History UnusuallyUninterestingSight / WesternAnimation

** The [[MundaneFantastic setting]] can result in the viewers having difficulty in telling which sights are considered interesting and which aren't. The townsfolk react to a stampeding herd of bunnies with panic and terror, while a WizardDuel between the town librarian and a disgruntled stage magician is treated with boredom.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has a statue of the virgin Mary bleeding (out of her butt). The Pope then comes and says that the statue is actually menstruating, and that there is nothing particularly strange about that.
** What the Pope actually said was along the lines of "a woman bleeding out of her vagina is in no way a miracle; women bleed out of their vaginas all the time".
** And then there's Raisins, the kid version of Hooters. No adult bothered to question the idea of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is able to maintain his anything-but-subtle [[{{Masquerade}} alien secrecy]] primarily due to this. Although this may be due to PlotInducedStupidity.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has the Flying Dutchman temporarily move in with [=SpongeBob=], and the Dutchman begins scaring him every chance he gets. Eventually [=SpongeBob=] becomes desensitized to the Dutchman's pranks and starts treating them like everyday occurrences, so he's unfazed by the Dutchman's horror show later on with him taking on increasingly bizarre forms.

* In ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'', Bee has a tendency to under-react to events that would freak out lots of people, such as being (briefly) sentenced to incineration.
** In Part 1 after her inexplicably found dog(or maybe a cat) gets a letter transported through it's bell collar all she can manage is groaning. She does lampshade that there better not be anything cryptic in it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'', Bee has a tendency to under-react to events that would freak out lots of people, such as being (briefly) sentenced to incineration.

* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'' has a RunningGag where Ned's parents enter his room just as he's talking to his 6-foot-tall ShapeShifting pet newt Newton, upon which Newton quickly transforms into something supposedly innocuous... like the Venus of Milo, or "the big metal thingy for affixing a ship." [[TheDitz Ned's parents]] comment on this, but never seem to mind.

** Slightly discussed in the episode, "The Weird Winds of Winona", in which Mystery Inc. meets the team behind [[WesternAnimation Speed Buggy]]. While Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy seem unfazed by the idea of a talking car, Scooby does take notice.

* In part 1 of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Grape Expectations", Roy goes to the supermarket in order to by one grape to replace the missing one in the stash, and there are actually humans there. '''Nobody''' batted an eyelash about the fact that there was ''a talking rooster'' in the store.

* In part 1 of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode ''Grape Expectations'', Roy goes to the supermarket in order to by one grape to replace the missing one in the stash, and there are actually humans there. '''Nobody''' batted an eyelash about the fact that there was ''a talking rooster'' in the store.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High" Peter attempts to convert the house staircase into a water slide and injures himself going down it. Brian, who by now is used to Peter's antics, simply ignores his agonized groans telling him "I'm not going to call the hospital because you won't learn anything if I do". A similar incident occurs in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do" when Peter attempts to do some sexual act that requires Lois' assistance without her (she was incarcerated at the time) and ends up falling down the stairs. Brian take his eyes off of his newspaper for a few seconds to look at Peter before going back to reading.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Peter attempts to convert the house staircase into a water slide and injures himself going down it. Brian, who by now is used to Peter's antics, simply ignores his agonized groans telling him "I'm not going to call the hospital because you won't learn anything if I do". A similar incident occurs when Peter attempts to do some sexual act that requires Lois' assistance without her (she was incarcerated at the time) and ends up falling down the stairs. Brian take his eyes off of his newspaper for a few seconds to look at Peter before going back to reading.

** The pilot episode of the [[TransformersGeneration1 original series]] has a plausible explanation for this. The Autobots were recognized by the nations of Earth for what they did to stop the Decepticons. So while most people will never have seen them before then (except for rare television appearances), most will likely say "Oh, so ''that's'' what they look like" and go about their business.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' centers around this trope; the main characters travel around the world to thwart [[MadScientist evil scientists]], fight [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys monkeys]] that know kung-fu, and generally [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]] with self-learned SheFu. While Kim has occasional fanclubs and interviews, for the most part, Kim leads a relatively normal high school life - right down to boyfriend issues and being scorned by the AlphaBitch - without even using a SecretIdentity. The characters also do not seem to be impressed about Kim's rocket scientist dad and brain surgeon mom, nor the abundance of [[WiseBeyondTheirYears child geniuses]] running amock.

* In ''Gaspard and Lisa'', the classmates don't seem to mind that there are two talking dogs with bandanas walking on their hind legs. Nope.

* In ''Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'', EVERYBODY thinks that a ''giant, manner-learning, walking, talking alligator whom is a kid's pet'' is just a normal sight.

*** It is explained later in the series that their was a tribe of Decepticons imprisoned beneath a glacier who were the basis of all Earth's myths. Also, the series followed on from two others where the Transformers' existence was kept hushed up, although big mechanical men from outer space were never going to stay completely secret, so naturally something leaked out.

** Slightly discussed in the episode, "The Weird Winds of Winona", in which Mystery Inc. meets the team behind [[WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy]]. While Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy seem unfazed by the idea of a talking car, Scooby does take notice.

* Most of the historical figures from ''TimeSquad'' don't seem surprised that they've been visited by time travellers from the future.

* Nobody ever finds it strange that ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' is a talking dog.
* Played with in the [[ClassicDisneyShorts Disney animated short]] ''Social Lion'', where a lion ends up in NYC, only to find out that nobody pays the slightest attention to the fact that he's a lion, not even when he roars. It's not until he tries wearing clothes that everyone suddenly realizes what he really is, and panics.