History VisualPun / WesternAnimation

** "[[Recap/S3E2DWAllFiredUpIdRatherReadItMyself D.W. All Fired Up]]": D.W. is told the class will have their first fire drill, and immediately imagines a drill that shoots fire instead of using a metal bit. Justified in that she is a 4-year-old kid and has never heard the phrase "fire drill" before.
** "[[Recap/S3E14MomAndDadHaveAGreatBigFightDWsPerfectWish Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight]]": Arthur and D.W. have a fantasy sequence in the style of ''Literature/OliverTwist''. It parodies the scene where Arthur as Oliver Twist asks the chef for some more food. The chef obliges by giving him an oar, or "some oar" as he puts it.

** In "12 Angry Hens", Midgel stops the ship due to an actual fork floating in outer space.
* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' where Cindy and Libby host a TV show, Nick announces he's going to comb his hair without his hands and [[DrumRollPlease asks for a drumroll]]. Cue an actual drum rolling across the stage.
* ''WesternAnimation/AbbyHatcher'': When the Squeaky Peepers become sad enough, their fur turns blue so that they're literally and figuratively feeling blue. They also sing the blues.

** In "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS5E22ThePartysOverIslaDeSenorita The Party's Over, Isla de Señorita]]", the Ice King tries to impress/seduce Princess Bubblegum by sneaking into her room with a pot of honey and pouring it on her waffles. [[spoiler:Clearly, he's misunderstood something important about the [[HoneyTrap honey pot]].]]
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', Genie conjures up a sandwich on his head and says, "Hey Al! Lunch is on me!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Shell", after accidentally headbutting Penny the antlered peanut because he's too nervous to kiss her and leaving a crack around her eye hole as a result, Gumball makes a joke about being a nutcracker.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Every single short featuring the Warner Brothers (and sister). For instance, in the first episode, psychiatrist Dr. Scratchansniff tries to make them stop doing this - like, when he says "plant yourselves on the couch", they turn into flowers. "This isn't a joke -- it's a ''visual gag''."
* In the episode "Skorpio" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', when Malory says on the phone "Put a lid on it!", Archer thinks she tells him to get things under control, but in turns out she's just telling Jakov to literally put a lid on his grill because of some pesky seagulls.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode "Arthur's Lost Library Book" Arthur has a nightmare about the library book he lost. In one scene the police surround his house and tell him he can't escape the "long arm of the law". Just then an actual long arm with the sleeve of a judge's robe comes in, grabs him, and pulls him across town to the library.
** In the episode "Mom and Dad Have a Great Big Fight" Arthur and D.W. have a fantasy sequence in the style of ''Literature/OliverTwist''. It parodies the scene where Arthur as Oliver Twist asks the chef for some more food. The chef obliges by giving him an oar, or "some oar" as he puts it.
** In the episode "The Big Riddle" Arthur winds up having a dream where he winds up in a world like ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' where everything is a visual pun. His falling out of the sky produces a "break in the clouds" which the Tibble Twins can't fix because they are "all thumbs". He winds up in the middle of the group's "T" party.
** In the episode "D.W. All Fired Up" D.W. is told the class will have their first fire drill, and immediately imagines a drill that shoots fire instead of using a metal bit. Justified in that she is a 4-year-old kid and has never heard the phrase "fire drill" before.
** In-Universe in the episode "D.W. The Copycat" where the two are watching Bionic Bunny on TV and he uses his brute strength to escape from a crab-villain's clutches, which he calls his "Built-in escape claws".
* Try ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Book 3. Zuko runs into Suki on the way to Sokka's tent. Suki slips away, and Zuko enters Sokka's tent. [[ReadyForLovemaking Sokka was expecting...someone else.]] Zuko leaves, and Sokka calls for Suki. The next morning, Sokka is playing with a [[StealthPun flower necklace]] ([[FantasyCounterpartCulture not dissimilar to]] a ''Hawaiian'' flower necklace). He got leied. (And if you're assuming that Suki gave it to him, then Suki got [[HurricaneOfPuns de-flowered]].)
* ComicBook/TheJoker and Harley Quinn in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** One of the lightest was in "Harley's Holiday", when Harley declared she was armed and promptly hit Bruce Wayne with the arm of a mannequin.
** Also during that episode, a mob boss named Boxy gets his pants torn off by Harley's hyenas, revealing that he's wearing boxer shorts.
** At the very beginning of "Almost Got 'Im", as the assembled villains share theories about who Batman is, Two-Face pours some half-and-half into his coffee.
** At the end of "Trial", after playing judge at a villains' KangarooCourt trial of Batman, Joker attacks Batman while swinging from a rope and announces himself as "the hanging judge".
** In "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne", Two-Face tells the Joker, "Get out of my face, clown!" The Joker replies, "Which one?"
* ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' was loaded with visual gags.
** An example had the Boo Birds serving a hammerhead shark to Cecil. It was a shark with the top of a hammer on its head.
** This was really prominent when they described their journey at the beginning of many episodes. Example: "Okay, men, we've cut through the Sandwich Islands (cut to a map with islands shaped like sandwiches, one of which their boat bisects) and saw the Thousand Islands dressing (cut to a still picture of a bunch of islands in various states of dressing)". And that particular gag ended with them looking at a map of their destination: a large island in the shape of a woman with jungle for skin, a desert for hair, and mountains in the shape of a bikini top and bottom, named "No Bikini Atoll".
* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' saw its title character do this about a dozen times an episode; it's described as a reflex, his powers causing him to transform according to the idioms he uses.

** In "Space Chicken" after someone launches a chicken offscreen, Tilly gasps, "Holy cow!" The scene zooms out to reveal the culprit is Miss Brenda the cow.
** In "Gramma's License", Cricket points out Gramma is so mad, she's even "grinding her teeth." Gramma is then shown grinding her dentures on a grinding wheel.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "The Deepening", a giant mechanical shark breaks through the floor of the restaurant and Bob tries to throw things at it. He ends up literally grasping at a box of straws.
* Similar to the ''Sabrina'' example, in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'', the title character is infected with a 'toon disease called "Literalitis".
* ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'': In "Penny For Your Thoughts", Squishy uttered the pun, simply made a random thought, and a penny fell on him from out of nowhere. Bumpy put all his effort into producing a random thought, but it took him a while to do so.

** In "Banned from the Stand", for example, Gazpacho bans Mung from every other fruit stands (apparently he has the power to do that, according to the "code") and keeps saying "Banned! Banned! Banned!". In the last "BANNED!" we then cut to a shot of a marching band looking at Gazpacho.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' has had two great examples:
** "From Chunk to Hunk":
--->'''Penny:''' (''giving Marty a sheet of paper'') Goodbye Marty. I wrote you a letter. (''Marty sees only the letter P written on the page'') You can read it on the bus.
** "A Song For Margo":
--->'''Hard Copy reporter:''' Tonight on ''Hard Copy'', [[Creator/OJSimpson O.J.]] refuses to speak. (''shows a pitcher of orange juice on the witness stand'') Part 2 tomorrow.

** And similar to the ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' example, Dangermouse is following a series of directions around an underground temple one of which is to take a fork left...after colliding with it he asks "Who left that fork there?"
* The Sketch Artist ComicBook/PlasticMan short for ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' ran on these. The purse snatcher was male? Plas turns into a mail box. Pug nose? Pug dog nose!
* The opening to the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck [[EdutainmentShow educational cartoon]], "WesternAnimation/DonaldInMathmagicLand", shows a forest where trees have square roots.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'':
** Fenton Crackshell (a.k.a. Gizmoduck) had a day job as a literal "bean counter". He would count beans as they fell into jars and tell his assistant how many to add or remove. He could count hundreds of beans accurately in a fraction of a second, so good for him.

** Later, after he'd taken on duties as Gizmoduck, this is a ChekhovsSkill. The money bin is taken to a planet of robots ruled by a malicious supercomputer and its robot army. After trying the Gizmoduck frontal-assault approach, Fenton challenges the computer to a counting contest, winner takes all. And he outpaced the computer easily.
* Thoroughly exercised over the course of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''' run with the goofy but godlike Cosmo and Wanda.

** From [[BizarroEpisode "What's the Difference?"]]:

** From "Mother Nature":

** The one time it was not Cosmo & Wanda it was A.J.'s dad that invoked a visual pun by installing a parental block on the TV, which appears as an actual block with the words "Parental Block" on the screen.
* Many people in Spain remember a series of TV bumpers on TVE[[note]]They were also seen in some Latin American countries[[/note]] in the 1960s called "La Familia Telerín" which would inform the (younger) viewers that they were done showing family shows, and that it was time to go to bed. During the song that appears, the family are seen literally "marching off to bed". Also doubles as a StealthPun.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', after a bit of badly-synced animation, it cuts to Freakazoid saying "Oy, let's watch the lip-sync, okay?", and ''then'' cuts to a clip of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162rSgMysDY a disembodied pair of lips sinking into the ocean]].

** The movie "Bender's Big Score" ushers in their return with a long line of visual puns, where they [[TakeThat take some pretty big jabs at their former network Fox]] in the form of making fun of the "Box Network". Notable ones include them being "on the air" (flying) and a comment about their many fans (their latest job has them delivering fans).
** Another fan pun is in "The Lesser of Two Evils" when a robot strip joint has a (rotary-style) fan dancer.

* Done hilariously in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. Roy buys a voice-activated weather-summoning robot, which starts interpreting all of Roy's insults ("I said ''rain'', you bucket of bolts!") as requests for the items in question to fall from the sky. Roy finds himself on the receiving end of a bucket of bolts and an overgrown vacuum cleaner before he starts running... and narrating. "It's driving me up a ''tree''! I have to get somewhere ''safe''!"
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', as Billy and Mandy are shouting "Mine!" while fighting for possession of Grim, the scene momentarily cuts to show an underwater mine.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'', a critic is coming to inspect the hotel and Mavis claims that a single bad review from them could sink it. Cut to another hotel quite literally sinking into the ground when a fissure forms underneath it.
* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' is ''full'' of them. In one scene, someone tells Mickey "The crowd's turning ugly" and there's a cut to the Queen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' turning into the old witch disguise and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Prince Adam turning back into the beast]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "Cellphone-itis", Beezy, going through cell phone withdrawal, says he's cracking up. His body then breaks like glass and falls, in pieces, on the ground. A similar moment happens in the episode "Scent of a Heinous" where Samy, panicking about Lucius possibly humiliating himself on TV, says he's having a meltdown. He then melts into a pile of green sludge.

** The first episode "Johnny to the Center of the Earth" has Dukey exclaiming, "We're sitting ducks!" with the camera showing Johnny and him sitting in a duck boat.
** In "Princess Johnny", Johnny is pretending to be the missing princess of a small country while agents Black and White find the real one. The princess has a laundry list of royal duties and we are taken through each and every one until he is told "Three O'clock, you must kiss the Royal--" Johnny interrupts and says he's tired, but as the sentence was said, both were looking at a donkey.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Epilogue" used one to do a ShoutOut to another cartoon. Remember the Royal Flush Gang in that episode? Now, remember how one of them was a samurai, complete with Kabuki samurai costume? That's the Jack of the gang. And to make the pun more obvious, when he lost his powers, his real form closely resembled ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' voice actor, Creator/PhilLaMarr. Also, Ten had prehensile cornrows and resembled Creator/BoDerek (from the movie ''Film/{{Ten}}''), Queen reverted to a large ''man'' after the group lost their powers (i.e. he was a drag queen), and King resembled M.O.D.O.K. (a character created by Jack "The King Of Comics" Kirby).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' episode "Yaarp", at one point Stitch and Gantu are trying to catch an experiment at a electronics store:

** In "WesternAnimation/TheDaffyDoc", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is a doctor's assistant and gets kicked out for causing trouble in the operating room.

** In ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'', Daffy instructs his space cadet (Porky Pig) to wipe the smile off his face and to get the lead out. Cue the cadet literally doing both, which is the last straw for Daffy.
** In ''Yankee Doodle Daffy'', besides the "screwball" pun, Sleepy Lagoon[[note]]The "client" that "actor's agent" Daffy is representing.[[/note]] also pulls out pictures that call Daffy a "ham" (a picture of ham[[note]]As in the meat.[[/note]], and his Creator/CarmenMiranda impersonation act "corn"y (a picture of a corn-on-the-cob).

---> (Sung to the tune of "Nanny-Nanny Boo-Boo") "The wabbit kicked the bucket! The wabbit kicked the bucket!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'', while Flapjack and K'nuckles are traveling ''wesssssst'', Bubbie comments that they're running low on food, water, and ''overall enthusiasm''. K'nuckles reveals that he's wearing his last pair of overalls with the word "ENTHUSIASM" on it, accompanied by some really creepy voices singing ''OVERALL ENTHUSIASM OVERALL ENTHUSIASM OVERALL ENTHUSIASM '''YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWW.'''''

** During Rarity's first fashion show in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess "Suited for Success"]], Hoity Toity says Rarity's designs were "a piled-on mishmash of everything but the kitchen sink." [[KitchenSinkIncluded Cut to Rarity kicking a kitchen sink away behind the curtains.]]
** The kitchen sink makes a return appearance amongst Spike's pile of ill-gotten gains in "Secret of my Excess". And among the stuff Sweetie Belle uses to [[ItMakesSenseInContext bar Cheerilee from leaving the dressing room]] in "Hearts and Hooves Day". It returns yet again, but this time in the Pie family's possession in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie "Pinkie Apple Pie"]]. During the song, one of Pinkie's lines is "The love I feel here is swim, not sink" Cue Pinkie throwing a sink out of the kart.
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen "Feeling Pinkie Keen"]], Twilight stops to give a speech about the difference between magic and the Pinkie Sense -- after literally stepping up onto a soapbox that happens to be nearby.
** During Braeburn's tour of Appleloosa in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel "Over a Barrel"]], he points out the horse-drawn carriages, then immediately mentions "horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages" as the camera cuts to several artists sketching out the horse-drawn carriages.
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "MMMystery on the Friendship Express"]]. The griffon chef uses a DramaticSpotlight to show off his eclairs, but suddenly he is shown holding a lamp, which he throws away. Why a lamp? Why not a flashlight?
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel "Magic Duel"]], Trixie turns Spike into a Franchise/DragonBall.
** In "Keep Calm and Flutter on", [[spoiler:Discord sports a second face when telling Fluttershy about how he thinks he's becoming reformed already, implying that he's a two-faced liar]].
** In "Rarity takes Manehattan", Apple'''jack''' stops under a damaged carriage and lifts it off the ground with her back, so that they can repair the broken wheel.

* Weenie from ''WesternAnimation/{{Oswald}}'' is the titular octopus' pet dog. Weenie is a living hot-dog who resembles a Dachshund.

** In the episode "Hide and Seek", Baljeet (who is shrunk at the moment) poses for a picture with a dust bunny. Yeah, it's an actual clump of dust in the shape of a bunny.
** "Picture This" begins with the boys having turned the garage upside-down trying to find Ferb's favorite skateboard.
** In "Meet Max Modem", Doofenshmirtz makes his (attempt at) an impassioned speech standing on a soap box. Phineas does the same thing with a bit more success in "Summer Belongs to You".
** In "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" the two travel to the future and see that "The museum finally added that new wing." The museum has a giant angel wing on it.
** During their pre-flight checklist in "De Plane! De Plane!" Phineas mentions "co-pilot's instruments", and they cut to Ferb standing in front of a bunch of ''musical'' instruments hanging on the wall.
** In "Mommy, Can You Hear Me?" Doofenshmirtz traps Perry in a giant pickle. He then proceeds to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain that it's funny]] because he's "in a pickle."
** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' his alternate dimension self quips that he has one last ace up his sleeve- and he arrives in a GiantMecha of himself, where the control section is in the sleeve. [[DontExplainTheJoke He immediately asks if they get it.]]
** In "Tree to Get Ready", Candace remarks on "all the bells and whistles!" in her new treehouse while she and Stacy pass a wall lined with bells and whistles.
** After being zapped with the Combine-Inator, Candace and her boyfriend Jeremy spend the day joined at the hip.
** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars'', the tractor beam control is represented with an image of the piece of farm machinery.
** In "The Remains of the Platypus", Buford complains, "All right! Who cut the cheese?!", as Baljeet and Ferb are shown cutting a giant block of cheese.
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'': In "The Third Mouse", when Pinky and the Brain are on the Ferris wheel, Pinky says, "One of those dots is waving at us." Cut to Dot Warner (from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'') waving at them. Even though the cartoon is in black and white, her nose is red.
* Sometimes happens in classic ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' shorts. One of the more frequent ones is when Popeye eats his spinach. He is seen appearing to have "muscles on his muscles".
* The ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'' cartoon "Booby Traps" has a female dummy whose breasts turn out to be disguised bombs; i.e. literal 'booby traps'.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Driving Mrs. Wolfe", Rocko is teaching his friend Mrs. Wolfe how to drive and tells her to "always follow the road signs". The first sign they come upon is "SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING" and sure enough, two children are in the middle of the road playing very slowly.
* At least twice in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':

** "The Word of the Day": As they watch ''Miss Carol's Happy House'' at their home and they hear Angelica [[InnocentSwearing using a dirty word she heard Miss Carol use backstage]], Stu, Didi and Lou make the "[[MonkeyMoralityPose hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]" faces.

* Try ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Book 3. Zuko runs into Suki on the way to Sokka's tent. Suki slips away, and Zuko enters Sokka's tent. [[ReadyForLovemaking Sokka was expecting...someone else.]] Zuko leaves, and Sokka calls for Suki. The next morning, Sokka is playing with a [[StealthPun flower necklace]] ([[FantasyCounterpartCulture not dissimilar to]] a ''Hawaiian'' flower necklace). [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar He got lei'd.]] (And if you're assuming that Suki gave it to him, then Suki got [[HurricaneOfPuns de-flowered]].)

** "Princess Johnny" has one that intertwines with GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Johnny is pretending to be the missing princess of a small country while agents Black and White find the real one. The princess has a laundry list of royal duties and we are taken through each and every one until he is told "Three O'clock, you must kiss the Royal--" Johnny interrupts and says he's tired, but as the sentence was said, both were looking at a donkey.

--->'''Hard Copy reporter:''' Tonight on ''Hard Copy'', O.J. refuses to speak. (''shows a pitcher of orange juice on the witness stand'') Part 2 tomorrow.

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** In a later episode, Peter claims to have found out how to kill two bird with one stone. He then pulls out two little birds and crushes them with a big rock.

* Thoroughly exercised over the course of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'''s run with the goofy but godlike Cosmo and Wanda.

** In the episode "The Big Riddle" Arthur winds up having a dream where he winds up in a world like ''Disney/AliceInWonderland'' where everything is a visual pun. His falling out of the sky produces a "break in the clouds" which the Tibble Twins can't fix because they are "all thumbs". He winds up in the middle of the group's "T" party.

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' is ''full'' of them. In one scene, someone tells Mickey "The crowd's turning ugly" and there's a cut to the Queen from ''Disney/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' turning into the old witch disguise and [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Prince Adam turning back into the beast]].

** Another cartoon with Sylvester and Hippity Hopper ends with a dog who [[CassandraTruth refused to believe Sylvester's stories about a "giant mouse"]] encountering Hippty riding in his mother's pouch. The dog runs off with Sylvester and concludes "When you see mice ''that'' big, with ''two heads'', then it's [[NoMoreForMe time to get on the water wagon]]!" Then it zooms out to show the cat and dog are riding on the back bumper of a truck carrying a tank of water (a ''literal'' "water wagon").

** Both "WesternAnimation/HydeAndGoTweet" and "Lighthouse Mouse" have Sylvester, faced with a monstrous bird/mouse, freeze in horror, and then collapse into a pile of cat bits on the floor. The pun is that he's "falling to pieces".

** Also from "Plankton":

** "The Word of the Day": As they watch ''Miss Carol's Happy House'' at their home and they hear Angelica [[InnocentSweaing using a dirty word she heard Miss Carol use backstage]], Stu, Didi and Lou make the "[[MonkeyMoralityPose hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]" faces.

** "The Word of the Day": As they watch ''Miss Carol's Happy House'' at their home, Stu, Didi and Lou make the "[[MonkeyMoralityPose hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil]]" faces.

** "Plankton!" -- When Plankton makes [=SpongeBob=] walk into his kitchen [=SpongeBob=] says "Time for a well-balanced breakfast." before he walks through the wall and out through the fridge with a loaf of bread, a jug of milk and a carton of eggs balanced on his head and he adds "This isn't what I had in mind."

** The Earl of Lemongrab. He himself is a pun on the term "sourpuss"; he looks like a lemon, is obviously a very angry person and his original name in the storyboards was "Lemonsnatch". All of the clothes he wears are grey, so he's also a pun on "Earl Grey Tea".

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'', Genie conjures up a sandwich on his head and says "Hey Al! Lunch is on me!"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Every single short featuring the Warner Brothers (and sister). For instance, in the first episode, psychiatrist Dr. Scratchansniff tries to make them stop doing this - like, when he says "plant yourselves on the couch", they turn into flowers. "This isn't a joke -- it's a ''visual gag.''"

** In the episode "The Big Riddle" Arthur winds up having a dream where he winds up in a world like ''Literaute/AliceInWonderland'' where everything is a visual pun. His falling out of the sky produces a "break in the clouds" which the Tibble Twins can't fix because they are "all thumbs". He winds up in the middle of the group's "T" party.
** In the episode "D.W. All Fired Up" D.W. is told the class will have their first fire drill, and immediately imagines a drill that shoots fire instead of using a metal bit. Justified in that she is a four-year-old kid and has never heard the phrase "fire drill" before.

* ComicBook/TheJoker and Harley Quinn in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

** In "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne", Two-Face tells the Joker, "Get out of my face, clown!" He replies, "Which one?"

* The Sketch Artist ComicBook/PlasticMan short for ''WesternAnimation/DCNation'' ran on these. The Purse snatcher was male? Plas turns into a mail box. Pug nose? Pug dog nose!

** Later on, after he'd taken on duties as Gizmoduck, this is a ChekhovsSkill. The money bin is taken to a planet of robots ruled by a malicious supercomputer and its robot army. After trying the Gizmoduck frontal-assault approach, Fenton challenges the computer to a counting contest, winner takes all. And he outpaced the computer easily.

** From [[BizarroEpisode "What's The Difference?"]]:

'''Gantu:''' Oh, [[ThisIsGonnaSuck blitznak.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Driving Mrs. Wolfe" Rocko is teaching his friend Mrs. Wolfe how to drive and tells her to "always follow the road signs". The first sign they come upon is "SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING" and sure enough two children are in the middle of the road playing very slowly.
%%* Many of the Creator/FleischerStudios and Creator/FamousStudios WesternAnimation/ScreenSongs cartoons from the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 30's, late 1940s and early 1950s]] lived off of this trope.

* A ''[[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Wing Dings]]'' installment has Klunk asking the rest of the Vulture Squadron if they're going to the barn dance. He points to a barn with arms and legs dancing.