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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Run, Candace Run", Candace ends up having to volunteer to read to kids at the library with her mother on the same day she accepted an invitation to Jeremy's family reunion, and uses a pair of SuperSpeed boots developed by her brothers to try and be in two places at once.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'': The episode "The Double Date" has Oswald agreeing on going to both Daisy's pool and watching "[[ShowWithinAShow Penguin Patrol]]" with Henry and spends most of the episode going back and forth between his plans. [[spoiler:The conflict gets resolved as the three friends decided to place the pool inside Henry's apartment so they can both play in the pool and watch TV]].

* WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}: The episode "The Double Date" has Oswald agreeing on going to both Daisy's pool and watching "[[ShowWithinAShow Penguin Patrol]]" with Henry and spends most of the episode going back and forth between his plans. [[spoiler:The conflict gets resolved as the three friends decided to place the pool inside Henry's apartment so they can both play in the pool and watch TV]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', the titular sponge has to help Sandy demonstrate an invention of hers, attend Patrick's birthday party, and build a telescope for Mr. Krabs. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode, it's revealed that Sandy's invention was a ''[[{{Irony}} cloning]]'' [[{{Irony}} machine]].]]

* Wally West, a known womanizer in his early career as ''Franchise/TheFlash'', pulled this off without a hitch because of his SuperSpeed, taking one date to a basketball game and another to a dance. But he still gets in trouble because he also had a scheduled meeting with the Justice League, which he completely forgot about until the last second.
* Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} seem to have a standing agreement to help each other out this way. It helps that the two have similar builds, costumes that conceal virtually all identifying features, and each one's abilities let him perform a decent enough approximation of the other's (at least enough to fool the average Marvel Universe civilian).
* Franchise/{{Superman}} will occasionally have to appear as both Clark Kent and Superman. He'll get Franchise/{{Batman}} or [[IdentityImpersonator someone]] to help. In fact, most long-running superhero comics with secret identities have likely run into this.

* The Indianapolis 500 (Indianapolis, Indiana) and Coca-Cola 600 (Charlotte, North Carolina, about 430 miles away) races are typically scheduled for the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. Since the Indy 500 is held in the afternoon and the Coca-Cola 600 is an evening race, this allows drivers a small window to try and compete in both. The physical demands of racing 1,100 miles in one day and the tight schedule needed to pull it off mean that few drivers attempt it, and only one has ever completed all 1,100 miles of both races (Tony Stewart in 2001, finishing 6th at Indy and 4rd at Charlotte).

* ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'': Daniel both has to appear with his family as the nanny while also having a dinner with his boss, as himself. He tries to get the dates either changed or puts up an excuse, but ultimately he has no choice (The former is for Miranda's birthday, and the latter is not available for the next three months). He ends up exposing his scheme to everyone in the process.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' lampshaded this trope and mentioned the ''Series/ThreesCompany'' episode referenced above. Fry is forced to pretend to date Leela and Amy at the same time. While dealing with Leela's stalker/one-sided-love-interest (the ship's captain) and Amy's parents. ''While at the same table as all of them.''

* ''LightNovel/DateALive'': Shidou is forced into a ''triple date'' with [[{{Yandere}} Kurumi]] (who is the priority of the date), [[LadyOfWar Tohka]] (who somehow asked a date with Shidou), and [[StalkerWithACrush Origami]] (who wants to keep Shidou safe by keeping him away from Kurumi, ironically enough). Shidou has the logistical support of Ratatoskr, including a teleportation device to help him move between the three dates. Even then, he has to pretend to go the bathroom thirty times and eat lunch three times in the same day, and Kurumi is fully aware of the triple-timing the entire time.

A character schedules dates with two different people at the same time. It's not like you can be two places at once, right? Rather than canceling one of the dates, the character tries to attend both simultaneously, constantly running back and forth between the two locations while making up various reasons to excuse themselves to avoid letting either party know where they are going. This ploy, which is most often used in comedies, is pretty much guaranteed not to end well.

A character schedules dates with two different people at the same time. It's not like you can be two places at once, right? Rather than cancelling one of the dates, the character tries to attend both simultaneously, constantly running back and forth between the two locations while making up various reasons to excuse themselves to avoid letting either party know where they are going. This ploy, which is most often used in comedies, is pretty much guaranteed not to end well.

A character schedules dates with two different people at the same time. It's not like you can be two places at once, right? Rather than cancelling one of the dates, the character tries to attend both simultaneously, constantly running back and forth between the two locations while making up various reasons to excuse themselves to avoid letting either party know where they are going.

Can also apply to other scheduling conflicts, where the character tries to juggle an event that he's required to attend, versus a more personal event that he really ''wants'' to attend.

Compare TwinSwitch, with which this may overlap.

Compare TwinSwitch.

* In an early episode of the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' entitled ''[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica1978TheLongPatrol The Long Patrol]]'', Starbuck has a date with both Cassiopeia and Athena, at the same time, on the same luxury restaurant ship - the starliner ''Rising Star''. He is aided by the steward of the ship's restaurant, who calls his behavior "Very pre-War!".

* ''Series/{{Community}}'' - in "[[Recap/CommunityS4E08HerstoryOfDance Herstory Of Dance]]" Shirley and Annie compete to find a date for Abed for the Sadie Hawkins dance - Abed accepts both of their fixups specifically for the opportunity to play this trope.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': One episode had Zack stuck with two dates because [[LoveTriangle he finally got a date with Kelly]], which was to be at her birthday party, and blackmailed by principal Belding into taking his visiting niece on a date to show her around the town. Zack solved this by having Screech pretend to be him and go out with Belding's niece while the real Zack went to the party, though a jealous Slater convinced Screech to also come to the party so Zack would get caught. [[spoiler: Kelly was actually flattered that Zack went to so much effort to be at her party.]]

* At ''Series/USAHigh'', Jackson's father sets him up on blind dates a lot and the latest one is at a school dance (with the daughter of one of his colleagues). Then Lauren tells Jackson they'll be going together.[[note]]To clarify: Lauren was hoping Jackson would ask her and started playing "hard to get"; then got worried that he hadn't asked her and just decided to ask him instead.[[/note]] In Jackson's defence, he ''did'' try to break it off with the other girl first. But she was in the bathroom and her hairdryer drowned out Jackson's speech. Of course the dance is a costume affair - and the fun starts where ''both'' girls are nominated for the best costume.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' has George's boss force him to go on a date with a star to get a contract signed. Of course, this happens just as George is on a romantic outing with his wife. This example actually works out for the best, however: [[spoiler: In the process of his date with the star, George Jetson ends up involved in some shenanigans with a circus troop, and he does them a favor. In return for this favor, the circus troop later ''confirms George's alibi'' that his date with the star had no meaning other than professionalism, and George and his wife's relationship is saved]].

* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' saw Cornelia using her half-transformed Guardian state to date one of her friends' older brothers by [[YoungerThanTheyLook appearing to be a few years older than she was]]. Ethics and SecretIdentity issues aside, Cornelia already has a shaky relationship with her earlier paramour Caleb. It culminated at a date in a skating rink where Cornelia/"Lily" shows off her skating prowess and [[spoiler: uses a snazzy light show courtesy of Will to juggle both boys until she and the brother kiss where Caleb can see them. Before she can resolve things with Caleb, the forces of evil come calling..]].

* Seen in the ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' episode "Beer," where Edmund winds up scheduling a dinner with his Ultra-Puritan relatives and a [[DrinkingContest drinking party]] with Lord Melchett's buddies at the same time, down the hall from each other. At one point he returns to the Puritan dinner table without removing the fake comedy breasts he was wearing at the drinking competition ("you appear to be wearing ''devil's dumplings!''") and has to pass them off as earmuffs. He also has to explain why one of the guests from the drinking contest burst into the room yelling "Great booze up!!!" Then the Queen shows up and things get really crazy. In Edmund's defense, ''he'' didn't schedule the drinking party, the Queen did. And you [[OffWithHisHead don't say no to Queenie]].

A character schedules dates with two different people at the same time. Rather than cancelling one of the dates, the character tries to attend both simultaneously, constantly running back and forth between the two locations while making up various reasons to excuse themselves to avoid letting either party know where they are going.

** In "Springfield's Typical Teen-ager", a teenage Homer accidentally plans a date with Mr. Burn's niece and Marge at the same time, forcing him to drive back and fourth. Barney even compares Homer with [[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie Andrews]].

* Episode 2 of ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'' piles one scheduling conflict after another onto poor Yu. At first it looks like things will work out, but eventually he finds himself dashing back and forth between [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pulling tournament with Yosuke and Kanji, and judging a fashion contest between Chie and Ebihara]], all the while trying to get both done by 6pm so he can get back in time to cook dinner for Nanako...[[OhCrap only for Dojima to get home from work and start cooking dinner]] ''[[OhCrap at 5pm]]''. Poor Yu's utterly exhausted by the end of the episode.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'': Max has this trope forced upon him. Basically, he was sent to the Principal's office when an attempt to impress Roxanne backfired, and he was excited that he'll get a date with her that weekend. Unfortunately, thanks to his celebrating that he got a date, the principal assumed the worst and called Goofy, making Max's behavior seem worse than it actually was, and thus Goofy decided to take his son on a fishing trip... ''the same weekend'' as his date with Roxanne. [[spoiler: This trope then gets double subverted: the first subversion is that Max ''does'' actually manage to make both commitments on time, because his fishing trip is eventually turned into a visit to Powerline, and Max and Goofy end up dancing with Powerline, confirming Max's story to Roxanne that he'd be there. The second subversion is that despite Max's story being confirmed he later, out of guilt, ''confesses he was lying anyway.'' Luckily, since Roxanne already had feelings for Max before the Powerline lie, they still manage to hook up.]]

* Directly referenced in a ''Anime/SailorMoon'' episode where Minako tries the same. Oddly enough, the two guys are both associated villains who brag to each other about their latest catch as if they were different people. They were pretty ticked when they realized they were dating the same girl and ''cooperated'' against her.
* An episode of ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'', "Speedy's Double Time Trick", had Speedy try to go on a date with Lucille and Polly on the same day. It should be noted that the English-dubbed version had a slightly different twist on this trope: Speedy still tries to go on a date with Lucille, but his outing with Polly is about Al Dente asking them to transport secret documents instead.
* Found in ''Manga/DNAngel'', where the protagonist and his split personality alter-ego have conflicting dates with twin girls, forcing him/them (and his family) to plan out a minor BatmanGambit to try to cover for it... using some interesting methods.
* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Ryōga invites Akane over to his house, but Akari (his would-be girlfriend) shows up ahead of time. When Akane comes by, he nearly goes mad keeping them separate and unaware of the other, while going back and forth to entertain them. Ranma (Akane's fiancé) is none too pleased. Ranma specifically expresses this displeasure by dressing up (again) and pretending to be Ryōga's maid, and "helping" Ryōga with his situation.

* In ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'', Kyōsuke ''habitually'' goes on two-timing dates with Hikaru and Madoka. It helps that he can use his psychic powers to create distractions and teleport around. For example, while riding a roller coaster with Hikaru he teleports to his part-time job with Madoka, then teleports back and almost gets run over the roller coaster. One Christmas he even ''rewinds time'' so he can go to the same party with both girls (in a nutshell -- first with Hikaru, then with Madoka, and then ''both together.'')

* Played with in ''Manga/{{Is}}''. Ichitaka sets up a date with Itsuki, and when he's asked to support Iori at a photo shoot of hers at the same time, he initially turns her down...but later apologetically leaves his date with Itsuki when he becomes worried that something at the shoot isn't right.

* In one episode of ''Anime/SonicX'', Sonic sets up a date with Amy and a race with Sam Speed on the same day. An interesting example as he doesn't show up for either, getting preoccupied with fighting Eggman's minions instead.
* Subverted in ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou''. While Rentarou initially considers two-timing Karane and Hakari, he immediately realises that that would be a horrible thing to do, and simply tells them that he wants to date ''both'' of them.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': In the Scandal Arc, Gintoki sleeps with ''six'' women and a guy in a drunken stupor and [[ItMakesSenseInContext proposed to have a relationship with all of them.]] Due to some CatFight shenanigans, Gintoki is forced to watch a movie with his ''six wives'' at the same time. He's forced to rely on Zenzo to maneuver some mannequins so he can be in six places at the same time, but everything spiraled out of control quickly and he's busted for his "infidelity". [[spoiler:This is actually a ploy to stop him from drinking and all the women are involved with the plan except for Hasegawa, who he really had drunken sex with.]]

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': In "Double Date", Father Wrath II takes advantage of some ComicBook/ArchieComics style hijinks involving a two-timer date to can access to a school date in search of victims.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck'' comic, Daisy accidentally agrees to go to a movie with Gladstone Gander the same day she's to go to a fancy restaurant with Donald and the boys, forcing her to constantly run out on her current date in order to get to the other one. Eventually, Gladstone gives up on her, and all the running around tires Daisy out to the point where she falls asleep.

* ''Literature/{{The Rise of Renegade X}}'' has a great example where our intrepid protagonist is simultaneously on a Supervillain date to steal an heirloom ring back from an antique shop and a Superhero date to keep his stepmom's antique shop from being robbed of a priceless trophy that cost her her power. Yes, it's the same job from both angles. Even he's not sure who he wants to win.
* In ''Literature/CurseOfTheWolfgirl'' Markus remembers a little too late that he is taking one of his girlfriends to an opera-party at which the other girlfriend is a senior member of the stage-design team. It was probably a relief when the werewolf hunters attacked.

* The title character of ''Billy Liar'' by Keith Waterhouse manages to arrange dates with both his fiances at the same time ''and the same place''.

* One sidequest in the [[UpdatedRerelease Nintendo DS remake]] of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has the party briefly helping Cheatingway employ this trope by distracting one of his dates with small talk while he dates the other.
* One [[ThatOneLevel chain of missions]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has you provide clan members to date up to ''four'' people for a chronically overscheduled petitioner, and you ''have'' to use the dispatch system as the dates are all too far apart to personally attend them in the time limit. Amazingly, the lucky ladies care more about the level and MVP trophies of their dates than they do about things like species and gender.
* In ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary'', after setting up a date with Ellen or Virginia, you can accept a date with Damien for the same weekend. You can either tell your original partner that it's canceled, or try to go to both at the same time. Unsusprisingly, this doesn't work out well.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' lampshaded this trope and mentioned the ''Series/ThreesCompany'' episode referenced above. Fry is forced to pretend to date Leela and Amy at the same time. While dealing with Leela's stalker/one-sided-love-interest (the ship's captain) and Amy's parents. ''While at the same table as all of them.''
* The second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' saw Cornelia using her half-transformed Guardian state to date one of her friends' older brothers by [[YoungerThanTheyLook appearing to be a few years older than she was]]. Ethics and SecretIdentity issues aside, Cornelia already has a shaky relationship with her earlier paramour Caleb. It culminated at a date in a skating rink where Cornelia/"Lily" shows off her skating prowess and [[spoiler: uses a snazzy light show courtesy of Will to juggle both boys until she and the brother kiss where Caleb can see them. Before she can resolve things with Caleb, the forces of evil come calling..]].
* Happened once to Literature/{{Babar}}, where he invited Celeste to a ball only to find out he was also expected to entertain the daughter of a visiting king. When he couldn't bring himself to un-invite Celeste he decided to try this trope, with the usual degree of success. He eventually manages to pawn the visiting princess off on a friend, and once he's explained himself Celeste was actually touched that he'd risk a diplomatic incident to keep her happy.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheManCalledFlintstone'' Fred must go repeatedly between a family gathering with Betty and Barney Rubble and Wilma and a date with Tanya.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' has George's boss force him to go on a date with a star to get a contract signed. Of course, this happens just as George is on a romantic outing with his wife. This example actually works out for the best, however: [[spoiler: In the process of his date with the star, George Jetson ends up involved in some shenanigans with a circus troop, and he does them a favor. In return for this favor, the circus troop later ''confirms George's alibi'' that his date with the star had no meaning other than professionalism, and George and his wife's relationship is saved]].
* Pulled in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Metal Attraction" where Fenton Crackshell has to reluctantly be both sides of a double date at the same time, switching between his normal identity and that of Gizmoduck. When it starts putting way too much pressure on him, as Gizmoduck he ultimately decides to tell the {{Yandere}} robot duck that despite what she thinks he's not interested in her and he's seeing someone else. [[MurderTheHypotenuse She doesn't react well]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
** "Dance, Dance Resolution" has Lincoln going on no less than FOUR dates simultaneously, none of whom are the girl he's in a SecretRelationship with. Granted, it wasn't his fault; his sisters set him up to it.
** This also happens in the episode "In The Mick Of Time" where Luna has to not only spend time with Sam at the school's Cut a Rug dance, but also perform as Mick Swagger at the same time.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' in the episode "The Test", in which this and several other sitcom cliches are mocked.

* One comic from the ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' has Donald helping Daisy with a scheduling conflict by [[DisguisedInDrag disguising himself as Daisy]].

* In ''Series/HannahMontana: TheMovie'', Miley/Hannah finds herself juggling between a dinner date with a boy (as Miley) and a reception with the mayor (as Hannah). At one point she finds herself wearing a lobster bib at the wrong dinner.

* In ''Film/TwentySevenDresses'', Jane is a bridesmaid at two different weddings on the same night.
* In ''Film/TheSitter'', Noah has to balance between babysitting an old neighbor's kids (although he was primarily [[MyEyesAreUpHere focused on another kind of]] "kids" when arriving to do the babysitting), as well as going over to a female friend's place to have sex.
* In the 1963 ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor|1963}}'', geeky, sweet-natured Professor Kelp finds himself having to chaperone the big school dance his suave, loutish alter ego Buddy Love has been hired to perform at.

* In the second ''Literature/DorkDiaries'' book, Nikki, the protagonist, is meant to be doing three different things at the same time: hang out with her best friends at the Halloween dance (dressed as a trash bag), be on a date with her crush at the Halloween dance (dressed as Juliet) and be helping out at her little sister's ballet class Halloween party (dressed as a giant rat).
* In ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' d'Artagnan innocently manages to offend each of the three of the eponymous musketeers on the same day, and each challenge him to a duel. d'Artagnan schedules all three duels for the same place and at short increments after each other. When they realize what he's done, he insists that he will do his best to be alive for each of his scheduled appointments and apologizes sincerely if he should be killed and unavailable for any following duels.

* ''Series/SoAwkward'': In "Friendundancy", Mufti Day is arriving, and Lily doesn't want to wear one of Jas' quirky and weird outfits again. She runs into Natasha Jones, and accidentally suggests they all wear yellow, and ends up trying to change between Jas' and Natasha's outfits.
* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'':
** London has a birthday party where her mom and dad won't speak with each other, and gets increasingly stressed going back and forth between parties. Mr. Moesby helping micromanage her schedule to the dot didn't help matters either.
** ''The Suite Life on Deck'' does a similar ''Flintstones'' situation, though that show isn't mentioned, when Zack's girlfriend's poetry reading conflicts with a video game tournament. Zack even shows up at the reading still wearing camo from the tournament.
* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' has an episode where Tori uses her powers to both attend Shane's skateboarding competition with Dustin and see a movie with Blake and Hunter.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' does this in its "The One With The Two Parties" episode, where Rachel's recently-separated parents both show up for her surprise party, necessitating the creation of two simultaneously-held (and attended) parties happening across the hall from one another.

* On ''Series/ThatsMyBush'''s first episode, Laura demands a date night with George at the same time he has to have a meeting with the leaders of the pro-life and pro-choice campaigns. He changes between two suits when switching between them, but both suits are identical. The maid even {{lampshade|Hanging}}s that this won't work, as apparently other presidents have tried it.
* In an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', a family get-together on Halloween conflicts with a party Sabrina wants to make an appearance at. Being a witch, she [[MesACrowd creates a duplicate]] that can only say three phrases and sends her to the mortal party (Salem points out her aunts would be more likely to catch on than her {{muggle|s}} schoolmates.) Sure enough, her aunt Hilda tries to send a duplicate to the witch party which Zelda unmasks almost instantly ("Hilda, what color is my dress?" "Pass the potatoes!")
* In an episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'', Miley ends up having to take a date to a Hannah Montana concert.

* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': In "Kiss the Muse" Nick agrees to have dinner with his temporarily estranged girlfriend Juliette, forgetting he's made specific dinner plans with his friend Monroe. Except he forgets about ''both'' dinners thanks to the [[LovePotion love potion secretions]] of the MonsterOfTheWeek. Monroe literally calls him on it (as in, after talking to Juliette he phones Nick just as he's about to get in too deep with the woman). Monroe's bitchiness over the meal he prepared going to waste might seem like it's played for laughs, but Nick not always fully appreciating Monroe is one of the subtexts of their relationship, and Monroe lets a bit of his hurt show.
-->'''Nick:''' ''[on the phone, at Khloe's]'' Oh my god. I'm supposed to be at Juliette's.\\
'''Monroe:''' Yeah, she called. That's when I began to suspect you might not be showing up. Unless you're planning on having two dinners tonight.
* ''Series/BellaAndTheBulldogs'': Bella faces a crisis when a playoff game is moved to the same day as her friend Pepper's mother's baby shower. Unlike other versions of this trope, there's no question about which she's going to: She keeps her commitment to the baby shower, but speeds it up enough so she can get to the playoff game in time. Of course, this is involving pregnancy, so [[MaternityCrisis you can guess what happens next...]]
* In the ''Series/BroadCity'' episode "Burning Bridges," Abbi's date with [[spoiler:Trey]] turns out to be at the same restaurant as Ilana's parents' anniversary celebration. Ilana recognizes Abbi, who's trying to keep her relationship with [[spoiler:Trey]] a secret, as she's going to the bathroom. She spends much of the evening rushing back and forth between their tables.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Francine has to go back and forth between a bowling tournament that she has to win with her friends and a relative's bar mitzvah (because the Frenskies [[SuddenlyEthnicity suddenly became Jewish]] in the ChristmasEpisode). She doesn't end up winning the bowling tournament and also misses the best parts of the bar mitzvah, so she learns her lesson in the end.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', the titular sponge has to help Sandy demonstrate an invention of hers, attend Patrick's birthday party, and build a telescope for Mr. Krabs. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode, it's revealed that Sandy's invention was a ''[[{{Irony}} cloning]]'' [[{{Irony}} machine]].]]

* In the original animated series of ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', this happened to Franklin in "Franklin in Two Places," when he promised to attend Bear's baseball game and Beaver's art show. He is of course, caught out in the end, but manages to do such a good job that they A.) are impressed that he did so well at being in both places at once and B.) pleased that he cared enough to honor his commitment to both of them.
* Beautifully subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MissSpidersSunnyPatchFriends''. In "The Thinking Stone," Squirt promised to attend a hatchday party, but then accidentally agrees to attend a tuber tuba parade at the same time. Instead of any hanky panky, he is instead face with the difficult choice of which to attend. In the end, he comes up with his own ingenious solution by bringing the hatchday girl to attend the tuber tuba parade.
* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/GuessHowMuchILoveYou'', Little Nutbrown Hare tries to pull this in "The Promise" after he accidentally promises both Little Redwood Fox and Little Field Mouse that he'll play with them after lunch. He's not very good at it, however, and quickly gets caught. Neither of his friends is mad at him, though, and they find a way to all play together, combining their talents, since they're all friends with each other anyway.
* Played straight and lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''. While he's in prison, Todd calls Bojack, telling him he's landed in a "two-dates-to-the-prom" situation--the two dates being rival gangs. He asks Bojack what his character did when this plotline happened on his old sitcom. Later on, he enacts this trope.

* On ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAndCousins'', this is the basic premise of "Awesomest Day Ever," with the unusual twist that both Funshine and Wonderheart know that Brave Heart is running between them. Furthermore, he's actually being aided and abetted by Bright Heart, who has created a Get-Goin' watch to schedule him. Then, things get completely crazy when Brave Heart has him set the watch to schedule him for activities with all of the different bears and cousins, causing him to run madly between various locations. As all of this isn't enough, they're all also trying to get him distracted from the setup for a SurpriseParty.
* In one episode WesternAnimation/{{Doug}} has to cover for Mr. Dink as Hamburger Boy, the mascot for the Honker Burger. When Patty asks him if he will join her and Skeeter at a picnic the next day, Doug immediately agrees. He then realizes he is supposed to be Hamburger Boy at the same picnic. He tries to juggle both but his commitment prevents him from joining Patty and Skeeter in a canoe race. Patty thinks she knows why Doug didn't participate in the race: he can't swim.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': Dethklok manage to double-book themselves for gigs in Israel and Syria. With the band's world-economy-influencing popularity, this causes a huge amount of violence and unrest in the region. To satisfy both dates, the band builds 5 immense hologram projection towers in the Middle East and performs a show for the entire region at once.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' episode "Copy Cat" has Puss so distracted with the ancient evil set to invade the city in a few months time that he accidentally agrees to ride the horse for two different teams in the town's annual horse race. He decides that the only reasonable thing to do is to use magic to create a clone of himself.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', Ben has to choose between a museum stakeout with Kevin, Julie's tennis meet with Gwen, or the newest Sumo Slammers movie premiere. His solution is to use the Ultimatrix, turn into [[MesACrowd Echo-Echo]], and create two clones, then transform back into regular Ben(s). It would have worked without a hitch, but the clone that went to the stakeout is ''very'' sensitive (which creeps Kevin out) and the clone that went to the tennis meet is an AttentionWhore who distracts Julie from her match.
* "Model Sister" of ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' focuses on Elena trying to focus on holding royal visit for King Toshi while also helping her sister Isa at an invention fair. Isa eventually becomes annoyed because she feels that Elena doesn't have time for her, even though she said she would always make time for her.
* In "Spring Fever" from ''Literature/LlamaLlama'', Llama Llama is scheduled for both Nelly Gnu and Luna Giraffe's beginning-of-spring events and tries to help them both. Unlike most examples, however, they're aware of what he's doing and eventually have to admit they're making him do too much. They end up combining the two events.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Jet 2", Jet wants to watch ''Commander Cressida'' with Sydney, but also promises to help Sean with something at the same time. Jet tries to remedy the situation by making a robot clone of himself called Jet 2 and having it watch ''Commander Cressida'' with Sydney while he helps Sean, but when Sean and Sydney start hanging out with the robot instead of the real Jet, he gets jealous.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' episode "Sincerely Theodore", Alvin ends up on a scheduled date with a girl he isn't interested in, so he arranges for Theodore to take his place while he plays a role in a stage play. Then he learns the girl is the daughter of a famous movie director...
* In "Pete Over-Extended" from ''WesternAnimation/PeteTheCat'', Pete tries this at the [[IWasJustJoking joking advice]] of his brother Bob when he wants to attend both a [=CatGo=] concert with Callie and a [=SpaceCat=] convention with Gustav. He doesn't really get to enjoy either until Bob finally intercepts him and gets him to make a choice.

* Mew Ichigo of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' misses her date because a monster ate her cell phone and is threatening to poison the whole city. (And in the manga, it wasn't even her that got to save the day in the end anyway.)

* Franchise/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} seem to have a standing agreement to help each other out this way. It helps that the two have similar builds, costumes that conceal virtually all identifying features, and each one's abilities let him perform a decent enough approximation of the other's (at least enough to fool the average Marvel Universe civilian).
* Wally West, a known womanizer in his early career as ''Franchise/TheFlash'', pulled this off without a hitch because of his SuperSpeed, taking one date to a basketball game and another to a dance. But he still gets in trouble because he also had a scheduled meeting with the Justice League, which he completely forgot about until the last second.

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'', "The Big Day": Otto, Twister and Sam withdraw from a skating contest to save a wedding.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Bart Wants What It Wants": Bart avoids a school dance that Greta invited him to in favor of watching Principal Skinner perform at a comedy club.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'', Stanley is [[ChainedHeat handcuffed]] to Lt. Kellaway, who's trying to prove he's the Mask. Meanwhile, the villains Putty Thing and Fishguy are attacking. So, Stanley has to find ways to put on the mask and become the hero without the cop noticing. The Mask doesn't see why it's a big deal at first until he realises that Stanley might end up in prison and he will remain a lifeless object forever so he also has to get back in time to take his face off so that Kellaway does not find out that he and Stanley are the one and same person.

* In ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'', Daniel schedules two dinners at Bridges at 7:00. Unable to reschedule either dinner, he is forced to switch between his ex-wife's table as Mrs. Doubtfire and Mr. Lundy's table as himself.

* In an early episode of the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'', Starbuck has a date with both Cassiopia and Athena, at the same time, on the same luxury restaurant ship. He is aided by the steward of the restaurant, who calls his behavior 'Very pre-War!'

* In the prom episode of ''Series/DerryGirls'' Michelle brings two boys to the prom, without telling them about each other. She hopes that they'll just stay put in separate corners and she can go between them. They do find out about eachother, but end up working it out and leaving to go to the pub together, much to Michelle's annoyance.