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* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''. In "Alex gets Schooled", the whole episode happened as the school accidentally mixed-up Alex's grades with Mandy that forced Alex into an OffToBoardingSchool plot. Thankfully, they were resolved at the end of the episode and Alex was allowed to stay with Sam and Clover.
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* "WesternAnimation/NightmareNed": One episode had Ned get his report card and see he failed everything. Worried about getting into trouble, he hides the card, until a nightmare guilts him into showing it to his parents in the middle of the night. His father's only response is to ask why Ned is showing him another kid's report card, revealing that the teacher mixed up the cards.
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* "WesternAnimation/NightmareNed": ''WesternAnimation/NightmareNed'': One episode had Ned get his report card and see he failed everything. Worried about getting into trouble, he hides the card, until a nightmare guilts him into showing it to his parents in the middle of the night. His father's only response is to ask why Ned is showing him another kid's report card, revealing that the teacher mixed up the cards.
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* "WesternAnimation/NightmareNed": One episode had Ned get his report card and see he failed everything. Worried about getting into trouble, he hides the card, until a nightmare guilts him into showing it to his parents in the middle of the night. His father's only response is to ask why Ned is showing him another kid's report card, revealing that the teacher mixed up the cards.
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Another day at school, another paper being handed back. LovableNerd Alice passes an idle boast to her BookDumb brother, Bob, confident in her performance. But what's this? She's received a horrible grade! No mere [[TheBGrade slip into a B]], Alice has failed the project! And what's worse, Bob has passed with flying colors. What's going on?
Alice and Bob have found themselves in the middle of the Grade-Swap Catastophe, a stock plot common to [[{{Sitcom}} sitcoms]] wherein a BookSmart character and a less-academically-inclined character's grades are subject to some kind of FileMixup.
Alice and Bob have found themselves in the middle of the Grade-Swap Catastophe, a stock plot common to [[{{Sitcom}} sitcoms]] wherein a BookSmart character and a less-academically-inclined character's grades are subject to some kind of FileMixup.
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Another day at school, another paper being handed back. LovableNerd Alice passes an idle boast to her BookDumb brother, brother Bob, confident in her performance. But what's this? She's received a horrible grade! No mere [[TheBGrade slip into a B]], Alice has failed the project! And what's worse, Bob has passed with flying colors. What's going on?
Alice and Bob have found themselves in the middle of the Grade-SwapCatastophe, Catastrophe, a stock plot common to [[{{Sitcom}} sitcoms]] wherein a BookSmart character and a less-academically-inclined character's grades are subject to some kind of FileMixup.
Alice and Bob have found themselves in the middle of the Grade-Swap
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* {{Invoked}} in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': During a test, Harima notices that Tenma hasn't put her name on her paper, and if she turns it in that way, it will receive an automatic fail because the test cannot be attributed to her. But if he reveals he's been looking at Tenma's paper, he could be accused of cheating. He opts to erase his own name from his paper and write's Tenma's, taking the fail for himself. Unfortunately for Tenma, Harima is BookDumb, and the test he turned in on her behalf was no better than if she hadn't turned it in at all.
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* {{Invoked}} in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': During a test, Harima notices that Tenma hasn't put her name on her paper, and if she turns it in that way, it will receive an automatic fail because the test cannot be attributed to her. But if he reveals he's been looking at Tenma's paper, he could be accused of cheating. He opts to erase his own name from his paper and write's write Tenma's, taking the fail for himself. Unfortunately for Tenma, Harima is BookDumb, and the test he turned in on her behalf was no better than if she hadn't turned it in at all.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' features this as a subplot, as the much-maligned Charlie Brown gets a taste of popularity due to his perceived intelligence. This proves to be short-lived, as he quickly finds out that the A grade belongs [[spoiler: to Peppermint Patty, who got it seemingly by accident by [[ScantronPicture bubbling in her test to draw a smiley-face.]]]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Aptitude Test", Mr. Simmons' class takes a career aptitude test. However, thanks to Eugene's clumsiness, Helga and Harold's exams get mixed up, resulting in Helga mistakenly believing she's only suited to be a low-skill woods-person and Harold believing he's a potential genius.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Aptitude Test", Mr. Simmons' class takes a career aptitude test. However, thanks to Eugene's clumsiness, Helga and Harold's exams get mixed up, resulting in Helga mistakenly believing she's only suited to be a low-skill woods-person woodsperson and Harold believing he's a potential genius.
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Occasionally subverted when the characters discover that there was no mixup, and the grades were correctly attributed. Might lead to an HonestyAesop.
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Occasionally subverted {{subverted|Trope}} when the characters discover that there was no mixup, and the grades were correctly attributed. Might Which might lead to an HonestyAesop.
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Another day at school, another paper being handed back. LovableNerd Alice passes an idle boast to her BookDumb brother, Bob, confident in her performance. But what's this? She's received a horrible grade! No mere [[TheBGrade slip into a B]], Alice has failed the project! And what's worse, Bob has passed with flying colors. What's going on?
Alice and Bob have found themselves in the middle of the Grade-Swap Catastophe, a stock plot common to [[{{Sitcom}} sitcoms]] wherein a BookSmart character and a less-academically-inclined character's grades are subject to some kind of FileMixup.
Though typically applied to the BullyAndWimpPairing, this plot can happen to any two characters, so long as one character gets a high grade they do not deserve.
Frequently, this plot is used as background for AVerySpecialEpisode about expectations. Suddenly, the typical poor performer is doing well, because all he ever needed was to be believed in, and the straight-A student is falling behind because no one trusts them to do well anymore. Maybe Alice even [[PersonalitySwap starts to take on Bob's mannerisms]], and Bob takes on hers.
Often when Alice has a history of [[DeadpanSnarker belittling Bob's intelligence]], Bob will hurl his own insults and smug comments back at her, and Alice is [[JawDrop too taken aback]] to respond with her usual wit.
When played straight in an actual sitcom, there is typically a moment at the end where the mixup is discovered and rectified. After this happens, [[StatusQuoIsGod the characters return to normal]], having learned nothing about understanding circumstance and potential by next week.
Can often mean an IdiotPlot if the grade in question belongs to a handwritten paper, a diorama, or other project that ought to be easily distinguished by the characters who spent hours working on them.
Occasionally subverted when the characters discover that there was no mixup, and the grades were correctly attributed. Might lead to an HonestyAesop.
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* {{Invoked}} in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': During a test, Harima notices that Tenma hasn't put her name on her paper, and if she turns it in that way, it will receive an automatic fail because the test cannot be attributed to her. But if he reveals he's been looking at Tenma's paper, he could be accused of cheating. He opts to erase his own name from his paper and write's Tenma's, taking the fail for himself. Unfortunately for Tenma, Harima is BookDumb, and the test he turned in on her behalf was no better than if she hadn't turned it in at all.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' features this as a subplot, as the much-maligned Charlie Brown gets a taste of popularity due to his perceived intelligence. This proves to be short-lived, as he quickly finds out that the A grade belongs [[spoiler: to Peppermint Patty, who got it seemingly by accident by [[ScantronPicture bubbling in her test to draw a smiley-face.]]]]
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* {{Invoked}} in ''Film/TheFlintstones'': Barney willingly switches his aptitude test for becoming a vice-president with Fred's out of friendship and seeing [[IdiotHero Fred]] distraught. He keeps it a secret until Fred's stupid management and the BigBad's scheme to defraud Slate Co. (with Fred as the FallGuy) [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure get Barney fired as collateral damage]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Aptitude Test", Mr. Simmons' class takes a career aptitude test. However, thanks to Eugene's clumsiness, Helga and Harold's exams get mixed up, resulting in Helga mistakenly believing she's only suited to be a low-skill woods-person and Harold believing he's a potential genius.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' episode "Elroy's Mob", Elroy's classmate Kenny Countdown switched their report tapes to make it look like Elroy got bad grades. The Jetsons didn't believe Elroy and George sent him to his room, but they discovered the truth when Kenny was caught by his dad, who called George to tell him what happened.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Bart the Genius", Bart switched his intelligence test with Martin Prince's and ended up transferred to a school for genius kids. However, his new classmates shunned him when they realized he wasn't smart and his old friends wanted nothing to do with him because they thought he was a nerd. Bart eventually confessed at the end and returned to Springfield Elementary.
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Alice and Bob have found themselves in the middle of the Grade-Swap Catastophe, a stock plot common to [[{{Sitcom}} sitcoms]] wherein a BookSmart character and a less-academically-inclined character's grades are subject to some kind of FileMixup.
Though typically applied to the BullyAndWimpPairing, this plot can happen to any two characters, so long as one character gets a high grade they do not deserve.
Frequently, this plot is used as background for AVerySpecialEpisode about expectations. Suddenly, the typical poor performer is doing well, because all he ever needed was to be believed in, and the straight-A student is falling behind because no one trusts them to do well anymore. Maybe Alice even [[PersonalitySwap starts to take on Bob's mannerisms]], and Bob takes on hers.
Often when Alice has a history of [[DeadpanSnarker belittling Bob's intelligence]], Bob will hurl his own insults and smug comments back at her, and Alice is [[JawDrop too taken aback]] to respond with her usual wit.
When played straight in an actual sitcom, there is typically a moment at the end where the mixup is discovered and rectified. After this happens, [[StatusQuoIsGod the characters return to normal]], having learned nothing about understanding circumstance and potential by next week.
Can often mean an IdiotPlot if the grade in question belongs to a handwritten paper, a diorama, or other project that ought to be easily distinguished by the characters who spent hours working on them.
Occasionally subverted when the characters discover that there was no mixup, and the grades were correctly attributed. Might lead to an HonestyAesop.
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* {{Invoked}} in ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': During a test, Harima notices that Tenma hasn't put her name on her paper, and if she turns it in that way, it will receive an automatic fail because the test cannot be attributed to her. But if he reveals he's been looking at Tenma's paper, he could be accused of cheating. He opts to erase his own name from his paper and write's Tenma's, taking the fail for himself. Unfortunately for Tenma, Harima is BookDumb, and the test he turned in on her behalf was no better than if she hadn't turned it in at all.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' features this as a subplot, as the much-maligned Charlie Brown gets a taste of popularity due to his perceived intelligence. This proves to be short-lived, as he quickly finds out that the A grade belongs [[spoiler: to Peppermint Patty, who got it seemingly by accident by [[ScantronPicture bubbling in her test to draw a smiley-face.]]]]
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* {{Invoked}} in ''Film/TheFlintstones'': Barney willingly switches his aptitude test for becoming a vice-president with Fred's out of friendship and seeing [[IdiotHero Fred]] distraught. He keeps it a secret until Fred's stupid management and the BigBad's scheme to defraud Slate Co. (with Fred as the FallGuy) [[PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure get Barney fired as collateral damage]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': In "Aptitude Test", Mr. Simmons' class takes a career aptitude test. However, thanks to Eugene's clumsiness, Helga and Harold's exams get mixed up, resulting in Helga mistakenly believing she's only suited to be a low-skill woods-person and Harold believing he's a potential genius.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' episode "Elroy's Mob", Elroy's classmate Kenny Countdown switched their report tapes to make it look like Elroy got bad grades. The Jetsons didn't believe Elroy and George sent him to his room, but they discovered the truth when Kenny was caught by his dad, who called George to tell him what happened.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Bart the Genius", Bart switched his intelligence test with Martin Prince's and ended up transferred to a school for genius kids. However, his new classmates shunned him when they realized he wasn't smart and his old friends wanted nothing to do with him because they thought he was a nerd. Bart eventually confessed at the end and returned to Springfield Elementary.
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