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[[caption-width-right:350: "You know the rules: A+ or it's the kitchen pantry to you".]]

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': When we first see George [=McFly=] in 1985, his boss (and SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp) Biff Tannen is ordering him to make Biff's paperwork so Biff can present it to their boss (and look good to get a promotion). When Marty [=McFly=] goes back in time to 1955, he encounters George and Biff when they were teenagers and Biff is bullying George to make his homework.

** It's [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in "[[Recap/ArthurS3E3ArthurGoesCrosswireSueEllenAndTheBrainasaurous Sue Ellen and the Brainasaurous]]". Sue Ellen and the Brain are partnered for an archaeology project. Sue Ellen genuinely wants to help, but Brain is [[SuperOCD extremely paranoid]] about his grades and refuses to let her do any work, insisting that she'd get everything wrong. The other students encourage Sue Ellen to enjoy not having to do the assignment, but she wants to ''earn'' a good grade instead of getting a free ride.

* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'': Both played straight and inverted in "Butt Dialing Duncans"; P.J.'s lab partner is George Van Brundt, who saddles P.J. with doing all of their science project, and giving him his phone number to call him when said project is finished. Emmett's lab partner tells Emmett that there's no need for them to get together, and volunteers to do the science project all on his own and put both their names on it. This earns him a hug from Emmett, much to his disdain.

** In "Arthur's Baby", Jane is pregnant with a new baby, and Arthur is unsure of having a younger sibling. Buster tries to help him see the advantages of having a new younger sibling, one of which is having said younger sibling do his homework for him. What follows is an ImagineSpot of Arthur relaxing in his bed while telling his (imaginary) baby brother "And when you're done with the math, don't forget to write my report on Magellan!" as said baby brother is working on Arthur's homework.

** It's [[InvertedTrope inverted]] in another episode where Sue Ellen and the Brain are partnered for an archaeology project. Sue Ellen genuinely wants to help, but Brain is [[SuperOCD extremely paranoid]] about his grades and refuses to let her do any work, insisting that she'd get everything wrong. The other students encourage Sue Ellen to enjoy not having to do the assignment, but she wants to ''earn'' a good grade instead of getting a free ride.

** PlayedWith in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E3TheWitch "The Witch"]], where [[TheCheerleader Amy]] comes home and orders her mother Catherine to write her history report for her [[spoiler:but Catherine is actually the real Amy [[FreakyFridayFlip in her mom's body]] thanks to a spell, so it's technically her own homework to begin with.]]

Ah, homework. The bane of every student's existence from grade school all the way through high school. Some kids don't mind having mountains of the stuff to do, while others groan at the mere thought of solving a few multiplication problems and writing a one-page essay.

Related to TheBully, WithFriendsLikeThese, FalseFriend, AllTakeAndNoGive, and StockShoujoBullyingTactics. The kid being forced to do the homework is usually a ButtMonkey, ExtremeDoormat, BullyMagnet and/or StereotypicalNerd with a side order of NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork. Compare TheParentProducedProject, where instead it's the parents that do the schoolwork for their child.

* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Kataoka is a hardworking and intelligent student, making it very strange that she wound up in Class 3-E, where failures and delinquents are sent to isolate them from the rest of the student body. The manga reveals the reason is because her 'friend' forces Kataoka to act as her private tutor, to the point that she no longer has any time for her own work, causing her grades to slip and resulting in her being dropped in Class 3-E while the other girl remained on the main campus.

--> '''Rigel:''' Can a first year really do a fifth year's work? Won't it make you look bad?
--> '''Flint:''' You can put my name on whatever drivel you want, as long as it meets their arbitrary requirements for passing the year.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndSupermanBattleOfTheSuperSons'', Melvin complains that the only reason he isn't on the Smallville Junior High baseball team is because his grades aren't high enough to be a "nerd" like Jon. Melvin then suggests Jon do all of his homework for him so Melvin can join the team.

--> '''Bernadette:''' I never thought I'd still be doing the Prom Queen's homework just to get her to like me.
--> '''Amy:''' I know. (suddenly giddy) ''It's finally working!''
* ''Series/BigTimeRush'': Subverted in "Green Time Rush". For his "Earth Day" project and vacation-winning competition, Logan gets paired with Ozzie, a bully who aggressively refuses to work on the project and demands Logan do all the work, even as Logan attempts to reason with him. However, after their model gets destroyed, Logan finds Ozzie repairing it for him. They have a heart-to-heart; Ozzie admits to not feeling smart enough to contribute, and Logan refuses to take all the credit. Ultimately, they decide to work on it as a proper team and ask the teacher for an extension, forgoing their chance at winning the contest in favor of better collaborating.

* ''Series/CharlesInCharge'': In one episode, Sarah is partnered with a boy she has a crush on for a school project. However, he starts using her feelings for him to try to get her into doing the whole project for her. Then it's revealed that the reason he does this is because he's illiterate and can't do his homework by himself.

* ''VideoGame/TheClassroomTrilogy'': The premise of the game involves you cheating through tests with the help of somebody. In the first and third game, it is a geek that helps you (he is dead in the second). With the third game being a prequel, it is revealed you forced the geek into doing such.

* The ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E3BoomBoomOutGoesTheEd "Boom-Boom! Out Goes the Ed"]] starts with Eddy reading a magazine and Ed watching TV while Double-D is slaving away doing everyone's homework, the former too lazy and the later too dumb to try.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Chloe, the AlphaBitch of the school, treats her friend/lackey, Sabrina, like trash. According to Sabrina, their "friendship" started in grade school when she started doing Chloe's homework for her.

Bullies hate doing homework as much as the rest of us (unless they're an AcademicAlphaBitch, NerdyBully, or InsufferableGenius), and as they're thinking of quick and easy ways to get the stuff done, their eye falls on the resident nerdy kid. The solution: make the nerd do the bully's homework for them. And if they don't feel like doing it for free on top of their own homework, the bully will do what they do best. A JerkJock will probably get the nerd to do his homework by [[AppealToForce threatening to smash his face in if he doesn't]], while an AlphaBitch will get the same result by threatening to socially ruin her victim instead. Cut to a montage of the nerd slaving over a pile of homework while the jock shoots hoops with his buddies or the popular girl paints her nails and/or gossips on the phone.

* ''{{VideoGame/Arcanum}}'': The Bully character background mentions that the character used to bully smart kids into doing his homework, giving him lower intelligence.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': When Calvin uses the Duplicator on himself, he tries to make the duplicate do his homework, but thanks to the duplicate also having Calvin's personality, he refuses. Later, he adds an Ethicator to the Duplicator and creates a purely good duplicate, who is perfectly happy to clean Calvin's toys and do his homework without complaint.

* In ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'' Nicole is being forced by a bully to do his math homework. Later when Tyler tries to stand up for her ([[VandalismBackfire accidentally destroying Nicole's actual homework in the process]]), he's stuck doing the bully's English homework. This goes on until [[MamaBear Geneva]] finds out and proceeds to rip the kid a new one, threatening to "rain on him like a Georgia thunderstorm" if he tries that stunt again.

->''It's okay, Marinette. You and I will do all the research and the writing for our project, and then, Chloé can present it! That way it's equal. We've been doing this ever since grade school, when I started doing Chloé's homework, and we've been [=BFFs=] ever since!''

* ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'': Not so much a direct bullying example as much as a peer pressure example, but jock Fridge convinces him former childhood friend Spencer to write an essay for him so that he can focus on athletics -- an act that gets the two thrown in detention.

Related to TheBully, WithFriendsLikeThese, AllTakeAndNoGive, and StockShoujoBullyingTactics. The kid being forced to do the homework is usually a ButtMonkey, ExtremeDoormat, BullyMagnet and/or StereotypicalNerd with a side order of NerdsLoveToughSchoolwork. Compare TheParentProducedProject, where instead it's the parents that do the schoolwork for their child.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has the episode "Phoebe Skips," in which [[AsianAndNerdy Phoebe]] is advanced to the sixth grade for her brilliance. Some AlphaBitch girls quickly "befriend" her and offer invitations to parties, but it quickly becomes clear that they're just using her to do their schoolwork for them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': One episode has Gretchen being this for her whole class. The downside is that it takes her ''twelve hours'' to do it all, and her own performance in class starts to slump.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': ZigZagged. Principal Snyder wants Willow to tutor a basketball star jock so he won't fail his classes and have to be suspended from the team. The player takes this to mean Snyder ordered between-the-lines Willow to do the basketball player's assignments for him (and it's not out of the question that this is precisely what Snyder meant). Unluckily for the basketball player, this is the episode where evil vampire Willow crosses over from her reality to this one, and when the basketball player gets indignant with vampire Willow over being out and about instead of at home doing his homework, she entertains herself with him. By the end of the episode, he's committed to doing his own assignments and overachieving, fearing the wrath of Willow.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': When Gus was younger, his class colleagues took advantage of his intelligence to ask him to do their homework by promising him they would be his friends. That happened so much that he became self-conscious of his naiveness. Willow was the first genuine friend he made on Hexside.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the season five episode "Hell Comes to Quahog", Peter tells of how he once failed at the SAT exams. The cutaway shows him pulling out an Asian child instead of a calculator, then demanding for him to "do math".

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