, what is Ty concerned about upon finding out that Boss Cass and his diplomats are above the law as long as they are there on official Cassopolis business? Double parking, opening other people's mail, and leaving the milk out.
* Due to it's dystopian-like state, almost any action in ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'' can be considered as a violation of the People's Charter. Simply talking to another person or running for a certain amount of time is enough to add a few years to one's sentence. And that's not accounting the fact that ''being alive'' is worth a million years of penal servitude.

* There was a TV advertisement in Poland: the man asks his wife if she wants Earl Grey, since the kids are asleep. After some MemeticMutation, Polish Internet was full of pictures of a man in jail for drinking Earl Grey in presence of children.

** The StrawFan Douchey [=McNitpick=] is a spoof of how some commenters act like even a small error is a horrible things.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'', this initially seems to be the case with "fish slapping", the in-movie crime of the biblical Ninevites for which they are despised, and for which they will apparently be wiped out. This would be justified in that it's all a story being told by modern day "Pirates", and saying what the ''real'' Assyrians did (i.e., routine torture and execution of captured prisoners, cutting off and tallying the right ears of slain enemies, being executed for falling to maintain the daily quota of said ears, etc) would be inappropriate for their young audience. Ironically, however, in the end [[spoiler:this would actually be {{Subverted}}. Or rather, the ''Ninevites'' are the ones guilty of this. It turns out that "fish slapping" extends to a form of execution called 'The Slap of No Return.' The Ninevites think it's funny, and they intend to have Jonah and his friends executed for [[DisproportionateRetribution accidentally stealing snack food]]. Kind of gives the term "fish slapping" a [[CerebusRetcon whole new perspective]]]].

** Fillmore himself is treated, by many people in the show, like an unstable/possibly violent ex-convict for his past crimes. What are those crimes, you ask? Directly ripped from the opening sequence: Chalk boosting, locker rigging, a comic book poker ring, cutting class, milk counterfeiting (non dairy creamer), and backtalkery. For this sordid past he has many TheAtoner moments. This is before we even get into the scooter jacking ring, tartar sauce smuggling, and the time Fillmore's pet was almost killed by a boy in return for the answer sheet to a particularly hard test. Another episode features a psychotic, monotone, genius IQ boy who had to locked up in total isolation because the spray paint tagging he was doing all over the school were so traumatizing they could make people physically ill.

** The earl of Lemongrab has some... er, interesting concepts when it comes to punishing those who do wrong. Making a mess? Thirty days in the dungeon. Asking questions? Thirty-TWO days in the dungeon. Refusing to clean up mess, or asking who exactly Lemongrab is talking to? Three hours dungeon. Harmless prank? Seven years dungeon, no trials. Assuring Lemongrab that the prank was harmless? Twelve years dungeon. Elaborate, painful prank involving spicy food? ONE MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!!! (Lemongrab isn't evil--he's just young, angry, and a bit of an idiot.)

** One episode had Plucky and Hampton steal a candy bar, and go through inner torment before they give it back.

* Type 3 is used in the ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'' episode "Toot Toot", which is about Bessie farting during a meeting and getting kicked out of the Honeybees for it. It sends her into a HeroicBSOD, and the other Honeybees are suffering without her. However, just as Bessie was about to burn her manual, she realizes that farting is a natural function, and that there is a badge called the "Toot-Toot" Badge, which is rewarded for those who go through farting in public with dignity.

** Eric Cartman repeatedly insulted his friends, abused them (often brutally) and betrayed them just for the sheer joy of it. He also made at least two attempts to murder a large group of the population, convinced women to have abortions for his own profit and, having arranged to have a couple murdered [[spoiler:(one of which was his father)]], made them into a chili and fed it to their son. But ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking eating the skin of all the fried chicken]]'' was the last drop that finally prompted his friends to ignore him. Kyle even mentions that Cartman did a lot worse before.

** In another episode he has to take care of an endangered caterpillar, and almost kills it by mistake. He is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for "attempted insecticide" and "aggravated buggery." Made especially ridiculous because, as Homer put it, God clearly ''wanted'' it to die. (The species is [[TooDumbToLive sexually attracted to]] ''[[KillItWithFire fire]],'' for example.)

''And on Fridays the lunchroom serves hot dogs and burgers and beer!''\\

** In "Lisa on Ice", Lisa believes that getting a F in second grade gym will one day lose her the presidency, and get her sentenced to a lifetime of ''horror'' on Monster Island ([[FalseReassurance don't worry, it's only a name]]).

** When the Mayor gets called out for HoldingOutForAHero to the girls, he jumps into a Hot Air Balloon with Miss Bellum and starts to punch criminals with an extendable glove from the air. It starts by hitting a genuine mugger, but then starts hitting people he only ''thinks'' are commiting a crime.

* OnceAnEpisode on ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', Coop berates the MonsterOfTheWeek with a list of everything evil they did in that episode and a declaration that he's going to kick their ass because of it. The final item on the list is always something extremely innocuous, and is always the thing Coop claims is the most heinous act out of all of them.

** Later, in "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle actually suffers a psychotic breakdown when she thinks that she'll be unable to write her weekly [[AnAesop aesop of the week]] letter to the princess and therefore be... gasp... '''tardy'''!

* Inverted for comedic effect in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch: After Paris Hilton is arrested, Nicole Richie decides to break her "best friend/meal ticket" out of jail, in a parody of ''Series/PrisonBreak''. To get herself arrested, she robs a bank. The tellers says that will probably only get her a fine, so she shoots him. The guard throwing her in jail proclaims:

* In the episode "Wanted: Wade!" of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Wade pulls a tag off of a couch, then sees that the tag [[MattressTagGag says that it's against the law to remove it.]] This causes him to run frantically around and have a dream where the police are after him for ripping off the couch tag. In that dream, tearing a tag off a pillow is so bad a crime it even gets two hardened robbers of banks and gas stations to grab the bars of the cell and want out when Wade admits his "crime" to them. Later, Wade sees a police car on the farm and gets him into his panic. When Orson tries to convince Wade he won't go to jail for it, a voice tells them and Roy "We know you're in there, come out with your hands up! We have you surrounded!", and Roy, Wade and Orson run for it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': In ''The Origin of the Beginning of the Incredible Taz-Man'', Mr Thickley attempts to persuade Taz to make the mailman his arch-enemy for the heinous crime of delivering junk mail to Taz's family.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "It Takes A Village To Defeat A Hedgehog", Shadow considers the poorly-made bookshelf Sonic and friends spent the episode trying to build an embarassment on behalf of ''all hedgehog kind''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'''s episode "Breakfast Cheese", the Titans treat the H.I.V.E. loitering near a "no loitering" sign as an excuse to beat them up. This is even what kicks off the plot of the episode, as Starfire realizes that pounding someone into oblivion just for loitering is way too harsh, and that the Titans have gotten more bloodthirsty thanks to all the fighting.

* Used in the WartimeCartoon ''Disney/EducationForDeath''. A boy is made to stand in the corner of a classroom wearing a DunceHat because he expressed sympathy for a rabbit that got eaten by a fox. Unfortunately this is set in Nazi Germany and the lesson (that the fox should be admired for eating the rabbit, because MightMakesRight) works as his PoliticallyMotivatedTeacher intended: the boy becomes a mindless, ruthless and evil prospective soldier for the Nazi regime.

* ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonWhatCameAfter'': Popplio's reaction to a Cacturne outlaw returning already-worn hats for a full refund is this.