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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* There is an ''[[Archie Comics|Archie]]'' issue where Archie and Jughead solve a crime and the crooks are being led away in restraints by the police. One crook complains about being stopped by a bunch of dumb kids and Jughead fires back "This 'dumb kid' is not the one wearing handcuffs!"
* In [[The DCU]], Dick Grayson and Tim Drake investigate the sabotage of Grayson's circus. Eventually, they crack the case and caught the crooks. When one of the crooks says this quote, Grayson dismisses it saying that they were sloppy and the police would have figured it out on their own. However, since that would have created some really embarrassing press for the circus, it was better that the once and future Robins took care of this.
* The ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' story in the second-to-last issue of the ''[[Animaniacs]]'' comic book gave a [[Shout-Out]] to this in the form of Pinky's response to that issue's [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]?:
{{quote|'''Pinky:''' I think so, Brain. But would the villains really ''have'' gotten away with it, if it weren't for those pesky kids and their dog?}}
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the Second ''[[Golden Sun]]'' game, one of the Pirates delivers the line if you visit them in jail after turning them over to the local government.
* An optional line of dialogue in ''[[Sonic Chronicles]]''. If you know how this goes, you'll know what to say.
* Baron K. Roolenstein, the main antagonist of ''[[Donkey Kong Country|Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble]]'', uses this line verbatim after his robot KAOS is defeated a second time.
* In ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'', the Team Aqua/Magma goons accuse you of being a meddling kid after you stop them from stealing the Devon Goods ''again'' in Slateport.
* Used by the Prophet in [[Final Fantasy X
* ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth|Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' has this at the end.
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Quercus Alba}}:''' And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling prosecutors!}}
* In the web game [http://armorgames.com/play/2900/sonny-2 Sonny 2], one villain says this after being defeated and unmasked. This is clearly a lampshade, as the characters in question are not actually kids.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0181.html Defeated Eternion says a variant of this line] in ''[[Adventurers!]]'' (He then follows it up with a double [[My Friends and Zoidberg]])
{{quote|'''Eternion:''' "And I would have got away with it too if it wasn't for you pesky adventurers!"}}
* Used word for word in [http://eecomics.net/?strip_id=1061 this] strip of [[Emergency Exit]] by the villain's second in command
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** ''A Pup Named [[Scooby Doo]]'' consistently added "...and that mangy mutt!" and this seems to have become the most quoted version.
** Also played with in recent installments, such as when a villain attributes his capture to an unrelated character who'd tripped him as he was fleeing, or when two 10-year-old perpetrators claim they'd have gotten away with it, "if it wasn't for you meddling grown-ups!"
** Scooby Doo is even referred to as "those meddling kids" on Boomerang.
** Similar sentiments were often expressed in other [[Hanna-Barbera]] [[Follow the Leader|shows about crime-fighting teen with comic pet sidekicks]]: ''[[Josie and the Pussy Cats]]'', ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids]]'', ''The Funky Phantom'', ''[[Speed Buggy]]'', ''Clue Club'', and ''[[Jabberjaw]]''.
*** ''[[Cartoon Network|Boomerang]]'' has a block devoted to such shows. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDwQwM1cLU Guess the name...]
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'''Sheriff''': ''Meddling''.
'''"Monster"''': Meddling, yes, meddling kids, and your blasted dog ruined everything! }}
*** The series then proceeds to goof around with it by making it a [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]. Often just "you meddling [X]", but sometimes a more involved joke including thanking the meddling kids, blaming the meddling kids only to have them point out that others were responsible for the capture, avoiding the phrase altogether and lampshading that something's missing, or even cutting off the line claiming that it's been overdone.
*** Outright parodied when the criminal is one of the other kids at the gang's school, who points out that if he would have got away with it, "if it weren't for you meddling...peers."
** In ''Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire'', the group investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding a music festival by posing as a band. Naturally, they're known as "Those Meddling Kids". Similarly, it's the name of one of the songs by recurring characters the Hex Girls.
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* Averted in the 100th episode of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', (in a Scooby Doo parody, no less) when the number 100's dubious plan is foiled.
{{quote|"And I would have succeeded, too, if it weren't for the fact that I failed."}}
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' [[The Movie]] ends like this when the villain Scheck gets arrested for illegal demolition said, "And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for that meddling football head, that kid with all the hair, and that brat with the one eyebrow.
* Episode 4 of ''[[The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan]]'' has the crook calling the children "lousy kid detectives" after Anne and Flip foil his escape.
* In the ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' video "Esther, The Girl Who Became Queen," the French Peas exclaim they would have successfully crushed King Xerxes with a piano "...if it wasn't for that meddling queen!"
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