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A rather common plot in sitcoms is for a babysitter or neglectful parent to take the child (or more as sometimes happens) out to the park or somewhere for the day, usually a place where there will be plenty of other children around. Through [[Finagle's Law]] or the laws of sitcom universes, the parent will accidentally bring the wrong child home only realising this when it's too late. The rest of the episode will either have the minder trying to find the original baby or else just trying to conceal it from the parents. For obvious reasons this only happens with babies and extremely young toddlers. While it is common for the neglectful babysitter to be both male and female, if it is an actual parent bringing the wrong baby home it will always be the father. Do not confuse with [[Switched At Birth]].
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== Literature ==
* [[Discworld]]:
** As a child, Moist von Lipwig was [[The Nondescript]] to the point where his mom often came home with the wrong kid.
** In ''[[
== Live
* From ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' Carey gives us this little anecdote.
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'''Dad:''' "It was an easy mistake to make".
'''Carey:''' "They were girls". }}
* In ''[[Hope And Faith]]'' there's a variation where Faith starts using a baby doll to get an experience of what it feels like to be a mother. She takes the doll to the park and ends up coming home with a real baby. [[Dumb Blonde|Being Faith]] she initially thinks the doll came to life.
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* One episode of ''[[Friends]]'' had Joey and Chandler worried they'd done this to Ben (they left him on the bus by accident as well) but it turned out to be the right kid in the end.
* In ''[[Good Luck Charlie]]'', the teenage son hits on a girl with an identical baby carriage. Charlie is a girl, but this girl was carrying a boy with her. You can imagine what happened.
* In an episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Office]]'' episode "The Delivery" has a variation of this where Pam, while spending the night in the delivery room, ''breastfeeds'' the wrong baby(!)
== Western Animation ==
* One episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'' where Tommy and Angelica are staying with Didi's parents has the babies up in the attic but Grandpa Boris rushes outside and brings back in two obviously different children (two boys and much older as well).
* Inverted in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
* An episode of ''[[
* On the first [[Family Guy]] [[Star Wars]] special, Peter mentions that he and Lois got halfway home with the afterbirth before going back to the hospital and swapping it out for [[Butt Monkey|Meg]].
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