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* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', when [[spoiler: Morty is forced to kill Fart]], Fart gives him this.
-->'''Fart:''' Morty, why?! WHY?

** In "Bad Influencer", one of Itchaboi's videos shows him tossing and turning in bed, followed by an ExtremeCloseUp of him with bloodshot eyes as he yells, "WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!"
** In "Impopstar", Keys yells, "Whyyyyy?!", coupled with SkywardScream, when he finds what he believes is Zillon Brax beheaded, but is really a mannequin in his likeness.
** In "Dirt Jar", in the first flashback when Bill tells the kids they're moving to Big City, Cricket screams multiple Big Whys rapid-fire as he and Tilly bawl over the news.
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. In "A Couple of Skatin' Fools", to take Chicken and Earl out of the figure skating competition, Red Guy fractures Earl's knee by tapping it with a galvanized steel smoking pipe. Afterwards, Earl continually screams, '''''"WHYYYY?!! WHYYYYY?!!"''''', even as he's rushed to the hospital.

* One ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' cutaway has Peter tumbling down a cliff, plants and jagged rocks ripping at his clothes, until [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext he crashes naked and bruised through the roof of a house to land on a poor Mexican family's dinner table]]. The father asks "What is this?" in subtitled Spanish, to which his wife replies, "[[NonSequitur It is the answer to my prayers.]]" The father cries "''Por qué?''"
* Whenever Bugs Bunny tries to break up with {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lola Bunny from ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', she turns on the OcularGushers and bawls "Whyyy?" not so much asking for an explanation as to shame Bugs into recanting. Which always works.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', season 4, "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", Rigby shouts this three times when four geese ruin a sandwich he, Mordecai, and Pops were about to eat by knocking it to the ground and kicking dust on it and when the geese surround him and beat him up.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E3Volcano Volcano]]", when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, Creator/PatrickDuffy lets out a BigNo and exclaims, "Why, God, why?!"

** In "Ripped Pants" when [=SpongeBob=] appears to have drowned [[spoiler:but is just setting up another ripped pants joke]], the lifeguard does a particularly hilarious one.
** In "Boating School", Mrs. Puff responds to [=SpongeBob=] crashing during the driving test with "Oh, [=SpongeBob=]! Why?" She says it in a deeper voice because she has inflated like a deployed airbag.
** In "Missing Identity", [=SpongeBob=] mourns the loss of his nametag this way. Or rather, he does it by shouting out "'''''[[GratuitousFrench PORQUOI?!]]'''''"
* Spike does this in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]". Also, being an over-reactive DramaQueen that she is, Rarity in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" when she lost her ribbon can be this.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Steve shouts a mournful one whenever attacked by a vindictive crow in one episode:
-->'''Steve:''' Why, crow? Why?
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Spaceman Sonic" gives us this [[MemeticMutation infamous]] quote from [[EvilIsHammy Dr. Robotnik]] as he yells at his minions.
--> '''Robotnik:''' WHY is my precious rocket ship drifting off into deep space?! WHY am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!"
* When Professor Farnsworth discovers that his experimental monkey Gunther has escaped in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E11MarsUniversity Mars University]]", he shouts "Why? WHY? Why didn't I break his legs?!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''/''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' crossover episode "Say Uncle", Amethyst trips over a letter "Y" [[ItMakesSenseInContext (part of the words "RUN AWAY")]] and [[VisualPun screams "WHY?????" into the sky]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "I Was a Penguin Zombie", Kowalski, Private, and Rico are mourning for Skipper, mistakenly believing he died of an infection, and Rico coughs up a picture of Skipper and screams "Why? WHY?! '''[[RuleOfThree WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!]]'''"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
** In "The Secret", Gumball lets one out when Darwin informs him the only way to get out of a locked bathroom is [[ToiletTeleportation going down the toilet]].
** In "The Flower", this is Leslie's (the titular flower) reaction to Gumball's GreenEyedMonster SuperPoweredEvilSide [[FedToTheBeast covering him in slugs in the hopes of them]] [[EatenAlive eating him alive]].
** In "The Origins", Nicole does this in response to her alarm clock going off, which turns out to be Gumball imitating it, alongside Richard's yelling.
** In "The Ex", Tobias lets one out when he triggers a bomb that Gumball mistakenly planted in his house and gets sent flying.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "Mung on the Rocks", an unsatisfied customer claims that he ordered a Super Happy Cake, but the cake is clearly depressed and lets out one of these.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': "What Have You Done?" ends with Finn [[BadBadActing "dying"]], causing Ice King to scream "WHY?!" at the top of his lungs, and his anguished howls reach all the way to the Candy Kingdom, curing the Candy People of their Freezer Burn Flu. After Finn feels hurt by how Ice King just dropped him after crying out in pain, Jake says he'd hold onto Finn for an eternity if he ever died, and carries Finn back home in his arms while [[ParodiedTrope yelling "WHY?!" and laughing]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E20 The Lil' Patscals]]", when [[ShootTheTelevision GrandPat burns Patrick's TV]], he shouts, "[=GrandPat=], WHY!?" as a dramatic music sting plays.
* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': In the musical number "Happy Day in Hell", Charlie goes around singing about how everything is wonderful, but hell's reality occasionally interferes with even her pollyannaism:
--> ''...To the Cannibal Town, where they don't wear a frown, 'cause--''
--> ''Holy shit, oh my gosh, WHYYY?!''

* ''FIlm/TheMermaid'': When Liu Xuan escapes from the merfolk - including a vengeful mer-octopus who wants to ''strangle'' him via tentacles - and seeks the police for help. The police doesn't buy it ([[CassandraTruth obviously]]) leading to Liu letting out a "WHY?!!!" (Being a Hong Kong movie, it's one of the few lines in English).

-->'''Coop:''' ''(sobbing'' WHY?!?! '''''WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!!!?!!'''''