History BreakingTheFourthWall / WesternAnimation

* ''Western Animation/{{Big City Greens}}: In the episode "Cheap Show", this episode had a lot of fourth wall breaks like Tilly saying Cricket broke the "fourth wall", then the Greens family (excluding Nancy) looks at the audience, it then shows a literal wall that Cricket broke.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', Lincoln Loud regularly breaks the fourth wall, talking with the viewer about how to survive in a house with 10 sisters. This was mostly dropped by Season 2, only to return in later seasons (albeit more sporadically due to the series branching out to give the entire family more focus as an EnsembleCast).

** Luan breaks the fourth wall talking with the viewer at the end of "April Fools Day"

* In too many children's cartoons to name, there's a joke in which some piece of dialogue, violence, or risqué material gets [[RelaxOVision censored]] or nixed before it starts, either by the characters or the narrator. The reason they give, sometimes with an apology, is generally some variant of ThinkOfTheChildren or ThinkOfTheCensors.

** Another episode had a pretty direct fourth-wall-breaking when Stewie mocked the cast of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' (which shared a timeslot with their show), then turned to the camera and encouraged the audience to switch over to ABC and look. "I'll wait. I'll wait five seconds. ''[pause]'' Oh my God, did you see? Did you see how old and ugly they all are??"
** Very recently, Stewie broke from the current scene to start complaining about the banner ads promoting other shows that are commonly shown across the bottom of programs now. It started off as MediumAwareness, because Stewie was obviously cognizant of the fact that he's on a TV show. He then broke the Fourth Wall by telling the audience to enjoy the ads as they went to commercial.

** In "A Star is Born", Sunspot shows some crude drawings on his tablet. Those drawings ''are the storyboards for the episode'',

*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", Pinkie Pie breaks through the iris-out again, angry about her lack of a mouth. Twilight joins in on the action, creating a portal into the black screen and using her magic to give Pinkie her mouth back. Pinkie happily opens her mouth to say something right before the end credits start playing. Earlier in the same episode, Trixie removes Pinkie's mouth by dragging the Flash file with the mouth into a computer's trash bin.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}: A rather elaborate example in the episode

* ''BreakingTheFourthWall/SpongeBobSquarePants''

-->'''Patrick''': Hi Spongeboob... uh Spongeboob?! I said-- haha, who's Spongeboob?! Haha I said Spongeboob! Ahahaha again, okay, '''sorry people.'''

* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Missing Identity", [=SpongeBob=] retraces his steps, and Patrick has to say hi to him to make it complete, one of the times, we get this, even though [=SpongeBob=] is the only person around, and he was already leaving.

* ''BreakingTheFourthWall/SpongebobSquarepants''

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* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', Spider-Man has total control over the fourth wall to which he pauses the show and expresses his thoughts, and imagines whats on his mind.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' version of the Joker is not the most well received version of the character, however he, like his comic iteration knows he is in an entertainment media. Episode 14, features not one, but two instances of fourth wall shattering. In the first he actually [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] his very appearance by letting the viewer know he is aware of just how surprised they are at his appearance, he then does a ScreenTap to make sure everyone is paying attention when the Injustice League gives their demands.

* One third-season episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'' featured Enzo and Dot hiding behind tombstones as a player looking like Ash (from ''Franchise/EvilDead'') massacred zombies and ghosts in a game. They both express horror at the (offscreen) carnage and wonder what kind of sick, demented person would ever play a game like that...and both turn and glare at the camera.

* Preschool shows such as ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' popularized this as a way to teach skills such its child audience, with the main characters addressing the audience and pausing during the time where the kids would (presumably) answer the question correctly to help solve whatever the current problem is. This wiki places all examples of this particular type of fourth-wall breaking under FakeInteractivity.

* In too many children's cartoons to name, some piece of dialogue, violence, or risque material gets [[RelaxOVision censored]] or nixed before it starts, either by the characters or the narrator. The reason they give the audience or the other characters is generally some variant of ThinkOfTheChildren or ThinkOfTheCensors.

* Preschool shows such as ''Western Animation/BluesClues'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' popularized this as a way to teach skills such its child audience, with the main characters addressing the audience and pausing during the time where the kids would (presumably) answer the question correctly to help solve whatever the current problem is. This wiki places all examples of this particular type of fourth-wall breaking under FakeInteractivity.

* In too many children's cartoons to name, dialogue, violence, or risque material gets [[RelaxOVision censored]] or nixed before it starts, either by the characters or the narrator. The reason? Either "We can't show that on a kid's program!" or ThinkOfTheCensors.
* Preschool shows such as ''Series/BluesClues'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' popularized this as a way to teach skills such its child audience, with the main characters addressing the audience and pausing during the time where the kids would (presumably) answer the question correctly to help solve whatever the current problem is. This wiki places all examples of this particular type of fourth-wall breaking under FakeInteractivity.

* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' use this to try and teach skills to the children, becoming very quickly annoying to any viewer over the age of 5. See also: FakeInteractivity.