History SkewedPriorities / WesternAnimation

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* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In the episode "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS2E25FareTheeWhale Fare Thee Whale]]", while Linka and Gi are watching whales through telescopes, Kwame is out on the sea in a pontoon, filming said animals. Unfortunately, he gets much too close to them, and winds up in real danger of being squashed, so Gi uses her water power to get him out of the way. Later, when he's back on the beach, and the girls are pulling his pontoon out of the water, he's just glad his camera isn't damaged.
-->'''Kwame:''' It is a good thing my camera is waterproof.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The reason why Marceline hates her father is less because he's a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils literal fiend from the Nightosphere]] that [[YourSoulIsMine eats people's souls]], and more because he's [[ParentalNeglect selfish, insensitive]], and [[FelonyMisdemeanor ate her fries]] one time.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The reason why Marceline hates her father is because he [[FelonyMisdemeanor ate her fries]], and not because he's an EldritchAbomination that eats people's souls and is most likely {{Satan}}.

* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': PlayedForDrama. Cassandra tells Hercules she had a vision, and he assumes that it's something important only to be disappointed when Cassandra tells him her vision was of her kissing Icarus. Hercules still agrees to help her by talking with Icarus, only to make things worse by unintentionally making Icarus happy to learn he kisses Cassandra in the future. So Cassandra makes a deal with Hades to stop the kiss, for her soul on weekends. She makes it clear to Hercules she does not care for the consequences of her actions as long as she gets out of the kiss. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as she draws a line at having Icarus hurt or killed. When it looks like Hades killed Icarus by blasting him with an energy bolt she is shocked and horrified, even saying that while she didn't want to kiss him, she didn't want him dead. When Hades reveals that he put him in an eternal sleep, and only a kiss can wake him up, she is willing kiss him to wake him up.

* Ron Stoppable from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' lives and breathes this trope. Once he fixates on something, such as getting Kim elected Student Council President or making a home movie, he will pursue it even at the cost of the mission.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" he is [[DemonicPossession possessed by the devil]] but is unconcerned about that because that means he doesn't have to go to work.
** In the Hansel and Gretel spoof from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E1TreehouseOfHorrorXI Treehouse of Horror XI]]", when Marge's character finds out Homer left the children in the forest (because they couldn't afford to feed them) she is enraged. [[BaitAndSwitchComment They could have sold them]].

* In the episode of WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks, "Theozilla", Simon and Alvin accidentally turn Theodore into a giant that terrorizes the neighborhood. Simon and Alvin watch the following news report on Simon's iPad:
--> '''Reporter:''' It's pandemonium here downtown as a giant chipmunk is terrorizing the entire city! This could be the end of civilization as we know it! Now here's Gene with sports.
--> [''Simon turns off the iPad'']
--> '''Alvin:''' Hey, hey! I wanted to see the scores!

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', Gadget used to invent ground vehicles (fast ones even) without brakes. She thought they're kind of overrated. It's unclear whether she has meanwhile reconsidered, though.

*** Twilight spends the episode looking for someone with a problem she can solve so she can write her usual letter to Princess Celestia about it. Seeking out the timid Fluttershy as a likely source she witnesses her beat down and NeckSnap a bear (actually part of a massage) and her response is to lament that she doesn't have any friendship problems, and walk off without a second thought.
*** Rarity forgot to bring plates to a picnic, but she certainly didn't forget [[DramaQueen her fainting couch to lament that fact afterwards]].

-->'''Krusty:''' Can you imagine a world without television? I think the survivors would envy the dead!

** In Episode 232, Stumpy introduces his friends to his sister Violasse, who was BornUnlucky. Violasse falls into an interdimensional portal and Stumpy screams "Violasse!" in horror. Rather than worry about his friend's sister falling into a portal, Mr. Cat more concerned by the fact that a parent would give their child a ridiculous name like Violasse.[[note]]The series is French, and naming your kid "Violasse" is basically naming them a misspelled version of the word "purplish"[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': In "[[Recap/Ben10S2E11GhostfreakedOut Ghostfreaked Out]]", Ghostfreak escapes the Omnitrix and wreaks havoc while the circus freak trio go on a looting spree, but Gwen's primary concern is how this will affect her chances of getting enrolled in the prestigious university that the Tennysons have been touring. Ben and Max give her a flat stare in response.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Dying For Pie", after Squidward explains to him about the exploding pie, the first thing Mr. Krabs comments on is twenty-five dollars Squidward spent on the pie.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': In "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", none of the school staff seem to care about the students harassing Eddy into a nervous breakdown in the cafeteria, yet they punish Eddy when they mistakenly believe he [[FelonyMisdemeanor impersonated the principal]] ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", none of the school staff seem to care about the students harassing Eddy into a nervous breakdown in the cafeteria, yet they punish Eddy when they mistakenly believe he [[FelonyMisdemeanor impersonated the principal]] ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]).

* In ''Pinocchio's Christmas,'' the main character [[spoiler:steals a puppet from the puppet show he starred in, and Lady Azora ignores and instead sings a song of how he was wrong to work for money to buy Geppetto a Christmas gift and should just give his father love.]] Talk about UnfortunateImplications.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E17LisaTheSimpson Lisa the Simpson]]", Dr. Nick was called in to advise when Jasper froze himself alive inside the Kwik-E-Mart's freezer.
--->'''Dr. Nick:''' Well, we better leave him in there. Moving him now could kill him. And tire us out.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E7LisasDateWithDensity Lisa's Date with Density]]" Homer runs a telemarketing scam that promises to give people eternal happiness if they send him one dollar. When the [[Fiction500 exceedingly wealthy]] Mr. Burns gets this message, he responds:
--->"One dollar for eternal happiness? ...I'd be happier with the dollar."
** This is common for [[TheDitz Homer]]. In "Dial Z For Zombies" of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII Treehouse of Horror III]]":
--->'''Lisa''': Dad, we did something very bad!\\
'''Homer''': Did you wreck the car?\\
'''Bart''': No.\\
'''Homer''': Did you raise the dead?\\
'''Lisa''': Yes!\\
'''Homer''': But the car's okay?\\
'''Kids''': Uh-huh.\\
'''Homer''': Alright, then.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E11HomersTripleBypass Homer's Triple Bypass]]", Marge learns of Homer’s heart attack and subsequent hospitalization and hurries out the door, leaving Patty and Selma behind. The twins, however, only have this reaction:
---> '''Selma''': [[DullSurprise Oh my God!]]\\
'''Patty''': What?\\
'''Selma''': (points to a coupon) Five cents off wax paper.
*** In the same episode, when Homer is driving to work and stops by a gas station on the way:
--->'''Homer''': I keep hearing this horrible irregular thumping noise.\\
''[thump thump thump]''\\
'''Gas Station Attendant''': It's your heart. And I think it's on its last thump.\\
'''Homer''': Whew! I was afraid it was my transmission. ''[drives off]''
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Deep Space Homer]]" after Homer broke the handle off the hatch, he grabs a support rod to hit one of the other astronauts. The rod catches in the door and when it is pointed out that could allow them to return safely, he tries to remove the rod so he can continue the attack.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir Burns' Heir]]" he noted that Bart being abusive to the family is one thing, but he would not stand idly by and watch him feed a hungry dog.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E13TheJoyOfSect The Joy of Sect]]":
--->'''Jane''': Would you rather have beer, or complete and utter contentment?\\
'''Homer''': ...What kind of beer?
*** Since this questioner turns out to be working for a {{cult}}, this is a sterling case of Homer being TooDumbToFool.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" he is [[DemonicPossession possessed by the devil]] but is unconcerned about that because that means he doesn't have to go to work.
** In the Hansel and Gretel spoof from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E1TreehouseOfHorrorXI Treehouse of Horror XI]]", when Marge's character finds out Homer left the children in the forest (because they couldn't afford to feed them) she is enraged. [[BaitAndSwitchComment They could have sold them]].
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]", Marge and Sebastian Cobb arrive back in Springfield too late to stop the unsafe monorail from making its maiden voyage. Cobb then apologises, saying they might have been able to stop it if he hadn't stopped to get a haircut on the way.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E9SideshowBobsLastGleaming Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming]]", Bob acquires a nuclear device and threatens to destroy Springfield unless television is outlawed. Most of the town reluctantly agree to the ban, but Krusty puts the town at risk by continuing to broadcast, believing he'll get a ratings windfall from being the only show on air.
-->'''Krusty:''' Can you imagine a world without television? I think the survivors would envy the dead!

* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'''s episode, "[[Recap/DannyPhantomS1E8PrisonersOfLove Prisoners Of Love]]", Danny is worried that their parents might be getting a divorce due to Jack's negligence at his and Maddie's anniversary, something Jazz was keen on predicting their dad would let happen, as well as not try to fix. However, Jack informs them that he's following Maddie to Arkansas to apologize, and instead of being worried about their mother's mentioning of the word "divorce" like Danny, or even relieved that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Jack's doing something this time,]] Jazz is more concerned about being ''[[ThePerfectionist wrong]]'' about their father's actions and the [[HeroicBSOD possibility of being wrong about other things.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS5E19SmileForTheEd Smile for the Ed]]", none of the school staff seem to care about the students harassing Eddy into a nervous breakdown in the cafeteria, yet they punish Eddy when they mistakenly believe he [[FelonyMisdemeanor impersonated the principal]] ([[MisplacedRetribution which was actually Edd's doing]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
** In the episode "Thomas Comes to Breakfast", Thomas loses control and crashes into the stationmaster's house. The stationmaster's wife seems far more annoyed that Thomas [[LostFoodGrievance ruined their breakfast]] and that she'll have to cook it again than she does at the fact that ''a steam engine just plowed through the wall of her house.''
** Similarly, in "A Close Shave", Duck crashes into a barbershop, nearly destroying it. However, the barber is more upset at the fact that Duck ''frightened his customers''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "Luck Amok", Tigger, thinking he caused all the bad luck throughout the episode, packs up "seven years' worth of stuff" and goes away.
--> '''Pooh:''' We can't let him leave, not for seven years! He'll miss my birthday.\\
(''Rabbit faints'')
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE52TheQuestOfThePrincessPonies2 The Quest of the Princess Ponies, Part 2]]", when Lavan orders them thrown into a lava pit, one of the princess ponies complains that this will ruin her complexion.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' uses this for the occasional gag:
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", Rarity foregoes on a protective helmet and picks a chic hat instead, because the helmet didn't look as good. Also, her skewed priorities is put on full display when she is shown to be more concerned about getting some of the dragon's stash of jewels than she is about getting rid of the dragon itself.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of Harmony – Part 1]]": Exaggerated. Pinkie doesn't care about eternal chaos, as long as she gets chocolate milk rain and Rarity wants the box the Elements of Harmony are in, instead of the Elements themselves. Keep in mind that this is ''before'' [[spoiler:they're {{brainwashed}} by Discord.]]
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]":
*** Twilight spends the episode looking for someone with a problem she can solve so she can write her usual letter to Princess Celestia about it. Seeking out the timid Fluttershy as a likely source she witnesses her beat down and NeckSnap a bear (actually part of a massage) and her response is to lament that she doesn't have any friendship problems, and walk off without a second thought.
*** Rarity forgot to bring plates to a picnic, but she certainly didn't forget [[DramaQueen her fainting couch to lament that fact afterwards]].
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E23PonyvilleConfidential Ponyville Confidential]]", the Cutie Mark Crusaders lament that, having made themselves pariahs throughout town and alienated everypony (including their own families and Rainbow Dash), they ''still'' didn't get their cutie marks. This is standard behavior most other times too -- no matter how convoluted their plan, disastrous their failure, or devastating the outcome, ''especially'' if they could have shattered their damn ''skulls,'' their top priority is finding out if they have their cutie marks.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot Wedding – Part 2]]": After the changelings reveal themselves, Rarity, once again, is more focused on catching the dresses the others threw off than going to get the Elements of Harmony. The rest of the group lampshades this by yelling "Rarity" in unison.
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", Twilight could give Pinkie back her mouth after Trixie has been rendered harmless and defeated, but she’s too busy explaining how the elaborate ruse was pulled off, and then performing for the Saddle Arabians.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn Keep Calm and Flutter On]]": Pinkie criticizes Discord for making chocolate milk rain... because he didn't also provide whipped cream.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E1PrincessTwilightSparklePart1 Princess Twilight Sparkle – Part 1]]": Pinkie's priorities are clearly off, as she becomes more focused on thinking about cake frosting than reassuring Twilight about their friendship, and again when she gets more focused on coloring than helping find out what's happening in the Everfree Forest.
*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends but Keep Discord]]", when [[BlobMonster The Smooze]] starts overflowing the Gala, Rarity screams, "My shoes will be ruined forever!" Applejack replies, "''That's'' what you're worried about! Really?"
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E9NonCompeteClause Non-Compete Clause]]": After the canoe crashes, Rainbow Dash is less concerned about the students' safety than the fact that she missed the canoeing speed record. Also, throughout the episode, she and Applejack are more concerned about getting Teacher Of The Month than, you know, actually managing and coordinating their field trip. A fact that the six students repeatedly lampshade. After Applejack and Rainbow Dash call for help after trapping themselves in a stick and vine cage, for example:
---->'''Ocellus''': Uh, at least now they're agreeing on something.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'', when Hiccup gets distracted from pursuing an agent of the Outcasts who has stolen the Book of Dragons, by Astrid's technique for speeding up Stormfly:
-->'''Hiccup''': Was that... chicken? Is that what you've been-\\
'''Astrid''': Really? You wanna talk about that ''now''?!
* In ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'', Stella considers shopping and fashion to be more important, and saving the world from evil as a minor subject. While on a mission, she opted to go to a mall first before their actual mission.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', Maria Hill is determined to force the Avengers to join S.H.I.E.L.D. directly instead of being independent. Even when HYDRA and AIM are busy blowing up half of New York and fighting over a device which could rewrite reality, she is busy siccing S.H.I.E.L.D. jet troopers to attack Iron Man and Wasp. Yes, she is called out on this by Iron Man and Wasp.
* In the episode "Daylight Savings" of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', after the girls get caught sleeping in class and the Professor has a meeting with Ms. Keane, she lampshades that education is more important than saving Townsville. And the Professor ''agrees'' with her, and decided he would rather watch Townsville burn than let the girls stay up late.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
** In the episode "Vicky Gets Fired", Timmy's parents couldn't care less about the video evidence of Vicky torturing their son, but when they see she erased the video they were using to tape their reality show, they're horrified and immediately fire her. Mr. Turner even admits that they consider the tape the most important thing in their lives, as opposed to their only child.
** In an earlier episode, they hire Vicky to watch their PricelessMingVase, with Timmy being an afterthought.
** In "Class Clown", Trixie Tang considered her "[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial seemingly harmless plant]]" more important than Timmy, who killed it, and [[UngratefulBitch dumps him]], [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike despite the fact that he saved her life]].
* ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'': Averted. A teacher wasn't gonna let Randy get his backpack during a drill. Even if he's standing very close to it.
** Played straight in "Randy Cunningham: 13th Century Ninja", out of fear [=McFist=] was implementing another evil plan, Randy and Howard decided to sneak away from the tour at [=McFist=] Industries. When a student reported them to Principal Slimovitz, Slimovitz ignored them and had the other students do the same and keep their eyes on the "tattle-tale" because he hates tattle-tales more than he hates troublemakers. Not knowing it'd somehow result in the Sorcerer being free does not excuse him.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Big Bob suffers a heart attack (actually only gas) and the last thing he says before passing out is "I won't catch the Series/WheelOfFortune".
* In ''WesternAnimation/NotWithoutMyHandbag'', Auntie seems to think that it's worse to leave her handbag at home than to die ''or'' go to hell.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** In the episode "The Job", Richard gets a job as a pizza delivery guy, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext and the fabric of reality starts to come apart as a result.]] The rest of the family drag his boss, [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands Larry,]] along with them to stop Richard from delivering his first pizza, but Larry explains that destroying the universe isn't a good enough reason to fire him. Then Larry fires Richard on the spot when the customer sees he ate some of the pizza and tried to hide it, ''narrowly'' averting TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** In "The Box," while pondering the contents of the titular box, Nicole has an extended ImagineSpot of it being [[BriefcaseFullOfMoney $1 million]], further positing that it's owned by a criminal who will send hitmen after them to reclaim the money for the rest of their lives. Nicole doesn't care; as long as they're still rich, it's all WorthIt.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' version of ComicBook/AnimalMan displays this, as he is obsessively focused on protecting animals while totally indifferent to everything else. When ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} invades Earth and makes fire rain from the sky, Animal Man is the guy you can trust to leap into action and berate someone for forgetting he left his dog tied to a post while he fled for his life.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'', the Turtles are trying to get into the warehouse where Shredder is holding April hostage -- like he always is -- when Michelangelo gets the munchies and suggests stopping for a pizza break. The others are noticeably upset at him, but it does [[DeliveryGuyInfiltration give them an idea on how to get in.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Day of the Only Child!" Huey had to consider if it was worth getting a badge by getting dangerously close with the infamous Beagle Boys.
--> '''Huey:''' Possible death, definite badge? Possible death, definite badge? Definite badge. '''Definite badge.'''
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': In "Karai's Vendetta," upon finding out that Karai is attacking April, Donnie is fully prepared to drop their mission to destroy the Kraang's UnderwaterBase and go save her. The others get him back on track by reminding him that if they leave now, the Kraang will contaminate the water supply and poison everyone in New York, ''including'' April.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''
** Courtney desperately wants to win, and will do ''anything'' to achieve that, even if it means endangering her own friendships if it is convenient to her plans. Ironically, it's the fact that she places such little value on the well-being of her teammates that she ultimately screws herself over in the game, as her aggressive attitude and selfishness inevitably leads to her fellow competitors rallying against her every time victory seems within reach.
** {{Downplayed}} and {{Deconstructed}} in ''All-Stars''. Although Duncan is determined to stop Mal, he also wanted to prove he was still a bad boy, so he blew up Chris's "[[InsistentTerminology cottage]]", which got him booted from the competition and sent to jail.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the Gaang stops at a town where they get their fortunes told. When the woman tells Aang's fortune, she takes in a shocked breath and tells him quite dramatically that he will be the crux of an enormous battle that will decide the fate of the entire world! Aang's response?
--> '''Aang:''' Yeah, yeah, [[TheChosenOne I know all that already]]. Did it say anything about a girl?
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCompletelyMentalMisadventuresOfEdGrimley'': The cops don't care about a citizen's stolen car because they're busy looking for Ed's fish. Ed reassures the car's owner that [[MediumAwareness if it wasn't a cartoon]], the cops would be looking for the car.
* In the ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' episode "Driving Me Cuckoo", [[EvilMentor Baba Yaga]] is happier that her student is finally acting '[[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad properly]]' than she is mad that said student crashed her mobile house into several walls and nearly destroyed it.
* Zim from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is this trope incarnate. He gets a huge warmech that can solo whole armies if powered properly and the first thing he does with it is try to beat up Dib, an eleven-year-old kid. He builds massively advanced [[LotusEaterMachine Lotus Eater Machines,]] than uses them for winning a school fundraiser and finding out who threw a muffin at him during lunch. An explosion threatens to destroy the city and his base, and the main thing he's worried about is what his bosses will think if they call before it destroys everything. WordOfGod notes that this is Zim's FatalFlaw. He's not stupid, he just has the worse sense of priorities ever.
* The reason why Marceline of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' hates her father is because he [[FelonyMisdemeanor ate her fries,]] and not because he's an EldritchAbomination that eats people's souls and is most likely {{Satan}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'': Daphne once refused to be saved from a fall because the helicopter Jenkins brought doesn't match her dress.
* A few examples in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** In the episode "XLVI: Scotsman Saves Jack -- Part 2," Jack takes the time to change his clothes back to his regular clothes when he regains his lost memories...while the Scotsman is about to get eaten by the monster the Sirens morphed into.
** When Jack and Ashi end up trapped in the belly of the beast in ''[=XCV=]'', Ashi was solely focused on killing Jack rather than their predicament, forcing Jack to keep her in chains.
** While it was understandable that Jack didn’t want to be embarrassed by [[spoiler: Ashi’s nudity in episode 8 of season 5, he took the time to use his gi to cover her, rather than to concentrate on defeating Lazarus 92, which was a danger to his and Ashi’s lives.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' episode [[Recap/Sealab2021S3E8ASHDTV "ASHDTV"]], Sealab receives the titular device, a combination asteroid smasher and high-definition television, thanks to a shipping mishap. When an asteroid on course for Earth is sighted by Spacelab, the intended recipient of the ASHDTV, the Spacelab crew attempt to communicate with Sealab to help the use the "asteroid smasher" function, but unfortunately the Sealab crew are too busy using the "HDTV" component, and despite news broadcasts of the incoming asteroid and Spacelab interfering with TV transmission to demand to them to destroy the asteroid, the Sealab crew continue watching television up to the moment when the asteroid [[EarthShatteringKaboom turns the Earth into more asteroids]], much to the disappointment (to put it ''very nicely'') of Spacelab.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "Gift of the Card", Miss Heinous orders her servant to use the last of their money to buy hair dye instead of food, even though they were starving.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS8E17BrianAndStewie their self-titled episode]], Brian and Stewie are locked in a bank vault and Stewie's cell phone has just enough battery life for one call. He uses it to return a $3000 sweater (it was the last day Stewie had to return the sweater for a refund).
** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS15E6HotShots Hot Shots]]", Peter tells Lois that he'll support her anti-vaccination protest just as soon as he finishes getting the word out about the one thing more important. We then see Peter some time later, running around Quahog shouting that [[Creator/TheWachowskis the brothers who made]] ''Film/TheMatrix'' [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} are ladies now.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'':
** The Mask says he's going to stop the villains but first he decide to have fun first or going after a woman he has seen or both but he does get himself back on track eventually and stop the bad guys.
** Eve also likes to spend her time trying to kiss someone she cares about and loves like Stanley even though she should stop the bad guy who is Pretorius which she does and, when Stanley tells her to stop that comet from destroying Earth, Eve decide to tell him to say that again in french which though she would have done anyway it was the last straw for Stanley as he decide to take her face off because of it.

* In ''Pinocchio's Christmas,'' the main character [[spoiler:steals a puppet from the puppet show he starred in, and Lady Azora ignores and instead sings a song of how he was wrong to work for money to buy Geppetto a Christmas gift and should just give his father love.]] Talk about UnfortunateImplications.
* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': In "Royal Rivalry", Carla is upset at the [[WantedPoster Wanted Posters]] featuring her and Victor because her face appears smaller than his. [[spoiler:It becomes a BrickJoke when she sees new posters at the end of the episode and is glad her face has the same size as his on them.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', Gadget used to invent ground vehicles (fast ones even) without brakes. She thought they're kind of overrated. It's unclear whether she has meanwhile reconsidered, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the two-parter episode "Pandemic", Randy was so obsessed with his video camera & recording everything he saw to the point that he prioritized recording everything over the fact that giant guinea pigs were attacking the city. Even when one guinea pig broke into his house (and despite Sharon's constant protesting), he ''still'' wanted to record everything!
* Knock Out in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' cares just a little too much about looking good. At one point, during a big fight, he's rummaging through the ship's stores looking for polish.
-->'''Knock Out:''' Guards! Help me extinguish this inferno before it scorches the project! And my ''finish!''

* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': PlayedForDrama. Cassandra tells Hercules she had a vision, and he assumes that it's something important only to be disappointed when Cassandra tells him her vision was of her kissing Icarus. Hercules still agrees to help her by talking with Icarus, only to make things worse by unintentionally making Icarus happy to learn he kisses Cassandra in the future. So Cassandra makes a deal with Hades to stop the kiss, for her soul on weekends. She makes it clear to Hercules she does not care for the consequences of her actions as long as she gets out of the kiss. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as she draws a line at having Icarus hurt or killed. When it looks like Hades killed Icarus by blasting him with an energy bolt she is shocked and horrified, even saying that while she didn't want to kiss him, she didn't want him dead. When Hades reveals that he put him in an eternal sleep, and only a kiss can wake him up, she is willing kiss him to wake him up.
* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'':
** Entrapta is so focused on [[ForScience learning new things]] that she does some pretty goofy things, including keeping a dig going well past actually finding their objective, breaking into the BigBad's lab, etc.
** Scorpia is so focused on her crush on Catra that at one point she assigns Kyle to the vitally important fortress defence role of...figuring out Catra's favorite colour. She also at one point stops in the middle of a fight with Seahawk to complain about her romantic troubles, [[CommonalityConnection leading to a bonding moment.]]
** PlayedForDrama with Catra's VillainousBreakdown. She becomes so obsessed with getting a "victory" that she tries to destroy the world on the grounds that Adora wants to save it. [[spoiler:Queen Angella prevents Etheria from being destroyed but is trapped in a parallel dimension as a result. Catra's actions have burned her bridges with both Adora and Scorpia.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': The Teen Titans are incredibly selfish and immature, and often focus on inane things instead of stopping bad guys or saving the world.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "Dying For Pie", after Squidward explains to him about the exploding pie, the first thing Mr. Krabs comments on is twenty-five dollars Squidward spent on the pie.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': When Anne gets saved from falling to death by Wally, her immediate reaction is to earnestly thank him for saving her phone. Although she does offhandedly thanks for saving her life too.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': In "Johnny's Extreme Game Controller", Susan and Mary try to get their father away from the game controller by pretending to be hurt and then by lying that Lolo the monkey caught rabies, but they find out that he prioritizes his meat loaf over his children's safety.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Darius is a NeatFreak who hates getting dirty and when Eda's possessed boots kick mud on him, it really sets him off. He's more concerned with personal offenses to his appearance than transgressions to which his position demands responsibility, like Raine turning on the Emperor. [[spoiler:However, his lack of anger at Raine's betrayal is understandable when it's later revealed that both Darius and Eberwolf were GoodAllAlong]].
-->'''Darius:''' Raine Whispers... you'll regret what you did to my CLOAK!\\
''[Eberwolf snarls at him as a reminder]''\\
'''Darius:''' ...''And'' your treachery, whatever.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E3LostInCouchPatAThon Lost in Couch]]", when Patrick is lost, Squidina seems more focused on recovering the camera and footage to save the show, [[NoSympathy rather than her brother's well-being.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'':
** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E01SecondContact Second Contact]]": Rutherford cares more about a minor error in a hatch's recognition system than his date wanting to bone him on the spot. This is while both have just escaped from a horde of infected crewmembers.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E08Veritas Veritas]]": Boimler complains that he has a pottery class at 0900 when he's shoved in a cell with his friends. Tendi is also more worried about how the burners below the eel tank will boil the poor eels, rather than how they will boil her and her friends.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E01StrangeEnergies Strange Energies]]":
*** Second Contact is held up by the Apergosian leader being preoccupied with making sure that the number on the pad he picks "has the right gravitas", as apparently numbers are significant in their culture.
*** Freeman has some success complimenting Ransom back to normal, but blanches at the idea of letting him supplant her as captain, even if it's just meaningless compliments.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E06TheSpyHumongous The Spy Humongous]]": Despite the fact that Tendi transformed into a giant scorpion monster and was rampaging through the mess hall and Boimler had to stop her by humiliating himself, Casey finds it shameful and kicks Boimler out of the Redshirts. Never mind that the Redshirts were all useless during the crisis, while Boimler saved multiple crewmates, including Tendi herself, by thinking fast and putting others above his own ego.

** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E21FutureStock Future Stock]]", Fry meets [[NoNameGiven "That Guy"]], an 80's businessman who was dying of boneitis and cryogenically frozen until a cure could be developed. In his own time, there was only one company working on a cure, but he bought and liquidated it before the cure could be finished in order to make a quick profit for himself.

* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':