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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', the human characters have four fingers. The non-human characters either have the same number, higher, or lower. Notably, in "Monster Arm", Star uses magic to turn ordinary items into living human hands, and they have five fingers.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', the human characters have four fingers. The non-human characters either have the same number, higher, or lower. Notably, in "Monster Arm", Star uses magic to turn ordinary items into living human hands, and they have five fingers. The characters are shown on one occasion using [[PinkySwear pinky swears]] so apparently they do in fact have pinkies at least.
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* Lampshaded in ''[[WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins 3-2-1 Penguins!]]''; one of the characters states, "You're only five minutes older!" to his twin, holding up all his fingers on one hand, quickly holding up a finger on the other hand, because he's only got four fingers.
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* Lampshaded in ''[[WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins 3-2-1 Penguins!]]''; one of the characters Jason states, "You're only five minutes older!" to his twin, twin sister Michelle, holding up all his fingers on one hand, quickly holding up a finger on the other hand, because he's only got four fingers.
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* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins''; ''[[WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins 3-2-1 Penguins!]]''; one of the characters states, "You're only five minutes older!" to his twin, holding up all his fingers on one hand, quickly holding up a finger on the other hand, because he's only got four fingers.
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* In the episode titled ''Back to the Past!'' of the show ''WesternAnimation/{{Oggy and the Cockroaches}}'', Olivia makes Oggy, Jack and Bob go to school after they're turned into children because a witch thinks they have torn her hat (the real culprits are the cockroaches), so that she can be free to get the fixed hat back to the witch and get them back into their normal selves. In the math class, Jack is made go do the simple arithmetic "5 + 5 = ?" on the blackboard but he doesn't know the answer. Luckily, Bob signals at him that Oggy knows it, but also unluckily, he misinterprets Oggy's clue and proceeds to confidently write "8" on the board. The whole class laugh at him, he goes back to his seat confused, as is Oggy who keeps looking at his eight fingers.
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* Ironically in ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' , a show about math, two of the main characters, Milli and Geo, have four fingers. Yes, they can magically grow a 5th finger, but Bot has none!
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* Ironically in ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' , a show about math, 2 of the main characters, [[spoiler:Milli and Geo]], have 4 fingers. Yes, they can magically grow a 5th finger, But [[spoiler:Bot]] has none!
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* Ironically in ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' , a show about math, 2 two of the main characters, [[spoiler:Milli Milli and Geo]], Geo, have 4 four fingers. Yes, they can magically grow a 5th finger, But [[spoiler:Bot]] but Bot has none!
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* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', humans have four fingers, and Irkens like [[VillainProtagonist Zim]] have three. (Though there are three episodes where he has four, apparently an animation error.) [[DarkActionGirl Tak]]'s true nature is foreshadowed by having three fingers even in her human disguise.
** [[CheerfulChild Keef]] only has three fingers, for some reason. [[BigBadDuumvirate The Tallest]] also seem to only have two each, unless their thumbs are hidden in their gauntlets; WordOfGod says that they have them cut off "to prove they can rule without them," [[TrollingCreator for what that's worth]].
** [[CheerfulChild Keef]] only has three fingers, for some reason. [[BigBadDuumvirate The Tallest]] also seem to only have two each, unless their thumbs are hidden in their gauntlets; WordOfGod says that they have them cut off "to prove they can rule without them," [[TrollingCreator for what that's worth]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', humans have four fingers, and Irkens like [[VillainProtagonist Zim]] have three. (Though there are three episodes where he has four, apparently an animation error.) An attentive viewer might have figured out [[DarkActionGirl Tak]]'s true nature is foreshadowed by having three fingers even in the fact that her human disguise.
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** [[CheerfulChild Keef]]only has three fingers, also for some reason. [[BigBadDuumvirate The Tallest]] also seem to only have two each, unless their thumbs are hidden in their gauntlets; WordOfGod says that they have them cut off "to prove they can rule without them," [[TrollingCreator for what that's worth]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', though most Bikini Bottomites don't have fingers to start with. It can be {{justified|Trope}}, though, in that he's not human.
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** The creator of the show, Alex Hirsch, has said that the differing number of fingers is primarily visual, and that he wishes that all characters had been drawn with five fingers to distinguish the six fingers on the journals more.
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** The creator character designer of the show, Alex Hirsch, Michael Rianda, has said that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/zzyin/im_michael_rianda_cartoonist_and_creative/c69ad3b the differing number of fingers is primarily visual, and that he wishes that all characters had been drawn with five fingers to distinguish the six fingers on the journals more.]]
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** The characters in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' (a show from the creators of FOP) have five fingers, though that may be due to the series having a more "realistic" and "serious" element as opposed to ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]''. Again {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a comic strip from a Nickelodeon magazine, when Timmy and his Fairy Godparents met Creator/ButchHartman (the creator) and couldn't "give him five" as they had only four fingers per hand, but then Danny Phantom and his friends arrive and can easily do it, because they have five per hand.
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** In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon, "Donald's Dilemma", Daisy's psychiatrist goes back and forth between four and five fingers between scenes. This is actually pretty common in Disney cartoons of the era.
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** They lampshaded this at least twice. Sometimes when [=SpongeBob=] counts on his fingers, he will ''grow each finger past four as he gets to it''. In ''Sailor Mouth'', when SpongeBob was counting the thirteen bad words Mr. Krabs was saying, he had six fingers on his right hand, and seven on his left.
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** In "The Big Baby Scam" Mr. and Mrs. Pipe's hands switches back and forth from four to five fingers.
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-->'''Homer:''' If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister. And then our kids -- they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!
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*** Their nemesis Man-Ray has five fingers.
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** In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon, "Donald's Dilemma", Daisy's psychiatrist goes back and forth between four and five fingers between scenes.
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** Skips can also be seen with five fingered hands.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy'' averts this for every character, even the animal characters.
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** The characters in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' (a show from the creators of FOP) have five fingers, though that may be due to the series having a more "realistic" and "serious" element as opposed to ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]''. Again {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a comic strip from a Nickelodeon magazine, when Timmy and his Fairy Godparents met Butch Hartman (the creator) and couldn't "give him five" as they had only four fingers per hand, but then Danny Phantom and his friends arrive and can easily do it, because they have five per hand.
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* Characters in the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons avert this trope, as they have five fingers. Played straight in cartoons from FamousStudios the 1950s, where the characters were streamlined and have four.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StuntDawgs'' lampshaded this in one episode, where Splat [[BreakingTheFourthWall turns to the viewer]] and says "[[DontTryThisAtHome Don't try this at home.]] I am a trained professional and incidentally, a cartoon character." ''(Extends hand.)'' "See? Three fingers and a thumb."
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* Awful B Bad of ''The Little Clowns of Happytown'' has four fingers per hand, even though every other character on the show has five.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib (and everyone else) has four fingers, and Zim has three (except for about 3 episodes where he has four, but that might be just an animation error), but then again all the irkens only have three fingers. This is used subtly with Tak, who has three fingers in both her Irken and Human forms.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib (and everyone else) has humans have four fingers, and Zim has Irkens like [[VillainProtagonist Zim]] have three. (Though there are three (except for about 3 episodes where he has four, but that might be just apparently an animation error), but then again all the irkens only have three fingers. This error.) [[DarkActionGirl Tak]]'s true nature is used subtly with Tak, who has foreshadowed by having three fingers even in both her Irken and Human forms.human disguise.
** [[CheerfulChild Keef]] only has three fingers, for some reason. [[BigBadDuumvirate The Tallest]] also seem to only have two each, unless their thumbs are hidden in their gauntlets; WordOfGod says that they have them cut off "to prove they can rule without them," [[TrollingCreator for what that's worth]].
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** Particularly of note, whenever God appears on the show, he has five fingers.
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* Strangely zig-zagged without explanation in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', where some characters have four fingers on each hand, while others have five. This is particularly bizarre here as this show is usually very careful about even minor details, and the number of fingers on one's hand is a pivotal theme later in the series. Especially ironic considering that [[spoiler:the author of the journals is mocked and called a freak for having six fingers when most of the children have four.]]
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** They lampshaded this at least twice. Sometimes when [=SpongeBob=] counts on his fingers, he will ''grow each finger past four as he gets to it''.
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* ''Westernanimation/TheGrimAdventuresofBillyAndMandy'': Everyone normally has four fingers, but in ''Ecto Cooler'', Billy briefly has six on his right hand when he's saying that he forgot the names of the six state capitals he knew. In the same episode, the realistically drawn ghosts all have five, as does Sperg's mother, who is also realistically drawn.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Everybody except for Olaf. {{Justified| Trope}}, since they're all animals. Even Quack Quack, who has FeatherFingers, has exactly four.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' has Dulcinea, a cat with more cartoonish proportions than the rest, including having four fingered hands instead of five like the other cats. [[spoiler:This is what makes her TheChosenOne]]
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* Much like the [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks comic strip]] it was based on, this is averted by ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. Part of this aversion may also be owed to its {{animesque}} art style.
* Most of the [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal]] Disney characters. And also many of the humans. But it's not always done consistently.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', for example, one can see five-fingered Aldrin Klordane and four-fingered Norton Nimnul in the same scene.
** It gets lampshaded in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''.
-->'''Scrooge:''' ''(when doing a high-''' four''')'' Give me four!
** Also lampshaded once in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', where one of the ways Bonkers can tell the MonsterOfTheWeek is not a "toon" is because he loses his four-fingered glove and Bonkers notices he has five fingers.
** Strangely averted in the Goofy cartoon "Baggage Buster", where he has five fingers. This was most likely due to Goofy being {{rotoscop|ing}}ed here.
** In Disney/RobinHood, Robin has four fingers, like most characters, but Prince John has five.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Mongul and Doomsday both have four fingers on each hand. Justified, as they are aliens.
* Likewise, most characters in Warner Brothers productions, such as ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''.
** Inverted in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's hands are given five fingers for one scene to properly mime a piano melody played on Elmer's head. Rabbits' front paws normally have four digits.
** The more (otherwise) realistic a four-fingered hand is, the creepier - note the hands of the (human) mailman at the beginning of WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck's ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery''.
* Lampshaded in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' -- while taking wild guesses at a secret signal, Brain attempts the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan hand sign]] and visibly struggles with how to arrange his fingers.
-->'''Brain:''' Live long and... ''(shifts fingers)'' uh...
** Interestingly, in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Star Truck," Wakko, who also has four-fingered hands, does the sign with no problem!
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d ''ad nauseam'' on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
-->"Four-finger discount!"
** Particularly of note, whenever God appears on the show, he has five fingers.
** In one episode, Lisa tells Bart that in some magazine about the future they predicted that people would eventually have 5 fingers.
-->'''Bart:''' Five fingers? Ewwww! Freak show!
** And the norm for a perfectly-shaped baby is "Four toes on each foot, four fingers on each hand."
** In an ImagineSpot Homer had when his father and Marge's mother were dating:
-->'''Homer:''' If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister. And then our kids -- they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!
** Selma was seen to have five toes in "Bart the Fink", possibly due to an animation error.
** Worked around in one scene where Sideshow Bob is bench pressing weights. His KnuckleTattoos are highlighted, but "love" and "hate" are spelled out with only 3 letters as "LUV" and "HĀT".
** Homer's line "I've got five words for you: Greasy Joe's Bottomless Barbeque Pit!" He counts off the words on his fingers, and needs to move to his other hand for the last one.
** Similar to what happened to Bob the Builder and Fat Princess, this was half adverted when the show was marketed in Japan. Some VHS and Videogame boxarts gave characters five fingered hands.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' characters (the humans anyways) have four fingers. The show is created by the same people that make ''The Simpsons'', so it explains the similar character designs. Averted in the ''Bendy-Boo and the Mystery Crew'' segment from "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", where everyone has five.
* All the characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' have four fingers; however, their future selves in the MadeForTVMovie ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'' have five.
** It was lampshaded by Juandissimo once, where he (working as a masseuse) declared "My Eight Little friends and I have work to do".
** Very mildly {{averted|Trope}} in the NoDialogueEpisode "Pipe Down" when Timmy is trying to "charade" his wish. To show he means "for", he holds up his left hand and he does indeed have FIVE fingers; he folded his thumb so he could show four fingers for "for".
** Lampshaded again where the fairy personification of April Fools raises his hand during a stand up comedy, suddenly realizes he only has four fingers, and so uses magic to conjure up a fifth one.
** The characters in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' (a show from the creators of FOP) have five fingers, though that may be due to the series having a more "realistic" and "serious" element as opposed to ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]''. Again {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a comic strip from a Nickelodeon magazine, when Timmy and his Fairy Godparents met Butch Hartman (the creator) and couldn't "give him five" as they had only four fingers per hand, but then Danny Phantom and his friends arrive and can easily do it, because they have five per hand.
* Characters in ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' have four-fingered hands, just like in FOP.
-->'''Kitty Katswell:''' I'd rather use my TEN CLAWS! ''(she holds up her hands, with only 8)''
* Averted with the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation human characters]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', who all have five-fingered hands. Played straight, however, with the semi-anthropomorphic animals such as Porkchop and Stinky, who have four.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', though most Bikini Bottomites don't have fingers to start with. It can be {{justified|Trope}}, though, in that he's not human.
** They lampshaded this at least twice. Sometimes when [=SpongeBob=] counts on his fingers, he will ''grow each finger past four as he gets to it''.
** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, though explicitly human, have four-fingered hands -- despite having been shown with five fingers when they were younger.
** In the second movie, Spongebob normally have four fingers, but when he became the Invincibubble, he had five.
*** This applies to Squidward as well, Squidward don't have fingers, but as Sour Note, he had five.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins''; one of the characters states, "You're only five minutes older!" to his twin, holding up all his fingers on one hand, quickly holding up a finger on the other hand, because he's only got four fingers.
* Almost all of the animated characters in the ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' shorts have four fingers, except in certain instances of "Multiplication Rock", where the characters count on both hands.
** Noah and his son in "Elementary My Dear" (x2) have five fingers when demonstrating "Two times 10 is 20," but otherwise have four fingers.
** Everyone in "Ready Or Not, Here I Come" (x5) has five fingers, and they count off for hide and seek one finger at a time.
** "That prince over there" in "I Got Six" (x6) has five fingers, to show off that he has "six rings on every finger" (6x10=60).
** Of course the eponymous "Little Twelvetoes" has ''six'' fingers (and six toes) as the song is about multiplication by 12.
* All human characters on the ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' and ''Clifford's Puppy Days'' series.
* Also true of ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', another production of Scholastic. The [=WordGirl=] character wears gloves, though only when shown as [=WordGirl=] and not her secret identity, Becky Botsford.
* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' have four fingers on each hand. Considering this is at least a semi-action show, and the rest of the bodies are drawn reasonably realistically, this is unusual.
** Especially in an episode where on characters says "the next match starts at five"- while holding up all FOUR fingers on his hand!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}''[='s=] characters were also drawn with four-fingered hands and otherwise-not-too-stylized bodies, clashing rather badly. Also, the show tackles teen issues realistically.
* Neosapiens in ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' had four fingers on each hand and four toes on each foot. This is a mild subversion, as the Neosapien hand is designed to have two thumbs on each hand, opposing the other two fingers like a capital letter C. All of the human characters on the show were portrayed with the normal five fingers.
* Spock has six fingers in a well-known artistic blooper from the "Yesteryear" episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Actual exchange from ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'': "I'm lucky that I still have all 10 fingers!" "You have ''10''? Wow, you really are rich." Played straight, as Eddy is drawn with four fingers in every other scene. Still funny.
* A particularly baffling example from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'': Sonic and his siblings are drawn with five fingers, but Robotnik has only four. All characters in the [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog other]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM two]] American Sonic cartoons all have four fingers though.
** This is a result of the show using the game design for Sonic (unlike previous cartoons, which used more simplified designs), and basing Manic and Sonia on it. Robotnik, instead, uses his [=SatAM=] design, which had four fingers like all characters in that show.
* Lloyd Nebulon (the ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' title character) also has just three fingers. {{Justified|Trope}}, seeing Lloyd is an alien.
* Lampshaded in "WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown". Doofenshmirtz says that after the commercial, they'll show the final four videos, while holding up all of his fingers on one hand but with his thumb lowered. He glances at his hand and realizes that since he has Four-Fingered Hands, he is only holding up three fingers, so he starts holding up his thumb as well.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', Chicken has four "[[FeatherFingers fingers]]" and Cow has three. Lampshaded when the Red guy tries to give them piano lessons.
* Everybody in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has four fingers. Strangely, despite the nature of the show, they've never lampshaded this (although "Petarded", "Friends of Peter G", and "Extra-Large Medium" reference high-fives).
** Occasionally in {{cutaway gag}}s and/or {{ArtShift}}s the characters have five fingers, such as the Disneyverse.
** Some [[NonStandardCharacterDesign non-standard characters]] also have five fingers, such as G.I. Joe, Hank Hill, KISS.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' lampshaded this trope in "Finger Lenting Good;" when Stan loses a finger, he remarks that he's down to seven. Oddly, moreover, on TBS airings, there are still censors over characters singularly elevating the finger next to their pinky, despite the fact that they technically don't have "middle fingers". This comes up in the same episode in fact, Francine flips off her family when asked which finger she's going to give up after they trick ''her'' into being the one to break her Lent promise first.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. Beast Boy is making a verbal list, punctuated by the number of fingers he holds up. He reaches his [[RuleOfThree third reason]], and realizes he now only has four digits. Shaking his hand brings back his missing finger.
* Helga Pataki of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' names her fists "Old Betsy" and "The Five Avengers" despite only having four fingers on each hand.
* Also lampshaded in the Finnish political satire-cum-GCI-animated comedy series ''The Autocrats'', where one character calls another out on using the term "wrapped around my little finger" because they only have four. Later, two characters are seen bowling, and one advises the other to use their little finger for support... which he doesn't have, of course.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' averts this trope... while simultaneously showing why most people do it. Those kids have absolutely huge, and completely disproportionate hands! If they had proportional hands it would be hard to fit that many fingers.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'', but subverted with the Manotaur.
* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin once mentioned in an interview that it saddened him somewhat that the claymation version of him on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' lacked a middle finger.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' uses the trope interestingly. In keeping with the general art style of the characters' source material, the more realistically drawn characters (Hero, Foxxy, Clara, and Xandir) have the proper number of digits, but the more "cartoony" ones (Toot and Wooldoor) have four. Toot is something of an unusual case in that although she has four fingers, she's often (though not always) drawn with five toes. This could be an animation goof, however.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Rhinox and Depth Charge were the most noticeable characters with this trait. Of course, they're not the only characters to have this in the Transformers Universe, some examples include:
** Numerous aliens, such as Aron and Slizzardo in ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1''.
** Grimlock, Scrapper, Waspinator, Warpath and Strika in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''
** Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Breakdown, Soundwave, [[FacelessMooks The Vehicons]], Skyquake and Dreadwing in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''
** In addition to Rhinox and Depth Charge; Cheetor also got four fingered hands in season three, keeping these for ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines''. Also in that series, Rattrap and Noble had them.
** All of the Rescue Bots in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', but all of the humans have five fingers.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben|10}}[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce 10]]'' [[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien franchise]], all human characters do in fact have 5 digits on each hand. However, the majority of aliens in the shows, including Ben's transformations, only have the four digits on each hand (one exception is the [[EnergyBeings Anodyte aliens]], which also have five digits per hand).
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'', the characters have four-fingered hands most of the time, but occasionally have five- and even six-fingered hands.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/WillAndDewitt''.
* Everyone from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has four fingers, but for some reason, one of the characters, Trent, wears a T-shirt with a five-fingered handprint on it. Also, ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', which are also made by Fresh TV, use five fingered hands.
* Can be justified in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'' for the characters being aliens, and lampshaded in the school episode.
-->'''Teacher:''' How much is 5+5?\\
''(Candy is nervous)''\\
'''Random Girl:''' Use your fingers.\\
'''Candy:''' Hmmmm. EIGHT!
** This joke was later replicated in ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', by the same creators. In this case, an [[FountainOfYouth age reduced]] Oggy and Bob tried to silently help out an also age reduced Jack in a school problem. Once the other students laughed at Jack's mistake, Oggy and Bob merely shrugged in confusion to each other.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib (and everyone else) has four fingers, and Zim has three (except for about 3 episodes where he has four, but that might be just an animation error), but then again all the irkens only have three fingers. This is used subtly with Tak, who has three fingers in both her Irken and Human forms.
* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog''.
* The humans in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' constantly either have four or five fingers from scene to scene.
* Everyone from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has four fingers, but the Powerpuff Girls themselves have [[FingerlessHands none]]!
** When Buttercup wakes up in [[FreakyFridayFlip Professor Utonium's body]], she examines her hand with horror, which is now drawn with five fingers.
* Most of the Nicktoons made by Klasky Csupo Inc. mostly avert this trope, giving all the characters five fingers in each hand. ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' is somewhat an exception. While all the human characters have five fingers in each hand, most of the monsters (at least the least grotesque monsters) have four in each hand.
* Strangely, in ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'', most of the human characters have five fingers in each hand while the main character, Bobby himself, has only four in each hand.
* The Disney animated show ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' is an unusual case. The early seasons had the characters with four-fingered hands, but in later seasons, they acquired more ''realistic'' five-fingered hands.
* Henry and June from ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam!'' flip-flop from either having four fingers or five DependingOnTheArtist. There have been some instances where one of their hands has five and another has four.
* Averted in both ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and its SpiritualSuccessor (even if the latter was still running and the latter was not created by Klasky/Csupo) ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', where the characters have five fingers.
* All of the animal characters in ''ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars'' have four fingers on each hand. Averted with Willy [=DuWitt=] and the rest of the humans, though.
* WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman normally has four fingers, but mysteriously gains a fifth so that he can count to five.
* Certain animated segments on ''Series/SesameStreet'' feature human characters with four-fingered hands.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is an interesting case, seeing as most (humanoid) characters, including Finn, often have RubberHoseLimbs that appear as three barely discernible fingers that quickly change into four-fingered hands when close-ups are required. The only instance a character was drawn with 5 proper finger was with Marceline, whose right hand momentarily had an extra finger in "Evicted!" when she shows Finn and Jake the Nut Creatures, and in Heat Signature while putting ketchup on her first two fingers. Billy the hero is an interesting case as he's drawn with 6 fingers.
** This is parodied in the episode "Five More Short Graybles", where each of the five stories is apparently themed after one of the five fingers. But the storyteller reveals that the stories were actually themed after the five tastes (sweet, savory, sour, salty, and bitter), and says "No one's had five fingers in over [[EleventyZillion twenty-mabillion glables]]!"
** Many giant characters, such as Lemon John from "All Your Fault", have five fingers on each hand.
* [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] (as well as the Chipettes) in their [[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow first]] [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks two]] animated appearances.\\
In the Chipmunks appearances, not only do the Chipmunks have four fingers but so does Dave and the other human characters. Averted with how he appears in the 80s/90.
* Characters in the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons avert this trope, as they have five fingers. Played straight in cartoons from FamousStudios the 1950s, where the characters were streamlined and have four.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'' this is averted with most of the characters, who are drawn in a fairly realistic style. Geeker himself being an artificial human, combines this with NonstandardCharacterDesign. Lampshaded when the BigBad uses this trait to allow people to identify him. It's also a sore spot for Geeker, which he refers to as a "tragic deformity."
* ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'' had an unusual case when it did a {{Crossover}} with ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny''. The human characters on ''Oso'' normally have the correct number of fingers, but in the crossover episode, they had four-fingered hands. This was probably because the characters on ''Handy Manny'', including Manny, have four-fingered hands and it would have been weird to draw depict Manny with five.
* Ironically in ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' , a show about math, 2 of the main characters, [[spoiler:Milli and Geo]], have 4 fingers. Yes, they can magically grow a 5th finger, But [[spoiler:Bot]] has none!
** [[spoiler:Door Mouse]] has the proper 5 fingers.
* All the human characters on ''WesternAnimation/ToddWorld'' (a show that aired on Discovery Kids before it became Creator/TheHub) have these.
* Ranger Gord had these in the animated ''Ranger Gord's Educational Films'' on ''Series/TheRedGreenShow''.
* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has four fingered-hands, but in a crossover in the season 4 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', they are drawn with five fingers on each hand.
* Strangely zig-zagged without explanation in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', where some characters have four fingers on each hand, while others have five. This is particularly bizarre here as this show is usually very careful about even minor details, and the number of fingers on one's hand is a pivotal theme later in the series. Especially ironic considering that [[spoiler:the author of the journals is mocked and called a freak for having six fingers when most of the children have four.]]
** The creator of the show, Alex Hirsch, has said that the differing number of fingers is primarily visual, and that he wishes that all characters had been drawn with five fingers to distinguish the six fingers on the journals more.
* Lucy, the only human character seen on ''64 Zoo Lane'', and she is usually barefoot, so you can see that she has four toes on each foot as well.
* A lot of characters from ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' have these, including the eponymous character. This also does not exclude the ''human'' characters!
* The Oscar-nominated short ''Oktapodi'' shows both octopus protagonists as having six, rather than eight tentacles, even though the names of both the species and the film actually mean "eight feet" when translated.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' averts this for most human characters. However, the [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animals]] usually have 2-4 fingers on each hand.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' characters usually have clefts for fingers and a thumb, with fingers [[SuddenAnatomy only appearing when needed]]. When they do, they alternate between four and five.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' has most of its characters with the standard five-fingered hands. Jared and [[DistaffCounterpart Charise]] are intended to have only four fingers on each, but sometimes appear with the average amount due to artist oversight. Ash also has a reduced amount of digits due to the fact that his hands are horribly burnt and deformed.
* Title characters of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' usually have four fingers, while human characters normally have five. Strangely, during Ren's monologue in "Stimpy's Fan Club", he contemplates his "dirty" hands, which have five.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', the anthropomorphic [[FunnyAnimal animals]] and [[AnimateInanimateObject objects]] usually have four fingers on each hand. However, the human characters alternate between four and five fingers.
* Not many characters in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' actually have fingers.
** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Spike]] and other dragons have four fingers on their claws.
** [[ALoadOfBull Iron Will]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Lord Tirek]] and [[ADogNamedDog Ahuizotl]] have four fingers on each hand, despite [[AmbiguouslyHuman having many human features]].
** Really, any mythical creature with human traits have four-fingered hands, most likely drawn that way so they don't look [[NonStandardCharacterDesign too human]].
** [[MadGod Discord]] has four fingers on his lion paw (real lions have five toes on their front paw).
** In one episode, one of Pinkie's clones [[BodyHorror sprouted four small fingers out of her hoof]].
** Averted with the humanized versions of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''. Their hands actually have five fingers. [[spoiler:Then played straight when Sunset Shimmer and Snips and Snails transform into demons. Then they get four fingered claws. In this case, it's to emphasize that they really aren't human anymore.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', all characters have four fingers, even the [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure attractive women]].
* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' inconsistently switch between four and five fingers.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'', where the titular character [[ItMakesSenseInContext high-fives his own detachable hand.]]
-->'''Jim''': Way to go, my five-fingered chum!\\
'''Peter''': Four-fingered Jim. What do you think you are, some kind of freak?
* Being a Japanese co-production, this is averted in ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' averts this as well by having just about everyone drawn with five fingers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', everyone has four fingers.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'', all the human characters in the real world have four fingers. In [=ChalkZone]=], it varies- some characters have four fingers, others three, and then some (including Snap) don't have any fingers at all- justified as they're all drawings.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Everyone has four fingers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', the human characters have four fingers. The non-human characters either have the same number, higher, or lower. Notably, in "Monster Arm", Star uses magic to turn ordinary items into living human hands, and they have five fingers.
* The characters of ''Lou and Lou: Safety Patrol'', a series of shorts that aired on Playhouse Disney, had these. The male Lou character also wore gloves as part of his typical outfit. One of the times it was most notable was in "Don't Get the Flu," a special about cold/flu prevention in which three of the main characters were shown washing their hands.
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* Much like the [[ComicStrip/TheBoondocks comic strip]] it was based on, this is averted by ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. Part of this aversion may also be owed to its {{animesque}} art style.
* Most of the [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal]] Disney characters. And also many of the humans. But it's not always done consistently.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', for example, one can see five-fingered Aldrin Klordane and four-fingered Norton Nimnul in the same scene.
** It gets lampshaded in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''.
-->'''Scrooge:''' ''(when doing a high-''' four''')'' Give me four!
** Also lampshaded once in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', where one of the ways Bonkers can tell the MonsterOfTheWeek is not a "toon" is because he loses his four-fingered glove and Bonkers notices he has five fingers.
** Strangely averted in the Goofy cartoon "Baggage Buster", where he has five fingers. This was most likely due to Goofy being {{rotoscop|ing}}ed here.
** In Disney/RobinHood, Robin has four fingers, like most characters, but Prince John has five.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Mongul and Doomsday both have four fingers on each hand. Justified, as they are aliens.
* Likewise, most characters in Warner Brothers productions, such as ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''.
** Inverted in the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short ''WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's hands are given five fingers for one scene to properly mime a piano melody played on Elmer's head. Rabbits' front paws normally have four digits.
** The more (otherwise) realistic a four-fingered hand is, the creepier - note the hands of the (human) mailman at the beginning of WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck's ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery''.
* Lampshaded in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' -- while taking wild guesses at a secret signal, Brain attempts the [[Franchise/StarTrek Vulcan hand sign]] and visibly struggles with how to arrange his fingers.
-->'''Brain:''' Live long and... ''(shifts fingers)'' uh...
** Interestingly, in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Star Truck," Wakko, who also has four-fingered hands, does the sign with no problem!
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d ''ad nauseam'' on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
-->"Four-finger discount!"
** Particularly of note, whenever God appears on the show, he has five fingers.
** In one episode, Lisa tells Bart that in some magazine about the future they predicted that people would eventually have 5 fingers.
-->'''Bart:''' Five fingers? Ewwww! Freak show!
** And the norm for a perfectly-shaped baby is "Four toes on each foot, four fingers on each hand."
** In an ImagineSpot Homer had when his father and Marge's mother were dating:
-->'''Homer:''' If he marries your mother, Marge, we'll be brother and sister. And then our kids -- they'll be horrible freaks with pink skin, no overbites, and five fingers on each hand!
** Selma was seen to have five toes in "Bart the Fink", possibly due to an animation error.
** Worked around in one scene where Sideshow Bob is bench pressing weights. His KnuckleTattoos are highlighted, but "love" and "hate" are spelled out with only 3 letters as "LUV" and "HĀT".
** Homer's line "I've got five words for you: Greasy Joe's Bottomless Barbeque Pit!" He counts off the words on his fingers, and needs to move to his other hand for the last one.
** Similar to what happened to Bob the Builder and Fat Princess, this was half adverted when the show was marketed in Japan. Some VHS and Videogame boxarts gave characters five fingered hands.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' characters (the humans anyways) have four fingers. The show is created by the same people that make ''The Simpsons'', so it explains the similar character designs. Averted in the ''Bendy-Boo and the Mystery Crew'' segment from "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", where everyone has five.
* All the characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' have four fingers; however, their future selves in the MadeForTVMovie ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'' have five.
** It was lampshaded by Juandissimo once, where he (working as a masseuse) declared "My Eight Little friends and I have work to do".
** Very mildly {{averted|Trope}} in the NoDialogueEpisode "Pipe Down" when Timmy is trying to "charade" his wish. To show he means "for", he holds up his left hand and he does indeed have FIVE fingers; he folded his thumb so he could show four fingers for "for".
** Lampshaded again where the fairy personification of April Fools raises his hand during a stand up comedy, suddenly realizes he only has four fingers, and so uses magic to conjure up a fifth one.
** The characters in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' (a show from the creators of FOP) have five fingers, though that may be due to the series having a more "realistic" and "serious" element as opposed to ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]''. Again {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in a comic strip from a Nickelodeon magazine, when Timmy and his Fairy Godparents met Butch Hartman (the creator) and couldn't "give him five" as they had only four fingers per hand, but then Danny Phantom and his friends arrive and can easily do it, because they have five per hand.
* Characters in ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' have four-fingered hands, just like in FOP.
-->'''Kitty Katswell:''' I'd rather use my TEN CLAWS! ''(she holds up her hands, with only 8)''
* Averted with the [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation human characters]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', who all have five-fingered hands. Played straight, however, with the semi-anthropomorphic animals such as Porkchop and Stinky, who have four.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', though most Bikini Bottomites don't have fingers to start with. It can be {{justified|Trope}}, though, in that he's not human.
** They lampshaded this at least twice. Sometimes when [=SpongeBob=] counts on his fingers, he will ''grow each finger past four as he gets to it''.
** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, though explicitly human, have four-fingered hands -- despite having been shown with five fingers when they were younger.
** In the second movie, Spongebob normally have four fingers, but when he became the Invincibubble, he had five.
*** This applies to Squidward as well, Squidward don't have fingers, but as Sour Note, he had five.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins''; one of the characters states, "You're only five minutes older!" to his twin, holding up all his fingers on one hand, quickly holding up a finger on the other hand, because he's only got four fingers.
* Almost all of the animated characters in the ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' shorts have four fingers, except in certain instances of "Multiplication Rock", where the characters count on both hands.
** Noah and his son in "Elementary My Dear" (x2) have five fingers when demonstrating "Two times 10 is 20," but otherwise have four fingers.
** Everyone in "Ready Or Not, Here I Come" (x5) has five fingers, and they count off for hide and seek one finger at a time.
** "That prince over there" in "I Got Six" (x6) has five fingers, to show off that he has "six rings on every finger" (6x10=60).
** Of course the eponymous "Little Twelvetoes" has ''six'' fingers (and six toes) as the song is about multiplication by 12.
* All human characters on the ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' and ''Clifford's Puppy Days'' series.
* Also true of ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'', another production of Scholastic. The [=WordGirl=] character wears gloves, though only when shown as [=WordGirl=] and not her secret identity, Becky Botsford.
* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' have four fingers on each hand. Considering this is at least a semi-action show, and the rest of the bodies are drawn reasonably realistically, this is unusual.
** Especially in an episode where on characters says "the next match starts at five"- while holding up all FOUR fingers on his hand!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}''[='s=] characters were also drawn with four-fingered hands and otherwise-not-too-stylized bodies, clashing rather badly. Also, the show tackles teen issues realistically.
* Neosapiens in ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' had four fingers on each hand and four toes on each foot. This is a mild subversion, as the Neosapien hand is designed to have two thumbs on each hand, opposing the other two fingers like a capital letter C. All of the human characters on the show were portrayed with the normal five fingers.
* Spock has six fingers in a well-known artistic blooper from the "Yesteryear" episode of ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Actual exchange from ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'': "I'm lucky that I still have all 10 fingers!" "You have ''10''? Wow, you really are rich." Played straight, as Eddy is drawn with four fingers in every other scene. Still funny.
* A particularly baffling example from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'': Sonic and his siblings are drawn with five fingers, but Robotnik has only four. All characters in the [[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog other]] [[WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM two]] American Sonic cartoons all have four fingers though.
** This is a result of the show using the game design for Sonic (unlike previous cartoons, which used more simplified designs), and basing Manic and Sonia on it. Robotnik, instead, uses his [=SatAM=] design, which had four fingers like all characters in that show.
* Lloyd Nebulon (the ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' title character) also has just three fingers. {{Justified|Trope}}, seeing Lloyd is an alien.
* Lampshaded in "WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb's Musical Cliptastic Countdown". Doofenshmirtz says that after the commercial, they'll show the final four videos, while holding up all of his fingers on one hand but with his thumb lowered. He glances at his hand and realizes that since he has Four-Fingered Hands, he is only holding up three fingers, so he starts holding up his thumb as well.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', Chicken has four "[[FeatherFingers fingers]]" and Cow has three. Lampshaded when the Red guy tries to give them piano lessons.
* Everybody in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has four fingers. Strangely, despite the nature of the show, they've never lampshaded this (although "Petarded", "Friends of Peter G", and "Extra-Large Medium" reference high-fives).
** Occasionally in {{cutaway gag}}s and/or {{ArtShift}}s the characters have five fingers, such as the Disneyverse.
** Some [[NonStandardCharacterDesign non-standard characters]] also have five fingers, such as G.I. Joe, Hank Hill, KISS.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' lampshaded this trope in "Finger Lenting Good;" when Stan loses a finger, he remarks that he's down to seven. Oddly, moreover, on TBS airings, there are still censors over characters singularly elevating the finger next to their pinky, despite the fact that they technically don't have "middle fingers". This comes up in the same episode in fact, Francine flips off her family when asked which finger she's going to give up after they trick ''her'' into being the one to break her Lent promise first.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. Beast Boy is making a verbal list, punctuated by the number of fingers he holds up. He reaches his [[RuleOfThree third reason]], and realizes he now only has four digits. Shaking his hand brings back his missing finger.
* Helga Pataki of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' names her fists "Old Betsy" and "The Five Avengers" despite only having four fingers on each hand.
* Also lampshaded in the Finnish political satire-cum-GCI-animated comedy series ''The Autocrats'', where one character calls another out on using the term "wrapped around my little finger" because they only have four. Later, two characters are seen bowling, and one advises the other to use their little finger for support... which he doesn't have, of course.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' averts this trope... while simultaneously showing why most people do it. Those kids have absolutely huge, and completely disproportionate hands! If they had proportional hands it would be hard to fit that many fingers.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'', but subverted with the Manotaur.
* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin once mentioned in an interview that it saddened him somewhat that the claymation version of him on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' lacked a middle finger.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' uses the trope interestingly. In keeping with the general art style of the characters' source material, the more realistically drawn characters (Hero, Foxxy, Clara, and Xandir) have the proper number of digits, but the more "cartoony" ones (Toot and Wooldoor) have four. Toot is something of an unusual case in that although she has four fingers, she's often (though not always) drawn with five toes. This could be an animation goof, however.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Rhinox and Depth Charge were the most noticeable characters with this trait. Of course, they're not the only characters to have this in the Transformers Universe, some examples include:
** Numerous aliens, such as Aron and Slizzardo in ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1''.
** Grimlock, Scrapper, Waspinator, Warpath and Strika in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''
** Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Breakdown, Soundwave, [[FacelessMooks The Vehicons]], Skyquake and Dreadwing in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''
** In addition to Rhinox and Depth Charge; Cheetor also got four fingered hands in season three, keeping these for ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines''. Also in that series, Rattrap and Noble had them.
** All of the Rescue Bots in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', but all of the humans have five fingers.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben|10}}[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce 10]]'' [[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien franchise]], all human characters do in fact have 5 digits on each hand. However, the majority of aliens in the shows, including Ben's transformations, only have the four digits on each hand (one exception is the [[EnergyBeings Anodyte aliens]], which also have five digits per hand).
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'', the characters have four-fingered hands most of the time, but occasionally have five- and even six-fingered hands.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/WillAndDewitt''.
* Everyone from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has four fingers, but for some reason, one of the characters, Trent, wears a T-shirt with a five-fingered handprint on it. Also, ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'', which are also made by Fresh TV, use five fingered hands.
* Can be justified in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'' for the characters being aliens, and lampshaded in the school episode.
-->'''Teacher:''' How much is 5+5?\\
''(Candy is nervous)''\\
'''Random Girl:''' Use your fingers.\\
'''Candy:''' Hmmmm. EIGHT!
** This joke was later replicated in ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'', by the same creators. In this case, an [[FountainOfYouth age reduced]] Oggy and Bob tried to silently help out an also age reduced Jack in a school problem. Once the other students laughed at Jack's mistake, Oggy and Bob merely shrugged in confusion to each other.
* In ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib (and everyone else) has four fingers, and Zim has three (except for about 3 episodes where he has four, but that might be just an animation error), but then again all the irkens only have three fingers. This is used subtly with Tak, who has three fingers in both her Irken and Human forms.
* The cast of ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog''.
* The humans in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' constantly either have four or five fingers from scene to scene.
* Everyone from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has four fingers, but the Powerpuff Girls themselves have [[FingerlessHands none]]!
** When Buttercup wakes up in [[FreakyFridayFlip Professor Utonium's body]], she examines her hand with horror, which is now drawn with five fingers.
* Most of the Nicktoons made by Klasky Csupo Inc. mostly avert this trope, giving all the characters five fingers in each hand. ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' is somewhat an exception. While all the human characters have five fingers in each hand, most of the monsters (at least the least grotesque monsters) have four in each hand.
* Strangely, in ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'', most of the human characters have five fingers in each hand while the main character, Bobby himself, has only four in each hand.
* The Disney animated show ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' is an unusual case. The early seasons had the characters with four-fingered hands, but in later seasons, they acquired more ''realistic'' five-fingered hands.
* Henry and June from ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam!'' flip-flop from either having four fingers or five DependingOnTheArtist. There have been some instances where one of their hands has five and another has four.
* Averted in both ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and its SpiritualSuccessor (even if the latter was still running and the latter was not created by Klasky/Csupo) ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', where the characters have five fingers.
* All of the animal characters in ''ComicBook/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars'' have four fingers on each hand. Averted with Willy [=DuWitt=] and the rest of the humans, though.
* WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman normally has four fingers, but mysteriously gains a fifth so that he can count to five.
* Certain animated segments on ''Series/SesameStreet'' feature human characters with four-fingered hands.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' is an interesting case, seeing as most (humanoid) characters, including Finn, often have RubberHoseLimbs that appear as three barely discernible fingers that quickly change into four-fingered hands when close-ups are required. The only instance a character was drawn with 5 proper finger was with Marceline, whose right hand momentarily had an extra finger in "Evicted!" when she shows Finn and Jake the Nut Creatures, and in Heat Signature while putting ketchup on her first two fingers. Billy the hero is an interesting case as he's drawn with 6 fingers.
** This is parodied in the episode "Five More Short Graybles", where each of the five stories is apparently themed after one of the five fingers. But the storyteller reveals that the stories were actually themed after the five tastes (sweet, savory, sour, salty, and bitter), and says "No one's had five fingers in over [[EleventyZillion twenty-mabillion glables]]!"
** Many giant characters, such as Lemon John from "All Your Fault", have five fingers on each hand.
* [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks The Chipmunks]] (as well as the Chipettes) in their [[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow first]] [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks two]] animated appearances.\\
In the Chipmunks appearances, not only do the Chipmunks have four fingers but so does Dave and the other human characters. Averted with how he appears in the 80s/90.
* Characters in the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoons avert this trope, as they have five fingers. Played straight in cartoons from FamousStudios the 1950s, where the characters were streamlined and have four.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'' this is averted with most of the characters, who are drawn in a fairly realistic style. Geeker himself being an artificial human, combines this with NonstandardCharacterDesign. Lampshaded when the BigBad uses this trait to allow people to identify him. It's also a sore spot for Geeker, which he refers to as a "tragic deformity."
* ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'' had an unusual case when it did a {{Crossover}} with ''WesternAnimation/HandyManny''. The human characters on ''Oso'' normally have the correct number of fingers, but in the crossover episode, they had four-fingered hands. This was probably because the characters on ''Handy Manny'', including Manny, have four-fingered hands and it would have been weird to draw depict Manny with five.
* Ironically in ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi'' , a show about math, 2 of the main characters, [[spoiler:Milli and Geo]], have 4 fingers. Yes, they can magically grow a 5th finger, But [[spoiler:Bot]] has none!
** [[spoiler:Door Mouse]] has the proper 5 fingers.
* All the human characters on ''WesternAnimation/ToddWorld'' (a show that aired on Discovery Kids before it became Creator/TheHub) have these.
* Ranger Gord had these in the animated ''Ranger Gord's Educational Films'' on ''Series/TheRedGreenShow''.
* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has four fingered-hands, but in a crossover in the season 4 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', they are drawn with five fingers on each hand.
* Strangely zig-zagged without explanation in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', where some characters have four fingers on each hand, while others have five. This is particularly bizarre here as this show is usually very careful about even minor details, and the number of fingers on one's hand is a pivotal theme later in the series. Especially ironic considering that [[spoiler:the author of the journals is mocked and called a freak for having six fingers when most of the children have four.]]
** The creator of the show, Alex Hirsch, has said that the differing number of fingers is primarily visual, and that he wishes that all characters had been drawn with five fingers to distinguish the six fingers on the journals more.
* Lucy, the only human character seen on ''64 Zoo Lane'', and she is usually barefoot, so you can see that she has four toes on each foot as well.
* A lot of characters from ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' have these, including the eponymous character. This also does not exclude the ''human'' characters!
* The Oscar-nominated short ''Oktapodi'' shows both octopus protagonists as having six, rather than eight tentacles, even though the names of both the species and the film actually mean "eight feet" when translated.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' averts this for most human characters. However, the [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animals]] usually have 2-4 fingers on each hand.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' characters usually have clefts for fingers and a thumb, with fingers [[SuddenAnatomy only appearing when needed]]. When they do, they alternate between four and five.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' has most of its characters with the standard five-fingered hands. Jared and [[DistaffCounterpart Charise]] are intended to have only four fingers on each, but sometimes appear with the average amount due to artist oversight. Ash also has a reduced amount of digits due to the fact that his hands are horribly burnt and deformed.
* Title characters of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' usually have four fingers, while human characters normally have five. Strangely, during Ren's monologue in "Stimpy's Fan Club", he contemplates his "dirty" hands, which have five.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', the anthropomorphic [[FunnyAnimal animals]] and [[AnimateInanimateObject objects]] usually have four fingers on each hand. However, the human characters alternate between four and five fingers.
* Not many characters in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' actually have fingers.
** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Spike]] and other dragons have four fingers on their claws.
** [[ALoadOfBull Iron Will]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Lord Tirek]] and [[ADogNamedDog Ahuizotl]] have four fingers on each hand, despite [[AmbiguouslyHuman having many human features]].
** Really, any mythical creature with human traits have four-fingered hands, most likely drawn that way so they don't look [[NonStandardCharacterDesign too human]].
** [[MadGod Discord]] has four fingers on his lion paw (real lions have five toes on their front paw).
** In one episode, one of Pinkie's clones [[BodyHorror sprouted four small fingers out of her hoof]].
** Averted with the humanized versions of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''. Their hands actually have five fingers. [[spoiler:Then played straight when Sunset Shimmer and Snips and Snails transform into demons. Then they get four fingered claws. In this case, it's to emphasize that they really aren't human anymore.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', all characters have four fingers, even the [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure attractive women]].
* The characters in ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' inconsistently switch between four and five fingers.
* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'', where the titular character [[ItMakesSenseInContext high-fives his own detachable hand.]]
-->'''Jim''': Way to go, my five-fingered chum!\\
'''Peter''': Four-fingered Jim. What do you think you are, some kind of freak?
* Being a Japanese co-production, this is averted in ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' averts this as well by having just about everyone drawn with five fingers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', everyone has four fingers.
* On ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'', all the human characters in the real world have four fingers. In [=ChalkZone]=], it varies- some characters have four fingers, others three, and then some (including Snap) don't have any fingers at all- justified as they're all drawings.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Everyone has four fingers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', the human characters have four fingers. The non-human characters either have the same number, higher, or lower. Notably, in "Monster Arm", Star uses magic to turn ordinary items into living human hands, and they have five fingers.
* The characters of ''Lou and Lou: Safety Patrol'', a series of shorts that aired on Playhouse Disney, had these. The male Lou character also wore gloves as part of his typical outfit. One of the times it was most notable was in "Don't Get the Flu," a special about cold/flu prevention in which three of the main characters were shown washing their hands.
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