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[[Schoolgirl Rival|Rivals]] forced into cleaning duty together may get the chance to find out that they're [[Not So Different]].
This trope can lead to characters being accidentally [[Locked in a Room|locked in a storage closet]], especially if a potential love interest is helping out.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Project A-ko]]'': At one point A-ko is assigned After School Cleaning Duty for being habitually [[Late for School]]. While it went well at first, with A-ko using her super strength to easily stack up the desks, a run-in with B-ko's gang left the classroom (and a good portion of the school itself) demolished, much to her teacher's chagrin.
* A [[Sadist Teacher]] does this to the hero of ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' in the very first episode/chapter. Turns out the teacher was a homunculus, and only assigned him to cleaning duty so he could [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat him]] and there would be no witnesses.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Easy A]]'' had the main character and the token gay meet for the first time like this.
* One of Clark's changes at East Side in ''[[Lean On Me]]'' is to have detention students help pick up trash and clean up graffiti.
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, this is often given as a detention at Hogwarts. There is usually a requirement that the cleaning must be performed without magic.
* The [[Beverly Cleary]] book ''Ellen Tebbits'' is an unusual example where the main character ''wants'' to clap erasers at recess, and thinks her teacher hates her because she's never picked for it.
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== Webcomics ==
* Tedd and Elliot in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' had to stay to catch their experiment that [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-01-28 unexpectedly came to life]
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Bart Simpson has been punished in this manner more than a few times.
* Mrs. Brinks always makes [[Angela Anaconda]] clap erasers after school. Angela has gotten [[Beyond the Impossible]] good at it.
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== Real Life ==
* In most culinary schools, the last thing a class will do at the end of any particular term will be to clean their classroom-kitchen down to the bare steel and concrete, effectively sanitizing it for use by the next class. Every pot is scrubbed, every dish is washed, every scrap of food left in a refrigerator is dumped or (if still useable) stored, and so on.
* [http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=830&catid=23&subcatid=150 This article] has a section on school cleaning Japan; which explains the reasons given for why schools in Japan use staff and students instead of having janitors or cleaners.
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