History StealthPun / WesternAnimation

** In the retelling of ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' from "Tales from the Public", Odysseus (Homer) is told by Circe (Lindsey Naegle) that to return to Ithaca, he has to travel through Hades, crossing the river Styx. Cut to Homer sailing down the river as Music/{{Styx}}'s "Lady" plays with skeletons headbanging.

** A very meta example: It should be noted that the Dazzlings from ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks Rainbow Rocks]]'' are {{enthralling siren}}s. When asked about their origins, WordOfGod [[https://twitter.com/stitchkingdom/status/492751813729210368 mentioned]] that "[Twilight] [[ShipSinking does not date them]]."

** In Episode 18, Kaeloo gets mad at Mr. Cat for [[spoiler: robbing a supermarket]] and winds up HulkingOut. After this, she starts biting him repeatedly offscreen. She's "chewing him out".

* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', when we are first introduced to Team Go, Ron asks why Mego wears a purple costume. Team leader Hego replies, "He's a shrinker" and drops the subject. He's a shrinking violet (but not a ShrinkingViolet, mind you); Warner/DC would not be amused.
** Mego's power is to shrink to the size of an action figure. He shares his name with a popular line of action figures from the 70s and 80s, including the unintuitive pronunciation.
** When we are originally introduced to Team Go, they are introduced as "Hego, Shego, Mego, and The Twins." The implication is that the twins are collectively, "Wego."
** In "Big Bother", Ron is conflicted between his school assignment bag of flour and his new sister Hana (which is Japanese for Flower.)
** Was Mrs Possible channeling Jill Valentine in "Day of the Snowmen"?

** One of the ImagineSpot songs has Pepper Clark [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper dressed up as a doctor]] for a doctor-themed 80's-style jam.

** The show's creators have openly admitted to reading this very site, and a handful of these refer to trope pages. For example, in one {{Elseworld}} episode, [[spoiler:Isabella carries around business cards of various archetypes -- TheIngenue, [[AdventurerArchaeologist Amateur Archaeologist]], DamselInDistress, et cetera. The last one she gives reads"Dirty Double Crosser"]], making her a literal CardCarryingVillain.

** In the HalloweenEpisode "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror", [[BollywoodNerd Baljeet]] introduces his friends to his life coach, a {{Cowboy}} named Rusty Britches. Get it? [[spoiler: Cowboys and Indians.]]

** When Amity initially turns down the offer to play Grudgby with the others and instead [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere takes off running]] after [[CovertPervert openly fantasizing about Luz]], Luz just says "Well I guess she’s [[TransparentCloset out.]]"

** Penny is also Gumball's girlfriend. What does it take to buy a gumball? A penny.

** An even clever one. The Warner siblings are referred to as the "Warner Bros. The period at the end is also called a "Dot", which explains the sister's name.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it a couple of times with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_once_was_a_man_from_Nantucket the stock opening line about the man from Nantucket]]. For the record, it's a rather infamous one.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Once]]:
-->'''Barney:''' ''(doing backflips)'' [[MajorGeneralSong I am the very model of a modern major general! I've information vegetable animal and mineral!]]\\
'''Homer:''' That's nothing! Watch this. ''(doing cartwheels)'' There once was a man from Nantucket, who... ''(runs into wall)'' D'oh!
** And [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo again]]:
-->'''Homer:''' You know, I once knew a man from Nantucket.\\
'''Bart:''' And?\\
'''Homer:''' Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.
** And [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E16EenyTeenyMayaMoe again]]:
-->'''Homer:''' There once was this guy from an island off the coast of Massachusetts... Nantucket, I think it was. Anyway, he had the most unusual personal characteristic, which was, um...
** Another instance not using the man from Nantucket limerick, maybe even being a parody of its usage, comes in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E7BartsInnerChild an episode]] where Krusty the Clown is giving Homer an old trampoline of his and talks about dirty limericks ("There once was a man named Enis...").

** Still another: In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Krusty mentioned that he and Creator/BetteMidler once owned a horse together, and named it "Krudler". For those who didn't get it, the more appropriate name is revealed in the DVDCommentary of the episode: [[spoiler:Misty]]
*** Alternatively, the far less appropriate [[spoiler:Busty]]

** In "Hurricane Neddy", Ned Flanders watches a film of his younger, aggressive, hyperactive self:

** "I don't know whether to peck you on your kisser or kiss you on your-"

** In "Candace Gets Busted", the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Go-Away-Inator]] zaps all of Candace's uninvited guests to an undesirable location -- Doofenshmirtz's pants. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar And they're all still dancing.]]

* Surprisingly, ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' does this at one point: despite the series' tendency towards the incredibly lame pun, the Mayor's secretary is referred to only as "Miss Bellum." Given her brain capacity relative to that of the Mayor, it's not hard to guess what her first name is... [[spoiler:Sara.]]
** They have stated her name at least once. However, it was in fact [[spoiler:Sara.]]
** The Mayor is so old his first secretary must have been [[spoiler:Antebellum.]]
** Also, Him looks like {{Satan}} and dresses like [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Santa Claus]]. He also has claws. This is never commented on directly.
** Him [[spoiler:IS Satan...]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/RecessTakingTheFifthGrade'', Spinelli tells [[{{Jerkass}} Becky]] that she hopes her classes are at obedience school. That is to say, she was calling her [[spoiler:[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a bitch]]]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' [[TrappedInTVLand book-jumping episode]] "Shelf Life":
-->'''Wanda:''' Egad, (Tom Sawyer) turned Literature/TheThreeMusketeers into the three [[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Mouse]]--\\
''(Timmy then swiftly covers her mouth and teleports them out)''
** And later in the same episode:
-->'''Cosmo:''' So he gets into a physics book, what's the worst that could happen?\\
'''Timmy:''' Cosmo, don't you understand? He could turn gravity into gravy! He could turn the planets into plants!--\\
'''Wanda:''' He could turn {{Uranus i|sShowing}}nto... Oh no! We have to stop him!\\
'''Cosmo:''' What? I don't get it! What's the big threat!

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the scene after greeting Suki in a robe, under candlelight, a rose in his mouth, Sokka is seen wearing a flower necklace -- [[spoiler:he got lei'd]].
** [[spoiler:And Suki got deflowered]].

* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Huey, Dewey, Louie, and their new friend Webby are playing with dart guns, and Webby gets really into it. She spins an elaborate {{Backstory}} for her character in their game, a gruff black operative bent on avenging her men who were “captured in Peking”. [[spoiler: Peking ducks are a breed of duck bred to be cooked.]]

* Sise (pronounced "''size''") Fromm of ''WesternAnimation/{{Droids}}'' is a FatBastard.
* A lot of the names in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' are puns, especially when combined with other characters' names. For instance: Blooregard Q. Kazoo, thus Bloo Q. Kazoo [[spoiler:kukukachu]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** Before having her eyes accidentally healed by Steven's healing spit via an IndirectKiss, Connie wore pink-tinted glasses. In the episode her eyes were healed, Steven is recalling a Gem mission that made him worried about his future with the Crystal Gems. The last scene has her taking out the pink lenses before placing them back on her face. In other words, prior to this point, Connie saw Steven's adventures with the Crystal Gems through ''rose-colored glasses''. But, by the end, she is able to ''clearly'' see how stressful Steven's job is.
** While Pearl ''can'' drive a car (and has been shown doing so multiple times), the episode "Last One Out of Beach City" reveals that she doesn't have a driver's license. She explains that this is because she is from Homeworld, not from Earth, and therefore isn't a citizen of ANY country. In other words, she's an illegal alien. Two episodes later in "Gem Harvest", Greg's cousin Andy [=DeMayo=] does call the Gems "illegal aliens".
** The WhamShot from the episode "A Single Pale Rose" features [[spoiler:Rose Quartz's gem turning 90 degrees, [[TheReveal revealing]] it to be none other than the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_(diamond_cut) brilliant-cut]] gem of Pink Diamond.]] It is, quite literally, a ''brilliant twist''.
* From the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' when Grizz is trying to cheer up Panda after a breakup:
-->'''Grizzly:''' Cheer up! There are plenty of other girls out there! You're a Panda! You're cute. You're cuddly. [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda You know kung fu]].\\
'''Panda:''' I don't know kung fu!\\
'''Grizzly:''' Yeah, you know what I mean.
* Warpath from ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'' is an Autobot who is best known for his VerbalTic of adding onomatopoeia to his dialog... to the point where he might have Tourette's. The kicker? [[spoiler:He turns into a tank and his upper body is made from the TURRET.]]
** In the third season, the Decepticon leader Galvatron, who turns into a gun emplacement, is crazy and unpredictable, as likely to attack his allies as he is the Autobots. [[spoiler: He's quite the ''loose cannon''.]]
** And in the Japanese dub, the Cassetteicons often call Soundwave [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseSiblingTerminology aniki]]. In addition to being what gang members call their leader, it also translates to 'big brother.' So, since Soundwave is the Decepticon communications officer who reports treachery to their leader [[spoiler:that means that BigBrotherIsWatching you.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'', the TeamPet of the group is a little pink bat named Belfry. His name is based on the saying [[spoiler:"To have bats in the belfry", meaning "To be a bit crazy"]].
** Also, Jessica Wray is the fiancée of ghostbuster Jake Kong. Wray... Kong... does it [[Film/KingKong1933 ring a bell]]?
* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', when we are first introduced to Team Go, Ron asks why Mego wears a purple costume. Team leader Hego replies, "He's a shrinker" and drops the subject. He's a shrinking violet (but not a ShrinkingViolet, mind you); Warner/DC would not be amused.
** Mego's power is to shrink to the size of an action figure. He shares his name with a popular line of action figures from the 70s and 80s, including the unintuitive pronunciation.
** When we are originally introduced to Team Go, they are introduced as "Hego, Shego, Mego, and The Twins." The implication is that the twins are collectively, "Wego."
** In "Big Bother", Ron is conflicted between his school assignment bag of flour and his new sister Hana (which is Japanese for Flower.)
** Was Mrs Possible channeling Jill Valentine in "Day of the Snowmen"?
*** 'Grah! They know I have excessive power demands!'
** "Cute little trap, Professor."
* Austin's fur color in ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'' [[note]] he starts out as a ShrinkingViolet [[/note]].
** Also in ''The Backyardigans'', in the episode "Mission to Mars", Austin controls a Mars Rover named Rover. [[spoiler: There used to be a British car manufacturer named Austin Rover]].

%%* George Frankly, of ''Mathnet'' on ''Series/SquareOneTV'', also visited the island of Nomanissan. (This was back when Kate Monday was still his partner, and he was still with the LAPD.) He explained the name as being of Native American origin.
* Surprisingly, ''WesternAnimation/TheSnorks'' was full of this. Allstar's pet octopus, Occy, goes berserk when he's called icky. As in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyophthirius_multifiliis skin parasite]].
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' has a CreditsGag explaining that Plucky Duck was "inadvertently omitted from 'The Name Game'."
** In fact, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_Game Wikipedia]] warns that using Alice, Dallas, Tucker, Chuck, Buck, Huck, Bart, Art, Mitch, Rich, Richie, Maggie, or Danny will result in "profanity or rude language."
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' once had a shot of [[Series/DoctorWho the Fourth Doctor]] standing on the first base of a baseball diamond. After waiting a second, the Doctor says "[[WhosOnFirst Do ya get it?]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it a couple of times with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_once_was_a_man_from_Nantucket the stock opening line about the man from Nantucket]]. For the record, it's a rather infamous one.
** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E15DeepSpaceHomer Once]]:
-->'''Barney:''' ''(doing backflips)'' [[MajorGeneralSong I am the very model of a modern major general! I've information vegetable animal and mineral!]]\\
'''Homer:''' That's nothing! Watch this. ''(doing cartwheels)'' There once was a man from Nantucket, who... ''(runs into wall)'' D'oh!
** And [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E23ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo again]]:
-->'''Homer:''' You know, I once knew a man from Nantucket.\\
'''Bart:''' And?\\
'''Homer:''' Let's just say the stories about him are greatly exaggerated.
** And [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E16EenyTeenyMayaMoe again]]:
-->'''Homer:''' There once was this guy from an island off the coast of Massachusetts... Nantucket, I think it was. Anyway, he had the most unusual personal characteristic, which was, um...
** Another instance not using the man from Nantucket limerick, maybe even being a parody of its usage, comes in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E7BartsInnerChild an episode]] where Krusty the Clown is giving Homer an old trampoline of his and talks about dirty limericks ("There once was a man named Enis...").
** The traffic guy for Channel 6 News, Arnie Pie, who ''very deliberately'' avoids the painfully obvious pun on his name; his segment, live from the traffic chopper, is called "Arnie in the Sky".
** Still another: In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Krusty mentioned that he and Creator/BetteMidler once owned a horse together, and named it "Krudler". For those who didn't get it, the more appropriate name is revealed in the DVDCommentary of the episode: [[spoiler:Misty]]
*** Alternatively, the far less appropriate [[spoiler:Busty]]
** In "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", Homer goes to a shop called "Sneed's Feed & Seed (Formerly Chuck's)".
** In the episode "'Sideshow Bob Roberts", the character playing the role of "Deep Throat" is [[TransparentCloset Mr. Smithers]].
** The "Flaming Moe" drink, formerly known as the "Flaming Homer". The names bear similarities to "'mo" and "homo" respectively, both contractions of "homosexual".
** In "Hurricane Neddy", Ned Flanders watches a film of his younger, aggressive, hyperactive self:
-->'''Young Ned:''' "I'm ComicStrip/DickTracy! Take that, Pruneface! Now I'm Pruneface. Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I'm Prune Tracy. Take that--" (''[[CurseCutShort is physically subdued]]'')
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E20StopOrMyDogWillShoot another episode]], Homer gets lost in a corn field, and the family sends the dog to help. The music that plays is [[spoiler:"Freak on a Leash" by Music/{{Korn}}]].
** In "Wedding for Disaster," Homer is kidnapped and chained up in a cell. When his kidnappers return him back home out of guilt, he still has a chain on him. Marge tells him that they should take that chain off him, to which he responds, "Won't it just dry up after a while and fall off in the bath?" [[spoiler:Such is what typically happens to a ''bandage'', not ''bondage'']].
** In the first season episode "The Crepes of Wrath":
--> '''Bart''' (watching his pet frog): Ah, the life of a frog. That's the life for me.\\
''Marge enters the room and asks if Bart would like to go to France.''
** "I don't know whether to peck you on your kisser or kiss you on your-"
** In the retelling of ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' from "Tales from the Public", Odysseus (Homer) is told by Circe (Lindsey Naegle) that to return to Ithaca, he has to travel through Hades, crossing the river Styx. Cut to Homer sailing down the river as Music/{{Styx}}'s "Lady" plays with skeletons headbanging.
-->'''Homer:''' [[TakeThat Oh, it truly is Hell]]!
** In "Who Shot Mr. Burns: Part 1", [[SoundEffectBleep the church organ chord used to censor]] Homer's AtomicFBomb is an F minor chord.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', there is a running gag where several villains are never actually named, but they are very obvious visual puns. So we have an evil boy genius with a see-through plastic cranium, but never actually called "Brain Child". Or the man dressed as someone's granny, obsessed with stealing inventions is never called "The mother of invention".
** ''The Tick'' is pretty famous with this trope for villain names like Chairface Chippendale, a chair faced in a tuxedo (Chippendale is also the name of a furniture) and Milton Roe. Milt means fish sperm and Roe means fish eggs.
* Surprisingly, ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' does this at one point: despite the series' tendency towards the incredibly lame pun, the Mayor's secretary is referred to only as "Miss Bellum." Given her brain capacity relative to that of the Mayor, it's not hard to guess what her first name is... [[spoiler:Sara.]]
** They have stated her name at least once. However, it was in fact [[spoiler:Sara.]]
** The Mayor is so old his first secretary must have been [[spoiler:Antebellum.]]
** Also, Him looks like {{Satan}} and dresses like [[RougeAnglesOfSatin Santa Claus]]. He also has claws. This is never commented on directly.
** Him [[spoiler:IS Satan...]]
** The septic truck in "Down N' Dirty" [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/_Dirty.jpg is full of it.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', "Deep Cover for Batman": Batman thinks he may have found an ally in The Scarlet Scarab based on a conversation he heard, but it turns out to just provide misdirection, meaning that the ''Scarlet'' Scarab was a RedHerring.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
-->'''Hayley:''' You have angina[[note]]This is a real disease[[/note]].\\
'''Francine:''' Which according to Dr. Natterson sounds like vagina... I don't know about that, but he's the doctor.
** Another episode has a secondary story revolving around bees. What's another term for "[[TwoLinesNoWaiting secondary story]]"?
** Another episode has an extremely stealth one. When Francine takes an elevator down a shaft Stan built in his house to find Oliver North's gold, Francine comes across a donkey. Stan later says that he was all alone in the hole with only the donkey. A shaft, and a donkey. Whats another name for a donkey in a shaft? An ass in a hole, hence [[DontExplainTheJoke an asshole]].
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', the scene after greeting Suki in a robe, under candlelight, a rose in his mouth, Sokka is seen wearing a flower necklace -- [[spoiler:he got lei'd]].
** [[spoiler:And Suki got deflowered]].
** In "The Ember Island Players", a bad in-universe reenactment of the series thus far, the audience starts falling asleep during the sequence with the drill. It's ''boring''.
** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the Waterbender twins Desna and Eska cover their boots in frozen water to slide down a mountainside. That's right, they made [[spoiler: ice skates]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In "Holy Crap", [[StrawAtheist Brian]] and [[TheFundamentalist Francis]] get into an argument about God that ends with Francis beating Brian with the Holy Bible. [[spoiler: He's a literal Bible-thumper.]]
** In "Road to the Multiverse", Stewie and Brian go to a Disney universe, and this universe's Joe is a coffee pot. Joe. Coffee.
** In "Model Misbehavior", Lois becomes a model and walks into the Drunken Clam dressed up. After all the guys make (incredibly lame) puns about her, Joe tells her to take her jacket off. Eventually, all the guys in the bar are shouting a chorus of "jacket off, jacket off". Or, if you listen to it correctly, [[spoiler:jack it off]].
** In the episode, "Grimm Job", Peter, in a parody of Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk, picks up a newspaper and reads, "Mary Davis gives birth to... lamb?!" In other words: [[spoiler: Mary had a little lamb.]]
** An excellent one in "Road to Germany". The nazi scientists displays their impressive collection of [[ThoseWackyNazis "Wan hundred luftballoons"]]. [[Music/{{Nena}} Then one goes pop.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has one of the first type in the episode "Can I Keep Him?" While fighting Johnny Rancid's new "pet", Rancid remarks that the beast is "kicking [Robin's]--", and is then interrupted by two green hooves to the gut. One shot later, it is revealed that Beast Boy has, indeed, [[spoiler:turned into an ass.]]
** Cyborg is incredibly good at video games. Why wouldn't he be? He's a [[ComputersAreFast computer player]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Karate Island", one of the enemies is named "The Tickler". He also happens to be French. Making him... [[spoiler:a French Tickler]].
** In "Pranks A Lot", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick use a can of invisible spray to disguise themselves as ghosts and scare many citizens of Bikini Bottom. The final guy who shouts out "Ghost!" in fear is shown sitting on the toilet. Get it?! [[spoiler:They scared the shit out of him!]]
** In ''The Chaperone,'' when Mr. Krabs suggests that Pearl take [=SpongeBob=] to the prom.
-->'''Pearl:''' The frycook?? Do you know what that'll do to my complexion? People will mistake me for a planetarium!\\
'''Krabs:''' What do you mean?\\
'''Pearl:''' I... don't know. [[note]](She'll have so many zits, she'll look like a star chart.)[[/note]]
** In "Hooky", fishing hooks are depicted as a [[GRatedDrug G-Rated Drug]]. You can "get hooked" on them.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', the TeamPet is a fly named Zipper. The fact that this is a pun is never brought up.
* Late in the third season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'', Ben's antagonists consisted largely of aliens that resembled Universal/Hammer horror monsters, and he gained the ability to become each of them. First was a werewolf, which he cleverly named [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} Benwolf]]. (Insert Gwendel joke here.) Next, a mummy, which was called Benmummy in the credits. The third villain, Dr. Vicktor, turned out to be a Frankenstein's Monster pastiche. The credits called the resulting transformation Benvicktor, avoiding the more obvious choice: [[spoiler:[[Creator/BenStein Benstein]]]].
* In the third season of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', Kevin ends up [[ShapeshifterModeLock stuck]] in a composite form, with various body parts made out of various materials, from metal to crystal. In particular, everything from his groin down is made of [[spoiler:wood]].
* For years, the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' got away with showing Yakko getting lunchmeat shoved down the front of his trousers, while all three Warners sang "there's bologna in our slacks". Yep, they played "Hide the Sausage" in full view on a kid's show...
** An even clever one. The Warner siblings are referred to as the "Warner Bros. The period at the end is also called a "Dot", which explains the sister's name.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** The head editor of the dictionary in "The F Word" is [[Series/{{Webster}} Emmanuel Lewis]].[[note]]"Webster's" is the name of a highly popular dictionary, and Emmanuel Lewis was famous for starring in a 1980s sitcom named ''Webster''.[[/note]]
** In "Tsst", Eric's egotistical behavior becomes too much for Mrs. Cartman to handle. When reality TV shows like ''Nanny 911'' and ''Series/SuperNanny'' fail to subdue him, it is Cesar Millan the Dog Whisperer who shows Cartman that not everyone is willing to put up with his crap. That's right, the episode implied that Cartman is a "son of a bitch".
** The character Butters' last name is "Stotch" making his name Butters Stotch (Butterscotch) but he is rarely, if ever, called by both (his real full name [[AerithAndBob "Leopold Stotch"]] even moreso). Usually, it's either first or last name only.
** "Raising the Bar": Creator/JamesCameron, director of 1997's ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'', ventures deep underwater to find and raise the mythical "bar", à la ''Literature/RaiseTheTitanic''.
** "The Problem With a Poo" is a DoubleMeaningTitle. It refers to how Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo's reception in South Park gradually becomes soured, but it also refers to [[spoiler:the CrossoverPunchline with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' at the very end of the episode, which indirectly references the infamous documentary, Creator/HariKondabolu's ''The Problem With Apu'']].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "It's Only a Paper World," the title characters attempt to TakeOverTheWorld by building a life-sized replica of the planet Earth out of paper-mâché and luring the population onto it so they can rule the real Earth without interference. All the music in the episode is based on themes from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9: [[spoiler:otherwise known as the New World symphony]].
** Similarly, an episode dealing with the art world used themes from Mussorgsky's [[spoiler:Pictures At An Exhibition]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Peter hears a radio informing everyone about an attack by Sandman at the harbor. Then it says: "Now for an oldie but a goodie by the Chordettes" before the next scene. One of the Chordettes' most famous songs? '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDXT7wC9jrc Mr. Sandman]]'''.
** Also, Sandman is trying to steal The Urn of Morpheus.

** ''WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs'' has one that doubles as a VisualPun--the "screaming line drive."
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' actually subverted this once. They find an injured bird, nurse it back to health, and Butthead sends it on its way by flipping it into the air. Beavis then takes the stealth out of the pun by telling him [[spoiler:"Hey, Butthead. You flipped the bird."]]
* [[GenkiGirl Maggie]] the housefly's older brother in ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'' is named Aldrin... for "Buzz" Aldrin.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' shows that the characters are divided as a result of their relationship issues. This would seem to imply that the gang is [[LetsSplitUpGang splitting up.]]
** In "Horror of the Hodag", Shaggy feels neglected because Scooby found a girl dog named Nova that he likes--much the same as he had done to Scooby when he was dating Velma. When he tells Velma this, she comments that "Payback, thy name is Nova." In other words, [[spoiler:payback is a bitch.]]
** And let's not forget "Mr. E".
* A French stealth pun for ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': the Havresac. It's a real word (haversack in English), but Ruel's is also a bag (''sac'') which provides a haven (''havre'') for the heroes.
* There's a Polish cartoon called ''Generał Italia''. [[spoiler:Abbreviated to the title and it's Gen. Italia.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', [[{{Satan}} Lucius Heinous I-VI]] have all been [[HumanPopsicle frozen alive]] by their sons. So basically, {{Hell}} freezes over.

* In RealLife, early computers had names like ENIAC, EDVAC, and UNIVAC. In the ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' side feature, "Peabody's Improbable History", the time machine is called the WABAC ('cause they go "way back" in time).
** Speaking of ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'', Boris Badenov's name was an allusion to Pushkin's play ''Boris Godunov''. The name is lampshaded in one story arc's next-episode titles: "Don't Make It Worse, It's Badenov."
* "Ex Marks the Spot," the penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', opens with Larry behaving unusually happily, as if [[DidYouJustHaveSex basking in the afterglow of...something]]. He stuffs a turkey full of gravy until it overflows, then tops the dish with a cherry...which sinks into the gravy never to be seen again. In other words, Larry has [[spoiler:just lost his cherry]].

* There were two instances of a Griffin named Merv who had a talk show in cartoons:
** The first was in "Hamelot," a ComicStrip/USAcres segment of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', where Merv was voiced by Creator/FrankWelker, and he was interviewing the farm cast (who were imagined as knights).
** The second was in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'', where Creator/MervGriffin ''himself'' played his animated, mythological counterpart as he interviewed Herc. A CastingGag that went into ParentalBonus and ''literal'' MythologyGag perhaps?
* The WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} "WesternAnimation/PlutosJudgementDay", which is about WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}} imagining himself going to hell after being scolded by MickeyMouse for chasing a cat. Pluto is actually the name of the Roman god of the underworld, as well as [[PlutoIsExpendable the former ninth planet]] in which the dog got his name from.

* Done ever so discreetly in ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' during the episode "The Eds Are Coming". Once Ed emerges from the radiant goo, Kevin has a soapbox moment upon a soap box--as is the origin of the phrase.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'', Morty Storkowitz remarks that he went to school with a peacock who [[Creator/{{NBC}} went into television]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Vacation", Chuckie can be seen running on a roulette wheel. In other words, [[spoiler:it's rushing roulette.]]
** Tommy and Dil Pickles' mother Didi [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rugrats_characters#Adult_characters is Jewish]], making the children kosher Pickles.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Access Denied" has Mordecai and Rigby trying to get into a club called "The Box". They get into the club by [[spoiler:thinking outside The Box.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Headhunters", at one point, when Dipper and Mabel are in a biker-bar-type establishment, they pass by a man with a [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7uxj6vwAb1qciqjmo1_500.png cat drawn on one palm]]. Said fellow is hitting it with his other hand, so you could say that he's [[spoiler:pounding pussy]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/RecessTakingTheFifthGrade'', Spinelli tells [[{{Jerkass}} Becky]] that she hopes her classes are at obedience school. That is to say, she was calling her [[spoiler:[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a bitch]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Penny is a peanut, and she has antlers. She's a [[spoiler:doe-nut]].
** Penny is also Gumball's girlfriend. What does it take to buy a gumball? A penny.
* On ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', Linda and Gale help Gene write a song about gravy -- "It's a gravy boat, not a navy boat..." They end up rolling with the latter idea and singing about "[[spoiler:sailors]] in your mouth." [[spoiler:(Why, what were ''you'' expecting?)]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', the bots and Cody are discussing what to watch for movie night. Chase's preference? "I vote for an action film. Preferably with high-speed pursuits." Meaning he enjoys a good [[spoiler: ChaseScene]].
* One that requires a little bit of backstory occurs in [[WesternAnimation/EekTheCat Eek! the Cat]]. Eek's girlfriend was a pink cat named Annabelle. A running gag in the show was that she was the largest character in the show, and everyone but Eek noticed. This was a bit unlike her original voice actress, who had at one time been an actress, [[{{Music/Whitesnake}} music video girl]], and general sex symbol. So there's some irony there, sure, but plenty of people play characters that they have nothing in common with. Only people who read the credits get this joke's punchline: simply put, Annabelle was a fat cat, but her voice actress was played by a [[{{Music/Whitesnake}} Tawny]] [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY Kitaen]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Return to the Nightosphere" begins with Finn and Jake [[WhatDidIDoLastNight waking up with no recent memory]] in a cage full of bananas. Turns out the demon jailer ''[[SolidGoldPoop pooped them]]'' out of his ears. [[spoiler:Shit was bananas, yo.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'':
** One of the ImagineSpot songs has Pepper Clark [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper dressed up as a doctor]] for a doctor-themed 80's-style jam.
** The episode "Gailbreak!" involves an attempt to break Zoe's sister (also a dog, of course) out of Largest Ever Pet Shop's day camp. [[spoiler:It turns out that it wasn't Gail at all, making the episode a ShaggyDogStory.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "April Moon," a villain whose wrists and knees have been replaced with chainsaws cuts open a door. He cuts the door three times - two form a cross, and the third is a diagonal inward slash beneath the cross - the Japanese symbol for "Sa."
* In chapter two of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', Wirt and Greg find themselves in trouble when they run through a pumpkin field and accidentally ruin some of the crop. Basically, they were [[spoiler:[[Music/TheSmashingPumpkins Smashing Pumpkins]]]].
* In "WesternAnimation/YoungJustice" during the final seasons, the Green Beetle of Mars is introduced, his real name is B'arzz O'oomm [[spoiler: A DC comics Martian style name based on Barsoom, the name for Mars used by the natives of Mars in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jon Carter of Mars Books and their sequels]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' episode, "Runaway Pride at Lightstation Kilowatt", after Zidgel shoves Kevin aside so that he can activate the equipment, he says, "All it needed was one big jerk!" [[spoiler:Basically, he's saying he's a JerkAss.]]
* In the ''[[Film/{{Descendants}} Descendants: Wicked World]]'' episode "Pair of Sneakers", Mal and Freddie Facilier are searching [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Dr. Facilier's]] shop for a jewel that belonged to Maleficent. One of the places they search is in a mobile hanging from the ceiling with bat-shaped figures on it. In other words, it's a [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} bat mobile.]]]]

** Season six introduced a new villain as Dr. Venture's primary archenemy. Since he is very large, has a blowhole, and uses a unified cetacean theme, it's natural to assume that his name is spelled "Wide Whale". If you pay very close attention, however, you'll spot that it's actually "Wide ''Wale''", which is a variety of corduroy fabric. His suit appears to be made of it.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}}'' shouts out to a lot of metal bands by naming people and places after them, but the episode "Dethtroll" has an especially stealthy example. The band inadvertently wake a troll sleeping in a lake by playing an ancient Finnish song. So it was a {{Music/Finntroll}}.
* In the [[WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex Generator Rex]] episode "Frostbite", the group takes a trip to a remote base called Paradise, which was destroyed by the end of the episode by an E.V.O. In other words, [[Literature/ParadiseLost Paradise was lost]].
* The plot of the [[WesternAnimation/MoralOrel Moral Orel]] episode "Grounded" revolves around Orel electrocuting himself.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' has Bartleburt, a ghost stump librarian. It's very fitting, seeing how he's [[spoiler: a dead tree]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
** In Episode 18, Kaeloo gets mad at Mr. Cat for [[spoiler: robbing a supermarket]] and winds up HulkingOut. After this, she starts biting him repeatedly offscreen. She's "chewing him out".
** The non-anthropomorphic sheep who appear in the show believe everything that Mr. Cat tells them. They're not only literal sheep, but they're also "sheep", as in they're easily influenced.
** In Episode 83, Mr. Cat decides to lie to Quack Quack to ruin his relationship with Eugly, and he slithers onto the couch on his belly instead of walking towards it. He was being a ''literal'' snake.
** One episode shows Quack Quack and Eugly playing badminton with Olaf as the birdie. Olaf is a penguin, making him a literal "birdie".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'':
** A RunningGag in involves a Chinese restaurant that gives out a papier-mâché duck filled with "sweet-and-sour sauce." The other name of "sweet-and-sour sauce" is never mentioned.
** There's a global internet search engine called "10^100", i.e. [[Website/{{Google}} Googol]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', one recurring background character is a Corgi in a sweater. In other words, she's a [[spoiler: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardigan_Welsh_Corgi Cardigan Welsh Corgi]]]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters'', Superman was found by a family of undocumented migrant workers instead of the Kents. In other words, Superman is an illegal alien.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Before she became [[ShockAndAwe Livewire]], Leslie Willis was a controversial radio host who wasted no opportunity to insult Superman. [[spoiler: She was a ShockJock.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' features the ambitious warmonger and Renegade leader Cy-Kill, who suffers from a fairly obvious PunnyName already because he transforms into a motorcycle. What's never outright stated is that his brutal methods mean that he is literally [[spoiler:a vicious cycle]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'' Episode; "D-Factor", Dylan gets paint dunked on him, causing him to snap. Many will quickly pick up on this being a Homage to "''{{Literature/Carrie}}''", but the Homage continues when Dylan begins making quips about those laughing at him; or, in other words, he "burns" them.
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'': During one of the group's attempts to break up Cadpig and Mooch in "My Fair Moochie", Lucky sets up a bogus ring toss booth while dressed as an old-timey boardwalk ''bark''er.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Wing it like Witchs" has two of these regarding Amity:
** When Amity initially turns down the offer to play Grudgby with the others and instead [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere takes off running]] after [[CovertPervert openly fantasizing about Luz]], Luz just says "Well I guess she’s [[TransparentCloset out.]]"
** Amity tells a backstory about Grudgby and how she left the sport, which ends with her falling on her ''back''.

** The show's creators have openly admitted to reading this very site, and a handful of these refer to trope pages. For example, in one {{Elseworld}} episode, [[spoiler:Isabella carries around business cards of various archetypes -- {{Ingenue}}, [[AdventurerArchaeologist Amateur Archaeologist]], DamselInDistress, et cetera. The last one she gives reads"Dirty Double Crosser"]], making her a literal CardCarryingVillain.

** When Amity initially turns down the offer to play Grudgby with the others and instead [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere takes off running]] after [[CovertPervert openly fantasizing about Luz]], Luz just says "Well, she’s [[TransparentCloset out.]]"

** When Amity initially turns down the offer to play Grudgby with the others and instead [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere takes off running]] after [[HormoneAddledTeenager openly fantasizing about Luz]], Luz just says "Well, she’s [[TransparentCloset out.]]"

* In the ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatianStreet'' Episode; The D-Factor, Dylan gets paint dunked on him, causing him to snap. Many will quickly pick up on is a reference to {{Literature/Carrie}}, but the Homage continues when Dylan begins making quips about those laughing at him; or, in other words, he "burns" them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did it a couple of times with the limerick about the man from Nantucket. For the record, "There once was a man from Nantucket[[spoiler:/Whose cock was so long he could suck it/And he said, with a grin/As he wiped off his chin/"If my ear were a cunt I would fuck it!.]]"
** "The" limerick? [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_once_was_a_man_from_Nantucket There are dozens with that starting line.]]
** Once:
-->'''Barney:''' ''(doing handsprings)'' [[MajorGeneralSong I am the very model of a modern major general!]]\\
'''Homer:''' That's nothing! ''(doing cartwheels)'' There once was a man from Nantucket, who... D'oh! ''(runs into wall)''
** And again:

** And again:

** Another instance not using the man from Nantucket limerick, maybe even being a parody of its usage, comes in an episode where Krusty the Clown is giving Homer an old trampoline of his and talks about dirty limericks ("There once was a man named Enis...").
*** So WHO had the most limericks written about them -- was it the man named Enis, or the woman from Regina?

** In another episode, Homer gets lost in a corn field, and the family sends the dog to help. The music that plays is [[spoiler:"Freak on a Leash" by Music/{{Korn}}]].

--> '''Bart''' (watching his pet frog): Ah, the life of a frog. That's the life for me.
--> ''Marge enters the room and asks if Bart would like to go to France.''