Same plot, different cartoon

Another example: the Bonkers episode "Time Wounds All Heels", where a convict (not a bully, but you get the idea) that Lucky put away years before comes after him, leading Lucky to fear for his life - but it turns out the prisoner only wanted to thank him for steering him towards the right path.

About repeated plots, yeah, there are a lot of stock plots that get re-used in both cartoons and live-action. A less common one was the idea of a villain with an obsession with stealing cheap stuff, which was done on both Kim Possible's "Low Budget" and Stripperella's "Crime Doesn't Pay...No, Really, It Doesn't"
 
I hardly consider $6,000,000,000 to be “cheap stuff”. Frugal Lucre may have been cheap in his methods, but his demand of a dollar from every individual on the planet would have yielded quite a pay off. It was really absurd that his plan was mocked as much as it was.
 
I definitely see the "two places at a time" plot sometimes. Where the character believes they can totally pull off dating two girls on the same evening, or whathaveyou. They're eventually caught, of course. I've seen this used in Hey Arnold, for example.
 
I can honestly say that with few exceptions, every tv show that has featured kids in school has had at least one episode where they've had to pretend some random object is a baby, and they have to take care of it, and even though the thing is damaged beyond repair they still pass.
 
How about the one where the character gets a criminal arrested, only to have him escape from prison and vows revenge, leading all the main characters to go into hiding, where the criminal finds anyway, but saved at the last second.

It was used in "Flintstones" and also in "Family Guy." This isn't animated, but "Kenan and Kell" did this plotline as well (although they didn't go into hiding)
 
How about those episodes where every character except one gets the flu, and that one character has to wait on the others hand and foot? Pretty much EVERY cartoon has done that one at some point.
 
This plot device was also used in a Beavis and Butt-head Christmas Special, where everybody's lives, including Beavis', was better without Butt-head around.
 
You mean *Butt-head*'s life was better----it was Beavis who was shown what the world would be like without him (Butt-Head was the manager at their fast food restaurant, IIRC).

-B.
 
Nope, nakak was right. That episode revolved around Butt-head being shown what life was like if he hadn't been born. In that episode ("It's a Miserable Life") Beavis was shown working at a homeless shelter with Stewart.

The other Christmas episode ("Huh Huh Humbug") featured Beavis in the Scrooge role.
 
Sorry for the inconvience if I quoted myself :sweat: I just wanted to add more about the recycling of the 2 RRH episodes into Spider-man episode, especially the Dementia Five/Revolt in the Fifth Dimension
http://marvel.rabroad.net/spidey67/episode/revoltfifth/
http://www.kevinmccorrytv.com/spidey.html
http://www.kevinmccorrytv.com/rrobin.html

When you compare the 2 pics, they also recycled some parts of the background and some parts of the stock footage. Is there any cartoons who recycled the stock footage and various backgrounds for a similar plotline of 2 different series?
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I remember watching that episode of Spidey on TV back in the 70's, and thought it was a colossally weird digression for Spider-Man, and that the whole thing didn't make a lick of sense. Knowing that they recycled as much as they did for it makes me think that they took older material and retrofitted it to Spidey.

-- Ed
 
I am beginning to despise "Wild West" themes. Where someone either gets sent back in time to an old saloon town, or a parental character tells the children about their anscestors such as their great-great-great underdog grandfather who became the town hero. I think rugrats, gooftroop, spongebob, and so many other cartoons. It is one of the plots I hate the most.
 
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