History Main / GirlsVsBoysPlot

* ''Series/GrangeHill'': In S4E18, tensions between the sexes come to a head. A boys vs girls contest is planned, with various sporting, practical and academic competitions. Boys just win the quiz (with a suspicion of cheating), but are thrashed at netball, also not without some cheating. Meanwhile, the cake baking of Mr. Sutcliffe leaves a lot to be desired, as does Miss Mooney's metalwork. Their respective assistants though have bought ready-made versions as a backup. Mrs. McClusky declares the contest a draw!

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One way or another, it always seems to happen. They'll split into teams and fight, often for no greater prize than to prove their own gender's superiority. It can be sports, it can be dancing, it can even be an all out war-- the basic plot is usually the same.

Most often, there'll be some division between them, even before the battle begins. It may be the men [[StayInTheKitchen treating the women as weak]], it may be the women [[YouGoGirl trying to prove they're just as good as the men are]], it may even be that both groups saw the other as inferior. That said, it isn't always the result of sexism, but can sometimes just be a fun game between friends. Regardless of why it happens, the plot continues, with the lines being drawn, and the rest of the story showing their conflict unfold.

* ''Disney/FrozenII'': Early in the movie, Anna, Elsa, Olaf and Kristofer are having a miming contest, with the boys' team handily winning due to how easy is is for Olaf to take on different shapes ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzBbL6BAp_s successively doing a unicorn, ice cream cone, castle, Oaken, teapot, mouse, and Elsa]]). Anna looks disgruntled and says [[GameBreaker Olaf shouldn't be allowed to rearrange himself.]]

** In [[Recap/FriendsS1E18TheOneWithAllThePoker "The One With Poker"]] the girls discover that the guys have regular friendly poker games and want in. The guys are reluctant, worrying they won't be able to keep up. Offended, the girls challenge them to a serious game for money... and [[RealityEnsues lose miserably as none of them have ever played poker before]]. Later having taken lessons from a female professional poker player, they challenge the guys to rematch hoping to win back their money, and still lose as a few lessons aren't enough to beat people who've been playing for years.

** In [[Recap/FriendsS4E12TheOneWithTheEmbryos "The One With The Embryos"]], Rachel and Monica play against Chandler and Joey in a game of trivia about each other. If the girls win, the boys get rid of the chick and the duck, but if the boys win, they get the girls's apartment. Since the girls failed to answer the question about Chandler's job, they boys win and the episode ends with the apartment switch.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': OnceASeason the Glee club is divided between girls and boys, with the groups then having to perform a musical medley. This is supposed to be a friendly competition, but often the groups take it too seriously. For instance, in the first season both groups take drugs in order to keep their energy up.

** ThePilot episode involves Zoey trying to prove that the girls belong at PCA just as much as the boys do, by having a Girls Vs Boys basketball game. The girls, however, suck at sports, and get crushed. Even when the athletic Dana steps in to help, she and Zoey can only carry their team so far. They lose by a single point...but the coach offers them both spots on the male's basketball team in response.
** The "Spring Break-Up" special involves the students starring in a special reality-show produced by Logan's father. The show, "Gender Defenders", is entirely ''about'' this sort of plot, meaning that they're put into this conflict intentionally. It starts out fun, until Chase accidentally steals Zoey's Tek-Mate, which cost her team a game they would've otherwise have won [[ImpededCommunication due to a communication failure]], and suddenly, [[FriendshipStrainingCompetition it becomes a lot more serious]], and the fighting becomes real.

** The episode "Jet-X" has the team of the girls working against the team of the boys to [[AmateurFilmMakingPlot produce a Jet-X commercial]], to get a chance to have free Jet-X scooters. The boys seem to have better chances because they use Logan's money to have a glamorous commercial with famous actors, while the girls keep arguing because they don't know what to do, with Quinn trying to shoot their commercial. However their arguments about the Jet-X turn out to be useful when Zoey does the editing to make her team's commercial, which ends up appreciated for being realistic, making the girls win.
** In "Broadcast Views", Chase and Michael have their own broadcast where they are simply doing dumb stuff. But during a broadcast Logan and Zoey start arguing in the background about gender preferences. This causes the broadcast to get more views and leads to their own segment "He Says, She Says", but also creates disruption among the students by gender lines.

** In ''[[ValentinesDayEpisode Love Struck!]]'', Timmy made a wish that segregated the sexes in their own society with a wall between them. But when the opposite sexes feel absent of something, Timmy wished for a wall that segregate them to break... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero except]] because they were separate for so long that they went into war with each other. It took assistance from Cupid, who's literally dying from no love, to make things right.
** In "Squirrely Puffs", Timmy's scout group, the Squirrel Scouts, gets into a competition with the girl scout,the Cream Puffs, when his father and mother get competitive as usual, with the bet that one of the teams has to reach the top of a mountain before the other. The Squirel Scout seems to initially have trouble while the Cream Puffs look to have an easier time what with the wildlife helping them. However things soon turn around when Timmy's dad manages to get some local squrriels to help them get further up the mountain while the Cream Puffs's animal friends become a bit too helpful, [[UnwantedAssistance to the point of annoyance]]. When Timmy's mom finally snaps at them, the animals turn on the girls prompting Timmy to get his dad to call off the bet and save them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In [[Recap/FuturamaS6E20Neutopia "Neutopia"]], the characters end up stranded on a barren, hot, rocky planet, and bicker relentlessly about which gender was responsible for the crash. A local rock-alien notes that, due to the gender divide, there clearly must be a ''superior'' gender, and makes them compete for the title...with the losing team dying in the heat. They all struggle, until it turns out that this was a test to try and teach them about cooperation. Because they failed, they simply get their genders removed, instead...

* A less direct example in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode [[Recap/SonicBoomS1E25IntoTheWilderness "Into The Wilderness"]], where Sonic and Knuckles try to prove they are more fluent outdoors than Sticks and Amy, though not out of any perceived sexism but merely Sonic's boastfulness. Due to Stick's WildChild niches and Amy's better willingness to learn, in contrast to Sonic's arrogance paired with Knuckles boneheadedness, the girls make it through easily, at one point even trying (and failing) to help the boys get through out of pity. It is notable as one of the very few episodes, or much any story in the Sonic franchise, where Sonic is left the clear and unnegated "loser" of the story, if in a scenario much more mundane than usual.

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** ThePilot episode involves Zoey trying to prove that the girls belong at PCA just as much as the boys do, by having a Girls Vs Boys basketball game. The girls, however, suck at sports, and get crushed. Even when the athletic Dana steps in to help, she and Zoey can only carry their team so far. They They lose by a single point...but the coach offers them both spots on the male's basketball team in response.

** ThePilot episode involves Zoey trying to prove that the girls belong at PCA just as much as the boys do, by having a Girls Vs Boys basketball game. The girls, however, suck at sports, and get crushed. Even when the athletic Dana steps in to help, she and Zoey can only carry their team so far. They

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** ThePilot episode involves Zoey trying to prove that the girls belong at PCA just as much as the boys do, by having a Girls Vs Boys basketball game. The girls, however, suck at sports, and get crushed. Even when the athletic Dana steps in to help, she and Zoey can only carry their team so far. They lose by a single point...but the coach offers them both spots on the male's basketball team in response.
** The "Spring Break-Up" special involves the students starring in a special reality-show produced by Logan's father. The show, "Gender Defenders", is entirely ''about'' this sort of plot, meaning that they're put into this conflict intentionally. It starts out fun, until Chase accidentally steals Zoey's Tek-Mate, which cost her team a game they would've otherwise have won [[ImpededCommunication due to a communication failure]], and suddenly, [[FriendshipStrainingCompetition it becomes a lot more serious]], and the fighting becomes real.
** The episode "Coffee Cart Ban" starts with the Dean banning coffee at the school after a coffee cart hits his wife. The boys then start an underground coffee shop, that overcharges the customers. The girls start their own business that charges less. The two then try to sabotage each other. Eventually, the competition is rendered moot when [[spoiler: it's discovered that the Dean has been drinking coffee, despite his ban. Once this comes to light, he lifts the ban on coffee on campus.]]
** The episode "Jet-X" has the team of the girls working against the team of the boys to [[AmateurFilmMakingPlot produce a Jet-X commercial]], to get a chance to have free Jet-X scooters. The boys seem to have better chances because they use Logan's money to have a glamorous commercial with famous actors, while the girls keep arguing because they don't know what to do, with Quinn trying to shoot their commercial. However their arguments about the Jet-X turn out to be useful when Zoey does the editing to make her team's commercial, which ends up appreciated for being realistic, making the girls win.
** In "Broadcast Views", Chase and Michael have their own broadcast where they are simply doing dumb stuff. But during a broadcast Logan and Zoey start arguing in the background about gender preferences. This causes the broadcast to get more views and leads to their own segment "He Says, She Says", but also creates disruption among the students by gender lines.
* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' season 6, The Amazon, started with this premise, initially splitting the tribes along gender lines, fostering this sentiment until tribe-mixing took place.
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajZP8ACfRE this music video]] by Evgeniya Otradnaya, everything is going to that... and then ends up with a kissing scene.
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* When WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick did a crossover review of ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' the video escalated into the two of them having their own battle of the sexes in song.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': The conflict in "Arthur's Birthday" is caused by Arthur's and Muffy's birthday parties being scheduled on the same day, causing the boys to side with Arthur and girls to side with Muffy. The two sides play a game of tug-of-war so intensely that the rope breaks straight down the middle. As Arthur summarizes, "I guess nobody wins."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' has "Exile in Guyville", where Duckman and Bernice arguing on TV gets exponentially out of control and causes every man and woman in America to start arguing with each other, and separate with a big wall dividing them, men to the west and women to the east. The two sides eventually come back together because of the kids of both sides wanting to meet and start relationships with each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents''
** In ''[[ValentinesDayEpisode Love Struck!]]'', Timmy made a wish that segregated the sexes in their own society with a wall between them. But when the opposite sexes feel absent of something, Timmy wished for a wall that segregate them to break... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero except]] because they were separate for so long that they went into war with each other. It took assistance from Cupid, who's literally dying from no love, to make things right.
** In "Squirrely Puffs", Timmy's scout group, the Squirrel Scouts, gets into a competition with the girl scout,the Cream Puffs, when his father and mother get competitive as usual, with the bet that one of the teams has to reach the top of a mountain before the other. The Squirel Scout seems to initially have trouble while the Cream Puffs look to have an easier time what with the wildlife helping them. However things soon turn around when Timmy's dad manages to get some local squrriels to help them get further up the mountain while the Cream Puffs's animal friends become a bit too helpful, [[UnwantedAssistance to the point of annoyance]]. When Timmy's mom finally snaps at them, the animals turn on the girls prompting Timmy to get his dad to call off the bet and save them.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' {{crossover}}, Fred and Barney challenge Wilma, Betty and their tag-along new friend Samantha to a bunch of camping activities expecting to win, but thanks [[RealityWarper to Samantha's magic]] the girls have it all easy and the boys get an extremely absurd MachoDisasterExpedition.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In [[Recap/FuturamaS6E20Neutopia "Neutopia"]], the characters end up stranded on a barren, hot, rocky planet, and bicker relentlessly about which gender was responsible for the crash. A local rock-alien notes that, due to the gender divide, there clearly must be a ''superior'' gender, and makes them compete for the title...with the losing team dying in the heat. They all struggle, until it turns out that this was a test to try and teach them about cooperation. Because they failed, they simply get their genders removed, instead...
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbGotGame "Got Game?"]] starts with Buford angry over Isabella defeating him at foosball. In trying to prove that women are weaker, he sparks Phineas and Ferb's grand idea of the episode- a battle between the genders, playing a [[{{Calvinball}} nonsensical game]] with strange rules. It's [[BullyAndWimpPairing Buford and Baljeet]] against Candace and Isabella, and while it's neck-and-neck for a while, Isabella and Candace eventually win, thanks to the final game being foosball.
* A less direct example in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode [[Recap/SonicBoomS1E25IntoTheWilderness "Into The Wilderness"]], where Sonic and Knuckles try to prove they are more fluent outdoors than Sticks and Amy, though not out of any perceived sexism but merely Sonic's boastfulness. Due to Stick's WildChild niches and Amy's better willingness to learn, in contrast to Sonic's arrogance paired with Knuckles boneheadedness, the girls make it through easily, at one point even trying (and failing) to help the boys get through out of pity. It is notable as one of the very few episodes, or much any story in the Sonic franchise, where Sonic is left the clear and unnegated "loser" of the story, if in a scenario much more mundane than usual.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' featured this in [[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse the Sex Ed episode]], where Mr. Mackey was completely clueless, and Mrs. Choksondik takes the ScareEmStraight approach. This leads to the girls being absolutely terrified that even being ''near'' the boys will result in them becoming pregnant, and the boys take to wearing condoms ''daily'' to protect against [=STD=]s, before culminating in a full-blown parody of the ending fight from ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode [[Recap/TeenTitansGoS2E20BoysVsGirls "Boys vs. Girls"]], Starfire and Raven beat Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy in a contest 3-0, resulting in Cyborg and Beast Boy assuming girls are better than boys in general, rather than two particular girls just happening to be more competent and having better powers than three particular boys.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wunschpunsch}}'': In one episode, the wizards cast a spell that pits all the men and women of Megalopolis against each other in a competition for control over the city. The key to breaking the spell is getting a man to help a woman instead.
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sajZP8ACfRE this music video]] by Evgeniya Otradnaya everything is going to that... and then ends up with a kissing scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' featured this in [[Recap/SouthParkS5E7ProperCondomUse the Sex Ed episode]], where Mr. Mackey was completely clueless, and Mrs. Choksondik takes the ScaredStraight approach. This leads to the girls being absolutely terrified that even being ''near'' the boys will result in them becoming pregnant, and the boys take to wearing condoms ''daily'' to protect against [=STD=]s, before culminating in a full-blown parody of the ending fight from ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.

** In "Squirrely Puffs", Timmy's scout group, the Squirrel Scouts, gets into a competition with the girl scout,the Cream Puffs, when his father and mother get competitive as usual, with the bet that one of the teams has to reach the top of a mountain before the other. The Squirel Scout seems to initially have trouble while the Cream Puffs look to have an easier time what with the wildlife helping them. However things soon turn around when Timmy's dad manages to get some local squrriels to help them get further up the mountain while the Cream Puffs's animal friends become a bit too helpful to the point of annoyance. When Timmy's mom finally snaps at them, the animals turn on the girls prompting Timmy to get his dad to call off the bet and save them.

** In ''Squirrely Puffs'', Timmy's scout group, the Squirrel Scouts, gets into a competition with the girl scout,the Cream Puffs, when his father and mother get competitive as usual, with the bet that one of the teams has to reach the top of a mountain before the other. The Squirel Scout seems to initially have trouble while the Cream Puffs look to have an easier time what with the wildlife helping them. However things soon turn around when Timmy's dad manages to get some local squrriels to help them get further up the mountain while the Cream Puffs's animal friends become a bit too helpful to the point of annoyance. When Timmy's mom finally snaps at them, the animals turn on the girls prompting Timmy to get his dad to call off the bet and save them.

* ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'': In ''[[ValentinesDayEpisode Love Struck!]]'', Timmy made a wish that segregated the sexes in their own society with a wall between them. But when the opposite sexes feel absent of something, Timmy wished for a wall that segregate them to break... [[NiceJobBreakingItHero except]] because they were separate for so long that they went into war with each other. It took assistance from Cupid, who's literally dying from no love, to make things right.

* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': In "Guide to School Car Wash", the seventh graders decide to split their car wash into two gendered teams, both competing for a monetary prize to use for their school thought for different reasons (The Girls want gym equipment, the boys just want a Jacuzzi). The girls work together like clockwork once Moze convinces them they need to beat the boys, while the boys spend most of their time struggling, slacking off and failing to clean Mr. Sweeney's dirt-coated car. There's a bit of HopeSpot for them when Ned manages to rally them at the last hour and they seem to catch up to the girls in record time... except they didn't [[RealityEnsues properly wash the car in their haste]] [[note]]You need to wet the car, suds it, wipe, rinse and dry[[/note]] instead just moving the dirt around. This ends up disqualifying them and giving the girls the win. Though Ned concedes their idea for the money was the more worthy of the two.

* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': In "Guide to School Car Wash", the seventh graders decide to split their car wash into two gendered teams, both competing for a monetary prize to use for their school. The girls work together like clockwork once Moze convinces them they need to beat the boys, while the boys spend most of their time struggling and failing to clean Mr. Sweeney's dirt-coated car, and end up losing.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/PokemonS7E32TheBickerTheBetter "The Bicker the Better"]] does this, with Ash and James engaging in a double battle with May and Jessie after both groups (Ash's friends and Team Rocket) get into arguments over who is more competent. It ends with Jessie deciding to cheat by using an extra pokemon, which Brock says disqualifies the girls' team, but by then Team Rocket are only interested in stealing Pikachu, anyway.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS6E4TheReEntryMinimization "The Re-entry Minimalization"]], Leonard and Sheldon play against Penny and Amy at Pictionary. The boys keep losing, mainly due to Sheldon's ComplexityAddiction, and since he refuses to lose, keeps making up new games until he gets a win.

** In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FriendsS1E18TheOneWithAllThePoker "The One With Poker"]] the girls discover that the guys have regular friendly poker games and want in. The guys are reluctant, worrying they won't be able to keep up. Offended, the girls challenge them to a serious game for money... and [[RealityEnsues lose miserably as none of them have ever played poker before]]. Later having taken lessons from a female professional poker player, they challenge the guys to rematch hoping to win back their money, and still lose as a few lessons aren't enough to beat people who've been playing for years.
** In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FriendsS3E9TheOneWithTheFootball "The One With The Football"]], the cast decides to play some Thanksgiving football. While the teams are originally mixed, Monica eventually trades Joey for Rachel, and it becomes a battle of the genders-- complete with the girls using their femininity to distract the boys. The episode ends with the rest of them getting bored and quitting, leaving Ross and Monica fighting over the ball.
** In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FriendsS4E12TheOneWithTheEmbryos "The One With The Embryos"]], Rachel and Monica play against Chandler and Joey in a game of trivia about each other. If the girls win, the boys get rid of the chick and the duck, but if the boys win, they get the girls's apartment. Since the girls failed to answer the question about Chandler's job, they boys win and the episode ends with the apartment switch.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FuturamaS6E20Neutopia "Neutopia"]], the characters end up stranded on a barren, hot, rocky planet, and bicker relentlessly about which gender was responsible for the crash. A local rock-alien notes that, due to the gender divide, there clearly must be a ''superior'' gender, and makes them compete for the title...with the losing team dying in the heat. They all struggle, until it turns out that this was a test to try and teach them about cooperation. Because they failed, they simply get their genders removed, instead...
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/PhineasAndFerbGotGame "Got Game?"]] starts with Buford angry over Isabella defeating him at foosball. In trying to prove that women are weaker, he sparks Phineas and Ferb's grand idea of the episode- a battle between the genders, playing a [[{{Calvinball}} nonsensical game]] with strange rules. It's [[BullyAndWimpPairing Buford and Baljeet]] against Candace and Isabella, and while it's neck-and-neck for a while, Isabella and Candace eventually win, thanks to the final game being foosball.
* A less direct example in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SonicBoomS1E25IntoTheWilderness "Into The Wilderness"]], where Sonic and Knuckles try to prove they are more fluent outdoors than Sticks and Amy, though not out of any perceived sexism but merely Sonic's boastfulness. Due to Stick's WildChild niches and Amy's better willingness to learn, in contrast to Sonic's arrogance paired with Knuckles boneheadedness, the girls make it through easily, at one point even trying (and failing) to help the boys get through out of pity. It is notable as one of the very few episodes, or much any story in the Sonic franchise, where Sonic is left the clear and unnegated "loser" of the story, if in a scenario much more mundane than usual.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TeenTitansGoS2E20BoysVsGirls "Boys vs. Girls"]], Starfire and Raven beat Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy in a contest 3-0, resulting in Cyborg and Beast Boy assuming girls are better than boys in general, rather than two particular girls just happening to be more competent and having better powers than three particular boys.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Neutopia", the characters end up stranded on a barren, hot, rocky planet, and bicker relentlessly about which gender was responsible for the crash. A local rock-alien notes that, due to the gender divide, there clearly must be a ''superior'' gender, and makes them compete for the title...with the losing team dying in the heat. They all struggle, until it turns out that this was a test to try and teach them about cooperation. Because they failed, they simply get their genders removed, instead...
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': "Got Game?" starts with Buford angry over Isabella defeating him at foosball. In trying to prove that women are weaker, he sparks Phineas and Ferb's grand idea of the episode- a battle between the genders, playing a [[{{Calvinball}} nonsensical game]] with strange rules. It's [[BullyAndWimpPairing Buford and Baljeet]] against Candace and Isabella, and while it's neck-and-neck for a while, Isabella and Candace eventually win, thanks to the final game being foosball.
* A less direct example in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Into The Wilderness, where Sonic and Knuckles try to prove they are more fluent outdoors than Sticks and Amy, though not out of any perceived sexism but merely Sonic's boastfulness. Due to Stick's WildChild niches and Amy's better willingness to learn, in contrast to Sonic's arrogance paired with Knuckles boneheadedness, the girls make it through easily, at one point even trying (and failing) to help the boys get through out of pity. It is notable as one of the very few episodes, or much any story in the Sonic franchise, where Sonic is left the clear and unnegated "loser" of the story, if in a scenario much more mundane than usual.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Boys vs. Girls" Starfire and Raven beat Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy in a contest 3-0, resulting in Cyborg and Beast Boy assuming girls are better than boys in general, rather than two particular girls just happening to be more competent and having better powers than three particular boys.

** In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FriendsS1E18TheOneWithAllThePoker "The One With Poker"]]] the girls discover that the guys have regular friendly poker games and want in. The guys are reluctant, worrying they won't be able to keep up. Offended, the girls challenge them to a serious game for money... and [[RealityEnsues lose miserably as none of them have ever played poker before]]. Later having taken lessons from a female professional poker player, they challenge the guys to rematch hoping to win back their money, and still lose as a few lessons aren't enough to beat people who've been playing for years.

** In "The One With Poker" the girls discover that the guys have regular friendly poker games and want in. The guys are reluctant, worrying they won't be able to keep up. Offended, the girls challenge them to a serious game for money... and [[RealityEnsues lose miserably as none of them have ever played poker before]]. Later having taken lessons from a female professional poker player, they challenge the guys to rematch hoping to win back their money, and still lose as a few lessons aren't enough to beat people who've been playing for years.
** In "The One With The Football", the cast decides to play some Thanksgiving football. While the teams are originally mixed, Monica eventually trades Joey for Rachel, and it becomes a battle of the genders-- complete with the girls using their femininity to distract the boys. The episode ends with the rest of them getting bored and quitting, leaving Ross and Monica fighting over the ball.
** In "The One With The Embryos", Rachel and Monica play against Chandler and Joey in a game of trivia about each other. If the girls win, the boys get rid of the chick and the duck, but if the boys win, they get the girls's apartment. Since the girls failed to answer the question about Chandler's job, they boys win and the episode ends with the apartment switch.

* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In "The Re-entry Minimalization", Leonard and Sheldon play against Penny and Amy at Pictionary. The boys keep losing, mainly due to Sheldon's ComplexityAddiction, and since he refuses to lose, keeps making up new games until he gets a win.

* An episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' does this, with Ash and James engaging in a double battle with May and Jessie after both groups (Ash's friends and Team Rocket) get into arguments over who is more competent. It ends with Jessie deciding to cheat by using an extra pokemon, which Brock says disqualifies the girls' team, but by then Team Rocket are only interested in stealing Pikachu, anyway.