Fading Plots

I've actually seen the "character A saves character B" and the "amnesia" plots recently. The first in the George of the Jungle episode,"Don't thank me" and the second in the Skunk Fu! episode, "The art of Brainwashing".
 
Actually, "Don't Thank Me" didn't follow that cliche. Rather than characters B and C (in this case, George and Ursula) becoming Ape's servants after he saves their lives, they begin competing with each other on who can come up with the best, most elaborate way of thanking him. Later on Magnolia gets in on it as well, on the reasoning that "everybody's doing it" and so it must be trendy.

Old premise, new twist.
 
One of the oldest cartoon plots (Though I have no idea which show it was first used in) is the whole Two characters who hate each other get handcuffed together, and have to use teamwork to overcome their differences story. I remember seeing that done in alot of recent cartoons (Samurai Jack and Danny Phantom are the only ones that come to mind now).
 
A bunch of kids somehow wind up caught in a ongoing war or unleash a sealed evil in a can. Variations include the kids wanting to fight because it looks cool and then they learn how ugly it is.

Yu-Gi-Oh
Naruto
Pokemon
Dinosaur King

Time Safari is present in Chaotic, because those teens dodge rocks, fire, and lightning just for a prized photoshot. How crazy is that!
 
This plot was also employed on:

  • Snorks- All Star Seaworthy and Junior Wentworth get cuffed together.
  • Tale Spin- Baloo and Don Carnage get cuffed together.
  • Moon Dreamers- Sparky and Bucky Buckaroo get cuffed together.
  • Angry Beavers- Norbert and Dagget are cuffed in a short appropriately titled "Cuffed Together", but the short never aired on TV.
 
Darkwing Duck as well, in the episode where Darkwing and Herb Muddlefoot get bonded together by a melted wrist weight (You Sweat Your Life).

Also, Baloo and Karnage actually get glued together, not cuffed.
 
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