History RecycledScript / WesternAnimation

** The [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 1991 series]] Kimi-era episode "Cuddle Bunny" has a similar plot to the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Free Pookey", where a character tries to protect a piñata from getting broken (Kimi in the former, Johnny in the latter).

* The ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' Kimi-era episode "Cuddle Bunny" has a similar plot to the ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Free Pookey", where a character tries to protect a piñata from getting broken (Kimi in the former, Johnny in the latter).
* The ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021'' episode, "I, Baby" uses a similar plot to "Real or Robots?" from [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 the original 1991 series]]. In both episodes, one character (Susie, Tommy) believes another character (Chuckie, Stu) to be a robot after seeing a horror movie where a MadScientist replaces humans with robots. Both episodes also include a scene where the character tries to open the chest of the person they believe to be a robot with a plastic tool (Susie to Chuckie with Tommy's screwdriver, Tommy to Stu with a plastic wrench).
** The episodes "Educating Angelica" and "Hello Dilly" both have the same plot of Angelica taking one of her cousins to pre-school and trying to pass them off as a doll (Tommy in the former, Dil in the latter)

** The episode "Bubblevision" to "The Mane Event". Both have one of the sisters get an embarrassing attribute (A bad haircut for Blossom, and NerdGlasses for Bubbles), the two other sisters laugh at her which causes her to lose confidence, but in the end, she uses the attribute to defeat the monster attacking the town.

** "Quiet Please" recycles the exact same formula as the 2018 horror ''Film/AQuietPlace'', in addition to playing up all of the plot points (the librarians banning anyone who makes one sound like the aliens, the sign language, the water drowning out the father and son's voices, a medical device annoying the librarians/aliens, the son stepping on a sharp object and screaming, the talk in the bathroom, the climatic ambush, the father signing "I love you" before screaming and sacrificing themselves). Any deaths in the movie, however, are replaced with getting banned, to be more suitable for the show's target audience.

* "WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius":

** Season 4's "Rusty to the Rescue" shares the same plot of "Escape" from Season 3, as both episodes involve a supporting character (Douglas and Rusty) encountering an engine from the other railway (Oliver and Stepney), and they rescue them from getting scrapped by allowing them to take up residence on Sodor. This is acknowledged in "Rusty to the Rescue", as Rusty asks Douglas if he can help him find another engine on the Other Railway where he found Oliver.

** Season 4's "Rusty to the Rescue" shares the same plot of "Escape" from Season 3, as both episodes involve a supporting character (Douglas and Rusty) encountering an engine from the other railway (Oliver and Stepney), and they rescue them from getting scrapped by allowing them to take up residence on Sodor.

** "Quiet Please" recycles the exact same formula as the 2018 horror ''Film/AQuietPlace'', in addition to playing up all of the plot points (the librarians banning anyone who makes one sound like the aliens, the sign language, the water drowning out the father and child's voices, a medical device annoying the librarians/aliens, the son stepping on a sharp object and screaming, the talk in the bathroom, the climatic ambush, the father signing "I love you" before screaming and sacrificing themselves).

* ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' is an example of a whole series using this trope, as it is comprised of shot-for-shot remakes of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' episodes. For example, "Sad Day with Blue" is a recreation of "Blue's Sad Day" - both being about Blue being sad because somebody knocked over her blocks - and "Big News with Blue" is a recreation of "Blue's News" where the story is about [[NewBabyEpisode Blue getting excited over Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper's new baby]] (or ''babies'' in the newer episode, in which they have twins). The new episodes use identical clues to the original episodes. Of course, chances are the very young target audience of ''Blue's Clues and You'' won't know enough about the parent series, which aired nearly three decades prior, to notice the recycling.

* ''WesternAnimation/FancyNancy'': The episode "Frenchy, Mon Amour" pretty much uses the same exact plot as the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode, "Dumped".

* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E6Skip Skip]]" recycles parts of "Anywhere But Here" from ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' and "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E1HowLongIsForever How Long is Forever?]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. Like Sabrina, Lilo is tired of being a kid with restrictions, so she uses something to make her grow up faster (in this case, Experiment 089). However, like Starfire, Lilo would find herself in a BadFuture and that she went missing for several years due to using Skip's ability. Thankfully, all 3 scenarios have a ResetButton to undo everything.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Skip" recycles parts of "Anywhere But Here" from ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' and "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E1HowLongIsForever How Long is Forever?]]" from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. Like Sabrina, Lilo is tired of being a kid with restrictions, so she uses something to make her grow up faster (in this case, Experiment 089). However, like Starfire, Lilo finds out that she went missing for several years due to using Skip's ability. Thankfully, all 3 scenarios have a ResetButton to undo everything.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Skip" has a similar set-up to the episode "Anywhere But Here" from ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries''. Both involve Lilo and Sabrina respectively using an experiment/magical watch to become older after not being allowed to do certain things in their current ages. However, this trope is downplayed as this is where the stories are different. While Sabrina finds herself in a BadFuture where the snobby Gem Stone is her boss (among other crazy things), Lilo finds herself in a progressively worse future where [[TheBadGuyWins Gantu and Hamsterviel have captured all of the experiments]] (save for Stitch and Skip) as she ages up twice. Luckily, both scenarios have a ResetButton to undo everything.

* A few later episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' seem to have recycled plots from other Nicktoons. "Toy Store of Doom", for example, has essentially the same plot as the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode "Toy Palace" (they get locked in the toy store after it closes for the night and are afraid the toys will attack them), while "Banned in Bikini Bottom" (Krabby Patties are outlawed and Mr. Krabs starts selling them at [=SpongeBob=]'s house secretly) is similar to the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "Just Say [=CatDog=] Sent Ya," in which Farburg Burger Bones are banned from Nearburg and [=CatDog=] starts selling them at a speakeasy in an underground cellar.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls2019'' short shown before ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'', titled "[=#TheLateBatsby=]", is a remake of the ''WesternAnimation/SuperBestFriendsForever'' short "Time Waits for No Girl". The main difference is that Wonder Woman replaces Wonder Girl, the villain is Mr. Freeze instead of Poison Ivy, and that Zatanna, Bumblebee, and Jessica Cruz are included.

* 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 Mr. Freeze instead of Poison Ivy, and that Zatanna, Bumblebee, and Green Lantern are included.

** "Germophobia" has a similar plot to the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Sid and Germs" and the ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' episode "Mr. Clean" as all three episodes revolve around a character who normally does disgusting things (Buster, Sid, and Chuckie) getting freaked out by germs and becoming paranoid neat freaks as a result.