History SmallReferencePools / WesternAnimation

** Among those from generations Z and Alpha, the classic Disney characters are far more associated with ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' than anything else. Even the cow mentioned above is less obscure with her recurring role in said series.

** Hanna-Barbera characters: The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo...That's pretty much it. Few will remember that Hanna-Barbera did ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'', or live-action stuff like ''Film/KISSMeetsThePhantomOfThePark''.

* Creator/CartoonNetwork is only known within the mainstream for ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', and ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. As for modern shows, ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' are the only ones that exist.

** ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' is always ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'' (the latter for the popularity of its monsters/as a continuation of the original series). ''Maybe'' also ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', and "whatever Scrappy was in." Anything else is unknown (''Get A Clue''? ''Mystery, Incorporated?'' ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?'' There were live-action movies?).

* Creator/PBSKids - ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' are the only shows to come from this block as far as cartoons are concerned, as [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy their]] [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood live]]-[[Series/SesameStreet action]] [[Series/BarneyAndFriends programming]] come to mind more.

* If it's a Canadian cartoon, it's either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', or one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s [[PreschoolShow preschool shows]] like ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' (with most completely ignoring the fact that Nelvana also makes shows for older kids, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}''); ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' might get mentioned too. Ironically, the first two are co-productions with the United States, and several other shows mentioned above are Canadian productions (like ''Caillou'' and ''PAW Patrol'') or also Canadian-American (like ''Arthur'' and ''Cyberchase''). Due to the infamy of ''Johnny Test'' though, these Small Reference Pools also typically assume [[MadeInCountryX all other Canadian animated shows have the same kind of low production/entertainment quality]] [[HitlerAteSugar the show's vocal hatedom views it as having]].

* The only channels that air animated shows are Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, and Creator/DisneyChannel (as well as their respective spinoff channels, like Creator/AdultSwim or Creator/DisneyXD). Oh, and Creator/{{Fox}}, since ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' exist. Creator/TheHub might get mentioned too for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Every country only has international variants of these channels. Except Canada, which only has Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/{{YTV}} (even though actual Canadian versions of their American counterparts have existed for over a decade there); Creator/FamilyChannel, Creator/{{CBC}} Kids, Creator/TreehouseTV? What are those?[[note]]And due to the abovementioned infamy of certain Canadian productions, don’t expect [[AmericansHateTingle any mention of the Canadian channels to be positive.]][[\note]]

** A good portion of people may be able to recall WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow, WesternAnimation/TopCat, WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest, WesternAnimation/MagillaGorilla, WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats, WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw, WesternAnimation/HongKongPhooey, and WesternAnimation/WackyRaces, but not all. The rest is pretty much nonexistent. Ask someone in public about WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber and see what kind of reaction you get.

* If it's a Canadian cartoon, it's either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', or one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s [[PreschoolShow preschool shows]] like ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' (with most completely ignoring the fact that Nelvana also makes shows for older kids, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}''). Ironically, the first two are co-productions with the United States, and several other shows mentioned above are Canadian productions (like ''Caillou'' and ''PAW Patrol'') or also Canadian-American (like ''Arthur'' and ''Cyberchase''). Due to the infamy of ''Johnny Test'' though, these Small Reference Pools also typically assume [[MadeInCountryX all other Canadian animated shows have the same kind of low production/entertainment quality]] [[HitlerAteSugar the show's vocal hatedom views it as having]].
* The only animation networks are Creator/CartoonNetwork, Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, and Creator/DisneyChannel (as well as their respective spinoff channels, like Creator/AdultSwim or Creator/DisneyXD). Oh, and Creator/{{Fox}}, since WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons and WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy exist. Every country only has international variants of these channels. Except Canada, which only has Creator/{{Teletoon}} and Creator/{{YTV}} (even though actual Canadian versions of their American counterparts have existed for over a decade there); Creator/FamilyChannel, Creator/{{CBC}} Kids, Creator/TreehouseTV? What are those?

* If it's a Canadian cartoon, it's either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'', or one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s [[PreschoolShow preschool shows]] like ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' (with most completely ignoring the fact that Nelvana also makes shows for older kids, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}''). Ironically, the first two are co-productions with the United States, and several other shows mentioned above are Canadian productions (like ''Caillou'' and ''PAW Patrol'') or also Canadian-American (like ''Arthur'' and ''Cyberchase''). Due to the infamy of ''Johnny Test'' though, these Small Reference Pools also typically assume [[MadeInCountryX all other Canadian animated shows have the same kind of low quality]] [[HitlerAteSugar the show's vocal hatedom views it as having]].

* If it's a Canadian cartoon, it's either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' or one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s [[PreschoolShow preschool shows]] like ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' (which completely ignores the fact that Nelvana also makes shows for older kids, such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'').

* If Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} is mentioned, the show most likely referenced will be ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', and, if they're on the ball, ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''.

* If it's a Canadian cartoon, it's either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', ''WesternAnimation/Sixteen'' or one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s [[PreschoolShow preschool shows]] like ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' (completely ignoring the fact that Nelvana also makes shows for older kids).

* If it's a Canadian cartoon, it's either ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', or one of Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s [[PreschoolShow preschool shows]] like ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' or ''WesternAnimation/LittleBear'' (completely ignoring the fact that Nelvana also makes shows for older kids).

* The 80s children's stop-motion series ''{{Moschops}}'' had a variety of saurians, from Allosaurus to Icthyosaur. None of them ate each other, though Uncle Rex was a bit fierce.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' gets a lot of humor from Fry's 20th century background, so a lot of the jokes aren't exactly obscure. But many of them are much more subtle and academic. Examples include Klein Beer (guess what the bottle looked like) being sold in a store advertising free bags of ice-9 and the holophonor, a recurring plot device based on the Visi-Sonor from the ''{{Franchise/Foundation}}'' series (extra points for being possibly the only ''Foundation'' reference in mainstream pop culture ''ever''). Also made jokes about orders of infinity (a cinema called ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number aleph]]''-0-plex, likely meant to one up "The Googlplex" cinema in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'') and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle's "observer effect" (scientists change the result of a horse race by observing it).

* Played for Laughs in TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles where Michaelangelo only thinks of the past in terms of the last 100 years (specifically thinks the middle ages are the 1980's and the Stone Age was the 60's) and when finding himself in an alternate dimension thinks he's in Pittsburgh.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark All animation for adults]] is ''South Park'', not to mention gross…

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' sneaks in a reference to ''Literature/TheDarkIsRising'' by having Mikey mention a "Great Uncle Merry", who the characters in "Over Sea, Under Stone" visit. Of course, because "Merry" is phonetically similar to "Mary", this ''also'' doubles as GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* Creator/PBSKids - ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' are the only shows to come from this block as far as cartoons are concerned, as [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy their]] [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood live]]-[[Series/SesameStreet]] [[Series/BarneyAndFriends programming]] come to mind more.

* Creator/PBSKids - ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'', ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' are the only shows to come from this block as far as cartoons are concerned.

** In one episode Henchman #21 wants to say "Sic semper tyrannis," (translation: Thus always to tyrants) which is what UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's assassin was alleged to have said. He ''actually'' says "Semper fidelis tyrannosaurus," (mixing the Marine Corps famous slogan "Always Faithful" with earlier, to produce "always faithful terrible lizard") but Killinger does tell him what the right quote was.

* AllAnimationIsDisney, naturally. Concerned entirely with the adventures of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck,
WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup, [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge [=McDuck=] and his nephews]]. Sometimes [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tinker Bell]], too. WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale [[note]]the names are a reference to the furniture designer, not the male strippers[[/note]] are more widely known since 1990 than they were previously, thanks mostly to ''WesternAnimation/RescueRangers''. And, uh, wasn't there a horse [[note]]Horace Horsecollar[[/note]]? And a cow [[note]]Clarabelle[[/note]]?
* And if a cartoon is referenced its style will be more typical of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and Creator/TexAvery cartoons.

* ''WesternAnimation/Archer'' has continuous references that often require a good Wikipedia search just to decipher. In the first season Archer references Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" in a pretty accurate way.

* AllAnimationIsDisney, naturally. Concerned entirely with the adventures of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck, WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup, [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge [=McDuck=] and his nephews]]. Sometimes [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tinker Bell]], too. WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale [[note]]the names are a reference to the furniture designer, not the male strippers[[/note]] are more widely known since 1990 than they were previously, thanks mostly to ''WesternAnimation/RescueRangers''. And, uh, wasn't there a horse [[note]]Horace Horsecollar[[/note]]? And a cow [[note]]Clarabelle[[/note]]?

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', [[BollywoodNerd Baljeet]] imagines himself as "Hanumanman", a superhero modelled after the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, who plays a major role in the Indian epic poem ''Literature/{{Ramayana}}''. Hanuman is well known in India, but how many western viewers had ever heard of him before?

* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' managed to work in references to ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. It also has a villain named Taurus Bullba, a gag on Taras Bulba, a fictional Ukrainian folk hero and film starring Yul Brynner [[note]]And the Nikolay Gogol's novel, for crying out loud![[/note]].
** How about that the engines on the air pirates' ship in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' are modeled on the one from ''Master of the World'' starring Creator/VincentPrice? Or that the Sea-Duck uses a version of the [=WWII=]-era overdrive system known as "war emergency power", in the multi-part pilot (Baloo burns it out, so they can have a cool scene without keeping around a potential story-breaker)?

* AllAnimationIsDisney, naturally. Concerned entirely with the adventures of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/DaisyDuck, WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}, WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup, [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge [=McDuck=] and his nephews]]. Sometimes [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket]] and [[Disney/PeterPan Tinker Bell]], too. WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale [[note]]the names are a reference to the furniture designer, not the male strippers[[/note]] are more widely known since 1990 than they were previously, thanks mostly to ''WesternAnimation/RescueRangers''. And, uh, wasn't there a horse [[note]]Horace Horsecollar[[/note]]? And a cow [[note]]Clarabelle[[/note]]?