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15ComicallyMissingThePoint in WesternAnimation.
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17Shows with their own subpages:
18[[index]]
19* ''ComicallyMissingThePoint/TheSimpsons''
20* ''ComicallyMissingThePoint/SouthPark''
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25* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''
26** From the episode "I Dream of Jimmy":
27--->'''Jimmy:''' Carl...you're asleep. There are llamas in the classroom. Libby rowed to school with a plastic leg!\
28'''Carl:''' Her paddle broke!
29** This could be semi-justified, since this was happening in Carl's dream, and Carl had admitted beforehand that his dreams don't really follow conventional logic.
30** From the episode "Sheen's Brain":
31--->'''Carl:''' "Tom has three pieces of bubble gum. If he trades all his gum to Ida for two raisins per piece, how many raisins will Tom have?"\
32'''Sheen:''' What sort of idiot would trade bubble gum for raisins?\
33'''Jimmy:''' That's not the point.\
34'''Sheen:''' What is he, some kind of health nut?! If ya ask me, Tom [[HypocriticalHumor needs counseling]]. And what kind of name is "Ida"? What's it short for: "I'd have preferred a different name"?!
35* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
36** From the episode "Phantom of the Telethon":
37--->'''Terrorist:''' When you are forbidden to drink, dance, or touch yourself, your afternoons are pretty much free.\
38'''Roger:''' You can't touch yourself? How do you masturbate?
39** From "An Incident from Owl Creek":
40--->'''Stan:''' I'm gonna have a drink at the airport bar, then I'm gonna blow my brains out. Don't tell the kids.\
41'''Francine:''' ''(chirpily)'' Stan, the kids know you drink.\
42'''Stan:''' ''(sighs)'' Yeah I'm a...I'm not gonna miss that.
43** From "Francine's Flashback":
44--->'''Stan:''' This midnight fishing is great!\
45'''Bullock:''' Sounds to me like someone doesn't want to go home.\
46'''Stan:''' Yeah I'm, uh, layin' low. Today is the anniversary of a huge fight me and Francine got into last year.\
47'''Jackson:''' Yeah? What about?\
48'''Stan:''' Oh, I forgot our anniversary. ''*Jackson and Bullock go wide-eyed*'' Hah, I'm never gonna do that again!\
49'''Jackson:''' ''(beat)'' ...Ah-\
50'''Bullock:''' ''raises hand*''\
51'''Stan:''' ''*drinks from beer*'' Ahhh...............[[OhCrap AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!]]\
52'''Bullock:''' There it is.
53** Actually happens quite a bit with this show, especially with Stan. Someone even made a compilation of this trope. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIC94FzF8g]]
54* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': In "Reedickyoulus":
55-->'''Frylock:''' Look at this! [Carl's radioactive waste] melts through the floor!\
56'''Shake:''' Don't bring that shit in my house!\
57'''Frylock:''' The radioactive isotopes are off the charts! Do you know what this means?\
58'''Shake:''' Yeah! It means new carpets bitch!\
59'''Frylock:''' Hell yeah it does! Give me some!
60* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
61** In the episode "Arthur Goes Crosswire", Arthur gets paired with his class's shallow RichBitch, Muffy Crosswire, to work on a project, and he quickly begins to act like her. At the episode's climax, all of Arthur's friends start acting like Muffy to show him how obnoxious he's being. Muffy thinks they're trying to flatter her:
62--->'''Muffy''': I didn't mind when Arthur started acting like me, but I'm sorry, there's only one me, and that's enough.
63** In "Sick as a Dog", when Pal has to stay overnight at the vet, Arthur has an overblown anxiety-induced dream about Pal calling Arthur and being kidnapped by the other dogs, who leave a ransom note ''written in pawprints'' and are pursued by a police helicopter. When Arthur wakes up, what does he say?
64--->'''Arthur''': Wow, what a ridiculous dream. Pal doesn't even know our phone number.
65* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
66-->'''Sokka''': Whoever took Aang and Toph left this.\
67'''Katara''' ''(reading the note)'': "If you wanna see your daughter again, bring five hundred gold pieces to the arena..." It's signed Xin Fu and The Boulder.\
68'''Sokka''': I can't believe it...''(grabs the paper from Katara)'' I HAVE THE BOULDER'S AUTOGRAPH!"
69** Also, when Zuko tries to join the group:
70--->'''Zuko''': ...and I never should have sent that Fire Nation assassin after you. I'm gonna try to stop--\
71'''Sokka''': Wait, ''you'' sent Combustion Man after us!?\
72'''Zuko''': Well, that's not his name...
73** When Sokka and Suki share a quiet moment in "The Serpent's Pass":
74--->'''Suki:''' I lost someone I care about. He didn't die, he just went away. I only had a few days to get to know him, but he was smart, and brave, and funny...\
75'''Sokka:''' (offended) Who is this guy? Is he taller than me?\
76'''Suki:''' No, he's about your height.\
77'''Sokka:''' Is he better-looking?
78** The Gaang, minus Aang and Momo who have vanished completely at a moment when the world really needs the Avatar, seek out The Order of the White Lotus. Bumi notices something odd about the group.
79--->'''Bumi''': Wait! Someone's missing from your group! Someone very important! Where's Momo?!\
80'''Sokka''': He's gone. And so is Aang.\
81'''Bumi''': Oh, well. So long as they have each other, I'm sure we have nothing to worry about.
82** In the episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart1ThePhoenixKing Sozin's Comet, Part 1 - The Phoenix King]]", after Zuko attacks Aang to get him to train, Sokka gives us this:
83--->'''Katara''': What happened?\
84'''Sokka''': Zuko's gone crazy! I made a sand sculpture of Suki and he ''destroyed it!'' [beat] Oh, and he's attacking Aang.
85** Katara questions Toph's training method of rolling a boulder down on Aang so he has to earthbend to deflect it. Toph agrees and adds a blindfold so he has to sense the boulder through the earth.
86--->'''Aang:''' [[SarcasmMode Gee, thanks Katara!]]
87** When Katara and Toph are fighting in "The Runaway," Sokka concocts a plan to send Katara an apology note claiming it's from Toph so that they'll reconcile. Katara ''immediately'' sees through the ruse because Toph, being blind, cannot write. Aang says the obvious next step is to reverse the plan, sending Toph a note from Katara, until Sokka points out that they're going to run into the same problem.
88* WesternAnimation/TheBeatles follow a daffy scientist to a tropical island (episode "Mr. Moonlight") to see a lunar eclipse. Ringo asks what an eclipse is:
89-->'''George:''' That's where the Earth goes in front of the sun and the moon gets pitch black.\
90'''Ringo:''' Oh, that's not very polite.
91* There are many, ''many'' instances of this in ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''.
92** In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'', Butt-Head is woken from his dream by Beavis with the alarming news that their TV has just disappeared and he can't work out why. After looking at the broken-in door, the muddy footprints leading to the door, and the two people talking about how they're going to sell a TV for about a minute, Butt-Head finally says "Hey Beavis, I've figured something out...this sucks!"
93** Also, at the [=McCarran=] Airport, they see a guy holding out a sign with their names written on it. Beavis attempts to read it: "B...U...T--'Boot?!' There's a guy named 'Boot?!'" Butt-Head corrects him, sort of. "It says Butt-Head. Beavis, you idiot. These guys have the same names as us!"
94** In a regular episode, when some girls at a shopping mall tell the two to come back in ten years, instead of interpreting this as "I don't want to see you for a really long time", they think the girls literally mean to come back to them in ten years. Butt-Head tells Beavis to hurry up and get rid of their "beards" so that they can actually meet them again in ten years. (They're gonna forget by then anyway.)
95** In one episode, the two spend the day at Stuart's house while he and his family are out. Two "moving men" break in and they help them steal most of their things. Stuart's dad isn't happy when they tell him the movers took everything. Butt-Head assumes he's angry because his new house was a ripoff.
96--->'''Stuart's Dad:''' Movers? You idiots! We've been robbed!\
97'''Butt-Head:''' Robbed? We were here all day, we didn't see any robbers.
98** In the YetAnotherChristmasCarol episode, Beavis is taken to the future to see that a family's children are gone. When informed that they didn't have enough money to feed the children, he concludes that they ate the kids.
99* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Fred]] is the primary purveyor of this, though others engage in this sort of behavior as well, on occasion. Here's his reaction to Globby [[ThenLetMeBeEvil declaring that he'll become a supervillain]] and stealing [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Krei]]'s wallet:
100--> '''Fred:''' ''He just robbed the richest man in San Fransokyo''? I think he's gonna make the supervillain thing work!
101* Used with many times in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''.
102** When they're filming "Mr. Peanutbutter's Hollywoo Heist", Mr. Peanutbutter continuously subtly rants about how [=BoJack=], who's playing himself, is in a crew-cut and not a V-neck. The movie's script gradually gets worse and worse. When [=BoJack=] pulls Mr. Peanutbutter aside to tell him how inaccurate it is, he replies by saying, "...Because of the crew-cut, right?"
103** When Sarah Lynn is staying with [=BoJack=] and he's unsure whether it's a good idea or not, he asks Diane what she thinks about Sarah Lynn.
104--->'''Diane:''' Oh, I don't really think about her all that much. I mean, obviously I'm a fan of [[TeenIdol her early work,]] which both satirized and celebrated youth culture's obsession with sex, but I do wonder, as a third-wave feminist, if it's even possible for women to reclaim their sexuality in this deeply entrenched patriarchal society, or if claiming to do so is just a lie we tell ourselves so we can more comfortably cater to the male gaze. But you know, on the other hand, I worry that conversations like this one often dismiss her as a puppet of the industry, incapable of engaging in these discussions herself...and infantilization, which is itself a product of the deeply misogynistic society we live in. But, like I said, I don't really think about her all that much.
105** In "That's Too Much, Man!", Sarah Lynn tells [=BoJack=] that she's always wanted to be an architect...but one of those architects who's also a high-class call-girl at night and a super international spy during the day.
106--->'''[=BoJack=]:''' So when is she an architect?\
107'''Sarah Lynn:''' I don't know – frontier times?
108* In the ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' episode "The No Sleep Over", Mr. Whiskers and Ed attempt to pull a DingDongDitchDistraction on Brandy. She points out that her and Whiskers' treehouse doesn't have a doorbell, meaning there's no "ding-dong" part, and they forgot to leave before she opened the door, so they left out the "ditch" part as well.
109* ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'':
110** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon Dog Spray Afternoon]]", Bitsy's dog therapist gives her a dog collar with a GPS on it for Shampagne so she can see where Shampagne is on her phone. But Bitsy thought the therapist was talking about a landline phone and tells Helen she can't figure out how to see Shampagne on it, until Helen clarifies the therapist meant her cell phone.
111** In Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E9LiveItUpTonight Live It Up Tonight]]", when Molly is looking at the people in their tour guide, she points out how they're on their own without their parents while there's an older girl who's with her dad. The girl and her "dad" start kissing, indicating they're actually a couple but Molly and Cole thinks the girl is way too close to her dad.
112* In ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1997'', Scrooge presents Belle with something round, shiny and the key to their future—not a ring, but the profits from his first business venture. She's not too thrilled.
113* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'':
114** Recurring villain Chester starts a burger business that advertises the "Kiddy Meal", which is a trap so kids go in and he puts them in burgers he sells to sharks. Numbuh 3 is sold to a shark family and the rest of the team try to save her, but it turns out she escaped from the box herself and she confronts Chester. His reaction?
115--->"Did you know what this means? They'll want their money back!"
116** Also, ButtMonkey the Toilenator is sent to get coffee as an excuse to be kept away from the villains' plan and decides to defeat the Kids Next Door himself to prove his competence to his fellow adults. But he is unaware that Mr. Boss, Crazy Old Cat Lady, Knightbrace and Mr. Wink & Mr. Fibb already broke into Sector V Treehouse and beats them up in a showdown mistaking them for Sector V. Then the ''real'' Sector V shows up dumbfounding the Toilenator.
117--->"I forgot the coffee!"
118* A ''WesternAnimation/CoolMcCool'' episode had Number One introducing Cool to a robotic chanteuse made by Rigsy (the agency's inventor) which he plans to use to charm and subsequently capture the archvillain The Rattler. As the robot chanteuse approaches Cool:
119-->'''Chanteuse:''' (''seductively'') Cool...you are the cooooolest...\
120'''Cool:''' (''picking up the robot's device'') I gotta hand it to you, Number One. Out of all the gadgets Rigsy's invented, this is absolutely the greatest. (''looks to chanteuse'') But shouldn't we talk about it after ''she'' leaves?
121* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' episode "Miserable":
122--> '''Jay's # 1 Fan''': Whenever I get into a relationship with a man, they tend to get dominating and overcritical.\
123'''Jay''': I can see your point. Although, I wouldn't have used overcritical, and I think your delivery was wooden and unconvincing!
124* ''WesternAnimation/DadX'': When Foudror threatens to have the elves "be reduced to couscous" with a DescendingCeiling, Gouly's responds to the prospect of being crushed by wailing that he doesn't like couscous.
125* The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "Mechanised Mayhem" has all of London's machines and appliances staging a revolution against their owners. When DM and Penfold retrieve a distress call from Greenback's henchman Stiletto and see Greenback's Frog's Head Flyer joining the mechanical solidarity:
126-->'''Stiletto:''' Da Baroni's machine is revolting!\
127'''Penfold:''' (''sarcastically'') Ha! ''He'' can talk!
128** Same episode: DM is using the telephone (who was leading the mechanical revolt) to find out who is responsible for the mechanical revolution:
129--->'''DM:''' (''receiver to ear'') Mm-hmmm....mm-hmmm....good grief!\
130'''Penfold:''' Engaged? [[note]]British term for the phone line being busy.[[/note]]\
131'''DM:''' Leave Fifi out of this!
132** This from "Duckula Meets Frankenstoat," as DM and Penfold are on a skiing holiday:
133-->'''DM''': This morning we're going to tackle the giant slalom.\
134'''Penfold:''' Well, I'm not all for tackling giants, but anything's better than skiing.\
135'''DM:''' Penfold, a giant slalom ''is'' skiing.\
136'''Penfold:''' Ah, we won't have to worry about him, then. He'll probably fall and break his neck anyway!
137* The ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' episode "The Million Dollar Ghost" has the following exchange:
138-->'''Newscaster:''' ...the need for competent, non-Jack Fenton, ghost hunters in Amity Park has never been more obvious.\
139'''Jack:''' Hey! They said my name!
140* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'':
141** In the episode "New Mexico," Dan and Chris are driving a liquid hydrogen truck (which they stole) through a closed carnival in New Mexico and Dan attempts to throw a lighter at the place, oblivious to the fact that the window is closed. The lighter ends up inside the car, lighting it on fire, and Dan and Chris narrowly make it out before it crashes in a fiery explosion. When Chris asks Dan if he is okay, Dan responds "no", saying that he threw away his good lighter, ignoring the fact that he and Chris were almost killed in the truck crash.
142-->'''Chris''': Dan! Are you alright?\
143'''Dan''': No. ''(pause)'' I just realized I threw away my good lighter.\
144'''Chris''': You almost got us killed and you're worried about a lighter?\
145'''Dan''': It was nice. I liked it.
146** In "Canada," while Chris is describing traits typical of the stereotypical Canadian, he points out some of their regional dialogue, including, "eh," "about," (pronounced aboot) and "sorry" (with a long o). Dan agrees, not on the grounds of pronunciation, but that normal people never apologize.
147* A ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode involved a hotel bellboy giving Quinn fantastic room service and upgrades using the excuse of his "uncle" who supposedly owned the hotel. Later Quinn along with her parents was informed by police that the bellboy was in fact billing the family for these, then deleting them from the system and was effectively a stalker. Quinn's reaction:
148-->'''Quinn''': You mean I almost went out with...\
149'''Police''': That's right.\
150'''Quinn''': A COMPUTER GEEK?!
151* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':
152** In "The Parrot Trap", the robot parrot starts reading out a bunch of random ingredients while Dexter's mother reads a recipe out of a cookbook:
153--->'''Robot Parrot''': Beans.\
154'''Mom''': Beans.\
155'''Robot Parrot''': Cookies!\
156'''Mom''': Cookies!\
157'''Robot Parrot''': Worms and plastic minnows.\
158'''Mom''': Now, wait just a minute, here! (''beat'') ...Where am I gonna get worms and plastic minnows?\
159'''Robot Parrot''': The Florida Everglades!\
160''(GilliganCut to [[TheDitz Dexter's Mom]] driving off to the Florida Everglades in her car)''
161** In "Chess Mom", Dexter competes in a chess tournament, but his mom disrupts things by cheering for him really loudly, completely embarrassing him and disrupting everyone's concentration. Dexter tries to tell her to be quiet, but she doesn't listen, then he tells her she doesn't get the spirit of chess. She responds by cheering ''louder'' and painting her face like it was a football game. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome This results in her getting kicked out of the building]].
162* Captain Hero of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is notorious for missing the point, as illustrated by the following example.
163-->'''Unusually Flexible Girl:''' I missed you more than a retard misses the point!\
164'''Captain Hero:''' What do you mean?
165** In one episode, he's under the impression that an AIDS walk is actually a race, and kills the other walkers so that he'll "win." Not only is it not a competition, but since the contestants were being sponsored for how far they walked, Captain Hero ensured that the event didn't raise any money.
166* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheDrinkyCrowShow'' has Drinky at sea trying to find a mermaid he thinks he once saw. After beating a Frenchman in a sword fight, he demands to know where she is.
167-->'''Frenchman:''' Oh, please! The mermaid, she no exist! They are fantasies, hatched in the minds of drunk, frustrated sailors who look at sea cows!\
168'''Drinky Crow:''' '''How dare you call her FAT!!'''
169* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Dewey Duck's [[MamasBoy idolization]] of his and his brothers' MissingMom is a well-established aspect of his character throughout the series. Said mom is also heavily associated with the moon, also something clearly established early on. So during an incident where the kids are stuck in a shared lucid dream state, no one is very shocked to see that a recurring element in all of Dewey's dreams is [[SadClown himself being cradled by a crescent moon made of his own tears]]...save for Dewey himself, who is cheerfully oblivious as to what this could possibly represent.
170-->'''Huey''': [[DeadpanSnarker I have some theories.]]
171* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
172** Timmy's dad hears [[TheVillainSucksSong "Icky Vicky"]], singing about how evil Vicky is. He comes to the conclusion that it's about pumpkins. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Doug Dimmadome comes to the same conclusion.]]
173** Timmy's parents (as well as the rest of the world besides Crocker, and even he has his moments) may as well be anthropomorphic personifications of completely missing or ignoring the glaring and obvious magical phenomenon that surrounds Timmy and his fairy godparents. In the episode "Meet the [=OddParents=]", Timmy's parents finally begin to seriously suspect the weird things that keep happening to them, such as when they found a gorilla and a monster playing ping pong in Timmy's bedroom. Of course, Timmy's Dad being Timmy's Dad, the only bizarre thing he finds about that situation is that they have a ping pong table.
174** In the episode where the Anti-Fairies made their first appearance, Timmy's Dad found a door to Fairy World and the only thing he noticed was that the door didn't lead to the bathroom.
175** In another episode, Timmy's wishes his parents had superpowers. After sending Timmy to school, Mrs. Turner noted that they have the whole morning to do anything they want in an incredibly flirty tone. Mr. Turner catches on... it's time to fight crime.
176* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
177** Lois is shown several drawings that Stewie has done. All of them have Lois dying in a particularly gruesome fashion. Lois realizes that this can mean only one thing: "His father's not in any of these pictures; they should spend more time together." The teacher concurs with her.
178** One instance of this of many from Peter:
179---> '''Meg''': If I can't drive, I'll never have any boyfriends, I'll never get married and then I'll have to adopt a kid like Rosie O'Donnell!\
180'''Peter''': "Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't drive?"
181** In "Back to the Woods" James Woods steals Peter's identity and kicks him out of the house. Brian points out that identity theft works both ways and Peter can be Woods. Peter figures if he was a famous movie star, he wouldn't even want his family.
182** A review of ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'':
183--->'''Mrs. Lockhart''': Basically what [[Creator/GeorgeOrwell Orwell]] was saying was it's not perfect, but I'll take it.
184** In another episode, Stewie walks in on Chris and his friends watching a porno:
185--->'''Doctor 1:''' Your test results came back, I'm afraid you've got an acute case of nymphomania.\
186'''Woman:''' Oh no, what should I do?\
187'''Doctor 2:''' Take two of ''these'' and call us in the morning!\
188''(zip!)''\
189'''Stewie:''' Well that's not going to help her nymphomania! If anything, it'll just exacerbate it!
190** When Peter becomes a bully and starts bullying his friends, Lois reminds him that Peter is being no better than the bully that used to torment him in school. Rather than realize what he did was wrong and apologize to his friends, Peter takes the lesson as "I have to confront the guy that used to bully me and kick his ass!" The kicker? The bully from Peter's childhood has Multiple Sclerosis and Peter still tries to beat him up until Chris intervenes.
191** In "Seahorse Seashell Party", Peter takes all of Meg's criticisms of him in stride until she calls him a "waste of a man".
192** In "Love Thy Trophy", Meg lies about being a single mother of a crack-addicted Stewie in order to get big tips ends up getting Stewie taken away by child services.
193--->'''Lois:''' How did you make $1,100 as a waitress in a week?\
194'''Meg:''' ''(nervously)'' It's easy... when you're the unwed teenage mother of a crack-addicted baby. ''(nervous laugh)''\
195'''Peter:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa, Meg. When did you become a teenager?\
196'''Lois:''' Peter, she's sixteen.\
197'''Peter:''' You knew about this?
198** In "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q." when [[DomesticAbuser Jeff]] announces that Brenda is pregnant.
199--->'''Peter:''' Have you thought about names yet? Like "Slappy" or "Bruisy" or "Keep-it-down-in-thersy"?
200** In "Save the Clam", Peter says that one of his hobbies at home is testing Chris to see if he's autistic. When Peter sneaks up behind Chris and bangs two cymbals together near his head, causing Chris to yell and fall to the ground in pain, Peter writes on a notepad that Chris isn't overly affectionate.
201** In one episode, the Griffins are watching a news broadcast of Tricia Takanawa interviewing a criminal who was arrested because Chris witnessed him shoplifting and testified against him, and who just broke out of jail:
202--->'''Convict:''' I'm gonna go bang my girlfriend, and then I'm gonna kill Chris Griffin!\
203(The entire family gasps in horror)\
204'''Stewie:''' My word! Is he really allowed to say "bang my girlfriend" on this network?
205** When Lois addresses a PTA meeting to demand the principal does something to raise the school's average test scores:
206--->'''Principal:''' We'll drop the dumbest student we have! Chris Griffin is hereby expelled!\
207'''Chris:''' But if I leave now, I'll never find out who's the dumbest kid in school!
208** In "He's Too Sexy for His Fat", a cutaway has Peter in the Army dressed as a clown because he believes that the enemy soldiers will be shooting them based on their uniforms, ignoring the fact that their uniforms are designed to blend into their environment and his costume has the opposite effect.
209** In "Long John Peter", Peter tries to cheer Chris up by giving him a bullfrog in a shoebox. Rather than poking breathing holes in the box, he pokes them in the frog's back, so when he opens the box, it's dead from the injury combined with the lack of air.
210* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'':
211** In "Total Recall", one of the items in Oz's collection of toys recalled for being [[MyLittlePanzer cartoonishly deadly]] is a scale replica of the Russian battleship Potemkin which was recalled not because it came with functioning nuclear weaponry, but because it had small parts that broke off easily.
212** In "Lord of the Rings", when Kyle attempts to strike a deal with Fanboy where he trades his magic wand in exchange for the secret to the magic ring trick he refuses to tell, Kyle claims the wand can make the earth bubble like molten lava. Chum Chum then cuts in and asks Fanboy why they need another pool of lava because they already have one that was never used, and Fanboy realizes and calls the deal off.
213* In ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' the Xtacles were not the brightest bunch. After new recruit Hooper showed up with a rather curvy figure (incredible breasts and magnificent posterior), they never quite cottoned on to the fact that he was a she. Then when one of them walked in on "him" in the bathroom and discovered that Hooper had a vagina, they concluded that it must have been really hard for him growing up and that they needed to be more sensitive about calling each other things like "dick" and "pussy".
214* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
215** Professor Farnsworth says the crew is about to be attacked by an albino humping worm.
216--->'''Fry:''' Why do they call it an albino humping worm?\
217[the ship starts rocking back and forth]\
218'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Because it lacks pigment.
219** The Robot Mafia is prone to this.
220--->'''Joey Mousepad:''' This guy's an ox! He's got oxen-like strength. Hey, he needs a nickname, right? Let's call him [[OneSteveLimit Clamps]]!
221** Apparently 24th century scientists when renaming Uranus:
222--->'''Farnsworth:''' They changed that name in 2335 to get rid of [[UranusIsShowing that stupid joke]] once and for all.\
223'''Fry:''' What do they call it now?\
224'''Farnsworth:''' Urectum.
225* In the ''God and Jeffrey'' clip "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclEFQC8eE4 If Man Obeyed God]]", Adam and Eve refuse to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and remain immortal. Thousands of years later, God (who'd actually ''expected'' them to eat it) tries to talk Adam into eating the apple after all, only to be told that Adam gave up eating centuries ago: he can't die, and not eating means he doesn't have to deal with the icky business of ''doing'' his business, so why bother?
226* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
227** In the future as depicted in "Mandy the Merciless", Mandy has mutated into a giant slug creature to obtain immortality and ruled the Earth with an iron fist, keeping a collection of artificially grown Billy clones to keep her company. Demonstrating the same cluelessness as his predecessor, Billy clone 2188, upon activation, [[DidYouGetANewHaircut asks if Mandy got a new haircut]]. And he wasn't the only clone to ask about her haircut.
228** In "Scythe for Sale", Billy tries to sell off a bag of golf clubs containing Grim's scythe to Irwin. Not understanding the concept of haggling, he makes Irwin pitch lower and lower offers until Billy finally accepts a worthless amusement park souvenir penny.
229** In one episode, Billy's fear of clowns gets triggered, causing him to behave more irrationally than usual. At one point, Mandy sees him wrapped in citrus fruit and dropping more in front of him. She asks him "What's with all the oranges?" and he just calmly replies that they aren't oranges, they're tangelos.[[note]]A tangelo salesman told him tangelos ward off clowns, if you were wondering.[[/note]]
230* Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' climaxes with the band playing a song with lyrics provided by Corey reading from [[BrattyTeenageDaughter Trina]]'s diary. In the episode "Space Jammin'", an alien band gets the idea to do the same after [[GrandTheftMe possessing]] [[SitcomArchNemesis rival band the Newmans]], but the lead singer simply recites one of Trina's entries verbatim instead of translating her writings into lyrics as Corey does, confusing their audience.
231* The {{Muggles}} of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Despite admitting many, many times that he is an alien intent on conquering Earth, Zim is dismissed as talking about something completely different.
232* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Jimmy and Heloise are strapped into a roller coaster designed to kill them. One section involves passing through several giant meat cleavers...which only results in a CloseCallHaircut. She angrily yells "Your henchmen do shoddy work!"
233* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
234** As part of an OverlyLongGag in the episode "Let's Play Golf". Kaeloo attempts to explain the rules of golf to [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]]. First, she says that the object of the game is to put the ball in the hole. Stumpy picks up the ball, runs to the hole and puts it in. Kaeloo then tells him that he was supposed to put it in with the club, so he takes the club and drops it down the hole with the ball. Kaeloo tells him that he was supposed to hit the ball with the club, so he goes to the hole with the ball in it and starts violently shoving the club down the hole to "hit" the ball.
235** In the episode "Let's Play Red Light, Green Light", when Quack Quack is having trouble opening a yogurt container, Stumpy suggests [[ChainsawGood using a chainsaw]]. Kaeloo tells him that chainsaws are for cutting trees, and then she proceeds to open the yogurt in a strategic manner and tell Stumpy to "use his head". Stumpy misunderstands this as "use your head to cut trees", so he runs headlong into a tree.
236** In Episode 34, [[spoiler: [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is granted invisibility powers. He then decides to play hide and seek with Quack Quack. Just then, [[StatusQuoIsGod his powers wear off]], leaving him visible again. Quack Quack immediately finds him since he can now see him, and Stumpy realizes that he can see his body again. Rather than realize that he lost his invisibility, he assumes that he has also developed the power to see things that are invisible.]]
237** In one episode, Kaeloo tries to prove that Mr. Cat is too violent with Quack Quack by showing him a bunch of [[CallBack video clips from previous episodes]] where he tortured him on a TV screen. The only thing [[{{Narcissist}} Mr. Cat]] manages to gather from the videos is that he looks extremely telegenic.
238** In Episode 93, [[TheDitz Stumpy]] and [[DitzyGenius Quack Quack]] are training to be firefighters, and one of their training exercises involves "rescuing" Mr. Cat from the second floor of a building which they pretend is on fire. They try to get in, and Stumpy decides to [[UseYourHead use Quack Quack as a battering ram]] to break the door open. Kaeloo points out that they were supposed to use a ladder and get to the window Mr. Cat is standing at. Stumpy and Quack Quack take the ladder to the window...and then try to break the windowsill, once again using Quack Quack as a battering ram.
239** In "Let's Play Simon Says", Kaeloo runs around greeting all the people and non-living objects with "Good day!" By the time she finally meets Mr. Cat, the last person she wanted to greet before leaving, it's nighttime. He calls her an idiot for wasting a whole day saying "good day" to a bunch of non-living objects. Kaeloo realizes that he is right...she should probably be saying "good night" instead!
240* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Ron Stoppable, master of the missed point. For example, fixating on a restaurant manager's decision to take his favourite meal off the menu, instead of said manager's SecretIdentity as a superhero, or worrying that the SelfDestructMechanism in Drakken's lair will destroy a mind-switching device they need to use, missing the detail that since he and Kim are tied up there, the explosion will get them, too.
241* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
242** [[ConspiracyTheorist Dale]] manages to do a single-person version of this by relating to Hank about how 9 months before the birth of his son, he was off chasing [=UFOs=] in the desert while his wife was with John Redcorn. Hank says, "Your wife loves you!", but then Dale comes to the conclusion that the aliens impregnated Nancy to take his attention away from them, and asks Hank if there's any better explanation. [[ChocolateBaby Obviously there is,]] but Hank decides to refrain from pointing that out. Dale later comes to the conclusion that the aliens abducted him and used his own sperm to impregnate Nancy, therefore Joseph is his biological son after all, although he might have only said that to make Joseph feel better, as Joseph was having somewhat of an identity crisis after being told he was half-alien.
243** Even better, in the episode where Dale's wife ends the affair, Dale notices that every time she gets a headache, she calls in John Redcorn to give her a massage, and comes to the obvious conclusion: her headaches are a cry for attention, and he's been selfishly pawning her off on someone else instead of taking care of her himself. When Redcorn sneaks into their bedroom later to try and patch things up, Dale mistakes him for a burglar and knocks him out with a lamp. Dale is the one who feels guilty for this and in order to make good he helps Redcorn recover his peoples' lands, which ironically helps end the affair because Redcorn feel guilty about betraying Dale's honest friendship and kindness.
244** In the first season, Bobby went to [[SpecialGuest Willie Nelson's]] house to try to apologize for accidentally hitting him with a golf club... But there was some confusion at first:
245--->'''Nelson:''' Wait, I know you... You're the kid who rakes my lawn.\
246'''Bobby:''' No, I'm the kid who hit you.\
247'''Nelson:''' With a rake?\
248'''Bobby:''' No, with a golf club!\
249'''Nelson:''' You've been rakin' my yard with a golf club? I want my ten bucks back!
250** When John Redcorn, Joseph's actual father, tries to be a part of his son's life by taking him on a traditional Native American vision quest as a rite of passage, Dale decides to tag along. Joseph doesn't have a vision, but Dale does. He sees a man wearing an elaborate Native American headdress having sex with Nancy, and then flashes forward to the day of Joseph's birth, where Joseph is born wearing the same headdress. Dale comes to the only possible conclusion... he has Native American ancestry!
251** When Dale's father tries to come out to him as gay, he doesn't directly say it, only saying that the rodeo he works at is a gay rodeo and that his "friend" isn't just his friend, but his partner. Dale is disgusted, and tells his father to get out of his sight. After all, his father obviously just confessed to being a ''[[DiscriminateAndSwitch government agent]]'', the greatest enemy of conspiracy nuts like Dale all over the world. Why else would the biggest ladies man Dale has ever known be working at the gay rodeo, [[BuddyCopShow and with a partner]]? The two of them must be undercover! He eventually does find out the truth, though, and it doesn't bother him that his father is gay. After all, [[MistakenForGay he's been friends with John Redcorn for years]]!
252** In one episode, Hank catches Bobby with a girls' cheerleading uniform and angrily tells him, "There had better be a naked cheerleader under your bed!"
253** When Bobby and Joseph are at a library, Joseph wants to hurry to the art section before all the naked photography books are checked out. Bobby, deeply studying Native American history at the time, is annoyed that that's all Joseph can think about: ''photography.''
254** Hank tries to nip Bobby's smoking habit in [[{{Pun}} the butt]] by making him smoke an entire carton of cigarettes. However due to various reasons they end up splitting this into multiple sessions where Bobby only smokes a couple of cigarettes at a time, leading to him being a casual smoker.
255** When Hank sees Bobby's photo negatives in "[[Recap/KingOfTheHillS2E6HuskyBobby Husky Bobby]]", he reacts in horror over them, but Bobby thinks Hank is enthusiastic about them.
256* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', Lilo often does this as part of her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} personality.
257** In the episode "The Asteroid", she does this twice in one conversation:
258--->'''Lilo:''' Cobra Bubbles? What are you doing here?\
259'''Cobra:''' There are questions in life one prefers not to answer.\
260'''Lilo:''' So true. So, what are you doing here?\
261'''Cobra:''' Lilo, I appreciate your curiosity, but there comes a time when adults must deal with adult problems, and children must stay with their field trips and out of adults' hair. Do you understand?\
262'''Lilo:''' You don't have any hair!
263** She occasionally gives an experiment an appropriate nickname, but not for the reason you'd expect:
264*** Experiment 113, who affects the luck of whoever is nearby. Whether it is bad luck or good luck depends on which way the horseshoe-shaped horn on his head is pointing...though in the first part of the episode, even Jumba thought it only created bad luck. After driving away the customer they had for Jumba and Pleakley's "Bed, not Breakfast", Lilo says they need to name him...
265---->'''Pleakley''': A name, oh, how about, uh, I don't know, Unlucky? Or Mr. Unlucky? Or Unluckifier?\
266'''Lilo''': How about Shoe?\
267'''Pleakley''': Because of that horseshoe shape on his head?\
268'''Lilo''': Because he needs shoes. He doesn't have any.
269*** Experiment 251, who [[ChainedHeat binds together uncooperative people]] with an indestructible putty (though they find out later that Earth wasn't one of the planets taken into account when calling it indestructible; it dissolves in mud). When Lilo and Mertle capture it...
270---->'''Lilo''': I think I'm gonna name him... Link.\
271'''Mertle''': Because he links people together?\
272'''Lilo''': No, silly. It's short for Linkenstein, the zombie president.
273*** Experiment 177, which was designed to eat Uburnium, the most powerful and economical fuel source in the universe, and drive prices through the roof. Unfortunately for Jumba, in the language he was using the word used for "Uburnium" was the same word used for "hair". When Lilo and Stitch catch it after it wreaks havoc at a local spa, this exchange follows:
274---->'''Lilo''': Hmm... you look like a hairy hairball. And you seem to like to eat hair, and you're made of hair, so I'm gonna call you...\
275'''Stitch''': Harry!\
276'''Lilo''': NO... Clip!\
277'''Stitch''': Huh?
278* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleFlyingBears'': Skulk once had a party with fireworks that went out of control. After the fire was put off, Plato said he hoped Skulk learned his lesson. Skulk said next party would be held closer to the river so it'll be easier to get water.
279* In "Llama Llama Light Show" from ''Literature/LlamaLlama'', when Euclid mentions the upcoming meteor shower, Gilroy comments that he likes baths better.
280* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
281** In the short "Daffy Duck Slept Here", Daffy tricks a drowsy Porky into walking out the window of a high-rise hotel room by making him think he was boarding a train. However, when it shows that Porky is '''''[[MindScrew on a train outside the window,]]''''' Daffy makes this statement.
282--->'''Daffy:''' That's just plain ol' silly. I should have given him some magazines to read on the trip. Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!
283** In the "pronoun trouble" scene from "WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning", Daffy think he's spotted the problem with Bugs' retort.
284--->'''Daffy:''' It's not "he doesn't have to shoot ''you'' now", it's "he doesn't have to shoot ''me'' now". ({{beat}}) Well I say, he ''does'' have to shoot me now! (''to Elmer'') So ''shoot me now!''\
285'''Elmer:''' (''shrugs, shoots Daffy'')
286* ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'': When Rock Zilla's alma mater granted him a honorary doctorate, he thought he'd be that kind of doctor and started practicing the shout of "Calling Doctor Zilla". When he was told it wasn't that kind of doctorate and he'd instead be a sort of professor, he shouted "Calling Professor Zilla".
287* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
288** In the episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E6BoastBusters "Boast Busters,"]] a unicorn named Trixie comes to town [[MilesGloriosus claiming to be incredibly powerful]] and capable of vanquishing the dreaded [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa Major]]. Most of the ponies don't buy it, but two young colts fall for her story and proudly defend her. Spike tells them that unless they actually see her pulling off the feats she claims, they shouldn't believe her. They take this as a cue to find an Ursa Major and bring it to town so Trixie can defeat it in front of everyone. Bad idea.
289** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E17StareMaster "Stare Master"]] Fluttershy [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter (finally)]] gets the Cutie Mark Crusaders into bed and starts singing them a lullaby. Sweetie Belle notes that she knows the song and, when [[SchmuckBait when asked to join Fluttershy]], [[CuteButCacophonic proceeds to raise the roof]].
290** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers "The Show Stoppers,"]] The Cutie Mark Crusaders enter the school talent show hoping to get their cutie marks, but each tackles something they're not suited for (and that another one of them is perfect for). They do actually win an award, but don't get their cutie marks. They realize they failed to get their marks because they neglected their true talents, but decide that their actual calling in life must be comedy, since they won [[SoBadItsGood Best Comedy Act]].
291** Done once again by Scootaloo in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles "The Cutie Mark Chronicles"]]:
292--->'''Scootaloo:''' Argh! These namby-pamby stories aren't getting us any closer to our cutie marks! They're all about 'finding out who you are' and boring stuff like that![[labelnote: Explanation for the uninitiated]] In the [=FiM=] setting, "cutie marks" are symbols that appear on a pony's flanks when they figure out what their special talent is, and what they want to do with it. In other words, they are markers that a pony ''has'' "found out who they are". That's the whole ''point'' of them.[[/labelnote]]
293*** Let's just save time and say the CMC pretty much embody this trope [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption every time they appear in the show]], because instead of cultivating the talents they're actually ''good'' at, they spend all their time trying every random activity they can think of. Like Wile E. Coyote, they've gotten so obsessed with the short-term goal ("catch the roadrunner" / "get a cutie mark") that they've lost sight of ''why'' they wanted to accomplish the goal in the first place. Making things worse is that this same obsession leads to them ignoring the hints their elders are giving them.
294** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E25PartyOfOne "Party of One"]] Pinkie Pie throws a birthday party for her toothless pet alligator Gummy, and her friends have a delightful time. though she's a little overeager during the party. The next day, she invites them to an after-birthday-party party that afternoon. All five of her friends decline the invitation. The viewer is led to assume they turn her down because two parties in two days is a too much partying, [[spoiler:but they're actually planning a surprise party for her own birthday, which she forgot due to being wrapped up in her own plans for the second party.]] Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash collaboratively lie, hilariously building the worst excuse of the bunch.
295--->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Something strange is definitely going on around here, Gummy. Sure Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy [[INeedToGoIronMyDog had to house-sit for that vacationing bear,]] but what are the chances all my other friends would have plans this afternoon too? Rarity ''(the fashionista)'' [[IHaveToWashMyHair has to wash her hair]]? Applejack ''(the farmer)'' has to pick apples? Twilight ''(the student)'' is behind on her studies, and has to hit the books? The more I think about it, the more those are starting to sound like… (gasps) excuses!
296** Even before that, in the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipISMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony second episode...]]
297--->'''Fluttershy''': Why Rarity, it's so lovely!\
298'''Rarity''': I know! ''(whips her [[ItMakesSenseInContext restored tail]])'' I'll never part with it again!\
299'''Fluttershy''': No, your necklace.
300** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E25ToWhereAndBackAgainPart1 To Where and Back Again – Part 1]]": When Starlight is anxious about visiting the Sunset Festival, Twilight [[HintDropping suggests that she take a trusted friend with her]]. [[AnswerCut The scene cuts to]] [[ObliviousToHints Starlight]] telling Trixie she was the first pony she thought to bring.
301* In ''WesternAnimation/NotWithoutMyHandbag'', when {{Satan}} (possessing her handbag) locks her niece in the washing machine, Auntie says, "My goodness! That's not my handbag! And it's a rather cheap imitation".
302* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', Pickles tries to teach Milo that she's cool because she married a great guy and had great kids. Milo reaches the conclusion that he must marry his father.
303-->'''Bob''': You just ruined what could have been a very poignant family moment, son.
304* ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'': In the episode “Back to the Future”, Thadius blows up all the music ever written or recorded, and as the main group is discussing this, Oscar makes the remark, “So, even if I manage to form an orchestra, we’ll have nothing left to play.” Eric responds, “There’s always baseball.”
305* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'':
306** After accidently being zapped by the penguins's enhancement ray, Mort (a tiny mouse lemur) quadrupled in size and strength, capable of bringing down animals larger than himself and many times taller than his bossy but absent-minded ring-tailed lemur leader, King Julien. Julien's advisor, Maurice, takes note of this transformation immediately.
307--->'''Maurice:''' Do you, uh, notice anything different about Mort?\
308'''Julien:''' Well yes, he's obviously doing something different with his hair! It's nice actually.
309** In another episode, Maurice takes over as king while Julien is sick, becomes mad with power after eating rotten lychee nuts, and threatens to take over the entire zoo. After hearing about this, Julien's reaction is, "I cannot believe what I am hearing. Maurice ''ate my lychee nuts!''"
310** Julien, when mocking the rats who are playing against the penguins at hockey, sneers "[[GretzkyHasTheBall You probably can't even get the ball into the hoopy-thingy]]!" Kowalski tells him it's called a "puck", to which Julien responds "Oh, thanks ... You probably can't even get the ball into the puck thingy!"
311* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
312** In "Greece Lightning", Dr. Doofenshmirtz, the nemesis of superspy Perry the Platypus, watches an old educational film and finds out that [[GreenAesop due to the effects of encroaching development]], "the enemy of the platypus is Man!" So... he builds a giant robot man named Norm, complete with business suit, with which to defeat Perry the Platypus. Also, Buford tells Baljeet "You're going down!". Baljeet then points out that they're on the same team, to which Buford replies "then you're going down ''with'' me!"
313** In "The Doof Side of the Moon", Doofenshmirtz plans to rotate the moon so that [[ArtisticLicenseSpace the "dark side" always faces the Earth]]. At the end of the episode, he realizes his mistake (moonlight is reflected sunlight), and chastises himself, "[[GratuitousGerman Dummkopf!]] I should have rotated the ''sun''!"
314** Doofenshmirtz can't tell that Perry is the same platypus with his hat off. Perry once escaped a trap by removing his hat and Doofenshmirtz released the "regular platypus" and wondered what happened to Perry, with Perry socking him and putting it back on in clear view, and he still didn't catch on. In another instance, Perry was revealing himself after being disguised as a plumber... But he was still wearing a plumber's belt, so Doofenshmirtz inquired, "Perry the Platypus Plumber?". This was brought to its height in "Across the Second Dimension", where his doppelganger tried to explain it to him and he still couldn't grasp the concept.
315** When Perry shows up in the middle of an all-out battle with Doofenshmirtz in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", all Candace can say is, "Perry has a ''hat?''" [[spoiler: Luckily, it was AllJustADream. A DreamWithinADream to be precise.]]
316* The 2010 ''[[WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies]]'':
317** [=McLeish=] attempts to keep his mother from finding out he's a dog catcher, but when his ruse fails, his mother threatens to cut him out of her will, remove him from the family scrapbook, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and disinvite him from Thanksgiving]]. [=McLeish=]'s comment: "But the turkey!"
318** In the same episode, he resolves to tell his mother that he's actually a CIA agent working undercover, "If I told you more, Mother, I'd have to make you disappear." Olaf, whom he was testing this out on, asks, "Disappear? So are you a spy or a magician?" Annoyed, [=McLeish=] storms out, leaving Olaf to mumble, "Being a magician's nothing to be ashamed of."
319* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
320** In one episode, after Mojo Jojo reveals his backstory:
321--->'''Blossom''': What?\
322'''Buttercup''': What?\
323'''Bubbles''': I don't believe it! We had our very own pet monkey?
324** In "Birthday Bash", as the Girls' incarcerated enemies send them deadly birthday presents, the Amoeba Boys send them {{voodoo doll}}s, thinking that they had to do so and then insert the pins into ''themselves'' in order to harm the dolls' living counterparts. Mojo is quick to point out that they messed up.
325** In "Los Dos Mojos", where Bubbles has amnesia and thinks she's Mojo:
326--->'''Bubbles:''' Now, Powerpuff Girls, [[PrepareToDie prepare to]] [[NeverSayDie meet your maker]]!\
327'''Blossom and Buttercup:''' [[LiteralMinded You leave the Professor out of this!]]
328** In "Helter Shelter", Bubbles brings home a baby whale. When it starts to die from being on land for so long, she realizes that it needs water... and tries to rehydrate it by splashing a cup on it. Which is only after she rationalized bringing it home in the first place after the Professor told her he didn't want to find any more animals in her closet because "He'll never fit in my closet!"
329** In "Too Pooped to Puff" the girls are trying to get the people of Townsville to take more responsibility for the protection of their own city [[TerminallyDependentSociety -after being called to help them with the most mundane of tasks-]] by leaving them to take care of a giant MonsterOfTheWeek without their intervention. After the people are chased around for a short amount of time, the monster is suddenly caught in some power grid wires. At which point the girls retort to the citizens about the next step of taking care of the monster with the following:
330--->'''Blossom:''' Why shouldn't you put a toaster in a bathtub full of water?
331--->'''Guy in the crowd:''' Because... [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy your toast would get soggy.]]
332--->'''The Crowd:''' Yeah!!
333* In the ''Westernanimation/{{Randy Cunningham Ninth Grade Ninja}}'' episode "Last Stall On the Left", Howard appears to have figured out Randy's secret, which involves "sneaking off so [he] could have the bathroom all to [him]self every time the ninja shows up."
334* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'' Buddy comes across the other Jazzberries preparing for a birthday party but didn’t think any of them had birthdays coming up. (They didn’t; the “birthday” was the House Of Jam’s centennial.)
335-->'''Buddy''': ''(To Krupa)'' Did I forget your birthday?!
336-->'''Krupa''': Buddy, we’re twins. We have the same birthday.
337-->'''Buddy''': This is ''terrible''! I forgot my own birthday!
338* In the CampingEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', a squirrel eats all of the jellybeans that Carrot had been marking their trail with. Mitchell and Jet are concerned that they are lost, but Carrot is only concerned about the squirrel's dental hygiene.
339** In the beginning of "The Mindysphere", Sean tells Jet and Sydney about how his mom taught him about the heliosphere while eating breakfast. Jet is only interested in what Sean had for breakfast.
340* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'':
341** In the half-hour special "The Dome Experiment", the park workers are trapped in the park when Maellard lets scientists put a dome over it [[ForScience for unexplained reasons]], and [[FrameUp Benson is blamed for getting the date wrong]]. He then becomes obsessed with [[ClearMyName proving his innocence]] (even though the others quickly stopped caring) and breaks into the scientists' lab to find proof that he didn't mix up the dates. Instead he finds [[EvidenceDungeon plans for the dome and evidence proving they were intentionally trapped]], which he immediately disregards and keeps looking for his printed-out email.
342** Benson manages to do it again in "Chili Cook-off", when he breaks into Gene's office to find proof that he cheated in the eponymous cook-off. Instead he finds ''another'' EvidenceDungeon with a portrait of Maellard, Gene, and the head scientist running the dome experiment, a list of shell corporations, more dome plans, and Gene's list of expenses mentioning ''2 trillion dollars'' he spent on their Masonic lodge. He then confronts Gene over the pepper stems in his garbage.
343* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'''s "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" Rick is pointing out things that don't make sense to convince Morty that they're in a simulation, specifically a living Pop Tart with a toaster-themed house and car. Morty agrees, noting that a Pop Tart would be too scared of toasters to live in one. Rick cites this trope as he clarifies his point -- its car is ''also'' a toaster, and someone's car is not normally a smaller copy of their house -- but really, both observations are valid.
344* In ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'', [[ConjoinedTwins conjoined brothers]] Frank and Len often miss the point of what others are saying, especially Len. This is so common that Frank has developed his own [[Main/CatchPhrase catchphrase]] because of it: "You're just not getting it, Len."
345* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', when Angelica finds out her grandmother sent her a birthday card, she immediately runs over, grabs it, and begins shaking it in hopes to find some money, but when she discovers there is no money, she tosses it, to which Drew replies, "Honey, you got so excited, you dropped your card on the floor."
346* This exchange from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' after they've exposed the identity of the so-called "ghost" of Sarah Ravenscroft:
347-->'''Thorn:''' (surprised) Daddy? \
348''' Mr. [=McKnight=]:''' Hello, Sally. \
349''' Luna:''' Your dad's the ghost? \
350''' Fred:''' Your name is Sally?
351** The special ''Night of the Living Doo'' featured celebrity guest star Gary Coleman becoming a zombie. When he explains to the gang that he's now undead, they are not alarmed and act as if "undead" is a synonym for "alive".
352* In ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'', the Ranting Swede's rants tend to come from him misunderstanding a simple American custom, metaphor or item; such as refrigerators ('I came here to get AWAY from the cold!'), coffee tables ('Is every beverage going to want their own table?') juggling his job, house and family ('It's hard enough trying to have those things, let alone juggle them!') or answering machines. ('I ask it "Will I ever find true love?", and it just SITS there!')
353* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "Two Princesses and a Baby", Cedric looks for the de-aging spell in his spellbook, but Amber starts annoying him by pointing out other spells.
354--> '''Amber:''' How about that one?\
355'''Cedric:''' No, that's a shrinking spell.\
356'''Amber:''' This one?\
357'''Cedric:''' Sleeping spell.\
358'''Amber:''' Oh, how about that one?\
359'''Cedric:''' That's a "losing my patience" spell.\
360'''Amber:''' Really? I never needed a spell to lose my patience.
361* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
362** In "The Bully", a new student at Mrs. Puff's driving school draws himself punching the title character on the chalkboard and repeatedly threatens to kick his butt. This naturally horrifies [=SpongeBob=], while Mrs. Puff just thinks he's a talented artist.[[note]]It's up for interpretation, though. Mrs. Puff ''really'' hates [=SpongeBob=].[[/note]]
363** In the episode "Dying for Pie", Squidward accidentally buys an exploding pie for [=SpongeBob=]. Mr. Krabs, "inspecting" it, pinches off a tiny piece of crust to eat. When he drops the piece on the ground, it explodes and leaves a huge, gaping hole in Mr. Krabs' office, blasting him and Squidward outside. Then [=SpongeBob=] comes in: "Mr. Krabs, are you okay? I heard a... WOW!! (''completely ignores the hole and points at the pie'') A pie!"
364*** Happens again a second later when Squidward explains he paid $25 for the pie, not realizing it was a bomb. Guess which detail [[TheScrooge Mr. Krabs]] [[SkewedPriorities remembered first]].
365** In "Krabby Land" when [=SpongeBob=] has to stall kids for Mr. Krabs by hurting himself, [=SpongeBob=] comes to him all battered up and pleads to him to make 'Krabby the Clown' appear already. Mr. Krabs asks him where his arms and legs are, and [=SpongeBob=] tells him the kids are using them as boomerangs (with one leg even flying around among them). [[NoSympathy Mr. Krabs then gets worried that it might break his windows.]]
366*** [=SpongeBob=] can regenerate limbs though, so it's possible Mr. Krabs really didn't see a problem.
367** Mr. Krabs is fond of this. In "Born Again Krabs" when Squidward called out Krabs for selling [=SpongeBob=]'s soul:
368--->'''Squidward''': Mr. Krabs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but ''how'' could you sell [=SpongeBob=] for '''62 cents?'''\
369'''Mr. Krabs''': You think I could have gotten more?
370** [=SpongeBob=] seems rather fond of this trope, actually...
371--->'''Mr. Krabs''': Neptune preserve her!\
372'''Squidward''': How long can she stay like that?\
373'''Spongebob''': I dunno!\
374'''Patrick''': [[SamusIsAGirl Sandy's a girl?]]
375** On yet another driving test rampage, [=SpongeBob=] flies by two cops and goes straight through a building.
376---> '''Cop 1''': Barnacles! Did you see that?!\
377'''Cop 2''': Yeah! That guy had no front license plate! LET'S GET 'IM!
378** In "Squid's Day Off", Mr. Krabs goes to the hospital and leaves Squidward in charge of the Krusty Krab. Squidward takes advantage of this by telling [=SpongeBob=] he has some errands to do so that he can stay at home and skip work. But whenever he reaches his house, Squidward ends up becoming paranoid, first that [=SpongeBob=] will mess everything up, then later that [=SpongeBob=] suspects Squidward's just goofing off and will tell Mr. Krabs about it. In one of those times that he ends up going back to the Krusty Krab, [=SpongeBob=] innocently asks Squid about his errands. Squidward interprets it as an accusatory question.
379---> '''Squidward''': What's that supposed mean? I'm very busy.\
380'''[=SpongeBob=]''': I'm sure you are.\
381'''Squidward''': I don't like your tone!\
382'''[=SpongeBob=]''': ''(falsetto)'' I'm sure you aaaaare. How's that?
383** "Wet Painters" has three examples:
384*** When [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are about to paint the interior of Mr. Krabs's house, they set up the tarp needed to protect the flooring from spills. The tarp is only one square foot, so instead of getting a larger tarp, they put down more equal-sized tarps that still aren't enough to cover the whole floor.
385*** After inadvertently creating a giant paint bubble, [=SpongeBob=] asks what could be worse. Patrick [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder answers by creating another bubble]] that merges with the first. [=SpongeBob=] then says that he's not sure if the bubble could get any bigger, and Patrick tries to prove him wrong by inflating it with a bicycle pump until it explodes.
386*** When trying to get the paint off Mr. Krabs' first dollar, [=SpongeBob=]'s fourth attempt is beating Patrick with a baseball bat to beat the paint off. Patrick points him to a computer and convinces him that they can use technology to solve their problem, only to pick up the monitor and beat the dollar with it to no effect.
387** In "Big Pink Loser", [=SpongeBob=] rings up an order that Patrick immediately eats in under three seconds, then gets another tray and instructs Patrick to deliver it to a customer. Since [=SpongeBob=] never tells Patrick that he's not supposed to eat it himself, he eats it again when [=SpongeBob=] tells him to deliver the tray to the customer, then a third time when [=SpongeBob=] tells him to make sure the food gets to the customer's table.
388** In "Suds", after working up [=SpongeBob=] with the belief that the doctor's office is a horrible place, Patrick attempts to cure him using various methods before Sandy can come and take him there, but they all end up being this: spreading seanut butter on [=SpongeBob=]'s foot, then putting it between two slices of bread and putting his shoe on it, [[DIYDentistry removing one of his front teeth with the "string on a doorknob" trick]], using him as a trampoline, repeatedly pulling off and reapplying a bandage to his back, and putting him in a medieval rack.
389** In "Nature Pants", when the grill starts to smoke due to [=SpongeBob=] not paying attention, Mr. Krabs gives him a fire extinguisher. He throws it at the grill, causing Mr. Krabs to glare at him right before the grill catches fire.
390** In the first "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy", the last straw for the titular duo is seeing that [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick decided to paint their Invisible Boatmobile black, thereby making it visible.
391** In “The Great Snail Race,” Squidward adopts a new pet snail and brags about it towards [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick, saying that “She’s a purebred.” Patrick responds by saying, “Wow! A snail made out of bread!”
392* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'': In one episode, Andy wants to be rich enough to afford a "rollercastle" ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a castle on wheels that moves along a rollercoaster track]]), so he and Rodney attempt to get money by turning cans over to a recycling plant. When Andy is worried that their method is too slow, he has an ImagineSpot of them 20 years later and no closer to reaching their goal:
393-->'''Grown-Up Rodney:''' See, Grown-Up Andy? One man's garbage is another man's garbage that can be traded for minuscule amounts of cash.\
394'''Grown-Up Andy:''' But Grown-Up Rodney, we're no closer to owning a rollercastle now than we were 20 years ago.\
395'''Grown-Up Rodney:''' Sure we are! We have a dollar.\
396'''Grown-Up Andy:''' ''[screams, segueing into present-day Andy screaming]''
397* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E02KayshonHisEyesOpen Kayshon, His Eyes Open]]":
398** Boimler makes a note of Riker's puppet analogy, then writes down another note about Riker telling him that he doesn't need to write that down.
399** When trying to break down a door, the Pakleds say that they need the saw. However, instead of using it as intended, they just beat it against the door until it breaks.
400* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E16TheCoreProblem "The Core Problem"]], upon being told that the maneuver Poe intends to use to sneak off the Colossus is called the "Widowmaker", Kaz protests that he's not married.
401* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E13TheZoo "The Zoo"]], Greg refuses to be part of [[BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage "The Choosening"]] among the captives of a PeopleZoo, telling the "Zoomans" that back on Earth, people are free to choose for themselves whoever they want to be with. All of the Zoomans then try to "Choosen" Greg, who isn't interested.
402* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures'': In "Too Cool For Rules", Plum Pudding, tired of having to follow rules that she considers "silly", implements some ridiculous rules for anyone who wants to use her dance studio, such as guessing a password and wearing a yellow hat. To retaliate, Lemon Meringue, Blueberry Muffin, and Mr. Longface Caterpillar make up rules of their own for her to follow when she visits them. Strawberry Shortcake rounds those three up and tells them that they aren't helping the situation, and that it isn't fair to have silly rules just for Plum. Their reaction: make ''everyone'' follow their new rules.
403* ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheGooseLady'': The final short, "Dot and Randy's Sad Tale of Woe", has Dot and Randy attempt to give the Goose Lady a taste of her own medicine by tying her to a tree and having her magic wand Juanito read a story they wrote that blatantly rebukes how her habit of distracting them with her stories has ruined their lives by casting themselves as two gifted children who are destined to start an era of enlightenment by removing a golden abacus from a stone, only to fail to make it to the stone before it disappears as a result of being exhausted from being distracted by the stories told to them by decidedly unflattering representations of the Goose Lady and Juanito. All the Goose Lady learns from the experience is that Dot and Randy are terrible at telling stories and that she should never let them tell their own story again.
404* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Communicate Openly", when Bumblebee officially becomes the Titans' SixthRanger, she [[BodyHorror mutates into an amorphous monster]] due to her being forced to sleep in the same room as a nuclear reactor, a hose from which came loose and filled the room with radioactive gas in her sleep. The Titans fail to realize that she's mutated from the reactor and think their mistreatment of her is the cause, so they try to liven up her room with new furniture, then think the problem is that the reactor is taking up too much space. After [[TooDumbToLive they destroy the reactor]] and nuke the whole city in the process, they get a new couch for all six of them to sit on.
405* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'': People on the Isle of Sodor tend to have rather blase reactions to train crashes.
406** Rather famously, Thomas crashed right into the Stationmaster's house one morning... and his wife was worried more about the pancakes.
407** A barber meanwhile has a train crash into his shop when he's shaving a customer, and he decides to get payback by ''covering half of Duck's face up with shaving cream''.
408* When WesternAnimation/TheTick was interviewed on TV, and questioned about what his powers were:
409-->'''Interviewer:''' Can you destroy the Earth?\
410'''Tick:''' E-GAD!! I hope not! That's where I keep all my stuff!
411* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'': Timon in this dialogue exchange between him and Pumbaa in "[[FantasticVoyagePlot Beetle Romania]]":
412-->'''Timon (inside Pumbaa's brain):''' Pumbaa, the curse was-\
413'''Pumbaa (made [[InsufferableGenius super-smart]] by Timon repairing his brain):''' The curse was '''real!''' Despite my '''numerous''' warnings, you '''refused''' to believe it, and now, '''[[{{Irony}} irony]]''' of all ironies, you're in one '''dilly''' of a pickle!\
414'''Timon (after angrily looking around the inside of Pumbaa's brain):''' '''No''', I'm '''not'''; [[LiteralMinded I'm in your]]-\
415'''Pumbaa:''' You're in my '''[[BrainWithAManualControl brain!]]''' (laughs) I ''know!''
416* In "Red Thunder" on ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'', Henry sets up a biking exercise in which the kids have to navigate through orange cones while also being graded on speed, accuracy, safety skills and overall bikemanship. When the Franks finish their turn, they tell him, "We're done, and we got them all," and Henry can only chuckle as he looks over and sees that they did indeed "get them all" - all of the cones have been knocked over.
417-->I-I think you missed the point of the exercise, boys.
418* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'', a challenge requires the contestants to use riddles as clues to help capture "Jack the Ripper". When Noah and Owen run into the final clue, [[TheSmartGuy Noah]] is in stunned disbelief when [[TheDitz Owen]] figures out the clue on his first try with no help, [[DeadpanSnarker remarking]], "So there ''is'' a brain in there. You've been holding out on me." Owen responds that he was not holding out on Noah, because he told him about the sausages he smuggled.
419** In Area 51, Owen congratulates Duncan on scoring two girls, calling Duncan's situation the "Babe Olympics". However, everyone else was mad at Duncan for his unfaithfulness when he cheated on Courtney for Gwen.
420* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'': When the gang spotted a journalist trying to use her cell phone to tell her boss about the expected audience from the attacks of the MonsterOfTheWeek, Fred commented on that he thought it was easier to get cell phones to work there. [[SubvertedTrope Then it was revealed it had relevance]].
421* In the ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'' episode "Mutant Liberation Begins", Logan is about to race out to help the other X-Men when Magneto's trial has gone off the rails when Jean Grey, having gone into labor, staggers out:
422-->'''Jean Grey:''' (''groaning'') Logan. He's... he's ''here''.\
423'''Logan:''' (''unsheathes claws'') Who? Apocalypse?\
424'''Jean Grey:''' (''aggravated'') ''The baby!'' (''telekinetically chucks his jacket and keys at him'')\
425'''Logan:''' (''eyes wide'') OhCrap
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