Rugrats has this as a frequent occurrence:
- Rugrats (1991):
- In "Real or Robots?", Tommy believes that Stu is a robot after seeing a scary movie where a mad scientist replaces all the children's parents with robots. When Stu begins to sleepwalk, he and Chuckie believe it to be true. At the end of the episode, they realize that Stu isn't a robot after all, but then Chuckie wonders if his dad is a robot.
- In "Stu Maker's Elves", Tommy and Chuckie venture into Stu's workshop to retrieve Tommy's toy glider that had flown down into the basement. After several misadventures, while fixing Stu's new doll-making machine in the process, they manage to get the plane back. Unfortunately, when it's Chuckie's turn to throw it, it ends up sailing down the door to the basement again.
- In "Together at Last", Betty separates Phil and Lil after they fight over their Reptar doll, following a recommendation from Dr. Lipschitz. The twins soon find themselves missing each other when Didi takes Lil to Tommy's house, and spend the episode trying to get back together. When they reunite at the end of the episode, they hope they never separate again, but soon argue which one of them started the fight that got them separated in the first place.
- In "Angelica's in Love", Angelica falls head-over-heels for Dean, a new friend of Tommy's. However, her heart is broken when he leaves her to head back home. At the end of the episode, Angelica declares that she'll never love again, only to begin crushing on Jean-Claude, a new French arrival to the neighborhood.
- "The Inside Story" sees Chuckie accidentally eating a watermelon seed, and the babies pull a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot to retrieve it before it explodes. It turned out to be All Just a Dream when Chuckie burps up the seed, only for Spike to eat it moments after.Angelica: Anyone ever been inside a dog before?
Chuckie: Uh-oh! - "Chuckie Gets Skunked" ends with Stu and Chas having a run-in with the Smelly Skunk that sprayed Chuckie near the beginning of the episode. Cue Scream Discretion Shot, followed by a fade to black.
- In "Susie Vs. Angelica", Susie and Angelica get into a competition over who the best three-year-old in the world is. Near the end of the episode, they become friends when they realize that they're both best at something, but neither of them are the best at everything. However, they soon start arguing over who has the best hair.
- "Angelica Breaks a Leg" zigzags the trope with Angelica faking a broken leg to get attention while her parents are away, which works due to a mix-up at the hospital, where a football player genuinely broke his leg. After the mix-up is reversed, karma soon comes back to bite Angelica when Charlotte genuinely breaks her leg following a river rafting trip, and is stuck waiting on her hand and foot, along with Drew, as Stu and Did previously did with her.
- In "Farewell, My Friend", Tommy and Chuckie go their separate ways when the latter blames the former for talking him into going on dangerous adventures. They reconcile when Chuckie saves Tommy from a snake (really Chas' garden hose left on at full blast), only to come across the basement door. Tommy wants to go down and explore, but reconsiders when he realizes that Chuckie might be afraid. Chuckie is afraid, but feels that they should go down in the basement anyway if that's what Tommy really wants to do. They argue over whether or not they should go into the basement, which even happens during the closing credits.
- In "Mommy's Little Assets", Charlotte is forced to take Tommy and Angelica to work with her since all the adults are busy and no babysitter is willing to look after Angelica a second time. Since Merge Corp. headquarters doesn't have a daycare center, Jonathan is forced to look after Tommy and Angelica while Charlotte tries to get Famous Ethel and her husband Abe to sell their cookie company to Merge Corp.. Jonathan neglects to keep an eye on the kids (which all the adults do at least once an episode), and Tommy and Angelica get away and roam the building. Charlotte immediately fires him after she finds the children, even going as far as to tell Jonathan to call security on himself. He's re-hired at the end of the episode, with a promotion. To Jonathan's dismay, it's not a Vice President position—it's supervisor of Merge Corp.'s new daycare center, starting with watching Tommy and Angelica while Drew and Charlotte go out to dinner with Ethel and Abe, who've decided to sell their company to Merge Corp. based on Charlotte's maternal instincts.Angelica: (grabs Jonathan's hand and smiles evilly) Boy, Jonathan, are we gonna have fun...
- In "Brothers are Monsters", The babies believe Tommy is turning into a monster when they overhear Stu talking about how older brothers are monsters. Tommy gets covered in grape juice, which causes Spike's fur to stick to him, which makes him look like a monster. Near the end of the episode, as Tommy washes the mud off of Dil's pacifier, he also washes Spike's fur off him, making him look like his normal self. The episode ends with the babies overhearing Betty's older brother Freddy saying that older sisters can be monsters, too. Tommy then asks Phil if Lil is just a little bit older than him, thus Phil turns around and is horrfied by the sight of Lil (not helping with pretzel sticks in her mouth that look like fangs).
- In "Hold the Pickles", Taffy takes the babies to Boingo Burger for lunch. When Tommy overhears that Taffy doesn't like dill pickles while ordering a burger, he thinks that she is referring to Dil, his younger brother, so he and his friends try many attempts to make her like him. At the end of the episode, Taffy tells Britannica, her friend who works at Boingo Burger that she likes dill pickles after all and it must be sweet pickles that she doesn't like. Upon hearing this, the babies dig in the trash can.
- Rugrats (2021):
- In the short "The Slide", a remake of the episode of the same name from the original 1991 series, Chuckie overcomes his fear of going down the slide, saying that now he has nothing to be afraid of on the playground anymore. Chas then brings Chuckie to the swings, and upon seeing them, Chuckie screams in fear.
- In "The Heist", Angelica helps the babies swipe Dil's mobile that Stu and Didi donated to the auction at her preschool before it gets sold. They succeed, and Angelica decides that her heisting days are behind her. At the end of the episode, the next item that gets put up for auction is Kimi's Freddy Ferret doll, prompting Kimi to beg Angelica to get it back for her.
