Recycled in Space/Western Animation

• In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "100", the theme from the in-story "reimagining" ends with the words 'in space'.
• Silverhawks is Thundercats IN SPACE! (Compare Mumm-ra's and Mon-starr's Transformation Sequences.) It even used most of the same voice actors. Rather odd in that Thundercats is in space in the first place...
• On a related note, Tigersharks (part of a short-lived programming block called The Comic Strip) is Silverhawks... UNDER WATER! Who lives like the Thundercats under the sea? The... Ti... Ger... Sharks!
• The Flintstones is The Honeymooners AS CARTOON CAVEMEN!
• The Jetsons is The Flintstones IN THE FUTURE! (A crossover cartoon, titled The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones, pretty much cements this notion.)
  • IN SPACE!
• South Park played it completely straight. There was an episode Starvin' Marvin, followed two seasons later with Starvin' Marvin IN SPACE.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars seems to love it, especially during the second season:
  • "Senate Spy" episode was Notorious IN SPACE, according to the writers.
  • "Landing at Point Rain" was (again, according to the producers) the first act of Saving Private Ryan IN SPACE.
  • "Legacy of Terror" and "Brain Invaders" are Zombie Apocalypse IN SPACE.
  • "Bounty Hunters" is Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress IN SPACE, indicated by the memory card at the beginning.
    • George Lucas was heavily influenced by Kurosawa. Guess which Kurosawa film's influence stands out most in the original Star Wars movie.
  • "Zillo Beast" is Godzilla IN SPACE, while "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back" is more like King Kong IN SPACE.
  • Cad Bane was designed to be Lee Van Cleef IN SPACE.
• Stone Trek is Star Trek AS CARTOON CAVEMEN!
• The Roman Holidays is Make Room For Daddy IN ANCIENT ROME!
• There is an Animated Adaptations of The Partridge Family set IN THE FUTURE! (It was originally to be The Jetsons a few years farther into the future.)
• Inspector Gadget is Get Smart AS A CARTOON CYBORG! (Maxwell Smart and Inspector Gadget were both played by Don Adams.)
  • It was followed by Gadget Boy and Heather, which was Inspector Gadget AS A SIX-YEAR-OLD! With Penny AS AN ADULT! And Brain AS A ROBOT! And Chief Quimby AS AN ITALIAN!
  • You can also make the case of Inspector Gadget being RoboCop rebuilt out of Maxwell Smart instead of Alex Murphy.
• There was an IN SPACE! Animated Adaptation of Gilligans Island, titled Gilligan's Planet.
• The original animated version of The Addams Family was ON THE ROAD IN A HOUSE-SHAPED CAR! The 90's version was essentially just an Animated Adaptation of the movies, though.
• Loonatics Unleashed is Looney Tunes IN THE FUTURE AS Animesque SUPERHEROES!
  • More like Loonatics Unleashed is Teen Titans WITH LOONEY TUNE CHARACTERS!, since that's how it was pretty much described in the original PR announcement.
  • Speaking of Looney Tunes, Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner is a cat and mouse cartoon IN THE DESERT.
• Duck Dodgers is DAFFY DUCK IN THE 24TH-AND-A-HALF CENTURY!
  • "Yosemite Sam of Outer Space!"
• The Flintstones, Looney Tunes, and Scooby Doo all have AS KIDS! spinoffs. Even if in the original, there's a scene where they met for the first time, they knew each other as kids and have forgotten. Yo, Yogi! which features Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, etc. AS KIDS!
• On the subject of Scooby Doo, we have:
  • Jabberjaw -- Scooby UNDERWATER, WITH A SHARK!
  • Speed Buggy -- WITH A TALKING CAR!
  • Clue Club -- WITH TWO DOGS!
  • The Funky Phantom -- WITH A GHOST FROM THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THAT'S A SNAGGLEPUSS EXPY!
  • The New Shmoo -- WITH A SHMOO!
    • What's a shmoo?
      • Nothin', what's shmoo with you?
  • Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels -- WITH AN UNFROZEN CAVEMAN SUPERHERO!
  • Fangface -- WITH A WEREWOLF!
  • Josie and the Pussy Cats -- WITH A CAT AND A GIRL GROUP IN CAT SUITS!
    • Of course, there was also Josie and the Pussycats IN OUTER SPACE!
  • Goober and The Ghost Chasers -- ... THE DOG TURNS INVISIBLE? AND HIS BEST HUMAN FRIEND IS RECKLESS!
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids -- WITH A SUPERCOMPUTER THAT SNEEZES
  • The Moral of the Story: Hanna-Barbera knew how to run an idea INTO THE GROUND! And parody it with Scooby Doo IN HOLLYWOOD!
• Yogis Space Race was Wacky Races -- IN SPACE!
• Gravedale High is Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT Rick Moranis REPLACES SCOOBY, SHAGGY, AND SCRAPPY IN THAT STORY AS A TEACHER RATHER THAN AN ATHLETIC DIRECTOR! AND THE STUDENTS AT THE SCHOOL ARE BOTH MALE AND FEMALE!
• Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is Sherlock Holmes... IN THE TWENTY-SECOND CENTURY! (No shit, Sherlock.)
• Ninja Turtles Fast Forward is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IN THE FUTURE!
• The French/Japanese series Ulysses 31 is Homer's The Odyssey set IN THE 31ST CENTURY IN SPACE!
• The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang is Happy Days WITH TIME TRAVEL!
• Aversion. The Futurama writing staff have claimed that a large part of the reason behind the Executive Meddling that the show suffered was that, much to the network's annoyance, the show was not The Simpsons IN SPACE!
  • Directly referenced in "Into the Wild Green Yonder":

Bender: It's gonna be fun on a bun! IN SPACE!

• • A canon example, however, is that apparently the only reason Fry accepted another delivery boy job (after having basically losing the one from his own time and running away from the one being assigned to him forcibly) was that it was IN SPACE!
  • Some fans have affectionately described Futurama as Friends... ANIMATED AND IN SPACE!
  • Leela: You know, Pirates! But in space!
  • Don't forget that one episode with the Titanic IN SPACE!
    • Followed in the Rebirth season with the Land Titanic! ON LAND!
• Family Guy is non-yellow The Simpsons IN RHODE ISLAND WITH CUTAWAY GAGS, MUCH MORE VULGARITY, AND Dead Baby Comedy!
• The 1965 Belgian animated film Pinocchio dans l'espace (Pinocchio in Outer Space in English-speaking countries) is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• Exo Squad is essentially World War II IN SPACE! And THE FUTURE! With awesome EXOSKELETONS!
  • Which makes it Mobile Suit Gundam, made IN AMERICA !
  • Though a better description would be Mobile Suit Gundam THE EUROPEAN SIDE OF THE WAR. as opposed to Gundam's Pacific Theater
• The Snorks are The Smurfs UNDERWATER, AS MIDDLE-CLASS EAGLELANDERS!
• Bobobobs is The Smurfs and The World of David the Gnome IN SPACE!
• Recess is essentially Hogan's Heroes on a 90s elementary school playground. One such episode of Recess does a very good adaptation of the Hogan's Heroes pilot and another features a scene where expys of the characters are in a Hogan's Heroes-style WWII POW camp; complete with the Colonel Klink expy wearing a monocle.
  • Pound Puppies (especially the 2010 revival, which is made by the creators of Recess) is Hogan's Heroes IN A DOG POUND!
• The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries is, as you can probably guess, Sylvester and Tweety (oh, and Granny) AS AMATEUR SLEUTHS!
  • And since Granny is an old lady, that makes it Murder, She Wrote WITH CARTOON ANIMALS!
• Rocket Robin Hood
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast is Space Ghost AS A TALK SHOW!
• Likewise, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is Birdman IN A COURT ROOM!
• Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies is The Archie Show UNDEAD!
• The Oddball Couple is The Odd Couple AS CARTOON ANIMALS!
• American Dragon: Jake Long, Danny Phantom and Ben 10 are essentially all copies of each other, just WITH DRAGONS! or WITH GHOSTS! or WITH ALIENS! Ben 10 was the most successful, with American Dragon: Jake Long canceled after two seasons and Danny Phantom screwed over by Nick. Ben 10 Alien Force isn't even half bad.
• Danny Phantom is Spider-Man WITH GHOSTS! It even has Expies to Spider-Man characters.
• Ben 10 is Dial H for Hero WITH A GUI INSTEAD OF AN RNG, AND WITH ALIENS!
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee is pretty much American Dragon: Jake Long, JUST FEMALE!
  • And not a DRAGON!
• Megas XLR is Clerks WITH GIANT ROBOTS!
• Histeria! is like Animaniacs (or maybe Saturday Night Live) WITH A HISTORY-CENTRIC THEME!
• Freakazoid! started out as Animaniacs WITH SUPERHEROES! Or maybe Superman WITH ANIMANIACS! DRIVEN MAD BY THE COLLECTIVE INFORMATION OF THE INTERNET!
• Total Drama Island is Survivor IN CARTOON FORM!
• The Robonic Stooges is The Three Stooges AS ROBOTS! AND They Fight Crime!
• Archies Weird Mysteries is Martin Mystery WITH ARCHIE CHARACTERS!
• The Super Mario Bros Super Show is practically nothing but this. Just about every episode is a different-themed world; these include IN SPACE, IN AUTHURIAN TIMES, IN JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, IN GODZILLA-TERRORIZED TOKYO, AMONG PIRATES, IN SOME MEXICAN DESERT PROTECTED BY A MASKED HERO NAMED "ZERO", IN A RACE, etc.
• Rugrats itself is not an example, but it has a Show Within a Show called Space Trek Babies. Which is Star Trek WITH BABIES!
• All Grown Up! is the Rugrats, ALL GROWN UP! ... Captain Obvious, signing out.
• The Chaotic animated series can be interpreted as Warcraft WITH CARD GAMES!
• Mightor is Superman or Wonder Woman IN PREHISTORIC TIMES!
• Ni Hao, Kai-Lan is Dora the Explorer AS A CHINESE GIRL!
• Batman OF THE FUTURE was an actual title used for Batman Beyond in certain markets.
  • Showdown, an episode of Batman the Animated Series featuring a Jonah Hex storyline, was made because the writers recognized Hex as Batman OF THE OLD WEST!
• Tom and Jerry relies on this trope a lot. Granted, it's because there's only so much you can do when the premise of the entire series is "cat chases mouse."
• Popeye received similar recyclings, especially once Famous Studios took over in the 1950's and the writers ran out of ideas.
• Zorro: Generation Z is Zorro IN THE FUTURE! How far is unknown, because it looks a lot like the present with added Family-Friendly Firearms.
• Drawn Together Babies is just Drawn Together WITH BABIES!
  • Drawn Together itself is The Real World WITH ANIMATION!
• Trollz is WITCH WITH... are you sure they're supposed to be trolls? Yeah, I know what the title says, but come on, they're obviously elves or dwar...okay, you have a point there... -WITH TROLLS!
• Pretty much every classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon is a classic TV show (or at least a character) done with animals. Top Cat is Sgt. Bilko with alley cats.
• Angel's Friends is WITCH, or Winx Club, depending on what fandom you prefer, WITH ANGELS AND DEMONS!
• Winx Club is Sailor Moon with fairies.
  • The spin-off Pop Pixie looks like Trollz WITH PIXIES!
• Jimmy Neutron parodies the trope with an in-universe example when their school principal puts on a production of Macbeth IN SPACE! He later mentions that next year, he'll be doing Hamlet ON ICE!
• Robot Chicken is KaBlam! FOR ADULTS!
• ChalkZone is The Fairly OddParents WITH CHALK DRAWINGS!
• Jimmy Two-Shoes is SpongeBob SquarePants IN HELL!
• Stoked is 6Teen AT A BEACHFRONT RESORT!
  • And the upcoming show Gofers seems to look like the two above IN HOLLYWOOD!
• Green Lantern First Flight is Training Day IN SPACE!
  • Seeing as how Green Lantern: First Flight is largely based on Green Lantern stories that were first published in the 60's, Training Day is actually Green Lantern.... ON EARTH!!!!!
• Hanna-Barbera made a whole bunch of iterations on Tom and Jerry, many of which were back-up segments on other shows:
  • Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks is Tom and Jerry WITH TWO MICE! AND THEY TALK!
  • Punkin Puss and Mushmouse is Tom and Jerry BUT THEY'RE HILLBILLIES! AND THEY TALK!
  • Motor Mouse and Autocat is Tom and Jerry ON MOTORCYCLES! THEY TALK TOO!
• While it didn't get made, one of Greg Weisman's spin-off ideas for Gargoyles was Gargoyles 2198, which was basically Gargoyles IN THE FUTURE AND LARGELY IN SPACE TOO!
• Titanic: The Legend Goes On is James Cameron's Titanic, AS A DISNEYESQUE CARTOON WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER'S GENDERS REVERSED! AND A RAPPING DOG!
• Kid vs. Kat is Invader Zim WITH CATS! AND LESS DEPRESSING!
• I Am the Greatest!: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali was a 70's cartoon show a show about Muhammad Ali in space.
• Fish Hooks is SpongeBob SquarePants IN HIGH SCHOOL! IN A FISH TANK!
  • Alternatively, it's The Buzz on Maggie WITH AQUARIUM FISHES!
• Archer is James Bond WITH THE THREAT OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT SUITS!
  • It's also Arrested Development WITH GUNS!
• The Animated Adaptation of Scaredy Squirrel is SpongeBob SquarePants WITH FURRIES!
• Sabrina the Animated Series is Sabrina the Teenage Witch IN MIDDLE SCHOOL!
• Recess is Saved by the Bell IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!
• Biker Mice From Mars is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, only...with...BIKER MICE FROM MARS!!
• Street Sharks is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles AS SHARKS!
• Extreme Dinosaurs is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles AS DINOSAURS!
• COPS is G.I. Joe but THEY'RE COPS....IN THE FUTURE!
• Thundarr the Barbarian is Conan the Barbarian IN THE FUTURE!
• When the final season of Hanna-Barbera's All-New Popeye Hour during the late 1970's was reformatted into The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show for its final season, one of the segments was called "Prehistoric Popeye." Basically a combination of Popeye and The Flintstones with Popeye eating his spinach out of cans made from rocks!!
• Several Veggie Tales videos often do this to several stories from The Bible, such as the story of Joseph and the Exodus IN THE OLD WEST, and the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Adbenago AS FACTORY WORKERS!
• Two more Hanna-Barbera examples:
  • The Hillbilly Bears is The Beverly Hillbillies AS FUNNY ANIMALS! AND THEY STILL LIVE IN The Deep South!
  • Secret Squirrel is James Bond AS A Funny Animal!
• Camp Lazlo is Rocko's Modern Life AT A CAMPSITE!
• In-universe example on Phineas and Ferb: Space Adventure... It's an adventure, in space!
• Adventure Time is perhaps The Legend of Zelda AS A Cartoon Network SHOW!
• Bob's Burgers is Johnny Bravo WITH WIFE AND KIDS as well as RUNNING A FAST FOOD PLACE!