Grounded and Punishment Day videos

Note: This page was previously on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki and Horrible Vyonders Wiki but was imported here due to both wikis closing and is also the first page on this wiki! This page was originally created by FinesseFinish on November 2, 2019, on Atrocious YouTubers Wiki, then it was ported to Horrible Vyonders Wiki by TBCtableEX the same day and was re-created by DarkMatterMan4500 on April 23, 2021. This page was also once on mh:terribletvshows:Terrible Shows & Episodes Wiki, but the pages were merged by JigglypuffGuy04 on December 22, 2021. Grounded Videos are a genre of videos made with Vyond and GoAnimate, and are commonly uploaded to YouTube. Punishment Day is a spin-off genre. It is by far, the most popular genre of videos made with the browser-based video maker, Vyond, and sometimes Plotagon. The first video, though not as the same type of formula of the videos nowadays, was a video titled "Diaper grounding" by PoseidonGodofWater20 Productions, which was uploaded on April 30, 2011. However, the first well-known grounded video was "Brian Gets in Trouble at School" by AdamKleinSchmidt2003, uploaded on July 2, 2011. They became popular with "Caillou Calls His Baby Sister Stupid", which was uploaded by African Vulture in December 2013 and later re-uploaded by the FunEditor4 on November 3, 2018.

Plot
A child (usually from a preschool show such as Caillou, Dora, or Little Bill) or an adult (Brian, Caillou's father, or Eric) does something "bad" such as skipping school, getting a dead meat card, getting fat at a fast-food restaurant, beating someone up, or misbehaving outside of the house. After that, they are usually grounded for a very long time.

Why Many of Them (Intentionally or Not) Deserve to Be "Grounded Grounded Grounded"
Note: Some of them are made as jokes and are intentionally made to be bad.
 * 1) The troublemaker often does bad things for no legit reason other than for the sake of her/him getting grounded just to learn a lesson.
 * 2) While the troublemaker gets a chance to listen to her/his parents talking about the situation on what she/he done, her/his parents rather tell her/him that he/she is grounded over and over (usually at least thrice), which quickly gets tiring.
 * 3) Most grounded videos contain the word "um" a lot when the victim tries to confess, and then they tell the truth, which can get annoying. Additionally, if they lie, then the parents will correct them, so why bother asking them if you already know what they did?
 * 4) Most of these videos have preschool show characters as the main grounded victims just because "they are for babies", which is a stupid excuse. The most common grounded victims are, as stated above, mh:terribletvshows:Caillou, Dora the Explorer, mh:terribletvshows:Peppa Pig, Arthur and D.W., mh:besttvshows:The Backyardigans, Elmo, and mh:besttvshows:Little Bill.
 * 5) *Since mid 2019, people now think it's a good idea to make Caillou's shirt gray (thus making them “Classic Caillou”) because they think Caillou is only bad in the first two seasons, and that using the yellow shirt Caillou uses is "misleading". This is not the case as there are a lot of problems with modern Caillou, so it's stupid to make that assumption.
 * 6) **Plus, these "Classic" characters are entirely separate characters from their counterparts, making the "Classic" prefix completely nonsensical.
 * 7) *Some people even make grounded videos out of non-troublemakers; for example, in VittorioTheVyonder2003's series of grounded videos out of Coop from mh:terribletvshows:Kid vs. Kat, Coop always gets grounded by Buck Diamond and Mayor Humdinger, neither of whom are anyway related to him at all, not to mention that the latter character is from a completely different TV show. In the show, Coop is shown to be a good protagonist and has a father and a sister. This just shows that the people who make grounded videos out of him clearly have not watched the show at all nor done any research on the characters.
 * 8) People also often make grounded videos out of adults such as Bob the Builder, Steve and Joe from mh:besttvshows:Blue's Clues, Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House, Barney the Dinosaur, Postman Pat, Pain from Naruto, King Pig and Corporal Pig from Angry Birds, Boris and Doris (Caillou's parents), Manny Garcia from Handy Manny, Thomas the Tank Engine (sometimes, mostly ungrounded), Tubb from Rubbadubbers, and Elena (Dora's mom) when in real life, adults cannot get grounded and the limited age to get grounded at is 18, making the "adults get grounded series" dumpster fires and pure trash. In reality, adults would get arrested instead of simply just getting grounded.
 * 9) *Several grounded videos of Joe from Blue's Clues exist, which were primarily made by TheColossalD and Pooh 'n Ponies.
 * 10) *On top of that, ever since the Boris Gets Grounded series was dying out (due to toxic users known as Boris fanboys), there are now these similar types of grounded videos called "Coris Gets Grounded" or "Toris Gets Grounded", but what they ignore is the fact that Coris and Toris are just lazy recolors of Boris (Coris wears a red hoodie, black pants, and yellow shoes, and Toris has a grey hoodie compared to Boris' green hoodie, blue pants, and red shoes).
 * 11) *They sometimes even get grounded by their child or people that are in no way related to them; an example of this is in the "Bob the Builder Gets Grounded" series, where he gets grounded by Farmer Pickles and/or his partner Wendy, even though Farmer Pickles is in no way related to Bob in the actual show, and neither is Wendy.
 * 12) **To make matters worse, Bob is shown to have a father and a mother as seen in the actual show. Heck, Bob even has a brother named Tom! This just goes to show that the people who make these grounded videos haven’t watched the show before making these videos.
 * 13) Some people make grounded videos out of other users or real-life people, which is considered cyber-bullying or harming the person they target.
 * 14) *A common example would be Justin Bieber Gets Grounded.
 * 15) Speaking of the names Coris and Toris, those aren't even close to actual names, as they only replaced the B in his name with different letters, which is plain lazy. There are also several other version of characters who have been lazily named, including:
 * 16) The Caillou brothers (e.g. Daillou, Baillou, Paillou).
 * 17) Fora the Fucker, who is the evil variant of Dora. She wears a red T-shirt and blue shorts.
 * 18) *Not to mention her title name can also be extremely offensive.
 * 19) And some other characters as well, including Rosie and Doris.
 * 20) Depending on the type of grounded video, they are extremely repetitive and often reuse the same plot over and over again, just with different characters.
 * 21) *Even almost all of the videos have the same backgrounds, most likely because the people who worked on this didn’t have the time to make different backgrounds.
 * 22) **When photos from real life or other media are used as backgrounds, the way that the characters move around doesn't feel right, as their feet aren't properly planted on the ground.
 * 23) Atrocious writing as little-to-no research is done and most of the videos contain absolutely no common logic whatsoever and add in stuff that does not make any sense:
 * 24) The troublemaker's grounding sentence is absurd, oftentimes lasting decades, centuries, millenniums, or in some cases, even for eternity, which is just crazy, outright mentally insane, and completely unrealistic. In real life, you'd be dead long before then. In one circumstance, specifically when Caillou turned a fancy restaurant into Chuck E Cheese's, he got grounded for over a quintillion years.
 * 25) Sometimes characters get grounded by characters that they have a good relationship with. As mentioned earlier, Bob the Builder is shown to have actual parents and a brother, but for some reason, every grounded video involving him always have Bob being grounded by Farmer Pickles or Wendy, which doesn't make any sense. In the show, Bob is shown to have a good relationship with them, whom again, aren't even related to him.
 * 26) Caillou is seen having a crush on or dating Dora in a lot of videos, which is hemophilia, since he's just 4 years old, an age that's way too young for relationships.
 * 27) *Rather than having a relationship with each other, couldn't they wait and stay as friends until they're teenagers? Because in real life, the average age to start dating is between 15-16 years old.
 * 28) In most videos, characters under the age of 1-3 years are able to speak proper English without any issues whatsoever. In real life, it takes some time to succeed as most children start forming sentences around the age of 3, but their speech isn't fully developed until they get to be around 6 or 7 years of age, sometimes 5.
 * 29) In videos where the troublemaker insults their sibling who had just been born, it's evident that the sibling is able to understand the insult, even though they've been in the world for less than a minute.
 * 30) Oftentimes, the grounded victim does something good, yet still gets grounded.
 * 31) In this other series of grounded videos known as "Behavior Card Days", the character could also get in trouble just for getting a black (or occasionally red) card, also known as dead meat, which is unfair since a character the user likes gets a better card (mostly leading to them graduating from school), while a character the user hates gets a bad one, expelling them from school. These types of videos, like many other ones, are extremely unrealistic, especially since it's against the law to give kids massive amounts of time off of school without permission.
 * 32) Some scenes of certain videos can also scare users who come across them, like the Red Alert/Double Red Alert sound effects, some FNAF jumpscare sounds, and ear piercing sounds. They mostly don't even design to add warnings too, though sometimes they do.
 * 33) They use boring and pointless text-to-speech voices, which make them sound monotonous and robotic:
 * 34) When the characters cry, they sound like this:
 * 35) Wah-ah eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-aw w-ah (Ivy, Jennifer)
 * 36) Wah (several times, various)
 * 37) WA-EE AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH AUGH-H-AH (Eric)
 * 38) WAHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-rah (Oddcast Voices), or when the VoiceForge voices sound like strange machines when they cry, mainly with Caillou’s voice (wAA-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-ah).
 * 39) Said crying sounds are very glitchy and unrealistic due to the limited technical capabilities of the speech system.
 * 40) When making an expression like "Grrrr!" and "Ahhhhh", the character pronounces the letters in the expression, making them say "G-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R" or "A-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H". This can apply to crying as well.
 * 41) They also mispronounce words, like "Caillou" as "kay-loo" or "K.I. Loo." This is because the name "Caillou" is French and the TTS voices speak English.
 * 42) They mostly contain the same overused music such as Big Rock, Suspense, Devil's Lair, etc. Most of them don't even have background music, which makes the video boring and monotonous.
 * 43) The animation is also very cheap too. Literally, when the characters move to express pain or discomfort, they are dancing, or when they eat something, they chew and that's it, and most notoriously, when they are shown to be interacting with something, they simply point at it. Even the late Looney Tunes shorts outright had so much better animation compared to these lackluster computer-generated atrocities. Many of these videos outright use stock-images online for certain characters.
 * 44) For example, in one grounded video titled "Classic Caillou Misbehaves At The Kalahari Water Park Resort", the beginning of the video features the characters fully-animated in their Comedy World counterparts. However, as the video progresses, the characters immediately turn into stock-images, even Classic Caillou, who literally uses a stock-image of his Comedy World self from online! 
 * 45) Some videos are even aware of their laziness and have a character break the fourth wall to admit their laziness. For example, if one character asks why such thing is floating, is of a certain color, or just about anything out of the norm, the other character answers "GoAnimate/Vyond logic".
 * 46) A good amount of the Comedy World character designs are lazy, as they look too stock, and they look like they use the same character template. While this isn't the case with all the character designs, it's still a problem nonetheless.
 * 47) *Some character designs from some other themes like Business Friendly and Lil' Peepz can also look lazy too.
 * 48) Clipping is also very common throughout these videos. For instance, one character may walk behind the props and/or characters in a scene, despite originally being in front of them.
 * 49) A good majority of these videos have characters getting grounded for stupid and nonsensical reasons, such as:
 * 50) *Making fake VHS/DVD openings (even though this would constitute a copyright violation)
 * 51) *Farting in class
 * 52) *Peeing or Pooping in class (though it is gross)
 * 53) *Appearing on TV
 * 54) *Dancing naked (though it makes sense in context)
 * 55) *Expressing their opinion on something (ranting/saluting on a subject or saying yes/no to something)
 * 56) *Being held back to previous grades
 * 57) *Insulting their newborn siblings
 * 58) *Going up against someone's body
 * 59) *Breathing (Seriously?!)
 * 60) *Existing (That too!)
 * 61) *Getting fat at a restaurant
 * 62) *Dropping by Squidward's house
 * 63) *Taking a shower (So is this!)
 * 64) *Being pregnant. (That makes no sense!)
 * 65) The videos listed below are probably the worst kinds of grounded videos:
 * 66) *X Destroys the Buildings and Gets Grounded: This is probably the worst type of grounded video. The plot goes as follows: Outside of a store, the troublemaker is with a parent/guardian, not that often a third character. The troublemaker tells the parent/guardian if they can go to either saying that it's nearby, or that they want to go to it. The parent/guardian says that they can't go, and the argument continues a few times. The troublemaker finally loses it, turns into a giant, and destroys a few buildings. After it’s over, the troublemaker goes back to normal size, and the characters go home. At home, usually one or more extra characters there, the parent/guardian gives them their grounding sentence, and the troublemaker goes to their room crying.
 * 67) **Firstly, how can someone grow that big without any legit reason?
 * 68) **Secondly, you wouldn't get grounded for destroying buildings. Instead, you would be arrested or even executed.
 * 69) **Lastly, why were there not any people screaming while the city was being destroyed?
 * 70) *(Group of Characters) Ground the Whole World and Gets Grounded: Though the idea sounds cool, it’s actually really horrible. The plot: A troublemaker says that they're tired of being grounded all the time, and comes up with an idea about grounding the entire world. They call a few friends about their plan, and one of the troublemakers says that there's a TV station nearby. After meeting up, they go into the building and record themselves to the world in front of a single color background to anyone in the entire world using a television. They proceed to hijack the television feed and replace it with the recording, where they tell all the people watching TV that they're tired of everyone grounding them and that they're all grounded. Everyone on Earth, even if they're not watching, starts crying. After one family member finds out, they call the other troublemaker's family members, and a member of each troublemaker's family comes to stop them. They tell them to come home for all the drama they've caused. At the end of the video, there is a transition where the rest of each troublemaker's family grounds the troublemaker, and the character go to their rooms crying.
 * 71) **Firstly, it's not possible to air a single video feed to the entire world all at once.
 * 72) **Secondly, why would everyone on Earth, especially including the people who aren't watching TV, start crying? Everyone has more than one emotion, and most of the people watching would probably be frustrated, or possibly shocked and a little scared. Also, why would everyone believe they are grounded after people who have no authority over them ground them?
 * 73) **Third, how is it possible for the troublemakers to get into the place, despite other asking the people in there? If they were there, the people who work there would kick the troublemakers out after telling them what they want to do.
 * 74) ***Also, how can you instantly make a video/announcement? It would take a few minutes or probably days, not right away.
 * 75) **Lastly, how could people in countries that don't speak the language that the troublemakers are using even understand the message that the troublemakers are delivering?
 * 76) *X Misbeha ves on the Way to Y and Gets Grounded: This is likely the most repetitive type of grounded video, at least for the movie theater ones. The plot: The entire family is getting ready to go to a movie a character wants to see. The troublemaker asks if they can stay home, and one of the parents says no. The troublemaker then says "Fine.", and they all start driving. Shortly after, the troublemaker says that they're hungry and want to go to a fast-food restaurant. The driver says no, but the troublemaker continues to engage the driver about wanting food until they finally cave in. About half an hour later, the troublemaker comes back into the car, where the driver is sleeping. The driver tells the troublemaker they went to sleep because he took too long, and they continue driving. The troublemaker then throws the food they bought out of the car window and, for some reason, the car loses control and starts flipping, taking them to the movie theater. There, one of the employees tells the family that the movie is over and that it will never be played again nor put on DVD or VHS. After being told, the character who wanted to see the movie starts crying, and the rest of the family is angry at the troublemaker. They go home and give the troublemaker their grounding sentence, and they go to their room crying.
 * 77) **This type of grounded video has two plot holes:
 * 78) ***Firstly, how can a single piece of food cause a car to go off its wheels? Though it's possible at a high enough speed, the car was likely driving at a normal speed.
 * 79) ***Secondly, why would a movie only be played one time, when there's no explanation of why that happens to the film and what happens to the film? In real life, a film is played on a certain schedule time, and usually after around three months, watchable by the public domain.
 * 80) **As said above, this is very likely to be the most repetitive type of grounded video. This is because each video has the same entire plot, just with different characters and a different restaurant.
 * 81) **Due to limited backgrounds, the movie theater looks like a fancy restaurant.
 * 82) **In rare cases, instead of using food to make the car go off its wheels, the troublemaker asks if they can go to a store to buy a video game, puts whoopee cushions on the car seats after, and puts laughing powder on their siblings' shoes, which causes the car to crash into a tree, which stalls them further from seeing the movie until the car gets fixed.
 * 83) *X Misbeha ves at (Restaurant) and Gets Grounded: This type of grounded video almost always follows the same formula. The plot: The troublemaker asks one of their parents if they can go to a certain restaurant. The parent says no, causing the troublemaker to throw a fit until the other parent announces that they don't have any food left in the house or don't have the ingredients to make a certain item. This makes the troublemaker happy, and their parent takes them to the desired restaurant. They go inside and place their orders, with the troublemaker wanting a certain item. The cashier says that they're out of the item, much to the troublemaker's surprise. The cashier suggests another item, but the troublemaker instead demands the item they wanted to get. After the parent tells the troublemaker to stop being a spoiled brat, the troublemaker suggests that they go across the street to buy a diamond ring to "engage" them in front of the people in the restaurant. The troublemaker then "engages" the restaurant by destroying it. After the destruction is over, the parent scolds the troublemaker and takes them home. In the car, the troublemaker begs the parent if they can go back to the restaurant to order the item the cashier suggested, but they refuse. When they get home, the parent grounds the troublemaker.
 * 84) **This type  of video has two plot holes:
 * 85) ***Firstly,  why would the troublemaker demand the parent to buy a diamond ring to "engage" them? It makes no sense when you think about the context the word was used in for the video.
 * 86) ****This scen e usually varies depending on the video. In some cases, the troublemaker would instead get a burger and yell at the parent to "smash it in their face."
 * 87) ***Secondly,  why would the troublemaker tell the parent that they want to go back to the restaurant, when they already know that they destroyed it earlier?
 * 88) *X Swears in Class and Gets Grounded: The video starts with the class answering simple math questions (most of the time) from the teacher. One student tries to answer the question only for the troublemaker to rudely interrupt their answer. The student tells the troublemaker to stop talking and to let them speak, but the troublemaker defends themselves while also saying a swear word (censored/uncensored) out loud. Several other students in the class proceed to repeat the swear word, ignoring the teacher's statements to stop. The troublemaker then tries to prove that swearing is not wrong and does not hurt anybody by saying the word several times in front of the teacher. The teacher then threatens to send the troublemaker and all the other students who said the swear word to the principal’s office, only for the troublemaker to say a profane insult to the teacher. The teacher loses it and sends all the students who said the swear word to the principal's office. In the office, the troublemaker tries to claim that they all learnt the word from their teacher, but the principal denies these claims and sends them all home where they are grounded by their parents, with the starting troublemaker getting the most severe punishment of them all.
 * 89) **While it may seem original at first, the plot of most of these types of videos (intentionally or unintentionally) straight up rip off the scene from mh:greatestmovies:South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut where Eric Cartman swears at Kyle in class only for Stan and Kenny to repeat what they were saying, and when Eric insults Mr. Garrison by using obscene language and what Eric said when they got sent to Mr. Mackey’s office.
 * 90) *X Has a Nightmare and Gets Grounded: Possibly the most illogical out of the bunch, the plot goes as follows: The video begins with the troublemaker waking up from bed. Their parent then barges into their room and grounds them for "waking up." The troublemaker argues with their parent about this, only for them to get grounded for an even longer period of time. The same routine gets repeated as the troublemaker performs different tasks (e.g. eating breakfast, going to school, watching TV, eating at a restaurant, etc), with their parent grounding them even longer over it. Most of these videos reveal this sort of scenario as a nightmare the troublemaker had. After waking up from the nightmare, their parent walks into the room, and the troublemaker tells them about it. The video ends with the parent grounding the troublemaker over having that same nightmare.
 * 91) **The main problem with these videos is, why would the parent ground their child for no legit reason? Sure, the child may have done some bad stuff before, but they weren't doing anything wrong in the video!
 * 92) **All in all, this is just a basic torture episode for the troublemaker, which is downright unfair and stupid.
 * 93) ***This entire type of video overall, is considered as one of the most stupid reasons to ground someone.
 * 94) *X Misbehaves at (Resort) and Gets Grounded: The video starts with the troublemaker's parents announcing that they are going to a resort with a group of people, and the troublemaker gets excited about it, but is given a certain number of strikes beforehand. After being sent there, the troublemaker asks the group if they can go to the slide, and the leader says yes. Later, it cuts to a line for the slide, where the troublemaker complains about being in the line to the slide, but the group leader threatens to take them down the slide with them if they don't be patient. Afterwards, the troublemaker finally gets to go down the slide, but runs into a group of people. The troublemaker proceeds to kill the group of people blocking them, making one of the group members cry. The group's leader calls the troublemaker out for this and gives them a strike. The group then goes to the wave pool, where a movie is about to play, usually one the troublemaker doesn't like. The troublemaker, realizing this, decides to announce that there are dangerous animals in the wave pool, sending everyone into a panic. The troublemaker is then given another strike. After that, the group goes to the other water park, where the troublemaker tries to go onto another slide, but there is someone in the way. The troublemaker then injures the person in front of them, thus granting them another strike. The next morning, they proceed to head to the arcade, where the troublemaker tries to win tickets from a skeeball machine. After many unsuccessful attempts of getting the balls in, they bang on the machine, causing it to set on fire. The troublemaker flees alongside everyone else before the entire resort explodes. The troublemaker, after being sent home, is grounded by their parents, who have to pay a huge bill for all the damages caused.
 * 95) **This type of grounded video has three plot holes:
 * 96) ***Firstly, why didn't the troublemaker get arrested at all during their stay at the resort? They literally killed a group of people, made a false alarm, and set fire to the entire resort!
 * 97) ***Secondly, how does banging on a skee-ball machine cause it to set on fire?
 * 98) ***Lastly, a single fire wouldn't have caused that much destruction to a resort, most notably a water-themed one. At best, the fire would have caused minor damage to just the arcade, mostly the skee-ball machine.
 * 99) Even worse, the troublemaker sometimes gets executed by the law for repeating there bad behavior despite them not even being criminal offences, though this isn't as common as groundings.
 * 100) Sometimes when a character gets grounded, their parent will call a bunch of random people over to their house to interrogate the grounded character or discuss the punishments they will be getting. This gets annoying and repetitive and only exists as filler to pad out most of the remaining running time (user Nicholas Crockett has done this a lot with his previously mentioned Zombie Jackson gets Grounded series).
 * 101) Ungrounded videos aren't any better because they have the same plot as grounded videos, except the kid does something good and gets rewarded.
 * 102) *Sometimes, the kid does something that deserves punishment, such as destroying Nick Jr. or PBS Kids, all because of Dora the Explorer or Barney the Dinosaur, but then again, they get rewarded all because of it. There's also a Plotagon video where Caillou blows up the Sony Pictures Animation HQ, yet he gets ungrounded. There are even types of videos when a kid arrests someone, and yet they still get ungrounded and rewarded.
 * 103) *In fact, there are some videos where a character kills another character and gets ungrounded! The worst example of this is a video showing Adolf Hitler getting ungrounded for killing Barney the dinosaur, we're not joking.
 * 104) *The kid getting ungrounded might not even be grounded at the beginning, so what's the point of being ungrounded if you're not even grounded in the first place?
 * 105) In many of these videos, a certain plot plays out where every time a student misbehaves at school, they get held back a grade, or in this case, they are moved back from say, 12th grade to 11th grade. That's not even the definition of "held back". To be held back would mean that you would have to repeat the same grade the next year, not get sent back a grade that same year. It's also unrealistic to go back from high school, all the way down to preschool, for example.
 * 106) *There is also a plot hole: how would the previous teachers know what the troublemaker did in 12th grade? It’s as if the 12th-grade teacher notified the troublemakers' past teachers and told them to hold the student back if he makes one small mistake, which is also really unfair.
 * 107) Many grounded videos have disturbing and gross content, such as one that has Dora putting rat poison in the school lunch.
 * 108) Punishment day videos, speaking of which, have punishments that can't even be considered punishments; it's nothing but plain cruelty, and child abuse, which consist of the troublemaker being forced to do things like:
 * 109) *Drinking toilet water
 * 110) *Eating or drinking poison
 * 111) *Getting spanked in the butt
 * 112) *Eating feces and/or drinking urine
 * 113) *Be wildly mutilated or beaten
 * 114) *Get sent to scary logos, such as Klasky Csupo's "Super Scary Face", Viacom's "V of Doom", ВИD's "Mask of Guo Xiang", WGBH Boston's "Neon Sign", THX's "Deep Note", Screen Gems' "S from Hell", or the Nickelodeon pinch face, none of which are even scary
 * 115) *Listen to earrape until said grounded person has bleeding ears or goes deaf
 * 116) *Take a shower with excruciatingly hot or cold water that would either burn or freeze you to death (besides, it's not possible to go below the absolute zero, -273.15 degrees C or -459.67 degrees F)
 * 117) *Have their favouite things either burned, broken, sold to a "good" user, or crushed no matter what price
 * 118) *Sleep outside, even if there is rain, thunder, lightning, or snow
 * 119) *Wear diapers, or worse, be treated like a baby (which means things like eating baby food, sleeping in a crib, and going to daycare)
 * 120) *Watch TV shows (such as preschool shows, older children and teen shows, adult shows, primetime shows), films, and play video games not owned/produced/distributed by companies they like, not made for their age, or related to a certain character or property, which especially applies to videos involving Warren Cook.
 * 121) **Speaking of Warren Cook, he is very close-minded and is too old to get grounded. Some new videos show him as a good man.
 * 122) **Also, who even is Warren Cook?
 * 123) *Drinking fiery hot sauce
 * 124) *Eating food they don't like
 * 125) *Eating/drinking food or drinks that expired
 * 126) *Getting blasted off like Team Rocket
 * 127) *Getting brutally killed or executed (as it followed along with the others celebrating the troublemaker's death at the end)
 * 128) While it isn't too common, some people who watch might become uncomfortable due to the inclusion of gross-out humor, shock value, nudity, pedophilia, incest, urine, vomit, fecal matter, blood, mutilation, and on rare occasions, female periods, etc.
 * 129) *A video has Arthur and D.W. getting grounded for dancing naked, which is highly inappropriate.
 * 130) **Speaking of which, Arthur and D.W. aren't even dancing naked, but are dancing with clothes that are the same color as their hair.
 * 131) *Another video shows Caillou raping and having sex with Rosie, then being raped by Boris.
 * 132) **Not to mention that this is something that Caillou would never do, not even in GoAnimate. The farthest he would go is killing Rosie, which is uncommon, yet it is still bad.
 * 133) Atrocious and horrific morals: You should ground your kids for very long periods and abuse them. The parents never even get punished for abusing their kids and get off scot-free, making them Karma Houdinis.
 * 134) *Even if though they do bad stuff like call the baby stupid, it’s still not an excuse for parents to ground them.
 * 135) Some punishments are pretty offensive, such as Caillou getting sent to India in one video as a punishment, and Dora getting sent to Italy in another (besides, India and Italy aren't bad countries!).
 * 136) Speaking of offensive, some videos can even contain racially insensitive content, one of the most infamous examples being "Boris the Teeth Guy", an evil version of Caillou's father who uses profanities and all sorts of racial and homophobic slurs like the f-word and the b-word.
 * 137) *Dora's mother is prejudiced against her daughter, despite being Mexican herself, meaning she's a hypocrite. It's also offensive and child abuse, especially to the Mexican audience.
 * 138) Some of these videos depict a troublemaker celebrating someone's death.
 * 139) *For example, in the infamous and pointless video, Dora And Caillou Get Executed Big Time, their parents (Boris, Doris, Elena, and Miguel) and other various people (such as Sonic) celebrate the death of Caillou and Dora just for a very demonic reason. In real life, you would give a tribute to a person who has passed away, not celebrating their death, which shows how many of these idiots these characters are in these grounded videos.
 * 140) In most videos, the troublemakers are brainless and are complete idiots. For example, when they need to poop or vomit, they do it right on the spot, when they could easily go to the bathroom instead. Or, when their parent tells them they're grounded or subjected to a punishment day, rather than trying to escape, do something, or defend themselves instead of just yelling and crying?
 * 141) Some people that make these videos are not only SJWs and obsessive Anti-SJWs, but also Neo-Nazis as well!
 * 142) While the lip-syncing is okay for most of the themes, some of them have bad lip-syncing as they either don't fit up with the voices (Cartoon Classics and Stick Figure), or they don't fit up with the emotion (Lil' Peepz and Business Friendly'').
 * 143) Oftentimes, due to many of the videos being made with weak hardware and then screen-recorded with Bandicam or similar software, there tends to be a lot of lag in these videos, especially when there are a lot of characters on-screen.
 * 144) Some of the punishments involve sending the victim to a foreign country (usually European and/or Asian). They are sent there without food, money, or family.
 * 145) *And when the said victim attempts to escape the country, the victim will get grounded by a bunch of other people even though they have nothing to do with the video, which is downright stupid.
 * 146) Some of these videos can break YouTube's guidelines, as with one video about Dora committing a mass school shooting and killing dozens of innocent children and teachers. WE ARE NOT JOKING! Here is the video link if you don't believe us.
 * 147) Sometimes the troublemaker will just say they will do something bad and then they do it with no build up which is just lazy because they are just doing it for no reason

Ungrounded Qualities

 * 1) Some grounded videos are okay because the parents don't repeat the word "grounded", and sometimes even give realistic grounding sentences (such as DeVario Lopez's "Mean Big Sister Curses At The Baby"). Others (like Ivan the Brony Kaiju and Jacob the Little Witch Academia Bro) never use the word "grounded" and instead has the guardians send the troublemaker to their room.
 * 2) Although most of the Comedy World (and some character designs from other themes) character designs look lazy, some of the creators at least tried their best to make the characters accurate. On top of that, some designs can look accurate, but they only come from users who actually care about quality.
 * 3) There are several satirical videos, parodies, and laziness videos, all of which are hilarious, and are supposed to be funny.
 * 4) *In the "laziness" versions of grounded videos, bastardized versions of commonly used characters (like Caillou) in these types of videos.
 * 5) *Although a few these videos may contain a little bit of swearing and inappropriate content, this is never taken to far, and can also make the video a little bit funnier.
 * 6) The very first grounded video made by adamkleinschmidt2003 wasn't too bad, as it was much more realistic than grounded videos nowadays and the troublemaker gets grounded for being rude to a teacher, which is completely understandable for the parents to ground him for that. Besides, it wasn't an exaggeratedly infinite sentence.
 * 7) *On top of that, the troublemaker even redeems himself by apologizing to his teacher at the end and gets ungrounded, which is nice.
 * 8) Though it doesn't usually happen, there are a good number of videos where the troublemaker tries their best to escape any harm.
 * 9) Some troublemakers do deserve to get grounded for their misfortunes, whether it would be either karmic or satisfying such as being unlikable, mean, annoying, selfish, immature, etc.
 * 10) Despite some videos having very offensive swear words, some other videos contain censorship whenever a character says it. What's even better is that videos with porn in them are quite rare.
 * 11) Despite the troublemaker getting grounded for an unrealistically long time or receiving unfair punishments or is from a T.V. show meant for young children, several videos have characters getting grounded for fair and realistic reasons, such as:
 * 12) Skipping school
 * 13) Misbehaving at a certain place
 * 14) Bullying/cyberbullying
 * 15) Stalking
 * 16) Beating someone up
 * 17) Going to their favorite restaurant while grounded
 * 18) Lying
 * 19) Sneaking out
 * 20) Dating someone at an early age
 * 21) Being rude to a teacher
 * 22) Insulting someone
 * 23) Being disrespectful to a parent
 * 24) Refusing to do things they get asked to do (i.e., homework, chores, etc.)
 * 25) Throwing tantrums
 * 26) Smoking/Vaping (harms your health in several ways)
 * 27) Vandalism
 * 28) Cutting class
 * 29) Hurting someone's feelings
 * 30) Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 31) Pirating a movie/video game
 * 32) Selling bootleg/pirated DVDs
 * 33) Breaking someone's item
 * 34) Celebrating deaths
 * 35) Giving someone a punishment day
 * 36) Blaming someone else for their actions/Victim playing (known as playing a blame game)
 * 37) Threatening people
 * 38) Watching a movie/show or playing a game they aren't supposed to watch/play
 * 39) Going on websites they aren't supposed to be on
 * 40) Cheating in school
 * 41) Stealing
 * 42) Ordering an item from a food place without permission
 * 43) Some people (such as mh:amazingyoutubers:Samster5677 and mh:amazingyoutubers:Kenny Animate for example) put more effort into making their grounded videos by making them more realistic and funny than most grounded videos you can find on YouTube, not to mention that some of them make grounded videos for fun more than just expressing hatred towards a character.
 * 44) Not all grounded videos use characters from other intellectual properties. Several grounded videos are made with original characters (e.g. Violy, Kenward, Raven, Rebecca, Christo, Lamar, Tristan, Ekul, Nailij).
 * 45) The text-to-speech voices can sound funny sometimes.
 * 46) They could be considered "so bad, they're good". So that makes them usually funny to watch.
 * 47) Some of them poke fun at how unreasonable the grounding reasons are.
 * 48) *In some cases, the parents can also get grounded (like Boris in most cases where he can be portrayed as a troublemaker) for grounding their kids for no reason. Karma.
 * 49) Sometimes grounded videos do show us the consequences of causing trouble and bad behavior, even if not well executed.
 * 50) There are two themes, the Lil' Peepz theme (very seldom used) and the Business Friendly theme (sometimes used), which are much better themes to use instead of Comedy World, as they have a lot more character movements and reactions to choose from.
 * 51) In some grounded videos, they use more varied music.

Reception
Before 2016, these videos were met with praise from (mostly) Vyonders. However, as years come by, they have mostly received mixed to negative reception from a majority of YouTubers, Vyonders, and professional animators. They have been criticized for being formulaic, repetitive, predictable, unoriginal, lazy, mean-spirited, etc. However, they do have a cult following, with some considering them to be "so bad, they're good".

Examples of grounded videos
There are multiple ways that a troublemaker gets grounded in these videos. Here's a list of examples of ways a troublemaker can get grounded, with some of the reasons being nonsensical or realistic:
 * 1) Abusing Vyond logic
 * 2) Beating up another person
 * 3) Blaming someone else for their actions/Playing a blame game
 * 4) Blasting loud music (usually on any location or at 3AM)
 * 5) Breaking someone's item
 * 6) Bringing an adult-rated movie to school
 * 7) Bullying someone else
 * 8) Buying an item (usually using someone else's credit card, usually from a relative)
 * 9) Calling somebody (usually a relative) by their real name
 * 10) Celebrating deaths
 * 11) Chewing gum at school (Consuming chewing gum anywhere in Singapore is illegal, believe it or not)
 * 12) Cheating in school (usually a school test or the finals)
 * 13) Crying in the hospital after being born
 * 14) Cutting class
 * 15) Doing their favorite activity while grounded
 * 16) Downgrading computers to an older operating system
 * 17) Doxxing
 * 18) Drawing a big fat meanie/getting blamed for drawing it
 * 19) Dropping by Squidward's House
 * 20) Eating food that is not allowed by the guardians
 * 21) Expressing your opinion on something
 * 22) Failing a pop quiz
 * 23) Farting in class
 * 24) Framing someone who didn't do anything wrong
 * 25) Getting a math question wrong
 * 26) Getting coal/bad presents for Christmas
 * 27) Getting detention
 * 28) Getting held back
 * 29) Getting in dead meat on a behavior card day
 * 30) Getting someone in dead meat/expelled for no reason
 * 31) Getting someone else arrested
 * 32) Getting someone else grounded for their actions
 * 33) Giving someone else a punishment day
 * 34) Giving someone a concussion
 * 35) Going trick or treating, usually without permission
 * 36) Grounding someone (example: Grounding an innocent character/user)
 * 37) Grounding their family members for everything
 * 38) Grounding the whole world along with other troublemakers
 * 39) Having a nightmare
 * 40) Hosting a slumber party when not allowed to
 * 41) Hurting somebody's feelings
 * 42) Insulting their newborn sibling
 * 43) Insulting someone else
 * 44) Injuring someone else
 * 45) Killing somebody else (and disrespecting their funeral)
 * 46) Killing somebody's favorite character
 * 47) Locking somebody in their room
 * 48) Losing a game
 * 49) Making a fake food stand (example: a chocolate stand that has fecal matter)
 * 50) Making a fake VHS opening (seriously, what even are they?!)
 * 51) Making a grounded video out of someone
 * 52) Making a pirated video game and selling it
 * 53) Making an account on a website (Even though this condition isn't that bad in real-life)
 * 54) Making an unfair Behavior Card Day (Giving the troublemakers/bad characters/users some good cards, and giving the innocent/good characters/users some bad cards)
 * 55) Making up false accusations for their actions who didn't do anything wrong
 * 56) Making everybody cry
 * 57) Misbehaving at any location (whether it be at a fast food restaurant, a resort, or a store; these are mostly longer length videos)
 * 58) Misbehaving on a car, or bus ride (usually to a movie, and everyone outright misses it in the end usually)
 * 59) Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 60) Not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day
 * 61) Ordering an item from a food place without permission
 * 62) Owning a certain item, like a VHS tape
 * 63) Owning a lemonade stand
 * 64) Pirating a movie/video game
 * 65) Playing "Hooky" (skipping school)
 * 66) Pushing someone in a locker
 * 67) Putting a poisonous substance in school lunch, like rat poison
 * 68) Ranting on something the uploader likes
 * 69) Rapping orders at a restaurant
 * 70) Running away from home
 * 71) Saluting on something the uploader hates
 * 72) Saying a word/sentence (often offensive)
 * 73) Saying (yes/no/something)
 * 74) Scaring people
 * 75) Selling pirated DVDs
 * 76) Stealing someone's lunch
 * 77) Stealing an item from a public location
 * 78) Stealing other people's junk food
 * 79) Stealing someone's car
 * 80) Smoking cigarettes
 * 81) Taking over a teacher's job
 * 82) Telling a joke in class
 * 83) Turning someone into a giant
 * 84) Turning Vyond into Plotagon or vice versa
 * 85) Ungrounding a bad character/troublemaker
 * 86) Uploading a sex tape
 * 87) Vandalizing school property, such as using spray paint
 * 88) No reason at all
 * 89) And much, much, more.

Videos
Warning: This section is NSFW. Thus, contains child and adult abuse content. It may be disturbing or unsettling for some viewers.

Examples
LE9NQtvJKMQ toNC6-9wWek gzJ4QqTfX80 FbH-OVkOVUw LoJfS-I2F9s TydYzh9Ljls fCNvJm_hxNc 3glI-6WUsp8 DiFGriY3A_E lU9d-hp8t7I

Reviews/Criticism
fTVkjedatdE&t X0jOtNxXZ3Q ZShT71JDl9A RgXfxVYKNag Aq10y2W_Bug 6VXaFqan_fw <youtube width=320 height=180>lD36QY43xLM <youtube width=320 height=180>b06MIFcar4I <youtube width=320 height=180>yr_pZ8lVOZk <youtube width=320 height=180>ZgTzfDNchjA <youtube width=320 height=180>UXoaBdmYdCs <youtube width=320 height=180>7WKL2DTj7n8 <youtube width=320 height=180>tiibT8lWgDo <youtube width=320 height=180>2wEqZJ0ipgc <youtube width=320 height=180>dMEP8iYtU6c <youtube width=320 height=180>SEjJ2maAb_g <youtube width=320 height=180>7XW-uBDGAiw <youtube width=320 height=180>U99r-nU_YAA <youtube width=320 height=180>IXOEwlLlyEM <youtube width=320 height=180>KUSlOcXFjzI <youtube width=320 height=180>Ga4JgC_tRm8 <youtube width=320 height=180>kZhLDqk801Q <youtube width=320 height=180>-Zuta5hF6DM <youtube width=320 height=180>mRnRTdWuHUs <youtube width=320 height=180>QgZM6af6WRg <youtube width=320 height=180>MS3lcu5vnlA