Swapped Roles: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[MASH]]'', the 4077th decided to duplicate a British tradition of the officers and enlisted men switching places on Boxing Day (December 26). Potter suspects that Klinger isn't assigning him normal assistant duties, which is true - in order to make the duties ''normal'', he would also be sending Potter to Seoul to get oats for the Colonel's horse, among other things.

* In one episode of ''[[White Collar]]'', Neal and Peter pose as each other to encourage a witness to talk. It gets out of hand quickly.

* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' does this at least twice, once with the parents changing roles and once with Greg and Marcia swapping scout troops.

 

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' did the "kids and parents" version recently. Peter and Lois broke down after a couple days in high school while Chris did so well that Peter was fired and replaced by him. It seemed to be saying that "high school is hell" up until Chris got promoted and the additional workload drove him to alcoholism.

* Done with Skipper and King Julien in an episode of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]''. In a strange variant of this trope, Julien earns Skipper's praise for successfully handling that episode's mission (even if by accident), but at the end of the episode, they're back to being [[Friendly Enemy]].

** Another episode included Timmy wishing to be Cosmo and Wanda's fairy godparents, to prove that being a kid was harder than being a godparent. It quickly spirals out of control with Cosmo and Wanda having to tag in being the visible Timmy, along with curfew and Vicky, and Timmy constantly fails many times of getting magic down (he spent an entire night trying to turn into a goldfish with ''gills'').

** Timmy and his Mom once swapped roles. For most of the episode, Timmy seemed to be the only one regretting it but she eventually revealed she also wanted to undo the swap.

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