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** In "[[Recap/ArthurS16E10SoFunnyIForgotToLaughTheBestDayEver So Funny I Forgot to Laugh]]", Mr. Ratburn chides Arthur for constant mockery of Sue Ellen's new sweater, saying that is bullying, and makes him write an apology letter to give her the next day. Arthur, believing everyone's blowing the issue way out of proportion, ends up writing ''[[BackhandedApology backhanded]]'' apology letter.

* A number of parents with at least two kids (or even just one); especially the more temperamental ones, and probably a number of elementary school teachers as well.[[note]]This can especially to those parents and teachers who may not know (at best), or who don't even bother asking for (at worst) the whole story. Even then, they may still force their families / students to do it any way, especially if some parents and teachers are actually that ignorant.[[/note]]

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': In the Bretonnian legal system, a judge determines guilt or innocence, after which a jury sentences the guilty party. Sentences of "Say sorry right now" aren't unheard of, usually because the jury either disagrees with a guilty verdict or [[JustifiedCriminal thinks the criminal's actions were justified]].

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', "Smokin' with Cigarettes"

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* ''ComicBook/BePrepared'': After Vera's [[BirthdayPartyGoesWrong disasterous ninth birthday party]] (where all her guests called their parents to be picked up in the middle of the sleepover without saying goodbye) Sarah--the girl whose party she attended at the start--is made by her mother to come apologize for how she acted. Vera is sure her mother made her do it.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E33Breakdown Breakdown]]". Principal [=McVicker=] ends up in the nuthouse after being harassed by Beavis and Butt-Head one too many times. Van Driessen decides to send the two over to his facility and orders them to apologize to [=McVicker=] for what happened. Of course, [[{{Jerkass}} being Beavis and Butt-Head]], they [[LackOfEmpathy don't care whatsoever]] and drive him up the wall ''further'' to the point that [=McVicker=] requires [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture electroshock therapy]] ([[ComedicSociopathy to their amusement]]). [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil Appalled at the duo's callousness]] towards [=McVicker=]'s predicament, [[HereWeGoAgain Van Driessen ends up suffering a mental breakdown himself]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E33Breakdown Breakdown]]", Principal [=McVicker=] ends up in the nuthouse after being harassed by Beavis and Butt-Head one too many times. Van Driessen decides to send the two over to his facility and orders them to apologize to [=McVicker=] for what happened. Of course, [[{{Jerkass}} being Beavis and Butt-Head]], they [[LackOfEmpathy don't care whatsoever]] and drive him up the wall ''further'' to the point that [=McVicker=] requires [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture electroshock therapy]] ([[ComedicSociopathy to their amusement]]). [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil Appalled at the duo's callousness]] towards [=McVicker=]'s predicament, [[HereWeGoAgain Van Driessen ends up suffering a mental breakdown himself]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E33Breakdown Breakdown]]", Principal [=McVicker=] ends up in the nuthouse after being harassed by Beavis and Butt-Head one too many times. Van Driessen decides to send the two over to his facility and orders them to apologize to [=McVicker=] for what happened. Of course, [[{{Jerkass}} being Beavis and Butt-Head]], they [[LackOfEmpathy don't care whatsoever]] and drive him up the wall ''further'' to the point that [=McVicker=] requires [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture electroshock therapy]] ([[ComedicSociopathy to their amusement]]). [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil Appalled at the duo's callousness]] towards [=McVicker=]'s predicament, [[HereWeGoAgain Van Driessen suffers a mental breakdown himself]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E33Breakdown Breakdown]]", Principal [=McVicker=] ends up in the nuthouse after being harassed by Beavis and Butt-Head one too many times. Van Driessen decides to send the two over to his facility and orders them to apologize to [=McVicker=] for what happened. Of course, [[{{Jerkass}} being Beavis and Butt-Head]], they [[LackOfEmpathy don't care whatsoever]] and drive him up the wall ''further'' to the point that [=McVicker=] requires [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture electroshock therapy]] ([[ComedicSociopathy to their amusement]]). Van Driessen, [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil appalled at the duo's callousness]] towards [=McVicker=]'s predicament, [[HereWeGoAgain suffers a mental breakdown himself]].

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', "Smokin' With Cigarettes"

** In "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS3E6SmokinWithCigarettes Smoking with Cigarettes]]", [[EnfantTerrible Lamilton Taeshawn]] is forced by his grandmother to apologize to the Freeman family for bringing Riley along with him on an illegal joyride, being extremely transparent that he does not mean it whatsoever.

** In the episode "[[Recap/ArthurS4E1DWsLibraryCardArthursBigHit Arthur's Big Hit]]", Arthur is furious that D.W. kept messing with his model plane despite him repeatedly telling her ''not'' to touch it, especially since she ended up destroying it, and furiously [[WouldHitAGirl punches her]]. Arthur's parents demand that he apologize to his sister, but he refuses to do so and gets grounded from TV for a week as a result. He ''does'' apologize when Binky, under peer pressure from the Tough Customers, punches ''him''.