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--> Santa's Little Helper: I did things no dog should do, they will haunt me forever.
--> Bart: I love you too.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Mrs. Davis' pet cat Minerva and Mr. Boynton's pet frog Mcdougall occasionally take an interest in people's conversations. For example, in "The Magic Tree", Mrs. Davis' cat Minerva reacts furiously to Miss Brooks' recital of "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
--> '''Miss Brooks''': T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse . . . .
--> '''Minerva''': MEOW!
--> '''Miss Brooks''': Oops. Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, Minerva.

--> '''Miss Brooks''': Oops. Sorry. I didn't mean to upset you Minerva.

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Mrs. Davis' pet cat Minerva and Mr. Boynton's pet frog McDougall occasionally take a part in the conversation. For example, in "The Magic Tree", Mrs. Davis' cat Minerva takes exception to Miss Brooks recital of "A Visit From St. Nicholas"
--> '''Miss Brooks''': T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, when not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse . . . .

* Done to death in ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''.

* The Norwegian teen film, ''TurnMeOnDammit'' opens with a scene where the protagonist's dog watches her lying on the floor, enthusiastically [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] while listening to a phone sex operator.

* Snowy has demonstrated one of these in the trailer for the ''Film/TinTin'' film.

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-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''{{Pocahontas}}''

* Wrestling/TheBigBossMan and Wrestling/AlShow were put in a cage match surrounded by dogs in the Wrestling/{{W|orld Wrestling Federation}}WF. To make a long story short, we'll just say it was a bad idea and was never done again since.[[/folder]]

* In ''[[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'', Harry and Ron are flying a car to Hogwarts with Hedwig in the back seat. They all see a train about to crush them and react with alarm. Including Hedwig.

* Early in TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/EqualRites'', the goats watch a wizard go up the mountain. A little later, they look up again. There's nothing on the road, but they still watch it go up.

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'': When America goes {{Tsundere}} on England and turns him down, a whale [[FriendToAllLivingThings that USA has just befriended]] is all " =(" in the background.
* ''DrSlump'': A bear that grew up in the Zoo is so awe-struck by a natural mountainscape, he briefly undergoes an ArtShift.
* ''MobileSuitGundam'': A jungle python does this upon spotting Zeon mobile suits and promptly slithers away.

* Done to death in ''TheRoadToElDorado''.
* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'': Played straight with Pascal when Rapunzel figures out that the crown goes ''on her head'', apparently hinting that she is the lost princess. Pascal gapes and his mouth gets huge, then he closes his mouth and shakes his head in disapproval.

* ''{{Pocahontas}}'': When the language barrier is overcome by what looks like natural magic and Pocahontas "listening with her heart", the raccoon and the hummingbird both perform a JawDrop.

* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''

* Used a lot in ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy''.

* In ''TheLegendOfZorro'', Zorro manages to land his horse on top of a moving carriage train, only to notice that it's about to enter a tunnel. There's a shot of the horse's eyes widening.

* Every family film with a pet ever made.
* In ''GalaxyQuest'', there's the dog who gets confused when the limousine is beamed up into space.

* In ''TheHangover Part III'', Alan obtains a giraffe and is happily driving down the freeway, towing the giraffe on a cart behind him. His car approaches an overhead bridge - cue the giraffe flapping its ears back in panic.

* Mocked by Jon Stewart in [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115539&title=tom-selleck this interview]] on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', in which Tom Selleck insists its use in a serious scene in ''JesseStone: Death in Paradise'' is [[JustifiedTrope justified]].
* ''PushingDaisies'': Ned has a dream where his powers suddenly wear off and he and Chuck can touch each other. They start to tear each other's clothes off, and there's a shot of Ned's dog, Digby, holding his paw over his eyes.
* Buck the dog in ''MarriedWithChildren'' has many reaction shots, with snarky voice-over thoughts. This continues after he dies and is reincarnated, unbeknownst to the Bundys, as their "new" dog Lucky.
* Happens on ''{{Frasier}}'', with shots of Eddie.

* An episode of ''{{Spaced}}'' begins with the sound of the landlady's daughter Amber (in the flat upstairs) screaming abuse at her mother and storming out, making so much noise in the process that she wakes the whole house. We get close ups of each of the main characters waking up and saying "Amber" in various tones of voice. The sequence ends with a close up of Colin (the dog) waking up and making a noise that sounds very much like "Amber". The subtitle, however, simply says "Woof".
* Inverted on ''CSINewYork'', when the handler of a beagle at a dog show accuses Mac of having reduced his dog almost to tears with his intrusive murder investigation. Cut to the dog's face, which shows no discernable expression whatsoever, indicating that the handler's worries are entirely a delusion brought on by anthropomorphism.

* The [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080405.html Grammar Squirrel]] in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' commenting on a grammatical argument in the previous strip.

* Early in TerryPratchtett's ''Discworld/EqualRites'', the goats watch a wizard go up the mountain. A little later, they look up again. There's nothing on the road, but they still watch it go up.

* Snowy has demonstrated one of these in the trailer for the ''Film/TinTin'' film.

* In ''TheHangover Part III'', Alan obtains a giraffe and is happily driving down the freeway, towing the giraffe on a cart behind him. His car approaches an overhead bridge - cue the giraffe flapping its ears back in panic.

* ''DrSlump'': A bear that grew up in the Zoo takes in the awe of the mountain scape before him.

-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''{{Pocahontas}}''

* The JamesBond film ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' infamously used this trope during a chase scene with 007 riding a gondola, to which a bird does a DoubleTake at the passing vehicle.

* The Tom Hanks movie ''TheBurbs'' has one of these.
* Occurs with prairie dogs in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.

** Jack the monkey in gets several reaction shots. One particular shot, where the Jack smiles right as Barbosa explains why [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack They Named The Monkey Jack]], was actually a complete coincidence and a ThrowItIn.

* Used in the French movie ''{{Asterix}} & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre'' when Cleopatra announces her palace will be built in three months. Most of the people in the scene get a reaction shot and mutter "Three months?", including a cat who meows the word "month".

* Lamely done in a DanielleSteel TV Movie. As a villain attacks the heroine in the stables, the camera [[RapeDiscretionShot pans up and away]] to a horses, reacting with fear at what he's seeing.

Turning to an animal, wild or pet, for a reaction shot to a comedy moment. Sometimes included in a series of such shots from the humans in the room. Commonly used as a way to revitalize a dying joke.

* When a joke by Britta falls flat in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E22TheArtOfDiscourse The Art of Discourse]], the goat[[hottip:* :a rival school {{Mascot}} that Troy and Abed stole for Abed's WackyFratboyHijinx checklist]] gets a reaction shot.