In the first episode Super Special Sonic Smash & Search Squad, Dr. Robotnik briefly does this after Sonic pulls at his moustache.
In the episode "Big Daddy" Boom-Boom the baby gorilla does this throughout the episode.
Aladdin: The Series: In "In the Heat of the Fright", when the fire cats terrorize and begin burning a village, Genie watches Bambi so he can cry at the iconic scene where Bambi's mother is shot and killed, using his tears to rain on the fire cats and make them dissipate as well as put out the village fire.
In "The Catfish", Gumball acts like he doesn't care when he finds out Grandpa Louie doesn't have any online friends. Darwin insists that Gumball let out his feelings... before Gumball unleashes ocular gushers that are exaggerated on him, repeatedly, without losing his composure.
In "The Friend", Gumball and Darwin demand the Chimera to explain why he's on the run from the police with a stern look on their faces. He later explains that he's been wandering around since his creator died and everyone is afraid of him. After that, Gumball and Darwin sadly cry streams of tears while their faces remain stern.
In "The Money", After The Watersons realize that they're broke, they sadly cry streams of tears, but they realize that they can't afford to waste water and start drinking their tears.
In "Maddie and Marcy", Maddie gets fed up with her triplet sisters constantly annoying her, telling them to "grow up". As a result, the sisters resort to using Maddie's spellbook to create a growth potion in hopes of becoming older. However, the potion works too literally and they grow into giants. Due to the instability of the potion having been brewed incorrectly, the girls realize that they're growing too much and cry this way, which drenches the citizens of Wartwood.
In the series finale, "The Hardest Thing", Sasha cries a tiny sprinkler of tears when she is saying goodbye to Captain Grime.
In Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom, characters who get upset cry tears that gush out of their eyes like a sprinkler, with the exception of Princess Holly in "Holly's Magic Wand", where she cries normal tears instead.
In "Get the Gimmies" on the PBS KidsThe Berenstain Bears series, young Papa Bear cried these to get his parents to get him a toy truck he wanted, though he ended up donating it to a boy in a needy family.
Numbuh Three has broken down crying, complete with Ocular Gushers, more than a few times during the series, usually as a way of working on another character's sympathies.
And in "Operation: C.L.U.E.S.", it's revealed that this is a trait she shares with her father, Kani Sanban.
Lizzy sometimes indulges in this too, usually to guilt-trip Numbuh One into going out with her.
Toiletnator opens the gushers in "Operation: F.L.U.S.H." after being denied by the other villains.
In "Operation: P.O.O.L.", the Mirror Universe counterpart of Father, the series' Big Bad, Daddy, also does this on one occasion.
The Crumpets frequently has a character cry like this. Specific examples include Caprice at her self piteous moments and in "Going Viral" due to depression and her grandmother announcing Caprice's "death", Ms. McBrisk in "The Courting of Ms. McBrisk" and "Ice Lust" due to her apparent failures to maintain a relationship with a celebrity Cardboard Pal she thinks is an actual person, and Grownboy when he loses his pets in most of his episodes.
In the episode "Baby Bottle", A baby bottle cries a massive gobs of tears. After he says "Mama".
In the episode "Root Packed", when Cuphead and Mugman get depressed that the Root Pack have ruined Elder Kettle's vegetable garden, Ollie Bulb overhears their conversation and gets depressed. The cup brothers then use the "vegetable garden" mention as their advantage to make Ollie cry Onion Tears. Due to his tears and stench, all the partygoers start crying, including the bouncer. By the time they're all washed away in a pool of tears, even Cuphead and Mugman cry in Tears of Joy now that the vegetable garden is once again in bloom.
A Running Gag on the PBS animated Curious George series involves George imagining Bill crying these due to being upset about some mischief that he caused.
In the Dennis the Menace episode, "Big Baby", Dennis looks after a baby named Sylvester, who grows to an enormous size after accidentally drinking PeeBee's super growth formula, due to PeeBee keeping said formula in a baby bottle. When Dennis scolds Sylvester for playing with a real car like a toy, Sylvester cries, and Dennis gets an umbrella to avoid being rained on by Sylvester's tears.
Dude, That's My Ghost!: Frequently a large part of Billy's diva tantrums, although whether it's a side effect of being a ghost (he tends to be more cartoony than the other characters) or he's always been able to do it has yet to be shown.
Ed, Edd n Eddy: Any time Ed cries turn out like this. In "Who's Minding the Ed?", for example, Ed bawls like this after he realizes Rolf took back his animals.
Ed: Come back little ones! I MISS MY FURRY FRIENDS, GUYS!!!!!! Eddy: Aw, you're better off without 'em, blubberpuss! Ed: Don't talk to me.
Esme & Roy uses this trope in almost every episode whenever every little monster cries. And Esme shows the glitter jar to calm each little monster down. Snugs clearly has the worst ones thanks to his ability to inflate, and when he does cry, his gushers become much bigger than himself.
Fig cries these in "Stroller Derby" after throwing a tantrum about not wanting to go in her stroller because she's a big girl.
Snug cries them in "The Inside Job" because of being upset about having go inside to get out of the cold, instead of being allowed to stay outside and play.
Snugs also cries them in "The Case of the Missing Cuddles" because of missing his favorite stuffed toy, Sir Cuddles. Also, because he's inflated to a big size because of being upset, the gushers are correspondingly huge.
Snugs is also shown crying them in the show's opening sequence after dropping an ice cream cone. Esme shows him the glitter jar to calm him down.
Simon cries these in "Simon's Sleepover" when he can't sleep because he misses his family.
In "Top Dog," Simon cries them because he's upset about not being able to teach his dog a trick. Somehow, they actually pool at the bottom of his glasses before simply disappearing.
Fanboy and Chum Chum: Every time someone cries, the tears stream from their eyes like a sprinkler. They shoot out bigger and twice as many tears than a normal human ever could, and there's even a sprinkler sound effect accompanying the tears.
In "Emancipation Proclamation", when Foster's becomes overcrowded with imaginary friends, Li'l Lincoln gets the idea to market them. One imaginary friend cries this way when he sees that all the other imaginary friends all have something unique and special about them, making him feel unimportant. Wilt suggests that he use his tears to wash cars, and that's exactly what the imaginary friend is seen doing in a later scene.
In one episode, Molly cries massive gobs of tears after her kitten got away.
In "Out of House and Home", Scratch cries these after he ruined his favorite food.
Goofy: Similar to the "Nifty Nineties" example below, one scene in "Father's Day Off" has Goofy being moved to floods of tears by a radio soap opera.
Laney Penn of Grojband momentarily does this in the episode "One-Plant Band" when Corey calls her out on always being right while he's under the influence of a parody of Audrey II.
HouseBroken: a group of cats cry this way in a Season 2 episode (Who’s The Cat-Chelorette). Here it’s the sprinkler variant.
Justified in a way in I Am Weasel. Ocular gushers come from a disease that keeps the person constantly crying like this. Weasel cures the disease, but this has the side effect of drying up all the rivers and oceans, so he purposefully gives himself the disease to keep a constant supply of water up.
If a character cries on Jellystone!, they'll cry fountains.
Older Than Television: ThisKo-Ko Song Car-Tune, entitled "Darling Nellie Gray," has the dog character crying in this manner during the lyric "And I'm weeping all the day."
A Running Gag with Penny Ling in the 2012 Littlest Pet Shop, the first and most noticeable time being in "Penny For Your Laughs" when she has a breakdown when Pepper makes the mistake of targeting her for her insensitive comedy routine. It's taken to the extreme and her tears literally flood the day camp area and almost drown Pepper. It's managed to carry over into the toys, as in the franchise's Spring 2014 line there's one set that comes with a figure of her with molded, transparent streams of tears.
In "Llama Llama Shopping Drama" on Llama Llama, after Llama Llama has his tantrum in the middle of the store, in front of all the shoppers, a hedgehog kid cries these and an adult male deer standing next to him immediately does so as well.
In "11 Louds a Leapin'", Lisa cries this way after Lincoln tells the girls about how Mr. Grouse is unable to see his family for Christmas.
Lily does this, toonote You know, because she is a baby, particularly on the title screen of "The Crying Dame" and in "Baby Steps" when Clyde is unable to help her (or the other little sisters).
Happens at the end of the Merrie Melodies cartoon "The Coo-Coo Nut Grove" (1936, Freleng), when Helen Morgan sings a sad song that causes most of the other guests to cry waterfalls of tears, flooding the grove in the process.
In The Nifty Ninties, Minnie Mouse cries massive gobs of tears while watching an emotional slideshow.
Minnie also did this in Mickey's Surprise Party after she failed to bake cookies for Mickey.
Middlemost Post: Parker's tears are shown to flood the entire Post. It's implied that it's because he's a cloud, and thus he "rains" instead of crying.
In "Dragonshy", the dragon's tears are about average-sized to him, but for the ponies below it might as well be raining heavily.
In "Baby Cakes", Pinkie agreed to babysit her bosses' twin babies. After spending an entire episode trying to be responsible, it becomes too much for her and she breaks down crying, she thankfully recovers quickly when the twins make her laugh by covering themselves with flour.
And again in "Ponyville Confidential", when the column claims that "Pinkie Pie is an Out-of-Control Party Animal." She breaks down and screams, "It's true! I do have a problem!"
Fluttershy does the same thing in the episode after being humiliated by an article that claims she gets tail extensions.
Sweetie Belle does this in "One Bad Apple" when Babs Seed, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon take over the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse. Apple Bloom even breaks out an umbrella to shield herself from Sweetie Belle's tears.
Poor Pinkie Pie gets another one in "Magic Duel" after Trixie removes her mouth and she is unable to eat cupcakes.
It appears to run in Sweetie Belle's family; Rarity also does this in "The Cutie Map" when she realizes that her tastes in curtains have changed.
"To Where and Back Again – Part 2": Several of the changelings disguised as Fluttershy produce cascading streams of tears to better guilt-trip Discord.
Rainbow sheds massive gobs of tears (although not in the waterfall variety) in "Tanks for the Memories" when she doesn't want Tank to hibernate.
Spike in "Over a Barrel" after it seems that Chief Thunderhooves died from a pie to the face.
Oggy and the Cockroaches: Anytime the titular character cries, he cries huge waterfalls along with a baby crying sound effect.
In the 101 Dalmatian Street episode “Poodlewolf!” While Dylan is explaining the titular game to Dolly, he cries like this.
It also happened to him in one of the shorts. "Prank Pups" has Dylan laughing so hard at the result of his prank that he cries. Unfortunately he's wearing his space helmet as he's doing this, and the resulting flood of tears eventually causes him to have to hold his breath to keep from drowning while Dolly tries to get the helmet off.
On PB&J Otter, Baby Butter cries these in "Baby Butter's Bankie" after her favorite blanket ("bankie") gets ripped to tatters after getting trapped in a closed window and she tries to pull it out.
On Peg + Cat, the small purple alien Richard, who is prone to self-esteem issues, sometimes cries these.
These are the norm for the toddler kids and the babies when they're really upset or scared about something. Their tears would gush out of their eyes like a sprinkler. If there was a prize based on this trope, George would win it, where his seem to erupt from his eyes in the manner of a garden hose!
Peppa is a rare non-infant example, where she cries in a similar fashion to them in "The Golden Boots" after her golden boots are stolen by Mrs. Duck.
Pocoyo: Done by a cloud in "A Little Cloud" after Pocoyo told it to go away.
In the Popeye cartoon "Swee' Pea Through the Looking Glass," Swee' Pea bawls torrents of tears after growing too big to leave the surreal room he's in.
The episode "The City of Frownsville" has Lou Gubrious, a very miserable scientist who cries fountains of tears channeling his sadness into a ray set upon Townsville that makes everyone--even the Powerpuff Girls--cry tears to the point where it threatens the city. Upon being the happiest person in Townsville at that point, he changes his name to Hal Larious, only to succumb to tears again after Bubbles (in a vain attempt to make a crying pigeon laugh) drops her banana and Hal slips on it, causing everyone to laugh at him.
Bubbles cried waterfall tears of happiness in "Princess Buttercup" after Buttercup comes to save her and Blossom.
Project G.e.e.K.e.R.: more of a sprinkler effect than a firehose, but Geeker does this in "Smell of the Wild" after even the animals reject him.
Occasionally seen in Puccaespecially with Pucca herself, her waterfall tears possess waterfall force which sends anybody she looks at while crying flying away from her. There is actually a moment where Garu walks up to a waterfall looking for Pucca, looks up, and it turns out the waterfall is really Pucca's tears. Wer'e not joking!
The Ren & Stimpy Show. Stimpy, being the "eediot", that he is, cries so hard his EYES POP OUT OF HIS SKULL!note Admittedly, though, this doesn't always happen. Subverted in "Son of Stimpy" where he cries like this after Ren presses his, er..."trauma" buttonnote If one can really call it that. After all, you have to have a brain before you can have any kind of trauma. Although, in this case, Stimpy has one, but it's a (literally) tiny brain... after trying to cheer him up with his "nice and stinky" litter box. However, there are no tears—ocular gushers, or otherwise—at all, despite previous episodes showing Stimpy to do this when he (violently) cries.note This was intentional, as John Kricfalusi was playing this and other tropes for drama (except not; it's a long story), in order to prove a point about "fake pathos". The article has all the "stinky" details, and yes, the episode is literally that idiotic, even by the show's standards...
One episode of Rocko's Modern Life has Bev Bighead doing this in her bedroom all night after she discovers that her "dog" (who is really a hypnotized Rocko taken by Heffer and Filburt) has come up missing, flooding the house to a point where her husband Ed had to use a rowboat just to get to her by the next morning.
Happens to Bimbo in the Screen Songs cartoon "My Gal Sal", complete with his eyes turning into faucets.
Guy Hamdon of SheZow when his sister Kelly takes him to see a chick flick. It's so intense that he briefly floods the theatre.
Yellow Pearl cries these when she's hit by Blue Diamond's Emotion Bomb during "The Trial"; unlike the others, who just shed a Single Tear instead of going full waterworks.
In "Baby Takes the Cake" from the 2003 version of Strawberry Shortcake, all of the babies in Apple Dumplin's Imagine Spot in which she's an adult wail and cry these when she gets angry and tells them that they can't help her. She then starts crying these herself and, seeing this, they stop and calm down.
Summer Memories: In the first episode, after Jason gets yelled at for not being able to find Tall Girl's journal, he's so overwhelmed that he runs away. He's then seen sitting on a cliff, crying so much that his tears are running down his faces and across his body in little rivers.
Surprisingly, this happened to Batman in an episode of The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians when the Scarecrow forces him to have a flashback of his parents' death.
Being Animesque, Totally Spies! is rather prone to this. The biggest example occurs here in the second-to-last episode of Season 5.
Tuca & Bertie: Used frequently, varying between waterfalls of tears to giant, golfball-sized gobs of tears. "The Jelly Lakes" includes a gag where Tuca and Bertie have a post-make-up cry, which floods their entire car with tears. In "The Promotion", when Bertie is upset that she may have blown her promotion, Tuca whips out an umbrella.
Unikitty! has these as well, thanks to the star. In the episode "Sparkle Matter Matters", Unikitty, Puppycorn, and Dr. Fox have escaped from Richard, whose extreme joy thanks to the happy serum that went awry and now threatens to destroy their castle. When Unikitty thinks using some negative sparkle matter would reverse the effects, Dr. Fox tries to get this by having her watch a video of a sad kid who was now eating alone because nobody came to his birthday party. When the sad kid is shown to be Puppycorn, Unikitty goes into a literal Heroic BSoD with a Big "NO!" and she starts crying waves with tons of negative sparkle matter coming from her; she only stops after Puppycorn trips over a negative sparkle matter bit and jabs her in one eye, causing her to go into a shut-up-and-die rage.
Ko-Ko Song Car-Tune, entitled "Darling Nellie Gray," has the dog character crying in this manner during the lyric "And I'm weeping all the day."