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|'''[[Stephen Hawking]]''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "They Saved Lisa's Brain"}}
[[Plagiarism]] is essentially taking the work of others and attempting to pass it off as one's own. There is a lot more to it than that. If you care about that, look it up on [[wikipedia:Plagiarism|Wikipedia]], WestLaw, or [[Plagiarism|this page]]. Around here, we're more concerned with plagiarism showing up as the topic of a story. The more complicated plots may involve [[Time Travel]], with somebody discovering that [[Shakespeare]] has been earning acclaim for years [[Stable Time Loop|for the play he accidentally left in the past]]. A more common plot involves a [[Ridiculous Procrastinator]] trying to pass off a straight-A older sibling's report or assignment as their own, eventually getting busted because the teacher recognizes it.
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== [[Music]] ==
* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s
{{quote|''I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.''
''In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:''
''Plagiarize!
* The title track of Cledus T Judd's album ''I Stoled This Record'' is "Stoled: The Copyright Infringement Incident", a parody of a John Michael Montgomery song that talks about plagiarizing a song and being taken to jail for it.
* "This Song" by [[George Harrison]] may or may not count, given that it's a semi-autobiographical song about a real-life incident of plagiarism that also went before a judge: ''Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music'', the "My Sweet Lord" case.
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Huckleberry Hound, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Chief Wiggum]], [[Yogi Bear]]?
Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney. }}
** And ironically, the elder Meyers was also a victim of plagiarism, it seems, the U.S. Post Office having stolen his "Maniac Mailman" idea for the Mr. Zip design.
** "Fraudcast News": Millhouse, who has joined the staff of Lisa's newspaper, ''The Red Dress Press'', admits he fabricated and copied content from other newspapers.
** Krusty is a repeat offender:
*** In "Krusty Gets Kancelled" Gabbo steals Krusty's crank-call routine, which Lisa points out Krusty had stolen from Steve Allen.
*** "Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part 2)" Krusty is upset that Smithers stole his joke, although Mel tells him that ''he'' had stolen it from an episode of a show called ''Pardon My Zinger''. This is actually a clue that clears Smithers of the crime; the episode aired around the same time that Burns was shot, so if Smithers was at home watching the show, he couldn't have been the shooter.
*** And in "Homie the Clown":
{{quote|'''Woman:''' ''[over intercom]'' [[George Carlin]] on three.
'''Krusty:''' ''[answers phone]'' Yeah?... Lawsuit? Oh, come on. My "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" bit was ''entirely'' different from your "Seven Words You Can't Say on TV" bit. ...So I'm a thief, am I? Well, excuuuse me! ''[to his accountant]'' Give him ten grand.
'''Woman:''' [[Steve Martin]] on four.
'''Krusty:''' Ten grand.}}
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', after Bobby was given full credit from an essay that Peggy wrote and considered a good writer, he took her Musings papers and hand it to his classmates to give them good essay grades.
* In an episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', Phoebe steals a poem from a book and passes it off as her own until the guilt drives her insane.
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** In another episode, police officer Reese arrives at the scene of an accident, where the two barely-alive victims mention that one's peanut butter got in another's chocolate, and vice versa. After Reese tastes the chocolate/PB mixture, he promptly shoots them both so he can steal the recipe.
* In ''[[Gargoyles|Cloud Fathers]]'', Xanatos captures Coyote the Native American [[Trickster Archetype]] with [[One Steve Limit|Coyote]], a robot minion that [[Once an Episode|gets destroyed every episode he appears in]]. Coyote says that he should sue Xanatos "for trademark infringement." Subverted in that Xanatos himself considers the robot a tribute.
* In ''[[DuckTales (1987)|DuckTales]]'', Scrooge's rival Flintheart Glomgold admits - in his seminar for new employees, no less - that his success hinges on taking existing ideas and passing them off as his own.
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