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* 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.

{{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?}}

* Klarion (bum bum BUM!) the Witch Boy inverted this in an issue of ''[[Young Justice (Comic Book)|Young Justice]]''. "I would've got away with it if it wasn't for you meddling grown-ups." Which is even cooler if you realize the grown-ups in question were [[Freaky Friday|kids in grown-up bodies]].

* [[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]' teenaged protagonists, with help from [[Intrepid Reporter]] Sarah Jane, meddle often in the plans of would-be alien invaders.

* Seen at the end of an episode of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' in which Don, his team and his brother Charlie investigate spooky activity at a supposedly abandoned airbase. That was more of an inversion, though, as it was very ambiguous whether the person that said it was a villain at all, and he had helped them solve the case. He was also very wacky, talked in an invisible cell phone and appeared out of thin air. He also called three professors and an FBI agent meddling kids.

{{quote| ''"And I would have made it across too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!"''}}

* Happens often on ''[[The Monkees]]''.

* Said almost verbatim by the obnoxious aristocrat Ashton in the ''[[Suite Life On Deck]]'' episode "Kidney of the Sea" when London's dog Ivana literally sniffs out the evidence that he had attempt to frame Zack for grand theft.

 

 

{{quote| '''Curry''': I can't believe you dunit! How dare you do this to the Sleuthhound Inn!<br />

'''Harmoire''': And I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids! }}

{{quote| '''Ganondorf:''' The great Evil King Ganondorf, beaten by this kid?!}}

** Link has pretty much made a career of being this trope. Granted, destiny usually plays a hand in it, but even when it doesn't, he's still prone to meddling in whatever plan some villain is brewing up.

* When [[Donald Duck]] foils one of his plans to shut down the [[House of Mouse]], Pete remarks that he "would've gotten away with it if it weren't that meddling duck!"

* In an episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Kim cuts off a villain's post-foiling rant, citing the "meddling kids" line as cliche. The villain denies he was going to say it, but no one believes him.

{{quote| '''[[The Joker]]:''' "And they would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for me meddling with the kids!"}}

* Subverted in the relatively new (as of 2009) PBS Kids series "Martha Speaks," in which the villain, being taken to jail, says "[The plan] would have worked, too, if it wasn't for... it not working."

'''Harvey''': "These meddling kids..."<br />

'''Old Man Backoff''': No, the damn cotton market! }}

{{quote| '''Mr O'Neill:''' Oh.. hello... where am I?<br />

'''Daria:''' I can't believe it, it's Mr O'Neill!<br />

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