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* Used as the moral in a [[Sonic the Hedgehog|"Sonic Sez"]] segment.
* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' used this trope ''twice'': in "Hex Games" (Vicky cheats at skateboarding) and "Fairly Oddlympics" (the Anti-Fairies and the Pixies cheat at everything). "The Big Bash" is an aversion: Remy cheats, but ties with Timmy.
** The chapter book ''Scout's Honor'' provides another contest between Timmy and Remy, with [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|the latter cheating using his money]]. It's thanks to Cosmo and Wanda exposing Remy's cheating that Timmy wins the bet.
* The bullies at the end of ''[[Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown]]'' use some really nasty tricks (even life-threatening to the Peanuts gang), but at the end can't reach the finish line due to their raft sinking.
* Mertle from ''[[Lilo and& Stitch: The Series]]'' does this constantly through every contest she and Lilo are in and actually manages to get away with it in some cases. In a dog show contest, she sabotaged Stitch's water by placing caffeine in it (if you saw the movie you know what it does to Stitch) and ended up winning the contest. But conceded the trophy because the duo helped rescue her dog (actually an experiment) from Gantu. Another case was that she used an experiment against Lilo (not that Lilo didn't use it first) and once again won, but she overbinged on the prize (a supply of sno cones) making it a case of [[Was It Really Worth It?|Not Worth It]]. The trope is play straight during a quiz contest between their two families, Mertle uses one of her friend to feed her the answers through a earpiece. Lilo finds out halfway though the contest and uses the a experiment at the time to incapacitate Mertle's helper. Come next round Mertle's on her own and promptly loses.
* In an episode of ''[[South Park]]'', Cartman pretends to be mentally handicapped in order to enter the Special Olympics. Unfortunately for him, he's not actually athletic and comes in dead last.
** In the same episode, Jimmy uses steroids to win, and then because of what Cartman does he gives up his medal (given to him by a group of steroid-abusing athletes). He then gives a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] about why people who use steroids are terrible people, while Barry Bonds grins in the background.
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