History GoodAngelBadAngel / WesternAnimation

** The trope is parodied again in "Sportz?", where Squidward finds [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing with sports equipment incorrectly and is asked by them to teach them how to play sports properly. Squidward is advised by his angel to teach them how to play sports properly so they can't get hurt, while his devil sadistically gloats that Squidward has the opportunity to get back at the times [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick annoyed him by tricking them into getting hurt. Angel Squidward is forced to side with Devil Squidward after he gets hit by a tennis ball by accident.

** In "Moe Letter Blues", Flanders offers to be the angel to the 40 devils on Homer's shoulder, which cues hundreds of red, horned and goat-legged Homers yelling "D'oh!"

** In yet another episode, Homer is portrayed with 400 devils on his shoulder.

* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': A variation is done with Papa G's [[MesACrowd clones]]: The "angel" clone tries to convince him [[spoiler:to let Kid know they're in a LotusEaterMachine]] while the "devil" clone [[spoiler:tries to convince Papa G to hold off on telling Kid to prevent breaking his heart.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': All of the {{AnthropomorphicPersonification}}s in the series and its SpinOff WesternAnimation/HumanResources2022 are essentially a more complex version of the angel and devil.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Summer Bummer" has a secular variant where Chloe has miniature versions of herself argue over whether she has to grow up now or continue enjoying being a kid.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': We meet Cricket's personal devil and angel in "Wishing Well". The devil appears first, and Cricket is wary of him at first, because he looks like, well, a devil. The angel appears two hours later because the devil had him tied up, and starts annoying him until he does the right thing. It isn't long before the consciences repeatedly argue over what he should do, and Cricket soon realizes the angel was right all along and sets off to fix his mistake at swindling Tilly. In addition to fighting in his brain, the consciences are shown to physically interact with the environment, as opposed to the traditional type where they only appear in the mind of the person themselves.

* There is an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' where Alvin decides to run away from home because he’s sick of rehearsing so much. While he’s gone, his shoulder devil encourages him to keep doing what he’s doing because he’s better off without Dave and his brothers because he was the most popular member of the group. Eventually, his shoulder angel appears to tell him what he’s doing is wrong and that without him, his family would grow poor, and Dave would probably die, so he runs back home.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'': The projection power in season 2 makes the devils and angels of heroes resemble the traditional version of the trope, by making them shrink and talk directly into humans' ears.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'' where Bobby accidentally breaks his mother's statue of Elvis, his angel and devil are Captain Squash and his ArchEnemy.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', Duckman seeks to reverse-engineer an aphrodisiac so he can create more of the stuff. When he finally succeeds, a shoulder angel pops up to point out how much he can accomplish when properly motivated and how he could thereby improve his mind. In place of a typical shoulder devil, a miniature UsefulNotes/BillClinton then appears--saying he gets far more women than the people that are smarter than him. The shoulder angel remarks that's a good point, so they leave Duckman to it.

* Parodied near the end the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Hilloween". Hank gets into an explosive argument with a deranged MoralGuardian who hates Halloween. The former is dressed in his childhood devil costume while the latter is dressed as an angel for a "hell house" she's running, with Bobby placed between them.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' - Rikochet experiences a straight example when he considers stealing something from Minotoro with the Flea as his shoulder devil and Buena Girl as his shoulder angel. The episode ends with a gag involving the Flea trying to melt the polar ice caps (by rubbing two sticks together), and he gets two devil versions of himself.
* The original ''[[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies]]'' episode "The Great Cookie Robbery" had this happen with Baby Gonzo, when Nanny trusts him to share with the rest of the babies to tide them over before lunch. The angel Gonzo says that he should indeed share them, while the devil Gonzo (decked out in [[HellBentForLeather a leather biker outfit]]) says that he should keep them all to himself and not tell the other babies.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Saddle Row Review". Pinkie Pie has to break up a party going on at a club upstairs from Rarity's new boutique, and wonders what Rarity would do. She imagines up a shoulder devil and shoulder angel version of Rarity, ''both'' of which encourage her to make the party even more rocking... then the Devil-Rarity points out that the real Rarity would never say such a thing, while the Angel just shrugs.

* Nicky of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', was once seen with two good angels, one on each shoulder.
* In "Finders Keepers" from ''WesternAnimation/PeteTheCat'', Grumpy has Good Grumpy who tries to convince him to give back a "bumper marble" of Callie's that he found, and Bad Grumpy, who encourages him to follow the "Finder's Keepers" rule he so desperately wants to follow.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Spitballs" Rocko is trying to catch a foul ball. After receiving TheWorstSeatInTheHouse, Heffer suggests they move down. Rocko's devil agrees while the angel protests. When the devil shows the angel the view with binoculars, the angel changes its mind and tells him to get the good seats before they're gone. At the end of the episode Rocko has caught a foul ball (which would have been [[{{Irony}} ironically]] easier if he didn't move down) but a little kid asks for it. The devil tells Rocko to keep it while the angels says it is better to give then to receive and ensures Rocko gives by hitting him with a baseball bat.
* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' parodied this by having angel and devil hand puppets appear when Sheep is making up his mind about leaving the farm. Once he makes his decision, the hand puppets turn out to be from a puppet theater he was standing in front of.

** In another episode (season 4's "Whacking Day"), Homer tells Lisa that inside man is a struggle between good and evil that will never be resolved. Cut to an ImagineSpot of Good Homer's grave as Evil Homer (really Homer in a devil costume) doing the cha-cha on Good Homer's grave, chanting "I am Evil Ho-mer!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/SlackerCats'' Eddie uses his hands to pretend to have the angel and devil when deciding on things. The "angel" points out that he's simply there for show and nobody listens to him anyway. At one point Eddie decides on something rather horrible and both the angel and devil are disgusted.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

* Parodied in the "Terrorarium" episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' with Jared as the target and the Twins as his angel and devil. Like the ''South Park'' example, both of them agree on him drinking the growth serum that they offer:

* Seen in two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfTheWizardOfOz'' with Rusty Tinman, "Have Your Pie and Eat It Too" and "Too Much Heart."

* In one OverlyLongGag in ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'', a demon appears on Xavier's shoulder. Then, a tinier demon shows up on that demon's wing, and another on that one's wing, and so on until there are seven demons stacked on top of each other. The angel part of the trope never even shows up.

* Spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?" Ed is sent shopping by Sarah to buy some fudge at the candy store, but Eddy tries to convince Ed to buy jawbreakers for himself and his friends instead. Edd tries to convince Ed to do as his sister asked, and the argument is represented by a Shoulder Angel Edd and a Shoulder Devil Eddy trying to persuade Ed. However, different from a lot of the occurrences of this trope is the fact that the Shoulder Angel/Devil mirror all of Edd & Eddy's actions, right down to the two of them actually fighting.

** Another version from season 3 ("Ready, Willing, and Disabled") has Peter's shoulder angel shoot Peter's shoulder devil, and threaten Peter at gunpoint to go over and comfort Joe.

* Done with a slight twist in ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'' when Weird Harold finds a wallet with $100 in it. The angel and devil appear to advise him on what to do with it, but instead of being mini versions of himself, the angel is Fat Albert and the devil is Rudy. Gives a little insight to how Weird Harold probably views his friends. (The Albert angel wins at the end of the episode by angrily grabbing the Rudy devil and hurling him into an arcade game screen.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Good Cat, Bad Cat", Garfield has an angel and a devil that fight over what courses of action he should take when Jon has told Garfield to not bother the mailman. His devil uses every method he can think of to send the angel as far away as he can; the angel, in return, often reenters the scene a while later through unusual means. (Example: the devil mails the angel to Mexico. The angel later walks back through the door carrying luggage and wearing both a sombrero and a serape.) The end of the episode also showed Jon to have his own pair, with Devil Jon bickering with Angel Jon over whether Jon should get rid of Garfield.

* In some old Disney shorts with WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}}, Pluto has an angel and a devil, who were both dogs like himself; angel dog wore a halo and devil dog wore horns and a red cape. Devil dog usually encourages him to do things like disobey Mickey and chase cats.
* An early WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon, ''Donald's Better Self'', has [[VagueAge Donald skipping school]] because his devil told him to while his angel tries to lead him in the right path. By the way, both angel and devil are as tall as the Duck, and they're given normal voices, unlike Don himself... [[FridgeBrilliance perhaps so Donald has no trouble understanding his inner thoughts?]]
** A Disney World War II Propaganda short staring Donald Duck, "The Spirit of '43", posits that when an American worker (Donald) comes into money, his mind has two separate personalities; the Thrifty, who takes the form of a Scottish old man (Hmmm!), who encourages Donald to save his money for taxes and the Spendthrift, a smooth-talker in a jazz suit who insists that Donald should spend his cash on idle luxuries. The moral of the short is that by paying you taxes you help the US war effort, and not paying your taxes essentially helps the Axis. To really drive the point home, the Spendthrift briefly looks like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], and the doors to the bar he's pulling Donald towards has doors shaped like the Nazi Swatska. The Thrifty, on the other hand, is knocked into a wall made to look like an American Flag, with his circling stars resembling the stars on the flag. Donald, naturally, goes to pay his taxes, but not without giving the Spendthrift a a solid uppercut, damaging the saloon doors into becoming a V (for victory!).
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey MouseWorks]]'' short "Pluto's Kittens" features Pluto's angel and devil. Later, after Mickey punishes Pluto for making a mess (when it was actually three kittens who made the mess), ''Pluto's angel and devil start giving Mickey suggestions.'' And they don't just look like Pluto's; the Devil even mentions the kittens, which Mickey does not, at this point, know about.
** They also appeared in another short called "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto", which was one of the only two ''[=MouseWorks=]'' shorts to never be repackaged in ''House of Mouse''. In this short, Pluto's conscience persuades him into thinking that Minnie Mouse is out to get him after Mickey left him at her house while he was on vacation. Said conscience later makes him have nightmares about Minnie burying him alive, and even [[DraggedOffToHell drags him to Hell]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''
** An episode has Nathan confronted by his GoodAngelBadAngel-Murderface and Pickles respectively, at the dentist's office. Murderface claims that taking the knockout gas would leave you at the mercy of a molesting dentist, and therefore makes you gay. Pickles says it wouldn't matter, since you'd be out cold anyway.
** Another episode had Pickles, now sober, locked in a room with a table full of booze while his bandmates are in danger. The good angel tells him he should go save his friends, the bad angel encourages him to start drinking. [[TakeAThirdOption He does both.]]

* Nicky of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', was once seen with two good angels, one on each shoulder.

* ''WesternAnimation/LolaAndVirginia'' has used this with Lola, one of the main characters, a couple of times, but they've done it a bit differently.
** In one episode, she asks a student from her friend's karate class to help get back a bracelet that another girl took from her. Lola's friend tells her that karate students don't go around beating people up. Lola says that's not what she had in mind at all. She smiles innocently, but for a second she changes into a devil version of herself, with a black dress in place of her usual red one.
** In another episode, Lola is in a contest to win a moped. A classmate is also trying to get it for his brother. Lola feels bad about beating the boy and imagines her devil self beating the boy to the top of a mountain using a helicopter, when he was climbing. Lola's devil self runs for the prize, but is held back by Lola's angel selves, who restrain her by grabbing her tail. A moment later, when Lola helps the boy win and beat a girl who was cheating, her angel self and devil self actually high-five each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
** A claymation short used after the first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E6TotallyBogusVideo Totally Bogus Video]]" had Bogus being confronted by angel and devil versions of himself when he comes across a wrapped-up box of candy on the counter. The angel and devil then confront each other, which escalates into a BigBallOfViolence, giving Bogus a chance to help himself to the candy.
** Another episode had Bogus chasing after an ant that had stolen his special piece of cake. When he finally catches up with the ant, he is both anguished and ashamed to discover that the ant had only stolen the cake because it was a baby ant's birthday. First, his bad side, who is depicted as a leather-clad BadassBiker, tells Bogus that they're just puny, insignificant ants and that the cake is rightfully his for him to just take, before his good side, who is depicted as a SesquipedalianLoquaciousness-spouting well-mannered philosopher, tells Bogus that if he just takes the cake back, he will regret it for the rest of his life. [[spoiler: At the end of the discussion, Bogus ends up listening to his bad side and takes the cake from the ants anyway.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' short "Never Sock a Baby", Popeye deals with his angel and devil after he spanks Swee'pea. He punches out the devil when he [[BerserkButton calls him a sissy]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' - Rikochet experiences a straight example when he considers stealing something from Minotoro with the Flea as his shoulder devil and Buena Girl as his shoulder angel. The episode ends with a gag involving the Flea trying to melt the polar ice caps (by rubbing two sticks together), and he gets two devil versions of himself.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Spitballs" Rocko is trying to catch a foul ball. After receiving TheWorstSeatInTheHouse, Heffer suggests they move down. Rocko's devil agrees while the angel protests. When the devil shows the angel the view with binoculars, the angel changes its mind and tells him to get the good seats before they're gone. At the end of the episode Rocko has caught a foul ball (which would have been [[{{Irony}} ironically]] easier if he didn't move down) but a little kid asks for it. The devil tells Rocko to keep it while the angels says it is better to give then to receive and ensures Rocko gives by hitting him with a baseball bat.

* Parodied near the end the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Hilloween". Hank gets into an explosive argument with a deranged MoralGuardian who hates Halloween. The former is dressed in his childhood devil costume while the latter is dressed as an angel for a "hell house" she's running, with Bobby placed between them.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Saddle Row Review". Pinkie Pie has to break up a party going on at a club upstairs from Rarity's new boutique, and wonders what Rarity would do. She imagines up a shoulder devil and shoulder angel version of Rarity, ''both'' of which encourage her to make the party even more rocking... then the Devil-Rarity points out that the real Rarity would never say such a thing, while the Angel just shrugs.

* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' parodied the trope in "Second First Date", where a flashback to Rad dating Enid had him given poor advice on how to behave from two shoulder devils resembling Mega Football Baby and Bell Beefer.
-->'''Rad''': [[LampshadeHanging Shouldn't one of you guys be on the other side]]?
-->'''Devil Bell Beefer''': Maybe you should've looked for dating advice from someone who wasn't a teenage boy.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'': In the episode "Dirty Little Secret, Nerdy Little Secrets" and the episode "All We Are Saying is Give Reef a Chance". Both examples with Emma.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': When Sara is unsure whether or not she's on a date with a boy, her angels appear as her dressed as [[ShowWithinAShow Dr. Zone and Time Ape]], then she imagines four more versions of herself dressed as a dragon, a fairy, a knight, and a wizard. At some point, they all get into a brawl.


* Similar to the first ''Family Guy'' example, ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' does a variant in the episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E17TheFounder The Founder]]", where Richard talks to his shoulder devil, [[NestedOwnership who consults his own shoulder angel, who has his own shoulder devil]].
* The original ''[[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies]]'' episode "The Great Cookie Robbery" had this happen with Baby Gonzo, when Nanny trusts him to share with the rest of the babies to tide them over before lunch. The angel Gonzo says that he should indeed share them, while the devil Gonzo (decked out in [[HellBentForLeather a leather biker outfit]]) says that he should keep them all to himself and not tell the other babies.
** This also happened in "The Frog Who Knew Too Much", where Kermit was visited by a shoulder angel and shoulder devil of his own on whether he should keep his promise not to tell the other babies about Nanny's big surprise present. Given that Kermit is more of a NiceGuy, he sides with his shoulder angel and his shoulder devil even agrees that the shoulder angel has a point.
* Seen in two episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TalesOfTheWizardOfOz'' with Rusty Tinman, "Have Your Pie and Eat It Too" and "Too Much Heart."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' episode "I Am Crybaby", I.R. Baboon is put into a re-compression chamber to cure him of the bends and ends up hallucinating a shoulder angel and a shoulder devil who both look like the Red Guy. They both convince Baboon that he needs to save the "chronic crying syndrome" patients from Weasel's experiments, and try to excuse their behavior [[AsideComment to the audience]] as being by-products of Baboon's "foamy brain".

* ''WesternAnimation/JojoTheVioletMystery'': In the first half of this special, Violet has these communicating to her during her dilemmas. Her devil recommends misbehavior such as comeuppances against the kids who make fun of her big nose, while her angel encourages friendship with them. After Violet gets punished for stealing her classmates' late passes so she could befriend them, she angrily banishes her devil and angel and they stop reappearing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'':
** In the episode "Never Take Candy from a Kindergartner", both Leonard and Spot struggle with their angels and devils over candy. Pretty Boy is tempted by his devil to cheat at a contest he's having with Mr. Jolly, only for a second devil to remind him he cheats all the time. [[LampshadeHanging When Pretty Boy asks why one of them isn't an angel]], one of the devils says his angel ''quit'' because he never listened. Pretty Boy actually bristles at that and decides to play fair for once to show the angel and the devils he has the willpower.
** "Don't Make My Brown Eyes Green" features a variant where the opposing sides of morality are represented as strength and weakness rather than an angel and a devil. After Spot gets Leonard to enjoy the game of fetch, a dull day at the school playground gives Leonard the idea of coming up with a similar game called Fetch-It Ball, with his strength and weakness arguing over whether he should take the credit for creating the game when he got the idea from Spot. After Leonard proves to be quite popular with his peers for introducing the game to them, Spot's strength and weakness argue over whether he should be angry at Leonard taking all the credit for creating Fetch-It Ball or simply let it slide. Later, Leonard is convinced by his strength to come clean about not coming up with the game by himself and Spot is convinced by his strength to hold up Leonard's lie and keep the other kids believing that the game was solely Leonard's idea.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'': In the episode "The Date", Jude has these appearing on his shoulders when he's considering the idea of giving Chef a fake secret admirer, with Bridgette as the angel and Duncan as the devil.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': In the episode "Boogie with the Man", Stanley gets this when he's about to have Peggy sign a contract that will have her take his place after he makes a DealWithTheDevil. And surprisingly, both the angel and devil are The Mask.
* In "Finders Keepers" from ''WesternAnimation/PeteTheCat'', Grumpy has Good Grumpy who tries to convince him to give back a "bumper marble" of Callie's that he found, and Bad Grumpy, who encourages him to follow the "Finder's Keepers" rule he so desperately wants to follow.
-->'''Bad Grumpy:''' How you doing, good looking? Pay no attention to my do-gooder pal over there.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee'' episode "Talent Show", Molly at one point has Scratch serve as her devil and angel and they both encourage her to give up.
* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': A variation is done with Papa G's [[MesACrowd clones]]: The "angel" clone tries to convince him [[spoiler:to let Kid know they're in a LotusEaterMachine]] while the "devil" clone [[spoiler:tries to convince Papa G to hold off on telling Kid to prevent breaking his heart.]]

* Used in many of the old WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons:
** In "Daffy Duck Hunt", a dog considers whether to let Daffy out of a freezer or not. The shoulder angels are arguing until the good angel tells the bad one to [[BigShutUp "Aw, shaddup!"]] and jams his halo down on him.
** In "Scaredy Cat", Sylvester has been harassed all night by homicidal mice but Porky (his owner) [[CassandraTruth refuses to believe him]] -- until the mice capture ''him''. Sylvester runs off in a panic, but his Shoulder Angel gives him a [[TalkingWithSigns a non-verbal dressing-down]], reminding him of the good times he's had with Porky, and encouraging him to get back in there and kick some mouse butt.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In one of the shorts before ''The Simpsons'' became a series; One involved stealing from the money jar, Bart's devil tells him to take the money, the angel tells him the same thing in agreement.
** Inverted in the Treehouse of Horror story, "Attack of the 50-Ft. Eyesores." Bart sits on the shoulder of a giant Devil (really a mascot come to life). In his right ear, Bart tells him to destroy the school. He then goes to the opposite ear and says a similar message in a different voice.
** In another episode (season 4's "Whacking Day"), Homer tells Lisa that inside man is a struggle between good and evil that will never be resolved. Cut to an ImagineSpot of Good Homer's grave as Evil Homer (really Homer in a devil costume) doing the cha-cha on Good Homer's grave, chanting "I am Evil Ho-mer!"
** In "I Love Lisa," Homer tells Lisa to ignore her conscience, whereupon Homer's good angel appears and tells him that's a terrible thing to say. Homer responds with a dismissive "Shut up!", to which the angel replies with a dejected "Yes, sir!" before vanishing.
** Homer has "Strict Homer" (a murderous police officer with a laser gun), "Funny Homer" (a drunk, partying Homer in rainbow suspenders), and "Intellectual Homer" (Homer in a sweater vest and a mortarboard) within his head, as seen in the episode "We're On The Road to D'oh-Where." The last of the three has been murdered years ago.
** In "The Frying Game," after killing an endangered caterpillar, Homer's bad angel kills his good angel, telling Homer that now "they are in this together." Then they high-five each other.
** Various colour coded miniature versions of Lisa represent her various states of mind, including envy, guilt, the conscience itself, and the libido, who's been locked in a cage and isn't allowed to come out until she's 16.
** When Moe refurbishes his bar into a gay lounge, he at first thinks of telling his new patrons that he's straight. The first one to pop up is his shoulder devil (essentially Moe dressed in a tuxedo with devil props), who encourages him to hide behind his homosexual façade, but when he says they should wait for what Angel Moe has to say, the devil replies: "''I'm'' Angel Moe". Then, the real Devil Moe (a bestial-looking, hulking red demon) pops up on his other shoulder and devours Angel Moe before letting out a guttural, evil laugh.
** In yet another episode, Homer is portrayed with 400 devils on his shoulder.
** In "A Test Before Trying", Bart has to pass a standardized test or the school will be shut down. As Principal Skinner ponders whether to pull the fire alarm to give Bart more time to study, his good angel warns against it. His bad angel - his mother in a devil costume - doesn't even bother arguing and pulls the alarm herself.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Good Cat, Bad Cat", Garfield has an angel and a devil that fight over what courses of action he should take when Jon has told Garfield to not bother the mailman. His devil uses every method he can think of to send the angel as far away as he can; the angel, in return, often reenters the scene a while later through unusual means. (Example: the devil mails the angel to Mexico. The angel later walks back through the door carrying luggage and wearing both a sombrero and a serape.) The end of the episode also showed Jon to have his own pair, with Devil Jon bickering with Angel Jon over whether Jon should get rid of Garfield.
* Slightly spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', where Stitch undergoes the "two devil" variation when he ponders whether or not to get rid of an experiment stealing Lilo's attention away from him.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
** In "The Donut of Shame", this trope is spoofed with an angel donut and a devil donut appearing on Patrick's shoulders. The shoulder donuts argue over whether Patrick should eat the donut he intended to give to [=SpongeBob=], before the devil donut suggested Patrick put the donut on a chain so that he can pull it out of his mouth when [=SpongeBob=] returns. Somehow, the angel donut agrees that it's a pretty good idea.
** The trope is parodied again in "Sportz?", where Squidward finds [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing with sports equipment incorrectly and is asked by them to teach them how to play sports properly. Squidward is advised by his angel to teach them how to play sports properly so they can't get hurt, while his devil sadistically gloats that Squidward has the opportunity to get back at the times [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick annoyed him by tricking them into getting hurt. Angel Squidward is forced to side with Devil Squidward after he gets hit by a tennis ball by accident.
* The short-lived show ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'' had a variation on this, where Bob was constantly visited by...well, guess, with the devil trying to prove that there was no good in humanity by focusing on Bob, a crude, loud-mouthed imbecile.

* In some old Disney shorts with WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}}, Pluto has an angel and a devil, who were both dogs like himself; angel dog wore a halo and devil dog wore horns and a red cape. Devil dog usually encourages him to do things like disobey Mickey and chase cats.
* An early WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon, ''Donald's Better Self'', has [[VagueAge Donald skipping school]] because his devil told him to while his angel tries to lead him in the right path. By the way, both angel and devil are as tall as the Duck, and they're given normal voices, unlike Don himself... [[FridgeBrilliance perhaps so Donald has no trouble understanding his inner thoughts?]]
** A Disney World War II Propaganda short staring Donald Duck, "The Spirit of '43", posits that when an American worker (Donald) comes into money, his mind has two separate personalities; the Thrifty, who takes the form of a Scottish old man (Hmmm!), who encourages Donald to save his money for taxes and the Spendthrift, a smooth-talker in a jazz suit who insists that Donald should spend his cash on idle luxuries. The moral of the short is that by paying you taxes you help the US war effort, and not paying your taxes essentially helps the Axis. To really drive the point home, the Spendthrift briefly looks like [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]], and the doors to the bar he's pulling Donald towards has doors shaped like the Nazi Swatska. The Thrifty, on the other hand, is knocked into a wall made to look like an American Flag, with his circling stars resembling the stars on the flag. Donald, naturally, goes to pay his taxes, but not without giving the Spendthrift a a solid uppercut, damaging the saloon doors into becoming a V (for victory!).
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey MouseWorks]]'' short "Pluto's Kittens" features Pluto's angel and devil. Later, after Mickey punishes Pluto for making a mess (when it was actually three kittens who made the mess), ''Pluto's angel and devil start giving Mickey suggestions.'' And they don't just look like Pluto's; the Devil even mentions the kittens, which Mickey does not, at this point, know about.
** They also appeared in another short called "Minnie Takes Care of Pluto", which was one of the only two ''[=MouseWorks=]'' shorts to never be repackaged in ''House of Mouse''. In this short, Pluto's conscience persuades him into thinking that Minnie Mouse is out to get him after Mickey left him at her house while he was on vacation. Said conscience later makes him have nightmares about Minnie burying him alive, and even [[DraggedOffToHell drags him to Hell]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''
** An episode has Nathan confronted by his GoodAngelBadAngel-Murderface and Pickles respectively, at the dentist's office. Murderface claims that taking the knockout gas would leave you at the mercy of a molesting dentist, and therefore makes you gay. Pickles says it wouldn't matter, since you'd be out cold anyway.
** Another episode had Pickles, now sober, locked in a room with a table full of booze while his bandmates are in danger. The good angel tells him he should go save his friends, the bad angel encourages him to start drinking. [[TakeAThirdOption He does both.]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Fred buys a sweepstakes ticket and shares it with Barney who is broke and unable to purchase one. Barney decides to guard the ticket. Fred didn't trust Barney under the influences of good and bad consciences. The devil pursues Fred to sneak into Barney's house to steal the ticket.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger and ComicBook/TheSpectre act this way in a certain decisive moment.
** And in the AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'', the angel and devil sides of Bat-Mite appear when he is faced with whether or not he could use his superpowers to help Batman in the fight with ComicBook/TheJoker:
--->'''Angel Bat-Mite:''' No powers, Bat-Mite. You promised.\\
'''Devil Bat-Mite:''' Batman said you can't use your powers, but ''he didn't say you shouldn't give them to him!''\\
'''Angel Bat-Mite:''' ''[shrugs his shoulders, to Bat-Mite]'' He's got a point. ''[both sides vanish]''

* Nicky of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', was once seen with two good angels, one on each shoulder.

* ''WesternAnimation/LolaAndVirginia'' has used this with Lola, one of the main characters, a couple of times, but they've done it a bit differently.
** In one episode, she asks a student from her friend's karate class to help get back a bracelet that another girl took from her. Lola's friend tells her that karate students don't go around beating people up. Lola says that's not what she had in mind at all. She smiles innocently, but for a second she changes into a devil version of herself, with a black dress in place of her usual red one.
** In another episode, Lola is in a contest to win a moped. A classmate is also trying to get it for his brother. Lola feels bad about beating the boy and imagines her devil self beating the boy to the top of a mountain using a helicopter, when he was climbing. Lola's devil self runs for the prize, but is held back by Lola's angel selves, who restrain her by grabbing her tail. A moment later, when Lola helps the boy win and beat a girl who was cheating, her angel self and devil self actually high-five each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
** A claymation short used after the first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E6TotallyBogusVideo Totally Bogus Video]]" had Bogus being confronted by angel and devil versions of himself when he comes across a wrapped-up box of candy on the counter. The angel and devil then confront each other, which escalates into a BigBallOfViolence, giving Bogus a chance to help himself to the candy.
** Another episode had Bogus chasing after an ant that had stolen his special piece of cake. When he finally catches up with the ant, he is both anguished and ashamed to discover that the ant had only stolen the cake because it was a baby ant's birthday. First, his bad side, who is depicted as a leather-clad BadassBiker, tells Bogus that they're just puny, insignificant ants and that the cake is rightfully his for him to just take, before his good side, who is depicted as a SesquipedalianLoquaciousness-spouting well-mannered philosopher, tells Bogus that if he just takes the cake back, he will regret it for the rest of his life. [[spoiler: At the end of the discussion, Bogus ends up listening to his bad side and takes the cake from the ants anyway.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' short "Never Sock a Baby", Popeye deals with his angel and devil after he spanks Swee'pea. He punches out the devil when he [[BerserkButton calls him a sissy]].
* Done with a slight twist in ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'' when Weird Harold finds a wallet with $100 in it. The angel and devil appear to advise him on what to do with it, but instead of being mini versions of himself, the angel is Fat Albert and the devil is Rudy. Gives a little insight to how Weird Harold probably views his friends. (The Albert angel wins at the end of the episode by angrily grabbing the Rudy devil and hurling him into an arcade game screen.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'': In the episode "A Quarter", when the dogs are trying to get $10,000, the big dog sees his face on a wanted poster for a $10,000 reward. The little dog’s shoulder devil appears telling him to turn him in for the money, and then his shoulder angel appears to tell him...[[BaitAndSwitch the exact same thing!]]
* Spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?" Ed is sent shopping by Sarah to buy some fudge at the candy store, but Eddy tries to convince Ed to buy jawbreakers for himself and his friends instead. Edd tries to convince Ed to do as his sister asked, and the argument is represented by a Shoulder Angel Edd and a Shoulder Devil Eddy trying to persuade Ed. However, different from a lot of the occurrences of this trope is the fact that the Shoulder Angel/Devil mirror all of Edd & Eddy's actions, right down to the two of them actually fighting.
-->'''Edd:''' Stand firm and deliver, Ed! Let integrity be your guide.\\
'''Eddy:''' He's right, Ed. And "integrity" in Latin means "buying jawbreakers".
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In the very first episode, Peter's shoulder devil appears - but the angel is missing, revealed in a cutaway to be caught in traffic. Later on, the angel shows up on time, but instead of advising Peter, he stops to listen to ''[[NestedOwnership his own shoulder devil]]'', because for some reason '''his''' shoulder angel's also caught in traffic.
** Another version from season 3 ("Ready, Willing, and Disabled") has Peter's shoulder angel shoot Peter's shoulder devil, and threaten Peter at gunpoint to go over and comfort Joe.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', Cleveland's turn out to be Darryl Hall and John Oates.
** In "The Dating Game", after Quagmire becomes addicted to Tinder, he meets a woman at the Drunken Clam and his angel is him telling him that he doesn't need Tinder while his devil is his phone telling him otherwise. His angel then has his own angel and devil who are both dressed the part.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' - Rikochet experiences a straight example when he considers stealing something from Minotoro with the Flea as his shoulder devil and Buena Girl as his shoulder angel. The episode ends with a gag involving the Flea trying to melt the polar ice caps (by rubbing two sticks together), and he gets two devil versions of himself.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Spitballs" Rocko is trying to catch a foul ball. After receiving TheWorstSeatInTheHouse, Heffer suggests they move down. Rocko's devil agrees while the angel protests. When the devil shows the angel the view with binoculars, the angel changes its mind and tells him to get the good seats before they're gone. At the end of the episode Rocko has caught a foul ball (which would have been [[{{Irony}} ironically]] easier if he didn't move down) but a little kid asks for it. The devil tells Rocko to keep it while the angels says it is better to give then to receive and ensures Rocko gives by hitting him with a baseball bat.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SlackerCats'' Eddie uses his hands to pretend to have the angel and devil when deciding on things. The "angel" points out that he's simply there for show and nobody listens to him anyway. At one point Eddie decides on something rather horrible and both the angel and devil are disgusted.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
** In "Night of the Tibbles," James gets a buzzing-winged figure of himself that says he's his conscience and another identical figure that says he's the conscience of his conscience. Later the original conscience returns and admits he may have been wrong.
** In "Brain's Shocking Secret," Brain gets two versions of himself - a "bad" version dressed in a red and a "good" version in yellow.
** In "Do You Believe in Magic?" when Arthur is jealous of Buster, he gets a mean looking cat clown as his "bad" angel and his favorite superhero Bionic Bunny as his "good" angel. Both this and the above example are pictured in a [[http://arthur.wikia.com/wiki/Shoulder_Angels page]] on the Arthur Wiki.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': We meet Cricket's personal devil and angel in "Wishing Well". The devil appears first, and Cricket is wary of him at first, because he looks like, well, a devil. The angel appears two hours later because the devil had him tied up, and starts annoying him until he does the right thing. It isn't long before the consciences repeatedly argue over what he should do, and Cricket soon realizes the angel was right all along and sets off to fix his mistake at swindling Tilly. In addition to fighting in his brain, the consciences are shown to physically interact with the environment, as opposed to the traditional type where they only appear in the mind of the person themselves.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' Christmas special "'Twas the Night Before Bumpy" has Mr. Bumpy be encouraged to steal Santa's bag by two shoulder devils.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'' episode "Jeff Wins", Clarence's shoulder angels are a horse and a fish for some reason. Even Clarence is confused about it, and the horse tells him to just go with it.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'' where Bobby accidentally breaks his mother's statue of Elvis, his angel and devil are Captain Squash and his ArchEnemy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'''s "Good Angel" is a shy nerdy version of him and his "Bad Angel" is a monstrous Frankenstein-like version as shown in an episode that has Lydia traveling [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind inside his head]].
* In the Disney short "WesternAnimation/LendAPaw", Pluto is jealous when a little kitten has joined him as Mickey's new pet. A Good Angel appears to urge Pluto to accept the kitten but a Bad Angel appears urging Pluto to get rid of the kitten. Pluto listens to the Bad Angel with unfortunate consequences. When the kitten nearly drowns in a well, the Good Angel gets fed up with being pushed around and [[BewareTheNiceOnes beats the stuffing out of the Bad Angel]] before encouraging Pluto to save the kitten.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', Duckman seeks to reverse-engineer an aphrodisiac so he can create more of the stuff. When he finally succeeds, a shoulder angel pops up to point out how much he can accomplish when properly motivated and how he could thereby improve his mind. In place of a typical shoulder devil, a miniature UsefulNotes/BillClinton then appears--saying he gets far more women than the people that are smarter than him. The shoulder angel remarks that's a good point, so they leave Duckman to it.

* The ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' episode "Dirt Nappers" had Samson consult his shoulder angel and devil on whether he should tell the other Bean Scouts that he's responsible for the camp's dirt disappearing.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'' episode "Curse Club", Pedro is warned against competing in the Curse Club tournament by his shoulder devil and shoulder angel.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' episode "Trip or Treat" had Goat appear as an angel and devil for Alex when discussing with him on whether or not he should dump Serena over abandoning her goth look. Angel Goat brings up how it's not the clothes a person wears that indicates who they are, while Devil Goat remarks how the clothes will end up coming off anyway.
* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' parodied this by having angel and devil hand puppets appear when Sheep is making up his mind about leaving the farm. Once he makes his decision, the hand puppets turn out to be from a puppet theater he was standing in front of.
* There is an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' where Alvin decides to run away from home because he’s sick of rehearsing so much. While he’s gone, his shoulder devil encourages him to keep doing what he’s doing because he’s better off without Dave and his brothers because he was the most popular member of the group. Eventually, his shoulder angel appears to tell him what he’s doing is wrong and that without him, his family would grow poor, and Dave would probably die, so he runs back home.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'': The projection power in season 2 makes the devils and angels of heroes resemble the traditional version of the trope, by making them shrink and talk directly into humans' ears.

** In "The Donut of Shame", this trope is spoofed with an angel donut and a devil donut appearing on Patrick's shoulders.

* ''WesternAnimation/AngelsFriends'': The projection power in season two make the devils and angels heroes resemble the traditional version of the trope, by making them shrinking and talking directly into humans ears.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': In the episode “Boogie With The Man”, Stanley gets this when he’s about to have Peggy sign a contract that will have her take his place after he makes a DealWithTheDevil. And surprisingly, both the angel and devil are The Mask.
* In "Finders Keepers" from ''WesternAnimation/PeteTheCat'', Grumpy has Good Grumpy who tries to convince him give back a "bumper marble" of Callie's that he found, and Bad Grumpy, who encourages him to follow follow the "Finder's Keepers" rule he so desperately wants to follow.
-->'''Bad Grumpy''': How you doing, good looking? Pay no attention to my do-gooder pal over there.

* Spidey gets these in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'', with the Good Angel wearing a blue costume, and the Bad one in Red. In one episode, the Bad Angel was replaced by a Shoulder-''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]]'', in an episode where it wasn't so much good versus evil/selfish but duty versus friendship, when acting on his sense of duty could've gotten the Hulk locked up. They sometimes agree on something, like letting Taskmaster get Flash Thompson.

** The trope is parodied again in "Sportz?", where Squidward finds [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick playing with sports equipment incorrectly and is asked by them to teach them how to play sports properly. Squidward is advised by his angel to teach them how to play sports properly so they can't get hurt, while his devil sadistically gloats that Squidward has the opportunity to get back at the times [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick annoyed him by tricking them into getting hurt. Angel Squidward is forced to side with Devil Squidward after he gets hit by a tennis ball.

* Appears in a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' in the form of Angel Smurf and Devil Smurf whenever a Smurf is tempted with a moral dilemma.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'' episode "Never Take Candy from a Kindergartner", both Leonard and Spot struggle with their angels and devils over candy. Pretty Boy is tempted by his devil to cheat at a contest he's having with Mr. Jolly, only for a second devil to remind him he cheats all the time. [[LampshadeHanging When Pretty Boy asks why one of them isn't an angel]], one of the devils says his angel ''quit'' because he never listened. Pretty Boy actually bristles at that and decides to play fair for once to show the angel and the devils he has the willpower.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'', both Leonard and Spot struggle with their angels and devils over candy. Prettyboy is tempted by his devil to cheat at a contest he's having with Mr. Jolly, only for a second devil to remind him he cheats all the time. [[LampshadeHanging When Prettyboy askes why one of them isn't an angel]], one of the devils says his angel ''quit'' because he never listened. Prettyboy actually bristles at that and decides to play fair for once to show the angel and the devils he has the willpower.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "The Saddle Row Review". Pinkie Pie has to break up a party going on at a club upstairs from Rarity's new boutique, and wonders what Rarity would do. She imagines up a shoulder devil and shoulder angel version of Rarity, ''both'' of which encourage her to make the party even more rocking... then the Devil-Rarity points out that the real Rarity would never say such a thing.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' does a variant in the episode "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E17TheFounder The Founder]]", where Richard talks to his shoulder devil, [[NestedOwnership who consults his own shoulder angel, who has his own shoulder devil]].

* Appears in a few episodes of ''TheSmurfs'' in the form of Angel Smurf and Devil Smurf whenever a Smurf is tempted with a moral dilemma.

* Parodied in the series of shorts called ''Weighty Decisions'', where a (live-action) man gets visited by his ([[RogerRabbitEffect animated]]) shoulder Angel and Devil whenever he needs to make a moral dilemma. However the Angel and Devil (Neil and Gordon respectively) always get sidetracked and talk about completely unrelated things (For example, when the man appears to be contemplating jumping off a ledge, Neil and Gordon appear ready to debate on whether he should go through with it or not. Only for the latter to start arguing over the former calling sick and bailing at a party he threw the other night.).

* In a couple of episodes of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield has an angel and a devil that fight over what courses of action he should take. His devil usually uses every method he can think of to send the angel as far away as he can; the angel, in return, often reenters the scene a while late through unusual means. (Example: the devil mails the angel to Mexico. The angel later walks back through the door carrying luggage and wearing both a sombrero and a serape.) Their debut episode "Good Cat, Bad Cat" also showed Jon to have his own pair, with Devil Jon bickering with Angel Jon over whether Jon should get rid of Garfield.

* ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'': In the episode, “A Quarter”, when the dogs are trying to get $10,000, the big dog sees his face on a wanted poster for a $10,000 reward. The little dog’s shoulder devil appears telling him to turn him in for the money, and then his shoulder angel appears to tell him...[[BaitAndSwitch the exact same thing!]]
* Spoofed in the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "Brother, Can You Spare an Ed?" Ed is sent shopping by Sarah to buy some fudge at the candy store, but Eddy tries to convince Ed to buy jawbreakers for himself and his friends instead. Edd tries to convince Ed to do as his sister asked, and the argument is represented by a Shoulder Angel Edd and a Shoulder Devil Eddy trying to persuade Ed. However, different from a lot of the occurrences of this trope is the fact that the Shoulder angel/devil mirror all of Edd & Eddy's actions, right down to the two of them actually fighting.