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| 12 | Troper... [[SelfDemonstratingArticle we need to talk]]. |
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| 14 | We've put this off for too long. We've watched this going on, and we're not going to take it any longer. Don't try to argue, this is for your own good. |
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| 16 | Now, sit down there while we [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere describe Staging an Intervention]]. |
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| 18 | This occurs when a group of friends, family, loved ones of a character who's caught in a web of bad habits, usually addictions of some sort, that are leading them on a downward spiral decide to take action rather than sit there and watch them self-destruct. They confront the individual about their habits, and declare that they're not willing to be bystanders any longer. The phrase "We've made you an appointment, and we'd like you to keep it" may be heard, as they drag said individual off to see a professional counselor or to rehab. |
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| 20 | This is an UndeadHorseTrope. In serious examples, the person being intervened on has a real problem, and the people doing the intervention have good intentions. However, this is often subjected to parody. The person being intervened on may have no so serious addiction, the intervention may be staged as a form of revenge against the person, or may be PlayedForLaughs in other ways. |
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| 22 | This can sometimes happen partway through a DescentIntoAddiction character arc. Contrast ToxicFriendInfluence. |
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| 25 | !!Examples |
| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 29 | * Comcast used to do ads where this happened as a form of CableSatelliteMudslinging. |
| 30 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYPN_YPKsE This]] Doritos commercial has woman come home to find her friends staging one of these for her Dorito cravings. They tear up the house revealing Doritos inside a teddy bear, in her closet, in the chimney, and behind a false wall in the refrigerator. When she cites pregnancy craving, her friend pull up her shirt revealing a [[PillowPregnancy pillow]] and another bag of Doritos. |
| 31 | [[/folder]] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[folder: Comic Books]] |
| 34 | * ''ComicStrip/MaryWorth'' had the cast hold an intervention to stop Aldo Kelrast from stalking Mary. |
| 35 | * Franchise/MarvelUniverse parody comic ''Marvel Now What'' had the Watchers holding an intervention for their most famous member Uatu to deal with his habit of intervening in human events. Except that at the end they realize that holding an intervention violates their code of non-intervention! |
| 36 | * In ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan2013'' #7, ComicBook/TheAvengers stage an intervention when they see that Spider-Man no longer conforms to their standards. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 40 | * The ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' April Fool's Day episode "[[Recap/DragonBallZAbridgedK3 Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged II.9]]" begins with Gohan staging an intervention on his mother, Chi-Chi, to try to convince her to [[EducationMama stop being so hard on him with her demands to emphasize his education]]. A flashback shows the abusive tutor from the filler Garlic Jr. Saga whipping Gohan, implying that as the specific reason for the intervention. |
| 41 | * ''Fanfic/FalseHeaven'': At one point, Aubrey is invited to join her friends for lunch at the lake, only to find that was a pretext so they could sit her down and discuss how she's been taking her anger at Mari out on [[MisplacedRetribution everyone else in Faraway Town]]. |
| 42 | * ''Fanfic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower'': When Maria is running herself ragged trying to [[spoiler:find staff for her manor while also accommodating all of the slaves she'd recently rescued]], Diana, Katarina, Rafael and the rest of the Student Council intervene, convincing her that she doesn't need to handle everything all by herself and can get assistance from her friends. |
| 43 | * ''Fanfic/MastermindRiseOfAnarchy'': Several of Ochako's classmates hold one after growing concerned about how much she's been throwing herself into her training and patrols as of late. Though Iida declares that it's ''not'' an intervention, merely confronting her about her self-destructive habits and reminding her that they're around to help. Shinsou remarks that that's [[DistinctionWithoutADifference pretty much the definition of an intervention]]. |
| 44 | * ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'' has a {{Subver|tedTrope}}sion. When Izuku decides to [[InternalReveal explain to Kyoka]] about his abilities, they meet up in the Midoriyas' apartment. Faced with Izuku, his mother, and six of their classmates sitting there with serious expressions, Kyoka nervously jokes that it feels like an intervention before he starts explaining. |
| 45 | * ''Fanfic/TheOneToMakeItStay'': After Marinette bluntly refuses to cooperate with one of Alya's {{Zany Scheme}}s to hook her up with Adrien in ''White Hot Morning'', Alya shows up at her place the next day with reinforcements for an "emergency meeting". She refuses to accept Marinette's insistence that she's not interested in Adrien anymore, declaring that she's just "not trying hard enough". When she implies that Marinette's only dating Luka as part of a half-baked OperationJealousy ploy, Marinette declares that they need to "take a break from being besties" over the summer, to give Alya a chance to rethink her SkewedPriorities and stop being such a ControlFreak. |
| 46 | * ''Fanfic/ThePlantarFamilyPet'': Upon learning that Marcy suffers from suicidal ideation, Hop Pop immediately alerts Yunan and helps her stage an intervention. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 50 | * ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Anchor and Chum try to do this when Bruce sniffs a whiff of blood and goes feral. |
| 51 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': Referenced by Miles when Miguel explains to him that that [[spoiler:he has to let his father die in order to keep the Spider-Verse from unraveling]]. Miles then notices that many others in the Spider-Society are surrounding him in solemn silence, and he angrily asks if this was an "intervention" meant to let him down easy. |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 55 | * ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': Megan's family has an intervention to tell her that she's a lesbian and to send her off to anti-gay camp. |
| 56 | * In ''Film/TheDrummerAndTheKeeper'', Gabriel's bandmates and his sister Alice stage an intervention for his increasingly out-of-control bipolar disorder. They tell him that he'll be kicked out of the band if he can't get his act together, causing him to see a psychiatrist and get medicated. |
| 57 | * In ''Film/FailureToLaunch'', the main leads are locked in a room together by their friends, with the guy taped to a chair, so they can work out their problems. |
| 58 | * There's also the inciting incident in ''Film/TheHangoverPartIII''. |
| 59 | * In ''Film/TheIntervention'', Peter and Ruby, a married couple, have been quarreling a lot recently, so their friends, led by Annie, plan a weekend together for the express purpose of telling them they need to get divorced. [[spoiler:As it happens, while Peter and Ruby both get upset about this, they end up patching things up and deciding to give their relationship another go. Not only that, but the two of them, along with the other friends along for the weekend, end up staging an intervention of their own for Annie, who's been drinking too much, and who has been projecting her own insecurities about getting married onto Peter and Ruby's marriage]]. |
| 60 | * It's the main plot of ''Film/LifeOfTheParty'' with the twist being that the therapist doesn't show up and the people involved try to wing it. |
| 61 | * ''Film/MethHead'': Kyle's family tried to throw an intervention but it failed. |
| 62 | * About a third of the way into ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', the gang are prepared to confront Gary for his increasingly self-destructive behaviour, after they learn that he lied about his mother's death to get them to go drinking with him. However, they're distracted by an alien invasion. Several aborted interventions occur throughout the film, culminating in a climax that is a bizarre combination of intervention and HumanityOnTrial. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 66 | * In Creator/PeterBenchley's novel ''Rummies'', protagonist Scott Preston receives an intervention from his family at the start of the book, pointing out that he's an alcoholic and seriously needs help. He winds up spending the rest of the book in rehab for it. |
| 67 | * Nicholas Meyer's take on legendary detective Literature/SherlockHolmes, ''Literature/TheSevenPerCentSolution'' has Sherlock's brother Mycroft Holmes, Doctor Watson and Professor Moriarty arrange to lure Sherlock Holmes to Vienna, Austria in order to receive hypnosis treatment for Sherlock's cocaine addiction from psychologist Sigmund Freud. |
| 68 | * In ''[[Literature/XWingSeries X-Wing: Wraith Squadron]]'' Myn Donos ends up with massive PTSD after his entire squadron is killed in an Imperial ambush at the start of the book. After he later has a psychotic break in mid-mission, the other Wraiths throw him into a simulated version of the mission in question, forcing him to face the fact that it wasn't his fault and start recovering somewhat. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Live Action TV]] |
| 72 | * In ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', the aliens are forced to stage an intervention for Dick after he becomes addicted to collecting plush toys called Fuzzy Buddies. They get help from Mary, Nina, and Mrs. Dubcek, but Dubcek first wants to be sure the intervention's not for her, as apparently she's "Fallen for that twice now." |
| 73 | * On ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Jenna puts the idea of an intervention into a few of the other characters' minds in a bid for attention. Things don't turn out so well, when the rest of the cast stages a real intervention. |
| 74 | * ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': |
| 75 | ** In the pilot, the Bluth family holds one for Michael to get him to take charge of the company after Buster proves unable to perform the task. Michael points out that [[YouKeepUsingThatWord an "intervention" doesn't work that way]], and what they are doing is more of an imposition. |
| 76 | ** In a later episode ("Spring Break-Out"), it comes to light that Lucille has a drinking problem. It's suggested to hold an intervention. Only problem: they already tried that and it went horribly awry. They decided to have a few drinks themselves to "take the edge off" and became completely plastered by the time Lucille showed up. |
| 77 | * The ''Series/BeverlyHills90210'' gang does this for Dylan. He blows them off and defiantly gets even higher than before, resulting in him being hospitalized for the next episode and finally admitting that he needs help when he wakes up. |
| 78 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': |
| 79 | ** The guys and Penny stage an intervention for Sheldon to make him get a driver's license. |
| 80 | ** There's also the example where Sheldon is sacked for insubordination and becomes a recluse, weaving obscure garments and [[CrazyCatLady surrounding himself with cats]]: his mother is called in to co-ordinate a rescue. |
| 81 | * In ''Series/BreakingBad'''s first season, Skyler calls the family over for an intervention to try to get Walt to take the chemotherapy treatment (and the money offered by Gretchen and Elliot to pay for it) for his cancer, since Walt was unwilling to do that. |
| 82 | * The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E18Intervention Intervention]]" has the Scoobies stage an intervention for Buffy when her odd behavior towards Spike worries them. [[ActuallyADoombot It was actually Spike's Buffybot that was acting out of character]]. |
| 83 | ** Also happened in the third season episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E7Revelations Revelations]]", after the Scoobies found out Angel was back, Buffy hadn't told them, and was seen kissing him. |
| 84 | * In the season six premiere of ''Series/{{Californication}}'' Karen, Becca, Marcy, and Charlie stage an intervention for Hank who has been drinking even more than usual due to feeling guilt over his treatment of an ex-girlfriend that he believes led her to attempt a murder-suicide via drugged drinks (with him as the murder victim.) The others wind up either crying or getting upset about various other issues leading Hank to declare: "Worst. Intervention. Ever." Despite this, he does agree to go to rehab by the end of the episode. |
| 85 | * In an episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}'', Casey is starting to get a little stir crazy after being stuck in Burbank for weeks and his daughter mentions the others are about to have an intervention if he doesn't cool down. |
| 86 | * ''Series/CougarTown'' once opened with the Cul-De-Sac Crew staging an intervention for Jules and her habit of lounging around wearing a Snuggie. She just holds out her sleeve and tells them "Feel that!" They feel the sleeve and are visibly impressed. Cut to them all sitting around wearing Snuggies. |
| 87 | * In ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', after Sherlock takes Joan on as an apprentice her friends do this to her in "Deja Vu All Over Again," thinking that she's looking for a purpose after quitting medicine. They try to pretend it isn't an intervention, but Joan sees right through them after having been a sobriety companion in her second career and helping set up several. |
| 88 | ** In a nice touch, one of the friends realises that Joan really is much happier as a detective than she was in either of her previous careers, and apologises for the intervention. |
| 89 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' has one in the episode where Frasier is depressed from losing his job. |
| 90 | * The final season of ''Series/TheGoodWife'' has Peter Florrick set aside longtime campaign manager and partner Eli Gold in favor of a new character to help him run a national campaign. Eli spends most of the season trying to embarrass the new campaign manager to get his job back, and in one episode his daughter Marissa, who was born and raised in Israel, tries to stage an intervention by getting him to come to Israel to work for an opposition MP against UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu (whom Eli hates). Eli refuses. |
| 91 | * In ''Series/HomeAndAway'', Robbie steps on a discarded needle and believes that he may have contracted AIDS (he did not, but he did not know this). He then starts acting like a jerk toward everyone including his family and girlfriend. It is then decided to stage an intervention including the aforementioned people where Robbie is confronted about his behaviour. Robbie reveals that he knew someone who got AIDS in his old school and was treated like a leper and that was why he started acting like a jerk. |
| 92 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' had a whole series of funny interventions, dealing with behaviours from spray-tanning to fake British accents to organizing funny interventions. The following are a list of people the gang have held interventions for, and the reasons why (from [[http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/Intervention_banner Intervention Banner page]]): |
| 93 | -->Barney: frequent magic tricks, specifically those involving fire.\ |
| 94 | Barney: not taking off the old man suit.\ |
| 95 | Barney: give his father a second chance and have dinner with him.\ |
| 96 | Lily: use of fake British accents.\ |
| 97 | Marshall: refusing to take off a hat.\ |
| 98 | Marshall: constant use of charts.\ |
| 99 | Robin: obsession with spray tans.\ |
| 100 | Ted: marrying Stella before they knew each other.\ |
| 101 | Ted: for his pretentious pronunciations; for example: "encyclopædia". (Not actually seen)\ |
| 102 | Ted: love for a married woman. (He actually threw this one for himself.)\ |
| 103 | Stuart: for drinking. (This was done with other people)\ |
| 104 | The Gang: for hosting too many interventions. (Called the "Intervention" intervention.)\ |
| 105 | Barney: for his plan to move in with Quinn. (Called the Quin-ntervention.)\ |
| 106 | Robin: her obsession with Barney |
| 107 | * ''Series/IZombie'': Liv's family, five months after the party at the lake. They think she suffers from post-traumatic stress and thinly disguise the intervention as the return of "potluck Tuesday". |
| 108 | * ''Series/{{Intervention}}''. Possibly one of the few examples of this being taken seriously. |
| 109 | * The Gang stages an intervention for Frank in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', for his alcoholism. Of course, they don't care about Frank's health, they only care because he's irritating the rest of them by being messily drunk in the middle of the day. Doesn't work very well since the entire gang are [[HypocriticalHumor also alcoholics]]- and they host the intervention in the bar. In the end they all just decide to get drunk instead. |
| 110 | * On ''Series/JustShootMe'' has an intervention for Dennis, who has been dating a woman who keeps humiliating him but he can't get himself to leave her. Nina, who apparently has been in the receiving end of some interventions, is glad to be in on the other side of one. |
| 111 | * In ''Series/KeyAndPeele'', one sketch features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mlp_Gcc_5Q a baseball player obsessed with "Slap-Ass"]] (high-fiving while slapping a fellow player on the buttocks). After an impromptu intervention by the rest of his team, it slowly becomes more and more obvious that his addiction to Slap-Ass is ruining his life, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything including withdrawal symptoms]]. |
| 112 | * In the first part of the first season finale on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', the team confronts Nate, who's been in a drunken stupor through much of it, about his habits. He thinks they're pulling an intervention and are going to drag him off to rehab, [[SubvertedTrope but they have other ideas]]. [[spoiler:They're going to help him get revenge on those responsible for his son's death.]] |
| 113 | * Subverted in two ''Series/MadTV1995'' sketches: |
| 114 | ** In one, a man's friends stage in intervention for his addiction to internet gambling...[[HypocriticalHumor while they're all drunk off their asses.]] They get so drunk in fact, that they just turn it into a party while he goes upstairs to his computer with all their credit cards. |
| 115 | ** In another, the intervention is for alcoholism, but the man reveals that he's already quit drinking, and has been clean for three weeks...[[ItsAllAboutMe and the group is enraged at him for spoiling the big dramatic intervention they had planned]]. [[WithFriendsLikeThese It ends with them forcing him to start drinking again just so they can have a proper intervention]]. |
| 116 | * In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' Malcolm gets one of these when he buys a terrible car. Since it's an intervention for cars rather than drinking, instead of getting someone from AA then get someone from Triple-A. |
| 117 | * ''Series/ManSeekingWoman'': The entire Olympian pantheon stages one for Cupid to confront him about his substance abuse problems and inability to do his job properly. |
| 118 | * ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': When Earl decides to abandon his list, his friends stage an intervention to make him be good again. |
| 119 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' In ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E05TheMagicVoyageOfSinbad The Magical Voyage of Sinbad]]'', TheBigGuy proves his strength by wrestling a bear. The SOL crew's dialogue turns it into the bear staging an intervention for the guy. |
| 120 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': After Snow White drinks Rumpelstiltskin's potion to make her forget Prince Charming, she starts to get really mean and unpleasant to the point that the dwarves confront her as a group. It backfires when she decides to go kill the evil queen. |
| 121 | * ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Max Holden has his wife Luna, his best friend Cord, and his surrogate mother Renee attempt this regarding his gambling problem. He denies it and storms out in a rage, right to his ex-lover Blair who's been enabling him because she wants to get him back. |
| 122 | * ''Series/OneTreeHill'' the episode "Can't Stop This Thing We Started." has Nathan, Haley, Karen and even Dan with a counselor stage one for Deb when she is addicted to pills. |
| 123 | * ''Series/OrphanBlack'': [[StepfordSmiler Alison]]'s husband and friends try to stage one about her recent odd behavior (due to her clone Sarah filling in for her), her increasing [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]], and [[spoiler: torturing her husband when she suspected that he was her secret monitor/handler]]. |
| 124 | * In one episode of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', the rest of the cast stages an intervention for Ron after he again comes under the control of his [[TheVamp vampy]] ex-wife, Tammy II (whenever this happens, he turns into a weird sex freak). |
| 125 | * ''Series/PartyOfFive'' has a serious version in the third season episode called, appropriately enough, "The Intervention", when Charlie, Grace, Joe, Julia, Sarah, and a reluctant Claudia confront Bailey about his alcoholism. Unusually for this trope, it doesn't work - it's not until a couple of episodes later Bailey is finally able to snap out of it. |
| 126 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', in a [[NewsParody Weekend Update]] segment: |
| 127 | -->'''Creator/SethMeyers:''' NBC announced that Kathie Lee Gifford and Creator/HodaKotb will host a primetime special on the network called ''A Toast to 2013'' in which they recount their favorite stories from the past year. But ''(whispering behind his hand)'' shh, it's actually an intervention. |
| 128 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. In "The Pez Dispenser," Jerry grudgingly hosts an intervention for an old friend. |
| 129 | * A serious example is the intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin in ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E10TheStrongSilentType The Strong, Silent Type]]". It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the other mob guys calling Chris out on his poor behavior, which he doesn't fail to point out. The final straw is when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie and Sil proceed to beat him up. Tony himself states that if it were anyone else but Christopher, [[BoomHeadshot the "intervention" would have been quite different]]. |
| 130 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In an effort to get Sam Winchester off of [[FantasticDrug Demon Blood]], his brother, Dean, and Bobby Singer confront him and have him locked up in a rehabilitation chamber. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop Sam as he is transported out by Angels as part of their plan to start the apocalypse.]] |
| 131 | * ''Series/That70sShow'' has multiple pot interventions, including one for Hyde's ''sobriety,'' of all things. (Leo even goes so far as to say, "You have a problem with drugs.") |
| 132 | * ''Series/TheWhitestKidsUKnow'' has a sketch with an off-screen intervention. This is because the joke lies in how the character is tricked into going ''to'' the intervention and the fact that that is what it was, so showing the intervention would just make the sketch needlessly long. |
| 133 | [[/folder]] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 136 | * [[Wrestling/{{EC3}} Derrick Bateman]]'s friends isolated and confronted him over how [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale unhealthy]] his relationship with [[Wrestling/KarleePerez Maxine]] was. This ended up getting through to both of them, as Maxine left Derrick for the more manly Wrestling/JohnnyCurtis, who she treated better. Maxine and Johnny wasn't actually better for the rest of the locker room, they once kidnapped Matt Striker with [[ItMakesSenseInContext chloroform]] and then lost him to [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a rival kidnapper]], but was still better for the individuals involved.[[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 139 | * In one episode of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'', [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Christopher Robin and his friends]] stage [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbk4lmrdF8 an intervention]] concerning Pooh's crippling honey addiction. They consistantly call it an "interdivention", in keeping with "expotition" etc. in the books. |
| 140 | -->'''Christopher Robin''': That's right, an in..terdi..vention. And we're having one for you, and this is it.\ |
| 141 | '''Pooh''': Oh. Is it like a party?\ |
| 142 | '''Owl''': It is very ''unlike'' a party, Pooh Bear. |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
| 144 | |
| 145 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/{{Afterparty}}'': Late in the game, it turns out that [[spoiler:Satan himself]] has a serious drinking problem, turning [[spoiler:the final big drinking contest]] into one of these. Depending on the player's choices, Milo and Lola can either [[spoiler:ignore this and complete the contest, winning their way out of Hell at the cost of enabling his addition]], or [[spoiler:help him out at the cost of losing the bet and remaining trapped in Hell]]. |
| 147 | * In the ''Ultra Deluxe'' version of ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', if you take the Reassurance Bucket toward what would've been the ''Confusion'' ending, the lift to the basement of the office will bring Stanley and the Bucket to [[spoiler:a room containing the Baby cutout from the ''Games'' ending, the Broom Closet, the mannequin of his wife from the ''Apartment'' ending, and the Adventure Line™, where the Narrator tries to convince Stanley that he has an unhealthy obsession with the Bucket. The Adventure Line™ guides Stanley downstairs to a device called the Bucket Destroyer, which the Narrator tries to get Stanley to throw the Bucket into. With the game having no mechanic to let go of the bucket anyway, the Bucket Destroyer eventually overloads and explodes, leading to the ''Bucket Destroyer'' ending]]. |
| 148 | * ''VideoGame/TheXCOMFiles'': Some of the "Staff Input" articles parody this, as various named members of the cast complain about either other residents of the base or the general living conditions there. |
| 149 | [[/folder]] |
| 150 | |
| 151 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 152 | * ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'' gets meta with it. In [[http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/09/15/the-b-u-t-t-algorithm/ "The BUTT Algorithm"]], the character gets a Twitter algorithm that recommends posts relevant to his interests... and it gives him nothing but "news about men's butts!" TheRant below the comic states: ''this page is procedurally generated. no one else is seeing this comic today. it's about you and how much your dumb butt hangup is ruining your life. this is a web intervention from me and your family.'' |
| 153 | * ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'': |
| 154 | ** One strip has a group hold an intervention for their friend because he listens to too much dubstep. When he protests that he only listens to ''good'' dubsteb, they counter that it's proof that he listens to enough dubstep to have two categories for it. He falls to his knees in shame. |
| 155 | ** Another strip has a family holding an intervention for their grandpa because he's had too many birthdays. He agrees and promptly keels over dead, to the family's relief. |
| 156 | * In one ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' comic ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/01 "Just When I Get Out"]]), Tycho assumes that his "friends" are staging an intervention. He makes an emotional confession of his drinking problem and of thinking that nobody cared, and is grateful and optimistic now that they're rallying around him. Actually, they're there to pressure him into joining their ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' guild, and explicitly don't care about his problems unless they are somehow in the way of him using a computer. |
| 157 | * The webcomic ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'' has a subverted intervention in which the goal is to get the character to stop hinting that he has a problem and shut up. |
| 158 | [[/folder]] |
| 159 | |
| 160 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 161 | * The ''Website/ClickHole'' quiz [[https://clickhole.com/which-character-from-the-office-are-you-1825124536/ "Which Character From 'The Office' Are You?"]] appears to be a normal quiz on the menus of the website, with its thumbnail being a cast shot for the show. Upon actually taking the quiz, however, the heading image is instead a group of people sitting at a table. It turns out these people are staging an intervention for your drinking problem, yet the article is still formatted like a quiz, with the group's statements as the "questions" and your responses as the "answers". The results you get in the quiz are "Michael Scott" (the description of which has nothing to do with the character, focusing more on your drinking), "Roy Anderson" (which the description makes parallels between his drinking problems and yours), "Kelly Kapoor" (which gives a straight character description before pleading you to stop drinking), and "[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Your Addiction]]". |
| 162 | * ''WebVideo/OnCinema'': Tim's friends attempt this in season 8 episode 8 [[spoiler:after Tim smokes an addictive device from Dr San, then gets burns all over his body after sleeping. Tim refuses to listen to them and orders them to leave.]] |
| 163 | [[/folder]] |
| 164 | |
| 165 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 166 | * ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'': Two characters try to hold an intervention for [[SerialKiller Larry]] who keeps [[NeckSnap snapping people's necks]] without realizing it. He [[IResembleThatRemark he denies having such a problem then snaps their necks too]]. |
| 167 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome''[='s=] parody of Music/{{Kesha}}'s song "Tik-Tok" called "Glitter Puke" when it is revealed that her drunken slut act is actually just an act enforced by her record contract. |
| 168 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick'' spoofed this with Nella, Elisa, and the girls of ''Website/ChannelAwesome'' intervening in Chick's hatred for ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. |
| 169 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFqGisahJ7s This hilarious vid]] from ''One Shot Questers'' has a gaming group staging an intervention for their friend Duke, who is addicted to buying dice. ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' players and other {{Tabletop Game|s}}rs who have whole collections of dice are often called "Dice Goblins." |
| 170 | * [=SnapCube's=] ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'': The scene in ''Sonic Adventure 2'''s fandub directly after Eggman pisses on the moon while cursing out Obama reveals that Eggman did that while black-out drunk. Shadow and Rouge attempt to set up an intervention... but he comes to that drunk, too. |
| 171 | --> '''Eggman:''' Okay everybody, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!!\ |
| 172 | '''Rouge:''' None of us were talking.\ |
| 173 | '''Shadow:''' I can't believe he came to his own intervention drunk.\ |
| 174 | '''Rouge:''' Sometimes it be like that. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 178 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': |
| 179 | ** Parodied when Steve becomes addicted to an energy drink, and ultimately starts conning his friends out of money to pay for it. They appear in his room to talk, Steve is touched they want to stage an intervention after all the things he done, but in fact they're just there to violently confront him for cheating them. |
| 180 | ** It's later played straight on three separate occasions. The Smiths have held two for Stan, first to address his anorexia, and then in a later episode for his crack addiction. The third time is for Roger, when his frequently shifting fake personas start to get on everyone's nerves. |
| 181 | * After WesternAnimation/{{Chozen}}'s rekindled romance with his prison boyfriend Jamal leads to tensions with his friends, they stage an intervention to try and convince him that Jamal's a bad influence. |
| 182 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 183 | ** PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E4BrianInLove Brian in Love]]", where one cutaway features the family having an intervention concerning Peter [[DisproportionateRetribution wearing a giant novelty hat for months on end]]. |
| 184 | ** Played more seriously in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E1TheThinWhiteLine The Thin White Line]]", where the family holds one for Brian regarding his ever-growing coke habit. In a rare sight for this trope, Brian's own therapist is present, and based on the scripts the family members read to Brian, he had adequately prepared them for it. |
| 185 | ** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E3ScreamsOfSilenceTheStoryOfBrendaQ Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q]]" had Quagmire and the others holding an intervention for his sister to get her out of an abusive relationship. |
| 186 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuys13E3BakingBad Baking Bad]]", Brian stages an intervention for Stewie, who is drunk on cough syrup. He also mentions that he's staging another one for Chris concerning his masturbation problem. |
| 187 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' gets one when he gets addicted to tanning creme. Among the people staging this include Phil (Who has a bunch of cigarettes in his mouth) and X (Who has a gambling addiction). |
| 188 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Equal Fights", the girls meet a StrawFeminist villain called Femme Fatale, and she [[ToxicFriendInfluence negatively influences them]] into hurting their male friends. Miss Bellum and Ms. Keane soon become concerned with their behavior and hold an intervention to show them what true feminism is, as well as reveal that Fatale [[StrawHypocrite doesn't look out for other women like she says]]. |
| 189 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': |
| 190 | ** One sketch had ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s friends confronting him over his addition to spinach. |
| 191 | ** A parody of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' had the bears holding an intervention for Tummi over his addition to gummiberry juice. |
| 192 | ** It's one person to another, but Franchise/IndianaJones finds Marion Ravenwood drunkenly winning a drinking competition, and (taking advantage of the "don't open your eyes" thing) tricks her into flying across the map to an American rehab center rather than the "Ark of the Kervernant". |
| 193 | ** Another sketch sees Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}} confronted by her friends ([[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis and creator]]) about her drinking problem. When it fails, [[GoKartingWithBowser Kilgrave]] solves the problem by using his CompellingVoice to make her quit. |
| 194 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 195 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E17ThreeGaysOfTheCondo Three Gays of the Condo]]", while waiting for Marge to reveal their weekly family activity, Homer and Bart have this exchange: |
| 196 | ---> '''Homer:''' I hope it's as fun as ''Pictionary'' was last week!\ |
| 197 | '''Bart:''' Dad, we weren't playing ''Pictionary''. That was an intervention to stop your drinking.\ |
| 198 | '''Homer:''' What? Are you sure?\ |
| 199 | ''(Bart shows Homer a drawing of him drunk while Bart, Lisa, and Maggie cry)''\ |
| 200 | '''Homer:''' Ah, that takes me back. |
| 201 | ** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E17TheHeartbrokeKid The Heartbroke Kid]]" has Bart's family and friends staging an intervention concerning his overeating and to send him to a fat camp. |
| 202 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'': while it's not called an intervention by name, [[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E18EverythingsFine "Everything's Fine"]] still concludes with the main character coming home to find his loved ones waiting for him to confront him about his growing mental health issues and [[PowerIncontinence power outbursts]], even barring him the way when he tries to storm out. |
| 203 | * In season four of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', M'gann, Virgil, Cassie, Jaime and Robotman do this for Gar about his downward spiral due to [[spoiler:Connor's apparent death]]. Gar angrily dismisses it and tries to leave. He's stopped when M'gann reminds him that a condition of membership in the Outsiders is a yearly mental health check with Black Canary, which he's past due on, and he would have to permanently quit the Outsiders and other League-affiliated organizations to get out of attending. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
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