Explain Explain Oh Crap / Western Animation

People realizing the problem mid-explanation in Western Animation TV shows.

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• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Similar to the movie, the episode "Pet Food" sees Ace having a disgusted reaction upon realizing the reason Last of Their Kind animals were being stolen, with a rare tarantula next on the list:
  Ace: Someone is using last of their kind animals to make a one-of-a-kind six course gourmet meal! (With realization) Oh, gross! That means someone is going to actually eat a creepy-crawly hairy red-kneed tarantula?! Bleech!
• Adventure Time: In the episode "Always BMO Closing", BMO (with the Ice King's help) goes out cosplaying as a door-to-door salesman. Finn and Jake don't think they'll have much success, but are surprised when BMO returns with a genuine silver goblet. They're glad that BMO had some success despite their reservations, but then Jake asks what he sold to get the goblet...
  BMO: Just a line of smooth talk and pipe dreams. Oh, and a set of human baby teeth.
  Finn: Where did you even get a set of human baby teeth? (Beat) HUMAN BABY TEETH?! (Finn rushes upstairs to check on his box of baby teeth, which is empty) BMO!
• In Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "A Gummi in a Guilded Cage", when Zummi and Cubbi embark on a mission to rescue Sunni from the Carpies using a Gummi flying machine, Gruffi ends up getting dragged along when his ankle gets caught in the machine's mooring line. Zummi and Cubbi don't realize Gruffi is behind them for several minutes until we get this scene:
  Cubbi: (Looking over the edge) Wow! Look how high we are!
  Zummi: (Gulping nervously a bit) Yeah.
  Cubbi: (Pointing to the ground) Is that our shadow?
  Zummi: Sure. (Giggles) And look, there's Gruffi's shadow behind it, eh, uh-GRUFFI'S SHADOW!
  Gruffi: PULL ME IN!
• American Dad!:
  • In "Francine's Flashback", Stan's on a fishing trip, and says he's glad to be out of the house, because it's the first anniversary of a huge fight he had with Francine. When asked what the fight was about, he says he forgot their anniversary. His co-worker is about to point this out to him, but Bullock stops him. A few seconds later, Stan screams when he realizes what he's done, and Bullock smiles and says, "There it is!"
  • In "A Jones for a Smith", Stan is smoking what he thinks is cold medicine, but Roger tells him it's crack. Stan claims it isn't, explaining how he bought it from a guy in a lime-green suit sitting on a park bench in front of a soup kitchen... immediately making him realize it is crack.
  • In a Halloween Episode, Stan is trying to make his haunted house scarier than his neighbors by displaying live serial killers in glass cases. And then...
    Roger: Stan, don't worry I've fixed everything...I let the prisoners out!
    Stan: You what?!
    Roger: Yeah, Francine was right. A shark's not intimidating behind glass, but when you're in the ocean with it-
    Klaus: But Roger, they're going to kill us all!
    Francine: AND CHOP OFF MY HEAD!
    Roger: Scary, right?... ahh, I never think things through.
  • In "Poltergasm", when the Smith house is terrorized by a spirit created from Francine's sexual frustration, Stan finds it hard to believe he can't satisfy her, leading to this:
    Stan: But, when we have sex, you look like Meg Ryan in that scene from When Harry Met Sally.... (Beat) When...she...fakes...it. Oh, my god, I love that movie.
  • In "Rubberneckers", Stan crashes his car while rubbernecking, but since he doesn't want to admit it to Francine, he claims that he swerved to miss a dog, which he also puts on his insurance claim. However, the insurance agent investigates and finds evidence that Stan was girl-watching, but tells Stan that he'll drop the case if he doesn't find anything in the inspection of his car. Stan breathes a sigh of relief, stating that the only evidence of his rubbernecking is some pictures he took with his phone, which he hasn't seen since the accident since his phone's in his car. Cue reaction.
  • In "The Devil Wears a Lapel Pin", Hayley plots to have Jeff burn Stan's photo album of CIA calendar pages in revenge for him not appreciating her for anything. However, when Stan commends her for her hard work in helping him take the pictures, she is so touched that she has an Imagine Spot where she sings in a big production number about how she finally feels appreciated.
    Hayley: My Dad and I have had rough patches / That's why Jeff's upstairs with a book of matches—OH SHIT!
  • In "The Mural of the Story", Steve is talking with a fellow clown college student that their teacher is the toughest in all of clowning and, before he even finishes, he immediately realizes it's going to be Roger in another costume.
• American Dragon: Jake Long:
  • In "The Talented Mr. Long", Jake has to compete in the school talent show against his friend Spud because the trophy is actually an ancient magical chalice that has an evil djinni imprisoned inside it. During the talent show, the djinni is released in the middle of Spud's magician act, which the rest of the crowd believes is All Part of the Show. Spud is able to reseal the djinni within the chalice, and Jake forfeits the talent show in sake of their friendship. Spud, touched that Jake valued their friendship over the trophy, gives him the chalice anyway in good sportsmanship, which then leads to this at the end of the episode.
    Lao Shi: Now, let us put Taranushi's Chalice somewhere safe.
    Jake and Fu Dog: …(pointing at each other) I thought you had it!
    Jake: You had it when we left school!
    Fu Dog: Well, you had it on the subway!
    Jake and Fu Dog: THE SUBWAY!!!
  • In the episode "Hong Kong Knights", Fu Dog tells Jake the story of how his grandfather Lao Shi met Fu and Counselor Chang, and how his encounter with the Dark Dragon made him the no-nonsense dragon he is today. While thinking over the story, Jake remembers how it was Chang that told Lao Shi and Fu to investigate the cargo hold of a ship, which was where the Dark Dragon was. Jake suggests that it's likely Chang intended Lao Shi to run into the Dark Dragon. And if Chang was working with the Dark Dragon then, then she might be working for him now... while his grandfather is alone on business with her.
  • In "Something Fishy This Way Comes", Jake is on the hunt for an escaped Kelpie, a sea creature that drains the life force and absorbs the powers and appearance of whatever it bites. Jake initially suspects that the Kelpie is his school principal Ms. Derceto, who has recently started dating his grandfather. When he and his friends break into her office at school, they find rusted old chains covered in seaweed, which only fuels his suspicions. After he finally confronts her, he discovers that she's actually a mermaid detective who's also tracking down the Kelpie. After the misunderstanding is cleared up, Jake soon realizes they've got another problem; the real Kelpie is still on the loose, which means Lao Shi is in danger.
    Principal Derceto: I was one of the mermaid detectives sent out to find the escaped Kelpie. I thought it might be you. The way I kept finding you every place the beast attacked, the-the changes you'd said you'd gone through in the past year… well, I… I thought real Jake Long had been eaten and replaced. It's the perfect cover, really.
    Jake: But what about those chains we found when we broke into your office?
    Principal Derceto: (sighs) Evidence I picked up on the… YOU BROKE INTO MY OFFICE!?
    Jake: I thought you were trying to eat me and Gramps! But if you're not… I mean, that means… the Kelpie is still… GRAMPS!
• Archer Vice:
  • This is how Archer figures out the CIA was using the ISIS team to do their dirty work in the season finale.
    CIA Agent Holly: Calderon needed weapons to fight the rebels, but he didn't have money to buy weapons, he only had cocaine, but Iran was like "No way, cash only," so...
    Archer and Lana: (simultaneously) IRAN?!
    Holly: Ooh, sorry! Iraq. Wait, no, Iran. Doesn't matter who. Anyway, to buy the weapons, we needed to...monetize the cocaine.
    Lana: (realizing what that means and gasps) Oh my God.
    Archer: Join the club. We've been trying to monetize cocaine for, like... I mean, you even came to the house, where we... We've been selling cocaine for the CIA so they could buy arms from Iran?!
  • Earlier in the season 2 episode "Jeu Monegasque", Archer, Ray, and Lana sneak into the hotel casino's vault to retrieve their stolen 401(k), only to find the guards already tied up. Archer initially sees this as a good thing, since they forgot to bring the ropes, until Lana asks this simple question:
    Lana: Archer, why would somebody tie up the guards!?
    Archer: Duh, so they could rob the...oh shit.
• Archie's Weird Mysteries: In "Fleas Release Me", Jughead and Archie are talking about the werewolf running around Riverdale after Reggie is arrested under suspicion of being behind the incidents. Archie lists some things that are necessary to transform, including a pentagram.
  Jughead: (discussing how Reggie is missing werewolf criteria) What exactly is a pentagram, anyway?
  Archie: It's a five-pointed star!
  (the scene changes to a police badge worn by the arresting police officer, who is bandaging his hand)
• In the Arthur episode "Locked in the Library!", Arthur and Francine get locked in the library when it closes (they were both in a previous argument and were not paying attention to the clock). After a failed attempt to escape through the window, Arthur remembers something important...
  Arthur: I just remembered something.
  Francine: What?!
  Arthur: Today's Saturday, which means... the library is closed until...
  [Francine gasps in horror]
  Both: MONDAY!!! [echoes]
• In the episode "Claude Returns" from Atomic Puppet, we get this moment while Joey and AP are talking about the latter's clone and Mookie.
  Joey: So what other tech does Mookie have to help Claude become a more convincing Captain Atomic?
  AP: Eh, don't worry about that. I hid all the good stuff in the Invisi-shed. And you can't get in there unless you have my-
  Joey: Voice?
  AP: Oh boy!
• In the episode "The Return" of Avengers Assemble, Loki takes control of Vision in order to fight Thor. After Vision catches Mjolnir and Loki orders him to strike down Thor with it, the latter questions how the former can wield it if he's under his control, and trails off upon realizing Vision was only pretending to be brainwashed.
  Loki: Wait a minute, how can you be worthy of Mjolnir when I'm...controlling you— (cue Loki getting an Asgardian hammer to the face)
• Back at the Barnyard:
  • This exchange when Otis is about to take Abby out for a driving lesson in Mrs. Beady's car, as usual, in "Saving Mrs. Beady":
    Freddy: OK, Otis, she's hotwired and ready to go!
    Otis: Nice job, buddy. Okay, Abby, put her in reverse and give her some gas.
    Abby: You got it! I'll try not to hit Mrs. Beady.
    Otis: See? That's great— you're already thinking defensively. That's the first sign of a good...
    All Animals: MRS. BEADY?! [as Mrs. Beady is about to get in her car, the animals quickly hide before she could spot them]
    Otis: Oh, okay, my face is not a seat!
• The Batman: After discovering Lucius Fox has been replaced by a robot, Robin and Batgirl discuss whether they'd be fooled if someone they knew was replaced by a robot.
  Robin: Anyone we know could be a robot!
  Batgirl: Oh, it wouldn't fool us if we knew the person. ...Would it?
  Robin: Maybe not. They'd probably be a little robot-y... detached... unemotional... mechanical...
  (Both of them turn to look at Alfred)
  Batgirl: ...Kick his head off.
  Robin: You kick his head off.
  Alfred: Attempt to do any such thing, and I assure you, there will be no hot buttered raisin scones for either of you for a year.
  Robin: ...Only Alfred sounds that much like Alfred.
  Batgirl: Yup.
• Batman: The Animated Series:
  • In "Beware the Gray Ghost", a Mad Bomber is terrorizing Gotham with incidents based on the show The Gray Ghost, and all signs point to Simon Trent, the actor who played the title character on TV. While trying to defend himself to Batman, Trent realizes that the toy collector he recently sold his old merchandise to is probably the culprit.
    Batman: Your prints are on this car. You have the only copy of the show. The mad bomber followed the show step by step.
    Simon Trent: But I'm not the mad bomber, Batman! I'm not! I sold my Gray Ghost cars months ago to pay for my... No! It can't be him!
  • In "Terror in the Sky", Dr. March explains how he wanted to recreate the Man-Bat formula, only to drop the beaker when Francine walked in on him working. He recalls how she helped him clean it all up—and then cut her finger on the glass, with all the chemicals surrounding it.
  • In "Joker's Millions", The Joker receives an Unexpected Inheritance in cash from a rival gangster. After going on a spending-binge, an IRS agent arrives and reveals that Joker still has to pay a tax for his new inheritance. As he goes through the vault to collect the money he owes, one of his minions notices something off about the cash. Joker takes a closer look and sees a different face on the currency.
    Fake Harley: Hey, Mr. G, this money looks kinda weird...
    Joker: (Takes bill) What do you mean? It's a plain old pack of hundreds. See? There's Ben Franklin's chubby little- What? King Barlowe?! He's on this stack! And this one!
• Big City Greens: In "Chipocalypse Now", Cricket discovers that all his friends have apparently signed Chip Whistler's petition to demolish the Greens' house, including his best friend Remy, who claims to have never signed anything. Cricket doesn't buy it and sarcastically assumes that Chip lied and forged the signatures himself... before realizing that he's low enough to do something like that and, therefore, has.
  Remy: I didn't sign any petition. This must be fake.
  Cricket: (sarcastically) Well, if that's true, that means Chip lied to us! (realization hits) ...Oh, actually, that makes a lot of sense.
• BoJack Horseman:
  • In "Love And/Or Marriage", Diane is invited via text message to a party being thrown by one of her clients. At one point, one of his friends mentions a girlfriend of his whose name is also Diane, leading her to come up with a joke scenario that turns out to be real.
    Diane: Hey, wouldn't it be funny if you tried to text "cool, sexy Diane", but then, instead you texted regular, boring Diane by mistake, and then I showed up, and you were like "Who's this chick?", and then, all night, I'd be hanging out with you, like, thinking I was one of the gang, but actually, it was just a big mistake because you meant to text- Oh, shit, that's exactly what happened.
  • In "Free Churro", BoJack gives a eulogy at his mother Beatrice's funeral. Throughout his speech, he brings up the moment she died, in which she looked at him and said with her dying breath, "I see you", believing it to be a sign that, despite her being a bitter, abusive bitch, she did had a smidgen of love for him. But toward the end, he mentions one little tidbit that completely changes his perspective of that moment.
    BoJack: I'm not gonna stand up here and pretend I ever understood how to please that woman, even though so much of my life has been wasted in vain attempts to figure it out. But I keep going back to that moment in the ICU when she looked at me and... (realization) "I see you". I... C... U... (beat) Jesus Christ! We were in the Intensive Care Unit! She was just reading a sign! My mom died, and all I got was this free churro.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: "The Deadly Glow" focuses on the Planeteers attempting to find a lost piece of cesium in Korea before Duke Nukem does. Kwame questions Mr. Nei about who released the cesium minutes ago. He insists he didn't do it as he never found the other capsule. Mr. Nei then realizes in horror that the only ones who could've done it are Su and Song since they always trespass on his scrapyard to take things.
• Carmen Sandiego:
  • In part two of the pilot/Origins Episode, Carmen bumps into Mime Bomb while trying to carry out a plan to escape V.I.L.E. island. She's able to brush off the conversation and walk away, reassuring Player (who's been listening in via her phone) that he's harmless, only to realize mid-explanation that he's the leadership's spy among the student body.
    Carmen: It's okay, he's just this creepy mime who watches everything on the island... and everyone. Because he's a spy and a snitch!
  • Later, in the second part of the two-part episode “The Hot Rocks Of Rio Caper,” Tigress gets a call from the Faculty post-Shadow-san's escape with Carmen. She tells them about Shadow-san's arrival and his attacking Brunt to play the ruse on Carmen and ignores most of their reactions until she claims that he already told the Council that he was in Rio, and they look at each other significantly! Gradually Tigress realizes the truth and meekly asks if he never contacted them. Cue Coach Brunt grabbing a computer console and throwing it to the ground!
• Castlevania (2017) has this absolutely priceless moment when Sypha managed to move Dracula's castle:
  Alucard: Where did you land the Castle, Sypha?
  Sypha: (cheerfully) Right on top of us! (Realizes) Oh. Hmm, yes, I... landed it on the surface. Right above this... underground space that's probably only held up by wood and... dirt. [*Beat*] Let's go.
• In Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Short Order Crooks", while in the alley alongside Ma's diner, Monterey Jack and Zipper see Ma place a bowl of milk outside her door. Monterey finds the sentiment touching, but then realizes the implications.
  Monterey Jack: Now, that's a sweet, old, lady. Settin' out a bowl of milk for the poor, homeless, stray... CATS?!
  (Cue alley cats coming)
• In the Classic Disney Short "African Diary", Goofy is on safari and spots something in the tall grass.
  Narrator: It's only a tick-bird, who always makes his home on the back of the black rhinoceros... [Gasp!] black rhinoceros!
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • In Operation: T.H.E.-S.H.O.G.U.N.; Numbuh 2 and Numbuh 4 get into a disagreement on which way to lead the Cheese Shogun's prisoners. After Numbuh 4 leads everyone else out of the palace, he chuckles that Numbuh 2 probably ended up back in the Shogun's throne room...and then realize that's exactly where he is.
  • In the TV movie Operation: Z.E.R.O., Grandfather announces to an audience of villainous adults that he will eliminate the Kids Next Door by turning anyone who is, or ever has been, a kid into "senior citi-zombies". The crowd goes wild until they realize exactly what that means.
    Knightbrace: Genius! Sheer... Wait a second. I used to be a kid!
    Mr. Boss: Me, too!
    Chester: We've been double-crossed!
    Grandfather: How observant...
• On The Critic, when a mugger pulls a gun on Jay from behind and says that he'll take his car keys, Jay tells him that the keys would be no good to him without the car. It's only after he says this that he realizes the mugger intended to take both.
• Danger Mouse:
  • In the episode "The Day of the Suds", after Danger Mouse defeats Greenback's army of washing machine robots, Greenback realizes too late that his You Have Failed Me punishment was too widespread:
    Greenback: Stiletto!
    Stiletto: Si, Baroni?
    Greenback: Destroy them all!
    Stiletto: Si, Baroni! [pushes the command into the controls] Si! Si! Si! [Beat] Hey, Baroni?
    Greenback: Well?
    Stiletto: Destroy them all?
    Greenback: All!
    Stiletto: [Referring to the washer they're standing on] Including this one?
    Greenback: Yes! Includ- [with realization] No! Wait! [Kaboom!] AAAAAHHHHH!
  • Near the end of "Gremlin Alert", after Danger Mouse is able to stop the illogical gremlin by beating him at his own game, Penfold, who was hanging off a ledge stops falling before he can hit the ground where DM was standing. Danger Mouse then explains that because he caused the gremlin to cancel himself out, the normal laws of physics in outer space were returning. Of course, this is outer space so:
    Danger Mouse: ...yes, there's no atmosphere. (In a gasping voice) No Atmosphere!!?? (then he starts floating, and thus prompts that he and Penfold air-paddle back to the spaceship before they suffocate)
  • In the episode "A Dune with a View" Penfold gets one after he and Danger Mouse get stranded in the Sahara Desert. At first, Penfold assumes he and DM will not need to worry about no food or water, given that the desert is mostly "Sand, which is." However, he thinks the line reads as "sandwiches" until Danger Mouse explains the difference.
    Penfold: Sandwiches, Sand which is... oh... HE-E-E-L-LP!!!
  • Near the end of the episode "Don Coyote And Sancho Penfold", This happens Four times in a row. First when Greenback and Stiletto realize their flying windmill has run out of power and second when the eponymous Don Coyote spots Greenback's flying windmill about to fall on top of him, commenting that it is getting bigger before realizing too late that he is going to be crushed by it. The third time is when Greenback's exact problem with his windmill befalls Danger Mouse and Penfold's flying car. In each instance, Greenback/Danger Mouse explains to Stiletto/Penfold how the lack of power and lift from the blades/wings will not hold the windmill/flying car in the air for very long. At which point, Stiletto/Penfold in each scene reply:
    Stiletto/Penfold: ...Then I have only one thing to say Baroni/DM.
    Greenback/Danger Mouse: What's that?
    All: WHOA-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-AHHH!!!! (They all plummet to the ground.)
  • And then comes the fourth time: Just before Danger Mouse and Penfold hit the ground, they find themselves waking up in fright at the inn they were both vacationing in at the beginning of the story. At first, they both deduce that they mush have shared the same dream, until they both see Don Coyote at the door also reciting that he had just woke from a bad dream. They then all notice each other and yell in a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment, and at that point Danger Mouse and Penfold wake up in fright again in their pillbox headquarters, where the transmission alert is sounding. Colonel K then appears on the screen to report that he had just woken from the same dream that Danger Mouse and Penfold had shared between each other.
• Danny Phantom:
  • In "Parental Bonding", Danny, Sam and Tucker do some research on the dragon ghost he's been fighting lately, and upon discovering the connection between it and the mysterious necklace he gave to Paulina, Danny has this reaction.
    Danny: (reading a webpage Sam sent him) "Medieval ghostly legend held that the cursed Amulet of Aragon could transform any wearer into dragon form under states of extreme emotional duress or anger." That's the amulet I gave to Paulina. It must have accidentally fallen into my backpack. Wait… you mean… I'm going on a date with a dragon?!
  • In "Fanning the Flames", when Tucker is entranced by ghostly singer Ember, Danny and Sam are forced to tie him up in front of a computer to "deprogram" him. Later on, when Ember puts a spell on Danny to make him fall in love with Sam, we get this:
    Sam: (to Danny) We're gonna have to deprogram you like we did Tucker. (skids to a halt) Oh, my gosh! Tucker!
    (Cut back to the school where Tucker has been tied up for twelve hours)
  • In "Memory Blank", Danny has an argument with Sam about how her ideas have led to him getting into trouble one way or another, specifically the fact that it was her idea for him to go inside his parents' ghost portal, which resulted in the accident that gave him his powers. The fight ultimately ends in Sam saying that she wishes she had never met him as she storms off. Unfortunately for them, Desiree, a genie-like ghost, overheard everything and grants Sam's wish. Sam, however, had been wearing the Fenton Spector Deflector at the time, and was unaffected. The next day, she assumes Danny is only joking when he doesn't recognize her. After Desiree attacks and Danny cowers in fear, Sam realizes something is wrong, and then sees a photo in Danny's locker that's identical to one in her diary, but she's been erased from it.
    Sam: Oh no. Last night I wished Danny had never met me, and Desiree must've made it so we never met! Which means he never got his powers!
• In one episode of Dave the Barbarian, Uncle Oswidge is painting a picture of the landscape outside the castle, but a conversation with Fang about an inadvertent addition makes him realize that a threat is approaching the kingdom.
  Fang: Oh, Uncle Oswidge, isn't painting such a civilized pastime?
  Oswidge: Sure, if the paint fumes don't make me barf...again.
  Fang: (Pointing at the painting) And what, pray tell, is that?
  Oswidge: (Nonchalantly) That's just a herd of ferocious bugle beetles that are approaching Udrogoth. I can't see...(Ends up jabbing his brush through the canvas) HERD OF FEROCIOUS BUGLE BEETLES?!
• Dexter's Laboratory: In the Made-for-TV Movie Ego Trip, Dexter travels through time to find out how he saved the future. After meeting his timid young adult self, called "12", and himself as an old man who couldn't fully remember how he saved it, the three travel back to a Bad Future that is ruled by Mandark, and come across Action Dexter, who leads the resistance against him. When Action Dexter explains how Mandark became Overlord, 12 realizes that he and present day Dexter forgot something important back in his time, indirectly causing Mandark's rise to power.
  Action Dexter: Then, darkness fell. Somehow my most prized invention, the Neurotomic Protocore, fell into Mandark's clutches!
  Twelve: (quietly) Oh my gosh, we left the core out in my cubicle!
  Dexter: (elbows him)
• Disenchantment's King Zog will often narrate aloud as he examines something, up until the point where he discovers something horribly wrong, at which point he will simply begin yelling.
• In Donkey Kong Country:
  • As part of a Zany Scheme, DK flies around in Funky's bi-plane.
    DK: Hey, it's Dixie's pet crab! Aw, isn't he cute, eatin' through all those funny-lookin' wire- Uh oh. This is probably a bad thing. Hellllp! The plane’s out of control!!
  • From "Bug-A-Boogie" when DK informs Klump and Krusha there could be a bog monster lurking around:
    Krusha: What's a bog monster?
    Klump: Oh, it's a big, ugly, hairy beast that eats... anything in... sight. [gasp]
  • In the beginning of "From Zero to Hero", Krusha steals the Crystal Coconut out from Cranky's nose. However, he doesn't have it when he gets to K. Rool's lair. His Kritters remind Krusha that after Cranky's, they went to a swamp and met "That very cute lizard"...
    Krusha: Yeah, right, and-and then I handed her the Coconut...
    K. Rool: You handed her the Coconut?
    Krusha: Eh... Uh-oh. I didn't get it back. Back in a jiffy. (Leaves)
    K. Rool: The brains...of a NEWT!!!
  • In "A Thin Line Between Love and Ape":
    • In order to get Cranky out of his cabin, Bluster tells him that DK, Diddy, and Candy are going on a picnic to Orchid Valley, which at that time of the year is very poisonous. Cranky reluctantly leaves Bluster to guard the Crystal Coconut, but finds the trio on his way to the valley:
      Cranky: What the—? What in blazing bananas are you doing here?
      DK: Having a picnic.
      Cranky: You're supposed to be in the Orchid Valley!
      Diddy: Well, hahaha, why would we go there, Cranky? Everyone knows that it's really poisonous at this time of year!
      Cranky: Well, I know that, but—(pause) Bluster...
      Diddy: Bluster?
      Cranky: That slick-haired chimp lied! He must be up to something.
    • Upon learning that the Crystal Coconut gave Bluster the formula for a Love Potion, Donkey Kong is left wondering why he'd want such a thing...until he remembers that Bluster has eyes on his girl, Candy.
      Donkey Kong: What would Bluster want with a...love potion?! (Charges out of Cranky's treehouse out for blood) BLUSTER!!!
• Dragons: Riders of Berk:
  • Occurs in "The Eel Effect" as Hiccup and Fishlegs spot something while scouting Eel Island (which, as its name suggests, is home to thousands of poisonous eels) for Toothless:
    Fishlegs: That's a Typhoomerang mark!
    Hiccup: The only dragon that eats eels!
    Fishlegs: Yes, that makes sense... it's the perfect habitat for them, really... I bet there's tons of wild Typhoomerangs around here! [Hiccup stares blankly at him for the 3 seconds it takes for the implications to sink in] And that's bad. Really bad...
  • Also occurs in the second season finale: Hiccup, imprisoned by Dagur the Deranged, sends a message to the other dragon riders, telling them they need to lure the Whispering Death dragon that is threatening Berk to Outcast Island. Fishlegs suggests using dragon-root, which acts like catnip to dragons, to attract the Whispering Death.
    Snotlout: Just one problem; all our dragons go nuts when they go anywhere near it!
    Fishlegs: If you recall, not all the dragons are affected by the dragon-root. For example, as a boulder-class dragon, Meatlug is... [the others stare at him]... and I've said too much.
• Dragon Tales: In the episode "Small Time", Emmy and Max are shrunken by Shrinking Violets (as in, literal violets that shrink anything they touch when in bloom) just before the dragons arrive. The dragons are confused about only finding the kids' backpacks right by the flowerbeds. They realize what happened when Wheezie finds Emmy's kickball that also shrunk.
  Cassie: It's kinda funny Emmy and Max aren't here yet. They always come when we call for them.
  Ord: That's weird. You wouldn't think they'd only send her backpack. (holds up Emmy's backpack)
  Zak: Huh? How come Emmy's backpack is here?
  Wheezie: And Emmy isn't?
  Cassie: Where'd you find that, Ord?
  Ord: Right beside these flowers.
  Cassie: Careful, Ord. Those are shrinking violets. When they bloom, they shrink anything they touch!
  Ord: [pulling his finger away] Oh!
  Wheezie: Hey, what's this? [picks up the shrunken kickball] I found a marble that looks like a dragon ball.
  Cassie: Say, that looks just like Emmy's kickball. It must've shrunk. [gasps] What if Max and Emmy touched the Shrinking Violets?
  Zak: Well, then they'd shrink down to teeny, tiny... OH, NO! They shrunk!
• DuckTales (1987):
  • In "Hero For Hire", while reading the newspaper, Launchpad reads an article that tells how the Webbed Wonder robbed a bank. A Delayed Reaction combined with a Spit Take follows.
  • In the episode "Till Nephews Do Us Part", among the plans Femme Fatale Millionaira Vanderbucks has for when she and Scrooge are married, she intends to give Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley the pink slip, which the nephews think is a gift.
    Mrs. Beakley: Oh, boys. A pink slip isn't a gift. It means I'm fired. FIRED?!
• DuckTales (2017):
  • In the first episode, Scrooge has this reaction when the kids react with fear after he angrily strikes a cursed gong.
    Scrooge: Oh, what're you gaping at? The curse is only activated if you ring the gong three times and—and—and you already hit it two times, didn't you?
  • Near the end of the first season, where the theme in general includes some of the full implications of their adventuring lifestyle, the kids keep Scrooge distracted (long story) by acting uncharacteristically afraid; as Webby and Huey cite the surrounding dangers that supposedly have them spooked, Louie realizes what they're saying and looks genuinely scared.
  • In "The Outlaw Scrooge McDuck", the billionaire Rockerduck has left town with an enormous gold nugget (promising that he'll use the nugget's profits to develop the town) and Scrooge and Goldie have been arrested by Sheriff Marshall Cabrera for starting a fight with him over their own claim to the nugget. While in jail, they encounter a time traveling Gyro, who upon hearing Rockerduck's name reveals that he went down in history for being an infamous swindler who left ghost towns in his wake. When Sheriff Marshall tries to counter by bringing up other towns that Rockerduck supposedly helped, he realizes that none of them have actually prospered and Rockerduck really is a conman.
• A nice slow burn in the old Tex Avery cartoon The Early Worm Gets The Bird, when the little blackbird realizes who he's talking to:
  Blackbird: But there's one thing us early birds gotta watch out for 'round here... the fox!
  Fox: The fox?
  Blackbird: Yeah, my mammy done told me that he eats little birds! She says he's 'bout this tall... (motions with his arm) He, he's tall as you is! (the fox grins at the audience) And she said he's got great big green eyes... er, just like you all! And a pointed nose... (begins to get nervous) ... like yours... and, and long, sharp teeth... (peels back the fox's lip to reveal sharp fangs) ... jus' like... jus' like... (the fox grins evilly) ...uh-oh...
• In the Ever After High episode "Just Sweet", a relieved Dexter comments that he's finally asked Raven out... only to realize that he just asked Raven out, and has no idea how to handle their first date.
• In Family Guy:
  • In "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas", Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire are going about drunken antics while Peter is the Designated Driver, and when Peter reminds himself that he has to go drop off a gift for charity, Quagmire suggests that they set him up with "another lemon snow cone":
    Peter: No thanks. The last one you gave me didn't taste like lemon at all. It tasted like— [beat] Oh, you guys are asses.
  • In "Road to the North Pole", Stewie and Brian's attempt at being Santa Claus goes awry when they try and deliver a new baseball bat for a boy named Johnny, but instead end up knocking out the parents and duct taping a little girl to a chair. Then, this happens:
    Stewie: Alright, that's the last of the blood. Go check on the other kid.
    Brian: What other kid?
    Stewie: Johnny, the one who's getting the bat.
    Brian: (runs upstairs) Stewie, there's only one bedroom up here!
    Stewie: What?! (to the girl) Do you have a brother? (she shakes her head) Well then who the hell is Joh—oh my God, we're in the wrong house.
  • In "Brothers and Sisters", Lois tries to break up a romance between her sister Carol and Mayor West, believing the relationship will end badly like Carol's previous marriages. When West finally gives up and plans to leave Quahog, Peter calls her out on her bullheadedness by reminding her of the time Carol stuck up for them when others thought their relationship would fail.
    Lois: Look, I'm not sacrificing my sister's happiness so you can have a playmate. She and Mayor West never would have made it.
    Peter: Oh yeah? Well, nobody believed we'd make it, and look at us now; I drink and you use sex as a weapon. That seems to me like a successful New England marriage.
    Lois: Oh, come on, Peter. My parents may have been against our relationship, but a lot of people supported us.
    Peter: Oh, yeah? Like who?
    Lois: Well, like... like Carol. Eh, God, if it wasn't for her support, I don't know that I would have had the confidence to marry you. (beat) And now that she needs my support, here I am abandoning her. (gasp) Oh my God! Peter, I've made a terrible mistake!
  • "Farmer Guy" has this during the ending when Lois wants to leave the farm they bought (and turned into a meth lab), and return to Quahog.
    Peter: But Lois, what about this farm? And the lab inside the farm which is currently producing an incredibly volatile mixture of thermoreactive— [cue fiery explosion behind him]
  • In "Baking Bad", after Brian has staged an intervention for Stewie, who had become addicted to cough syrup:
    Brian: Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to Chris's room. We're doing a masturbation intervention. I got a bunch of his friends sitting in a circle in there... OH DEAR GOD!
  • In "The Munchurian Candidate", Lois hypnotizes Peter so that he will give her oral sex whenever he hears the theme from Extra. However, when they're visiting her parents' house to tend to a sick Babs, and Peter brings her dinner just as a certain show is starting...
    Lois: I feel so sorry for Mommy.
    Carter: Don't worry about your mother. She's got her celebrity news programs up there keeping her company.
    Lois: Yeah, right. (beat) Wait, celebrity news? What time is it?!
    Carter: Just about 7:30. Why?
    Lois: Oh my God! OH MY GOD!
• The Flintstones:
  • In "The Masquerade Ball", while attending a masquerade ball, Fred ended up learning what costume his boss would be wearing and came up with a scheme to butter him up under the guise of not knowing who he was talking to. Unbeknownst to him, however, his boss had swapped his mask with another patron prior to this. What's more, his boss was able to recognize his voice despite the costume Fred was wearing. It isn't until the next day that Fred learns his boss was actually the guy in the bird mask who he had talked to afterwards and remembers that he had badmouthed him.
    Fred: (Jovially as he looks at the mask his boss was wearing) Sure! I talked to you! We were at the refreshment bar and I was saying...Oh, boy, what I was saying!
    Mr. Rockhead: I'll refresh your memory. Quote: "Vice President of the Moron section of the Knucklehead Club". "Home having dinner before the five'o'clock whistle". "Pennypincher". "Shorty". "Birdbrain". You were gonna bump me "right on the beak!" Etc, etc, etc! Well, what do you have to say for yourself?
    Fred: (In a high voice after shrinking with each sentence his boss said) Oh, boy, me and my big mouth!
  • At the end of the episode "The House That Fred Built", when it's revealed that Wilma's mother wasn't going to move in with her and Fred, meaning that Fred and Barney, who had spent the whole episode working on a house Fred had bought for her, had gone to all that trouble for nothing, the pair found it hilarious...at first.
    Barney: Come to think of it, Fred, it is kind of funny at that! (Laughs) All that work we did!
    Fred: (Joins him in laughing) Yeah! We did work hard, didn't we?
    Barney: Yeah! (Still laughing) And then the house got busted!
    Fred: Yeah! (Laughing hilariously) Into a million pieces!
    Barney: (Laughing like crazy) And all that money you spent!
    Fred: Yeah! (Laughs) A thousand bucks down the drain! (Still laughing, then a Beat as he stops when the realization sets in)
    Barney: What's the matter, Fred?
    Fred: A thousand bucks down the drain?! What am I laughing at?! (Starts bawling)
• Futurama:
  • In the episode "A Clone of My Own", there's this line from Prof. Farnsworth's clone, Cubert:
    Fry: Nothing is impossible! You'd know that if you really took after the professor, like I do.
    Cubert: You're his uncle, dummy. He takes after you.
    Fry: Uh, wha?
    Cubert: Wait a second. That means I also take after you! AAAH!
  • Also, in "A Tale of Two Santas":
    Fry: And I can deliver them. Billions and billions in one night.
    Robot Santa: Ha! No human could do all that.
    Fry: Evil Knievel could!
    Robot Santa: Nuh-uh!
    Bender: Santa's right. We need some sort of robot. *everyone stares at him*. Aw, crap! I'm some sort of robot!
• Infinity Train: At the beginning of "The Campfire Car", Hazel has this reaction when, after Simon murders Tuba in cold blood for being a "null", she turns into a turtle-like monster and realizes she's also a "null", meaning Simon would likely kill her as well if he found out.
  Hazel: Do you hate me?
  Grace: No, Hazel, why would you say that?
  Hazel: You hated Tuba.
  Grace: No! I... didn't hate Tuba.
  Hazel: But Simon did. (gasp) SIMON'S GONNA KILL ME, TOO!
• Jellystone!: In "Yogi's Tummy Trouble", Yogi gets a new nuclear stomach with limitless capacity, which he initially just uses to eat large quantities of food. But then he eats Boo Boo, and Cindy theorizes that since Yogi can never feel full with his new stomach, his appetite will thus grow exponentially. Of course, that wouldn't be a problem for someone with decent self-control... unlike Yogi.
  Yogi: You mean I-I'm gonna go crazy with hunger?!
  Cindy: Well, only if you have zero self-contro- ohhh, gosh.
• In one episode of The Jetsons, George accidentally gets computerized dog teeth put in his mouth that make him act like a canine while at the same time, Spacely needs his aid to impress the Employeer of the Year committee. In order to keep George calm, Spacely has the committee meeting at his house, with him assuring George that there's nothing dog-related there to set him off. Emphasis on "dog".
  Mr. Spacely: Uh, no. No dogs. Mrs. Spacely doesn't care for dogs. She has cats. Eh, CATS?!
• In "Boomer's Blanky" from Kate & Mim-Mim, said blanky gets lost because of Tach's invention which makes things float through the air. Mim-Mim eventually finds it, but neither he nor Boomer recognize it for what it is because it's been washed and it's normally stinky. So Mim-Mim lets it go, back on its "magical journey through the sky." Eventually, Gobble, who had washed it, catches up with Mim-Mim, who talks about how he found that particular blanket and eventually released it.
  Gobble: You let Boomer's blanky go?
  Mim-Mim: [proudly] Yep, I let Boomer's blanky go. ...Eee! Wait! I let Boomer's blanky go!
• In the Kim Possible episode "Clean Slate", Dr. Drakken starts describing how he drove all the soldiers off the military train he and Shego just boarded by activating an overload alarm... and then reveals/realizes that he caused an actual engine overload rather than a false alarm.
• King of the Hill: "Boxing Luanne" has Buck Strickland offer to help Luanne start a career in boxing, but unknown to her he actually gets her into Foxy Boxing, staging a series of fixed fights while showing off her body. When Hank learns the truth and explains things to Luanne, it takes a little while to sink in:
  Hank: You see, Buck knew that men would pay to see you dance around the ring. So he found a bunch of cleaning ladies for you to fight and knock out.
  Luanne: But I'm a great boxer! And that's why the fans are always yelling and hollering and... throwing... dollar bills and... Oh God, am I stupid!
• Looney Tunes:
  • In "8 Ball Bunny", after Playboy Penguin gets separated from his Ice Capades show and meets Bugs, the rabbit agrees to take him back home, but first looks up what kind of bird he is in the dictionary.
    Bugs Bunny: Hey, what do you know, you're a pen-ga-in. And 'pen-ga-ins', it says here, comes from the South Pole. (With realization) South Pole?! Ooh, I'm dyyyinnn!
  • In the cartoon "Canned Feud", Sylvester realizes that his owners have left on vacation and accidentally locked him in the house.
    Sylvester: They forgot to put out the cat! Ha, ha, ha! [beat] The cat?! I'm the cat!
  • Another Sylvester example: in the cartoon "Muzzle Tough", Sylvester tries to get past a guard dog by disguising himself as a sexy female dog, only to get scooped up by a dogcatcher before he can get anywhere with it. As the catcher's van drives off, Sylvester yells at him from the back of the truck:
    Sylvester: Sufferin' succotash! Let me outta here! I'm not a dog! (pulls off mask) I'm a cat! K-A-T! I'm a... (realizes he's locked in the back of a truck full of angry dogs and turns white and passes out before being beaten up)
  • The Looney Tunes Show: In "Double Date", Lola ends up falling head over heels for Daffy after spending part of the episode trying to win over Bugs when they go on the titular double date with Tina Russo. After Lola interrupts their attempt to dance, Bugs busts in trying to figure out what's going on. When Lola explains she's trying to win back "her boyfriend" Daffy, Bugs snaps "Daffy's not your boyfriend, I'm your boyfriend!" before stopping and realizing what he just said.
  • New Looney Tunes: In one episode, Daffy is acting crazy in a hospital's parking lot, causing orderly Porky to tell him to leave. Daffy obliges, leaving the parking lot and going inside.
    Porky: Well, t-t-that takes care of that. He won't bother anyone now that he's l-l-left the parking lot and g-g-gone into the hospital. (gasp) GONE INTO THE HOSPITAL?!
• In Moral Orel, in one episode Orel popularizes a song from the point of Judas called "I Hate You Jesus". It becomes a hit in town, and soon everybody starts singing it in church. Orel is at first pleased with its success, but then this trope comes into play as he says, "Wow, everybody sure hates Jesus! Whoops."
  • Reverend Putty also has one of these in that episode's continuation, "Innocence", when Orel talks to him about it.
    Orel: I don't think that song should have ever become so popular!
    Rev. Putty: What do you mean? It's hilarious! I hate you Jesus, you rotten little fink, your serm- uh oh.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In "Fall Weather Friends", after Applejack ends up in the mountains during the Running of the Leave thanks to a Road-Sign Reversal by Rainbow Dash, a conversation with Pinkie Pie makes her realize she's been tricked.
    Pinkie Pie: (overseeing the race from a balloon) Applejack, what are you doing up here? There aren't even any trees!
    Applejack: No, but the sign pointed this way. [beat before her eyes narrow] Rainbow!
  • In "Keep Calm and Flutter On", Discord decides he's not going to go through with the ponies' attempts to turn him good. Why should he? He's free at last, and the only things that can really stop him, the six Elements of Harmony, aren't working due to Fluttershy (one of the six Element bearers) giving her word that she will not imprison Discord again as a show of trust. Discord breaks this trust, saying he doesn't care if Fluttershy stops being his friend. Why should he care? She was only the first real friend he's ever had...
    Discord: Well played, Fluttershy, well played...
  • In "Honest Apple", Rarity decides to teach Applejack a lesson after the latter drives off some contestants in a fashion contest with a display of Brutal Honesty. She invites Applejack to talk with Strawberry Sunrise, a pony who hates apples and proceeds to flippantly bad-mouth them in front of Applejack. AJ explains why Sunrise's opinion made her so mad, realizing in the process that she was too hard on the fashion designers.
    Applejack: That's fine if she don't like 'em, but if she knew how hard we worked to make our apples perfect, maybe she wouldn't be so mean about— Ohhh... oh boy.
  • "Friendship University" has Twilight and Rarity investigating Flim and Flam's university on the suspicion that they're scamming students with their courses, with Rarity posing as a student. At first they have no luck finding anything, with the tuition even being free. Rarity was starting to enjoy the classes and was considering staying until she said this out loud:
    Rarity: Can you get a message to Spike? I want to return those sewing machines. I need the bits if I'm going to keep advancing here. Tuition's free, but the worksheets sure aren't.
    Twilight: Flim and Flam are charging for these?
    Rarity: Well, they have to cover expenses, and Flam insists that everything extra goes to improving the school and—(beat) This is the scam, isn't it?
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh:
  • "No Rabbit's a Fortress": When Rabbit is finally fed up with his friends messing up his garden, he builds an enormous fortress around it, complete with booby traps and harshly orders his friends to never bother him again. Unfortunately, he soon realizes that he has trapped himself inside the fortress!
    Rabbit: Now for a little peace and quiet. And gardening. Hmm, where did I leave my shovel? Oh, yes, it's right outside THE DOOR?! [screams and panics] THE DOOR! I FORGOT TO MAKE A DOOR! I can't get out! I'm trapped! DOOMED!
  • "Groundpiglet Day": Rabbit becomes convinced that it's Groundhog Day, due to his calendar pages blowing away, and hires Piglet to be a groundhog. Due to his hat covering his face, Piglet can't see his shadow, so Rabbit assumes that it's springtime, only for snow to fall. After Rabbit chews Piglet out for making a wrong prediction, he finally discovers the missing pages and has a Jerkass Realization.
    Rabbit: It's only November! It's nowhere near Groundhog Day! Hmm, Piglet wasn't quite as wrong as I'd thought. (beat) Piglet? Oh my! I'd better apologize to him!
• Parodied in the Phineas and Ferb episode "One Good Scare Ought To Do It'', in a scene where Dr. Doofenshmirtz thinks he’s gotten away from his lair and left Perry behind to be destroyed by his latest device:
  Doof: Whew! That was close! Now, let's just make sure I didn't forget anything in my haste. Let's see, I've got my old basketball, the lamp, the Christmas lights, the umbrella, Perry the Platypus, the Disintivaporator, my golf- Perry the Platypus? (Scare Chord) The Disintivaporator? (another Scare Chord) My golf clubs? I don't even play golf!
• Pinky and the Brain:
  • One such instance occurs in "Tokyo Grows":
    Pinky: [taps Brain on the the shoulder] Um, excuse me, Brain.
    Brain: Go away now, Pinky! Can't you see I'm fighting with Pinky?!
    Pinky: Narf! Right! (starts to turn away, then stops) Oh, no, wait, how can you be fighting me over there, when I'm standing over here?
    Brain: It's a very simple principle, Pinky. It's because—(realization, turns around to be nose to nose with Gollyzilla, then turns away) That is the real Gollyzilla.
  • In "Brinky", Pinky's genetic material accidentally gets introduced into Brain's cloning experiment, essentially resulting in their having a child together.
    Brain: Look! One of your errant nail clippings befouled my tissue sample! My clone is a product of our merged DNA. Do you realize what this means?!
    Pinky: (gasps) I'm a mommy! (bursts into Tears of Joy) I'm a mommy!
    Brain: Pinky, that's absurd! You are nothing of the kind. Its chromosomal makeup just happens to include both of our genetic building blo— AAAAAAH!! ...Oh my Lord, you are its mommy.
  • In "Leave It To Beavers", an experiment of Brain's gives Pinky the ability to communicate with beavers by pushing a remote control. With this skill, they get a bunch of beavers to build a dam to flood a city, which the beavers incorporate shiny things into. Unfortunately, this causes Brain's plan to hit a snag:
    Brain: Pinky, where is the remote?
    Pinky: I don't know Brain. Poit. You had it last.
    Brain: Well, I left it right here!
    Pinky: Did you check under the sofa cushions?
    Brain: We're outside! There is no sofa!
    Pinky: Well, there you are then. What does it look like, Brain?
    Brain: You know, it's a remote! It's sort of black and shiny and—(Beat) Oh, no. [The beavers] put it in the dam!
• Pippi Longstocking: In "Pippi Saves the Old Folks Home", Officers Kling and Klang say two little kids were exploring the building that would be the senior citizens' new home when the landslide hit it and the Chairman of the Town Council says it's impossible because there were no little kids nearby... except for his.
• The Real Ghostbusters:
  • The episode "A Ghost Grows In Brooklyn" includes this conversation as the four guys are climbing a wall, following the roots of a giant, monstrous, destructive plant back to its source:
    Egon: Do you think there might be some significance in the fact that the giant plant is a geranium, just like the one I gave Janine?
    Ray: Pure coincidence, Egon— there must be a million geraniums in this city.
    Egon: Right... besides, if it was the same plant, then the center of the whole thing would be...
    [they've now reached the top of the wall and can see where they are]
    All: Janine's apartment!
  • In "The Halloween Door", when a horde of demons escape from the Netherworld and terrorize New York in celebration, Winston realizes they may want a few other friends join the fun:
    Winston: Wait a minute. If all these things have come through and they're partying and getting together like we've seen, then wouldn't they like to break out all their buddies?
    Ray: The containment system!
    Egon: Janine!
    (Cut to the firehouse which is under siege)
• ReBoot: In "Nullzilla", Hack & Slash are put in charge of taking care of Nibbles, Megabyte's Right Hand Null. At one point, Nibbles scurries off.
  Hack: What a good boy. Look, now he is going for a walk.
  Slash: Uh, what phase number is walking Nibbles?
  Hack: Dahh... there is no number for walking Nibbles.
  Slash: Well, that means he just ran away.
  Hack: Yup, that is right. He ran away, alright.
  Slash: He's gone.
  Hack: He is. Look at him go.
  (Beat)
  Both: Ahhh!!
• The Ren & Stimpy Show: In "Road Apples", Ren is annoyed that everyone in the RV is asleep and keeping him awake with their snoring. Then this happens...
  Ren: Grrrrr. Everyone's asleep except me. [beat] Wait, if everyone's asleep...THEN WHO'S DRIVING THE RV!?!?!?
• Rick and Morty:
  • In "The Ricks Must Be Crazy", Zeep Xanflorp has this when he hears about Kyle's Teenyverse.
    Kyle: Oh no, they're not slaves. They work for each other.
    Xanflorp: That just sounds like slavery with ex... tra.. steps... Wait a minute, (To Rick) did you create my universe?! Is my universe a Miniverse?!
  • And then, a few moments later, Kyle has a disturbing realization for himself.
    Kyle: So [Rick] made a universe, and [Xanflorp] is from that universe....and that guy made a universe....and that's the universe where I was born...where my father died...where I couldn't make time for his funeral because I was working on my universe...[Proceeds to get back into the only means of transportation out of the Teenyverse and smashes it into the side of a cliff]
  • In "Rattlestar Ricklactica" Rick makes Jerry slightly lighter than air, with only his shoes' weight keeping him from floating away. Only later does he realize it was a terrible idea:
    Rick: I saved his life by making his body slightly lighter than air, and it expires in a couple of hours.
    Beth: Expires, like he'll fall out of the sky?
    Rick: He won't be in the sky, Beth. Unless it's possible for Jerry to fuck up wearing shoes. [Beat] Oh, crap, he's gonna die.
    Beth: What were you thinking?!
• In the Rocket Power episode "Snow Day", when Otto decides he and Sam should cut school and have their own snow day, they get stuck on a roller coaster at the amusement park nearby the Shore Shack while it was upside-down and end up on the news. Among the first to notice this are Ray and Tito.
  Tito: Poor little brothers. Gives me the willies just thinking about it. [shuts off the TV, but a Record Needle Scratch cues the realization] Wait a minute— I know those poor little brothers! [turns the TV back on] Otto! Sammy! Raymundo!
  Raymundo: [turns to see Otto and Sam on TV] Huh?!
• In Rocko's Modern Life episode "Dirty Dog", featuring a Show Within the Show staring Bloaty the Tick and Squirmy the Ringworm, Bloaty was having his boss over for dinner and Squirmy was helping him out by cooking up a roast louse that he promised would be so good, Bloaty would be promoted to vice president. As the two are having a toast over it, however, a black cloud of smoke appears over their heads, leading to this:
  Bloaty: Say, what's that rancid smell?
  Squirmy: I don't know. Smells kind of like burnt roast.
  Bloaty: (With wide eyes) THE ROAST!!!
  Squirmy: Ooh, uh, forgot about that.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle:
  • In the 'Jet Fuel Formula' arc, Boris has two, each involving a Mooseberry bush:
    • While on a ship, Boris tricks Rocky and Bullwinkle into getting into a sabotaged lifeboat for a lifeboat drill. Being Chronic Heroes, the pair helps Boris's Uncle Chummley, which is a disguised Mooseberry bush, into the boat with them. When Boris cuts the lifeboat loose and sends them adrift:
      Boris: Cheerio, Moose! Good-bye, Squirrel! Pip-pip, Uncle Chummley, eh, uh...Uncle Chummley?!
    • Then later on, Boris tricks the pair into going out onto an icy ledge, which they go over due to Bullwinkle having a Sneeze of Doom. At first, Boris is delighted that the two are Buried Alive, only to realize during his impromptu chorus of 'Taps' that he and Natasha need to save them:
      Boris: (Singing) So, fare-well, and good-bye, down you go, in the snow, you must die, with the moo-se ber-ry bush—Mmph-Mooseberry bush!
      Natasha: That doesn't rhyme.
      Boris: Natasha, they still have the bush!
      Natasha: You mean...?
      Boris: Yes! We must save them!
      Natasha: Again?!
  • In one "Peabody's Improbable History" cartoon featuring Alfred Nobel, Nobel tried to demonstrate the power of nitroglycerin to a group of scientists, but realized too late that there was a hazard with his test^note Though fortunately, disaster was averted thanks to Peabody being Crazy-Prepared
    Nobel: The rest is child's play. I merely press this button and the shack becomes nonexistent. I'm sure those gentlemen will be highly impressed.
    Peabody: By the way, where are they?
    Nobel: At the best possible vantage point: in the shack! (He pushes the trigger button) DID I SAY IN THE SHACK?!
  • During the 'Treasure of Monte Zoom' arc, Rocky is recapping the events of the arc to Bullwinkle with drawings (It Makes Sense in Context), when Bullwinkle notices a detail in the final image, which leads to Rocky realizing that Boris and Natasha are going to drop the giant treasure chest on them:
    Bullwinkle: Hey, what did you draw above us there?
    Rocky: That's the treasure chest hanging over our— YIKE!
    Bullwinkle: "Hanging over our yike"? That's an odd place to h—
    Rocky: Bullwinkle, out of the way!
• Rugrats (1991):
  • This exchange between the adults in "Grandpa Moves Out":
    Didi: Say, didn't those kids speeding by on the electric scooter look just like Tommy and Angelica?
    Drew: Yeah, they sure did.
    [beat]
    Didi, Stu, Drew, and Lou: TOMMY AND ANGELICA?!
  • A delayed-reaction example takes place in "Passover". It takes place during an Imagine Spot where the babies are all characters from the famous Moses and the Ten Plagues story. Angelica plays the hard-hearted Pharaoh in this retelling, and interestingly she's still her child self, rather than an adult. Of course she refuses to let Moses' people go even after most of the plagues, so eventually God gets to the last one, killing off the "firstborn" of every Egyptian. Angelica laughs it off at first...and then she asks her father who the firstborn of her family is. Her father explains that since Angelica is an only child, the firstborn would be her! Her father doesn't know about the coming plague, but the implications certainly sink in for Angelica, whose reaction is this trope.
  • From "No More Cookies":
    Tommy: Hey, Chuckie, where'd Angelica say she was going?
    Chuckie: To check on the babies.
    Tommy: Oh, okay.
    [beat]
    Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil: We are the babies!
  • From "Turtle Recall":
    Chas: Of all the places to leave an empty stroller! Some people just... [beat] Empty? Stroller? Stu! Where are the kids?!
  • From "Carwash":
    Chas: [To carwash attendant] So you see, if you had a frequent washer program, you could always make it up in volume. Take my van over there, full of kids. [Gasp] My van?! Full of kids?!
• In The Secret Saturdays episode "Where Lies The Engulfer", Zak and Doyle end up at an abandoned Canadian resort and find themselves under attack by the titular creature, a colony of microscopic cryptids that take command of the lake. When Doyle points out the creature is smart enough to short out his jetpack and prevent them from going airborne, Zak questions why it let them run away from the lake and into the center of town. Cue violently shaking fire hydrant.
  Zak: The town with a...lake-fed...water system.
  Doyle: Oh, yeah. We just got played.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: In "Flowers For She-Ra", when Catra reveals that she's the new Force Captain to her teammates:
  Catra: Hordak knows a good thing when he sees it. [Shadow Weaver appears right behind her, and her teammates flinch] Now that I'm in charge, Shadow Weaver won't be the [expression falters as she realizes] only—one... [turns around and sees Shadow Weaver]
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Marge vs. the Monorail", when con man Lyle Lanley makes his getaway on his plane, it seems that he will get away with his monorail scam, just as he did with three other towns. Then the flight intercom makes a "familiar-sounding" announcement that his flight will make a brief stop in a town which he previously scammed:
    Pilot intercom: Folks, this is your captain speaking. Our non-stop flight to Tahiti will be making a brief layover in North Haverbrook.
    Lyle Lanley: North Haverbrook, where have I heard that name before? Oh no... OH NO!!! (cue Lyle quickly being apprehended by the people he swindled and beaten-down while the landed plane shakes)
  • Also, when Homer is driving home from work ala The Flintstones;
    Homer: (Singing) Simpson, Homer Simpson / He's the greatest guy in history / From the town of Springfield / He's about to hit a chestnut tree (Screams Like a Little Girl, and then he does)
  • One scene in "Homer Loves Flanders" has Homer asking why he's such a loser. Bart replies, "Your father was a loser, and his father, and his father — it's genetic, man!" [Beat] "D'oh!"
  • In "Team Homer", the rain turns the students' gray school uniforms into bright rainbows.
    Principal Skinner: I don't understand; I bought them the same place I buy Mother's dresses — Oh dear God, Mother's in the park!
  • In "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", Homer has spent the better part of the episode trying (and failing) to invent things to make a name for himself. He finally comes up with putting extra legs on a chair to keep it from falling over, and talks to his Thomas Edison poster to celebrate.
    Homer: See, just a regular chair. But I attached a couple of extra legs to the back! Kinda like the ones on the back of your- AWWW, DAMN IT!
  • In "I'm Goin' to Praiseland", Ned finds out that the citizens that were having "visions" were actually the effects of a gas leak in his Christian amusement park. Homer tells Ned to ignore it because his park spreads a positive message of equality. Then comes this...
    Homer: Rich laughing with poor, bullies breaking bread with nerds, orphans lighting candles over a leaking gas line—LIGHTING CANDLES?!?!?
  • In "I Am Furious Yellow", Bart sets up an elaborate prank for Homer to get him angry and provide new ideas for his Angry Dad webtoon. However, when he finds out that the ".com bubble" burst and the animation company goes bankrupt, he comes to this conclusion:
    Bart: Yeah, but at least now that my show's cancelled, I don't need material, so there's no need to lure my dad into the trap I set for him. [gasp] THE TRAP!
  • Inverted in the "Treehouse of Horror XIII" episode, "The Island of Dr. Hibbert," when Homer is trying to argue against Dr. Hibbert's insane experiments with a list that's from the Department of Redundancy Department:
    Homer: All you can do is eat, and sleep, and mate! And roll around in your own filth! And mate, and eat—where do I sign up?
  • In "See Homer Run", Mayor Quimby gloats to the townspeople when they criticize him for all his fiascoes.
    Quimby: Read the charter people: I cannot be removed from office, except by a simple recall election. And—(beat) Er, uh, disregard that last part!
  • In "All About Lisa", Krusty's lawyer warns him that his new assistant Lisa will try to sabotage his career to make it big. Then he gets a call from Mr. Teeny...
    Krusty: If there was a rehearsal for the network, I would have been told by my—(gasp) assistant!
  • In "Brick Like Me", Homer wants to remain in a LEGO-made dream world where nothing ever changes, but he then realizes the downsides outnumber the upsides.
    Homer: 'Cause in a toy town, everything stays shiny and wonderful, just the way I want it. You'll always be my little girl, Maggie will always be my giant baby. Bart will never move out of the house. [starts losing steam] I'll work for Mr. Burns forever. Marge and I will never grow old together and live like fat cats on Social Security. Good Lord! I'll never experience the ultimate reward for a life well-lived: the gentle slumber of death.
  • In Homer Badman, an angry mob shows up outside the Simpson house, and Homer fears it's the attendants from the candy convention he destroyed earlier in the episode.
  Ashley Grant: That's him! That's the man who sexually harassed me!
  Homer: Whew! For a moment there, I thought I was in big trouble, but it's just a- DO'H!!!!
• Brainy Smurf in The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Sky Is Smurfing", who tries to remain calm while explaining the current situation of Mount St. Smurf erupting before he has the Oh, Crap! moment.
• Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons:
  • In the Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) episode "Sonic Conversion", the Freedom Fighters finally manage to make a working de-roboticizer, and use it to revert Bunnie back to normal. Seeing this, Sonic retrieves his Uncle Chuck from Robotropolis and subjects him to the process. Later, it turns out that the effects are only temporary when Bunnie's arm and legs revert back to robot form. Sally makes an attempt to comfort her and reassure her they'll restore her back to normal again in due time... only to realize that if the deroboticization on Bunnie was only temporary, then Uncle Chuck will soon revert back as well.
    Sally: It's okay, Bunnie. We'll get you back to normal again. Listen, all we have to do— Oh, no!
    Bunnie: What?
    Sally: Uncle Chuck!
  • In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode, "Sonic Breakout", Robotnik builds a giant prison complex and imprisons a cartoonist who made fun of him, and later on, Sonic. When Sonic gets out of his Tailor-Made Prison, Robotnik is with the cartoonist when alarm sounds.
    Robotnik: [to cartoonist] Hmm? You haven't escaped. I would have noticed that. [beat] THE HEDGEHOG!
  • In one episode of Sonic Underground, Robotnik creates a potion that gives its taker super-speed, which allows his minions, Sleet and Dingo, to catch Sonic. Later, Robotnik sees Sleet's feet expand to the point where he can't move.
    Robotnik: Hmm, it must be a side effect of the Sonic Tonic. Aah, what a waste of a good invention. Now he's useless! I wonder if the same thing's happened to— Dingo's guarding Sonic!
• South Park:
  • In "The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers", Randy sends Stan and his friends to Butters' house so he can borrow the Lord of the Rings video they rented, right before getting ready to watch the porno flick Back Door Sluts 9 with Sharon. But when they put the tape in, they see that it looks a little too good to be a porno and realize they gave the kids the wrong tape.
    Sharon: Wow, the production values are really good in this porno.
    Randy: Yeah, it almost looks like... The Lord of the... OH MY GOD! (take the tape out of the player) This is Lord of the Rings!
    Sharon: But then does that mean...?
    Randy: The boys have the hottest porno ever made.
  • In "Broadway Bro Down", Randy reveals to Sharon the conspiracy that all Broadway musicals contain subliminal propaganda to make women crave oral sex. Sharon thinks the whole thing is ridiculous until she recalls what happened after seeing various musicals.
    Sharon: That's ridiculous! Musicals don't make me want to give blowjobs!
    Randy: (scoffs) You remember the night after we saw Wicked?
    Sharon: Yes! Oh... Well, yeah, but...
    Randy: And after Lion King in New York? Godspell? Mamma Mia!?
    Sharon: Oh my... gosh.
    Randy: Broadway shows' sole purpose is to make women famish for blowjobs. I'm so sorry, Sharon!
    Sharon: (beat) No! No! This is crazy! Musical theater people are respected, refined, cultured...
    Randy: No, they're... they're bros, Sharon. Stephen Sondheim, Elton John, Andrew Lloyd Webber, they're total bros who hang out at Hooters. Sharon, I'm so sorry.
    Sharon: It can't be! I've loved Broadway musicals ever since I saw Grease with Jacob Harrison and his brother Kip, and we—(gasp) Oh my God!
    Randy: SHELLY!!!!!!!
• Spirit: Riding Free:
  • ”Lucky and the Impatient Patient”:
    Abigail: (To Lucky) Remember the time you told me to stand up for myself? It was so empowering. Until I did it to my parents, and then I got grounded. Oh, or the time my boots got wet and you told me it was faster to dry them in the oven, and it was. Until I forgot them and they caught on fire, and then I got grounded.
    Pru: Aren’t you grounded now?
    Abigail: Eep!
  • ”Lucky and the Role Reversal”:
    Lucky: Typical Aunt Cora! Can you believe her? “You don’t want to be late, Lucky. Brush your hair, Lucky. Don’t forget your homework, Lucky.”
    Pru: Hey, where is your homework?
    (Lucky suddenly realizes she literally forgot her homework and rushes back home for it)
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • From "Hall Monitor", after Mrs. Puff scolds SpongeBob when his antics destroy half the city:
    Policeman: You know this guy?
    Mrs. Puff: Of course I do. I'm the one who gave him the uniform in the first place. He's my responsibility! [beat] Uh-oh.
  • In "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm", we get an interesting form of this trope where the realization hits early in the explanation, but it takes Sandy saying it out loud for the actual implications of the realization to hit her.
    Spongebob: Sandy....that's not the Worm. That's his tongue.
    [cue wide shot of the "cave", which is actually the Worm's open mouth, and the "Worm" that Sandy just tied up is in fact his tongue.]
    Sandy: Ohhhhhhhhhh. This is the tongue...and the whole thing...is the..worm. [Beat] RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!
  • In a Deleted Scene in "Just One Bite", Squidward has one when he breaks into the Krusty Krab to steal a Krabby Patty and triggers the burglar alarm.
    Squidward: This is our burglar alarm? A bucket of water? [opens the door causing the bucket to spill] That was too easy. [sniffs] Hey, this isn't water, this is... gas! [match drops]
  • "Krab-Borg/Rock-A-Bye Bivalve":
    • In the first half, after watching a horror movie late at night about robots taking over the world, SpongeBob becomes nervous about it happening for real, and a string of coincidences convince him that Mr. Krabs has been replaced by a robot, with him eventually making Squidward believe the same. After tying Mr. Krabs up and interrogating him where the "real" Mr. Krabs was, including smashing all his appliances, Mr. Krabs breaks down crying when they're about to smash his cash register, something SpongeBob said robots can't do:
      SpongeBob: (Nervously) I also said they couldn't love.
      Mr. Krabs: I loved it like it was me own!
      SpongeBob: (Sweating nervously) Heh, at least he's not laughing!
      Mr. Krabs: I remember the laughs we use to share!
      Squidward: SpongeBob, uh, how did that movie of yours end?
      SpongeBob: The movie? (Excitedly) Oh, yeah! The ending was great! Turns out there weren't any robots after all! It was just their (with realization) imagination. (Chuckles sheepishly before looking at his watch) Hey, it's time to feed Gary! (Runs off, leaving Squidward holding the bag with Mr. Krabs)
    • In the latter half, SpongeBob and Patrick adopt a baby scallop and name him Junior. However, SpongeBob is saddled with taking care of Junior 24/7, as Patrick is constantly at work and exhausted from his job. When SpongeBob discovers that Patrick's job consists of him sitting at home, watching television and eating junk food, the two get into an argument, which is interrupted by Junior's chirping. This exchange then occurs:
      Patrick: There's that stupid noise again!
      SpongeBob: Oh, that's not a stupid noise. That's just Junior about to jump out of that two-story window.
      (SpongeBob and Patrick see Junior teetering on the edge of the window of SpongeBob's house, ready to fly.)
      Patrick: Oh...
      Both: (their eyes bulge in horror) JUNIOR!!!
  • In "Free Samples", after Plankton wrecks the Krabby Patty's credibility by giving out nasty counterfeits, SpongeBob and Mr. Krabs try to win back the customers by giving away free Krabby Patties, much to Mr. Krabs displeasure. However, nobody wants one, which relieves Mr. Krabs... until he realizes that if nobody wants Krabby Patties even when they're free, then the Krusty Krab is truly ruined.
    Mr. Krabs: Whew. For a second there, I thought we were gonna have to give away a ton of Krabby Patties, but it looks like free ain't even enough to jumpstart me business. (With Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises) Wait! Free ain't even enough? Me business is doomed!
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • In the season 2 finale, Marco's father Rafael has one of these reactions when Marco tells him that things have gotten weird between him and Star.
    Rafael Diaz: What could be weird? Two teenagers sharing a home. One boy, one girl. [Beat] Oh. Oh, no.
  • A more serious version occurs in the episode "Moon the Undaunted"; A briefly freed Eclipsa notes that Moon, the (then) new Queen of Mewni, seems rather young for the job... before abruptly realising why:
    Eclipsa: So... You're the new Queen?
    Moon: Yes... What of it?
    Eclipsa: Well, it's just... you're far too young to be Queen, unless- (trails off in realisation) Oh no. Unless, your mother, is she...?
    Moon: (nods, tearing up and sniffling)
    Eclipsa: (somberly) I see. (beat, tearing up) I lost my mother too, when I was not much older than you.
• Steven Universe:
  • A variation on this trope appears in "The Trial". Attorney gem Blue Zircon has a "Eureka!" Moment regarding the death of Pink Diamond and launches into a Spotting the Thread monologue, culminating in accusing the most likely suspects: the Diamonds, who are presiding over the trial. In this case, the Oh, Crap! is not because of the implications of the explanation itself, but rather due to the realization that she just accused her supreme leaders of regicide and fratricide to their faces.
    Blue Zircon: Uhh, disregard that last statement, I might have gotten carried away!
  • "Now We're Only Falling Apart": Sapphire, angered by the revelation that Rose Quartz was actually Pink Diamond, fights with Ruby, believing their relationship was all a lie, and runs away. After Steven and Pearl find her and tell her the story of how "Rose" came to be and how Pearl and Garnet's choices led her to fall in love with the Earth and form the Crystal Gems, she calms down and begins to feel guilty for how she treated Ruby.
    Sapphire: That's just how I felt when I came here with– [gasp] Ruby! Oh no! We have to get back right away!
  • "Reunited": After Ruby and Sapphire's wedding, at the reception, Steven is talking with Garnet when he starts crying, which he assumes to be Tears of Joy. Then he realizes that they're uncontrollable, which means that Blue Diamond is nearby ... and then Blue and Yellow Diamond's spaceships appear.
• In the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Monkey Fun", Dr. Hamilton theorizes that the bacteria that just attacked him and his team grew because of exposure to a strange gas and then Earth's atmosphere. Then he remembers that Titano had the same exposure, and he and Superman both have a moment of this.
• Teen Titans: In the episode "Deep Six", both Beast Boy and Aqualad fight the villain Trident at the same time, but at different places, and claim as such when they meet up inside his lair. After a brief fight where Aqualad stresses that they have to "work together", Beast Boy gets the idea that there's more than one Trident. Aqualad dismisses the notion as ridiculous, but Beast Boy explains that if Trident somehow found a way to copy himself then he could be in two places at once, explaining how they both could have run into him. And if there's more than one Trident, then there could be more. Cue the two of them looking up to see an entire army of Trident clones in incubation and even more of them already hatched, right in front of them and ready to fight.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987):
  • In "A Thing About Rats", the Turtles have learned that Shredder now has hundreds of Baxter Stockman's rat-hunting Mouser robots;
    Donatello: Uh, guys, has it occured to you just how easily those Mousers found Splinter?
    Raphael: So what?
    Donatello: So, if there are hundreds of them now...
    Turtles: April and Splinter!
  • In "The Big Zipp Attack", when the Turtles first encounter the Metal Munching Zipp, they see it double after taking a bite out of Donatello's latest invention before they both escape to the surface. Upon hearing that Donatello's invention was made of copper, Leonardo deduces that the Zipps will double anytime they eat copper.
    Raphael: And how much copper do you suppose they'll find up there?
    Donatello: Well, there's copper everywhere: telephone wires, plumbling, anything made of brass or bronze like doorknobs or statues or...(realizes the implications) Oh, no!
    [The Turtles quickly emerge to see the city is overrun by a swarm of Zipps]
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003):
  • In "The Shredder Strikes Back Part 2", the Turtle crew retreat from their fight against the Foot into the storage of April's shop. In there, they start to smell smoke and gas while feeling the doorknob get hot. Casey Jones quickly pieces together how much trouble they're in;
    Casey: Gas plus flame equals... LET'S BOOK NOW!
  • "Return To New York Part 1": The Turtles kick off their counterattack on The Foot by sending their Battle Shell van in as a decoy. Shredder, who was told that the Turtles died in the explosion at April's apartment, undergoes this;
    Shredder: The Turtles?! But Stockman assured me that... Stockman!
  • "Return To New York Part 3": When the Turtles are fighting Baxter Stockman, the Mad Scientist brags about his cyborg components each having their own power supply... which includes the machine gun arm the Turtles had cut off earlier, which Donatello aims at Stockman.
    Stockman: Oh no. [is blown out the window into the sky and explodes]
  • In "Timing Is Everything", a Portal to the Past sends Leo and Cody to present-day New York. As Leo is trying to get his bearings, he quickly realizes exactly when he and Cody landed; directly after "The Shredder Strikes Part 2", when the Shredder did his Raised Hand of Survival:
    Leonardo: Looks like that water tower collapsed. Wait... no way!
• Thomas & Friends:
  • In the episode, "Duck in the Water", Sir Topham Hatt demands an explanation on what happened when Percy and Oliver bump into James and Rocky, who were in the process of lifting Duck out of a flooded track. Rocky takes the blame for accidentally knocking over a signal, until James sticks up for him:
    James: It was nobody's fault, it was an accident! I was in a hurry to go, and Rocky wasn't ready, so... so... [Beat] Oh. Actually, Sir, I suppose it was my fault. I didn't give Rocky time to secure his crane arm properly. That's why he was swinging about.
  • In the special, "The Great Race", this exchange occurs between Victor and Kevin when the latter brings the former Gordon's safety valve after Gordon leaves Sodor to compete in the Great Railway Show:
    Kevin: I have a question!
    Victor: What's so important that you have to keep interrupting?
    Kevin: Uh, what, what's this?
    Victor: That's Gordon's safety valve mechanism.
    Kevin: Yes, that's what I thought it was.
    Victor: (gasp) Gordon's safety valve?! But that means Gordon hasn't been reassembled properly! I told him to wait for his safety check! If Gordon's safety valve isn't working properly, he could overheat, especially at high speeds!
• In The Trap Door episode "Not Very Nice", Berk ends up down the Trap Door and finds himself in a very odd cave...
  Berk: Yech! There's that horrible smell again! Hang on, there's sommit funny about this place. The walls are slimy, and that green thing looks like a tongue, and them things over there look like teeth... Ohhh, globbits! I'm inside the mouth of some horrible thing!
• In The Venture Bros. episode "The Doctor Is Sin," Dr. Venture receives life coaching from Dr. Henry Killinger, gaining new confidence and drive, as well as a force of "Venchmen" for the Venture Compound. Near the end of it, Killinger even draws up a contract to get Venture a new nemesis:
  Dr. Venture: Didn't have to go through all this hooey to get my first archenemy, but what the hey. Did you pick me a good one?
  Dr. Henry Killinger: No, you did.
  Dr. Venture: What... my brother?
  Dr. Henry Killinger: Bingo! Isn't it perfect? It's a classic Cain-und-Abel story.
  Dr. Venture: But... but he can't arch me, he's not even a supervil- Oh my God.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: In "The Belly of the Weblum", Keith worries that Allura hates him now that she knows he has Galra blood within him, and Hunk tries to reassure him.
  Hunk: Allura doesn't hate you. You just need to give her time to accept the fact that you're a Galra, the race that destroyed her entire planet and all of her people. (beat) Yeah, she might hate you a little bit.
• What If…? (2021): In episode 8, Ultron's omnicidal tour of the universe ends with him realizing he no longer has a purpose, as Uatu narrates from his corner of existence about how Ultron ascended to new levels of consciousness and began to sense the presence of someone, only for Uatu to realize with horror that someone is him.
• In an episode of Xiaolin Showdown, a Face Heel Turned Raimundo is chasing some of our heroes around in a forest. This is what our heroes wanted, however, as a diversionary tactic so an attack on Wuya's palace could succeed. Eventually, Raimundo realizes that the chase is taking much longer than it should.
  Raimundo: What's wrong with you guys, why don't you just fly away?! It's like you're not even trying to get away... because you're NOT! Quick, back to the palace!

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