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* The title character of ''[[Billy Madison]]'' had to retake all 12 grades in order to take over his father's company.
* In ''[[A Goofy Movie|An Extremely Goofy Movie]]'', Goofy had to return to college (and the same one his son, Max, was attending, no less!) to get a job.
** ''[[Goof Troop]]'' actually had one episode where he had to repeat ''grade school''.
* The premise of the movie ''[[Back to School (film)|Back to School]]'' is that Rodney Dangerfield's character goes to college in order to convince his son that it's worthwhile (after the son uses the father's self-made success as an argument that college isn't necessary).
* The title character in ''[[Ernest P. Worrell|Ernest Goes To School]]'' has to redo 12th grade to keep his job since the school board require all school employees to have a high school diploma.
* Nick Rivers from ''[[Top Secret]]'' appears to be back to school, painfully, in the middle of the movie. He is tremendously relieved when he realizes he was only being tortured by two goons and that was just a nightmare he had when he passed out.
* ''[[Larry Crowne]]'' is a fairly realistic version: Larry went into the Navy right out of college and only goes when he
* In ''[[Main Hoon Na]]'' Ram [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this trope as his cover as a college student on his thirties, by claiming that he is retaking the education he had to abandon to take care of his family, when in truth he is a [[One Man Army|highly prepared general]] that actually infiltrated the institution to investigate a terrorist cell targeting it (and reconciliate with his long lost half brother on the side).
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* On ''[[Married... with Children]]'', Peg discovers that she never graduated from high school because she was one credit short (she failed Home Economics), so she enrolls in Kelly's home ec. class and the two have to prepare Jell-O and crowned rack of lamb for their final exam. Peg's project gets eaten by Al, and, in true Bundy fashion, Peg steals Kelly's Jell-O dish and turns it in as her own, thus allowing her to finally get her diploma, and forcing Kelly to go to summer school.
** Peg talks Kelly into thinking she's going to have a great summer, allowing Peg to walk away. Kelly finally catches on ... many seconds later.
* Jill on ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', after she got laid off from her journalistic employment. Her education lasted through the remainder of the series' run.
* This was the premise of the Rhea Perlman [[Sitcom]] ''[[Series/Pearl|Pearl]]''. Pearl was a mature woman from modest up-bringings. When she realized she had missed out on a lot, she decided to go back to college, in spite of her grown son's protests. She made a bunch of new, but weird, friends and was constantly in conflict with her snob philosophy professor (played by [[Malcolm McDowell]]).
* The entire premise of ''[[Community]]'' is that the main character is forced to go back to college and earn his bachelor's after the government learned his was a fake. It is also revealed that {{spoiler|Senior Chang}} did the same thing and will be joining the group as a student the next semester.
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