Plagiarism in Fiction: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[The West Wing]]'', "20 Hours in America, Part 2":

** Which itself is a pre-existing saying.

* In ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', Corky's husband was accused of plagiarism of the childrens' book he was writing. The issue is eventually resolved in his favor when Corky's diary is read in court and expresses her [[This Trope Is Bleep|bleeping]] frustration with her husband's work as it was going on.

* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''[[Wild World of Batwoman]]'', Joel and the bots watch a short educational film simply entitled "Cheating". They have a field day with it.

** Afterwards, Joel assigns the robots to write essays on cheating. Gypsy's essay is: "Cheating is bad. Richard Baseheart is good." Crow T. Robot's essay is copied from Gypsy's.

* A major plot arc in ''[[Californication]]'' is when the young woman Hank slept with in the first episode is revealed to be Mia, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Hank's ex-wife's new fiancé, who goes on to steal the manuscript for his new book and threaten to reveal that they had sex (which would get him charged with statutory rape) if he tells.

== Music ==

* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s ''Lobachevsky'':

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.

== Western Animation ==

* In ''[[Futurama]]'''s episode "Anthology of Interest I", Fry discovers the "Fry Hole":

'''Stephen Hawking:''' Who is ''The Journal of Quantum Physics'' going to believe? }}

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''

** "The Day the Violence Died":

Huckleberry Hound, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Chief Wiggum]], [[Yogi Bear]]? <br />

Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney. }}

* 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.

* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Weight Gain 4000", Cartman wins the essay contest. Wendy reveals that the paper is ''Walden'' with [[Henry David Thoreau]]'s name replaced with his. The townspeople don't care and she expresses her anger.

* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', one of the tangent gags shows Einstein working in a patent office. A man walks in wanting to patent his theory of relativity, and Einstein knocks him out and steals it.

** He's later shown doing the same thing to [[God]], after he invented shrinky dinks.