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 them getting grounded just to learn a lesson, with no build-up to the act whatsoever.
 * 2) After the troublemaker gets in trouble, their parents and/or guardians tell them that they are grounded over and over (usually repeating the word "grounded" at least three times), which quickly gets annoying and repetitive to listen to.
 * 3) Most of these videos have preschool show characters as the main grounded victims just because "they are for babies", which is a stupid and repetitive excuse. The most common grounded victims are mh:terribletvshows:Caillou, Dora the Explorer, mh:besttvshows:Little Bill, Kai-Lan, mh:terribletvshows:Peppa Pig, Arthur and D.W., mh:besttvshows:The Backyardigans, Elmo, Wubbzy and Daizy, the Little Einsteins, Super Why and the Super Readers, Daniel Tiger, and others.
 * 4) *For some time, people now think it's a good idea to make Caillou's shirt gray (thus making him “Classic Caillou”) because they think Caillou is only bad in the first two seasons, and that using the yellow shirt Caillou wears is "misleading". This is not the case as there are still a lot of problems with modern Caillou, so it's stupid to make that assumption.
 * 5) **Plus, these "Classic" characters are entirely separate characters from their counterparts, making the "Classic" prefix completely nonsensical.
 * 6) *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 have done any research on the characters.
 * 7) People also often make grounded videos out of adults such as Bob the Builder, Steve and/or 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), Elena and Cole (Dora's parents), Manny Garcia from Handy Manny, Thomas the Tank Engine (sometimes, mostly ungrounded), and Tubb from Rubbadubbers, 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 get arrested instead of getting grounded, or they are old enough to know better.
 * 8) Several grounded videos of Joe from Blue's Clues exist. They were primarily made by TheColossalD and Pooh n' Ponies.
 * 9) 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 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).
 * 10) They sometimes even get grounded by their children or people that aren't even 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 isn't even related to Bob in the actual show, and neither is Wendy (even though she's Bob's girlfriend).
 * 11) *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 or know that show vaguely making these videos.
 * 12) Some people make grounded videos out of other users or real-life people and celebrities like Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, and Avril Lavigne , which is considered cyber-bullying or harming the person they target.
 * 13) *A common example would be Justin Bieber Gets Grounded.
 * 14) Along with Coris and Toris, any versions/variants of already existing characters are just lazily named recolours of their respective characters; the only thing that is really different about their names is that they have a prefix/suffix, or the first letter of their name has been changed.
 * 15) *Not to mention that any fan-made parent/relative of already existing characters are plain carbon copies of the troublemaker, making their designs bland, ugly, and incredibly uncreative.
 * 16) Possible victim-blaming in some videos, especially in one titled as "Justin Bieber Gets Beat Up/Grounded" where a ninja named Brian beats up Justin Bieber, when Justin told the teacher, she instead victim blames him and tells him to see the principal, when Justin told the principal what happened, he victim blames him as well, along with the parents.
 * 17) 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.
 * 18) *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.
 * 19) **But when photos from either 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, or they happen to be in front of objects/furniture that they should be positioned behind of.
 * 20) 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:
 * 21) The troublemaker's grounding sentence is absurd, oftentimes lasting years, decades, or in some cases, even for eternity, which is just crazy, outright mentally insane, and completely irrational. In real life, you'd be dead long before then. In one circumstance, specifically when Caillou turned a school into Chuck E Cheese's, he got grounded for over a quintillion years.
 * 22) 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 has 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.
 * 23) *The same goes with the victims who get grounded by characters who don't appear anywhere in their actual shows, such as the Super Readers getting grounded by the Gonsin guardians. However, the Gonsin guardians do not appear in the actual show, and the Super Readers have their own families: Whyatt/Super Why is shown to have actual parents and an older college-bound brother Jack and baby sister Joy along with his own pet dog Woofster, Pig/Alpha-Pig is shown to have a father and two older brothers, Red/Wonder Red is shown to have a grandmother (even though we never see her actual parents), and Princess Pea/Princess Presto is shown to live in a castle with her own parents named Queen Pea and King Pea. Also, several grounded videos show the Little Einsteins getting grounded by their guardians Daniel, Kate, and Raveena, even though we never see any of their parents in the actual show.
 * 24) Caillou is seen having a crush on or dating Dora in a lot of videos, which is pedophilia, since he's just 4 years old and Dora is only 7 years old, an age that's way too young for relationships.
 * 25) *Rather than being in a relationship, 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.
 * 26) In most videos, characters aged 0-3 years are able to speak proper English. 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 5-6 years of age.
 * 27) In videos where the troublemaker insults their sibling who had just been born, it's likely that the sibling understood the insult, despite being born less than a minute ago.
 * 28) In a school-themed genre called "Held Back," 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 to a lower grade, i.e. 12th grade to 11th grade. That's not even the definition of "held back". To be held back actually means that the student will have to redo the same grade the following year(s), not get sent to a lower grade that same year. It's also unrealistic and irrational to go back from high school all the way down to preschool, for example.
 * 29) *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/former teachers and told them to hold the student back if they make one small mistake, which is also really unfair.
 * 30) In another series of grounded videos known as "Behavior Card Days", the character could also get in trouble just for getting in "dead meat" (usually a black or red card), which is unfair since the characters that the user likes get better cards (the best one leading to them either graduating from school or getting an extremely long time off school), while a character the user hates gets a bad one, expelling them from school (usually from every school in the world). 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 school without permission.
 * 31) Oftentimes, the grounded victim does something good, yet still gets grounded.
 * 32) Some videos can also scare users who come across them, like those including the Red Alert/Double Red Alert sound effects, FNAF jumpscare sounds, and ear piercing sounds. They mostly don't even design to add warnings too, though sometimes they do.
 * 33) 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.
 * 34) Cheap and lazy animation. 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 have way better animation compared to these lackluster computer-generated atrocities. Many of these videos outright use stock-images online for certain characters.
 * 35) 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! 
 * 36) Some videos are even aware of how lazy their animation is and have a character break the fourth wall to address it. 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".
 * 37) 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.
 * 38) *Some character designs from some other themes like Business Friendly and Lil' Peepz can also look lazy too.
 * 39) 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.
 * 40) 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).
 * 41) 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. This issue is present considering that Vyond runs on Adobe Flash (before 2019), and the video maker will lag if used for long periods of time.
 * 42) The text-to-speech voices used are very monotonous and robotic, which makes the characters sound boring and unnatural:
 * 43) When the characters cry, they sound like this:
 * 44) Wah-ah eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-aw w-ah (Ivy, Jennifer)
 * 45) Wah (several times, various)
 * 46) WA-EE AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH AUGH-H-AH (Eric)
 * 47) WAHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-rah (Oddcast Voices), or when the VoiceForge voices sound like strange machines when they cry, mainly with Ivy's voice (wAA-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-ah).
 * 48) Said crying sounds are very glitchy and unrealistic due to the limited technical capabilities of the speech system.
 * 49) 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.
 * 50) They also mispronounce words, like "Caillou" as "kay-loo" or "K.I. You." This is because the name "Caillou" is French and the TTS voices speak English, though you can bypass this by typing kai-u or kai-you.
 * 51) A lot of times, the characters get grounded for stupid and nonsensical reasons, such as:
 * 52) Making fake VHS/DVD openings (though it is a form of copyright infringement)
 * 53) Farting, peeing, or pooping in class (even if it's disgusting)
 * 54) Appearing on TV
 * 55) Dancing naked (though it does makes sense in context)
 * 56) Expressing their opinion on something (ranting/saluting on a subject or saying yes/no to something)
 * 57) Being held back to previous grades
 * 58) Going up against someone's body
 * 59) Breathing (Yes, really?!)
 * 60) Existing (That too!)
 * 61) Taking a shower (So is this!)
 * 62) Getting fat at a restaurant (even though eating too much junk food is unhealthy)
 * 63) Dropping by Squidward's house
 * 64) Getting pregnant (Even if the troublemaker is male.)
 * 65) Crying after being born (What do you expect? Babies are supposed to cry)
 * 66) Even For No Reason At All
 * 67) The videos listed below are probably the worst kinds of grounded videos:
 * 68) 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 another store, 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 goes on for a little bit. 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.
 * 69) *Firstly, how can someone grow that big without any legit reason?
 * 70) *Secondly, you wouldn't get grounded for destroying buildings. Instead, you would be arrested or even executed.
 * 71) *Lastly, where was everyone during the time that the city was being destroyed
 * 72) (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 getting 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 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.
 * 73) *First of all, 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?
 * 74) *Secondly, how is it possible for the troublemakers to get into the place without getting caught and kicked out?
 * 75) *Third, how can you instantly air a video/announcement? It would take a few minutes or probably days, not right away.
 * 76) *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?
 * 77) 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.
 * 78) *This type of grounded video has two plot holes:
 * 79) **Firstly, how can a single piece of food cause a car to go off its wheels? Though it is possible at a high enough speed, the car was likely driving at a normal speed.
 * 80) ***In rare cases, instead of using food to make the car spin out of control, the troublemaker would put whoopee cushions on the car seats and laughing powder on their family members' shoes, which causes the car to crash into a tree, stalling them further from seeing the movie until the car gets fixed.
 * 81) **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.
 * 82) *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.
 * 83) *Due to limited backgrounds, the movie theater looks like a fancy restaurant.
 * 84) 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 refuses, 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.
 * 85) *This type  of video has two plot holes:
 * 86) **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.
 * 87) ***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.
 * 88) **Secondly,  why would the troublemaker tell their parent that they want to go back to the restaurant, when they already know that they destroyed it earlier?
 * 89) *Additionally, the plot is nothing but a rehash of the “fuck me” joke in the infamous HumancentiPad episode from South Park. Making this plot not original at the slightest.
 * 90) 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.
 * 91) *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.
 * 92) 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.
 * 93) *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!
 * 94) *All in all, this is just a basic torture episode for the troublemaker.
 * 95) 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 skee-ball 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.
 * 96) *This type of grounded video has three plot holes:
 * 97) **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!
 * 98) **Secondly, how does banging on a skee-ball machine cause it to set on fire?
 * 99) **Lastly, a single fire wouldn't have caused that much destruction to a resort, let alone one that's water-themed. At best, the fire would have caused minor damage to just the arcade, mostly the skee-ball machine.
 * 100) X Insults the New Baby and Gets Grounded: Yet another repetitively-done type of video, the plot mostly follows as this: The parents call the troublemaker downstairs to announce that they will be having a new baby, which will excite or upset the troublemaker. Then, at that exact same moment, the mother's water breaks and the family rush her to the hospital in a speeding car, grabbing the attention of a police officer, resulting in a high-speed police chase. The family resolves the chase by either throwing a bomb at the police car or simply evading them. Once they get to the hospital, the mother finally gives birth. The troublemaker, disgusted at the baby's appearance, proceeds to call the new baby something offensive (e.g. stupid, dumb). This makes the baby cry and the parents mad at the troublemaker, ground,them either on the spot or when they get back home.
 * 101) *This type of grounded video also has three plot holes:
 * 102) **Firstly, why didn't the parents tell the news to the troublemaker sooner? Why would they announce it so late that it was right before the mother's water breaks when they decide to tell them?
 * 103) **Secondly, there is no way the family would get away if they throw a bomb at the police car, considering bombing a car is way worse of a crime than speeding is. Speaking of which, who would even keep a bomb on them in the first place?
 * 104) **Finally, and as mentioned before, babies can't understand English as soon as they are born as they have to develop their speech.
 * 105) Even worse, the troublemaker sometimes gets executed by the law for repeating their bad behavior despite them not even being criminal offense, though this isn't as common as groundings.
 * 106) Sometimes when a character gets grounded, their parents will call a bunch of random people over 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).
 * 107) Ungrounded videos aren't any better because they have the same plot as grounded videos, except the kid does something good and gets rewarded.
 * 108) *Sometimes, the kid does something that deserves punishment, but they get rewarded all because of it. For example, there's a Plotagon video where Caillou blows up the Sony Pictures Animation HQ, yet he gets ungrounded. There are even videos where a kid kills someone, and yet they still get ungrounded and rewarded.
 * 109) **The worst example of this is a video showing  Adolf Hitler getting ungrounded for killing Barney the Dinosaur.We're not joking.
 * 110) *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?
 * 111) Many grounded videos have disturbing and gross content, such as one that has Dora putting rat poison in the school lunch.
 * 112) Punishment day videos, speaking of which, have punishments that can't even be considered punishments; it's nothing but plain cruelty, torture, and child abuse, which consist of the troublemaker being forced to do things like:
 * 113) While not entirely child abuse, the character could be forced to wear diapers (often referred as "nappies"), or worse, being treated like a baby (which means things like eating baby food, sleeping in a crib, and going to daycare). And speaking of wearing diapers, the troublemaker may only be allowed to urinate and defecate in diapers instead of the toilet, and have their underwear and toilet destroyed.
 * 114) Having everything in their bedroom (including furniture) taken away, making them sleep in a room with absolutely nothing.
 * 115) Drinking toilet water or contaminated water
 * 116) Eating or drinking poison
 * 117) Getting spanked in the butt
 * 118) Eating feces and/or drinking urine
 * 119) Being wildly mutilated or beaten
 * 120) Getting sent to scary logos
 * 121) *Such logos include 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.
 * 122) Having all their hair shaved from their head, though this usually happens in a separate genre of videos
 * 123) Listening to earrape until said troublemaker has bleeding ears or goes deaf
 * 124) Taking a shower with excruciatingly hot or cold water that would either burn or freeze you to death
 * 125) Having their favorite things either burned, broken, sold to a character the user likes, or crushed no matter what price
 * 126) Sleeping outside, no matter the conditions (e.g. rain, thunder, lightning, snow)
 * 127) Watching TV shows and movies, playing video games, or reading books not belonging to companies they like, not made for their age, or related to a certain character or property
 * 128) *This especially applies to videos involving Warren Cook (aka SeaDisney1998), a certain user who was criticized a lot for uploading a bunch of fake VHS openings with clickbait titles like "REAL NOT FAKE" and having the wrong release years.
 * 129) *Speaking of Warren Cook, he is very close-minded and too old to get grounded. Some new videos show him as a good man.
 * 130) Drinking fiery hot sauce
 * 131) Getting their eyes gouged out
 * 132) Eating/drinking food or drinks they hate or have expired
 * 133) Getting blasted off like Team Rocket
 * 134) Being discouraged from taking any showers to force others to hate them or their show/franchise/theme song/behavior by smelling horrific
 * 135) Being assigned with an extremely large and unreasonable amount of homework without any breaks
 * 136) Getting brutally killed or executed (followed with the others celebrating the troublemaker's death at the end)
 * 137) 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 less common occasions, female periods, etc.
 * 138) A video has Arthur and D.W. getting grounded for dancing naked, which is highly inappropriate.
 * 139) Another video shows Caillou raping and having sex with Rosie, then being raped by Boris.
 * 140) 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.
 * 141) *Even if the characters commit bad stuff like skipping school and such, it’s still not an excuse for the parents to brutally torture them.
 * 142) 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!).
 * 143) 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 offensive slurs like the homophobic f-word or the n-word.
 * 144) 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.
 * 145) In the "laziness" versions of grounded videos, where there are bastardized versions of each character, Caillou's name is changed to "Gayloo." This can be seen as really offensive to those in the LGBT+ community.
 * 146) 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?
 * 147) Some of these videos depict a troublemaker celebrating someone's death.
 * 148) *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 and dedication 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.
 * 149) 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?
 * 150) Some people that make these videos are not only SJWs and obsessive Anti-SJWs, but also Neo-Nazis as well!
 * 151) Some of the punishments involve sending the victim to a foreign country (usually European and/or Asian) without any food, money, family, or anything whatsoever. And when the said victim escapses the country, they will get grounded by a bunch of other people (even though they have nothing to do with the video), which is downright stupid, repetitive, and abusive.
 * 152) 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. YES, THESE VIDEOS EXIST! Here is the video link if you don't believe us.

Ungrounding 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 try their best to make the characters accurate. On top of that, some designs can look accurate, but they mostly 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 meant to be funny.
 * 4) *As mentioned earlier, bastardized versions of commonly-used characters are used in "laziness" videos, and are extremely funny, despite the Caillou-Gayloo naming controversy.
 * 5) *Although some of these videos may contain swearing and inappropriate content, this is never taken too far, and can also make the video a little bit funnier this also goes for when one of the characters say "OH-OH-OH-OH-OH!"
 * 6) The very first grounded video made by adamkleinschmidt2003 wasn't actually 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 long sentence and was given a second chance by the end of the video.
 * 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. 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 and receiving cruel punishments, several videos have characters getting grounded for fair and realistic reasons, such as:
 * 12) Misbehaving at a certain place
 * 13) Bullying/cyberbullying
 * 14) Stalking
 * 15) Beating someone up
 * 16) Going to their favorite restaurant while grounded
 * 17) Lying
 * 18) Dating someone at an early age
 * 19) Being rude to a teacher
 * 20) Insulting someone
 * 21) Discriminating someone
 * 22) Raping someone
 * 23) Being disrespectful to a parent
 * 24) Refusing to do things they get asked to do (e.g. homework, chores, etc)
 * 25) Throwing fits
 * 26) Smoking/vaping (harms your health in several ways)
 * 27) Vandalism
 * 28) Hurting someone's feelings
 * 29) Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 30) Pirating a movie/video game
 * 31) Selling bootleg/pirated DVDs
 * 32) Breaking someone's item
 * 33) Celebrating deaths
 * 34) Giving someone a punishment day
 * 35) Blaming someone else for their actions/victim-playing (known as playing a blame game)
 * 36) Threatening people
 * 37) Watching a movie/show or playing a game they aren't supposed to watch/play
 * 38) Going on websites they aren't supposed to be on
 * 39) Cheating in school (especially plagiarism)
 * 40) Cutting class and/or skipping school
 * 41) Committing various crimes (theft, robbery, murder and terrorism being the most common.)
 * 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, Cooper, Kenward, Raven, Rebecca, Christo, Lamar, Tristan, Ekul, Nailij, Derf Siregor, Noah and Evets).
 * 45) The text-to-speech voices can sound funny sometimes.
 * 46) They could be considered "so bad, it's good", so that makes them usually funny to watch, even if the creators never intended on it.
 * 47) 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.
 * 48) Sometimes, grounded videos do show us the consequences of causing trouble and bad behavior, even if not well-executed.
 * 49) There are two other 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.
 * 50) In several grounded videos, they use more varied music.

Reception
Until 2019, these videos were met with praise from (mostly) Vyonders. However, as years came by, they 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, but not limited to:
 * 1) Abusing Vyond/Goanimate 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) Cheating in school (usually a school test or the finals, especially plagiarism)
 * 12) Chewing gum at school (consuming chewing gum anywhere in Singapore is illegal, believe it or not)
 * 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) Eating too much junk food
 * 22) Expressing your opinion on something
 * 23) Failing a pop quiz
 * 24) Farting in class
 * 25) Framing someone who didn't do anything wrong
 * 26) Getting a math problem incorrect
 * 27) Getting coal/bad presents for Christmas
 * 28) Getting detention
 * 29) Getting held back
 * 30) Getting in dead meat on a behavior card day
 * 31) Getting someone else arrested
 * 32) Getting someone else grounded for their actions
 * 33) Getting someone in dead meat/expelled for no reason
 * 34) Giving someone a concussion
 * 35) Giving someone a punishment day
 * 36) Going trick or treating without permission
 * 37) Grounding someone (e.g. grounding an innocent character/user)
 * 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) Injuring someone
 * 43) Insulting someone (e.g. their parents, their newborn sibling)
 * 44) Killing somebody (and disrespecting their funeral)
 * 45) Killing somebody's favorite character
 * 46) Locking somebody in a room
 * 47) Losing a game
 * 48) Making a fake food stand (e.g. a chocolate stand that has fecal matter)
 * 49) Making a fake VHS opening
 * 50) Making a grounded video out of someone
 * 51) Making a pirated video game and selling it
 * 52) Making an account on a website
 * 53) Making an unfair Behavior Card Day (giving bad characters/users good cards, and giving innocent characters/users bad cards)
 * 54) Making everybody cry
 * 55) Making up false accusations for their actions who haven't done anything wrong
 * 56) Misbehaving at any location (e.g. a fast food restaurant, a resort, or a store; these are mostly longer length videos)
 * 57) Misbehaving on a car or bus ride (usually to a movie, and everyone outright misses it in the end usually)
 * 58) Mistreating their younger sibling
 * 59) Not wearing green on St. Patrick's Day
 * 60) Ordering an item from a food place without permission
 * 61) Owning a certain item, like a VHS tape
 * 62) Owning a lemonade stand
 * 63) Pirating a movie/video game
 * 64) Playing "hooky" (skipping school)
 * 65) Pushing someone in a locker
 * 66) Putting a poisonous substance in school lunch, like rat poison
 * 67) Ranting on something the uploader likes
 * 68) Rapping orders at a restaurant
 * 69) Running away from home
 * 70) Saluting on something the uploader hates
 * 71) Saying a word/sentence (often offensive)
 * 72) Saying "yes/no [something]"
 * 73) Scaring people
 * 74) Selling pirated DVDs
 * 75) Singing their theme song (usually from a preschool show)
 * 76) Smoking cigarettes
 * 77) Stalking
 * 78) Stealing an item from a public location
 * 79) Stealing someone's car
 * 80) Stealing someone's lunch
 * 81) Taking over a teacher's job
 * 82) Telling a joke in class
 * 83) Truancy
 * 84) Turning someone into a giant
 * 85) Turning Vyond into Plotagon or vice versa
 * 86) Ungrounding a bad character/troublemaker
 * 87) Uploading a sex tape
 * 88) Vandalizing school property, such as using spray paint
 * 89) No reason at all

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

Examples
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