History GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / WesternAnimation

** In "The Otto Show", [[Music/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]] has an interview in which David St. Hubbins says that "After the Berlin Wall, fell our records started selling on the dismal side of the Iron Curtain, and naturally that gave us a boost."

** "Bart vs. Australia" discussed the American fascination with Australian culture in TheEighties, including such works as ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', and Yahoo Serious' films such as ''Film/YoungEinstein'', the latter prompting Lisa to say "I know those words, but that sign makes no sense."

* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has considerable popularity in Japan, and was so popular that a chubby little fangirl kicked Stargirl in the shin for badmouthing about Supergirl.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' called "Men Rock!", Emily, Bridgette, Josh and Candice visit an Eastern European country ruled by a sexist dictator who is a fan of their music because he thinks that it represents that men are superior to women in his country.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'' called "Men Rock!", Emily, Bridgette and their friends visit an Eastern European country ruled by a sexist dictator who is a fan of their music because he thinks that it represents that men are superior to women in his country.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Kahn Souphanousinphone, Hank Hill's Laotian-American neighbor, is a huge fan of 70s and 80s pop music. One episode, "Pour Some Sugar On Me", is all about this as he gets involved in karaoke.

* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has considerable popularity in Japan, and was so popular that a chubby little fangirl kicked Stargirl in the shin for badmouthing about Supergirl.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Lisa Simpson has a ridiculously detailed plan for being a famous jazz musician one day, which includes being ignored in her own country but very popular in France.
** "Bart vs. Australia" discussed the American fascination with Australian culture in TheEighties, including such works as ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', and Yahoo Serious' films such as ''Film/YoungEinstein'', the latter prompting Lisa to say "I know those words, but that sign makes no sense."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E4Jakovasaurus Jakovasaurus]]", the eponymous animals are forcibly relocated to France when the people of South Park find them too annoying to live, where the French find them to be hilarious and "just like Creator/JerryLewis!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'', Chris tells the contestants that the show is ''huge'' in Japan, but [[SameLanguageDub everyone's voices are dubbed over in English]] and that the show is subtitled in Japanese, because they think their normal voices are just too annoying. In the spinoff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'', Don mentions that the show is big in Croatia. (As it happens, the real show has never aired in either Croatia nor Japan.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', at one point Johnny comments "That's it, I'm moving to Japan. They ''love'' me in Japan."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' invokes this trope in its theme song with the line "They love it in Bulgaria", which was probably to rhyme with the other lyrics in the song.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had Rocko and Heffer visiting Paris, France. Their tour group stops for lunch at an "authentic French cuisine" restaurant, which turns out to be a Chokey Chicken (likely parodying the real life international popularity of American fast food chains such as [=KFC=] and [=McDonald's=]). Towards the end of the episode, Heffer looks back on pictures he took of famous Parisian attractions (i.e, the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Arc de Triomphe), all of which have Chokey Chicken restaurants installed in them.
* In ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' episode "From Mumbai to Love", they are revealed to be popular among children in India and this plays in the cats' favor! Jack invited Oggy and Olivia to see the Cricket World Cup taking place there, but the Cockroaches took the tickets so [=DeeDee=] and Marky want to meet the Princess out of their crush on her while Joey wants to steal her diamond necklace. When they succeed in stealing the tickets from them, they told the children what happened and they all helped out tracing the Cockroaches' steps to where they are and they took the tickets back.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' revealed that when Quagmire was in the service and station in South Korea, he starred in a soap opera called "Winter Summer" as a character named "American Johnny." When he, Peter, Cleveland and Joe go to South Korea to find the last episode of the show (since the show itself never aired outside of that country) twenty years after Winter Summer ended, it's shown that Koreans still remember Quagmire as his character from the show and that he's actually still pretty popular.
** Ironically though [[BannedInChina the series itself is banned in South Korea]] due to its vulgar content.
* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' called "Shoo Ed" that lampshaded this, where the Eds train Johnny to be the most annoying person in the world so they can charge the kids to get rid of him. However, Rolf the immigrant kid practically falls in love with him. Even taking his belching in stride: "You are full of pickles and beets today, my friend."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E50WhoBoppedBugsBunny Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?]]", [[CaptainErsatz Sappy]] [[WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant Stanley]] has become obscure in America, but is still a big star in France.

[[folder:Real Life Examples]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' is pretty popular in Mexico. Billy and his friends went to that country during the Dia de los Muertos episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' was very popular in Japan, likely due to Dexter being a bizarre scientist and Dee Dee being the show's resident {{Moe}} girl.
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' is adored almost totally unironically in Latin America and other parts of the world. In U.S. it's either hated or ridiculed for being overly preachy, or tolerated due to BileFascination or NostalgiaGoggles.
** Season 6 was not even aired in America until 2006, ten years after its premiere airing overseas.
** It may help that many of these countries, especially developing one, still to this date have problems with RealLife CorruptCorporateExecutive polluting the environment or destroying protected areas. So, although in the U.S. (where the environmentalist movement has been mainstream for decades with even big corporations endorsing green politics) the show feels annoyingly on-the-nose. While in Latin America, the image of the villains is/was sadly TruthInTelevision and the message of the show still resonate among a lot of people. In fact, after the Amazonian fire crisis, a hashtag requesting a reboot for the show became popular in Brazilian and Hispanic American social media because "the message was needed more than ever".
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' is more popular in France than ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', which came first. The fact that the French channel NRJ 12 airs 8 episodes each Sunday helps a lot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' is, for reasons unknown, extremely popular in Turkey. The show's old primary broadcaster, Yumurcak TV (which was shut down due to alleged links with the Gülen Movement after the 2016 coup d'état kerfluffle), aired a one-hour two-episode back-to-back slot of the show at 7AM, and up to 3 additional half-hour slots through the day, seven days a week. Commercials for Caillou merchandise have been reported to last up to 5 minutes, and the toys are abundant in the country.
** Not a nation, per say, but the series also seems to be especially popular with the black community in its native Canada despite the main character being white.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is surprisingly popular in Italy, to the point that its AlternateContinuity novels were actually written and released in Italy, instead of its native France. Out of the four novels, only two were released in France, and ''zero'' got released in English.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is far more popular in Latin America than in the United States. In America, the show is very polarizing and was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork very badly screwed over]] by Creator/ComedyCentral in it's third and final season. In Latin America, the show is better received by viewers (with some people even claiming it's superior to the best seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''), is highly quotable over there, and was [[AdoredByTheNetwork frequently shown]] on their local version of Creator/{{MTV}}, and is still shown in reruns on their version of Comedy Central. Similar to ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' mentioned below, the show's popularity has to do with the {{Woolseyism}} of the dub, with very well known voice actors voicing the main cast, with even more outrageous quotes and dialogue than in the original English dub.
** The show is also as popular in Germany as in Latin America, to the point that they're more videos of the German and Latin American Spanish dub than in English.
* Like ''Drawn Together'', ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' is far more popular in Latin America than in America, as the show wasn't ScrewedByTheNetwork in Latin America. It doesn't help that the Latin American Spanish dubbing work was very good and was well received by viewers over there.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' is so popular in Japan that not only did they get merchandise that isn't available in other countries (including [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Happy Meal toys]]), they got a ''theme park'' in Mt Fuji.
** The franchise is also big in North America, where the toy sales alone add up to one billion dollars annually. The show itself also pulls in good ratings, to the point that both times when Creator/PBSKids pulled Thomas off their schedule in the United States [[note]]first in 1997 when PBS lost the rights to ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' and again 20 years later with the series as a stand-alone program[[/note]], many children and parents got upset about the change and demanded its return. The United States also got a similar version of the Mount Fuji theme park in 2015 at Edaville. In Canada, up until the rights to Thomas went to ''Creator/TreehouseTV'' in 2018, the show was a staple of the TV Ontario schedule (which had happened ever since ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' premiered in 1989), and there wasn't a day where the station didn't air the show, since ''Thomas'', along with [[CanadianSeries the Canadian-produced]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', were the three flagship shows of TV Ontario. [[note]] When ''Thomas'' left, ''The Ollie and Moon Show'' took its timeslots.[[/note]] When it moved channels to Treehouse, its' popularity didn't fade, as it became the second most-run foreign show on the channel after ''Peppa Pig''.
** In most of the world, the ''Big World! Big Adventures!'' spin-off (which began in season 22) is seen as an incarnation people either love due to the new storylines about going around the world or hate because [[FollowTheLeader it was trying too hard to be like]] ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol''. But it was so big in Mexico that they got permission to air several episodes of the following season there before they were shown in the United Kingdom. The United States also aired a bunch of season 23 episodes as early as May 2019, before the UK would debut the season in September.
* ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie''
** Britt Allcroft's other major production is very popular in Norway. There are many Norwegian pages about the show on the internet. The Ladybird books from the UK even got translated there. It was also the first country to get the show on DVD.
** While the most-popular episode in the United States is "Scarecrow's Birthday Surprise" and the most popular in the UK is the entire Mumfie's Quest arc, the most popular episode in Norway is "An Age-Old Problem". Also in that country, Pinkey is the most popular character other than Mumfie, when Scarecrow's usually the most popular.
** Mumfie's also more popular in the US than the UK. They got the entire Mumfie's Quest arc and series first on VHS and Hulu, respectively, and the [[ChristmasEpisode White Christmas special]] was the highest-rated program in its timeslot.
** It too was popular in Japan - the first video of the series was the third-top selling anime video when it came out, and its soundtrack was the fifth-top selling anime CD of the week in Japan. Despite this, the episodes after Mumfie's Quest weren't dubbed.[[note]] By the time the 1998 episodes rolled around, Forte Music had gone bankrupt and dissolved as part of its parent company Nippon Columbia. It doesn't help that [[Creator/KeiTomiyama Scarecrow's Japanese voice actor]] had died of pancreatic cancer 3 years before, making Scarecrow his last role.[[/note]]
** According to Britt Allcroft, the show was very popular in Germany as well, gaining high ratings in its timeslot and lots of praise. They also released a CD and the first 15 episodes on VHS.
** There are also many Spanish fans of the show. The Facebook page was flooded by so many of them, that they did a comic series telling the story of Mumfie's Quest just for them (alongside an English version).
** It was also popular in Greece, since a lot of "Children's TV Favorites" [=CDs=] use the theme song as a track (even including an instrumental version of the song). A recurring joke there is that Mumfie is said to be the story of Benjamin Blumchen's childhood. [[note]] Benjamin Blumchen and Mumfie were both popular there and ran back to back sometimes.[[/note]]
** It is also popular in Sweden and could be considered their equivalent of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' since it airs around Christmas each year, just as Oz typically airs in the U.S. each Thanksgiving. It's also worth noting that the plots of the two films share vague similarities to each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' was extremely popular in India to the point where it was the most popular cartoon on Doordarshan.
** It's fondly recalled in some Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries as well, and also in Brazil.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'' was also popular in India to the point where not only the people adored it, [[AdoredByTheNetwork but also]] [[Creator/CartoonNetwork one of the channels it aired on]][[note]](yes, Cartoon Network in India used to show pre-school shows, possibly due to being the first children's channel in the country)[[/note]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is huge in Germany. Fans (and networks) on that side of the globe staged a hissy fit that persuaded Disney to renew the series, making it the first Disney cartoon since ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' to break the [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon 65-Episode Curse]].
* ''From All of Us to All of You'', a Creator/{{Disney}} Christmas compilation special that first aired on ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'' in 1958, hasn't been seen on U.S. network TV in decades, but in Sweden (where it goes by the name ''Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul'', or simply ''Kalle Anka'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's Swedish name), [[http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2009/12/nordic_quack.html it's an obligatory Christmas Eve viewing]], drawing the kind of ratings that UsefulNotes/{{Super Bowl}}s would get in America.
** Making it even odder is that the one Donald short featured in the special, "Clown of the Jungle", takes place in South America and has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas.
*** Donald does appear three more times during the special. He's part of the short "Mickey's Trailer", along with Mickey Mouse and Goofy, and he also appears in passing in two Christmas-related segments. But yeah, Jiminy Cricket is the real star of the special. But since Donald is the most famous Disney character in Sweden, one would guess it only made sense to name it after him instead.
*** While considered a classic by many, the Academy Award winning short ''WesternAnimation/FerdinandTheBull'' is starting to fade into obscurity in America as it hasn't been aired for a very long time. In Sweden, however, it's ''also'' such an integral part of ''Kalle Anka'' that when ''[[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies The Ugly Duckling]]'' aired during the special instead, there was a national outcry and ''Ferdinand'' was promptly restored the following year.
* ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'', while a [[BrokenBase Base Breaking]] installment of the {{Franchise/Nicktoons}} series in its home country of the United States, seems to be universally beloved in Russia and a popular topic on the local video service VK.
** The show also has more exposure on the Australian version of Nick's website and on various Korean Website/YouTube videos.

** As popular as the show is in the United States (where it's considered one of the greatest TV shows of all time), it's even ''more'' popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland. An area themed to Springfield was actually built in the Ride/UniversalStudios Orlando theme park as a way to help absorb the influx of British guests who were coming to the resort to see the new Franchise/HarryPotter area.
** Lisa Simpson is apparently the most popular main cast member in Japan. Considering that she's a studious and intelligent Buddhist, this isn't too surprising. In America, Lisa is either tolerated or branded one of the reasons why this popular sitcom sucks (at least in the later episodes, where Lisa becomes a preachy vegetarian and nearly every episode about her is about her protesting something. The earlier episodes, she was smart and artistic, but still had childlike interests like ponies, princesses, and cartoons like ''The Happy Little Elves'' and ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'').
** Worth noticing that Lisa is also very popular in Latin America and many European countries, as with the Captain Planet example above, many countries do not share the American backlash against enviromentalists/feminists/political activists especially among young people.
** In Mexico, the show is still very popular and plays on Fox [[AdoredByTheNetwork at least 5 hours a day and Azteca 7 almost at the same time slot]], but mostly until season 15 where the original cast was replaced by a new dub team after the original dubbing studio closed down and the original cast refused to work for the new studio, it was loved mostly due the original dubbing {{Woolseyism}}.
** Also the show is extremely popular in UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}, to [[SeriousBusiness near]]-religious [[PopCulturalOsmosis levels]] (like how ''The Simpsons'' was back in the 1990s in America). It is so loved that when it was removed from Antena 3 (the network on which it was broadcast for 20 years) and moved to one of its secondary channels (Neox), social media protested against it.
** In UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}} the [[AdoredByTheNetwork '''WHOLE''']] Sunday program block of a TV broadcast network from noon to 5 is ''Simpsons'' re-runs, and with fairly good ratings too. Also there, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' was the highest-grossing film of 2007 in the country.
*** A time slot change was enough [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/13/bolivian-fans-stage-mass-protest-over-the-simpsons-time-slot-change to drive Bolivian fans to the streets in protest]].
** ''The Simpsons'' is regarded more fondly in French Canada than many other American franchises are, partly due to its [[{{Woolseyism}} local dubbing]] having the characters speak in informal "joual" accents[[note]] Unlike most other series/movies (even ones dubbed in Quebec), which either use "bland" region-neutral International French accents or incomprehensible European French accents[[/note]] used by most Francophone Quebequois in everyday life and actually pulling it off ''well''.[[note]] Usually such a practice is frowned upon, such as for the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' series (in written dialogue) or for one character in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.[[/note]]
** Creator/MattGroening has said that Australia might be the country most obsessed with the show. It was ''enormous'' there during the "classic" era, where it used to be Network Ten's highest rated show alonside ''Series/{{Neighbours}}''.
*** Most episodes where the eponymous family visit another country fall under AmericansHateTingle, but [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia the episode where they go to Australia]] is often cited as a favorite episode by Australian fans. There have even been official petitions to ''legally'' change the country's currency to "Dollarydoos".
* The low-budget Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'' is surprisingly popular in Spain. Besides being the only foreign country that ever aired the show, the show used to air on the local free-to-air channel Cuatro, a network that used to air a lot of cartoons during its early years.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** Being an InternationalCoproduction, it's far more popular in America than in Japan, despite the robot designs being Japanese, while the names and story were made in America. This may be because the Japanese see sentient robots without pilots as "kiddy" (and the franchise ''is'' marketed to small children in Japan). Indeed, Japanese-only series tend to feature people piloting the Transformers (''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' and ''Kiss Players''). It's also very popular in China, due to the first generation (heh, [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 gen-1]]) of children born under the "One-Child Policy" watching television on a massive scale. The people who watched [[Film/{{Transformers}} the 2007 movie]] weren't children, but adults who watched as children back in the 1980s.
** Creator/MichaelBay mentions in the DVDCommentary that when he screened the movie for Japanese producers, they went "Oooh". He doesn't mention this (and may not know), but considering that ''Transformers'' is mostly marketed to children in Japan, seeing the edgier movie may have been somewhat of a shock.
** On a character level, Ultra Magnus. In the American fandom, his largest exposure was as the wishy-washy loser in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'', an image that the current comics are currently trying to shake off. In the UK, though, he's best remembered as the major-league badass who went toe-to-toe with Galvatron in ''Target: 2006''. Nightbeat, Thunderwing, Xaaron, and Straxus have a similar disparity, with far more exposure in the UK comic than in the US.
** Star Saber, of ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' fame, is absolutely beloved in Japan. In a poll of Autobot leaders, he outdid [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Optimus Primal]] and multiple incarnations of Prime himself, and he's gotten himself multiple original figures and homage designs. In the West, Star Saber has a decidedly niche following at best, and he's often thought of as bland (though few will deny he looks cool). His portrayal as a KnightTemplar in ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye didn't help either. Nationalist sentiment likely ties into it; Star Saber was the first Autobot leader to be completely Japan-original.
** On the other end of the spectrum and hailing from the same series, there's Black Shadow, a glorified mook who popped up in one episode of ''Victory'' and was never seen again. On Western fronts, though, he picked up a cult following for an unusual reason: his toy bio, and the incompetent translation rampant in early-90s fandom. Said translations rendered his function of "[[RecycledInSpace Space Gangster]]" as "[[TheMafia Space Mafia]]", implying him to be part of some vast unseen organization (or perhaps [[OddlySmallOrganization a single individual with the power of such an organization]], a take that led to him being written as a OneManArmy in some comics) rather than the mere thug he was intended to be. Add in a fairly nifty RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver color scheme, and you had a formerly Japan-exclusive character getting multiple toys in America that took years to show up in Japan, if not being cancelled outright.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is very popular in Japan thanks to its cuteness and overall weirdness. It's even beaten WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry in terms of popularity in Cartoon Network Japan.
* ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'':
** The show is a lot more popular in Latin America. In fact, it‘s easier to find online videos of the Spanish dub than of the English or Japanese versions. And the Japanese consider those two singers foreigners for all intents and purposes, strengthening this example of the trope.
** Andy Sturmer achieved greater commercial success as a songwriter for Puffy than as a member of Jellyfish.
* ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'':
** It has enough popularity in Europe that it has a few video game adaptations.
** It became incredibly popular in Puerto Rico when it premièred during the block of cartoons shown between 3:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon, and you could practically listen to children in cars after being picked up from school frantically begging their parents to get home quick so they wouldn't miss that day's episode. It was so popular that it was one of few cartoons to enjoy an entire run of all its episodes, as local Puerto Rican TV channels were somewhat notorious for taking animated series off the air before all episodes were shown.
* The Hanna-Barbera cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'':
** It is popular in Japan, with some anime series making reference to or parodying the show. Rumor has it that the VideoGame/MarioKart series was inspired by ''Wacky Races''.
*** One of the classic ''[[Franchise/{{Gundam}} SD Gundam]]'' cartoons is an out-and-out parody of ''Wacky Races'', with ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' villains Yazan and Gemon playing the roles of Dick Dastardly and Muttley; unfortunately this meant that for copyright reasons this one had to be left out of re-releases.
** ''Wacky Races'' is ''huge'' in the United Kingdom, with British people often making use of the term "wacky races" or referencing the cartoon itself. It even led to [[http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/06/wacky-race-cartoon-cars-come-to-life-in.html this]]. Its spinoff, ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'', which despite having only 17 episodes, it is also very popular in the United Kingdom.
** Dick Dastardly and Muttley are also very popular in Brazil, where ''Wacky Races'' and ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines''[[note]]The show is also known in the country as ''Esquadrilha Abutre'' (''"Vulture Squad"'') or simply ''Pegue o Pombo!'' (''"Stop the Pigeon!"'')[[/note]] can still be watched on TV to this day.
*** In 2013, Peugeot Brazil promoted their new 308 model with a live-action ad, featuring the cars and characters from ''Wacky Races''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcnsRrXzBC0 Check it out]].
* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake''. Big in the US, '''''humongous''''' in Latin America, Europe, South Africa, and South-East Asia. It's so huge in these areas that in Europe, there are actually additional games for the franchise released that are unreleased in the US. In Latin America, words introduced by the series entered mainstream usage, and they even created a live action extension to the cartoon series. And in these countries, the 2003/2007 cartoons are aired several times a day, and special episodes are aired as two parters. In the US, the 2003 specials episodes are edited into a single 30 minute episode, throwing out many subplots of the show, and the 2007 cartoons have yet to air in the US, releasing only direct-to-DVD releases. And oh, in The Philippines and South Africa, episodes that have yet to be released on [=DVDs=] in the US are already released over there.
* ''WesternAnimation/OvideAndTheGang'':
** ''Ovide'' is considered somewhat of a cult classic in the Netherlands. May have something to do with the thoroughly [[{{Woolseyism}} Woolseyed]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-ayGu0PYJA theme song]].
** They even made a feature length movie in Mexico. Extra effort was put into making the voice acting as similar to the original dubbing as possible (which is part of what made it so successful in the first place).
* There was a time when Russian dubs of Disney series [[{{Woolseyism}} were very good]].
** ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' were done nicely, but ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' was incredibly awesome, extremely popular and a subject for MemeticMutation lasting ever now. ''Everybody'' who grew up in the 90s knows the intro song by heart. In addition, it introduced a whole generation to superhero tropes due to WeirdAlEffect.
** ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' also enjoys a large fandom in Russia. However, even more amazing is the obsession directed at a single character from it. The Russian fandom of Gadget Hackwrench is really something not from this world. There are still quite a few pages with obsessive love letters directed to her, graffiti on walls and decals on cars ([[http://community.livejournal.com/ru_gae4ka/ examples]]), and even a [[http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/02/17/russian-gadget-hackwrench-religion/ church dedicated to her]].
* ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'' may have been written and voiced in America, and [[{{Animesque}} animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha]], but it appeared to be more popular in Latin America, the UK, and ''especially'' Germany. Germany got the entire series on DVD in the late 90's, while American fans had to wait until 2008! Notably, many of the FanFic writers are bilingual as a result.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'':
** {{Doujinshi}} of Jenny from ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' is common in Japan, which isn't really surprising considering it's like their beloved ''Manga/AstroBoy'' and she's a BadassAdorable and a {{Moe}} of a RobotGirl. Even better, her voice actress is Japanese.
** The show is also very popular in Latin America, if the fanbase and ''many'' Spanish videos are any indication, to the point that in a contest (when the show still aired), ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu they beat]]'' ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' in a popularity contest.
* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' was also one of the most popular Nicktoons in Japan, probably thanks to its cuteness, penchant for the strange, and SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
* In Brazil, ''[[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' was really big. During the 2000s, movie magazine ''SET'' got so fed up with questions about a film adaptation that it once replied "It was only popular here!" It's still being aired in TheNewTens, and there's even a bunch of urban legends about the non-existent last episode. Not to mention a LiveActionAdaptation [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdvo8OHVXuE of sorts for a car commercial. ]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'':
** It was rather popular in Nick's Japan branch, premiering in 1998 (dubbed in Japanese) when Nick Japan was launched, and ''finally getting cancelled'' around 2007-2008, a year or so before Nick Japan closed shop. (The show was put in reruns by then)
** It's also very popular in Latin American markets as well.
** And it's pretty popular over in the Netherlands. Similar to most anime, the dubbed version of the show which was syndicated (Nickelodeon wasn't available over there yet) was disliked by some fans who have heard the original English voices (almost all the characters (June mostly) sound completely different in the Dutch dub), so when the show was brought over to Nicktoons (in their branch), it was subtitled in Dutch with the English audio.
** ''WesternAnimation/ActionLeagueNow'' is the most popular short in the US. ''Life With Loopy'' is the most popular short in Russia.
* ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' was only a modest success in the United States, where it ran for a mere 30 episodes and [[MainstreamObscurity is relatively obscure to modern audiences]] (unless you're a classic cartoon historian/fan, like Jerry Beck, Creator/JohnKricfalusi, or Leonard Maltin or those who found it either on Creator/{{Boomerang}} or a episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''). The show was however successful outside the United States:
** In Latin America, it's Hanna-Barbera's biggest franchise, rivaling only ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' in its success and has reruns up to the late 2010s. It is so popular that Officer Dibble's name, dubbed as "Oficial Matute", became slang in several Latin American countries for "police officer". It is even so popular that in 2011, Creator/WarnerBros (who now owns the franchise after taking over Hanna-Barbera) licensed out the property to Anima Studios of Mexico to create a ''Top Cat'' animated feature specifically targeted at the Latin American fanbase. The ticket sales in Mexico alone paid for the film and it's the fifth highest grossing Mexican-produced film of all time.
*** The show's popularity owed a great deal to the {{Woolseyism}} of the dub. Each character name was changed to a typical Latin American name and each cat was given a distinctive and different Mexican accent appropriate to the character. Considering that Mexican media is very popular in most Latin American countries sans Argentina, Colombia, and Brazil, people everywhere were familiar with those changes.
*** ''Top Cat'''s popularity also stems in part from casually happening to be similar to a popular Mexican cinema character of the time called ''Tin Tan''.
** ''Top Cat'' also found a large audience in the UK (though, in the UK, the show was called ''Boss Cat'' when it was first shown to avoid associating it with a brand of cat food known as "Top Cat" – it's now shown under its original name). In fact, the only reason an English language dub of the 2011 film was produced was to release the movie in the UK. Much like in Latin America, "The Dibble" is slang in some parts of England for police officers and more recently, a politician who included the initials "T.C." in his name was referred to by his opponents as "Top Cat" to mock him.
** It's also loved in Sri Lanka, where it is known as Pissu Poosa (පිස්සු පූසා) (Crazy Cat), and it has been rerun several times on Rupavahini, the channel that aired it. The last known time it aired was in 2012.
* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateBookOfSpells'' was huge in the UK. It was on every weekday afternoon was repeated every weekday morning on CBBC, and was briefly repeated on Pop. The videos were on major store shelves too.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' for the UK. To compare, both it and ''[[WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack Flapjack]]'' made their UK debut around the same time, and while Chowder has gone from one or two episodes a day to being aired several times morning, noon and night, Flapjack has all but vanished, with yet to air anything outside of season one.
** ''Chowder'' has quite a cult following in Japan too, as the show gets a lot of fanart and {{doujinshi}} from there, likely thanks to the same reasons as ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' above.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The series is very popular in Germany where it's known as "[=SpongeBob=] Schwammkopf", which may explain Creator/DavidHasselhoff's appearance in TheMovie. [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing It also arguably has the best dub out of all the countries]]. The series is so popular in Germany [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmvkw1c5dhs that there are]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz7tLnr56Ns multiple SpongeBob SquarePants]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhhSDH-ulbc&t=35s albums (14 as of 2021)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPyWT1wN478 containing]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeY-EcVd6pI original/cover songs]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x92sZXyKNck&t=83s that are exclusive in Germany and are]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4thxGmdDl4 sang]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzOp0JIZGUs by the characters]]. The series even has [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALMg3QaZvaskh2L2ISK_LQ it's own music channel called "MusikSpongeBob"]] on [=YouTube=], and a [[http://www.spongebob-musik.de/ website]] dedicated entirely to these albums released annually. Even popular German singers and musicians (such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpsZ7Fihp8 Markus Becker]], MC Fitti, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36_erskj0wI Roland Kaiser]]) are heard singing alongside [=SpongeBob=].
** [=SpongeBob=] has a large cult following in Japan among not just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIDaSDrO3sA children]], but [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16789412/ns/business-world_business/ young women]] as well, who find him cute, cool and unique. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-i_bJ2HT7o Yeah, the kids love their SpongeBob over there; that is for sure.]]
*** The show is still popular to this day with its' current airings on NHK and TV Osaka. There was even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akQpsy8jNsQ a SpongeBob restaurant]] that opened up in Tokyo which sold exclusive food and merchandise.
** [=SpongeBob=] is quite popular in China, especially with adults, and contrary to the parody on Website/YouTube, has had no ExecutiveMeddling by those DirtyCommies and a fairly decent dub.
** The Russian army [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8slqbNdacM enjoys marching to the theme song]].
** ''[=SpongeBob=]'' is one of the most popular cartoons in Mexico (quite ironic considering it’s dubbed in Venezuela). There, ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' topped the box office for two weeks in a row. Also, while ''[=SpongeBob=]'' merchandise isn't as common as it used to be in the United States, the merchandise is everywhere in Mexico. And when show creator Stephen Hillenberg died, the Spanish tag for [=SpongeBob=] was the third most popular tag of the day on Twitter, which also happened when [[MilestoneCelebration the show turned 20]]. The 20th anniversary campaign that happened in North America also happened in Mexico, with promotions not happening in the US being tied to it, like [[https://twitter.com/gekiamanaaaaa/status/1162521218634981377?s=21 these donuts]]. The third film ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOnTheRun'' even gained an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLz9VaksClg original song called "Agua" by Tainy and J. Balvin which was performed entirely in Spanish]] with two english lyrics as a response to Spongebob's popularity in Mexico.
* The Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' was huge in Poland. The success was so immense, Creator/DisneyXD (which acquired the rights to the cartoon after merging with the European network [[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] [previously Creator/FoxKids]) decided to start rerunning the series along with ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''. The series was also popular in Germany, where Super RTL kept rerunning the series well after its run.
* From 1999-2002, Creator/CartoonNetwork banned Speedy Gonzales cartoons from airing on the network because the executives deemed him to be an EthnicScrappy. Despite the heavy stereotypes, [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Speedy Gonzales was incredibly popular with Latin American audiences, with Mexico even having a Speedy Gonzales show]]. After several years of backlash from animation fans, the ban was finally lifted.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' was one of the most popular Disney shows in Germany. The show is very popular in Canada, to the point where it still airs on Family, [[{{Expy}} the Expy of]] [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Channel]]. The show is pretty popular in the U.K. too, and Japan. Butch, Hustler Kid, and Lawson are extremely popular over there, and T.J. is considered as the show's {{Moe}} symbol.
** Related to the Germany scenario, the entire series is on that country's iTunes even though this is a US series.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' is ''huge'' in India -- to the point of his name being a slang term for anything considered cool, hip, and/or trendy. Cartoon Network Asia took notice and produced a TV movie called ''Johnny Bravo Goes Bollywood'' exclusively for India.
** The show is also very popular in Latin America, almost as much as India.
* While ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy "[[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Adult Party Cartoon]]"'' left [[FanonDiscontinuity a sour taste]] in both the U.S. and most parts of the world, the ShortRunner does have some strong fanbases in Eastern Europe (mostly in Poland).
* While Creator/FourKidsEntertainment's version of ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' enjoyed moderate success in the States, it seems to have a pretty sizable following in Latin America.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': Universally popular, due to its almost total lack of dialogue, which makes it far more easy to broadcast untranslated than other cartoon franchises.
** It is quite popular in Japan. It's beaten other animated series, even classic anime, in various popularity lists and some of the rarer shorts not even accessible in America are common place there.
** The cartoons have a cult status in the Czech Republic and they are fondly remembered. New generations of children keep discovering them and it's definitely the country's archetype of [[RoadRunnerVsCoyote the Road Runner Vs. Wile E. Coyote cartoons]]. It helps that 13 of the cartoons were produced in the Czech Republic by Creator/GeneDeitch at Rembrandt Films in Prague.
** In the United Kingdom, they are almost ''the'' definition of a classic quality cartoon. For decades, the BBC programmed ''Tom & Jerry'' on TV, especially when technical difficulties occurred and they had to broadcast something of general interest to keep their audience watching (like how, in 1993, ''Noel's House Party'' had to be taken off-air due to a bomb threat from the IRA, and [=BBC1=] put on ''Tom & Jerry'' instead). In the "100 Best Cartoons" list, held by Channel 4 in 2005, Tom & Jerry came in ''second'', only behind ''The Simpsons'' (another foreign cartoon, incidentally).
** It's also popular in Iran (of all places) and among the Iranian diaspora as well.
* ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'':
** Gwen, particularly [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 her original incarnation]], is a rather divisive character in the West, but ''incredibly'' popular in Southeast Asia; so much so that she was given her own product line and official website. The character's episodes in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' were even meant as {{backdoor pilot}}s for a CN Asia spin-off.
** The franchise as a whole has immense popularity outside of the United States, with Australia, New Zealand, and Latin & South America[[note]]Notable countries include Argentina, Paraguay (South) and Mexico (North)[[/note]] being the biggest alongside the aforementioned Southeast Asia. [[WesternAnimation/Ben10DestroyAllAliens One of the various television movies]] was made specifically for SEA, while ''Omniverse'' was made in an effort to appeal to Eastern fans who enjoyed the original series more than ''Alien Force/Ultimate Alien''; two installments which managed to gain a huge following in the United Kingdom. Every CN region other than the home branch had a game show spin-off based on the show, and ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'' is referred to as such because while it premiered in the United States in 2017, it debuted in SEA, Australia and New Zealand the previous year.
** While ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' is seen as a ContestedSequel in USA, it generally was a much bigger hit than its predecessor in the United Kingdom.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has a rather well-sized fanbase in Japan, it's one of the stand-out Western animations there. Might have something to do with the [[ArtStyleDissonance cute]] [[{{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}} characters]] and [[WidgetSeries overall American weirdness]]. And that the Japanese are fans of ToiletHumor. This also explains all the anime-style fan art you see on fan art sites.
** ''South Park'' also has large fanbases in Latin America and Spain, mainly thanks to their respective [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing Superlative Dubbings]].
* While ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' is popular in America, where many fans of the Japanese ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films know it's better than its [[Film/{{Godzilla1998}} originating film]], many ''Japanese'' fans consider it even superior to some of their own films. Also, in Serbia, where Godzilla as a franchise tanks horribly on a regular basis, the series was popular enough to become one of only ''four'' American cartoons in history to be given a Serbian language dub. Particularly notable was that the entire series was given this, which had only happened once before. Ever.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' was also popular in Japan. So much so, in fact, that they made [[Anime/PowerpuffGirlsZ their own version of the series]]. It's even had merchandise released into TheNewTens.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is more popular in the United Kingdom than in America. In America, the show is very firmly polarizing. In Britain, where GallowsHumor and the kind of "random" Creator/{{Monty Python}}-esque vignette is better appreciated, this show is loved no matter what (except for the occasional bad episode). Britain even aired an episode that America wouldn't ("[[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E21PartialTermsOfEndearment Partial Terms of Endearment]]") because abortion isn't as hot-button an issue in the UK as it is in America. It's popularity there is to the point that Creator/SethMacFarlane was able to showcase his side gig as a jazz/swing singer on tours in the UK and got his own TV & radio specials.
** It's also huge in Hungary, where it's the top watched show on Netflix. The local dub is also held in very high regard. Hungarians love adult oriented animated comedies in general, the more vulgar and lowbrow the better -- with even ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' being hailed as a top ranking classic by many. In fact, this mentality even influenced their profanity-laden dub of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', though that one never caught on due to its cultural differences and more laid-back humor. ''Family Guy'' on the other hand is still a comedy juggernaut with a very vocal and protective fanbase.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has a small cult following in the United Kingdom, where it was one of the flagship shows of Channel 4 during the 90's and has gained a new generation of fans thanks to late night reruns on sister channel 4Music.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' may have been pretty [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed over]] by the US Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} department and is [[AmericansHateTingle universally despised in France]], but in Latin America, the show was a massive success during its original run, mainly because it was transmitted in then-popular kids TV channel Creator/FoxKids, later rebranded as Jetix, now Creator/DisneyXD of that region, which was far (and still is) more popular than the Latin America version of Nickelodeon (infact, in the earlier years of Disney XD Latin America, ''The Fairly Oddparents'' were still shown in reruns there, and althought it become rare to see reruns of it there nowdays, Disney XD Latin America still holds the rights to air the first 4 seasons and the first half of season 5), got [[AdoredByTheNetwork a whole programming block dedicated to it]] called "Noche Mágica" [[note]]"Magic Night"[[/note]], and even got some airs in its sister channel, Creator/DisneyChannel during the 2000s due its popularity. This popularity also helped the show to had exclusive merchandise and promotions in several countries from that region (spawning [[https://youtu.be/Ay_kW4oSHVI this infamious commercial]] from El Salvador), and even got some [[https://youtu.be/iTHeHk5GFMg live shows]] there!
** ''The Fairly Oddparents'' also have a larger fanbase in the UK and Germany.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeamGalaxy'' was a dual effort between Marathon Media and Canada's Ocean Group studio, with Canada's YTV and France's Channel 3 airing it. It was a critical failure on the United States's Cartoon Network as the audience had deemed it "''Totally Spies'' in space" despite building a new lineup to feature it and also having it part of their then-new online streaming service, but the show is extremely popular in the Philippines, where reruns still air.
* ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'': The series (as well as Blinky himself) is known as "Vili Vilperi" in Finland, and is '''''hugely''''' popular there, almost as much as it is in Australia.
** The UK, Israel, Germany and the Netherlands also love Blinky, to the point where the PC games based on the 1990s series were released in Hebrew, German and Dutch.
* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'' is very popular in Japan for its PerkyGoth aesthetic.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** It is surprisingly popular in Russia and Japan. Not a coincidence in the latter's case, as all seven ''Tiny Toon'' video games released during the '90s were made by Creator/{{Konami}}, and ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBustersBadDream'' and the never-released ''Tiny Toons: Defenders of the Universe'' were made by Creator/{{Treasure}}.
* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop was pretty popular in Japan in her heydays; she even got a special specifically made for Japanese audiences, "A Language All My Own" where Betty sings in Japanese.
* The animated ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'', takes this UpToEleven. While moderately well-known in the United States (where the original books are still loved), the cartoon is so popular in Japan, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-01-09/japan-animation-tv-ranking-december-12-18 that it often makes the Top 10 TV Animation Lists each week]], in a list which has been mainly domestic animation after ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' ended ''more than a decade ago''. It's also so popular that [[BabyNameTrendStarter some parents in the country have used the name George, romanized as Joji, for their children]].
** It is also popular in Australia to the point where [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3218320/We-ve-stages-grief-Parents-flood-ABC-photos-kids-hearing-devastating-news-broadcaster-cancelled-TV-favourite-Curious-George.html children were brought to tears]] when Creator/TheABC (temporarily) took the series off the air.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' is famous in Brazil, where it's considered part of the childhood of anyone who lived in the 90's, when its broadcaster, TV Cultura, lived a golden age (in contrast with today's [[NetworkDecay decadence]]). They were thrilled that the original voice actors of the dub would be reprising their roles in the [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin 2011 film]].

** The show is very popular in Poland, likely due in part to [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing its very well-done Polish dub]] (occasional hiccups aside). That it's the first show to be listed if you look on [=MiniMini=]+'s website is a good indicator. In fact, it's so popular there that [[http://www.fge.com.pl/ they even have their own Equestria Daily!]]
** Both played straight and averted in Japan. The show was not popular enough to keep Bushiroad from pulling the plug after Season Two. However, even before the (high quality) dub, it had attracted a [[PeripheryDemographic following of young men]] not unlike its more famous American counterpart. Within that small but dedicated fanbase, character preference often contrasts sharply with America's…
*** The Japanese fandom ''loves'' Fluttershy, who has a number of similarities with the Japanese archetype of YamatoNadeshiko (American fans referred to her as "the {{moe}} pony" from the beginning). There's even a [[Memes/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic meme]] calling her "an honorary Japanese".
*** Cheerilee also has a sizeable number of Japanese fans, to the point she was given near-top billing in the Japanese dub. This is most certainly due to her role as the SenseiChan.
*** Applejack is by far the least popular main character in the United States, both in its main audience and its PeripheryDemographic, to where she's often the only main character excluded from marketing and some toy lines. However, Applejack consistently places in the top 3 in Japanese popularity polls. This is most likely a combination of her work ethic resonating with the importance Japanese culture places on hard work and a general Japanese love of Westerns and cowboys.
*** Coco Pommel is beloved in Japan for being humble, polite, gentle, and most of all cute, yet with just enough confidence to assert herself when necessary. Just like Fluttershy, she's seen as a YamatoNadeshiko.
*** Bushiroad attempted to invoke this with their adaptation – new J-pop-style openings and endings for each season, an excellent dub with some bigger-name voice actors (Creator/MiyukiSawashiro and Creator/KikukoInoue, just to name two), and a little VarietyShow segment at the end. They put so much effort into it that one could easily mistake it for a Japanese production with unusually smooth animation (at least until some of the songs play untranslated). Unfortunately, as mentioned above, it didn't hit with its target demographic of elementary-aged girls, likely due to that market already being saturated with more popular domestic franchises – see ''Franchise/PrettyCure'', ''Franchise/HelloKitty'', etc. The dub was also criticized for cutting out scenes for time and to use in the new openings, which caused a few plot holes, not to mention leaving a few of the songs undubbed. [[note]] There was a rumor going around at one point that Hasbro Studios offered to animate new intros and outros specially for the Japanese market, but the Japanese dubbing team declined. There was even another rumor that Hasbro were NOT happy with the way the show was being handled in Japan and threatened to revoke the dubbing rights. [[/note]]
*** As it turns out, this trope actually applies to the ''Japanese dub itself''. It may have gotten crowded out in Japan, but it garnered a LOT of attention by anime-loving bronies and anime fans in general everywhere else in the world due to the massive amount of {{Woolseyism}}s bringing the show in line with established Japanese media tropes. Blog/EquestriaDaily regularly reported on new episodes of the dub being released despite its limited success in its country. Since it's highly unlikely the following seasons will be receiving Japanese dubs anytime soon, Japanese bronies and pegasisters have had to settle for watching the show online in English, with or without Japanese fansubs. [[note]] A handful of Japanese fans have admitted they prefer the show in its original language and format, some of whom have even used the show as a tool for learning English. [[/note]]
*** Oddly enough, an MLP-themed pop-up cafe opened in Japan soon after its premiere, with decor that combines the original G1 artwork with that of Friendship is Magic.
*** Just when it looked like it was over, ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]'' did receive a Japanese dub that was released on Netflix's Japanese branch, ''Rainbow Rocks'' and ''Friendship Games'' soon followed and 52 more episodes of the Japanese dub were confirmed to on the way. Sega Toys have also announced they will taking over from Bushiroad as distributors for the toys.
*** The ''Equestria Girls'' spinoff, [[GrowingTheBeard beard-growing]] aside, is still relatively overshadowed in popularity by the main series in it's home territory. In Japan and other parts of Asia, it's the MorePopularSpinoff. While ''Friendship Is Magic'' has been considerably slow getting new material released in Japan (Season 3 and beyond is still yet to be released), ''Equestria Girls'' was a hit, possibly due to the characters' kemonomimi-like designs, and ''Rainbow Rocks'' and ''Friendship Games'' were released relatively quickly after the first film and well before their respective ''Friendship Is Magic'' seasons were ever aired. However, this move has received a ton of negative backlash from many Japanese fans who prefer the original show, since the first three Equestria Girls movies contain [[DubInducedPlothole massive spoilers]] for the last episodes of Seasons 3 to 5 respectively. Despite this, it hasn't stopped ''Legend of Everfree'' and the ''Magical Movie Night'' special getting dubbed, but has also [[NoExportForYou prevented]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the movie]] from getting a Japanese release ''[[LateExportForYou until 2018]] as a DirectToVideo release there.''
** The Equestria Girls spin-off is also popular in Latin America, and is so huge that Discovery Kids aired ''Friendship Games'' and ''Legend of Everfree'' a few days before they aired in the United States, and that many of the videos of the Spanish dubs of the films and shorts have over ten million views, with at least three of them having over '''40 million views'''. The Dazzlings in particular are also popular in the country, as many of the most watched videos of ''Equestria Girls'' involve them, with two of them being different uploads of the same song ("Welcome To The Show").
** It's also big in the United Kingdom, where there's tons of merchandise tie-ins, it's the highest rated show on Tiny Pop, and a bus tour [[http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/parents-outraged-after-queuing-five-13480880.amp drew huge crowds]]. They even aired several episodes and released several toys before the United States got them. It's also worth nothing that while the Brony phenomenon died out in the United States after more recent cartoons became popular, there's still a sizeable amount of Bronies in the UK as of 2018.
** ''My Little Pony'' in general is huge in France ever since it began. They are one of a handful of countries where the toys have been sold in stores every year since they came out in 1983. ''Friendship is Magic'' is also Tiji's most-aired show and they got all the Equestria Girls movies in theaters.
** Word has it the franchise is also quite popular in Turkey, despite the Turkish dub of ''Friendship is Magic'' reportedly skipping a few important episodes due to featuring festivals based on non-Islamic ones. A Princess Luna plushie is even featured in one of the music videos of Turkish pop star Aleyna Tilki.
** The franchise is also big in China, to the point where the movie based on the show was one of the few foreign films cleared for release in 2017.
** It is also big in Canada, to the point where Creator/TreehouseTV has created many Canadian-exclusive promotions for the show, including [[https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Treehouse_Live!_My_Little_Pony a touring stage show]] that was so popular, it ran for four years in a row. [[note]] Most touring kids' productions only usually run for a year or two before a new production involving the same characters is made[[/note]] It helps that the show just so happens to be produced there.
* ''WesternAnimation/KiddVideo'' proved to be really popular in Israel; getting a whole line of merchandise that wasn't released in America; including a soundtrack album of the show's music that never was available to Americans until it was put up in [=MP3=] format on The Flipside, a ''Kidd Video'' fan site. The cast also toured Israel a few times. It helps that one of the show's creators, Haim Saban, is Israeli.
* Tweety of WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes is pretty popular in Japan. He even has a few volumes of [=DVDs=] titled "I Love Tweety" sold there. Japan's fondness for small, adorable creatures probably helped him out a lot.
** Back in the 1970s, Tweety had an immense fandom in France with comic books, toys, and various other merchandise and memorabilia.
** Marvin the Martian also seems to be moderately popular in Japan; there's a good amount of Japanese fanart of him, and many Japanese fans, when making posts regarding him, will often mention how they think he's cute.
** While the Looney Tunes have not been as popular as they were in the United States for two decades, the franchise is still popular amongst kids in the Middle East, since the shorts still air there.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'':
** The show was widely popular in Quebec under the title ''Les Pierrafeu'' thanks to its high-quality dub; it was probably the first time a Quebec French dub was made using "joual" accents instead of either doing a dub with generic International French accents or settling for an European French dub. That version was even aired in France on Creator/CartoonNetwork in 1993-95 instead of the European French dub that was used since the 1960s.
** ''The Flintstones'' was a cultural phenomenon in Socialist-era Hungary thanks to its [[SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing dubbing]] that replaced the original dialogue with constant rhymes, clever wordplays and cultural jokes, all performed by A-list stage actors who would even do comedy routines at various events in their on-screen roles. This inspired many later cartoon and movie dubs, catapulted the translator, comedic poet and satirist József Romhányi to stardom, and it's believed the show's popularity played a huge part in the Hungarian cartoon boom of the '70s, influencing cult classics like ''Animation/MezgaCsalad'' or ''Animation/KeremAKovetkezot''. Most ''Flinstones''-related dubs or re-dubs made as late as the 2000s and 2010s continued to uphold the rhyming tradition, and the original dub occasionally still airs on television.
* The ''WesternAnimation/USAcres[=/=]Orson's Farm'' segments of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' are more popular in Spanish-speaking countries, where it is called "La Granja De Orson". It's also popular in the United Kingdom, to the point where you can find more British merchandise than American ones up for sale.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' is very popular in Spanish-speaking countries, due to there being lots of merchandise for the show.
* The Czech audience has a special love for ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears''. The translation was of extraordinary quality and full of intelligent and hilarious word play. The cast of voice actors was made of awesome as some of them were really famous Czech star actors. The catchy theme song was recorded by a well-known singer. The animation is gorgeous and the stories are fun and clever. What's not to love? Fans, now grown up people, keep arguing whether Cubbi's Czech name is Bida (it's a variation of a common nickname for bears) or Pida (it's an affectionate pet name for cute and little things). [[AlliterativeFamily All the Gummi Bears' names start with a "B"]] which resolves the conflict but fandom is a SeriousBusiness and it's hard for some to give up childhood memories.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', when it's not oogled over by Americans outside the animation circle, is also pretty popular in South America, Asia, Europe, and even Australia. However, it is most notable for having a huge Asian, mostly South Korean and Japanese, fanbase that likes drawing {{Animesque}} fanart for the show. The ''Superjail! Anthology'' doujinshi was even produced by a number of artists and sent to Titmouse Inc., where it sits for people to thumb through ([[ApprovalOfGod Christy Karacas approved of the project and contributed his own "Thank you!" illustration in its contents]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has a sizable fanbase in Argentina of all places. Possibly because she's basically an older version of ''ComicStrip/{{Mafalda}}'', a character who's an icon in the country.
* ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' is fairly popular in South America, especially in Brazil, where all his incarnations still air. Brazilian TV Record even has become infamous [[AdoredByTheNetwork for having the toons frequently in their programming]], as the sole feature of their children's block, and particularly before the night news (it got worse as the Woody Woodpecker reruns aired after - and at times instead of - their 2012 UsefulNotes/OlympicGames coverage). It is also very [[MemeticMutation memetic]] in Brazil; when it comes to memes, Woody Woodpecker is to Brazil what ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' is to the USA. [[Film/WoodyWoodpecker The live-action Woody film]] co-stars a Brazilian and was released first in the country, before going to other Latin American nations (elsewhere it was straight to VOD).
* While ''[[WesternAnimation/PotsworthAndCompany Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone]]'' was cancelled after only one season, in the UK it stayed on TV for several years through repeats with only 13 episodes. It also got a UK-exclusive computer game and comic.
* ''Miffy'' appears to be popular in Japan, even getting its own magazine.
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'''s popularity in Italy boomed up in 2012 and keeps creeping around the nation. It’s also the notable creator of the Peppa Pig WebAnimation/YouTubePoop.
** It also is very popular in America, and is Creator/NickJr's current [[AdoredByTheNetwork network darling]] after [[ChannelHop picking it up from]] Creator/CartoonNetwork, who had [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed it over]]. There have even been [[https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/tv/american-children-picking-up-british-15844100.amp reports of American children picking up British accents after watching the show]]!
** Probably the peak of its popularity comes from the Spanish-speaking world, to the point where on Website/YouTube, the six most popular Peppa Pig-related videos are all in Spanish. Even one Peppa Pig-related cosplay video in Spanish has more views than its home country of the UK has people!
** It's also big in Canada, where it stole the crown from Dora (see below) as Treehouse TV's flagship imported show. The merchandise sells extremely well there and they even got some of the UK live shows before they came to the United States, with some editions even touring twice in Canada!
** It also big in China, it even comes to the [[UnacceptableTargets terms of being untouchable,]] (though it has slightly more leeway with its parodies) as proven by Chinese video streaming website Billibilli's "[[http://member.bilibili.com/studio/creative-treaty/q0 Creative Treaty]]" that includes the rule that forbids mature videos that can [[MisaimedFandom attract young kids and peoples,]] it even [[https://imgur.com/6Ym6NOP includes]] the creepypasta version of Peppa Pig character as an example!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' was the first Western cartoon ever shown in Bulgaria. Due to this fact, it's very popular there. There is even a music shop called MAVO in Bulgaria.
** It's also popular in France as well, but not as extreme as in Bulgaria.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' is the hugely popular British localisation of a French StopMotion show called ''Le Manège Enchanté''. The French show is now largely forgotten in its native land. It should be noted that the popularity of ''The Magic Roundabout'' was largely due to the quality of its extreme CutAndPasteTranslation, which was written and narrated by Eric Thompson based purely on the visuals with no reference to the French script.
* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre'' is more popular in Asia than in America-the show airs more than [=SpongeBob=] does there!
** Not too surprisingly, it's also popular in Spanish-speaking areas. ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' is a similar case.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a small yet impressive cult following in Japan, judging by all the fanart from that country.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' was (and still is) a beloved smash hit in Latin America, thanks to the Chilean SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing. In particular, Ibope Paraguay lists it as THE highest rated show for its network in that country.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is a Canadian cartoon that's incredibly popular among Americans, to the point that a lot of American fans [[InTheOriginalKlingon thought the show was from the US until they were told otherwise]].
** The show also has quite a large fanbase in Italy. In fact, the show's sixth season ''Pahkitew Island'' was aired there before it aired anywhere else in the world (even Canada and the United States)!
* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'' got ScrewedByTheNetwork in the US, but it had a bit more success in the UK, getting regular airings on CITV.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has a massive Japanese fandom. If you go to the "overseas cartoon" section on 2ch, there will almost always be a thread for Phineas and Ferb near the top.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is hugely popular in Japan and Korea. So popular in fact, that the MonsterOfTheWeek in "Roadside Attraction" was a {{youkai}} (a jorogumo to be exact)!
** It should also be mention that it currently has a huge following in Russia. That probably has to do with the fact that one of the biggest Russian [=YouTubers=], Sienduk, is a major fan of the show, and gave it his own fandub (which is probably more iconic than the official dub). [[AscendedFanboy He later ended up succesfully persuading Alex Hirsch to visit a convention in Russia.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' is more popular in Malaysia than in the U.S.
* The French-British animated series WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}} has a small but impressive cult following in Japan, considering its [[{{Moe}} cute]] titular Robot character.
** It still aired until around 2017 to 2018 in The United Kingdom, and still does in Eastern Europe, and Germany, it also has a surprisingly high number of fans in North America and Asia.
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' from Italy appears to have has a small but impressive cult following in Japan, considering its fairy-themed MagicalGirl rarity, and also fanart from that country. Of course, Japanese fans were over the moon when their branch of Netflix finally launched an official Japanese dub recently.
* ''WesternAnimation/DocMcstuffins'':
** The show seems to have something of a following in Argentina (it helps that its Latin American Spanish dub is made in that country). For that matter, there are also fans in Germany itself.
** It's also unironically popular with Japanese {{Moe}} fans, due to the show's doctor-themed {{Moe}} nature. However, it hasn't reached the popularity level of Sofia the First, which leads us to...
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' is popular in Spain with people of all ages, airing outside of Disney Junior sometimes along with Violetta and My Little Pony, as well as in Japan, where it aired on terrestrial TV [[note]] For the first time since 2012, as nowadays Disney cartoons usually air on pay TV in Japan, which is less popular there than it is in the Western world. The only other shows that got this treatment in recent years were ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'', ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'', and ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.[[/note]], [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-14/japan-animation-tv-ranking-july-4-10/.104320 beat domestic shows]] like ''Anime/MahoutsukaiPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' in TV ratings and got some pieces of merchandise that have not come to America, including a set of Gashapon toys by Bandai and even [[https://insidethemagic.net/2019/01/ba1-sofia-the-first-hotel-tokyo-disney/ its' own themed hotel room at Tokyo Disneyland!]]
*** In September 2017, Japan released [[http://www.anime-now.com/entry/2017/09/09/230012 an article]] about that country's favorite heroes. Sofia is the ''only'' character from a Western cartoon on that list.
*** The show is also huge in Latin America because the main character is a Latina princess. Like in Spain, it got some airings on the normal Disney Channel, and there's tons of merchandise in the country, including its own magazine.
* In France, ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' (known there as ''Minus et Cortex'') was (and is still) way more popular than ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TinyToons'' will ever be. This is partially due to the fact that those other two shows based a lot of their jokes on pop culture references that passed over the heads of most of the audience, and untranslatable {{pun}}s.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' is huge in Africa, to the point where some airlines in the country offer the show as an in-flight viewing option, something that's rare for any show that isn't modern.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' was ''huge'' in the United Kingdom during the 90s, and is still often referenced in the country (if the ''Series/DeadRingers'' line "My fellow Animaniacs" isn't enough of a ShoutOut).
* ''WesternAnimation/PrincessSissi'' is '''huge''' in Italy and has a ton of merchandise. Heck, according to eBay, Princess Sissi is more popular than [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Anna and Elsa]]!
* Over the years, ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' have gained a rather large fanbase in Japan. The pair have even appeared in a handful of commercials for Japanese food giant Ezaki Glico (the makers of Pocky)!
** The duo are also pretty popular in France and Australia as well. ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'' even had its world premiere on Australian channel [=ABC1=]!
** ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'', Wallace & Gromit's spin-off, is so popular in Japan that it sometimes makes the weekly top 10 anime list as well. [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/11365399/Shaun-the-Sheep-Japans-most-popular-import.html There were also plans for an anime adaptation which got scrapped]], as well as [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2015/05/25-1/shaun-the-sheep-collaborations-with-evangelion-sugar-sugar-rune-and-more-exhibited crossover statues made to promote the movie of the franchise]] with Japanese properties such as ''Franchise/HelloKitty'', ''Anime/SugarSugarRune'', and even ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Shaun has recently made an appearance as an unlockable costume in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker''.
** Its spin-off, ''WesternAnimation/TimmyTime'', is the third highest-rated show on Disney Junior in Japan, only beaten by Sofia the First in first place and variety show ''My Disney Junior'' in second place.
* Although the version shown in the country is a local one, ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' is popular in the UK to the point that it is still shown daily, while the American Nick Jr. had just axed it after nearly 20 years.
** Hispanic American children also adore this show, to the point where [[Creator/{{MTV}} MTV Tr3s]] will occasionally air it, usually on holidays when children are off from school.
*** In fact, the 2019 revival is gonna have a Hispanic (in this case, a Filipino) host of the show.
* Canadian cartoon ''WesternAnimation/KatieAndOrbie'' was the third-most popular program on Nick Jr. in the UK, only beaten by ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' and ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie''. It helped that it touched subjects no other preschool show would dare touch[[note]] (''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' also did this, but was aimed at elementary school children, not toddlers, and did it much later than ''Katie and Orbie'')[[/note]], such as children with special needs and divorce. However, after being eventually canceled, the series returned to obscurity in the UK, and is nowadays better remembered in its native Canada, where reruns still aired for a decade after it ended production, and the United States, where it was part of the early years of Playhouse Disney.
* While ''WesternAnimation/MegaBabies'' was universally hated by viewers in its native Canada as well as the United States (it doesn't help that at least on [[Creator/ABCFamily its US network]], it sometimes ran alongside ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'', another widely-hated show), the show had a small following of children in the United Kingdom. Why? It was the show that ran before ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' on Sky One at the height of its popularity.
* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' is still popular to this day in India. It was one of the first programs on the Indian Cartoon Network's lineup. Compare that to the smaller, yet loyal fanbase in the US.
* While widely-hated in North America and its native United Kingdom, ''WesternAnimation/NinaNeedsToGo'' is the second most popular Disney Junior short in India, only beaten by Tasty Time with [=ZeFronk=].
** It also got a more favorable reception when Japan's Creator/TVTokyo aired it as part of ''Disney Sunday'', with many people thinking the voice actors chosen fit their roles and that Nina's adventures were fun. There have also been many parents there who say that the show convinced their kids to try and use the bathroom, which was the complete opposite of what happened in the US and UK where kids actually copied Nina waiting until the last minute to use the bathroom.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}}'' has a huge following of fans in the UK, which was expanded during 2004 to 2008, when Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow showed it in between segments.
* ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' and ''Literature/LittleBear'' are equally popular in the United States as they are in their home country Canada, thanks in part to them being broadcasted on Creator/NickJr. There was even some exclusive pieces of merchandise in the US for these shows, most notably [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=wrHQL_cIZ08 Little Bear-branded toothpaste]].
* In the United Kingdom, ''WesternAnimation/JungleJunction'' is more popular with its target audience than it is in the United States, to the point where Disney Junior still airs it in that country.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' cartoon was surprisingly popular in Japan, and even got its own line of merch that neither America nor Canada got. It might have something to do with the fact that the Japanese version of the show used some very popular voice actors. The Japanese theme was even featured in ''[[VideoGame/DonkeyKonga Donkey Konga 3]]'', making it the only western-made Nintendo adaptation to be officially recognized in a Nintendo game.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'' is very popular in Japan. They even got three exclusive DS games courtesy of Square Enix, its own line of toys produced by Bandai and even toys in KFC kids' meals.
** It's getting an new anime series called ''Pingu in the City'' which is produced in that country.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' is considered an ''extremely'' divisive series in its native United States, with flame wars on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki started by it. However, it's pretty well-liked in France to the point where it will usually be the highest rated program on France's children's channels for the week. The fact that is isn't as [[AdoredByTheNetwork incessantly overplayed]] there doesn't hurt.
** It's so big in Latin America that many of the official Spanish language uploads of clips of the show have well over 25 million views, with three of them having over 55 million views. In addition, ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' actually beat the grosses of [[Film/ChristopherRobin its]] [[WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation competitors]] in those two countries, unlike most places where all three films got released, and the movie topped the Brazilian box office.
** ''Teen Titans GO!'' also has a sizeable fanbase in Japan, likely because of the cute character designs and the weird humor of the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' is huge in South Africa. The show gets better ratings than [=SpongeBob=], sometimes being the most-watched kids program for many weeks in a row in the country and merchandise is everywhere.
** It's also huge in Canada. While the show has been treated roughly by Creator/NickJr in recent years and has been shoved into early morning timeslots, it is one of Creator/TreehouseTV's flagship shows and is the second most-aired show on the channel (after ''Peppa Pig''. Up until January of 2018, it was the most ran show) that's not [[CanadianSeries produced in Canada]]. It even aired on Canadian free-to-air TV at one point, which is a rare thing to happen to a show from a cable network in Canada. Also, compared to the mockery the show constantly gets from older viewers in the United States, the show is viewed more positively in Canada, mainly because it teaches about Spanish culture and the Spanish language, which isn't as prominent in the country as it is in the United States.
** It's also popular in South America because of the protagonist being Latina. While merchandise is rare to come by in the United States these days because the series ended production, you can still come across tons of it in South America.
* In Poland, ''WesternAnimation/LifeWithLouie'' is so fondly remembered (probably thanks to the stellar dubbing), that pretty much everyone who was a kid in the 2000s and had cable TV at the time can do an impression of Andy Anderson saying "When I fought in the war...". And if you ask them a question they don't wanna answer, chances are they'll respond with "One rabbi would say yes, and the other would say no", a quote from an episode where Louie asks religious authorities about what happens after death.
* Despite being [[UsefulNotes/{{France}} French]], ''WesternAnimation/SoupeOpera'' has a cult following in UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, since it was exported there in TheNineties.
* ''Plonsters'' has its largest fanbase in Norway, where it's known as "Plipp, Plopp og Plomma".
* One of the animators for the infamous Canadian animated series ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeMe'' [[https://twitter.com/AnimatedWoman/status/719560883119071232 stated on Twitter]] that the show became popular in Malaysia and Mexico, and also was broadcasted in its entirety in France.
** It also appears to have been popular in New Zealand.
* ''Sandmacchen'' is quite popular in the Nordic countries, due to the twenty-four episode length and winter atmopsheres resonating with their cold, long winters and Christmas times, though in Norway, it's gotten backlash once it was "exposed" by MoralGuardians as "[[RedScare propaganda]]".
* In the United States, ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown]]'' was only shown once and was quickly forgotten. In Canada, however, Creator/{{YTV}} airs the special every year around the holidays, and it's considered one of the channel's holiday traditions, alongside airings of DirectToVideo Christmas specials.
** Another holiday special that airs often on YTV, despite the series not airing on the channel anymore, is the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' special "The Turkey Who Came To Dinner".
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'', originally made in Canada for TV Ontario, became the biggest preschool phenomenon in the United States in years. It's currently the flagship program of Creator/NickJr and there's merchandise in just about any store in the United States. It also has three live shows to its' name created by American company [=VeeStar=], who was known for producing ''[[Series/SesameStreet Sesame Street Live]]''.
** It is also big in the UK to the point where [[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/dec/05/paw-patrol-no-job-too-big-parents-christmas-must-have-toy the toys sold out during Christmas 2015]], which never happened in North America. The United Kingdom also got two theatrical {{Compilation Movie}}s of the show and also released ''Mighty Pups'' in theaters, which was so popular that encore screenings were shown two months after the inital release. [[note]] Unless it's something like an annual holiday re-release of a movie, like ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'', event cinema releases do not usually get played for more than one or two weeks in the United Kingdom.[[/note]]
** The show is also big in Latin America. It is impossible to go any place in the country and not see something related to the show there. It also airs not just on Nickelodeon, but on four local channels as well.
** It's also popular with Chinese and Japanese families living both domestically and overseas, with said families using the show as a tool to teach kids English. It's extremely notable in the case of the later, since its' popularity began '''even before an official Japanese dub was produced'''.
*** However, when the dub came to Japan, it didn't gain the instant popularity it did in America until partway through its' run, when rival series ''Anime/ShinkansenHenkeiRoboShinkalion'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork abrutply cancelled]] for a block of programming about the Olympic Games. The increasing ratings as it went on caused TV Tokyo to make an unnamed Sunday morning preschool block featuring ''PAW Patrol'' and the ''Disney Sunday'' slot which features Disney Junior shows. It's so popular there that the ''Ready, Race, Rescue!'' movie [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/11/16-1/japan-box-office-demon-slayer-movie-stays-at-no1-for-5th-week cracked the top 10 at the box office in Japan]] despite only showing at one theater chain in the country (AEON). And in a rare move for an animated movie, ''PAW Patrol: The Movie'' is being released in Japan on the same day as it's being released in the United States.
** On a related note, while Chase is the most popular character in Canada, Marshall is the most popular among American audiences, with Skye and Rubble tied for second place. This has lead to most American merchandise featuring Marshall in a prominent role, and his popularity may have resulted in the creation of a firetruck playset for ''Ultimate Rescue''.
*** In Japan, Zuma seems to be the most popular, with Rocky a close second. Zuma is also pretty popular in Latin America too.
** It's extremely popular in Poland. Many of the Polish-language videos of ''PAW Patrol'' have over a million views, and they were the only non English-speaking country to get the ''Mighty Pups'' movie in theaters.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has gained a steadily-growing fanbase in the United Kingdom, with many praising it for its twisted humour, creepy yet quirky character designs and has been described as "''Series/DoctorWho'' on acid".
** Word has it it's also somewhat popular in Japan as well, thanks to Morty's moe-like personality. The show also [[https://soranews24.com/2017/10/11/japan-desperately-trying-to-figure-out-americas-sudden-obsession-with-schezuan-sauce appeared on an episode]] of ''Toku Da Ne''.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' seems to have a large following in Japan as the show gets a lot of fanart and to a lesser extent, some Exclusive merchandise like Cards from that country. But what did you expect? It's full of cute characters, crazy weirdness and is inspired by the MagicalGirl genre.
** It is also extremely popular in Latin America, the episodes are uploaded subtitled on [=YouTube=] the day after their transmission in television.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' is huge in Belgium. The show still airs to this day in both incarnations, and tons of merchandise can be found for it.
** While the reboot has mixed reception in most countries, the Chinese are obsessed with this version of the show, to the point where it's the first Western cartoon to be displayed when you go on [=YoYo=] TV's website.
** It was also huge in the United States thanks to the show airing on Nick Jr. It was so popular during the time it aired on the block that the people who originally watched it as kids were shocked upon learning that the show was originally British.
* ''Charlie Chalk'' has the largest amount of success in Norway, as ''[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Kalle]] [[{{Woolseyism}} Klovn]]''; it's about the only country to get the show song album outside the United Kingdom, as well as Australia, which ran the show far longer than England did (compare UK's '88-89 to Australia's '91-97).
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' is massively popular in Asia, especially China, [[PandaingToTheAudience for obvious reasons.]] It's also very popular in Korea, being one of only a few other shows to air multiple times every day. It's even the background image of choice for every page of Cartoon Network Korea's official website.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy]]'' is ''huge'' in France, where he is known as [[DubNameChange Oui-Oui]]. The country got a lot of merchandise and the various incarnations of the show air multiple times a day. They even gained two musical live shows based on ''Noddy In Toyland'' exclusively shown in France with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcnzQXgo7k4 first being "Oui-Oui et le cadeau Suprise"]] ("Noddy And The Surprise Gift") from 2009 ([[MilestoneCelebration to celebrate the character's 60th Anniversary]]) complete [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xlCvVgilfk&list=OLAK5uy_mSlvaR-bnhtq3JNbW2o92Mf4iD5K-Jfhk&index=1 with it's own album]] and a DVD release. The first show ran in France until early 2011 to make way for a second live show called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-jeIgdvCqk "Oui-Oui Et Le Grand Carnaval"]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_bnt_Dfxpc "Noddy And The Big Carnaval"]]) which ran from 2012 till 2013. Like the first show, [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61M-h2DSJtL.jpg it also gained a French album]] and DVD release. The most recent incarnation of the show, ''Noddy: Toyland Detective'', was actually co-produced in France and [[ShortRunInPeru aired there before other parts of the world]] due to Noddy's massive popularity there. Noddy is so big there that it has beaten home-grown productions like ''Literature/{{Babar}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' in polls with parent and toddler participants in France. The original books by ''Creator/EnidBlyton'' sell about 600,000 copies annually in that country.
** ''Make Way For Noddy'' was huge in Portugal. The theme tune became a popular children's song, the main character's outfit was a popular choice for a carnival costume, and older incarnations like ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'' and ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' were rebroadcast in response to the popularity ''Make Way For Noddy'' had.
** ''Noddy'' is also popular in India, due to the various incarnations of the franchise being a staple of Pogo's line-up.
* Slowly but surely, ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' became something of a cultural icon in Brazil. The dub has (most likely by necessity of cultural translation) toned down much of the show's valley girl lingo and overall rudeness, and, as result, became much more relatable to viewers, especially young girls. And much like ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'', incessant reruns in Rede Globo made sure everybody got to watch at least some of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' is huge in Israel and the Hebrew dub has won five awards. Israel is one of the few countries to air and/or dub all the seasons so far.
** Francine is a favorite character among Jewish Israeli fans, due to her and her family being Jewish.
** This [[CanadianSeries Canadian-produced series]] is also extremely popular in the neighboring USA, thanks to the show being an InternationalCoproduction between the two nations, being based on an American book series and tackling mature subject matter most educational shows wouldn't discuss.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' actually has a Latin American following, with many fans of the show from that part of the world. You'll be likely to see comments, fanart, and more from these fans in the region in Spanish, but luckily they're about the same amount (or a bit more) as their US counterparts. Also it is one of the fondly remembered Nicktoon in Vietnam, mostly due to Mr. Hyunh.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has a huge fanbase of all ages in the United Kingdom, despite the UK branch of Cartoon Network skipping a few episodes due to their content (and, as of late 2017, [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwing it over so it only plays at 11pm]]). It helps that Brits enjoy wacky and surreal shows and the merch sells quite well in a lot of UK bookstores and comic shops.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' is perhaps the most popular French animated series in the English-speaking world. Its huge fandom, which overlaps with the anime/manga fandom, [[note]]thus double-dipping into this trope[[/note]] is very active on social media and produces copious amounts of fanart and cosplay.
** While it’s huge in France and the United States, it’s practically iconic in Turkey, and the Middle East in general, most notably Israel and Saudi Arabia.
* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is so popular in India that not only was it referenced in one of the show's episodes ("From Mumbai, with Love"), but the show serves as a major inspiration for the Indian cartoon ''Animation/PakdamPakdai''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' is big in Asia and Canada. The networks that air the show in those countries tend to air it more than ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and they even have their own exclusive online games for the show!
** ''The Loud House'' also has a huge fanbase in South Korea. It helps that the dubbing for the show is pretty close to the original unlike most foreign dubs of Western cartoons and has well-known Korean voice artists doing the voices. Even fans in the Philippines love the show, as it lead into a Filipina named Stella being included to the show.
* The French educational series ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon A Time... Life]]'' is hugely popular in Italy, under the name "Siamo fatti così" (meaning roughly "This is how we are"). It's considered one of the best educational programs for kids there: every few years it gets broadcasted again and related print material (named "Esplorando il corpo umano", or "Exploring the Human Body") is re-issued in newsstands with notable success. It helps that the Italian [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmNRbj4jL8 jazzy theme song]] is very catchy. The other series from the "Il Était Une Fois" metaseries, however, aren't as much loved.
** ''Once Upon A Time...Life'' it is also very popular in Latin America and Spain, where it still retains many fans.
** The franchise is also fondly remembered in Norway were some of the tv series were released in DVD box sets there. Manny Norwegian school classes also tend to show episodes that is about the subject that they are teaching for the moment (like history, biology, astronomy and so on).
** Likewise in Hungary, where the entire franchise still airs on repeat on television.
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' was huge in Canada when it premiered, to the point where [[https://web.archive.org/web/20010212015423/http://cbc4kids.ca:80/getset/guestbook/guestbook_0101.html half of CBC's 2000 fanmail]] was kids writing about their love for it. While Zak and Wheezie are the most popular characters in the show's home country of the United States, Cassie is the most popular character in Canada. It helps that the show was an InternationalCoProduction between the US and Canada, with the voice-acting being done in Canada by Creator/TheOceanGroup.
** ''Dragon Tales'' was even more popular in the overseas military territories of the United States than it was in the mainland US, where it aired on ''Creator/AmericanForcesNetwork''. It became one of the network's flagship preschool shows and ran until 2015, five years more than it ran in the mainland. At one point in time, the show aired every day, including on weekends, which has happened to only [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants two other]] [[Series/SesameStreet kids' shows]] on AFN.
** The show was also pretty popular in India, where it aired into TheNewTens on Creator/CartoonNetwork. Also, the Hindi language {{Invocation}} is frequently quoted among those who watched it as kids.
* Any imported show aired on Creator/NickJr will become popular no matter what, due to how popular the block and network both are among the target audience. Besides ''PAW Patrol'', other foreign shows that were made popular in the USA by Nick Jr include ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', ''WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby'', ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'' has a '''gargantuan''' following in the United Kingdom, and appears to have promoted the show more so than the series' native United States: The show's UK premiere had famous celebrities bring in actual cats with ''[[RidiculouslyCuteCritter fake unicorn horns]]'', its TV premiere on Creator/CartoonNetwork had more viewers than any other kids' channel (excluding Creator/CBeebies and Creator/{{CBBC}}), the show now airs [[AdoredByTheNetwork approximately three times a day]] on said network and [[ShortRunInPeru they even received a never-seen-before episode and the entire LEGO theme several months before the US]]! It helps that ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' was ''the'' biggest film of 2014 in the UK.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' was huge in Ireland, Russia and Germany, as well as the UK, where it managed to pull in around '''7 million viewers per episode'''. For comparison, that's about '''12%''' of the UK's late 1980s population.
* The classic ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' theatrical shorts had a huge cross-cultural appeal, thanks to their emphasis on physical humor and almost complete lack of dialogue.
* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'' is based on a French book series and was originally made for France 5 by a British company [[note]] Entertainment One's UK branch, who also made ''Peppa Pig''[[/note]], but it's absolutely huge in the United States, to the point where its airings on Disney Junior get higher ratings and sell more merchandise than the channel's in-house productions save for the evergreen ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse''. In 2018, [[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-29/paw-patrol-and-the-twilight-of-the-world-conquering-kids-tv-show the franchise sold more merchandise in the United States]] than ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' or ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' did.
* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' is very popular at Asia especially in Japan where the spin-off ''Anime/BabyFelixAndFriends'' was made for that country.
* ''WesternAnimation/SaltysLighthouse'' didn't do well in the United States because it aired on ''[[Creator/{{TLC}} Ready, Set, Learn!]]'', a very low-rated preschool block, and was hated in other countries because it was seen as an inferior version of ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'', the show which it adapts. But in Jamaica, it was one of the highest-rated programs on CVM Television, running longer than it did in the United States.
** It also appears to have been popular in Spain as well, where it aired as ''El Faru D'Illan".
* ''[[Series/SuperDave Super Dave: Daredevil For Hire]]'' was huge in South Korea. They were also the only country to give the show a proper DVD release.
** It also seems to be popular in Canada too, since it was one of the first shows to become a hit on Creator/{{YTV}}, and because Bob Einstein is Canadian himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' is huge in Norway. It aired on the Norwegian television channel NRK and later NRK super for years and you can stream it on the NRK Super website. which is rare for older kids shows that aired there, heck even some modern shows can only be streamed there for a few years and even sometimes a few months.
* ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat'' was more popular in its native Canada than its co-native United States, to the point where it aired as late as 2015 in the country (French broadcasts of the show have continued on and off since then) and had an exclusive Christmas album (''Sagwa and Friends Sing Christmas'') released there.
** It also appears to have been popular in Greece (where it aired on [=ALTER=] Channel) and Latin America (especially in Brazil, where it was a part of the children's programming lineup of Canal Futura).
* Despite [[WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}} the movie it was based on]] being a DirectToVideo release in Japan, ''WesternAnimation/TrollsTheBeatGoesOn'' is extremely popular to the point where they got a wide range of tie-in merchandise for the show, where they are one of the few countries to do so. [[note]] The UK also has some merchandise based on the show, but not as much as Japan does[[/note]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' was one of Nick's highest-rated shows, but didn't make as big as an impact as ''[=SpongeBob=]'' or ''Series/{{iCarly}}'' did at the time. But in Japan and the Benelux, it's one of the most well-known Nickelodeon shows of all time, with Japan re-running the show to this day not only on their Nickelodeon feed, but also on Creator/DisneyXD.
* In the United States, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' had a small fandom comprised of fans of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the movie the show is based on]], but was not liked by the target demographic because it was DarkerAndEdgier than most Disney Junior shows, making it one of the factors leading to a ratings downfall for the channel. But in the United Kingdom, it's one of the channel's most popular shows, and is so big that parents reported that their kids began using American pronunciations for animal names after watching episodes of the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' was one of Nick Jr's most popular shows of TheNewTens, but it never gained the popularity of ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' or ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol''. In Japan, it's the most popular Nick Jr show in the country.
* ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' didn't make as big as a splash as the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' did. The series turned out to be Nickelodeon's third most-popular show in Japan, only behind ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is incredibly popular in The Nordic countries. [[AdoredByTheNetwork It's adored by both the Scandinavian feed for Disney Channel and Disney XD]] [[ShortRunInPeru and some episodes aired there before they aired in The States]]. Not suprising seeing how the Donald comics are already huge up there.
* The obscure Australian-German co-production ''WesternAnimation/GloriasHouse'' is popular in India among speakers of the languages that aren't Hindi (e.g. Tamil and Malayalam) due to the Sun TV Network's channels such as Chutti TV and Kushi TV having aired the show for ages, as evidenced by some [=YouTube=] videos having comments from people who remember the show being aired in those languages.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFirstSnowOfWinter'' is consider a holliday classic in Norway since the short airs every new years eve on television there.
* Compared to the minimal advertisement ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls'' gets on the US Cartoon Network, it gets a lot of promotion on the Latin American feed. It helps that superheroes are very popular there in general.
* While ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' was successful in the United States, it was very popular in Brazil, staying on Discovery Kids for many years and only getting the axe around 2015. It was even considered one of the flagship programs of the channel.
* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' was popular in the United Kingdom on the Creator/{{BBC}} and in Canada on Creator/{{YTV}}. Both networks played the show up until 2002.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' reached Hungary in the right time after the fall of Communism, when TV programming boomed and cartoons dubs were still getting A-class treatment, and the show's first 3 seasons received some of the finest animated dubs ever produced (season 4 was only released in 2005, with a different voice cast). The series also got a heap of attention in the December of 1993 when the broadcast of episode 37 ("A Whale of a Bad Time") was cut to announce the death of the then-serving prime minister. The event confused children across the country and became a defining generational moment -- they were eventually dubbed the "[=DuckTales=] Generation" and became the focus of numerous articles and cultural analyses. Those who missed the episode's conclusion can still catch up, as the show's part of the weekend morning programming cycle to this day.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop1995 Littlest Pet Shop]]'' was huge in Quebec, Canada, where it was broadcast as ''Les Rock'Amis''.
* Unlike [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the film it was based on]], ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' was a modest success at best in the United States. But in Japan, the show is so popular that it's been airing for at least 15 years in reruns non-stop, most notably being a staple of Disney Junior's schedule. Its' popularity also lead to a new remastered version of the show airing in 2012 that reused FramingDevice segments from the DirectToVideo release ''Around The World With Timon And Pumbaa'' in between each story.
** The whole reason a third season was commissioned for this show was because the show was extremely popular on various European television networks, who asked Disney to make more episodes of the series.
** In Latin America, it has likewise a reputation of a beloved old school show.
* According to some British [=YouTubers=], ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' was very popular in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, with exclusive merchandise including a set of [=UK=]-exclusive home computer games.
* In the U.S., ''WesternAnimation/TheGetAlongGang'' was overshadowed by coporate siblings ''Franchise/CareBears'' and ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'', but in Brazil, it was ''huge'', with exclusive merchandise sold in the country. The Portuguese translation of the theme song also became a popular children's song in the country. It was also re-run well into the early 2000s and they got the show on DVD well before the United States did.
** The show was also popular in the United Kingdom, generating a slew of merchandise there.
* There's a strong, devoted Latin American fandom for ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' (mostly around Facebook and Website/YouTube), and many Korean and Japanese fanartists around Twitter and Tumblr, which has received quite the ApprovalOfGod. Many characters, ships and episodes that are hated or [[BrokenBase base-breakers]] in the English-speaking fandom receive warmer reception from ESL fans, mostly due to not being caught up on drama.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' is a Aussie series distributed by a British company ([[Creator/TheBBC BBC Worldwide]]) but has a rather large fanbase in the United States, thanks to its airings on Creator/DisneyJunior.
* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'' is noticeably more popular in the United States than in the United Kingdom. Many members of the show's PeripheryDemographic are from the States, and ''The Next Steps'' was co-produced by the U.S.-based [=SD=] Entertainment.
* ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' didn't do well in its' home country of the United States, but it was really popular in Australia.
* As mentioned in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' entry, Hungarians also adored ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', as its style of offensively vulgar comedy and scenes that you could watch without context really appealed to their sense of humor. Their local dubs of shows like ''Family Guy'' and ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' were also notorious for ramping up the profanity compared to the originals, so a show that was obscene to begin with was a godsend to them.
* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' was really popular in France, with tons of exclusive merchandise sold in the country and to the point that a compilation film entitled ''Les Dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Gadget'', consisting of some season 2 episodes edited together, was released in theaters. The show's characters were also featured in attractions at the short-lived Planète Magique indoor amusement park in Paris. It helps that the show was co-produced by French companies and that producers [=DiC=] Entertainment started out as a French firm.
** The show was also hugely popular in Spain during the 1980s, getting exclusive merchandise such as children's books (one of which gave a origin story to Gadget).
* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', which is based off [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood an American TV show]], is very popular in Canada, where it's one of the flagship shows of CBC Kids. It helps that the show was produced there.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'' was big in North America, but in South Korea, it's so popular that the country has tons of exclusive merchandise themed around the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheItsyBitsySpider'' was relatively obscure in its' home country of the United States, but in the United Kingdom, it was so popular that the BBC aired the show into the early 2000s.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'' is a British cartoon made for Creator/{{CBeebies}}, but it's absolutely huge in North America. It helps that the show aired on Disney Junior in the US.
** The show is also pretty popular in China, so much that Season 5 showcases numerous sea creatures commonly found in China. There's even an Octonauts area at a popular theme park in Shanghai.
* Whilte ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'' only ran for a season in its native US and is not the most succesful show of the WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon timeslot, it was much more succesful in the UK.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'':
** Suffice to say, the show was a hit in the UK when it arrived on Netflix; David Tennant voicing the Lord Commander might have something to do with it.
** It's gained a noticeable cult following in Japan, complete with fanart and doujinshi. Not too surprising considering it's a weird sci-fi cartoon with cute characters and lots of drama.
** The show is ''very'' famous and popular in Brazil, with there being several groups and accounts on Facebook and Twitter dedicated solely to the Brazilian fanbase.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': The show is quite popular in Latin America. By the time Nat Geo Kids launched in Latin America, the show had garnered a huge fandom over there, along with shows like ''Jamie's Got Tentacles'' and ''Chuck's Choice''.
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[[folder:In-Universe Examples]]
* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has considerable popularity in Japan, and was so popular that a chubby little fangirl kicked Stargirl in the shin for badmouthing about Supergirl.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Lisa Simpson has a ridiculously detailed plan for being a famous jazz musician one day, which includes being ignored in her own country but very popular in France.
** "Bart vs. Australia" discussed the American fascination with Australian culture in TheEighties, including such works as ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', and Yahoo Serious' films such as ''Film/YoungEinstein'', the latter prompting Lisa to say "I know those words, but that sign makes no sense."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS3E4Jakovasaurus Jakovasaurus]]", the eponymous animals are forcibly relocated to France when the people of South Park find them too annoying to live, where the French find them to be hilarious and "just like Creator/JerryLewis!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama World Tour'', Chris tells the contestants that the show is ''huge'' in Japan, but [[SameLanguageDub everyone's voices are dubbed over in English]] and that the show is subtitled in Japanese, because they think their normal voices are just too annoying. In the spinoff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'', Don mentions that the show is big in Croatia. (As it happens, the real show has never aired in either Croatia nor Japan.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourWorldsGreatestHeroes'', at one point Johnny comments "That's it, I'm moving to Japan. They ''love'' me in Japan."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' invokes this trope in its theme song with the line "They love it in Bulgaria", which was probably to rhyme with the other lyrics in the song.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Clown and Out", the Creator/JerryLewis-like NonIronicClown tries to entertain Wakko on his birthday, but the Warners reject him rather violently, claiming that Wakko has coulrophobia (or, as they put it, [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes 'clownophobia']]). By the end of the episode, the clown is sent to Mars on a rocket, and finds that the Martian children love him.
* Within ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' episode, "Tokyo Bonkers", Bonkers finds that his former show is still highly considered in Japan, and he becomes a local celebrity. He's even considered quitting the force to return to stardom.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had Rocko and Heffer visiting Paris, France. Their tour group stops for lunch at an "authentic French cuisine" restaurant, which turns out to be a Chokey Chicken (likely parodying the real life international popularity of American fast food chains such as [=KFC=] and [=McDonald's=]). Towards the end of the episode, Heffer looks back on pictures he took of famous Parisian attractions (i.e, the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, and Arc de Triomphe), all of which have Chokey Chicken restaurants installed in them.
* In ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' episode "From Mumbai to Love", they are revealed to be popular among children in India and this plays in the cats' favor! Jack invited Oggy and Olivia to see the Cricket World Cup taking place there, but the Cockroaches took the tickets so [=DeeDee=] and Marky want to meet the Princess out of their crush on her while Joey wants to steal her diamond necklace. When they succeed in stealing the tickets from them, they told the children what happened and they all helped out tracing the Cockroaches' steps to where they are and they took the tickets back.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' revealed that when Quagmire was in the service and station in South Korea, he starred in a soap opera called "Winter Summer" as a character named "American Johnny." When he, Peter, Cleveland and Joe go to South Korea to find the last episode of the show (since the show itself never aired outside of that country) twenty years after Winter Summer ended, it's shown that Koreans still remember Quagmire as his character from the show and that he's actually still pretty popular.
** Ironically though [[BannedInChina the series itself is banned in South Korea]] due to its vulgar content.
* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' called "Shoo Ed" that lampshaded this, where the Eds train Johnny to be the most annoying person in the world so they can charge the kids to get rid of him. However, Rolf the immigrant kid practically falls in love with him. Even taking his belching in stride: "You are full of pickles and beets today, my friend."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E50WhoBoppedBugsBunny Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?]]", [[CaptainErsatz Sappy]] [[WesternAnimation/SidneyTheElephant Stanley]] has become obscure in America, but is still a big star in France.
* Invoked/discussed on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' by commentator Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin before the Hasselhoff-[[Series/EntertainmentTonight John Tesh]] fight:
-->"Tesh does some tinky-tink piano music, and Hasselhoff is a big rock star over in [=Krautland=]. The one thing they have in common is, their music sucks! You've just heard the Fighter Facts, [[CatchPhrase and that's the bottom line, 'cause Stone Cold said so!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':

* The French educational series ''[[WesternAnimation/IlEtaitUneFois Once Upon A Time... Life]]'' is hugely popular in Italy, under the name "Siamo fatti così" (meaning roughly "This is how we are"). It's considered one of the best educational programs for kids there: every few years it gets broadcasted again and related print material (named "Esplorando il corpo umano", or "Exploring the Human Body") is re-issued in newsstands with notable success. It helps that the Italian [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmNRbj4jL8 jazzy theme song]] is very catchy. The other series from the "Il Était Une Fois" metaseries, however, either were never brought to Italy or are completely forgotten there nowadays.

** The show seems to have something of a following in Argentina. For that matter, there are also fans in Germany itself.

** Sibling show ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' is popular in Spain with people of all ages, airing outside of Disney Junior sometimes along with Violetta and My Little Pony, as well as in Japan, where it aired on terrestrial TV [[note]] For the first time since 2012, as nowadays Disney cartoons usually air on pay TV in Japan, which is less popular there than it is in the Western world. The only other shows that got this treatment in recent years were ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'', ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'', and ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.[[/note]], [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-07-14/japan-animation-tv-ranking-july-4-10/.104320 beat domestic shows]] like ''Anime/MahoutsukaiPrettyCure'' and ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' in TV ratings and got some pieces of merchandise that have not come to America, including a set of Gashapon toys by Bandai and even [[https://insidethemagic.net/2019/01/ba1-sofia-the-first-hotel-tokyo-disney/ its' own themed hotel room at Tokyo Disneyland!]]