Freaky Friday Flip / Western Animation

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• Happens in the 2 Stupid Dogs episode "Far-Out Friday", only they don't realize they had switched bodies until just before they switch back. They don't call them two stupid dogs for nothing.
• In the 3-2-1 Penguins! episode "Invasion of the Body Swappers", Zidgel and Kevin switch bodies via galeezel malfunction.
• In the Action League NOW! episode "Hey! Who Stole My Face?!" the League firmly believe that this trope is fully in play and unwittingly follow orders from The Mayor (with the Chief's face) and nearly pay for it with their lives while The Chief (with the Mayor's face) is put in jail. The twist here is that the two didn't really switch bodies; an operation after a blender mishap with The Chief and The Mayor simply results in one having the other's face. Thankfully, the Chief's dog, Justice, is able to tell the difference.
• In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Trading Faces", Jimmy's attempt at listening in on Cindy to find out her latest prank so he can avoid it is thwarted by a sudden lightning storm that causes Jimmy and Cindy to switch bodies. They spend most of the episode torturing each other before their discontent for being in each others' bodies leads Jimmy to reverse it. Uniquely the process isn't simple, as their minds are melded into a computer bank and Carl, Sheen and Libby have to manually sort the two's traits and memories into their respective bodies. There's a sticking point where one trait recursively lists the dislike of boys who dislike girls who dislike boys and so-on ad nauseum. They eventually decide to just delete that one, which might have been the beginnings of Jimmy and Cindy's Ship Tease.
• In one Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode, Big Bad Duke Igthorn swaps bodies with Tummi to gain access to the Gummiberry Juice. Fortunately, Igthorn's scheme fails when he discovers that the juice affects humans and Gummi Bears differently.
• Adventure Time did a variant in the episode "Son of Mars": Magic Man used his powers to make Jake look like him and vice-versa so Jake would be taken to Mars and executed for Magic Man's crimes instead of him.
• All Dogs Go To Heaven: The Series: In "Mutts Ado About Nothing", Annabelle puts Charlie and Itchy's souls into each other's bodies as punishment for their constant squabbling. Even worse, it happens on their double date night respectively with Sasha and Bess.
• A three-way swap between Gumball, Darwin, and Anais occurs at the very end of the Halloween Episode of The Amazing World of Gumball, thanks to the three of them returning to the wrong bodies after having spent much of the episodes as ghosts with assistance from Carrie. The end result is that Gumball is now Darwin, Darwin is now Anais, and Anais is now Gumball. They aren't shown switching back, (when they try to get Carrie to help them out, she simply leaves without another word) but they are back to normal by the next episode.
• American Dad!:
  • Parodied wonderfully in the episode "Rough Trade", where Stan and Roger get into an argument over whose life is easier, and end up both saying "I wish we could trade places!" while touching an Incan bowl that supposedly grants wishes. At that moment, the lights began flashing and a strange moan is heard... and it turns out to be Klaus, playing with the light switch and making funny noises. Nothing magical happens, but the two decide to trade lives anyway. Klaus later says that "if that had been a real wish-granting bowl, it would be in the back seat of a Ferrari driven by a 600-year-old Incan on his way to his job as Jessica Alba's G-string."
  • Played straight many seasons later in the episode titled "Da Flippity Flop". Klaus steals Stan's body by using CIA technology.
  • Parodied again in "I Am the Jeans: The Gina Lavetti Story", where Stan and Steve switch eyebrows.
• American Dragon: Jake Long:
  • Happens in the second season episode "Switcheroo" with Jake and his younger sister Haley through the use of a Magic Mirror, not to mention, the effects would become permanent if they didn't switch back by sundown after Huntsboys #88 and #89 steal it and the siblings have to get it back. Jake would help Haley win a dance competition while Haley helped Jake patch things with Rose.
  • Played for laughs at the end of "Dragon Breath"; when the soul-stealing nix returns everyone's souls to their bodies, Trixie and Spud get switched. The final scene of the episode is them sitting in the now-deserted dance hall, trying to figure out what happened, which leads to this hilarious exchange:
    Trixie *in Spud's body*: Sweet mama flapjacks, please tell me I'm lookin' at a mirror!
    Spud *in Trixie's body*: Dude, I could have sworn I was a dude!
• Arthur has the aptly-named "Freaky Tuesday", where Buster and Mr. Ratburn accidentally switch bodies when they touch a pan of electrified dish of spanakopita (a science experiment on cooking with lightning). Chaos eventually ensues, as Buster-In-Ratburn finds the responsibilities of a teacher very stressful (after thinking they had it easy), while Ratburn-In-Buster is frustrated by the rules he must follow as a student. Fortunately, it turns out to be All Just a Dream Buster is having.
• Atomic Puppet: The episode "The Switch" does this with AP and Princess War Tickle, thanks to an artifact called the Sphere of Transference. AP is overjoyed to get a full body again while War Tickle is furious with her new form. Fortunately, it happens that War Tickle owns a second Sphere of Transference, but the problem is a villain is trying to find it to steal War Tickle's body (and her powers).
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold features the epic switch between Batwoman and Batman. Epic because Batwoman does not make the slightest bit of effort to sound or act more masculine as Batman, with Diedrich Bader providing massive amounts of comedy with what seems to be a Camp Gay Batman.
• In Ben 10 Gwen and her nemesis Charmcaster switch bodies first, then Charmcaster is restored to her rightful body only to have Gwen and Ben switch bodies. Everything is set right in the end, naturally. Interesting in that voices-go-with-bodies in the Gwen/Charm switch, but voices-go-with-minds in the Ben/Gwen switch. And Charm-as-Gwen manages to fool Ben and Grandpa, despite having no opportunity ever to observe their normal interactions.
  • This was recycled into two episodes of Ben 10 (2016); first when Hex swaps Ben and Gwen's minds, then when Charmcaster magically disguises herself as Gwen while also disguising Gwen as her.
• The Big Mouth Season 6 episode "F**ked Up Friday" fittingly involves a mass body-swapping outbreak.
• In the Blinky Bill's Extraordinary Excursion episode "Blinky the Hypnotist", Blinky learns hypnotism to switch the citizens' minds with each other, those being Mayor Pelican with Marcia, Miss Magpie with Splodge, and Flap with Mr. Wombat.
• Bob's Burgers: In "Mom, Lies, and Videotape" Tina faithfully recounts her grade's Mother's Day performance for the sick, and thus unable to attend, Linda. It was a blatant rip-off of Aliens, except Sigourney Weaver's character (named Sigourney) and the alien queen become envious of each other's positions and due to a spatial anomaly they switch bodies/costumes.
• The Bounty Hamster episode "Trading Spaces" is full of body-swaps. A criminal steals a body-swapping device and uses it to go joy riding in other people's bodies. Highlights include a human teenage girl stuck in the body of an alien resembling a humanoid rhino, a body-swap conga line with over half a dozen body-swaps in a row and the criminal, teenage girl and the titular hamster bounty hunter all being stuck together in the same body, where they try to beat each other up. The insanity ends with the criminal's mind trapped inside of a cactus.
• In the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Hot Crossed Bunny", a scientist plans to switch the mind of a chicken into an experimental rabbit (guess who). In the end, Bugs tricks the scientist into swapping minds with the chicken instead.
• Camp Lakebottom: In "Being McGee", a cursed amulet causes McGee and Buttsquat to swap bodies.
• In the episode "The Unbearable Blightness of Being" from Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Dr. Blight switches bodies with Gaia. Blight!Gaia starts wrecking the environment For the Evulz and Gaia!Blight uses her gadgets to reverse the damage. After getting back her body with help from the Planeteers and Capt. Planet, Gaia tells the Planeteers that the experience taught her that technology can be put to good use.
• In the Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys episode "Escape from the Plant of the Apes", Captain Simian and Shao Lin switch bodies. Voices Are Mental is averted; not only do Simian and Shao Lin's voices stay in their original bodies, but their voice actors (Jerry Doyle and Karen Maruyama) use each others' speech cadences while their characters are switched. As noted above, these details are usually overlooked in "Freaky Friday" Flip stories.
• In the Centurions episode "Double Agent", Doc Terror switches Ace and Hacker's minds as part of an evil plot.
• In an episode of Chowder, the main character subjects himself, Mung Daal, Truffles, and Schnitzel to this after attempting to cram an entire container of a certain ingredient into a dish. At the end, they're in their proper bodies, except for Mung who somehow has switched with his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Endive.
• Code Lyoko episode 42, "A Fine Mess", has Odd switching bodies with Yumi. While Yumi plays things fairly straight for the one day and night they are afflicted, Odd is challenged by his lack of knowledge of Japanese customs and language while living with Yumi's family. He further aggravates Yumi by digging through her closet, complaining about wearing a bra (yes, he actually does this, though the word "bra" is avoided), and showing up at school in a Cat Girl cosplay outfit; most fitting, as the virtual, Lyoko version of Odd has distinctly Cat Boy features.
• In The Crumpets episode "The Mix-Up", Ms. McBrisk uses an Electronic Telepathy machine at T-Bone the dog to find out where he moved her beloved garden gnome (her daughter Cassandra actually hiding it). The machine unfortunately swaps their bodies, the woman acting and sounding like the dog, who is now a Talking Animal with her voice. They ultimately return to the machine to reverse the flip, but the gnome's body has T-Bone's instinct of killing birds, and that dog possesses the gnome's blank stare and murderous intentions.
• The Danger Mouse episode "There's A Penfold In My Suit" has the country of Bratyslovakia being displaced on the map due to a mystic "swapping stone" hidden within an archway in the country. It causes Danger Mouse and Penfold to switch bodies, then Greenback and Stiletto to switch, and then during a chase, everyone gets switched around.
• This occurs in the Danny Phantom episode "Splitting Images", when Poindexter takes over Danny's body to show the latter what it feels like to be bullied.
• Darkwing Duck has a double adult/child switch in "Trading Faces", swapping Darkwing with Gosalyn and Launchpad with Honker. In addition to trading voices, the switched characters also trade eye shape and color.
  • This one does deal with the voice issue; at one point to help fool J. Gander Hooter (Darkwing's occasional Da Chief), Darkwing (in Gosalyn's body) sits in Gosalyn's lap (from Darkwing's body) and uses his voice to talk to him. Earlier, they pass it off as Darkwing imitating a little girl's voice.
• The Day My Butt Went Psycho!: In "Wacky Wednesday", Zack and Deuce's souls get swapped by an artifact in Silas's basement. Naturally, this happens on the day Zack is to be judged by the B-Team for the Rookie of the Year award.
• In the Dennis the Menace episode, "It's a Ruff Life", PeeBee builds a Brain Wave machine. When he tests it on Joey, Ruff gets into the other booth, causing the two to switch bodies. At the end of the episode, after Joey and Ruff are back in their normal bodies, Mr. Wilson and a bulldog get into the machine's booths as another dog turns the machine on, causing them to switch bodies.
• In the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Mom & Jerry", Dexter and a mouse switch bodies. And he's locked out of the lab. And his mom wants to get rid of the mouse loose in her house. Dexter spends the better part of the episode engaged in Tom and Jerry-style hijinks trying to evade his mother and get back to the lab.
• The Dog & Pony Show: In one episode, magic from pony's bottom causes him and Dog to switch bodies. When Jonas, who was preparing for a costume party at the time, sees their costumes, he assumes that they dressed up as each other.
• In Donkey Kong Country episode "The Big Switcharoo", Cranky Kong invents brain-swapping helmets For Science!, and while messing about in the Cabin DK's brain is swapped with a robot's. Then, in the course of stealing said helmets, Klump and Candy become swapped. The situation gets serious when K.Rool decides to do the same with the Crystal Coconut, in hopes that it will make him all-powerful.
• In one episode of Doug, "Doug's Dog's Date", Doug has an Imagine Spot wherein a scientist's "historic boy-to-dog transfusion" experiment has this effect on Doug and Porkchop.
• A recurring plot on The Fairly OddParents!:
  • "Dogs Day Afternoon" had Timmy switching places with Vicky's dog, Doidle. It backfires when Timmy finds out that Vicky is going to get Doidle fixed, but he can't unwish the wish since he can only use Animal Talk.
  • In "A Mile In My Shoes", Timmy becomes a fairy and his godparents become his godkids after dealing with stressful days. Beyond the usual shenanigans, it also has Cosmo and Wanda having to switch to fool Timmy's dumb parents.
  • "Blondas Have More Fun" has Wanda and her near-identical sister Blonda switching appearances and positions to see who has it harder; Wanda as Timmy's godmother and Cosmo's wife, or Blonda as a soap opera actor.
  • "Presto-Change-O" involves a body-swapping joy buzzer; Timmy first uses this on AJ to get him to take his test for him while in his body, and later uses it on Francis so that he can beat Francis up while in his body. When Mr. Crocker tries to confiscate it, he and Timmy end up switching bodies, and Timmy has to get them back into their normal bodies before Crocker discovers Cosmo and Wanda.
  • "Manic Mom Day" double subverts this. Timmy and his mom switch minds after a rough day. Mrs. Turner is tricked into thinking the whole thing is thanks to her reading her parental guide book and putting herself in her child's shoes. While Timmy goes through the usual troubles of being a mom, Mrs. Turner does seemingly rather well (though namely because of said help book) and helps Timmy become popular. When meeting up, it seems like it is subverted with Mrs. Turner having had a good time. The double-subversion comes in when she tells Timmy how crazy everyone that Timmy has to deal with is before feeling grateful on how well-adjusted Timmy is.
  • "Country Clubbed" has a sub-plot of Wanda and Sparky switching brains, which Timmy doesn't remember to solve by the end of the episode.
  • "Which Is Which", a Season 10 episode, sees this happening to Timmy and Chloe.
• Family Guy:
  • Peter and Lois briefly switched places due to one of Stewie's inventions. Peter is thrilled and proceeds to jiggle the breasts.
  • This becomes the main plot of the episode "Switch the Flip". It starts out with Brian and Stewie swapping bodies via the latter's latest device. When they attempt to switch back, unfortunately, Chris and Peter get caught in the mix. Eventually, Stewie's device causes everyone within the vicinity of Quahog to switch bodies with hilarious results.
• Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
  • "Bait & Switch" had a variant on the standard Freaky Friday Flip trope. Rather than switching bodies, the Four ended up switching powers.
  • More straightforward example happened in "Doomed", where Reed switches bodies with Dr. Doom.
• An episode of The Flintstones, "Monster Fred", does this. The method is via a mad scientist's so-called "Personality Swapper", but the episode plays out like this trope. (Complete with Voices Are Mental in effect.) Long story short, Barney inadvertently takes an injured Fred (with Dino in tow) to a mad scientist's lab, who immediately switches Fred and Dino around. More switches occur, first with Fred and Barney, then the husbands with their respective wives, then Dino with the mad scientist's assistant before everyone is finally restored to normal...except for the mad scientist who now thinks he's Fred. Adding to the hilarity is that no one seems to notice that they've become one of the other characters, Fred thinks everyone's being ridiculous when they're telling him that he is now his pet Snorkasaurus.
• In one of the Comedy Central episodes of Futurama, "The Prisoner of Benda", the Professor perfects a mind-switching machine, only to discover that the "brain immune response" making it impossible for a given pair of bodies to swap more than once. Soon the entire cast is switching bodies for various reasons (reliving one's youth, showing up one's girlfriend, stealing the crown of the Robo-Hungarian emperor, etc.). This is one example of voice-actors changing despite the show being adult-orientated, as the large number of characters changing means that even an adult would have difficulty keeping track of it all.
  • One of the writers proved a mathematical theorem stating that bodies can be returned to their original owners with at most two extra people. The theorem is explained in the episode, and it is possibly the geekiest case of Shown Their Work ever.
  • The trope is also played with in an earlier episode where Fry's head is attached to Amy's body and the one where Nixon's head-in-a-jar acquires Bender's.
• An episode of Garfield and Friends does it when Garfield and Odie touch a mysterious idol together. At the end of the episode, the idol gets broken, Jon and the gypsy owner of the idol pick up the pieces... and also get swapped. In both cases, it goes unnoticed (only Garfield notices at a certain point that he became a dog).
  • Here Voices Are Mental is justified at least with Garfield. What we hear is actually Garfield's thoughts, not his voice, so it makes sense that Garfield in Odie would sound the same. No excuse for the others, though.
  • An episode of The Garfield Show also has Garfield and Odie swapping their bodies, though an alien is behind it in this case.
• One episode of the Animated Adaptation of Geronimo Stilton, "Incredible Shrinking Stiltons", ends with the bodies of Trap and a police dog being switched.
• Happens in the Gravity Falls episode, "Carpet Diem", where Dipper and Mabel switch bodies and compete over a new room they found in the shack. While the twins compete, Soos and Waddles switch bodies as well. The episode ends in a free-for-all with Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Waddles, Candy, Grenda, Sheriff Blubs, Deputy Durland and Old Man McGucket all getting swapped around.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy:
  • In "Grim for a Day", Billy and Grim trade lives to see who has it harder. Near the end of the episode, they suddenly begin slowly turning into each other (with no explanation as to why), ending with Billy as a short Grim and Grim as a tall Billy.
  • During the end credits of "Wishbones", after undoing the events of the episode, Grim decides to make a wish to Thromnabular that will benefit them both: Grim is freed from his servitude to Billy and Mandy, and Thromnabular is free from having to grant people's wishes. The latter twists that wish, as well, resulting in them simply having swapped positions, with Grim as the new wishing skull and Thromnabular as the new Grim Reaper. Cue Big "NO!" from Grim.
• In the Harvey Beaks episode "Princess Harvey", Harvey switches bodies with Princess. While Harvey tries to restore things to normal, Princess discovers that she likes how Harvey's family listens to her rants without complaint and how they really love her, unlike her neglectful father. The episode also averts Voices Are Mental by having Harvey and Princess' voice actors do their best impressions of each other's characters, which results in some hilarious voices.
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law had Spyro swap bodies with a dog because Mentok the Mindtaker got bored in court. Mentok's then forced to take care of Spyro's body when he loses Spyro's mind, going back and forth between having a dog's mind and a toddler's mind in his body. Turns out Spyro's mind was in someone's ass. It Makes Just as Much Sense in Context.
• In Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5, this occurs between Sherman Cortez and vandal Grimian after a freak accident with a portal, with the latter taking it as an opportunity to sabotage the team.
• I Am Weasel did this in "I Architect", when Baboon and Weasel lose their brains in an accident. The doctors at the hospital assume that the big brain goes in the big head, and the little brain in the little head — so Baboon's brain wakes up in Weasel's body. "I.R. Weasel!" Baboon-in-Weasel exploits Weasel's reputation to rebuild the city to his liking, which naturally leads to all sorts of hilarious chaos. Weasel-in-Baboon adopts Baboon's identity, works hard, becomes the new mayor and fixes the city. His new slogan is, "I... am... Baboon!"
• Inside Job (2021) has an episode where Brett and Glenn switch minds as a part of a bet to prove the other has an easier/harder life. In Brett's body, Glenn has people doing him free favors because he's extremely attractive. In Glenn's body, Brett is ostracized because of Glenn's hideous appearance. But then this gets turned around on its head: Glenn drives away some women who slept with him because of his aggressive asshole personality, and Brett's kindness towards Glenn's ex-wife reignites the passion she previously had for her ex-husband.
• The Inspector Gadget (2015) episode "Brain Drain" involves Brain being abducted by MAD and forcibly switched with MADCat via a pair of hat gadgets in order for MADCat to steal important passcodes while in Brain's body. Much like the Gravity Falls example above, this episode also ends with a climax full of body-swapping mayhem as Gadget, Penny, Brain, Talon, and the Chief all get switched around as well.
• This happens with Jackie and Jade in Jackie Chan Adventures in a Season 3 episode, after Daolon Wong interferes while they're in the middle of astral projecting.
• Jacob Two-Two: In the episode "Jacob Two-Two and the Big Brain Exchange", Jacob accidentally switches brains with Principal Greedyguts. He uses his new position to try and make life better at Dreary Meadows School.
• In the Jimmy Two-Shoes episode "Monster Mutt", Heloise switches Beezy and Cerbee's brains around in an act of spite after they ruin her private picnic with Jimmy. Jimmy is appalled by her actions and tries to convince Heloise to switch them back (she adamantly refuses), but things are complicated by Cerbee in Beezy's body rampaging through Miseryville and Lucius deciding he likes the fact his son's brain is now that of a dog's. At the end of the episode, once Beezy and Cerbee are restored to normal, Jimmy and Heloise have switched bodies, which she refuses to fix until they have that picnic.
  • Played with in "A Hair-Brained Idea", where Lucius switches his horns with Jimmy's hair to impress Jez. The catch turns out to be that it causes the cruel and bad-tempered Lucius to start acting like the sweet and kindhearted Jimmy, and vice-versa.
• Johnny Test
  • Played with in the episode "Johnny Long Legs": after Susan and Mary infuse Johnny with spider DNA, their attempt to get him back to normal just turns him into a full spider, so when he ends up abducted by Bumper, the girls turn Dukey into a bat to rescue him. They then configure the machine they used to only have Johnny and Dukey's DNA, but don't account for the possibility of the duo getting each other's DNA...
  • In the episode "Papa Johnny", Johnny and Hugh (the dad) get into an argument about who has the tougher life, and agree to Susan and Mary's idea of switching brains. Hugh!Johnny has trouble with bullying and a Sadist Teacher while Johnny!Hugh has to deal with an excessive amount of chores. The duo realizes that both lives are fairly difficult and agree to compromise, while Lila (the mom) gets into an argument with Susan about who has the tougher life and agrees to switch brains with her.
• The Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures episode "Cyberswitch" has this happen to Race Bannon and Jeremiah Surd, in which the latter uses Questworld to make the switch and would use the former's body to kill Dr. Quest. The switch is quickly discovered and reversed, but Surd has a backup plan to switch bodies with Jonny. However, Jonny easily stops this before it actually happens, considering that he has a lot more experience in Questworld than Surd and Race combined.
• The Justice League Action episode "Mxy's Mix Up" has Mr. Myxzipitlk swap the bodies of Superman, Batman and Stargirl so that she's in Supes' body, Bats' in hers, and Supes' in Bats'. He eventually gets most of the League swapped, but is Hoist by His Own Petard when Batman calls in Firestorm (who is in fact two people Sharing a Body). The extra mind, with nowhere else to go, ends up inside of Myxzipitlk, where it annoys him to no end and tricks him into saying his name backwards.
• Justice League Unlimited: "The Great Brain Robbery" has the Flash and Lex Luthor swapping bodies, but not voices. This is an Actor Allusion, as Michael Rosenbaum, who voices the Flash (and thus plays Luthor for most of the episode) happened to play Lex Luthor in Smallville.
  • This is a particularly interesting example, in that a hero and villain switch brains, which lends itself to certain tactical advantages and makes it all the more important to "set things right". Luthor attempts to use this opportunity to discover Flash's secret identity, but he is thwarted upon looking in the mirror and realizing that he has "no idea who this is".
  • Another reason for this episode's notable status regarding the trope is that this is a rare example of the filmmakers going out of their way to accurately portray the switch in the characters' behaviors. In this case, what stands out is that Michael Rosenbaum (Flash) and Clancy Brown (Luthor) recorded their parts together. Each actor providing the line readings for their original characters, and the opposite actor would mimic the line reading. This allowed Clancy Brown's Luthor to have the exact timing and delivery of Rosenbaum's Flash, and vice versa.
  • Clancy Brown's show-stealing performance as Flash-in-Lex also led to some of the funniest moments in the series.
    [Lex was just hiding in a toilet stall and is now leaving the bathroom.]
    Dr. Polaris: Aren't you going to wash your hands?
    Flash-in-Lex: No. 'Cause I'm evil.
    
    Flash-in-Lex: My fellow bad guys, I, Lex Luthor, your leader, will speak now about my, Lex Luthor's, plan. My villainous, villainous plan. Question the plan at your peril! Uh... any questions?
  • The results of the body-swap are also explored. Flash-in-Lex, as seen above, is absolutely terrible at pretending to be a villain. Every other villain quickly catches on that something's up, but instead believe that Lex got brain damage in the incident that actually resulted in the mind swap. Lex-in-Flash, on the other hand, is so dangerous that it's scary. Trapped in the Watchtower and hunted by the entire Justice League, Lex-in-Flash is nearly unstoppable, figuring out how to use all of the powers that the Flash intentionally doesn't use, due to how dangerous they are (namely explosive phasing and minimally controllable Not Quite Flight).
• Kaeloo: In a Parody Episode of Harry Potter, Kaeloo, Stumpy, and Quack Quack switch bodies due to using magic spells on each other, but are soon brought back to normal. Unlike most examples, it is not the main focus of the episode, but only happens for one scene.
• This happens to Lily and Mitsuki, the two heroines of the Nicktoon Kappa Mikey who are also roommates, through a pair of friendship bracelets, in the episode "Manic Monday".
• Kim Possible and her sidekick Ron are the subject of this evil-experiment-gone-wrong in one of their funnier episodes (the premise being their foe Drakken used it to switch minds with a government agent to get access to classified info, but agent in Dr. D's body slipped away to tell Ron and Kim, resulting in them getting zapped during a confrontation). The prospect of a teenage boy being stuck in a girl's body is explored as far as Disney would allow: only a throwaway comment about Ron liking a skirt. (Also, "Your hair is so... flippy!"). It also featured Anne Possible, as a brain surgeon, complaining that mind swapping is totally impossible.
• In the King Arthur's Disasters episode "King Guinevere" Arthur and Guinevere swap bodies after a magical mishap. While Guinevere hates being Arthur, Arthur doesn't seem to mind being Guinevere that much, though Merlin manages to persuade him to reverse the swap by pointing out that as Guinevere he can't rule Camelot.
• Krypto the Superdog episode "Dog-Gone Kevin" where the red kryptonite causes Krypto and Kevin to swap bodies.
• A Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness episode has Shifu and his ex-girlfriend switching bodies after the latter uses a soul swapping stone so she can use the Furious Five to commit thefts. Their voices don't switch, which is what makes it hard for Shifu to convince anybody of his identity.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series has this happen to Lilo with Stitch, Gantu with Hämsterviel, and Jumba with Pleakley for most of the episode "Swapper", thanks to the title experiment of the episode (Experiment 355). Toward the end, the heroes are re-swapped in a four-way switch. Everyone kept their original voice, but it probably would have been a little odd to hear Lilo's/Jumba's words in Stitch's nasally voice anyway (Stitch is just a step away from The Unintelligible).
• Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): In the episode "Bot Transfer", Mega Man unwillingly switches bodies with Snake Man, of all robots. His reaction is quite logical. (Notably, their voices stay with their bodies.)
• In the Mickey Mouse (2013) short "New Shoes", after Donald and Goofy say how they want to walk in Mickey's shoes for all of 7 minutes and Mickey assures them that their lives are probably just as eventful, Pete punches them so hard that Mickey ends up in Goofy's body, while Goofy is in Donald's body and Donald is in Mickey's body. Mickey enjoys using Goofy's height to help people and Donald enjoys Mickey's popularity, but unfortunately Goofy discovers that Donald can't fly and quickly realizes how much Donald's life sucks, then Mickey and Donald tire of their new lives as well. They get switched back when Pete punches them a second time.
• A variant in the Miraculous Ladybug episode "Reflekdoll": after Marinette and Adrien are transformed into Reflekta clones by her Humongous Mecha, Tikki and Plagg try to find them and bump into the other's Miraculous holder, leading to Marinette and Adrien having to temporarily take on the other's alter ego.
• Monster Loving Maniacs: Happens between Edith and Dracula in the plainly titled episode "Body Swap",thanks to a wayward invention. While the two initially plan on using each other's bodies for their own ends, Edith quickly finds she actually doesn't like being a vampire, while Dracula ends up bonding with Edith's own family. However, Dracula also finds he's no longer hampered by common vampire weaknesses (e.g. needing an invitation to enter a home), so when he decides that he'd rather remain in Edith's body forever...
• In a Mythology Gag to the former character's orignal Inhuman powers, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023) episode "Goodnight, Moon Girl" involves Lunella inventing a remote intended for her to be able to read minds (so that she will know exactly what to talk about with other kids her age), only for it to instead have this effect on her and Devil Dinosaur. This is made all the more complicated by three factors: How Lunella is supposed to be attending her first slumber party in years with the cool kids at school, her family back home has mistaken the remote for the TV remote and are unknowingly causing Lunella and Devil to switch back and forth repeatedly as they argue over what to watch on TV, and Voices Are Not Mental is in effect (effectively rendering Devil!Lunella mute and Lunella!Devil still only able to communicate in his usual grunts and growls). The result is that Lunella keeps ending up out in the streets bumbling about as Devil's big red self, trying to get the remote back, while Devil is just acting like his usual self in hers in front of the popular kids, causing Lunella much embarrassment every time they switch back to normal.
• In the My Friends Tigger & Pooh episode "The Tiglet and Pigger Switcher-Roo", Roo's magic trick is intended to make Piglet and Tigger switch barrels, but instead they magically switch their personalities.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the episode "She Talks To Angel," Fluttershy switches bodies with her pet bunny, Angel, thanks to a potion given to them by Zecora.
  • "A Royal Problem" uses a downplayed version; Starlight switches Celestia and Luna's Cutie Marks out of panic during their argument, consequently switching their powers and forcing them to have to take over each others roles for a day, but at least otherwise they stay as themselves.
• Ned's Newt episode "Newt's Ned". It begins with Ned and Newton switching minds due to a lightning strike. Near the end of the episode, while they're attempting to switch their minds back the same way, they end up pulling a security guard and a sandwich into the fracas, all of them switching minds to and fro for a while.
• The Owl House:
  • "Once Upon a Swap" has Eda cast a spell resulting in Luz being in Eda's body while King has Luz's and Eda has King's, done specifically to teach them what it's like to live each other's lives after a disagreement. Eyes Are Mental and Voices Are Mental were in full effect. Several other characters that end up chasing them also get swapped later on.
  • "Clouds on the Horizon" has a variant where Luz and Hunter are disguised as each other with an illusion so that Luz can get Captured on Purpose while also protecting Hunter, who doesn't even realise what's happened until Luz is taken. The same spell is later used by Mattholomule in "For the Future" to swap with Amity to distract Boscha.
• In PAW Patrol, this happens between Chase and Chickaletta in "Pups Save a Freaky Pup-Day", and Chase must complete the mission while in Chickaletta's body. It turns out to be All Just a Dream, though.
• In one episode of The Penguins of Madagascar, the Penguins help their friend, Roger the sewer gator deal with the Rat King and his henchmen invading his home. Eventually, they resort to switching minds of Roger with the unstable Rico. However, Rico becomes dangerously unhinged and his bird mind in the reptile brain causes him to lose further control of his inhibitions. Roger ends up stopping him by singing.
• Pepper Ann switched places with her mother, Lydia, during a meteor shower. The Trope Namer was alluded to when Lydia discovered that Pepper Ann still hadn't returned a VHS labeled Trippy Tuesday to the store.
• In the Pet Alien episode "The Evil that Thumbs do", Tommy and Swanky swap bodies after Dinko's weather control machine causes them to get struck by lightning. Though they initially enjoy their new bodies (Tommy takes advantage of not having to attend school while Swanky shows off his new thumbs), they eventually grow to dislike being each other. Eventually, the swap is undone... only now Tommy has swapped with Flip while Swanky, Gumpers and Scruffy have swapped with each other.
• Phineas and Ferb has "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?", where Candace and Perry switch bodies because of the boys' newest invention, and Perry goes off to stop Doofenshmirtz like always... but in Candace's body ("Perry the Teenage Girl?!"). Candace, meanwhile, is increasingly horrified by the things her platypus form does, like eating grubs and sweating milk. The end credits even included a Candace-ified version of Perry's theme song.
  • The later episode "Mind Share" involves Phineas, Ferb, and their friends being tricked into switching bodies with a gaggle of aliens in an outer space prison. It wound up becoming a race against time to get everyone back in their respective bodies before the only method to switch them back was eliminated. Fortunately, Candace came to the kids' rescue with the help of some square-dancers. (It Makes Sense in Context, obviously.)
• Happens in an episode of The Pirates of Dark Water, where the main hero and villain switch places so that the villain could steal all the treasures. To make things slightly more interesting their reflections also switch and they don't switch voices.
• The 1961 Popeye cartoon "I Yam Wot I Yamnesia" takes a bizarre approach, having characters switch personalities and voices with each other after suffering a bump on the head, and diagnosing it as amnesia.
• Happens in the Potatoes and Dragons episode "It Wasn't Me", between King Hugo and the Dragon. Interestingly, whilst the Dragon is in King Hugo, the Dragon retains his ability to breathe fire, leading to King Hugo running around spouting flames.
• A multiple body swap is the plotline of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Criss Cross Crisis": Buttercup switches with the Professor (and freaks out about finally having fingers), Blossom switches with Sara Bellum (and accentuates her newfound curves), and Bubbles switches with the Mayor (and rationally accesses the whole situation after a beat), and then some. There's one shot showing a theater showing Freakin' Friday, just to imply where they got the idea from.
  • Powerpuff Girls Z has also done a version of this, with the girls swapped with each other (An Aesop quickly follows).
• The Punky Brewster episode "Switchin' Places" effects this with Allen and Glomer, as Allen wants to impress a girl he meets at the beach.
• In The Real Ghostbusters episode "Slimer, Is That You?", ascetic Ghostbuster Egon and gluttonous ghost Slimer switch bodies.
• Agent K and Dick accidentally swap bodies in an episode of The Replacements. It's a rare case where the voice actors imitate each other.
• The Rick and Morty episode "The Jerrick Trap" features a botched one. Rick makes a device to swap his and Jerry's minds, making it clear there's a big difference between swapping minds and swapping brains. But after the swap, Rick in Jerry's body proceeds to immediately blow his brains out while Jerry in Rick's body bashes his head open after failing to handle Rick's cybernetic implants. Fortunately, the garage has an AI-powered drone prepared to revive Rick and Jerry, but the drone got confused by seeing chunks of brains that don't match up with the mind within, resulting in Rick and Jerry revived with pieces of their minds swapped and other pieces still in their original body.
• Robotboy:
  • Robotboy and Gus swapped when the latter got electrocuted reaching into the former's head during a tune-up.
  • Gus was swapped with a dove by minor villain Felonious Hexx for revenge on what he did in a previous episode. In this case, it's actually an improvement because the dove does Gus' schoolwork better and Gus genuinely enjoyed life as a dove.
  • Robotboy was forcibly swapped with Protoboy in one episode when the latter switched their processors while the former was out cold.
• The Robot Chicken sketch "Switchamaf**k" parodies this, as well as 13 Going on 30, Big, and Jack Frost (1998).
• One episode late in the run of Rolie Polie Olie, "Big Babies", has an accident with one of Mr. Polie's inventions resulting in Olie himself swapping bodies with his pet dog Spot and babies Coochie and Coo swapping with Mr. and Mrs. Polie.
• Rolling with the Ronks!: "Body Swap" has Flash and Mormagnon switch brains, with things eventually escalating to everyone in the Ronk tribe exchanging minds.
• Runaway Brain is about Mickey Mouse accidentally swapping brains with a Pete-like Frankenstein's monster.
• Sabrina: The Animated Series pulls this off twice:
  • In "Witch Switch", Sabrina switches lives with Gem after finding out that the latter has a free life, unlike her. As a result, Sabrina becomes part of the Stone family, and vice versa. However, she starts trying to find a way to reverse the spell after realizing how much things bother her with her new life, and not just that, but Gem is now a witch and has magical powers.
  • In "Generation Zap", Sabrina accidentally switches places with Enchantra thanks to a magical wish crystal. Luckily, it's only effective for exactly 24 hours, but Enchantra's servant Stabbenback soon finds out and plans to make the spell permanent.
• Saving Me: In the Season 2 premier "Grounded", Bennett invents a body-swapping machine to switch bodies with his friend Nira in order to sneak out of being grounded and get parts for rebuilding his Robot Buddy EDEE following the events of the previous season's finale. The machine is described as a modified version of the technology his future self uses to act as The Conscience to him, but requires Bennett to have a small tag to prevent his and Nira's minds from trying to return to their original body and getting lost as a result. Notably, Future Bennett is switched over from Bennett to Nira's body as well by the swap, due to the Mental Time Travel he's using.
• In Scary Larry, Frank kills Carl's rabbit and Simon brings him back to life using some of Frank's life energy. But he also switches their bodies and refuses to switch them back until Victoria agrees to date him.
• The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show: One of the shorts, "Who's Scooby-Doo?", has Scooby and Shaggy swapping bodies for a good deal of the short.
• It actually didn't happen in the Sealab 2021 episode "Brainswitch", but the others are convinced that Stormy and Quinn switched brains as a result of an underwater explosion because Stormy claimed that he felt smarter after it, while Quinn was stuck in a coma. After Quinn wakes up, he tries to get everything under control, but is tased and literally shackled to the mess hall by Stormy, driven insane and made to roll silverware. It's revealed it was all an experiment by Murphy and Virjay to see if they could get the two to swap roles, leaving Virjay the only competent doctor left on Sealab.
• In The Secret Saturdays a benevolent professor makes the swap himself with a Hibagon (giant, gorilla-like monster), only to have the method of swapping back destroyed in the resulting hubbub. The last we see of the Professor's elderly body is it collapsed under the rubble of his ceiling while his lab burns down, so his chances of getting back to normal even if he manages to rebuild the machine look rather slim.
• One episode of The Secret Show has the two main characters, Victor and Anita, switch minds due to an unusual mix-up with...um, 'brain chunks'.
• Shaun the Sheep episode "Cat's Got Your Brain"; the aliens switch Shaun's brain with Pidsley the cat.
• In The Simpsons episode "Holidays of Future Passed", Lenny and Carl have had their brains surgically switched because Lenny wanted to get back with his wife, who was sleeping with Carl at the time, but according to Carl she had switched brains with a monkey on a Japanese game show, and it just got weirder from there.
• In the Sonic Boom episode, "The Meteor", Sonic and Dr. Eggman both call dibs on the titular meteor and touch it at the same time, resulting in their bodies being swapped. Their voices don't switch, which makes it harder for their friends to tell them apart, however, their personalities still stand out.
• Spliced: In the episode "Whirrel Call", Entree ends up switching bodies with a whirrel (whale-squirrel) he's been abusing when the two fall off a cliff and get their brains knocked out of their bodies. The two find that they like being in each other's bodies though and show no interest in going back to normal. Ultimately, a second cliff accident gets their brains knocked out again, but their bodies are destroyed before the brains can be put back in their proper places, leaving Entree and the whirrel as talking brains.
• Star Trek: Prodigy: In "Mindwalk", Dal, with Zero's help, tries to reach out to Admiral Janeway in order to warn her about the Living Construct aboard the Protostar, but the attempt results in Dal and Janeway swapping bodies. While Janeway finally learns the truth about the Protostar, Dal is having trouble acting the part of Janeway aboard the Dauntless and eventually causes the crew to suspect that something is wrong.
• The Strange Chores: In the episode "Swap Back The Body Swap", when Helsing tasks Pierce, Charlie, and Que with placing Snorp's mind into a houseplant to hide the fact he, a monster hunter, has been keeping a pet monster from his boss, who is coming over for an inspection. Unfortunately, a misfiring on Pierce's part ends up swapping Snorp with Helsing instead. To make things worse, Snorp, who very much does not want to be hidden from Helsing's boss, destroys the body-swapping ray gun, and Pierce and Charlie end up in the bodies of a teapot and a smartphone respectively, leaving Que to try and hide the mess from the inspector while Helsing tries to figure out how to switch everyone back.
• Super Dinosaur: Happens to the title character and Derek Dynamo in the episode "Mind Over Mammal" when the pair accidentally activate a machine created by a friend of Derek's dad, a scientist working on mind-related sciences. However, because the machine was originally built to transfer human minds to robot bodies, it only goes one way, so Derek and SD have to find a way to reconfigure the machine to switch them back - and if they don't get it done in time, the switch will be permanent.
• In one episode of Sushi Pack, Wasabi and the Mayor swap brains, thanks to some sea-unicorn dust. At first both are ecstatic, since the Mayor gets to be a hero like he always wanted, and Wasabi gets to actually go through with the Mayor's campaign promises, but both soon learn that being each other is harder than they thought.
• TaleSpin has an example of the adult/child switch in the episode "A Baloo Switcheroo", with Baloo and Kit getting zapped by an ancient totem. This includes their voices, so they have to trick other people into thinking there's something wrong with their hearing. Later in the episode, Rebecca and Don Karnage do the protagonist/antagonist switch.
• Taz-Mania: Taz and Molly swap bodies in "The Outer Taz-Manian Zone".
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987):
  • In "The Old Switcheroo", During a battle against each other, Splinter and Shredder were accidentally hit with a machine that switched their bodies. Although they still had their real voices in thought, they had the voice of the body they switched with when speaking out loud, which makes the Turtles, April, Shredder's mutants and Krang clueless about the mind switch. However, due to his kind demeanor, Splinter in Shredder's body tried to hide his identity from Bebop, Rocksteady and Krang, even fooling them when a brain-scan machine was used on him by controlling his brain waves. Meanwhile, Shredder in Splinter's body made it easy for the Turtles to get suspicious as they and April decided to look for answers about his behavior, which led to a confirmation with Bebop, Rocksteady and Splinter. After dealing with Bebop and Rocksteady, the Turtles surround Splinter as he tries to tell them that he's not really Shredder but they don't believe him. However, Splinter was able to convinced the Turtles that its really him but trapped inside Shredder's body. After everything was explained, the Turtles devised a plan to get Splinter and Shredder back in their correct bodies, which they succeeded despite Bebop and Rocksteady interfering.
  • In "Raphael Drives 'Em Wild", Raphael switched with a taxi driver. An unusual one, it reverses most of the sub-tropes, in that everybody else knows that they've switched bodies, but Raphael and the taxi driver are unable to acknowledge this fact. Also, the bodies retained their muscle memories, so Raphael could no longer do ninjutsu but could drive insanely well.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Raphael switched bodies with a Kraang, and April and Casey temporarily switch bodies during a battle against the other Kraang.
• Teen Titans (2003) has an episode called "Switched" which switches Starfire and Raven. The voices switch in this version too, but the reason is apparently not due to appeasing children; Hynden Walch and Tara Strong were apparently able to duplicate one another's voices for their respective characters so well, the producers thought it would be pointless to continue having them voice one another's characters.
  • Also implements How Do I Shot Web?; Starfire's race openly display their emotions to use their powers (such as joy for flight or righteous fury for starbolts) while Raven has to suppress her emotions just to keep her powers under control. They struggle to adjust while having to stop the Puppet King, who has trapped the other Titans' souls in puppets and using the empty bodies as weapons (the souls of Starfire and Raven got switched due to interference).
• An episode of The Tick features a particularly outrageous example, with more than half a dozen characters randomly swapped... including a zebra and a creature made entirely of tongues.
  Arthur: (in disgust and horror) I can taste the floor... I can taste everything!
• Tiny Toons Looniversity: In "Spring Break," after constantly arguing while on a unplanned adventure, a solar eclipse leads to Hampton and Sweetie Bird swicthing bodies.
• The original ThunderCats (1985) episode "The Shifter" had body-swapping-related shenanigans, and the voices are switched in this version too. First Snarf and Panthro get switched, then Slithe and Jackalman, and then Lion-O and Wilykat! The best part? Vultureman (its creator) didn't even build the thing with a "reverse" option! Extra fun: The Sword of Omens requires both the right bloodline and the right mind/spirit/heart to be activated. Neither Kat-as-Lion-O nor Lion-O-as-Kat can use it. They quickly found a solution, however - both of them doing the chant while holding it together, simultaneously, worked. Monkeyine and Slithe also get switched near the end.
• The Toxic Crusaders episode "That's No Villain, That's My Mom" had Toxie's Mom switch minds with the series' main villain Dr. Killemoff.
• The Tracey McBean episode "Swap" involves Tracey accidentally transferring her sister's mind into a garbage can. Yes, a garbage can.
• Kind of done in the Transformers: Animated episode "Where Is Thy Sting?". As revenge for having him arrested as a spy and turning him into a fugitive, Wasp disguises Bumblebee as himself and vice versa. This involves switching their helmets and vocalizers (thus averting Voices Are Mental) along with their paint jobs, and since they share the same basic body mold it's as good as a body swap.
• The Transformers: Rescue Bots episode "Switcheroo" features most of the main cast getting swapped around due to particles in space from a meteor combining with a crystal on the group's ship. Exact pairs are Kade/Heatwave, Dani/Blades, Cody/Boulder (Graham was not involved in the swap at all, much to his relief), Chase/Frankie and Chief Burns/Doctor Green. Voices Are Mental is utterly averted, as the whole episode idea came from the characters' voice actors doing imitations of one another during recording sessions, so they have every aspect of each other's characters down pat.
• The True Magical Friends episode "True Switcheroo" has True and Bartleby switching bodies thanks to a magic crystal.
• In the Vampirina episode "Vampire Weekend", a moon pendant causes Vee and Poppy to switch bodies, with the former becoming a human and the latter a vampire. They enjoy it at first, but then want to change back when it's discovered that a full moon makes the effect permanent.
• WordGirl: WordGirl and Dr. Two-Brains are affected by this in the aptly named "Dr. WordGirl-Brains" using a mind exchange ray. It's a little mixed up by the fact that the mouse brain isn't affected by the mind-swap, meaning that WordGirl in Two-Brains' body becomes an evil cheese-seeker while Two-Brains in WordGirl's body doesn't feel like it anymore and takes on her heroics in the interim.
• In the Wunschpunsch episode "Mayor For A Day", the spell of the week made Bubonic and the mayor switch bodies so that Bubonic (as the mayor) could halt the production of a theme park that was to be built in the wizards' backyard. It was supposed to be temporary, but both Bubonic and the Mayor soon discovered the advantages of their new bodies (Bubonic now having total control over the city, and the mayor now being a wizard) and wanted to stay each other permanently. And unfortunately, the spell also made Maurizio and Jacob switch bodies.
• An episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt involves a machine used by Dick Dastardly to accomplish this. As a result, Yogi switches with Boo Boo, both Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber switch with each other, alongside Snagglepuss and Ranger Smith, and Quick Draw McGraw and Huckleberry Hound. Eventually, Dick Dastardly and Muttley end up switching places as well. And then at the end, Muttley swaps with GODZILLA!
• Zig & Sharko: In "Me, Myself and I", after a mishap with an electric eel, Zig and Sharko exchange minds. Zig-in-Sharko naturally tries to take advantage of it to eat Marina, while Sharko-in-Zig attempts to stop him. Being now the physical underdog, he quickly opts for aiming at reverting the switch with the electric eel; several more mind exchanges happen before the eel is too drained to keep it on, at which point they're back in their respective bodies.

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