History Main / BacktoSchool

* Cat of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' must complete one final day of high school to graduate. [[spoiler: HereWeGoAgain He did finally got his diploma in the end and won his heart over his old high school crush, Sally Chenille but as things were starting to work out well, Rancid pulls Cat over to check his drivers license and finds out he doesn’t have one and Dog is able to drive. Thus, Sally calls him a loser once again.]]

* Cat of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' must complete one final day of high school to graduate. [[HereWeGoAgain He did got his diploma in the end and won his heart over his old high school crush, Sally Chenille but as things were starting to work out well, Rancid pulls Cat over to check his drivers license and finds out he doesn’t have one and Dog is able to drive. Thus, Cat has to take the DrivingTest.]]

* Cat of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' must complete one final day of high school to graduate.

* RegularShow: Season 7 had Riglby go back to High School to get his diploma after flunking

* Frenchy from ''{{Grease}}'' returns to high school after flunking beauty school. She's returned again in ''Film/Grease2'' to get her diploma so she can start a cosmetics company.

* In ''Theatre/AvenueQ'', There is the song "I wish I could go back to college" In which Nicky, Kate, and Princeton [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin say they wish they could go back to college]] and in the end they all decide they'd be losers if they went back, because they would be thinking "these kids are so much younger than me"

* Creator/RobertVaughn went back to college ''after'' starring in Series/TheManFromUNCLE to get a Ph.D. in Communications. His dissertation was on UsefulNotes/TheHollywoodBlacklist.

** And Peter posed as a high school student to get kids to stop [[GRatedDrug licking toads]]. Hilarity ensued when he started [[BecomingTheMask believing he was real high school student]] and behaved as such, including dating the high school hottie Connie D'Amico.

* In a season 2 episode of Series/RaisingHope Jimmy, thinking that Hope will be smarter than him, goes back to high school to receive his GED (he quit at 17), Virginia and Burt also re-enroll in high school (due to the fact the they dropped out while Virginia was pregnant with Jimmy).

* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Parodied when Agent Piper Ferguson suddenly decides to go back to college to finish her degree on the advice of the drugged-out fratboy she was interrogating. She subsequently deals with every problem on campus by shooting at it.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]],'' ''[[WesternAnimation/TheDeputyDawgShow Deputy Dawg]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopalongCoyote Ricochet Rabbit]]'' all had installments where the two law enforcers had to return a [[SkippingSchool truant student]] to school, only for them to be forced back to school for not finishing their own education.

* Both ''[[WesternAnimation/TheDeputyDawgShow Deputy Dawg]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopalongCoyote Ricochet Rabbit]]'' and installments where the two law enforcers had to return a truant student to school, only for them to be forced back to school for not finishing their own education.

* Zig-zag: In "The Screwy Truant," school has returned in session after summer vacation. Screwy Squirrel plays hooky and is pursued by a truant officer. Screwy tells the officer he's got a plenty good reason for not being in school, which he discloses at cartoon's end: he's got measles.

Your average John Q. Dropout's reason for completing his education is nearly always related to his career, sometimes to obtain a new job requiring a higher degree of education and other times because his current job demands it. Stupidity and incompetence will often be [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. The character will often be thrown amongst people outside their age group, or at least act in that way.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', Don has joined Oozma Kappa after he was downsized from his sales department. Averted in that none of his humour is about his age, rather than that he's still sticking with his well-polished sales persona and patter in a fraternity environment. Averted '''again''' [[spoiler:in the final act when it's revealed that he's engaged to his fraternity President's mother; and will now be his big brother as well as a step-father]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', Don has joined Oozma Kappa after he was downsized from his sales department. Averted in that none of his humour is about his age, rather than that he's still sticking with his well-polished sales persona and patter in a fraternity environment. Averted '''again''' [[spoiler:in the final act when it's revealed that he's engaged to his fraternity President's mother; and will now be a [[CrossesTheLineTwice:bigbrotheraswellasastep-father]]]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', Don has joined Oozma Kappa after he was downsized from his sales department. Averted, in that none of his humour is about his age, rather than that he's still sticking with his well-polished sales persona and patter in a fraternity environment. Averted again [[spoiler:in the final act when it's revealed that he's engaged to his fraternity's presidents mother; and will now be a big brotheras well as a step-father]]

* In the ''[[Literature/DonCamillo Don Camillo e Peppone]]'' series, there is one arc where Peppone (the mayor of the village) has to take the primary school finals because, like most men in the village, he had to leave school and work very early. He almost fails; Don Camillo trades the correct solutions for political concessions.

* A recent arc in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has Penny enrolled at a history class at the local community college. If Leonard's assessment of how bad her paper was is to be believed, there's a reason she dropped out of college in the first place...
** She also made her female friends write a paper for her.

* Frenchy from ''{{Grease}}'' returns to high school after flunking beauty school. She's returned again in ''Grease2'' to get her diploma so she can start a cosmetics company.