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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.
{{quote| '''Announcer 1:''' Tell me where in the rule book it says that a human can't participate in a robot fighting competition!<br />
'''Announcer 2:''' Right here, rule number 1. }}
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* ''[[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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** 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 Odd Parents]]''. Timmy and his friends are stuck in a horrible military school and his Fairy God Parents are trapped, in a vulnerable state at the end. With missiles pointed at them. They simply go around the last obstacle.
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** 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.
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* From the classic [[Warner Brothers]] cartoon ''Gone Batty'':
{{quote| "There's nothing in the rulebook that says an [[Animal Athlete Loophole|elephant can't pitch!]] PLAY BALL!"}}
* ''[[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.}}
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