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* ''[[All Grown Up]]!'', "Bad Aptitude": Chuckie Finster's test result is race car driver (Phil DeVille: "Aren't you the guy who thinks escalators go too fast?"), would-be filmmaker Tommy Pickles' result is businessman (Tommy: "I think we ALL know I'm an artist")... the latter, as well as a string of flops (so to speak), prompts Tommy to reconsider filmmaking altogether.

* ''[[The Weekenders]]'', "Careers": Carver Descartes does not understand why he has gym teacher as his top choice (cue subverted [[Imagine Spot]]!), followed by a job in advertising, and dog trainer, as he's clearly inept at all of them. Meanwhile, [[The Ditz]] Lor MacQuarrie thinks she got physicist... turns out she misread the result and she has pro wrestler as her top choice. Unusually for the trope, the explanation for Carver (not so much Lor) is the real-world one: that they're just suggestions and can be flawed or overrated.

* ''[[Hey Arnold]]!'', "The Aptitude Test": This isn't a case of the test being faulty, but rather a mix-up of the collection of the test results that results in perennial dim bulb Harold Berman getting the best scores on the test since Olga Pataki... while Olga's little sister Helga has been saddled with woodsperson. (Mr. Simmons noticed that one test had the same answer to every question while the other test had been marked in purple ink.)

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'', "The Aptitude Test": This isn't a case of the test being faulty, but rather a mix-up of the collection of the test results that results in perennial dim bulb Harold Berman getting the best scores on the test since Olga Pataki... while Olga's little sister Helga has been saddled with woodsperson. (Mr. Simmons noticed that one test had the same answer to every question while the other test had been marked in purple ink.)

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'': "Career Day": An aptitude test pairs Zim's lust for devastation with a job in the fast food industry and pairs Dib with a paranormal investigator for a day. The investigator promptly ignores massive evidence of Zim's extraterrestrial origins to hunt down cereal mascot Count Chocofang.

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': One episode had Bart, after getting "police officer" on his test, becoming [[Yellow Sash of Power|a hall monitor]] and ally of Principal Skinner. Lisa, on the other hand, got "homemaker" and was told she'd never be a musician due to stubby fingers, resulting in her becoming a delinquent. [[Status Quo Is God]] hits when Lisa performs an expulsion-worthy offense (stealing all the teachers' guides) and Bart [[Taking the Bullet|takes the bullet]] for her, with Skinner toning down the punishment in light of his recent service.