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12* ''DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything/AdventureTime''
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14* ''DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower''
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17!!Other examples:
18* In ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', Spot the chicken describes herself as a "dog in a chicken's body", and wants to become a dalmatian instead of a chicken, a desire which greatly offends her mother. It's easy to compare Spot's situation to that of a transgender person who butts heads with their parent over their preferences.
19* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': In "Spontaneously Combustible", Ickis becomes a pariah after being diagnosed with a monster disease that might [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion make him explode]], with his fellow students afraid they'll catch it if they get too close to him. His ill treatment resembles the stigmata and discrimination HIV-positive people face (especially since the episode came out in TheNineties, when AIDS awareness started becoming more of a thing).
20* ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'' was pretty much made of this trope. In one episode Trevor caught Aeon atop his high-atmosphere platform; both were wearing pressurized air suits, and Trevor plugged the air hose from his suit into Aeon's and forcibly inflated her suit, then drained the excess air back into his, and repeat, causing each one to swell up in turn. She grunts in shock each time she's "filled up". Riiiight.
21* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' has this:
22-->'''Stan:''' And the Number One dog on my fictitious dog list is [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Brian Griffin]]!\
23''[zoom out to reveal Brian, sipping a martini]''\
24'''Brian:''' Uh, do I know you? ''[walks off]''\
25'''Stan:''' ''[{{beat}}] ''[[ScrewedByTheNetwork STOP PRETENDING I DON'T EXIST!]]
26** Another episode has Stan's father explain to him that in order to bypass the dial locks on the vault, you have to treat it right like a woman's body. Cut to Stan's father fiddling with the locks that are arranged just like a woman's "parts".
27* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E10WaxMuseum Wax Museum]]", after Frog Soos postulates there are perhaps [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls alternate universe versions]] of themselves, Curator Ponds asks if he's been [[ToadLicking licking himself]] again.
28* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'': Apart from his hatred of Scarface, Fox's attitude towards Ranger and his relationship with Charmer comes from the fact they're red foxes and Ranger is blue.
29-->'''Charmer:''' What difference does our colour make?
30* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
31** In S7's "[[Recap/ArthurS7E10April9th April 9th]]", a response to [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11th]], the characters react to a fire that damages the school. Arthur in particular becomes very worried about his father, who was in the school during the fire. Mr. Read tells him it's ''his'' job to worry about Arthur, not the other way around.
32** In S9's "Arthur Makes Waves", Arthur and D.W. go to the [=MacDonald=] house during a heat wave to cool off in the pool in their yard, where D.W.'s classmate and ImpliedLoveInterest James shows up ''shirtless''[[note]]He's shirtless because he had been swimming in the pool himself[[/note]], nervously asking D.W. if she needs him to kiss her [[spoiler:[[Recap/ArthurS8E9FleaToBeYouAndMeKissAndTell again]]]], to which D.W. responds "Uh-uh" (meaning "No") after a brief pause. The scene is reminiscent of two lovers being nervous about sexual intercourse.
33** "[[Recap/ArthurS13E9ParadiseLostThePrideOfLakewood The Pride of Lakewood]]", a toned-down version of ''Film/{{The Wave|1981}}''... and we all know [[GodwinsLaw what that was about...]]
34** The Big Boss Bars in "To Eat or Not to Eat" are highly addictive, which could cause some viewers to think of drug addiction. Binky essentially acts as a drug dealer in the episode, buying out the Sugar Bowl's supply and selling them to students in withdrawal at inflated prices. This is subverted when it's revealed to have a fictional drug in the candy.
35** "Prunella the Packrat" is reminiscent of ''Series/HoardingBuriedAlive'' or ''Series/{{Hoarders}}'', but for kids. Similarities include Prunella saving things for odd or weak reasons, not being able to let go, accumulating more stuff, and being shocked that she actually has closet space.
36** "[[Recap/ArthurS17E5AllThumbsKidonia All Thumbs]]", in which Arthur walks in on Buster sucking his thumb, treats the resulting embarrassment between the two as if Buster was [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown caught with his pants down]].
37** "Whip. Mix. Blend." has Rattles' attempt to bond with his soon-to-be step-siblings, Angie and Ansel, come off like a rough first date.
38* In ''WesternAnimation/ArthurChristmas'': Arthur Claus gets a look of amazed anticipation on his face and Bryony asks him, "Is this your first time?" He nods, speechless, and she takes him by the hand and leads him to...a lit Christmas tree, so he can put a wrapped gift under it.
39* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
40** In the beginning of the episode wherein Sokka meets his future girlfriend, Aang quite happily says the line, "Where we're going, you won't need any pants!" [[{{Foreshadowing}} Sokka also dresses up in women's clothes in that episode]].
41** The scene in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]]", where Toph steals Aang's sack of nuts and then breaks a few with his staff and eats them. She even calls Aang a ''delicate instrument''.
42** The giant drill the Fire Nation used to pierce the wall of Ba Sing Se in "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheDrill The Drill]]", complete with the rock/water slurry, which appears to serve as a lubricant for the drill and has the consistency of very slippery mud. When Aang delivers the crushing blow to the drill by smashing the weak spot, the slurry splatters everywhere, but particularly towards the front of the drill. It's no wonder Mai doesn't want to go anywhere near the stuff. And just in case it was still subtle as all, just before attempting to "penetrate the Impenetrable City", the Drill ''extends itself''. It actually gets worse in that the drill is being used for an invasion, so a rape allegory also applies.
43** The scene at the end of "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheHeadband The Headband]]" wherein [[OfficialCouple Aang and Katara]] have a big dance number that ends with them sweating and panting, looking at each with big smiles on their faces was something. Granted that is what normally happens when people dance, but still.
44* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E12Babel Babel]]", the villain Shriek (a sound engineer) rewards his assistant by letting him play with a special tuning fork that [[ElectricInstantGratification "stimulates the brain's pleasure center"]]. Ollie enjoys it so much that he winds up lying on the floor, rubbing the fork on his head, moaning sensually and giggling. Watching the scene as an adult, it's hard ''not'' to see the fork as a stand-in for a vibrator.
45* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
46** "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE11TheUltimateThrill The Ultimate Thrill]]" features Roxy Rocket, a former stuntwoman turned jewel thief who rides rockets as part of her robbery plans. It's mentioned a couple of times that she is in it more for the thrill of the crime than the actual spoils, and adding Batman chasing her into the mix just made it more exciting. The episode ends with Batman cornering Roxy straddling one of her rockets which is about to crash into the side of a cliff, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58wihIiyR4 her getting really into it.]]
47** ''Batman: The Animated Series'' was notorious for its sexual innuendo. The pie scene in "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE21MadLove Mad Love]]", for instance:
48--->'''Harley:''' Don't you wanna rev up your Harley? VROOM VROOM!
49* In the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', DarkActionGirl Blackarachnia borrows Rattrap's rather lengthy sword for a mechanical purpose and swiftly snaps its blade in half. Cue to her paramour Silverbolt shuddering in sympathy.
50* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': One episode has Ben telling Kevin about a ContestedSequel to the ShowWithinAShow ''Sumo Slammers'' called ''Sumo Slammers: Hero Generation''. In it, the franchise's main character teams up with one of the first series' most prominent villains after a 5-year time skip. In case it wasn't obvious enough, the working title for ''Alien Force'' was "Hero Generation". [[LampshadeHanging Kevin has a similar reaction to the audience, but obviously more of a "This reminds me of things that have been happening to me recently" than a "This reminds me of the show I'm watching right now"]].
51* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'',
52** In "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS1E12Lobsterfest Lobsterfest]]", Bob's kids discuss how they saw their "first time", eating lobster. This is carried out to the point of Tina wanting to "wait for marriage" to have lobster, and Gene wanting to eat lobster his first time in a hot tub. Louise just wants to order lobster as her last meal before an execution and use its claws to stab her way to freedom. In the same episode, Hugo's date appears to like a man with a big "badge".
53** "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS6E14TheHormoneIums The Hormone-iums]]" can be seen as a PG-rated criticism on abstinence-only sex education. Mr. Frond creates a play to make the kids at Wagstaff believe that if they kiss anybody at all [[ScareEmStraight they will get mononucleosis and will die from it]]. Tina, who is very kiss-positive, doesn't agree with the play, but is tempted to go through with it when Mr. Frond offers her the leading role. When she goes to Bob for advice, he tells Tina she shouldn't do the play if she doesn't believe in its message. He also tells her she's the only one in charge of her mouth and whether or not she kisses anyone with it, as well as who she kisses with it, is nobody's business but her own. In the end, Tina decides to agree to do the play so [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight she can hijack it during the presentation to give the Wagstaff student body real information about mononucleosis]]; mainly, that it isn't life-threatening unless you're very young, very old, or have a compromised immune system, and it's easily treatable in most cases. She also demonstrates that you can avoid mono while still being kiss-positive simply by just kissing people who don't have it.
54--->'''Tina:''' We don't have to ''not'' kiss, we just have to ''smart'' kiss.
55* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E5ADateWithTheHealthInspector A Date with the Health Inspector]]" is a satire of the Iraq War. [[UpperClassTwit Ed Wuncler III]] and Gin Rummy represent George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfield, the X-Box killer which starts the whole episode is Osama Bin Laden, and the store clerk that Ed and Rummy rob for no reason is Saddam Hussein (in a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed). Several quotes are also made referencing the war, such as Rummy reciting Rumsfeld's "known unknowns and unknown unknowns" quote, and Wuncler telling the clerks to "Bring it, bitch" (a parallel to Bush's "Bring them on" speech).
56* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': The "Buddy Match" ceremony from "Irreconcilable Dungferences" is played out like [[IncestSubtext a wedding]].
57* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "Frog Day Afternoon", Dr. Blight manages to shoot Wheeler and Linka with darts full of her latest experimental mutation serum that unexpectedly causes them to shrink to about an inch tall... only hours later, in their sleep. And their clothes didn't shrink along with them. One can only imagine what the other Planeteers concluded upon awakening to wonder "Where could they have gone?" "Without their clothes?"
58* ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsInTheLandWithoutFeelings'': When Professor Coldheart is introduced, he picks up kids who get so mad at their parents that they run away from home, drives them to his home (Coldheart Castle) and refuses to let them leave, makes them drink something, turns them into disgusting reptilian-esque creatures, and keeps them as slaves. Child viewers recognize him as the stranger parents and teachers warn you never to get in a car with or let "touch you" in a vague way long before they learn the term "pedophile."
59* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'':
60** When Glendale needs to push very large objects out of her stomach portal, the dialogue would be equally suitable for a scene about childbirth.
61** "[[Recap/CentaurworldS1E6HolesPart2 Holes, Part 2]]": "Baby's First Spell" is a song that ''very unsubtly'' compares learning magic to going through puberty.
62** In "[[Recap/CentaurworldS1E8RideTheWhaletaurShaman Ride the Whaletaur Shaman]]", [[spoiler: the Whaletaur Shaman's modus operandi of letting depressed people jump into her mouth so she can take away their pain and give them one happy final day is a very clear allegory to suicide.]]
63** In the Season 2 trailer Horse finds out Rider had to get a substitute steed for her job while Horse is in centaurworld, Horse reacts like a jealous ex:
64--->'''Comfortable Doug:''' Rider has a new horsey.\
65'''Horse:''' New... horse?\
66'''Comfortable Doug:''' Oh, yes. Becky Apples is her comfortable name, she is magnificent.\
67'''Horse:''' [[TranquilFury Becky Apples]].\
68'''Horse and Wammawink:''' ''(singing)'' Becky Apples, Becky Apples...\
69'''Horse:''' ''(singing)'' What a gorgeous fancy shmuck!\
70'''Horse and Wammawink:''' ''[singing]'' Becky, how'd you like them apples...\
71'''Horse:''' ''[singing]'' 'Cause I think your apples suck.
72** "[[Recap/CentaurworldS2E3MyTummyYourHurts My Tummy, Your Hurts]]": Wammawink preparing a snowcone on the side brings into mind a mother with a drinking problem.
73* ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'':
74** "Asleep At The Chalk" has Rudy going into [=ChalkZone=] late at night because he doesn't want to go to bed. After partying with Snap for a while, he becomes so tired that he starts passing out during their fun, which prompts Snap to help him walk home. It plays out very similarly to one of them getting drunk and the sober one has to help him get home.
75** "My Big Fat Chalk Wedding": At the beginning of the episode, Rudy helps Bobbie Sue with her art project, which causes her to develop a huge crush on him because "they made it together like a mommy and a daddy". She then draws what would be her ideal wedding to Rudy on the blackboard, however it's erased into [=ChalkZone=] before she can draw Rudy. Later, when Rudy and Snap are in [=ChalkZone=], they run into chalk!Bobbie Sue and her family, and Rudy is forced into a (G-rated and shotgun-less) ShotgunWedding with her because "they made an art project together like a mommy and a daddy". And her chalk dad even asks Rudy "what his intentions were" regarding it.
76* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'':
77** Jérémie is shown to have some computer magazines hidden under his mattress. The French version makes it quite clear that Jim expected it to be a PornStash.
78** The episode where Jérémie keeps using a helmet that boosts his brain power while ruining his physical and mental health could be considered a steroid metaphor.
79* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''
80** Knightbrace is a wannabe dentist who was rejected by the ADA for being too crazy. He is shown stalking the streets, ambushing children, and mutilating their mouths. His attacks are played out disturbingly like ''rape scenes''.
81** The episode " Operation: T.H.E. P.O.I.N.T. "where there's a place where all the teenage couples go. "You go up as a boy, but come home as a man!" It's eleven minutes of sexual innuendo. [[BaitAndSwitch But it turns out, the point was just]] [[ShaggyDogStory a roller rink.]]
82* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'':
83** "Freaky Fred" features the eponymous barber, who has a compulsion to shave anyone and anything completely bald. However his creepy inner monologue, complete with delighted, drawn-out repetitions of "Naaaaauughty", and chorus of "La La La La"'s in the background (very similar to a certain song in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'') cause him to appear as something between a murderer and a child molester, making the series' least threatening villain (even "villain" is used loosely; he's the only villain yet to be completely non-malicious) into one of its most disturbing (he was, apparently, a parody of ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'').
84** The episode "The Mask" includes ''very'' thinly veiled references to abusive relationships, domestic violence, and prostitution, while Kitty and Bunny are quite close [[PseudoRomanticFriendship "friends"]]. The former are thoroughly disturbing, the latter is heartwarming.
85* In the ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' episode "Anger Management", Dan goes out on a date with his anger management therapist, where they end up [[ItMakesSenseInContext wrecking a litterer's car]]. When they go to dinner, Dan finds out that she only went out with him so he'd help her. He then asks if they're "revenge buddies" and spends the rest of the episode complaining about how she's just "using him".
86* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
87** Overshadowing someone looks ''very much'' like possession (although more benign).
88** The episode "13". Johnny 13 deliberately causes a dangerous situation, allowing him to rescue Jazz from it. He then, one at a time, gives Jazz three of his girlfriend's items, which will allow Kitty to overshadow Jazz and take over her life. When Jazz tries to refuse each "gift", he manipulates her into accepting them. The metaphor for an psychologically abusive and manipulative relationship builds as Jazz is dragged down, step by step. [[spoiler:And she is ''furious'' when Danny frees her and she realizes what 13 was doing.]]
89* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' episode ''Jane's Addiction'', Trent agrees to help Daria and Jane with a school project but flakes out on them. At the end of the episode he and Daria have a conversation about how "maybe it wasn't such a good idea for [them] to get together...on this".
90* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' :
91** Major Glory, a Captain America {{Expy}} and his patriotism, is frighteningly similar at times to gung-ho "all-American" individuals who can fall into ConspiracyTheorist, and his over-the-top manner of speech is reminiscent of {{Trumplica}} types or grandiose politicians with an "America First" plan.
92** The episode "The Muffin King" in Season 2 is either an allegory for drug addiction or sex (muff-a-holic?) addiction, though considering that "muffin" is a slang term for a woman's privates the number of choices diminishes considerably.
93** "The Mock Side of the Moon" in Season 3 is effectively allegorical for xenophobia towards immigrants and not understanding language barriers and aid towards people from poorer countries, with Dexter mistaking the Martians' tooting as being a declaration of war, when they only needed winter clothing. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Fortunately, this has a happy ending when Dexter clears up the misunderstanding via]] a universal {{Translator Microbe|s}}.
94** "Dexter's Little Dilemma" in Season 4 is similar to BigBrotherIsWatchingYou, and it was effectively satire on that, RealityTV of the 2000s and state control.
95* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' has an episode revolving around a product touted as a "relaxant" that is not legal to sell to anyone under 18, but whose manufacturers are secretly trying to get kids hooked on it. The product, Nic-Nacs, does not exist in real life, but it's suspiciously similar to [[SmokingIsNotCool one that does]], which also starts with "nic."
96* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' Jen and Alex have a "post-coital" scene where they lie on the bed, exhausted, and talk about how good what they just did was. The joke is that in the previous scene they weren't having sex, but playing children's board games.
97* In the finale of ''WesternAnimation/DragonsTheNineRealms'', [[spoiler:the way the Dragon Club and their small dragon army defeat Jörmungandr is quite reminiscent of how Toothless and Hiccup defeated Drago's Bewilderbeast in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'': Before taking on Jörmungandr, Thunder rose to be an Alpha and started glowing blue. He then called the dragons to his side and commanded them to attack the Apex Predator. Though unlike the Bewilderbeast, Jörmungandr is then finished off via Thunder channeling his lightning through Tom's sword shocking the Apex Predator into unconciousness to be brought back to its prison.]]
98* In ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', Ling-Ling and his wife are having troubles: she never wants to battle him anymore, and when they do battle, she just lies there, unlike in the beginning of their marriage. Then, [[{{Metaphorgotten}} they decide to have sex instead]].
99* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'':
100** When Edd discovers a scientific magazine a page unfolds like a Magazine/{{Playboy}} centerfold and he reacts "oh my" and smiles. The camera then reveals that the picture is of a praying mantis.
101** Edd and Eddy are searching through Ed's room and Eddy finds a magazine called Chicks Galore. He gleefully remarks "Ed's been holding out on us!", only to discover that the magazine is about baby chickens.
102--->'''Double D:''' I didn't even know they ''had'' magazines like that!
103** The Kankers' POV in the Christmas special. They found a moldy piece of bread, sausages and pennies, and a fur coat. Later, when Edd (dressed as an angel) was stuck to the top of Rolf's shed, Eddy was laying in a chicken's roost, and Ed (dressed as a shepherd) was just standing there, the Kankers show up with the items in hand.
104--->'''Edd:''' Can it be? 3 Kings who have traveled afar?\
105'''Lee:''' Away in a manger, huh? We come bearing gifts.\
106'''May:''' See? Mold!\
107'''Marie:''' I brought Franks and Cents!\
108'''Lee:''' And Fur!
109** Some scenes between Eddy and Edd in TheMovie (eg. Edd questioning Eddy implying [[spoiler:that he's impressing his brother]], the entire fight after the "sandquick" prank -- Ed's suggestion that the two tickle each other doesn't help) just scream UnresolvedSexualTension. Hell, [[spoiler:when Eddy broke down after [[BigBrotherBully his brother's]] NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him]], it sounds like something out of a HurtComfortFic.
110*** [[spoiler:Eddy's big brother]] asks if Double D is Eddy's ''girlfriend.'' This question was posed '''''twice in the movie.'''''
111* ''Toys/EverAfterHigh'':
112** Everyone in the Ever-world is content and satisfied with their place in society. Well, except for this ''one'' group of people -- but nobody ''really'' cares what they think. So what if they've been conditioned, since birth, to consider themselves morally inferior to others? So what if their only value -- from an Ever's perspective -- lies in enabling the fame and luxurious lives of their ''betters''? So what if any member of this group that defies her ''proper'' social strata is forced into disciplinary meetings so she will "erase [those] dangerous thought[s] from her head"? Besides, the [[FantasticCasteSystem Legacy system]] is a ''vital'' part of Ever's cultural and political structure and it's just a few ungrateful rebels who don't understand that they ''should'' suffer (suffering which often includes verbal abuse, imprisonment, and execution) for the good of everyone else -- and their own selves. After all, their kind really ''deserves'' to be subjugated. It's their natural lot in life.
113** Cerise hides the marks of her [[spoiler:lycanthopy]] under a hood, fearing that others will judge her because of it, and Daring won't let her on the school sports team because he thinks she's too frail to play. The latter subplot is overtly feminist, but [[WMG/EverAfterHigh some fans]] looked at both and thought 'leukemia'.
114* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
115** A scene at the Bavarian festival from "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E2INeverMetTheDeadMan I Never Met the Dead Man]]" involves the owner of a German sausage stand taking over a Polish sausage stand and eyeing the Czech stand. To make it more obvious, he has the familiar mustache.
116** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS1E7BrianPortraitOfADog Brian: Portrait of a Dog]]" has Brian fighting against discrimination against for being a dog. Scenes include him getting in trouble for drinking from a "human" water fountain and getting offended when an officer calls him "boy".
117** The subplot of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E11NotAllDogsGoToHeaven Not All Dogs Go to Heaven]]" involves Stewie making the cast of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' spend time with him, and the situation eventually devolves into Stewie acting like stressed-out father watching over group of a bratty kids.
118** Then we have "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E11TheTanAquaticWithSteveZissou The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]", in which Stewie uses a tanning bed and falls asleep in it, causing him to get a severe burn. He yells at Brian to put some cream on him which he does, then the camera changes angle and makes the cream look an awful look like semen.
119--->'''Brian:''' [[NotWhatItLooksLike Oh, hi, Mr. Furley. Um.. this isn't what it looks like!]]\
120'''Mr. Furley:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Never mind, I'll come back later!]]
121** In the ''Film/DirtyDancing'' segment of "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS21E11LoveStoryGuy Love Story Guy]]", Joe's original dance partner Dancy has to pull out of the talent show to get jaw surgery for her TMJ. The situation is treated a lot like her getting an abortion. A coat hanger is even involved.
122* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'':
123** "Mac Daddy": When Bloo discovers that Mac created another imaginary friend in his sleep (or so they think), the conversation plays out like an uncovered affair:
124--->'''Bloo:''' How did this happen?\
125'''Mac:''' I don't know! I don't remember anything; I just woke up and he was in my bed!
126** Goo accidentally creating imaginary friends in her sleep is treated as similar to bed-wetting -- made even more explicit by {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Coco suggesting solving it by having Goo wear a diaper on her head.
127** Bloo going behind Mac's back to play with a rich kid is treated like an affair... down to Mac [[GRatedDrug binge "drinking" with ice cream when he discovers Bloo is still doing it after the first discovery]]. The episode in question is titled "Affair-Weather Friends"; they weren't even trying to hide the analogy.
128* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
129** More than one episode had an odd example: robots need alcohol to function properly, so when Bender was feeling particularly bad about something, he went for a while ''without'' drinking... and as a result, behaved as if he were drunk. Thus, Bender's sobriety reminds one of alcoholism in humans. Which leads to:
130--->'''Leela:''' Just promise me you won't get behind the wheel without some sort of alcoholic beverage in your hand.\
131'''Bender:''' I promise nothing!
132** One episode has Bender's antenna treated like a certain part of male anatomy...
133--->'''URL:''' You call ''that'' an antenna?
134*** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E20Neutopia Neutopia]]", at first the only noticeable difference in Bender is that his antenna is gone. Similarly, Farnsworth removes his antenna for an EasySexChange in "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E13BendHer Bend Her]]".
135*** By "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E1TheBotsAndTheBees The Bots and the Bees]]", it's no longer a RunningGag so much as [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots an explicit 1:1 analogy]]. [[spoiler:When robots [[RoboRomance have sex]], the male's antenna is used to send a binary file to the female's internal drive so that his manufacturing specs can be merged with hers by a randomized algorithm, creating a baby robot. An educational video depicts this process in a way obviously reminiscent of human reproduction, with the 1s and 0s of the male binary code forming shapes resembling sperm as they "swim" toward the female drive.]]
136** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E9HellIsOtherRobots Hell Is Other Robots]]", Bender gets addicted to injecting himself with electricity. Leela finds him doing the same in the bathroom and asks, "Bender, are you jacking on in there?" This could be interpreted as either an allusion to drug addiction or masturbation, making it a ''double'' DoubleEntendre.
137** "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E12TheRouteOfAllEvil The Route of All Evil]]" portrays Bender brewing beer inside himself as awaiting a pregnancy, brought on by Bender realizing that there would be a living thing (yeast) inside him. He even goes so far as to sing lullabies and knit bottle covers. By the end, he's "giving birth" to the beer. Also notable for Fry declaring, "I hope it's a lager, so I can take it to a ballgame."
138** "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot I Dated a Robot]]" parodies the society's attitudes towards both interracial marriages and same-sex marriages, and also has the message that [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil file sharing is morally wrong]].
139** The opening of the first movie, ''[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]'', combines a particularly over-the-top example of this with a vicious TakeThat against Fox, comparing Planet Express closing and re-opening to the series' cancellation, sometimes bordering on {{Metaphorgotten}}.
140** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E4PropositionInfinity Proposition Infinity]]" has Bender and Amy fighting to legalize "Robosexual marriage".
141** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E3Decision3012 Decision 3012]]", an esteemed politician running for President gets accused of being an alien by {{Conspiracy Theorist}}s when his Earth birth certificate cannot be found. [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Hmm, that sounds familiar]]... A comedic footnote to the scenario is that, since the candidate in question is running for [[AmericaTakesOverTheWorld President of Earth]] rather than just the United States, his eligibility ultimately hinges on finding proof that he ''was'' born in Kenya.
142--->'''Leela:''' Cradle of humanity!
143** Leela's TeamMom status becomes almost literal in "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E14TwoDBlacktop 2-D Blacktop]]" when she replaces the dangerous Planet Express ship with a BoringButPractical model that's treated as the futuristic equivalent of a minivan and quickly finds herself picking up groceries for Hermes, breaking up backseat fights between [[{{Manchild}} Fry]] and [[PsychopathicManchild Bender]] ("Leela! Bender's bothering me!") and driving them back and forth to their Wednesday karate class.
144* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': The episode "[[Recap/GargoylesS2Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]" starts off with a down-on-her-luck homeless woman being approached by an unseen but clearly wealthy older gentlemen. The man, later revealed to be [[MadScientist Doctor Sevarius]], tells the woman that he has a job for her before smiling sinisterly. Were this not a children's cartoon on a Disney network your first thought would likely be that the homeless woman, Maggie, is about to be forced into sex slavery. What actually happens isn't much better, considering she's experimented on for an indeterminant amount of time and turned into a Cat-Bat-Eel chimera.
145* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
146** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E5TheInconveniencing The Inconveniencing]]", Mabel discovers [[Main/GRatedDrug Smile Dip]], a hallucinogenic candy that was banned in the United States. She quickly discovers why after downing the entire package, once the MushroomSamba sets in.
147** In "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E7SocietyOfTheBlindEye The Society of the Blind Eye]]", the titular society uses a memory eraser gun to prevent the people in Gravity Falls from discovering the supernatural elements of the setting. It's indicated that the Society uses the memory eraser on themselves to manage the pressures of their day-to-day life, creating parallels to addiction and substance abuse.
148--->'''Blind Ivan:''' Everyone has something they'd rather forget. In fact, your own sister was about to use that ray on herself. Isn't that right?\
149'''Dipper:''' Mabel? Seriously?\
150'''Mabel:''' Maybe...\
151'''Dipper:''' Don't you see? This is ruining lives! What about Old Man [=McGucket=]? He lives in a hut and talks to ''animals,'' thanks to you! Don't you feel bad about that?\
152'''Blind Ivan:''' ...Maybe a little. ''[Ivan zaps himself with the Memory Eraser]'' But not anymore!
153* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' had Billy running into [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo]], who are both chronically addicted to picnic baskets, and have bloodshot eyes and a heavily disheveled look. That, and the highly shady way they approach and later chase after Billy, is blatantly meant to be a stand-in for a street junkie.
154* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'':
155** The episode with Peanut gaining his superpowers treated the "changes" a lot like puberty and Harvey (among others) were concerned about who he would have his first superhero battle with.
156** An earlier episode has [[CaptainEthnic Apache Chief]] losing his superpowers due to spilling burning coffee in his lap (to grow tall) presented as if it were erectile dysfunction. Made worst by the fact that [[spoiler:he regains his superpower by being turned on...]]. Multiple superheroes go on to play the powers-as-sexuality thing.
157--->'''Harvey:''' Mr. Vulcan, tell us about your superpower.\
158'''Black Vulcan:''' Pure electricity... in my pants.\
159'''Harvey:''' Tell us, what would life be like without your powers?\
160'''Black Vulcan:''' Well, you know when the power goes out in your house? It would be like that... but in your pants.
161** There is an episode where Harvey, who gets his powers from the sun, needs to stay in the shade for medical reasons, ending up with a powerful addiction to self-tanning lotion, with Peanut as his "dealer".
162** The episode where Harvey defends WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw and his use of an illegal guitar in the course of his job as sheriff, as well as Phil running for president with the backing of the guitar lobby, is an allegory for gun rights and the gun industry.
163* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
164** The episode "Chocolate Boy" is about Chocolate Boy breaking his addiction to chocolate, similarly to alcohol or drugs. It's scary that the storyline of the episode would go completely unchanged if they replaced "chocolate" with "crack" throughout the episode. Also gets kinda funny when you know that he kicks the habit by [[AddictionDisplacement constantly eating radishes]].
165** "Curly Snaps", where Curly locks himself in the Principal's office with the school's dodgeballs until his demands are met, plays out very much like a hostage situation, complete with Arnold as the negotiator.
166* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' - a few episodes depict Jason's binging on candy, acting like a classic problem drinker.
167* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Zim consistently walks in [[ANaziByAnyOtherName goose step]]. Combined with his love of world-conquering and the Irken tendency to [[FantasticRacism slaughter or enslave most other alien races]], it's surprising Nick was okay with it, considering how often they asked to change other things in the show.
168* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'':
169** The Mauler Twins are a duo made up of a blue-skinned genius and his identical clone. Neither of them can remember who's who, arguing about it constantly and whenever one of them shows up the other, they make them admit they're the clone. Take out the sci-fi elements out of it and it's basically two twins fighting about who was born first.
170** Once Machine Head inserts the quantum-probability chip into his head in "That Actually Hurt", he reacts with what can only be described as a [[HighOnCatnip robotic cocaine high]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer It has to be seen to be believed]].
171* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'':
172** "Gorilla in Our Midst" has Doggie Daddy frantically searching for Augie after a catastrophe that devastates town square[[note]] Grape Ape suffering a food coma[[/note]].
173** "Ice, Ice Daddy" has Captain Caveman hung over after a night of partying[[note]] Something that he apparently does regularly. [[/note]] and discover that he has a child that he is not prepared to care for, mentally or otherwise.
174* ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'''s ''Life with Loopy'' episode "''Loopy And The Lost Voice''" features a scene with Loopy (whom has gone voiceless) going to a Lost-And-Found store to test out some temporary voices. The voice devices in question unsettlingly look like sleeveless fleshlights.
175* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
176** The carrots in Episode 96 are clearly meant to parody cigars or cigarettes; they're addictive, and they cause health problems. It's especially evident in the restaurant scene: Stumpy chews his carrots, and the smell annoys Kaeloo (like non-smokers getting annoyed by the smell of tobacco smoke), he taps on the carrot and a few bits fall of (like ashes from a cigarette), and he throws the top of the carrot (the butt of the cigar) at Kaeloo. When Kaeloo asks Mr. Cat, the waiter, to make them leave, he says he can't because they're in the "carrot zone" (smoking zone).
177** In Episode 108, Stumpy the squirrel decides that he wants to become a cat, and he says he's a "cat trapped in a squirrel's body" and then tries to get surgery to turn himself into a cat.
178** In one episode, a mysterious thing [[CameFromTheSky falls out of the sky]] and is confirmed to be a living organism. Kaeloo and Quack Quack decide to take it in, but Mr. Cat and Stumpy refuse to accept this. The argument that ensues makes it seem similar to people arguing about immigrants to their country.
179** One of the episodes had Kaeloo pay Mr. Cat to allow her to engage in violent acts of affection such as hugging him tightly to cause him pain or scratching him. The whole thing is set up like a BDSM encounter.
180** Episode 139 follows a super hero called [[CaptainErsatz Ratman]] (a squirrel) and his sidekick (a duck) who share an apartment. Their nosy neighbor assures them that she's "very open-minded" and that she's perfectly fine with the "modern" idea of a duck and a squirrel living together.
181** In Episode 113, Mr. Cat makes a slideshow to show to the rest of the characters and [[HowDidThatGetInThere accidentally]] puts a photo of Kaeloo on the first slide. Horrified and embarrassed, Kaeloo tells him that the photo was supposed to be "private" between them and Mr. Cat apologizes, saying that the photo was "for later". The whole thing plays out as though she shared a nude photo with him and it accidentally got leaked.
182** In the English dub, Mr. Cat often refers to Quack Quack, a duck, as a platypus, implying that he thinks that [[InterchangeableAsianCultures all animals with webbed feet and beaks are the same]].
183* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': Fantos' dissapointment about how [[spoiler:Erodius isn't doing exciting things like destroying planets]] is played out like someone's significant other complaining about how the spark in their relationship has gone out.
184-->'''Fantos:''' What happened to that ultimate force of evil that I fell in love with?
185* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
186** "Homecoming Upset" has Ron and Bonnie elected Homecoming King and Queen, and thus are forced to attend a number of public events together. At one of them, Ron is holding a fire hose and Bonnie comes up from behind and surprises him with a hug. The hose picks that exact moment to turn on and [[SomethingElseAlsoRises shoots water]] all over Kim.
187** Kim laying on her belly with Warmonga looming over her with her weapon. Kim even groans.
188** In Episode 53, Kim and Shego are affected by devices known as "moodulators" that makes them—especially in become affectionate at one minute, and lashing out at them in anger in the next, depending on what's going on with the remote at the time. And they each fixate on a male target for both their affections and anger. Ron and Drakken are thoroughly confused.
189** In "A Sitch in Time," Ron and Kim are talking about him moving to Norway and Kim's trying to reassure him that they'll still be able to work together.
190* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Her [[spoiler:shapeshifting abilities]] appear on her 13th birthday, and there are several remarks about how the body "goes through changes" at that age--just not ''these'' ones, usually.
191* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
192** In "The Revelation", Amon has set up [[spoiler:his removal of the ability to bend from criminal leaders at an Equalist rally]] in the manner of a public execution.
193** At the end of "The Voice in the Night", [[spoiler:Equalists ambush Korra, chi-block her, and tie her up so that Amon can taunt her with word of his plans while gripping her jaw. At the end, he knocks her out--on camera--with a blow to the neck]]. It, and Korra's traumatized sobbing into Tenzin's chest, is painfully similar to a rape. [[spoiler:When Amon actually does debend Korra it's equally as bad...made worse in that ''[[LoveInterest Mako]]'' was ForcedToWatch.]]
194--->'''Amon:''' I told you I would destroy you.
195** Amon's ability to take away bending is similar to rape, especially people's traumatized reactions to it.
196** The rape imagery continues in "When Extremes Meet" when Tarrlok bloodbends Korra to the ground, knocking her unconscious and then slowly advances on her as her eyes close. And then he ties her up and drives her away in the back of a van. And locks her up in a basement.
197*** Not to mention there was Tarrlok talking of [[spoiler:taking Korra with him when he plans to run away after being found out of kidnapping her. [[FridgeHorror Who the hell knows what he could have done to Korra had that actually happened]].]]
198** Amon's backstory about he [[spoiler:and his brother Tarrlok were forced into bloodbending training by their father Yakone]] is disturbingly like sexual abuse in how degrading the characters feel as a result of it and how it continually propagates throughout the generations.
199** The symbolic rapes continue for Korra in the next two seasons. The FinalBattle of Season 2 is preceded by [[spoiler:her uncle ripping part of her soul out of her body (via ''forcing a spirit tentacle down her throat'') and an almost incapacitated Korra unable to stop him as he severs her connections to her past lives one by one.]]
200** The symbolism continues escalating in the Season 3 finale, where [[spoiler:Zaheer knocks Korra out, flings her over his shoulder, and carries her unconscious to an underground cavern. She wakes up with most of her clothes gone and her hands and feet bound so that she can't move or bend. She survives but is broken physically and emotionally and takes years to recover from the ordeal]]. Just in case the imagery wasn't clear enough, in Season 4, [[spoiler:she tries to help herself heal by confronting her attacker in his prison cell, where she ends up shouting at him, "You ruined me!"]]
201** And to drive this all further home, consider that every one of these cases in an example of a charismatic, older man finding ways to demoralize, torture, or otherwise break a young woman down, with all but Zaheer seeming to relish it rather sadistically (and one of them is [[spoiler:Korra's ''own uncle'']]), while the last villain of the series, Kuvira, is female and does not at all treat Korra in this manner (what suffering she does undergo is either self-inflicted or lingering effects of the previous three). The implications become even clearer when compared to the fact that the traumas suffered by other male characters in the franchise, while often severe (particularly Aang and Zuko), are not at all similar to what happens to Korra. As powerful and dark as the storytelling in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' is, and empowering in the way it shows the main character getting stronger, more balanced, and confident by overcoming her various traumas, it can't be denied that it's [[{{Squick}} rather uncomfortable]] watching this sort of torture and breakdown of a female character when nothing of the sort is done to male characters in the franchise. [[IntendedAudienceReaction Though that's probably the point, to some degree]].
202** ''Nuktut of the North'', the "mover" starring Bolin in Season 2, is a [[Film/TheBirthOfANation1915 propaganda film about a north against south civil conflict]] which [[Film/NanookOfTheNorth blatantly mixes fact and fantasy in its portrayal of arctic inhabitants]] in an era where motion picture technology is still brand new.
203* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'' has [[spoiler:Vax]] cornered in Sylas and Delilah Briarwood's rooms during a recon attempt gone wrong. His increasingly desperate attempts to lie, flirt, run or fight his way out of the situation are useless, and eventually he's paralysed into helplessness while Sylas tells him, "You look ''delicious''," and [[VampireBitesSuck sinks fangs into his neck]]. It runs very much like a rape scene. [[spoiler:Vax]] is terrified, eventually hurling himself out of the third-floor window to escape...and then Sylas ''follows him''.
204* In an episode of Disney's ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'', Lloyd, an alien, notices his antenna has been acting up a lot lately. As the episode is about puberty, it's all pretty obvious. It turns out that Verdigrean boys will psychically project strange characters at the most inconvenient moments. The really strange thing, for a Saturday morning cartoon, is Lloyd's grandfather telling him that on Mars boys would get together to see who could project the weirdest character.
205* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Captain K'nuckles' [[FrothyMugsOfWater bottle of maple syrup]] probably isn't ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Candy is also treated in a similar fashion.
206* ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'': In one episode, A female makeup robot under Wily's control straps Roll to a chair. Roll tells the robot to let her go, but Wily gives her a ''creepy'' look and goes "Not before I give you the beauty treatment!" Then the cosmetics robot produces an oversized powderpuff from her chest area and tries to smush it in Roll's face. Roll acts like this is the worst thing in the world that could happen to her.
207* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'':
208** [[spoiler:Alya and Nino]] are akumatized into Oblivio out of shame because they were caught hiding in a closet during a field trip to play a game together, a game that is designed for two people. At the end of the episode they apologize to the class, only for several other pairs -- both canon and strongly implied couples -- to admit that they, too, often play said game. In fact, the only people who haven't played it seem to be Adrien and Marinette, though Adrien remarks that the game seems fun; Alya tells him that he just needs to find the right partner... right, Marinette?
209** Marinette's dad, Tom Dupain, was estranged from his staunchly traditionalist father after [[MalignedMixedMarriage adding rice to his family's traditional bread recipe]].[[note]]Sabine Cheng, Tom's wife, is Chinese.[[/note]] Though it's also shown that he has no problem talking to Sabine on the phone until she brings up Tom, implying that he really ''is'' just that petty.
210** In the fifth season, injury Gabriel sustained from Cat Noir's Catacalysm is used as a standin for living with a terminal disease with treatment to lessen the pain and slow the spread of it across the body.
211* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'':
212** The trip to [[MakeOutPoint Inspiration Point]], where Orel and his girlfriend go to "pray". [[spoiler:They really do pray.]]
213** A less funny example is [[spoiler:when Nurse Bendy's "hubby" teddy falls on her rump, knocking some milk onto her face in the process]]. She ''freaks out''.
214* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': In episode "[[Recap/MyAdventuresWithSupermanS1E05MyAdventuresWithMadScience My Adventures With Mad Science]]", while Mallah and Brain were targeted by Task Force X and forced into hiding because they wanted to create rather than destroy, their repeated comments about finding a world where they are accepted for who they are makes it seem as if they were instead shunned due to their status as a gay couple.
215* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'':
216** In "Daydream Believer", Jenny receives a dreaming chip, which she proceeds to abuse whenever she is bored. It's not hard to imagine it being about psychoactive drugs instead of daydreaming.
217** "Victim of Fashion" deserves a mention. The episode sees Jenny and [[AlphaBitch The Crust Cousins]] get into a sort of competition to see who can be the most fashionable. It eventually climaxes when Jenny "slims down" by removing all her gadgets, leaving her a pitifully weak walking wireframe with a head.
218** "Tuckered Out" has a scene where, when she's helping him with his movie, Tuck tells Jenny that she's not acting "robotic enough", which echos the experience of many actors of color being told that they weren't acting enough like their ethnicity or didn't look close enough in the direction's minds in some cases.
219* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
220** The episode "Call of the Cutie" concerns Apple Bloom being the last in her class not to get a "cutie mark," a symbol that represents who she is and what she'll do with her life. The language used to describe getting a cutie mark ("It isn't something that happens overnight, and no amount of wishing, hoping, or begging will make a cutie mark appear before its time"), the way Apple Bloom is teased for not having one, and the fact that Diamond Tiara has a "cuteceñera" to celebrate getting hers, is reminiscent of a girl going through puberty.
221** In "Bridle Gossip", Twilight Sparkle's horn gets "cursed", and needless to say the [[https://derpibooru.org/362056 imagery is such]] that it's very easy to draw parallels between her inability to use magic and erectile dysfunction.
222** "Bridle Gossip" also features the entire town discriminating against Zecora, a zebra who speaks with a foreign accent and has a black (and white) coat.
223** In "Owl's Well That Ends Well", Spike goes into Twilight's drawer looking for an extra quill, but finds a very frilly saddle which looks similar to panties.
224** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]" is chock full of examples of the romantic variety, such as Cheerilee and Big Macintosh sharing a cherry from their milkshake in a manner that resembles, at best, intimate kissing. The scene that truly takes the cake is Cheerilee and Big Macintosh [[WhatDidIDoLastNight coming out of their love poisoning, with no memory of how they got there, on a feather bed in the bottom of a pit, with Cheerilee wearing a wedding veil]].
225** "Ponyville Confidential" is punctuated at one point by a BlackComedyBurst where Pinkie Pie, in response to the Gabby Gums article detailing her "out-of-control party animal" lifestyle, abruptly breaks down crying and admits that she has a problem. In case the implications weren't clear enough, the story includes a photo of her [[LampshadeWearing wearing a lampshade]] and dancing in a punch bowl.
226** The changelings behave almost ''exactly'' like [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubi]], albeit gaining power by [[EmotionEater feeding off of love]] instead of sex. Moreover, their leader, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]] [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Chrysalis]], [[spoiler:impersonates the bride-to-be]] in order to "feed" off of Shining Armor, and even [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace gets touchy-feely with him]] during her [[EvilGloating villainous monologue]], as well as sounding borderline ''lustful'' in some lines of her VillainSong, most notably "be one lucky bride".
227** "Hearth's Warming Eve" is comparable to any nation's history in which the nobility (unicorns), the military (pegasi) and/or poverty-stricken workers (earth ponies) are in conflict, complete with [[FantasticRacism distrust and bigotry]] on all sides.
228** "The Cutie Map" centers on the Mane Six going to a dystopian village where everyone has given up their cutie marks so that they're all "equal" and nobody will be better than anybody, which is a lot like communism.
229** "Amending Fences" reveals that Twilight's old friend Moondancer became a heartbroken recluse after the former declined an invitation to her party in the pilot episode. Considering she had at least thee other friends who did come to the party, one would think that this was merely an overreaction. But it turns out that the party was meant to help Moondancer improve her social life, and Twilight was the one pony she considered her best friend. With all that in mind, Moondancer's behavior towards Twilight seems all-too similar to a person who was rejected by their crush.
230** "Tanks for the Memories" deals with Rainbow Dash dealing with the fact that her pet tortoise will have to hibernate through the winter. The conflict plays out as though she were dealing with the impending death of a loved one, to the point that she goes through the FiveStagesOfGrief over the course of the episode. To make the parallel even more unambiguous, the plot starts with RD noticing something is wrong with Tank and taking him to a doctor, and ends with her burying him (well, helping him burrow into the ground for hibernation).
231** Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's mocking of Scootaloo's inability to fly in "Flight to the Finish", especially given the implications that her wings may never grow, is shown as being akin to bullies mocking a kid who is handicapped.
232** The way poor Thorax loses control of himself when presented with an abundance of love or affection, right down to trembling, sweating profusely, and even lashing out at others over it, is ''very'' reminiscent of a recovering alcoholic or drug addict.
233** In "Every Little Thing She Does", Twilight's friends act like they're [[HangoverSensitivity suffering from severe hangovers]] after Twilight undoes the mind control spell Starlight cast on them.
234--->'''Applejack:''' I dunno what kinda whammy Starlight put on us, but I feel like I got shoved through the Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000.\
235'''Rainbow Dash:''' Tell me about it...\
236'''Rarity:''' If everypony could speak in a whisper for the next few days, that would be delightful. My head is thumping!
237** The episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E6SurfAndOrTurf Surf And/Or Turf]]" in general can be interpreted to parallel a lot of real-life situations where someone finds themselves torn between two lifestyles, homes or identities.
238*** Terramar is in a situation where, after the Storm King's defeat, his father decided to return to the surface and become a hippogriff again while his mother opts to remain as a Seapony, with him torn between the two places. This situation could easily compared to a kid whose parents are divorced, and the kid having to decide which parent to live with full-time. Notably, after hearing that his father lives on Mount Aris and his mother lives in Seaquestria, Sweetie Belle acts sheepish and says "Oh, I'm sorry" like a person who realizes they've brought up such a sensitive topic. Sky Beak and Ocean Flow could also be interpreted to be AmicableExes given how they greet each other near the end.
239*** Having to choose between two species to be your "default" by itself may bring up comparisons to the struggles transgender/gender-fluid people go through when it comes to deciding which gender they have to go with in adulthood.
240*** On a similar note, Terramar's dilemma can also be reminiscent of someone torn between two cultures or nationalities — for instance, someone born in one culture who moved into another, or with parents who came from different cultures — and having to choose whether to favor one or the other or [[TakeAThirdOption to favor a "hybrid" or bicultural identity]], which is what Terramar decides to do at the end.
241*** The situation between the hippogriffs and seaponies also parallels an area where two very distinct cultures live in their own separate communities.
242* The ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short "The Feelers" has what can only be described as a thinly-veiled reference to drug addiction where the band's guitarist Mo Skito is shocked to see the band's lead singer Mitzi Moth bang against a lightbulb with an entranced look on her face. Mo stops her and points out that she knows this isn't good for her.
243* The Beast in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is an AllegoricalCharacter for suicide, infecting those lost in his forest with despair until they give up and [[spoiler:become Edelwood trees.]]
244* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
245** Eda's [[spoiler:curse]] in is often used as a stand in for living with an incurable yet treatable disease. Several of the plotlines used include an unscrupulous shopkeeper price gouging her for the elixir that she needs to keep it under control, [[spoiler:her mother getting tricked by scammers in her search for a non-existent cure, or the reveal that her ex broke up with her because she kept being secretive about her condition.]]
246--->'''Eda:''' [[spoiler:No one likes having a curse, but if you take the right steps, it's manageable.]]
247** By contrast, Emperor Belos' condition that requires the consumption of palismen reads a lot closer to a drug addiction, complete with him suffering violent and painful outbursts as a stand in for going into withdrawl. [[spoiler:The comparison gets taken even further when it's revealed that consuming palismen is what caused his condition in the first place.]]
248** In "Thanks to Them", [[spoiler:Luz's depression over her role in helping Belos' plans causes her to believe she's a failure who's hurt everyone she loves. In class, her rant about a character in a story is [[PsychologicalProjection very clearly really her expressing her anger at herself]] and ends with Luz stating the "hero" should never have been born. This comes off almost like self-loathing to the point of '''suicidal intentions''', which isn't helped later by the scene of her making a video diary, acknowledging her own mistakes and that she is simply planning to stay in the human realm, which reads distressingly like someone leaving a suicide note. While it's never confirmed if she actually is that depressed, given the situation, this is still enough of a red flag about Luz's mental state to warn Camila that she needs to intervene ''immediately''.]]
249* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E1ThePatrickShowCashesInStarGames The Patrick Show Cashes In]]", when Patrick sees a man hit by [[ImprobableWeaponUser Perch's Bermuda shorts cannon]], he dramatically holds him and talks to him as though he's been badly wounded by a gunshot.
250* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'': One character is caught sneaking into the school bathroom, and Pepper Ann is horrified to find out that she has taken up ''[[NoSmoking gum chewing]]''.
251* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
252** Perry the Platypus discovers that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is having his evil plans foiled by another hero, which is [[FoeRomanceSubtext set up like an affair]], complete with Perry walking in and Doof having a pawprint (re: lipstick) on his face, with Peter the Panda hiding in the nearby closet. NotWhatItLooksLike indeed. They're not enemies. Just bad friends. Or so Doof said. There's a whole break-up dialogue between Doof and Perry. The "affair" is played with again in "Meapless in Seattle". And in "Lost in Danville", Peter the Panda's own nemesis, Professor Mystery, kidnaps Doofenshmirtz and hold him responsible for ruining their relationship. Doof points out that their problem is all about lack of communication.[[note]]No ranting, no backstories, no explanation what his inators do so as to set the stakes for the thwarting...[[/note]]
253** "Your hotdog is no match for my bratwurst!" [[DoubleEntendre Doof begins to fight Perry with his very long bratwurst]], when Perry whips out his considerably shorter hotdog. Well, ItMakesSenseInContext...
254** A similar situation takes place in "Hip Hip Parade", between [[ThoseTwoGuys Buford and Baljeet.]] A big part of the episode is about [[HoYay Buford breaking up with Baljeet]], finding a "new nerd", then eventually dumping him and deciding to be Baljeet's bully again. Buford even asks the new geek to speak with the same accent Baljeet has.
255** In "Perry Lays An Egg", Doofenshmirtz begs Perry to "thwart him" after Perry leaves, seeing how his latest scheme was pretty pathetic. He chases Perry into town and just when Perry thinks he successfully escaped Doof...
256---> '''Doofenshmirtz''': (''appearing out of nowhere'') Thwart me Perry the Platypus!\
257'''[[TheSpeechless Perry]]''': (''Looks shocked and runs away'')
258** Doofenshmirtz once had a girlfriend who left him for a man with huge hands. [[BiggerIsBetterInBed You know what they say about guys with big hands.]]
259** "Phineas And Ferb Get Busted" is a somewhat disturbing homage to prison films and the rehabilitation/re-programming in ''Film/AClockworkOrange''.
260** "My Fair Goalie" features a documentary about the esteemed professor Ross Eforp, who was forced into hiding in the 50s after it was discovered that his name is a palindrome, because there were strong anti-palindrome sentiments at the time. While it's nonsensical, it does draw parallels to similar anti-Communist or anti-gay sentiments at the time in the real world.
261* In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "[[Recap/PinkyAndTheBrainS2E11 Brinky]]", The Brain attempts to clone himself, which almost works until Pinky's DNA (from a clipped toenail) accidentally gets combined with Brain's, thus essentially making them parents of the resulting clone (and Pinky calling himself the clone's "mommy"). Most of the dialogue during the cloning process is scripted like an actual birth: for example, when the door on the cloning machine won't close (which is the reason Pinky's DNA is even in there), the Brain tells Pinky to help him "push", complete with Pinky doing Lamaze breathing.
262* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998''
263** The episode "Candy is Dandy" played a candy addiction as a drug addiction, even going as far as hiring Mojo Jojo as their "fall guy" to commit some misdeeds to send him to jail so as to be rewarded with said candy. (Those [[EroticEating sounds they made]] [[OrgasmicallyDelicious when eating the candy]], AND after, really didn't help.)
264** The scene in "Cover Up" where a monster walks up to Buttercup (the latter which is lying down on the ground) and she says [[LittleNo "No..."]] could easily be though of as a [[RapeDiscretionShot rape scene]] without context.
265* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'':
266** Man-Boy's ramblings seem to sound like those of a men's rights activist.
267** One episode featured Buttercup and Blossom getting hangovers after binging on candy at a sleepover the previous night. It's a WholePlotReference to ''Film/TheHangover''.
268** In "Painbow", the results of everyone being affected by the rainbow appear similar to some of the symptoms of being high on Ecstasy, minus the less pleasant things like teeth-grinding and nausea.
269* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': In the episode "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E12WhoMessedUpTheTreehouseFactOrFiction Who Messed Up the Treehouse?]]", the kids all make a huge mess in the treehouse. None of them want to take responsibility for the mess. They try to find different places to play, but they don't work out. They eventually realize that this problem isn't going away unless they do something about it, and that they only have one treehouse, so they have to learn to share the responsibility and clean it up. This is a metaphor for the trash problem on Planet Earth, and how Earth is the only place we can live, so we have to take care of it.
270* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': The episode "The Box" has the titular box having similar effects on T.J. to solitary confinement.
271* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Everything about Hexadecimal in Season 3 involved BDSM. Which was made even more disturbing when you realize the fact Megabyte is her brother...
272-->'''HerrDoctor''': I think she ''likes'' being tied up.\
273'''Megabyte''': [[BrainBleach Let us not even THINK about that.]]
274* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' and the sequel ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''
275%%** The grundel is often compared to a pedophile that stalks children.
276** Another possible pedophile/molestation metaphor is the Boogie Man. Basically, Boogie Man can be interpreted as a metaphor for child abuse and molestation where the victim is often not believed. The way Egon reacts is similar to the way an adult victim of molestation or abuse would.
277* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'':
278** Stimpy has to overcome his TV addiction in one episode by quitting cold turkey. He eventually weans himself off... [[{{Metaphorgotten}} and goes into gambling.]]
279** In the episode ''Jerry the Belly Button Elf'', Stimpy keeps playing with his belly button, which is treated similar to masturbation, but when Stimpy enters it (yes, he enters his own navel), he goes on an acid trip before meeting Jerry.
280** The ''Adult Party Cartoon'' has a painfully obvious scene featuring Ren with a saw strapped to his groin sawing through a log on Stimpy's back, causing Stimpy to react in pleasure. At the end, Ren's saw goes flaccid and he's shown looking tired and [[SmokingHotSex smoking]]. When Stimpy wants Ren to stay and cuddle, Ren throws him a rag and tells him to clean up the sawdust on his back (which is treated as if it's...something more disgusting).
281** "Powdered Toast Man" ends with the title superhero taking over as President. After he gets a blazing fire going in the Oval Office fireplace (by tossing in the Constitution and Bill of Rights), he and his Lovely Assistant exchange moony-eyed glances. He holds up a hot dog on a stick, she holds up a melting marshmallow.
282* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': The subplot of "Something Ricked This Way Comes", in which Morty and his father clash over whether or not Pluto should be considered a planet, is reminiscent of the climate change debate.
283* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'':
284** The Sunshine class are a group of robots with faulty psycho-chips. They "get their own bus" and are exempt from taking standardized tests, making them a parallel to special-ed students. Then the end of the episode reveals that robots with faulty chips are disposed of via [[HurlItIntoTheSun a rocket into the sun]] because they "burden" society with their feelings.
285** In one episode, the school janitor offers Thrasher and Blastus a tonic (which is made of a gross yellow slime that comes out of a pipe by the playground) that is treated similarly to a performance-enhancing drug like steroids. Later, the duo come down with serious side effects from drinking it. At one point, a character says to them "real alpha dogs don't need to drink stuff that comes out of a pipe at the playground."
286* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Closet Clown" was confirmed to be an allegory for closeted homosexuals: It involves Ed Bighead having a closeted fascination with clowns. He sneaks a clown nose into his briefcase, then at work unwinds by locking the restroom door and "honking". His boss catches him, then reveals that he too is a secret clown, and welcomes Ed into the underground clown scene. His friends and family are surprised at his double life, but they accept him in the end... Until Rocko reveals he likes rainbows. Then his friends get out the torches and pitchforks.
287* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
288** In "Give and Take" Chuckie can't stop playing with Boppo. When the others tire of watching, they leave Chuckie with the toy. Phil comments, "A kid his age should be outside playing with his friends, not sitting alone in his room bopping his Boppo." Lil adds that her brother is right that Chuckie has a problem.
289** "The Trial" is already a parody of courtroom films, but the clincher comes at the end when Angelica is found out as the perpetrator, and Didi and Betty go and punish her. As she's dragged away, she screams "No! Not the chair! NOT THE CHAIR!" [[spoiler:She is forced to sit in a ''high chair'' until her father comes back.]]
290** The episode "Cradle Attraction" has Chuckie and a girl named Megan discover that they love being mean to each other, and throughout the episode, that's how they show affection towards one another. Near the end of the episode, Chuckie goes to find Megan and "put a worm in her hair," but can't figure out where she went. He walks up behind her, and sees her poking another boy with a tree branch (which is how she first showed that she likes Chuckie). Chuckie is appalled and runs away, screaming "Megan, how could you?!" while Megan shouts "Wait, it's not what it looks like!" Phil even comments "You'd think if she was gonna pick on another kid, at least she'd stop picking on you first."
291** In "Weaning Tommy" Didi and Stu try to take Tommy off the bottle and have him drink out of a sippy-cup instead. In the middle of the episode, Phil and Lil are visiting and drinking out of their bottles, while Tommy is missing his bottle and has bags under his eyes. The first thing he says to them: “Phil, Lil...I need a drink.” He also offers whatever toys and books he has in his playpen just to share a bottle with one of them.
292* The plot of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' episode "The Underground Bride" can be summed up like this: A boy finds out his sister is in love with a Bad Boy-type and becomes very concerned about her relationship. Digging up some dirt of her boyfriend, he finds out that his sister is being used as a means to a terrible end. Replace the "boy" with "Zak", the "sister" with "Zon", the "Bad Boy" with the "MonsterOfTheWeek", and "the end" with "being dragged off to the Underworld".
293* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
294** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother from the Same Planet]]:
295*** Lisa's addiction to the Corey hotline is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction.
296*** From the same episode:
297---->'''Homer''': You've been out gallivanting with that floozy of a Bigger Brother of yours, haven't you? '''Haven't you?'''
298*** Also this exchange being reflective of [[FakeOrgasm faking orgasms]]:
299---->'''Homer:''' Remember when I used to push you on the swing?\
300'''Bart:''' I was faking it.\
301'''Homer:''' ''(Gasp)'' Liar!\
302'''Bart:''' Oh yeah? Remember this? "''Higher, dad! '''Higher!''' Wheeeeee... '''WHEEEEEE...'' Push harder, dad, c'mon! Higher! '''Higher!''' Faster!''"\
303'''Homer:''' Stop it! Stop it! ''(Covering his ears and running away)'' '''STOP IT!'''
304** In "Brawl in the Family", when Homer moves into the treehouse with a woman he married while inebriated in Las Vegas, Marge overhears that woman making a sandwich to Homer's specifications... which to the audience sounds surprisingly like a certain sexual act. An appalled Marge exclaims, "[[SubvertedTrope Oh no! She's making him a sandwich!]]"
305** In "Love, Springfield Style", in Bart's version of the movie ''Sid and Nancy'', Lisa and Nelson [[GRatedDrug become chocoholics in a way that is portrayed like a drug addiction]], right down to using razor blades to divide small piles of chocolate milk mix, using cigarette lighters to melt pieces of candy bars in spoons, and flushing various chocolate candies down the toilet whenever the cops show up.
306** In the episode "Round Springfield", this classic exchange happens:
307--->'''Bleeding Gums Murphy:''' I spent all my money on my $1,500 a day habit.\
308''(start flashback)''\
309'''Bleeding Gums Murphy:''' I'd like another Fabergé egg, please.\
310'''Salesman:''' Sir, don't you think you've had enough?\
311'''Bleeding Gums Murphy:''' I'll tell you when I've had enough!\
312''(changes to a scene of Murphy lying broke and destitute in an alleyway, surrounded by broken Fabergé eggs)''
313** In "Last Exit to Springfield", Mr. Burns tries to bribe Homer, who's a Union leader. Homer [[MistakenForGay thinks Mr. Burns is hitting on him.]]
314--->'''Burns:''' We don't have to be adversaries, Homer. We both want a fair union contract.\
315'''Homer:''' ''(thinking)'' Why is Mr. Burns being so nice to me?\
316'''Burns:''' And if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.\
317'''Homer:''' ''(thinking)'' Wait a minute. Is he coming onto me?\
318'''Burns:''' I mean, if I should slip something into your pocket, what's the harm?\
319'''Homer:''' ''(thinking)'' My God! He ''is'' coming onto me!\
320'''Burns:''' After all, negotiations make strange bedfellows. ''(chuckle, wink)''\
321'''Homer:''' ''(thinking)'' Aaaaaagh! ''(out loud)'' Sorry, Mr. Burns, but I don't go in for these backdoor shenanigans. Sure, I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!
322** In "Dangerous Curves", the interaction between Bart and Lisa it's played like an old married couple. Here Bart is the father, Lisa is the mother and Maggie is their kid. Bart mentions Marge just like if she is his mother in law (Lisa's mother).
323** Yet another, in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": Bart becomes Nelson's "best friend", and it's played exactly like a relationship, with lines like "I've known him for ages, but we met at a party and hit it off right away" and jealousy over Bart 'flying kites' with another boy. Complete with a ''Film/BrokebackMountain'' homage at the end.
324--->'''Nelson:''' Haw-haw! I touched your heart!
325** In "Lisa the Drama Queen", the friendship between Lisa and Juliet makes you remember a lesbian romance and obsessive codependent relationships. Besides, their fantasy world "Equalia" reminds some serious mental disorders.
326* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' episode "A Hug For Grouchy", the story of Grouchy running away from Smurfs who were stalking him and pouncing on him to give him a hug on Hug-A-Smurf Day, whether he wanted one or not, could be construed as an allegory for rape.
327* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
328** In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', when, prompted by Robotnik's comment that a complete idiot could make a better robot than them, Scratch and Grounder decide to create a robot of their own. The whole thing is played a lot like they're having a child together; first, they hug and say "We're gonna be parents!" Then, they put spare robot parts into the "Robot-Making Machine", and Grounder asks Scratch wistfully, "Oh, Scratch, I wonder what it'll look like?" When the robot comes out, Scratch cries, "It's a boy! He has my chin, and my eyes!" And, when the robot kid runs away from home, the two end up placing an ad in the paper that says "Parents Seek Missing Robot".
329** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' episode "Hooked on Sonics", [[OfficialCouple Sonic and Sally]] share their [[TheBigDamnKiss first onscreen mouth-to-mouth kiss]]. [[https://youtu.be/JubzKEniPBE?t=24 During the scene]], it's quite clear that Sonic is using his tongue, and he holds Sally directly against his chest as they both start [[GRatedSex moving together in rhythm]].
330* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
331** "Here Comes The Neighborhood" was devoted to the town's reaction when Token Black, the only ''rich'' kid in town, convinces a number of other ''rich'' families (such as those of Will Smith and Oprah) to move to South Park. The locals get upset, and try progressively more extreme plots to drive the "richers" out of town: burning giant lowercase letter Ts on their lawns (short for "'''t'''ime to leave"), dressing as peak-headed ghosts (because rich people are scared of [[ScoobyDooHoax ghosts]], naturally), etc. This was all a plan by Mister Garrison to take over their property and sell it to make the South Park residents rich, which fell through because the others hated rich folk... to which he replies, "Well, at least we got rid of those damn ni--" before being [[CurseCutShort cut off by the closing credits]].
332** "Red Man's Greed", the history of American colonization and Native American displacement... with roles reversed. Instead of smallpox blankets, for example, the Natives give the Americans blankets contaminated with SARS.
333** "Margaritaville", a Jew (Kyle) starts preaching and gathering followers. Check. Some adults start taking him as a threat. Check. He is betrayed by one of his followers (Cartman) who sold him out. Check. He does a (sorta) HeroicSacrifice. Check. He is hailed as a savior. [[spoiler:Subversion, Obama is the one]].
334--->'''Kyle:''' Awww! Come on!
335** "Butters' Bottom Bitch", Butters being considered a man once he gets his first kiss is an obvious allusion to SexAsARiteOfPassage. Then Butters starts a "kissing company" where he recruits girls to make money by kissing boys. The sexual metaphor is then [[SubvertedTrope thrown away for literal sex]] when Butters unknowingly recruits ''actual'' prostitutes to be part of his company, and winds up becoming regarded as the best pimp out there.
336--->'''Butters''': Senator Morris gets kisses every day at lunchtime! You know where he likes to get kissed? In a motel room! Darnedest thing! He must get sleepy.
337** In "Major Boobage", even with Kyle giving him hints, Cartman didn't (or refused to) see any significance to his hiding of outlawed cats in his attic. Cartman even insisted Kyle wouldn't understand what it's like to have your life made illegal. The joke, of course, is that Kyle is Jewish and [[{{Irony}} Cartman has always admired the Nazis]].
338** "Crème Fraiche": In RealLife, the Shake Weight is already mocked for its handjob imagery in RealLife, but it's exaggerated in this episode, where Sharon basically has an affair with her Shake Weight as her marriage fails. It squirts a cooling liquid in Sharon's face and gives her money for cab fare after the workout is done. Meanwhile, Randy's plot has him aroused by cooking shows in an instance of ''literal'' FoodPorn.
339** Completely parodied in "The Ring" with the Music/TheJonasBrothers doing obvious sexual things such as spraying their white hot foam on the faces of young girls. (Which they actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik2EppSLlew did]].)
340** In "Go Fund Yourself", Cartman names his startup company "Washington Redskins" because the USPTO removed the copyright on [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague the NFL team]]. [[http://www.hogshaven.com/2014/9/24/6841881/south-park-tackles-washington-redskins The whole deal is basically]] Cartman's Redskins = the NFL team (a company that doesn't care about public opinion) and Washington Redskins = native Americans (people offended by its association with said company). This all culminates in the football players refusing to play the Dallas Cowboys, leading owner Dan Snyder to go by himself [[UnnecessaryRoughness and get massacred.]] Thus in a protest...
341--->"There's nothing sweet about a people who were decimated. A once proud nation that finally lost hope and left their leader to be massacred by Cowboys in a defiant last stand!"
342** In a pretty obvious reference to events in Ferguson, MO, "The Magic Bush" has protests erupt in South Park after Stan's UAV drone get shot down by a drone being piloted by police. The national news reporting on it states that Stan's drone was black and unarmed. Eventually the governor of Colorado calls in the Nation Guard - a bunch of camouflage colored drones.
343* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has Harry's addiction to the PsychoSerum Globulin Green, which causes black outs and [[spoiler:turns him into the Green Goblin... or did it?]] This is handy for adapting his actual drug addiction in the comics on a child-friendly show.
344* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
345** "Dumped", where [=SpongeBob=] is heartbroken after Gary (his pet snail) leaves him for Patrick is treated as if [=SpongeBob=] and Gary were lovers until Gary eloped.
346** "Squirrel Jokes" can be interpreted as an allegory for racist and/or sexist jokes, with [=SpongeBob=] [[FantasticRacism telling jokes about how all squirrels are stupid]], which results in Sandy facing mockery in her everyday life.
347** "Hooky" shows the dangers of fishing hooks and lures to the fish at Bikini Bottom, or at least how most of them are indifferent to it. Mr. Krabs however warns Spongebob not to go near the hooks else he'll be pulled up to the surface to be eaten, put on display of a gift shop, or even vacuum-packed into a can of Tuna. Patrick tells him the fun of riding a hook and then jumping off before you get fully whisked away. From Krabs' warning, Patrick being an addict, and Spongebob caught in the middle, this could be seen as an allegory of drugs.
348** "Model Sponge", where after thinking he was fired from his job, [=SpongeBob=] gets a job starring in a new sponge commercial, thinking he is just gonna demonstrate cleaning products. However, right before the camera starts rolling, he has his clothes forcibly removed and is used as the model for a cleaning sponge. This can be interpreted as [=SpongeBob=] being tricked into becoming a porn star.
349** Ever get lost while taking public transportation? Chances are you wound up in a place that feels just as alien and creepy as Rock Bottom.
350** "Bulletin Board" has [=SpongeBob=] put up a bulletin board for Krusty Krab customers to write restaurant reviews, but one customer ([[spoiler:Patrick]]) uses an anonymous alias to write negative or mean reviews, which Mr. Krabs tries to censor. The anonymous customer even resorts to personally insulting other customers. The bulletin board is a clear metaphor for online message boards and review websites that often devolve into trolling and unconstructive criticism.
351** In "Karate Choppers", karate is treated as a metaphor for sex, and the episode portrays the good and bad it can do to a person. When [=SpongeBob=] and Sandy have their first karate fight, [=SpongeBob=] asks Sandy to stop for a second so he can go get his protective equipment. Right after that, he gives her a phone call, and sends his arm through the phone line to karate-chop her, representing [[IntimateTelecommunications phone sex]]. He eventually gets so obessed that he can't focus at work because all he can think about is doing karate with Sandy. When they're told to stop karate, they quickly find that everything else reminds them of the martial art. Once they give in and start karate chopping all over the park, [=SpongeBob=], laying back, sarcastically wonders if Mr. Krabs ever does karate, but is shocked when he realizes that Mr. Krabs, who had told him to stop karate due to him becoming addicted, [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown caught him in the act]].
352-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' For a second, that sounded like--\
353'''Sandy:''' Karate?\
354'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''(excitedly)'' Right now?! ''claps his hand over his mouth''
355** In "Little Yellow Book", [=SpongeBob=] says "I need a break" and goes outside and starts blowing bubbles. The way he does this is ''very'' similar to smoking.
356** In the movie's Goofy Goober's Ice Cream Party Boat scene, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick become [[DrunkOnMilk drunk off]] of [[GRatedDrug ice cream]]. These instances shown are:
357*** [=SpongeBob=] keeps shouting "WAITER!" in suggestive ways.
358*** He drags Patrick and the Goofy Goober peanut on stage and sings a song called "WAITER!" while stumbling around on stage, with very slurred speech.
359*** Later, a ''very'' hung-over [=SpongeBob=] appears with a five o'clock shadow and finds an unconscious Patrick: ''"Patrick!'' HEYWHASSUPBUDDY-?!" ''*face-plants the floor*''
360*** When he arrives at the Krusty Krab, he is very wobbly, still has slurred speech, belches as if ready to throw up, and mistakes King Neptune as a woman. He is clearly having a hangover (or, an "ice cream headache", as The Other Wiki calls it...).
361*** Then there's the Thug Tug, where we see some drunk-looking patrons and bottles and mugs littered everywhere. This time, though, there isn't anything confirming that it's ''not'' alcohol.
362** In "Broken Alarm", some of the earlier dialogue of [=SpongeBob=] trying to fix his alarm clock brings to mind an ICanChangeMyBeloved scenario. After it breaks, he hugs it to defend it from Krabs and Squidward, saying "I can fix it!" As he's fixing it in his front yard, he tells it, "I still love you!"
363* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'':
364** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E04MoistVessel Moist Vessel]]" reveals that the universe is balanced on the back of a giant koala. This is reminiscent of the world turtle Akupāra from Myth/HinduMythology, where the Earth is supported by four big elephants standing on the back of a gigantic turtle.
365** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E05CupidsErrantArrow Cupid's Errant Arrow]]" has the B-plot dealing with the crew of two ships needing to implode a moon from crashing on a nearby planet being impeded by complaints over environmental problems, religious problems and even a conspiracy theory sounds awfully similar to certain political groups objecting to crises like climate change or COVID-19. There's also the last obstacle turning out to be a rich person selfishly equating an inconvenience to their luxury with the seriousness of people's lives being destroyed.
366** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E08Veritas Veritas]]": Every time Rutherford downloads new updates for his cyborg implants, he has to "reboot" himself, causing him to lose consciousness at inopportune times. The way that it's shown is evocative of pretty much any modern real-world tech product (smart phone, computer, game console etc.) and inconvienent software updates.
367** In the Season 1 finale "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E10NoSmallParts No Small Parts]]", when [[spoiler:[[AIIsACrapshoot Badgey]] is uploading the last of the virus to the Pakled ship, he's grunting as if pent-up and [[TheImmodestOrgasm then has a blissful release when finished]].]]
368** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E03WellAlwaysHaveTomParis We'll Always Have Tom Paris]]": The B-plot has Tendi inducing a temporary skin color change in Mariner so she looks like an Orion. After the novelty of going undercover wears off, Mariner comments that it's a little uncomfortable and asks Tendi not to take any pictures. When it wears off at an inopportune moment, the locals form an angry mob, accusing her of wearing "false green". In essence, it's an alien version of {{Blackface}}.
369* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': The episode "Mewnipendence Day" features Star learning that her people, who she always thought were [[WrittenByTheWinners heroic settlers who fought the monsters that threatened their new home]], actually invaded the monsters' land and drove them off of it, and [[WhiteGuilt suffering intense guilt]] after learning about it, serving as a metaphor for racially biased history.
370* The whole premise of the Season 3 finale of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' is about a group of hunters (predators) kidnapping Jedi younglings (children), because Knights (adults) are too strong for them.
371* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
372** [[FusionDance Gem fusion]] is an allegory for relationships, especially romantic ones, with the closeness of those involved directly relating to how stable the resulting fusion is. "Giant Woman" is a whole episode of BelligerentSexualTension, Pearl and Amethyst only able to fuse once they stop fighting, de-fusing immediately once that start fighting again. Ruby and Sapphire meanwhile form the most stable and harmonious fusion in the series because of how deeply in love they are, much like how [[spoiler:Steven and Connie]] in "Alone Together" manage to remain fused for so long until outside stress cause them to de-fuse. Conversely, lacking harmony or being outright antagonistic makes the fusion far more monstrous and unstable, like Alexandrite in "Fusion Cuisine" and [[spoiler:Malachite]] in "Jail Break".
373*** The dialogue proceeding [[spoiler:Jasper]] and [[spoiler:Lapis Lazuli]] fusing in "Jail Break" screams emotional (and some physical) abuse, with the former grabbing the latter's arm and forcing her to "just say yes" to fusing. The resulting fusion is an allegory for a toxic relationship, with the two constantly hurting each other and twisted into something worse. This is further emphasized in "Alone At Sea" when [[spoiler:Jasper begs Lapis to fuse with her again because of how strong they were together, serving as a metaphor for codependency]].
374*** The episode The Answer takes the 'fusion as sex' metaphor even further, in a conversation between Sapphire (who had never fused before) and Ruby (who had, but only with similar gems, not a different one) after their first fusion:
375---->'''Sapphire:''' So, um, did you say I was different?\
376'''Ruby:''' And you haven't before?\
377'''Sapphire:''' Of course not! When would I have ever?
378** Garnet's [[IAmSong I Am Song]] is a response to [[TheBrute Jasper]] mocking her for being [[spoiler:a [[FusionDance fusion]]]]. However, it sounds somewhat like a response to the MoralGuardians who would have a problem with [[spoiler:the relationship of two women in love, which is what she literally is.]]
379** Amethyst's backstory as revealed in "On the Run" calls to mind the plight of people who have self-esteem issues related to their parents having conceived them accidentally. Clinched by the line "I didn't ask to be made!" Or even worse, Amethyst's status as a Gem grown on Earth, via a process which drained the life from the surrounding area, makes her a parallel to a ChildByRape.
380** Steven's struggles as a HalfHumanHybrid more than a few times resemble the struggles of being adopted, torn between two groups of people and trying to find a balance between them, with Greg playing the role of the supportive adoptive parent who wants his child to connect with his other family but is still concerned he'll be hurt doing so. There are also parallels with growing up biracial, not really feeling like you belong with one group or another.
381** Another take on the "fusion = relationship" reading: Pearl [[spoiler:repeatedly lying to]] Garnet so they can fuse in "Cry For Help" is similar to dubious consent or even deceptive rape; Garnet feels used and becomes so distraught that she [[spoiler:briefly unfuses]], and when they do make up in "Friend Ship" and have to fuse again to save the day, Pearl makes a point to only fuse with Garnet after Garnet says she's okay with it.
382** The dilemma between [[spoiler:Ruby and Sapphire]] in "Keystone Motel", including Steven thinking it's all his fault, play out like a kid seeing his parents fighting for the first time.
383** [[WordOfGod Rebecca Sugar herself]] says [[http://io9.com/steven-universe-guidebook-spills-the-secrets-of-the-cry-1704470546 in an interview]] that "Alone Together" is a metaphor for puberty, to "suddenly find yourself with the body of an adult, how quickly that happens, how it feels to have a new power over people, or to suddenly find yourself objectified, all for seemingly no reason since you’re still just you".
384** Peridot's interactions with the Crystal Gems [[spoiler:[[EnemyMine after she agrees to work with them to defeat the Cluster]] ]] have blatant parallels with RealLife prejudices. She is dismissive and then outright hostile towards working with Pearl since Pearls on the Gem Homeworld are a ServantRace and are, in her words, just there to "hold stuff and look pretty," mirroring sexism and racism. She demands that Garnet unfuse since it makes her uncomfortable, mirroring homophobic reactions to PDA between homosexuals. She also [[InnocentlyInsensitive accidentally insults]] Amethyst by calling her "defective" for being smaller than she was supposed to be due to emerging 500 years later than her siblings, mirroring [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism ableism.]] When discussing her discomfort about Garnet, she even bangs the sides of her fists together, a slang gesture for lesbians.
385** Pearl's reaction to Amethyst being from The Kindergarten mirrors views towards someone being from an underprivileged area.
386** In [[WholeEpisodeFlashback "The Answer"]] the condemnation of Ruby and Sapphire's fusion by members of Blue Diamond's court (as fusion between different types of Gems are taboo instead of the same) are very reminiscent of intolerant reactions toward "non-traditional" relationships (interracial, homosexual, etc.).
387** When Steven [[spoiler:begins [[TheEmpath psychically connecting to the Cluster]]]] in "Gem Drill", he begins sweating, breathing hard, and clutching his stomach, looking like he's going through labor pains.
388** The treatment of [[spoiler:the off-color gems by Homeworld]] is an obvious parallel with the eugenics movement, which believes "flawed" people need to be removed from the human gene pool.
389** Speaking of [[spoiler:the Off Colors]], one of them is a fusion of ''six Gems'', and they follow up this reveal with "Maybe more, if we meet the right Gem." If we continue with the "Fusion=Sex" metaphor, it sounds reminiscent of a polyamorous relationship.
390** The way [[spoiler:Blue Diamond]] used to treat [[spoiler:Pink Diamond--and to that extent, White Diamond to the other three Diamonds]] is portrayed similarly to an abusive parent.
391** Steven's reaction to the [[ShipSink sinking of the Lars/Sadie ship]] in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' seems to be referencing how some fans react when their favourite ships get sunk: taking it personally and feeling that they were entitled to some level of input in to how the ship pans out.
392* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':
393** Slade's MindRape attacks on Raven in "Birthmark" are disturbingly similar to an AttemptedRape scene, since every time he touched her ''some of her clothes would disappear''.
394** Malchior from "Spellbound" presents himself to Raven as a noble soul who respects and cherishes her for who she is, which quickly earns him Raven's affections. However, he's ultimately revealed to be a manipulative creep who only needed Raven's help to escape the spellbook he was imprisoned within. He's essentially the supernatural equivalent of online stranger danger.
395** The symptoms Robin shows in "Haunted" match up remarkably well with those associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, particularly for male survivors of sexual abuse. This makes sense considering Robin's "apprenticeship" being chock full of its own allegories of sexual grooming similar to Terra's.
396** Slade's partnership with Terra has so many BDSM overtones she might as well have been wearing a gimp mask, while his propositions to Robin to "join him" are equal parts [[TakeOverTheWorld "we can rule the world"]] and "I have candy in my van". Let's face it, [[MemeticMolester Slade]] is made of this trope.
397** A non-innuendo-laden variant pops up in the episode "Troq", dealing with the FantasticRacism the character-of-the-day has against Starfire's race. At one point while discussing it with Cyborg, she asks him if he knows what it's like to be judged because of how he looks. He tells her "of course I do", claiming it's because he's part-robot -- keep in mind, though, that he's also black.
398* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has a scene in "Caged Tiger" where Beast Boy [[PottyFailure wets himself in a stopped elevator]]. The sounds he makes when he relieves himself tend to sound like those made by a different bodily function.
399* The Sword of Omens in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985''. It's a weapon that Lion-O was given as a child, but he could not use it properly until he reached puberty (partially due to its full size). When he waves it around, it grows longer and longer until, with a great shout of "Ho!", its ''eye opens'' and a white beam shoots out.
400* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'':
401** In "Larry Upgrade", Tuddrussel and Larry argue like a married couple (but not before sending Otto out to play). Then, there's the "break-up" between Lewis and Clark on "Lewis and Clark and Larry," along with Clark getting jealous that Lewis "went exploring" with Larry.
402** "Ex Marks the Spot" is notorious for some memorable moments that include: Larry being super-nice to Tuddrussel to the point that it becomes DidYouJustHaveSex-type behavior; then acting like a [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy jealous fembot]] when Tuddrussel and Sheila (his ex-wife, as revealed in "Kubla Khan't") act too friendly this time around and he comes to the conclusion that they're going to get back together, "Just when things were going so well". Then, the episode ends with Larry being so upset and angry that he overreacted to the whole thing that he tells Tuddrussell that [[ExiledToTheCouch he's sleeping on the sofa tonight.]] The kicker to all of this is that it's all played [[IncrediblyLamePun straight]].
403** In "Child's Play" Shakespeare gets frustrated over creative differences between his agent (who wants him to do kids' plays for merchandise) and Larry (who acts as a MoralGuardian and keeps objecting to the plays' content). Considering how short-lived ''Time Squad'' was, one has to wonder if this wasn't Dave Wasson (the show creator) speaking out against the creative output of his show or if this was merely a satire on the mediocre quality of current kids' TV programming and movies due to greed and censorship.
404** The two times Larry has acted drunk. In "Eli Whitney's Flesh-Eating Mistake" his NonSequiturThud after being beaten by angry townspeople is "I'm okay to drive. Just help me to the car". In "Pasteur Packs O'Punch", Larry experiences wild mood swings after being electrocuted, where he drunkenly tells Tuddrussel that he loves him, offers to drive despite being in no condition to operate anything, telling off Otto with a slurred, "Hey, don't tell me what to do!", and embarrassing himself at a party by standing on a table and declaring himself "The Queen of France".
405** Tuddrussel always berates Larry's effeminate personality and hobbies and tells him to act like a robot (as seen in "Hate and Let Hate" and "Forget the Alamo"), which [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything can be taken as a G-rated version of saying]] "GetBackInTheCloset!"
406** "Daddio [=DaVinci=]" (Season 1, Episode 3) had Otto opening Larry's gear box on his chest and Larry covering himself in the same way a woman would if her breasts were exposed.
407* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Happens at the end of "My Dinner With Elmyra" when Elmyra [[TheBigDamnKiss plants a big one on Montana Max]] and Max squeezes the seltzer bottle he was hiding behind his back in response, causing it to [[SomethingElseAlsoRises spray seltzer everywhere]].
408* In the ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' episode "WesternAnimation/FlirtyBirdy" the male eagle's response to seeing a crossdressing Tom is to stretch his neck out with wide eyes, tongue hanging out, and the feathers on his neck move up almost like a penis going hard would look like when aroused.
409* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'':
410** Lockdown's introductory episode sees Ratchet wake up on Lockdown's operating table and look in horror at the hole in his arm where his EMP generator used to be. It's all framed like someone waking up to realize they've been drugged and had their organs harvested.
411** The Scrapper and Mixmaster watch a luxury car being dismantled while hooting and swilling oil.
412** When Meltdown was "experimenting" on Blackarachnia's body. She's pretty unsure, then the dude reveals his intentions to change her from technorganic to pure organic. The utter shock and terror at having her body violated beyond recognition, and her cries for him to stop. Thankfully Optimus [[DateRapeAverted saves her.]]
413* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'':
414** When Brock and Lt. Baldovich coordinate over the radio to dock Dr. Venture's shuttle with the Gargantua I space station, it sounds like they're discussing a sexual encounter they're having. Dr. Venture seems to realize it too, since he groans in exasperation and snaps at Brock to hurry up after a while.
415** When the Monarch is forced to stop attacking Doctor Venture during Season 3, and Sargeant Hatred is assigned as Doc's new archnemesis, the Monarch acts as if he's been dumped and is trying to get back at the dating game. He refuses to try out new enemies, complains about Venture "abandoning" him, says he wants a special kind of hatred he can't fake. One episode has the three of them meeting in Hatred's house, and Hatred keeps rubbing his new "relationship" on the monarch's face out of spite. What makes it more complicated is that the Monarch is actually ''married'', and he's complaining about being abandoned to his ''wife''.
416* In Season 2, Episode 18 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', Sadlygrove fails to make his weapon get bigger, to which he apologizes to a nearby girl "I'm sorry, this is the first time this has happened to me."
417* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': In one episode, Rogue and Cyclops were fighting a Sentinel (a 20-foot high robot); Cyclops was knocked unconscious and stopped breathing; Rogue realised she would have to give him CPR even though she risked "absorbing" him and leaving him brain-dead; as she was blowing in his mouth and pumping his chest, at one point she screamed, "Come ON Scott! Make a girl HAPPY!" Almost as though they were having sex...
418* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
419** When Superboy confesses to the team that he's been using Lex's shields to use his full powers, the way he delivers it is like a guy coming clean that he's been using drugs or steroids, and Luthor was his dealer.
420** When Red Arrow has been going off on his own to try and find [[spoiler:the ''original'' Roy Harper]], he is a total wreck and his health isn't looking any good, the other heroes basically stage an intervention.
421** North and South Rhelasia are pretty blatant stand-ins for North and South Korea, complete with all the tension.
422** Miss Martian and Superboy's breakup between season 1 and 2 is revealed to be the result of the two of them coming to blows over M'gann's ruthless application of her telepathy on enemies coupled with her trying to make Connor forget he was angry with her in the first place. Connor's sad remarks over how M'gann perverted her "touch" in his mind sounds all too much like someone who left their partner after they hit them.
423** Queen Bee's [[SuperHumanTrafficking network of kidnapped teens]] (which introduced Comicbook/{{Static}} and the Runaways) is essentially a human-trafficking ring. Which ironically becomes even more obvious in Season 3.

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