Circling Birdies / Western Animation

Circling Birdies are a very common trope in Western Animation, as seen here.

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• The 9th Life of Sherman Phelps: At the end of the episode "Cloak & Stagger", Ronald gets run over by the spy's car. When the spy leaves, Ronald has a wrench, a nut, and a bolt circling his head. The tools fall on his head and knock him out.
• Frequently happens in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and was invoked in the episode "Tails Prevails" by Tails, who is at a junkyard searching for items to be used a gift for Sonic. After an unstable pile of junk falls on his head, the resulting circling birdies prompt Tails to remark that he needs to add wings to Sonic's gift.
• In Aladdin: The Series, in the episode "Never Say Nefir", flying rhinoceroses circle Aladdin's head after he's hit with a tranquilizer dart.
• Played with in the American Dad! episode "Home Adrone". Stan tosses a young man from a moving vehicle during a Chinese New Year parade, and after rolling down the street, the man sits up with tweeting birds, stars and other assorted objects circling around his head. The shot then zooms out to reveal the a boy is spinning a mobile above the man's head and blowing a whistle to make the bird sounds.
• The title character of American Dragon: Jake Long experiences this frequently. In one instance, he sees tiny versions of his dream girl Rose running around his head after being knocked silly by a locker door. Jake's buddy Spud sees circling fish in another episode after a chair the throws boomerangs back on him.
• In Animal Mechanicals, whenever hit by something, Komodo always lands with circling tools around his head. In the reboot, Island Owl circles everyone's head if one gets dizzy.
• In the Back at the Barnyard episode "Clan of the Cave Cow", a cave cow (mistaken for Otis) whacks Abby on the head with a club. Baby chicks circle around her head as she says "I'm a pretty ballerina" before collapsing to the floor.
• In the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Emperor Joker", after Jokermite hits Batmite over the head, Batmite sees bats circling his head. Later, after Batmite knocks out Jokermite, the latter sees flying joker fish circling his head.
• Ben Tennyson gets the circling stars version in the Ben 10 (2016) reboot when sucked into the cartoon world of Xingo after getting inflated, flying around as he deflates and crash landing in the episode "And Xingo Was His Name-O." One of Ben's alien alter-egos also sees circling stars when facing off against Xingo in an earlier episode.
• In "Betty Boop's Halloween Party" a party guest is hit in the head by an apple on a string and sees one big star, while a gatecrasher sees multiple stars when devil ghosts hit him with their pitchforks.
• In Beverly Hills Teens, Bianca sees circling birdies after hitting her head on a tree and falling. Pierce also gets circling birdies after a fall, and they both suffer a case of Identity Amnesia. In other episodes, both Gig and Wilshire experiences the circling stars version of the trope.
• In The Brothers Grunt, the eponymous brothers will sometimes have this trope happen to them with circling toilets.
• The Bump in the Night episode "In the Bowl of the Squishy Prince" has Mr. Bumpy's head encircled by yellow birds after getting concussed. Humorously, he eats one of them and later helps himself to another when the same thing happens to his friend Squishington.
• When Captain Caveman from Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels gets hit on the head he'll often see pterodactyls circling around his head.
• The Care Bears series used this trope frequently, especially in the Nelvana episodes. Beastly, Grumpy Bear, Braveheart Lion and Champ Bear were its most frequent victims, but most of the bears and Care Bear Cousins experienced it at one point, as did one of the kids the bears were trying to help. The show usually used stars but sometimes threw in other circling objects, most notably when No Heart saw circling bats after being knocked out by Grumpy.
• ChalkZone: This happens to Snap in "Rapunzel" when Snap saves Queen Rapsheeba from getting crushed by the castle prop.
• In Class of 3000, the episode "Love Is In The Hair... Net" has Madison get door slammed in the face. She falls to the ground with unicorns circling her head.
• The Cleveland Show: In "Frapp Attack", Cleveland Jr. remarks that he'd rather get hit with a mallet than attend Duke. He proceeds to hit himself, and as birds circle his head, he adds that his preferred sport is bird-watching.
• On the Classic Disney Short "Pluto's Fledgling", Pluto is helping a baby bird who's learning how to fly. There's a Running Gag of Pluto falling off a tree, down a roof and onto the ground, seeing circling birds afterwards. When it happens at the end, the last bird is the fledgling, finally able to fly.
• Dad'X: Princess and Cruck help Dad'X get his beard unstuck from the toy conveyor belt. He flies backwards onto Cruck, causing both of them to have circling stars around their aching heads. Princess gets similarly dizzy due to the strong magnetic waves present in Foudror's base.
• Dragon Booster: The title character comedically falls down a pipe, and when he hits the ground, a bunch of curvy stars — his personal emblem — circle his head.
• On Dragon Tales, Zak gets spinning stars around his head around the beginning of "Calling Dr. Zak" after he and Wheezie shoot out of their knuckerhole really fast and land right on their bottom.
• Used several times in The Dreamstone:
  • Played with in the pilot episode when Sgt Blob tells Frizz and Nug to sneak towards the Dream Maker's tower and whistle him when the coast is clear. Frizz and Nug dart forward and run into a wall, causing whistling birds to circle their heads. Blob overhears and, assuming it's the signal, charges into them.
  • Done again in "Hod" by Rufus and Amberley in one of their rare Amusing Injuries throughout the series.
• In Dudley Do-Right episode "Flicker Rock", Snidely Whiplash pushes a big rock down on Dudley's head with no effect of killing him, but causes Dudley to deal the episode of seeing things like birds and trains that aren't there.
• In the Earthworm Jim episode "Queen What's Her Name" after Princess Whatshername throws Queen Slugforabutt against a wall, the queen sees little winged Earthworm Jims circling her head.
• Done all the time in Ed, Edd n Eddy, but was invoked in "The Luck of the Ed", when Ed was trying to recount what happened when he lost Eddy's magazines:
  Ed: Then I hit my head on that branch—
  (Ed smacks into a tree branch, then walks around to the other side of the tree)
  Ed: Nope. Sorry. It was this one.
  (Ed smacks his head on the other tree branch.)
  Ed: Then I gazed at the stars...
  • Eddy's Brother has circling stars when he's defeated.
  • A Cartoon Network channel bumper/ident involved the Eds running at and into each other. As they fall down, a star appears above each one of their heads, and Ed remarks, "I see stars..."
• CM Punk (or, more accurately, CM Punk Rock) hears birds and sees stars after Barney knocks him headfirst into a turnbuckle in "The Flintstones and WWE: Stone Age Smackdown."
• In the pilot for The Fairly OddParents!, Vicky gets the stars version after Cosmo and Wanda drop a giant cherry on her. In a later Oh Yeah! Cartoons short, Timmy gets them after Cosmo accidentally drops a carousel on him.
• In the Family Guy episode "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", Peter predicts a grand piano will fall on his head. About a minute later, it happens. Peter sees stars when this happens.
  Peter: If you get a fortune cookie, don't open it!
• On Futurama, the sign in front of The HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots has birds circling above it.
  • In the Futurama Holiday Spectacular, Fry sees spinning Christmas, er, Xmas ornaments after Robot Santa clubs him with a candy cane.
• "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi" uses the stars version very frequently. Ami, Yumi, and Kaz are the most frequent victims since they are the two girls and a guy.
  • In the final episode, Yumi and Kaz sees swirling yellow stars after Ami sees a neutral face with a man.
  • In the beginning of second act of the episode "The Oddyguard", Ami and Yumi gets terrified while sees spinning stars when this happens.
  • Done two times in "Visiting Hours", when being kicked up, Yumi gets the stars version while Ami sees a few symbols when this happens.
  • In the second act of the episode "Neat Freak", Ami sends Yumi and Kaz flying when she yells "unacceptable". Yumi and Kaz sees both yellow and light purple stars when this happens.
  • The third act of the episode "Record Breakers" uses the swollen bees version very frequently. He asks throwing the cotton candy off, Yumi does gymnastics while being hit with a cotton candy in the face while bees being swollen on Yumi. Yumi is being hit with guitars and sees stars above his head.
  • Ami and Yumi gets the colored stars version, when being swinged in a rope in the episode "Camping Caper". One of the main characters sees spinning stars when being swinged in a rope.
• The House of Mouse short "Donald's Goofy World" has Donald being knocked out with tiny Goofy heads going "A-hyuck!" circling over him. When he regains consciousness, he kicks them away.
• At the beginning of the 1963 Disney TV special Inside Outer Space, Professor Von Drake falls off his high seat while stargazing from his observatory and lands on the floor, getting stars over his head.
  Von Drake: I don't know about you, but I just saw stars I've never seen before!
  Von Drake chuckles.
  Von Drake: And you people out there are going to see stars you haven't seen before either, when you go traveling in outer space!
• Parodied in the short Jinxy Jenkins & Lucky Lou. After Lou and Jenkins have their Crash-Into Hello, one of the overly-friendly bluebirds who had been hounding Lou circles her head before flying off.
• Used fairly frequently in Kick Buttowski, usually with stars or just a plain circling line. The hard-luck Kick is the most frequent victim. In the episode "Free Gunther," he experiences it about a dozen times in a row while sustaining repeated blows from Magnuson's hammer.
• In Kid vs. Kat, this trope was experience in some episodes; however, Kat (aka Mr. Kat) has experienced this in some episodes being the only ones with Kat with the trope; for example, in Never Cry Sheep, when Coop slams a trash can on Kat, Kat has stars circling his head.
• Kuu Kuu Harajuku: "Multi Tasking" has Baby roller skating during rehearsal. She winds up slamming into the rest of the girls, causing them to see stars for a brief moment.
• Let's Go Luna!: In "You Can't Move the Moon", when Luna knocks out Jiro during the sumo wrestling match, the latter gets circling stars around his head for a few seconds.
• It is definitely easier to list those Looney Tunes shorts that don't use this trope. Among those that do:
  • In "Daffy Goes Hollywood", Daffy Duck tries to get past a studio guard in order to see movie stars. At the end, the guard decides to help him see the stars — by hitting Daffy over the head with his nightstick. Daffy then calls the "stars" by name: "There's Alexis Smith, and Dorothy Lamour (a star in a sarong!)... Sufferin' succotash! It's Ann Sheridan!" and even gives one a kiss.
  • In "Rabbit Hood", Bugs Bunny tricks the Sheriff of Nottingham by telling him that the king is coming, and then hitting him over the head when he turns and bows. The Sheriff then sees little kings walking around his head, leading to the classic line, "Odds-fish, the very air abounds in kings."
  • The Road Runner short "Going! Going! Gosh!" has Wile E. Coyote getting run over by a truck, then having little miniature trucks circling his head in place of birds or stars.
  • In "Baseball Bugs", one of the Gashouse Gorillas is knocked out, and surrounding his head are four little baseball players with angel wings, tossing baseballs among themselves.
  • In "Yankee Doodle Bugs", Bugs visits Betsy Ross to check on the progress of the new U.S. flag. Feeling the blue field is too plain, he paces around the lawn trying to think of something to "snap it up a bit"... and carelessly steps on a rake. Pointing to the resulting stars orbiting his head, he asks, "Hey, Betsy, does this give you an idear?"
  • "A Pizza Tweety Pie" definitely satisfies the "cartoon cats" criterion above.
• The Loud House: Parodied in "No Spoilers", when Walt the canary flies around Lincoln's head after he falls down the stairs.
  • The show's spinoff, The Casagrandes uses the stars version somewhat frequently. Sid in particular tends to get them a lot, such as when she's dizzied during a wrestling match. Bobby, somewhat the Butt-Monkey of the series, also sees circling stars at times and gets the birds variety after a bicycle crash in the episode "Fast Feud."
• Happened quite a few times on Mr. Bogus:
  • Happens to Bogus, while he's dressed as an Eskimo in the first act of the episode "No Snooze Is Good News", but he sees ice cream cones circling his head, as he grabs one and eats it.
  • At the end of the first act of the episode "Babysitting Bogus", Bogus sees winged babies circling his head after getting hit on the head by the baby's milk bottle.
  • In the episode "Bad Luck Bogus", Bogus sees stars circling around his head after hitting the ground from missing landing on the couch.
  • Bogus sees buses circling around his head after landing inside the video store in the episode "Totally Bogus Video".
  • This also happens to Baddus after landing in a tree in the episode "Bogus To The Rescue", but instead of birds, he sees winged Boguses.
  • It happens to Bogus once again in the second act of the episode "Waterboy Bogus", after Running into the Window trying to get into the penguin exhibit, but sees penguins circling his head.
• In My Life as a Teenage Robot, the episode "Puppet Bride" features Jenny getting hit on the head with a cane. Blue stars circle her head for a brief moment before she shakes them away.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony Tales:
    • "The Play's the Thing": Clover gets the spinning stars and planets with the sound of chirping birdies variant while being spun around in a barber's chair.
    • "Just for Kicks": Ace gets the spinning soccer balls with the sound of chirping birdies variant when Patch kicks the soccer ball right in his nose. Ouch!
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: When a character gets dizzy, be it from any kind of amusing blunt trauma or motion sickness, they will usually have stars circling their heads for a short while.
    • "The Return of Harmony Part 2": Twilight sees lots of stars after slamming face-first into Tom the boulder.
    • "Hearth's Warming Eve": During a snowball fight with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, Rarity is beaned in the head and gets a halo of circling stars, which she shakes away with an angry expression on her face.
    • "Daring Don't": Parodied; when Rainbow runs into a tree where Fluttershy is helping some baby birds in their nest learning to fly, the chicks fly and circle around Rainbow's dazed head.
• On Nature Cat, when the Talking Animal characters are walking through the woods on the way to a Talking Blue Jay's music concert, Nature Cat gets bonked on the head and sees circling blue jays.
• Used several times in the New Kids on the Block cartoon series. In this episode, when Jonathan is knocked out by a falling surfboard, he hears tweeting birds and sees tiny surfers around his head (he then develops amnesia and thinks he's a pro surfer). After Donnie is thrown from a horse, he sees miniature versions of himself on horseback circling his head. The New Kids' bodyguard Bizcut sees circling music notes when dazed in another episode. In this episode, Danny hears tweeting birds after a hard fall.
• In Nutri Ventures: The Quest for the Seven Kingdoms, Episode 3 has Nina seeing stars after landing in a trash can.
• The Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "Blotto" ends with the titular character getting hit on the head by his girlfriend Dotto, resulting in Blotto stunned while stars spin around his head.
• In Packages from Planet X, lead character Dan sees circling soccer balls after a hard fall during a soccer game.
• In the animated TV series "The Osmonds," characters occasionally see circling stars, especially Fuji and Jimmy, but the whole Osmond clan experience it togetether in the Transylvania episode after rolling down a hill in a Big Ballof Violence and crashing.
• The Patrick Star Show:
  • In "The Yard Sale", a Roman gladiator accidentally smashes headfirst into a column, and three images of people riding chariots circle around his head.
  • In "10 & 1 Toilets", after GrandPat plunges a toilet to get a donut back from it, the toilet has stars, donuts, and toilet paper rolls circling its head.
• The stars version appears occasionally in Pepper Ann. Milo, for example, sees them after taking a hard hit during football practice, and Crash sometimes sees them after his frequent Amusing Injuries.
• Played with in the Pixar Short Day and Night, whose characters have scenes visible inside them. When Day gets hurt, birds are seen flying inside his head.
• Bird sounds frequently play in PJ Masks when a character is injured or dizzied, often as their eyes spin in opposite directions to add to the effect.
• Characters occasionally get these in Les Podcats, usually just the sound of chirping birds but occasionally accompanied by circling stars as well. Senzo tends to be the most frequent victim.
• The stars version appears fairly frequently in Problem Child. For example, in the episode "Junior Meets Tiny Ben," a rare instance where Junior finds himself the Butt-Monkey for much of the episode, Junior sees circling stars three different times.
• In one episode of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Randy sees various food items circling his head after being tossed into a food cart.
• In the Rugrats episode "Reguarding Stuie" after Stu hits his head on a robot duck weathervane and falls off the roof he sees stars and ducks spinning around his head.
• Happens to Salem in an episode of Sabrina: The Animated Series. Being a cat, he eats one of them.
  • Sabrina and Harvey also experience this on occasion throughout the series. In one episode, a dizzy Harvey, having been thrown from a spinning art display, sees images of portraits circling his head.
• Seven Little Monsters: In the episode "The Nose Knows", Two's enormous nose ends up making him accidentally drop his pop-up book out of the window, where it ends up hitting the monsters' pet cow Belinda in the head, causing miniature versions of Belinda wearing tutus to spin around her head.
• In The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" version of The Raven, Homer tries to drive off Bart the Raven by throwing a vase at him, only for to miss and hit himself in the head, resulting in tiny Bart Ravens circling his head saying "Nevermore! Nevermore! Nevermore! Nevermore!". Bart himself experiences this trope in a later "Treehouse of Horror" spoof of Nightmare on Elm Street. In his dream, after being hit with a Frisbee, birds circle his head while "No Sale" signs pop up in his eyes.
  • Also seen in the Season 20-present Couch Gag, in which Jebediah's statue's head falls on Ralph's. One of the things he says after being hit is, "I see stars!"
  • In "Homer the Father", after Bart sells nuclear secrets to China in exchange for a dirt bike, only for Homer to give him the same kind of bike the next day, he has an Imagine Spot of him getting beaten up by Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty for committing treason for no reason, telling him he'll be "seeing stars and stripes forever".
  • In "Puffless", Maggie befriends some animals and recruits them to save an opossum from a dog. During the fight, a bird knocks the dog away, and the dog sees circling chirping birds around his head. But then the dog hits back, and the bird ends up seeing circling barking dogs around his head.
• The Smurfs provides an interesting take on this in the episode "Papa's Puppy Prescription"; when Gargamel gets dazed by running into a rock, in his next scene he tells Azrael how he sees birdies and little stars flying around his head. Azrael, of course, cannot see these "birdies" and "little stars" Gargamel speaks of — and neither can we as a matter of fact — leaving him confused about what his master is talking about.
• This occurs on several occasions in SpongeBob SquarePants. The common example is stars, anchors or scallops, although different circling objects can appear. For example, in the episode "Survival of the Idiots", Patrick gets hit in the head and sees chicken drumsticks.
  Patrick: Hot... wings.
  • Another example occurs in another episode "Teacher's Pests" Mrs. Puff hits Mr. Krabs and Plankton with a tree and they see circling stars. Spongebob, deciding he wants some as well, drops a tree on his head until he sees stars and Mrs. Puff takes them away.
  • Another example occurs to Karen in the episode “Karen’s Virus”, where she sees circling ones and zeroes after ramming into a wall due to having a virus, and she comments on them.
  • In "Rock Bottom", little scallops swirl around SpongeBob's head when he runs into a wall.
  • In "Shopping List", Mr. Krabs had just gotten beaten up by Sandy, who was angry that she and SpongeBob had to go on a wild goose chase for nothing, and as she walks out with a bag of money to pay for her submarine that was lost, Mr. Krabs dizzily walks out with small clams circling his head before he is finally launched into the sky by Sandy.
  • In "The Ghost of Plankton", Squidward gets knocked unconscious and clarinets circle around his head.
  • In "Patrick's Tantrum", after getting knocked out by Patrick, Harry the Health Hazard has circling Patricks saying "Tweet".
  • In "Abandon Twits", when Squidward gets bashed on the head with an anchor, three images of him sailing in a little ship circle around his head.
• The guys of Supa Strikas experience this trope after a hard hit during a game or other head injuries. Bo sees circling stars after a slip on a banana peel that also leads to Easy Amnesia. The guys also occasionally see circling soccer balls, such as when Chuck takes a hard crash during a game or when Klaus is whacked by a door and knocked off a train.
• In the Super Mario World cartoon, Mario gets hit in the head while trying to find something useful in the blocks. Due to this, when he does find something (a feather), he's too dazed to be able to catch it. He then grabs one of the stars circling his head, and is able to use it as if it were a Starman powerup.
  • It also happens on the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode "Pirates of the Koopa", when Mario asks for a star that is circling the parrot's head after he bumped it on the top of the crow's nest.
• Spy vs. Spy: In "Beach", a bird circles the black spy's head after running into a wooden stake (in which the white spy was able to get a photo from a woman to trick the black spy into running into the wooden stake.)
  • Also happens in "Wall", in which the white spy gets circling stars after getting smacked by a fence. (Strangely enough, stars also circle the hand at the beginning of the episode when the white spy punches the brick wall.) Also, early in "Basketball", the black spy enters the scene in which the white spy notices the black spy and screws up, in which, as a result, the basketball hits the white spy in the head. Bird sound effects then play, as the white spy staggers in a daze, right before the black spy steals the ball. Also, in "Toilet Plunger", the white spy sees circling birdies after a hit to the head with a toilet plunger, with a rock attached to it to make it look like as if it were a HAMMER.
• Normally in the Teen Titans (2003) cartoon, Blank White Eyes are used. However, circling stars were used in the episode "Switched" when Puppet King-controlled Robin accidentally hit himself with his own baton.
  • Used much more frequently in the decidedly more cartoony series Teen Titans Go!
• Lampshaded in Tiny Toon Adventures, where animal lover/killer Elmyra gets trapped in the mall after closing time. At one point she gets hit on the head, send birds flying around her head. Then Elmyra grabs one of the birds and hugs it, which also has smaller mini-birds circling around its head.
• The Tommy & Oscar animated series uses birds and/or stars in nearly every episode, and characters frequently comment on what they are seeing. For example, when both Tommy and Oscar see stars after taking a tumble on the set of a Star Wars-like film, they mention how great the special effects are for the film.
• Total Drama:
  • Chris bullies Duncan over his crush on Courtney in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon", so Leshawna helps her challenge partner out by knocking the host out. She and Duncan win the challenge moments later, so Chris groggily forces himself back on his feet to declare "Bedunca" and "Shewaninin" the winners as three stars and Saturn circle above his head.
  • Courtney slams into a wall surrounding Camp Wawanakwa in "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island". She gets up from being knocked back as four birds chirp and circle her head. Annoyed, she shoos the birds away, prompting one of them to chirp something rude at her.
  • To prevent her own team from winning in "The Chefshank Redemption", Gwen smashes their one shovel in pieces over Harold's head. He goes down while four stars and a blip circle above his head. Despite no birds being present, bird sound accompanies the stars.
  • Vito takes Scott to the final landmark in "Grand Chef Auto", at which point Scott no longer needs him. When the other's back is turned to him, Scott clubs him down and leaves Vito lying out cold with four stars and several flashes circling above his head. Despite no birds being present, bird sound accompanies the stars.
  • To turn an enamored Dave hostile towards Sky for the finale in "Lies, Cries, and One Big Prize", Chris shows him her audition tape in which she mentions her boyfriend Keith. Dave blanks at this devastating reveal, which is reflected by three Sky heads circling his head while they repeat "boyfriend Keith" in slow-motion.
• Total DramaRama uses the trope on occasion. Owen, for example, sees circling images of his treasured toy ball circling his head after running into a door. Cody gets a ring of sheep circling his head after fainting from fear. Duncan sees stars followed by the images of chirping birds when he gets slammed in the face by an Easter egg.
• In "The Twisted Timeline of Sammy and Raj," stars appear around Raj's head after he is thrown from a spinning turntable and into an ice sculpture, though dizziness in the series more frequently is indicated by the characters' eyes spinning in opposite directions (especially for accident-prone Sammy).
• The VeggieTales in the House episode "Laura at Bat" had this happen to Jimmy Gourd after getting beaned in the head by a ball while he was announcing the climactic ball game. In this case, however, he sees baseballs circling his head.
  • Happens to Larry in "IT", where it's circling lemons on him.
• In one episode of Wayside, Todd sees stars after a fall. Mrs. Jewls then told Todd to get his head "out of the stars," and it turns out that the stars were really on a project involving a globe.
• The cartoon versions of Chris and Martin Kratt often experience this in their animated series Wild Kratts. The circling creature usually corresponds to whatever critter they're following that day. For example, after a fall from a tree in one episode, Chris sees circling lizards. Another episode features Chris seeing circling walruses and Martin seeing circling polar bears after a blow to the head.
• Welcome to Tonka Town: In "Race Day In Tonka Town", stars circle Hook and Ladder’s heads (well, “heads”) after they collapse from exhaustion upon reaching the finish line. And that's just lap one out of three!
• In the Woody Woodpecker cartoon "The Barber Of Seville'' when Woody shrinks an Indian Cheif's headdress he chases Woody with his tomahawk trying to scalp him, Woody responds by hitting him on the head with a mallet he then sees little birds with turkey feathers on their heads doing the stereotypical war whoop.
• The title character of Zeke's Pad sees circling pancakes twice after mishaps during gym class in the series's first episode. Zeke had eaten a lot of pancakes for breakfast, resulting in numerous slips and falls during gym.

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