History Main / BowlingForRatings

* ''WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'': Tennessee and Jerboa Jump compete against each other in a bowling match. Jerboa's tricks include making Tennessee think he needs glasses (leading to Mr. Whoopee explaining how the eye functions) and giving Tennessee lopsided football-shaped ball. Neither ploy works, leading to a rare victory for Tennessee.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Bob and Lucius's alibi for going out as Mr. Incredible and Frozone is telling their wives that they're on a bowling team. Lucius is happy as a retired superhero and would prefer that they ''actually'' go bowling for once.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Wrestling/LukeHarper How do they bowl without hands?]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Wrestling/LukeHarper How ''do'' they bowl without hands?]]]]

Sometimes, a [[OhCanada Canadian]] series will have that country's distinctive five pin variant: five pins with rubber rings around the wide bottom and smaller balls with no finger holes. But neither Canada nor the United States will ''ever'' show any other type of bowling (sorry, candlepin and duckpin lovers).

* One 1 Vs. 3 mini-game in the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series is "Bowl Over". One player is armed with a Koopa shell, and the other three players are turned into sentient bowling pins. The goal of the player with the Koopa shell is to knock down the three players-turned-bowling pins, while the goal of the three players-turned-bowling pins is to avoid being knocked down.

** ShowWithinAShow example; In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother From the Same Planet]]", the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' that Homer and Pepi watch, entitled "Kitty-Kitty Bang-Bang" involves Itchy and Scratchy at the bowling alley. Itchy jams Scratchy's tongue in the ball return, then lights a bomb and bowls with it, making a strike. Scratchy tries desperately to saw off his tongue before the bomb can get to him, but the bomb makes it to him and explodes, leaving only his internal organs, which Itchy sells to hungry dogs at the snack bar.

* WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow: Daffy has a bowling team consisting with his old gang of high school losers Porky (who [[FutureLoser was]] the school [[JerkJock jock and Daffy's bully]]), Marvin the Martian, and Pete Puma. Bugs joins despite Daffy's dismay as well.

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* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Sad Clown A-Go-Go", Jet tries to introduce his friends Spike and Faye to the joys of bowling but they're less than impressed, especially as the game [[SeriousBusiness doesn't appear to make Jet very relaxed]].

%%* WesternAnimation/TazMania: "Yet Another Road to Taz-Mania"

* Series/{{Bones}}: “The Change in the Game” has Booth and Brennan undercover as Buck and Wanda after a mangled body turns up in the pin setter. Brennan’s dad is in the league but he wasn’t the killer this time.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode, "Operation MISSION", Wallabee (Numbuh 4) releases Mr. Boss, Count Spankulot, Soccer Mom, and Stickybeard and [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink tricks them (along with the Toiletnator into poisoning them with sodas.]] Then Wallabee thinks that the only way to FindTheCure for the villains is to compete against his dad's bowling team the Aussie Alley Masters and win the bowling tournament being held at Pinhead Lanes Bowling Alley. Why? He is bored of polishing all the trophies his dad won several years ago.