History Main / StrikeEpisode

** The wraparounds of "Year Round Fun" involve the show's writers going on strike, and Henry and June trying to run the show by themselves.

** The episode [[Recap/SouthParkS12E4CanadaOnStrike Canada on Strike]]" features the World Canadian Bureau ([[DoesThisRemindYouofAnything WGA]]) going on strike for "more money". [[spoiler:The strike ends up losing their country lots of money for suspending foreign exports and production and kills hundreds, if not thousands of people through starvation.]].
** The two parter [[Recap/SouthParkS22E9Unfulfilled "Unfullfilled"]] and [[Recap/SouthParkS22E10BikeParade "Bike Parade"]] feature the adults of South Park getting jobs at the newly opened Amazon fulfillment center in town. When Stephen Stotch's coworker is hurt on the job by a robot arm and permanently stuck in a box, the incident is blamed on human error. Leading the workers to strike. The lack of Amazon fulfillment means that no one in Colorado is getting their packages and the boys can’t get their supplies for the local bike parade, as no one remembers how they got things before Amazon existed. The workers at the South Park mall are now zombies as a result of the mall being left abandoned in Amazon’s wake. Kenny eventually takes up anti-commercialism activism and his [[TheyKilledKennyAgain death]] inspires the town to drive Amazon out once and for all.

* One ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' storyline has the teachers go on strike, which the kids don't seem to mind since they don't have to go to school, but Linus is worried about his favorite teacher Miss Othmar. While watching the teachers picket one day, Linus notices that Miss Othmar collapses from exhaustion, and quickly runs to her aid. The story ended up making the local paper. Eventually Lucy wakes Linus up one morning, telling him that the strike is over and they have to go back to school. Linus notes that if anything, it'll be good to see Miss Othmar again, only for Lucy to then inform him that she got fired.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode "Squid on Strike" has Squidward fed up with Mr. Krabs' greed and convinces [=SpongeBob=] to go on strike with him. [=SpongeBob=] proves to be terrible at it. Luckily, he improves but Squidward realizes that he could be stuck with him if their boss doesn't give in to their demands. Squidward goes up to Mr. Krabs to beg for his job back, but it turns out Krabs was even more desperate to get rid of the annoying teenagers he replaced them with. After a little negotiation, it seems things will go back to normal...[[spoiler:but when [=SpongeBob=] takes the strike too far and vandalizes the Krusty Krab (he "[[LiteralMinded dismantles the establishment]]"), Mr. Krabs [[WorkOffTheDebt forces them]] [[StatusQuoIsGod both to work there]] "[[TimeAbyss forever]]".]]

* ''Literature/StarterVillain'': The first thing Charlie encounters when arriving at the island volcano base is the dolphins' picket line. At the climax of the story, [[spoiler: he negotiates an end to the strike by recognizing their union and meeting their demands, then encourages them to unionize the antagonists' whales]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': In the episode "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E15OnStrike On Strike]]", Beavis and Butt-Head decide to go on strike at Burger World. Of course, their idea of "striking" is simply refusing to work [[LazyBum just because they don't feel like it]]. The manager punishes them by making them clean the table bottoms, [[HereWeGoAgain only for Butt-Head to declare that the two will go on strike again the next day]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead: In the episode "[[Recap/BeavisAndButtheadS7E15OnStrike On Strike]]", Beavis and Butt-Head decide to go on strike at Burger World. Of course, their idea of "striking" is simply refusing to work [[LazyBum just because they don't feel like it]]. The manager punishes them by making them clean the table bottoms, [[HereWeGoAgain only for Butt-Head to declare that the two will go on strike again the next day]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode "Squid on Strike" has Squidward fed up with Mr. Krabs' greed and convinces [=SpongeBob=] to go on strike with him. [=SpongeBob=] proves to be terrible at it. Luckily, he improves but Squidward realizes that he could be stuck with him if their boss doesn't give in to their demands. Squidward goes up to Mr. Krabs to beg for his job back, but it turns out Krabs was even more desperate to get rid of the annoying teenagers he replaced them with. After a little negotiation, it seems things will go back to normal...[[spoiler:but when [=SpongeBob=] takes the strike too far and vandalizes the Krusty Krab (he "[[LiteralMinded dismantles the establishment]]"), Mr. Krabs [[WorkOffTheDebt forces them both to work there]] "[[TimeAbyss forever]]".]]

* One issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' has the workers at the Springfield nuclear power plant go on strike for a five-cent wage increase. Mr. Burns is unwilling to meet their demands, even though this would only cost him an extra $250 a year, and after it becomes clear that the workers won't back down, he fires them all and spends $250 ''million'' developing an experimental cloning machine so he can replace them with an army of Smithers clones.

** The two parter [[Recap/SouthParkS22Ep9Unfulfilled "Unfullfilled"]] and [[Recap/SouthParkS22E10BikeParade "Bike Parade"]] feature the adults of South Park getting jobs at the newly opened Amazon fulfillment center in town. When Stephen Stotch's coworker is hurt on the job by a robot arm and permanently stuck in a box, the incident is blamed on human error. Leading the workers to strike. The lack of Amazon fulfillment means that no one in Colorado is getting their packages and the boys can’t get their supplies for the local bike parade, as no one remembers how they got things before Amazon existed. The workers at the South Park mall are now zombies as a result of the mall being left abandoned in Amazon’s wake. Kenny eventually takes up anti-commercialism activism and his [[TheyKilledKennyAgain death]] inspires the town to drive Amazon out once and for all.

** The two parter [[Recap/SouthParkS22Ep9Unfullfilled "Unfullfilled"]] and [[Recap/SouthParkS22Ep10BikeParade "Bike Parade"]] feature the adults of South Park getting jobs at the newly opened Amazon fulfillment center in town. When Stephen Stotch's coworker is hurt on the job by a robot arm and permanently stuck in a box, the incident is blamed on human error. Leading the workers to strike. The lack of Amazon fulfillment means that no one in Colorado is getting their packages and the boys can’t get their supplies for the local bike parade, as no one remembers how they got things before Amazon existed. The workers at the South Park mall are now zombies as a result of the mall being left abandoned in Amazon’s wake. Kenny eventually takes up anti-commercialism activism and his [[TheyKilledKennyAgain death]] inspires the town to drive Amazon out once and for all.