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Peeling Potatoes
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It has many names. Kitchen Patrol (aka KP). Spud Bashing. Whatever your detail calls it, it seems you Can't Get Away with Nuthin', and once you're caught it's a Smash Cut to sitting on the floor of a drab kitchen somewhere next to a sack of potatoes, peeling them one at a time. The stock Punishment Detail in the military in fiction, presumably for its instant-recognizability factor as opposed to, say, digging holes in the ground (read: latrines). No longer Truth in Television, at least in the U.S. military, due to heavy use of third-party contractors who employ civilians to do this kind of stuff. Well, that and there are machines that peel potatoes these days. |
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In an episode of The Jetsons where George joins the army, he's assigned this. It involves pressing two buttons, one to peel an entire sack of potatoes in a second, and one to mash them. He spends both seconds complaining about how hard punishment detail is. | |
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An episode of TaleSpin features Kit being forced by Colonel Spigot to peel turnips for rebelling at a Thembrian flying camp. Spigot is forced to take the task up after his bumbling is exposed. | |
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. does this a lot. Unlike many other examples, he has next to no issues with the task. | |
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Between Planets. The protagonist isn't allowed to join the Venusian guerillas unless he has useful skills. He says he's a good shot with a handgun, can speak the language of the native Venusians... and knows how to wash lots of dishes (because he was working at a Greasy Spoon until then). His officer quips that the last is indeed a useful skill for a soldier. | |
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Used as a punishment in Tigerland for Army draftees during the Vietnam War. | |
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On Mad Men, when the Drapers take in Betty's semi-senile WWI veteran father, Don comes home one day to find he's peeled all the potatoes in the house thinking he was on KP duty. | |
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In the remastered version of The Night Unfurls, one misfortune of Olga's Break the Haughty sequence involves peeling potatoes at the cook Boris's request. Rather than a Punishment Detail, Olga and the rest of the Great Escape crew need dinner, so someone's gotta help out. Furthermore, she accepts his request because she imagines that Kyril would forbid her from eating if she were to pull some sort of stunt. On a humorous note, Olga lampshades her current predicament — formerly Dark Queen, now a glorified potato peeler. | |
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This was parodied/lampshaded in an issue of G.I. Joe, where several Joes peel potatoes and basically take turns complaining until the uber-serious Gung Ho tells them to stop bellyaching and do their jobs. | |
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In 1066 and All That, Simmel/Lambert/Wormkin (the text varies) is made an escullion as a punishment for his attempted (and largely incomprehensible) rebellion. In an illustration, he is shown peeling something that looks like a potato. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: After entirely failing to stop Keeper Mercury from reaching the Avatar Islands, the fairy reconnaissance squad is given kitchen duty. However, once their superiors start to realise just how dangerous Mercury actually is, they reconsider the punishment, figuring it probably wasn't the fairies' fault. | |
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A nonmilitary but definitely punishment version: one of the Tenchi Muyo! OVA episodes had Ryoko, Ayeka, and Mihoshi doing this as their share of repairing the extensive damage to a hot spring resort, with varying results. Ryoko did a hack job on hers with questionable accuracy, Ayeka primly carved each millimetre of skin with painstaking deliberation and took way too long, and Mihoshi outstripped both easily (and boasted about it). | |
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Discworld In Feet of Clay, Nobby thinks to himself that anyone who responds to "Who likes good food?" in the military is going to be volunteered for KP duty, as part of an internal monologue as to why you should never volunteer for anything. In Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook, Sto Lat Military Academy teaches the sons of gentlefolk to be officers. In keeping with the class of recruit, punishment details include julienning potatoes (as well as polishing oyster knives and waltz drills). |
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The 1942 Donald Duck cartoon Sky Trooper where he joins the Army Air Corps, and has to peel potatoes after he nearly gets his training officer killed in a mishap. He also starts that one peeling potatoes, watching planes go by and wishing he were in one of them... and he absentmindedly peels one potato into an airplane...which flies and brings Sergeant Pete's hat back to him... which he absentmindedly starts peeling. He also ends "Donald Gets Drafted" peeling spuds, while the last verse of the specially-made song "The Army's Not The Army Anymore" plays sarcastically in the background: |
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Green Lantern: It happened to Alan Scott when he was in the army. Unable to explain his absence without blowing his secret identity, he was assigned potato peeling as a punishment. Fortunately for Alan, his sidekick Doiby Dickles was able to take over the peeling when Alan needed to become Green Lantern again. | |
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A few Donald Duck cartoons have this, even DuckTales (1987) (usually because he messes up a lot in the Navy). In one cartoon where he plays a large role and his three nephews accidentally get him in trouble, they sneak into the kitchen to help him because of it. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Schlock, Kevyn and Brad were sentenced to this once. Schlock, being a Blob Monster, peeled them with digestive juices rather than the peeler. | |
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Rimmer and Lister were forced to do this in an episode of Red Dwarf after ticking their captain off. Only they have the bluntest knives it's possible to find, and a mountain of potatoes that fills an entire cargo bay. So Lister has the "great" idea of getting out of having to peel the potatoes by having a special virus eat the potato skins. Unfortunately for the duo, the virus also eats clothes. And it spreads on contact. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In a Scrooge McDuck story, Donald and his nephews were stuck in a ship, condemned to peel potatoes until the return to Duckburg... and to make things worse, with a counting parrot that started to see how many were there! | |
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Babydoll and Rocket converse while peeling potatoes in one scene of Sucker Punch; Babydoll is so distracted we see she's "peeled" the same strip of potato over and over, leaving a large hollow in it. | |
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An episode of Chowder saw Mung and his titular apprentice in servitude to Endive in exchange for an exotic fruit necklace. Their final task was to peel "growtatoes", which are just like normal potatoes, except they grow exponentially until fully peeled and threatened to crush the two chefs. | |
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X-Wing Series: As Mildly Military as Wraith Squadron could be, even they have punishment detail. The very first time all of the members of the new squadron were together at once, while Wedge was listing off their respective specialties, Face Loran decided to interrupt. | |
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The Simpsons: In one issue, Grampa tells one of his many war stories. In this one, he spent a great deal of his military service peeling potatoes. He was so good at it that he became a war hero. | |
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Spoofed in the Lucky Luke album Le Vingtieme de Cavalerie (lit. the 20th Cavalry), after an Indian raid during which the food stores are burned. Luke sees four men sitting on the ground around a bucket making peeling hand motions. When he queries the Sergeant, he is informed that these men have been assigned to peel potatoes, and life in the cavalry goes on, potatoes or no potatoes. The sergeant then berates the men for not pretending to peel thinly enough and tells them that the colonel will pretend to inspect the pretend peels personally. | |
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Private Snafu: Snafu is stuck on KP in "Gripes"; peeling potatoes with with his feet while scrubbing pots with his hands and sweeping the floor with his butt. | |
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The Sad Sack (with one Jerry Lewis) ended this way, as a punishment for putting one bullet through two full glasses!. His Sneeze of Doom causes an avalanche of the spuds behind him. | |
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Girl Genius: While Agatha is still newish to the circus she is set to peeling vegetables with Embi. It's not so much a punishment detail as it is one of many ways the circus folk try to keep her too busy to unveil their secrets in the months she travels with them. | |
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Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats: When Heathcliff joins the French Cat Legion, he is forced to peel potatoes after annoying his drill instructor. | |
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Alluded to in Infinite Stratos. In the first season OVA, while the girls are preparing dinner, Laura is given the potato peeling duties. She does so by chopping her combat knife clean through the center. Her dialogue also indicates she's done this before. She's the only one of the main characters who has been in the military. | |
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The League of Gentlemen. In order to maintain discipline among the ex-officers turned potential bank robbers, everyone takes their turn at mess duties. During the Hard-Work Montage we see one man checking a submachine gun, then the camera pans over to Richard Attenborough's character who's sitting next to him peeling a large pile of potatoes with an annoyed look on his face. | |
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M*A*S*H: Klinger was frequently threatened with KP duty if he didn't knock off his Zany Scheme of the week to get a Section 8. Occasionally we saw him pulling KP duty including, yes, peeling potatoes. | |
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This was the first task that Mr. Bogus was forced to do during his first day of military training in the first act of the episode "Battle Action Bogus". | |
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Recess: In "The Biggest Trouble Ever", Miss Finster forces T.J. and company to peel potatoes and onions as punishment for accidentally destroying the statue of the town's founder. | |
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In The Great Brain At the Academy this is a standard punishment. It's set in a Catholic academy/boarding school in the late 19th century. You can imagine that a school of boys needs as many potatoes as a navy ship. | |
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An example not involving potatoes, but the other unpleasant aspects of K.P. duty. Following one of Lou's usual screw-ups in Buck Privates, the Drill Sergeant Nasty tells him that he's going to make him an admiral. Lou says he didn't know the army had admirals, and the sergeant assures him he is going to be in charge of all of the army's vessels. Cut to Lou on K.P., washing a gigantic stack of dirty pots. | |
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The Escapists 2 gives you the opportunity to do this whenever you get sent to solitary confinement. Doing so reduces the amount of time you have to spend there. | |
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In a Mister Know-It-All segment in Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bullwinkle demonstrates how to escape from Devil's Island prison. When Boris the warden forced him to peel potatoes, Bullwinkle decided to jump into a sack and await being shipped off the island. Unfortunately for him, potato soup was for dinner. | |
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Seen in the French-Belgian comic series Les Tuniques Bleues. | |
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Saturday Night Live's parody of "The Navy: It's Not Just A Job, It's An Adventure" ad campaign features this. | |
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In Feet of Clay, Nobby thinks to himself that anyone who responds to "Who likes good food?" in the military is going to be volunteered for KP duty, as part of an internal monologue as to why you should never volunteer for anything. | |
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Warrant Officer Oreldo in Pumpkin Scissors is very good at peeling potatoes and references this trope as the reason why. | |
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In Laurent Pelly's production of the opera La Fille du Régiment, Marie peels potatoes in the scene where Tonio confesses his love for her. Not as a punishment, but because she's the only female in the regiment and therefore is saddled with the kitchen duties. She has Tonio take over the peeling while she confesses her own love for him in reply. | |
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Mrs. Puff does this at the end of a SpongeBob SquarePants episode after she replaced herself with a potato for SpongeBob's driving test. | |
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Beetle Bailey: It happens to the titular character quite often. | |
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While the actual event didn't happen in game, in Wing Commander II, three of the survivors of the Tiger's Claw reminisce about a prank committed by a pilot from the first game who didn't live to the second that landed him doing this for a week. | |
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Doctor Who. In "The Time Warrior", Sarah Jane Smith poses as a Scullery Maid to infiltrate Irongron's castle and ends up peeling potatoes centuries before the New World was discovered. Perhaps Linx brought the potatoes back in time along with his kidnapped scientists? | |
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In the second season of Strike Witches, Gertrud gets sentenced to this for violating orders. | |
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Asterix: A standard facet of life in a Roman camp. Despite, y'know, being set before the discovery of the potato, or even the New World. | |
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In The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, the Rat mentions that in the modern spacefaring military Kitchen Patrol is considered so degrading that it is forbidden to assign it as a punishment and, therefore, it is always assigned as a punishment. When subjected to it himself he snaps, and when he comes to he's nearly killed the chef. | |
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In the second chapter of Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam, Kincaid tells Tobia that if he's going to be part of their group, he's going to have to earn his keep. Cut to them both in the mess, peeling potatoes (with a badly damaged blender in the background). | |
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Kendra Shaw in Battlestar Galactica: Razor | |
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In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Will Work For Ed", Ed gets a job on Rolf's farm, and his first task is to peel a huge mountain of potatoes. Edd attempts to help, first by MacGyvering a peeler out of a hairpin, then building a machine to do the job faster; Rolf's mad enough at that, but he's absolutely livid when he sees Eddy using a tennis racket to julienne the spuds. | |
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Hell's Kitchen: A punishment in Season 3 was for the Blue Team to peel potatoes and onions for the military they served earlier. | |
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Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: Floyd Gottfredson's The Pirate Submarine. | |
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The Strong Bad Email "pet show" has Strong Bad triumphantly announcing that he's doing this as a way to get out of admitting that he and The Cheat lost the competition. | |
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Dead Space 3 has Private Tim Caufman being threatened by General Mahad with this punishment when he misplaces the munitions key. | |
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The ending of the classic Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie has Captain Pete punish Mickey for slacking on the job by making him peel potatoes. | |
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WKRP in Cincinnati episode "Who is Gordon Sims" establishes that Venus had deserted the Army . . . days before his scheduled discharge. The episode ends with a whispered conversation between Andy and Les, with Andy acting as if they were discussing classified information: | |
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