I thought it would be fun to list characters who got a spanking in an episode of their show, whether on-screen or off-screen, and then list whether you think they deserved it. Just list those who got a spanking in an actual episode, NOT threats and references.


Katie Gatling on Benson- deserved, but she was so cute you hated she got it

Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie- DESERVED BIG-TIME!!

Wesley Owens on Mr. Belvedere- deserved

Timmy on Lassie- deserved

Danny on Partridge Family- deserved

Dominic on Yes Dear- deserved but very stupid politically correct episode

Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy- deserved I guess, but she was a grown woman!!

Gidget on Gidget- deserved and very funny

Alex on One Day at a Time- deserved

Opie on Andy Griffith- deserved, but Andy was too strict most of the time

I thought it would be fun to list characters who got a spanking in an episode of their show, whether on-screen or off-screen, and then list whether you think they deserved it. Just list those who got a spanking in an actual episode, NOT threats and references.

Opie on Andy Griffith- deserved, but Andy was too strict most of the time

Opie never got a spanking on the show although Andy often said he was going to give him one. The closest Opie came to getting an actual spanking was in "Keeper of the Flame" where Andy thought he burned down Jubal Foster's barn with the candle.

See it was the barn burning episode I was referring to. I'm pretty sure he actually got a whipping in that one. I may be wrong. Feel free to correct me.

See it was the barn burning episode I was referring to. I'm pretty sure he actually got a whipping in that one. I may be wrong. Feel free to correct me.

No, when Andy went to settle-up with Jubal for the damages, He realized that he had burned down his own barn and he said something like:

"Jubal Foster! I almost gave my boy a spanking for something he didn't do."

The exact dialogue may not be correct but I think I'm fairly close.

But didn't Andy tell Aunt Bee in the kitchen that Opie had been playing with matches, and that he was going to get a whipping? Then Andy heads for Opie's room.

But didn't Andy tell Aunt Bee in the kitchen that Opie had been playing with matches, and that he was going to get a whipping? Then Andy heads for Opie's room.

Yes but he never got the actual spanking.

arnold jackson different strokes desivered david baxter the mary tyler moore show desieverd

Jethro got swatted with a frying pan by Granny more than once. (I don't know if he deserved it, but he made Granny mad!:lol:) (The Beverly Hillbillies).

I won't mention any of the dirty thoughts I'm having about Dan Fielding laying me across his lap. :eyes: :devil:

Let's see...

Andy Garvey- Little House on the Prairie
Roger Thomas - What's Happening
Dee Thomas - What's Happening
D.J. Conner - Roseanne

Didn't Nancy Oleson get spanked (or whipped) by Nels in one episode of LHOP?

Didn't Nancy Oleson get spanked (or whipped) by Nels in one episode of LHOP?
If she wasn't she should have been! Nellie Too! Many times!

Let's see...

Andy Garvey- Little House on the Prairie
Roger Thomas - What's Happening
Dee Thomas - What's Happening
D.J. Conner - Roseanne
Mama: Roger give me your belt!
Roger: No Mama, No!

If she wasn't she should have been! Nellie Too! Many times!
Tell me about it!! Poor Nels - what with Nellie, Nancy AND Harriet to deal with I'm surprised he never ended up in a straitjacket. :eek: :lol:

Tell me about it!! Poor Nels - what with Nellie, Nancy AND Harriet to deal with I'm surprised he never ended up in a straitjacket. :eek: :lol:
And what about Willie. It would be a miracle if he ever got any attention in that household with those three ladies demanding the spotlight all the time.

These characters weren't spanked but, got slapped by their Moms.

Lionel got slapped by Louise for mouthing off about George.
Gloria got slapped by Edith in part 2 of Edith's 50th Birthday episode.

Reba spanked Barbara Jean a few times. :lol:
On Frasier Simon spanked Roz and Daphne spanked Niles.

Jethro got swatted with a frying pan by Granny more than once. (I don't know if he deserved it, but he made Granny mad!:lol:)And Granny was half his size!

And Granny was half his size!
True, but she sure was strong? Remember when she broke down the door to Mr. Drysdale's office?? :lol:

Bart Simpson wes apanked by both Homer and President George Bush Sr.

Mr Humpries was playfully spanked by Mr Harmond in the fire alarm episode when Harmond had Humpries in a fireman's carry.

Both Raymond and Robert got slapped. Robert by Amy and Raymond by Marie.

True, but she sure was strong? Remember when she broke down the door to Mr. Drysdale's office?? :lol:I don't think I've seen that episode.

I don't think I've seen that episode.
That was later on in the series, in the color episodes.

I don't recall Danny ever being spanked in the Partridge Family. Do you know what episode that happened? I know that in the episode "The Sound of Money", Shirley threatens to spank Chris, but it is never carried out.

In Bewitched, there is one episode where Tabitha turns a spoiled boy into a dog, and that boy is later spanked by his mother.
Tabitha is threatened with spankings throughout the series, but the threats are never carried out.

There is an episode of The Andy Griffith Show where Opie has a friend who is spoiled. He thinks to get what you want you throw temper tantrums and cry. It worked for the boy at first, until Andy took the boys bike. The boy and his father came to the sheriff's office to get the bike back, and then Andy showed the boys father the light. The boys father took him out back and spanked him.

In an episode of Mama's Family, Thelma is watching the reverend's son or grandson and the boy is a total brat! Once the boys parents or grandparents get back Thelma tells him what he did but they don't believe her at first until the boy acts out in front of them. He then gets the whipping of his life!

Spanking isn't encouraged as much anymore as a form of discipline. A lot of "professionals" think that other reinforcements work better. My opinion is that if a child misbehaves more than once for the same offense and is punished numerous times, like being put in the corner, privileges taken away, etc. and they still don't learn, then spanking is the next step. In this day and age, spanking is considered abuse and I disagree with that. Abuse is when a parent hits a child on the face, pulls their arm, pushes them against a wall, or knocks them to the floor, things like that. Now a swift smack on the bottom, gets the point across. At least it does to me. I was spanked for something, I got the picture. I was abused as well, so I know the difference. Why do you think their are so many children out there in this day and age that act out so much? There parents don't spank them. "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

Eddie on Courtship of Eddie's Father - Deserved

Well isn't this a startling topic! :D

And what about Willie. It would be a miracle if he ever got any attention in that household with those three ladies demanding the spotlight all the time.
Willie was a brat, when he was young in the early seasons, and deserved a few spankings along with Nellie. But he turned into a descent young adult by the last few seasons. I think Harriet always saved Nellie and Nancy from Nels and their well-deserved spankings.

And Granny was half his size!
He was a wimp. Elly May used to beat him up. :lol:

On W and G , Karen spanked Jack. Will spanked Karen and she wanted more. Carrie smacked Big with a whip in an episode of Sex and the City. On Friends, Chandler was spanked in the butt by his boss , Doug and Rachel smacked Ross' butt while they sang "Baby got Back." to Emma.

Maude - On the episode "Phillip's Problem," Phillip was acting really bratty in that ep. to the point that Maude, who was against spanking her grandson throughout most of the episode had grown fed up of Phillip's bad behavior and spanked him.

Phillip: "Big deal!"
Maude: "Huh? You think that's a big deal, I'll show you the whole DECK!"

Thinking about Arnold on DS getting spanked, I was watching an episode of Robot Chicken and I laughed at the spanking ep. spoof! :lol:


Good Times - I think it was a S2 or S3 ep. where Michael brings home someone who was supposedly his now-newfound friend and when he got out of line at the Evans' house, James Sr. gave him the BIG MAC!

Does anyone know in which episodes Danny gets a spanking in the Partridge Family?

There is an episode of The Andy Griffith Show where Opie has a friend who is spoiled. He thinks to get what you want you throw temper tantrums and cry. It worked for the boy at first, until Andy took the boys bike. The boy and his father came to the sheriff's office to get the bike back, and then Andy showed the boys father the light. The boys father took him out back and spanked him.

In an episode of Mama's Family, Thelma is watching the reverend's son or grandson and the boy is a total brat! Once the boys parents or grandparents get back Thelma tells him what he did but they don't believe her at first until the boy acts out in front of them. He then gets the whipping of his life!

Spanking isn't encouraged as much anymore as a form of discipline. A lot of "professionals" think that other reinforcements work better. My opinion is that if a child misbehaves more than once for the same offense and is punished numerous times, like being put in the corner, privileges taken away, etc. and they still don't learn, then spanking is the next step. In this day and age, spanking is considered abuse and I disagree with that. Abuse is when a parent hits a child on the face, pulls their arm, pushes them against a wall, or knocks them to the floor, things like that. Now a swift smack on the bottom, gets the point across. At least it does to me. I was spanked for something, I got the picture. I was abused as well, so I know the difference. Why do you think their are so many children out there in this day and age that act out so much? There parents don't spank them. "Spare the rod and spoil the child."
If my parents were still with us today they would had been under the jail with the key thrown out. We got our tails whipped. Their m.o. was show us up in public we will beat you to the punch. I was traumatized by spankings or whippiings. Dr James Dobson, Focus of the Family ministry, states that parents should raised children to be the type that everyone wants to have around. We have allowed the government let children have more rights than adults and it was designed to be that. Yes, I am an advocate of spanking but do it out of love and not anger.

I dont know the exact episode. but i remember it had something to do with danny Blackmailing someone and mom found out about it. You can see Danny Rubbing his bottom afterwards after it happened.

on a website it mentioned a quote from mrs partridge "Danny you and I and my Hairbrush need to have a talk" and when the scene comes back danny is rubbing his bottom.. thats what i read off another site.. again no episode name

Mike

Mama: Roger give me your belt!
Roger: No Mama, No!

:lol:

Was that the ep. where Raj, Dwayne and Rerun got caught trying shoplifting to buy a present for Mama Thomas and they ended up in jail?

And then it gets even better from there:

Mama Thomas tells Dwayne and Rerun to go home to their mamas and then Mama later spanks him in that same episode after Raj refuses to tell the truth about how he got the notion to steal from the store.

I dont know the exact episode. but i remember it had something to do with danny Blackmailing someone and mom found out about it. You can see Danny Rubbing his bottom afterwards after it happened.

on a website it mentioned a quote from mrs partridge "Danny you and I and my Hairbrush need to have a talk" and when the scene comes back danny is rubbing his bottom.. thats what i read off another site.. again no episode name

Mike

I don't remember the episode name(s) either, but someone could look it up. I'm pretty sure it was either when Danny lied about something, and it ended up in the Sunday newspaper, or when he was caught selling Keith's possessions. I remember Danny rubbing his bottom afterward too.

Ricky spanked Lucy at least once on I Love Lucy as well, I think when she was caught having bought a hat before Ricky lost his temper.

Jonathan Garvey was about to spank Andy at the end of Act 3 of LHotP "The Cheaters" for cheating with Nellie Oleson. Alice was protesting the impending spanking, but Andy says "It's ok, Ma. It'll make me feel better.". I remember seeing that show for the first time and being angry because I forgot there was one more act to come. I was really happy when the show came back from commercial and Nellie got hers. By the way, Harriet was swatting Nellie, if not spanking her, not because Nellie had done anything wrong but because she'd embarrassed Harriet!

Spanking isn't encouraged as much anymore as a form of discipline. A lot of "professionals" think that other reinforcements work better. My opinion is that if a child misbehaves more than once for the same offense and is punished numerous times, like being put in the corner, privileges taken away, etc. and they still don't learn, then spanking is the next step. In this day and age, spanking is considered abuse and I disagree with that. Abuse is when a parent hits a child on the face, pulls their arm, pushes them against a wall, or knocks them to the floor, things like that. Now a swift smack on the bottom, gets the point across. At least it does to me. I was spanked for something, I got the picture. I was abused as well, so I know the difference. Why do you think their are so many children out there in this day and age that act out so much? There parents don't spank them. "Spare the rod and spoil the child."
Here in Sweden, spanking has been illegal since 1979 (five years before I was born), and I guess 99 % of all Swedes disapprove of it today. So I have a hard time agreeing with you on this. Yeah sure, one smack on the bottom maybe isn't abuse. But as soon as you allow the least bit of violence, it can so easily get out of hand.

Having said that, I can't believe that no one has mentioned when Roseanne spanked DJ after he had taken a joyride in a car, when he was only twelve years old!

:lol:

Was that the ep. where Raj, Dwayne and Rerun got caught trying shoplifting to buy a present for Mama Thomas and they ended up in jail?

And then it gets even better from there:

Mama Thomas tells Dwayne and Rerun to go home to their mamas and then Mama later spanks him in that same episode after Raj refuses to tell the truth about how he got the notion to steal from the store.
Yes! That's the episode!

Tommy got spanked by his mother on Dennis the Menace, because he took one of her plants without asking. It's not shown, but it's implied by his comments to Dennis and also him rubbing his backside. :lol:

Tommy got spanked by his mother on Dennis the Menace, because he took one of her plants without asking. It's not shown, but it's implied by his comments to Dennis and also him rubbing his backside. :lol:

Didn't Ernie get spanked in a episode of "My Three Sons"?

James in "Little House on the Prairie"- NOT deserved

Laura in "Little House on the Prairie"- not actually a spanking, the teacher swatted her hand with a ruler- NOT deserved

Barbara in "One Day at a Time"- sort of deserved

Ann slapped Julie hard one time in "One Day at a Time"- deserved

Alex in "One Day at a Time"- deserved

How about when Amy Farrah Fowler got spanked by Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory? She didn't do anything wrong, but she sure enjoyed it!:lol:

DJ Conner -Roseanne (deserved it but Roseanne felt guilty)
Nellie Olsen - Little House (Deservedly so)
Roger Thomas -What's Happening (It looked like he deserved it buy really didn't)
Dee Thomas- What's Happening (Soooo deserved it)

Here in Sweden, spanking has been illegal since 1979 (five years before I was born), and I guess 99 % of all Swedes disapprove of it today. So I have a hard time agreeing with you on this. Yeah sure, one smack on the bottom maybe isn't abuse. But as soon as you allow the least bit of violence, it can so easily get out of hand.

That seems really overreaching for the government to tell parents how they can discipline their children. I understand the concern about making sure spanking doesn't turn into abuse; however, I don't think that should ever be a problem for loving parents. I really feel it's very true when a loving parent tells their child that "This will hurt me more than it hurts you" when they are giving them a spanking.
Of course, it's also Biblical to use spanking as a disciplinary method. The principle that must be kept in mind is stated in James 1:20 - "The anger of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God." I think parents should be careful to remember this and not to discipline their children when they are angry because of their child's disobedience and defiance. It's good to have some time to calm down some and make sure that the discipline is truly given out of love and not out of vengeance.
Proverbs 13:24 says, "Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them."
So that's another verse to consider for the Biblical Christian perspective. Another great passage to consider is Hebrews 12:1-13. In it, The Bible talks about how God The Father disciplines His children just as human fathers discipline their children. Though no discipline is pleasant at the time (in fact, it's painful!)- in the end, we respect our parents for doing it because it is for our good ultimately and it helps produce a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

As to characters who got spankings on television, most of the ones I know of offhand have already been named. I do know Little Archie has gotten spankings in the comics and I daresay he probably has gotten such discipline in the '60s cartoon series version or The New Archies cartoon from the '80s, but I can't say that for sure.
Apparently, there have been either threats of spankings or actual spankings on Flipper, The Waltons and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman- to a name a few shows that haven't been listed yet.
(http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL73FAB27944373591)

MacLeaper: We have to remember that even the worst abuse starts with one first blow. That's why it's best to never start spanking. The episode where Roseanne hits DJ really handles this. Dan says that DJ deserved it, but Roseanne is afraid of becoming like her abusive father, and Jackie sure understands her feelings. Yeah, it's easy to get angry. But even when children really misbehave, surely there are others ways of disciplin? And the Bible says a lot of different things, that even most devout Christians wouldn't do today...

Furienna: I was spanked as a child and I am glad that I was. If I have children, I do plan to use the rod of correction if I need to. Spanking does not always have to go to the abusive side, we must remember that. Me being spanked helped to keep me in line. Some parents became bullies with it and do it in angry mode and it should not be done that way according to the bible. If a parent plans to use that method of punishment, then it is important that it is not used as a way of getting rid of self aggression. Doing it that way can be a major issue. I do agree with MacLeaper on that view.

Spanking illegal in Sweden? I will admit that I wished that I grew up there. Then I would have dodged spankings at home and being paddled at school. LOLOLOL.

Sweden isn't the only country, where spanking is now illegal, we were just the first one to take that step. I know that many Americans still approve of it, but fewer and fewer people in Europe do.

How did this thread become a debate over spanking? I think the original poster just wanted to start a thread stating what characters got a spanking in their TV shows.

in the 2nd part of a 2-part episode of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES Granny spanked a girl who was a con artist and was partnered with a man who was also one and they were trying to con the Clampetts.

in the 2nd part of a 2-part episode of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES Granny spanked a girl who was a con artist and was partnered with a man who was also one and they were trying to con the Clampetts.
Yes, "The Beverly Hillbillies" had numerous spankings or at least threats. In one episode Granny spanks Pearl with a paddle, and in two episodes I remember she spanked Jethro with a frying pan. Jed gave Ellie Mae a swat in at least one episode. Those were the actual spankings. The threats to spank were beyond counting in that show!

MacLeaper: We have to remember that even the worst abuse starts with one first blow. That's why it's best to never start spanking. The episode where Roseanne hits DJ really handles this. Dan says that DJ deserved it, but Roseanne is afraid of becoming like her abusive father, and Jackie sure understands her feelings. Yeah, it's easy to get angry. But even when children really misbehave, surely there are others ways of disciplin? And the Bible says a lot of different things, that even most devout Christians wouldn't do today...

I will just clarify this and then let it go, since I don't want to derail the thread any further. But I should have pointed out earlier that there are different methods of discipline and I do think appropriate measures can be used for different situations. However, I do think there are times where a spanking is merited and yes, it is the Biblical method of discipline prescribed. As to how much of The Bible Christians follow- that could lead to a different debate altogether, but I try to follow all of it. :) (Remember to read and keep everything in context on that point.)
Anyway- I know different people have different and strong feelings on this and I didn't mean to judge anyone for their parenting style. I do feel every parent has a responsibility to discipline their children in a loving way and I also think every parent should have the right to decide for themselves how to do so- though obviously abuse is not a valid choice.

Okay- anyway, sorry to have gotten off on a different tack.
Back to the previously scheduled topic- lol.

On the "Little Girl Lost" episode of "Bonanza", Ben Cartwright gives a bratty little girl a spanking over the knee.

Didn't Ernie get a spanking in "My Three Sons", or am I just imagining things?

on McHALES NAVY once McHale spanked a bratty, smart-ass kid who kept trying to get the crew in trouble.

Spanking isn't encouraged as much anymore as a form of discipline. A lot of "professionals" think that other reinforcements work better. My opinion is that if a child misbehaves more than once for the same offense and is punished numerous times, like being put in the corner, privileges taken away, etc. and they still don't learn, then spanking is the next step. In this day and age, spanking is considered abuse and I disagree with that. Abuse is when a parent hits a child on the face, pulls their arm, pushes them against a wall, or knocks them to the floor, things like that.

I agree with you but I would hasten to point out that just spanking is not illegal.

To me, abuse when one goes too far with the punishment of spanking or doing something that can cause serious harm. That is why I don't believe that one should strike a child out of anger because sometimes, it could possibly lead up to abuse. I am in favor of spanking if some correction needs to be done, though.

once on BEWITCHED Samantha threatened to spank Tabitha.

I Remember when Ricky used to spank Lucy most of the episodes she does something wrong

There was an episode of Good Times where James Evans spanked a kid named Eddie who was bullying Michael. It was played for laughs and it was really funny. But if it was in real-life, it wouldn't be funny considering James didn't have the right to spank a kid that wasn't his. I don't believe in spanking children. I'm afraid that it only enforces the idea that violence is the solution to problems. However, I do not judge people who do spank their children and I understand why they do it.

I don't recall Danny ever being spanked in the Partridge Family. Do you know what episode that happened? I know that in the episode "The Sound of Money", Shirley threatens to spank Chris, but it is never carried out.

In Bewitched, there is one episode where Tabitha turns a spoiled boy into a dog, and that boy is later spanked by his mother.
Tabitha is threatened with spankings throughout the series, but the threats are never carried out.

The episode in which Danny got a spanking was "I am a Curious Partridge."
You can go to Google or YouTube and type in that title as well as "The Partridge Family" and you should be able to access it.
It seems that with all his misbehavior on many episodes, Danny was never punished like this. The word "Spanking" was not used though. The word "Beat up" was. I think that is strange.
I am not sure if Keith wanted to literally beat up Danny (via punches) or give him another spanking.

Speaking of this topic, I recall one "I Dream Of Jeannie" episode in which Jeannie's master had to deal with a bratty kid and at the very end of the show, the kid's father bends him over his knee and spanks him. I don't recall the title of that episode. Anyone know? I don't think it is "Jeannie and the Curious Kid," or
"Abdullah."

Also I have a recollection of one of the Lucielle Ball shows (she had a few sit-coms besides "Lucy and Dezi") in which she had to baby sit a teenager (or back then it seemed to be a teenager) and I recall the part when she came to the home of the teen and the housemaid said to Lucy "I will let him out of his cage" and the teen plays all kinds of tricks on Lucy but by the end of the episode Lucy just bends him over her knee and spanks him saying "I want to have some fun, fun!!"
I think the parents come and say that she gave him what he needed.
I was very young when I saw this, so some of the description might be a bit off.
I also think I recall an episode of the Patty Duke show in which she had to baby sit a badly behaved boy and somehow Patty got the kid to unknowingly play a trick on his own father whom then spanks him.

If anyone know about the names of these episodes or whether they are on YouTube or if there are discussions on any website about them, let me know. I especially want to find out about the Lucielle Ball episode.

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I dont know the exact episode. but i remember it had something to do with danny Blackmailing someone and mom found out about it. You can see Danny Rubbing his bottom afterwards after it happened.

on a website it mentioned a quote from mrs partridge "Danny you and I and my Hairbrush need to have a talk" and when the scene comes back danny is rubbing his bottom.. thats what i read off another site.. again no episode name

Mike


I am new to this website and forum. I already posted an answer regarding this. Someone else asked the same question in a different way.
Unless you are talking about a completely different episode, I think the one you are referring to is "I Am A Curious Partridge" in which Danny puts "over-embellished" stories about his brother Keith and about their mom in the local newspaper so as to get publicity for their band. Danny believes that publishing scandalous stories about his brother and mom will make people interested, but Keith has to deal with being made fun of in school because Danny stated that Keith has a rose tattoo on his butt and is turned on by women wearing garters, and Mrs Partridge has to deal with men in trench-coats approaching her because Danny wrote that Mrs Partridge is attracted to men in trench coats.
Mrs Partridge did not say ""Danny you and I and my Hairbrush need to have a talk" but something more like "Danny it is time you and I had a talk in the garage."

As I advised the other poster, go to Google or You Tube and type in "I am a Curious Partridge, " and you should find it right away. Only about ten or so minutes into the episode (without commercials) does Danny get dragged by his mom to the garage.

I don't recall any other time that Danny got spanked. He got away with a lot though his older brother Keith as well as his mom often threatened to punish him somehow.

There was an episode of Good Times where James Evans spanked a kid named Eddie who was bullying Michael. It was played for laughs and it was really funny. But if it was in real-life, it wouldn't be funny considering James didn't have the right to spank a kid that wasn't his. I don't believe in spanking children. I'm afraid that it only enforces the idea that violence is the solution to problems. However, I do not judge people who do spank their children and I understand why they do it.

Well I'm not so sure about the bolded. It really was a different time back in the 1970s as far as what people considered acceptable discipline, at least in the black community.

My mom and her friends/siblings (who all grew up on the lower east side of Detroit in the 1950s through 1970s) said it was perfectly normal for the neighbors to give you a whooping when they caught you acting up, and then for them to send you home and get another whooping from your parents.

It was all based on the adages of "It takes a village to raise a child" and also the "Spare the rod, spoil the child."

Chief Kaniski of Gimme a Break! has threatened to spank Samantha in "Samantha Steals a Squad Car" when she tells Nell and Chief (her dad) tells her about her day when Nell and Chief argue over Chief's police cap. Samantha tells her dad that she was called "a dumb ******" then says "how would you like it if someone called you a ******"? Chief Carl threatens her daughter Samantha with "...a spanking of a lifetime".

In the pilot of GAB called "Katie the Crook", Katie snapped at her dad saying "...why don't you get-out your rubber hose"? Did Katie asked to get spanked after being slapped by her dad?

And did Julie ever get threatened to be spanked by Carl? I know she too got slapped by him in "Katie Smokes" and she runs away to her grandparents.

I also think I recall an episode of the Patty Duke show in which she had to baby sit a badly behaved boy and somehow Patty got the kid to unknowingly play a trick on his own father whom then spanks him.
Patty also spanked the boy in that episode in addition to his father.

Also:

Anyone recall the episode in which Barney Rubble gets spanked by Fred Flintstone's uncle? This was after Fred talked Barney into dressing up like a baby and posing as Fred and Wilma's young son since Fred wanted to impress his uncle who was visiting from Texas. Barney misbehaved by pulling "Uncle Tex's" big cowboy hat over his eyes and then "Uncle Tex" spanked Barney who then turned the tables and grabbed "Uncle Tex" and started spanking him.

There was once a Warner Brother's cartoon featuring Daffy Duck but not any of the other known characters (Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, etc ), or not as far as I can recall. And to generally describe it , it was some abstract episode in which some different characters from well known fairy tales, such as "Little Bo Peep" "Jack Horner" etc ., were partying in the night. It apparently was in a toy store after it closed for the night (or that is how it seemed to me) and toy dolls were coming to life while no one is watching and one female doll was singing a seductive song on stage. I think it was "I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Baby" and there was a fat man with a crown on his head wolf-whistling and barking like a seal and howling like coyote as he watched the performance. Daffy Duck at some point shouts for all the music to stop and then with a certain accent says that the music is awful and he spits on the ground and then talks about a different kind of music, I think something Carribean. I think Daffy was mimicking a certain well known celeberty of the time. But as far as the man with a crown, some woman shouts "Henry!!!" and it seems at first that it is the wife of the man with a crown on his head (who by this time is apparently "King Henry") but then the man then says "Coming mother!" which makes it apparent that the woman calling him is his mother not wife. And when the man finally comes to his mother, she bends him over the balcony where she is standing and then proceeds to give his very large butt a good spanking. I recall she said "How many times have I told you not to.." but then some crooner starts singing ( a cartoon representation of some famous crooner of the time) and the woman stops spanking her son and says "Frankie" and faints.
Anyone know the name of this Warner Brother's episode? It is not "What's Opera Doc?" but it was presented in a similar way.

There was a Popeye episode that probably a lot of you DO recall in which he spanked his nephews because they did not want to eat their spinach. But after they did eat their spinach, the next several minutes of the episode shows how the four nephews all acquired extreme strenght and they grabbed paddles and spanked their uncle Popeye in every possible way, such as having him lie belly down on a revolving chair as they each hit him on the butt and he revolved round and round as they continually did this. Also they had their uncle Popeye fall from the top of a building and as he passed each window below, one of the nephews was there with a pattle to hit him on the butt upward before he fell to the level of the next window below where another nephew was with a paddle to do the same thing. All this would really be thought of in a completely different context in this day and age from when this cartoon was made.

You also probably recall the Bugs Bunny episode with "Baby Finster" in which a midget escaped thief dresses like a baby and appears at Bugs Bunny's doorstep since Bugs Bunny found the money that Finster stole. Eventually Bugs finds out that the baby is actually an escaped criminal and ends up spanking him after doing things like putting him in the washer for touching the "dirty money" and throwing him up high so that he hits the ceiling.

This might be one that is tough for most to recall: A British TV show for kids on Saturday mornings sometime in the early 70s or so) called "The Double Deckers" featuring a group of kids who were "stereotypical" in certain ways. There was a white kid with glasses of about 10 to maybe 13 years of age who was smart and was the whiz-kid of the group, there was a black kid who was the only non-white of the group, there was a chubby boy named "Doughnut" who loved to eat ( of course), and there were a few other kids mostly boys. There was a female of about 13 years named Billie, and there was a very young girl of about 6 years of age named Tiger. They were the only females among "The Double Deckers." On one episode Doughnut was being a pest to the others in the group as well to other people, and it got to where Doughnut thought he drank a magic potion that was made by the "whiz kid" that would make anyone invisible who drinks it, and the others of the group pretended not to see Doughnut and had him play a trick on two men because the gang made Doughnut think that no one can see him but then the two men get a hold of Doughnut and they have him bend over and they both grab paddles and simpultaneously start spanking him. But then it turns out that it is a dream that Doughnut had.


I also recall an episode of "My Three Sons" in which "Earnie" is put to baby-sit "Dodie" but Earnie lets Dodie go out when he was not supposed to and he himself sneaks out a window to go with some friends, and eventually Earnie is reprimanded by Fred McMurray and by Dodie's mom for letting Dodie go out to visit her friend who lives several blocks away. The indication is that Dodie is going to get spanked and she expects it and evven thinks she deserves it, and pretty much the same with Earnie but eventually Dodie's mom just lectures her on how she herself did something when she was a little girl and was spanked but that she does not intend to spank her (Dodie). . Then there is this scene in the entier episode in which Dodie is dreaming of how it would be if the tables were turned around and she and Earnie were in charge of the adults and it is in a very exaggerated way that the roles are reversed and Fred McMurray's character is supposed to baby-sit Dodie's mom and I recall that Dodie is reprimanding Fred McMurray for letting her mom go out to visit a friend. Dodie asks McMurray "Which friend did she go out to visit?" Fred McMurray mentions the friends name, I think "Katie" and Dodie says, "Katie lives in Pittsburg."

There was a show in which Danny Thomas played the father of a very young girl not much older than about 6 years old. I am not sure if it was "The Danny Thomas Show" or maybe something like "Make Room For Daddy." I don't recall the name of the young girl but in one episode, she was talking a lot about an adult friend of hers who is some 6 feet tall (or so) and wears a very long Cossack-like coat. Danny Thomas' character thinks that the girl is making up stories and at first, Danny Thomas' character tries child psychology and tries spending more time with the kid and in one scene he is dressed in a baby bonnet and lets his daughter treat him like a doll of hers and the young girl hits him on the head with a pillow for crying too much but the girl still does not stop talking about her 6 foot tall friend and eventually Danny Thomas decides that it is necessary to spank the girl to set her straight and he calls the girl over and the girl knows that she is going to get punished so she very corageously brings over the hair brush and sets up the chair for her dad to sit on and place her on his lap and she willingly bends herself over his knee but Danny Thomas' character cant bring himself to do it and the girl keeps saying things that prevents him from giving the first swat . I vividly recall she said something like "I am little and you might break me" to which the audience laughed loudly. And then when Danny Thomas seemed most ready to deliver the first swat, the girl says "Fire one" to the which the audience also laughed loudly. (Of course it was probably a laugh track). Danny Thomas' character eventually just gets up and says something to the effect that it is impossible to spank kids now-a-days because you are made to feel too guilty about it. But then ultimately what happens is that the dororbell rings and the young girl goes to answer it and then she brings in her 6 foot tall friend in a Cossack-like coat and Danny Tomas sees that his daughter's friend is real and he has a very relieved and surprised look on his face and he shakes hands with the man and seems to realize that he himself was wrong for not believing his daughter and also he seems to think that he joined his daugheter in being childish by imagining such a person but nevertheless he realizes that he should not have been angry with his daughter and he realizes that he should be punished so he asks the 6-foot tall man in Cossack-like coat to sit down and after the man does, Danny Thomas gives the man the hair brush and then lies belly down on the man's lap and says "Fire one" meaning that he wants his daughter's friend to spank him for being a dumb dad.

Then there was one episode in the Courtship of Eddie's Father in which their housekeeper Ms. Livingston swatted Eddie for doing something he should not have done and Eddie told his dad about it thinking that his dad would reprimand Ms Livingston but Eddie's dad told Eddie that it was for his own good but later in the show, Eddie tries to fly a kite from out the window and his dad catches him doing it and then grabs him and swats him on the behind, and Eddie soys to his dad something to the effect that if he loved him he would not hit him, but his dad says that he hit him because he loves him and does not want him to do anything dangerous. By the end of the show, Eddie understands and tells his dad that he does think that he is his best friend after all.


Of course some of the descriptions of the scenes in these episodes may not be so exact.. I was much younger when I saw these episodes. Many I was not able to find in You Tube .


If I think of any more I might ask about them or describe them.

Hopefully someone will recall the episode name and be able to state whether it is in You Tube or somewhere else in the internet.

^Speaking of cartoons...in the Donald Duck Cartoon "Bellboy Donald", which is my favorite DD cartoon...Pete Jr. gets spanked in the end after getting taking advantage of Donald because he can't get angry with the guests since many complained about him in the beginning of the cartoon.

And yes...Pete Jr. deserved it!

Back to sitcoms...there was an ep of "Yes, Dear" where one of the parents spank their child for bad behavior.

Years ago, I remember watching a Dobie Gillis rerun on Nick at Nite, and there's an episode where Dobie tells some lie (I think he pretends to be dying), and his father puts him over his knee for a spanking.

I remember an episode of Desperate Housewives where Lynette slapped Kayla. It was deserved, and I remember being pretty surprised that something like that was still allowed on TV. This was about 2008.

In the "Bicycle Man" episode of Diff'rent Strokes, Mr. Drummond says he plans to give Arnold a "hand to butt" talk.

I posted elsewhere on sitcomsonline.com about this , but it is a bit relevant here.
Of course Dezi Arnaz famously spanked Lucy Ball, but there was an episode of Here's Lucy in which Lucy Carter wanted to meet Lucielle Ball who , at the time, just finished making the musical, "Mame." This was the early 70s.
Lucy Carter somehow gets into Lucy Ball's home or the film studio where Ms Ball is, and is so scatterbrained and starstruck that she ends up accidentally hitting Lucielle Ball on the butt with a tennis racket but by the end of the partichlar scene , Lucy Ball eventually hits Lucy Carter on the butt with the racket.

In the Coat of Many Colors movie the girl playing Dolly Parton got many spankings.

I think I found it.
23:04

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdSJEaqh1Ps

there was an episode of "McHALES NAVY" where McHale got so mad at an admirals bratty son that he spanked him.

once there was a 2-part episode of THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES where this man and woman con artists try to bilk the Clampetts out of their money and in one scene in the 2nd part Granny spanks the woman. They don't show it but they mention it.
And in one of the early episodes-I think it's called "GETTING SETTLED-Granny tells Jethro in one scene to "go cut me a switch and meet me in the woodshed!" and another time she yells at him "THAT'S IT, YOU & ME ARE GOIN' TO TH' WOODSHED!" And she threatened to spank him 3 or 4 times in those early episodes.
In the THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW episode "Opie and the spoiled kid" a really bratty kids father takes him to the back of the courthouse and spanks him, and Andy threatened to give Opie "a whoopin' " once or twice.

I think I found it.
23:04

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdSJEaqh1Ps


By the way, anyone think that Mr Money's nephew deserved the spanking from "Major Fun Fun"?

[QUOTE=MrCleveland]^Speaking of cartoons...in the Donald Duck Cartoon "Bellboy Donald", which is my favorite DD cartoon...Pete Jr. gets spanked in the end after getting taking advantage of Donald because he can't get angry with the guests since many complained about him in the beginning of the cartoon And yes...Pete Jr. deserved it![QUOTE=MrCleveland]



Speed Racer had a much younger brother named Spridle . I recall Speed once chasing Spridle through the streets of India where a car race for young kids was going to take place and Spridle wanted to participate but was not allowed to . When Speed caught Spridle he said "You deserve a good Spanking and youre going to get it" but it was not shown to be carried out.
I think Speed threatened Spridle with a spanking before, and other characters did, probably "Pops" ( who seemed to be Speed Racer's and Spridle's father but I was never absolutely sure of it back then). I am not sure if Trixie or "Sparky" ever threatened Spridle, who often was mischievous, though not a brat.

Anyone remember "Tobar The 8 Man"?

It seemed that at the end of the episode , " Me And My Shadow " Lori Partridge intended to give Danny a beating or a spanking.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8m3ww43i7U

I know it was not a sitcom, but there was a sketch in The Carol Brunette Show in which Paul Lynde got a spanking (with a frying pan) from Harvey Korman (dressed as a "Jewish Mother").

The link below should lead to an article that mentions it on the 7th paragraph:


http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/961054-129/carol-burnett-the-last-queen-of

Anyone recall a Dick Van Dyke Show episode in which Dick Van Dyke was being aggressively flirted-with by a young woman at his workplace and Dick's wife felt jealous even though Dick was not encouraging the young woman to flirt with him and then there is a scene in which he is in the living room talking with his wife about his supposed inability to be firm with other people, and Dick tells his wife that he intends to firmly tell the young woman at work to stop pursuing him, and then Dick's young son comes in to the room and pesters his dad to fix his toy truck and Dick keeps telling the boy that he will do it later , not now, but when the boy persists in telling his dad to fix his toy, Dick finally says to the boy that he will spank him if he does not stop badgering him but the boy keeps whining that he wants him to fix his toy. Then Dick's wife tells the boy that his dad will fix the toy later, so go somewhere else to play in the meantime and the boy instantly says "OK" and leaves the room .
Then Dick Van Dyke is amazed at how his wife was able to get the boy to obey her while he could not. Then Dick van Dyke says that he will be just as assertive in telling the young flirt at his office to leave him alone. His wife says "What if she doesn't ? " and Dick Van Dyke says, "I'll spank her."

I didn't read the whole thread so maybe this one's been mentioned.

I seem to remember an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where Ted Baxter spanks his son in Lou Grant's office. I think it was the only time they had the son on the show. But it's been so long now since I've last seen the episode I don't remember the son's name or the circumstances as to why he got a spanking. Maybe somebody else can remember what happened.

Ed.

I didn't read the whole thread so maybe this one's been mentioned.

I seem to remember an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where Ted Baxter spanks his son in Lou Grant's office. I think it was the only time they had the son on the show. But it's been so long now since I've last seen the episode I don't remember the son's name or the circumstances as to why he got a spanking. Maybe somebody else can remember what happened.

Ed.
that was an episode from the last season with Teds son David that he and Georgette adopted. I also forget the circumstances but I know they also showed him 2 or 3 more times.

Anyone recall a Dick Van Dyke Show episode in which Dick Van Dyke was being aggressively flirted-with by a young woman at his workplace and Dick's wife felt jealous even though Dick was not encouraging the young woman to flirt with him and then there is a scene in which he is in the living room talking with his wife about his supposed inability to be firm with other people, and Dick tells his wife that he intends to firmly tell the young woman at work to stop pursuing him, and then Dick's young son comes in to the room and pesters his dad to fix his toy truck and Dick keeps telling the boy that he will do it later , not now, but when the boy persists in telling his dad to fix his toy, Dick finally says to the boy that he will spank him if he does not stop badgering him but the boy keeps whining that he wants him to fix his toy. Then Dick's wife tells the boy that his dad will fix the toy later, so go somewhere else to play in the meantime and the boy instantly says "OK" and leaves the room .
Then Dick Van Dyke is amazed at how his wife was able to get the boy to obey her while he could not. Then Dick van Dyke says that he will be just as assertive in telling the young flirt at his office to leave him alone. His wife says "What if she doesn't" and Dick Van Dyke says, "I'll spank her."that episode plot was re-used years later on an episode of "THE NEW DICK VAN DYKE SHOW".

Yes treky you're right, thanks for that. Like I said it's been so long since I've seen any of the episodes I've forgotten a lot of stuff!

Ed.

the DVD episode "FATHER OF THE YEAR" was also re-vamped and re-used for "THE NEW..."

that was an episode from the last season with Teds son David that he and Georgette adopted. I also forget the circumstances but I know they also showed him 2 or 3 more times.



BTW, I can only recall certain episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore show since I was in my teens and younger back then (also, some episodes were easier to keep track of as far as what the plot was about), but didn't Ted's adopted son play as "Cousin Oliver" in the Brady Bunch?

BTW, I can only recall certain episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore show since I was in my teens and younger back then (also, some episodes were easier to keep track of as far as what the plot was about), but didn't Ted's adopted son play as "Cousin Oliver" in the Brady Bunch?

Yeah, Robbie Rist.

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I can't recall specific episodes, but:

Donna Stone
Thalia Menninger
Carol Post
Dorothy Baxter
Laura Petrie
Honey West
Helen Crump
Wrangler Jane
Miss Bunny
Ginger Grant
Catwoman (Eartha Kitt)
Jeannie
Serena
Fraulein Helga
Lieutenant Uhura
Millie Swanson




You mean these characters got a spanking or did they give someone a spanking?

Does anyone know in which episodes Danny gets a spanking in the Partridge Family?

This might have been answered already, but this is a long thread.


Answer is "I am A Curious Partridge"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0670166/

This may not exactly fit the criteria of "getting a spanking" but I think there was an episode of F-Troop in which a young boy wanted to join the military and Agarn and O'Rourke told the boy's mother that they would use reverse psychology and take the boy into the military so he can see how miserable it is. But the boy did not want to go back to his mother and there was a scene in which the boy's mother was was arguing with O"Rourke and Agarn that she wants the boy back and either Agarn or O"Rourke says "Lets sit down and talk it over" and the boy's mother says that her son won't be sitting down for a long time if he does not come back home to her.
In another episode of F Troop (It might have been called "Johnny Eagle Eye") Chief Wild Eagle's bratty teen nephew visits and Agarn and O'Rourke are talking with Chief WIld Eagle who says something to the effect that his teen nephew is badly behaved and that he is going to give him "Slap on buckskin."
Anyone recall these episodes?

Edit:
Also, it was not a sitcom, but there was a short-lived TV show called "Anna and The King" which was a TV series based on "The King and I" and Eric Shea was the actor who played Anna's young son, "Louis," and there was one episode in which Louis befriended some person who was really some kind of specter who kept appearing somewhere in the palace where he and his mom were staying and the specter was not some creepy looking person but a rather mystical looking old man who seemed to be the ghost of an ancient craft-maker and he gave Louis some pretty ornament and the plot was such that the mysterious man kept appearing and giving Louis these ornaments that he crafted himself ,and it got to where Louis' mother was worried that the mysterious man would take Louis to a different dimension or to the spirit world if Louis kept talking with the mysterious man, so Anna told Louis to stay in this room and not talk with the specter any more but one night Louis hears the chiming of the ornaments that the craftsman is making and he goes over to talk with the mysterious man and the man shows Louis another ornament and Louis says that it is the prettiest ornament of all , and it gets to where Louis is almost taken by the specter to his world (and throughout this episode, there is nothing really that scary or occult like, it is very much as if the ghost of the craftsman is just lonely for some company ) but somehow Anna, and I think the King, talk the specter to going back to his spirit world and be happy there (I cannot recall the details that well , only the generalities) and there is a happy ending in that the specter no longer feels that he has to take Louis with him and the specter leaves for good and wont try to convince Louis to come with him and Anna is a bit angry with Louis for disobeying her and says "I ought to spank you, but I am too happy to do it."

I know that it was said in this discussion that the topic is characters who got spanked not merely threatened, and I am therefore going against the "rules" but I think that overall, there have been scenes in TV shows in which characters get threatened but it is not carried out or not carried out in any scene.

In "Flipper" (of course not a sitcom, but there were some plots that were funny) Bud and his older brother Sandy were threatened with spankings by their dad in different episodes , but it was never carried out on camera.
At the ending scene of one episode, both Sandy and Bud were riding on their bikes on their paper route and talking about how angry their father was at them because they had gotten into mischief and as they ride away from the camera they are sitting on pillows that are on their bike seats.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3oV3OU_8lQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59q62fQ2wag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN9vG0GOyas



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_and_the_King_(TV_series)#Episodes

I thought it would be fun to list characters who got a spanking in an episode of their show, whether on-screen or off-screen, and then list whether you think they deserved it. Just list those who got a spanking in an actual episode, NOT threats and references.


Katie Gatling on Benson- deserved, but she was so cute you hated she got it

Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie- DESERVED BIG-TIME!!

Wesley Owens on Mr. Belvedere- deserved

Timmy on Lassie- deserved

Danny on Partridge Family- deserved

Dominic on Yes Dear- deserved but very stupid politically correct episode

Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy- deserved I guess, but she was a grown woman!!

Gidget on Gidget- deserved and very funny

Alex on One Day at a Time- deserved

Opie on Andy Griffith- deserved, but Andy was too strict most of the time


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs1R5fsEbBE

I don't know if this one was already mentioned as I don't want to go through all the posts but I just found one.

Kim Carter on "Here's Lucy." She was spanked over the knee by Andy Griffith in the season six episode "Lucy & Andy Griffith."

I don't know if this one was already mentioned as I don't want to go through all the posts but I just found one.

Kim Carter on "Here's Lucy." She was spanked over the knee by Andy Griffith in the season six episode "Lucy & Andy Griffith."


I know that I never heard of that one.

I know that I never heard of that one.

I didn't either but then I haven't seen too many episodes of this show. I have all the DVDS and was watching the bonus features on the last disc. It included syndication promos for the episodes. When the Andy Griffith episode promo came on, it showed the spanking in the actual promo. Wanting to see it play out, I then watched the episode.

On 7th Heaven, Ruthie spanked Matt and one of Simon's friends spanked Lucy.

It seems that that episode was meant to have Lucie Arnaz follow in her mom's footsteps in the respect that she gets at least one spanking in an episode like her mom used to get from Desi Arnaz even though both Lucie and Lucy were grown women

Also it might have already been mentioned but on Diffren't Strokes Willis once spanked Arnold.

There could be more to this discussion:
A majority of characters who got spanked were kids who got spanked by someone other than their mom or dad, such as a baby sitter , a teacher, a friend or coworker of the child's parent.
A spanking from an older sibling is unusual. I think it only happened on Diff'rent Strokes.

Regarding children and teens:
How many characters got a spanking from one of his or her parents?
What character got a spanking from a teacher?
What character got a spanking from a baby sitter?
What character got a spanking from a relative? (Of course I mentioned one already in this sole post).

Adults getting spankings:
Under what circumstances? Is it some kind of sexual foreplay, or usually? Why else would an adult spank another adult? Of course Desi spanking Lucy was iconic but it had a different meaning back then.

Do more men do the spanking and more women receive the spanking or vice versa?

Have there been a lot of scenes of grown men spanking other grown men and grown women spanking other grown women? (From some of the posts in this thread, the answer is yes to that last one), but also, under what circumstances?

Also it has occurred to me regarding The Brady Bunch (RIP Florence Henderson)
that Mike and Carol Brady never spanked their kids, definitely NOT Carol Brady.

Mike Brady was a modern day dad who talked to his kids , like Bill Bixby's character never spanked his son Eddie, except once.
There was an episode in which Cindy was turning into a chronic tattletale and told Mike Brady that Bobby had used Mom's lipstick to color his skateboard and Mike Brady just gently gave Bobby some slaps on the head. In another episode Bobby played a trick on Cindy and Mike Brady made Bobby apologize to her and then as Bobby turned to walk away after apologizing, Mike just gently pats Bobby's butt as "punishment." It is just like when Uncle Bill punished Jody because Jody wanted Uncle bill to show that he loves him
by spanking him, but Uncle Bill just gave Jody a gentle pat on the behind.

It seemed mainly unrealistic to me that a lot of child characters had such patient gentle parents.

These characters weren't spanked but, got slapped by their Moms.

Lionel got slapped by Louise for mouthing off about George.
Gloria got slapped by Edith in part 2 of Edith's 50th Birthday episode.


Julie got slapped by her mom Ms Romano on One Day At A Time.

Julie got slapped by her mom Ms Romano on One Day At A Time.

Ann Romano also slapped Alex, who at the time was the son of her boyfriend (eventually Alex ended up living with her after his dad died ).

Jason spanked Mary Ellen on The Waltons.

Jason spanked Mary Ellen on The Waltons.


I think I remember that ep.
My best recollection is that it was one of the earliest episodes of The Waltons and the youngest cast members were pre-teens. I never watched The Waltons much and never knew each character much but I know it was a large family and there were two youngest kids, a boy and girl and the girl was the ultimate youngest, and as all the brothers and sisters were sitting in a circle talking about what they want for Christmas one of the older girls, I think she was supposed to be in her later teen years, said in a cynical tone that there is no Santa so why is everyone talking about something so silly? And one of the older brothers sitting next to her in the circle who seemingly was also in his later teens but older than the cynical girl, just slapped her on the butt for talking that way in front of the younger kids, and told her not to spoil Christmas for everyone else.

However, what I best recall is that it was John Boy who did it.

You could be referring to a different episode

Bonanza episode "Love Me Not." Ben spanks a woman who was given to him by an Indian tribe. She was a "white woman" raised by the tribe and she wasn't cooperating with Ben because she wanted to go back to the tribe.

Also the Bonanza episode "Woman of Fire." A guest at the house gets angry and is about to smash Adam's guitar, he stops her and she hits him around his waist area, and he spanks her.

It's disturbing to see what was acceptable on TV in the 60s.

Yes it is an irony. Not to take the discussion so far from its original topic, but back in the 70s there was a trend to get away from the violence and sexism and racism of the older TV shows and cartoons. After all, TV shows of 1960s such as Popeye depicted people getting run over by cars, falling from high places, or being caught between huge mechanical wheels and it was supposed to be funny, not to mention that there were depictions of dark-skinned people as having large lips and Jewish people as having long beards and long black coats who always try to sell you something worthless, etc.
The Little Rascals, Bugs Bunny, and other children's shows had such scenes in them too. Batman relied on a lot of violent fighting scenes.

The TV kids shows of the mid 70s such as Isis, and Captain Marvel had characters who saved people from dangerous situations and rarely if ever fought anyone. They just stopped guilty people from getting away from police.
But back then I heard comments of older people who say that in their day, the 1940s and 1950s, cartoons were "not violent" while more modern children's programming is, and also that TV is getting too sexually oriented.
There was an odd reasoning there but at the same time, TV in the 70s was getting more daring in its own way. All In The Family was a "ground breaking" TV show.

Nevertheless look at TV shows of the pre-1970s and yes there is a lot of violence. Back then it would have been considered just action scenes.

As far as violence toward women by way of spankings. It was common to depict it since un-likable women were presented as needing a spanking and it was "not as extreme" as getting punched like a man. Also it had to do with women being thought of like children to be put into their own place.
Of course spanking of children and teens was fairly common too.
Somehow it was depicted a lot in cowboy or Western TV shows and movies.
See both links below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLGOzH7yROk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMySKpHuxk

I think I remember that ep.
My best recollection is that it was one of the earliest episodes of The Waltons and the youngest cast members were pre-teens. I never watched The Waltons much and never knew each character much but I know it was a large family and there were two youngest kids, a boy and girl and the girl was the ultimate youngest, and as all the brothers and sisters were sitting in a circle talking about what they want for Christmas one of the older girls, I think she was supposed to be in her later teen years, said in a cynical tone that there is no Santa so why is everyone talking about something so silly? And one of the older brothers sitting next to her in the circle who seemingly was also in his later teens but older than the cynical girl, just slapped her on the butt for talking that way in front of the younger kids, and told her not to spoil Christmas for everyone else.

However, what I best recall is that it was John Boy who did it.

You could be referring to a different episode

That scene you describe is from the original The Waltons movie from 1971: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story. And you're right, it was Mary Ellen being smacked on the butt by John Boy, though Mary Ellen was about 13, and John Boy about 15 or 16.

I think I remember that ep.
My best recollection is that it was one of the earliest episodes of The Waltons and the youngest cast members were pre-teens. I never watched The Waltons much and never knew each character much but I know it was a large family and there were two youngest kids, a boy and girl and the girl was the ultimate youngest, and as all the brothers and sisters were sitting in a circle talking about what they want for Christmas one of the older girls, I think she was supposed to be in her later teen years, said in a cynical tone that there is no Santa so why is everyone talking about something so silly? And one of the older brothers sitting next to her in the circle who seemingly was also in his later teens but older than the cynical girl, just slapped her on the butt for talking that way in front of the younger kids, and told her not to spoil Christmas for everyone else.

However, what I best recall is that it was John Boy who did it.

You could be referring to a different episodeThe episode I am referring to is the 2-parter where Martha was being evicted from her house so the government could build a highway. John and Olivia had just left the house and put Jason in charge. Jason told them to clean their rooms and get moving, then spanked Mary Ellen quickly.

The episode I am referring to is the 2-parter where Martha was being evicted from her house so the government could build a highway. John and Olivia had just left the house and put Jason in charge. Jason told them to clean their rooms and get moving, then spanked Mary Ellen quickly.


Why did he spank her? Did he just slap her?

There was an episode of "Archie" (the teenage cartoon character) or it might have been "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and Reggie's little nephew came to visit him and was being a brat and playing tricks on everyone and Archie, and Betty, and Veronica and Jughead were all yelling at Reggie because of his bratty little nephew. I think the entire gang were at a picnic trying to entertain Reggie's little bratty nephew but the kid was wreaking havoc, and Hot Dog decided to do something about the bratty kid and he talked to some woodland animals, and a bear caught Reggie's nephew and held him over his knee while a beaver was readying his flat tail to use as a paddle to spank the kid while some deer and birds and other animals watched. It was not actually shown but apparently the woodland animals spanked the kid and the next scene showed Reggie's nephew as he just came from the woods apparently after the spanking and also having had run away from the woodland animals who spanked him, and he just started talking very nice to Archie and Vernoca and Betty and the others and they were all amazed at why the kid just suddenly was a nice little boy.

There was an episode of "Archie" (the teenage cartoon character) or it might have been "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and Reggie's little nephew came to visit him and was being a brat and playing tricks on everyone and Archie, and Betty, and Veronica and Jughead were all yelling at Reggie because of his bratty little nephew. I think the entire gang were at a picnic trying to entertain Reggie's little bratty nephew but the kid was wreaking havoc, and Hot Dog decided to do something about the bratty kid and he talked to some woodland animals, and a bear caught Reggie's nephew and held him over his knee while a beaver was readying his flat tail to use as a paddle to spank the kid while some deer and birds and other animals watched. It was not actually shown but apparently the woodland animals spanked the kid and the next scene showed Reggie's nephew as he just came from the woods apparently after the spanking and also having had run away from the woodland animals who spanked him, and he just started talking very nice to Archie and Vernoca and Betty and the others and they were all amazed at why the kid just suddenly was a nice little boy.
That sounds very weird to me, since there was a backlash against spanking already in the 70s over here in Sweden. Swedish children's works from that time period will rather have a more modern message, that nobody is reformed by physical punishment. Then you hear how far behind American works were... ohno:

in the 2nd part of a 2-part episode of "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES" once Granny spanked a woman con artist who was trying to steal their money. They didn't show it, just mentioned it.

Why did he spank her? Did he just slap her?He wasn't angry, it was more of a playful swat saying I'm in charge.

I also recall an episode of the cartoon "Snuffy Smith" in which Snuffy was taking care of his mischievous niece and he threatened to spank her, but she made something of a threat to him that she could get him into trouble for doing so. I saw the ep a few times as a kid and I cannot recall the exact scenario now, but Snuffy seemed afraid to spank his niece after she said she would tell others or get him in trouble, but by the very end of the episode, Snuffy was feeling depressed because he felt his niece did not love him but she came to him and told him she does love him.

I recall there was a regular young character who's name I cannot recall. It seemed he was the nephew of Snuffy Smith who once got a spanking for playing tricks on everyone.

Though I knew that Snuffy Smith was about a group of so-called Hill Billies, and the adventures reflected Hill Billy culture such as just lying on the front porch sleeping a lot and almost always holding a rifle to shoot "possums" I still found the cartoon to be very odd . I found Popeye to be less strange which may be because Popeye cartoons were televised more often than Snuffy Smith ones were, at least where I was growing up. But in retrospect, Popeye had an odd set up too. Popeye had a girlfriend Olive who often was seen with a child "Sweet Pea" and it was not always clear if Olive was the mother or the aunt or baby sitter of "Sweet Pea" and depending on the episode it could be any of those. Also there was Bluto who was usually Popeye's enemy but was sometimes his friend, though a bad friend. Then was Popeye's nephews who sometimes were depicted as twins, sometimes triplets and sometimes quadruplets.

I will have to start a thread about cartoons of our childhoods which actually had strange characters and which oddly reflected diversity when that was not the intention.

arnold jackson different strokes desivered david baxter the mary tyler moore show desieverd

I recall Arnold got spanked more than once. Which is the one you are referring to?

David Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? Wasn't he an adult?

Also, I am not sure if it was already mentioned, but didn't Ann Slap Julie on One Day At A Time and didn't Edith slap Gloria on All In The Family?
Not exactly a spanking but Gloria and Julie were too old to spank.
Also Edith slapped Archie once too. Not exactly a spanking but a punishment. Anyone think Archie deserved it?

I haven't seen it in awhile, but there is a very old Make Room For Daddy episode where Danny has a very young Rusty over his knee, and there is a long dialogue about a spanking he is about to get. I don't remember exactly, but I think Rusty talks Danny out of it.

David Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show? Wasn't he an adult?


No, he was about 12 or so.

I feel like happy days should have had some spanking storylines

I feel like happy days should have had some spanking storylines

Should The Fonz have gotten a spanking?

Lol he probably would have liked it tbh

I'm not goin' thru 8 pages of posts to see if anyone mentioned Ricky spanking Lucy.

I feel like happy days should have had some spanking storylines

You obviously haven’t seen the uncut DVD Howard and Marion bedroom scenes.

I thought it would be fun to list characters who got a spanking in an episode of their show, whether on-screen or off-screen, and then list whether you think they deserved it. Just list those who got a spanking in an actual episode, NOT threats and references.


Katie Gatling on Benson- deserved, but she was so cute you hated she got it

Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie- DESERVED BIG-TIME!!

Wesley Owens on Mr. Belvedere- deserved

Timmy on Lassie- deserved

Danny on Partridge Family- deserved

Dominic on Yes Dear- deserved but very stupid politically correct episode

Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy- deserved I guess, but she was a grown woman!!

Gidget on Gidget- deserved and very funny

Alex on One Day at a Time- deserved

Opie on Andy Griffith- deserved, but Andy was too strict most of the time


Perhaps someone mentioned this already but I recall that Willis once gave Arnold a spanking on camera on "Diff'rent Strokes."

Mee Maw gave Sheldon a spanking on an episode of Young Sheldon.

These characters weren't spanked but, got slapped by their Moms.

Lionel got slapped by Louise for mouthing off about George.
Gloria got slapped by Edith in part 2 of Edith's 50th Birthday episode.

Maybe someone already mentioned this (including me) but Gloria also got slapped on the face by Edith in "The Rape Of Edith" episode when Gloria tried to talk Edith into going to the police about the matter and she shouted at Edith for being scared and Edith just slapped Gloria on the face. Or that is what I remember.
Also Edith slapped Archie on the face in the episode in which Archie started gambling a lot after years of "sobriety."

Of course in One Day At A Time Julie got slapped in the face by her mother too.

Gloria once slapped Mike across the face in AITF.

Dennis Mitchell (Dennis the Menace) got spanked.

Larry Mondello (Leave It To Beaver) was always getting spanked whether his Father was in Cincinnati or not. According to Mrs.Mondello if Larry’s Sister would just get herself a man, than someone would be able to give it to Larry whether Larry’s Father was there or not. Mr. Clever though that would be a comfort.

227 Pearl was always Threatening to whip Calvins behind when he got out of line.

Amen whenever Chris got sassy Someone would throw him off the porch or push him out the door.

Jack gave it to Wayne a couple times on The Wonder Years (Original).

Schwartz from the movie A Christmas Story. For saying (FUDGE)! It wasn’t fudge though.

In the original Popeye cartoons, Popeye spanked his nephews Peepeye, Poopeye, Pipeye and Pupeye for not eating their spinach.

In the original Popeye cartoons, Popeye spanked his nephews Peepeye, Poopeye, Pipeye and Pupeye for not eating their spinach.


Yes. This was in one episode which by today's standards would be particularly weird. I mentioned this earlier in this thread or a different thread.

In the episode Popeye's nephews had to eat their spinach because Popeye (reluctantly and tearfully) spanked them for not doing so, but then after Peepeye, Poopeye ( a particularly odd name), Pipeye, and Pupeye ate their spinach they became strong and overpowered their uncle and they all gave him a spanking to put it mildly. You would have to have seen this episode to understand how odd it is by today's standards.

Also:








There was a show in which Danny Thomas played the father of a very young girl not much older than about 6 years old. I am not sure if it was "The Danny Thomas Show" or maybe something like "Make Room For Daddy." I don't recall the name of the young girl but in one episode, she was talking a lot about an adult friend of hers who is some 6 feet tall (or so) and wears a very long Cossack-like coat. Danny Thomas' character thinks that the girl is making up stories and at first, Danny Thomas' character tries child psychology and tries spending more time with the kid and in one scene he is dressed in a baby bonnet and lets his daughter treat him like a doll of hers and the young girl hits him on the head with a pillow for crying too much but the girl still does not stop talking about her 6 foot tall friend and eventually Danny Thomas decides that it is necessary to spank the girl to set her straight and he calls the girl over and the girl knows that she is going to get punished so she very corageously brings over the hair brush and sets up the chair for her dad to sit on and place her on his lap and she willingly bends herself over his knee but Danny Thomas' character cant bring himself to do it and the girl keeps saying things that prevents him from giving the first swat . I vividly recall she said something like "I am little and you might break me" to which the audience laughed loudly. And then when Danny Thomas seemed most ready to deliver the first swat, the girl says "Fire one" to the which the audience also laughed loudly. (Of course it was probably a laugh track). Danny Thomas' character eventually just gets up and says something to the effect that it is impossible to spank kids now-a-days because you are made to feel too guilty about it. But then ultimately what happens is that the dororbell rings and the young girl goes to answer it and then she brings in her 6 foot tall friend in a Cossack-like coat and Danny Tomas sees that his daughter's friend is real and he has a very relieved and surprised look on his face and he shakes hands with the man and seems to realize that he himself was wrong for not believing his daughter and also he seems to think that he joined his daugheter in being childish by imagining such a person but nevertheless he realizes that he should not have been angry with his daughter and he realizes that he should be punished so he asks the 6-foot tall man in Cossack-like coat to sit down and after the man does, Danny Thomas gives the man the hair brush and then lies belly down on the man's lap and says "Fire one" meaning that he wants his daughter's friend to spank him for being a dumb dad.



Of course some of the descriptions of the scenes in these episodes may not be so exact.. I was much younger when I saw these episodes. Many I was not able to find in You Tube .


If I think of any more I might ask about them or describe them.

Hopefully someone will recall the episode name and be able to state whether it is in You Tube or somewhere else in the internet.


I can tell you about the Danny Thomas episode because I've seen it online. The show was called "Make Room For Daddy" in its first 4 seasons and "The Danny Thomas Show" afterwards and it was filmed in front of a live audience. The episode you described is called "Linda's Giant" and is from Season 7 which used to be found on YouTube but is no longer there. This reminds me of another episode from Season 5 that you may have seen called "Parents Are Pigeons" where the spanking is not seen but was definitely performed on both Linda and Rusty and it was well deserved for both. Rusty tells Linda about how their parents tend to be extra nicer to their stepchild and a little meaner towards their own children. This gives Rusty an idea and he explains to Linda how this can be used to their advantage so that they can get anything they want, in particular, a new baseball catcher's mitt for him and a new "Mama doll" for her. The plan works beautifully until their older sister Terry finds out and immediately tells a disbelieving Danny and Kathy about it. After that, Danny produces a pair of belts for him and Kathy to use. Once the kids appear, the belts go into action!

This is one of my favorite episodes from the series which I love to watch whenever I can find it online either on YouTube, Tubi, or Uncle Earl's Classic TV. As an added bonus, it's now even on TV! Canada's best retro TV station CHCH TV will have the "Parents Are Pigeons" episode of "The Danny Thomas Show" this Friday afternoon at 2 pm immediately followed by "My Three Sons", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Odd Couple" and "Get Smart". Another reason to love living in Canada!

The episode you described is called "Linda's Giant" and is from Season 7 which used to be found on YouTube but is no longer there.



This might come closest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOf1_pHD8qo


You describe a great deal about "The Danny Thomas Show" and/or "Make Room For Daddy" which I am not familiar with. I never knew that the characters in the show were meant to depict "step children" and "biological children" within one family, or that is what it seems you describe regarding the episode in which two of the children tried to get their parents to give them more presents because they were their real children not step children.
I was very young when I watched some episodes of the Danny Thomas Show and/or Make Room For Daddy and often the episodes were a bit too sophisticated in plot for me to understand them. The one about "Linda's Giant" had a very understandable plot for me.

But thanks for explaining the facts about the series.

In the episode of Community titled "Basic Genealogy", Britta gets a pants down spanking from Troy's very strict grandmother right in front of him. That moment is played for laughs with Troy crying like a kid "She's had enough!"

On the episode "Daughter-at-Law" of My Little Margie, Vern places Margie over his knee and spanks her right in front of her lawyer boyfriend.

In "The Accident - Part 1" of Diff'rent Strokes, Kimberly tells Willis and Arnold about a time she got spanked by her dad. She had buried him in the sand at the beach and walked off, forgetting him. When Willis asks if he was sunburnt, she responds with "Yeah, but his face wasn't as red as my behind was that night."

An almost spanking...
The season one episode "Katie the Cheat" of Gimme a Break! sees the Chief taking off his belt to spank Katie but she jumps over the bed and runs down the stairs where Nell gets involved and prevents him from spanking her.

If my parents were still with us today they would had been under the jail with the key thrown out. We got our tails whipped. Their m.o. was show us up in public we will beat you to the punch. I was traumatized by spankings or whippiings. Dr James Dobson, Focus of the Family ministry, states that parents should raised children to be the type that everyone wants to have around. We have allowed the government let children have more rights than adults and it was designed to be that. Yes, I am an advocate of spanking but do it out of love and not anger.

I went to a private school for K-6th grade basically ran by a witch, a mentally ill woman who had no business running a children's school. I used to get my ass beat by her several times a year for minor infractions. I absolutely hated her. This b.tch even knew when it was your birthday and gave one whack to the buttocks as a "love tap". Some of the other teachers could also give spankings, and one was to get hit on the front of your hands with a ping pong paddle.

I got beatings at home also, but only if I brought home very bad grades. Both my father and mother hit me with belts, flyswatters or wire hangers (painful). These people did love me and my father paid for my college and would have paid me to go law school or whatever. I was a disappointment to him.

In high school, paddlings were a form of discipline, but in my four years there, I was only paddled once, and it was like three "licks" and it wasnt like getting your ass beat like the headmaster witch from elementary school.

Mama: Roger give me your belt!
Roger: No Mama, No!

I remember, probably from the first episode, Mama asked Rerun for his belt to spank Rog, and when Rerun took off the huge belt, Mama said "I want to whip him, not hang him!" and started laughing, so Rog didn't get his spanking, at least during the episode.

Dennis Mitchell (Dennis the Menace) got spanked.

Schwartz from the movie A Christmas Story. For saying (FUDGE)! It wasn’t fudge though.

Schwartz didn't say it. Ralphie told his mom that Schwartz had said it because he didn't want to tell his mom he'd heard it from his own dad.

Did Angela Cartwright ever get a spanking on Lost in Space? I know she did on The Sound of Music.

Did Angela Cartwright ever get a spanking on Lost in Space? I know she did on The Sound of Music.

I don't know about Lost in Space, and I don't recall her getting spanked on TSOM.

She did not get spanked on The Danny Thomas Show, but very early on in Make Room for Daddy, Rusty Hamer either did or came close.

I don't know about Lost in Space, and I don't recall her getting spanked on TSOM.

She did not get spanked on The Danny Thomas Show, but very early on in Make Room for Daddy, Rusty Hamer either did or came close.It was when Captain Von Trapp used his whistle signals on the children when they first met Maria. Brigitta was reading and not paying attention, so he spanked her bottom with the book.

Well, I knew it couldn't have been Maria who did the deed!

Eight is Enough: Susan spanked Elizabeth after getting her off the phone on the way to dish duty.

On W and G , Karen spanked Jack. Will spanked Karen and she wanted more. Carrie smacked Big with a whip in an episode of Sex and the City. On Friends, Chandler was spanked in the butt by his boss , Doug and Rachel smacked Ross' butt while they sang "Baby got Back." to Emma.

What are the names of those episodes?

One Day at a Time season 2 finale- Barbara playfully spanks Julie who is practicing twerking and making her bottom look huge. Maybe the best One Day episode I have seen, Valerie and Mackenzie have amazing chemistry and no appearance at all from Schneider.

Did Angela Cartwright ever get a spanking on Lost in Space? I know she did on The Sound of Music.

If you call it a "Spanking." Mr. Von Trapp just patted her butt (once) very very
lightly with the book .

Kim Darby's character in True Grit (the original movie version) got a real spanking by Glen Campbell's character.

The 4th episode of Fernwood Tonight (1977) Debbie Dunbar (Kathy McCullen) gets an instructional spanking by the Principal over her jean shorts.

The Danny Thomas Show where Linda got an almost spanking over her story about a tall imaginary friend( Mr. Jumbo) played out alot like the Andy Griffith episode where Opie claimed to have a tree walking friend, Mr McBeevee. I think Andy was also going to spank Opie for his perceived lie.
Interesting that Danny Thomas was the producer of both shows.

The Danny Thomas Show where Linda got an almost spanking over her story about a tall imaginary friend( Mr. Jumbo) played out alot like the Andy Griffith episode where Opie claimed to have a tree walking friend, Mr McBeevee. I think Andy was also going to spank Opie for his perceived lie.
Interesting that Danny Thomas was the producer of both shows.
Yes. I made a separate post about that. A lot of plots in TV sitcoms (or even non-sit coms) are a rehash of each other.

The 4th episode of Fernwood Tonight (1977) Debbie Dunbar (Kathy McCullen) gets an instructional spanking by the Principal over her jean shorts.
That was weird, not only in retrospect.

Ted Baxter's son in The Mary Tyler Moore Show became a brat after finding out he is a genius. When David is real nasty to Georgette making her cry, Ted spanks him- 13 times!