Brooklyn Nine-Nine's annual Halloween Heists (and in season 6, a Cinco de Mayo Heist) involve the cast of the Cop Show challenging each other to steal something within the precinct, with increasing stakes every year.The whole thing turns out to be a scam by Servalan, with the protagonists coming out empty-handed. The Blake's 7 episode ' Gold' has an old 'friend' of Avon's recruit the protagonists to steal a shipment of gold.Things go horribly wrong when the artifact turns out to be a full-scale Artifact of Doom that causes a Hate Plague in everybody around it.

In the Angel episode ' The Shroud of Rahmon', the central characters go undercover in a supernatural gang trying to steal the titular artifact from a museum, intending to foil the heist.

'Allo 'Allo!: In the season 5 episode 'Ribbing the Bonk', René, his wife and the café staff must rob a bank to get the ransom to pay the Communist Resistance to free Mimi, Gruber, the Colonel, and Captain Bertorelli.

Multiple homages to the Ocean's franchise are present as the cast tries to unravel what exactly transpired.

Played with in the 9-1-1 episode 'Ocean's 9-1-1', where the first responder protagonists are accused of robbing a bank during the very emergency they were sent to control.

Compare Noir Episode, which is another Out-of-Genre Experience that involves crime, but is usually darker. Insofar as it might seem out-of-character ( or just not usual for the show's genre) for the characters to pull off a caper, expect as much Caper Rationalization as it takes to justify the situation. References to well-known heist works like Ocean's Eleven will usually abound.

Hijinks eventually ensue when the plan falls apart. In order to accomplish this they organize themselves into a Caper Crew and concoct A Simple Plan to sneak into a location and steal the target. Usually, the characters have to steal something - the goal can be anything from a high-stakes Bank Robbery to their hated rival's secret apple pie recipe. A work that is not normally about theft or heists parodies or pays homage to The Caper genre for an installment.

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