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10	->''"I'd like to thank the raccoon for channeling the audience's reaction."''
11	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''' on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}''
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13	Turning to an animal, wild or pet, for a ReactionShot to a comedy moment. Sometimes included in a series of such shots from the humans in the room. Commonly used as a way to revitalize a dying joke.
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15	Occasionally accompanied by an InnerMonologue or subtitled animal noises. The animal in question usually says something entirely unlike what the human character believes it is thinking.
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17	See also EvenTheDogIsAshamed. SubTrope of both ReactionShot and TheTake.
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19	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Advertising]]
24	* There's a series of commercials for a pickup truck so awesome that all who lay eyes on its magnificence involuntarily drop their jaws - from people, to other trucks (their tailgates fall open), to a bear who drops a fish right out of its mouth.
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'': When Tina reveals the cage she bought for the ferret, which she decorated with gaudy ribbons and baubles, the ferret actually ''hisses'' at the sight of it.
29	* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Ein the corgi in gets to give a few reaction shots, usually (apparently) disapproving of his human companions' behavior. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to any crew member but Ed, Ein is a sapient "data-dog."]]
30	* ''Manga/DrSlump'': A bear that grew up in the Zoo is so awe-struck by a natural mountainscape, he briefly [[ArtShift becomes photorealistic]].
31	* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'': Menchi did this an awful lot.
32	* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': When America goes {{Tsundere}} on England and turns him down, a whale [[FriendToAllLivingThings that USA has just befriended]] gets a sad look in the background.
33	* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': After Maki hits Todo in the face with a baseball during the second day of the Goodwill Event, every single player in both teams (barring Yuji, who tries to tend to him) says "Nice pitch!". Megumi's black Divine Dog only barks, but it's easy to guess he's saying it, too.
34	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'': A jungle python does this upon spotting Zeon mobile suits and promptly slithers away.
35	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Happens at one point in the manga -- perhaps a self-parody, given the number of reaction-shot-montages that had been in the series at that point.
36	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
37	** Usopp adopts a secret identity of Sogeking. Aside from Luffy and Chopper, ''everyone'', including a little girl's pet, recognize Usopp for who he is immediately.
38	** When Buggy is imprisoned, his crew is shown crying in grief. Richie the lion is also crying, although a thought-bubble over his head shows that he is thinking of food.
39	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Fairly common, since the titular creatures are usually out of their Poké Ball to witness anything that would gander their reaction. The most infamous is [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/surprised-pikachu Pikachu's surprised reaction]] in "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village", where Pikachu gives a rather distant blank reaction in the background after seeing Bulbasaur trounce both Ash and Misty's Pokémon.
40	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': It is somewhat of a RunningGag to have some animals (mostly birds) gets googly-eyed and weirded out by whatever antics the human characters are indulging in, to lampshades the silliness. One stand-out is the eel that Ranma is carrying when attacked by Ryōga, who looks freaked out by the ensuing JuggleFu with its fishbowl.
41	* ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'': Shino and Aria are fond of making double entendres, which are typically reacted to with disapproval by Tsuda and Suzu. But when they are on a class trip without their straight men, they notice that it feels awkward with no one to respond. Until they feed a deer and compliment its "tongue technique", whereupon all the other deer look at them with a SweatDrop.
42	* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': During the ''Calibur'' arc in the second season of the anime adaptation, Silica's tiny dragon Pina cries his agreement to everyone's "It's a trap".
43	* Yoji Kuri's segment in ''Anime/WinterDays'' has a frog react to the couple's lovemaking by [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere jumping into the water]].
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46	[[folder:Fan Works]]
47	* ''Fanfic/AndrogyninjasADropOfPoison'': When Sakura bites Ino during their preliminary match, Akamaru gets a moment to show how much he appreciates her 'fighting like an Inuzuka'.
48	* Parodied on ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' with the "dramatic chipmunk".
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51	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
52	* Snowy has demonstrated one of these in the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011''.
53	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': Angus serves as silent and slightly sarcastic commentary throughout the film.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'': When Emmet asks Wyldstyle for an explanation of what they're doing in the Old West, Wyldstyle groans and her horse rolls its eyes and snorts before she tries to explain their mission. They do it again after Emmet admits he wasn't paying attention to her explanation.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'':
56	** When the language barrier is overcome by what looks like natural magic and Pocahontas "listening with her heart", Meeko the raccoon and Flit the hummingbird both perform a JawDrop.
57	** Later, some owls [[LamePunReaction exchange looks]] when Grandmother Willow makes a {{pun}}.
58	* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'': Throughout the movie, one [[RunningGag particular cat]] appears whenever drama ensues, always reacting by covering their mouth with one paw and going [[OhNoYouDidnt "oohh!"]]
59	* Done to death in ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', but special mention to TheReveal of the titular city -- Tulio, Miguel, ''and Altivo the horse'' all gasp and whisper "El Dorado!" simultaneously.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': Arriving in Far Far Away, Princess Fiona and her new husband are welcomed by a crowd, notably with the release of a flock of doves. Getting out of the carriage reveals they are a pair of ogres, though, inspiring everybody to gasp and gawk... including one of the doves, who is so distracted it slams face-first into a wall and thuds to the ground in front of the king and queen's feet.
61	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie''.
62	-->'''Santa's Little Helper:''' I did things no dog should do, they will haunt me forever.\
63	'''Bart:''' I love you too.
64	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'':
65	** Played straight with Pascal when Rapunzel figures out that the crown goes ''on her head'', apparently hinting that she is the lost princess. Pascal gapes and his mouth gets huge, then he closes his mouth and shakes his head in disapproval.
66	** [[CoolHorse Maximus]] the horse gets plenty of these as well.
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69	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
70	* Used in the French movie ''Film/AsterixAndObelixMissionCleopatra'' when Cleopatra announces her palace will be built in three months. Most of the people in the scene get a reaction shot and mutter "Three months?", including a kitten whose meow sounds close to the word "month".
71	%%* The ending scene in ''The Backup Plan''.
72	%%* The Tom Hanks movie ''Film/TheBurbs'' has one of these.
73	* In ''Film/GalaxyQuest'', there's the dog who gets confused when the limousine is beamed up into space.
74	%%* Used a lot in ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy''.
75	* In ''Film/TheHangover Part III'', Alan obtains a giraffe and is happily driving down the freeway, towing the giraffe on a cart behind him. His car approaches an overhead bridge - cue the giraffe flapping its ears back in panic.
76	* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', Harry and Ron are flying a car to Hogwarts with Hedwig in the back seat. They all see a train about to crush them and react with alarm. Including Hedwig.
77	* ''Film/IAmCuriousYellow'': Lena and Borje have sex in a tree, of all places (it's a big tree, supposedly "the biggest tree in Europe"). As they're humping, a cow turns to look, in a shot that is further lampshaded by a big "?" superimposed on the screen over the cow's face.
78	* Occurs with prairie dogs in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' who observe Indy's arrival on a rocket sled.
79	* ''Film/JadeDynasty'': Bi Yao tries to steal the Fire Stick from a sleeping Xiao Fan while a monkey and a dog are in the room. She pushes him out of the way, then he falls on top of her and knocks her down. The camera cuts to the monkey, whose mouth drops open and who makes a disbelieving sound.
80	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
81	** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' infamously used this trope during a chase scene with 007 riding a gondola-hovercraft through the Piazza San Marco, which is greeted by reaction shots from bystanders, including a dog and a pigeon that does a DoubleTake...[[SpecialEffectsFailure poorly]].
82	** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}''. During a CarChase Vijay does a {{Ramprovisation}} jump in a souped-up autorickshaw. Cue a camel doing this trope as the autorickshaw flies over its head.
83	** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''
84	*** After Bond (supposedly) kills Blofeld in the ActionPrologue, he's startled by Blofeld's RightHandCat howling in outrage. Cue TitleSequence.
85	*** In a Las Vegas casino, an elephant trumpets after using its trunk to pull the lever of a one-armed bandit and get a jackpot.
86	* In ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro'', Zorro manages to land his horse on top of a moving carriage train, only to notice that it's about to enter a tunnel. There's a shot of the horse's eyes widening.
87	* In ''Film/MenInBlack'', Edgar the Bug walks up to the front desk in the morgue and rings the bell. After nobody comes, he rings it again, and then a third time, at which point, the shot changes to a cat hissing.
88	* In ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'', when the titular character first enters the hideout of Fagin's thieves, everyone stops talking and stares at him, including an owl.
89	* ''Film/PaperbackHero'': In one scene, Jack's dog puts his head between his paws to show that he dislikes his babysitter's singing voice.
90	* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
91	** Jack the monkey gets several reaction shots. One particular shot, where Jack smiles right as Barbossa explains why [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack They Named the Monkey Jack]], was actually a complete coincidence and a ThrowItIn.
92	** The donkey in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first movie]] gets one. In the Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}, Kevin [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it:
93	--->'''Kevin:''' Oh, animal reaction shots! Is there any funnier shot?
94	* ''Film/TheThinMan'' series: a favourite trick of Asta the dog.
95	* There's an awesome one in ''Film/{{Thor}}'': when Thor goes striding into a pet shop [[FishOutOfWater demanding a horse]], the puppies [[http://i52.tinypic.com/15gec0j.gif look up at him in apparent curiosity]].
96	* The Norwegian teen film, ''Film/TurnMeOnDammit'' opens with a scene where the protagonist's dog watches her lying on the floor, enthusiastically masturbating while listening to a phone sex operator.
97	* ''Film/TheVillain'': Whiskey the horse gets into this territory a few times, such as his watching his "owner" Cactus Jack accidentally create a deadly PowderTrail, and giving a cheerful whinny at the end when [[spoiler:Charming Jones chooses Jack over Handsome Stranger]].
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100	[[folder:Literature]]
101	* Early in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/EqualRites'', the goats watch a wizard go up the mountain. A little later, they look up again. There's nothing on the road, but they still watch it go up.
102	* An early scene in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' gives us the inner thoughts of a fox observing the curiosity of {{hobbits}} sleeping out in the woods.
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105	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
106	* Inverted on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', when the handler of a beagle at a dog show accuses Mac of having reduced his dog almost to tears with his intrusive murder investigation. Cut to the dog's face, which shows no discernible expression whatsoever, indicating that the handler's worries are entirely a delusion brought on by anthropomorphism.
107	* When a joke by Britta falls flat in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS1E22TheArtOfDiscourse The Art of Discourse]]", the goat[[note]]a rival school {{Mascot}} that Troy and Abed stole for Abed's WackyFratboyHijinx checklist[[/note]] gets a reaction shot.
108	* Mocked by Jon Stewart in [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115539&title=tom-selleck this interview]] on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', in which Tom Selleck insists its use in a serious scene in ''Literature/JesseStone: Death in Paradise'' is [[JustifiedTrope justified]].
109	* Lamely done in a Creator/DanielleSteel TV Movie. As a villain attacks the heroine in the stables, the camera [[RapeDiscretionShot pans up and away]] to a horse, reacting with fear at what he's seeing.
110	%%* Happens on ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', with shots of Eddie.
111	* Happens a lot in ''Series/TheGoodies'', most notably in the "Kitten Kong" episode, and in the "Royal Command" episode.
112	* In one challenge on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'', Murr has to pretend to be a zookeeper who quits because he's tired of all the penguin drama. Throughout his diatribe, the cameras repeatedly cut to the penguins who are no doubt confused as to why some guy is yelling at them.
113	* Buck the dog in ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' has many reaction shots, with snarky voice-over thoughts. This continues after he dies and is reincarnated, unbeknownst to the Bundys, as their "new" dog Lucky.
114	* An unplanned one occurred in one episode of ''Series/MythBusters''. As Jamie and Adam got ready for a small-scale test of the "Antacid Jail Break" myth, Jamie's dog Zero can be seen coming down the stairs to the shop, then suddenly stopping. Immediately after that, the glass box they were using for the test shattered. (Post-production and TheNarrator immediately pointed out Zero's apparent savvy.)
115	* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': Mrs. Davis' pet cat Minerva and Mr. Boynton's pet frog Mcdougall occasionally take an interest in people's conversations. For example, in "The Magic Tree," Mrs. Davis' cat Minerva reacts furiously to Miss Brooks' recital of "A Visit From St. Nicholas."
116	-->'''Miss Brooks:''' 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...\
117	'''Minerva:''' MEOW!\
118	'''Miss Brooks:''' Oops. Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you, Minerva.
119	* ''Series/PushingDaisies'': Ned has a dream where his powers suddenly wear off and he and Chuck can touch each other. They start to tear each other's clothes off, and there's a shot of Ned's dog, Digby, holding his paw over his eyes.
120	* In ''Series/SeaMonsters'', there's a scene where one of the titular monsters capsizes Nigel Marven's boat. Immediately afterward, a ''Pteranodon'' that had taken up residence on his boat is seen shrieking in panic.
121	* An episode of ''Series/{{Spaced}}'' begins with the sound of the landlady's daughter Amber (in the flat upstairs) screaming abuse at her mother and storming out, making so much noise in the process that she wakes the whole house. We get close ups of each of the main characters waking up and saying "Amber" in various tones of voice. The sequence ends with a close up of Colin (the dog) waking up and making a noise that sounds very much like "Amber." The subtitle, however, simply says "Woof."
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124	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
125	* Wrestling/TheBigBossMan and Wrestling/AlSnow were put in a cage match surrounded by dogs in the Wrestling/{{W\|orld Wrestling Federation}}WF. To make a long story short, we'll just say it was a bad idea and was never done again since.[[/folder]]
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127	[[folder:Video Games]]
128	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': [[OptionalSexualEncounter Choose to make love with Halsin]], and then let him use Wild Shape to have him morph into a bear before doing the deed, and the camera cuts to a squirrel witnessing everything [[DramaticDrop dropping its acorn in shock]].
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131	[[folder:Web Comics]]
132	* The [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1146318 Grammar Squirrel]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' commenting on a grammatical argument in the previous strip.
133	* Done in [[https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=54#2008-01-18 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip. Particularly notable in that Kiki is normally TooDumbToLive, so when she says, "I'm just a ferret, and even ''I'' know this is going to end badly...", ''that's'' saying something.
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136	[[folder:Web Original]]
137	* The famous viral video of a dramatic pan-in to a prairie dog, in reaction to nothing in particular. Parodied countless times, such as in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''.
138	* Creator/BradJones often uses his [[CuteKitten cat]] Lloyd for this effect, primarily for ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' and ''WebVideo/DVDRHell''.
139	* ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' runs on this trope, especially in the Kittisaurus videos. Put something before seven (later ten) cats and see what they do. Reactions range from surprised, curious, disgusted to outright fearful. And that's before they decide to attack whatever is before them.
140	* WebVideo/{{Phelous}} had a running joke of pointing these out, in which he laughed at the "stupid surprised animal." It started with the "stupid surprised panther" briefly seen in ''Film/{{Anaconda}}''.
141	* ''WebAnimation/UniverseFallsTheSeries'': In episode 6, the introduction of "[[{{Planimal}} Waddlesmelon]]" prompts a reaction shot from the original Waddles that appears to be a mix of "jealous" and "weirded out".
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144	[[folder:Western Animation]]
145	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': [[CanineCompanion Suki]] provides some cute ones, especially when she thinks Molly's "Yes" or "No" remarks on the phone are addressed to her instead.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Season 5, Episode 9 ("Slice of Life") features a scene of Gummy (Pinky Pie's pet crocodilian, who is portrayed as relatively sapient to the mane cast of equines in the series as crocodilians are relative to humans) waxing philosophical with his inner monologue as he watches the Ponyville denizens scrambling to make it to Cranky and Matilda's wedding. The monologue is juxtaposed with the same blank, eye-licking expression Gummy customarily displays, making it a particularly humorous and memorable example.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
148	** At the end of "That's off the Chain", Lindsay goes on her swearing tirade against Heather and we get to see a shot of a loon looking surprised at what Lindsay is saying, just like the other contestants. After Lindsay's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech ends with her calling Heather's shoes tacky, everybody starts laughing, including the loon.
149	** After Heather is disqualified from the competition in "I Triple Dog Dare You", she unleashes a scream of defeat that is loud enough to be heard from Playa de Losers. After that, the scene cuts to a terrified squirrel.
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