"Well, a lot of times, a family is just a bunch of people who are forced to be together just because they came out of each other. But, every so often... a miracle happens."
— Rev. Putty, Moral Orel
Ink on cels with a prerecorded voice track, or characters generated on a computer... who knew they could be so moving?
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Disney
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Nickelodeon
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- Star Trek: Prodigy
- El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
- T.U.F.F. Puppy
- The Wild Thornberrys
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- The 3 Little Pigs: The Movie
- 3-2-1 Penguins!
- 6teen
- 9
- The Addams Family (1992)
- Adventures in Zambezia
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues
- The Adventures of Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
- The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
- The Adventures of Tintin (1991)
- Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
- Albert the Fifth Musketeer
- Alfred J. Kwak
- All Dogs Go to Heaven
- Allegro non Troppo
- Alpha and Omega
- Alvin and the Chipmunks
- The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
- American Dad!
- American Dragon: Jake Long
- An American Tail
- Anastasia
- Angela Anaconda
- Angel's Friends
- The Angry Birds Movie
- Angry Birds Stella
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- The Animals of Farthing Wood
- Animalympics
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- Annabelle's Wish
- Antz
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Arcane
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- Archie's Weird Mysteries
- Arlo the Alligator Boy
- Around the World with Willy Fog
- Arthur
- Arthur Christmas
- Atomic Betty
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- Avengers Assemble
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
- The Awesomes
- Back to the Outback
- Balto
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- Barbie: A Fairy Secret
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- Barbie & The Diamond Castle
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- Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
- Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
- Barbie as Rapunzel
- Barbie Fairytopia
- Barbie in the Nutcracker
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- Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses
- Barbie: Mariposa
- Barbie: Mariposa and the Fairy Princess
- Barbie of Swan Lake
- Barbie: The Pearl Princess
- Barbie in Rock 'n Royals
- The Batman
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- Batman: Bad Blood
- Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts
- Batman Unlimited: Mechs Vs. Mutants
- Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Beast Wars
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- Big Hero 6: The Series
- Big Mouth
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- Bluey
- Bob's Burgers
- Bojack Horseman
- Bonkers
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- The Book of Life
- The Boys: Diabolical
- The Boondocks
- Bravestarr
- The Breadwinner
- Bump in the Night
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
- Caillou
- Capitol Critters
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
- Care Bears
- Carmen Sandiego
- Castlevania (2017)
- A Cat in Paris
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- A Charlie Brown Christmas
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- Coco
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- Color Classics
- C.O.P.S. (1988)
- Count Duckula
- Creature Comforts
- The Critic
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- The Cuphead Show!
- Cyberchase
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- Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
- Dan Vs.
- Daria
- DC Animated Universe
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- All-Star Superman
- Batman: Assault on Arkham
- Batman: Under the Red Hood
- Batman vs. Two-Face
- DC Showcase: Green Arrow
- Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
- Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
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- ''Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox'
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- Justice League vs. Teen Titans
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- Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
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- Superman vs. the Elite
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- Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
- Wonder Woman
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- Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam
- Dennis the Menace
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- Dinosaucers
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- Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme
- Drawn Together
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- Dragons: Fire & Ice
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- Dreamworks Animation
- Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
- Duckman
- Dungeons & Dragons (1983)
- Edgar & Ellen
- Epic (2013)
- Epithet Erased
- Ernest et Célestine
- Escape from Planet Earth
- Extreme Dinosaurs
- Family Guy
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- The Fantastic Four (1967)
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes
- Felidae
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- FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman
- Fillmore!
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- The Flight Before Christmas
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- Futurama
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- Garfield and Friends
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- Godzilla: The Series
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- Green Eggs and Ham (2019)
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- Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)
H-L
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- Happily Ever After
- Happy Feet
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- Harley Quinn (2019)
- Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats
- Hellboy Animated
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- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)
- Hilda
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- The Hollow
- Holly Hobbie and Friends
- Home (2015)
- Hop
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- Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats
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- How to Train Your Dragon
- HouseBroken
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- Ice Age
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- The Incredibles
- Inside Job (2021)
- Inspector Gadget
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- Iron Man: Armored Adventures
- Isle of Dogs
- It's Such a Beautiful Day
- Jackie Chan Adventures
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- 'Jane and the Dragon''
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- Kitty Is Not a Cat
- Klaus (2019)
- Let's Go Luna!
- Love, Death & Robots
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- The Land Before Time
- The Last Kids on Earth
- The Last Unicorn
- Lavender Castle
- The Legend of Tarzan
- The Legend of Vox Machina
- Legends of Chima
- Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
- Legion of Super-Heroes (2006)
- LEGO DC Comics Super Heroes
- The LEGO Movie
- LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures
- Les Sisters
- Liberty's Kids
- The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus
- Little Einsteins
- The Little Prince (2015)
- Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
- Llama Llama
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- Love, Death & Robots
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M-P
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- Martha Speaks
- Marvel Rising
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- Matt's Monsters
- Maya & Miguel
- Maya and the Three
- Max Steel (2013)
- Mega Man
- Melody Time
- Men in Black: The Series
- Metalocalypse
- Mickey Mouse
- Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
- Mike Tyson Mysteries
- Milo
- Milo Murphy's Law
- Mina and The Count
- Miraculous Ladybug
- Missing Link
- Mission Hill
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines
- Mixels
- Monkie Kid
- Monster Allergy
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- Monsuno
- Moonbeam City
- Moral Orel
- Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge
- Motorcity
- Moville Mysteries
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman
- The Mighty Ducks
- Mummies Alive!
- The Mummy: The Animated Series
- Muppet Babies (1984)
- My Dad the Rock Star
- Mysticons
- Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
- Nightmare Ned
- Ninjago
- ''Noddy's Toyland Adventures'
- The Nutcracker Prince'
- Numberblocks
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- Ōban Star-Racers
- The Octonauts
- Once Upon a Forest
- One Small Step
- Onward
- Open Season
- Oscar's Oasis
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
- Our Cartoon President
- The Owl House
- Packages from Planet X
- Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
- The Pagemaster
- Paradise PD
- ParaNorman
- Paw Paw Bears
- Peanuts
- The Pebble and the Penguin
- Peep and the Big Wide World
- Peepoodo & the Super Fuck Friends
- Peg + Cat
- Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
- Phantom Investigators
- Pingu
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- The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
- Pixar
- Planes
- Planes: Fire & Rescue
- Planet 51
- Planet Hulk
- Pocoyo
- The Polar Express
- Pooh's Grand Adventure
- Pound Puppies (1980s)
- Prep & Landing
- The Proud Family
- Pucca
- Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville
Q-T
- Quack Pack
- Quest for Camelot
- The Raccoons
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
- Rango
- Ready Jet Go!
- The Real Ghostbusters
- ReBoot
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- Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"
- The Return of the King
- Richie Rich
- Rick and Morty
- Rio
- Road Rovers
- Roary the Racing Car
- Robot Chicken
- Robots
- Rock-A-Doodle
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
- Rover Dangerfield
- Ruby Gloom
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Rupert
- Sabrina: The Animated Series
- Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- Sausage Party
- Scaredy Squirrel
- Schoolhouse Rock!
- The Secret Life of Pets
- The Secret of NIMH
- Secret Squirrel
- Shadow Raiders
- Shark Tale
- Shaun the Sheep
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- Sherlock Gnomes
- Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
- Sherlock Yack
- The Simpsons
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
- Sing
- Skyland
- Skylanders Academy
- Slugterra
- Smallfoot
- Smiling Friends
- The Smurfs
- Sofia the First
- Solar Opposites
- Song of the Sea
- Sonic Boom
- Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)
- Sonic Underground
- The Spectacular Spider-Man
- Spider-Man (1967)
- Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series
- Spliced
- The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
- South Park
- Squidbillies
- Static Shock
- Star Trek: The Animated Series
- Star Wars Rebels
- Star Wars Resistance
- Storks
- Storm Hawks
- The Storykeepers
- Strange Magic
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters
- Super Friends
- Superbook (2011)
- The Superhero Squad Show
- Superjail!
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
- The Swan Princess
- SWAT Kats
- The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries
- Tales From The Cryptkeeper
- Tangled
- Taz-Mania
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Teen Titans (2003)
- The Thief and the Cobbler
- Thomas & Friends
- Thor: Tales of Asgard
- Thumbelina
- Thunderbirds Are Go
- The Tick
- Timothy Goes to School
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Todd McFarlane's Spawn
- Tom and Jerry
- Toonsylvania
- Top Cat
- Totally Spies!
- Toy Story
- Transformers
- Trolls
- Trollz
- Trollhunters
- TRON: Uprising
- Trust Me, I'm a Genie
- Tuca & Bertie
- TUGS
- Twelve Forever
- Twinkle Toes
- Twipsy
U-Z
- Ugly Americans
- Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
- Underdog
- Unstable Fables
- Unsupervised
- Vampirina
- VeggieTales
- The Venture Bros.
- Victor and Valentino
- Visionaries
- Viva Piñata
- Vivo
- Voltron
- The Wacky Adventures Of Ronald Mc Donald
- Wakfu
- Wallace & Gromit
- Wayside
- The Weekenders
- What If...? (2021)
- Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?
- Wild Kratts
- Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
- The Willoughbys
- The Wind in the Willows (1983)
- Winnie-the-Pooh
- Wish Dragon
- W.I.T.C.H.
- Wolfwalkers
- Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)
- Wonder Park
- Wonder Woman (2009)
- Woody Woodpecker
- WordGirl
- Wunschpunsch
- Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
- Xiaolin Showdown
- X-Men: The Animated Series
- X-Men: Evolution
- The Year Without a Santa Claus
- Yellow Submarine
- Yin Yang Yo!
- Yogi Bear
- Your Face
- The Zeta Project
- Zig & Sharko
Other examples:
Other Examples
- Avenger Penguins - the Xmas Special has Doom about to demolish the diner that is the meeting-place of many of the show's good guys. As the Penguins watch, the Evil Rival Bikers that they've battled so often roar up. Marlon is furious, believing them to be working as hired muscle for Doom. But then the leader quietly says that they're there to SUPPORT the Penguins and their friends. "We holy fools..." Excuse me, I have something in my eye...
- The beginning of the Exodus in The Prince of Egypt, when — as part of the song "When You Believe" — the departing Hebrew slaves burst into joyous song in their native tongue. Hm. Come to think of it, the whole of "When You Believe". One particularly powerful moment is when the Hebrews pass a couple of Egyptian guards, and the two men drop their spears and begin to walk along with the Hebrews.
- At the end of an episode of Home Movies when they let McGuirk join their pizza club. (After all, he just wants a family...)
- The Christmas Special The Town Santa Forgot tells the story of a greedy boy named Jeremy Creek who writes a really long letter to Santa, requesting every single toy he can think of. When Santa passes him by on Christmas Eve, he is greatly upset at first. The next morning, he finds out from a TV report that the toys he wanted were delivered to a poor swamp town that happens to have the same name as him (which Santa had forgotten to visit previously). When the kids in the swamp town say they want to say thanks to whoever wrote to Santa about them, it makes him feel better than any toy could and teaches him the joy of giving. And that is why The Town Santa Forgot is the best half-hour show to ever come from Hanna-Barbera.
- A musical episode of the Canadian cartoon Kevin Spencer featured Kevin and his fat mother Anastasia leaving their father/husband Percy after they become sick of their crappy home lives. It doesn't go well, with Kevin ending up in an orphanage, Anastasia ending up on the streets after a rich man's attempt to reform her fail miserably, and Percy ends up in jail on drunk and disorderly charges. The Spencers all realize that they're even worse off separate, and so they reunite at the Camel Toe Inn in a rousing song-and-dance finale, knowing that if they're going to be miserable, they might as well be miserable together.
- The end of the Road Rovers episode "Gold and Retrievers" where Oso, a guide dog makes a wish that his blind boy can see again and it comes true. Cue Manly Tears. Also, when Hunter gets reunited with his mom in the last episode.
- This Popeye cartoon.
- Mission Hill had several in its all too brief run. One that really stands out is "Plan 9 From Mission Hill" when Wally sees the joy his cheesy Ed Wood-esque movie was bringing to audiences, after spending the episode deeply embarrassed about it's very existence. The episode is just a wonderful love letter to cinema that is heartwarming in and of itself.
- All wrapped up in the last minute: Wally comes home to find Gus sound asleep in his old costume. Removing the helmet, Wally kisses Gus on the head, and then drifts peacefully off to sleep.
- Stōked has one of these in its second episode, "Another Grom Bites The Dust". When Emma, a girl obsessed with surfing despite having never done it before, realizes that spending the summer working at a surf resort isn't all it's cracked up to be, she gets terribly homesick and consequently has a tearful breakdown in the laundry room. Enter Broseph, who offers to give Emma a surf lesson out on the beach, resulting in this montage
set to Novillero's "The Hypothesist". Her fellow employee Johnny, seeing how nice Emma is compared to one of the other new employees, Martha, decides to switch Emma's bad aptitude test results with Martha's to keep Emma from getting fired.
- Although it might be treading on Glurge territory, there's the cartoon The Enchanted Square
where Raggedy Ann befriends a little blind girl.
- Not a story per se, but the opening of the French educational series
Il était une fois... la Vie starts and ends with possibly one of the sweetest representations of a child's conception. But the second instance is even sweeter considering the context: the two characters involved were already appearing in a previous series (''Il était une fois... l'Espace"), and although it was pretty obvious there was some romantic tension between them, it never got fully resolved. So seeing them loving each other and conceiving a child RIGHT IN THE OPENING OF THE FOLLOWING SHOW is an awwwwww-worthy moment.
- From the Five-Episode Pilot of Gargoyles, Goliath realizes that Elisa has been protecting him all day. No one says anything about it, but it's clear that he's now starting to become open to the idea of trusting humans again.
- In "Mark of the Panther", when Goliath finally starts treating Angela as his daughter.
- At the end of the "Hunter's Moon" arc, when Goliath and Elisa share their first kiss.
- THE IRON GIANT. Not only do we have a great idea on What Measure Is a Non-Human?, but we also get the ultimate Heartwarming Moments, the Giant sacrificing himself not only for his friends, but also the many people who hated him. I am not ashamed to admit that Manly Tears were shed.
- Superman...!
- "I am not a gun."
- The ending where we see the Giant rebuilding himself in the Artic counts as well.
- Even Johnny Test has one of these. In the episode Bath Time For Johnny, Dukey is crying because Johnny forgot his birthday so a squirrel gives him a nut with a candle in it.
- Not to mention how Johnny manages to get an indoor water park for his best friend as a birthday gift.
- In the end of The Critic episode "Lady Hawke," Jay Sherman confesses to his personal assistant Alice Tompkins that he loves her. He gives her a white rose and reads her a poem ("The woman I love will be my best friend. We'll make each other laugh, and I'll never be lonely again. Her name will be Alice, and she'll have a sweet Southern accent, and I hope she'll love me too.") Alice becomes completely touched, and she and Jay share a kiss.
- "She's a super freak! Super freak! She's super freaky! Oh sorry..."
- "Oh Jay, you're the sweetest man who ever called me a super freak."
- "She's a super freak! Super freak! She's super freaky! Oh sorry..."
- In the El Tigre Halloween Episode the Grave Escape, Manny and Frida have just left the land of the dead with the Rivera's ancestors. While the reunion between Rondolfo, Manny, and the other heros and villains, there's obviously some tension between Manny's evil grandpapi, Puma Loco, and Justice Jaguar, his heroic father...(Both are glaring at each other)Jaguar:....(Spitefully) Son.Puma:....(Bitterly) Father.Jaguar: (Tearfully) Son!Puma: (Crying) Father!(They both embrace and cry)
- Just know that fishing metaphor means "I love my son."
- An old MGM cartoon, "Li'l 'Tinker", about a lovesick skunk, has a sweet ending when he finally gets a girl...made very effective coming on the heels of a Tex Avery barrage of horrified reaction gags, insane lust gags, and increasingly morbid "Frank Sinatra is skinny" gags.
- The first chronological appearance of Splinter in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in "Tale of Master Yoshi." Awww ...
- One Jackie Chan Adventures episode has Jackie poisoned with a toxin that's going to slowly petrify him, unless he offers to exchange the Talismans for the antidote -he's refusing to even consider making the deal. Jade is not so accepting of this, and they end up sitting in a park after dark with her almost begging him to make the deal. The phrase "I don't want a boulder for an uncle!" was a lot more heartwarming than it honestly has any right to be.
- When they're not driving each other to distraction (which is most of the time), the Chan family in general tend to pull out a good few CMOH.
- An animated short that hasn't shown up on the internet at all called something along the lines of "Seven Wishes" is about a girl named Jenny who is given a magical flower with seven petals and she gets seven wishes. There's a series of adventures in it, and throughout the short she teases a kid named Victor who is sitting on a bench in the park reading, which Jenny finds weird because it's a perfectly good day outside. Series of adventures, she has just one wish left and comes back one last time to tease him. Victor has enough and decides to go home, so he closes his book...then pulls out a pair of crutches from underneath the bench and begins to walk home on those. Jenny then uses her last wish.Jenny: I wish...for Victor to be healthy again.
- One episode of Lloyd in Space shows a flashback to when Lloyd was a kid and had a crush on Alpha Bitch Brittany. In the flashback Brittany catches him carving "Lloyd loves Brittany" into a tree and he runs off crying. In the episode Brittany gets hit with a love beam that causes her to fall desperately in love with Lloyd but near the end of the episode she takes him to the tree with the initials and pulls the branches back to reveal she's written Brittany loves Lloyd too.
- Any time it's made apparent just how much Maurice means to King Julien in All Hail King Julien. When Julien thinks he's dying and sets out to make amends with everyone he's wronged, all of his apologies are half-hearted or just plain bad, but then he gets to Maurice and delivers a completely sincere apology for being himself that causes Maurice to start crying.
- In Your Face, a Plympton cartoon, the first thing that happens is that the man's mouth flies off of his face like a butterfly. The surreal tone is maintained throughout. The song is a gentle love ballad about how much the singer adores their lover and their lover's beautiful face. This accompanies a man's face morphing and twisting and flipping itself in innumerable bizarre ways.