History Main / AnimalReactionShot

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'': When America goes {{Tsundere}} on England and turns him down, a whale [[FriendToAllLivingThings that USA has just befriended]] is all " =(" in the background.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Season 5, Episode 9 ("Slice of Life") features a scene of Gummy (Pinky Pie's pet crocodilian, who is portrayed as relatively sapient to the mane cast of equines in the series as crocodilians are relative to humans) waxing philosophical with his inner voice as he watches the Ponyville denizens scrambling to make it to Cranky and Matilda's wedding. The monologue is juxtaposed with the same blank, eye-licking expression Gummy customarily displays, making it a particularly humorous and memorable example.

** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' infamously used this trope during a chase scene with 007 riding a gondola-hovercraft through the Piazza de San Marco, which is greeted by reaction shots from bystanders, including a dog and a pigeon that does a DoubleTake...[[SpecialEffectsFailure poorly]].

** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' infamously used this trope during a chase scene with 007 riding a gondola-hovercraft, to which a Venetian pigeon does a DoubleTake at the passing vehicle.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Season 5, Episode 9 (Slice of Life) features a scene of Gummy (Pinky Pie's pet crocodilian, who is portrayed as relatively sapient to the mane cast of equines in the series as crocodilians are relative to humans) waxing philosophical with his inner voice as he watches the Ponyville denizens scrambling to make it to Cranky and Matilda's wedding. The monologue is juxtaposed with the same blank, eye-licking expression Gummy customarily displays, making it a particularly humorous and memorable example.

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

* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'':

* ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'':

* Early in Creator/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.

* ''Series/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"

* An episode of ''Series/{{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 ''Series/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.

* Lamely done in a Creator/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.

* Used in the French movie ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'' 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 whose meow sounds close to the word "month".

* Happens on ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', with shots of Eddie.

* Done in [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080118 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip. Particularly notable in that Kiki is normally TooDumbToLive, so when she says, "I'm just a ferret, and even ''I'' know this is going to end badly" ... ''that's'' saying something.

* Used in the French movie ''ComicBook/{{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".

* The famous viral video of a dramatic pan-in to a prairie dog, in reaction to nothing in particular. Parodied countless times, such as in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland''.

* Done to death in ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', but special mention to TheReveal of the titular city -- Tulio, Miguel, ''and the horse'' all gasp and whisper "El Dorado!" simultaneously.

** 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.

** ''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.

* In the ''Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs'' special "Sea Monsters", there's a scene where one of the titular monsters capsizes Nigel Marvin's boat. Immediately afterward, a ''Pteranodon'' that had taken up residence on his boat is seen shrieking in panic.

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* ''SeitokaiYakuindomo'': Shino and Aria are fond of making double entendres, which are typically reacted to with disapproval by Tsuda and Suzu. But when they are on a class trip without their straight men, they notice that it feels awkward with no one to respond. Until they feed a deer and compliment its "tongue technique", whereupon all the other deer look at them with a SweatDrop.

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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.
** The "subtitled animal noise" variant often appears in the show itself, particularly in the twelfth season.

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* The ending scene in ''The Backup Plan''.
* The Tom Hanks movie ''Film/TheBurbs'' has one of these.

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

* Used a lot in ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy''.

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-->'''Miss Brooks''': 'Twas 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.

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

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* Parodied on ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' with the "dramatic chipmunk".

* ''SeitokaiYakuindomo'': Shino and Aria are fond of making double entendres, which are typically reacted to with disapproval by Tsuda and Suzu. But when they are on a class trip without their straight men, they notice that it feels awkward with no one to respond. Until they feed s deer and compliment its "tongue technique", whereupon all the other deer look at them with a SweatDrop.

* SeitokaiYakuindomo: Shino and Aria are fond of making double entendres, which are typically reacted to with disapproval by Tsuda and Suzu. But when they are on a class trip without their straight men, they notice that it feels awkward with no one to respond. Until they feed s deer and compliment its "tongue technique", whereupon all the other deer look at them with a SweatDrop.

* An unplanned one occurred in one episode of ''Series/MythBusters''. As Jamie and Adam got ready for a small-scale test of the "Antacid Jail Break" myth, Jamie's dog Zero can be seen coming down the stairs to the shop, then suddenly stopping. Immediately after that, the glass box they were using for the test shattered. (Post-production and TheNarrator immediately pointed out Zero's apparent GenreSavvy.)

** The donkey in the first movie gets one. In the Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}, Kevin [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it: