History ScrewThisImOuttaHere / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': Bugs, in one of the Merrie Melodies sections, declares his intention to move to Bolivia to escape [[StalkerWithACrush Lola]]. It doesn't work; she follows him there.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'': In "Minnie's Birthday", Minnie is so upset at her friends acting strange around her assuming they forgot her birthday that she decides to leave the clubhouse in a huff. Ironically, that was the moment when Mickey and the gang were ready to surprise her, thus they had to quickly call her back.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVII Treehouse of Horror XVII]]" has a variation of Creator/OrsonWelles' reading of ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. As Welles' character reads, you see a sound effect guy working with him. Welles' descriptions get increasingly detailed, until the sound guy holds up a sign saying "Screw You" and leaves.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime,''
** In "It Came From the Nightosphere", [[VampireMonarch Marceline]] storms away after an argument with [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils her dad]], even though he's currently [[YourSoulIsMine sucking the souls out of everyone]] in [[WorldOfWeirdness Ooo]]. She was supposed to be helping Finn stop that, but you know, family drama.
** In the season 2 finale "Mortal Recoil", [[AnIcePerson The Ice King]] helps [[KidHero Finn]] and [[NonHumanSidekick Jake]] stop [[OmnicidalManiac the Lich]] and save [[GrandTheftMe Princess Bubblegum]], whom he [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe wants to marry]]. After finding out that the battle resulted in her [[spoiler:turning into a 13-year-old girl]], however, he just [[EvenEvilHasStandards gives up and flies away]].
** In "Apple Wedding", after being jailed along with the rest of Tree Trunks' wedding party, [[ConMan the King of Ooo]] bails on them as he breaks himself out of jail, rightly worried that Princess Bubblegum will throw the book at him.

* In one of the last episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', and the climax of the last season's main story arc, Huntsgirl evokes a spell to kill every Huntsclan member on the planet (as [[BigBad the Huntsman]] was about to use the spell to kill every supernatural creature on the planet). A pair of obnoxious teenage Huntsclan trainees are smart enough to loudly announce that they quit the Huntsclan before running away as fast as possible once they realize what's going on. The Kill-Everything-Spell, being a rather LiteralGenie, thus ignores them while proceeding to [[KilledOffForReal Kill Off for Real]] every single Huntsclan member, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath including Huntsgirl]]. It helped that the spell apparently identified Huntsclan members by their tattoos, which the trainees didn't have.
** It was more like anyone who was an active member rather than anyone with a dragon birthmark, as when Jake wished [[spoiler:Rose had never been taken from her parents by the Huntsclan to begin with]], she survives despite still being born with the mark.

** In the classic short "WesternAnimation/WaterWaterEveryHare," the Evil Scientist's monster, after getting outsmarted by Bugs several times, decides enough is enough. At the time, he had been reduced to the size of a mouse, so he storms into a mouse hole, throws out the mouse, and slams the door [[TalkingWithSigns with the words "I QUIT!"]] Said spectacle is enough for the mouse to go NoMoreForMe.
** ''WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare'': Upon learning the snarling beast is the "friend" that the MadScientist wants to introduce him to, Bugs shakes his hand and shouts, "Well, goodbye!" He packs some luggage to the sound of an instrumental version of "California, Here I Come" before bolting for the door.

** And in "WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny", Bugs high-tails it out of the cave using his burrowing when Daffy [[TooDumbToLive makes the genie angry]]. (The next scene shows he finally made it to Pismo Beach.)
** Cool Cat pulls this off in the last Looney Tunes short, Injun Trouble. After finding out that his opponent in cards has a gun, he literally cuts himself out of the cartoon.

--->'''Bugs:''' That does it! Get yourself another boy! I'm through! (''to himself'') What a Leonardo [=DaPunchy=]! What a Too-Lousy [=LaTrec=]!
** In "Freeze Frame," the Coyote is riding a ''rocking horse'' and working a lariat. He winds up completely snared in the lariat as the skids of the horse land on a railroad track. As if on cue, a train horn sounds, leading the rocking horse to suddenly become sentient and gallop off -- right from underneath the Coyote!
--->[[TalkingWithSigns "Mommy"]] (train runs coyote over)
** In "WesternAnimation/HareLift", when the damaged plane's robotic auto-pilot is activated, it takes one look at the situation, straps on a parachute and jumps.
** "The Big Snooze" starts right off with Elmer quitting and tearing up his contract because he's sick of Bugs getting the best of him. Bugs schemes to get him back eventually.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E13Potatoland Potatoland]]", Donald tries to do this when Goofy tells him and Mickey about a theme park made out of potatoes, but Mickey stops him and ropes him into making it a reality.
** Near the end of the same episode, the titular park starts to collapse as the midday sun is thinning the gravy they used to build it. Goofy's reaction says it all:
--->'''Goofy:''' Guys, I think I just thought of a new lifelong dream.\\

** In "Three's a Crowd", a sick [[MadGod Discord]] shows up on the train platform, requesting that they help nurse him back to health. This trope is Rainbow Dash's reaction, and she flies away, not showing up again until the end of the episode.

** Done in "Dragon Quest" when Spike, Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Rarity decide enough is enough with the teen dragons.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
** In the episode "Day of the Living Gelatin", Baljeet's reaction to the gelatin monster is to walk off with the casual remark "O-kay, I'm going home."
** "Make Play" has Buford doing this the moment he meets the princess who has swapped places with Candace for the day.
** Ferb attempts this in "The Curse of Candace", when Candace runs up claiming that she's a vampire; Phineas pulls him back into view so they can help solve her problem, [[StrictlyFormula as is their way]].
** In "Perry Lays an Egg", when Perry sees that Dr. Doofenshmirtz's scheme involves [[PokeThePoodle heckling whales]], he decides [[EveryoneHasStandards it's not even worth thwarting]] and tries to leave.
** Doofensmirtz attempts to invoke this in "Does This Duckbill Make Me Look Fat?" when it turns out that Perry (who has been body-swapped into Candace's body...and vice versa) is just as formidable in a teenage girl's body as he is in a platypus', Doofenshmirtz glances [[AsideGlance at the camera]] and says, "Well, I'm outta here." followed by a zinging sound and Doofenshmirtz dissappearing, [[BriffitsAndSqueans leaving behind a dust cloud shaped like himself...]] at least until the dust clears, showing that Doof was ''still standing there,'' at which point he looks around in confusion and says, "What just happened?"
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':
** In "Down N' Dirty" a sea monster that a filthy Buttercup fights decides to lay off after getting her stuck in his nostril and smelling her accumulated stink from days of not bathing.
** In "Town and Out," after being fed up with Citiesville, the girls and Professor both agree it is a terrible place to live and moved back to Townsville.

-->'''Venkman:''' Don't you want to stick around and see who wins?
-->'''Everyone else:''' NO!

* In the "banned" ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy Show]]'' episode "Man's Best Friend", George Liquor brings Ren and Stimpy home as pets, although George soon realizes he does not have enough room for two pets. So he takes his current pet fish out of his fishbowl, and flings him out the window. The fish lands in the car, puts a fedora on, turns on the usual [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn BGM]], says "I'm outta here, man", and drives away.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** Cartman does this so much that one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "Screw you guys, I'm going home." He actually does this in the middle of the rainforest (after beating the shit out of two separate endangered species), but he walks all of twenty feet and ends up immediately running into a logging crew... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And he even gets chicken wings!]]
** Mercilessly parodied in the "Pandemic" two-parter. Craig hates the plot. All he wants to do is pull this trope and go home...and every time he walks away, he walks straight into ''more plot.'' This includes finding out that he's TheChosenOne and [[spoiler:[[ContrivedCoincidence accidentally saving the day by]] [[YouCantFightFate stepping on a magic stone while trying to leave the battle]]]].

** In the episode "Opposite Day", Squidward makes up the eponymous holiday in hopes that Spongebob will act normal long enough to sell his house and move away. Somehow, Spongebob interprets this as having to act like Squidward, and ropes Patrick into the act too. Then the house dealer shows up at Squidward's door, where Spongebob is standing. HilarityEnsues, and the real Squidward eventually shows up. The house dealer, confused by all the "Squidward"s, eventually gives up and leaves.
** Speaking of moving, the episode "Squidville" has this trope set off the plot. When Spongebob and Patrick destroy Squidward's house by playing with reef blowers, Squidward decides he's fed up and opts to move to an area of people just like him after seeing it in a commercial. And then his life becomes so routine that he gets bored out of his mind, so he leaves that neighborhood by riding on a reef blower.
** In "I Had an Accident", the gorilla (played by a live-action actor in a cheap gorilla costume) stammers as he tries to explain what he's doing underwater in the first place, only to give up and tell George (a pantomime horse) that "they're onto us!". The gorilla and George then flee into the sunset rather than explain, much to the confusion of both the main characters and the live-action family watching the show.
** At the end of "The Algae's Always Greener", Plankton decides he's had enough of the alternate reality where he runs the Krusty Krab. The breaking point is after an evil alternate version of Krabs tries to steal a Krabby Patty [[NakedPeopleAreFunny while naked]], and Spongebob celebrates thwarting him with a "victory screech".
--->'''Plankton:''' It's not worth it! ''It's just not worth it!'' (''deadpan'') Goodbye, everyone, I'll remember you all in therapy. (''hits the ResetButton, sending himself back to his own reality'')
** In "Krusty Love", after being run ragged by Mr. Krabs and [[{{Angrish}} delivering one hell of a verbal beatdown to his boss]] for trying to blame him for wasting all his money, [=SpongeBob=] storms off in a huff, cursing Mr. Krabs under his breath.
** In "Can You Spare A Dime", the ''narrator'' does this, resulting in one of the most hilarious lines in the show's history:
---> '''New Narrator:''' So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one.
** In "Your Shoe's Untied", [=SpongeBob=] repeatedly trips on his own shoelaces, inadvertently throwing Krabby Patties into Squidward's mouth and thus preventing customers from getting their food. When they announce that they're going to the Chum Bucket, Mr. Krabs races out of the bathroom... while his pants are still down.

** In "The Play's the Thing", the Krusty Krab holds auditions for its performance of "Singy Eaty Time", with a mob of anchovies looking forward to try out. But when Mr. Krabs reveals he won't pay them, all of the anchovies immediately flee the restaurant, leaving only [=SpongeBob=] behind so he gets all the parts.
** In "Knock, Knock, Who's There?" Mr. Krabs arrives at the Fast Food Founding Fathers convention he will be attenting for the weekend while [=SpongeBob=] watches his house; upon arrival, he discovers the attendees have to pay a ten-cent entrance fee. Due to his cheapness and his hatred at spending money, he calls that a rip-off and decides to go home early.

** [[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E10NoSmallParts No Small Parts]]":

--->"Make us go! Go, guys, go!"
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsStepsIntoShadow Steps into Shadow]]": Hondo ditches Ezra offscreen when the station falls. Also, the Imperial officers immediately run for it when Ezra reaches the command center.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
** "Ocean Gem": Greg puts on some music as he [[ItMakesSenseInContext drives the Crystal Gems over the dry ocean floor towards Lapis Lazuli's giant water tower]]. The music he puts on features a lot of electric guitar and doesn't really sound like much. When Greg asks Garnet for her opinion, she just frowns. Then, she opens the door and throws herself out of the still-moving van. The scene then cuts to Garnet laying on the roof as the van is being driven by Pearl instead.
** "Alone Together": Stevonnie is harassed by an older teen named [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Kevin]]. They don't very much appreciate the attention, and make it their goal to dance with him as wildly as they possibly can. When they accidentally unfuse back into Steven and Connie (two little kids), Kevin immediately bails.

** As the hand-ship from "Jailbreak" begins to crash, Peridot awkwardly crawls towards the center of the room (as she's still tied up), smacks her face into the floor which causes an escape pod to form around her, then launches herself towards Earth.
** In the episode "Onion Friend", [[CreepyChild Onion]] is being... more creepy than usual. When he invites Steven into a hidden vent in his room, Steven finally decides he should get out of there, saying the below line. The only reason he doesn't commit is because one of the Gems is busy talking to Onion's mother and finally opening up after depressed episode, and he doesn't want to stop that process.

* In an early [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] ''{{WesternAnimation/Superman|TheatricalCartoons}}'' cartoon, "Jungle Drums", a primitive African tribe has been [[GodGuise fooled into worshiping Nazis]]. Everything is going smoothly to the rhythm of a faux-tribal drum beat, when Superman suddenly shows up to foil their plans and save Lois. Exit entire tribe, stage right!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' episode "The Tick Vs. Chairface Chippendale," the blue defender of good has cornered the villain before he can complete his plan to write his name on the moon [[spoiler:(He gets as far as "CHA" and it remains there when the moon is seen in later episodes.)]].

* In the Creator/VanBeurenStudios Tom & Jerry short "Jungle Jam", the Navy pulls this on Tom and Jerry, just when it [[BigDamnHeroes seemed like they were going to rescue them.]]
* Noggin the Nog has the following memorable exchange between series villain Nogbad and a Sultan of his acquaintance:
-->'''Sultan:''' [[FearIsTheAppropriateResponse There comes a time when presence of mind is shown by absence of body]].\\
'''Nogbad:''' What?\\
'''Sultan:''' Let's get out of here!

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' had a great example in the pilot episode. After Starscream disables Megatron and takes command of the Decepticons' ship, he manages to trigger this reaction in ''every other Decepticon'' by piloting the ship into Earth's moon. Blitzwing and Lugnut eventually rejoin Megatron; Blackarachnia deserts for the duration of the series.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', the third season introduces a whole planet of neutral Transformers, Paradron, who all either ran away from Cybertron and the ForeverWar or are descended from those who did. By the episode's end, Rodimus Prime has blown the planet up to prevent the Decepticons from harvesting its energon reserves, and they instead sign back up with the Autobots.
** Ironically, years later, ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'' would have Rodimus Prime as the leader of a group of ex-Autobots who ''also'' decided the ForeverWar was pointless and vanished into deep space to get away from it.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'': When Spidey gets hounded by everyone in New York when Jameson offered 10 million to anyone who can unmask him, Spidey then learns that Boston offered to make him the city's premier hero; he quickly took the next bus to Boston.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Nightwing explains how he's sending an all-female squad to battle Queen Bee because of her ability to control the minds of men. Batgirl jokingly calls him out on not feeling the need to justify sending an ''all male'' team for a given situation, and Nightwing realizes there's no good way to answer and just bails.
--> '''Nightwing:''' There's... uh... (coughs) no right answer to that one, is there? So... Nightwing out!
--> '''Batgirl:''' Queen Bee's isn't the only woman who can mess with a man's mind!

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Down N' Dirty" a sea monster that a filthy Buttercup fights decides to lay off after getting her stuck in his nostril and smelling her accumulated stink from days of not bathing.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''WesternAnimation/SymphonyHour'', Donald tries to bail out on the eponymous concert after trying to play von Suppe's Light Calvary Overture with damaged instruments. He only stays because Mickey ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes threatens him at gunpoint]]''.
** In another {{Classic Disney Shorts}}, “African Diary,” Goofy encounters a black rhinoceros during his expedition in Africa. The rhinoceros, with the help of his tick bird companion, spots Goofy and his fellow and promptly charges at them. Goofy’s fellow hunter instantly flees while Goofy stays behind to shoot the rhinoceros. When proven to be no match for the rhinoceros, Goofy runs for his life to point when he flees Africa in his boat.
*** “Thus we left this island of romance, and we left it for the other hunters. And believe me, they can have it.”

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Down N' Dirty" a sea monster that a filthy Buttercup fights decides to lay off the fight after getting her stuck in his nostril and smelling her odor from the other monsters she fought.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E10NoSmallParts No Small Parts]]":
** Peanut Hamper beams herself into space rather than risk her life trying to upload a virus into the Pakled ship. [[DidntThinkThisThrough She regrets it]] when no one bothers picking her up after the fact, leaving her floating in space.
** When the ''Titan'' warps in and starts kicking ass, the Pakleds go into a swift HyperspeedEscape.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Down N' Dirty" sea monster that a filthy Buttercup fights decides to lay off the fight after getting her stuck in his nostril and smelling her odor from the other monsters she fought.

** In "The Play's the Thing", the Krusty Krab holds auditions for its performance of "Singy Eatey Time", with a mob of anchovies looking forward to try out. But when Mr. Krabs reveals he won't pay them, all of the anchovies immediately flee the restaurant, leaving only [=SpongeBob=] behind so he gets all the parts.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield in the Rough]]'', this is Garfield's reaction to hearing that an escaped panther has been spotted near the area where he, Odie and Jon are camping. [[spoiler:Inverted big-time later when said panther actually does attack the camp site. Initially, Garfield is able to escape, but when he sees Jon and Odie in trouble, Garfield ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome attacks the panther]]''.]]

** When [[Series/SesameStreet the Count]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwCXBoeZrk notices a third nipple.]]

** In "Knock, Knock, Who's There?" Mr. Krabs arrives at the Fast Food Founding Fathers convention he will be attenting for the weekend while SpongeBob watches his house; upon arrival, he discovers the attendees have to pay a ten-cent entrance fee. Due to his cheapness and his hatred at spending money, he calls that a rip-off and decides to go home early.

--> '''New Narrator:''' So much later that the old narrator got tired of waiting, and they had to hire a new one.