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* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode, "The Library", this is pretty such the entire plot as Jerry is confronted by a library investigations officer named [[Meaningful Name|Joe Bookman]].
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'': In "The Private Ear" episode, one of Greg's [[Dark Secrets]] that he doesn't want anyone to know about, but trusts Marcia to never reveal ... until Peter lets on to his big brother that he knows that the librarian isn't going to be very happy and that he'd better pay up big time, and that he might have to really face the music with the folks.
* This was the plot of an episode of ''[[Too Close for Comfort]]'', where Henry found a bag full of overdue books while cleaning out the storage closet, and spent the whole episode trying to get rid of them out of fear of paying thousands in fines. Eventually, he returned them and only had to do a small amount of community service, but the true irony came after doing so, when he realized he had ''never actually read them'' and [[Here We Go Again| decided to withdraw them again!]]
* In ''[[The Zack Files]]'', the pilot episode had Zack borrowed ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' and it was months overdue. He tries to get it back into the library without getting in trouble, only to realize a page of it had been torn out and stolen by Vernon. Being a [[Weirdness Magnet]], the torn page allowed the characters to come to life and put Zack on trial for the overdue book, were Vernon was eventually revealed to be the legitimate culprit.
* Averted on ''[[Newhart]]''. Larry, Darryl, and Darryl decide to make a time capsule and ask the other characters for donations. They have to dig it up after a week because one of the Darryls put a library book in it.
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