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* ''Anime/{{Suzuka}}'': Yamato is sent to his aunt's girl's only dormitory where his duties involve cleaning the [[PublicBathhouseScene baths]]. His parent's sure weren't trying to ''punish'' him by sending him to work there.

* In ''Manga/LoveHina'', Keitaro is more or less kicked out of his parents' house because they're tired of supporting him. He goes to stay at his grandmother's hot springs resort with no real intention of working. but quickly becomes the live-in manager since his grandmother has retired and his aunt who lives nearby has her hands full with her own restaurant.

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* In the 2006 film ''Film/TheUltimateGift'', one of Jason's first "gifts" is the gift of hard work. He is sent to a ranch in the middle of nowhere, to work for a close friend of his grandfather's, until he understands the value of hard work.
* In ''Film/HorseSense'', Michael is a lazy, pretty 20-something LA guy with rich parents is asked to show his young cousin Tommy from Montana a good time. Michael ends up ditching Tommy at every opportunity, preferring to spend time with his girlfriend and her father rather than some relative he met once or twice. He also ends up rear-ending another car while pulling out of parking and accidentally leaving incorrect insurance information. At home, he lies to his dad that it was a hit-and-run. After Tommy goes back to his mother's ranch, Michael's parents learn the truth and, as punishment, send him to Montana help out on the ranch. Michael, who has never worked in his life, now has to get up early, shovel manure, and do lots of other dirty work, made more difficult by Tommy taking revenge and deliberately withholding information that would make the job easier (e.g. "you mean you didn't see the tractor right there?"). Michael eventually learns that his aunt is about to lose the ranch to the bank and uses what little he remembers from business class to convince the bank manager to give the ranch to his aunt as a land trust due to the wild mustangs living on the territory.

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* In the {{backstory}} to the ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series, as a teen Jondolar got sent to his divorced dad's new settlement to learn a trade after he got in trouble for beating up another character so bad it knocked his teeth out.

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* In the Rodgers and Hart musical ''Theatre/BabesInArms'', this is the fate the protagonists are trying to avoid by putting on a show.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill:

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'', the titular character is threatened by his dad to be sent off to work on his grandparents' farm if he doesn't stop pulling practical jokes.

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* In the {{backstory}} to the ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series, as a teen Jondolar got sent to his divorced dad's new settlement to learn a trade after he got in trouble for beating up another character so bad it knocked his teeth out.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': This is standard practice for dwarfs, who are sent to their already-established relatives in (usually) Anhk-Morpork, learning a trade and sending money home. Others stay in the mines, but there's little connotation of punishment. Carrot Ironfoundersson was sent to join the Watch as he was a human raised by dwarfs.

* ''Literature/YearOfTheRat'': Ryska is sent off to work for Vikiy, her stepfather's brother, in his farm.

** In a later episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Connie's badgirl cousin from LA, "Tid Pao" (voiced by Lucy Lui) is punished by being sent to work on her Uncle's ranch, who gives her a stern warning upon arrival:
-->"I'm last Uncle you got. You screw up here, we send you back with Grandma in Laos!"

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* Creator/BenjaminFranklin was apprenticed to his half-brother, a printer. That's why he ran off to Philadelphia from his native Boston.

* In the Rodgers and Hart musical ''Babes in Arms'', this is the fate the protagonists are trying to avoid by putting on a show.

* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfPrydain'':

* In the {{backstory}} to the ''EarthsChildren'' series, as a teen Jondolar got sent to his divorced dad's new settlement to learn a trade after he got in trouble for beating up another character so bad it knocked his teeth out.

* ''ChroniclesOfPrydain'':