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* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': Drake and Josh are addicted to eating junk food[=/=]playing videogames, respectively, and each contractualy make a bet that they could go without their respective addictions longer than the other one, with their parents getting in on the betting action. The loser would have to die... [[LastSecondWordSwap their hair]] [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]]. [[spoiler: Both Drake and Josh crack at the same moment, meaning they ''both'' lost (along with both parents), so all of them end up with pink hair. Although when everybody else leaves it is revealed that Drake was only wearing a wig.]]

* In 2016, Creator/{{CNN}} contributor Sam Wang said that the polls predicted that Hillary Clinton would defeat Donald Trump in the presidential election, saying he would eat a bug if he was wrong. Once Trump was declared the winner, Wang went back to CNN and [[https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/12/politics/pollster-eats-bug-after-donald-trump-win/index.html ate a bug on national TV.]]

* At an early point in ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', the narration describes a drinking game which, if you lost, you had to perform a forfeit, "usually obscenely biological". Ford Prefect, however, doesn't seem to find it humiliating; in fact it's the result he plays for.

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': "Samsara" has Rimmer and Lister make a bet over a game of mine-opoly: If Rimmer loses, he is not allowed to complain at all about anything that Lister does for the next week. If Lister loses, then he has to wear an evening gown all day and night until he can play James Last polka songs on the bagpipes. [[spoiler: Lister cheats and, thanks to the (unbeknownst at the time) influence of the SS Samsara's justice field, he wins against Rimmer]].

%%* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': In the early part of the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, the "other Yugi" is all about penalty games... %% What kind of penalty games? Explain more.
* Comes up in ''Anime/StarDriver''.
-->'''President:''' If you win, I'll double your pay. If you lose, you have to [[IndirectKiss kiss me through the glass]]...[[{{Dissimile}} except without the glass]], and [[BlackComedyRape for as long as I want]].
* In ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'', Ginta plays in a tennis tournament against his cousin, Tsutomu Rokutanda, who states that the loser has to shave their head. Of course, he ends up losing, and does go through with shaving his head.
* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': As a result of losing their practice match against St. Gloriana, the girls have to perform the utterly ridiculous "Anglerfish Dance".

* In "Literature/BanditsInYourGrocersFreezer", Pete had a nerd girlfriend who dragged him into things like ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings''. At one point they made a bet and for losing he had to go to work wearing fake elf ears and the nametag "Figwit".

* ''Series/FatherTed'' has the titular character famously made to kick Bishop Brennon up the arse as the forfeit for a lost football match between elderly priests (technically Ted's team won the match, but he was disqualified for cheating).
* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'': The twins enter a bet at the local supermarket they work at against a rival market, claiming that they were the better bag boys. Ultimately, they lose, and the twins and their boss have to work an entire shift in dresses.

* In ''Series/TheShield'' ([=S03E04=]: Streaks and Tips), two LAPD teams (Strike Team and Decoy Squad) compete to solve a car-jacking case. They make a bet saying that the losing team has to streak naked through the police station. [[spoiler:Decoy Squad loses.]]

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. An early episode involved Peg and her arch-rival from when they were kids. Since neither of them had much money then, they used to do this a lot, with Peg losing more often than not. In this episode, their respective families had a bowling contest. The Bundys lost on the last frame, forcing Peg to have to dress up as a human trophy.

* On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' during the last season. Sam and arch-rival Gary had a bet on who would make the most money on St. Patrick's Day. Having lost, Sam and a bunch of the guys (Woody, Cliff, Norm and Paul) had to appear in Gary's bar naked while singing "Getting To Know You".
* ''Series/KennyVsSpenny'': At the end of each episode, the winner imposes a "humiliation" of his choosing on the loser.
* ''Hellcats'' In the episode 'Ragged Old Flag' the women's volleyball team play against the cheerleaders in a game of flag football. The losing team have to cheer for the opposing team...in their underwear.
* In ''Game On!'', two teams, lead by Venus Willams and Rob Gronkowski, compete against each other in sports-related challenges. The losing team or one of its players is subjected to a punishment (usually an humiliating one), otherwise referred to as "Take The L". Some are based on what the player dislikes (e.g. snakes).
* The trailer for ''Series/Loki2021'' reveals that [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Loki was the mysterious D.B. Cooper]] -- the first episode of the show has Loki explain that he hijacked the plane and stole the money because he lost a bet with Thor.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': "Samsara" has Rimmer and Lister make a bet over a game of mine-opoly: If Rimmer loses, he is not allowed to complain at all about anything that Lister does for the next week. If Lister loses, then he has to wear an evening gown all day and night until he can play James Last polka songs on the bagpipes. [[spoiler: Lister cheats and, thanks to the (unbeknownst at the time) influence of the SS Samsara's justice field, he wins against Rimmer]].
* This was the third main trope of the Australian game show ''Battle of the Sexes''[[note]]the others being GameShow and BattleOfTheSexes[[/note]]. The losing team had to suffer an on-air humiliation of some sort, ranging from having [[LiteralMetaphor literal egg on their face]] to having to walk up and down a pier [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext wearing transparent plastic pants full of squids]].

* In ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'' Guybrush lets himself into the house of Ozzy Mandrill, an entrepreneur who's winning a large amount of land by challenging pirates to various forms of insults contests. If you challenge him to a sword fight, his win condition is that Guybrush has to leave his house. You have a number of dialog options, one of which is making him dance in the center of town in a chicken suit. Unfortunately, it's impossible to win because Guybrush can't make sense of his Australian slang-laden insults.

* ''WebVideo/SmoshGames''' Game Bang videos always end with the losing player(s) undergoing some form of humiliation related to the game they played that episode. For example, when Ian, Mari and Joven lost a ''Videogame/{{Halo 4}}'' tournament, they were made to do a karaoke performance of ''Halo'' by Music/{{Beyonce}}.

* Implied in one of ''[[Website/CollegeHumor College Humor's]]'' "If Google was a Guy" series, where two men arguing with one another ask Google the question "Groundhog Day or Groundhog's Day?"; upon receiving the answer ("Groundhog Day") one of them cheers loudly, then immediately follows it up with the query "Haircut place bowl cut!".

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', Jumba and Pleakley get caught up in Lilo and Stitch's argument over who's better at capturing experiments, and each agrees to coach one of them in capturing a pair of experiments. They agree to bet that whoever's protegee captures the experiment first, the other has to perform "the Funky Glognart, the insipid dance of a thousand hours." Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch [[AnAesop learn a lesson in teamwork]] and end up capturing both experiments together, which means both Pleakley and Jumba have to perform the dance.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' had Babs and Plucky compete to see who can get more pictures into the yearbook. The loser suffers a humiliation of the winner's choice. To that end, Plucky joins every club at Acme Looniversity and even becomes the editor. Babs employs a number of underhanded tactics herself. When the count is made, [[spoiler: neither of them get it. The winner turns out to be some kid in an orange hat who manages to appear in every picture. The it turns out he's really Buster in disguise, trying to teach the two of them a lesson. They don't take it well.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', the park employees are tired of Mordecai chickening out on kissing Margaret. They make him a bet that if he can't kiss her by a certain time, he has to wear a diaper for a whole week. While on a date, Margaret finds out and is pissed because she thinks he only went out with her to win a bet. Mordecai defends himself by saying that he only took the bet to help give him the courage to kiss her. Margaret seems to accept that, and the two lean in close, seconds before the bet is up... [[spoiler:and then Margaret leans close to his ear and says "Have a nice week, diaper boy..."]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', Pops once made a bet with Carl that he could [[PygmalionPlot teach Johnny how to get along in high society]]. Loser has to do a sombrero dance.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Scrooge makes a bet like this with his rival, Flintheart Glomgold, where the one who finds less loot on a treasure hunt has to eat his hat. (Scrooge only manages to hold onto one gold coin, but he still wins the bet, because Glomgold doesn’t gain any treasure at all.)

* This is what kicked off the plot of the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]'' trilogy. Cartman says that if he can prove that leprechauns are real, Kyle has to suck his balls, and if he doesn't, he has to pay Kyle $10. Unfortunately, the leprechaun is proven to be real and Cartman spends the majority of the trilogy trying to get Kyle to suck his balls.

Sometimes called a "penalty game" or "batsu ''(punishment)'' game" in Japanese media, this trope is when two or more characters make a bet where the loser must do or be subjected to something humiliating. Common penalties involve [[DraggedIntoDrag crossdressing]], [[ShamefulStrip undressing]] (because NakedPeopleAreFunny and/or {{Fanservice}}) silly dances, [[GagHaircut shaved heads]], [[EatThat eating disgusting things]], or could go all the way up to becoming the winner's WagerSlave.

This can be used as an example of the [[HilarityEnsues wacky hijinks]] of a group of friends. Or for this trope's darker side, it can be used to characterize an antagonist as someone who's not satisfied with simply defeating his opponents. This guy wants to utterly humiliate them. This can also set the villain up to be HoistByHisOwnPetard and get himself subjected to the humiliating fate he wished upon the heroes.

SuperTrope of WagerSlave, where the Humiliating Wager is a period of servitude, and StripPoker, where players place bets of their own clothing. Compare LostHimInACardGame, where the wager is someone else's servitude. Compare TheBet.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': In the early part of the ''Manga/YuGiOh'' manga, the "other Yugi" is all about penalty games...