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* Judge Stone on ''[[Night Court]]'' was found not to have completed his education.

* The central premise of ''[[Strangers with Candy]]'': Jerri Blank dropped out of high school and became "a boozer, a user and a loser", but decides to clean up her act and go back to school - aged 46.

* On ''[[Full House]]'', in episode 6 of season 6, D.J. and Kimmy request Joey and Jesse's help with a "Stay in School" campaign, and they are stunned by Jesse's refusal to help. The entire family pressures him into telling the truth: that he is actually a high school dropout. With only one English credit missing, Jesse is inspired by his wife to take a night course and earn his degree.

* In ''[[Phil of the Future]]'', Phil has to take a second grade class on penmanship.

* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had Homer go to college to attain his degree in nuclear physics (because he works at a nuclear power plant, people--it just makes sense). The joke was that he kept on expecting college life to be like a [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|raunchy frat comedy]] (like the one he was watching called ''School of Hard Knockers'') and [[Wrong Genre Savvy|kept on being dumbfounded when it wasn't.]]

** There was an earlier episode where he had to take a night course run by his old high school principal because he never finished remedial science. His final exam gives us a classic:

'''Homer's Brain:''' It's a deal. }}

* A ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode revolves around Brian returning to Brown University after it's revealed early in the episode that he dropped out, and ''The New Yorker'' doesn't hire anyone without a college degree. Mentioned later in "Jerome is the New Black" when Quagmire chews out Brian on everything that he hates about him, one of which is that Brian "...failed college twice, which isn't nearly as bad as your failure as a father..."