A common misconception—primarily due to false advertising by the makers and sellers of the device—is that the joy buzzer actually delivers an electric shock, and many stylized villains in fiction (e.g., Batman's nemesis The Joker) employ "lethally powerful" joy buzzers as weapons. An example is in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse cartoon film Mickey's Rival (1936), wherein Mickey Mouse's hands are shocked by Mortimer Mouse's trousers. Another example is in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Pranks a Lot" (2004-10-11, S03E20b), wherein Patrick Star's hand is shocked by a joy buzzer, and in The Simpsons episode "Homie the Clown" (1995-02-12, S06E15), where Homer Simpson is shocked with it multiple times by Krusty the Clown to the point where he is tortured by it.