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* In the [[Woody Woodpecker]] short ''Ski For Two'', Woody attempts to enter a lodge owned by Wally Walrus, only to be rejected due to the lodge only allowing those with reservations to stay there. So Woody promptly gives him lots of reservations...or rather, reservations Woody has made to other resorts and lodges.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** Inverted and subverted in an episode where Homer enters a ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' style contest as a robot. He is about to be awarded a trophy by one of the two judges. There a protest that he can't do that.
{{quote|'''Announcer 1:''' Tell me where in the rule book it says that a human can't participate in a robot fighting competition!
'''Announcer 2:''' Right here, rule number 1. }}
:* In "Lisa the Beauty Queen", Lisa is surprised by Amber's eyelash implants, as she thought that process was illegal. "Not in Paraguay," says another contestant.
* ''[[South Park]]'': There also ain't no rule that a peewee hockey team can't stand in for the Colorado Avalanche against the Detroit Red Wings.
** You can't get away with saying "shit" on television once according to standards and practices. Use it [[Cluster F-Bomb|162 times]] and you can quite literally [[Get Shit Past The Radar]] via [[Refuge in Vulgarity]].
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* ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Ain't No Rule that says a 45-year-old high school dropout can't come back and play the last game of the season for his old team, just for the sake of tying a record.<ref>In [[Real Life]] there is.</ref>
** You need Haz-Mat certification to drive a Haz-mat vehicle, but you don't need one to drive a tow truck ''carrying a Haz-mat vehicle.''
** Dale wants a guard tower built on his property, but always gets rejected by the zoning board. He abuses the loophole by building the tower below mimimum zoning standards making it a shorter and narrower than minimum height and area and not build a foundation. The inspector notices this and calls Dale a complete imbecile. The tower soon collapses.
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': Ain't no rule that a chicken can't have whatever job he wants. Of course, no matter how well Chicken Boo does, he'll still get run out of town once he's found out.
* In an episode of ''Noddy In Toytown'', Noddy is attempting to tow a giant jelly with his car, only for it to become unhitched as he is going up a hill, so it rolls back down it. The jelly rolls into Toytown where Noddy is finally able to stop it. An amused Mr. Plod (the policeman) sees the jelly and consults his rule book, and while there is a section on jelly there is nothing against the law over speeding jellies.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'': Puck in his opening episode manages off Loophole Abuse multiple times. Demona just didn't learn. Puck: "Did you say, ''that'' human, or that ''human''? Ah, I'll figure it out myself." And then he {{spoiler|turns said human into a gargoyle, thus ridding Demona of that ''human''. Later, he twisted another wish and turned all humans in Manhattan into Gargoyles. When Demona wished them to be turned humans, he took advantage of the fact she didn't specify which gargoyles she wanted to be turned into humans and turned Goliath's group into humans, which made Demona angrier until Puck pointed out that, as humans, Goliath's group would be easier to defeat. However, Gargoyle Eliza helped them to defeat Demona. After the Gargoyles released Puck from her grasp, he granted Demona a final wish: no longer turning stone at sunlight. He twisted the wish by turning her human instead of stone, much to her horror.}}
* In Disney's ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'', Madam Mim immediately sets ground rules for her [[Shapeshifter Showdown]] with Merlin, among which is this: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lzf1XroT6w "No make-believe things," specifically, "Pink dragons and stuff."] Of course being a foul cheat, she never had any intention of following them including at the climax when she becomes a purple dragon. When Merlin tries to call her out on this, she simply responds with, "Did I say 'No ''purple'' dragons?' ''Did I!?''" Of course, the "and stuff..." part of her "rules" clearly implies she did, but she's beyond caring at this point.
** She has no loophole to excuse her turning invisible, though.
* ''[[The Fairly
** Also Timmy pretty much always defeats the pixies using a loophole in one of their ironclad contracts.
** In the episode where Timmy ran away from home, Cosmo and Wanda took him to a carnival-themed park instead of a circus. Circuses are bound by certain child labor laws carnivals don't have to obey ("they barely obey the laws of physics!") or so Cosmo told Timmy when he explained it was not a circus.
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* In ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' the monks in training are faced with a circular obstacle course that they must complete by taking a small statue off a pedestal at the end. All of them compete for the best time until Clay looks at the obstacle course for a few moments and then turns around and takes the statue, setting an unbreakable record. In Zen (sorta) tradition this is the correct result, and their master confirms this.
** Similarly Jack and Omi had a showdown in which they had to get to the end of an obstacle course with a glass of water "Without spilling a single drop". So Omi held the water in his mouth for the last leg of the course and ran.
** Happens quite frequently in the show, actually. For example, the challenge in which the monks need to steal a small idol from Master Fung. Master Fung then decides to smash the idol, preventing the monks from being physically able to win the challenge.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' had the thrice held-back student on a 4th-grade against 5th-grade football game. The student is...well, let's just say they had to bring the class picture to prove it. Of course, it backfires when he trips and twists his ankle thirty seconds after the game starts.
* In a "U.S. Acres" segment of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Roy Rooster goes on the [[Show Within a Show|Buddy Bears show]] as "Big Bad Buddy Bird". He becomes the victim of a twisted version of [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]], getting a sixteen ton safe dropped on his head for having even the slightest disagreement with the group. Getting fed up, he refuses to do anymore acting until the bears promise not to drop a sixteen ton safe on him. They promise, only to drop ''two'' sixteen ton safes on him. A later episode has him rejoin them, after having made sure they won't drop any permutation of 16-ton safes on him. Instead they drop other objects, including a much heavier type of safe on him.
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** '''Mission Ed-Possible''': When Edd was given the job to ensure that the report cards Ed and Eddy get to their parents, the principal didn't prohibit Edd from getting "help" on his job, {{spoiler| hence why Rolf was recruited.}}
* The Disney short ''The Art Of Self Defense'' has Goofy attempting to exploit the "No hitting below the belt" rule twice in a row against his opponent by hitching his pants up to his armpits (which gets him punched in the face) and eventually up to where only the top of his head is exposed (his opponent merely pounds him there.)
* In an episode of ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'', the doctor cuts Bugs off his caffeine. In [[The Stinger]] it's revealed that the doctor told him "One cup of coffee a day can't hurt"...so he just bought a really gigantic coffee cup.
* Invoked by Kuzco in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'', after he has been turned into a llama and goes back on a deal sealed with hand-shake: "The funny thing about shaking hands.. you need hands!" (Cheerfully waves his hooves.)
* Averted in ''[[The Legend of Korra]]''. Judging from the response when Korra earthbends during a probending game, it doesn't sound like there are any actual rules about bending an element other than your own (since only one person in the world actually can). The judges insist that Korra limit herself to waterbending anyway.
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* In ''[[Doug| Doug is a Slave for the Day]]'', Doug is forced to become Judy's slave in order to keep her from telling their mom, Theda, that his football resulted in a broken vase. Doug grows frustrated until he remembers that there was a way out... he was to tell Theda himself since the contact he was forced to sign by Judy didn't say who has to be tell her, thus he would be freed under the contact upon this. {{spoiler| Doug gets grounded for breaking the vase and not telling her sooner than he should of. However, it appears that Theda wanted Judy to be punished for her role though it wasn't mention, so she allows Doug to speak with Judy since being grounded was harsh enough. Because he got grounded but freed from the contact, [[Unishment| Doug give Judy a taste of her treatment]] and made her into a slave during that week.}}
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