History Main / InjuredLimbEpisode

* Claudia breaks her leg in the book (and [[ComicBook/TheBabySittersClub graphic novel adaption]]) ''Claudia and the Bad Joke'' thanks to a charge's practical joke on a swingset. She's actually pretty traumatized and afraid afterwards and can't stop thinking about how easily it could have been her hand or arm, which would have ruined her ability to paint or sculpt. [[spoiler:In the graphic novel, she admits that she was also embarrassed about the incident.]]

* Claudia breaks her leg in the ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book ''Claudia and the Bad Joke'' thanks to a charge's practical joke on the swings. She's actually pretty traumatized and afraid afterwards and can't stop thinking about how easily it could have been her hand or arm, which would have ruined her ability to paint or sculpt.
** In the SpinOff series ''[[Literature/TheBabySittersClub Baby-Sitters Little Sister]]'': Karen breaks her wrist after failing to do a daredevil jump on her roller skates, which takes a couple of books to heal.

* Claudia breaks her leg in a ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' book thanks to a charge's practical joke. She's actually pretty traumatized and afraid afterwards and can't stop thinking about how easily it could have been her hand or arm, which would have ruined her ability to paint or sculpt.

* ''Literature/AngelinaBallerina'': In one book, Flora sprains her ankle, so somebody else fills in for her.

* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart:'' During his family trip in Akita in Karte 50, Ichikawa breaks his arm in a fall while taking pictures of snowfields for Yamada. He spends 14 chapters with his arm in a cast.

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Joey breaks his arm jumping off a bed. Enforced by the fact that the actor really did break his arm.

* Claudia breaks her in a Literature/TheBabySittersClub book thanks to a charge's practical joke. She's actually pretty traumatized and afraid afterwards and can't stop thinking about how easily it could have been her hand or arm, which would have ruined her ability to paint or sculpt.

* Exaggerated in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt2Hqv0waiM these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEsX3vz1jwQ three]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pstwNqOtTk&index=20&list=PLV7BCuykJAjBRv2HUf9AgDZg_neCHr9nw unnamed]] fan videos for ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': First Mr Incredible, then Elastigirl gets severely beaten up (Mr Incredible gets literally beaten up by a woman and Elastigirl gets crushed by a drink stand that baby Jack-Jack knocked over. They're said to have broken ''all their bones'', however, they can still speak and chew their own food, Elastigirl's right arm and left leg aren't bandaged, Mr Incredible's right arm and ''neither'' of his legs are bandaged, and it's pretty contrived because Mr Incredible has super-strength and Elastigirl [[RubberWoman lives up to her name]]. Played straight in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFCgqWVIGFI&index=5&list=PLV7BCuykJAjBRv2HUf9AgDZg_neCHr9nw this video]] where Jack-Jack breaks his leg.

* ''[[Literature/TheBabySittersClub Baby-Sitters Little Sister]]'': Karen breaks her wrist after failing to do a daredevil jump on her roller skates, which takes a couple of books to heal.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frankenweenie}}'', Bob, the chubby boy who's friends with the bully, breaks his arm falling off the roof.

* ''Series/TheThundermans'': In "May Z-Force Be With You", Phoebe gets severely injured after falling off the stairs while cheering on Cherry's ping pong match, right when she and Max are to be interviewed for a position in the Z-Force. Since the interviewer does not want to see her injured, she has Cherry take her place.

* ''Series/TheThundermans'': In "May Z-Force Be With You", Phoebe gets severely injured after falling off the stairs while cheering on Cherry's ping pong match, right when she and Max are to be interviewed for a position in the Z-Force. Since the interviewer does not want to see her injured, she has Cherry take her place.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'':
** In one episode, Mrs Hodgepodge breaks her leg, which inspires Angelina to fake breaking hers. It doesn't work.
** In an episode called "Angelina's Hip-Hop Boys Show", one of the boys (A.J.) injures his leg falling off a trash can.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
** In the episode "The Wheel Deal", Alan "The Brain" Powers sprains his ankle and has to be in a wheelchair for a few weeks. In that time he makes friends with a girl in a wheelchair who teaches him how to cope with the challenges.
** In "Do You Speak George?", Jenna is [[DownplayedTrope briefly]] seen with her arm in a sling.
** In "April 9th", Mr. Morris, the elderly Lakewood Elementary School janitor, breaks his leg during a fire. Later when he befriends Buster, he mentions that at his age, a broken leg is a lot more serious and he may need his cast and crutches for a long time.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'':
** Gwen injured her leg in the elevator before it was brought up when Elena disguised as Julie pushed her into it.
** Ben broke his arm when Jennifer fired Nesmith's gauntlet at him when he was Clockwork.
* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'': In the 2003 series' episode "The Excuse Note", Sister Bear sprains her ankle and exploits sitting out gym class, which she dislikes despite being generally active.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'', a woman named Mavis hurts her ankle on the jogging machine.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' episode "Get Well Soon", Leo breaks his foot after his shoes came untied and he tripped over a tree stump while he and Caillou were playing space aliens in the backyard.
** In another episode "Caillou The Patient", Caillou gets his knees scraped after he slipped on a rock.
** "Caillou's Broken Bone" from the reboot involves Caillou having a broken arm after falling off a bike and wearing a cast.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAdventuresInCareALot'' episode "King Grumpy", Wingnut accidentally runs over Grumpy's foot. He had to keep his foot in a cast until the next day, but he pretends his foot still hurts so he won't get have to get rid of Wingnut.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CharlieAndLola'', the episode "Charlie is Broken" focuses on Charlie breaking his arm.
* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'' episode "Housebound". George climbs up a dinosaur skeleton but falls down, breaking his leg as a result. George must wear a cast for a few weeks and stay home.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'' episode "Run, Doc, Run", Doc sprains her ankle and Dart the toy unicorn fractures her leg. Hallie thinks both need to rest. [[note]] In real life, if you sprain your ankle, resting the ankle itself (i.e. not putting weight on the ankle) is a good idea, but one needn't rest, period. With a wheelchair or similar, you can still do pretty much whatever you want. [[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'':
** In "The Greatest Show in Dragon Land", Zak and Wheezie have a broken wing, which causes the gang to set forth for Wonderworld Amusement Park on foot.
** In "Give Zak A Hand", Zak injures his wrist after slipping on Wheezie's roller skate and the others teach him how to do things differently.
* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': Played more seriously than in other similar series. While characters have suffered injuries over the course of the show, when Elena's arm is broken in a season three battle, it has long-term consequences - impairing her ability to use her magic staff in future episodes. Three episodes have aired since the injury, and Elena's wrist is still in a cast.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': A more dramatic version of this trope happens when Elisa Maza is shot in the leg by a Gargoyle carelessly playing with a gun. Her fate is unknown for most of the episode, and the next episode she's on crutches while recovering, although already back on the job.
* ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny'':
** In Tool Dance, Maria’s dance partner Oleg sprains his ankle, so Manny has to dance with her.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in Squeeze in a Pinch. Squeeze accidentally pinches Manny’s thumb, but it gets better after he ices it. The episode focuses on Squeeze feeling bad about what happened.
**In The Best Vacation Ever, Kelly’s brother Elliot breaks his ankle and has to cancel the vacation he was planning all year. Manny and the tools help him feel better by building a tropical beach in his backyard.
**In Doggie Door, Mrs Portillo sprains her ankle after slipping on water in kitchen and has trouble letting her dog out.
**In Firefighter Manny, Chief Eduardo sprains his ankle and Manny, the tools, Coach Johnson, and Kelly must put out a forest fire on their own.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''
** Downplayed with Helga in "Biosquare", as she is seen wearing a sling when she and Arnold show up soaking wet to class to present their project. While [[WholeEpisodeFlashback the episode serves as a flashback as to what happened]] before the presentation, it is never explained how Helga hurt herself in the first place.
** Played straight in "Phoebe Breaks a Leg", when Phoebe injures her leg when she walks into the path of a bus while trying to carry Helga's stuff, which obstructs her view, to school. Feeling guilty, Helga decides to do nice things for Phoebe until her leg heals. Phoebe enjoys having Helga doing nice things for her so much, that by the time her leg heals, she [[ObfuscatingDisability pretends it is still injured]] [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity so that Helga will continue to do nice things for her]]. At the end of the episode, [[HereWeGoAgain Helga injures her leg when Phoebe saves her from an incoming truck]], and [[StatusQuoIsGod Phoebe is now back to doing nice things for her]].
* ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Il était une fois... la vie]]'': More than one episode involves at least one character injuring their leg. One of these episodes is about the skeleton and shows how a broken bone can heal itself.
* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'': In "I Want to Go to the Fair", the princess hurts her foot and can't go to the fair, so the queen makes her a makeshift fair.
* ''Franchise/TheLoudHouse'':
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Toads and Tiaras", Lola trips over a can of hairspray and breaks an arm ''and'' a leg. This happens before a beauty pageant, so Lincoln [[TwinSwitch trains her twin sister Lana to take her place.]]
** ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'':
*** In the first episode, "Going Overboard", Carlos injures his leg when he tries to teach Ronnie Anne some of his skateboard tricks.
*** In "Miss Step", Ronnie Anne, Carlota and Maria all [[ObfuscatingDisability fake being injured]] (Carlota with a sprained elbow, Ronnie Anne with an injured foot and Maria with a broken leg) to get out of having to dance at a baile folklorico showcase due to [[DrillSergeantNasty Frida being too intense of an instructor]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': In "Dog Daze", Helen has sprained her ankle, however, it's better at the end of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegAndMog'': In "Meg's Leg", Meg injures her leg in a broomstick accident and then injures her other one showing off. A background witch is also seen with her arm in a sling.
* ''Literature/MillyMolly'':
** In "Aunt Maude", Maude breaks her leg and the girls look after her garden while she recovers.
** In. "Sooty", the girls find a cat with an injured leg.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'' episode "Midnight Sun Fun Run," Trini sprains her ankle, so she can't participate in the Fun Run. However, she does get to help Daniel and Atsaq lay out the route and plan a big surprise at the finish line.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode, "Gonzo's Coop Dreams", Beep injures his wing, rendering him unable to play in a basketball game against the Bad Eggs. As a result, Gonzo, who has never played basketball before, has to take his place.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** "Read it and Weep", Rainbow Dash injures a wing. This leads to her being hospitalised for a few days and taking up reading out of boredom. The character in the book she was reading also had an injured wing.
** In “Rainbow Falls”, both Dash and one of the Wonderbolts fake wing injuries. The Wonderbolt thought it would get the Cloudsdale team to ask Rainbow to fly with them in the Equestria Games, and Rainbow doesn’t want to have to choose between Ponyville and Clousdale.
* In a ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' episode, [[JackOfAllTrades Miss Rabbit]] injures her leg before she can go to work, so the other adults have to do her jobs.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Mommy Can You Hear Me?" sees Candace being bedridden due to having her leg in a cast from an injury. Even that doesn't stop her from trying to bust her brothers, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'': In one episode, Jess breaks his leg.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': In "Lord of the Nerds", TJ breaks his collarbone and has to stay inside with a nerdy group of kids called the "Pale Kids" until it heals.
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' has the episode "Big Air Dare" in which Otto and Reggie contemptuously have a snowboarding race on the titular off-limits slope meant for experienced adults. While Reggie stops herself from taking the jump at the last minute, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Otto flies off and breaks his leg]]. Had Otto listened to the ski patrol guard in the first place, [[CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot such issue wouldn't have occurred]]. Its sister episode "Otto's Big Break" is a continuation of the former episode and shows the other three members of the group trying to search for someone to fill in for Otto for the imminent hockey match.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** Zigzagged. One episode is ''called'' "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", but she doesn't really, she's just faking. However, a background character[[spoiler:, whose [[FileMixUp x-ray was mixed up with Angelica's,]]]] and eventually Charlotte do break their legs. The episode provides the page image.
** In "Fall Stinks", the second part of the "[[Recap/RugratsS7E1AcornNutsAndDiapeyButts Acorn Nuts and Diapey Butts]]" saga, Grandpa Lou falls trying to get away from the elderly ladies who want to dance with him at the new retirement home he moved into, breaking his leg and spending the third part, "Don't Poop On My Parade" with his leg in a cast. He meets Lulu, who works as a nurse, and falls in love with her, deciding he wants to stay in the retirement center after all.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SaltysLighthouse'' episode, "Let's Wing It", Sadie sprains her wing and has it put in a sling. This makes it difficult for her to sponge-paint with the rest of her friends.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' episode "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature", Fred breaks his leg.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E1BartOfDarkness Bart of Darkness]]", Nelson teases Bart who's about to jump into the pool, resulting in him falling to the ground and breaking his leg. Lisa gives him a telescope and he spies on Ned, leading him to [[MistakenForMurderer believe Ned killed Maude]].
** In "My Sister, My Sitter", Bart falls down the stairs while Lisa is babysitting him. He ends up dislocating his arm, and later knocks himself unconscious. Lisa attempts to get Bart to a hospital without their parents and her clients finding out, but is unsuccessful; at the end of the episode, Bart is seen with his arm in a sling.
** In "Jazzy and the Pussycats", Bart becomes an expert drummer. When his arm gets [[ItMakesSenseInContext bitten by a tiger]], he is left incapacitated and unable to play the drums. He holds a jazz benefit concert for an operation to fix his arm, but changes his mind and invests it in a cause Lisa wants.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'': In "The Terratin Incident", a [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunken]] Sulu breaks his leg falling off a console and has to be fixed with some of [[TheMedic McCoy]] and Nurse Chapel's technology.
* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In the "Big Brothers of Corona" episode, Cassandra breaks her leg in a fall and Rapunzel has her hands full making sure she rests. Cassandra is absent from the following episode, making it likely she's recovering off-screen.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has the episode "Fractured" where Robin breaks his arm and a reality-warping, inter-dimensional fanboy tries to heal it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode, "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS19E19And20DieselsGhostlyChristmas Diesel's Ghostly Christmas]]", Sir Topham Hatt is revealed to have twisted his ankle, and spends the entirety of the episode on crutches, parodying the character of Tiny Tim from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E33PsychicFunOmenonDay Psychic Fun-Omenon Day]]", the short "Rear Window Pain" has Plucky injure his leg and Babs give him some binoculars as a present. When Plucky sees Elmer Fudd growing eggplants and talking to them as if they were his children, he thinks that Elmer is making clones of himself.
** In "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E20ItsAWonderfulTinyToonsChristmasSpecial It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special]]", Montana Max injures his leg skiing in Aspen with Morgan Fairchild and spends the entirety of the episode in a wheelchair, parodying the character of Mr. Potter from ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', who was in a wheelchair due to his actor, Lionel Barrymore's real-life health conditions. As a result of his injury, Monty was late to attend rehearsals for the ''Tiny Toons'' prime-time holiday spectacular, and Buster had to cut him from the special. Monty vowed revenge by sabotaging the sketches, resulting in everyone blaming Buster and Monty being hired as the new director of the special (which, thankfully didn't last too long when the network executives saw just how awful Monty's ideas were).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWombles'': In "Alderney's Big Break", Alderney injures her back paw on the Wombles' annual Spring-Cleaning Day. Because Wombles are a NeatFreak species, she feels disappointed,
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* In the second ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' movie, [[spoiler: the father comes back with his arm in a sling.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
* "Read it and Weep", Rainbow Dash injures a wing. This leads to her being hospitalised for a few days and taking up reading out of boredom. The character in the book she was reading also had an injured wing.
* In “Rainbow Falls”, both Dash and one of the Wonderbolts fake wing injuries. The Wonderbolt thought it would get the Cloudsdale team to ask Rainbow to fly with them in the Equestria Games, and Rainbow doesn’t want to have to choose between Ponyville and Clousdale.

** In "My Sister, My Sitter", Bart falls down the stairs while Lisa is babysitting him. He ends up dislocating his arm, and later knocks himself unconscious. Lisa attempts to get Bart to a hospital, but is unsuccessful; at the end of the episode, Bart is seen with his arm in a sling.

** Zigzagged. One episode is ''called'' "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", but she doesn't really, she's just faking. However, a background character[[spoiler:, whose [[FileMixUp x-ray was mixed up with Angelica's,]]]] and eventually Charlotte do break their legs.

** Downplayed with Helga in "Biosquare", as she is seen wearing a sling when she and Arnold show up soaking wet to class to present their project. While the episode serves as a flashback as to what happened before the presentation, it is never explained how Helga hurt herself in the first place.

*** In "Miss Step", Ronnie Anne, Carlota and Maria all fake being injured to get out of having to dance at a baile folklorico showcase due to [[DrillSergeantNasty Frida being too intense of an instructor]].

* In "Going Overboard", the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'', Carlos injures his leg when he tries to teach Ronnie Anne some of his skateboard tricks.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "Toads and Tiaras", Lola trips over a can of hairspray and breaks an arm ''and'' a leg. This happens before a beauty pageant, so Lincoln [[TwinSwitch trains her twin sister Lana to take her place.]]