Edit: This was in response to a post someone else posted which they since asked to be deleted.
In the Saturday morning cartoons from the 1960s the hero and/or their sidekicks got tied up/chained all the time! that's part of the reason i grew up thinking such things were perfectly normal!
By today's standards cartoons like Space Ghost, Dino Boy, Herculoids, and others are extremely simplistic - but they had loads of TuGs (these are just a sampling I was able to find in my files at once taken from old VCR recordings except for the Jonny Quest one; there are many other examples of TUGs in those cartoons)! Space Ghost alone seemed to get chained up all the time!