Partially inspired by Trope Title Shows, this is a JFF index for trope names that could form the basis of whole episodes of your favorite shows. For a template, we will attempt to populate a conceptual fanfic for a sibling team of third generation Super Sentai, filling the general episode structure of one, or feel free to assign trope named episodes to existing shows (preferably with its place between episodes in continuity).
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Anime
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
- Chance Meeting Between Antagonists: Catarina is on another outing with her friends, only to run into an Alpha Bitch and her crew who she remembers as the antagonists of the Fortune Lover DLC.
- Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: One of the foreign countries invade Melromarc with the intent of taking the Four Cardinal heroes for themselves.
- Saw Blades of Death: An Evil Weapon and its wielder is literally carving up the land of Melromarc. The Queen sends the Cardinal Heroes to stop him in exchange for a bounty. It's revealed that the weapon is a Cardinal Weapon (The Cardinal Tool) from another world (a Steampunk world) and its terrible power is a part of a Cursed Series — the Saw of Despair. The Hero was betrayed by their closest friend and it drove them insane with grief, resulting in that world's Clerics and Sorcerers to banish him to Melromarc to protect their own world.
Eastern Animation
Noonbory and the Super 7
- Memory Jar: One of Hanubi's magic spells goes wrong and traps the Super Sensors' memories in a jar. Left without knowledge of their Super-Senses, they have to re-learn their skills to get their memories back.
Live-Action TV
American Gods (2017)
- Earth Mother: An Earth Day Episode where Mr. Wednesday manages to find a gathering of seasonal gods in the hopes of recruiting them. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), Ostara tells everyone ahead of time.
- Time and Relative Dimensions in Space: A post-season 3 episode where the Resistance has the Necronomicon hooked up to a Time machine and they decide at what point would be the most ideal to send Ash back in time.
- Weird Weather: A storm in the Silly Creature world causes water to start seeping through the ceilings of Fraggle Rock, confusing the Fraggles below.
- Odd Couple: Galavant and Gareth find themselves lost in the woods and they're forced to work together to survive.
- Away in a Manger: Richie is embarrassed when he is cast as Joseph in a play while his crush is cast as Mary.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: In a Very Special Episode, Howard Cunningham's army friend with PTSD visits.
- The Shrink: Richie gets a crush on a psychologist, but is worried that she thinks he's mentally ill.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- All Animation Is Disney: In this episode-long example of Biting-the-Hand Humor, the Gang attempt to make a sequel to a Cult Classic animated film Dennis and Sweet Dee watched as kids, only to find out Disney now owns the rights.
- Aluminum Christmas Trees: Frank becomes an angel investor in a business out of Halifax that makes "environmentally-friendly" Christmas trees. When they become the supplier for the Boston Christmas Tree, the Gang makes trips to Halifax and Boston with hilarious results. Julian, Ricky and Bubbles make a surprise appearance during the Halifax-set portion after Frank makes a snide remark about the people there, to which Julian and Ricky take offense.
- Banana Republic: In this three-parter Affectionate Parody of The Princess Diaries, The Princess Bride, Hallmark Channel movies and Metal Gear, Dee falls in love with the prince of Pandoria, a European Micro Monarchy enclaved within Italy (a la San Marino and the Vatican City) that became its own country after they "forgot to send in their paperwork" when Italy was being formed (though all the Pandoria scenes would be filmed in Leavenworth, Washington), and marries him, leading The Gang to relocate there. It takes a turn for the worse when Frank starts a people's revolution and takes over the government, renames the country to "Folesland" (because, even though Nick Foles went on to a mediocre post-Eagles career, he still "likes his whole demeanor") and changes the national anthem to "Fly Eagles Fly", while the monarchy sets up a government-in-exile at Paddy's Pub and Mac leads a one-man armed resistance armed only with a pen knife and a pack of cigarettes. In the end, Frank's overthrown and the monarchy is restored to power, while the Pandorian prince and Dee renew their vows but chose to go with a long-distance relationship for now.
- Billy Needs an Organ: When Billy, an old high school friend of The Gang, needs a kidney, Frank gets some "guys" he knows from his time in the organ trading business to help out. This being The Gang, they end up committing a lot of organ thefts and wind up getting arrested. In the end, Billy gets a new kidney from a relative.
- Fan Convention: The Gang attend the (fictional) Philadelphia Fandom Festival, and Hilarity Ensues. Highlights include Frank (cosplaying as The Penguin) falling in love with a Queen Fyora cosplayer, Sweet Dee (cosplaying as Sailor Moon) winning a cosplay contest only because the other cosplayers got food poisoning from some bad hoagies, and Charlie joining the 501st Legion only to find out its a Star Wars cosplay organization and not a fraternal order.
- From Bad to Worse: In this sequel to "2020: A Year in Review", The Gang reflect on their costly acts during 2021-2023 when they meet up with a loan agency debt collector. Highlights include Dee's attempts to make it as a stockbroker helping to cause the inflation surge, Frank becoming an angel investor in an AI business and becoming partly responsible for the 2023 Hollywood strikes, and Mac getting a job at an ad agency and creating the infamous Burger King jingles.
- Fur Against Fang: After binge-watching the films in the franchise, The Gang attempt to make their own Underworld (2003) sequel. Naturally, being The Gang, they screw it up badly. Kate Beckinsale makes a guest appearance as a British "business associate" of Frank who The Gang briefly rope into playing Selene.
- Gone Behind the Bend: The Gang journey to the last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon to return a copy of Bratz that Dee forgot to return years back.
- He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: The Gang's favorite online Caustic Critic deletes a number of his old reviews for having "problematic" content. Outraged, Mac and Dennis decide to start their own "angry reviewers" YouTube channel. Unfortunately, a series of snarky reviews of beloved films leads to them becoming the subject of the internet's ire.
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: One of Frank's old friends dies overdosing on speed and leaves Frank with a MacGuffin. The entire gang start coming up with absurd theories about what it is. Dennis and Dee think that the object itself is priceless and take it to Antiques Roadshow, who claim that it's worthless, so they instead try to pawn it. Mac and Charlie think it's a clue to a buried treasure and they keep finding coincidences they think are clues that take them all over town. By the end, Frank breaks it open, revealing that it was something he used to hide his speed in.
- Kung-Fu Jesus: After watching The Chosen, The Gang decide to make their own miniseries about Jesus — and their complete disinterest towards and lack of knowledge about Christianity shows through. Undeterred by the final result of their Jesus miniseries, The Gang then decide to make ones for figures from other religions (and Richard Dawkins, since Frank regards New Atheism as "a new religious movement for the non-religious"), with even worse results. Jonathan Roumie and Dallas Jenkins both make appearances as themselves, and end up teaching The Gang a lesson about how what they're doing is wrong.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The Gang discover the concept of Karma and decide to become vigilantes who inflict over-the-top "karmic justice" towards wrongdoers. The Gang, being The Gang, end up getting arrested for everything from kidnapping to attempted murder. The episode serves as a commentary on the Karma Houdini trope and on the Westernization of the concept of Karma.
- Riches to Rags: After Dennis' partner from North Dakota dies in a freak snorkeling accident, he discovers she's the heiress to a farming equipment manufacturer's fortune and has left much of its vast fortune to him. He promptly blows most of the money funding The Gang's schemes, and ends up in a dispute with her brother (played by guest star John Paul Tremblay), who is the other heir to the fortune and has taken custody of Brian LeFevre, Jr., Dennis' son. In the end, Dennis chooses to give the remaining money to Brian LeFevre, Jr.'s uncle/legal guardian.
- Saturday-Morning Cartoon: A series of vignettes where the Gang try to re-enact (the key word being "try") classic episodes of their favorite cartoons from their childhoods (e.g. Rainbow Brite for Dee, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe for Charlie, Jem for Mac, and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for Frank)
- Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: A mild earthquake runs through Philadelphia, causing only mild property damage. The Gang escaped to a bomb shelter Frank had installed in their new basement and Mac presumes that the apocalypse had started and over the course of the episode he wins over each member to his point of view. Naturally, they each plan out how they'll live out the apocalypse: Dennis will start a cult of hot babes that will culminate into an autocracy that worships him as a god; Dee will find a super-handsome Action Survivor who will wait on her hand and foot; Frank will go full-anarchist and join a band of marauders; Mac will be raptured where Heaven is full of shirtless, muscular angels and a shirtless muscular Jesus (who just so happens to be played by Glenn Howerton), and he will be the badass that kills The Antichrist (who also happens to be a shirtless man); and Charlie finds mutant rat men in what remains of the sewers who crowns them their King. When the disaster ends, the leave the bunker, only to find that the apocalypse didn't happen and the city is already getting to work replacing windows and pouring over cracks in the street.
- Socialist Realism: The Gang discover democratic socialism and attempt to use it to solve problems. Being The Gang, it doesn't end well.
- Super Team: When the gang vents about their "Movie-Superhero Fatigue", Mac proclaims that he could make a more badass superhero and soon the whole gang gets the idea of monetizing Mac's Super Zero antics. Throughout the episode, each of the gang members decide they want to be heroes too. The Gang being The Gang, they wind up getting arrest for acts of vigilantism that make them come across as villains in the paper.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Cricket turns his life around and rejoins the Catholic priesthood. Upset that they can't use him for schemes anymore, The Gang try to get him to go back to his "old" ways.
- Literal Surveillance Bug: Emilia has Jack procure a rare beetle native to Palau-Palau who's chirps give off a frequency that mimics noises surrounding it, Emilia inventing a radio that picks up its frequency, allowing them to listen in on the Governor's conversations. On top of uncovering a secret plot to confiscate all the land rights of the local farmers, they find a bunch of other embarrassing secrets that the Daring Dragoon uses to blackmail them.
Reiju Sentai Tamaranger
- Rule of Three: The series premiere. After their grandfather faced the sprawling crisis of Sekhmet and their parents took on the heartless and dangerous Tribunal back in their day, the third generation of Rangers - Chris, Tina, Angel, Sam and Kitty - finally learn what all their lifelong training was leading up to when a totally new threat, the generationally-relevant despite possible links to the previous two threats Chain Gang, rear their ugly heads and make themselves known.
- Five-Man Band: Episode 2 sees our fledgling young heroes learn to better solidify their teamwork, helped in part by something Chris and Sam have already learned - their Muggles friends Robbie, Baz and Ram form an unofficial Boy Band with them for a school project, and the brothers apply their experience to turn their own sibling team into an all new Super Sentai.
- Power Gives You Wings: In present day, firstborn son and Red ranger Chris has to come to terms with the possible limitations of his special ability, summoning blazing energy wings from his back for both flight and defense, as flashbacks to his childhood reveal how he first discovered it. Thanks to hindsight, his perpetually supportive parents Aaron and Annie (due to them being second-gen Rangers) inspire him in the present to channel the energies from his blazing wings to create the Firebird Blazeblaster team cannon.
- The Big Guy: Sam's focus episode. As TamaBlack, he is the only Ranger who grows twice his height when morphed, as the only way to better control his Super-Strength that he's been cursed with as a child. As flashbacks show how his father basically segregated him from his own siblings for all their safety, and how it affected him growing up, Sam gains some well-delayed insight, and channels the one thing he did inherit wholly from his father - his creativity - and comes up with his own Fastball Special Finishing Move.
- Crazy Cat Lady: Kitty's focus episode. The official explanation for her unique cat-like traits is that Annie was volunteering at a pet shelter and got scratched by a cat while pregnant with her, but even the pseudoscience of Super Sentai can't explain it for certain. Rather than focus on the inspiration from the previous Yellow rangers (Eva/DamaYellow from her father's team and Mohan/Bakuranger from her grandfather's), Kitty learns to embrace it, and develops a new Cat Scratch Finishing Move.
- I Work Alone: The five get together with their old friend Wendell, actually the only child of single mother and second generation Green ranger Danielle, who grew apart from her generation after rumors that the child could be Aaron's. While Wendells mostly on good terms with the five, his lack of their interest in music means he's never truly connected with them. Not helping things is the battle with the Chain Gang's newest conscript, the monster general Ripsaw, whereupon Wendell reveals that he was the third generation Green ranger the whole time.
- Wolverine Publicity: Wendell realises the downside of stepping up to fight alongside his friends - sharing in their attention.
- Granola Girl: Another second generation Ranger, Blue ranger Damien returns for a visit, with his child and another of the five's childhood friends (and still Sam's major crush), Amy. Unlike all of them though, Amy was always closely sheltered and never got to be around a lot of regular animals, not to mention the Tamajuu beasts reared by the Rangers - but a visit to the secret animal sanctuary keeping non-combat beasts from the general public led to an unlikely bond between Amy and the White Sheep Tamajuu. To nobody's surprise at all, Amy joins the team as the third generation White ranger.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Pink ranger Tina and Blue ranger Angel may appear to be on the best of terms, but beneath the surface, something has been simmering for a long time. Angel may be the second daughter but is significantly taller, more graceful and polite, and just generally more mature, to the extent that the other siblings defer to her judgment out of habit. Tina learns to shrug off her inadequacies despite her own considerable talents, but the inevitable duel with Angel may yet tear them apart, particularly since this episode has Tina's Mid-Season Upgrade from her usual sword weapon (identical to what Chris uses) to a new Bifurcated Weapon.
Star Trek: The Original Series
- I Am Not Spock: The crew has to determine which one is the real Spock and which one is an impostor.
- Crappy Holidays: The Boys attempt to hold a Christmas party, and everything that could go wrong does.
- Kung-Fu Jesus: A spoof trailer for a miniseries about Jesus Christ, with Sam playing Jesus.
Web Animation
Helluva Boss
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: I.M.P. are sent on a job by various murder victims to find and kill a Serial Killer who thinks he's a vampire.
- Team Spirit: A disembodied sinner hires IMP to find the other half of his soul so that he could become corporeal in Hell. It takes them to a Boarding School of Horrors where they find out that there are a Gang of Bullies that tried sacrificing their leader as a blood offering to Satan. In classic IMP fashion, it takes them the whole episode to figure this out, the gang too caught-up in school-politics.
- Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Snowball the Vampire attempts to change the public image of vampires by doing good deeds.
Western Animation
American Dad!
- All Animation Is Disney: Stan makes a cartoon based off his Patriot Pigeon books for Disney, with Roger as a voice actor.
- Billy Needs an Organ: When Billy needs a new kidney, Stan helps Dr. Kalgary with the search.
- Goths Have It Hard: After Vince Chung dies in a freak treadmill accident that the police said was "best left unsolved", Mertz becomes a depressed, heavily moody guy. Steve and his friends soon discover that Mertz is secretly goth, and, with the help of Debbie, end up convincing him to go "full goth". In the end, though, Mertz returns to his old ways "to honor Vince", but still openly admits he had fun being "full goth". In the B-plot, Stan attempts to bring back Stan Magazine, with slightly more successful results.
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: A member of Roger's species crashes to Earth and dies, leaving behind a MacGuffin. The CIA get a hold of it and trust Stan with safeguarding it, only for Roger, disguised as artifact collector Stephen Q. Oliveberger, to take off with it.
- Socialist Realism: Stan discovers democratic socialism. The episode includes a call back to Stan's appearance in the Family Guy episode "Excellence in Broadcasting", with Brian appearing to say "Good. Good for him." after Stan declares himself to be a democratic socialist.
- Rascally Raccoon: Slappy Squirrel tries to get revenge on a raccoon tormenting her, but he's always one step ahead of her.
2011 Series
- She's Back: Daria moves back to Highland from Lawndale, and Beavis and Butthead mock her relentlessly over the stories she tells of her time there. Acts as a self-parody of both Beavis and Butthead and Daria.
- I Am Not Spock: Beavis and Butthead end up at a Star Trek convention, and hilarity ensues.
- The Big Rotten Apple: During the Heelers' holiday in New York City, everything that could go wrong does.
- Blue's Big Christmas Miracle: In this Joe-era special, Blue and Joe journey to the North Pole while playing a special game of Blue's Clues. Guest starring Jim Belushi as Santa Claus and Danny DeVito as his head elf.
- Blue's Free Prize at the Bottom: A Steve-era episode — when Periwinkle loses the free prize from his morning cereal box, Blue and Steve end up playing Blue's Clues to find where it could possibly be.
- Enemy Mine: A Bottle Episode where Cloe and the Tweevils are in detention and discuss past episodes.
- Mockumentary: In this self-parodic episode, a filmmaker doing a documentary on the fashion industry covers the goings-on at Bratz magazine and ends up tagging along for the girls' latest stand-off with Burdine.
- Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: The vengeful ghost of a legendary viking warrior is unleashed on Amity Park along with his ghostly army, which leads Danny into learning a new power in order to wipe him and his band of warriors out.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: A powerful new ghost causes the residents of Amity Park to undergo Sanity Slippage, and Danny has to stop him while trying to avoid going crazy.
- Banana Republic: Bluster Kong uses his wealth to declare himself mayor of Congo-Bongo, stating that since Congo-Bongo as an island-nation has no constitution, there was nothing stopping him from doing it. Being the corrupt capitalist that he is, he makes a deal with King K. Rool that he would trade him his seat of power for all the land rights at the banana plantations.
- Enemy Mine: An unlikely visitor arrives on Congo-Bongo Island from the Main Land: an Italian carpenter named Jumpman. Donkey Kong recognizes him as an old enemy of Cranky from his youth and tries getting in the way, worried that Jumpman is there to settle an old score. At the end of the episode, it's revealed that their rivalry was over a girl (Pauline) and they had squashed that beef decades ago and Jumpman is just there to reconnect with Cranky as a friend. Jumpman even makes a reference to Mario and Luigi when he tells Cranky that his two boys started a plumbing business and that he's proud of them both.
- Made O' Gold: The Golden Banana of Inca-Dinka-Doo has returned! This time by Eddie the Mean Ole' Yeti who got lost on his way back home and found it in the temple. Now the curse is causing massive avalanches all across Congo-Bongo and DK has to return the banana to its rightful owner before the quakes bury the whole island in rubble.
- Masked Luchador: Donkey Kong and Diddy decide to start their own wrestling team (mostly because it's fun) and it winds up devolving into a tournament between the Kongs, K. Rool's Kremlings and Scurvy's crew. The prize? The Crystal Coconut.
- Monkeys on a Typewriter: Looking for something new to read, Cranky holds a contest to see who can write the Great Kongo Bongo Novel for a wish from the Crystal Coconut.
- Mundane Wish: Cranky reveals that there are a series of signs (mystic flowers appearing, the birds flying in weird formations etc) that effects the Crystal Coconut's wish-granting abilities for a full 24-hours, making it more unpredictable than usual. He tells DK, but like a dunderhead he forgets about it immediately and wishes for a banana.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: King K. Rool gets A Day in the Limelight where he runs out of ideas for stealing the Crystal Coconut. Not knowing what to do with himself, he starts to slowly go crazy. By the end of the episode, he snaps out of it when, in his madness induced Imagine Spot, he comes up with the perfect plan. The episode ends with a Smash Cut to his face covered in soot and his lair in ruins, the idea a total failure.
- Road Trip Romance: Hiccup and Astrid are trying to have some alone time together, but the other riders always seem to find themselves butting in for one reason or another, so they decide to fly themselves to a far-off corner of the Archepelago for a date only to find themselves captured by Krogan and the rest of the riders have to find a way to get them out without their two most competent riders to lead them.
- Boomerang Comeback Ed: A sequel episode to "Hand Me Down Ed" where its revealed that Edd had the boomerang under lock and key, trying to make heads or tales of that unusual day.
- Ghostly Goals: In this crossover with Danny Phantom, Timmy ends up wishing to become a ghost to scare his foes. Cosmo, being the dunderhead he is, takes him to the paranormal hotspot that is Amity Park (which, for the purposes of this episode, is near Dimmsdale) and as a result Timmy crosses paths with Team Phantom, who think he's something that escaped from the Ghost Zone.
- Mundane Wish: A self-parody — when Timmy wishes for something relatively normal and not something that will take a turn for the worst midway through the episode, Cosmo and Wanda have trouble processing the idea.
- What the Fu Are You Doing?: Timmy wishes to be a kung-fu master.
- Against My Religion; When Brian, a vocal atheist, founds out his new girlfriend is a born-again Christian, they fall into a bitter dispute. In the end, they learn they can still love each other in spite of their differing opinions on the existence of God.
- No Plot? No Problem!: In this self-parody episode, when the Griffins run out of activities to pursue in hopes of a chaotic yet hilarious outcome, they find out there'll be no plot for the episode, so they end up settling on using a Wheel of Fortune-esque carnival wheel to pick activities so they can at least have some sort of a plot.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After an altercation with the Griffins, the Brown/Tubbs family move back to Stoolbend, only to find out it has changed a lot since The Cleveland Show ended. Serves as a Poorly Disguised Pilot for a revival of The Cleveland Show.
- The Unmasking: In this sequel to "And Then There Were Fewer", Diane Simmons returns, revealing that she was kidnapped by James Woods in revenge for a comment she made towards Priscilla, and that Woods hired an actress who closely resembled her in order to frame her for the murders at his mansion (including his "murder"). Stewie, Brian and Peter end up teaming up with her in order to clear her name and defeat James Woods once and for all.
- Arrows on Fire: Moose attempts to teach the children archery, but shoots an arrow into their campfire.
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Hong Kong Phooey is framed for murder and Harvey takes the case, with all the evidence implying that the motive was racial profiling. Meanwhile, Peter Potamus has started taking Chop Sockey classes and is picking fights with everyone at work under the assumption that he's now a one-hippo killing machine.
- Thieving Pet: When the Pound Puppies and Holly are charged with stealing someone's pet dog, Harvey picks up their case.
- Serial Homewrecker: Dale finally learns that Nancy cheated on him with John Redcorn, and that Redcorn is his son Joseph's biological father, and responds by going on a home-wrecking spree, starting with Redcorn's trailer. Dale's inevitable stay in prison for this leads to Joseph having to cope with not having a father figure around (sinch John fled Arlen for a few days out of fear of a reprisal from Dale).
- Captain's Log: The Loud siblings accidentally lose the lucky log of their grandfather Leonard.
- No-Sell: The Loud siblings try to sell something, but have the hardest time getting anyone to buy it.
- Rule of Funny: Set during or after Season 5. When the parents, Leni, and Luna are out, Luan is left in charge of the house.
- Running Gagged: After coming last in the footrace, Lincoln seeks advice from Lynn on how to be a faster runner.
- Santa's Existence Clause: Lisa sets out to determine once and for all if Santa Claus is real.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Fed up with her pranks, the family try to get Luan a hobby other than comedy, only for Luan to become a boring shell of her former self.
- Brainy Baby: The cast wonders if Jake might be a genius.
- Burlesque: A professional dancer is humiliated by their rival and turn into Burlesque, an akuma who's dancing causes Earthquakes.
- Caustic Critic: A Season 2 episode where Hawk Moth akumatizes a stubborn film critic into Caustic Critic, an Emotion Eater who sucks all emotions except for sadness out of those he berates.
- Karmic Thief: A Season 3 episode where Hawk Moth akumatizes a 20-something wannabe vigilante into Karmic Thief, an Evil Hero who steals the personal belongings of people and inflicts over-the-top Laser-Guided Karma towards them over minor infractions, under the belief it will teach them a lesson about "remembering their karma."
- Moment Killer: After being frustrated with her student's constant relationship drama, Ms. Olga Mendeleiev is akumatized into Moment Killer, an Emotion Eater that sucks all the love and affection out of those around her under the belief that it would help everyone focus.
- Moral Guardians: Rolland and his elderly friends find the modern world to be degenerate and become akumatized into Moral Guardians, all-powerful Obstructive Bureaucrats who use their powers to censor everything they think is "obscene". Black bars covering clothes they deem inappropriate, faces of people they personally dislike are made blurry, rendering them blind, and words they deem offensive (like "Lucky Charm" and "Cataclysm") are replaced with beeps and blurps.
- Mundane Horror: A season 4 episode where Ladybug and Cat Noir discover that there are signs (e.g. the akumas flickering between black/purple and white, akumatized villains losing their powers briefly in battle) that something is affecting Hawk Moth's akumatization powers, making the akumatized Parisians' powers more unpredictable than usual. Still, Hawk Moth isn't bothered by what's happening, and decides to akumatize a teenager who had a minor disagreement with their mom.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: As the Mayor caters to his daughter's every petty whim, his personal financier tries to ge him to see reason, only for Andre to fire him. He becomes akumatized into Obstructive Bureaucrat, a Domain Holder that traps Paris in a walled-maze full of rooms a la Cube that can only be navigated by following his arbitrary rules.
- Occult Detective: A Season 3 episode where Hawk Moth akumatizes Alya into a detective villain who's tool-kit allows her to track down all forms of magic in a given area, her akuma in a magnifying glass that highlights the footprints of a miraculous user. Instead of Ladybug and Cat Noir deakumatizing her, Hawk Moth is forced to recall her akuma when her abilities nearly expose him.
- Power: A Season 5 episode where Monarch gives his newest akuma — Andre as Malediktator — every transferred miraculous ability he can give to him. It results in an evolved form — Maleconqueror — that runs wild beyond Monarch's control, threatening to crack the planet in half with its sheer output of power.
- Rabbit Magician: After a disagreement with a promoter, Hawk Moth akumatizes a egocentric stage magician into Rabbit Magician, an anthropomorphic rabbit akuma who uses their magic powers to cause chaos throughout Paris.
- Terror Hero: An angsty teenager thinks that Ladybug and Cat Noir did very little to detour bad guys and becomes akumatized into Terror Hero, an Evil Hero that inflicts harsh punishments for minor infractions under the believe that it will encourage good behavior through fear.
- Vaporwave: Nino gets akumatized into Vaporwave, an akuma with sound-powers that can control anyone who listens to his music.
- Wedding Smasher: Ms. Bustier is getting married to her fiance and everyone at the school are invited to attend. Hawk Moth akumatizes a jealous ex into Wedding Smasher, an akuma with Super-Strength with a one-track-minded desire to cripple the groom.
- Eye-Dentity Giveaway: Luz is working herself half-to-death helping with the Boiling Isle's restoration after Belos' defeat and Amity decides she needs some time off and takes her on a date. Unfortunately, with Belos dead, the various witches and demons he had petrified are brought back to life. While most of them were innocent, one demon was a Serial Killer that collects eyes, and he thinks that harvesting a human's eyes would make for a great addition to his collection.
- Magic Is Evil: A self-parody — King watches a Show Within a Show called "Witch Girls" and is now convinced that all kinds of magic are evil judging by the actions of the show's characters.
- Spot the Imposter: The Emperor had a basilisk infiltrate the CATTs to infiltrate their organization and Luz is suspicious.
- Stop Worshipping Me: A slip-up happens and King's status as an adolescent Titan gains a lot of unwanted attention, from Witches and Demons who want to prop him up as their God reborn, to Titan Hunters who want to kill him.
- Audience Participation: Patrick gives everyone in the neighborhood a chance to act on his show, and Hilarity Ensues.
- Breakfast in Bed: Not wanting to get up, Patrick records a cooking show from the comfort of his bed.
- Clip Show: Patrick cuts up old tapes of his shows and reassembles them to make something new.
- Companion Food: Patrick's breakfast comes to life and becomes his new best friend.
- Didn't We Use This Joke Already?: A parody of Recycled Scripts where every punchline is something that's already been on the show before, but in a different context.
- Free Prize at the Bottom: Patrick wins a redeemable coupon in his cereal, and ventures to the (long defunct) factory to redeem it.
- Great Detective: Patrick stars in a noir thriller.
- I Want My Jet Pack: GrandPat travels into the future to get tools that make his current life easier.
- Magical Mystery Doors: After a renovation, the Star house's doors are all scrambled up, leading to bizarre places.
- Not in My Backyard!: Patrick starts broadcasting a second show behind his house, which ends up being right next to Granny Tentacles' house, so she has to put a stop to it.
- No Plot? No Problem!: A self-parody — when the lawnies can't come to the show because of a head cold going around Bikini Bottom, Patrick decides to "pre-tape" some episodes without an audience nor a plot.
- Pet Heir: Patrick leaves Ouchie in charge of his show for a day.
- Random Encounters: A variety of strange aliens crash land next to the Star home, so Patrick puts them on the show.
- Running Gagged: After Squidward finally gets his paper route money from the Star family, Squidina and Patrick try to find a new running gag.
- Saturday-Morning Cartoon: A rapid-fire Sketch Comedy episode that parodies a bunch of classic Saturday morning cartoons.
- Sea Hurtchin: Ouchie becomes a professional fighter.
- The Show Must Go Wrong: Patrick puts on a Shakespeare-style play, but finds it hard to understand the source material.
- Toilet Humor: Tinkle becomes the lawnies' new character, making Patrick give him his own comedy segment.
- Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Patrick figures out a way to be more efficient; his head stays to do the show while his body goes off to have fun.
- Worst Aid: Cecil gets a job as a doctor, so Patrick tags along to help, while Squidina tries to record a medical drama.
- The Show Must Go Wrong: The kids put on a play to celebrate Lake Hoohaw's centennial, only for everything to go wrong.
- Time to Move: Munchy and Betty-Lou move in with Munchy's dad on Howdydoo Island, and the kids throw a going-away party. Serves as a Poorly Disguised Pilot for a spin-off that Munchy would be the main character of.
- No Plot? No Problem!: A self-parody — when nothing bad happens, Peg and Cat don't know what to do, since now the episode has no plot.
- Outside-Context Problem: Peg and Cat hear someone say something out of context and fear the worst.
- Scunthorpe Problem: Trouble arises for Peg and Cat on a trip to Scunthorpe.
- Breakfast in Bed: Taking place after the events of "Shall We Dance?", Pelswick has managed to win back Christina, but they have to help out her wheelchair-bound grandpa with his daily living, especially since they have to follow his ridiculously-specific daily planner, which starts with the titular situation every day.
- I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin!: After a old resident of the Evergreen Forest dies and leaves behind a buried treasure, the Raccoons and Cyril fight over who gets to claim it.
- Only Shop in Town!: Willow's General Store is on the verge of being bought out and replaced with a bland supermarket with overpriced goods, and the Raccoons try to stop that from happening.
- The Show Must Go Wrong!: When Bert attempts to hold a production of a stage play, everything that could go wrong does.
- Welcome to the Big City!: Lisa's old friends invite the Raccoons to the city, but Bert, who's not a big fan of the city, struggles to find anything good about the trip.
Rainbow Brite (1984)
- Follow Your Nose: Rainbow and Twink meet a new character who has the power of creating beautiful scents. Murky Dismal ends up deciding to combat this new friend of the Color Kids by trying to create foul scents that drown out the new beautiful scents.
- Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: Ray's newest girlfriend turns out to be Cthulhu in disguise.
- Thieving Pet: The Ghostbusters are hired to bust some ghosts at Chinatown and the pet monkey of a pickpocket steals their trap and tries to sell it on the black market. Since the trap was defective, all of the objects that were auctioned off become possessed.
- Baby See, Baby Do: The babies try to emulate the adults.
- Brainy Baby: The babies try to determine who the smartest one is.
- The Shrink: When Chas goes to see a psychologist (a "shrink"), Angelica scares Chuckie and Kimi by telling them that the psychologist will shrink Chas.
Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
- What the Fu Are You Doing?: In this Swear Word Plot episode, Sagwa learns a bad word from Fu-Fu, and Sagwa ends up using it in a discussion with her family. The episode ends with Sagwa and Fu-Fu learning a lesson about appropriate language and how it's not polite to say swears to people.
- Against My Religion: When Lisa converts to Unitarian Universialism after several people question her for still attending church services as a Buddhist, Homer decides to become a Unitarian Universialist as well so he can avoid doing anything people ask of him. The episode features a few digs at "She of Little Faith", especially with Homer's plot (with the person guiding him through his "conversion" being a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Richard Gere).
- Bad Humor Truck: Homer's attempt to run an ice cream truck ends in him going to court, with a Continuity Cavalcade of witnesses and people on the jury telling their stories of their interactions with Homer.
- Crappy Holidays: On Christmas, everything that can go wrong for the Simpson family does.
- Against My Religion: Cartman becomes polytheistic as a way to avoid doing anything people ask of him.
- All the Good Men Are Gay: Mr. Garrison goes overboard with spreading pro-LGBT messages to better his reputation.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: After Richard Gere comes to town and introduces his Westernized version of Buddhism to the townsfolk, Butters decides to convert to Gere's version of Buddhism, and ends up convincing most of the kids to convert to it, with the exception of Kyle (who is Jewish, and even he thinks Gere's hippie-ish brand of Buddhism is a far cry from authentic Buddhism) and Cartman (who Hates Everyone Equally). Butters and the kids end up turning the town into a Children of the Corn-esque theocracy that worships Gere, and Kyle must stop him with the help of David Carradine (voiced by himself, in a rarity for South Park) and some monks from South Park's Buddhist temple.
- No Plot? No Problem!: When the boys come down with an illness and there's not been much celebrity misbehavior making the news, the rest of the townsfolk try to have A Day in the Limelight, only to end up accidentally reviving Chef (now voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) in the process.
- No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: After John Oliver makes fun of the town on Last Week Tonight, he is challenged to visit South Park by the townsfolk. Viewing this as a good option for his latest publicity stunt, Oliver decides to make a visit to South Park, only for Cartman to decide to give him the worst possible experience.
- Murder Simulators: All the kids in town are into a new video game, which the adults think is violent and leading them to kill people. Cartman tricks Butters into playing it, and has him framed as a murderer.
- What the Fu Are You Doing?: Cartman finds himself stuck in a kung-fu class.
- Uncertain Doom: A Crossover episode where Spider-Man is suddenly kidnapped by Doctor Doom for his mutate DNA and is helped by the Fantastic Four.
- Buffet Buffoonery: Squidward's meal at a buffet is ruined by SpongeBob and Patrick's antics.
- Follow Your Nose: Mr. Krabs smells something valuable, and ventures to find out what it is.
- General Failure: Mr. Krabs appoints SpongeBob to stop Plankton's latest plan, with both of them using heavy artillery.
- Red Herring: SpongeBob is suspicious of a newcomer, who is a literal red herring.
- I Am Not Spock: The Cerritos gains a Vulcan crew member, and Mariner annoys him by asking if he's related in any way to Spock.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
- Banana Republic: Shredder and Krang break into the New York Museum with the hopes of creating a mutant army. Because they leave it to Bebop and Rocksteady, they wind up losing it and the gorilla exhibit gets mutated, with full intention of creating their own gorilla war.
- Exergaming: Shredder and Krang create a new arcade game that becomes all the rage in New York, which is secretly being used as remote controls for an army of Killer Robots.
- Ludicrous Speed: Krang makes adjustments to his Anti-Mutagen Ray and has the Shredder shoot the Turtles with it. Instead of demutating them, it grants them Super-Speed, unaware that it's slowly destabilizing their mutations.
- Overlord Jr.: Whike Zack wants to be a Ninja Turtle, his cousin Zeke wants to be a supervillain. He tracks down Shredder and Krang in the Technodrome and while they're at first dismissive of him, they agree to take him under their wing. Inevitably, they use him as a hostage against the turtles and he realizes being evil isn't all that's cracked up to be.
- Sky Pirate: April interviews the pilot for a new recreational zepplin just as a crew of plane-pirates try to rob it and its passengers of all of their valuables.
- Swiss-Army Hero: A new hero is in town and he's a Gadgeteer Genius that always happens to know where to be. By the end it's revealed that he is The Shredder in disguise.
- Tunnel of Love: While on a date, Raphael and Mona Lisa end up uncovering a scheme by a group of pick-pocketers using a Tunnel of Love attraction at a carnival as a method of stealing peoples' valuables.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- Cassette Futurism: Bebop and Rocksteady are doing a mission to procure more mutagen for the Shredder and they happen upon an old supercomputer in storage. The computer is O.M.N.S.S., a supercomputer from the late 80's who went rogue and tried to take over humanity by hacking into all machinery through a satellite. Bebop and Rocksteady explain what Wi Fi and the Internet is to the computer and he agrees to help them destroy the Turtles if they give him access to the Internet, making him a world-destroying threat if they succeed.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Donatello encounters a tech wiz who helps him with his inventions. He's revealed to be the retired, geriatric Science Hero Gadget Man, having been a part of a team of vigilantes who helped take down the Italian Mafia in The '80s.
- If It Swims, It Flies: The Turtles find new mutants invading the sewers; monstrous, carnivorous Fish People created by Stockman-Fly in order to flush out the turtles. As a Mythology Gag, they have a resemblance to the Merpeople from the Mirage comics, while their leader is made to resemble a sinister version of the recurring character Merdude.
- Resistance Is Futile: A Season Four episode where the Turtles face off against a race of Dalek-esq race of Mechanical Lifeforms that Professor Honeycutt has had a long and troubled history with. It's even implied that he made his robotic body from reverse-engineered samples of their tech. The entire episode is basically a Doctor Who homage.
- Scarab Power: A Sixth Season episode where The Pharaoh from the Fifth Season returns via a cult at the New York Museum to bring Ancient Egypt back t its natural glory by conquering New York with his magic.
- The Speedster: Alopex returns and asks for the Turtle's help in saving her childhood home from her old Underworld bosses.
- Song of Many Emotions: The Winx meet a boy with bipolar disorder, and learn about the difficulties brought on by sudden mood swings.
- The Band Minus the Face: A hypothetical third season filler episode, after Will is hospitalized with a nasty gallbladder infection, the rest of the girls have to find out how to use the Heart of Kandrakar without her.
- Song of Many Emotions: An adaptation of a story from the third arc that adds a Very Special Episode element, with Will's cousin with bipolar disorder visiting.
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: A three-part crossover episode, taking place in-between a hypothetical third season and a hypothetical fourth season, in which the girls go on a trip to New York City and are helped by Goliath and the Manhattan Clan in defeating a mysterious dimension-traveling being.
