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** "[[Recap/RegularShowS01Ep11RigbysBody Rigby's Body]]" has an eerily similar plot to the [[WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]] episode "Who'll Stop the Brain," in which Ickis and Krumm try to search for Oblina's brain after sneezing it out from studying for an exam to the point of exhaustion after being warned previously like Rigby when his consciousness has to be retrieved after being forcefully yanked out of his body from eating too much junk food.

** The ''U.S. Acres'' episode "The Name Game" is similar to the earlier cartoon "Bedtime Story Blues", in which the characters change a well-known fairytale into SomethingCompletelyDifferent.

** "Clash Of The Titans" from Season 7 recycled the plot of "Attack Of The Giant Robots" from Season 2, with both being about Garfield waking up in the wrong cartoon.

* The ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' episode "Touchy Feelings" was about Yang having all of his emotions magically removed, much like Timmy in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Emotion Commotion".

*** The plot of the episode "Accept the Next Proposition You Hear" is similar to another ''U.S. Acres'' short, "Fortune Kooky", in which a character thinks what fortune cookies say can happen in real life.

** There's also the episode "Master Detective", which is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' short "How Now, Stolen Cow?", in which the main character solves a mystery involving missing farm animals.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Six Million Dollar Mon" has a plot very similar to the ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Farewell, 2 Arms". Like Molly in the latter, Hermes begins replacing parts of his body with newer, more efficient parts until he's nigh unrecognizable, then like Molly trying to top her transformation by replacing her head with Bumpy's, Hermes tries to top his by replacing his brain with a robot brain. Both episodes end with the character's old body parts being reassembled while the body made with the new parts plays an antagonistic role.

* The ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' episode, "Won't Stick to Most Dental Work" borrows a similar premise to the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Thirteensomething". In both episodes, one of the two hosts leaves their show after a feud to pursue their own career and have great success in that venture (Henry opens his own restaurant, Babs stars on the titular ShowWithinAShow). Meanwhile, the other host (June and Buster) tries unsuccessfully to get a new co-host, inevitably leading to their show's downfall. Near the end of the episode, both parties realize how much they miss each other and reunite.

** "The Paper" and "Idiot Box" both involve Spongebob doing a lot of fun things with an ordinary object due to his imagination and then Squidward trying to do the same thing with said objects and being unable to do so.
** "Nasty Patty" is quite similar to the Rocket Power episode "It Was a Dark and Stormy Day", both episodes take place on a rainy night with the main characters assuming that someone else was killed and both episodes also mostly take place in the LocalHangout restaurant of the series (Krusty Krab/Shore Shack), and in both episodes the cops get involved and both end with an EverybodyLaughsEnding with the cops and main characters hanging out in the restaurant.

** "Nasty Patty" is quite similar to the Rocket Power episode "It Was a Dark and Stormy Day", both episodes take place on a rainy night with the main characters assuming that someone else was killed and both episodes also mostly take place in the Local Hangout restaurant of the series(Krusty Krab/Shore Shack), and in both episodes the cops get involved and both end with an Everybody Laughs Ending with the cops and main characters hanging out in the restaurant.

** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/RegularShowS01Ep11RigbysBody Rigby's Body]] has an eerily similar plot to the [[WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]] episode "Who'll Stop the Brain," in which Ickis and Krumm try to search for Oblina's brain after sneezing it out from studying for an exam to the point of exhaustion after being warned previously like Rigby when his consciousness has to be retrieved after being forcefully yanked out of his body from eating too much junk food.

** The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Haylias" was recycled one year later as ''Family Guy''[='s=] "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E3SpiesReminiscentOfUs Spies Reminiscent of Us]]". Both have the family's daughter (Hayley and Meg) as brainwashed agents with {{Trigger Phrase}}s stated to be things nobody would ever say (Hayley's is "[[RefugeInAudacity I'm getting fed up with this orgasm]]" while Meg's is [[AcceptableTargets "Boy, that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet"]]). The main difference is who did the brainwashing: Meg is a ManchurianAgent of the former Soviet Union, while Hayley was part of a CIA {{Tykebomb}} initiative and Stan [[{{Jerkass}} "activated" her because he wanted her to be more obedient]].

** The episode "Rarity Takes Manehattan" is very similar to a FamilyTies episode called "Designing Woman" where Mallory finds out a co-worker is stealing her fashion design ideas.

** "The Crystalling" involves the birth of Shining Armor and Princess Cadence's baby Flurry Heart. Upon birth, she involuntarily uses her magic. That aspect is similar to [[WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents "Fairly Odd Baby"]], in which the newborn Poof has no control over his magic. [[spoiler:Coincidentally, the baby's cry causes something bad to happen, although the danger triggered by Flurry Heart's crying was by accident.]]

** "Best Frenemies" and "The Other Patty" both have Mr. Krabs and Plankton forming an EnemyMine to combat a new restaurant that threatens to put them out of business, though in the former they're teamed up for most of the episode, and in the latter they only begrudgingly team up near the end.

** "The Paper" and "The Idiot Box" both involve Spongebob doing a lot of fun things with an ordinary object due to his imagination and then Squidward trying to do the same thing with said objects and being unable to do so.

** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/RegularShowS01Ep11RigbysBody Rigby's Body]] has an eerily similar plot to the [[WesternAnimation/Aaahh!!!RealMonsters Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]] episode "Who'll Stop the Brain," in which Ickis and Krumm try to search for Oblina's brain after sneezing it out from studying for an exam to the point of exhaustion after being warned previously like Rigby when his consciousness has to be retrieved after being forcefully yanked out of his body from eating too much junk food.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' and ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' both on WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon, did this with episodes that involved confusion over what the right date was ("Allowance Day" and "The Time Bandit", respectively), which [[SeriousBusiness led to an impending execution]]. The main character(s) were saved by a pilot (Launchpad and Baloo, respectively) who scooped away the clouds to reveal what day it really was (with an eclipse and a comet, respectively), proving who was right. Baloo mentioned that he was the first pilot who had ever done something like this, despite the fact that ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' came out after ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''. (It could be argued that because ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' takes place in what appears to be TheThirties, Baloo would have been the first chronologically; a view taken by at least one [[ExpandedUniverse crossover comic]].) It's worth noting that "Allowance Day" and "The Time Bandit" were written by the same writers.

* ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' seems to have recycled plots from other cartoons where infants are the main characters. "Like A Duck to Water" is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode, "Beach Blanket Babies", wherein one of the characters is afraid to go swimming for the first time (Baby Daffy in the former, Baby Fozzie in the latter), while "Leader of the Pack" essentially uses the same plot as the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "Tommy and the Secret Club", wherein one of the characters starts their own secret club and makes their friends do certain tasks for them in order to join (Baby Daffy in the former, Angelica in the latter).

** "Ties That Bind" is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode "Eight Take-Away One Equals Panic" and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Little Miss Interprets", all three plots revolving around some misunderstandings leading to a belief among the kids of the family (The Louds, the Muppets, and the PPG, respectively) that their guardians are going to get rid of them.

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus Magic School Bus]]'' episode "Inside Ralphie" is very similar to the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' episode "Scooter's Uncommon Cold": a FantasticVoyagePlot where one of the characters [[SickEpisode gets sick]], the others all shrink themselves and go into his body, and they learn about the immune system by seeing how their friend's is working to make him well. The main difference is that the Muppet Babies only [[ImagineSpot imagine]] themselves going inside Scooter, while Ms. Frizzle and her class go inside Ralphie for real.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls'' short shown before ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' is a remake of a ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'' short. The main difference is that Wonder Woman replaces Wonder Girl, the villain is Dr. Freeze instead of Poison Ivy, and that Zatanna, Bumblebee, and Green Lantern are included.

** On the subject of ''Teen Titans Go!'', the episode "Oh Yeah!" has the same plot as the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Fake", in which the characters convince another character that wrestling is fake.

* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' recycles part of its plot from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', albeit with Kuzco turned into a rabbit instead of a llama. He's even sulking in a forest at the beginning of both.

* The ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' episode "Pups Save A Stinky Flower" has a similar plot to ''Series/TheDoodlebops'' episode "The Eew Flower", where a character brings their friends a smelly flower that they think they would like, but their friends do not want it.