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** Also the first-season episode "Bart The Genius", where Bart switches his IQ test answers with nerdy Martin's and gets transferred into a school for gifted children as a result.
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', "Average Joe": Dexter is dejected after being rated "average" in an IQ test. During the rest of the episode, he tries (and fails) to be an "average" kid doing "average" stuff with "average" friends, with absurdly catastrophic results: he ends up running around in his old baby clothes because they're [[Limited Wardrobe|his only non-scientist outfit]], he starts hanging out with a shiftless slacker and trying to use a mish-mash of [[Totally Radical]] slang, and he ends up getting caught during a game of Ding-Dong Ditch when he forgets to run away after ringing the doorbell of a crotchety old man. At the end of the show, Dexter's dad gets a phone call saying Dexter is a big freaking genius after all.
* An episode of ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey]]'' had the main
* In "''[[Doug]]'''s Career Anxiety," a testing mix-up by the vapid guidance counselor's computer puts Doug as CEO for the class project, and everyone else lands in similarly mismatched roles, until Doug gets fed up and decides to let everyone choose their own jobs.
* [[Daria|Jane Lane]] is apparently perfectly suited to be an accountant. Of course, this is because she fills in "C" for every question in order to get it over and done with. Daria is supposed to become a mortician, which may or may not be fitting.
** Arguably, the psychological test Daria and Quinn took in the [[Pilot]] which somehow diagnosed Daria with low self-esteem and Quinn with nothing. Daria certainly does not have low self-
* In the ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' episode "Johnny Get Your Tutu", Johnny fills out an aptitude test, but accidentally sends Susie's abstract picture instead and the result of "ballerina". At the end of the episode, it turns out that his ''actual'' result is "cracking rocks with his head".
* ''[[Pepper Ann]]'' had an episode surrounding it, while Pepper and Milo had no problem with their assignment, their [[Granola Girl]] friend Nicky ended up with the result "Butcher", with her screeching that she was a ''Vegetarian'' when she read the results. Cue a day of misery at the local butcher shop until the owner explained to her that those aptitude tests were bunk ("Heck, they told me I was going to be a 2nd violinist")
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