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Punishment Detail
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Maybe Bob's not very good at doing his job. Perhaps he always shows up late, misbehaves, or just isn't reliable when it comes to getting things done. Or maybe his superiors just hate him. Whatever the reason, Bob gets punished by getting stuck with the nasty, boring, and utterly thankless tasks. Common examples of the sorts of tasks used for a Punishment Detail include: Something related to sanitation and toilet functions, or anything else that involves unpleasant odors and getting extremely dirty. Boring, repetitive tasks, like manually copying the exact same letter hundreds of times. Something extremely demeaning, like assigning a highly-trained professional to menial tasks normally left to unskilled workers. The task itself is completely pointless make-work, like digging a bunch of holes and then filling them back up again. The job is in a dangerous or otherwise extremely undesirable environment such as performing traffic direction in a busy intersection. What unifies the concept is the idea that just having to perform the task is a form of punishment. Frequently Truth in Television. A common subversion is to have the person being punished actually wind up enjoying the work, and maybe even doing the job well enough to earn some amount of respect from their superiors. If nobody has been misbehaving lately, a lot of these duties will end up falling on the New Meat instead, or will just be rotated around the group so everyone is equally miserable. Peeling Potatoes, After-School Cleaning Duty and Toothbrush Floor Scrubbing are subtropes about a specific type of Punishment Detail. Closely related to Reassigned to Antarctica, which is about being moved to an undesirable location as a form of punishment. If the unpleasant task comes along with a promotion, the character might have been Kicked Upstairs. See also Writing Lines. |
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Star Trek Online: After the Starfleet Player Character kills Ambassador B'Vat and outs him to the Klingon Empire as the Ax-Crazy nutjob he isnote He was trying to get the Klingons and Federation into a Forever War on purpose because he thought Klingon society would self-destruct without an enemy to fight., his protege, Captain Ja'rod of the IKS Kang, ends up on tribble extermination duty just for being associated with him. | |
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Mitchell. Mitchell won't stop his investigation into Deaney, so Da Chief has him doing a 24/7 stakeout of a mobster. No relief, no backup. | |
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In Citrus, Yuzu and Harumi get assigned cleaning duty for stopping at karaoke on the way home from school, only getting caught because Yuzu's stepsister Mei, the Student Council President, noticed she was late getting home. | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch after Ensign Prynn Tenmei gets caught pulling an incredibly stupid stunt that nearly gets her killed (she had rigged the Defiant's helm to malfunction and then explode so they couldn't chase after Dr. Bashir), a furious Captain Ro tells her not only will she stand her normal day watch but for the next 30 days she'll also stand the overnight watch on the Defiant. | |
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Rumble Roses has "Queens Match" that only human females can participate where the loser is ordered to perform a usually humiliating or degrading tasks. One of these can be to clean the pool area. | |
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Angela Anaconda: Angela is always being assigned to clap erasers after school by her teacher (mostly because said teacher doesn't like her). She has actually developed a special talent for eraser-clapping! | |
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The Minister of Culture in season 2 of Slings & Arrows was the Minister of Health until she spoke out against her own party, and clearly would still rather be — her reaction to Richard coming to her with a grant proposal for the New Burbage theater festival is to point out that the money he's asking for is enough to buy an entire MRI machine. | |
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In the Naruto fanfic Cutting Loose a fairly common means of dealing with most levels of misbehavior among the ninja corps is to assign those ninjas the nastiest, most unpleasant jobs possible, like sewer-cleaning. | |
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Inventing Anna: Vivian has been punished for a failure to do proper due diligence of an interview subject has seen her be banished to "Scriberia", a corner of the office for writers who have run afoul of the executives. | |
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Common Law has the main characters offered their choice of these when they violate the terms of the prior inquiry. Either they can go their return to their separate and far less prestigious positions, or they can stick together and end up on pawn shop duty. They Take a Third Option. | |
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On Community, the study group are forced to wash down the school's newly acquired space simulator as punishment for creating — and permanently voting into use — an offensive school flag. | |
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In The Last Castle, Irwin is ordered by the Warden to move a massive pile of rocks from one end of the prison yard to the other. When that doesn't break his will, Irwin is subsequently told to move all the rocks back to their original position. | |
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Happens to Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson in the Harry Potter story The Chosen Six. Caught and identified as being responsible for the destruction of Neville's Remembrall, Filch assigns them to personally clean the most unpleasant male and female toilets in the school, having first asked the house-elves to leave those particular bathrooms alone to make the punishment more appropriate (Myrtle supervises Parkinson while Filch is responsible for Malfoy). | |
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In the first episode of Reaper, Sam's boss decides to punish him the for the damaging the store by assigning him to the Gardening Department (where he has to pile forty pound sacks of dirt all day). Fortunately, the Devil arranges it so that his love interest is there to keep him company. | |
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Whateley Universe: Superhero School Whateley Academy often uses various kinds of punishments in lieu of detention. Aside from Writing Lines (often from either the Psychic or Magical Canons of Ethics, for the Esper and Wizard students who violate said codes of conduct), there is working in the cafeteria, cleaning up damage done in fights, helping with landscaping, removing the voluminous amounts of snow which accumulate on the walkwaysnote the school is located in the Presidential Mountains of New Hampshire, so winter storms are common, or the dreaded service details in Hawthorne Cottage (a dorm for students whose powers are poorly controlled or pose a danger to themselves or others). And for those who do something really out of the ordinary, or are frequent visitors to the Headmistress' office, they might try to find a Cool and Unusual Punishment that fits the offense. | |
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Discworld: In Lords and Ladies Soon-To-Be-Queen Magrat makes two attempts at threatening Shawn Ogg with punishment detail. The first time she threatens to have him clean the privies, and he responds with a blank "But I do clean the privies". The second time she goes for a more general "all the dirty jobs", and when he comes up with much the same answer adds "I shall see to it there are dirtier ones". | |
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CHERUB Series - Performing menial (though always necessary) cleaning jobs on Campus is among the most common way of punishing CHERUB agents for misconduct. An exaggerated example gets thrown at Lauren for knocking out an instructor with a spade, she has to clean out a huge ditch by herself. After a few days of it most of the other CHERUBs on campus at the time help her finish it, and the director lets it slide at it's felt she's suffered enough. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Innocents of Ryloth": Upon realizing they're very late in reporting back in because they got distracted with Heartwarming Orphan Numa, clone trooper Boil suggests that he and Waxer are going to be stuck polishing R2 units. "Holocron Heist": After disobeying orders to retreat on Felucia, Ahsoka is assigned to guard duty at the Jedi Archives. |
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In Code Name: Hunter, to punish him for breaking into a superior's office and snooping around, Hunter is pulled off front-line duty and given a four-week reassignment to Maintenance. | |
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This tends to happen to Donald a lot when he's seen in DuckTales (1987), seeing as he messes up a lot while in the Navy. | |
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When the narrator of Marcus Rowland's Temps story "Playing Safe" completely screws up his mission to discredit a paranorm who is protesting the EU's paranormal safety legislation, he gets reassigned to investigating Crop Circles ... and told it's no good turning up after the event, he needs to camp out in fields until he sees one happen. | |
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In Red Dwarf, the punishment of choice was repainting the ship's hull. Bear in mind that you have to wear a spacesuit, and a safety tether, and said hull is 6 miles long. | |
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Codex Alera: In Captain's Fury, Tavi gets assigned with measuring and evaluating all the latrines after calling his immediate superior out for selling the legion's supplies on the black market. | |
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Fallout 4: In the Brotherhood of Steel, walking the outer hull of the Prydwyn and scrubbing rust off is considered punishment duty. You often hear several Lancers (pilots or ship crew), Knights (soldiers) and Scribes (technicians) complaining about drawing this punishment if they are late for their shift again. | |
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The Venture Brothers: Being assigned to Operation Rusty's Blanket was a punishment for Brock Samson. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Quirky Miniboss Squad Sunny Day and Funny Face are often threatened with or made to clean the Dark Force Mothership for their ineptitude, under the belief that building their pride in the ship will improve their morale and effectiveness. | |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: When Oggy is once mistakenly enrolled, the angry drill sergeant yells at him, pointing at the latrines and hands him a toothbrush. Seconds later, the WC are squeaky-clean. | |
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S.W.A.T. (2003): After Jim Street's partner Gamble gets them thrown off the SWAT team, they get punished by being put to work in the gun cage, maintaining the other SWAT units' equipment. Gamble quits rather than accepting it, but Street stays in the cage for six months, until Hondo handpicks him for a new SWAT unit he's forming. | |
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Tortall Universe: In Lady Knight, Kel assigns people to latrine duty when they cause trouble. The rest of the time, unpleasant tasks are divided equally among the camp's inhabitants (including its commander), except for those who have a talent that makes them more useful elsewhere. Kel even threatens to list a particularly unpleasant specimen of humanity as having a talent for cleaning latrines if he doesn't shape up. | |
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Phineas and Ferb have to clean a latrine with toothbrushes (several times) as punishment for being creative in "Phineas and Ferb get Busted". | |
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The Sims 2: The Military career track has references to this, including a chance card where the player's active Sim can impose the punishment detail themselves: make the recruits march in their underwear, or replace their rifles with baguettes? There's also a parody Sound Off in the Recruit description: I don't know but I've been told, scrubbing latrines gets mighty old! | |
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The Weaver Option: Nyx tech-priests who in some way manage to anger their superior get assigned to Danger-Prototype-Central, the space station where Leet is working on his creations. Guardsmen celebrating the withdrawal on an Eldar invasion get a little too rowdy and use some improper language with regards to a Holy Saint. The Commissariat and Ministorum agree that the proper penance is to spend the next four months rebuilding various destroyed or damaged churches across the planet. The soldiers still think it was worth it. |
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Girl Genius has "grease trap duty" (on an airship). | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the culprit of case 3, which takes place at Themis Legal Academy, suggests getting bathroom detail instead of imprisonment as part of his Villainous Breakdown. For reference, said culprit is a teacher, and had adopted a Sadist Teacher persona after being backed into a corner. | |
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In My Hero Academia, after Bakugo and Midoriya get into a fight after the Provisional License Exams, they get sentenced to a few days of house arrest and cleaning the dorms. Bakugo gets four days for starting the fight while Midoriya gets three for fighting back. | |
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Mulan: "Thanks to your new friend Ping, you men will spend this evening cleaning up every. single. grain. of. rice." Of course, this wasn't just assigned randomly; the men had just gotten in a massive Food Fight and needed to clean it up anyway. | |
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Tyrion Lannister from A Song of Ice and Fire gets put in charge of managing the sewers in Casterly Rock, since he's horribly unpopular. In something of a subversion, Tyrion goes on to make the sewers incredibly more efficient than they used to be. | |
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Horatio Hornblower has a particularly sadistic one. Hornblower, having pissed off his superiors through no fault of his own, is ordered to report to the Officer of the Watch. On the hour. Every hour. What the sleep deprivation does to him is quite terrifying, until saner minds step in and let him sleep. | |
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Game of Thrones: Subverted to humorous effect. After Jon Snow defeats adversarial Thorne in the election for Lord Commander, the Watch has a meeting where Jon assigns new tasks to everyone. One of these is the job of digging a new set of latrines, and after Jon announces this must be done and how important job that is, he gives a significant look at Thorne, who fully expects to be given this terrible duty. Instead, Jon assigns the latrine duty to some random Watchman named Brian, and promotes Thorne to First Ranger. | |
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Maria no Danzai: Inspector Taiichiro Nagare is currently assigned to the Community Safety Planning Division, which handles juvenile crime cases and swamps him with work. It's heavily implied that his assignment there was a result of him being falsely labeled a child abuser by his peers. He is actually thankful for it as this means he is justly punished for what happened to his son. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Ciaphas Cain is fond of handing these out instead of harsher punishments (to reenforce the illusion of a The Men First attitude), particularly to soldiers who've watched his back (or at least he likes to give them the impression he does to encourage them). After a particularly messy Bar Brawl that ends with three dead, he manages to make all but the killers get floggings and latrine duty... and they thank him for it. He occasionally wonders if his aide Jurgen's faith leads him to believe every order, including latrine duty, is passed down from the Golden Throne itself. Then again, Cain has noted that the God-Emperor has a peculiar sense of humor... Cain isn't the only one handing out punishment duties. One argument in Death or Glory results in three members of a militia team being assigned to double sentry duty by the corporal in charge. |
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In Wing Commander II, Stingray and Jazz get assigned a punitive mission escorting garbage shuttles for their attitude, and Stingray is warned that the garbage shuttles run daily. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Address Unknown (Remedy), pegasus mailponies see mail delivery on the ground as the ultimate humiliation, an announcement that they've screwed up badly in the air. It works out in Derpy's favour, though, as it allows her to prove she really is good at her job. | |
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The Wire: for the police, misbehaving officers tend to be Reassigned to Antarctica usually preceded with their boss asking "where they don't wanna go", with foot patrol or out-of-sight office duty being most common. In the drug crews, demotion comes in the form of being moved to a less valuable spot, or being busted from stash or money duty to just be a runner or lookout. | |
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JAG, being a military show, has this come up a bit: In "Boot", Meg Austin, while undercover as a Marine private, is assigned sanitary duty. In Season 3, after Major MacKenzie came back to JAG after briefly working for her ex-fiancee's law firm, Admiral Chegwidden had her doing "scut work" (low-level legal work like motion writing that is usually assigned to junior staff) for a few months as punishment for leaving. |
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Johnny Bravo once, while serving a temporary prison sentence, is ordered to break rocks, which he's fine with. Then, glue them back into bigger rocks, which he finds kind of annoying. Then break them apart again, which breaks him mentally. | |
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In Second Tour, Miss Pove is normally a political journalist but she has been assigned to covering football as punishment for stepping on someone's shoes. | |
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In the first episode of Young Blades, the Musketeers get assigned to dungeon cleaning duty as punishment for fighting. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise have scrubbing the warp plasma conduits or exhaust ports. | |
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Frasier: Frasier and Roz get stuck in a late night slot when Fras incurs the wrath of the new manager, Kate Costa. In his job as a late-night watchman, Martin gets put on the graveyard shift by his boss for not dating the guy's sister. Martin's in his 60s, and it gets so bad he starts suffering mild Sanity Slippage. |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Booth Rewind and Swerve (the former for smuggling snuff movies onboard (long story) and the later for running a bar without a license) are punished by being made to manually replace all the rivets of the Lost Light. | |
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