Puppy Dog Eyes / Western Animation

Puppy dog eyes; puppy dogs optional.

• The 7D: Hildy Gloom often does this to convince her husband Grim to steal things for her.
• The Adventures of Puss in Boots: As he does in the movies, this is Puss' specialty in the show. His mastery of the technique has given him an extremely high resistance to it, and anyone who tries it on him just causes him to do it back to them to demonstrate how it's really done.

• American Dragon: Jake Long: Fu Dog claimed to have invented the puppy eyes... and yet a chihuahua managed to use them on him.
  Fu Dog: Now I wish I never invented that trick. It’s just too good!
• Animaniacs:
  • Skippy does this after learning Bumbie's mom died.
  • In "Plane Pals", the Warner siblings use puppy dog expressions on Ivan Blowsky, causing him to feel bad about yelling at them... for about half a second, whereupon the Warners switch to making grotesque faces at Blowsky.

• Batman and Harley Quinn: To stop Ivy from going through with her plan that may wipe out all life on the planet, Harley unleashes puppy dog eyes combined with crying, calling it the Nuclear Option, (with a lead-up to make it sound like she's about to cross a Godzilla Threshold in doing so).
• Bluey: Naturally for a world of dogs, it has quite a few instances where the title character and her sister will do this, usually to their parents. Bandit admits the "please face" always gets him.
• Bounty Hamster: Played for Laughs when Cassie attempts to coax Marion into letting her keep a robot dog by giving him Puppy-Dog Eyes, speaking in Baby Talk... and threatening to continue doing so forever unless he says yes.
• Chowder: Chowder attempted this on Mung to get his permission to make a dish on his own. He caved less because of the eyes but more so to learning that Endive had let her apprentice, Panini make a dish on her own before Chowder, not to say that the stretched out please wasn't irritating him.
• Detentionaire: Holger has used these, like in the episode "The Hydra" to get Cam to put on a disguise.
• The Dragon Prince: Bait the glow toad has his "innocent eyes," used on the baker Barius while swiping jelly tarts.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • Eddy, being the sleazy person that he is, uses this in order to fool people. In one episode, he tries to use this on Jimmy to get him to give up his piggy bank. Sarah sees right through it and tells him to get lost as she takes Jimmy away.
  • Ed also does this on occasion. One example is to Eddy after he kicks Edd out of his house. They were pranking him with fake sticky notes supposedly made by his parents and Edd decided to run away and stay at Eddy's house to escape from the madness.
• Elena of Avalor: Elena can turn these on full-bore when she wants something from someone. Skylar cannot resist them.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo does this many times. Mac has also done it similar to Bloo, though much cuter.
• Hokey Wolf: Ding-A-Ling Wolf.
• House of Mouse: One episode has Max trying this in order to convince Goofy to buy him a car. It works.
• Invader Zim: Gaz occasionally does this when you least expect her to do it; she usually does it when she is feeling enraptured such as when she sees that there is one more slice of pizza left in the box or when she sees a video game commercial on TV.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: Heloise tries doing this, accompanied with the phrase "I feel bad about it now," to try and appease Jimmy when she does something he disapproves of. It rarely works.
  • In fact, she's tried doing this several times when trying to attract him. Jimmy, being Jimmy, doesn't notice.
• Johnny Test parodies this when the title character gives multiple people this look, which is referred to as simply "The Look", with a sad song on a tape player.
• KaBlam!: June will do this sometimes to get what she wants.
• Kaeloo: In several episodes, Mr. Cat (and Stumpy on occasions) will try to use these on Kaeloo. Whether it works on her or not depends on the episode.
• Kim Possible: One of the many running gags was the "puppy dog pout."◊ While it doesn't look the same, it's used to the same effect, and it apparently works on every non-villain she knows; besides, Kim has too much self respect to use it on a bad guy (except for in the Grand Finale where she used it on Shego and it worked... they were friendly enemies at that point). Her mother, Ron, Rufus and even Shego have all appropriated it at one time or another.
• King of the Hill: In one episode, Hank's friends are trying to find out why Alamo Beer isn't in stock and Peggy knows the secret, and Hank says "Aw Boomhauer don't give me those basset hound eyes" and Boomhauer has his usual expression.
• Les Sisters: Marine does this to Wendy when she needs her to help with something. Wendy tries to resist, but she always ends up giving in.
• Let's Go Luna!:
  • Carmen does these to Luna in "Good Knight" so Luna could make her a knight suit.
  • Andy, Carmen, and Leo do these to Señor Fabuloso in "Gaja's Birthday" so he could take them to Gaja's birthday party.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012): Zoe Trent naturally has mastered this talent to get humans to cave into her whims. Though how well it works varies, with Blythe she caves in, with another little girl it didn’t work at all.
• Looney Tunes:
  • Charlie Dog uses the "big, soulful eyes routine" when wooing prospective owners.
  • In Broom-Stick Bunny, Bugs Bunny pulls this on Witch Hazel, who is about to cut him in half with a meat cleaver. She relents because Bugs reminds her of Paul, her "pet tarantula."
  • There's also the little penguin Bugs ends up protecting against his will. Chuck Jones couldn't resist using 'em.
  • The Scarlet Pumpernickel opens with Daffy Duck pleading with the studio head to consider his self-written screenplay, momentarily resorting to this. Another Chuck Jones example, of course.
  • Done by Bugs Bunny (towards the audience) in What's Opera, Doc?, after he hears Elmer Fudd singing "Kill the wabbit".
• Milo Murphy's Law: Melissa has "doe eyes," which are very effective, but which she says are for "emergency use only."
• Mixels: Scorpi has near-permanent ones◊ that only disappear when he's scared (where they shrink down). He even manages to make them larger at times, gaining irises when he does.◊
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: Tuck, especially when he’s really upset and crying, or about to cry.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Apple Bloom: "Aren't you gonna stay for brunch...?" See this vid.
  • Pinkie Pie does this too out of sadness that she's being ignored: "Oh no! My friends don't like my parties, and they don't want to be my friends anymore!" See this short vid.
  • Sweetie Belle deliberately invokes this. "If you don't want to spend time with me..." See this vid.
  • As of Season 4, Fluttershy has started showing a tendency to use these to get her way from time to time. For example, during "Filli Vanilli", she uses them to convince Big Mac to let her be his voice for one last concert. and later, on "Trade Ya", she and Rainbow Dash (of all ponies) try this to convince a trader to go back to his stall to speed along a trade in a long, strange Chain of Deals. In this case it fails, however, as the trader is more concerned about filling his belly.
  • Even Angel pulls this off in "Filli Vanilli".
  • Gallus the griffon pulls this off on Grampa Gruff in "School Daze - Part 2" in order to convince him to let him enroll in the School of Friendship.
• Nella the Princess Knight: In "Sir Clod", Clod loses his invitation to the Royal Cafe Breakfast Buffet, so he tries to get in using simply politeness and these.
  Clod: Please?
  Knight: No.
  Clod: Pleeeease?
  Knight: No.
  Clod: But I can't make my eyes any bigger or cuter than this.
  Knight: I'm afraid there's nothing we can do.
• The Penguins of Madagascar: Kowalski sports a pair of these in an animatic for Time Out.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • In one episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz's evil plan of the day involves giving himself big, sad eyes in order to emotionally manipulate the citizens of Danville into giving him what he wants. They work, but only in the dark where his eyes look huge and sad. When the power comes back on they look swollen and bloodshot and have zero effect on his brother (the mayor), other than creeping him out.
  • The Fireside Girls use their "big pleading eyes"◊ as a way of getting people to buy their cupcakes.
  • Major Monogram pulls this on Agent P in "Perry the Actorpus".
    Major Monogram: I know that we gave you some time off, but would you please come back to work, please? I can't hold my eyes like this much longer.
• Pound Puppies (2010): Used quite often by the dogs. Shocking, huh?
• "Don't do that too long, or your face might stick that way!" The faces of Precious Moments figurines and the characters of the five Precious Moments animated specials did stick that way. Not only are they stuck in a Super-Deformed proportion, but the upper eyelid is at such an angle that the shape of the whole eye suggests a teardrop, and the iris and pupil are large enough that the white shows up only at the bottom of the teardrop.
• Producing Parker: Massimo does this in the episode "Dog Dee Afternoon" after Parker yells at him when he sabotages Doggy Day on The Dee Show by doing a trick and Dee kicked him (causing the show to be hated by the dog-loving audience)
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: This, plus a quick peck, is how Velma convinces Scooby to investigate the school janitor's workshop in a Clear My Name episode.
• Ready Jet Go!: In the episode "A Visit to the Planetarium", Jet and Sunspot make these eyes◊ at Sean and Sydney in order to convince them to let them go to the planetarium show.
• Recess: Back in season one, this was pretty much T.J.'s default set of eyes.
• Ren & Stimpy subverted this — Ren's eyes are already bugged out of their sockets; this takes it a few disturbing steps further.
  • Stimpy can do it better; just watch the pilot for proof!
• The Replacements: Riley Daring tried it out◊ when asking her parents if she could get a digital video camera.
• Ruby Gloom: Scaredy Bat does this. A lot.
• The Smurfs (2021):
  • In the episode "Adventures in Smurfsitting", Baby Smurf does this when Papa Smurf calls him to stop disturbing him with his experiment.
  • In the episode "Smurfy Day Care", many Smurfs (including Papa Smurf) that turned into babies do this as they're about to cry. Smurfstorm also does this when Smurfblossom and Smurflily also turn into babies.

• Steven Universe: Steven, being the adorable little kid he is, can break out an impressive set of Puppy Dog Eyes and knows how to use them. Garnet, despite being a no-nonsense Stoic most of the time, is particularly susceptible.
  Pearl: Why did you agree to this?^note Attempting to un-corrupt a Gem Monster, which Garnet had initially refused on grounds of the danger involved.
  Garnet: I lost a battle of will.
  • Steven retains this ability as a teenager, as he manages to stop Lapis from attacking two gems just by staring at her and holding a cute animal. Subverted, though, in that he rarely uses this power anymore due to how angry he is all the time.
• Teen Titans (2003): This is taken a step further. Beast Boy can morph his entire body into that of an adorable kitten so he can do puppy dog eyes with his entire face◊
• Teen Titans Go!: The episode "Breakfast Cheese" is all about Starfire using this to make her teammates into pacifists (complete with a wallpaper full of puppies whenever she does it). It works so well, the other even help her pull this on the H.I.V.E. Five.
• Tom and Jerry has Spike give his son Tyke a few lessons about being a dog in one short. The first lesson is being "man's best friend", which consists of the begging position and lying at the master's feet. Both "with the big, sad, soulful eyes."
• Total Drama:
  • An episode of Total Drama World Tour had Cody do this to Gwen to try and convince her to carry an epipen for him instead of his Abhorrent Admirer Sierra.
  • Total Dramarama: The kids would often use this to get what they want.
• Totally Spies!: The girls have used this more than once on Jerry to try and persuade him to do things for them.
• Transformers: Prime: Believe it or not, Starscream seems◊ to◊ be◊ a◊ master◊ of this trope!
  • Bumblebee too. He manages to stop Arcee from killing Starscream just by looking at her sadly.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: Dudley does this often. Since he's an actual puppy, it's funnier that way.
• Wolverine and the X-Men (2009): Toad of the Brotherhood breaks out the most pathetic cutie-face an anti-hero has probably ever worn when Quicksilver refuses to rescue him from mutant-jail. The large eyed pout is accompanied by a small-voiced "You... you're dumping me? But... but why?" It doesn't work, but that just might be because Quicksilver is a cold-hearted bastard.
• Work It Out Wombats!: In "Helper For the Day", Zeke makes these eyes at Super while begging her to let him be Mr. E's helper.

• X-Men: Evolution has Kitty Pryde, to the extent that Wolverine once snaps at her: "Don't give me them puppy-dog eyes, half-pint!"
• Yin Yang Yo! has Yin and Yang use this to get master Yo buy them stuff.

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