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* In the various incarnations of ComicStrip/{{Rupert|Bear}} (also a bear), both humans and animals lived in Rupert's world. Most of the citizens of Rupert's hometown were animal, though several of Rupert's friends, TheProfessor and [[ChineseGirl Tiger Lily]], were human, as were residents of several nearby towns like Appleton. Nutwood Forest is also populated by sentient but otherwise "normal" {{Talking Animal}}s!

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* In the various incarnations of ComicStrip/{{Rupert|Bear}} (also a bear), both humans and animals lived in Rupert's world. Most of the citizens of Rupert's hometown were animal, though several of Rupert's friends, TheProfessor and [[ChineseGirl Tiger Lily]], Lily, were human, as were residents of several nearby towns like Appleton. Nutwood Forest is also populated by sentient but otherwise "normal" {{Talking Animal}}s!
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Although when you have a world populated by dragons, vampires, fluffy people, candy people, why-wolves, elementals, gem people, undead, rainicorns, plant creatures, hot dog people, gods and a sentient game console, talking animals such as Jake the dog are the least strange thing in the Land of OOO. However, Finn is the only human seen in the series (with the exception of the mutant human tribe he meets in one episode), and his species is considered endangered according to the Adventure Time wiki page. Most of the inhabitants that resemble humans in OOO are classified as humanoid or mutant.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Although when you have a world populated by dragons, vampires, fluffy people, candy people, why-wolves, elementals, gem people, undead, rainicorns, plant creatures, hot dog people, gods and a sentient game console, talking animals such as Jake the dog are the least strange thing in the Land of OOO. However, Finn is the [[TokenHuman only human human]] seen in the series (with the exception of the mutant human tribe he meets in one episode), and his species is considered endangered according to the Adventure Time wiki page. Most of the inhabitants that resemble humans in OOO are classified as humanoid or mutant.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'' plays host to a truly bizarre example- any named, important, individual character will be a sentient musical instrument or occasionally another kind of object, but the Jazzberries’ audience consists of human silhouettes (who are ''always'' silhouettes, despite the lighting), and there are other indications that humans exist in the show’s world, such as Louis’s Bandleader Of The Year trophy being shaped like a human conductor.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' takes place in a world much like our own, except that humans coexist with {{Funny Animal}}s (and there are a lot of different kinds of animals featured; even ''insects'' are anthropomorphic in this world!). {{Interspecies Romance}}s are quite common, and some real-life celebrities have {{Fictional Counterpart}}s who are animals, such as [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Quentin Tarantulino]] and Creator/EthanHawke (who's literally a hawk). There's also pretty much every variation of the {{Species Surname}} trope: Bojack Horseman [[PlayedStraight is indeed a horse]] (or a horseman if you will), Vanessa Gecko [[SubvertedTrope is human]], Maggot Gyllenhaal has her species [[ALizardNamedLiz as her first name]], Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf appear together and have [[ParodiedTrope each others species' as surnames]], Vincent Adultman [[ZigZaggingTrope is a human male but not an adult]] (but it's [[JustifiedTrope not his real name anyway]]), Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface [[ImpliedTrope sure sounds like a cat name]], Neal [=McBeal=]'s name [[GeniusBonus rhymes with his species]] but it's unclear whether he's just a seal who's in the navy or [[LogicalExtreme an actual Navy S.E.A.L.]] and then there are tons of characters [[AvertedTrope with completely normal names]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' takes place in a world much like our own, except that humans coexist with {{Funny Animal}}s (and there are a lot of different kinds of animals featured; even ''insects'' are anthropomorphic in this world!). {{Interspecies Romance}}s are quite common, and some real-life celebrities have {{Fictional Counterpart}}s who are animals, such as [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Quentin Tarantulino]] and Creator/EthanHawke (who's literally a hawk). There's also pretty much every variation of the {{Species Surname}} trope: Bojack Horseman [[PlayedStraight is indeed a horse]] (or a horseman if you will), Vanessa Gecko [[SubvertedTrope is human]], Maggot Gyllenhaal has her species [[ALizardNamedLiz as her first name]], Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf appear together and have [[ParodiedTrope each others species' as surnames]], Vincent Adultman [[ZigZaggingTrope is a human male but not an adult]] (but it's [[JustifiedTrope not his real name anyway]]), Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface [[ImpliedTrope [[ALizardNamedLiz sure sounds like a cat name]], Neal [=McBeal=]'s name [[GeniusBonus rhymes with his species]] but it's unclear whether he's just a seal who's in the navy or [[LogicalExtreme an actual Navy S.E.A.L.]] and then there are tons of characters [[AvertedTrope with completely normal names]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' takes place in a world much like our own, except that humans coexist with {{Funny Animal}}s (and there are a lot of different kinds of animals featured; even ''insects'' are anthropomorphic in this world!). {{Interspecies Romance}}s are quite common, and some real-life celebrities have {{Fictional Counterpart}}s who are animals, such as [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Quentin Tarantulino]] and Creator/EthanHawke (who's literally a hawk). There's also pretty much every variation of the {{Species Surname}} trope: Bojack Horseman [[PlayedStraight is indeed a horse]] (or a horseman if you will), Vanessa Gecko [[SubvertedTrope is human]], Maggot Gyllenhaal has her species [[ALizardNamedLiz as her first name]], Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf appear together and have [[ParodiedTrope each others species' as surnames]], Vincent Adultman [[ZigZaggingTrope is a human male but not an adult]] (but it's [[JustifiedTrope not his real name anyway]]), Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface [[ImpliedTrope sure sounds like a cat name]], Neal [=McBeal=]'s name [[GeniusBonus rhymes with his species]] but it's unclear whether he's just [[JustForPun a seal who's in the navy]] or [[LogicalExtreme an actual Navy S.E.A.L.]] and then there are tons of characters [[AvertedTrope with completely normal names]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' takes place in a world much like our own, except that humans coexist with {{Funny Animal}}s (and there are a lot of different kinds of animals featured; even ''insects'' are anthropomorphic in this world!). {{Interspecies Romance}}s are quite common, and some real-life celebrities have {{Fictional Counterpart}}s who are animals, such as [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Quentin Tarantulino]] and Creator/EthanHawke (who's literally a hawk). There's also pretty much every variation of the {{Species Surname}} trope: Bojack Horseman [[PlayedStraight is indeed a horse]] (or a horseman if you will), Vanessa Gecko [[SubvertedTrope is human]], Maggot Gyllenhaal has her species [[ALizardNamedLiz as her first name]], Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf appear together and have [[ParodiedTrope each others species' as surnames]], Vincent Adultman [[ZigZaggingTrope is a human male but not an adult]] (but it's [[JustifiedTrope not his real name anyway]]), Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface [[ImpliedTrope sure sounds like a cat name]], Neal [=McBeal=]'s name [[GeniusBonus rhymes with his species]] but it's unclear whether he's just [[JustForPun a seal who's in the navy]] navy or [[LogicalExtreme an actual Navy S.E.A.L.]] and then there are tons of characters [[AvertedTrope with completely normal names]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigBlue'': The setting features humans living in {{Underwater Cities}} alongside anthropomorphic versions of various sea creatures, like fish, turtles, crustaceans, cephalopods, and marine mammals.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BigBlue'': The setting features humans living in {{Underwater Cities}} underwater alongside anthropomorphic versions of various sea creatures, like fish, turtles, crustaceans, cephalopods, and marine mammals.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CupcakeAndDinoGeneralServices'': The show's setting is populated by anthropomorphic versions of, well, pretty much anything you can imagine. Alongside humans (depicted in the show's artstyle as TheNoseless), we have animals both living and extinct, monsters and mythical creatures, and a wide variety of {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s and AnthropomorphicFood. Notably, their isn't necessarily any biological barriers to how any can be related, as the eponymous characters as a cupcake and a dinosaur [[ADogNamedDog (duh)]] with a steak for a grandmother and a human for an uncle.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunks'': Songwriter finds (abducts?) some (freakishly large) talking chipmunks in the forest, puts them in co-ordinated clothing and makes them sing pop songs. And they befriend three giant female talking chipmunks owned/parented by some wealthy dowager. Nothing weird about that. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Nothing at all]]. Interestingly, there is an episode where Alvin finds another chipmunk in the park, also his size and intelligent with Harry, a schemer and their mom Vinny the same way. Also the Thanksgiving special showed their relatives as well. It seems as though in the universe of the show, chipmunks just look like that... An Easter special also revealed that various other anthropomorphic rodents and rabbits exist in the ''Chipmunks'' universe.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunks'': Songwriter finds (abducts?) some (freakishly large) talking chipmunks in the forest, puts them in co-ordinated clothing and makes them sing pop songs. And they befriend three giant female talking chipmunks owned/parented by some wealthy dowager. Nothing weird about that. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Nothing at all]].all. Interestingly, there is an episode where Alvin finds another chipmunk in the park, also his size and intelligent with Harry, a schemer and their mom Vinny the same way. Also the Thanksgiving special showed their relatives as well. It seems as though in the universe of the show, chipmunks just look like that... An Easter special also revealed that various other anthropomorphic rodents and rabbits exist in the ''Chipmunks'' universe.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' is composed mainly of humans, yet the main character often has run-ins with {{Talking Animal}}s. One episode has him going on a blind date with an antelope; as if that wasn't enough, at dinner his food (a crab) [[CarnivoreConfusion turns out to be his date's ex!]] CheckPlease. In another episode, he went on a date with a girl who turned out to be a werewolf. Oddly enough in seasons 2 and 3, the animals are more realistic and they do not talk, otherwise why would Johnny wish to a Genie for a talking monkey when talking monkeys already existed in season 1? But when the show made it to season 4, the animals started talking again. No explanation is ever given for this. Even more uncannily, there was even an episode where a MadScientist had tried to create a race of anthropomorphic animals from humans, and that the foolish casanova ended up becoming a part of his experiments; one punchline in that particular episode involves Johnny making one of his usual pick-up lines about a foxy lady receptionist for the scientist, only for the "camera" to pan over and reveal that [[IncrediblyLamePun the woman is ''literally'' a furry fox-woman]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' is composed mainly of humans, yet the main character often has run-ins with {{Talking Animal}}s. One episode has him going on a blind date with an antelope; as if that wasn't enough, at dinner his food (a crab) [[CarnivoreConfusion turns out to be his date's ex!]] CheckPlease. In another episode, he went on a date with a girl who turned out to be a werewolf. Oddly enough in seasons 2 and 3, the animals are more realistic and they do not talk, otherwise why would Johnny wish to a Genie for a talking monkey when talking monkeys already existed in season 1? But when the show made it to season 4, the animals started talking again. No explanation is ever given for this. Even more uncannily, there was even an episode where a MadScientist had tried to create a race of anthropomorphic animals from humans, and that the foolish casanova ended up becoming a part of his experiments; one punchline in that particular episode involves Johnny making one of his usual pick-up lines about a foxy lady receptionist for the scientist, only for the "camera" to pan over and reveal that [[IncrediblyLamePun the woman is ''literally'' ''[[{{Pun}} literally]]'' a furry fox-woman]].fox-woman.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': Songwriter finds (abducts?) some (freakishly large) talking chipmunks in the forest, puts them in co-ordinated clothing and makes them sing pop songs. And they befriend three giant female talking chipmunks owned/parented by some wealthy dowager. Nothing weird about that. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Nothing at all]]. Interestingly, there is an episode where Alvin finds another chipmunk in the park, also his size and intelligent with Harry, a schemer and their mom Vinny the same way. Also the Thanksgiving special showed their relatives as well. It seems as though in the universe of the show, chipmunks just look like that... An Easter special also revealed that various other anthropomorphic rodents and rabbits exist in the ''Chipmunks'' universe.


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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' is an excellent example. Humans (both with regular skin colours and [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation odd ones]]), anthropomorphic animals, regular animals, aliens, and robots all exist in Mobius, and there seems to be no problem. For example, in one episode an anthropomorphic rabbit is reading a newspaper and is holding a normal dog by the leash. Just seconds later, an anthropomorphic dog comes into the shot! Weird stuff.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': Although when you have a world populated by dragons, vampires, fluffy people, candy people, why-wolves, elementals, gem people, undead, rainicorns, plant creatures, hot dog people, gods and a sentient game console, talking animals such as Jake the dog are the least strange thing in the Land of OOO. However, Finn is the only human seen in the series (with the exception of the mutant human tribe he meets in one episode), and his species is considered endangered according to the Adventure Time wiki page. Most of the inhabitants that resemble humans in OOO are classified as humanoid or mutant.
** The "Islands" mini-series in Season 8 confirms the existence of humans outside of Ooo. It also confirms that one recurring character, [[spoiler:Susan Strong]], was human all along.
* In ''Albert Asks: What is Life?'', Albert and Zora routinely interact with humans from both history and present day, who never at all find it odd seeing a [[MixAndMatchCritters hamster-bird hybrid]] and a talking turtle wandering around.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak''. While a human does show up he's in fact the ''least'' human of any creature; he's a beastlike caveman shown for entertainment to the talking animals in circus shows, and presumably zoos.
* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': Songwriter finds (abducts?) some (freakishly large) talking chipmunks in the forest, puts them in co-ordinated clothing and makes them sing pop songs. And they befriend three giant female talking chipmunks owned/parented by some wealthy dowager. Nothing weird about that. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Nothing at all]]. Interestingly, there is an episode where Alvin finds another chipmunk in the park, also his size and intelligent with Harry, a schemer and their mom Vinny the same way. Also the Thanksgiving special showed their relatives as well. It seems as though in the universe of the show, chipmunks just look like that... An Easter special also revealed that various other anthropomorphic rodents and rabbits exist in the ''Chipmunks'' universe.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' takes place in [[WorldOfWeirdness the City of Elmore]], where all the animals and [[EverythingTalks every single object]] [[TalkingAnimal is capable of thought and speech]], with some of them [[FunnyAnimal living like humans]], forming the town's "population". However, humans--'''[[MediumBlending live-action]]''' humans-- have frequently been shown on the TV and internet without comment. This, along with the [[MediumBlending photographic backgrounds]], imply [[ToonTown the world outside of Elmore is mostly the same as real life and populated by regular humans]]. And then there's [[BizarroEpisode "The Sweaters"]], which shows Elmore has some ''animated'' humans, but [[NonStandardCharacterDesign the way they look]], how they act, and the places they hang around are leagues more bizarre than any of the nonhumans in the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBearWhoSleptThroughChristmas'': Bears and humans exist in the same world but unlike other examples of this trope, they live separately in their own societies with no evidence that they regularly interact with each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'': The classic cartoons are populated mostly by FunnyAnimals with Betty Boop and Koko the Clown usually being the only humans onscreen. The reason for this is that Betty Boop was originally conceived as a FunnyAnimal character.
* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has a similar setup to ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' (which it predates by three years), as {{Intelligent Gerbil}}s from another world wind up fighting their enemies in an American city (in this case, UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}).
* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' takes place in a world much like our own, except that humans coexist with {{Funny Animal}}s (and there are a lot of different kinds of animals featured; even ''insects'' are anthropomorphic in this world!). {{Interspecies Romance}}s are quite common, and some real-life celebrities have {{Fictional Counterpart}}s who are animals, such as [[Creator/QuentinTarantino Quentin Tarantulino]] and Creator/EthanHawke (who's literally a hawk). There's also pretty much every variation of the {{Species Surname}} trope: Bojack Horseman [[PlayedStraight is indeed a horse]] (or a horseman if you will), Vanessa Gecko [[SubvertedTrope is human]], Maggot Gyllenhaal has her species [[ALizardNamedLiz as her first name]], Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf appear together and have [[ParodiedTrope each others species' as surnames]], Vincent Adultman [[ZigZaggingTrope is a human male but not an adult]] (but it's [[JustifiedTrope not his real name anyway]]), Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface [[ImpliedTrope sure sounds like a cat name]], Neal [=McBeal=]'s name [[GeniusBonus rhymes with his species]] but it's unclear whether he's just [[JustForPun a seal who's in the navy]] or [[LogicalExtreme an actual Navy S.E.A.L.]] and then there are tons of characters [[AvertedTrope with completely normal names]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': A couple of episodes showed the existence of humans, including one particularly disturbing incident in the episode "[=CatDogPig=]", involving an experiment in democracy. Tired of being unable to agree on anything with Dog, Cat started strapping other animals (all of different species, to prevent their new combined name from repeating itself) to his and Dog's conjoined body in repeated unsuccessful attempts to increase votes for his side and become the majority. In the scene that shows the logical conclusion, a bat is recruited into the resulting conglomeration... ''by a naked bald human.''
** There was also a minor character who appeared periodically named [[IronicNickname Mr. Sunshine]]. He looked like a small green humanoid with a pig's tail. None of the characters know exactly what species he is. However, WordOfGod revealed that he was originally intended to be a monkey.
** Another episode had a human training a dog in a Dog Park (which was also populated by animal people walking non-anthropomorphic dogs, including another two legged, clothed dog).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'': Humans, Funny Animals, and regular animals all coexist. Cats, dogs, and mice talk and act relatively human, although cats and dogs are still kept as pets and mice are still regularly chased (and presumably eaten) by the cats. Rabbits and newts are also kept as pets, but they have no human traits. Bears and even a woolly mammoth have also appeared, but they didn't talk either. No one, not even the show's humans, considers any of this unusual. And Kraken are magical aliens.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' is all over the place with this. Its world is populated by humans, {{Talking Animal}}s, {{Funny Animal}}s, MixAndMatchCritters, mythological creatures, and extinct animals.
** To wit: Chowder and Panini are [=bear/cat/rabbit=] mash-ups, Mung Daal is a blue human, Truffles is a fairy, Schnitzel is a rock monster, Gazpacho is a woolly mammoth, and Endive is an orange human (or possibly an ogre). Random townspeople are everything else.
** In fact, the only confirmed humans we ever see are {{exp|y}}ies of the Franchise/SuperMarioBros.
*** And the weirdos that come out during a blackout.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicalBaby'': The HBO series features anthropomorphic animals, normal-looking animals, everything inbetween, and humans side-by-side with no issue.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'':
** There were several shorts that featured humans with funny animals vein, especially WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/HumphreyTheBear shorts, the latter of which had a main human character, Adubon Woodlore.
*** In the WartimeCartoon "WesternAnimation/DerFuehrersFace", every character except Donald and the rooster are human. "Trick or Treat" had a TokenHuman character, Witch Hazel, alongside Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
** A few of the "How to" and "George Geef" WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} shorts had humans alongside {{Dogfaces}} or InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Goofs.
*** "How to Dance" had the human "Firehouse Five Plus Two" featured alongside InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals Goofs. "Father's Day Off" had Goofy (George G. Geef in this cartoon) carry a ''human'' baby around in part of the cartoon as well as some human extras along with the usual {{Dogfaces}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is another show with a human-TalkingAnimal-Funny Animal trifecta. While Courage is an ordinary dog, a few recurring characters (such as the psychotic Katz and Shirley the Medium, who appeared to be a Chihuahua) were Funny Animals. Ironically, [[KnightOfCerebus not a goddamn thing about Katz was funny]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', an animated spinoff of ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' has Daniel Tiger and several funny animals as his friends and family, but also several human characters.
* Creator/{{Disney}} has used this idea in several animated series:
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' had "toons" and realistically drawn humans in the same world. Not surprising since Bonkers was a CaptainErsatz of [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]].
** In ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', the titular heroes and their evil reptilian overlords bring their conflict to AnotherDimension--namely Anaheim, California.
** In ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'', WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, [[WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck Daisy]] and the nephews are the only {{Funny Animal}}s in an all-human world. No explanation is given.
*** The Quack Pack one is especially strange, as one of the nephews has a one episode crush/flirtation thing with a female human.
*** For some reason, there was at least ''one'' episode in the series that featured "[[DogFace dog-nosed]]" supporting characters; the one where Donald has to serve one more day in the navy.
** ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheThreeCaballeros'' has a variant: mortals are all FunnyAnimals, but the gods (Xandra, Goddess of Adventure; the Roman pantheon; and the Mexican God of the Dead) all take human form.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' has ducks and pigs and chickens and teddy bears and humans and [[MixAndMatchCritters weird hybrids]] and plenty of other animals.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' takes the idea and goes into some weird places. Brian, the Griffin's dog, walks and talks the same as the human cast. For the first few episodes he was treated as a dog who just happened to talk, but in later seasons he starts dating and having sex with humans (who don't even seem to be that concerned that he is a dog), almost has an affair with Lois, and even has an illegitimate ''human'' child who is ([[LampshadeHanging somehow]]) six years older than him.
** Lampshaded in one episode where Brian hits on a human woman, her response "You're a dog..." and walks away in disgust. By reading this, one could assume it was a play on words because "dog" is a insult in the real world. Except in the episode she said it as a matter-of-fact, not as an insult.
** Not to mention the episode where he was arrested for drinking at a humans-only water fountain.
** He also has a gay cousin named Jasper, who has a human boyfriend. Yet his mother was an ordinary, non-sapient dog, and apparently so were his brothers and sisters. The owner of the puppy mill Brian was born in didn't recognize him until Brian reminded him "I was the one who could talk."
** In the SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', one of Cleveland's neighbors is a bear who works for the cable company.
--->'''Cleveland''': Aaah, a bear!\\
'''Tim the Bear''': Aaah, a black man! Aaah! You see? It don't feel so good, does it? It's very reductive.
** Contrast ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' where the only animals that can talk are those who've had human minds implanted into them, and people still find that barely worth commenting on. Klaus [[DependingOnTheWriter occasionally]] has a social life and Stan doesn't even try to keep him secret from the public like he does Roger. Reginald the Koala is shown to hold down a public job and date humans.
* The 1950s ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' TV series.
* ''WesternAnimation/FlipTheFrog'': Practically every human, Funny Animal, NearlyNormalAnimal, IntellectualAnimal, and even AnimateInanimateObject interacts with each other on regular basis.
* ''The Frog Show'' also known as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Frog et Fou Furet]]'' in French. Not only it stars a yellow ferret and a frog, but it also features a group of other humans including a princess and her knight, and a witch.
* ''WesternAnimation/GetMuggsy'' (a spin-off from a kids' club founded by the now-defunct shopping mall company Mills Corporation) has a beaver, raccoon, opossum and spider all interacting with humans repeatedly.
* Quite a few Creator/HannaBarbera cartoons had this. While a lot of HB 'toons featured run-of-the-mill {{Talking Animal}}s, there were also shows such as ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'', ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'', and ''WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey''. In ''WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey'', Penry is the only anthropomorphic animal in the series... which is probably supposed to make even more ridiculous the fact that nobody thinks a lowly police janitor could be Hong Kong Phooey.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' is especially guilty of this. Although most of the animal characters are anthropomorphic (being Hanna-Barbera characters), such as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. However, are also non-anthropomorphic characters as well, such as Birdman's eagle (who's his legal secretary) and a bear that works for Birdman's law firm that randomly pops in each episode. In one episode, Mentok the Mind Taker switches the brains of an attorney with an ordinary, non-sentient dog and in another, Phil Ken Sebben tries to house train Augie Doggie and break him among a group of ordinary dogs after Mentok sentences him to aggressiveness training after being accused of baring his teeth at the judge during a trial case for biting someone.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'': The BearyFunny Rugg and Hopper families seem to be the only {{Funny Animal}}s around. Everyone else is either human on a [[FurryConfusion regular animal]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHoundcats'': The 1972 series is a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mash-up]] of ''Series/MissionImpossible'', ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' and the short-lived ''Series/{{Bearcats}}''. As with ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'', the titular heroes are the only {{Talking Animal}}s in their world (in this case, the American Southwest circa UsefulNotes/WorldWarI).
* ''WesternAnimation/JasonAndTheHeroesOfMountOlympus'' has both humans and anthropomorphic animals interacting freely with each other, and portraying gods and goddesses in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]]. Two of the main characters are Mercury and Venus, respectively a rabbit and a squirrel.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': Since this is a mass crossover among Creator/HannaBarbera characters, humans and anthropomorphic animals coexist in this world.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' is composed mainly of humans, yet the main character often has run-ins with {{Talking Animal}}s. One episode has him going on a blind date with an antelope; as if that wasn't enough, at dinner his food (a crab) [[CarnivoreConfusion turns out to be his date's ex!]] CheckPlease. In another episode, he went on a date with a girl who turned out to be a werewolf. Oddly enough in seasons 2 and 3, the animals are more realistic and they do not talk, otherwise why would Johnny wish to a Genie for a talking monkey when talking monkeys already existed in season 1? But when the show made it to season 4, the animals started talking again. No explanation is ever given for this. Even more uncannily, there was even an episode where a MadScientist had tried to create a race of anthropomorphic animals from humans, and that the foolish casanova ended up becoming a part of his experiments; one punchline in that particular episode involves Johnny making one of his usual pick-up lines about a foxy lady receptionist for the scientist, only for the "camera" to pan over and reveal that [[IncrediblyLamePun the woman is ''literally'' a furry fox-woman]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': Dukey the dog is an UpliftedAnimal experiment created by Susan and Mary, specifically as a friend for Johnny.
* ''WesternAnimation/JoJosCircus'': The stop-motion animated series on [[Creator/DisneyChannel Playhouse Disney]] had human characters (clowns) going to school with anthro characters along various stages of the SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism and the main character having a "pet lion," though he too attended school and could talk.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionhearts'' has a literal example, with the title lions in a world otherwise populated by humans.
* ''Literature/LittleBear'': The books (and TV show) has {{Funny Animal}}s (Little Bear and his family), {{Talking Animal}}s (most of Little Bear's friends), Little Bear's friend Emily and her grandmother (who are both humans), ''and'' Emily's non-anthropomorphic, non-talking dog, Tutu.
* Most ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' animal characters, depending on the episode or short.
** ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' is set in a fictive land with Tasmanian devils and other animals... and few humans as well.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' is even more-so this than the original WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, as its premise involves Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and other equally anthropomorphic animal characters from the Looney Tunes Show living their day-to-day lives amongst an otherwise human populace, without either sort ever batting an eye at the differences between each other when put into direct confrontation. A little different from the original Looney Tunes, as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck's human-like behaviors were often implied to be outside of the norm for animals in their world, and characters like Sylvester and Tweety seemed to communicate with their master in the same way that WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry did.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseFunhouse'' has WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and his friends interacting with humans, mostly in the world the gang visits. They also coexist with the dognose characters.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' has this as part of the premise, where the human Adam Lyon is enrolled into a school of nothing but Funny Animals.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' is the only ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' series to feature realistic human characters. Some of the humans are from another world and regularly travel to Ponyland from there, while others are legitimately from the pony world.
* ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', which has the titular Oggy living in an otherwise human world.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' has Alfe, who is part human, part dog, and part anteater, working alongside the human Horace and half-robot Roba. Then there's Tux Dog, a tall, wealthy, and well-dressed canine whose enemy is Bad Cat, a giant cat with an even bigger casino. Nobody questions any of this, but given the show's [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} unusual world]]...
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In a show whose cast includes a talking gumball dispenser, an [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Abominable Snowman]], a troll, a ghost and a lollipop man, a six-foot blue jay and a talking raccoon are the most ''ordinary'' characters. In fact, the majority of certifiably human characters in the show are enemy characters or clueless friends of Muscle Man.
* In the various incarnations of ComicStrip/{{Rupert|Bear}} (also a bear), both humans and animals lived in Rupert's world. Most of the citizens of Rupert's hometown were animal, though several of Rupert's friends, TheProfessor and [[ChineseGirl Tiger Lily]], were human, as were residents of several nearby towns like Appleton. Nutwood Forest is also populated by sentient but otherwise "normal" {{Talking Animal}}s!
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': [[FantasyKitchenSink The world of Earth]] [[BadFuture in the distant future]] has a considerably diverse population. There are of course humans (though their numbers have been reduced greatly due to genocidal massacres by [[EvilOverlord Aku]]), [[CivilizedAnimal anthropomorphic]] [[FunnyAnimals animals]] (including a group of dogs who worked as archaeologists for a living), extraterrestrials (large numbers of aliens immigrated from other planets, [[TheEmpire especially those conquered by Aku]]), robots (an absurdly large amount of them, some of whom [[AmbiguousRobots superficially resemble organic creatures]]), and various magical beings (including demons, ogres, fairies, spirits, gods, etc).
* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', DependingOnTheWriter.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The world is populated by anthropomorphic sea life (and one squirrel), with humans only appearing when they are seen abovewater. However, there is Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, who are ordinary-looking humans (and, contrary to the name, not merpeople at all). The same thing applies to most of their RoguesGallery, partucularly Man-Ray. King Neptune and his daughter Mindy in TheMovie are full-on merpeople, as was the alternate version of Neptune seen in the episode "Neptune's Spatula".
* Used very strangely in the ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' TV series. While in the original ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'' film and other sequels no humans are seen or ever mentioned, in the series the eponymous duo frequently meet and interact casually with humans, who never once find it a tad bit odd that there is a talking warthog and meerkat walking around. This in addition to them understanding, using, and keeping human stuff. Bizarre, to say the least.
* ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'': Being from the same artist and creative team of ''[=BoJack=] Horseman'', the show also features human characters coexisting with animals (mostly BirdPeople including the title characters).
* In the ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'', the humans and the humanoid sapient mice of Junctionville openly interact on at least a professional basis, i.e. a clockmaker has a mouse assistant and the human mail carriers have mice counterparts who ride on their bags to deal with the mouse population's mail.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': Humans don't seem to find talking bears walking around the city too unusual; they do get stares from their lack of manners, but they are usually treated roughly the same way that a human would be in the same situation. There are a few other animals that can speak, such as recurring character Nom Nom the koala, and even the ones that don't exhibit IntellectualAnimal tendencies.
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