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* In ''WebOriginal/EdeValley'', this is what jumps-starts Cindy's character development. The one bad grade she got leads to her [[spoiler:accidentally killing her chemistry teacher and becoming a witch.]]

'''Bart:''' I don't want to alarm you, but grade point average 3.999999999--\\

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', "Olga Comes Home", [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this plot]] by having [[GenreSavvy Helga]] forge her titular big sister's report card, so that she ''thinks'' she got a B+. Which causes Olga to go catatonic and stay in her room crying until Helga breaks down and tells her she did get an A. Also deconstructed with the implication that Olga's reaction is due to their parents, especially their father, going overboard on playing the [[EducationMama Education Parent]] when Olga was growing up, despite their reassurance during the episode proper.

** Honor roll student Thomas Kim (who turned out to be the Hulk-like MonsterOfTheWeek) got a 99% on a test and immediately complained that the teacher got his grade wrong, later attacking the teacher in the parking lot and transforming in the process. As Virgil and Richie later find out, the source of this attitude comes from [[EducationPapa his father's high expectations]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Meilin Lee starts out as an overachiever, and is shown handing over several "A+" and "100%" test papers to her mother in the beginning. After she gains the ability to transform to a red panda and starts focusing her energy on earning money for concert tickets, however, she implicitly begins to neglect her studies; the scene where Ming discovers the stash under Mei's bed shows two test papers with a "B+" and a "C-" in them.[[note]]This is even more significant when you know that in Canada, the grading system is looser and a 75 is good enough for a B.[[/note]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' episode #[=TheMinus=], Diana gets an A- and spends the majority of the episode sulking over it and over correcting and scheduling events in her life so she can never get an A- again, which leads to the other girls taking the list and trying to convince her it’s ok to not be perfect all the time.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' gently mocks his daughter who is studying for an exam on ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'': "Ironically, you will be ashamed if you ''don't'' get a big red A."

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Meilin Lee starts out as an overachiever, and is shown handing over her "A+" test results to her mother in the beginning. After she gains the ability to transform to red panda and acts out, however, she implicitly begins to neglect her studies; a FreezeFrameBonus in the scene where Ming discovers the stash under Meilin's bed shows two test papers with a "B+" and a "C-" in them.

** In the episode "A Hole In The World": [[spoiler:as she is dying,]] Fred deliriously cries out "I sinned. I've sinned, and I'm being punished. I don't know what's wrong. I never got a B- before."
** Fred is also a bit taken aback in "Supersymetry" that her professor had given her an A- on her last paper. Granted, she didn't dwell on it too much.

* ''WesternAnimation/FiftyFiftyHeroes'': When Sam gets a B+ on a test, she's devastated that her average will go down to an A-.

* In real-life cases of this, this can be a sign of TigerMom-variety child abuse -- the child's FreakOut is entirely justified knowing that they ''actually will'' be punished physically or emotionally over an unacceptable failure to be perfect.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' offers something of an inversion - during his time under the influence of the Dark Seed, Ken Ichijouji was an excellent student who regularly topped his class in tests. After undergoing a HeelFaceTurn, his test results drop somewhat, and while he himself is quite shocked if aware of what's going on, his classmates are thorougly confused and concerned.

* Played straight in the comedy ''Literature/{{Choke}}''. [[spoiler: The pretty young "doctor" at Vic's mother's mental institution is actually a patient: a medical student who suffered a nervous breakdown after receiving her first B.]]

* Parodied in the British-Indian sketch comedy show ''Radio/GoodnessGraciousMe'', in which a father rants about his son getting a B in A-Level Classical Studies despite having the grades to do medicine at Cambridge; he then rants that his son should be getting a [=PhD=] and doing his undergraduate degree in his spare time, but his son cannot because his spare time is taken up playing soccer for the Milwall first team. The father then becomes incensed that his son isn't playing for Liverpool. [[spoiler: His son is six years old]].

* In the ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' episode, "Cody’s Report Card!", Cody gets a B+ in spelling, and is worried his parents will disown him when they find out. [[spoiler: Cody's friends tried to change the grade and try to lie to his family; however, Cody confess. Cody's parents tell him that they weren't upset about the B, they were upset that he lied and they don't love him anymore because of his lies. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that the B+ was a typo, and that Cody actually got all A+’s on his report card.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': During a parent-teacher conference, Miles' parents are initially happy by his numerous "A"s in Physics, Art, and English, but get upset by a "B" in Spanish (particularly because his mother is a Puerto Rican and a native speaker). They get even more angry when they hear it's because he skipped several classes ([[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld since he was out protecting the city as Spider-Man]], not that he could tell them that).