Television series' "Hardcastle and McCormick" had an end of first-season episode called "Scared Stiff" in which teenage boys were taken to a state prison to scare them out of further crimes as did "Get a Life" first season's "Bored Straight" episode. "Married... with Children"s sixth season "Rites of Passage" has Al saying how the Department of Juvenile Corrections bused some juveniles to his shoe store and made them spend over 3 hours watching Al work to show why it was so important to stay out of trouble and in school until even the most hardened punk was "crying like a baby".