History PrisonEpisode / WesternAnimation

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey MouseWorks]]'' short "Big House Mickey" has Mickey ending up in jail because Mortimer framed him for breaking into his house and stealing his property. Mickey then has to try and get Goofy's help to bust out of prison before Mortimer takes his place at his dinner date with Minnie.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', "The Big House" wherein Tommy is inside a daycare center that, much like the above example, looks and feels like a prison.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by P. Dempsey Weevil, a wanted ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge, the bailiff and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks until they agree to pay up, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny, that one has to use a magnifying glass to read it. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to finally arrest and convict Weevil and exonerate and reimburse his victims, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by P. Dempsey Weevil, a wanted ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge, the bailiff and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny, that one has to use a magnifying glass to read it. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to finally arrest and convict Weevil and exonerate and reimburse his victims, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by Weevil, a wanted ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny, that one has to use a magnifying glass to read it. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict Weevil and exonerate and reimburse his victims, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by Weevil, an infamous ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny, that one has to use a magnifying glass to read it. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict Weevil and exonerate and reimburse his victims, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by Weevil, an infamous ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny, that one has to use a magnifying glass to read it. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict Weevil and reimburse his marks, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by Weevil, an infamous ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny that the one has to use a magnifying glass to read it. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict Weevil and reimburse his marks, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit of 8 MPH is so tiny that the one has to use a magnifying glass to read it, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by Weevil, an infamous ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict Weevil and reimburse his marks, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit is so tiny that the one has to use a magnifying glass to read it, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by Weevil, an infamous ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay him, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict Weevil and reimburse his marks, including Jon.

** "[[Recap/GarfieldAndFriendsS4E08 Speed Trap]]" has Jon getting [[TheTroubleWithTickets ticketed]] for speeding by what he thinks was a police officer, especially since the "sign" displaying the posted speed limit is so tiny that the one has to use a magnifying glass to read it, but it turns out he was ticketed, and later falsely imprisoned, by an infamous ConMan who [[ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonates police officers]] to swindle peoples' money, and if they don't pay it, [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner he will also impersonate the judge and the defense attorney]] in a KangarooCourt, and then he imprisons his marks. When Garfield and Odie show Jon's ticket to ''real'' police officers, it gives them the break they need to arrest and convict the con artist and reimburse his marks, including Jon.

** "Big House Bunny" (1950) has WesternAnimation/BugsBunny digging into a prison and being mistaken for a prisoner. He gives Yosemite Sam (here as prison guard Sam Schultz) the usual onceover.

{{Prison Episode}}s in [[WesternAnimation Western Animation Television Series]]

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has two prison episodes (technically three, since one is a two-parter):
** Season one has "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderImprisoned Imprisoned]]", where Katara deliberately gets herself imprisoned by the Fire Nation in an attempt to free a friend from said prison.
** Season three has "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoilingRockPart1 The Boiling]] [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoilingRockPart2 Rock]]", where Zuko and Sokka infiltrate a Fire Nation prison in the hopes of locating Sokka's father, who had been captured in the war a few weeks earlier.

* In "Terrors" of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Superboy and Miss Martian go undercover into Belle Reve to ascertain and foil a break out attempt.

** "Hounddog McBrag"

!! Works with their own pages:
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* ''PrisonEpisode/TheSimpsons''
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!! Other works:

* ''PrisonEpisode/FamilyGuy''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' episode "The Great Escape", Ickis gets put in jail because he was mistaken for an escaped fugitive by the name of Shorty [=McGinty=], due to the fact that Shorty is a master of disguise. Ickis tries several attempts to escape, but most of them fail. When he finally succeeds and returns to the dump, Shorty is soon recaptured.

* "Cellbound," a 1955 Tex Avery-Michael Lah cartoon at M-G-M starred a squat version of Tex Avery's Spike character as a prison inmate. He escapes after spending 20 years digging himself out of his cell and hides out in the console of a TV set on a train, entertaining ideas of his new found life of freedom, until the TV set he's in is loaded onto a truck and delivered to the prison warden's office.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has several of them, mostly involving the villains, but occasionally major characters (especially Homer, sometimes Marge) end up in jail as well.

!! Works with their own pages

!! Other works

* PrisonEpisode/FamilyGuy
* PrisonEpisode/TheSimpsons

** "Escape from the Deep End" has Rancid Rabbit playing the role of a tyrannical lifeguard at the city pool, making and enforcing an extremely strict set of rules and imprisoning his patrons for even the smallest one broken. He didn't really care about making and enforcing rules that were fair to everyone and only wanted to use his authority to have fun ordering around and torturing people. When [=CatDog=] (mostly Dog) tries cannonballing into his pool, it seems as though they're in for an indefinite sentence like all the other patrons (consisting of Eddie the Squirrel, Dunglap, Mr. Sunshine and two other incidental characters). Cat takes Rancid's side as far as his rules went, at first, while Dog and the other patrons declare they're only for fools. It is after the brothers do time in the "Hot Box", Cat eventually realizes that Dog and the other prisoners were right and comes up with a plan to escape from the pool, [[spoiler:through its drain. However, the brothers' escape leads them into a school and it's not long before they meet ''another'' Rancid there and get detention for talking back]].

** In "[=CatDog=] Catcher", Rancid Rabbit is at it again, playing the role of the town's mayor and needing enough gold coins to bathe in. This time, he fleeces the masses by arresting them for not having "licenses"; those arrested have to pay a fee to take tests in order to obtain them, and those fees contribute to his bath. Cat, however, is prepared and narrowly avoids being arrested, but Dog does not, as does the rest of the townspeople, who all have revenge on their minds for Rancid's scheme. It's not long before the Greasers, Mervis, Dunglap, Mr. Sunshine and Dog carry out their prison break, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Rancid himself is sent to his own prison]].

** In "[=CatDog=] Catcher", Rancid Rabbit is at it again, playing the role of the town's mayor and needing enough gold coins to bathe in. This time, he fleeces the masses by arresting them for not having "licenses", and those arrested have to pay a fee to take tests in order to obtain them, and those fees contribute to his bath. Cat, however, is prepared and narrowly avoids being arrested, but Dog does not, as does the rest of the townspeople, who all have revenge on their minds for Rancid's scheme. It's not long before the Greasers, Mervis, Dunglap, Mr. Sunshine and Dog carry out their prison break, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Rancid himself is sent to his own prison]].