History GenreSavvy / WesternAnimation

-->'''Bradley:''' Look at all of you, with your pretty clothes and perfectly coiffed hair. You all think you're better than me, don't you?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017:''
** In the season 2 premiere, Louie knows exactly how the family's latest adventure is going to turn out: first is the "Whoa!" (the hidden city or lost treasure or some other cool MacGuffin is theirs for the taking), then the "Wait, [[BigWhat WHAT]]?!" (the cool thing is dangerous or cursed or guarded by centaurs), and finally, the "AAAHHHHH!" (the family gets put in danger). Scrooge tries to tell him that not all their adventures are alike, only for Dewey to take the golden idol they were hunting (the "Whoa!") and the pedestal the idol was on to suddenly retract (the "Wait, WHAT?!"), forcing the family to perform an IndyEscape (the "AAAHHHHH!").
** In the episode "Last Christmas", Dewey travels back in time to meet his tween-age mother Della and uncle Donald. Towards the end of the episode, when the twins deduce that Dewey is a relative from the future, he immediately attempts to warn them that a reckless adventure will leave Della lost in space and presumed dead. Before he can get a word out, the twins physically shut his mouth and ask him if he's seen ''any'' movie about time travel.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has the episode "Last Christmas", where Dewey travels back in time to meet his tween-age mother Della and uncle Donald. Towards the end of the episode, when the twins deduce that Dewey is a relative from the future, he immediately attempts to warn them that a reckless adventure will leave Della lost in space and presumed dead. Before he can get a word out, the twins physically shut his mouth and ask him if he's seen ''any'' movie about time travel.

-->'''Beast Boy:''' Did you not see the movie?! When you split up, the monster picks you off one by one, starting with the good-looking [[PluckyComicRelief comic relief]]... me!

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
** In "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princess", Marco uses his knowledge of prison escape movies to help him and Star infiltrate St. Olga's to bust out Pony Head.
** In "Curse of the Blood Moon", Marco makes a long-winded speech about how obvious it is that the creature they've encountered is a bridge troll and how they'll have to do some silly task to get across the bridge in question, deducing that the group should skip all the nonsense and just have him and Star do it, since that'll be the solution anyway. Subverted in that while that ''is'' what the bridge troll wanted them to do, it ''isn't'' what the bridge troll's boss wanted. The intended challenge was a DuelToTheDeath, while the silly task (moving a couch) was the employee trying to shirk his chores. The head troll is so exasperated by this turn of events that he just lets Star and the gang pass, so he can properly reprimand his underling.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': In "St. Olga's Reform School for Wayward Princess", Marco uses his knowledge of prison escape movies to help him and Star infiltrate St. Olga's to bust out Pony Head.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In an episode where he's competing against rival Remy Buxaplenty in a scavenger hunt, Timmy races him to a Central American temple to retrieve a priceless treasure. Unfortunately, Remy beats him there and snatches the gems on the pedestal before Timmy can stop him. However, upon Remy's departure, Timmy notices something strange. In all the adventure and treasure hunt movies he's seen, every time the loot is taken, a bunch of [[BoobyTrap booby traps]] go off. As that didn't happen, he deduces the gems Remy took were {{Red Herring}}s to keep the real treasure safe. When he removes a cylinder from the pedestal, it descends, which Timmy figures means that he got the actual treasure, to his delight...[[ExplainExplainOhCrap until he realizes the traps are going off]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In an episode where he's competing against rival Remy Buxaplenty in a scavenger hunt, Timmy races him to a Central American temple to retrieve a priceless treasure. Unfortunately, Remy beats him there and snatches the gems on the pedestal before Timmy can stop him. However, upon Remy's departure, Timmy notices something strange. In all the adventure and treasure hunt movies he's seen, every time the loot is taken, a bunch of [[BoobyTrap booby traps]] go off. As that didn't happen, he deduces the gems Remy took were {{Red Herring}}s to keep the real treasure safe. When he removes a cylinder from a pedestal, it descends, which Timmy figures means that he got the actual treasure, to his delight...[[ExplainExplainOhCrap until he realizes the traps are going off]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In an episode where he's competing against rival Remy Buxaplenty in a scavenger hunt, Timmy races him to a Central American temple to retrieve a priceless treasure. Unfortunately, Remy beats him there and snatches the gems on the pedestal before Timmy can stop him. However, upon Remy's departure, Timmy notices something strange. In all the adventure and treasure hunt movies he's seen, every time the loot is taken, a bunch of [[BoobyTrap booby traps]] go off. As that didn't happen, he deduces the gems Remy took were red herrings to keep the real treasure safe. Upon removing a cylinder from the pedestal, the traps go off.

** This is parodied shortly after when Stimpy tells Ren [[ExactWords there is no dog]] only for Ren to be attacked by '''a killer, psychotic baboon'''.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has the episode "Last Christmas", where Dewey travels back in time to meet his tween-age mother Della and uncle Donald. Towards the end of the episode, when the twins deduce that Dewey is a relative from the future, he immediately attempts to warn them that a reckless adventure will leave Della lost in space and presumed dead. Before he can get a word out, the twins physically shut his mouth and ask him if he's seen ''any'' movie about time travel.

* ''WesterAnimation/Ducktales2017'' has the episode "Last Christmas", where Dewey travels back in time to meet his tween-age mother Della and uncle Donald. Towards the end of the episode, when the twins deduce that Dewey is a relative from the future, he immediately attempts to warn them that a reckless adventure will leave Della lost in space and presumed dead. Before he can get a word out, the twins physically shut his mouth and ask him if he's seen ''any'' movie about time travel.

* ''WesterAnimation/DuckTales2017'' has the episode "Last Christmas", where Dewey travels back in time to meet his tween-age mother Della and uncle Donald. Towards the end of the episode, when the twins deduce that Dewey is a relative from the future, he immediately attempts to warn them that a reckless adventure will leave Della lost in space and presumed dead. Before he can get a word out, the twins physically shut his mouth and ask him if he's seen ''any'' movie about time travel.

* Connie Maheswaran from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a deconstruction of this trope. Being a huge fantasy geek and avid reader of young adult novels, she's very aware that Steven, not her, is the main character of the story. However, knowing that she's a side character in somebody else's story led her to develop a rather unhealthy inferiority complex, and disregard for her own life. Fortunately, she does get better in later episodes, after Steven convinces her that she's his equal, not his inferior/subordinate.

** In "Legend of the Gobblewonker", Dipper brings seventeen disposable cameras along with him to search for the Gobblewonker, since he realizes how often camera problems ruin monster hunts in movies. Also, Soos worries that he might just be a "side character" and get killed off. Ironically for Dipper, ''all'' [[RunningGag of his cameras get destroyed before the monster shows up]].[[spoiler:..except the one he hid under his hat.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 134, the gang get fired from the show and need to take a job interview with Olaf to get re-hired [[spoiler: the whole of which turns out to be a "joke" on Olaf's part]]. Everyone is stressed except [[ButtMonkey Stumpy]], who points out that [[MediumAwareness they are in a comedy show]] and he's the funniest character they have, so he'll definitely be re-hired.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has # 21 and # 24 . In "The Lepidopterists", they are well aware that they posses the perfect combination of "expendable and invulnerable". They're sent off on a mission with # 1, and sayhis cool professionalism marks him for death, while [[ThoseTwoGuys their bumbling incompetence will see them through to the end]], like it always does. Later, they point out that # 1's lack of a name makes him a RedShirt, he reveals his name (Scott Hall), and they say it's just a device to make his impending [[MauveShirt death more emotional]]. Ultimately, he meets his fate when his impressive escape techniques draw the attention of Brock Sampson. [[spoiler:And then somehow survives to show up in another episode.]] # 21 and # 24 were pretending to be wax sculptures at the time. [[spoiler: Ironically, or at least in a cruel twist of fate, in the season 3 finale, 24 stands near the Monarch's car when it suddenly explodes. He's killed in the blast as 21 unintentionally catches his burning head. Why? Because he wore his seat belt and couldn't get away in time.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold:'' "The Pig War" has Arnold and his friends participate in a war reenactment where the teams try to capture Arnold's pet pig, Abner. When Abner's captured by the other team, they declare they will roast him at sundown. To get Abner back, the kids construct a giant wooden pig that they hide inside, a la the TrojanHorse, and deliver it to the opposing fort as a gift. The soldier in charge of the gate is well aware of the story and trick and tries to point it out to their leader, Rex Smythe Higgens. Higgens [[IDontPayYouToThink ignores him]] and orders him to open the gate. Once the Arnold and his friends all pop out to fight, the soldier glares at the leader and throws out his hands as if to say "[[IWarnedYou See? I told you so]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has # 21 and # 24 . In "The Lepidopterists", they are well aware that they posses the perfect combination of "expendable and invulnerable". Upon being sent off on a mission with # 1, they remark that his cool professionalism marks him for death, while their bumbling incompetence will see them through to the end. Later, when they point out that # 1's lack of a name makes him a RedShirt, he reveals his name, only to have it dismissed as a device to make his impending [[MauveShirt death more emotional]]. Ultimately, he meets his fate when his impressive escape techniques draw the attention of Brock Sampson. # 21 and # 24 were pretending to be wax sculptures at the time. [[spoiler: Ironically, or at least in a cruel twist of fate, in the season 3 finale, 24 stands near the Monarch's car when it suddenly explodes. He's killed in the blast as 21 unintentionally catches his burning head.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold:'' "The Pig War" has Arnold and his friends participate in a war reenactment where the teams try to capture Arnold's pet pig, Abner. When Abner's captured by the other team, they declare they will roast him at sundown. To get Abner back, the kids construct a giant wooden pig that they hide inside, a la the TrojanHorse, and deliver it to the opposing fort as a gift. The soldier in charge of the gate is well aware of the story and trick and tries to point it out to their leader, Rip Smythe Higgens. Higgens [[IDontPayYouToThink ignores him]] and orders him to open the gate. Once the Arnold and his friends all pop out to fight, the soldier glares at the leader and throws out his hands as if to say "[[IWarnedYou See? I told you so]]."

* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold:'' "The Pig War" has Arnold and his friends participate in a war reenactment where the teams try to capture a pig. Arnold's pet Abner is the pig and when he's captured by the other team, they declare they will roast him at sundown. To get Abner back, the kids construct a giant wooden pig that they hide inside, a la the TrojanHorse, and deliver it to the opposing fort as a gift. The kid in charge of the gate is well aware of the story and trick and tries to point it out to their leader. The leader [[IDontPayYouToThink ignores him]] and orders him to open the gate. Once the kids all pop out to fight, the kid glares at the leader and throws out his hands as if to say "See? I told you so."

* The title character from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' was pretty GenreSavvy himself. Lampshaded quite often, given the series.

** Kim, Ron, Shego, and Senor Senior Jr. are of the most GenreSavvy. This however doesn't prevent them from falling victim to GenreTropes (or that they fall into the tropes as part of a fourth-wall bending realisation that they have to do so to have a story), but does make for some great LampshadeHanging afterwards.

* Roger from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' is pretty Genre Savvy. In one early episode he joins a car dealership: