Line #65 UnusuallyUninterestingSight/WesternAnimation


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18	Examples of UnusuallyUninterestingSight in Western Animation.
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20	* The ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel" has Mario and Luigi get turned into babies, but still have their mustaches, right before they visit the woman whose bathtub they're supposed to unclog. When they arrive at her doorstep, she doesn't seem to notice that these babies have mustaches.
21	** He did say that the woman was "a little daffy", and she failed to see anything weird about Bowser and Ludwig as "Koopa & Kid Costume Plumbers".
22	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
23	** One consistent case is in regards to Klaus and Reginald, respectively a talking goldfish and a talking koala. This is explained as that both were originally humans, and had their consciousness swapped with the animal in question by the CIA; Klaus was an Olympic ski jumper the CIA kidnapped to give the US the win in the 1986 Olympics, and Reginald was a random hobo who agreed to CIA testing for food, but even people who have no way of knowing this never bat an eye.
24	** Klaus falls to the same thing in "Don't Look A Smith Horse in the Mouth", when Stan uses the same technology to swap himself into the body of a horse. The horse in Stan's body immediately does the sort of things you'd expect a horse to do, and Klaus is completely unfazed when he tries striking up a conversation.
25	--->''Hey, brother. Chewing on hay? Yeah, that's cool.''
26	** "Fartbreak Hotel" opens with a montage of Francine's daily routine, including one segment where she cleans the living room, only for Stan, in full hunting gear for no particular reason, drags a full-sized deer into the room and shoots it dead behind the couch. Francine has no reaction.
27	** A major point in "Season's Beatings" is that Hayley and Jeff accidentally adopt the Anti-Christ, and at some point he eventually possesses Steve, who begins climbing on walls with [[RedEyesTakeWarning his eyes turning red]] and his head facing the wrong way. There's only one instance where anybody seems to notice, and even then they're barely interested in it.
28	--->'''Possessed Steve: ''Mene Mene Takel, Satana Satana.'''''\
29	'''Hayley:''' Mom, Steve's acting weird again.\
30	'''Francine:''' Steve, stop babbling at your sister in Aramaic. It's a dead language.
31	** At the end of "Adventures in Hayley-Sitting", Steve, his friends, Hayley and Jeff all end up sort of taken hostage by a meth user who demands a receipt from a purchase Steve made earlier in the episode. They go to the house of the clerk who was working at the time, and the user gets his head shot off by the owner of the house. While he and his daughter, the clerk, are breaking down over the fact that he just killed a person, Steve, his friends, Hayley and Jeff have no reaction as they quietly slip away to go home.
32	** In "Vision: Impossible", Roger awakens from a coma to find that his ability to see visions of the future from earlier in the episode no longer works. He asks for a nurse to get him something to drink, and as she goes off, John Q. Mind, a psychic quadriplegic appears out of nowhere to demonstrate his own powers - floating a glass of orange juice over to Roger, having a motorcycle bust through the wall, then him floating his way over to it, sitting on it, and riding off on it despite his lack of limbs. Roger's only response is to push the glass of OJ away, refusing to drink from it because "he's gross".
33	** This notably is also applicable to Roger. While it is a recurring plot point that Roger needs to be disguised so the CIA can't find him, it's frequently indicated that even while disguised, people are still aware he's a small, gray, noseless person who's shaped like a bowling pin, and while there are times where this does come up, for the most part no one questions it.
34	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
35	** Mr. Freeze shows up to an upscale charity event with a freeze gun mounted on a truck. It looks like a giant piece of artillery. The valet looks at him for a moment before holding his hand out: "keys?"
36	** In "See No Evil", Batman is [[ItMakesSenseInContext riding on top of an invisible car]] that drives by two homeless men. They can't see the car, only Batman. Their reaction:
37	---> '''Homeless Man 1''': (nonchalantly) I didn't know he could fly, too.\
38	'''Homeless Man 2''': (shrugs)
39	** In "Make 'Em Laugh", it's shown that the people of Gotham are so used to seeing crazed people in costumes that people like Condiment King and Pack Rat don't get any special attention until they start pulling weapons (or sauces, in Condiment King's case).
40	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In Universe and {{Fanon}}, seems to take with stride that a [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderPrincessAzula 14 year old girl]] with two other teens managed to take Ba Sing Se, a city that the greatest generals in the Fire Nation couldn't conquer (including Iroh with dozens of thousands of soldiers and 600 days) in a 100-year war, bring down a dynasty, destroy the greatest dictatorship in the Verse so far, command the absolute loyalty of [[StateSec the Dai Li]] and permanently cripple the Earth Kingdom (capturing the 5 generals), quite likely ending the war. She did this in less than a month with zero casualties while [[IndyPloy making it up as she went]].
41	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016'': Unlike in [[WesternAnimation/Ben10 the original]], most people don't seem to react to supervillains, aliens or a kid who turns into aliens in front of everybody, unless they are in direct danger.
42	* MTV's ''Brothers Grunt'' were remarkably good at blending in with regular society, despite being gray veiny freaks dressed only in shorts and wingtips.
43	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' no one seems to find it unusual that the titular character, a 4-5 year old boy is completely bald, his lack of hair is never commented on, if someone in real life saw a bald child most would automatically assume he has leukemia and has lost his hair from his chemotherapeutic treatments.
44	* ''WesternAnimation/CampCandy'': When Molly turns the camp into a health spa, none of the guests notice that all the employees are children.
45	* In ''Can You Teach My Alligator Manners?'', EVERYBODY thinks that a ''giant, manner-learning, walking, talking alligator who is a kid's pet'' is just a normal sight.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Downplayed in "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E1AHeroForEarth A Hero for Earth]]". Wheeler does ask for an explanation immediately after being welcomed to Hope Island, but his tone is still unusually casual for someone who's just been magically summoned by [[MotherNature an earth spirit]] to an island that doesn't appear on any maps.
47	-->'''Gaia:''' Welcome to Hope Island.\
48	'''Wheeler:''' Yo, say, lady, you wanna explain what's going on here?\
49	'''Gaia''' ''(with a chuckle):'' So much for ''drama''.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'': "King of all Root Beer" has Mr. Blik and Waffle (who had been {{inflat\|ingBodyGag}}ed to massive AttackOfThe50FootWhatever levels) fighting in the streets of the city. A window washer sees them fighting each other... and then he turns back to the building to wash it like it's just another Tuesday, a gag that can be easily missed due to how small he is.
51	* ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''. A lot of the cats, dogs, mice, chipmunks, birds, etc. wear clothes, but none of the humans seem to notice.
52	** Arguably Justified as most people who do see them think they're escaped pets.
53	* In the Creator/VanBeurenStudios cartoon "Circus Capers", when Milton Mouse flies through the ringmaster's roof, Milton's girlfriend is too involved in her affair with the ringmaster to even glance over at him!
54	* Played with in the [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts Disney animated short]] ''Social Lion'', where a lion ends up in NYC, only to find out that nobody pays the slightest attention to the fact that he's a lion, not even when he roars. It's not until he tries wearing clothes that everyone suddenly realizes what he really is, and panics.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Nobody that isn't a KND operative seem to notice the gigantic treehouses growing out of some buildings or sightseeing spots. For example, Sector V's HQ's roots are all over the Uno residence, yet Numbuh 1's family never comment on it. Lampshaded in a KND trading card:
56	-->''The Kids Next Door Treehouse grows through the top of [[TheLeader Numbuh 1]]'s house. His parents don't seem to notice. [[AdultsAreUseless Typical adults]].''
57	* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'' has Satan suddenly appearing at a carnival and causing mass panic, with people freaking out and running for their lives. In a latter episode of the same season, Satan stays for hours in a queue for a different carnival and nobody around seems to notice or care.
58	* In ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'', nobody seems to find the sight of a monkey walking around the city by himself -much less being treated as a person- as out of the ordinary.
59	* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', it took well until the later half of Season One before the people of Amity Park actually started noticing the ghosts in the town. This is taken to an interesting extreme when Valerie Gray's dad and his job security at Axiom Labs actually did try to stop him from leaving the building----but they clearly did not recognize him as a ghost. This might be somewhat explained that in the show's universe, ghost-hunters like Jack and Maddie Fenton are viewed as, well, crazy; so why would anyone in the town even support that ghosts actually exist? It's not until one of Danny's most dangerous enemies starts blowing up the town that Amity Park finally begins paying disturbed notice.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'': Udrogothi daily life is generally pretty weird, so the comedic non-reactions to very strange things make sense. Not so much in 1994, when Ned Frischman's response to every superhero origin cliche slamming into a zipper over a period of about ten seconds is, "Huh. That hardly ever happens." It comes across as even more muted than you'd expect because Frischman is voiced by Creator/RichardStevenHorvitz in full WesternAnimation/InvaderZim mode and him being subdued about ''anything'' is [[LargeHam pretty rare]].
61	-->'''Ned Frischman:''' [[GigglingVillain (evil giggling)]] Yes, [[BlandNameProduct Game Guys]]...HUNDREDS of Game Guys...[starts shoving them into the Time Zipper]\
62	'''Aisles 4 Miles Register Clerk:''' Do you require any assistance loading these into your tear in the space-time continuum?
63	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': It's common for Dexter's parents and ordinary bystanders to ignore any outright weird occurrences; for example, at the end of the episode "Maternal Combat" Dad comes back home, doesn't seem to notice that the house is a smoking ruin, and casually says hello to the two highly advanced androids standing in the hallway. In "Double Trouble" Dad likewise doesn't seem to care about the countless clones of his daughter and her friends running around the house.
64	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': The boys spend the episode "One + One = Ed" on a learning spree that devolves into bizarre antics {{leaning on the fourth wall}} such as removing Jimmy's outline reducing him to a puddle of color. By the time Rolf tears open a hole in reality and is revealed to have three heads Eddy is flat out unimpressed.
65	-->'''Eddy:''' A three-headed Rolf. ''Yawn.''
66	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' - A show set in a world where actual talking dogs and babies are normal:
67	** In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High", Peter attempts to convert the house staircase into a water slide and injures himself going down it. Brian, who by now is used to Peter's antics, simply ignores his agonized groans, telling him "I'm not gonna call the hospital because you won't learn anything if I do."
68	** A similar incident occurs in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do" when Peter attempts to do some sexual act that requires Lois' assistance without her (she was incarcerated at the time) and ends up falling down the stairs. Brian takes his eyes off his newspaper for all of one second to look at Peter before going back to reading.
69	** In "Total Recall", after Stewie and Brian spend the episode trying to rescue Rupert from a toy factory after he's recalled, Rupert's eye comes off and Stewie swallows it and chokes to death. When Chris comes by, he yells to Lois, completely unphased, "Mom, Stewie's dead!"
70	** "Brian in Love" used this for comedy, when Peter [[LateToTheRealization finally has the appropriate reaction to Brian being able to speak]], more than a full season after the show started, and [[NonSequitur in response to something else entirely]].
71	** The frequent use of the CutawayGag counts. No one seems to find it strange the characters frequently talk about such bizarre and often irrelevant topics.
72	** In the {{Crossover}} with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' no one in the Simpsons family finds it strange that Stewie and Brian talk, but then you realize [[FridgeBrilliance they use this trope on their own show all the time.]]
73	** Aside from being called a "freak" at times, nobody ever seems to notice that Jake Tucker's face is on upside-down.
74	* At ''WesternAnimation/FlyingRhinoJuniorHigh'', no one bats at eye at the fact that both the principal and janitor are an anthropromorphic rhino and pig, respectively, which is lampshaded in the theme song: ''"The principal's a rhino and no one's asking why"''. People also take to The Phantom's reality warping attacks on the school rather well, though they might have just gotten used to them. Principal Mulligan, meanwhile, is stated to suffer from a WeirdnessCensor.
75	* In part 1 of the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' episode "Grape Expectations", Roy goes to the supermarket in order to buy one grape to replace the missing one in the stash, and there are actually humans there. '''Nobody''' batted an eyelash about the fact that there was ''a talking rooster'' in the store.
76	* WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat is a six-foot-tall anthropomorphic rat. In fact, he's the only FunnyAnimal on the entire ''planet''. The people of New York are remarkably blasé about this, though.
77	* On ''WesternAnimation/GaspardAndLisa'', the classmates don't seem to mind that there are two talking dogs with bandanas, walking on their hind legs. Nope.
78	* In ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', no one ever takes any notice of incredibly colorful military uniforms, often with tons of armament on them, wondering the streets when the Joes are in an urban environment.
79	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In most episodes, almost none of the mortal characters seem to be bothered by the sight of TheGrimReaper. There's even a point near the beginning of the first movie where a paperboy drives by and tells him "Morning, Death!"
80	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grossology}}'': In "Club Parasites", a disinterested nurse just closes her blinds in response to two giant insects slamming onto the window of her office.
81	* In ''The Helpers in Your Neighborhood'', based on a not-yet-aired episode of ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'', Daniel Tiger and Dad Tiger venture out of the Neighborhood of Make Believe to meet real human helpers, as well as human children. Somehow, none of them are at all disturbed or surprised by the presence of sentient tigers walking in their midst. Nor, for that matter, does anyone fawn over them because they recognize them as characters from a favorite television show.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/IGotARocket'''s about a boy who is accompanied by a talking rocket - with eyes and a mouth. Nobody ever seems to think there's anything strange about a talking rocket casually floating around on the street.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
84	** Zim is able to maintain his anything-but-subtle [[{{Masquerade}} alien secrecy]] primarily due to this. Or just stupidity.
85	** In ''Door to Door'', after a few failed attempts at selling fundraiser chocolate, Zim uses a VR headset with a simulation of what he'll do if he doesn't sell more chocolate than the rest of the students. The parents freak out, reasonably not wanting to be indirectly responsible for Armageddon. Their kids keep shoveling candy in their mouths.
86	** Tak is only marginally more subtle than Zim despite being considerably smarter. She gets off a spaceship right outside the Skool windows, and ''nobody notices''. Even ''Dib'' doesn't notice.
87	--->'''Dib:''' You can't do this! People will know ''something's'' up. I mean look at this place, it's enormous!\
88	'''Tak:''' The great thing about your people, Dib, is that most of them don't notice. All they see is another corporate venture, not a plan for world conquest!\
89	'''Dib:''' Wait, is there really a difference?
90	* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', nobody ever seems to notice the heroes wearing costumes in their mundane lives. They're neither starstruck that Franchise/WonderWoman is browsing their mall nor find it strange that green-skinned Beast Boy is at the arcade.
91	** Averted in the CN movie ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'' where Raven leads a one-woman bashfest on Beast Boy's strange appearance when he remarks that he won't be able to pick up chicks because his shirt is dirty.
92	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In one episode, [[AbhorrentAdmirer Pretty]] attempts to make Mr. Cat fall in love with her using a LovePotion, which she disguises as a soda by pouring it into a soda can. When Mr. Cat drinks it, he ends up falling in love with the soda can instead. Nobody bats an eye at this, with the other characters expressing that they're happy that Mr. Cat was able to find love. The only person who finds this odd is Kaeloo, and even her opposition to this is mostly out of [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy over Mr. Cat being in a relationship with the can]] rather than the relationship being weird.
93	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
94	** The series as a whole centers around this trope. The main characters travel around the world to thwart [[MadScientist evil scientists]], fight monkeys that know kung-fu, and generally fight crime with self-learned SheFu. Despite having no secret identities, the only acknowledgment Kim and Ron's extracurricular activities warrant is Kim being alluded to have a fanclub and giving the occasional interview. No one in their personal lives care all that much about their world-saving exploits, with Kim constantly butting heads with the AlphaBitch on her cheerleading team and Ron even being regarded as their high school's resident weirdo/loser. The characters also do not seem to be impressed about Kim's rocket scientist dad and brain surgeon mom, nor the abundance of [[WiseBeyondTheirYears child geniuses]] running amock.
95	** Drakken and Shego never attract attention for looking unusual. You'd think a green-skinned woman in a [[SpyCatsuit catsuit]] and a blue-skinned man in a labcoat who both happen to be wanted felons would catch people's attention, but no. Maybe no-one wants to say something about them being [[MistakenForRacist differently coloured]]. You'd think people would remember a green-skinned woman who used to be a REAL superhero with super powers, though.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuDinoPosse'': The people of Megalopolis don't bat an eye at the sight of talking anthropomorphic dinosaurs walking around town.
97	* In season one of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Korra is talking to Tenzin’s daughters about Mako while airbending with them. They start asking too many questions as Mako walks up and she earthbends them to high heavens. Mako just starts talking to her, he doesn’t care that Korra just sent two kids flying into the air.
98	* On ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', and the whole ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise in general, no one seems to find Stitch and all the experiments working around the island to be all that strange, or even remotely believe they're aliens.
99	** Oh, it goes even further. Some of the townspeople who do manage to pull their heads out of their asses and notice them compare them to animals that in no way resemble the experiments (or any real-world animal for that matter). In two instances, a pair of tourists thought Yaarp, a blue, four-armed, ring-tailed experiment with a giant megaphone-like antenna on his head, was a Hawaiian sheep, and in another episode, they mistook Kixx, a bulky purple experiment with four oversized arms, for a wild pig.
100	** However, it is subverted on some occasions. The crossover with ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', for example, had the cast of that show coming to Hawaii to investigate reports of "magical creatures."
101	** Most people are not phased by Gantu, who is an enormous alien that towers over everyone. When people ask why he’s so big, he says he’s from Samoa.
102	* ''Literature/LittlePrincess'': In "I Want Baked Beans", Puss (the palace cat) comes up two failed plans to swipe sausages from the table - first trying to hook one wish a fishing line and then dressing up in a ninja outfit complete with ''Film/MissionImpossible'' style music and having Scruff (the palace dog) operate a device to lower him down to the bowl on the table. In both cases, the King, Queen and Little Princess, all of which are sitting at the table, either don't notice or aren't bothered by the unusual activity going on.
103	* Semi-subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MarthaSpeaks'': people who find out that a dog can talk are surprised, but get used it to it VERY quickly. And then don't think twice about getting advice ''from a dog''.
104	* In ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', nobody seems to see a giant robot with a car for its head as anything but an especially CoolCar, to the point that Megas is just one of many top competitors at a car show. They also don't care that their city gets destroyed constantly.
105	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' has Gus walking down the street with, get ready for this, a knife embedded into his head to which a birdcage (containing a bird that happened to fly in) is welded to, that also has two faucets, a menorah, a mobile, a fake flower, a tennis racket, and an umbrella all attached to it. While he's surrounded by people all marvelling over it, he passes some Rabbis one of which comments "That man is insane. Hanukkah is next week!"
106	* It says a lot about the strength of Pinkie Pie's WeirdnessCoupon in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' that few ponies bat an eye at her doing things such as sneezing confetti or wearing a haystack. In fact in the latter case Rainbow Dash not only greets her casually, but freaks out for a completely unrelated reason.
107	** Twilight Sparkle was initially freaked out by Pinkie's weirdness, but eventually she gives up trying to figure it out and just accepts it.
108	** The [[MundaneFantastic setting]] can result in the viewers having difficulty in telling which sights are considered interesting and which aren't. The townsfolk react to a stampeding herd of bunnies with panic and terror, while a WizardDuel between the two strongest magic talents alive (outside the princesses) is treated more like a spectator sport.
109	** Post season 3, you'd think Twilight becoming an alicorn would draw some notice nearing that of the Princesses, but that doesn't seem to be the case. For example, in "Rarity Takes Manehattan", when she attempts to call for a carriage, nopony even gives her the time of day.
110	** In "Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3" the entire town puts on a history performance about the Wonderbolts for Rainbow Dash as she flies overhead; she was so depressed at the time, she didn't [[SherlockScan notice]] it was actually happening until it was over.
111	** In "The Cutie Re-Mark", Twilight and Spike go on a time traveling adventure. The child version of Rainbow Dash is the only character who seems to notice or care that Twilight is an alicorn.
112	** In "Slice Of Life", the presence of a rampaging bugbear in town is treated by most ponies as a minor inconvenience. The sudden rescheduling of a wedding? ''That's'' a disaster.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/NedsNewt'': Nobody ever seems to mind that Newton is a six-foot-tall humanoid blue newt, even if he's walking around without a PaperThinDisguise. Despite this, sometimes Ned seems to be concerned that his parents or the other citizens will find out about Newton's existence. A RunningGag is for Ned's parents to enter his room just as he's talking to Newton, upon which Newton quickly transforms into something supposedly innocuous... like the Venus of Milo, or "the big metal thingy for affixing a ship." Ned's parents comment on this, but never seem to mind.
114	* ''WesternAnimation/PawPatrol'': To begin with, the series takes place in a world where dogs can speak and operate vehicles. The Paw Patrol consists of six dogs and one human - all of whom are children. Ryder, the leader, is a ten year old boy who is never seen at home or in school, and seems to have a full time-job running Adventure Bay's only emergency services department. No one seems to think there's anything wrong with this. The entire town loves Ryder and the pups and respects their authority.
115	* The town of [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} Danville]] from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has a local [[MadScientist Evil Scientist]] community, an organization of secret agent animals and two young supergeniuses with short attention spans, so naturally, all sorts of bizarre things seem to happen, almost always crisscrossing with ''other'' bizarre things as well. When the boys' new pet lizard suddenly grows fifty feet or their latest invention turns to broccoli, however, no one bats an eye, except for Candace, an [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Girl]] who seems to be going crazy as a result. (And Linda somehow never sees ''any'' of it...)
116	** Particularly noticeable in "Toy to the World" where Doofenshmirtz goes down a conveyor belt, [[ItMakesSenseInContext flipping out because of the platypus toys being put together]], and the people on the assembly line just watch him go by before going back to work, discussing local sports.
117	* ''WesternAnimation/PuppyDogPals'': Nobody seems to find it strange or questions that there are two Pug puppies or their friends running around town free-range, let alone being able to board planes or go to different places all across the world without anyone even noticing. There is some TruthInTelevision in this, however, as there are many countries in the world where animals like dogs or cats are always roaming around on the streets in packs by themselves and people not really minding (unless they happen to be a danger or aggressive towards people). There are also dogs (who have figured out how transportation works) in Moscow who board trains, buses and other means of transportation, and, much like the humans in the show, no one really bats an eye.
118	* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the neighborhood usually seems perfectly casual around aliens, otherworldly technology and other oddities. This may be a case of MundaneFantastic, as when the episode calls for it, the humans will react accordingly.
119	** In "Big Trouble in Little Sanchez", everyone was aware that Tiny Rick was really an 80-year old man in a teenage body, but they [[RuleOfCool didn't care because they liked him too much]].
120	** Averted when the characters travelled to a universe where [[ItMakesSenseInContext people and chairs replaced each other]]. The chairs in the street would stop and stare at the talking people.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': A RunningGag with [[ThoseTwoGuys Chauncey and Edgar]] plays with this. They express mild bemusement at whatever ridiculous antics are going on.
122	-->'''Edgar:''' Now there's something you don't see everyday, Chauncey.\
123	'''Chauncey:''' What's that, Edgar?\
124	'''Edgar:''' [Something ridiculous, e.g.] A moose riding the hands of the clock tower.\
125	'''Chauncey:''' Oh, I don't know, Edgar. [Terrible pun]
126	* Nobody ever finds it strange that ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' is a talking dog.
127	** Briefly {{discussed\|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' episode, "The Weird Winds of Winona", in which Mystery Inc. meets the team behind WesternAnimation/SpeedBuggy. While Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy seem unfazed by the idea of a talking car, Scooby does take notice.
128	-->'''Speed Buggy''': Come on, Scooby. Climb in.\
129	'''Scooby''': No way!\
130	'''Shaggy''': Go on, Scoob. It's only a car.\
131	'''Scooby''': That talks? \
132	'''Debbie''': That's a strange question from a dog that talks.
133	** Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated''. While people still don't question why Scooby can talk, him being able to talk ''does'' become a plot point, as we learn Scooby and other {{Talking Animal}}s in the franchise are [[CerebusRetcon descendants of the animal gods of Egypt and China]], which is an important factor in the show's MythArc. Scooby being descended from animal gods is also used in the theatrical film WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}, where this status once again ties into an EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt plot.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters'': No one at all seems frightened by the titular seven monsters in spite of their unusual appearances and tremendous sizes. Even very young children aren't the least bit scared by their presence, and instances where Seven's detached head is left somewhere tend to be taken in stride by even complete strangers.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' plays this for laughs with a [[ShowWithinAShow story within the show]]. Bartly (Bart) is surprised at almost everything, including, on one occasion, a doorknob. When a stool has been brought to life and walks right by him wearing a bowler hat, neither he nor the detective (Lisa) make any comment.
136	** In "Lisa's Date With Density", Homer obtains the Auto-Dialer. When Prof. Frink (it's creator) finds out who has it, he presses a button on a remote control. Meanwhile, at the Simpson's house, the Auto-Dialer mechanically sprouts wheels and trys to escape from Homer, who just goes, "Oh, no you don't!" and removes the wheels.
137	** In "You Only Move Twice" Homer is telling boss Hank Scorpio that he has to resign.....While ignoring the MASSIVE GUNFIGHT occurring around him, complete with explosions, acid vats, a soldier getting his neck snapped by a half naked chick (Which Homer notices but does not comment on) and finally Scorpio pulling out a Flamethrower and going to town on the government forces.
138	--->'''Scorpio:''' Homer, I'm disappointed but I think you need to do what's best for your family. [...] But Homer? On your way out, if you wanna kill somebody it would help me a lot. ''(straps on a flamethrower)''
139	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo]]", kaiju attacks have apparently become so commonplace in Japan that the airliner the Simpsons are departing on has a "Godzilla" caution light and no one is remotely bothered by Godzilla himself seizing the plane and shaking it around (the pilot casually announces it's mild Godzilla-related turbulence and he usually lets go by 300 feet). Godzilla and his fellow kaiju Mothra, Rodan and Gamera seem rather annoyed by this as Godzilla irritably boots a tank to end the episode.
140	** In "The Cad And The Hat", Rodd and Todd perform miracles and Ned simply ''chastises them for it''. The episode ends with Bart's guilt turning into a giant monster. Mr. Burns notices it and is pretty casual about it.
141	** In "Simpsorama", the {{Crossover}} with ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', none of the Planet Express Crew find it weird that the Simpsons are yellow. You'd think they'd at least mistake them for aliens or something.
142	** In "Marge Simpson in: Screaming Yellow Honkers", Lenny and Carl are at Moe's Tavern wondering where Homer is. They see Homer hanging from a charging rhino's horn by his pants.
143	--->'''Lenny (unfazed):''' There he goes.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': Much like [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty its sister series]], no human is shocked at all the crazy sci-fi rigmarole, only that they cause nothing but trouble on Earth.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
146	** "Bloody Mary" has a statue of the Virgin Mary spontaneously start bleeding out of its ass, which is thought to be a miracle. The Pope then comes to verify it and concludes that it's not a miracle, because the blood's actually coming from the statue's vagina, not its ass. Nothing weird about a woman bleeding from her vagina, right? Never mind that this is a ''statue''.
147	** "Raisins" has Raisins, the kid version of Hooters. No adult bothered to question the idea of it.
148	** "A Nightmare on Face Time" has two people doing this to each other:
149	--->'''Randy:''' What are you doing?\
150	'''Shelly:''' ''(setting a shelf on fire)'' Nothing, dad. Go back to killing the family.\
151	'''Randy:''' Okay.
152	** "The Mysterion Trilogy": When men see [[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu]], they're supposed to go insane. [[TheSociopath Cartman]], however, is able to look Cthulhu straight in the eye with ''no reaction whatsoever''.
153	** In "[=HumancentiPad=]", virtually no one bats an eye over Steve Jobs subjecting three people, including a young boy like Kyle, to a twisted experiment. As far as they are concerned, this is pure innovation since those three people unwittingly "agreed" to this.
154	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] in what wound up being its final episode: both the Osborns' butler and Mrs. Osborn walk into the living room to see Harry (who's been missing for several days) and Norman having a discussion with Spider-Man. Neither comments on it (though for Mrs. Osborn, [[TheVoiceless that's unsurprising]]).
155	** In general, however, the show averts this trope. WordOfGod confirmed that this Spider-Man's superhero career started before the Avengers were formed, before [[ComicBook/XMen Professor X's first students graduated]], and before superheroes became a common sight. Supervillains only started appearing either because of an accident (i.e. Electro), spite (i.e. Octopus and Vulture), or as part of a plot by Tombstone to distract Spider-Man from organized crime. Whenever one of them shows up, people are shown to be terrified, with police being unable to do anything except arrest them once Spider-Man's handled it.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
157	** "Ghost Host" has the Flying Dutchman temporarily move in with [=SpongeBob=], and the Dutchman begins scaring him every chance he gets. Eventually [=SpongeBob=] becomes desensitized to the Dutchman's pranks and starts treating them like everyday occurrences, so he's unfazed by the Dutchman's horror show later on with him taking on increasingly bizarre forms.
158	** In "Doing Time", Spongebob and Patrick appear (among other places) on a conveyor belt trying to get Mrs. Puff out of jail. When Mrs. Puff shows them to the guards, one simply says, "That's just raw material used to make coat hangers. You need some rest."
159	** "Dying For Pie": "Mr. Krabs, are you okay? I heard a-... Wooow! ''(approaches the hole in the wall)'' [[BaitAndSwitch A]] ''[[BaitAndSwitch pie!]]''"
160	** Early on in "Something Smells", Patrick, for some unknown reason, has his head and limbs compressed into his body so he just looks like a big, pink, featureless blob. At first, Spongebob has a very appropriate reaction upon seeing the blob, being quite shocked and considering it another bizzare thing to happen on his already strange day, but once it reveals itself to be Patrick, he just casually says, "Oh, hi, Patrick", never questioning what he was doing and acting like it never happened.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'':
162	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E08Veritas Veritas]]": The lower deckers are so exhausted by the day's shenanigans that they simply refuse to indulge Q's mindgames when he appears at the end of the episode.
163	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E01StrangeEnergies Strange Energies]]":
164	*** While having their heart-to-heart, Tendi and Rutherford pay no notice to Ransom's giant head trying to eat the ship.
165	*** When Tendi tries to forcibly perform a medical treatment on Rutherford in the galley, Barnes simply leaves to change into her swimsuit and tells Rutherford that she'll meet up with him later.
166	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E03WellAlwaysHaveTomParis We'll Always Have Tom Paris]]": No one on the ''Cerritos'' except for Rutherford and Lt. Cody reacts to Shaxs coming BackFromTheDead as a dig at ''Trek''[='s=] tendency to resurrect main characters when they die.
167	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E04MugatoGumato Mugato, Gumato]]": Shaxs, perhaps unsurprisingly given that it's [[BloodKnight Shaxs]], sees Mariner mauling Boimler and Rutherford in an anbo-jytsu match and just decides to calmly wait his turn to use the practice room.
168	** "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS2E05AnEmbarrassmentOfDooplers An Embarrassment of Dooplers]]": When a car chase passes through a Vulcan ship, the two Vulcans at the station simply remark, "Fascinating," and return to their work.
169	* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', the title character Star Butterfly is an alien princess with a magic wand, whose spells tend to be both brightly-colored and highly destructive. Particularly in the season 1, it's commonplace for a gang of monsters to attack her on the streets. She has also done things like ''permanently'' transforming her homeroom teacher into a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]]. None of this is treated as even remotely unusual by the residents of Echo Creek.
170	* Most residents of Beach City from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' seem oddly unfazed by the presence of three magical aliens, a magic half-alien kid, and the various weirdness said things entail. This could be explained by the Gems and their artifacts having been on Earth for most (if not all) of human history, having [[AlternateHistory various visible effects on the world]] from its cultures to its geography...if it wasn't for the fact that they isolated themselves from human societies, with very few humans showing any interest in them or the artifacts. Even out-of-towners, who are a ''bit'' more surprised by the weirdness, almost immediately grow to accept it. For example, Steven's estranged Uncle Andy is more concerned that his cousin Greg left the family, married, and had a kid without telling anyone moreso than the fact said marriage was to a shapeshifting alien space rock and said kid has her powers. The only human character in the show to regularly point out how weird all of this is Lars, and that's mainly because most misadventures Steven drags him into leave him worse off.
171	-->'''Steven''' (afraid): [[FreakyFridayFlip I spent the day with my mind in your body.]]\
172	'''Lars''' (disgusted): UHN! AHH!\
173	'''Jenny''': Whoa. Where's your chill?
174	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' takes a FantasyKitchenSink approach to the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, and both the Dr. Doom-controlled [[{{Mordor}} Villainville]] and ''[[FloatingContinent Asgard with the Bifrost Bridge]]'' are visible from Superhero City.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/TeachersPet'': Spot/Scott Leadready II is a dog that is able to pass as human by just standing up and covering his ears with a hat. He was also a blue dog to begin with.
176	** Given his owner is chalk white, it probably comes under [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation cartoon racial spectrums]]. However, nobody notices that he has a protruding jaw.
177	* Can be a staple in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''.
178	** In "Things Change", after the Turtles hastily give police bags of stolen money and speed away.
179	--->'''Officer 1''': Did you see that? Some little green men in an armored car just threw a bunch of money at us!\
180	'''Officer 2''': Tch. Rookie...
181	** Played with in "Garbageman" when the Turtles interact with a group of homeless people without attempting to conceal who they are. The homeless people seem to pay no heed to the unusual situation.
182	--->'''Homeless Man 1''': Them guys in the big turtle suits are back. \
183	'''Homeless Man 2''': Yup.\
184	'''Homeless Man 1''': You ever wonder why they dress up like that?\
185	'''Homeless Man 2''' Nope.
186	* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' the turtles are generally pretty good about being stealthy when on the streets, but there is a lot of stuff going on in New York City that really ''should'' raise more notice. Probably most blatant when the Shellraiser, a subway car converted into a monster truck that's as wide as a two lane street, is driving around in plain view of several pedestrians, and no one so much as takes a second glance.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar'':
188	** Thundera explodes during the first minute of "Exodus Part 1", almost immediately after it's introduction. Rather than showing sorrow over his planet's destruction, Jaga simply states that "everything 'splodes someday!".
189	** Lion-O’s initial reaction to seeing Driller in his eponymous episode is an understated "who dat?"
190	* ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'': Most of the historical figures and often all past civilians don't seem surprised that they've been visited by time travellers from the future.
191	** {{Justified\|Trope}} in the case of Buffalo Bill since he was a conspiracy theorist who had suspected that he was being watched by people from the future to begin with.
192	* In almost every ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' series ever made, those who know about the eponymous Robots in Disguise seem to think [[AlienAmongUs giant space robots]] are an everyday occurrence.
193	** The pilot episode of the [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers original series]] has a plausible explanation for this. The Autobots were recognized by the nations of Earth for what they did to stop the Decepticons. So while most people will never have seen them before then (except for rare television appearances), most will likely say "Oh, so ''that's'' what they look like" and go about their business.
194	*** One episode played this trope particularly straight, as a Decepticon plot opened time rifts to different points in history. A gang of Wild West outlaws came through to the present day only to be confronted by several Autobots. The giant mechanical men elicited no serious reactions from the outlaws until one of them started blaring music, which finally inspired the outlaws to go back through the rift to their normal time.
195	** Lampshaded in ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', with one unlucky woman convinced she was going crazy because she kept hearing talking cars.
196	** Played with in ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', where giant transforming robots are actually an urban legend like Bigfoot. One wonders how that happened.
197	*** It is explained later in the series that there was a tribe of Decepticons imprisoned beneath a glacier who were the basis of all Earth's myths. Also, the series followed on from two others where the Transformers' existence was kept hushed up, although big mechanical men from outer space were never going to stay completely secret, so naturally something leaked out.
198	** The [[Film/Transformers2007 2007 live-action movie]] lampshades this and plays it for laughs. Optimus is confident enough in the Autobots' Earth disguises to assume that no one will question the sudden appearance of a fleet of expensive vehicles in the Witwickys' lawn. The denseness of civilians is also highlighted in the sequel but in both movies people (rightfully) start screaming when stuff starts blowing up.
199	** Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', the Autobots are recognized as Detroit's local superheroes, and so they are generally accepted as normal due to superheroes (The Wraith) and villains (Angry Archer, Stilletto, Professor Princess) already being a thing, as well as Detroit being the robotics capital of the world in that universe. Local law enforcement just assumes that they are local inventor's latest project when they first show up. Though by the second season, the destruction caused by fighting Megatron results in people being much more leery of them.
200	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': The last season of the series has the Autobots setting up a base in a military hangar. The soldiers there act like having giant transforming space robots living on their base is nothing unusual. Justified, though, by the fact that the U.S. government has known about the Autobots all along, and that every soldier on that base knew about them before the final season. Anyone ''outside'' the U.S. government who sees a giant robot promptly freaks out.
201	** Another aspect of the ''Transformers'' franchise that people should probably think is odd is the peculiar vehicle forms some of them choose; for example, one of the Combaticons is perfectly able to hide in Earth orbit without anyone commenting on a green space shuttle the same size as a tank. This was lampshaded in an episode of ''Animated'', when Sentinel Prime and Ultra Magnus come to Earth; Sentinel claims he's scanned some Earth forms so they'll blend in, and Prowl remarks "Yes, no one will notice that" when Sentinel becomes a giant snow-plow and Ultra Magnus becomes a giant rolling missile platform.
202	* In ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'', nobody seems to find it odd that the two titular dogs are capable of speech. The dogs are even treated as if they are human beings on occasion, as they were allowed to compete in a game show in the episode "Let's Make a Right Price" and Little Dog was allowed to enlist in the army in the episode "Post Office".
203	* ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' is both everyone's uncle and everyone's grandfather... somehow. He's also a RealityWarper with various supernatural abilities including being in multiple places at the same time, and is over 1 billion years old (by virtue of being the oldest person in the RV). Nobody ever finds any of this odd.
204	* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': None of the human characters seem to be bothered by the main characters being talking bears.
205	* A great number of people in ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'', do not seem to be impressed or curious about the ''talking dinosaurs that dropped from the sky''!!!
206	* ''WesternAnimation/ZakStorm'': Due to TheBermudaTriangle being a WeirdnessMagnet, its inhabitants don't bat an eye at things like [[TalkingWeapon talking swords]], sentient {{Magitek}} sailboats, vikings with airplane wings for weapons, LittleGreenMen in [[MiniMecha Mini-Mechs]] or [[DemBones walking, talking skeletons]], just to name a few.

Context UnusuallyUninterestingSight / WesternAnimation