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"Roger, I told you - no food for a month!"

Oliver Hardy: You can't have a meal like me.
Stan Laurel: What do you mean I can't have a meal like you?
Oliver Hardy: Because, You gotta fight tonight! [To the waiter] Uh, One order, please?
Stan Laurel: [Whines] I thought you were the fighter.
Oliver Hardy: NO, I am the manager, and you are the fighter. [He leaves poor Stan sobbing and starving]

Sofia: Oscar, if you know the cure for Mine-Itis, maybe you will get your reward back!
Oscar: OH NO! Anything but that! (As he sees Brian Williams eating his Sundae Ice Cream) OH, NO! NOW HE IS EATING MY SUNDAE ICE CREAM!
— From the Mine-Itis episode of Sesame Street

"I said don't wink! No [Treats] for you!"
Spirit Bear, Bee Swarm Simulator

A fairly good way of getting an enemy into trouble was to drop a hint in the ear of Tom-Cat's favourites that this particular cat ate food while out on the prowl. It was a cardinal sin, punishable by three days' starvation, or even death if Tom-Cat was in the mood for killing. All food found out on the prowl had to be brought back and given to Tom-Cat for the good of the Commune.
Stray

"Bad cat! No supper for you!"
Chef, Little Princess, "What's Wrong with Gilbert?"

Cedric Brown: "You are... to go to bed immediately!"
Sebastian Brown: "Before supper?"
Cedric Brown: "Without supper!" (leaves)
Sebastian Brown: "Did he say without supper?!"

Miss Hannigan: "There's the kitchen and the bathroom to clean before lunch and if you skip the corners, there will be no lunch. And we're not having hot mush today!"
Orphans: "Yay!"
Miss Hannigan: "We're having cold mush."
(the orphans groan)

I'm warning you now, boy... Any funny business, any at all, and you won't have any meals for a week!

Dig Site Chief: As for you... You won't be getting any dinner tonight, that's for certain!
Dig Site Watch: No! Anything but the dinner!
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers

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