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* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' [=had "[[Recap/CourageTheCowardlyDogS1E2 Dr. LeQuack, Amnesia Specialist]]". Muriel develops amnesia after being bonked on the head by a plank Eustace was nailing and Courage tries to seek help from someone who can cure her. The titular villain [[FeatheredFiend LeQuack]], who turned out to be a wanted ConArtist the authorities were looking for, is called in for the job, and needless to say, Courage realizes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what a terrible mistake he made hiring him]] when he sees him bonk Eustace in the head and lock him in the closet. After LeQuack is arrested after unwittingly giving Muriel her memory back, [[HereWeGoAgain Eustace begins to develop amnesia himself after LeQuack bonked him earlier]].=]

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' had "[=Dr. LeQuack, Amnesia Specialist". Muriel develops amnesia after being bonked on the head by a plank Eustace was nailing and Courage tries to seek help from someone who can cure her.=]

* After Kefka creates the World of Ruin in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Celes and Sabin come upon Edgar who's apparently lost his memory and now operating as the leader of a gang of thieves. Their next mission is to break into Castle Figaro which is now buried and rob the place. [[spoiler:It turns out he was faking amnesia so he could get the thieves to get him back into the castle.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', Peg has an accident, as a result of [[LazyBum her poor housekeeping ethic,]] bumps her head and doesn't remember who she is. When Al comes come, he takes the opportunity to trick her into leaving and not coming back, only for Bud to tell Al that they can give her a new identity. Al then convinces an amnesiac Peg that she is the [[StayInTheKitchen perfect]] {{housewife}}, and dotes on Al 23 hours a day, and Bud for one hour, Al having convinced her that she doesn't need sleep. Seeing Peg slaving away on his whim, turns on Al so much, that he convinces her to have sex. While they are in the middle, she comes to her senses, after holding a broom, an punishes Al for what he did by forcing him to have sex again.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' episode "Bereft," a psychic named Psimon erases the memories of the Team to keep them from discovering his experiments. For most of the team this is downplayed since they only lost six months of memories, meaning they forgot they were a team and even each other. For Superboy, who is is a clone created within that time frame, he is left as a feral animal attacking out in confusion. Thankfully the team had fragments of their old memories within them, which Miss Martain used to help them remember their current mission.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In "Night in Question", a head injury makes Nick forget he's a vampire. He eats regular food for a while and Natalie is hopeful of curing him permanently, but when he goes out in the sun it still burns, so she has to tell him the truth.

* In the Season 12 ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS12E11RegardingDean Regarding Dean]]", Dean [[spoiler:slowly loses his memory after a witch the Winchester brothers are hunting casts a spell on him. This is {{Played for Laughs}} at first but gradually becomes more serious with the progression of the memory loss as the reality of Dean forgetting everything about his loved ones and his concept of himself sets in]].

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS3E8Twilight Twilight]]", Archer gets amnesia from parasites in his brain and it's fixed through TimeTravel.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS3E14Stratagem Stratagem]]", Degra the alien scientist has his memory wiped.

** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E16ThineOwnSelf Thine Own Self]]": A malfunction causes android Date to lose his memory. He happens to be on a planet of aliens who think he's an "ice man".

* The ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11209836/chapters/25039899 we've already done that joke]]'' has Tucker inadvertently erase Grif's memories with alien technology. [[spoiler:His memory is restored when Simmons tells him his name.]]

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': This happens to Pikachu in the episode "A Scare to Remember" after it gets hit head which makes it lose its memory as a result. This even happens after another encounter with Team Rocket, which makes Ash lose Pikachu.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': This happens to Pikachu in the episode "A Scare to Remember" after it gets separated from Ash, Brock, May, and Max. Even after another encounter with Team Rocket, which makes Ash lose Pikachu.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': This happens to Pikachu in the episode "A Scare to Remember" after it gets seperated from Ash even another encounter with Team Rocket.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In "Night in Question", a head injury makes Nick forget he's a vampire. He eats regular food for a while, but when he goes out in the sun it still burns, and Natalie has to tell him the truth.

* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': leaping gives you gaps in your memory referred to in-show as the "Swiss cheese effect". Played straightest in the pilot episode, where Sam initially can't remember his own surname, what he does for a living, or his childhood address or phone number. In later episodes he forgets that he's a good piano player, his brother's [[Spoiler: death]], and the existence of [[Spoiler: his wife]]. He never does remember [[RunningGag where he learned to do a roundhouse kick]].

* The ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' episode "Am I Pretty" has Ranma suffering a more serious than usual bop on the head while in girl mode and forgetting he was ever a boy. The episode plays it for laughs as everyone struggles to deal with a very stereotypically female Ranma who is the polar opposite of their usual self. Fortunately, StatusQuoIsGod kicks in and everything is back to usual by the episode's end with Ranma's memories restored.

* Wubbzy gets a similar vain to [=SpongeBob=] in the ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' MadeForTVMovie "Wubbzy's Big Movie," where he also hits his head on a rock and gets "knocky-noggin" (what the show refers to as amnesia).

* The ''Manga/OnePiece'' anime has the filler arc " Ocean's Dream" where a seahorse stole all the memories of the protagonists (with the exception of Nico Robin) since they are joined in the Straw Hat crew causing them returnback to their original characterizations. At the end, Luffy defeat the seahorse and all return to normality.

* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob'': In "The Brettfast Club", Magic Myc gets amnesia after falling out of a plane. He immediately starts mooching off [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished some kids who take him in]]; he eventually gets his memories back when they get fed up with his dickishness and chuck him off a cliff, where he lands headfirst onto the gang's car.