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* In the [[Woody Woodpecker]] short ''Ski For Two'', Woody attempts to enter a lodge owned by Wally Walrus, only to be rejected due to the lodge only allowing those with reservations to stay there. So Woody promptly gives him lots of reservations...or rather, reservations Woody has made to other resorts and lodges.
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Inverted and subverted in an episode where Homer enters a ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' style contest as a robot. He is about to be awarded a trophy by one of the two judges. There a protest that he can't do that.
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'''Announcer 2:''' Right here, rule number 1. }}
:* "Opposites A-Frack": Homer informs Patty and Selma about a smoking ban including smoke alarms, in reality he just don't want them in his home while their place is being treated for mold. Patty and Selma tried E-Cigarettes before realizing that there wasn't any smoke alarms in the downstairs washroom. This ended up being '''subverted''' when they tried to cover up their smoking by turning on the water, that resulted in their plan exploding in front of them, {{spoiler| thanks to the hydrofracking operation done by Mr. Burns.}}
:* In "Lisa the Beauty Queen", Lisa is surprised by Amber's eyelash implants, as she thought that process was illegal. "Not in Paraguay," says another contestant.
* ''[[South Park]]'': There also ain't no rule that a peewee hockey team can't stand in for the Colorado Avalanche against the Detroit Red Wings.
** You can't get away with saying "shit" on television once according to standards and practices. Use it [[Cluster F-Bomb|162 times]] and you can quite literally [[Get Shit Past The Radar]] via [[Refuge in Vulgarity]].
** How they got away with Muhammad in episodes 200 and 201 by using various costumed and concealing methods in script, all [[Played for Laughs]]. Of course, then they [[Screwed
* ''The Bots Master'' had a robot playing children's baseball since each team was allowed one robot. (for carrying equipment but the rule didn't specify)
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'', there is no rule that Ron can't try out for the Cheer Squad...and there ''really is'' no such rule. This episode struck a sore spot with many fans since male cheerleaders are not just common, but actually ''required'' in many cheer-squads. Apart from providing support for physically taxing performances, many school districts in the United States have rules ''requiring'' at least one male cheerleader on the squad for legal and ethical reasons. Anti-discriminations clauses in many state statues stipulate that if a school does not make available gender-segregated options for both genders for each school activity then existing programs must be made available to ''both'' genders.
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* ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Ain't No Rule that says a 45-year-old high school dropout can't come back and play the last game of the season for his old team, just for the sake of tying a record.<ref>In [[Real Life]] there is.</ref>
** You need Haz-Mat certification to drive a Haz-mat vehicle, but you don't need one to drive a tow truck ''carrying a Haz-mat vehicle.''
** Dale wants a guard tower built on his property, but always gets rejected by the zoning board. He abuses the loophole by building the tower below mimimum zoning standards making it a shorter and narrower than minimum height and area and not build a foundation. The inspector notices this and calls Dale a complete imbecile. The tower soon collapses.
* ''[[
* In an episode of ''Noddy In Toytown'', Noddy is attempting to tow a giant jelly with his car, only for it to become unhitched as he is going up a hill, so it rolls back down it. The jelly rolls into Toytown where Noddy is finally able to stop it. An amused Mr. Plod (the policeman) sees the jelly and consults his rule book, and while there is a section on jelly there is nothing against the law over speeding jellies.
* ''[[
* In Disney's ''[[The Sword in
** She has no loophole to excuse her turning invisible, though.
* ''[[The Fairly
** Also Timmy pretty much always defeats the pixies using a loophole in one of their ironclad contracts.
** In the episode where Timmy ran away from home, Cosmo and Wanda took him to a carnival-themed park instead of a circus. Circuses are bound by certain child labor laws carnivals don't have to obey ("they barely obey the laws of physics!") or so Cosmo told Timmy when he explained it was not a circus.
** In ''School's out! The Musical'', Flappy Bob made his [[Heel Face Turn]] since he knows about loopholes, {{spoiler|thanks to his law education which switch the world from dull to colorful}}. When the Pixies remind him of the contact he signed with them, all Bob had to do is show them the loophole on what {{spoiler| “he”}} defines as fun, not {{spoiler| The Pixies}}.
** In '''Chin Up!''', it's reveal that there isn't rule against fairies going to conventions where people are in costumes since they're easily mistaken for follow attendees, like a comic-book convention.
** In it's [[Live Action Adaptation]], ''[[A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner
* In ''[[
** Similarly Jack and Omi had a showdown in which they had to get to the end of an obstacle course with a glass of water "Without spilling a single drop". So Omi held the water in his mouth for the last leg of the course and ran.
** Happens quite frequently in the show, actually. For example, the challenge in which the monks need to steal a small idol from Master Fung. Master Fung then decides to smash the idol, preventing the monks from being physically able to win the challenge.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' had the thrice held-back student on a 4th-grade against 5th-grade football game. The student is...well, let's just say they had to bring the class picture to prove it. Of course, it backfires when he trips and twists his ankle thirty seconds after the game starts.
* In a "U.S. Acres" segment of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', Roy Rooster goes on the [[Show Within a Show|Buddy Bears show]] as "Big Bad Buddy Bird". He becomes the victim of a twisted version of [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]], getting a sixteen ton safe dropped on his head for having even the slightest disagreement with the group. Getting fed up, he refuses to do anymore acting until the bears promise not to drop a sixteen ton safe on him. They promise, only to drop ''two'' sixteen ton safes on him. A later episode has him rejoin them, after having made sure they won't drop any permutation of 16-ton safes on him. Instead they drop other objects, including a much heavier type of safe on him.
** In "U.S. Acres" episode "Rooster Revenge", Roy's prank victims decided they should play some prank on him and Orson decided the worst thing he could do was "nothing". By NOT pranking Roy, Orson turned Roy's paranoia against him. In the end, Roy was visited by an inspector who looked like Orson with a fake mustache. By the time Orson appeared, making Roy realize the inspector wasn't him, Roy had already thrown the inspector into a mud waller. Enraged, the inspector threatened to transfer Roy to South Pole. The very idea frightened Roy into running away. The inspector was revealed to be Lanolin playing a prank. Just because Orson said "he" wouldn't do anything, that didn't mean "she" wouldn't.
** On [[Garfield and Friends |one quickie episode]], Garfield is told he should learn a skill while Jon was gone, but he wasn’t told on what. When Jon returned, Jon noticed that Garfield {{spoiler| used his credit card}}… at least he learn something.
* From the classic [[Warner Brothers]] cartoon ''Gone Batty'':
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* ''[[Laff-
** In another episode, there was a kangaroo race and the Really Rottens used a mechanical kangaroo instead of a real one. However, it wasn't considered cheating because "a kangaroo is a kangaroo". They won but, when it was revealed that Dirty and Dastardly Dalton were with Mumbly in the kangaroo, they were disqualified anyway because they couldn't have more than one athlete riding their kangaroo.
** In yet another episode, there was a three-legged race and the Really Rottens were running on a treadmill attached to a vehicle driven by Dread Baron, who tried to pass it as a legit strategy because all the rules required was that they runned on three legs during the race course. However, they were disqualified and lost 25 points for it and another 25 points for forging the rule book Dread Baron presented to trick the judges into thinking the trick was legal.
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* One episode of ''[[The Secret Show]]'' featured a clown who ran for the title of "World Leader". His strategy consisted of renaming himself after the ballot's instruction of where to insert the X and count on confused voters. Not only the strategy was declared legal, but it [[Refuge in Audacity|WORKED!]]
* In one episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'', Angelica's mother told her not to be mean to the other kids or she wouldn't get the new doll accessory she wanted. When she heard about people hiring assistants to do for people things they can't do themselves, she decided to pick a kid to be her assistant and be mean to the others on her behalf because she couldn't be mean herself. {{spoiler|Her mother caught her showing her "assistant" how to be mean, the plan backfired.}}
** In “Beauty Contest”, Lou convinces Stu to put Tommy in a [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Phineas and Ferb]] are kids, and thus don't have driver's licenses and aren't allowed to drive. Thus, they simply drive vehicles via remote controls.
* ''[[Ed Edd and Eddy]]'' had an example similair to the ''[[
** '''Stop, Look, Ed''': Ed goes underneath a patch of grass Double D tells him and Eddy to stay off. However, Double D did acknowledge that Ed wasn't "on the grass" and he's in dirt, which is technically okay.
** '''Mission Ed-Possible''': When Edd was given the job to ensure that the report cards Ed and Eddy get to their parents, the principal didn't prohibit Edd from getting "help" on his job, {{spoiler| hence why Rolf was recruited.}}
* The Disney short ''The Art Of Self Defense'' has Goofy attempting to exploit the "No hitting below the belt" rule twice in a row against his opponent by hitching his pants up to his armpits (which gets him punched in the face) and eventually up to where only the top of his head is exposed (his opponent merely pounds him there.)
* In an episode of ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'', the doctor cuts Bugs off his caffeine. In [[The Stinger]] it's revealed that the doctor told him "One cup of coffee a day can't hurt"...so he just bought a really gigantic coffee cup.
* Invoked by Kuzco in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* Averted in ''[[
** Technically, I suppose bending an element other than your own would be a uniform violation. You can't dress an earthbender as a waterbender in order to get around the rule that you have to have one bender of each element, identifiable by the uniform.
* ''[[Rocket Power]]'': In “Banned on the Run”, Merv Stimpleton was able to get skateboarding and rolling skating banned on the boardwalk, his wife, Violet, was upset with him because {{spoiler| he faked his injuries in order to get the ban passed}}. As the youth population rebel, Merv just didn’t care about unlike Violet did. However, Violet was able to help the children in a way by refusing to stop them from using the Stimpleton’s empty pool for their alternative as the law only applied to the boardwalk, not residential areas. {{Spoiler| Merv was finally convinced that a skate park was needed, in hopes the children get away from him, and Madtown Skate Park was born.}}
* In ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' episode, '''I Dare You''', the brothers were informed during a host of dangerous challenges by the Risk Keeper after Daggett if either one or both “chicken out”; they’re cursed to wear a sign that informs of their cowardice. However, during the last challenge to prove their bravery, they both forced each other out of the task. Just as they were about to be punished, the brothers got the last laugh {{spoiler| and made the Risk Keeper wear the sign}}. Daggett found a loophole since he and Norbert were forcing each out of the challenge; it didn’t count as cowardice because the rule only applies if done voluntary, NOT BY FORCE from one and another.
* In ''[[Doug| Doug is a Slave for the Day]]'', Doug is forced to become Judy's slave in order to keep her from telling their mom, Theda, that his football resulted in a broken vase. Doug grows frustrated until he remembers that there was a way out... he was to tell Theda himself since the contact he was forced to sign by Judy didn't say who has to be tell her, thus he would be freed under the contact upon this. {{spoiler| Doug gets grounded for breaking the vase and not telling her sooner than he should of. However, it appears that Theda wanted Judy to be punished for her role though it wasn't mention, so she allows Doug to speak with Judy since being grounded was harsh enough. Because he got grounded but freed from the contact, [[Unishment| Doug give Judy a taste of her treatment]] and made her into a slave during that week.}}
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