History Main / HeistEpisode

* ''WebVideo/HeadlessASleepyHollowStory'': In "The Heist in the Hotel", resurrected GentlemanThief [[OneShotCharacter Paulie Tahoe]] orchestrates a heist to help the main characters break into the Storms Inn basement without the owner knowing, since she banned them from the premises during the wedding she's hosting at the inn. [[spoiler: The owner turns out to be a former protege of Paulie's, now in WitnessProtection, and they engage in a DanceBattle, which he wins. While the main characters discover a treasure trove of information related to the overarching mystery, however, they get busted as the {{Cliffhanger}}.]]

Subtrope of TheCaper and {{Episodes}}. Compare NoirEpisode, which is another OutOfGenreExperience that involves crime, but is usually darker. Compare and contrast MysteryEpisode.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017 Ducktales (2017)]]'' has "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S3E5LouiesEleven Louie's Eleven]]," where Louie schemes to get into an exclusive high society party and get the Three Cabaleros on [[CausticCritic Emma Glamour]]'s "IT List". As is typical for these kinds of episodes, things go wrong almost from the beginning, but [[PlayingWith interestingly]], not only is Glamour unsurprised to see them, apparently someone tries this ''every year''.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has a heist episode PlayedForLaughs: The plot spirals into ever more convoluted heists in a ThirtyGambitPileUp. All of which turn out to have been part of the ''real'' heist: [[spoiler: Rick stealing Morty's enthusiasm for the heist story he was writing, so he wouldn't make a deal Netflix and be less available to be dragged into adventures by Rick.]]

* PlayedWith in the ''Series/NineOneOne'' episode "Ocean's 9-1-1", where the first responder protagonists are accused of robbing a bank during the very emergency they were sent to control. Multiple homages to the ''Ocean's'' franchise are present as the cast tries to unravel what exactly transpired.

* The ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS4E10Gold Gold]]" has an old "friend" of Avon's recruit the protagonists to steal a shipment of gold. [[spoiler: The whole thing turns out to be a scam by [[BigBad Servalan]], with the protagonists coming out empty-handed.]]
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s annual {{Halloween|Episode}} Heists (and in season 6, a Cinco de Mayo Heist) involve the cast of the CopShow challenging each other to steal something within the precinct, with increasing stakes every year. The plans are usually elaborate for the sake of hilarity, and involve much sneakiness and betrayal.

* ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' has “Trash”
where con artist Saffron gets Mal and company to help steal a prototype laser weapon from a rich guy’s house.

-->'''Julia''', sarcastically: Might as well rob a bank.
-->'''Kady''': Well, we are magicians. Why don't we just rob a bank?

-->'''Criminal:''' I mean, we're paying for the watch.
-->'''Leader:''' Of COURSE we're paying for the watch! They wouldn't GIVE it to us if we didn't PAY for it!

** A more [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example occurred in the episode "Crime Cars", which showed a group of thieves in Kansas attempting a heist on an ATM at a gas station - but at StupidCrooks levels, unlike the above example.
* The "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E15BaddaBingBaddaBang Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang]]" episode of the scifi exploration series ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is an ''Film/OceansEleven'' homage, where the crew stages a caper to help Vic Fontaine run his rivals out of business and restore an errant program. The episode is set in a Vegas-style holosuite lounge.
* In "The Scorpion and The Frog", season 13, episode 8 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Sam and Dean are roped into stealing a trunk for a Crossroad Demon in exchange for a locating spell they desperately need. However, the trunk is hidden inside the supernaturally warded, physically booby-trapped compound of an extremely paranoid occult collector. Paired with Smash, a master safecracker who has been promised the return of her soul in return for her participation, and Grab, a demon who gets them the detailed blue plans and shows them how to counteract the warding, the Winchesters clear the Indian Jones-style maze and obtain their MacGuffin.
* ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' is a slice-of-life comedy, and the episode "Kimmy Pulls off a Heist" involves Titus wanting to use the customer-only corner store bathroom. He and Kimmy concoct a plan to make a copy of the bathroom key. The episode descends into parody when the store owner (who takes his bathroom [[SeriousBusiness very seriously]]) catches on and tries to pressure the "innocent" Kimmy into turning on Titus, while Titus grandiosely declares that they're now in too deep.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': the [[DownloadableContent Stolen Memory DLC]] sees [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] teaming up with master thief Kasumi Goto to infiltrate a black tie party hosted by an arms dealer and steal back the neural implant that contains the memories of her love, Keiji.
** A decent chunk of the Citadel DLC storyline for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is patterned after one, with Shepard infiltrating a similarly fancy party at a casino, except that they're after information, rather than money. Because the Citadel DLC was also intended as a big sendoff to the trilogy, if you had the Stolen Memory DLC for ''2'', you can go back to the casino later to find a device planted by Kasumi for her own job, and can choose to either warn her crew off it or wish them on their way.

* ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'': "Games and Gems" involves Trowel trying to steal a diamond from a museum. Its second reboot counterpart, "A Diamond Heist," is kind of the same plot except Beer and Cactus join Trowel in stealing the diamond while Wallet decides to steal diamond figurines. [[spoiler:They all got arrested at the end of the latter episode]].

** "The Taking of Funtime One Two Three": After discovering that the games at Family Funtime are fixed, Louise plans to hustle them out of enough tickets to win a dune bugggy with help from Mr. Fischoeder and her friends. [[spoiler:Turns out Fischoeder was double-crossing them (he's got a share in the arcade), but Louise had caught on and did a double cross of her own, hustling Wonder Wharf behind Fischoeder's back and winning the biggest prize at the ball toss.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', which is more-or-less a scifi WorkCom, has done this a couple of times:

* ‘’WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode "Jack and the Labyrinth" has Jack competing with a professional thief (who looks suspiciously like [[Anime/{{LupinIII}} Daisuke Jigen]]) to swipe a magic jewel from a heavily guarded and booby-trapped pyramid.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' episode "The Shot", in which Bojack recruits his friends to break into the Nixon Library in order to use their replica of the Oval Office to film a scene for ''Secretariat'' that the producer had cut. The episode uses many of the tropes from caper movies, including recruiting an ex-con, planning the caper, and the typical chaotic escape, but RealityEnsues at the end when they present the completed scene to the producer and he angrily fires the director for going behind his back, replacing her with someone more pliable.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder's'' "The Big Job" has Sylvia and Wander teaming up with an ''A-Team''-style CaperCrew called the Insurgent Generals to destroy a newly-developed piece of Hater Empire technology called the HT-125-F, otherwise known as [[spoiler:[[StronglyWordedLetter Lord Hater's hot tub]].]]