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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' example: in the episode "Frankie My Dear," Frankie makes small talk with her date while in the background Mac, Bloo, the pizza guy (disguised as [[TotemPoleTrench one very tall guy]]) and the PrinceCharming imaginary friend (DisguisedInDrag) try to get into the restaraunt without a reservation, culminating with the prince friend punching the ''maitre d'''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' example: ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': in the episode "Frankie My Dear," Frankie makes small talk with her date while in the background Mac, Bloo, the pizza guy (disguised as [[TotemPoleTrench one very tall guy]]) and the PrinceCharming imaginary friend (DisguisedInDrag) try to get into the restaraunt without a reservation, culminating with the prince friend punching the ''maitre d'''.
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** At the end of "The List", Bebe reveals that she helped put Clyde at the top of the list to get free shoes, and shows off a pair that even excites Wendy. As the police are arresting Bebe, Wendy can be seen in the background stealing and admiring the shoes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': When Korra sneaks into the pro-bending arena, she's caught by Toza, who believes she's trying to watch for free. While the two bicker, Bolin walks by in the background, backpedals a step or two, and stops to fix his hair before conveniently interrupting the argument with awkwardness galore.
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** When Korra sneaks into the pro-bending arena, she's caught by Toza, who believes she's trying to watch for free. While the two bicker, Bolin walks by in the background, backpedals a step or two, and stops to fix his hair before conveniently interrupting the argument with awkwardness galore.
** When Korra sneaks into the pro-bending arena, she's caught by Toza, who believes she's trying to watch for free. While the two bicker, Bolin walks by in the background, backpedals a step or two, and stops to fix his hair before conveniently interrupting the argument with awkwardness galore.
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---> '''Prisoner:'''"Shit man, I done raped a few niggas myself.
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** "Ultrahyperball" is about a game that's so complicated that nobody actually knows how to play; throughout the episode various unnamed players can be seen trying out weird strategies in the background. While the camera is focused on Rippen and Wallace, a player floats into the air and is then blown up for no discernible reason.
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** "Ultrahyperball" is about a game that's so complicated that nobody actually knows how to play; throughout the episode various unnamed players can be seen trying out weird strategies in the background. While the camera is focused on Rippen and Wallace, At one point, a player floats into the air and is then blown up for no discernible reason.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Fa La La La Ed", while Jimmy is complaining to Sarah about the pain of smashing his piggy bank, we see Ed falling over as he tries to prop up some Christmas lights.
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** In the''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Fa La La La Ed", while Jimmy is complaining to Sarah about the pain of smashing his piggy bank, we see Ed falling over as he tries to prop up some Christmas lights.
** In the
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--> '''Prisoner:''' But I didn't enjoy it.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' He didn't enjoy.
--> '''Prisoner:''' [[TransparentCloset At least, not that much.]]
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Not that much.
--> '''Prisoner:''' I didn't let that nigga kiss me or nothing.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' No sir!
--> '''Prisoner:''' But I did tear that ass up.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Off the frame!
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Yep.
--> '''Prisoner:''' But I didn't enjoy it.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' He didn't enjoy.
--> '''Prisoner:''' [[TransparentCloset At least, not that much.]]
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Not that much.
--> '''Prisoner:''' I didn't let that nigga kiss me or nothing.
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---> In other news, leg warmers are all the rage this week and we predict this style will go on forever.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'' has one in "Free-Falling Friends" in which the squirrel sky-diving instructor, Webber, keeps approaching to enter the plane but gets blown back from the wind created by the engine due to it caching the bag with his parachute, while in the foreground, Puddle tells Toot that he's decided not to skydive. Webber finally solves the problem by packing the parachute in such a way that it can't catch the wind.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'' has one in "Free-Falling Friends" in which the squirrel sky-diving instructor, Webber, keeps approaching to enter the plane but gets blown back from the wind created by the engine due to it caching catching the bag with his parachute, while in the foreground, Puddle tells Toot that he's decided not to skydive. Webber finally solves the problem by packing the parachute in such a way that it can't catch the wind.
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*''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'' has one in "Free-Falling Friends" in which the squirrel sky-diving instructor, Webber, keeps approaching to enter the plane but gets blown back from the wind created by the engine due to it caching the bag with his parachute, while in the foreground, Puddle tells Toot that he's decided not to skydive. Webber finally solves the problem by packing the parachute in such a way that it can't catch the wind.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'':
** When Sashi confronts Rippen's monster form in "Rip-Penn", Boone can be seen [[SkewedPriorities tidying up Dr. Barzelby's office]] behind her.
** "Ultrahyperball" is about a game that's so complicated that nobody actually knows how to play; throughout the episode various unnamed players can be seen trying out weird strategies in the background. While the camera is focused on Rippen and Wallace, a player floats into the air and is then blown up for no discernible reason.
** When Sashi confronts Rippen's monster form in "Rip-Penn", Boone can be seen [[SkewedPriorities tidying up Dr. Barzelby's office]] behind her.
** "Ultrahyperball" is about a game that's so complicated that nobody actually knows how to play; throughout the episode various unnamed players can be seen trying out weird strategies in the background. While the camera is focused on Rippen and Wallace, a player floats into the air and is then blown up for no discernible reason.
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** In "CanterlotBoutique", during one of the scenes, one of the background ponies can be seen checking a price tag on one of the dresses, gawking, and hurriedly walking away.
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** In "CanterlotBoutique", "Canterlot Boutique", during one of the scenes, one of the background ponies can be seen checking a price tag on one of the dresses, gawking, and hurriedly walking away.
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** In "CanterlotBoutique", during one of the scenes, one of the background ponies can be seen checking a price tag on one of the dresses, gawking, and hurriedly walking away.
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* In the episode "Mazes and Mutants" of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', while the Turtles are playing the titular RPG, Splinter walks past, casually opens the door, and receives a cheese-sicle from Ice Cream Kitty.
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** After Kuvira is defeated, [[http://cartoonimpala.tumblr.com/post/105625941678/the-hmmm-eyebrow Jinora can be seen giving a]] FascinatingEyebrow to [[{{ShipTease}} Asami putting a comforting hand on Korra's shoulder]]
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** After Kuvira is defeated, [[http://cartoonimpala.tumblr.com/post/105625941678/the-hmmm-eyebrow Jinora can be seen giving a]] FascinatingEyebrow to [[{{ShipTease}} Asami putting a comforting hand on Korra's shoulder]]shoulder]].
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** Likely accidental example: The show usually avoid FacelessMasses which leads an an error in the fourth episode when Aang and Katara are talking at a marketplace and a man in the background is apparently [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/299.jpg talking to a wooden post]], and then [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/303.jpg something it said made him depressed]].
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** Likely accidental example: The show usually avoid FacelessMasses avoids FacelessMasses, which leads an an to a possible error in the fourth episode when Aang and Katara are talking at a marketplace and a man in the background is apparently [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/299.jpg talking to a wooden post]], and then [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/303.jpg something it said made him depressed]].
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** Another example is "How to Eat With Your Butt", TheOneWith the people with asses for faces. They're sitting around having a conversation with Kenny's family, while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh.
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** Another example is in "How to Eat With Your Butt", TheOneWith the people with asses for faces.Butt". They're sitting around having a conversation with Kenny's family, while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', this can happen even during very serious scenes. When Dipper and Mabel find the old newspaper in "Not What He Seems" that [[spoiler:declares Stan to be dead]], if you [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely or pause the scene while the newspaper is onscreen]], you can see the article suddenly changes subject partway through; it goes from a serious (and plot-relevant) topic to how fashionable leg warmers are.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', this can happen even during very ''very'' serious scenes. When Dipper and Mabel find the old newspaper in "Not What He Seems" that [[spoiler:declares [[spoiler:that declares Stan to be dead]], if you [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely or pause the scene while the newspaper is onscreen]], you can see the article suddenly changes subject partway through; it goes from a serious (and plot-relevant) topic to how fashionable leg warmers are.
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* A verbal example in WesternAnimation/{{Steven Universe}}. While Steven and Pearl are having a serious discussion about [[MissingMom Rose Quartz]], in the background you can hear Garnet and Amethyst trying and [[YourOtherLeft failing]] to get a giant Axe through the temple door.
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* A verbal example in WesternAnimation/{{Steven Universe}}. While Steven and Pearl are having a serious discussion about [[MissingMom Rose Quartz]], in the background you can hear Garnet and Amethyst trying and [[YourOtherLeft failing]] to get a giant Axe axe through the temple door.door.
* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', this can happen even during very serious scenes. When Dipper and Mabel find the old newspaper in "Not What He Seems" that [[spoiler:declares Stan to be dead]], if you [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely or pause the scene while the newspaper is onscreen]], you can see the article suddenly changes subject partway through; it goes from a serious (and plot-relevant) topic to how fashionable leg warmers are.
---> In other news, leg warmers are all the rage this week and we predict this style will go on forever.
* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', this can happen even during very serious scenes. When Dipper and Mabel find the old newspaper in "Not What He Seems" that [[spoiler:declares Stan to be dead]], if you [[FreezeFrameBonus look closely or pause the scene while the newspaper is onscreen]], you can see the article suddenly changes subject partway through; it goes from a serious (and plot-relevant) topic to how fashionable leg warmers are.
---> In other news, leg warmers are all the rage this week and we predict this style will go on forever.
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* A verbal example in {{Steven WesternAnimation/{{Steven Universe}}. While Steven and Pearl are having a serious discussion about [[MissingMom Rose Quartz]], in the background you can hear Garnet and Amethyst trying and [[YourOtherLeft failing]] to get a giant Axe through the temple door.
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** "Christmas Guy" features Peter and Lois have a conversation, oblivious to Stewie stealing a house's Christmas lights, putting lipstick on a snowman before kissing and beheading it, and eventually blowing up the entire town.
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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends But Keep Discord]]", a [[UnstoppableMailman mailpony enters Discord's realm of chaos to give him a letter]]. Discord takes the letter and shoves him away. As he gloats over the letter in the foreground, a monster snatches the mailpony and flies off.
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Odd was in the foreground when the tail firing occurred. It doesn\'t count if he\'s in the foreground. He didn\'t spend 2 minutes blowing out his tail, it only took about 10-15 seconds to cool it.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Odd gets one in one episode. On Lyoko, his tail gets shot at and catches on fire. He spends about two minutes flying around in the background trying to put it out. After the two minutes he FINALLY decides to blow it out when the camera focuses on him.
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** There's another example in the episode in which Bart become a boy scout, while seeing television with Homer and Lisa Bart criticizes ''Itchy & Scratchy'' for being unrealistic, Lisa says that the cartoons doesn't have to be realistic. In this moment a second "Homer" is passing by the window in the outside.
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** There's another example in the episode in which Bart become a boy scout, scout; while seeing television with Homer and Lisa Lisa, Bart criticizes ''Itchy & Scratchy'' for being unrealistic, Lisa and says that the cartoons doesn't have to be realistic. In this moment a second "Homer" is passing by the window in the outside.
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** Even the people who did the small annotations comment on the event! (This is from the marathon Nicktoons aired leading up to the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'')
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** Even the people who did the small annotations comment on the event! (This is from the marathon Nicktoons aired leading up to the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'')''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''.)
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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 The Cutie Map, Part 1]]", while the other ponies are talking to Double Diamond, Party Favor stares at Rarity, who looks uncomfortable.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Mixel Moon Madness", when the Mixels steal the food, Niksput ends up hit in the head with Flamzer's volleyball in the background.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Mixel Moon Madness", when the Mixels Nixels steal the food, food from the party, Niksput ends up hit in the head with Flamzer's volleyball in the background.
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** After Kuvira is defeated, [[http://cartoonimpala.tumblr.com/post/105625941678/the-hmmm-eyebrow Jinora can be seen giving a]] FascinatingEyebrow to [[{{ShipTease}} Asami putting a comforting hand on Korra's shoulder]]
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* Easy to miss example in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. While Bob is begging Phong to give Hexadecimal an icon, we can see Ray sampling Hexadecimal's biscuits [[IAmAHumanitarian made out of Herr Doctor]] while Mouse tries to stop him from eating one.
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* Easy to miss example in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. While Bob is begging Phong to give Hexadecimal an icon, we can see Ray sampling Hexadecimal's biscuits [[IAmAHumanitarian [[ImAHumanitarian made out of Herr Doctor]] while Mouse tries to stop him from eating one.
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** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]": at the picnic, Maud takes a few bites of her sandwich, and then sets it down, and pushes her pet rock Boulder towards the food. The scene briefly switches to closeups where AJ offers Maud a muffin, but by the time the shot pulls back, the sandwich is gone and Boulder is all alone on the picnic blanket. [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight No one seems to notice.]]
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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Zoidberg's Uncle, Harold Zoid, tells the extras in his film to throw a bit of humour into the background of a dramatic scene...which results in said extras running around screaming and throwing pies at each other. Later its mentioned that they spent the entire budget on pies before they could complete post production.
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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Zoidberg's Uncle, Harold Zoid, tells the extras in his film to throw a bit of humour humor into the background of a dramatic scene...which results in said extras running around screaming and throwing pies at each other. Later its mentioned that they spent the entire budget on pies before they could complete post production.
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** In "Cartman Finds Love", Token and Nicole's FallingInLoveMontage has Cartman watching them, happy that his racist notion that blacks should only date other blacks has come to fruition. One scene has him watching them ''very'' far away in the background.
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** In "Mad Love", when we see Harlene Quinzel start her first day at Arkham, one of the patients is casually licking the glass in his cell as she talks about her fascination with people who are mentally insane.
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** In "Mad Love", when we see Harlene Quinzel start her first day at Arkham, one of the patients [[CreatorCameo (who looks suspiciously like Paul Dini)]] is casually licking the glass in his cell as she talks about her fascination with people who are mentally insane.
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* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' featured one of the guests at Pinkie's welcoming party for Twilight, a grey pegasus with gold eyes wearing a cross-eyed, vacant grin on her face. [[FanNickname "Derpy Hooves"]] quickly became [[MemeticMutation something of a sensation]] among the show's PeripheryDemographic, enough that she made cameos in a few later episodes and by the next season was featured in a Funny Background Event OncePerEpisode.
** A green unicorn named "Lyra Heartstrings" is fond of this. Quite often in crowd scenes she will be jumping up and down ecstatically with a grin on her face, and it's common for her to do out-of-place human actions like sitting upright. In one memorable scene, she was seen in a city in the clouds, bouncing up and down. Despite the fact that she was a unicorn, they did not give her wings to make her a pegasus. In "Magic Duel" she appears in the background during the climactic fight calmly drinking a soda, uninterested in the battle.
** Gummy's antics with a ball of yarn in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne "Party of One"]].
** In ''Green Isn't Your Color'', Pinkie Pie menacingly bites an apple while trying to scare Twilight out of telling Rarity's secret, only to really enjoy the apple and forget she was doing. During most of Twilight and Fluttershy's conversation following, Pinkie remains in the background still eating the apple.
** In "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pinkie Pie clones herself, and her duplicates can frequently be seen doing something silly in the background, like one who keeps on dancing during the barn-raising scene even as [[ByWallThatIsHoley she narrowly avoids getting squashed by a falling barn wall]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddfcSPNxRB0 Discord and Angel]] provide this trope in "Keep Calm and Flutter On" behind Fluttershy's back.
** In ''Trade Ya'', whenever the episode cuts to one of the B-Plots- Rarity and Applejack bickering over what to pool their resources to buy- Rainbow and Fluttershy can be seen passing in the background several times while on their ChainOfDeals quest, carrying various items or struggling with the two-headed dog.
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]'', when Discord dresses up in a big, silly alicorn horn, wings, and crown, the Mane Cast all give him funny glances... except for Fluttershy, who appears to be giggling to herself.
** A green unicorn named "Lyra Heartstrings" is fond of this. Quite often in crowd scenes she will be jumping up and down ecstatically with a grin on her face, and it's common for her to do out-of-place human actions like sitting upright. In one memorable scene, she was seen in a city in the clouds, bouncing up and down. Despite the fact that she was a unicorn, they did not give her wings to make her a pegasus. In "Magic Duel" she appears in the background during the climactic fight calmly drinking a soda, uninterested in the battle.
** Gummy's antics with a ball of yarn in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne "Party of One"]].
** In ''Green Isn't Your Color'', Pinkie Pie menacingly bites an apple while trying to scare Twilight out of telling Rarity's secret, only to really enjoy the apple and forget she was doing. During most of Twilight and Fluttershy's conversation following, Pinkie remains in the background still eating the apple.
** In "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pinkie Pie clones herself, and her duplicates can frequently be seen doing something silly in the background, like one who keeps on dancing during the barn-raising scene even as [[ByWallThatIsHoley she narrowly avoids getting squashed by a falling barn wall]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddfcSPNxRB0 Discord and Angel]] provide this trope in "Keep Calm and Flutter On" behind Fluttershy's back.
** In ''Trade Ya'', whenever the episode cuts to one of the B-Plots- Rarity and Applejack bickering over what to pool their resources to buy- Rainbow and Fluttershy can be seen passing in the background several times while on their ChainOfDeals quest, carrying various items or struggling with the two-headed dog.
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]'', when Discord dresses up in a big, silly alicorn horn, wings, and crown, the Mane Cast all give him funny glances... except for Fluttershy, who appears to be giggling to herself.
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* [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E1MareInTheMoon The first episode episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' featured one of the guests at Pinkie's welcoming party for Twilight, a grey pegasus with gold eyes wearing a cross-eyed, vacant grin on her face. [[FanNickname "Derpy Hooves"]] "[[FanNickname Derpy Hooves]]" quickly became [[MemeticMutation something of a sensation]] among the show's PeripheryDemographic, enough that she made cameos in a few later episodes and by the next season was featured in a Funny Background Event OncePerEpisode.
** A green unicorn named "Lyra Heartstrings" is fond of this. Quite often in crowd scenes she will be jumping up and down ecstatically with a grin on her face, and it's common for her to do out-of-place human actions like sitting upright. In one memorable scene, she was seen in a city in the clouds, bouncing up and down. Despite the fact that she was a unicorn, they did not give her wings to make her a pegasus. In"Magic Duel" "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]" she appears in the background during the climactic fight calmly drinking a soda, uninterested in the battle.
** Gummy's antics with a ball of yarn in[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne "Party "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne Party of One"]].
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** In''Green "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color'', Color]]", Pinkie Pie menacingly bites an apple while trying to scare Twilight out of telling Rarity's secret, only to really enjoy the apple and forget she was doing. During most of Twilight and Fluttershy's conversation following, Pinkie remains in the background still eating the apple.
** In"Too "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E3TooManyPinkiePies Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pies]]", Pinkie Pie clones herself, and her duplicates can frequently be seen doing something silly in the background, like one who keeps on dancing during the barn-raising scene even as [[ByWallThatIsHoley she narrowly avoids getting squashed by a falling barn wall]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddfcSPNxRB0 com/watch?v=ddfcSPNxRB0 Discord and Angel]] provide this trope in "Keep "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On" On]]" behind Fluttershy's back.
** In''Trade Ya'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E19TradeYa Trade Ya]]", whenever the episode cuts to one of the B-Plots- B-plots; Rarity and Applejack bickering over what to pool their resources to buy- Rainbow and Fluttershy can be seen passing in the background several times while on their ChainOfDeals quest, carrying various items or struggling with the two-headed dog.
** In''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1]]'', 1]]", when Discord dresses up in a big, silly alicorn horn, wings, and crown, the Mane Cast all give him funny glances... except for Fluttershy, who appears to be giggling to herself.
** A green unicorn named "Lyra Heartstrings" is fond of this. Quite often in crowd scenes she will be jumping up and down ecstatically with a grin on her face, and it's common for her to do out-of-place human actions like sitting upright. In one memorable scene, she was seen in a city in the clouds, bouncing up and down. Despite the fact that she was a unicorn, they did not give her wings to make her a pegasus. In
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'' episode "[=MacLarry=] And The Stinky Cheese Battle", in the scene where [=MacBob=] (played by Bob the Tomato) informs Chog Norrius that they were pranked by the Romans, Donald (played by Jerry Gourd) can be seen re-inflating the WhoopeeCushion that he accidentally sat on, throwing it back down, then sitting on it again, clearly looking like he is having way too much fun.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Fa La La La Ed", while Jimmy is complaining to Sarah about the pain of smashing his piggy bank, we see Ed falling over as he tries to prop up some Christmas lights.
** In "Look Before You Ed," while Edd and Jimmy are covered in snow in the foreground, Eddy and Ed steal Kevin's snowboard in the background.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Zoidberg's Uncle, Harold Zoid, tells the extras in his film to throw a bit of humour into the background of a dramatic scene...which results in said extras running around screaming and throwing pies at each other. Later its mentioned that they spent the entire budget on pies before they could complete post production.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' actually has [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19210_7-insane-easter-eggs-hidden-in-movies-tv-shows.html a language dedicated to background jokes.]]
* In the episode "Mission: Responsible" of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', the first time Wanda dials Timmy, Cosmo tries to find out how a napkin (even a plate!) works!
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' was actually quite fond of this trope. Whenever there was an episode where a camera was involved (i.e., Twister shooting a documentary, or even the ''news''), there was something funny going on. During the episode about a documentary of Otto and his Sno-Mart ventures, you can see this trope playing through a ''LOT''. Such examples include Ray coming out and dumping garbage all over the front lawn, a skater in the Blader Bowl flying out...then an empty skateboard coming out, and another where it was repeated, except a ''dolphin'' flew out of the Blader Bowl.
** There was also an incident in which a news reporter was complaining about how there wasn't anything to film, and then right behind him, a flying saucer comes in, pulls a whale out of the ocean, then flies off.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': After the whole 'Appa ate Momo' incident, when the Gaang is talking about where Aang got off to, Sokka can be seen trying to get out of Appa's mouth, then slipping on the drool, twice.
** Even the people who did the small annotations comment on the event! (This is from the marathon Nicktoons aired leading up to the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'')
** Likely accidental example: The show usually avoid FacelessMasses which leads an an error in the fourth episode when Aang and Katara are talking at a marketplace and a man in the background is apparently [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/299.jpg talking to a wooden post]], and then [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/303.jpg something it said made him depressed]].
** When Prince Zuko and Iroh are invited aboard Commander Zhao's ship, Zuko and Zhao have a rather intense conversation in his cabin, while Iroh occupies himself by looking at a set of polearms leaning against the opposite wall. At one point, Iroh accidentally knocks them all over, scrambling to catch them with a huge wide-eyed face before putting them back in place. The whole thing lasts less than a second.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': When Korra sneaks into the pro-bending arena, she's caught by Toza, who believes she's trying to watch for free. While the two bicker, Bolin walks by in the background, backpedals a step or two, and stops to fix his hair before conveniently interrupting the argument with awkwardness galore.
** Something of a Funny Sideground Event: When Tarrlok interrupts dinner at Air Temple Island, Pema gives Tenzin a DeathGlare for allowing Tarrlok to stay. Then, when Tarrlok sits down to talk to Korra, Ikki can be seen doing the exact same glare as her mother, even after the camera isn't focusing on her anymore.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Stella wakes up from a sleeping gas induced slumber, finds a ladybug on her arm, and runs around in the background.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame," in which the Griffins get their own reality show, an argument at a seafood restaurant between Meg and her parents is hard to focus on while Stewie's fighting a live lobster in the tank behind them.
** "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" has Peter and Lois conducting a kitchen-table conversation while a seeming ''Simpsons'' promo at the bottom of the screen morphs into Quagmire sexually assaulting Marge Simpson.
** In "Screwed the Pooch", the trope is not only lampshaded, but dressed up and sent to walk the streets as a serious conversation between Lois and Brian becomes completely secondary to the fact that Peter has just farted in the soundproof booth he has locked himself in, and is increasingly desperate to escape his own gas before collapsing into unconsciousness.
** ''Family Guy'' does indeed love this trope: "The Story on Page One" had a discussion between Meg and Lois in the kitchen, while out the window a mind controlled Chris turns on Stewie and attacks him.
** Another twist on this trope comes in "Let's Go to the Hop" when Peter and Lois are getting ready for bed and calmly discussing an issue about Meg. While donning bondage gear. None of the dialogue alludes to this until the very last line.
** In "Peter's Two Dads", Peter announces that his father Francis has died. Lois and Brian (who never liked Francis) express sympathy, then leave. As Peter continues talking, through a window behind him we can see Lois and Brian dancing with joy on the front lawn, Brian grabbing Lois' chest, and her slapping him.
** At the end of another episode "Long John Peter", Chris tries to apologize to Anna, the young vet he has a crush on whom Peter suggests that he'd act like a jerk to, by bringing in a badly beaten Brian. While the two of them have a conversation, Brian wobbles back and forth for a few seconds and then falls over.
** The episode "He's Too Sexy For His Fat" has Chris and Lois talking about liposuction. While Lois wonders aloud [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough what kind of idiot would go through such a procedure]] (right before a newly-thin Peter walks through the door), an overweight Stewie who is stuck in his high chair tries to get at a chocolate cake that Lois left on the counter.
** In "I Never Met the Dead Man", Peter and Chris chat while Stewie can be seen retrieving the satellite dish Peter crashed into earlier in the episode.
** In "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", while Lois complains to Peter about not being able to find a place to hold Stewie's first birthday party, Stewie can be seen using large suction cups to climb down the window. As the conversation continues, he gets stuck and falls to the ground after attempting to free himself.
** In "Business Guy", Lois talks to Peter while Quagmire, after ripping a chunk of his skin off, runs around and crashes into his airplane.
** In "Big Man on Hippocampus", Lois and Peter reunite while Quagmire tries and fails to prepare to make love to Lois. His failed attempts continue as Peter and Lois exit his house.
** "Christmas Guy" features Peter and Lois have a conversation, oblivious to Stewie stealing a house's Christmas lights, putting lipstick on a snowman before kissing and beheading it, and eventually blowing up the entire town.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' (not counting the "season zero" pilots), as Thor is talking to Jane Foster after saving her from an uncontrolled car, we see said car's driver struggling to get out with the seatbelt jammed. When the scene finishes, the driver gets a face full of airbag.
* Borderline example from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is having a relatively mundane conversation with his recently-new boss, Hank Scorpio, about how he's thinking of quitting and moving back to Springfield for the sake of his family. While this is going on, a massive battle worthy of the climax of a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie is happening in the background, but Homer doesn't seem to notice. Scorpio himself is killing ninjas and elite secret agents with a flamethower and launching a Doomsday Device during the whole conversation -- which means it isn't ''completely'' in the background, but the effect is the same. At the end of the sequence, the background event comes to the foreground as Homer kicks a grenade out of his way before leaving.
** [[AffablyEvil "Homer, if you could kill someone on your way out, that'd really help me out!"]]
** The episode "Jazzy And The Pussycats" featured Lisa adopting a load of abandoned and unwanted animals, and whilst trying to find owners, Chief Wiggum's car breaks down, so Lisa gives him an ostrich to ride away on. Later on in the background, you can see Chief Wiggum (still riding the ostrich) leading an arrested Snake away (on another ostrich).
** There's another example in the episode in which Bart become a boy scout, while seeing television with Homer and Lisa Bart criticizes ''Itchy & Scratchy'' for being unrealistic, Lisa says that the cartoons doesn't have to be realistic. In this moment a second "Homer" is passing by the window in the outside.
** In "The Color Yellow", the class is told to create family trees. While Lisa talks about family trees, we get a view outside of the window where Groundskeeper Willy is filling a hole in the ground with water from the hose, then sits in a folding chair and begins fishing in it.
** In the Joan of Arc segment of the episode "Tales From The Public Domain", in the background of one of the battle scenes an English soldier can be seen fighting a French soldier using a teacup instead of a sword, he then gets his hand cut off and runs around bleeding profusely.
** "A Streetcar Named Marge" has [[VengefulVendingMachine Homer beating the crap out of an uncooporative vending machine]].
** The show's opening credits also contain this trope, though you often need to freeze-frame in order to see what's going on. An early 2014 episode's credits inserted a tribute to a character played by recently deceased voice actress Marcia Wallace, for example.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' example: in the episode "Frankie My Dear," Frankie makes small talk with her date while in the background Mac, Bloo, the pizza guy (disguised as [[TotemPoleTrench one very tall guy]]) and the PrinceCharming imaginary friend (DisguisedInDrag) try to get into the restaraunt without a reservation, culminating with the prince friend punching the ''maitre d'''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan Time", Rodger and Steve are trying to write an original, modern porno, while behind them two sexy ladies repair the air conditioning in increasingly erotic ways.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts'', both the original short, the series based on it and the various commercials made by Aardman in the same format, such as their Chevron campaign.
** Ads for Hubba Bubba Max bubble gum. Not done by Aardman, but clearly influenced by them.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' where Dale gets a suit of armor, in the background while the other three are talking you can see him walk off a roof in his armor.
** After finding out Hank is entering Ladybird in the dancing competition in "Dances With Dogs", Bobby says "You told me dog dancing was only for weirdos!" as he says this a fat man dressed as Charlie Chaplin walks by twirling a cane and walking a french bulldog.
** In "Phish and Wildlife" when Hank and the ranger are discussing ways they could get rid of the hippies in the control room, on one of the monitors Bill can be seen dressed in his hippie garb stumbling around drunk, or possibly high.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' did this in one sketch during a song recording. The two producers at the boards turn off the sound and take five to talk all while in the background the singer finds himself assaulted by a mutant, an alien and finally devoured by a wolfman with the producers unaware.
** There was also an episode where the Playmobil characters were inside the airport, talking about how silly the set was. If you watch the luggage conveyor belt in the corner, you can eventually see a Playmobil kid figure (which came with the set) rolling through.
* Easy to miss example in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. While Bob is begging Phong to give Hexadecimal an icon, we can see Ray sampling Hexadecimal's biscuits [[IAmAHumanitarian made out of Herr Doctor]] while Mouse tries to stop him from eating one.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies''. An especially bizarre one comes when Brendan and his father are at a restaurant. Two men are seen at another table. One man draws an unflattering picture of the other as a severed head, and gets [[DopeSlap hit for it]]. The DVDCommentary said of this: "Whoa, what's going on at ''that'' table?"
** During the episode "It Was Supposed To Be Funny," when Brendon is admitting that he can't finish his fries, you can see a car going through the Alien Burger drive-thru being abducted.
* A ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' short revolved around this, with Jimmy, Beezy, and Heloise complaining about how nothing ever happens in Miseryville... while the city is being destroyed in the background.
* In a less than subtle example in the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'', Harley and Mercy fighting it out in the background while Lex Luthor and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker are having the business meeting during The Batman Superman Movie.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "A Very Crappy Christmas" features the characters watching ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' on TV. The first two shots of the screen are normal and the characters take note of them. In the final shot, Charlie Brown is naked and Snoopy is hitting him with a piece of wood. Wonder what happened there.
** Another example is "How to Eat With Your Butt", TheOneWith the people with asses for faces. They're sitting around having a conversation with Kenny's family, while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' is fond of these, especially in the second season, but they often turn out to be rather creepy, such as the monster eating its own guts, then its heart and finally dying.
* Despite being in the foreground more often than not, this is half of what makes Ferb one of the most hilarious characters on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. Since everyone's attention is usually on Phineas, he's free to be an oft-ignored source of [[SilentSnarker silent snarking]], small-scale {{Shout Out}}s, and GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
** In both "Rollercoaster" and its MusicalEpisode version, almost all the humor to the scene where Candace is talking on the phone with Stacy is all the random stuff going on in the background; Phineas and Ferb carry in trucks, lions, construction parts...
** At the very end of the episode, just after the tree explodes. You can see the giant aluminium ball rolling in the background.
** In "Last Train to Bustville," you can see Doofenshmirtz being chased by the dodo bird through the window in the room where Lawrence and Grandpa Clyde are just sitting.
** In "The Magnificent Few," there's a sign that says "Egg laying contest this way."
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''
** In "Heart of Ice" as the reporter is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs.
** In "Mad Love", when we see Harlene Quinzel start her first day at Arkham, one of the patients is casually licking the glass in his cell as she talks about her fascination with people who are mentally insane.
** In "Almost Got 'Im", Poison Ivy inserts herself into the villain's card game after knocking down Killer Croc and swiping his chair. As the group continues their conversation, Croc can be seen throwing away another patron and taking his chair.
*** Made even ''funnier'' at the climax when [[spoiler:it's revealed Croc is Batman in disguise, and the other patrons are all cops. "Uhh, sorry about this Commissioner..."]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SallyBollywood'' episode "The Return of Mr. Big", a science student points out that Doowee had garlic prawns for dinner several days ago. Then, (in the next shot) as Sally is talking to the science student a bit more, you can see Doowee (in the background) testing his breath, then gagging at the smell.
** In another episode, after it's been revealed that Bob looted the lockers of two students, the two furious students proceed to chase him off, the chase subsequently continuing throughout the background of several other scenes through the episode... Until Bob and another culprit run smack into each other near the end.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' episode "Convoy", after Optimus has [[TrainStopping stopped the train]], you can see Miko punching Jack in the arm, then the pair giving each other a high-five.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': When Huey and Riley are among a group sent on a "scared stiff" program with Tom, the prisoners are always adding little comments (off screen) during what ever is being said:
--> '''[[DepravedHomosexual Booty Warrior]]:''' See kids, when you go to prison, '''booty''' is the most important thing.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Y'all better listen to him.
** Later:
--> '''Prisoner:'''"Shit man, I done raped a few niggas myself.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Yep.
--> '''Prisoner:''' But I didn't enjoy it.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' He didn't enjoy.
--> '''Prisoner:''' [[TransparentCloset At least, not that much.]]
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Not that much.
--> '''Prisoner:''' I didn't let that nigga kiss me or nothing.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' No sir!
--> '''Prisoner:''' But I did tear that ass up.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Off the frame!
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' featured one of the guests at Pinkie's welcoming party for Twilight, a grey pegasus with gold eyes wearing a cross-eyed, vacant grin on her face. [[FanNickname "Derpy Hooves"]] quickly became [[MemeticMutation something of a sensation]] among the show's PeripheryDemographic, enough that she made cameos in a few later episodes and by the next season was featured in a Funny Background Event OncePerEpisode.
** A green unicorn named "Lyra Heartstrings" is fond of this. Quite often in crowd scenes she will be jumping up and down ecstatically with a grin on her face, and it's common for her to do out-of-place human actions like sitting upright. In one memorable scene, she was seen in a city in the clouds, bouncing up and down. Despite the fact that she was a unicorn, they did not give her wings to make her a pegasus. In "Magic Duel" she appears in the background during the climactic fight calmly drinking a soda, uninterested in the battle.
** Gummy's antics with a ball of yarn in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne "Party of One"]].
** In ''Green Isn't Your Color'', Pinkie Pie menacingly bites an apple while trying to scare Twilight out of telling Rarity's secret, only to really enjoy the apple and forget she was doing. During most of Twilight and Fluttershy's conversation following, Pinkie remains in the background still eating the apple.
** In "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pinkie Pie clones herself, and her duplicates can frequently be seen doing something silly in the background, like one who keeps on dancing during the barn-raising scene even as [[ByWallThatIsHoley she narrowly avoids getting squashed by a falling barn wall]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddfcSPNxRB0 Discord and Angel]] provide this trope in "Keep Calm and Flutter On" behind Fluttershy's back.
** In ''Trade Ya'', whenever the episode cuts to one of the B-Plots- Rarity and Applejack bickering over what to pool their resources to buy- Rainbow and Fluttershy can be seen passing in the background several times while on their ChainOfDeals quest, carrying various items or struggling with the two-headed dog.
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]'', when Discord dresses up in a big, silly alicorn horn, wings, and crown, the Mane Cast all give him funny glances... except for Fluttershy, who appears to be giggling to herself.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' has several of these, particularly on signs on labels. Notably, Reverend Putty's mug which reads "I Hate My Boss." Creator Dino Stamatopoulos talked about how he asked the animators to give more attention to these . . . which resulted in every shot featured the mug, even though it meant the mug was turned around in alternating shots.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Odd gets one in one episode. On Lyoko, his tail gets shot at and catches on fire. He spends about two minutes flying around in the background trying to put it out. After the two minutes he FINALLY decides to blow it out when the camera focuses on him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'' episode "[=MacLarry=] And The Stinky Cheese Battle", in the scene where [=MacBob=] (played by Bob the Tomato) informs Chog Norrius that they were pranked by the Romans, Donald (played by Jerry Gourd) can be seen re-inflating the WhoopeeCushion that he accidentally sat on, throwing it back down, then sitting on it again, clearly looking like he is having way too much fun.
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** In "Look Before You Ed," while Edd and Jimmy are covered in snow in the foreground, Eddy and Ed steal Kevin's snowboard in the background.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "That's Lobstertainment!" Zoidberg's Uncle, Harold Zoid, tells the extras in his film to throw a bit of humour into the background of a dramatic scene...which results in said extras running around screaming and throwing pies at each other. Later its mentioned that they spent the entire budget on pies before they could complete post production.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' actually has [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19210_7-insane-easter-eggs-hidden-in-movies-tv-shows.html a language dedicated to background jokes.]]
* In the episode "Mission: Responsible" of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', the first time Wanda dials Timmy, Cosmo tries to find out how a napkin (even a plate!) works!
* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' was actually quite fond of this trope. Whenever there was an episode where a camera was involved (i.e., Twister shooting a documentary, or even the ''news''), there was something funny going on. During the episode about a documentary of Otto and his Sno-Mart ventures, you can see this trope playing through a ''LOT''. Such examples include Ray coming out and dumping garbage all over the front lawn, a skater in the Blader Bowl flying out...then an empty skateboard coming out, and another where it was repeated, except a ''dolphin'' flew out of the Blader Bowl.
** There was also an incident in which a news reporter was complaining about how there wasn't anything to film, and then right behind him, a flying saucer comes in, pulls a whale out of the ocean, then flies off.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': After the whole 'Appa ate Momo' incident, when the Gaang is talking about where Aang got off to, Sokka can be seen trying to get out of Appa's mouth, then slipping on the drool, twice.
** Even the people who did the small annotations comment on the event! (This is from the marathon Nicktoons aired leading up to the premiere of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'')
** Likely accidental example: The show usually avoid FacelessMasses which leads an an error in the fourth episode when Aang and Katara are talking at a marketplace and a man in the background is apparently [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/299.jpg talking to a wooden post]], and then [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/303.jpg something it said made him depressed]].
** When Prince Zuko and Iroh are invited aboard Commander Zhao's ship, Zuko and Zhao have a rather intense conversation in his cabin, while Iroh occupies himself by looking at a set of polearms leaning against the opposite wall. At one point, Iroh accidentally knocks them all over, scrambling to catch them with a huge wide-eyed face before putting them back in place. The whole thing lasts less than a second.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': When Korra sneaks into the pro-bending arena, she's caught by Toza, who believes she's trying to watch for free. While the two bicker, Bolin walks by in the background, backpedals a step or two, and stops to fix his hair before conveniently interrupting the argument with awkwardness galore.
** Something of a Funny Sideground Event: When Tarrlok interrupts dinner at Air Temple Island, Pema gives Tenzin a DeathGlare for allowing Tarrlok to stay. Then, when Tarrlok sits down to talk to Korra, Ikki can be seen doing the exact same glare as her mother, even after the camera isn't focusing on her anymore.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Stella wakes up from a sleeping gas induced slumber, finds a ladybug on her arm, and runs around in the background.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Fifteen Minutes of Shame," in which the Griffins get their own reality show, an argument at a seafood restaurant between Meg and her parents is hard to focus on while Stewie's fighting a live lobster in the tank behind them.
** "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)" has Peter and Lois conducting a kitchen-table conversation while a seeming ''Simpsons'' promo at the bottom of the screen morphs into Quagmire sexually assaulting Marge Simpson.
** In "Screwed the Pooch", the trope is not only lampshaded, but dressed up and sent to walk the streets as a serious conversation between Lois and Brian becomes completely secondary to the fact that Peter has just farted in the soundproof booth he has locked himself in, and is increasingly desperate to escape his own gas before collapsing into unconsciousness.
** ''Family Guy'' does indeed love this trope: "The Story on Page One" had a discussion between Meg and Lois in the kitchen, while out the window a mind controlled Chris turns on Stewie and attacks him.
** Another twist on this trope comes in "Let's Go to the Hop" when Peter and Lois are getting ready for bed and calmly discussing an issue about Meg. While donning bondage gear. None of the dialogue alludes to this until the very last line.
** In "Peter's Two Dads", Peter announces that his father Francis has died. Lois and Brian (who never liked Francis) express sympathy, then leave. As Peter continues talking, through a window behind him we can see Lois and Brian dancing with joy on the front lawn, Brian grabbing Lois' chest, and her slapping him.
** At the end of another episode "Long John Peter", Chris tries to apologize to Anna, the young vet he has a crush on whom Peter suggests that he'd act like a jerk to, by bringing in a badly beaten Brian. While the two of them have a conversation, Brian wobbles back and forth for a few seconds and then falls over.
** The episode "He's Too Sexy For His Fat" has Chris and Lois talking about liposuction. While Lois wonders aloud [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough what kind of idiot would go through such a procedure]] (right before a newly-thin Peter walks through the door), an overweight Stewie who is stuck in his high chair tries to get at a chocolate cake that Lois left on the counter.
** In "I Never Met the Dead Man", Peter and Chris chat while Stewie can be seen retrieving the satellite dish Peter crashed into earlier in the episode.
** In "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", while Lois complains to Peter about not being able to find a place to hold Stewie's first birthday party, Stewie can be seen using large suction cups to climb down the window. As the conversation continues, he gets stuck and falls to the ground after attempting to free himself.
** In "Business Guy", Lois talks to Peter while Quagmire, after ripping a chunk of his skin off, runs around and crashes into his airplane.
** In "Big Man on Hippocampus", Lois and Peter reunite while Quagmire tries and fails to prepare to make love to Lois. His failed attempts continue as Peter and Lois exit his house.
** "Christmas Guy" features Peter and Lois have a conversation, oblivious to Stewie stealing a house's Christmas lights, putting lipstick on a snowman before kissing and beheading it, and eventually blowing up the entire town.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' (not counting the "season zero" pilots), as Thor is talking to Jane Foster after saving her from an uncontrolled car, we see said car's driver struggling to get out with the seatbelt jammed. When the scene finishes, the driver gets a face full of airbag.
* Borderline example from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer is having a relatively mundane conversation with his recently-new boss, Hank Scorpio, about how he's thinking of quitting and moving back to Springfield for the sake of his family. While this is going on, a massive battle worthy of the climax of a ''Franchise/JamesBond'' movie is happening in the background, but Homer doesn't seem to notice. Scorpio himself is killing ninjas and elite secret agents with a flamethower and launching a Doomsday Device during the whole conversation -- which means it isn't ''completely'' in the background, but the effect is the same. At the end of the sequence, the background event comes to the foreground as Homer kicks a grenade out of his way before leaving.
** [[AffablyEvil "Homer, if you could kill someone on your way out, that'd really help me out!"]]
** The episode "Jazzy And The Pussycats" featured Lisa adopting a load of abandoned and unwanted animals, and whilst trying to find owners, Chief Wiggum's car breaks down, so Lisa gives him an ostrich to ride away on. Later on in the background, you can see Chief Wiggum (still riding the ostrich) leading an arrested Snake away (on another ostrich).
** There's another example in the episode in which Bart become a boy scout, while seeing television with Homer and Lisa Bart criticizes ''Itchy & Scratchy'' for being unrealistic, Lisa says that the cartoons doesn't have to be realistic. In this moment a second "Homer" is passing by the window in the outside.
** In "The Color Yellow", the class is told to create family trees. While Lisa talks about family trees, we get a view outside of the window where Groundskeeper Willy is filling a hole in the ground with water from the hose, then sits in a folding chair and begins fishing in it.
** In the Joan of Arc segment of the episode "Tales From The Public Domain", in the background of one of the battle scenes an English soldier can be seen fighting a French soldier using a teacup instead of a sword, he then gets his hand cut off and runs around bleeding profusely.
** "A Streetcar Named Marge" has [[VengefulVendingMachine Homer beating the crap out of an uncooporative vending machine]].
** The show's opening credits also contain this trope, though you often need to freeze-frame in order to see what's going on. An early 2014 episode's credits inserted a tribute to a character played by recently deceased voice actress Marcia Wallace, for example.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' example: in the episode "Frankie My Dear," Frankie makes small talk with her date while in the background Mac, Bloo, the pizza guy (disguised as [[TotemPoleTrench one very tall guy]]) and the PrinceCharming imaginary friend (DisguisedInDrag) try to get into the restaraunt without a reservation, culminating with the prince friend punching the ''maitre d'''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan Time", Rodger and Steve are trying to write an original, modern porno, while behind them two sexy ladies repair the air conditioning in increasingly erotic ways.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts'', both the original short, the series based on it and the various commercials made by Aardman in the same format, such as their Chevron campaign.
** Ads for Hubba Bubba Max bubble gum. Not done by Aardman, but clearly influenced by them.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' where Dale gets a suit of armor, in the background while the other three are talking you can see him walk off a roof in his armor.
** After finding out Hank is entering Ladybird in the dancing competition in "Dances With Dogs", Bobby says "You told me dog dancing was only for weirdos!" as he says this a fat man dressed as Charlie Chaplin walks by twirling a cane and walking a french bulldog.
** In "Phish and Wildlife" when Hank and the ranger are discussing ways they could get rid of the hippies in the control room, on one of the monitors Bill can be seen dressed in his hippie garb stumbling around drunk, or possibly high.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' did this in one sketch during a song recording. The two producers at the boards turn off the sound and take five to talk all while in the background the singer finds himself assaulted by a mutant, an alien and finally devoured by a wolfman with the producers unaware.
** There was also an episode where the Playmobil characters were inside the airport, talking about how silly the set was. If you watch the luggage conveyor belt in the corner, you can eventually see a Playmobil kid figure (which came with the set) rolling through.
* Easy to miss example in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. While Bob is begging Phong to give Hexadecimal an icon, we can see Ray sampling Hexadecimal's biscuits [[IAmAHumanitarian made out of Herr Doctor]] while Mouse tries to stop him from eating one.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies''. An especially bizarre one comes when Brendan and his father are at a restaurant. Two men are seen at another table. One man draws an unflattering picture of the other as a severed head, and gets [[DopeSlap hit for it]]. The DVDCommentary said of this: "Whoa, what's going on at ''that'' table?"
** During the episode "It Was Supposed To Be Funny," when Brendon is admitting that he can't finish his fries, you can see a car going through the Alien Burger drive-thru being abducted.
* A ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' short revolved around this, with Jimmy, Beezy, and Heloise complaining about how nothing ever happens in Miseryville... while the city is being destroyed in the background.
* In a less than subtle example in the ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'', Harley and Mercy fighting it out in the background while Lex Luthor and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker are having the business meeting during The Batman Superman Movie.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "A Very Crappy Christmas" features the characters watching ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' on TV. The first two shots of the screen are normal and the characters take note of them. In the final shot, Charlie Brown is naked and Snoopy is hitting him with a piece of wood. Wonder what happened there.
** Another example is "How to Eat With Your Butt", TheOneWith the people with asses for faces. They're sitting around having a conversation with Kenny's family, while in the background more and more people are crowding round the window to stare in and laugh.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' is fond of these, especially in the second season, but they often turn out to be rather creepy, such as the monster eating its own guts, then its heart and finally dying.
* Despite being in the foreground more often than not, this is half of what makes Ferb one of the most hilarious characters on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''. Since everyone's attention is usually on Phineas, he's free to be an oft-ignored source of [[SilentSnarker silent snarking]], small-scale {{Shout Out}}s, and GettingCrapPastTheRadar.
** In both "Rollercoaster" and its MusicalEpisode version, almost all the humor to the scene where Candace is talking on the phone with Stacy is all the random stuff going on in the background; Phineas and Ferb carry in trucks, lions, construction parts...
** At the very end of the episode, just after the tree explodes. You can see the giant aluminium ball rolling in the background.
** In "Last Train to Bustville," you can see Doofenshmirtz being chased by the dodo bird through the window in the room where Lawrence and Grandpa Clyde are just sitting.
** In "The Magnificent Few," there's a sign that says "Egg laying contest this way."
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''
** In "Heart of Ice" as the reporter is finishing up on Mr. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs.
** In "Mad Love", when we see Harlene Quinzel start her first day at Arkham, one of the patients is casually licking the glass in his cell as she talks about her fascination with people who are mentally insane.
** In "Almost Got 'Im", Poison Ivy inserts herself into the villain's card game after knocking down Killer Croc and swiping his chair. As the group continues their conversation, Croc can be seen throwing away another patron and taking his chair.
*** Made even ''funnier'' at the climax when [[spoiler:it's revealed Croc is Batman in disguise, and the other patrons are all cops. "Uhh, sorry about this Commissioner..."]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SallyBollywood'' episode "The Return of Mr. Big", a science student points out that Doowee had garlic prawns for dinner several days ago. Then, (in the next shot) as Sally is talking to the science student a bit more, you can see Doowee (in the background) testing his breath, then gagging at the smell.
** In another episode, after it's been revealed that Bob looted the lockers of two students, the two furious students proceed to chase him off, the chase subsequently continuing throughout the background of several other scenes through the episode... Until Bob and another culprit run smack into each other near the end.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' episode "Convoy", after Optimus has [[TrainStopping stopped the train]], you can see Miko punching Jack in the arm, then the pair giving each other a high-five.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': When Huey and Riley are among a group sent on a "scared stiff" program with Tom, the prisoners are always adding little comments (off screen) during what ever is being said:
--> '''[[DepravedHomosexual Booty Warrior]]:''' See kids, when you go to prison, '''booty''' is the most important thing.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Y'all better listen to him.
** Later:
--> '''Prisoner:'''"Shit man, I done raped a few niggas myself.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Yep.
--> '''Prisoner:''' But I didn't enjoy it.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' He didn't enjoy.
--> '''Prisoner:''' [[TransparentCloset At least, not that much.]]
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Not that much.
--> '''Prisoner:''' I didn't let that nigga kiss me or nothing.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' No sir!
--> '''Prisoner:''' But I did tear that ass up.
--> '''Random prisoner:''' Off the frame!
* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' featured one of the guests at Pinkie's welcoming party for Twilight, a grey pegasus with gold eyes wearing a cross-eyed, vacant grin on her face. [[FanNickname "Derpy Hooves"]] quickly became [[MemeticMutation something of a sensation]] among the show's PeripheryDemographic, enough that she made cameos in a few later episodes and by the next season was featured in a Funny Background Event OncePerEpisode.
** A green unicorn named "Lyra Heartstrings" is fond of this. Quite often in crowd scenes she will be jumping up and down ecstatically with a grin on her face, and it's common for her to do out-of-place human actions like sitting upright. In one memorable scene, she was seen in a city in the clouds, bouncing up and down. Despite the fact that she was a unicorn, they did not give her wings to make her a pegasus. In "Magic Duel" she appears in the background during the climactic fight calmly drinking a soda, uninterested in the battle.
** Gummy's antics with a ball of yarn in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E25PartyOfOne "Party of One"]].
** In ''Green Isn't Your Color'', Pinkie Pie menacingly bites an apple while trying to scare Twilight out of telling Rarity's secret, only to really enjoy the apple and forget she was doing. During most of Twilight and Fluttershy's conversation following, Pinkie remains in the background still eating the apple.
** In "Too Many Pinkie Pies", Pinkie Pie clones herself, and her duplicates can frequently be seen doing something silly in the background, like one who keeps on dancing during the barn-raising scene even as [[ByWallThatIsHoley she narrowly avoids getting squashed by a falling barn wall]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ddfcSPNxRB0 Discord and Angel]] provide this trope in "Keep Calm and Flutter On" behind Fluttershy's back.
** In ''Trade Ya'', whenever the episode cuts to one of the B-Plots- Rarity and Applejack bickering over what to pool their resources to buy- Rainbow and Fluttershy can be seen passing in the background several times while on their ChainOfDeals quest, carrying various items or struggling with the two-headed dog.
** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]'', when Discord dresses up in a big, silly alicorn horn, wings, and crown, the Mane Cast all give him funny glances... except for Fluttershy, who appears to be giggling to herself.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' has several of these, particularly on signs on labels. Notably, Reverend Putty's mug which reads "I Hate My Boss." Creator Dino Stamatopoulos talked about how he asked the animators to give more attention to these . . . which resulted in every shot featured the mug, even though it meant the mug was turned around in alternating shots.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Odd gets one in one episode. On Lyoko, his tail gets shot at and catches on fire. He spends about two minutes flying around in the background trying to put it out. After the two minutes he FINALLY decides to blow it out when the camera focuses on him.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{VeggieTales}}'' episode "[=MacLarry=] And The Stinky Cheese Battle", in the scene where [=MacBob=] (played by Bob the Tomato) informs Chog Norrius that they were pranked by the Romans, Donald (played by Jerry Gourd) can be seen re-inflating the WhoopeeCushion that he accidentally sat on, throwing it back down, then sitting on it again, clearly looking like he is having way too much fun.
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