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== Western Animation ==

* Done once in ''[[Pig City]]'': the [[Sadist Teacher]] becomes the new Director; only to lose his job when students prove he doesn't know Latin, which is required to perform this function.

* An episode of ''[[Doug]]'' has Doug's ''entire class'' put into detention by [[Dean Bitterman|Vice-Principal Bone]]. This prompts a ''Quailman'' [[Show Within a Show|fantasy sequence]] where Doug's superheroic alter ego faces down the Rulesmeister, master of arbitrary rules, and eventually defeats him by pointing out he's wearing mismatched socks, one of the many things he has a rule against. This carries over back into reality, when Mr. Bone snatches a comic book...and Doug points out that one of the rules is "No ~~Snatching~~ Other Peoples' Comics!"

* An episode of ''[[Doug]]'' has Doug's ''entire class'' put into detention by [[Dean Bitterman|Vice-Principal Bone]]. This prompts a ''Quailman'' [[Show Within a Show|fantasy sequence]] where Doug's superheroic alter ego faces down the Rulesmeister, master of arbitrary rules, and eventually defeats him by pointing out he's wearing mismatched socks, one of the many things he has a rule against. This carries over back into reality, when Mr. Bone snatches a comic book...and Doug points out that one of the rules is "No Grabbing Other Peoples' Comics!"

* In the ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Hermes defeats [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] Morgan Proctor by uncovering an old "notification of romantic entanglement" form she had filed. The file wasn't used as proof of sexual impropriety, however: it was the fact that she had stamped it ''four'' times instead of the requisite five that got her demoted. However Hermes also got demoted for organizing the Central Bureaucracy ''too'' fast. {{spoiler|Morgan's offence was considered bigger than Hermes's. She, who was a Grade 19 bureaucrat before this defeat, was forced to turn her bureaucrat badge while Hermes was just demoted from Grade 36 to Grade 38. He was even promoted to Grade 37 for turning Morgan}}.