History Main / MiserableMassage

** In one episode, Monica gives Chandler terribly painful massages, but he's too afraid to tell her, because he doesn't want to ruin their relationship. Apparently Rachel claimed she was allergic to massages to get Monica to stop inflicting them on her. Phoebe, a professional masseuse, lasts about two seconds before yelping in pain and telling Monica to never massage another human being.

* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In one episode, Monica gives Chandler terribly painful massages, but he's too afraid to tell her, because he doesn't want to ruin their relationship. Apparently Rachel claimed she was allergic to massages to get Monica to stop inflicting them on her. Phoebe, a professional masseuse, lasts about two seconds before yelping in pain and telling Monica to never massage another human being.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': In one especially weird episode, [[ItMakesSenseInContext an evil Togepi enters Team Rocket's base]], and uses its Psychic powers to control the Giovanni robot that Meowth installed in his room to massage himself. This causes the robot to start massaging him so fast it burns him.

* ''VideoGame/SpyFox'' 2: Some Assembly Required'' has Fox getting info from a bear massage therapist. Her massage routine is obviously painful for Fox, which he politely brings up each time you ask for her services. At one point she'll even fold him up into a paper airplane and fly him around the booth.
* Happens off-screen, but in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', there's a special treatment called a bed and massage at Rollin' Inn in Goron City. When you choose it, a Goron named Tray leads Link to the bed to have another Goron named Volcon massage him. As the screen goes black, we can hear Volcon give Link a painful massage and Link [[ScreamDiscretionShot screaming in pain]]. It gives Link three extra hearts and a bit of Stamina wheel, however.

* In the Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel ''Q-in-Law'', Wesley is given a [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy slave girl]] whose attempt to massage him results in a broken rib.

* Happens off-screen, but in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', there's a special treatment called a bed and massage at Rollin' Inn in Gordon City. When you choose it, a Goron named Tray leads Link to the bed to have another Goron named Volcon massage him. As the screen goes black, we can hear Volcon give Link a painful massage and Link [[ScreamDiscretionShot screaming in pain]]. It gives Link three extra hearts and a bit of Stamina wheel, however.

* ''Series/TheGoodies''. Graham Garden tries to massage Tim Brooke-Taylor's stomach with a medicine ball and [[RuleOfFunny drops it clean through his body.]] In another episode, Tim's stomach ends up being kneaded like dough.

* Happens off-screen, but in VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild, there's a special treatment called a bed and massage at Rollin' Inn in Gordon City. When you choose it, a Goron named Tray leads Link to the bed to have another Goron named Volcon massage him. As the screen goes black, we can hear Volcon give Link a painful massage and Link [[ScreamDiscretionShot screaming in pain]]. It gives Link three extra hearts and a bit of Stamina wheel, however.

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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]

* In ''Film/{{Swindle}}'', part of the plan to stall and trick Swindle is for him to take a massage, with who he ''believes'' is the rich auction owner he's trying to impress. Throughout the scene, he's grunting in pain and keeps getting his neck chopped and pushed.

** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E21ARockhoofAndAHardPlace A Rockhoof and Hard Place]]": Rockhoof tries his hand at being a masseuse. but his SuperStrength works against him; Bulk Biceps is shown fleeing in agony after Rockhoof [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength presses down too hard]] on his back.

** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E3CastleSweetCastle Castle Sweet Castle]]": Spike, in an attempt to keep Twilight occupied while her friends make her new castle more like home to her, decides to take a "deep tissue, hot rock massage" at the Ponyville day spa. Afterwards, he is shown walking around in agony. It doesn't help that his masseuse happened to be [[DumbMuscle Bulk Biceps]].

* In the ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' skit of ''Series/TheATeam'', B.A is getting a massage during the AvengersAssemble scene.

** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E13DejaQ Deja Q]]", Dr. Crusher administers one of these to the recently-made-human Q to relieve his back spasm which causes him to complain in-between cries of pain.

* ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce'' (1982). While Bruce is getting a massage, Karmen sneaks into the room and knocks out the masseuse so she can steal the bag of cocaine that Bruce is delivering. She has to pretend to be the masseuse but naturally doesn't know how to do it (it doesn't help that she's a dominatrix). First she tries walking on his back and then jabbing him with an acupuncture needle, eventually knocking Bruce out which makes her task easier.

-->-- '''Chandler''', ''{{Series/Friends}}''

* ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce'' (1982). While Bruce is getting a massage, another woman sneaks into the room and knocks out the masseuse so she can steal the bag of flour (actually cocaine) that Bruce is delivering. She has to pretend to be the masseuse but naturally doesn't know how to do it; first she tries walking on his back and then jabbing him with an acupuncture needle, eventually knocking Bruce out which makes her task easier.
-->'''Bruce:''' Owww! Oriental women walk five feet behind a man; American woman walk all over man!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': One episode had Bugs and Daffy head out for a spa day and get some massages. Daffy notices he's marked down to be massaged by "Joe" while Bugs is getting "Leslie." After switching them around, he finds to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard his dismay]] that Joe is short for Josephine, a pleasant female masseuse, while Leslie is a hulking muscular man who puts Daffy's back through the ringer.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': One episode had Bugs and Daffy head out for a spa day and get some massages. Bugs gets a dainty female masseuse who's delicate and gentle, while Daff gets a gets a muscular male one who's... not so much.

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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E3CastleSweetCastle Castle Sweet Castle]]", Spike, in an attempt to keep Twilight occupied while her friends make her new castle more like home to her, decides to take a "deep tissue, hot rock massage" at the Ponyville day spa. Afterwards, he is shown walking around in agony. It doesn't help that his masseuse happened to be [[DumbMuscle Bulk Biceps]].

* ''They Call Me Bruce'' (1982). While Bruce is getting a massage, another woman sneaks into the room and knocks out the masseuse so she can steal the bag of flour (actually cocaine) that Bruce is delivering. She has to pretend to be the masseuse but naturally doesn't know how to do it; first she tries walking on his back and then jabbing him with an acupuncture needle, eventually knocking Bruce out which makes her task easier.

* ''They Call Me Bruce'' (1982). While Bruce is getting a massage, another woman sneaks into the room and knocks out the masseuse so she can steal the bag of flour (actually cocaine) that Bruce is delivering. She has to pretend to be the masseuse though but naturally doesn't know how to do it; she tries walking on Bruce's back and then jabbing him with an acupuncture needle, eventually knocking Bruce out which makes her task easier.