History AgonyOfTheFeet / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': In "Shadow of a Doubt", Genie attempts to destroy Mirage's black obelisk, each time to no avail. At one point, he tries do a karate kick on it, which causes his foot (and the rest of him) to disintegrate.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s BuiltWithLEGO parody of ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' subjects Theo to the second-most obnoxious consequence of stepping on LEGO pieces barefoot, when the bricks stick to his soles, eventually tripping him.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': After Barney accidentally drops a bowling ball on Fred's foot, he ends up varying the pain shout to "[[CatchPhrase Yabba-dabba]]-di-yi-yi-yi-ee-hee!" and [[AccidentalDanceCraze inadvertently creates a new dance craze]] among Bedrock teenagers.

** In "Fistful of Ed", Edd accidentally drops a book he was holding on Lee Kanker's foot, unwillingly making him the toughest kid in school. Nazz even states that Lee's foot was swollen so badly it took the entire refrigerator to heal it.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s BuiltWithLEGO parody of ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' translates all the torture inflicted upon Theo's feet into Theo experiencing the second-most obnoxious consequence of stepping on LEGO pieces barefoot: They stick to his soles, eventually tripping him.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s BuiltWithLEGO parody of ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' translates all the torture inflicted upon Theo's feet into Theo experiencing loose LEGO bricks sticking to his soles, eventually tripping him.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'''s parody of ''Film/ChildrenOfMen'', "Children of Franchise/{{LEGO}} Men", translates all the torture inflicted upon Theo's feet into Theo experiencing loose LEGO bricks sticking to his soles, eventually tripping him.

* Happens with great regularity on ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''. In one memorable instance, Tom is about to hit Jerry with a hammer when Jerry offers him a much bigger mallet. As Tom takes the mallet, Jerry picks up the first hammer and whacks Tom's foot with it. Cue StockScream from Tom.

*** In fact, Fred is a very frequent target for this trope.

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* Tummi Gummi also fell victim to this trope in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode "Someday My Prints Will Come". He blames the machine that he found for causing all the trouble then kicks it, causing him to hop around in pain while holding his foot.

* A giantess drops a club on her foot and hops in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong''.

* In "D.W. Blows the Whistle" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Arthur is astounded to hear about D.W. being a hero for having stopped a little kid from crossing the street without looking both ways first. "D.W., a hero?" he questions and then he drops a wrench he was holding onto his foot and starts hopping up and down.
** In TheTeaser of "Prunella Gets it Twice", Arthur and Buster carry a giant crate to Prunella, when Arthur sets the crate down, and accidentally on Buster's foot.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' makes use of this gag in Knightbrace's debut episode, "Operation: T.E.E.T.H." Numbuh Three accidentally shines her teeth in Numbuh Four's face. Numbuh Four previously got his mouth saddled with [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill humongous braces]], so he falls over and drops his giant braces set on Numbuh One's foot. Numbuh One reacts predictably.

* In "Calling Dr. Zak" on ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', this happens to Zak after he steps on a spinypine thorn, though it's his sister Wheezie's foot (they're a two-headed dragon) that hops up and down while his foot, with the thorn in it, stays off the ground.

* In "Franklin and the Pinecone Pass" on ''[[Literature/{{Franklin}} Franklin and Friends]]'', Franklin gets so frustrated and upset that Bear wants to play Rabbit's new game (Pinecone Pass) instead of playing with him that he kicks a rock, hard. (Too bad he [[BarefootCartoonAnimal doesn't wear the shoes]] described in the books' traditional opening.) He hops up and down, clutching his foot, and a just-arriving Beaver reminds him that it's ''balls'' that are good for kicking, not rocks.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldHis9Lives'' -- Cave Cat runs into the Caveman's ankle at high speed:
-->'''Caveman:''' CAT! (''hops around, clutching his foot'')\\
'''Narrator:''' "Cat" was caveman-talk for "Darn it!"

** In the third act of the episode [[Recap/MrBogusS1E1MeetMrBogus "Meet Mr. Bogus"]], this happens to one of the plumbers, when his partner inadvertently sets his toolbox on his foot, which causes him to hop up and down in pain.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': Sheldon kicks [[SecretIdentityIdentity the Silver Shell]] and ends up hopping around his garage.
* On ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'', Ronald gets a disco ball dropped on his foot in "Winter Dance Party". He hops up and down clutching it, but has no problem chasing after the ball with the rest of the gang afterwards.
* In "Ducking Out on Valentine's Day" on ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', after claiming he's glad there's apparently no Valentine for him from the Snooties, Flick kicks one of the Valentine crates, hops while clutching his foot, and then claims he's [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog late for his foot doctor's appointment.]]

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Doofenshmirtz has concocted an EvilPlan to get revenge on an ice cream man who ran over his foot the previous day, resulting in him having to wear a cast. In the ensuing fight with Perry The Platypus, he injured the ''other'' foot, causing him to hop up and down holding his foot, only to have to switch which foot he was holding because the act of hopping caused his already injured foot to hurt again. Once he started doing this, [[ViciousCycle his newly injured foot started to hurt]] because he was hopping on it, and so on and so forth.

* In the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'', Zak whacks Argost in the ankle with his weapon, resulting in the hopping and moaning.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'', Spidey jumps around a bit while holding his foot after trying to kick the Juggernaut. Yeah, bad idea.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', while tensions between Arnold's family and neighbors.

* This happens to Sidney the Karate Kangaroo in "Black Belt Kangaroos" from ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'' after he kicks a LEGO-like wall trying to a karate move that he wasn't ready for.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' runs on AmusingInjuries, but one particular mention goes out to [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Gizmo Duck]] landing from the top of a hospital ''straight'' onto [[PsychoElectro Megavolt]]'s foot. It ''crushed the sidewalk''.

* Deputy Dawg offered his boss, the Sheriff, what he thought was a watermelon. Actually, it was a painted river rock. DD lifted it, found it remarkably heavy, and then dropped it on the Sheriff's feet! The reaction was one of the greatest of this trope...the Sheriff's mouth [[VolumetricMouth stretched to the size of his body]] and a loud howl was heard throughout the land!

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
** This was a RunningGag in the episode "Store Wars". Bloo kicks several people in the shin before running away and calling them a "rip-off artist." He later suffers this fate from Coco at the end of the episode.
** Towards the end of the episode "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals" Frankie becomes furious with Goofball and chases him around the house. When she grabs his arm, Goofball stomps on Frankie's foot to make his escape.

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' runs on AmusingInjuries, but one particular mention goes out to [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales Gizmo Duck]] landing from the top of a hospital ''straight'' onto [[PsychoElectro Megavolt]]'s foot. It ''crushed the sidewalk''.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
** In one of the TV specials, Snoopy taps a baseball bat on his foot, and as he's not wearing cleats, it hurts him quite a bit.
** In another, he and Woodstock are acting as officials at a football game. Woodstock is handling the down counter that marks the line of scrimmage: basically, it's a pole with a sign that can be changed from 1 to 4. Guess where it goes.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague / Justice League Unlimited'':
** In one battle Darkseid gains the upper hand and begins to stomp Superman's head into the ground. To counter this, Supes uses his eyebeams, ''through'' Darkseid's foot.
** Mordred turns into a giant and tries to stomp on the heroes. Superman fires heat vision through his foot. Mordred presumably heals it with magic.
** When three of the heroes find themselves stranded in TheWildWest, they switch to less conspicuous local outfits [[MuggedForDisguise taken from]] some [[MuggingTheMonster mooks who'd tried to rob them]]:
--->'''Wonder Woman:''' These shoes are killing me.\\
'''Batman:''' You fight crime [[CombatStilettos wearing high heels]].\\
'''Wonder Woman:''' High heels that ''fit''!
** Not even superheroines are safe from kids, as Stargirl found out when in Japan and attending a Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} convention. After she complains about the attention Kara is getting, a chubby little FanGirl goes over and kicks her in she shins for insulting the better-known heroine.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''
** Ben Tennyson's first transformation into a fire-based alien results in a wildfire. During the chaos of trying to tame the inferno, his cousin, Gwen, not recognizing him and spraying him with a fire extinguisher, then slams the fire extinguisher in Ben's face out of fright when she realized the "fire" she sprayed coughed out the foam. The best response [[BrattyHalfPint Ben]] can come up with after years of verbal abuse from his cousin is to set her shoe on fire.
** Happens again to Gwen when a transformed Ben runs into her leg while attempting to flee from the Forever Knights.
* In "D.W. Blows the Whistle" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Arthur is astounded to hear about D.W. being a hero for having stopped a little kid from crossing the street without looking both ways first. "D.W., a hero?" he questions and then he drops a wrench he was holding onto his foot and starts hopping up and down.
** In TheTeaser of "Prunella Gets it Twice", Arthur and Buster carry a giant crate to Prunella, when Arthur sets the crate down, and accidentally on Buster's foot.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' makes use of this gag in Knightbrace's debut episode, "Operation: T.E.E.T.H." Numbuh Three accidentally shines her teeth in Numbuh Four's face. Numbuh Four previously got his mouth saddled with [[BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill humongous braces]], so he falls over and drops his giant braces set on Numbuh One's foot. Numbuh One reacts predictably.
* At the beginning of "Working on the Railroad", musical segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'', Simon (of all people) does this to Dave with a sledgehammer.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** This gag is used in the very first episode of ''Island'', when Eva arrives on the island she drops her bag of dumbbells onto [[ButtMonkey Cody's]] feet.
** In a later episode, Owen gets his foot stabbed by the tines on a rake.
** Set up but then surprisingly averted in the ''Action'' special. NonActionSnarker Noah kicks a bulky television set, but instead of the expected result the television is flung off screen and Noah remains uninjured.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
** In the episode with the Evil Tim curse, Edd gets saddled with lugging around a sizable rock and place it on the "X". However, all Edd sees are Q's laid on the ground by Ed. He gawks in shock when Ed randomly eats a doggy treat and asks "What's with the rock, Double D?", and the rock he carried for much of the episode ends up slamming into his foot.
** Happened in the episode "If It Smells Like an Ed". Ed is carrying a block from a sidewalk, and when he stops to get a handkerchief out of his pocket for Jimmy he drops it on his feet. He's motionless for about five seconds, but right before the show cuts to a commercial, it shows him walking on his hands with his feet bandaged.
** In the episode where the Eds lead the other kids to believe there are "Mucky Boys" on the loose in the cul-de-sac, Eddy gets the idea to have them follow Mucky footprints, by smashing Ed's feet with a mallet, causing them to swell to roughly the size of a car.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Doofenshmirtz has concocted an EvilPlan to get revenge on an ice cream man who ran over his foot the previous day, resulting in him having to wear a cast. In the ensuing fight with Perry The Platypus, he injured the ''other'' foot, causing him to hop up and down holding his foot, only to have to switch which foot he was holding because the act of hopping caused his already injured foot to hurt again. Once he started doing this, [[ViciousCycle his newly injured foot started to hurt]] because he was hopping on it, and so on and so forth.
* Tummi Gummi also fell victim to this trope in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode "Someday My Prints Will Come". He blames the machine that he found for causing all the trouble then kicks it, causing him to hop around in pain while holding his foot.
* Taken to an extreme on ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''; while fleeing the KGB in Russia, Archer loses his shoes and has to go barefoot, and ends up stepping in broken glass. Then he gets new shoes, loses them again, and steps in more broken glass. He spends the whole chase screaming in pain with every step.
* In the episode "What's The Big Idea" of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the title heroines are turned into giants by Mojo Jojo. While trying to catch him, Buttercup steps on a power line, reacting predictably.
* In "Franklin and the Pinecone Pass" on ''[[Literature/{{Franklin}} Franklin and Friends]]'', Franklin gets so frustrated and upset that Bear wants to play Rabbit's new game (Pinecone Pass) instead of playing with him that he kicks a rock, hard. (Too bad he [[BarefootCartoonAnimal doesn't wear the shoes]] described in the books' traditional opening.) He hops up and down, clutching his foot, and a just-arriving Beaver reminds him that it's ''balls'' that are good for kicking, not rocks.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', while at the park, Chuckie steals Angelica's shoes. Angelina angrily tries to chase him, but steps on some thorny weeds and hurts her feet. She then puts on Chuckie's shoes and continues the chase.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', while tensions between Arnold's family and neighbors.
-->'''Ernie:''' Gramps stepped on my toe!\\
'''Grandpa Phil:''' I did not! ''This'' is stepping on your toe! (''STOMP'')\\
'''Ernie:''' OW!
* In "Ducking Out on Valentine's Day" on ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'', after claiming he's glad there's apparently no Valentine for him from the Snooties, Flick kicks one of the Valentine crates, hops while clutching his foot, and then claims he's [[IHaveToGoIronMyDog late for his foot doctor's appointment.]]
* In "Calling Dr. Zak" on ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', this happens to Zak after he steps on a spinypine thorn, though it's his sister Wheezie's foot (they're a two-headed dragon) that hops up and down while his foot, with the thorn in it, stays off the ground.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
** In the third act of the episode [[Recap/MrBogusS1E1MeetMrBogus "Meet Mr. Bogus"]], this happens to one of the plumbers, when his partner inadvertently sets his toolbox on his foot, which causes him to hop up and down in pain.
** This also happens to Bogus in the first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E4EtTuBrattus Et Tu, Brattus?]]" after kicking the inside of the box trap that he was confined in.
** Happens twice to Bogus in the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E13GoodSportBogus Good Sport Bogus]]"; the first time in the second act, when Bogus ends up hurting his foot after attempting to kick a metal shotput, and the second time in the third act when Bogus winds up with his feet on fire after running really fast, before he blows out the flames.
** Ratty also falls victim to this in the third act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus Bad Luck Bogus]]", after a mallet that got thrown up into the air by Bogus earlier falls back down and lands on Ratty's foot, causing Ratty [[PainPoweredLeap to jump up into the air in pain]] before coming back down while holding his foot in pain.
** This was inverted in the second act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E8BogusToTheRescue Bogus To The Rescue]]", as while Bogus does get his foot smashed by a mallet, there isn't any hopping around on one foot in pain as he just [[PainPoweredLeap jumps up into the air in response]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': Beetlejuice has his feet go on strike in the aptly named episode "Sore Feet".
** Lydia's foot is injured at the start of "Generally Hysterical Hospital." It isn't until the end when it is finally in a cast.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'', Spidey jumps around a bit while holding his foot after trying to kick the Juggernaut. Yeah, bad idea.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'':
** Robin seeks training from "The True Master". He is ordered to change into martial arts gi and remove his shoes. He hurts his feet on the rocky ground and complains, "The next time some crazy old woman tells you to leave your shoes behind, bring them anyway."
** In "Only Human" Starfire tries to escape a forcefield by kicking it, resulting in her only hurting her foot.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has a shoe related version of this, as the Warners show up in the 1970s at a disco contest.
-->[[Film/SaturdayNightFever Ow ow ow ow, hurtin' our feet, hurtin' our feet.]]
* The WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short "Up a Tree" does it after one of Chip n Dale's tricks of making Donald fall off the tree he's attempting to saw in half. Not only does Donald land right on his feet (causing him considerable pain), but he then kicks the trunk of the tree in anger, which only intensifies the pain.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'':
** In the episode, "The Mask," Courage locks Muriel and Eustace in their bedroom while he tries to reunite Kitty and Bunny, but when they are unable to open the door, Eustace attempts to kick it down, but hurts his foot in doing so.
** In, "Robot Randy," while Courage, Muriel, and Eustace are subjected to picking rocks, a dazed and exhausted Courage accidentally jabs Eustace's foot with his pick, causing it to swell greatly.
** In, "Courage vs. Mecha-Courage," Eustace is missing one of his boots - for which he blames Courage - then ends up stubbing his toe on a chair - for which he again blames Courage.
* On ''WesternAnimation/PeterRabbit'', this happens to Mr. Tod at the end of "The Tale of Mr. Tod's Trap" after he kicks a tree out of frustration from having been once again out-witted by Peter and the others.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'':
** The episode "Help!" has Paul getting a hotfoot thanks to a misplaced blowtorch.
** In a series of bumpers, the boys are lost in a desert. The hot sand is scorching George's feet, as it is Ringo's. It causes Ringo to hop around madly, and it turns out that he had done a rain dance to make it rain.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WatsPig'', the dark rider hits the king in the foot for seemingly no reason during their first meeting. A servant rubs it in concern while the king lets out a loud scream heard by his unknown brother in the countryside.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In the episode "The Night," Wander goes off somewhere to eat his midnight snack without waking Sylvia. But first he takes off his shoes so their squeakiness won't wake her. But as he walks away, he steps on a sharp rock.
* This happens to Ella from ''WesternAnimation/EllaTheElephant'' in "Tiki's Moving Day" when she stubs her foot on a desk after overhearing about [[TheMovingExperience Tiki moving]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The infamous scene in "House Fancy" where [=SpongeBob=] crushes Squidward's foot with a table and rips off his toenail, [[SuddenAnatomy which he had grew just for that scene]].
** In "Pineapple Fever", when [=SpongeBob=] is boarding up his house to prepare for a storm he steps on a nail.
** In "[=SpongeBob LongPants=]", when Squidward is ordered to work the grill he accidentally drops a burnt patty on his foot.
* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' episode "Disappearing Act", Miles Mayhem and Vanessa Warfield get zapped in the feet by shrunken M.A.S.K. operatives.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 101, Kaeloo distracts [[CosmicPlaything Stumpy]] when he's trying to lift weights, and he accidentally drops the weight on his foot.
** In the episode "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Stumpy's feet catch on fire.
* This happens to Kumi in "Tomorrow Never Knows" from ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'' when she tries to kick the rainbow brooch as a means of moving it. It happens again in "Hello Goodbye" when she kicks a phone, frustrating at not being able to figure out what it does. It happens to start ringing at that moment, leading her to think at first that it's a kickstarted music machine, at least until she starts hearing a voice on it. Later, when she brings the other bugs to see it, she kicks it again, this time with no results except hurting her foot.
* In the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madballs}}'' episode "Escape from Orb", Screamin' Meemie and Freakella are carrying a block to be used in building a monument of Commander Wolfbreath, and Freakella accidentally drops the block on Screamin' Meemie's foot.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' episode Jack's Sandals (XXVI), Jack's first attempt at fighting the Biker Robots after they crush his geta involve him stubbing his toes on their bodies when trying to kick them, burning his feet from landing on a nearby furnace, and finding himself unable to fight after stepping on glass shards from a window broken earlier that episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Charlie gets a broken foot as a result from falling off the roof in "Charlie's Big Foot".
* ''W.I.T.C.H'': in "N is for Narcissist," a barefoot Cornelia gets her toes stepped on, causing her to hop around in pain.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rubbadubbers}}'': Tubb hurts his toe by stubbing it with a hammer in "The House That Tubb Built".
* ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'':
** In the pilot "Crash Lancelot", Mike and Og try to carry a large, heavy log to use for the body of their homemade car; Mike drops her end on her foot.
** In "Roller Madness", Lancelot's bout with a pair of roller-skates ends with him flying through the air and falling straight down onto Lu's foot, creating a small crater in the process. The next scene shows her toe wrapped in bandages.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': In "Shadow of a Doubt", Genie attempts to destroy Mirage's black obelisk, each time to no avail. At one point, he tries do a karate kick on it, which causes his foot (and the rest of him) to disintegrate.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "A Fridge Too Far", Luan attempts to steal some of the mac 'n' cheese bites Lincoln had saved, only to find he'd booby-trapped them, causing a watermelon to fall on her foot and break it. She is next seen with her foot in a cast, only for Lisa to accidentally run over the foot with her mobile whiteboard.
* This happens to Sidney the Karate Kangaroo in "Black Belt Kangaroos" from ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'' after he kicks a LEGO-like wall trying to a karate move that he wasn't ready for.
* On ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'', Ronald gets a disco ball dropped on his foot in "Winter Dance Party." He hops up and down clutching it, but has no problem chasing after the ball with the rest of the gang afterwards.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', more than once, and with more body parts than just the foot. Which is actually a plot point in the first Sideshow Bob episode.

'''Batman:''' You fight crime wearing high heels.\\

** Ben Tennyson's first transformation into a fire-based alien results in his cousin, Gwen, not recognizing him and spraying him with a fire extinguisher. The best response [[IdiotHero Ben]] can come up with after years of abuse from his cousin is to set her shoe on fire.

** In the episode with the Evil Tim curse, Edd sees all the Q's Ed laid on the ground, gawks in shock, and the rock he carried ends up slamming into his foot.

** This has also happen to Lois at least once.