Valentines Day Episodes in Western Animation.
- 101 Dalmatians: The Series had "Valentine's Daze", showing Cruella's dislike for the holiday as she has no one to be her Valentine.
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has "Love Potion 976/J" which has Jimmy and his friends accidentally exposed to a potion that makes them fall in love with the first girl they see, and dealing with the side effects interfering with their own lives.
- An episode of American Dad! has Francine convincing Stan to go on a Valentines' date with tickets they received several years ago, until a cyborg claiming to be Stan from the future arrives and tells Stan the date would complicate things.
- Animaniacs (1993): The episode "Drive-Insane/Girlfeathers/I'm Cute" first aired on Valentine's Day in 1994, and the first two shorts focus on dating and romantic love.
- Arthur has "Buster's Secret Admirer". The messages and gifts he gets turn out to be from his mother, Bitzi.
- The Backyardigans has a Valentine's Day episode call "Special Delivery", wherein Uniqua uses a plane to deliver Valentine's Day telegrams.
- Bat Pat has "Eye of the Beholder." After several shops in Fogville are ruined the night before Valentine's Day, Rebecca is convinced there's a Valentine's Day creature that wants to ruin Valentine's Day. But it ends up being an ogre named Grundulla that wants a makeover for her big Valentine's Day date with an ogre from across the swamp. Joined by Natty, the kids and Bat Pat do their best to give Grundulla and awesome makeover.
- The Berenstain Bears has a Valentine's Day special called "Comic Valentine". Brother Bear tries to focus on the upcoming hockey game against the Beartown Bullies, but keeps getting letters from a secret admirer named "Honey Bear".
- Big City Greens has "Valentine's Dance", where the Greens go to Exactly What It Says Onthe Tin. There, Cricket develops his first crush but is freaked out by the idea of falling in love; Tilly decides to fulfill Cupid's duties and causes trouble; and Gramma and Nancy get into a feud while playing chaperones for some of the younger attendees.
- Blue's Clues: Featured in an episode, though in a similar fashion to You Mean "Xmas", they refer to the holiday as "Love Day".
- Bob's Burgers:
- "My Fuzzy Valentine" has Bob trying to get the perfect gift for Linda after realizing she's tired of his half-assed heart-shaped gifts. While he and the kids try to track down a love tester he vaguely remembers using on his first date with Linda, Linda holds a speed-dating event at the restaurant.
- In "Can't Buy Me Math", Tina and Darryl start a fake relationship that turns into a real crush for Tina, while Linda and Bob stumble through a romantic "Valentine's advent calendar".
- "The Gene and Courtney Show" features Gene and his ex-girlfriend doing the morning announcements for school and having to deal with their unresolved romantic tension, while Bob and Tina help the school with their "Carnations for Donations" fundraiser.
- "Bob, Actually" features the Belchers in a series of romantic misadventures on Valentine's Day.
- "V for Valentine-detta" has Louise and Linda trying to cheer up Tina after her crush Jimmy Jr. chooses another girl as his Valentine.
- "Bed, Bob, and Beyond" has the Belcher kids trying to patch things up between their parents by making up an ending to the movie Bob and Linda were trying to watch earlier that night.
- Camp Lazlo did one simply titled "Valentine's Day", in which Patsy gives Lazlo a Valentine. Unfortunately, this does not go over well with Patsy's dad Commander Hoo-Ha, who believes it was given by one of the boys and puts them all at his wrath unless one of them confesses.
- Captain Flamingo has "Change of Heart", where Milo's mom gives her son a magical Fuzzy Wuzzy Pal that is guaranteed to make anyone you give it to fall in like with you, which Milo uses it woe Ruth Ann at the Valentine’s Day party at the Funasium. However, things become more complicated when Kirsten takes the gift thinking it is for her and promptly losses the pal, which he needs to find that bear and get it into Ruth Ann’s hands before a string of 'love troubles' erupts and forces the him to come to the rescue of all the kid hearts in town.
- The Cleveland Show has three Valentine's Day episodes:
- "A Short Story and a Tall Tale": Cleveland and Donna celebrate Valentine's Day with a trip to Los Angeles after scoring courtside seats to the all-star basketball game featuring Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, LeBron James, Steve Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Shaquille O'Neal and Dwyane Wade. Caught up in the excitement, Cleveland gets rowdy and talks smack to the players from the sideline throughout the game. The basketball champs, feeling hurt, seek revenge by paying a surprise visit to Stoolbend and putting Cleveland in his place.
- "There Goes El Neighborhood": After getting himself into several cultural misunderstandings with his new and popular Latina neighbor, Cleveland attempts to make amends by demonstrating his knowledge of Latino culture. But Cleveland gets into a bind when he offers to babysit Choni's son and winds up losing him. Meanwhile, Junior sets up his new wife Cecelia on a Valentine's Day date but his jealousy gets the best of him.
- "Here Comes the Bribe": After Cleveland botches his part during the renewal of their wedding vows, Donna hustles him to marriage counseling, where the mediator informs Cleveland that, for a price, he can slant the "treatments" the husband's way. Meanwhile, Junior's refrigerator breaks, so he and Rallo turn it into a hotel-style minibar.
- The Animated Adaptation of Clifford the Big Red Dog has the episode "Cleo's Valentine Surprise". The spin-off series Clifford's Puppy Days has the episode "Valentine Shmalentine".
- The Clone High episode "Money Can Buy Me Love: Stupid is as Cupid Does" takes place on Valentine's Day and has Confucius agree with Joan that they pretend to be each other's dates at the school's Valentine's Day dance to make Harriet jealous after Harriet had left Confucius for Touissant.
- The Animated Adaptation of Curious George has the episode "Happy Valentine's Day, George!'' all about George trying to make Valentine cards for all his friends before the end of the day.
- Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood has "It's Love Day!/Daniel's Love Day Surprise." In the first segment, Daniel celebrates Love Day at school with Teacher Harriet and his friends. Everyone gives each other special gifts to say "I love you". Daniel receives a mysterious card and tries to figure out who gave it to him. The sender shows up at school, and it is Daniel's Grandpère. In the second segment, Daniel and his family celebrate Love Day with Grandpère at their house. Daniel helps his mom make special Love Day pizza, and sets up a treasure hunt for Grandpère to say "I love you!" But when Margaret finds some of the hidden hearts first, Daniel gets upset with her. Grandpère helps him see that Margaret did not know and was finding her own way to show Daniel she loves him.
- Darkwing Duck has the episode "My Valentine Ghoul," where Morgana MacCawber goes on a Double Date with Darkwing and Negaduck at the carnival on Valentine's Day. Negaduck tries to convince Morgana that he has reformed and made his own chocolate factory, but he is actually trying to convince her to go back to a life of crime.
- Doug's 1st Movie was set around Valentine's Day, centering around a Valentine's Dance.
- DuckTales (1987): Two episodes:
- "Back to the Klondike": Scrooge goes back to his claim in the Yukon and meets his old girlfriend, Goldie O'Gilt.
- "A DuckTale's Valentine": Having been stuck with a magic arrow, Scrooge falls in love with Aphroducky, the mythological Goddess of Love.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy's Hanky Panky Hullabaloo was a special in which a pair of mischievous cherub versions of Sarah & Jimmy caused Edd and May Kanker to fall in love. Hilarity Ensues as their lovey-dovey exploits drive the other Eds and May's sisters up the wall.
- On the The Fairly Oddparents episode "Love Struck" Timmy tries to impress his crush, Trixie Tang, with a big fancy Valentine, only for her to turn him down yet again. Angered by this and the fact that Cupid claims his real Valentine is Tootie, he wishes away all the females in Dimmsdale, creating two different lands separating the genders by a wall.
- Family Guy had a Valentine's Day episode focusing on many characters and their love lives, a la Valentine's Day, to the point of a spoof of its trailer substituting for the opening sequence.
- Fancy Nancy had the episode "Nancy, La Poete/Mon Amie.... Grace?". In the former segment, Nancy suffers from writer's block when trying to come up with something for a Valentine's Day poetry contest. For the latter, Grace accidentally gets Nancy's valentine meant for Bree, and thinks they're best friends.
- Futurama:
- "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" focuses on a Fry/Amy relationship. Just as Fry decides to break up, they get in an accident and Zoidberg has to graft Fry's head onto Amy's shoulder to keep him alive. Meanwhile, Bender opens his own matchmaking service, which goes about as splendidly as you'd expect for his customers.
- In "Love and Rocket", Planet Express gets a lucrative job transporting candy hearts, while Bender starts dating the Planet Express Ship's computer and then chooses the worst possible time to break up with her. The whole thing plays out as a very strange parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The episode also features some Ship Tease for the Will They or Won't They? relationship between Fry and Leela.
- The Garbage Pail Kids Cartoon episode "Heartless Hal" had chaos happen because of a cherub named Hal using his love arrows to make everyone fall in love with each other, not caring at all that having some people fall in love with the same person will cause problems. Clogged Duane, being the only one not hit by Hal's arrows, has to save the day by showing Hal why his methods aren't very constructive.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: "Grim in Love", "The Trouble with Skarrina" (replaced with "Crushed" in US airings) and "Love is Evol Spelled Backwards" were all aired together as Valentines Day episodes.
- Grojband did one titled "It's in the Card", in which Grojband makes their own love song for musical Valentine's Day cards. However, Trina sabotages the cards due to her own angst over not getting anything from her crush Nick Mallory, causing everyone in town to break up with each other, including Grojband.
- Hey Arnold! had a Valentine's Day episode where Arnold had a scheduled date with his crush Ruth McDougal and his French penpal Cecile (who was really Helga pretending to be Cecile). Luckily, both dates were at restaurants that were across the street from each other, allowing him to bounce back and forth between the two.
- The House of Mouse episode "Goofy's Valentine Date", where Goofy tries to cope with being the only one at the club without a date on Valentine's Day.
- Invader Zim: The episode "Tak: The Hideous New Girl" starts off on Valentine's Day, though this plot point gets dropped pretty quickly. Though it lasts long enough to learn that in this world, the tradition of handing out candy and cards has been replaced with handing out slabs of meat. Miss Bitters refuses to explain why.
- Johnny Bravo had a Valentine's Day special, where it's revealed that Johnny was born on February 14. It had him finally meet a woman who likes him, only she turns out to be a secret agent.
- KaBlam!
- While the series doesn't have an official Valentine's Day episode, "A Nut In Every Bite!" (where Henry falls in love with Dawn, the network executive's granddaughter) was usually re-ran in February.
- An Off-Beats Valentine (based off a recurring segment on KaBlam!) had Tommy and Populars member Beth fall in love with each other, but they had to keep it secret. Subplots involve August trying to find love the "unplugged" way, and his dog September reminiscing over his love of a cat named February.
- Episode 83 of Kaeloo is all about the characters going to a Valentine's Day party, where Mr. Cat makes Quack Quack break up with his girlfriend just so he can get Kaeloo to be his date at the party.
- Kim Possible has "The Cupid Effect", where Kim and Ron celebrate their first Valentine's Day as a couple, Wade gets a Precocious Crush on Monique and invents a love ray to increase his chances (inspired by a sarcastic suggestion from Ron), and the Seniors steal the aforementioned love ray so that Junior can fulfill his dreams of becoming a famous pop star.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series has "Hunkahunka", in which Lilo uses a hummingbird-like experiment to make her crush fall in love with her for her halau's Valentine's Day dance. However, the experiment ends causing a lot of people to fall in love with others. Oddly though, the episode first aired just over a month before Valentine's Day 2004.
- The Madagascar franchise has a direct-to-DVD Valentine's Day-special entitled "Madly Madagascar", which takes between the second and third films of the franchise. Valentine's Day is revealed to be Alex's favorite holiday, Melman plans a surprise for Gloria (it's their Valentine's Day as a couple), Marty tries to impress his crush, and everyone wants to get their hands on King Julien's love potion.
- The Magic School Bus has the episode "Gets Charged", which takes place on Valentine's Day and features both a misunderstanding about love (the kids' think that their teacher, Miss Frizzle, has a boyfriend coming over) and a happy ending.
- The Martha Speaks episode "Martha and the Thief of Hearts" took place on Valentine's Day.
- The Animated Adaptation of Max and Ruby has a Valentine's Day episode in "Max's Valentine".
- Balemtime's Day from Mega Babies, which treats the eponymous holiday like Valentine's Day, not unlike some of the other examples on this list.
- Tex Avery's 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon "Don't Look Now" had Dan Cupid preparing for Valentine's Day with his bow and arrows, while the Devil (like Cupid, depicted as a kid) prepares for the day by messing things up for couples-to-be.
- Miraculous Ladybug has one, complete with a Cupid-themed akumatized villain and The Big Damn Kiss between our heroes (granted, it was only to snap Cat Noir out of the villain's Hate Plague, but still...).
- Molly of Denali has "Molly's Valentine's Day Disaster," where Molly and Trini make beaded sun catchers for their friends for Valentine's Day, but then lose the beads.
- In the Muppet Babies (1984) episode, "My Muppet Valentine", Nanny makes cookies for the babies. Unfortunately for Rowlf, he doesn't get one. His friends try to make it up to him by making him a surprise, but worry they've made him feel worse by leaving him out of their activities so as not to spoil the surprise. As it turns out, Rowlf has a surprise of his own for his friends; a song he wrote called, "You're Special to Me". At the end of the episode, Nanny finds Rowlf's cookie still on the baking sheet and gives it to him, proving she thinks of all her children as her valentines.
- In the Muppet Babies (2018) episode, "Happy Villain-tine's Day", it's Valentine's Day in the playroom, and the babies make valentines for each other. When Gonzo doesn't get any valentine cards, he thinks his friends forgot about him, and tries to take over Valentine's Day as his supervillain alter-ego, Dr. Meanzo, by taking everyone's valentines. It's up to the Super Muppet Babies to foil his plan. In the end, it was revealed that the other babies had made Gonzo a special statue, but it was too big to fit in his cubby.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- In 'Hearts And Hooves Day', the Cutie Mark Crusaders try to get Cheerilee and Big Macintosh together using a Love Potion. It doesn't go as well as they'd hoped.
- In "The Break Up Breakdown," Big Macintosh plans a huge Hearts and Hooves day surprise for his girlfriend, Sugar Belle. That is until he overhears her talking to Mrs. Cake about how she plans to tell him that "it's over," making Big Mac believe that she plans on breaking up with him. In the b-plot, Sweetie Belle receives a pie in the mail that was meant for Sugar Belle, and starts to believe that she has a secret admirier and she and her friends try to figure out who sent it.
- Nature Cat has the episode "Happy Halentine's Day!". In this episode, Hal intends to buy gifts for his friends and mother, but is despaired to find he forgot to buy anything and that Valentine’s Day involves waste harmful to nature. Before Hal gives up, Nature Cat and the rest suggest that instead he makes handmade gifts made from elements of nature.
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: "Second First Date" has Cupid (here depicted as a macho-man in a toga armed with a bazooka) show up during a "mid-February sale" at Gar's Bodega to get Enid and Rad to sort out the Unresolved Sexual Tension that's apparently existed between them since their disastrous first (and last) date in middle school.
- Peanuts had two Valentine's Day TV specials: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Valentine, both of which primarily revolve around the title character never getting any valentines, as mentioned in the Comic Strips folder above.
- The Pet Alien episode "She Comes for Your Heart" revolves around the aliens discovering Valentine's Day. Dinko desperately tries to stop Tommy from giving his heart to Gabby, and Granville tries to win over Melba to no avail.
- "Act Your Age", the penultimate episode of Phineas and Ferb, aired in February as a Flash Forward to the titular characters and their main group of friends as high school graduates who're about to go off to college (except for Baljeet, who's already finished school up through being able to work as a college professor, even having Buford as one of his future students). The main focus of the episode revolves around the now eleven-year Will They or Won't They? between Phineas and Isabella, who end up making it official with The Big Damn Kiss.
- The Powerpuff Girls has the episode, "Keen on Keane", where the Girls set Professor Utonium and Miss Keane together with fake love letters. Soon, they fall in love with each other, and talk to each other through the hot line, tying it up, and thus The Mayor can't tell the Girls that Townsville is in trouble (because he thinks it would be rude to interrupt). When he inadvertently interrupts by sneezing, the Professor and Ms. Keane realize they've been neglecting their responsibilites, including Ms. Keane forgetting to feed her pet cat, Valentino. This causes the Professor to break up with her, as he had a bad experience with cats before, specifically an evil one that made him jump off a building.
- The animated Punky Brewster had "Be My Glomley." On Valentine's Day, Glomer discovers Glomine, a girl glomley, and with their combined powers can create a gateway back to Chaundoon. It almost works, except when Punky is seen dangling from a hot-air balloon basket, Glomer sacrifices his ticket back home, sending Glomine back, in order to rescue Punky.
- Ready Jet Go! has the episode "From Pluto with Love". In that episode, the kids get ready for Valentines Day by making their own valentines out of paper, and Mindy feels sad that little, frozen Pluto is so far out at the edge of the solar system. So, the older kids go up in space and visit Pluto, while Mindy watches on Jet's smartwatch, and the cast sings "Dear Little Frozen Pluto".
- Recess had "That Stinking Feeling" and "My Funny Valentines" paired together for airing. "That Stinking Feeling" was about Spinelli's crush on a boy (other than T.J.), while "My Funny Valentines" (which is the more conventional Valentine's episode) was about T.J. making joke Valentine cards for the girls of the school, but with them thinking that he had crushes on him. Ship Tease ensued between T.J. and Spinelli (again). Oddly enough, the episode didn't air anywhere near the holiday (though the show was usually in its off-season in February).
- Rugrats (1991) had a Valentine's Day two-parter. The first half involves the babies trying to get Spike and Fluffy to fall in love with each other, and the second half involves Chuckie making a valentine for his dad during the Valentine's Day dance.
- A Scooby-Doo Valentine (a special episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo?) has the gang on Valentine's Day framed for crimes committed by four people who are their lookalikes. They are unmasked at the end as cartoon likenesses of the gang's voice actors—Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Grey DeLisle and Mindy Cohn. Additionally, the leader of the group is former *NSYNC member Special Guest J.C. Chasez...dressed as Scooby-Doo.
- The Simpsons:
- After the death of Ned Flanders' wife, Maude, he becomes depressed at a Valentine's Day dance, thanks to Homer saying out loud that it's a day for couples. note
- Another Simpsons example is "I'm With Cupid", where Homer and a bunch of other married men got mad at Apu for making them look bad on Valentine's Day via his over-the-top romancing of Manjula - getting Elton John to sing for her, etc.
- "I Love Lisa" focuses on a crush Ralph Wiggum has on Lisa, which begins when she is the only person in the class who gives him a Valentine's Day card.
- The Smurfs (1981) cartoon show special "My Smurfy Valentine" and the episode "Head Over Hogatha". "Chlorhydris' Lost Love" takes place on a similar day called Smurfy Friendship Day.
- South Park: The "Cupid Ye" episode takes place on the week of Valentine's Day, with the final act taking place on the holiday itself.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man: Gangland in season two has a huge group date...and a mobster summit where Hammerhead betrays Tombstone/The Big Man, and a three-way fight between Tombstone, Silvermane, and Doc Ock breaks out. The Green Goblin put Hammerhead up to it.
- Spongebob Squarepants had a story where he schemed to get the best Valentines Day present ever for his buddy Patrick. Things go wrong, Hilarity Ensues.
- The Teacher's Pet episode "Taint Valentine's Day" had the main plot revolve around Spot writing several valentines for Leonard in hopes that it will make Leonard look popular and get Leonard's crush Leslie to like Leonard, with the sub-plot being about Mr. Jolly helping Pretty Boy court a female bird he's fallen in love with.
- Thomas & Friends: "Rosie is Red" takes place on Valentine's Day. When Diesel plays a cruel joke on Rosie, Thomas attempts to stand up for her. This causes Bill, Ben, and Diesel to tease Thomas for being Rosie's "special friend", and leads to Thomas distancing himself from her and being unkind to her to stop himself from getting teased. Meanwhile, The Fat Controller plans a special Valentine's Day gift for Lady Hatt, and him bringing Thomas and Rosie together to show it complicates things. In the end, Thomas admits he does like Rosie, but no more than the other engines. To his relief, Rosie feels the same way.
- The Wild Thornberrys: "Operation Valentine", which doubles as a Sick Episode, has Eliza get appendicitis.
- Disney made two Winnie the Pooh Valentines specials:
- The first was a The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode, "Un-Valentines Day" where, after an overflow of Valentines cards litters the Hundred Acre Wood, the animals decide to call off this year's Valentines Day. It proves short lived.
- The second was the Direct to Video featurette A Valentine For You where, after finding out Christopher Robin has been "smitten by the love bug", the gang decide to find another "smitten" to cure him.
- Wordgirl has "Cherish is the Word," which revolves around Becky wanting to give Scoops a valentine but has to deal with Victoria Best stealing everyone's valentines.
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! has three Valentine's Day episodes:
- "Mr. Valentine": Wubbzy delivers Valentine's Day cards when the mailman doesn't feel well.
- "Cupid's Little Helper": Wubbzy finds Cupid's bubble wand causing everyone to fall in love with each other. There is a twist because he does not know it belongs to Cupid, so he ends up creating odd couples all over Wuzzleburg...including a love triangle with him, Daizy, and a Great Grey Smellyphant.
- "My Speedy Valentine": Wubbzy, Widget, Walden and Daizy need to create valentines quickly so they can give them to all their friends at the Valentine's Day party in time.
