History MundaneMadeAwesome / WesternAnimation

'''Dr. Weird''': You... tell me! ''(maniacal laughter)'' [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Oh, oh, WAIT!]] ''[[IncendiaryExponent (bursts into flame)]]'']]

* Behold what ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' called "The Dryer Channel", something so cool that it's beating ''Coming Attractions in the ratings. It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like.]] Even better, according to Duke, not only do eople watch it, they actually send it money.

* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' always taje dramatic poses before petrifying at sunrise.
** If you were going to pose for a statue that potentially hundreds of people would see for the next 12 hours, wouldn't you strike the most impressive pose possible? And if you could get a do-over every 24 hours, why not do it better?

*** "[[EarWorm It's a sandwich filled with jellyfish jell-]]''[[RhymesOnADime yyyyyy!]]''" [[hottip:*:"WHO'S PLAYING SQIDWARD'S RECORDS AGAIN?"]]

** Batman has a thing for this. Observe: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2UqhWe8-Q Batman takes a hot dog...]] [[Anime/DeathNote AND EATS IT!]]

*** In fact, the entirety of "Make Love, Not Warcraft" fits this trope by somehow making the quest to kill one high-level ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' {{griefer}} completely epic. Semi-justifiable, since this one player has somehow broken [=WoW=]'s PvP rules, can kill ''Admins'', and seems to be determined to kill every player in the game so many times that they get extremely frustrated and never want to play again.

* Pretty much ''all'' of the preschoolers' and children's shows do this when it comes to teaching how washing your teeth after every meal is fun, or always eating the vegetables, or washing your hands before eating or after going to the bathroom, etc., and making ''songs'' about it, so that the kid actually starts to like it.

-->'''Professor Membrane''': Quiet, son! I'm making ''(large field of electricity crackles)''... toast!

* Buttercup spends the better part of '' WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Nuthin'Special" trying to find a special power that Blossom and Bubbles can't duplicate. She eventually finds it in curling her tongue which she treats as something to celebrate.

** Pinkie Pie and Apple Bloom manage to both play this straight and [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] it in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]". Pinkie Pie's song about baking cupcakes makes it sound like the coolest thing ever, but when Apple Bloom tries her hoof at it...

** In "Will Work for Ed", Rolf explains to Ed his first task as the farm "nincompoop": PeelingPotatoes

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' was ''built'' on this trope. Middle school is SeriousBusiness!

* You would think that after having done that countless times ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' would stop taking dramatic poses before petrifying at sunrise. Nope.

** 5 words: "''A room...'''with a moose!'''''"
*** Oh, it goes further than that! First, Dib starts to let off a a BigNo before it sinks in, and when Zim does a demonstration of the what the Moose can do, [[spoiler: (eat walnuts)]] we get dramatic closeups of it eating them with Dib reacting like it's the worst thing imaginable.

** Batman has a thing for this. Observe! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2UqhWe8-Q Batman takes a hot dog...]] [[Anime/DeathNote AND EATS IT!]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'', a huge monstrous ogre-type tries to defeat Captain K'nuckles in a poker game with, as he puts it: "Pair of... TWOOOOOOOOOOSS!!" (He loses, naturally, with a pair of threes, no less!).

** "Raging Bully": After accidentally causing Buford to drop ice cream on himself, Phineas is challenged to a duel, and the entire episode has them set up a boxing ring, going through a Rocky-style training montage... all for a thumb war! THE MOST EPIC THUMB WAR EVER, even with an overly excited commentator!

* ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower'' replaces such things as OminousLatinChanting with [[{{Narm}} embarrassingly exaggerated]] attempts at [[RuleOfCool being cool]], especially in regard to extreme sports (being the premise of the show). Or, as the show puts it '''[[TotallyRadical sick]]'''!!

* ''Everything'' becomes this when ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' is around. Having a big belly gives you the ability to hypnotize people, getting a nickname involves slaying a dragon, trying to get into a locked truck leads to the truck becoming a monster and trying to destroy the world, and that's just the beginning!

** Also the episode title (rendered in foot-high solid lettering, one word at a time, while spinning through space) -- "ZIM EATS WAFFLES"

** There is the episode where Hank is constipated. Probably the only episode of any show that can make ''pooping'' a dramatic and climactic event that ends the episode on a ridiculously positive note. The climax: when Hank flushes, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Beethoven's 9th starts playing.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has this as its modus operandi on two different levels. On the low end, you have main characters either punctuating normal actions like pouring cereal or setting up chairs by making up little songs or saying phrases. On the high end, you have roshambo matches that cause the unintentional summoning of {{EldritchAbomination}}s and arcade machine showdowns that end with people exploding.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has this as its modus operandi on two different levels. On the low end, you have main characters either punctuating normal actions like pouring cereal or setting up chairs by making up little songs or saying phrases. On the high end, you have roshambo matches that cause the unintentional summoning of EldritchAbominations and arcade machine showdowns that end with people exploding.

* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' ([[OutOfOrder which is actually aired as a season 2 episode]]) offers this twice; first with the lead characters making ''cereal'' ("Milk... cereal... ''combine''...") and then with an epic game of rock, paper, scissors set to hard rock music... that summons an EldritchAbomination after the 100th tie. The show runs on this trope. Apparently, audits destroy the fabric of reality with MatrixRainingCode and there exists anime so nonsensical that merely watching it can suck out your soul.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' is basically the embodiment of the trope. Every episode is about the characters trying to play a simple game, which culminates in explosions, [[ChaseScene car chases]], and the like.