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3[[caption-width-right:350:Freakazoid knows how to handle creeps.]]
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5* Waylon Jeepers approaches Freakazoid and asks him if he'd like to see something [[ShmuckBait "straaange and mysticaaaal?"]] Freakazoid, without hesitating for a nanosecond:
6-->'''Freakazoid: [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!!!]] GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT WATCH! LAY OFF THE POOR BEAVERS, WILL YA?!? ''SHEEEESH''! YOU'RE A CREEP! GO AWAY! WE WERE ALL HAVING A GOOD TIME UNTIL ''YOU'' SHOWED UP, JEEPERS! ''UUUUUUUUGH''! GO HAVE SOME COFFEE, WITH CREAM, OR SOMETHING! BECAUSE I'LL TELL ''YOU'' SOMETHING: ''THIS IS A HAPPY PLACE!!'''''
7** Not only did Freakazoid effectively show kids how to deal with creeps, but he secured himself as being awesome, forever.
8** Note: Normally, this would be a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} rather than a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, but it's {{F|unPersonified}}reakazoid, so it's both.
9** Making this even better is that Paul Rugg, Freakazoid's voice actor, improvised almost all of that rant. ''EVEN'' better than that is that Rugg wasn't even a voice actor to begin with -- he was the show's head writer, and won the role by accident, when he demonstrated how Freakazoid was supposed to sound like to help the casting of the role, and Creator/StevenSpielberg liked his performance so much that he said on the spot "the role is yours."
10** How about the end of that episode, where he makes out with the hottest of the girls who rejected him earlier, lampshading it by mentioning it's "shallow, cheap, and based sorely on hormones" before going back to sucking face?
11* During one episode, there's a short bit where Freakazoid's entire RoguesGallery has [[LoveInterests Steph]] held captive in a high tower. Freakazoid proceeds to mow through the whole lot of them to save her.
12* In "Freakazoid is History!", Freakazoid [[ArtisticLicenseHistory averts World War II]] by checking the Pearl Harbor bombers for [[BreadEggsMilkSquick fruits, vegetables, and torpedoes]].
13** And in the altered timeline, Sharon Stone can act, Rush Limbaugh is a bleeding-heart liberal, [[Ride/DisneylandParis Euro Disneyland]] is packed, cold fusion works, there are no Creator/ChevyChase movies, and [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain the Brain]] is the president.
14* From "The Cloud." Freakazoid quickly stops The Lobe's evil plot - using [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a giant cloud to turn people into zombie clowns]] - just by telling him "[[StupidestThingIveEverHeard That is the STUPIDEST plan I've ever heard of!]]" and giving him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech till the Lobe is reduced to tears. The Lobe is so distraught, in fact, that he even [[BreakingTheFourthWall apologizes to the viewers]] before wandering away, utterly ashamed of himself. And then after he leaves, we get the kicker: Freakazoid [[SubvertedTrope actually thought it was]] ''[[SubvertedTrope brilliant]]''.
15* Pretty much anytime Cosgrove tells someone to cut it out, but special mention goes to getting the [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Warner Brothers (and Warner Sister)]] to behave in the [[http://majorspoilers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Ani4.jpg crossover comic]]. Just to reiterate that: Cosgrove ''stopped the Animaniacs''! That's something some of their show's cast dedicated their entire lives to, and Cosgrove manages it with just four words.
16-->'''Cosgrove:''' Hey! Cut it out.
17* Freakazoid chewing out the Lobe for his EvilPlan in "The Freakazoid". Given that the Lobe's crimes were far crueler than usual after he tricked Freakazoid into believing that he has to leave him alone, it is quite satisfying to see Freakazoid make it clear to his nemesis how pissed off he is that he'd been had. The icing is how intimidated the Lobe looks when he [[BadLiar tries to deny Freakazoid's accusations while avoiding direct eye contact]].
18* Real-life example: "Hero Boy" came back short, so the writers came up with the StockFootage sequence narrated by Guitierrez. The day they were recording the lines in an ADR session, Creator/BruceTimm was there to oversee some ADR for ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. On break, Timm poked in to see what they were up to, so when they showed him the sequence, he started laughing.
19-->'''Paul Rugg:''' And I'm like "We made Bruce Timm laugh."
20** Also in the same episode we see how Cosgrove ACTUALLY managed to convince the city that the Freakazoid clone is in fact a evil clone, and it pays off all those times Cosgrove invites Freakazoid to do fun things during his superheroing throughout the entire series!
21--->'''Cosgrove:''' I'm Sgt. Mike Cosgrove. How y'all doing? We now have reason to believe that the Freakazoid loose in the city is a clone.
22--->'''Freakazoid:''' Yes!\
23'''Guitierrez:''' No!
24--->'''Reporter:''' What makes you think he's a clone?
25--->'''Cosgrove:''' Because I invited him to the Yakov Smirnoff film festival, and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he said, "No."]]
26--->'''Everyone:''' CLONE!
27** When Guitierrez is trying to scan Freakazoid’s brain to create the perfect evil clone of him, he tells Freakazoid to “think happy thoughts”. Freakazoid uses ExactWords against him, which results in creating multiple Hero Boy clones instead, overloading the cloning machine and destroying it.
28--->'''Guitierrez:''' [[YouExclamation YOU!]] ''You'' did this!\

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