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If you've spent any time in a Western (and probably American) public school system, then you've no doubt seen one of the films, cartoons and filmstrips whose purpose is to inform bright-eyed schoolchildren about themselves and the world around them. Judging by the way many of these films turn out, however, one might suspect that there's a special wing in Hell set aside just to produce them. The origin of this trope lies in the belief that children aren't very receptive to positive reinforcement, and therefore must be informed in the least subtle way possible about all of the negative consequences which may befall them if they do anything evil, stupid, or both. For instance, tell little Johnny that he has a better chance of living a long healthy life if he avoids drugs. There's a pretty good chance that he'll say "Sure" and then promptly forget every single word you just said. But, tell Johnny that he'll wind up drooling in a back alley covered with sores while jamming a dirty 8-inch long needle into his arm and smell like week-old sardine salad for the rest of his short miserable life if he takes a single puff from a joint given to him by The Aggressive Drug Dealer, and he'll listen. He may laugh his disbelieving butt off, but he will listen. This mentality has formed the basis of all sorts of cautionary tales, many of which employ extreme and terrifying imagery in their attempt to keep children on the straight and narrow path. Yes, yes, irreversible psychological damage might occur, but it is all for their own good, so it's okay. So what if a kid winds up a twitching vegetable afraid of venturing into the outside world? At least he won't get kidnapped by a lollipop-wielding child-molester or hit by a bus while jaywalking and smoking crack. The theory is that when they grow older and "able to understand," adults will be able to give the "real" reasons for such mores. A common reality is that there's less to stop them from engaging in that behavior once they realize that their face won't "freeze that way." Worse, the realization that they'd been fed a bunch of hooey may make them ignore genuine and honest warnings. Examples of some of the mind-meltingly scary imagery include: a boy getting run over by a train, vandals poisoning a deer, people in Africa contracting hideous diseases like sleeping sickness and elephantiasis, a choking victim who turns bright blue and nearly dies… Let's not even get into the bloody, windshield-cracking horrors inflicted in Driver's Ed class or what happens when people panic if the school catches on fire. Of course, not every child who sees these types of films will become traumatized by them. For every kid who pukes at the five-minute mark of Wheels of Tragedy, there will be at least one who will cheer loudly at the sight of karmically-induced gore splashing across the screen or find the whole thing Narmtastic. (A phenomenon excellently spoofed in this Onion article). Note: Sometimes Scare 'Em Straight campaigns will actually backfire, and the ads that were designed to admonish a certain behavior will actually encourage it and make it look cool. There are those who believe that certain companies might be doing this sort of thing on purpose to lure in new customers. After all, why else would cigarette and alcohol companies be so quick and eager to create ad campaigns that are supposedly against middle-schoolers using their products, when most new users tend to get hooked at that age? It's a debate that will probably rage on for as long as alcohol and tobacco remain available. Scare 'Em Straight as a whole not only covers instructional shorts, but scary public service announcements as well. God forbid you should settle in to enjoy your Saturday Morning cartoons and your Froot-Loops without being reminded of the Lovecraftian Body Horror which can overtake you if you fail to brush your teeth. Some politicians will use these tactics to try and scare people off voting for their opponent, which is known as a Scare Campaign. Also, this trope is not necessarily limited to children. Some PSAs are actually designed for adults, particularly those that cover drunk/drugged driving. Can lead to Do Not Do This Cool Thing, if the audience likes looking at gruesome pictures. May be used in a Sex Miseducation Class. Oh, and it doesn't necessarily entail scaring gay people into being straight (though that certainly has happened, though not as commonly anymore). Compare Harm Reduction, which is the usual end goal of these programs. If someone tries to scare someone else straight in-universe, they'll often tell a Scarily Specific Story. If someone tries to scare someone else out of following in their footsteps to a bad end, it's a Jacob Marley Warning. |
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One episode of Police, Camera, Action! had a group of self-confessed speeding drivers who were taken to a mock-up of an accident scene where a motorist was doing at least 60 miles in a 30-mile zone. The car he hit was of a married couple and their three-month old daughter who was reported as not breathing when the ambulance arrived. The daughter survived — they brought her out in a wheelchair and the mother explained that she needed round-the-clock care (two carers during the day, one during the night) and that if they removed a device around her neck, she would die. A few of the group were horrified and promised never to speed again; one stated that they would only speed "if it was safe to do so." | |
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Used in-universe in the comedy Moving Violations, in which the traffic-school class has to watch a gory PSA called "Blood On The Highway." Subverted in that one of the attendees is a die-hard gorn addict and thoroughly enjoys the showing. | |
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In the Care Bears episode “A Rhyme In Time�, Gram reads Hugs and Tugs a story about safety after they get into danger. The book scares them, as they imagine things like smoke being full of monstrous creatures, hot liquids as lava, a bathtub as an ocean, and being chased by bottles of poison. Fortunately, Gram calms them down, and the twins are happily talking before bed. | |
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Reefer Madness is a 1936 exploitation film revolving around the tragic events that follow when high school students are lured by pushers to try "marihuana": a hit and run accident, manslaughter, suicide, rape, and descent into madness all ensue. This one was so incredibly over-the-top, it was actually adopted by the pro-marijuana community as an indictment of the hysteria that surrounds marijuana (as well as, perhaps ironically, a really fun movie to watch while stoned). This way of looking at the film turned it into a cult classic, and even led to a musical version, which plays the whole thing off with a wink, a nudge, and a whole lot of catchy songs. It gets better. For their 2008 4/20 celebration, the magnificent bastards at G4 debuted the movie Reefie's Madhouse, in which they took the original movie and gave it a Gag Dub. Like the original, it can only truly be appreciated if one is high while watching it. |
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Last Clear Chance, a short showing that you should never horse around railroad crossings. Y'know, "Why don't they just look?" | |
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In the Angel fic "Tacos and Tea Parties", Angel and Darla are initially concerned to realise that Fred- here their seven-year-old adopted daughter- is genuinely scared of the Groosalug, as while Angel doesn't like Groo he doesn't see Groo as the type to hurt a child. Eventually Lorne is able to read Fred while she's singing to Connor and confirm that Fred's Pylean masters just used the Groosalug as a threat to keep her in line rather than him doing anything to her himself, and Fred's just taking time to get over those fears even though she knows Angel in particular would kill anyone who genuinely tried to threaten her. | |
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Sometimes Maury's guests would be victims of domestic abuse. Their abusive partners would be talked to onstage, then a big, buff man (usually a prison-guard, or a former abuser, or a cop) would take them out for a day or so. First they went to a prison to see where they would be if they kept hurting their partners and then they were taken to a coroner, to see the dead body of an abuse victim. The guy in charge would then force the abusers to take a good, long look at her and basically tell them "This could be your partner." A "Where are they now?" segment would be brought up at the end, mentioning that some of those couples were currently getting help. They also do this with the "delinquent teenager" episodes. Usually the girls (most of whom will admit to sleeping with any man that agrees because they want a baby) will be lectured by women who were teen moms, and usually the older girls will let them take care of the baby for a day. Often, at the same time, they'll be taken to this inside of a prison and screamed at by female inmates. |
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On Party Down, after catching Henry and Constance smoking marijuana, Ron produces a photo he uses whenever he's tempted to use to scare them straight. He had a friend who smoked pot, and one time he got drunk and crashed the company van and got his foot amputated. The photo is of "a leg made footless by pot." | |
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The Pedestrian (1973) has an In-Universe example of the drivers' ed video. The protagonist, who's had his license suspended after an accident in which his son was killed, has to attend a traffic class and watch the typical gory drivers' ed video, with shattered bodies strewn all over the highway. This is ironic as the film eventually reveals that the reason the man had the accident was that his son grabbed the wheel and yanked them into the back of a truck on purpose. | |
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GTO: Shonan 14 Days: Onizuka, with the help of Kikuchi, Urumi, and some of the White Swan foster kids, constructs an elaborate illusion to make Miko Sakaki think she's wanted for murder (she'd tried to burn down White Swan, but was stopped; they make it seem like she succeeded), as a way to get her to finally realize that not only do actions have consequences, but that she's not alone and she should care about other people instead of using them. He even gets a yakuza kingpin to play along (though that may have been his wife's decision). | |
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The webcomic version of Diary of a Wimpy Kid has Gregory go to the dentist once, which has pictures of all the people who never brushed their teeth in their lives or never even used floss. This unfortunately doesn't do anything to help Gregory with his fear of the dentist... and you can bet your ass that a lot of people are afraid of someone with metal tools poking around in their mouths. | |
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Vous Les Femmes wrestles with the known problem of weaning the French off one of the national passions - smoking. The usually ignored public health warning on the cigarette packet becomes Fumer Donne L'Accent Belge.When a cosmopolitan Parisian woman, speaking correct metropolitan French, lights up and takes a few drags... her accent does indeed change to Belgian. Her eyes widen in absolute horror and she drops the cigarette and runs off screaming. Her curious friend picks up the discarded cigarette and takes a drag. Her spoken accent in French also transforms. She too screams in terror. note The Belgian accent is thought of by the French, especially in Paris, as being unlovely and lumpen. Americans: think Joisey. Brits: think Birmingham/Black Country.. A Japanese version might be Kansai, or The Idiot from Osaka. Same vibe. Even for those who do not speak French: the change in Judith Siboni's voice is abrupt and obvious. | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle has an early scene where the two are watching TV and a (fake) PSA shows a guy getting high and claiming he's invulnerable, putting a shotgun to his mouth. That was actually a parody of several drug PSA's that were out at the time where people who were high were too unaware of what they were doing. The PSA it's parodying in particular has a high kid playing around with a gun and shooting himself. It's this one. To be fair, the friend did make a pass at the other's sister first. | |
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The Shining: In the backstory Jack and his friend had a bad habit of drinking and driving. One night as they were heading home in the friend's car, they ran into a child's bike that was on the middle of the street. When they stopped to see if anyone was hurt, they found nothing. No child, no body, nothing. By all accounts, that bike was just left there. Nonetheless, the horror they felt over possibly killing a kid convinced both of them to give up drinking. Sadly for Jack and his family, the Overlook Hotel manages to get him Off the Wagon. | |
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On Dexter, we see a flashback wherein Harry takes young Dexter to watch an execution, telling him that this is what will happen to him if he doesn't follow the Code. | |
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The Simpsons: A dentist scares Ralph into brushing his teeth by showing him "The Big Book of British Smiles." It’s incredibly xenophobic, but Ralph understandably cries and says “that’s enough�. In "Duffless", Homer is shown one of the gruesome driver's ed videos after receiving a DUI. He's laughing his butt off. "It's funny 'cause I don't know him!" Really, it's not like it's totally Homer's fault. The makers of the film apparently thought its subject matter was too scary, so they softened it with "zany" circus music and the narrator (who happens to be Troy McClure) making some puns. ("Here's an appealing fellow. In fact, they're 'a-peeling' him off the sidewalk!") In the episode where Marge gets issues with road rage, part of her community service is watching a film documenting the dangers of angry drivers, wth such gems as a judge, wearing robes and all, sentencing passing cars to "kiss his ass", and an astronaut going berserk in the middle of the road with a golf club. Subverted at the end of "The [PTA] Disbands"; Springfield Elementary begins renting its unused cloak rooms to the prison to deal with budget problems. Skinner hopes the presence of convicted felons would scare the more troublesome students (Bart) straight. The episode ends with this exchange: |
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Oversimplified's Prohibition episode depicts this trope being put to use when explaining how support for banning alcohol in the United States was drummed up. An In-Universe example is when a WCTU supporter, to discourage children in a classroom from drinking alcohol when they get older, tells them a story where a guy named Timmy would suffer from Spontaneous Human Combustion upon drinking only one sip of whiskey. A real-life Scare 'Em Straight poster also makes an appearance, where somebody drinking alcohol is depicted as descending into a homeless life of crime which inevitably ends with the drunk being Driven to Suicide. |
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The Lost Weekend, though not explicitly an educational film, depicts the protagonist's descent into alcoholism very much this way. | |
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Yuzuru from A Silent Voice takes photos of dead creatures and hangs them on the wall to discourage her sister Shoko from killing herself. After Shoko's Attempted Suicide, she takes them all down. | |
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He plays a drunken reveler whose friends don't take his keys come morning, and he ends up weaving all over the street and running over a child chasing a ball — not with his car, mind you, but with his steamroller. Not only do the kid and his ball end up flattened in a gag straight out of Looney Tunes, the steamroller is realistically depicted as moving very slowly and the kid has plenty of time to notice and step out of the way, yet the collision is presented as if Martin were driving a car at 50 miles per hour! | |
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Adventures in Odyssey, which usually doesn't pull this trope into effect heavily, did a similar thing in their "Castles and Cauldrons" episode, with a version of Dungeons & Dragons so exaggerated you had to wonder if they had watched even one or two minutes of people playing it. (And it still failed to live up to the silliness of the above example.) | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head go to prison on a school-sponsored 'Scared Straight' program — you can guess how they absorb the message. The episode ends with B&B promising to return to the joint so they and their new jailbird friends can "party again". The worst part is that the principal didn't even pick any troublemakers from the permanent records that might need scaring, with the exception of Beavis and Butthead, he just picked students out of the yearbook and chose the ones he thought looked like punks. The dumb duo also take in a 50's drivers-ed video, starring two meatheads with a suspicious resemblance to our protagonists. They then proceed to replicate the accident during their own driving test. |
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A Diplomatic Visit: Completely unintentional, but it happens - Diamond Tiara is normally rude and condescending to most others who don't have wealth and status, but when the wolf ambassador Swift-Pad enters the classroom, she just sees "big predatory creature" and is too scared of him, despite his being very friendly to everypony there, to cause trouble during class. | |
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As seen in Pinocchio, if you drink alcohol, smoke, or play a round of pool (which, as we all know, is every 6-year-old boy's greatest fantasy), you'll turn into a donkey. No, it's true. Made worse when some of the donkeys lose their ability to talk and are sent to the salt mine forever. "Pleasure Island", my foot. Their parents must be worried sick. According to Roger Ebert in his review for the VHS release of the film, this may subconsciously have been the reason why he didn't smoke. And now, Disney repurposed bits of footage from Pinocchio into an anti-smoking PSA, seen before some animated films. Here, at the bottom. |
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The fourth season of Canada's Worst Driver is set in an abandoned prison complex. In the first episode, the drivers who have engaged in outright criminal driving behavior in the past are placed in prison cells for a few minutes to drive home what could happen to them if they don't shape up. | |
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A Half-Life modification called Afraid of Monsters is a complete videogame version of this. The main character is David, a drug addict who seeks help for his addition to painkillers. But before he gets treatment for it, he takes more of them in a hospital's bathroom, and everything goes awry after that. After a nightmare sequence, David encounters all sorts of messed-up creatures and locations like dogs with shaved human heads, gibberish-spouting nonsensical zombies, giant flickering faces that laugh like children, levitating aliens, abominations made of human limbs, random ghosts appearing, even more random noises without sources, and a world that is extremely dark and changes form. It is made more elaborate with the Multiple Endings, and the fact that, to see the good ending, you have to get the others first — and they all hammer home the Drugs Are Bad moral, each of them sequentially showing David having gone on a rampage while on the pills and murdered over twenty people, being questioned by the police and not remembering any of it, and ultimately hanging himself in his cell out of guilt before the final one shows David having OD'd on the pills, only being saved because he went to the hospital for help to kick his addiction... and that's an evolution of the non-Director's Cut ending, where the entire game was just the last thoughts going through David's addled mind before he succumbs to an overdose. | |
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In What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?, Superman does this to the entire world when a group of Nineties Anti Heroes called The Elite turn the public against his Thou Shalt Not Kill philosophy. He then proceeds to demonstrate exactly why the world should Beware the Superman by seemingly killing off the Elite one by one only to reveal them to be still alive afterwards, to demonstrate how dangerous their line of thinking is and how much worse things would be if he followed it. | |
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Fireman Sam: In the episode "Cry Wolf", in order to deter Norman Price from pulling the fire alarm, Sam tells him the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and claims that the story ends with a wolf eating the boynote While this ending happens in a few adaptations, the original story actually ends with the wolf eating the boy's flock of sheep. Ironically, later on in the episode, a fox gets into the Cut Price Store, which Norman and his mum Dilys believe is a wolf, and call the fire service. After hearing the story before, Norman thought the fire service wouldn't come because of the two false alarms he caused, but Sam assures him that the fire service will always respond to a call, even if they think it's a false alarm. | |
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Jean Valjean attempts this in-universe in Les Misérables. When a young fop of a street thug, Montparnasse, tries to mug him, Valjean asks why, and Montparnasse retorts that he's lazy and honest work is hard. Valjean, who spent nineteen years in prison for the Felony Misdemeanor of stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family (and a few escape attempts), is disgusted, and gives him a vivid description of how Montparnasse's criminal laziness could very well land him in prison, where the work is so backbreakingly awful that honest employment looks like a restful paradise in comparison. When this doesn't work on its own, Valjean points to Montparnasse's fine clothes and fancy hair and says he'd be shaved bald and issued a hideous uniform. This part seems to have some effect. | |
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Captain Pike manages to do this in a Patrick Stewart Speech. He shows the Aliens Of The Week a clip show of Earth's World War III and tells them that's where they're headed if they keep fighting each other. But unlike Earth, they have a chance now to just skip the part where they nuke a third of their own population, and come together as a people to join the United Federation of Planets. | |
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In the Harry Potter AU story Faery Heroes, Slughorn reveals to Lily's "ghost" (actually Harry, Luna, and Hermione using spells to convince him) that he told Tom Riddle about Horcruxes in an attempt to make Tom realize how horrific necromancy in general and Horcruxes in particular were. Slughorn had gotten into necromancy when he was young in hopes of resurrecting his dead mother but burned his notes on dark arts once he realized how evil they were. | |
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This Bites!: In the face of Sakazuki's lava powers and certain death, the Marine T-Bone renounced the betrayal of his flotilla, condemned them all as evil, and swore to be a steadfast, uncrooked pursuer of justice and duty of the World Government. But his men's death and his change in morality slowly ached at him until, in the face of Cross's steadfastness to his ideals, he could not refute his actions any longer. | |
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Pretty much the point of J. Walter Weatherman on Arrested Development, who was a one-armed man that George Bluth hired to help teach his children a lesson. Several lessons. Through graphic traumatizing deceit, fake blood, and a fake arm, he managed to burn into the kids' minds that everything from talking too loud in the car, to leaving the house without putting a note on the fridge will inevitably end in someone's arm being ripped off. Although Lindsay came away from the "fridge note" incident thinking he wanted them to avoid dairy somehow. George Sr. also hosted a "Scared Straight" presentation at the Church and State Fair. Accidentally walking into the Church one, he ended up telling a bunch of young gay men about a place where you work out and have sex with other men without anyone treating it like a big deal, and was asked if there was a cover charge. Funnily enough, his original plan of talking about the horrors of his house confinement and constant sex with Lucille, along with visual aids, might have been more effective here (though a Space Whale Aesop). |
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Parodied in Assassination Classroom. Koro-sensei draws a short comic that is presented as if it were this to Kataoka to warn her that she may grow up to be dangerously codependent if she does not learn to stand up for her own needs more. It's much funnier in the manga than how it is described here. | |
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Balto II: Wolf Quest has Aleu being cornered by a huge grizzly bear before Balto comes to her rescue. After trying and failing to fight the bear, Aleu realizes that the bear is a spirit guide and discusses the trope with Balto, explaining that the bear was attacking them in order to get them in the right direction of their quest. | |
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Harry Dresden, the eponymous character of The Dresden Files, is a Pop-Cultured Badass extraordinaire. It's therefore a very notable moment the one time he fails to enjoy a reference. When his apprentice Molly refuses to obey his instructions to stay behind during a dangerous part in White Night, he's angry. But what gets him really pissed off is when she complains that even Yoda didn't give Luke a task like the one Harry gave her: He then proceeds to float a ball of fire near her face, as a demonstration of just how serious he is — this isn't a joke, or a game, but a matter of life and death where, if she doesn't do exactly as he says when he says it, she'll get killed. Or worse. |
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Kyon: Big Damn Hero: Tanaka Taro in chapter 54 begins his short time in the story reflecting to himself that he is going to become an important and powerful person in the crime syndicate by taking out Kyon. After the attempt, he reflects that after he recovers (from the beatdown Kyon just gave him), he will still become an important and powerful person by working at the docks, getting the Japanese equivalent of a GED, and working his way up to management. | |
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An Episode of Rocko's Modern Life had Rocko go to remedial driver's ed classes, which included a graphic crash demonstration film, using crash-test dummies made of tomatoes. | |
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Motor Mania: One of the early cartoons to star Goofy during his "everyman" phase, it shows the dangers of road rage and other hazards on the road, and is often shown in driver's ed classes in real life. | |
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Played for laughs on Married... with Children as Kelly is now working at a low-rent diner. A teacher from her school comes by with a pack of vapid, flighty girls who are basically Kelly wannabes. When they see the former highly popular Queen Bee of the school at a dead-on job, the girls are soon racing to get to the library and start studying. | |
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In the Discworld book Hogfather, Peachy used to suck his thumb as a child. As a grown man (not to mention a violent gangster and thug), he suddenly finds himself in a world based on a child's mind - he is unfazed until the Scissor Man actually appears. He flees in terror and is never seen again. The previous governess of the novel's two children was apparently a great believer in this trope, making up all manner of monsters to threaten Twyla and Gawain into proper behavior. Susan finds it exasperating to no end, having to beat these prohibitory monsters into submission once she becomes their governess. Jenny Green-Teeth, a monster encountered by Tiffany in The Wee Free Men, is identified by Miss Tick as a creation of parents who wanted to scare their kids out of playing too near the water. In some of the watch books Detritus runs a Scare Em Straight campaign aimed at the drug dealers putting up posters with "Slab: Just say AarrghaarrghpleasennononoUGH". Actual drug dealers that Detritus catches with Slab will be nailed to the wall, so it's a fair warning. |
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The "Deathrace" episode of Metalocalypse has Toki and Skwisgaar forced to go to driving school after a DWI arrest. The school forces them to watch a film about drunk driving, with accident scenes so graphic that they become afraid to drive a car, and fail the test as a result. | |
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Played for laughs in Mean Girls when the health teacher tries to scare the teens out of having sex. He doesn't do a very good job. | |
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The concept is invoked in a Thunderbolts/Avengers Academy crossover called "Scared Straight", in which the Academy students are brought to the Raft to see why they shouldn't become super-criminals. Using Moonstone and the Ghost wasn't quite the right tactic, especially as some of the students tried to kill Norman Osborn shortly thereafter. | |
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On Saving Grace, Grace's niece and best friend went to a "scavenger" party where they took random drugs, and the best friend died. Her father and Grace dragged the niece down to the morgue and forced her to look at her friend's corpse. | |
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In one episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Don shows a Driver's Ed class one of these. Amusingly, Sally comes in later so that the two of them can watch it together... backwards, so that it has a happy ending. | |
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The Young Ones has a parody of a road safety PSA in which a cricket bat with a brick tied to it represents a car, and various squishy foodstuffs represent vulnerable pedestrians. This was a parody of a real road safety campaign that had aired a few years previously, using the image of a hammer smashing a peach to represent people being run over. | |
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My Name Is Earl: When Earl ends up in prison, he directs one of these. Hilarity ensues. | |
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The massive, multi-series crossover special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue featured just about every major Saturday morning cartoon character of the early '90's inflicting massive amounts of psychological torture on a teenage addict to try and scare him off of marijuana and beer (mostly marijuana, since his dad was the only one who noticed the missing beer). Made even better when you consider that the real purpose of this special wasn't revealed until it aired! Instead, all the ads displayed it as a fun adventure starring all the big cartoon stars of the day. Cue deer-in-headlights look on parents' faces when their seven-year old-son turned to them and asked what marijuana was. Keep in mind that this aired in 1990, when marijuana was still illegal. Good luck showing it to today’s stoners. An article about the special on the now defunct X-Entertainment website even argues that if anything, this attempt could backfire spectacularly. Because if kids are shown that they'll get to meet their cartoon heroes if they try to take drugs, guess what's going to happen next. | |
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One episode of Home Movies had a schoolteacher who was a former prison guard locking the kids in a cell for a few hours in order to scare them straight. They used the time to brainstorm about their next film project. And it was a white-collar prison — the kids thought the whole setup was pretty sweet. Coach McGuirk even commented that the cells were better than his apartment. Another episode had Brendon filming a cautionary warning about putting marbles in your nose, which led to a rash of kids (and one teacher) putting marbles in their noses — of course, it had a metal song in it with the lyrics "Don't put marbles in your nose/Put them in there/Do not put them in there!" |
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In an episode of Crossing Jordan, Macy took his daughter to the morgue to show her the corpse of a girl who was killed by a mobster after falling into an unsavory life. | |
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Played for laughs in American Dad! where it shows a younger Hayley refusing to eat her vegetables until Stan tells her she needs to eat them in order to get strong and fend off sexual predator Bill Clinton. Stan then knocks under the table and says "Oh! I think he's here right now!", which causes Hayley to quickly finish her food out of fear. Parodied in "Minstrel Krampus", when Stan explains to his father, Jack, that he released Krampus from his prison so that he would "scare Steve straight", leading Jack to scream "SEXUAL ORIENTATION IS NOT A CHOICE!!!!!" |
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In one chapter of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Life, Carim pretends to use her prophecy powers to read Chantez' future, claiming that she'll die if she doesn't start acting like a proper nun (and her predictions are famous for always being accurate). The next day, Chantez is suddenly much more well behaved. | |
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An episode of Walker, Texas Ranger has Walker helping a former gang member (Hulk Hogan) who's turned his life around to run a youth center. Members of rival gangs converge with the young kids and it looks like a fight is about to break out. Walker arrives with some ex-cons who quickly educate the kids to how gang life leads to prison or the grave. One even shows off the scar from an eye he lost in a fight in jail. | |
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Benzaie got hired to make a PSA about seat belts. He made a Flipnote animation of Yarn Kirby turning into a car and crashing into a rock, causing his face to fly off and splatter against a boulder. | |
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Unwinder's Tall Comics makes the case that marijuana advocates themselves are the best way to scare youngsters away from using drugs. | |
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In Little Shop of Horrors, this is parodied when the sadistic dentist shows Seymour a picture of what a neglected set of teeth look like. It's a parody, because it's clearly a close-up of a horse's teeth. | |
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Hello Kitty & Friends Supercute Adventures: Kuromi as the "Night Librarian" visits Badtz-Maru and Keropi for not returning library books and reshelving books incorrectly respectively | |
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The cartoon Play Safe delves deep into the well of horror to convey a somewhat dubious message about train safety. Complete with jerky rotoscoping, Deranged Animation, a horrifying soundtrack, and a Space Whale Aesop to boot (playing in train yards results in... hijacking a sentient streamliner and crashing it into another train?). You too can view the madness here. | |
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Struwwelpeter is a classic (1845) German children's book that warns the reader against misdemeanors like not trimming their nails or playing with matches with rather gruesome cautionary tales. One of them, for example, features a boy who sucks his thumb, so a tailor (the "Great Red-Legged Scissor-man") comes out of nowhere and cuts his thumbs off with a pair of scissors. This was also parodied in a cutaway gag on Family Guy. This character has gained a sort of tongue-in-cheek fame in Finland. There is a famous children's song named after him that's basically 'stop telling boring stories!' The Red-Legged Scissor Man, along with several creatures like him, appear in The Fourth Bear, a novel by Jasper Fforde. There's a village where these monsters actually exist, and the children are downright creepily obedient, in order to avoid the possibility of thumbs being snipped off and suchlike. While definitely both Nightmare Fuel and Paranoia Fuel for the children, the effect this has on them, the Uncanny Valley creepiness, is also Nightmare Fuel in the books (both in-universe, for people who haven't grown up in the village, and for the reader). For decades the parents had decided that Utopia Justifies the Means, but eventually the parents rebel, demanding normal things like teenage arguments and untidy bedrooms (things they never got a chance to experience as children either ...). |
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In BioShock 2, we get to visit Ryan Amusements, the centerpiece attraction of which is the "Journey to the Surface" ride. Since Andrew Ryan has an almost obsessive need to keep his underwater city secret, the exhibit was designed to discourage Rapture's youth from wanting to visit the surface. As such, visitors get to ride faux-bathyspheres down streets labeled "Curfew Alley" and "War Road," and watch creepy animatronics of families, artists, and scientists be menaced by Wallmaster-esque figures representing The Government. Apparently, it was quite effective. It even scared Andrew Ryan half to death, and he funded the thing! | |
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Parodied in The Colbert Report. To complement The Wørd "Just Don't Do It," Colbert did The Talk in a way it would disencourage sex: | |
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"X" Marks the Spot, produced by the New Jersey DMV and eventually featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, shows that you will die on your way home if you so much as run a stop sign. note The main character's other driving habits are exaggerated as well. | |
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One episode of Drake & Josh had an episode called "Steered Straight". The boys are taken into a cop car, and on the way to the station, the officer who picked them up stops at a gas station robbery. Unfortunately, the robber steals the cop car and the boys are forced to pretend to be criminals so the robber won't know they're innocent. Of course, hilarity ensues. | |
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The Defenders of the Earth episode "100 Proof Highway" contains a scene where Mandrake catches Kshin taking liquor from his drinks cabinet. Realising Kshin (who only started drinking to copy his peers) doesn't understand the dangers of alcohol, Mandrake shows the boy a vision of what could happen to him if he continues to drink; in the vision, Kshin (aged up to the same age as Rick, LJ, and Jedda) is killed in a drunk driving accident. Afterwards, Mandrake tells Kshin that: | |
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Batman is a classic example. The entire point of dressing up as a giant bat and beating the hell out of criminals is to terrify them into not being criminals anymore. The intro to The Dark Knight and the mob turning to the Joker for help showed the results, and in the comics, Gotham's crime rate surges on the few occasions Batman is confirmed to be absent from the city. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: Gary Seven's plan in "Assignment: Earth" is to cause an orbiting nuclear weapons platform to malfunction and almost start World War III in order to convince the politicians to give up on deploying such weapons. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Captain Pike manages to do this in a Patrick Stewart Speech. He shows the Aliens Of The Week a clip show of Earth's World War III and tells them that's where they're headed if they keep fighting each other. But unlike Earth, they have a chance now to just skip the part where they nuke a third of their own population, and come together as a people to join the United Federation of Planets. |
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Parodied in The Office episode "The Convict". Michael attempts to seriously warn the office of how horrible and frightening prison is by using this technique as he pretends to be a rebellious ex-convict, with ridiculous reasons of why to avoid prison... like the Dementors. | |
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Kaeloo: Parodied in Episode 96, when Stumpy and Quack Quack get addicted to eating carrots which have the same effect as tobacco. Kaeloo decides to pull a scare 'em straight by lying to them that they'll turn into rabbits if they keep eating them. She also points out that Stumpy must have already begun turning into one because he has buckteeth, and ignoring the fact that Stumpy is a squirrel and has always had buckteeth, the two boys decide to give up carrots for good. And then they get addicted to something else. | |
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The Days of Our Years, another short by the same group who did Last Clear Chance, that shows that no matter what happens, you will get hurt or die. No exceptions. Notably, that one managed to at least vaguely disturb the riffers at one point. More specifically, the part where a guy gets his eyes burned by a welding torch. |
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Her Highness Zulenna Luzhakna from Girl Genius demonstrates how to do it properly without exaggeration. It sort of backfired, though. | |
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The Red-Legged Scissor Man, along with several creatures like him, appear in The Fourth Bear, a novel by Jasper Fforde. There's a village where these monsters actually exist, and the children are downright creepily obedient, in order to avoid the possibility of thumbs being snipped off and suchlike. While definitely both Nightmare Fuel and Paranoia Fuel for the children, the effect this has on them, the Uncanny Valley creepiness, is also Nightmare Fuel in the books (both in-universe, for people who haven't grown up in the village, and for the reader). For decades the parents had decided that Utopia Justifies the Means, but eventually the parents rebel, demanding normal things like teenage arguments and untidy bedrooms (things they never got a chance to experience as children either ...). | |
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The History of the Fairchild Family, a popular Victorian Sunday school prize, had lots of these, including a child nearly dying of a fever for eating stolen plums, a father taking his quarreling daughters on a walk in the woods to see a dead man hanging on a gibbet, and another girl burning to death while playing with a candle. Later editions either toned down or completely removed the latter two incidents. | |
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Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye featured a variation in "Skin Deep" after the team arrest a rich heiress who finances an eco-terrorist group. When the woman smugly says she'll be happy being a "martyr to the cause" and that the only people hurt by the group are greedy developers, the team bring in the civilian who'd been trying to lure out the group she represents; Joel was eleven years old when that same group started a fire, his mother dying trying to get him out and Joel left with such horrific burns over most of his body that he barely looks human. Seeing such clear first-hand evidence of the effects of such actions is enough for the girl to give up her partners, and she tearfully apologises to Joel for what happened to him. | |
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On Strong Medicine, Andy is rocked when boyfriend Milo is killed by a drunk driver at an accident. The teen comes to Andy to ask for forgiveness with her naturally cold to him. He does get to talking to Jesse. At the prom, Jesse and the guy appear to be massively drunk and are kicked out. A loud crash is heard and the students race out to see the duo inside a crashed car, blood all over them and Andy sobbing. It turns out the whole thing was staged as the trio (especially the young man) want to show these kids the consequences of driving drunk and thinking it's no big deal. | |
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In Death Note, Light Yagami planned on using the power of the notebook to "cleanse" the world of evil by killing criminals worldwide and scare people to behave under the threat of being killed themselves. | |
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On NCIS, Ducky serves this function when the rest of the team is unable to break the perp. Like the CSI examples above, all it takes is having the perp watch the Creepy Mortician in action. | |
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An episode of Orange Is the New Black has a group of prisoners excited to take part in a scared straight program, where they have to yell at delinquent teenage girls. The prisoners even practice for the role. | |
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The "Ghost Car" film shown to Kim Possible's Driver's Ed class is presumably rather gory (even in scratchy black and white), judging from the reactions we see. | |
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My Hero Academia: Aizawa, a teacher infamous for expelling students at the drop of a hat if they don't measure up to his standards, was really doing this the entire time — he has the authority to expel any student, then re-enroll them, albeit with the black mark of expulsion still on their permanent records, to scare them into applying themselves properly. It never came up because none of the 1A students ever fell behind enough for him to feel it was warranted. Yes, even Mineta. | |
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A number of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes have featured shorts that were supposed to invoke this, but their over-the-topness leads them to being mocked. Besides the "X" Marks the Spot short, others have included: Last Clear Chance, a short showing that you should never horse around railroad crossings. Y'know, "Why don't they just look?" Cheating, a short showing you that if you cheat once, the entire world will hate you. The Days of Our Years, another short by the same group who did Last Clear Chance, that shows that no matter what happens, you will get hurt or die. No exceptions. Notably, that one managed to at least vaguely disturb the riffers at one point. More specifically, the part where a guy gets his eyes burned by a welding torch. |
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The Boondocks: "...Or Die Trying" has a parody of anti-piracy PSAs, which compares "stealing movies" to robbing and murdering an old lady. This succeeds at scaring Jazmine into fearing movie piracy. In "A Date with the Booty Warrior", Huey and Riley are sent to a "Scare 'em Straight" type of program, where they go to a prison and see how bad it is. But the whole thing goes very awry, when they and the rest of their group are taken hostage during a Prison Riot. However, in the ending, Riley claims to be completely unscared and unimpressed by his experience. |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Gary Seven's plan in "Assignment: Earth" is to cause an orbiting nuclear weapons platform to malfunction and almost start World War III in order to convince the politicians to give up on deploying such weapons. | |
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CSI: Miami: As part of their sentence, convicted drunk drivers would have to show up at the morgue, where Alexx would show them corpses of people who made the same mistake but weren't lucky enough to live through it. | |
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Arne Anka: After picking up an STD after a drunken one-night stand, Arne complains that the government should start putting warning labels on the alcohol bottles just like they do on the cigarette packs, except about the dangers of mixing alcohol with the choice of hookups. | |
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The Brady Bunch: "Bobby's Hero," from the fourth season, sees an elderly man, whose father had been killed by outlaw Jesse James during a robbery, set Bobby straight on the legend and the facts about James and his gang. | |
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Rugrats: One episode had the dentist suggest weaning Tommy at age one (which is how old he currently was). And he showed how bad it would be if they did not wean him at age one, showing a chart with two kids — one kid had a trophy saying "Best teeth," while the other had huge blanks in between each of his deformed teeth, and apparently, he wasn't weaned. Later, Tommy has a nightmare about a giant sippy cup that yells “DRINK ME!�. Another episode features Didi encouraging Lou to eat healthy, which he downright refuses, but when a video depicting the importance of heart healthiness that he is suggested to watch gets accidentally played in front of him, it convinces him well enough to change his eating habits, which starts out with Lou deciding to chow down on a dish of soybean casserole that Didi cooked for him. Considering how old Lou is, it must have been pretty serious. |
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In Toy Story, in order to save Buzz from Sid (a kid who loves to mutilate and blow up his toys), Woody decides to reveal to him that all toys are alive, and aware of what happens to them. He does this alongside every single toy that Sid mutilated. As a result, Sid becomes terrified of toys, which his little sister instantly takes advantage of. | |
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Big City Greens: In "Bleeped", Bill ends up going "full-dad" and outright insists the children not cuss anymore, complete with Blank White Eyes and an echoing voice. Said procedure is enough to frighten everyone (including Remy) into silence...except for Cricket, who only pretended to be scared so he can drop a B-bomb at the end of the choir concert. | |
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Parodied in an episode of The Venture Bros. The boys visit a prison "Scare 'em Straight" program... a supervillain program, even. The Monarch, as per usual, shows quite a bit of genuine concern over the boys being there, while other supervillains lament that they've made the wrong choices in life that led to them having horrible facial deformities and so on. | |
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The entire point of The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is to show the ravages of unchecked industry on the environment. | |
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Jack Chick's Chick Tracts, which attempt to scare people straight quite literally in many cases, by establishing homosexuals as being ungodly deviants who corrupt the young and, in one memorable instance that people have stumbled across, outright state that the homosexual community was willing to deliberately supply HIV-infected blood to the blood transfusion network in a form of political blackmail. They're so absurdly over-the-top ("AAAHHH... my leg's on fire!") that they're sometimes mistaken for parody, except he is absolutely serious about all of this and expects you to take it seriously as well. One of his more famous tracts is "Dark Dungeons," when he rails against Dungeons & Dragons, claiming that players will become involved in black magic and kill themselves if anything happens to their Player Character. That tactic is also used in "Dark Dungeons: The Movie!". His goal of scaring you into believing in God occasionally veers in a creepy direction. In one tract, a father sexually abuses his daughter and gives her gonorrhea. He then accepts Jesus and all is forgiven. His daughter magically isn't traumatized, and he suffers no legal consequences for the abuse. There's a reason that tract is no longer in circulation. Adventures in Odyssey, which usually doesn't pull this trope into effect heavily, did a similar thing in their "Castles and Cauldrons" episode, with a version of Dungeons & Dragons so exaggerated you had to wonder if they had watched even one or two minutes of people playing it. (And it still failed to live up to the silliness of the above example.) A parody of Chick Tracts has Jack Chick meeting his Maker, and God is not impressed: |
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One Got Fat, a 1963 film on bicycle safety, no doubt scared many a child. Narrated by Edward Everett Horton, it featured kids in creepy paper-mache monkey masks riding their bikes to a picnic, and getting into disturbing slapstick accidents for not obeying such rules of the road as "ride alone," "watch signs", or "use lights." The kid carrying everybody's lunches obeys all the rules and makes it to the picnic grounds in one piece (he's also the only one not wearing a mask, because "he's no monkey"), but seems unconcerned with his friends' plight and eats all their lunches (hence the title of the film, "One Got Fat"). The irony being supplied by the fact that, after generations of ominous warnings about the various dangers Out There, the authorities are now worried about kids... getting, um, fat. | |
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One episode of The Amazing World of Gumball has the parents and Principal Brown attempt this to discourage kids from skipping school by staging a fake hijacking with the schoolbus. It goes wrong when it turns into a REAL hijacking. | |
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The inspiration for Strangers with Candy was one Florrie Fisher: | |
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In A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the job of the Ghost of Christmas Yet-To-Come seems to scare people into changing by showing them a dark future should they continue with their corrupt ways. The Ghost succeeds with Ebeneezer Scrooge by showing him a future where Tiny Tim is dead, the Cratchits are in mourning, and practically everyone is glad Scrooge is dead. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Parodied on a regular sketch which has a group of prison inmates trying to "scare straight" a trio of teens, inevitably by retelling the plot of some film or the like. Usually, the horrible consequences the inmates use are based on story elements that aren't that horrible, actually. A notable installment has Lindsay Lohan playing "herself" and her "horrible crimes" are quickly recognized as just the plots of her various movies. There's also "motivational speaker" Matt Foley, who's thrice-divorced, strongly implied to be alcoholic, and lives in a van down by the river. His tactic is the reverse of most motivational speakers, trying to motivate young people to not turn out like him. |
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An easily 1990s Spider-Man subplot had Peter becoming concerned over Mary Jane's smoking. He brought her to see former supporting character Nick Katzenberg, now dying of cancer from his longtime smoking. The sight of the man as a weakened figure on oxygen was enough for Mary Jane to toss her pack on the spot. | |
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The IT Crowd features a parody anti-music piracy ad which states that pirating music is equivalent to stealing a policeman's helmet, murdering him, shitting in his helmet, presenting his shit-filled helmet to his grieving widow, and then stealing it again. And it implies that the punishment if you're caught pirating is summary execution. | |
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Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure: In one episode, Ageha attempts a soft version of this, telling Elle-chan that if she keeps drawing all over Mashiro's unfinished picture books, Mashiro will cry. This doesn't work, as Elle-chan instead tells Ageha that she hates her. | |
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Cheating, a short showing you that if you cheat once, the entire world will hate you. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Duckman, as Duckman's father had once attempted to scare him straight after he stole some candy from the store, by having the chief of police lock him up for an hour, similarly to the real-life experience of Alfred Hitchcock. Unfortunately, 15 minutes after putting young Duckman in a cell, the chief tipped over his chair and hit his head on a radiator, putting him in a coma for 18 months. No one else knew why he was in there, and his father never came back for him, so Duckman ended up staying in prison until the chief woke up and let him out. All this resulted in was giving Duckman a crippling fear of enclosed spaces. | |
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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: The episode "Busted" is one of the best animated Scare 'Em Straight episodes. Series host Bill Cosby warns at the beginning of the episode that some graphic language is used, and indeed it is: When Albert and his buddies are given the prison tour by a police officer, they hear lots of hooting and lurid comments from the inmates. Even without the use of strong profanity, the remarks that various inmates make about wanting the kids to join them in their cell (so they can have sex with them) – not to mention the strong commentary from two of the other inmates about not having any rights or freedoms, and the strong probability of lost opportunities once released – is enough to convince the gang to stay out of trouble and the hell away from people like Rudy's buddy, who got them in trouble in the first place. | |
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Jenny Green-Teeth, a monster encountered by Tiffany in The Wee Free Men, is identified by Miss Tick as a creation of parents who wanted to scare their kids out of playing too near the water. | |
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Judge Dredd once commented that if you gave him a "Juve aged 5," all he'd have to do was stare at him for a bit and it would scare them straight… in theory. Spikes Harvey Rotten got chosen to do speeches like this for the child cadets at the Academy of Law, but tried to use it as an opportunity to escape, only to run afoul of Dredd again. He ended up recruited as one of the crew members for the journey across The Cursed Earth to Mega-City 2. |
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Goblins in the Castle: Both humans and goblins have stories of creepy elderly women that are used for this purpose. According to Karl, Granny Pinchbottom is just a fictional character whom the old ladies in the area use to scare children into behaving, with threats that she'll "come tweak your cheeks while you sleep" or bite off part of a finger that they stuck where it didn't belong too many times. William later learns that she's Real After All. In Goblins on the Prowl, according to Herky, the gobliness Flegmire has a reputation for eating bad little goblins, and he was always warned about her by his mother. Wongo the troll, however, reassures the group that Flegmire is harmless, and the goblin mothers just use her to scare their children into behaving. |
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Hairspray parodies 1960's drunk driving Public Service Announcements with the perky, up-tempo curtain closer "Blood On The Pavement." | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Washouts," Spitfire gives a speech to Scootaloo warning her about the dangers of going through with joining the Washouts with Lightning Dust, saying that Scootaloo will end up "in a full body wing and hoof cast, drinking through a straw" multiple times. Spitfire does this in a Drill Sergeant Nasty tone with exaggerated body movements and at the top of her lungs to get the point across. At first, the speech doesn't work, as Scootaloo still joins the Washouts, but when she sees the ridiculously dangerous stunt she's supposed to perform, she admits she's thinking about "drinking through a straw" and tries to back out. | |
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Classic Doctor Who in the 60s and 70s indulges in this from time to time, because the show was originally conceived as Edutainment, because Nightmare Fuel Public Service Broadcasts aimed at children were omnipresent in the UK in the Seventies, and because the reason Doctor Who exists is to scare the Krotons out of children. A few examples: "The Web of Fear" contains a non-plot-important sequence when Jamie hops down onto the Underground train tracks and the Doctor launches into a lecture, complete with panicking and impassioned hand gestures: After the Nightmare Fuel sequence where Jo gets a piece of plastic sprayed over her airway by a killer fake daffodil, the Doctor gives a lecture about the dangers of suffocation from plastic sheets, mentioning that you only need four inches square of plastic to suffocate and you will be unconscious in two minutes and dead in ten. This was a hot topic at the time, as plastic bags were a new development. |
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In an episode of The Wire, there's a scene of some elementary school kids sitting in on a gangbanger's autopsy while someone lectures them about the dangers of a life of crime. But they don't seem particularly fazed at all. The coroner later jokes that it was more "bored stiff" than "scared straight." | |
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CSI also featured a more comical example of this when Nick arrested a stoner who was shining a laser pointer at commercial airliners. The kid was dumped in a holding room with a dozen hardened criminals who gleefully played along when Nick mentioned how "popular" the kid would be in jail. In an earlier episode, Catherine became worried her daughter would end up in trouble due to her rebellious streak, including hitchhiking across Las Vegas to see her grandfather, a thoroughly amoral casino tycoon. She dragged her down to the morgue and showed her a dead woman, pointing out she was killed despite being bigger and stronger than a young girl. |
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Motoko Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex does this to a group of med students. Three medical students who are well enough on their own decide to try their hand at stealing organs and selling them on the black market. It doesn't take much to capture the first two, but the leader of the operation runs off into the nearby warehouse. Motoko heads inside to deal with him personally. She pulls out a knife and threatens to kill him and sell his organs herself. He tries to plead and bargain with her, but she keeps advancing. She backs him into a corner, takes the knife and stabs it down at his head. One Gory Discretion Shot later, we see the kid is still alive, though he did wet his pants in fear. Motoko jammed the knife into an oil pipe right above his head. As all three students are being taken away by the police, she tells them that they all have promising educations and futures ahead of them and that they shouldn't get mixed up with illegal activities, especially ones that the Yakuza has a hand in. | |
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South Park "Proper Condom Use" had Ms. Choksondik showing the 4th-grade girls all the STDs they could contract if they had sex without the boy wearing a condom (never mind the fact that these girls are 9-10 years old), complete with graphic pictures. However, she fails to mention that the danger only occurs if they are sexually active. Hilarity ensues. A particularly vicious and (ironically) anvilicious takedown of these tactics in "My Future Self 'N Me." Town parents hire actors to fake being "future" drug addict versions of the kids, scaring them away from ever trying drugs. The rap crew in "Butt Out" that tried to get the kids to not smoke. The problem is, the group is so incredibly lame that when they end the performance with "if you never smoke, you can grow up to become just like us", the boys are terrified into smoking just to avoid ever turning into Totally Radical dweebs like them. In the episode "Faith Hilling", a teacher forces Butters to put a gun inside his mouth and shows the class a violent PSA on "Long Johnsoning", both intended to scare the children away from using memes. He is later shown dancing with the gun still in his mouth, AND HIS FINGER IS ON THE TRIGGER. Henrietta Biggle is sent to a correction camp by her concerned parents. Unfortunately, she becomes a suicidal emo and is even brattier than before. It’s up to her goth friends to save her. |
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In the Treegasm episode of Ugly Americans, Mark has Randall convince a tree to stay with its girlfriend by giving it a very long and very detailed account of his sexual history, culminating with "Oh, and also, my dick recently fell off. I don't know how I forgot that little chestnut." | |
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Apaches is a British public information film that shows the dangers of playing on farmyards, such as drowning in cow shit. Either that or the dangers of negligent farmers, it’s not quite clear. The entire film and a riff by Larry Bundy Jr. can be seen here. While much of the film can be pretty laughable, there is one scene that actually does its job right — Sharon unintentionally drinks some weed killer and goes home not feeling well. Shortly afterward, the film fades in to a shot of her house late that night, and while you never get to see what's happening inside the house, you can hear Sharon crying and screaming in agony from the chemical poisoning and calling for her mother as the lights turn on. The next scene shows Sharon's mother clearing her bedroom of her belongings and her now-empty bed. |
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On the Barney Miller episode a 9-year-old played by Todd Bridges tries to hold up Barney's wife Liz. Harris takes it upon himself to divert the kid from a life of crime. He does this by getting a pimp they have in custody to play up his own loser qualities, telling tales of a Judge Meanie who throws the book at young offenders, and bragging about his credit score. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls #62 (DC run): "Brat Trap" has Princess Morbucks holding a rally for materialism at Townsville Mall, giving her money to the kids so they can spend it on bling. The girls intercede, and Bubbles takes the stage: | |
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Played for laughs on Good Girls. When Ruby discovers her daughter Sara has been helping sell off stolen goods at school, she gets a cop friend to "scare" Sara with a trip to a jail. However, sharing the cell as well, it's Ruby who gets freaked out as (having secretly gotten involved in several robberies and working for a local gang boss) she realizes just how terrible jail is going to be for her and begs to be let out. | |
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Anders' personal quest in the second chapter of Dragon Age II ends with him losing control and menacing a young female escaped mage while glowing blue. If Hawke stops him from killing her, you run into her again outside, where she asks you what happened; Silly!Hawke's response is that it was all a demonstration to scare her away from the idea of ever summoning a demon. | |
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In Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory, your white-hat hacker group learns of a bullied teen who's plotting to murder his entire class by hacking the Brain Uploading cyberspace everyone uses to take control of their real bodies and make them jump off the roof of the school after murdering their teacher. Your team resolves this by letting them all think he succeeded, then when the guilt and Despair Event Horizon sets in for everyone they reveal that they faked the whole thing to teach them all a lession. | |
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Help I Am Being Held Prisoner: The stressful thought of having the prisoners connect his practical jokes inside the prison to the jokes he uses to delay the robbery eventually helps Harry give up on his habitat joking. | |
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Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson, is a badly-written, overdone, Anvilicious, ham-fisted morality tale laden with hackneyed stereotypes; it was also the bestselling novel in America from its publication in 1794 to when it was finally overturned by Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Charlotte Temple is the story of a young English girl who, sincerely in love, runs away with a soldier to America, beyond her family's ability to help her. Her soldier then abandons the girl when she's pregnant for a prettier, wealthier model, leaving Charlotte to eventually beg in the streets, and get a "happy" ending in that she dies in her father's arms. | |
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Parodied in an episode of MADtv with a commercial for "Scared Straight Anywhere". | |
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Family Guy: In the episode "Prick Up Your Ears", the school brings in a PSA group advocating for abstinence in the most hyperbolic terms possible. Such claims include "Sex turns straight people gay and gays into Mexicans", "If you have sex, your penis will fall off, and land in another dimension, populated entirely by dogs, who will eat it", and "If you have sex, you're automatically in Al-Qaeda". Another episode has Brian required to retake the DMV test to renew his license, and Stewie makes a "driving safety" video in the style of the old scare-em-straight gore fests, except with himself poorly edited into playing all the roles. If that wasn't bad enough, most of the video is just the characters talking about getting oral sex while driving. |
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Petunia's Boys: After deciding he's better off on Harry's side than on Voldemort's, Lucius Malfoy scares Draco out of wanting to be a Death Eater by showing scenes of the murders they get involved with. It works. | |
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Breaking Bad: Due to a series of miscommunications (Walt lying to his wife Skyler that Jesse is his pot dealer, his wife asking her sister Marie a totally hypothetical question about a stoner, only for her sister to mistakenly think the stoner in question is Skyler's son Walt Jr.), Marie tells her husband Hank to take his nephew Walt Jr. to a seedy motel to ogle the crackheads to show what drugs can do to you. Junior, who hasn't done any drugs at all, is of course completely bewildered and doesn't understand what's happening. Happens in-universe when Mike is recounting to Walt a past experience from when he was a police officer. He periodically had to deal with an abusive alcoholic who would regularly beat his wife, who was too scared to ever press charges, so they couldn't put him away for more than a day at a time. One day, Mike got furious enough that he drove the scumbag out into the desert acting like he was going to kill him, but it was just a warning that he better not lay a finger on his wife again or next time he won't be so merciful, and then Mike let him go. Unfortunately, the warning didn't stick, because two weeks later the guy beat his wife again, and to death this time. Mike considered it a lesson to himself that he should've "gone all the way" instead of committing a "half measure". |
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My Two Dads: The 1989 episode "Story With a Twist" sees teenager Nicole come home drunk. When her two fathers, Michael and Joey, learn she also drove with someone who was drunk, they decide to teach her a "scared straight" lesson... by themselves getting very drunk and then announcing they were going for a little drive. Judge Wilbur stops Michael and Joey just in time, before a petrified Nicole says she understands the consequences of drinking and driving; Wilbur then confides that she was in on the lesson all along. | |
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Dr Glaucomflecken: The Orthopedic Surgeon attempts to dissuade kids from the trampoline park by describing the various bone fractures he sees from trampoline-related injuries. | |
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Played with in an episode of Hill Street Blues. The Captain (a sort of costumed public relations guy for the precinct) tries bringing in a young juvenile offender to show him around and try to put a scare into him about crime. It not only doesn't work, when Mick lays into The Captain with a tirade that includes "people don't scare him, he scares people", the kid in turns lays into the officer with a death threat. The Captain still thinks he's getting somewhere. | |
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