blanket party
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A blanket party is a means of corporal punishment or hazing conducted by a peer group. Blanket parties are most frequently conducted by groups within the military or military academies. In a blanket party, the victim is restrained by having a blanket flung over him and held down at the corners while he sleeps, then the remaining members of the group strike him repeatedly with improvised "flails" (a sock or bath towel containing something solid, either a bar of soap or a combination/key lock).
The act of the blanket party became widely known within pop culture by its portrayal in the Stanley Kubrick movie Full Metal Jacket.
The use of blanket parties and other forms of corporal punishment is illegal within the military.[1]
This form of punishment is sometimes construed as a group behavior to force the victim's departure for the group's self preservation from a weak link not meeting expectations [citation needed].
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- In the Family Guy episode No Chris Left Behind, Chris Griffin falls victim of a blanket party when he goes to a private boarding school, but instead of soap the socks he gets beaten with contain money.
- In the American Dad! episode Bullocks To Stan, Stan Smith uses a blanket party in an attempt to toughen up Jeff.
- In the South Park episode Lice Capades, when everyone thought Kenny had lice, Cartman tells everyone to get a sock and bar of soap. When it appears that they're going to give him a blanket party, they are actually going to wash him with the soap and dry him with the sock.
- The film Igby Goes Down begins with a blanket party.
- In The Shield episode Dragonchasers Julian and two other police officers give a blanket party to a cross-dressing criminal who tried to infect Danni with HIV.
- In The Shield episode Playing Tight Julian is given a blanket party by a number of police officers as revenge for losing their jobs as a result of bullying him about his past homosexuality.
- In the film Full Metal Jacket the members of a platoon in training give a blanket party to Private Pyle.
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