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* The second season of ''{{Wakfu}}'' has a Gobbowl team call in a super-powered ringer after their star player was revealed to be a woman and switched to the other team (long story).

* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' has a Gobbowl team call in a super-powered ringer after their star player was revealed to be a woman and switched to the other team (long story).

--->'''Mattingly':'' Still like him better than Steinbrenner.

!!Examples:
* An episode of ''KenanAndKel'' had Kenan and Kel bring on the NBA player who'd been the Special Guest Star as their third player in a game of basketball against some people who challenged them earlier. Their opponents defaulted.
* ''TheSimpsons'':
** The entire plot of "Homer At The Bat". We're talkin' softball, from Maine to San Diego, talkin' softball, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mattingly Mattingly]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], talkin' Homeeer... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie_Smith Ozzie]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Strawberry Strawb]]". By the end of the episode, [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity has Ensued]] and all but 1 of the ringers are unable to play for various reasons (notably, Mr. Burns fires Mattingly for not getting rid of his sideburns, even after Mattingly shaves the sides of his head).
--> '''Mattingly''': Still like him better than Steinbrenner.
** Also, in another episode, Homer replaces Lisa with Serena Williams as his tennis partner. Then Marge replaces Bart with Venus Williams. Then Venus replaces Marge with Pete Sampras. Then Homer gets replaced by Andre Agassi. So the family gets to watch a world-class doubles match for free.
* In the ''Film/{{Mash}}'' movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team -- or, in Radar's words, 'Our ringer spotted their ringer.'
* ''TheWestWing'': In "The Crackpots and These Women," a variation of this trope occurs, in which President Bartlet has recruited a ringer (a former Duke Basketball player and Final Four contender) to help him beat the rest of his staff at a game of basketball. A slight aversion because there's no indication given of who would normally be playing or why they aren't.
** The episode also makes reference to Bartlet previously having gotten Steffi Graf to be his doubles partner.
* ''FamilyMatters'', ExtravertedNerd Steve Urkel tries to recruit JerkJock Eddie Winslow as his partner in a 2-on-2 inner city basketball tournament. Despite showing some very respectable ball handling skills, Eddie refuses and goes with someone else. Undaunted, Steve shows up at the tournament with a tall, muscular woman in a dress and bonnet whom he only calls [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Johnson_%28basketball,_born_1969%29 "Grandmama"]]. Sure enough, the two teams face each other in the finals. But [[DefiedTrope defying trope]], Grandmama is injured during the game, so Eddie's partner steps out and Eddie and Steve play each other 1-on-1 for the last point, where Steve jukes right past Eddie for the winning layup.
* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode ''Time Keeps on Slipping'', the protagonists are challenged to a game of basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters, so the Professor ''[[CreatingLife creates]]'' some ringers: a team of [[ILoveNuclearPower atomic]] [[{{Ubermensch}} supermen]].
* In ''StaticShock'', Shenice is introduced as the SuperRinger on the girls' bowling team (it's legit in this case since it was a school team and she had just joined the school) where she proceeds to cream the boys until her parents show up and she [[ThrowingTheFight gutters the last ball]]. Turns out Shenice is a ''literal'' [[SuperHero Super]] Ringer, who also moonlights as the heroine Shebang.
* In the ''{{Numb3rs}}'' episode "12:01 A.M.", the [=CalSci=] basketball team, which hasn't won in years, is being coached by Prof. Fleinhart, who has a serious problem with losing. He brings in two NBA players as ringers, promising them a ride on the space shuttle. They get a ride on the shuttle simulator in a later episode.
* In the Abbott and Costello movie ''Here Come the Co-Eds'', a professional women's basketball team is secretly brought in to play a women's college team. (There's heavy betting involved. The college's future is at stake.) One of the college players is injured, so Lou Costello puts on a dress and a wig and goes in as a sub. He's terrible, but after he's knocked out mid-game, he awakens with amnesia and is told, "You're Dolly Dimple, the world's greatest woman basketball player!" Living up to his billing, his team wins. At the end of the game, all of the ringers are revealed. The officials decide that "Five ringers are worse than one" and award the game to the college players (and Lou, who isn't in college.)
* Subverted rather amusingly in a non-fiction book called ''The Art of Coarse Acting'', which sounds like a guide to making it big in AwfulBritishSexComedy but is actually a mix of how-to guide and memoir about amateur dramatics. Getting a professional in to help because he or she happens to live locally is a stressful and not especially beneficial prospect for all concerned.
* The second season of ''{{Wakfu}}'' had a Gobbowl team call in a super-powered ringer after their star player was revealed to be a woman and switched to the other team (long story).

* An episode of ''KenanAndKel'' had the titular duo bring on the NBA player who'd been the Special Guest Star as their third player in a game of basketball against some people who challenged them earlier. Their opponents defaulted.

* In the ''{{MASH}}'': movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team -- or, in Radar's words, 'Our ringer spotted their ringer.'

** The entire plot of "Homer At The Bat". We're talkin' softball, from Maine to San Diego, talkin' softball, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mattingly Mattingly]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], talkin' Homeeer... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie_Smith Ozzie]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Strawberry Straw]]". By the end of the episode, [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity has Ensued]] and all but 1 of the ringers are unable to play for various reasons (notably, Mr. Burns fires Mattingly for not getting rid of his sideburns, even after Mattingly shaves the sides of his head).

* ''FamilyMatters'', ExtrovertedNerd Steve tries to recruit JerkJock Eddie Winslow as his partner in a 2-on-2 inner city basketball tournament. Despite showing some very respectable ball handling skills, Eddie refuses and goes with someone else. Undaunted, Steve shows up at the tournament with a tall, muscular woman in a dress and bonnet whom he only calls [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Johnson_%28basketball,_born_1969%29 "Grandmama"]]. Sure enough, the two teams face each other in the finals. But [[DefiedTrope defying trope]], Grandmama is injured during the game, so Eddie's partner steps out and Eddie and Steve play each other 1-on-1 for the last point, where Steve jukes right past Eddie for the winning layup.

A typical plot using the trope would play out as follows: Alice is our plucky heroine. Elena is her [[BlackBestFriend Latina best friend]]. Suzie is TheLibby and Tina is TheDragon in Suzie's GirlPosse. The game is doubles tennis, it's [[BigGame the final]] and the prize is $1,000 to the charity of the winners' choice. Naturally, Suzie will use it for nefarious ends.

** The entire plot of "Homer At The Bat". We're talkin' softball, from Maine to San Diego, talkin' softball, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mattingly Mattingly]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], talkin' Homeeer... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie_Smith Ozzie]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Strawberry Straw]]". By the end of the episode, Mr. Burns has become sufficiently pissed with all his ringers to fire each and every one of them (notably, he fires Mattingly for not getting rid of his sideburns, even after Mattingly shaves the sides of his head).

* In the ''{{Numb3rs}}'' episode "12:01 A.M.", the CalSci basketball team, which hasn't won in years, is being coached by Prof. Fleinhart, who has a serious problem with losing. He brings in two NBA players as ringers, promising them a ride on the space shuttle. They get a ride on the shuttle simulator in a later episode.

* An episode of ''KenanAndKel'' had the titular duo bring on the NBA player who'd been the SpecialGuestStar as their third player in a game of basketball against some people who challenged them earlier. Their opponents defaulted.

* In the ''{{MASH}}'': movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team -- or, in Radar's words, 'Our ringer spotted their ringer.'

* In the ''{{MASH}}'': movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit. Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team -- or, in Radar's words, 'Our ringer spotted their ringer.'

Not someone who can ring the tenor and the treble at the same time for an entire peal of 5040 Plain Bob Royal.

So we're in a typical American HighSchool, located in Boize, Montana, for no other reason in that [[{{CSI}} Catherine Willows]] hails from there.

Alice is our plucky heroine. Elena is her [[BlackBestFriend Latina best friend]]. Suzie is TheLibby and Tina is TheDragon in Suzie's GirlPosse. The game is doubles tennis, it's [[BigGame the final]] and the prize is $1,000 to the charity of the winners' choice. Naturally, Suzie will use it for nefarious ends.

Near the end of the episode, something happens to Elena- she breaks her arm after slipping on a wet floor. She can't play. Surely the evil Suzie cannot be stopped.

Alice has an idea. On the day of the game, she comes along with another player.

Suzie's mouth drops open and she promptly concedes.

Never mind that you can't just randomly change a player who gets injured during an event, you would have to forfeit.

* The entire plot of [[TheSimpsons Homer At The Bat]]. We're talkin' softball, from Maine to San Diego, talkin' softball, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mattingly Mattingly]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Canseco Canseco]], talkin' Homeeer... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzie_Smith Ozzie]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_Strawberry Straw]]"
** Of course, by the end of the episode, Mr. Burns has become sufficiently pissed with all his ringers to fire each and every one of them (notably, he fires Mattingly for not getting rid of his sideburns, even after Mattingly shaves the sides of his head).

* In the [[{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]] movie they bring in Spearchucker Jones who played professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers prior to the war as well as being a surgeon. He is transferred to the 4077th to help them win a football game against a rival outfit.
** Then the other team starts winning anyway. How? Jones notices someone on the other team ... or, in Radar's words, 'Our ringer spotted their ringer.'
* In the [[{{The West Wing}} West Wing]] episode "The Crackpots and These Women," a variation of this trope occurs, in which President Bartlet has recruited a ringer (a former Duke Basketball player and Final Four contender) to help him beat the rest of his staff at a game of basketball. A slight aversion because there's no indication given of who would normally be playing or why they aren't.
* In an episode of FamilyMatters, [[TheUrkel Steve]] tries to recruit [[JerkJock Eddie Winslow]] as his partner in a 2-on-2 inner city basketball tournament. Despite showing some very respectable ball handling skills, Eddie refuses and goes with someone else. Undaunted, Steve shows up at the tournament with a tall, muscular woman in a dress and bonnet whom he only calls [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Johnson_%28basketball,_born_1969%29 "Grandmama"]]. Sure enough, the two teams face each other in the finals. But [[DefiedTrope defying trope]], Grandmama is injured during the game, so Eddie's partner steps out and Eddie and Steve play each other 1-on-1 for the last point, where Steve [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome jukes right past Eddie for the winning layup]].

* In the ''Numb3rs'' episode "12:01 A.M.", the CalSci basketball team, which hasn't won in years, is being coached by Prof. Fleinhart, who has a serious problem with losing. He brings in two NBA players as ringers, promising them a ride on the space shuttle. They get a ride on the shuttle simulator in a later episode.

* In the Abbott and Costello movie ''Here Come the Co-Eds'', a professional women's basketball team is brought in to play a women's college team. One of the college players is injured, so Lou Costello puts on a dress and a wig and goes in as a sub. He's terrible, but after he's knocked out mid-game, he awakens with amnesia and is told, "You're Dolly Dimple, the world's greatest woman basketball player!" Living up to his billing, his team wins. At the end of the game, all of the ringers are revealed. The officials decide that "Five ringers are worse than one" and award the game to the college players (and Lou, who isn't in college.)

* In the Abbott and Costello movie ''Here Come the Co-Eds'', a professional women's basketball team is brought in the play a women's college team. One of the college players is injured, so Lou Costello puts on a dress and a wig and goes in as a sub. He's knocked out mid-game, awakens with amnesia, and is told, "You're Dolly Dimple, the world's greatest woman basketball player!" Living up to his billing, his team wins. At the end of the game, all of the ringers are revealed. The officials decide that "Five ringers are worse than one" and award the game to the college players (and Lou, who isn't in college.)

[[WallBanger Never mind that you can't just randomly change a player who gets injured during an event, you would have to forfeit]].

Compare/contrast with PutMeInCoach, where a previously-underestimated player shows her talents in the final stretch.

Alice is our plucky heroine. Suzie is TheLibby and Tina TheDragon in her GirlPosse. Elena is her [[BlackBestFriend Latina best friend]]. The game is doubles tennis, it's the final and the prize is $1,000 to the charity of the winners' choice. Naturally, Suzie will use it for nefarious ends.

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