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  • Animaniacs:
    • Hello Nurse is one of the most remembered characters - given that she's a Hospital Hottie who turns Yakko and Wakko into drooling idiots whenever she walks past.
    • Minerva Mink, who appears less, had only two cartoons to her name, and had cameos in a few others. But she's remembered precisely because she was a Ms. Fanservice who was found to be too sexual even by the creators. Her very first appearance in "Meet Minerva" starts with her walking out of home with just a Modesty Towel.
  • The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: The series is still remembered thanks to its Ms. Fanservice characters such as Ms. Marvel, Maria Hill, Madame Hydra and Mockingbird. The Season 1 episode "The Casket of Ancient Winters" is primarily remembered for a brief scene at a poolside with Hawkeye in swimming trunks, and the very busty Wasp in a bikini. Also Hulk, but he's always shirtless.
  • The Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Mask of Matches Malone!" is probably best known for the infamous "Birds of Prey" song, which basically amounted to Catwoman, Huntress, and Black Canary making an innuendo-laden critique about the sexual abilities of several male heroes while praising Batman as a Sex God.
  • A weird example when it comes to Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, in that this isn't a fan's, but a writer's point of view. Most fans remember Aggregor as a Magnificent Bastard and the most competent villain in the show (if a bit of an Anti-Climax Boss toward the end). When asked about his opinion of the character and the reason he doesn't want to bring him back in Ben 10: Omniverse, however, Derrick J. Wyatt's answer usually is to complain about the fact the character doesn't wear a shirt.
  • BoJack Horseman parodies this when Jessica Biel guest stars As Herself. When no one knows her from the movies she lists, she grudgingly references the time she posed topless for Rolling Stone magazine at age seventeen. Everyone remembers that.
  • Of all the failed pilots featured on the Cartoonstitute, 3 Dog Band is usually the one you'll see most people talk about. Be it either for the pilot itself being the most interesting out of all of them, or one brief scene involving Sly being smashed in between the large rears of a pair of hippo and elephant club dancers.
  • One of the more notable CatDog episodes is the extreme muscle growth episode "Pumped". It's most likely the only episode non-fans can remember off the top of their heads.
  • While Dexter's Laboratory is generally a revered cartoon, the episode "Nuclear Confusion" is only remembered for the minor appearance of the Touchy-Feely neighbor lady and the scene where she bends over to pick up a cookie she dropped to show the next clue printed on her large tush.
  • Droopy: One of the post-Tex Avery shorts, Sheep Wrecked, is only remembered for one curvaceous female sheep nicknamed "Leggy Lamb" by fans, who only appears in the cartoon for a few seconds.
  • Evil Con Carne had Major Doctor Ghastly, who is known for her curves, Hartman Hips and a scene in "Ultimate Evil" where she is belly dancing.
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • The episode "Five Days of F.L.A.R.G." is primarily remembered for a brief scene in a women's department store where Timmy comes across a shapely woman named Carly, and they have tattoos of each others' names.
    • The episode "Escape From Unwish Island" is well-known for a scene near the beginning of the episode where Timmy wishes for a room full of supermodels after he notices his parents are gone.
  • The existence of short series Fish Police is only remembered because it had lots of quite un-cartoonish passionate kissing as well as other content that was considered too risque for children's TV. It was also remembered as one of the early competitors of The Simpsons (along with Family Dog and Capitol Critters—a Simpsons Halloween special even had a sight gag that showed those three shows on tombstones) that got canceled due to all three shows being critical and ratings disasters (though gaining cult followings years after being taken off the air).
  • Glitch Techs is a Nicktoon that garnered a lot of attention for the female lead, Miko Kubota, thanks to her Hartman Hips and the often use of Male Gaze in regards to her figure. In fact, she received a lot of fan art because of this before the show even premiered.
  • Good Vibes was a short-lived MTV show that is mostly remembered for all the constant Male Gaze episode after episode. It most certainly helps that the show's setting is a beach town.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Eris and Malaria are known for their physiques. It doesn't help that they appeared in episodes at the beach.
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) was a successful children's cartoon in the '80s. What do people talk about to this day? Homosexual undertones and Prince Adam belting out a little HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA.
  • Inner Workings, a short film airing alongside Moana, became famous overnight for the character of the cute sunglasses salesgirl the protagonist is infatuated with and her extremely generous set of Hartman Hips.
  • The Incredible Hulk (1996): This show's depiction of She-Hulk is known for how sexualized she was, starting from her debut episode. Season 2 of the show also has this reputation thanks to She-Hulk being bumped up to series regular.
  • The obscure A Kind of Magic is only ever remembered for the exaggerated hips on lead character Willow.
  • Pretty much the only thing people know about the La Pavita Pechugona short is the fact that the Turkey protagonist has HUMONGOUS boobs. In fact, in a great deal of fanart that exaggerates her bust size to various degrees, it's amazing she's still standing in half of it no matter how big they get.
  • The Mask: In "Flight as a Feather", has the one-time appearance of the Mayor's ex-girlfriend Cookie BaBoom (who is a strip — er, exotic dancer) who wears a tiny dynamite bikini that ends up snagged away by the Mask. You know there's a plot about a Swedish karaoke contest and the Mask losing his feather and running through the city to get it, but once you see that entire sequence with Cookie, you'll forget about that right quick.
  • One of the things most people will recall about Perfect Hair Forever is Brenda, the parody of fanservice-y schoolgirls that walks around in a thong most of the time because her skirt is all the way up to her waist. Almost all fanart of the show involves her.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show has some adult themed episodes, with one of them taking place at the beach. In that episode, there are numerous topless girls shown for the audience.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated is a darker and more serious reimagining of the Scooby-Doo franchise well-known amongst fans for its deep lore and characterization... It's also the show with the "Trap of Love" sequence. The song is a double-whammy as it plays both forms of fanservice. On one end, it's a cool new gothic song from the Ensemble Darkhorses The Hex Girls and features Daphne singing. On the other hand, it features Daphne singing in a skimpy, gothic outfit.
  • The Simpsons: The episode "Sunday Cruddy Sunday" is remembered for the In-Universe Super Bowl parody commercial where a trio of scantily clad "Catholic" women fixes up a guy's car.
  • The Spaceballs animated series was largely disliked except for all the women with oversized breasts.
  • Time Squad: Today's fans enjoy talking for hours on end on how fabulously gay Larry 3000 was and the blatant homosexual innuendo that revolved around the series entirely.
  • The Total Drama fandom best remembers the episode "X-Treme Torture" for the scene where Heather's top gets ripped off. It's even one of the most (in)famous scenes for casual fans.
  • Totally Spies! is remembered for its three protagonists, their skin-tight colored catsuits they use during missions and for their zany adventures where they are often captured, subjected to Forced Transformation, Bound and Gagged, put into strange death traps, brainwashed among many other things. And for the series' abundance of Male Gaze shots.
  • Sym-Bionic Titan: Most people only know the show for its infamous twerking scene that aired on children's television.
  • If you were familiar with Wander over Yonder only through fanart, you could be forgiven for thinking Green-Skinned Space Babe villain Lord Dominator was the main character. She's a Knight of Cerebus to the main cast who is only introduced in the second of the show's two seasons. It helps that her Villain Song "I'm The Bad Guy" quickly became the show's Signature Scene.
  • X-Men: Evolution has an episode called "Walk on the Wild Side" - where all the X-girls and Boom Boom form a vigilante crime-fighting gang. What's most well-known is the sexy black leather outfits the five of them wear as the 'Bayville Sirens' (or else the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment of a song that acts as a Lipstick-and-Load Montage).

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