Literal Minded / Western Animation

• One episode of Adventure Time revolves around the Ice King trying to stop a paid hitman he hired, because he just wanted the assassin to literally hit Finn and Jake (punch them in the stomach), not murder them.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Bobert, a robot, will always take literally everything he is told to do, getting to be dangerous. When he's told to follow the laws, he follows even the most useless ones, like threatening a man for slurping soup, and then yelling off-key (which are both real laws, respectively in New Jersey and North Carolina). Then, when he's told to not follow laws, he steals a woman's purse and runs away. When he's told to protect all life, he stops a car so a family of ants can pass though the road.
• Animaniacs (1993): In "Chalkboard Bungle", the Warners tend to be this in when in school with their Stern Teacher: they demonstrate literal "eyes in the back of their heads" (with Wakko having 9 eyes as opposed to 2), interpret a "pop quiz" as a soda taste-test challenge, and when asked "Are we clear?" demonstrate the difference between opaque and clear.
• Archer: Krieger has successfully implanted a mind-control microchip into a rabbit.
  Archer: Could you put it in a person's brain?
  [Beat]
  Krieger: It'd suffocate...
  Archer: Not the rabbit, idiot! The microchip!
  Krieger: Oh. Yes.
  Archer: Without killing the person?
  [Beat]
  Krieger: ...maybe?
• Berkeley from Bad Dog tends to interpret every order he hears quite literally. In one episode, at a baseball game, he hears someone shouting to see "a real swing", and Berkeley pushes a baby swingset across the field.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: Towards the end of one episode, some girls tell the eponymous duo to see them again in, like, ten years. They think they've finally found some girls to score with, and Butt-Head tells Beavis back at home to hurry up while they shave their "beards" (actually hairs glued to their faces) off, saying that they got some chicks to meet in ten years.
• Bobby's World: Whenever the titular preschooler hears a certain phrase being uttered out by someone else, he would often imagine how it would be literally. Granted, he's only 4.
• Bojack Horseman: At a convention for ghostwriters, someone asks the board who each person's favorite ghost to write for is. Pinky gets exasperated at this and asks if anyone else has questions, the next one presented by Bojack.
• In the Butterbean's Cafe episode Fluttercakes, after Ms. Marmalady shows off her new pancake-making machine, she comments that it can make pancakes "faster than you can shake a spatula at it." Her minions, Spork and Spatch, immediately pull out their spatulas and start shaking them, much to her annoyance.
• In Central Park, Season 1 "Rival Busker", when a hotel staff explains what a dumbwaiter is to Molly, she thinks an actual dumb waiter comes out of the elevator to bring them food.
• Madison from Class of 3000. She brought fleas to a flea market and a garage to a garage sale.
  • One episode had Eddie misinterpet the meaning of "head's up".
• Classic Disney Shorts: After Pluto chases a cat all the way back home in "Pluto's Judgement Day", Mickey tells him that on Judgment Day he's have to answer for all the innocent cats he's chased. Mickey was referring to the typical definition of Judgment Day, the end of days when all the dead rise and answer for their sins, but Pluto imagines a Kangaroo Court of cats with a Hanging Judge.
• The William Clone in Season 4 of Code Lyoko. He's an artificial intelligence, and his programmation clearly never covered figures of speech.
  Delmas: Well, Dunbar, my boy, I am glad to see your fever has broken and you're feeling well!
  Clone William: Eh... did I break anything else?
• An episode of Danger Mouse has Penfold deliberately invoking this after DM addresses the situation at hand:
  DM: We must act quickly.
  Penfold: [rapid-fire, gesturing] Tobeornotbethatisthequestionwhether'tisnobler
  tosuffertheslingsandarrowsofoutrageousfortune...
• Dexter's Laboratory:
  • DeeDee in the episode "G.I.R.L. Squad" takes the "lick" part of "lick crime" too literally.
  • In a real life example, in the Chubby Cheese's episode, after the big song number ends, the script said that "the audience takes off", as in they get up and leave. However, the Korean animation company took the text more literally and had the crowd literally take off and fly away. The editors thought it was so funny that they kept it and even added a sound effect to go with it.
• Doug can become this at times, such as in the episode "Doug Gets His Ears Lowered" when he told Skeeter he was getting a haircut, to which Skeeter told him he was "getting his ears lowered" (hence the episode's title). Doug then looks at his reflection in the glass of a building and sees himself with his ears literally lowered down to his cheeks right before Skeeter tells him what the phrase really means.
• Dragon Tales:
  • In "Zak's Song," Ord's idea of a birdcall is "Calling all birds! Calling all birds!"
  • In "Dragon Drop," when Emmy is teaching Zak and Wheezie catching and tells Wheezie that you have to keep your eye on the ball, she literally puts her eye on the ball. When Emmy tells her that she has to watch the ball, she says that she is and nothing is happening.
• DuckTales (1987):
  • Fenton Craskshell (Gizmo Duck) is literal-minded. Scrooge wants Fenton to liquidate his assets, except that he puts all of Scrooge's money in the lake.
  • Gyro Gearloose is one as well. In one episode, to increase the budget for a cheap sci-fi show as part of a way of reinventing it, Scrooge has Gyro build a new spaceship that he wants to be as realistic as possible. Gyro's response? Make it an actual working spaceship. He proceeds to do something like this again in the "Super Ducktales" 5-parter: after recovering his money from the above example with Fenton, Scrooge asks Gyro to build a security guard for his money bin that won't let anyone get to the bin. Gyro again takes him too literally and programs it to not let anybody get to the bin, Scrooge included.
• In Evil Jim's introduction in Earthworm Jim, he proclaims to Jim "I am your exact opposite! Everything that you love, I hate! Everything you hate, I love!" Later on Jim confronts him again with this exchange.
  Jim: I've been thinking a lot about this "exact opposites" thing. If I hate losing, then you must love it! So why don't you give up right now?
  Evil Jim: Oh, don't be so literal-minded. [knocks Jim through a wall]
• On Ed, Edd n Eddy, this often comes from Ed:
  • In "Urban Ed", when Jonny mugs Eddy for his money jar, Eddy tells Ed "Do something!" Ed asks "Can I cater a party?"
  • In "Home-Cooked Eds", Eddy tries to push the Kankers' trailer off his lawn:
    Eddy: Ed, give me a hand!
    Ed: [holds up Edd's hand] Found one! [chuckles]
    Edd: This joke is older than my Mesozoic fossil collection, Ed.
  • In "Honor Thy Ed", right as the Eds are about to leave a supposedly haunted house that they were dared to enter, Eddy flicks a spider off the doorknob, causing it to come loose and roll into a hole in the floor. Edd says to tell him that didn't happen, so Ed leans in from offscreen and says "It didn't happen."
• On The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy says he doesn't get why Bender took his ball and made fun of his teeth, leading Cosmo to state the following.
  Cosmo: What's not to get? The silly teeth part or the not having the ball part? (Wanda glares at him) I'm not agreeing with him, I'm just saying it's pretty straight forward.
• Family Guy:
  • Brian's Dumb Blonde girlfriend Jillian is like this.
    Jillian: Who's he?
    Derek: James Woods.
    Jillian: Oh, I thought he was a shark.
    Derek: No, he was on a show called Shark.
    Jillian: But he's made of wood?
  • At a Renaissance Fair, a woman hits on Peter by asking if he wants to "take a gander under [my] frock"; confused, he gets a goose and shoves it under her dress.
  • In an early episode, he promises Lois he'll set up an extravagant party for Stewie's first birthday, including (among other things) a "big-ass pinata". Later on, we find out that he did manage to get one, but... well, to quote Brian, "I sure hope candy comes out of that."
  • Peter is supposedly banned from a cruise line after taking the term "poop deck" in a certain literal way.
  • When the Griffins move into an upper-class house, Peter makes an enormous bid on a Star Wars vase. To pay for it, he tries to make the house look like a historical landmark, so he smashes a hole in the wall and claims it was where the stock market crashed in 1929 and puts a toy train under the floorboards that he claims is Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad.
  • When the bank agrees to give the Griffins a business loan, the banker hands Peter his business card and says "If you have any other questions, you can call me at any time". Cue Peter calling him at 2 in the morning and asking "How far away are the stars?".
• Mr. Herriman in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. In "The Big Cheese", he's told to enter "a random number" as the password to the house's new security system, and literally punches in a random security code for the new security system (he turned around and didn't even LOOK at the number he was punching in, which was why Herriman did what he did). The result: he can't remember the password and everyone, imaginary friends included, is locked out of the house.
  Herriman: The instruction said to enter the numbers at random.
  Frankie: [looks at instructions] Not "random" every single time!
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: In "The Secret Snake Club", Irwin says that the reason he joins the macramé club is to "meet the chicks". Billy, being the goofball that he is, imagines himself dancing with baby chicks. In the same Imagine Spot, the chicks leave while Billy continues to dance.
• In Holly Hobbie and Friends: Surprise Party, when Holly says that old man Scranton's "bark is worse than his bite," Amy thinks that Scranton bit Holly.
• KaBlam!: The title character of Life with Loopy. When told to go make a new friend, she "makes" a Robot Buddy out of old electronics. When her parents joke that thunder is caused by Mother Nature going bowling, she tracks Mother Nature down and challenges her to a bowl-off in order to put a stop to a rainy day.
• Kaeloo:
  • In the episode "Let's Play Prison-Ball", Stumpy takes the term "prison" in "prison-ball"^note Prison-ball is a game similar to dodgeball, except if a player gets hit they are sent to a space at the back of the court called the "prison" too literally, for example yelling "I didn't do a thing! Society's the one to blame!" and trying to dig his way out with a jackhammer.
  • In another episode, when the main four get into a fight with their own Mirror Universe counterparts, Stumpy throws books at them and yells at them to "eat books". While everyone else fights, Alternate Universe!Mr. Cat, being the opposite of normal Mr. Cat and therefore a complete idiot, sits there eating books.
  • In one of the earlier episodes, when the main four are setting up their own news channel, Stumpy is tasked with being a news reporter. When he asks what to do, Mr. Cat says "Hit me with the news!" Stumpy responds by picking up a newspaper and throwing it so it hits Mr. Cat in the face.
  • While testing Stumpy's psychomotor skills, Mr. Cat draws a line on the ground and asks Stumpy to "follow the straight line" (as in, walk on the line without deviating from the path). Stumpy (who is pretending to be even dumber than usual) says that he can't "follow the line" unless the line starts to move.
  • In the tea party episode, Kaeloo tells Mr. Cat and Stumpy that the polite thing to to when visiting someone for a formal dinner party is to bring flowers. When they show up, Kaeloo sees that they brought a flower, leading to this exchange:
    Kaeloo: Oh, you shouldn't have!
    Stumpy: Well, you wanted it! Make up your mind!
• Kim Possible:
  • Ron Stoppable suffered from this occasionally.
  • Hego of Team Go also:
    Electronique: I twist the power of Team Go to bring Go City to its knees.
    Hego: But... um, cities don't have knees.
  • Also, Warmonga:
    Drakken: Warmonga! Show her the door!
    Warmonga: If you guide your vision to the left of our after-reactor corner, you can see our primary entrance.
    Drakken: No, Warmonga, I meant make her exit through the door.
    Warmonga: Oh. (grabs Shego and lifts her overhead)
    Shego: Hey! (Warmonga tosses her through the door, blowing a hole in it)
    Drakken: Yes, well... I didn't mean literally through the actual door, but...
• Grog, the resident Dumb Muscle in The Legend of Vox Machina, tends to take metaphors literally:
  • When Vax asks a belligerent orc to "lend me a hand", Grog charges in and lops the orc's hand off.
  • While talking with Scanlan, Grog mentioned that Vex said he had "dick for brains", but struggles to believe that's physically possible.
  • While Vax is doing reconnaissance on the Briarwoods, Scanlan explains away his absence as him having a case of "the squirts". When Vax is slow to report his findings (due to the Briarwoods attacking him), Grog worries about Vax still suffering from "the squirts".
  • When Vox Machina are placed under house arrest, he distressingly asks "HOW CAN YOU ARREST A HOUSE?!"
• Duck in Little Bear does tasks too literally when she following Hen's steps in preparing a strawberry shortcake such as icing the cake and separating the eggs.
• The Loud House: Leni sometimes takes things literally, for example, saying, "I don't know any other Lenis" when Lincoln says, "You're the best, Leni!".
• Mega Man: Fully Charged's Ice Man. In his debut episode, Ice Man overheard Aki's speech about how humans and robots should be together and thought that meant physically bonded together. He promptly began freezing humans and robots together across Silicon City.
• Men in Black: The Series: One time, one of Alpha's minions asks why they are dragging the fight out instead of killing the heroes right away. Alpha says when you drink the nectar slowly, it tastes much sweeter (basically, he wants to savor his victory). The minion gets confused and asks what the heck nectar has to do with anything, causing Alpha to walk away annoyed.
• In the Miraculous Ladybug episode "Dark Cupid", Marinette finds a romantic Valentine's Day letter that Tikki assumes to be for her. Marinette begins jumping up and down excitedly, saying "pinch me!" Tikki shrugs and obliges. Cue a shout from Marinette: "D'AAAAAAH, NOT LITERALLY!"
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Applejack slips into this for a couple of jokes. In "Sweet and Elite", she thought a garden party was about actual gardening.
  • Pinkie Pie does this a lot. Consider this exchange from "The Last Round-Up":
    Rainbow Dash: We gotta get her to spill the beans.
    Pinkie: What?! She has beans?! Ugh! I told her I was snacky!
  • In "The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone", Rainbow Dash is trapped in an abyss with an injured hoof. She tells Pinkie Pie to toss her a rope, but she throws the entire coil of rope at her without tying the end to anything, making it pointless.
  • Pinkie's sister Maud is an extreme example; she remarks that Applejack's apple cider "tastes like apples", and after stating that she is only interested in expressing herself through fashion (as opposed to fashion in general), when Rarity asks her what her frock is saying, she states in her usual placid monotone (though with a skeptical look), "It doesn't talk. It's a dress."
  • The changelings wanted to celebrate Hearth's Warming Eve, so Twilight sent them a letter explaining it. Unfortunately, they didn't really understand any of the context. They think "put up the tree" means to dig an entire tree out of the ground and suspend it upside down from the ceiling, "dive into some punch" means fill a swimming pool with punch and jump into it, "exchange gifts" means they keep passing gifts between each other without opening them, "build a fire" means build a fake fire, and "sing carols" means sing the word carols over and over. Ocellus eventually figures it out after seeing the school's Hearth's Warming Eve preparations, but she doesn't say anything to her family because now it's tradition.
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In the episode "Sorry, Wrong Slusher", the judge in a dream sequence literally throws the book at the characters.
  Judge: I find you guilty of first degree causing noise, and I'm throwing the book at you! [throws book]
  Pooh: It's too bad I can't read...
• The Owl House:
  • When Luz tells Amity that she understands her, Amity gets confused.
    Luz: I'm picking up what you're putting down.
    Amity: I'm.. not putting anything down?
  • When Willow tells him his flying skills are sick, Hunter simply stares in bewilderment and comments that he doesn't feel ill.
• Fred the squirrel from The Penguins of Madagascar.
  Skipper: We need you to take a look at this squirrel artefact.
  Fred: [looks at the artifact, then goes away] Okay then. Later, guys.
  Skipper: Fred!
  King Julien: The key! What about... the key?
  Fred: What about it?
  Kowalski: Well, we were hoping, you can tell us something about it.
  Fred: Oh, tell you something about it? You said just look at it.
• Phineas and Ferb: Dr. Doofenshmirtz engages in this a few times.
  • In "Greece Lightning", Dr. Doofenshmirtz watches a movie about how "the greatest enemy of the platypus is man", and decides that means he should build a giant mechanical man to defeat Perry the Platypus.
  • In "At the Car Wash", he's repeatedly told the saying "don't make a mountain out of a molehill", which Doofenshmirtz takes as a challenge and invents a device that can quite literally transform a molehill into a mountain.
  • In "Moon Farm", Doofenshmirtz tries to get a green thumb by dumping green paint on himself and paints everything but his thumbs due to the way he was holding the can.
• On The Popeye & Olive Comedy Show, in the "Private Olive Oyl" segments, Alice the Goon always interprets orders literally, often resulting in Amusing Injuries to Sgt. Bertha Blast.
• In Ready Jet Go!, Jet's parents' learning curve is filled with funny misunderstandings of the human ways of things, and both kids and parents will have a lot of fun watching them get the hang of "throwing a salad together" and understanding the "string" part of beans. Their Amelia Bedelia–like follies are good for some laughs, but they also reflect the challenges of immersing yourself in a culture that's different from your own. This exchange from "Tiny Blue Dot" is just one example of many:
  Sean: Ohh, I think I left my stomach on Venus.
  Celery: Ooh, should we go back for it?
• Pops from Regular Show seems to be an inverted case.
  Mordecai: Pops, you said you had a British taxi!
  Pops: British taxi? I thought you said brownish taxi.
  Mordecai: But that taxi's yellow.
  Pops: Yellow? My taxi is no coward; I guarantee you that!
• Robot Chicken: In one sketch, Mr. T teams up with the Foo Fighters, thinking that they literally fight "foos" (fools).
• Rugrats (1991): Since the series' main characters are babies and haven't yet learned how to use metaphors and similes, (to say nothing of recurring Mondegreen Gag). For example, the entire plot of one episode revolves around a billy goat that they assume to be named "Billy" after someone mentions what type of goat it is.
• In Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!, Shaggy and Scooby's robot butler Robi had a tendency to not understand figures of speech due to his faulty programming. For example, when told to lie low and keep it cool in "Party Arty", he misinterprets these instructions as meaning he must lie down as low as possible and cover himself in ice cubes.
• In Sheep in the Big City, the Ranting Swede would sometimes have his rant revolve around misinterpreting a figure of speech, like assuming "Suit yourself" is an instruction to make a suit for himself and taking it literally when someone asked him how he managed to juggle his job, his house, and his family.
• The Simpsons: Homer is usually prone to this.
  • In "New Kid on the Block", Homer watches a dating game show where a guy says he loves a girl who makes bacon on the beach. Homer imagines himself literally doing that.
  • Unlike in the episode "All Singing, All Dancing", the actual Paint Your Wagon movie has nothing to do with actually painting wagons.
  • Subverted in "E. Pluribus Wiggum" when he imagines what a Think Tank might be... namely a group of executive people having a discussion.
    Homer: [to the baffled Marge and Lisa] What? Can't I get one right at least?!
  • In "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", Snake threatens to Pistol-Whip Homer, which he imagines is using a pistol to eat whipped cream.
    Mmmm... pistol whip....
  • In "The Springfield Connection," Homer runs away from a criminal, who points a gun at him and says, "Not so fast!" Homer then starts walking away.
  • In "Carl Carlson Rides Again", Marge tells Homer she's making a meal train for Ned, which Homer imagines is a giant sandwich with wheels on train tracks.
    Mmm...meal train...
  • Inverted in "And Maggie Makes Three", when Homer gets congratulated after word gets out that Marge is pregnant. He takes all of them as referring to his new job at the bowling alley instead, even when Moe point-blank says, "way to get Marge pregnant!", which Homer merely thinks is an abstract metaphor for his job. Then, after Maude earnestly congratulates him on his new job, Homer interprets that as Marge being pregnant.
• In the MonsterVerse animated series Skull Island, Annie, who has lived on a desert island inhabited by monsters since she was six years old, without any human contact, doesn't really understand metaphors and is quite straightforward. For example, she's bewildered by the phrase "that sucks," testing the latter word, and her responsible to being called a cavegirl is to indignantly say that she's never used a cave as her living space.
• In the South Park episode "Crippled Summer", Nathan and Mimsy try to sabotage Jimmy's team in an athletic competition, but because Mimsy is Literal Minded, their plans backfire. For instance: they make a fake map for a scavenger hunt that leads to a hostile Indian reservation, and Nathan tells Mimsy to "switch the map, switch the map". So he switches the maps twice, leaving them with their own fake map.
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast does this at the end of "Batmantis", which ends in Space Ghost and crew hosting a spontaneous bake sale.
  Space Ghost: Moltar, what did you put in these ladyfingers?
  Moltar: ...lady fingers.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Inverted in the episode "Dying for Pie". Squidward does whatever SpongeBob wants for the day because he thinks SpongeBob is going to die from eating an exploding pie. When this fails to happen, Squidward angrily tells him "You were supposed to explode!" SpongeBob then proceeds to metaphorically "explode":
    SpongeBob: GARY! YOU ARE GONNA FINISH YOUR DESSERT, AND YOU ARE GONNA LIKE IT! [laughs] Now it's your turn.
    Squidward: THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT, YOU BARNACLEHEAD!!!
    SpongeBob: Ooh, good one.
  • In "Patty Hype", when SpongeBob loses confidence in his Pretty Patties selling, Patrick tells him that they have to look deep inside themselves to solve their problems. SpongeBob says that he's scared, so Patrick grabs one of his holes and climbs inside of him.
  • In "Squid on Strike", SpongeBob takes Squidward's words about "dismantling the oppressive establishment" to heart and destroys the Krusty Krab.
  • In "Sailor Mouth", SpongeBob believes that Mr. Krabs will punish him and Patrick for swearing by giving them 40 lashes (with a whip). Patrick then imagines him being given exaggeratedly full eyelashes.
  • In The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water, SpongeBob says hypothetically that the only way that he and Plankton could possibly fix the scrape they've gotten themselves into is to go back in time and stop the events that happened in the first place. Plankton tells him to "hold that thought". He proceeds to grab the thought bubble over his head and hold it like a balloon.
  • Inverted in "Tea At The Treedome", Spongebob says Sandy wears air around her head, which Patrick interprets as "putting on airs" (i.e., acting pretentious).^note  It helps that, to those unfamiliar with that phrase, it sounds like it could well be Patrick just being Patrick.
  • In “Texas,” when Sandy feels homesick, she starts to sing about the things she misses about Texas, such as square dancing, barbecues, pecan pies, and 10 gallon hats. When Bikini Bottom decides to throw her a Texas-themed party to make her feel better, the misinterpret everything. “Square dancing,” is literally Flats dancing with a cube, “barbecues” are “barbed Q’s,” which are barbed plants in the shape of Q’s, “pecan pies” are “peas-in-a-can pies,” and “10 gallon hats” are literally just 10 gallon bottles that they wear on their heads. Justified, since they’ve never been to Texas and don’t really know what that stuff is, so it’s understandable that they’d misinterpret it.
• Star Butterfly from Star vs. the Forces of Evil is prone to this:
  • The first episode, "Star Comes to Earth", has this exchange:
    Star: Ludo! How did you know I was here?!
    Ludo: Hee hee hee, wouldn't you like to know?
    Star: [completely earnest] Yes, that's why I asked.
  • In "Matchmaker", Marco tells Star to "dance around the issue" while asking her mother for help, and Star eagerly responds "I'm a great dancer!"
  • In "School Spirit", when Marco says the Silver Hill Warriors are going to "slaughter" the Echo Creek Awesome Opossums in an upcoming football game, Star thinks the game is going to be an actual battle and booby-traps the field.
  • In "Sleep Spells", when Marco tries to do an inkblot test on Star and asks her what she sees, she says "An inkblot! I win!"
  • In "My New Wand!", Star's mother tells her that in order to "dip down" and use magic without the wand, she will have to put "everything you have" into it. Star interprets this as meaning she should load everything she owns into a catapult and launch it at the door she was trying to open. Also, this exchange from the same episode:
    Glossaryck: Imagine the universe as this big old cauldron, and magic is the bubbly stew inside, and your wand is the spoon.
    Star: My wand isn't a spoon. It's a wand.
    Glossaryck: It's a metaphor, Star.
    Star: No, it's a wand.
    Glossaryck: Fine. It's a wand.
    Star: Now you're getting it.
  • In "Mathmagic", Star bursts out laughing in math class when Janna tells her the Chicken Joke. Miss Skullnick demands to know "What's so funny?!", and Star tries to explain what makes the Chicken Joke "classic anti-humor".
• Steven Universe:
  • All of the Gems sometimes fall into this trope, especially Pearl.
    Steven: Why did Pearl throw butter out the window?
    Amethyst: You did what?
    Steven: To see a butterfly!
    Pearl: [genuinely hurt] I never did that! Steven, are you telling lies?!
  • Exaggerated with Peridot, as unlike the rest of the group she only arrived on Earth very recently and has even less knowledge of human figures of speech than the others do. Her official Twitter account has her unable to understand what a pizza delivery man means when he says the pizza is "on the house" because it's in her hands and decides to "run with it" because she doesn't know what else to do. She promptly runs around the countryside holding a pizza for two days.
• Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: Symphony in Slang is about a recently deceased man at the Pearly Gates, explaining his life story with incomprehensible slang terms. St. Peter and Noah Webster interpret the whole thing literally, turning it into a Hurricane of Visual Puns.
• Timon & Pumbaa: In "Beetle Romania", after accidentally being eaten by Pumbaa and then sneaking into his brain, Timon is mockingly told that he is "in a pickle" by (Smart) Pumbaa; somehow, he actually manages to take said phrase literally, despite insistently claiming to be "the smart one" between himself and Pumbaa.
• Top Cat: In "Rafeefleas", T.C. wants to know why Benny is late for a meeting, and Choo Choo explains it's because Benny was at the museum:
  Choo Choo: He was standing in front of a display with a big sign that said "Watch This Space."
  T.C.: So?
  Choo Choo: So, Benny was just standing there, [T.C. joins in] watching the space!
• Work It Out Wombats!: In "Gift For a Fish," the wombats are invited to a baby shower. Zeke thinks that a baby shower is like when you wash with soap. Justified, as Zeke is only four years old.
• Omi from Xiaolin Showdown is like this when reacting to a slang term. This happens pretty often.