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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E15Frightningale Frightningale]], pop singer Clara Nightingale talks like this. Then she gets akumatized into the titular villain Frightningale and enforces the trope on everybody else in Paris, on the penalty of being TakenForGranite if they fail to rhyme.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', there are the employees of "Flappy Bob's Happy Peppy Camp and Learn-a-torium", Happy Peppy Betty and Gary. They not only rhyme almost all their sentences, they also sing them, and tend to complete each other's sentences!
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* Mo and Bo from ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'' speak in this manner.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Jake has a habit of doing this. And sometimes makes Finn do it as well.
--->"Promise me you'll speak in rhymes. Speak in rhymes all the times."
** Choose Goose, a minor character, only speaks in rhymes. In "Finn the Human" his AlternateUniverse counterpart, Choose Bruce, does so as well.
* Concrete mutant Vinnie The Mass from ''[[WesternAnimation/AlphaTeensOnMachines A.T.O.M.]]'' speaks mostly in rhyme.
* "Rhyme for Your Life," an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', sees Binky trying to write a Mother's Day poem for his mom. After struggling to come up with anything, he dozes off and has an extended DreamSequence about "Verseburg," a land where it's a crime not to speak in rhyme (in a bit of GeniusBonus, poor William Carlos Williams, a famous American free verse poet, shows up as a prisoner for refusing to follow the rules). After a lengthy adventure, Binky wakes up, and by the next day he's able to come up with a beautiful poem for his mother on the spot. [[BlessedWithSuck Unfortunately, though,]] he's now so good that he can't ''stop'' speaking in rhyme--at least until he comes across [[LeastRhymableWord Arthur's name]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Haiku battle start! / Sokka tries so valiantly / But his counting's off.
** Pathetic Sokka / it's for this very purpose / contractions were made.
** Poor foolish Sokka / An unnecessary word: / "Ladies, I rock ya!"
* Rollerbear in the ''Bitsy Bears'' pilot cartoon. She even wears headphones and rollerskates.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Boundin}}'', in which the whole story is narrated as a rhyming poem.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "I Got Needs" featured a trio of Vikings who spoke in rhyme.
* ''Franchise/CareBears''
** The Cheshire Cat from the [[WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland Care Bears]] version of Literature/AliceInWonderland, who gives the titular characters advice by rapping.
** Princess Starglo from ''[[Franchise/CareBears Share Bear Shines]]'' mostly does this in a rhyming slang kind of way ("Toodles, poodles!"), but uses it in her normal conversation quite a bit, too.
* The title character of the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Freaky Fred" does this, remarkable because he's the villain ''and'' the episode is told from ''his'' point of view. His rhymes follow an AAAB scheme, with B always (with one exception) ending with [[CatchPhrase "NAAUUUUUGHTYYY…"]]
* In his host segments on ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'', Jiminy Cricket will sometimes do this.
* A few one-off Disney cartoons are spoken in rhyme, including:
** ''WesternAnimation/LambertTheSheepishLion''
** ''WesternAnimation/CaseyBatsAgain'' (the follow-up to "Casey at the Bat" from ''Make Mine Music'', mentioned above)
** ''WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs1954''
** ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology'' has Professor Owl speaking this way.
** The narrator of the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''The Litterbug'' speaks in rhyme.
** Most of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'' shorts, mainly Practical Pig, speak in rhyme.
* The ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', has Danny ticking off a spirit known as the [[PunnyName Ghost Writer]] who has RealityWarper powers--anything he writes about comes true--by unintentionally destroying the Christmas poem he had been writing. Said ghost responds by forcing Danny and his friends to live his replacement poem until he learns his lesson. As a side effect, everyone suddenly starts talking in constant rhymes, but only Danny notices. When the Ghost Writer is defeated, Danny continues to do this out of habit, leading his friends to ask why he's speaking in rhymes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDogAndPonyShow'': In one episode, when Dog and Pony become building superintendents, the magic Pony kept using on the building ultimately accumulated into bringing the building to life. When brought to life, it spoke in rhyme.
* Marimonda the plant-controlling wood sprite from the ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' episode "Realm of the Jaquins''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', there are the employees of "Flappy Bob's Happy Peppy Camp and Learn-a-torium", Happy Peppy Betty and Gary. They not only rhyme almost all their sentences, they also sing them, and tend to complete each other's sentences!
-->'''Betty:''' And, umm... Gary! I'm all out of rhimy-whimies!\\
'''Gary:''' ''That'' was a rhimy-whimy!
** Subverted by the Gigglepies, who ''start out'' talking like this, until Timmy asks what they do once they've extracted all the resources from a planet:
--->'''[[KillerRabbit Overlord Glee:]]''' [[SugarApocalypse We blow it up]] and move on to the next one! '''''[[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment Isn't that cute?]]'''''\\
'''Timmy:''' No! It's terrible! (''{{beat}}'') And it didn't rhyme!\\
'''Overlord Glee''': He's on to us! '''''[[SeizeThem Get him!]]'''''
* In the Hungarian dub, WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones do this constantly.
* Uncle Pockets, from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
* Hermes from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a modular catchphrase - "Sweet X of Y!" - that's always spoken in rhyme. e.g. "Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!"
** It's notably {{subverted|Catchphrase}} when a depressed Hermes is unable to come up with a rhyme, and simply says "Sweet something of…someplace."
** In the episode "Sly and the Slurm Factory," the Grunka-Lunkas (Oompa-Loompa Expies) try to do this, but their rhymes are less than impressive. "Grunka-Lunka-Dunkity-Dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient! Grunka-Lunka-Dunkity-Darmed guards…"
--->'''Bender''': [[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!!!]]
* Haggle, a supporting character in ''WesternAnimation/TheGaryColemanShow''.
* Roadblock from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' talks like this sometimes (but sometimes it's just JiveTurkey).
* Wordsworth, a side character from ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats''.
* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' - Brendon makes a video PSA to keep kids from putting marbles in their noses, but his puppet Spiky [=McMarbles=], with his rhyming speech and his snarky attitude, makes kids ''want'' to put marbles in their noses.
* Music/MarcBolan in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfRock'' does this. The other housemates evict him.
* Spring-Heeled Jack in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures,'' who speaks in nothing but rhyming couplets. Amazingly, even after being split into his good and evil sides by the Tiger Talisman, he ''still'' pulls it off.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' spoofing ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' rhymes the whole time...except when Johnny comments that "this rhyming stuff really hurts my tongue."
** A ChristmasEpisode narrated by Creator/AdamWest is done in the style of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
* Fred from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBunch'' does this, being a singer and all.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'', the Triforce of Wisdom was a sentient object, and would occasionally dispense advice and prophecies in cryptic rhymes.
* Nedley on ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast''
* Bob from ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy''. To a lesser extent, Yuzu, whose appearance in an episode usually includes coming up with a new rhyming catchphrase for his and Nonki's fix-it shop.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** Zecora the zebra:
*** Particularly impressive in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]", where she sets herself up to make a rhyme with "tooth" before she sees that Apple Bloom chipped her tooth (From Apple Bloom's posture, it was an easy guess). Even her description in the app rhymes: 'Zecora is a zebra, wise beyond her years. People seek her out and help allay their fears.'
*** There was a gag in the main ''MLP'' comic #9 where she noted (in rhyme, naturally) that she needed a moment to think up a rhyme for her next comment.
*** Zecora's ability to rhyme her lines is so iconic, when [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation she lost it to Swamp Fever]] her friends [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness rushed for the tonic]].
** Not as frequently as Zecora, but Pinkie Pie still likes to rhyme a lot... especially when she's singing.
** Discord. Not as often as Zecora, mind you, but loves handing out torturous riddles. He normally sounds far more menacing while doing so as well.
** Iron Will's inspirational {{Catch Phrase}}s. To name a few:
--->'''Iron Will:''' When somepony tries to block, show them that '''YOU ROCK'''!\\
'''Iron Will:''' Never apologize when you can criticize!
** Twilight briefly rhymes like Zecora in "Secret of My Excess" after she tells him about Spike's greed-induced growth:
--->'''Twilight:''' You mean, the more things a dragon collects, the bigger and greedier he gets?
** Twilight does it again in "The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2" when in a BadFuture where Nightmare Moon has unleashed eternal night over Equestria:
--->'''Twilight:''' I have to get back to the map so I can stop Starlight from changing the past, because every present I come to is worse than the last!
** Also exchanged between Twilight and Rainbow in "All Bottled Up" once they manage to find the key in the escape room:
--->'''Twilight:''' This is it! I'm so impressed!\\
'''Rainbow:''' I'm not, I knew we were the best!
* Stickety Lipid, a one-time villain in the ''Film/OsmosisJones'' cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' dressed and acted like a stereotypical beatnik; he claimed his crimes against Hector (the boy the cells lived in) were [[TrueArtIsAngsty performance art]], and spoke in Beat-style rhymes while accompanying himself on bongos. As with other examples, his rhyming rubbed off on Drix.
* [[spoiler:The Collector]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' was introduced speaking in rhyme in their first appearance. They kept this up until they couldn't find a word that rhymed with "Unity", and decided to just drop the rhyming entirely.
* This exchange in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "One Good Turn" as the kids decide what they want to do today:
--->'''Ferb:''' I'm filled with remorse/ That we haven't, of course / Even thought of building an obstacle course.\\
'''Phineas:''' Then let's build one and make it our new tour de force!\\
'''Ferb:''' That is a plan I can clearly endorse.\\
'''Phineas:''' Of course!\\
'''Baljeet:''' Of course!\\
'''Phineas:''' Of course!\\
'''Buford:''' Of course! [[LampshadeHanging I'm puttin' an end to this before it breaks into song!]] [[OnceAnEpisode Where's Perry?]]
* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' color double-reel short ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp'' has Olive Oyl, portraying a screenwriter at a movie studio, speak like this.
-->'''Olive Oyl''': Gosh, but this story of mine should be great!\\
I really don't know how the people can wait!\\
I have to decide who the actors'll be.\\
I think I'll make the heroine me.\\
The hero, Aladdin, is handsome and smart.\\
Why, Popeye the Sailor is great for the part!
** The Royal Vizier also briefly speaks like this.
* The entirety of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Dream Scheme" is all done in rhyme, even with Bubbles using the "anyone want a peanut" gag.
* Toby exhibits this trait in "Callie's Cowgirl Twirl" from ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'' as he prepares to call for a square dance, much to Peck's chagrin. Even more so for Peck once he briefly starts doing it himself.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', the kids attend a safety course with a cop named Officer Dan. The officer uses short, memorable rhymes to help his lessons stick (e.g. "Don't pet a dog that's strange to you. That could be a dangerous thing to do." Later, when Chuckie starts following his example, he tries to rhyme as well, but can't quite remember the right phrases ("Or you might get something on your shoe").
** The [[NightmareFuel horrific]] doll "Mr. Friend", a toy version of a MonsterClown that Stu invents, spouts out rhymes non-stop: "OH BOY, A BRAND NEW FRIEND TO PLAY! WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A HAPPY DAY!" Some of the rhymes are rather lousy--"Do your homework, study hard, and don't eat food that's cooked in lard!"--prompting Stu to promise to hire a writer.
* While his isn't usually an example, the Green Goblin of the ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' does this in "Opening Night". Not only is it lampshaded, but it's also partially justified: several of his lines are quotes from Shakespeare's verse. It also acts as a clue to the Goblin's identity: Harry Osborn, the prime suspect behind the mask, was supposed to be playing Puck in a school play, and all of the Shakespeare lines are Puck quotes. [[spoiler: Turned out to be a RedHerring, but nice touch…]]
* "Bad Rap", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', is spoken entirely in rhyme, as it's about "Rap Land" being taken over by King Koopa, and the heroes' attempts to stop him. Granted, it's not exactly ''good'' rhyme ("We're the Flab Boys! Hi-dee-ho! This Koopa dude's got to go!"), but it's a solid effort.
* Most of the characters especially Dudley Pig from the animated ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptKeeper'' episode "The Third Pig", the wolf has a hard time coming up with them and [[BreakingTheFourthWall yells at the Cryptkeeper when he tells him to do so]].
* The wicked sorcerer Zig Zag from ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' rhymes whenever he speaks, often rather elaborately. He actually manages to be both amusing and menacing in this way. For example, when he said "One mistake will suffice! Don't treat me lightly ''twice!''" after taming the alligators he had been thrown to by the ungrateful BigBad One Eye.
** Lampshaded in the infamous [[{{Macekre}} Miramax cut]] when the thief, overhearing one of Zig Zag's private rants, comments to himself, "It must be tough to always speak in rhyme."
* Several locomotives actually started to speak in rhyme at times in the more recent episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. It is getting mercifully downplayed however.
** ''WesternAnimation/ThomasandFriendsAllEnginesGo'' also had some moments where some of the characters spoke in rhyme, but it wasn't frequent compared to seasons 13-16 of the original series.
* The female flight attendant who is always heard speaking in ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'' as Toot / Toot & Puddle's plane travels to another country always speaks in rhyme. A typical example: "As we land in Majorca, we hope it's been a good trip. To enjoy our island, we offer this tip. Take a stroll down our streets to the edge of the sea, try the apples and oranges, they're delicious, you'll agree."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', most of the time, the [[TheScrappy unpopular character]] Wheelie always speaks in rhyme! The [[Website/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie_(G1) had quite]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie_(SG) a bit]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie_(Animated) of fun]], and [[SelfDemonstratingArticle made all the lines on his page rhyme]] (every single one)!
** Mercifully, he stops doing this in ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' and in several other continuities, such as Dreamwave Comics.
*** Until his return in IDW's spotlight series, which actually made Wheelie's rhyming cool by making it the only way that he can [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_(episode) communicate with a marooned alien with a strange speech pattern]]
** Blaster has a habit of this too.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the title character speaks entirely in rhymed couplets, albeit not always with much attention to meter. As Shoe Shine Boy, he speaks normally.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' had an episode where Andy was dared to speak in rhyme for an entire day. He mastered it pretty well, up until he was challenged to rhyme the word [[LeastRhymableWord 'orange']]. [[spoiler:Which he succeeded; it rhymes with 'door hinge'.]]
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' featured the Hopping Dipple-Dop, a character who only spoke in rhymes.
* Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', who justifies it, saying:
-->If I spoke prose, you'd soon find out\\
I don't know what I talk about!
** He's also capable of rhyming whatever the Beatles say, even if doesn't follow iambic pentameter precisely:
--->'''Paul:''' (''pointing to the Boob'') Hey, fellas. Look.\\
'''Boob:''' (''writing on a notepad with a pen between his toes'') The footnotes for my nineteenth book.\\
This is my standard procedure for doing it.\\
And while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it!\\
'''George:''' A boob for all seasons.\\
'''Paul:''' How can he lose?\\
'''John:''' Were your notices good?\\
'''Boob:''' It's my policy never to read my reviews.
* WesternAnimation/YogiBear does this often too.
* Groove on ''WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats''; everything he says is either a rhyming couplet, or rhymes with the last sentence someone else said.
* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse must contend with Penfold as a rhyming superhero after he swallows a vitamin pill that turns him into the Blue Flash.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowMurraySavedChristmas'': Being a Christmas story is told mostly in rhyme. However near the end, Murray and Edison are stopped by a police officer on their way home who ask if he has his "poetic license". When Murry reveals he doesn't have one, the officer tells him to stop rhyming before complaining that he has trouble having to keep doing it daily while on the job.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Exchanged between [=SpongeBob=] and Mr. Krabs in "Born Again Krabs":
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' But it's old, and cold, and so very full of mold!\\
'''Mr. Krabs:''' You're not to make another patty until that one is SOLD!
** Done in the short episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs the Patty Gadget" in Season 5, in which majority of the dialogue are in rhymes.
* Jack The villainous Jack-in-the-box from the Creator/HannaBarbera series Timeless Tales episode "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", voiced by ''Creator/TimCurry''.
* Pretty Bit, one of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popples}}'' does this.
* In his role as Giggler in the Super Cluepers on ''Literature/{{Franklin}} and Friends'', Rabbit has a tendency to recap where things are at in the mystery-solving in rhymes.
* In the Australian animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheSilverBrumby'', Mopoke the owl is an advisor to main stallion Thowra, but he always gives advice (and basically speaks) in only rhymes.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E15Frightningale Frightningale]], pop singer Clara Nightingale talks like this. Then she gets akumatized into the titular villain Frightningale and enforces the trope on everybody else in Paris, on the penalty of being TakenForGranite if they fail to rhyme.
** In "Timetagger", the titular villain speaks mostly in rap.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' have a TrappedInTVLand episode where the Titans are dragged into the world of television, into a variety of different channels. Starfire notably ends up in a Dr. Seuss parody where every moment of dialogue rhymes by default.
-->'''Pelican:''' Oh, have you seen my hippo? He hides and I must seek.\\
'''Starfire:''' I cannot play. Please, do you know a strange man named Control Freak?
* In "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" from ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', the Beat Bugs and other bugs in the backyard village are all hit with a "rhyming curse" which makes it so that they can only speak in rhyme.
* The 1993 Creator/HannaBarbera ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/TheTownSantaForgot'' has all the dialogue entirely spoken in rhyme. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that it's adapted from the Christmas poem "Jeremy Creek" by Charmaine Severson.
* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': A lot of rhymes are made in "I Am Mark Twain." For example, "We didn't notice the fence got done/We were having too much fun!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Gargamel in the intro.
-->'''Gargamel:''' "Ravage the land as never before. Total destruction from mountain to shore!"
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* Mo and Bo from ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'' speak in this manner.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Jake has a habit of doing this. And sometimes makes Finn do it as well.
--->"Promise me you'll speak in rhymes. Speak in rhymes all the times."
** Choose Goose, a minor character, only speaks in rhymes. In "Finn the Human" his AlternateUniverse counterpart, Choose Bruce, does so as well.
* Concrete mutant Vinnie The Mass from ''[[WesternAnimation/AlphaTeensOnMachines A.T.O.M.]]'' speaks mostly in rhyme.
* "Rhyme for Your Life," an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', sees Binky trying to write a Mother's Day poem for his mom. After struggling to come up with anything, he dozes off and has an extended DreamSequence about "Verseburg," a land where it's a crime not to speak in rhyme (in a bit of GeniusBonus, poor William Carlos Williams, a famous American free verse poet, shows up as a prisoner for refusing to follow the rules). After a lengthy adventure, Binky wakes up, and by the next day he's able to come up with a beautiful poem for his mother on the spot. [[BlessedWithSuck Unfortunately, though,]] he's now so good that he can't ''stop'' speaking in rhyme--at least until he comes across [[LeastRhymableWord Arthur's name]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Haiku battle start! / Sokka tries so valiantly / But his counting's off.
** Pathetic Sokka / it's for this very purpose / contractions were made.
** Poor foolish Sokka / An unnecessary word: / "Ladies, I rock ya!"
* Rollerbear in the ''Bitsy Bears'' pilot cartoon. She even wears headphones and rollerskates.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Boundin}}'', in which the whole story is narrated as a rhyming poem.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "I Got Needs" featured a trio of Vikings who spoke in rhyme.
* ''Franchise/CareBears''
** The Cheshire Cat from the [[WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland Care Bears]] version of Literature/AliceInWonderland, who gives the titular characters advice by rapping.
** Princess Starglo from ''[[Franchise/CareBears Share Bear Shines]]'' mostly does this in a rhyming slang kind of way ("Toodles, poodles!"), but uses it in her normal conversation quite a bit, too.
* The title character of the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Freaky Fred" does this, remarkable because he's the villain ''and'' the episode is told from ''his'' point of view. His rhymes follow an AAAB scheme, with B always (with one exception) ending with [[CatchPhrase "NAAUUUUUGHTYYY…"]]
* In his host segments on ''WesternAnimation/DisneySingAlongSongs'', Jiminy Cricket will sometimes do this.
* A few one-off Disney cartoons are spoken in rhyme, including:
** ''WesternAnimation/LambertTheSheepishLion''
** ''WesternAnimation/CaseyBatsAgain'' (the follow-up to "Casey at the Bat" from ''Make Mine Music'', mentioned above)
** ''WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigs1954''
** ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInMusicDuology'' has Professor Owl speaking this way.
** The narrator of the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short ''The Litterbug'' speaks in rhyme.
** Most of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePigs'' shorts, mainly Practical Pig, speak in rhyme.
* The ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', has Danny ticking off a spirit known as the [[PunnyName Ghost Writer]] who has RealityWarper powers--anything he writes about comes true--by unintentionally destroying the Christmas poem he had been writing. Said ghost responds by forcing Danny and his friends to live his replacement poem until he learns his lesson. As a side effect, everyone suddenly starts talking in constant rhymes, but only Danny notices. When the Ghost Writer is defeated, Danny continues to do this out of habit, leading his friends to ask why he's speaking in rhymes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheDogAndPonyShow'': In one episode, when Dog and Pony become building superintendents, the magic Pony kept using on the building ultimately accumulated into bringing the building to life. When brought to life, it spoke in rhyme.
* Marimonda the plant-controlling wood sprite from the ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' episode "Realm of the Jaquins''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', there are the employees of "Flappy Bob's Happy Peppy Camp and Learn-a-torium", Happy Peppy Betty and Gary. They not only rhyme almost all their sentences, they also sing them, and tend to complete each other's sentences!
-->'''Betty:''' And, umm... Gary! I'm all out of rhimy-whimies!\\
'''Gary:''' ''That'' was a rhimy-whimy!
** Subverted by the Gigglepies, who ''start out'' talking like this, until Timmy asks what they do once they've extracted all the resources from a planet:
--->'''[[KillerRabbit Overlord Glee:]]''' [[SugarApocalypse We blow it up]] and move on to the next one! '''''[[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment Isn't that cute?]]'''''\\
'''Timmy:''' No! It's terrible! (''{{beat}}'') And it didn't rhyme!\\
'''Overlord Glee''': He's on to us! '''''[[SeizeThem Get him!]]'''''
* In the Hungarian dub, WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones do this constantly.
* Uncle Pockets, from ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''.
* Hermes from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has a modular catchphrase - "Sweet X of Y!" - that's always spoken in rhyme. e.g. "Sweet guinea pig of Winnipeg!"
** It's notably {{subverted|Catchphrase}} when a depressed Hermes is unable to come up with a rhyme, and simply says "Sweet something of…someplace."
** In the episode "Sly and the Slurm Factory," the Grunka-Lunkas (Oompa-Loompa Expies) try to do this, but their rhymes are less than impressive. "Grunka-Lunka-Dunkity-Dingredient, you should not ask about the secret ingredient! Grunka-Lunka-Dunkity-Darmed guards…"
--->'''Bender''': [[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!!!]]
* Haggle, a supporting character in ''WesternAnimation/TheGaryColemanShow''.
* Roadblock from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' talks like this sometimes (but sometimes it's just JiveTurkey).
* Wordsworth, a side character from ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats''.
* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' - Brendon makes a video PSA to keep kids from putting marbles in their noses, but his puppet Spiky [=McMarbles=], with his rhyming speech and his snarky attitude, makes kids ''want'' to put marbles in their noses.
* Music/MarcBolan in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfRock'' does this. The other housemates evict him.
* Spring-Heeled Jack in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures,'' who speaks in nothing but rhyming couplets. Amazingly, even after being split into his good and evil sides by the Tiger Talisman, he ''still'' pulls it off.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' spoofing ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' rhymes the whole time...except when Johnny comments that "this rhyming stuff really hurts my tongue."
** A ChristmasEpisode narrated by Creator/AdamWest is done in the style of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
* Fred from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBunch'' does this, being a singer and all.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'', the Triforce of Wisdom was a sentient object, and would occasionally dispense advice and prophecies in cryptic rhymes.
* Nedley on ''WesternAnimation/MaggieAndTheFerociousBeast''
* Bob from ''WesternAnimation/MaryokuYummy''. To a lesser extent, Yuzu, whose appearance in an episode usually includes coming up with a new rhyming catchphrase for his and Nonki's fix-it shop.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** Zecora the zebra:
*** Particularly impressive in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]", where she sets herself up to make a rhyme with "tooth" before she sees that Apple Bloom chipped her tooth (From Apple Bloom's posture, it was an easy guess). Even her description in the app rhymes: 'Zecora is a zebra, wise beyond her years. People seek her out and help allay their fears.'
*** There was a gag in the main ''MLP'' comic #9 where she noted (in rhyme, naturally) that she needed a moment to think up a rhyme for her next comment.
*** Zecora's ability to rhyme her lines is so iconic, when [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation she lost it to Swamp Fever]] her friends [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness rushed for the tonic]].
** Not as frequently as Zecora, but Pinkie Pie still likes to rhyme a lot... especially when she's singing.
** Discord. Not as often as Zecora, mind you, but loves handing out torturous riddles. He normally sounds far more menacing while doing so as well.
** Iron Will's inspirational {{Catch Phrase}}s. To name a few:
--->'''Iron Will:''' When somepony tries to block, show them that '''YOU ROCK'''!\\
'''Iron Will:''' Never apologize when you can criticize!
** Twilight briefly rhymes like Zecora in "Secret of My Excess" after she tells him about Spike's greed-induced growth:
--->'''Twilight:''' You mean, the more things a dragon collects, the bigger and greedier he gets?
** Twilight does it again in "The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2" when in a BadFuture where Nightmare Moon has unleashed eternal night over Equestria:
--->'''Twilight:''' I have to get back to the map so I can stop Starlight from changing the past, because every present I come to is worse than the last!
** Also exchanged between Twilight and Rainbow in "All Bottled Up" once they manage to find the key in the escape room:
--->'''Twilight:''' This is it! I'm so impressed!\\
'''Rainbow:''' I'm not, I knew we were the best!
* Stickety Lipid, a one-time villain in the ''Film/OsmosisJones'' cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'' dressed and acted like a stereotypical beatnik; he claimed his crimes against Hector (the boy the cells lived in) were [[TrueArtIsAngsty performance art]], and spoke in Beat-style rhymes while accompanying himself on bongos. As with other examples, his rhyming rubbed off on Drix.
* [[spoiler:The Collector]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' was introduced speaking in rhyme in their first appearance. They kept this up until they couldn't find a word that rhymed with "Unity", and decided to just drop the rhyming entirely.
* This exchange in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "One Good Turn" as the kids decide what they want to do today:
--->'''Ferb:''' I'm filled with remorse/ That we haven't, of course / Even thought of building an obstacle course.\\
'''Phineas:''' Then let's build one and make it our new tour de force!\\
'''Ferb:''' That is a plan I can clearly endorse.\\
'''Phineas:''' Of course!\\
'''Baljeet:''' Of course!\\
'''Phineas:''' Of course!\\
'''Buford:''' Of course! [[LampshadeHanging I'm puttin' an end to this before it breaks into song!]] [[OnceAnEpisode Where's Perry?]]
* At the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' color double-reel short ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndHisWonderfulLamp'' has Olive Oyl, portraying a screenwriter at a movie studio, speak like this.
-->'''Olive Oyl''': Gosh, but this story of mine should be great!\\
I really don't know how the people can wait!\\
I have to decide who the actors'll be.\\
I think I'll make the heroine me.\\
The hero, Aladdin, is handsome and smart.\\
Why, Popeye the Sailor is great for the part!
** The Royal Vizier also briefly speaks like this.
* The entirety of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Dream Scheme" is all done in rhyme, even with Bubbles using the "anyone want a peanut" gag.
* Toby exhibits this trait in "Callie's Cowgirl Twirl" from ''WesternAnimation/SheriffCalliesWildWest'' as he prepares to call for a square dance, much to Peck's chagrin. Even more so for Peck once he briefly starts doing it himself.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', the kids attend a safety course with a cop named Officer Dan. The officer uses short, memorable rhymes to help his lessons stick (e.g. "Don't pet a dog that's strange to you. That could be a dangerous thing to do." Later, when Chuckie starts following his example, he tries to rhyme as well, but can't quite remember the right phrases ("Or you might get something on your shoe").
** The [[NightmareFuel horrific]] doll "Mr. Friend", a toy version of a MonsterClown that Stu invents, spouts out rhymes non-stop: "OH BOY, A BRAND NEW FRIEND TO PLAY! WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A HAPPY DAY!" Some of the rhymes are rather lousy--"Do your homework, study hard, and don't eat food that's cooked in lard!"--prompting Stu to promise to hire a writer.
* While his isn't usually an example, the Green Goblin of the ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' does this in "Opening Night". Not only is it lampshaded, but it's also partially justified: several of his lines are quotes from Shakespeare's verse. It also acts as a clue to the Goblin's identity: Harry Osborn, the prime suspect behind the mask, was supposed to be playing Puck in a school play, and all of the Shakespeare lines are Puck quotes. [[spoiler: Turned out to be a RedHerring, but nice touch…]]
* "Bad Rap", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', is spoken entirely in rhyme, as it's about "Rap Land" being taken over by King Koopa, and the heroes' attempts to stop him. Granted, it's not exactly ''good'' rhyme ("We're the Flab Boys! Hi-dee-ho! This Koopa dude's got to go!"), but it's a solid effort.
* Most of the characters especially Dudley Pig from the animated ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptKeeper'' episode "The Third Pig", the wolf has a hard time coming up with them and [[BreakingTheFourthWall yells at the Cryptkeeper when he tells him to do so]].
* The wicked sorcerer Zig Zag from ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'' rhymes whenever he speaks, often rather elaborately. He actually manages to be both amusing and menacing in this way. For example, when he said "One mistake will suffice! Don't treat me lightly ''twice!''" after taming the alligators he had been thrown to by the ungrateful BigBad One Eye.
** Lampshaded in the infamous [[{{Macekre}} Miramax cut]] when the thief, overhearing one of Zig Zag's private rants, comments to himself, "It must be tough to always speak in rhyme."
* Several locomotives actually started to speak in rhyme at times in the more recent episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends''. It is getting mercifully downplayed however.
** ''WesternAnimation/ThomasandFriendsAllEnginesGo'' also had some moments where some of the characters spoke in rhyme, but it wasn't frequent compared to seasons 13-16 of the original series.
* The female flight attendant who is always heard speaking in ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle'' as Toot / Toot & Puddle's plane travels to another country always speaks in rhyme. A typical example: "As we land in Majorca, we hope it's been a good trip. To enjoy our island, we offer this tip. Take a stroll down our streets to the edge of the sea, try the apples and oranges, they're delicious, you'll agree."
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', most of the time, the [[TheScrappy unpopular character]] Wheelie always speaks in rhyme! The [[Website/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie_(G1) had quite]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie_(SG) a bit]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wheelie_(Animated) of fun]], and [[SelfDemonstratingArticle made all the lines on his page rhyme]] (every single one)!
** Mercifully, he stops doing this in ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' and in several other continuities, such as Dreamwave Comics.
*** Until his return in IDW's spotlight series, which actually made Wheelie's rhyming cool by making it the only way that he can [[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Darmok_(episode) communicate with a marooned alien with a strange speech pattern]]
** Blaster has a habit of this too.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', the title character speaks entirely in rhymed couplets, albeit not always with much attention to meter. As Shoe Shine Boy, he speaks normally.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'' had an episode where Andy was dared to speak in rhyme for an entire day. He mastered it pretty well, up until he was challenged to rhyme the word [[LeastRhymableWord 'orange']]. [[spoiler:Which he succeeded; it rhymes with 'door hinge'.]]
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' featured the Hopping Dipple-Dop, a character who only spoke in rhymes.
* Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D in ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', who justifies it, saying:
-->If I spoke prose, you'd soon find out\\
I don't know what I talk about!
** He's also capable of rhyming whatever the Beatles say, even if doesn't follow iambic pentameter precisely:
--->'''Paul:''' (''pointing to the Boob'') Hey, fellas. Look.\\
'''Boob:''' (''writing on a notepad with a pen between his toes'') The footnotes for my nineteenth book.\\
This is my standard procedure for doing it.\\
And while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it!\\
'''George:''' A boob for all seasons.\\
'''Paul:''' How can he lose?\\
'''John:''' Were your notices good?\\
'''Boob:''' It's my policy never to read my reviews.
* WesternAnimation/YogiBear does this often too.
* Groove on ''WesternAnimation/TheCattanoogaCats''; everything he says is either a rhyming couplet, or rhymes with the last sentence someone else said.
* WesternAnimation/DangerMouse must contend with Penfold as a rhyming superhero after he swallows a vitamin pill that turns him into the Blue Flash.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowMurraySavedChristmas'': Being a Christmas story is told mostly in rhyme. However near the end, Murray and Edison are stopped by a police officer on their way home who ask if he has his "poetic license". When Murry reveals he doesn't have one, the officer tells him to stop rhyming before complaining that he has trouble having to keep doing it daily while on the job.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** Exchanged between [=SpongeBob=] and Mr. Krabs in "Born Again Krabs":
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' But it's old, and cold, and so very full of mold!\\
'''Mr. Krabs:''' You're not to make another patty until that one is SOLD!
** Done in the short episode "[=SpongeBob=] vs the Patty Gadget" in Season 5, in which majority of the dialogue are in rhymes.
* Jack The villainous Jack-in-the-box from the Creator/HannaBarbera series Timeless Tales episode "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", voiced by ''Creator/TimCurry''.
* Pretty Bit, one of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popples}}'' does this.
* In his role as Giggler in the Super Cluepers on ''Literature/{{Franklin}} and Friends'', Rabbit has a tendency to recap where things are at in the mystery-solving in rhymes.
* In the Australian animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheSilverBrumby'', Mopoke the owl is an advisor to main stallion Thowra, but he always gives advice (and basically speaks) in only rhymes.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E15Frightningale Frightningale]], pop singer Clara Nightingale talks like this. Then she gets akumatized into the titular villain Frightningale and enforces the trope on everybody else in Paris, on the penalty of being TakenForGranite if they fail to rhyme.
** In "Timetagger", the titular villain speaks mostly in rap.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' have a TrappedInTVLand episode where the Titans are dragged into the world of television, into a variety of different channels. Starfire notably ends up in a Dr. Seuss parody where every moment of dialogue rhymes by default.
-->'''Pelican:''' Oh, have you seen my hippo? He hides and I must seek.\\
'''Starfire:''' I cannot play. Please, do you know a strange man named Control Freak?
* In "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" from ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'', the Beat Bugs and other bugs in the backyard village are all hit with a "rhyming curse" which makes it so that they can only speak in rhyme.
* The 1993 Creator/HannaBarbera ChristmasSpecial ''WesternAnimation/TheTownSantaForgot'' has all the dialogue entirely spoken in rhyme. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that it's adapted from the Christmas poem "Jeremy Creek" by Charmaine Severson.
* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': A lot of rhymes are made in "I Am Mark Twain." For example, "We didn't notice the fence got done/We were having too much fun!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': Gargamel in the intro.
-->'''Gargamel:''' "Ravage the land as never before. Total destruction from mountain to shore!"
