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** Bart and Homer become truckers, replacing a truck driver that Homer literally ate to death, by which I mean challenged the trucker to an eating contest which the trucker won and then he immediately died, while Marge and Lisa deal with an annoying doorbell.

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** Bart and Homer become truckers, replacing a truck driver that Homer literally ate to death, by which I mean challenged the trucker to an won a steak eating contest which the trucker won against Homer and then he immediately died, [[DeathByGluttony died of "beef poisoning"]], while Marge and Lisa deal with an annoying doorbell.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Island]]'' [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this with the "Brunch Of Disgustingness", [[BreatherEpisode a non-elimination challenge]] pitting the remaining 10 campers (conveniently with a 50/50 male/female split) in an EatThat competition. Despite formerly being from opposing teams, the guys get along pretty well, but the girls experience a lot of preexisting friction between Heather and Lindsay vs. Gwen and Leshawna, and Bridgette (the only one who wasn't in their team and thus had no prior stake in the matter) [[NeutralNoLonger is forced to choose her alliance]] -- she ends up picking the latter, [[TheHeart but tries her best to keep the girls working together]] ([[spoiler:though unfortunately for her, the boys win the challenge]]).

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* Happened in the episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' when the boys went to Canada (including Leo) while Jackie convinced Donna to come with her to a modelling try-out.

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* Happened in the episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' when the boys went to Canada (including Leo) while Jackie convinced Donna to come with her to a modelling try-out. Also, in an another, Red and Bob hunted the deer with the boys while Kitty and Midge stayed at home with the girls and played poker.
* ''Modern Family'' had this in The Wild where the male cast hunted the eagle and finally confessed about their fears to each other while Haley and Alex helped Gloria and Claire with a pizza delivery man.
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* ''Series/TheMick'':
** The episode "The Bully" has a plot line where Jimmy takes Ben and Chip to the dentist, which leads to him doing some DIYDentistry to avoid having to pay the dentist. The episode's other subplot involved Mickey and Alba helping Sabrina get back at a girl who leaked her journal online.
** The episode "The Implant" has Jimmy taking Ben and Chip to see a ballgame. The other plot is Mickey trying to convince Sabrina not to get breast implants.

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* In an episode of WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo, Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg are having a boys' night out, so Starfire decides to rope Raven and Jynx (who she has to break out of prison) into a girls' night out. The boys do things like eat fries and try on hats, while the girls bring bumper cars to life and lead a high speed chase. Each side thinks their night was better.

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* In an episode of WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg are having a boys' night out, so Starfire decides to rope Raven and Jynx (who she has to break out of prison) into a girls' night out. The boys do things like eat fries and try on hats, while the girls bring bumper cars to life and lead a high speed chase. Each side thinks their night was better.


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* In the ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn'' episode "Bachelorette," [[VillainousHarlequin Harley]] surprises [[GreenThumb Poison Ivy]] with a bachelorette party on Themyscira, home of ComicBook/WonderWoman where [[LadyLand no man may enter.]] Since Ivy doesn't have many friends, Harley invites Catwoman, Nora Fries (Mr. Freeze's wife), and a childhood friend of Ivy's named Jennifer to come too, and the women end up foiling a plot by Lex Luthor and Eris to steal the island. It also leads to Harley and Ivy getting drunk and [[ClosetKey having sex for the first time]], causing all manner of issues--not the least of which is that Ivy is engaged to Kite Man. Speaking of Kite Man, the B-plot of the episode has him, King Shark, Clayface, and Ivy's talking plant Frank having a bachelor party of their own, with King Shark having to deal with an ArrangedMarriage.
* As ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has added more female characters to the show, this type of episode has become more common, but they're still quite rare.
** In "Marjorine," Cartman convinces the other guys that the girls have found a way to see the future with untold PsychicPowers. The girls are actually just using a paper fortune teller (or cootie catcher) for fun, but the boys insist on creating a ZanyScheme to steal the fortune teller for themselves by faking Butters's death and then having him infiltrate a slumber party as "Marjorine," the new girl in school.
** In "Board Girls," some of the guys at school form a club, "Dice Studz," for tabletop gaming. A few of the girls want to join and prove that they're extremely good at all manner of games, leaving the boys feeling desperate. [[HeManWomanHater Cartman]] leads a push for Congress to make Dice Studz just for boys again, only for the plan to [[GoneHorriblyRight backfire horribly]] when the girls simply [[StartMyOwn start their own club]] that proves much more popular--and Cartman can't join because of his own requests to Congress.
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** In the penultimate season, Bernadette and Penny plan a ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrarie''-themed bachelorette party for Amy. Due to her own CharacterDevelopment, she finds it uninspired, so they take her to a bar instead...and Amy ends up [[CantHoldHisLiquor passing out after one shot of vodka.]]

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** In the penultimate season, Bernadette and Penny plan a ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrarie''-themed ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie''-themed bachelorette party for Amy. Due to her own CharacterDevelopment, she finds it uninspired, so they take her to a bar instead...and Amy ends up [[CantHoldHisLiquor passing out after one shot of vodka.]]

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* Happens often in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. One in particular the girls go to Vegas; another the boys go to Mexico. [[/folder]]

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* Happens often On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Penny spent the first four seasons as the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only woman]] in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. the main cast, but once Howard's girlfriend/wife [[CuteButCacophonic Bernadette]] and Sheldon's girlfriend/wife [[IncrediblyLameFun Amy]] joined the group, the show leaned heavily into this trope.
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One in particular early episode with the full ensemble sees the guys planning on attending a screening of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''. Amy originally plans to join them, but upon hearing that Bernadette and Penny are planning a girl's night, she decides to do that instead. It eventually becomes her first-ever slumber party.
** In "The Bakersfield Expedition," the guys head to a comic book convention in full ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gear. Amy, Penny, and Bernadette, who don't understand why they're so into comics, decide to get a few issues for themselves to see what all the fuss is about--and end up [[NotSoAboveItAll getting into a nerdy argument]] about ComicBook/{{Thor}}.
** Two separate episodes saw Raj and Sheldon tagging along on the women's "girls' night out." In the first, Amy becomes upset when she finds out that Raj had crushes on Penny and Bernadette, but not her; in the second, Sheldon reveals that he's a [[HiddenDepths skilled dancer]] thanks to cotillion training in his youth, and the women insist on dragging him to a ballroom dancing group to show off.
** In one episode, the guys are invited to give a lecture to a group of preteen
girls about the importance of women in science. Penny, Bernadette, and Amy go to Vegas; another Disneyland for the boys go day instead and get princess makeovers, leading to Mexico. some HypocriticalHeartwarming when Sheldon calls Bernadette and Amy (both scientists themselves) to offer some genuine insight to the preteens; they offer advice about focusing on academics instead of appearances while dressed in extremely "girly" outfits.
** One later episode meant to showcase Penny's CharacterDevelopment sees the women going to Vegas for a weekend that coincides with Penny taking a test to get a promotion at work. Originally, Penny was the HardDrinkingPartyGirl of the group, but she stays focused and responsible by studying while Bernadette and Amy proceed to get wasted.
** In the penultimate season, Bernadette and Penny plan a ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrarie''-themed bachelorette party for Amy. Due to her own CharacterDevelopment, she finds it uninspired, so they take her to a bar instead...and Amy ends up [[CantHoldHisLiquor passing out after one shot of vodka.]]

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* Happens often in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory''. One in particular the girls go to Vegas; another the boys go to Mexico. [[/folder]]

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* The ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' episode "Hell Yeah, This Totally Rocks!" has the girls trick Riki into coming to their sleepover and dress him in the girl's school uniform. When the other guys find out he has been "kidnapped", they spend the night playing games to decide who will be the one to rescue him.



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* The ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' episode "Hell Yeah, This Totally Rocks!" has the girls trick Riki into coming to their sleepover and dress him in the girl's school uniform. When the other guys find out he has been "kidnapped", they spend the night playing games to decide who will be the one to rescue him.
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Felt redundant to say "This is similar to Girls Night Out Episode" twice back to back so I consolidated them


Similar to GirlsNightOutEpisode, only:

This Trope is more like an expanded version of GirlsNightOutEpisode because

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Similar This Trope is similar to GirlsNightOutEpisode, only:

This Trope is more like an expanded version of GirlsNightOutEpisode because
with some expansions:
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* ''Series/FamilyTies'' has an episode were Elyse takes Mallory and Jennifer away to a cabin for a mother-daughter weekend. Michael stays home with Alex and Andy and attempts some male bonding. [[HilarityEnsues Neither weekend goes well.]]

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* ''Series/FamilyTies'' has an episode were Elyse takes Mallory and Jennifer away to a cabin for a mother-daughter weekend. Michael Steven stays home with Alex and Andy and attempts some male bonding. [[HilarityEnsues Neither weekend goes well.]]
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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' split the genders over two different episodes, called "The Girls' Night Out Job" and "The Boys' Night Out Job".

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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' split had the genders over two different episodes, called episodes "The Girls' Night Out Job" and "The Boys' Night Out Job".Job", which took place on the same night. Each one showed one half of the teams night in full, while providing extremely strange, out-of-context glimpses of the other.
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* Most episodes of ''Series/KirbyBuckets'' featured Kirby, Fish, and Eli in the A-Plot and Dawn and Belinda in the B-plot.
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* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' had the one where John & Derek go to a military school to protect Martin Bledell while Sarah & Cameron stay behind to protect a child also name Martin Bledell.

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* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' had the one where John & and Derek go to a military school to protect Martin Bledell while Sarah & and Cameron stay behind to protect a child also name named Martin Bledell.
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* ''Series/USAHigh'' has one where the boys go camping with Mr Elliot, which the girls organised so they can have a girls' night (which Miss Dupree joins in with).
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Common setups for this include the MachoDisasterExpedition and ADayInHerApron. See TwoLinesNoWaiting for other kinds of A- and B-plots.

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Common setups for this include the MachoDisasterExpedition MachoDisasterExpedition, ADayInHerApron and ADayInHerApron.a GirlsVsBoysPlot. See TwoLinesNoWaiting for other kinds of A- and B-plots.
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[[caption-width-right:350:In this episode, the men attend a bachelor party while the women attend a bachelorette party.]]
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** This is actually pretty common in episodes where Austin is absent. Another episode, "The Snow Fort", has Pablo and Tyrone as Mounties guarding a gigantic snowball and Uniqua and Tasha as ski patrollers who help anyone who needs it. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The girls think someone in the fort needs to be rescued]], but when they come to the fort, the boys think they want to steal the snowball, so they turn on their booby traps and cause a lot of SlapstickKnowsNoGender. It's not until the end of the episode that both sides see the situation from the other side.
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* The ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' episode "Two Parties" separates the cast by sex for the most part. Justified, since Chris and Ann are throwing Ben's and Leslie's respective bachelor/ette parties. Chris brings Ben, Jerry, Andy, Tom, and Ron along on a bunch of group activities subbing in for the bachelor parties they never got to have, while Ann's party for Leslie (bringing along April and Donna) is quickly derailed by a gambit Leslie pulled earlier and needs to undo.
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* "The Quest for the Flying Rock", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', does this, pairing up Pablo and Tyrone, and Uniqua and Tasha. Both parties are searching for the titular rock, but they do so in completely different ways.
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** Bart and Homer become truckers, replacing a truck driver that Homer literally ate to death, while Marge and Lisa deal with an annoying doorbell.

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** Bart and Homer become truckers, replacing a truck driver that Homer literally ate to death, by which I mean challenged the trucker to an eating contest which the trucker won and then he immediately died, while Marge and Lisa deal with an annoying doorbell.
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* Sort of subverted in ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s "Paranoia." the ensemble splits between Rosa's bachelorette party and Adrian's stag party. It ''would'' be a perfect example of this trope, except Charles is at the bachelorette party, due to being one of Rosa's closest friends, enough that she asked him to be her "man of honor." On the other hand, Charles is rather InTouchWithHisFeminineSide.

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* An epsiode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' has Mickey allowing Minnie to host a "ladies night" at the club while he, Donald, and Goofy take the night off and go bowling.

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* An epsiode episode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' has Mickey allowing Minnie to host a "ladies night" at the club while he, Donald, and Goofy take the night off and go bowling.bowling.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Episode 60 has the boys and the girls split up and go to different places. {{Subverted| Trope}} since Stumpy winds up ditching the other guys, [[DisguisedInDrag disguising himself as a girl]] and joining the girls.
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* ''Series/FamilyTies'' has an episode were Elyse takes Mallory and Jennifer away to a cabin for a mother-daughter weekend. Michael stays home with Alex and Andy and attempts some male bonding. [[HilarityEnsures Neither weekend goes well.]]

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* ''Series/FamilyTies'' has an episode were Elyse takes Mallory and Jennifer away to a cabin for a mother-daughter weekend. Michael stays home with Alex and Andy and attempts some male bonding. [[HilarityEnsures [[HilarityEnsues Neither weekend goes well.]]
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* ''Series/FamilyTies'' has an episode were Elyse takes Mallory and Jennifer away to a cabin for a mother-daughter weekend. Michael stays home with Alex and Andy and attempts some male bonding. [[HilarityEnsures Neither weekend goes well.]]
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* An epsiode of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' has Mickey allowing Minnie to host a "ladies night" at the club while he, Donald, and Goofy take the night off and go bowling.
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* This happened in most of the second season of ''TheGuild'', with Zaboo moving into Vork's house and discussing girl troubles with Bladezz, while Clara and Tink took it upon themselves to help Codex with her love life.

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* This happened in most of the second season of ''TheGuild'', ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', with Zaboo moving into Vork's house and discussing girl troubles with Bladezz, while Clara and Tink took it upon themselves to help Codex with her love life.

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* The ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' episode "Hell Yeah, This Totally Rocks!" has the girls trick Riki into coming to their sleepover and dress him in the girl's school uniform. When the other guys find out he has been "kidnapped", they spend the night playing games to decide who will be the one to rescue him.



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* The ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' episode "Hell Yeah, This Totally Rocks!" has the girls trick Riki into coming to their sleepover and dress him in the girl's school uniform. When the other guys find out he has been "kidnapped", they spend the night playing games to decide who will be the one to rescue him.
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* This happened in most of the second season of ''TheGuild'', with Zaboo moving into Vork's house and discussing girl troubles with Bladezz, while Clara and Tink took it upon themselves to help Codex with her love life.
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* This happened in most of the second season of ''TheGuild'', with Zaboo moving into Vork's house and discussing girl troubles with Bladezz, while Clara and Tink took it upon themselves to help Codex with her love life.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinotrux}}'' episode "Battering Ram" has the girls Skya and Ace investigating what happened to a device Ace has built while the guys look into breaking open a rock of junk to see what's inside.
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* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': "Friday the 13th 1901" has two plots: Julia and Emily go to an island with several women friends for a weekend "hen party" (a bachelorette party) for one of the friends, while the men of Station 4 get involved in a curling match on a bet. Brackenreid urges Murdoch to get involved in a effort to remedy the detective's depression over [[spoiler: Julia's rejection of his marriage proposal]], and true to form, Murdoch studies the game and invents a sliding shoe for the team. Meanwhile, the doctors' enjoyment of food, alcohol, tobacco and camaraderie are rudely interrupted by an axe murderer.

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* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': "Friday the 13th 1901" has two plots: Julia and Emily go to an island with several women friends for a weekend "hen party" (a bachelorette party) for one of the friends, while the men guys of Station 4 get involved play in a curling match on a bet. Brackenreid urges Murdoch to get involved in a effort to remedy the detective's depression over [[spoiler: Julia's rejection of his marriage proposal]], and true to form, Murdoch studies the game and invents a sliding shoe for the team. Meanwhile, the doctors' enjoyment of food, alcohol, tobacco and camaraderie are rudely interrupted by an axe murderer.
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* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': "Friday the 13th 1901" has two plots: Julia and Emily go to an island with several women friends for a weekend "hen party" (a bachelorette party) for one of the friends, while the men of Station 4 get involved in a curling match on a bet. Brackenreid urges Murdoch to get involved in a effort to remedy the detective's depression over [[spoiler: Julia's rejection of his marriage proposal]], and true to form, Murdoch studies the game and invents a sliding shoe for the team. Meanwhile, the doctors' enjoyment of food, alcohol, tobacco and camaraderie are rudely interrupted by an axe murderer.

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