A generally comic form of punishment in which you take someone or something that has been annoying you (or simply the designated Butt Monkey) and put it to work serving a useful function as a paperweight. Or a hole plug. Or live bait. Or a tv/radio antenna. Or anything in a long list of possibilities that are both a: improbable in real life and b: uncomfortable and awkward, even dangerous, for [...] [tvtropes.org]