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** In a first season episode, Bart switches his and Martin Prince's names on a school aptitude test, so now everyone thinks Bart is a genius who should go to a special school.

** In "Stealing First Base", Lisa gets an F on her test, which [[HeroicBSOD puts her into a depression]]. It is later revealed that the test with the F was [[TheDitz Ralph's]], and that Ralph signed Lisa's name on his paper.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", Angelica [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes a broken leg]] ([[SpoiledBrat to force her aunt and uncle to look after her like her own parents normally do]]). She succeeds when a young doctor gets "Pickles" mixed up with "Peaches" and looks at the wrong x-ray. At the end of the episode, the mix-up is reversed, and [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] comes back to bite Angelica when her mother, Charlotte, breaks her leg following a rafting trip, and Angelica and Drew are stuck waiting on her hand and foot just as Angelica made Stu and Didi do for her earlier.

This is rarely done unless the two people's records are very dissimilar from one another, i.e., a spendaholic's financial records getting mixed up with those of TheScrooge or a bookworm's grades having the class clown's name put on it. Hilarity or drama may ensue, depending on the situation, but the story almost always ends with the mix-up being resolved.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", Angelica [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes a broken leg]] ([[SpoiledBrat to force her aunt and uncle to look after her like her own parents normally do]]). She succeeds when a young doctor gets "Pickles" mixed up with "Peaches" and looks at the wrong x-ray. At the end of the episode, the mix-up is reversed and [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] comes back to bite Angelica when her mother, Charlotte, breaks her leg following a rafting trip, and she's stuck waiting on her hand and foot. as what Stu and Didi did for her earlier, along with Drew.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", Angelica [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes a broken leg]] ([[SpoiledBrat to force her aunt and uncle to look after her like her own parents normally do]]). She succeeds when a young doctor gets "Pickles" mixed up with "Peaches" and looks at the wrong x-ray. At the end of the episode, the mix-up is reversed and [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] comes back to bite Angelica when her mother, Charlotte, breaks her leg following a rafting trip, and she's stuck doing what Stu and Didi did for her along with Drew.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", Angelica [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes a broken leg]] ([[SpoiledBrat to force her aunt and uncle to look after her like her own parents normally do]]). She succeeds when a young doctor gets "Pickles" mixed up with "Peaches" and looks at the wrong x-ray. At the end of the episode, the mix-up is reversed and [[LaserGuidedKarma karma]] comes back to bite Angelica when Charlotte breaks her leg.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", Angelica [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes a broken leg]] ([[SpoiledBrat to force her aunt and uncle to look after her like her own parents normally do]]). She succeeds when a young doctor gets "Pickles" mixed up with "Peaches" and looks at the wrong x-ray.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS3E7WhenWishesComeTrueAngelicaBreaksALeg Angelica Breaks a Leg]]", Angelica [[ObfuscatingDisability fakes a broken leg]] ([[SpoiledBrat to force her aunt and uncle to look after her like her own parents normally do]]). She succeeds when a young doctor gets "Pickles" mixed up with "Peaches" and looks at the wrong x-ray.

* In the short, "Plucky's Dastardly Deed" from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E47SonOfLooniversityDaze Son of Looniversity Daze]]", Plucky forgets to study for a test and decides to swap his test with that of Egghead Jr., the smartest kid in class. He later feels guilty about doing it and decides to confess it to Foghorn. Before he can though, Foghorn reveals that he accidentally dropped all the test papers in a mud puddle, and because this happened before he could look at them, the students have to retake the test, which Plucky decides to do the honest way.
* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': In "Sky-Hi I.Q.," the General sends an efficiency expert to evaluate the Vulture Squadron. The expert deems Muttley the only squadron member to be a competent pilot and makes him the squadron's new leader. He eventually finds out he mixed up Muttley's test with Dick Dastardly's.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "The Aptitude Test", the student of Mr. Simmons' class are assigned to take the eponymous test. When Eugene is asked to collect the test folders, he drops them, causing the tests to scatter everywhere. Harold and Helga's tests end up getting switched when Eugene tries to clean them up, resulting in Harold receiving the highest score and Helga receiving the lowest.

* In an old ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story from 1943, called "Robin Studies His Lessons," after [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Dick Grayson]] brings home a bad report card, he's kept off-duty until his grades improve. But when Batman gets captured by a group of criminals and Robin saves him using scientific know-how, Batman realizes that Dick's knowledge for someone who's supposedly failing school. After talking to Dick's school principal, it turns out that Dick's report card had gotten mixed up with another student while Dick's actual report card is flawless.

* In "Alex Gets Schooled" (a Season-4 episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''), Alex's parents have her transferred to a boarding school in England after she had gotten straight-F's on her report card. But at the end of the episode, after Alex is rescued by Sam and Clover, it later turns out that there was a mix-up among some of the report cards at the spies' high school, and that Alex's actual report card had A's and B's--and later on, it turns out that the report card with straight-F's actually belonged to the spies' nemesis, Mandy, who ends up being grounded by her mother for getting such poor grades.

* Pets and children have been summoned for jury duty, usually a result of the system picking up a record of a new "person" from paperwork filled out by owners and parents, without checking that the new record ''is'' a person or is an adult. Proving that the summoned "juror" is actually your kid or cat is easy, but [[HilarityEnsues a great story to tell]].

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* In a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''Franchise/GreenArrow'' story, GA takes a bad fall and has his chest X-rayed (without removing his mask.) The doctor calls on the Arrowline to tell him that there's an inoperable tumor and he has at most a few days to live. Halfway through the story, the doctor calls back—he mixed up Green Arrow's X-rays with those of millionaire playboy Oliver Queen! [[spoiler: Turns out Ollie had spilled some mildly radioactive material on himself that fouled the x-ray film.]]