diff --git a/examples/agents/random_agent_live_plot.py b/examples/agents/random_agent_live_plot.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 897bbb947..000000000
--- a/examples/agents/random_agent_live_plot.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-import logging
-import os, sys
-
-import gym
-from gym.monitoring.live_plot import LivePlot
-
-# The world's simplest agent!
-class RandomAgent(object):
-    def __init__(self, action_space):
-        self.action_space = action_space
-
-    def act(self, observation, reward, done):
-        return self.action_space.sample()
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    # You can optionally set up the logger. Also fine to set the level
-    # to logging.DEBUG or logging.WARN if you want to change the
-    # amount of output.
-    logger = logging.getLogger()
-    logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
-
-    env = gym.make('CartPole-v0' if len(sys.argv)<2 else sys.argv[1])
-
-    # You provide the directory to write to (can be an existing
-    # directory, including one with existing data -- all monitor files
-    # will be namespaced). You can also dump to a tempdir if you'd
-    # like: tempfile.mkdtemp().
-    outdir = '/tmp/random-agent-results'
-    env.monitor.start(outdir, force=True, seed=0)
-
-    # You may optionally include a LivePlot so that you can see
-    # how your agent is performing.  Use plotter.plot() to update 
-    # the graph. 
-    plotter = LivePlot(outdir)
-
-    # This declaration must go *after* the monitor call, since the
-    # monitor's seeding creates a new action_space instance with the
-    # appropriate pseudorandom number generator.
-    agent = RandomAgent(env.action_space)
-
-    episode_count = 100
-    max_steps = 200
-    reward = 0
-    done = False
-
-    for i in range(episode_count):
-        ob = env.reset()
-
-        for j in range(max_steps):
-            action = agent.act(ob, reward, done)
-            ob, reward, done, _ = env.step(action)
-            if done:
-                break
-                
-            plotter.plot()
-            env.render() 
-
-
-    # Dump result info to disk
-    env.monitor.close()
-
-    # Upload to the scoreboard. We could also do this from another
-    # process if we wanted.
-    logger.info("Successfully ran RandomAgent. Now trying to upload results to the scoreboard. If it breaks, you can always just try re-uploading the same results.")
-    gym.upload(outdir, algorithm_id='random')
diff --git a/gym/monitoring/live_plot.py b/examples/utilities/live_plot.py
similarity index 61%
rename from gym/monitoring/live_plot.py
rename to examples/utilities/live_plot.py
index a5fb0323c..2f8643313 100644
--- a/gym/monitoring/live_plot.py
+++ b/examples/utilities/live_plot.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import gym 
+import gym
 
 import matplotlib
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
@@ -30,10 +30,39 @@ class LivePlot(object):
         data =  results[self.data_key]
 
         #only update plot if data is different (plot calls are expensive)
-        if data !=  self._last_data: 
+        if data !=  self._last_data:
             self._last_data = data
             plt.plot(data, color=self.line_color)
 
             # pause so matplotlib will display
             # may want to figure out matplotlib animation or use a different library in the future
-            plt.pause(0.000001) 
\ No newline at end of file
+            plt.pause(0.000001)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    env = gym.make('CartPole-v0')
+    outdir = '/tmp/random-agent-results'
+    env.monitor.start(outdir, force=True, seed=0)
+
+    # You may optionally include a LivePlot so that you can see
+    # how your agent is performing.  Use plotter.plot() to update
+    # the graph.
+    plotter = LivePlot(outdir)
+
+    episode_count = 100
+    max_steps = 200
+    reward = 0
+    done = False
+
+    for i in range(episode_count):
+        ob = env.reset()
+
+        for j in range(max_steps):
+            ob, reward, done, _ = env.step(env.action_space.sample())
+            if done:
+                break
+
+            plotter.plot()
+            env.render()
+
+    # Dump result info to disk
+    env.monitor.close()
diff --git a/gym/monitoring/__init__.py b/gym/monitoring/__init__.py
index 6e1080eb9..94e742aad 100644
--- a/gym/monitoring/__init__.py
+++ b/gym/monitoring/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 from gym.monitoring.monitor import Monitor, load_results, _open_monitors
 from gym.monitoring.stats_recorder import StatsRecorder
 from gym.monitoring.video_recorder import VideoRecorder
-from gym.monitoring.live_plot import LivePlot