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Comedic Strangling

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One character gets on another character's nerves. The other character gets so agitated in fact, that they actually start strangling them for it. Normally, doing such a thing would be horrible and disheartening, but in this scenario, the strangling is very much played for laughs.
More often than not, the strangling in this scenario doesn't actually have any ill consequences. In the event that it does though, said consequences are also made to be comedic. This is often combined with a Neck Lift, especially when the strangler significantly outweighs the stranglee.
May overlap with Comedic Sociopathy. Contrast Sinister Suffocation.
It should go without saying, but strangling somebody in real life is never funny.
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Bone: At the end of the first book, Phoney and Fone Bone reunite. Fone Bone happily runs up to Phoney, only to start strangling him as Phoney gets comically big eyes and his tongue hangs out.
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Aladdin: At the beginning, Iago states how unsurprising it is the third peasant they sent into the Cave of Wonders was not worthy of entering. Jafar responds by choking him to shut him up.
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The Simpsons is essentially the Trope Codifier if not the Trope Maker. Homer frequently strangles Bart as part of an ongoing Running Gag, often when Bart heavily agitates Homer. For the most part, Bart comes out alright.
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Kronk's New Groove: When Kronk is having a crisis over swindling his elderly friends out of their homes, his angel and devil argue over whether or not he did. Kronk ultimately accepts that he did when he starts choking his devil for claiming he didn’t.
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Scrubs: J.D. is jealous of a fellow intern and has an Imagine Spot of choking him. Despite his jealousy, even J.D. has to admit he's such a Nice Guy, that in his imagination, the other intern is giving him pointers on how to choke him better.
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Young Frankenstein:
Frederick turns around and strangles his Frankenstein's Monster, whom he has seemingly failed to bring to life, after promising to take the failure with "quiet dignity and grace". Even funnier, Inga cries out, "STOP! YOU'LL KILL HIM!" despite the fact that he's seemingly still dead.
The Monster starts strangling Frederick when he is startled by fire. Frederick, unable to speak, has to play charades with Inga and Igor to get them to give the Monster the sedative.
When Frederick realizes Igor gave him an "Abby Normal" brain to put in the Monster, he strangles Igor so hard he bounces off the floor.
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In The Amazing Digital Circus, Zooble chokes out Jax after the latter uses their detachable hand as a backscratcher without permission.
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Married... with Children:
In "The Gas Station Show," the family is struggling to push the seemingly broken-down Dodge to a gas station while Kelly is behind the wheel. When she admits that the car was actually in park all along, an infuriated Al puts his hands on her throat and chokes her as Peg and Bud try to pull him off. He then stops and calms down, only to resume strangling her.
In "Desperately Seeking Miss October", when Al learns that Peg sold his lifetime collection of Playboys to purchase a statuette of an ostensibly luck-bringing Panamanian god named Tubro, Al asks the hold it and then begins to strangle it to her annoyance.
Discussed in "Who'll Stop The Rain". When Peg complains that Al, who was trying to fix a leaky roof, knocked down the satellite dish when he fell off of it, he states that since neither any live wire nor her neck were available, he instinctively had to grab the first thing he could to break his fall.
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La familia P. Luche: Being subjected to verbal and physical abuse, Ludovico is occasionally the victim of this.
In "El funeral de Ludovico," Federica strangles him at his fake funeral for blowing his cover and screwing his family out of ending her credit card debts.
The episode "La primera vez de Ludoviquito" ends with Don Camerino attempting to strangle Ludovico (whom he beat up in retaliation for wrongly accusing him of corrupting minors) at his niece's birthday party when Ludoviquito gave her a teddy bear stuffed inside an inflated condom.
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Dinosaurs: In "License to Parent", Earl loses his parenting license after getting three citations (yelling at Baby, cursing in front of him, and eating his cupcake) and is sentenced to a parenting test. He hopes to be able to pass it in order to get his license renewed. In the first test, he tries to tolerate Baby's behavior when he pretends to have his milk spilled, but when Baby tosses his milk carton at him, Earl loses his temper and strangles Baby. Baby isn't fazed because he knows that this infraction will cause Earl to fail his test.
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Deltarune: When Berdly admits he has a crush on Susie, Noelle (who has feelings for Susie as well) lets out a multitude of "WHAT?!"s as she strangles him.
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Downplayed in Courage the Cowardly Dog. There are times when Eustace strangles Courage to show his hatred toward him. The humor comes not from Eustace strangling Courage though, but rather the karma he faces for doing so.
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Timon & Pumbaa: Pumbaa suffers a lot of slapstick during Timon's cover of "Stand By Me". Among these is getting strangled by a sea monster.
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Fawlty Towers: In "The Wedding Party", Manuel keeps trying to read a prepared speech to Basil, which Basil refuses to listen to. When Manuel is drunk and on top of Basil who is lying on the floor, he tries to recite his speech again, and Basil reaches up and tries to strangle him.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Near the end of the episode "Can You Spare A Dime?", SpongeBob bursts into Mr. Krabs' office and demands he rehire Squidward. When Krabs refuses because he still thinks Squidward stole his first dime, the normally cheerful SpongeBob picks him up by the throat and starts shaking him, ranting about how Squidward has been an entitled freeloader towards him for months.
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: When King Neptune gives SpongeBob ten days to find his crown, Patrick pops in and boasts that SpongeBob can do it in fewer days, dropped the time limit to six days. Patrick would have made it even lower if Mr. Krabs didn't start strangling him for it.
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Aladdin: When Jafar is laughing, Iago tells him to "get a grip". Jafar grabs Iago by the throat and Iago chokes out, "Good grip!".
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Monkey Wrench: When the crew is hurdling toward a sun doing a job for Scratch, Shrike begins to take his anger out by choking Scratch. He continues to do this even after they are saved by Us.
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Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry has this as a minor Running Gag between the race commentators, as one is constantly grabbing the other's binoculars without caring about whether the strap's off his neck first.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: After Lock, Shock, and Barrel realize that they've kidnapped the Easter Bunny instead of Santa Claus, Shock briefly starts strangling Lock while scolding him for his incompetence, which he is entirely unharmed by.
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