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* [[Discworld]]:
** As a child, Moist von Lipwig was [[The Nondescript]] to the point where his mom often came home with the wrong kid.
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Jingo|Jingo]]'', an Ankh-Morpork fisherman and a Klatchian fisherman stumble on the newly-risen island of Leshp at the same time. When the two men realize that they can't lay claim to it for their respective nations unless they get home first, each grabs for his boy's arm and rushes back to his boat ... and then returns, lambasting the other man as a kidnapper, to swap for his own boy.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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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 ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'', Chang attempts to get on Shirley's good side by picking up her kids and showing he can be a good dad. Too bad he picks up ''someone else's'' kids.
* ''[[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 (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' where Grandpa is meant to babysit Bart and Lisa and goes to the Flanders' house by mistake.
* An episode of ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' has Dexter invoke this when he find an [[Identical Stranger]] with parents who are science geniuses like him. They swap temporarily and the parents never know the difference (despite the kids looking quite distinct from each other).
* 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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