Trojan Horses in Western Animation.
- In the Angry Birds Toons episode "Trojan Egg", Chef Pig builds a huge wooden egg and put King Pig in it to steal the birds eggs. The birds are not fooled, but the pigs are when they send it back. Chef Pig even attempts to usurp the throne in the King Pig’s absence.
- Blue Eye Samurai. In "A Fixed Number of Paths", Heiji Shindo offers to help the title character kill Abijah Fowler by smuggling Mizu into Fowler's island fortress inside a barrel of sake used by the prostitutes that visit Fowler. Taigen argues that this is an Obvious Trap, as Mizu would have no way to defend herself in the barrel. Fortunately Mizu has no intention of playing along as, by mentioning the prostitutes, Shindo has revealed another means of infiltrating the castle. Taigen is later captured and delivered to Fowler inside a sake barrel, implying that Mizu was right to refuse.
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. The Rescue Rangers have an Easter basket that turns into a tank. And since Everything's Better With Pineapples, they use a hollowed-out one to spy on Fat Cat.
- This is attempted in the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: C.A.K.E.D.-F.I.V.E." with Sector V hiding in a wooden cake, to sneak in the birthday party of the Delightful Children from Down the Lane. However, most of the team is diverted by the main plot of the episode, leaving only Numbuh Four inside, who eventually goes crazy from not eating anything as he waits all day for the Delightful Children to check the front gate.
- The title characters of Ed, Edd n Eddy use one in the form of a giant, fake pull-string doll to sneak back into Ed's house after being kicked out by Sarah and Jimmy. Not surprisingly, it's not convincing enough to fool Sarah and instead of going back into the house, the Eds end up at the top of a lamppost.Jimmy: A talking dolly!
Eddy: (from inside) Say something, stupid!
Ed: My head is snoring! Make it stop!
Jimmy: AAAHH! Sarah! Boogeyman! - Fantaghirò: In “The Weapons Of Peace”, some random weapons are inexplicably left as a gift outside the doors of the castle of Dana. The befuddled guards pick them up and bring them inside… at which point it turns out that these weapons can fight on their own.
- In one episode of Hercules that depicts the Trojan War as a prank war between schools, the Greeks use this as their last trick. Surprisingly, the Trojans in this incarnation managed to see through the ruse and pushed the horse over a cliff.
- An episode of Hey Arnold! sees Arnold and his friends attempting this inside a giant pig after losing Abner in a war reenactment competition. One of the members of the other side recognizes the trick and tries to point it out, but their leader, Rex Smythe Higgins refuses to listen and makes him open the gate. As soon as the group pops out, the member gives Higgins a look that clearly says I Warned You.
- Jonny Quest TOS episodes. In "The Robot Spy" Dr. Zin tricks Dr. Quest into taking the title device inside a military base.
- A Mighty Mouse cartoon acts this out with mice as the Trojans and cats as the Greeks.
- In one episode of Muppet Babies (1984) that parodies Greek Mythology, after seeing the myth of this, Piggy constructs a trojan chicken to get at Gonzo who is barricaded in the closet.
- In one episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight and Fluttershy try to settle a feud between two families called the Hooffields and the McColts. One attempt was for Twilight to convince the leader of the Hooffields to give the McColts a cake as a piece offering. Unfortunately, the leader thought that Twilight meant for it to be a ploy, as she had hidden members of her clan who popped out and attacked the unsuspecting McColts inside the cake, much to Twilight's dismay.
- Phineas and Ferb:
- In the episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", Candace and Jeremy build Trojan statues of themselves in an attempt to get the boys out of the military school they're being held prisoner in. When the sergeant running the place doesn't buy it, they instead make a statue of the sergeant, The sergeant didn't bring it inside since he already had a ton of wooden statues of himself in his yard.
- Another episode shows them reenacting the Trojan War. At its culmination, Buford has Irving get into a trojan platypus. Phineas doesn't fall for it, but it proves to be a decoy as the war takes a turn into Out-of-Genre Experience territory when Buford and Ferb appear with a Trojan T-Rex armed with modern day weapons that stomps on the platypus. Irving questions why Buford had him get in the platypus if they were going to destroy it.Buford: Leave me my simple pleasures.
- Popeye tells Swee'Pea a rather fractured rendition of the Trojan Horse. Within the story taking place during the battle between the Greeks and the Trojans, Brutus comes face to lip with the Horse asking what it is. Popeye emerges and socks Brutus with a flippant "Never look a gift horse in the mouth!"
- ReBoot: Big Bad Megabyte once hid himself in a fake upgrade during one of his bids to take control of Mainframe's Principal Office. Oddly enough, he actually becomes a Trojan Horse virus in the last season granting him shapeshifting abilities.
- Happened once in Recess, with TJ's gang trying to recapture their fort from Lawson, by hiding in a home-made submarine.Bully: Didn't somebody once say beware of geeks bearing gifts?
- Rick and Morty: The Statue of Liberty is actually hiding a giant killer steampunk robot built by the French that Morty accidentally unleashes by destroying the outer copper shell. It ends up conquering New York City in the name of France offscreen.
- SheZow had Guy Hamdon hiding inside a giant Coldfinger statue to trick his archnemesis into giving it to himself prior to rescuing Kelly (his big sister) from a active volcano (while using his pink lightsaber).
- The Simpsons, "Lemon of Troy": To get a stolen lemon tree from a Shelbyville impound lot, Homer and others park Ned Flanders' RV in front of a hospital and wait for it to be hauled away. After the plan works, Homer comments that no one in history has ever had such a brilliant idea.
- Invoked in at least two episodes of The Smurfs (1981): one where Gargamel hides inside a giant hollow state of Papa Smurf so that the Smurfs would be lured into bringing him into the village, and another where the Smurfs themselves hide inside a hobbyhorse in order to rescue Smurfette from a spoiled little girl during their time travels.
- Played with in the South Park episode "Child Abduction Is Not Funny": Tuong Lu Kim has been constantly bested by Mongolians who keep tearing down his city wall. He comes up with a master plan to stop them for good: pouring hot, sticky Sweet-and-Sour Pork on their heads. The Mongolians roll a "Trojan Mongolian Horse" to the gate. Lu Kim sees that it's an obvious trap, so he takes an axe with him, opens the trap door...and is immobilized by Sweet-and-Sour Pork, allowing the Mongolians to break another hole in the city wall.
- Speedy Gonzalez: Sylvester is trying to keep Speedy out of the cheese factory. At one point Sylvester braces himself to catch Speedy, only to have a baseball thrown at him instead. An irritated Sylvester then flings the baseball into the cheese factory. Speedy is inside the hollowed-out baseball.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Pursuit of Peace", sabotage droids are delivered to Coruscant disguised as cleaning droids.
- Star Wars Rebels: In "Homecoming", a rebel strike team gets onboard an Imperial carrier via a stolen TIE bomber and a staged attack by two A-Wings.
- Happens in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Trojan Koopa". Instead of a horse, Mario, Luigi and Toad build a giant wooden statue of King Koopa himself, banking on his ego to take the bait. Adding to the trick is that earlier they grabbed two of his Troopas and sent them out to sea with a dummy to make it look like they were giving up.
- In Time Squad, the Squad go back to the time of the original Trojan Horse, only to find that the Greeks filled the horse with candy. After a little coaching, they send in a wooden giraffe... full of little chocolate soldiers. Finally, the Greeks send over a giant wooden soldier full of horses... which run wild and wreck Troy.
- The Underdog sideshow Go Go Gophers has a short titled "Trojan Totem" where the Coyotes receive a totem pole from the Gopher Indians, and at night, the Gophers inside sneak out and sabotage the fort.
- In "Castle Caper" on Wallykazam!, Wally sends his dragon Norville inside a cake as a trojan horse to the castle that Bobgoblin has taken over. He, however, makes the mistake of posing as a delivery guy in a Paper-Thin Disguise and telling him that he has the cake that ordered, allowing Bobgoblin to get into an Argument of Contradictions with him about whether or not he ordered a cake until finally Norville makes noise and gives himself away.
- Done in Xiaolin Showdown, but with a twist; Jack Spicer sends the heroes a giant statue of him holding a fruit basket, but the Dragons, citing this trope, break apart the statue. However, Jack wasn't in the statue- he was hiding in the fruit basket!
