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 padlock).

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 are now illegal within America's military.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] In popular culture

In the film Full Metal Jacket the members of a platoon in training give a blanket party to Private Leonard Lawrence (nicknamed Gomer Pyle).
In one episode of The Wayans Bros. Brothers, Marlon and Shawn have a stakeout in their apartment and throw Pops (their father) a blanket party when he enters their home, mistaking him for a burglar who had previously robbed them.
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. While 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" Julien and two other police officers give a blanket party to a cross-dressing criminal who tried to infect Danny with HIV.
In The Shield episode "Playing Tight" Julien 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 homosexuality.
In the JAG episode "The Brotherhood", Harm Rabb is suspicious of the members of Charlie company having blanket parties.
In the season two episode of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica "Resurrection Ship", Lt. Karl Agathon and Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol receive a blanket party from several members of the Battlestar Pegasus crew for killing Lt. Thorn. Jack Fisk stops the crew members from killing Agathon and Tyrol.