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  • In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy shrinks at various points throughout the series, which is lampshaded in "The Incredible Shrinking Town".
  • In The All New Popeye Hour short "The Incredible Shrinking Popeye", Popeye shrinks to the size of a mouse when he's exposed to a weed-shrinking mist in the park. It doesn't affect the flowers he's picked for Olive, who has invited him to dinner at her house.
  • In Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Frylock invents a shrink ray to shrink down a huge microchip, which is eaten by Meatwad. Out of options on how to get the chip out of Meatwad, Frylock gets Shake to shrink him, but Shake abuses the ray for his own amusement.
  • Happens in Arthur several times. First, Buster is scaled down to make him appear tiny on the TV in Buster's imagination. Second, there is a Magic School Bus–esque sequence. And other times, characters imagine they are little in bad dream sequences.
  • The Avenger Penguins episode "Big City Little City" had Caractacus P. Doom use a shrink ray on the Avenger Penguins.
  • Occurs at least twice on Captain Planet and the Planeteers:
    • On the episode "An Inside Job", four of the Planeteers are shrunk by Dr. Blight. The episode becomes a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot when Kwame accidentally drinks them and they must fight parasites inside of him.
    • In "No Small Problem", Sly Sludge shrinks the Planeteers and leaves them in a dump.
  • The Challenge of the GoBots episode "Cy-Kill's Shrinking Ray" had Cy-Kill use a shrink ray on Leader-1, Turbo and Scooter.
  • The Chipmunks:
    • In the episode "Funny We Shrunk the Adults", Dave and Miss Miller are shrunken by Simon's "matter compacting" ray. At the same time, the Chipmunks and some neighbor kids who they are trying to impress are wrecking the house with their rowdy playing and bringing in things like a circus, including the animals. In fact, it was the rowdy playing that made the shrink ray turn on and zap Dave in the first place.
    • Inverted in an earlier episode with Dave walking from a dream about him shrinking.
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers features this reversed in one episode by Professor Nimnul to make ordinary bugs huge to fake an alien invasion, and more-or-less used straight in a later episode when some mob goons steal his device to shrink and steal buildings. In both cases, the Rescue Rangers, remaining their normal size (apart from Zipper in the earlier episode), thwart the bad guys.
    • Finally both played straight and reversed in another episode, where Chinese big bad used shrinking ray to increase size (and luxury) of cars, and then import sell them. By the end of the episode, Rescue Rangers grow to the size of a human, and then back.
  • Dad'X: Princess the fairy is capable of shrinking others to her size, which also gives them her likewise ability to fly. She shrinks Dad'X and Swamollo to help them infiltrate Foudror's base to help his captured elves escape.
  • Danny Phantom episode "Micro Management" where Jack shrunk Danny, Skulker, and accidentally, Dash down to size. Had the added bonus of Danny slowly losing his powers because of it, risking his Secret Identity to the local Jerk Jock as the two tried to make their way up with a Hunter of Monsters in pursuit.
  • This happened in the Darkwing Duck episode "Getting Antsy", where a crook was using a shrink-ray to loot the city using ants. Darkwing ends up getting zapped and reduced to the size of an ant for most of the episode and gets shrunk a second time near the end, where he ends up coming up with an unusual way of saving the day.
  • Defenders of the Earth has two episodes in which some of the regulars are shrunk. In "Bits n' Chips", Rick's new micronizer provides the teenaged Defenders with a means of getting inside Dynak-X and defeating the electronic maggot which Ming has implanted in her. And, in "The Carnival of Doctor Kalihari", the four oldest Defenders are exposed to a shrinking potion and face a race against time to find the antidote before they shrink away to nothing.
  • The Drak Pack episode "Dr. Dred is a Shrinker" featured the heroes Drak Jr., Frankie and Howler getting shrunk.
  • Used for two schemes by the bad guys in The Dreamstone:
    • In "The Shrinking Stone", Urpgor invents a Shrink Ray so the Urpneys can sneak into the Dreammaker's home unseen and then shrink the stone as well. The plan backfires when Albert accidentally swallows the ray, his burping fits causing a growing/shrinking war between them and Rufus. Rufus and the stone are changed back, but the still shrunken Urpneys, outsized and cornered, are forced to retreat so Urpgor can reverse the spell, with the threat Albert will eat them if they don't leave.
    • "The Dream Beam Invasion" has Urpgor once again using a shrink device on the Urpney troops, though this time so they can slip into the dreams themselves and sabotage them. When the heroes catch them in the act, Rufus, Amberley and Albert follow suit and shrink into the dream to inflict some payback. Unfortunately for them, Frizz and Nug's spell wears off while doing such, making them giant to the still-shrunken Noops and terrifying them into retreating this time, in what is perhaps the only time the two got the last laugh on the heroes.
  • In the DuckTales (1987) episode "Micro Ducks from Outer Space", Scrooge tries to use the alien ducks' ray to enlarge his gold, but it ends up shrinking him and the kids instead.
  • In the Ed, Edd n Eddy music video ''The Incredible Shrinking Day'' (which isn't canon), Sarah makes a shrinking potion, spikes a pitcher of lemonade with it, and offers some to the Eds, who drank the concoction and shrunk so that Sarah can play with them. It wears off after they hid from Sarah.
  • In an episode of Eek! The Cat called "Honey, I Shrunk the Cat", both Eek and Sharky were accidentally shrunken down by Elmo the elk's shrinking machine. After a failed attempt to grow back to their normal sizes, Eek and Sharky put some astronaut suits on and go to a sick president's nostril and travel inside his head to get a raisin off his brain (despite growing a little bigger amount every single time). After Eek and Sharky remove the raisin, the president sneezes them out of his nose. They did grow back when they eventually fly out the window and crash into the ground.
  • The Fairly OddParents!:
    • The early Season 1 episode "Tiny Timmy!" had Timmy wishing to be small and exploring Vicky's body.
    • There's also the episode "That's Life!" where he shrinks down to have a chat with his long-lost pet gerbil Eddie, who (not making this up) was accidentally brought Back from the Dead as a zombie gerbil when Timmy wished for everything in his mom's garden to be full of life. Problem is, the undead Eddie is Ax-Crazy and out for revenge on Timmy and his parents, all three of them having had a role in Eddie starving to death.
    • There's also the episode "Boy Toy" where Timmy wishes he could have one last adventure with his Crimson Chin doll, upon which Cosmo and Wanda shrink him down to toy size. Much of this episode is very reminiscint of the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
  • Spoofed in the Fanboy and Chum Chum episode "The Incredible Shrinking Fanboy", where Fanboy only thinks he's shrinking, after the flower where he marks his growth grows overnight. Yo uses this to her advantage, giving him a helmet with magnifying lenses to help with the illusion while she takes Chum-Chum to her room to play with.
  • The Fantastic Four (1967) took this to a whole new level in "The Micro World of Doctor Doom", shrinking the heroes until they wound up in a subatomic universe, then shrinking them some more, making them tiny within that context.
  • Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes did a shrinking episode in "World's Tiniest Heroes", where they were able to reverse the effect with help from Ant-Man. Incidentally, it helps Reed win a bet with Ant-Man on who could shrink the furthest and gives him a chance to directly observe an atom.
  • The Filmation's Ghostbusters episode "Little Big Bat" had Prime Evil trick Belfry into using an amulet to shrink Jake, Eddie, and Tracy.
  • In The Flintstones episode, "Itty Bitty Fred", Fred develops a homemade reducing formula to help him lose weight, only for it to shrink him to mouse size. It eventually wears off and Fred returns to normal, right when he and Barney are doing a ventriloquist act on television.
  • Princess Gwendolyn being magically shrunk by the Evil Duke is the event that kickstarts the plot of Gawayn.
  • Final Space: In episode 5, Avocato ends up shrinking after being bitten by an alien butterfly. He spends a good part of the episode being barely tall enough to reach up to Gary's foot.
  • The Garfield Show: In "Honey, I Shrunk The Pets", Nathan, the Mad Scientist kid, does this to Garfield.
  • Gravity Falls: In "Little Dipper", Dipper finds a crystal that can make things shrink or grow when light shines through them, which he attaches to a flashlight. Dipper plans to use it so he's no longer shorter than Mabel, but Gideon Gleeful gets his hands on it and shrinks Dipper and Mabel. The miniaturized Mystery Twins have to stop Gideon from using the shrink ray on their Grunkle Stan and stealing the Mystery Shack.
  • Godzilla of all characters, becomes a variation of this after being exposed to a Pink Fog in an episode of The Godzilla Power Hour.
  • This is the fate of anyone who messes with Reducto on Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Back off!
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) did this plot twice. In "No Job Too Small", Evil-Lyn shrinks several of the heroes with her Reducto Ray. Also see Inside a Computer System below.
  • Happens to The Herculoids in the episode "Tiny World Of Terror".
  • In the Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episode "Small Stuff", our duo is shrunk after going through the dryer.
  • In the Hoze Houndz episode "Hoze I Shrunk the Houndz" four of the protagonists overdose on their colleague's homemade power drink and shrink to the size of mosquitoes.
  • Inch High, Private Eye was a 1970s series about a very short detective.
  • The Incredible Hulk (1982) used this in the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Hulk", where Bruce Banner shrunk because of an experiment gone awry and spent the episode trying to get Betty Ross and Rick Jones to notice him and help him with his predicament until the shrinking wears off by the end of the episode.
  • Inspector Gadget: "The Incredible Shrinking Gadget" sees Gadget getting shrunk by MAD agents. Naturally, Gadget gets the wrong end of the stick and assumes he's in a giant version of his house populated by giant robot versions of his family.
  • Happened in one episode of Jackie Chan Adventures. A miscast "disappearing" spell shrunk both Jackie and bad guy Hak Foo.
  • Jamie's Got Tentacles!: When Jamie is scared, he shrinks a bit. The more scared he is, the more he shrinks. This is shown quite a lot in "No Peas For Jamie" where he thinks that green peas are terrible aliens called Muggles who have come to destroy Earth. In the end, Erwin scares him so much by pulling faces that he shrinks to a size that nobody can see him at.
  • Happens in The Jetsons once. It's George who gets shrunk.
  • Kaeloo: Stumpy accidentally gets shrunken in the episode "Let's Play Happy Rotter"note  after he uses the wrong magic spell.
  • The Karate Kid episode "A Little World of His Own", in which a boy uses the shrine to shrink Daniel, Taki, and Mr. Miyagi.
  • The Owl House: In "Really Small Problems", Tibbles uses a potion to shrink things and put them on display for his act, and intends to do this to Eda and the others as revenge for destroying his stand in a previous episode.
  • Krypto the Superdog: The aliens from planet Teeniton do this to Kevin and Krypto in "Teeny Tiny Trouble".
  • The Magic School Bus featured many episodes in which at least some (if not all) of the students shrinking to explore nature and its phenomena up close.
  • There was an episode of the Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon where Dr. Wily plotted to shrink cities so he could hold entire populations hostage. Naturally Mega Man and Rush were shrunk also.
  • The animated version of Mork & Mindy did this plot as well; when Mork shrunk, he found himself in a microverse populated with warped (or even evil) duplicates of his friends.
  • Happens to Applejack in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Bridle Gossip".
  • Nate Is Late: In "The Spore", Nate and Malika shrunk themselves to go inside their gardener friend Violet to fight the spore inside Violet's stomach
  • The New Adventures of Superman: In "The Return of Brainiac", Superman, Lois and Jimmy are shrunk down to insect size by Brainiac's shrink ray.
  • The New Archies: When Archie tries to make perfume for Veronica, he creates a gas that shrinks him and Jughead.
  • Nightmare Ned did this where Ned was being tormented by a pair of Enfant Terribles.
  • Noveltoons: In Out of This Whirl a Martian spends the day with an Earth family. When a traffic cop attempts to write his host mother a speeding ticket, the Martian uses his ray gun to shrink the bothersome officer down to the size of a mouse. The woman and Martian then drive away leaving the miniaturized patrolman still perched high up on his motorcycle as he yells after them in a high-pitched voice.
  • Phineas and Ferb do this to themselves in "Hide and Seek" to make the game more enjoyable, but Baljeet gets trapped in front of the air conditioner, and Candace has the shrinking machine.
  • In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Nano of the North", the girls are shrunk down to fight the Nanobots.
  • In the Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders episode "Full Circle", after the villainess Lady Kale tries to harness the ultimate magic of the Crown Jewels, it becomes too much for her and the power ends up shrinking her in size before she fades out to dust.
  • This is the plot of the Ready Jet Go! episode "Jet Shrinks the Kids", where Jet shrinks himself, Sydney, Sean, and Sunspot to become Mindy's size. Things go awry, however, and they become the size of mice. Mindy spends the episode trying to reverse the shrink ray, while Jet, Sydney, Sean, and Sunspot try to evade Mitchell and Cody.
  • The Real Ghostbusters episode "Short Stuff" had the Ghostbusters shrunk by one of the Ghostmaster's bounty hunters. They then try to evade the bounty hunter while Janine and Slimer look up a spell to reverse the change.
  • ReBoot did this several times. First for a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot, then twice more in games where everything but the main characters is scaled up to make them appear shrunk.
  • This happens to The Robonic Stooges in "Flea Fi Fo Fum".
  • The Rupert episode "Rupert and the BIGsmall Machine" involved Rupert Bear, his friend Podgy Pig, and the Professor being shrunk by the titular BIGsmall machine.
  • In Sabrina: The Animated Series episode "Shrink to Fit" Sabrina and Chloe use a shrinking spell to fit into some tight jeans. Though they continue to shrink until they're practically microscopic. Magic Pants is averted at first, until they find some doll clothes, which continues to shrink with them for the rest of the episode.
  • The Smurfs (1981)
    • The episode "The Incredible Shrinking Wizard", which combines this trope with a Green Aesop. Gargamel shrinks after drinking from a muck pond polluted with his potions, and negative emotions cause him to shrink even further. Only by doing good deeds can he grow back to his original size.
    • Another episode, where Slouchy wishes to be the tallest Smurf, also causes the other Smurfs to be shrunk to bug size.
  • Spider-Man:
  • In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy IV", when SpongeBob is left with Mermaid Man's utility belt, he ends up shrinking everyone in sight.
    • This is also the main plot of the episode "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge", where SpongeBob himself gets shrunken due to the intense heat coming from the grill.
    • And used as a gag in "Big Pink Loser" where SpongeBob has to suggest smaller and smaller goals to Patrick so he can win an award without "defeating the giant monkey man and saving the 9th dimension".
  • Staines Down Drains: A shrunken Stanley and Mary-Jane have had to face full-sized foes a few times. And there's also an episode titled "Land of Giants".
  • Happened on Super Friends as well. And then there was Atom, though how he got so small was never explained.
  • Superjail!: The Warden used a special serum to shrink five of the inmates in "Terrorarium" and placed them in an insect-infested snow globe in a race to find a serum that would bring the victor to normal size.
  • Happened on Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "The Terratin Incident". In this one, it also affects the dilithium crystals that are crucial to the ship's warp drive as well.
  • Happened to Mario and Luigi in an episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
  • In the TaleSpin episode "The Incredible Shrinking Molly", Molly runs afoul of a wacky Mad Scientist and his shrinking machine. The scientist eventually shrinks Baloo, Rebecca and the Sea Duck so they can save her.
  • In the Taz-Mania episode "The Amazing Shrinking Taz and Co.", one of the Platypus Brothers' inventions causes Taz, Bull Gator and Axl to shrink down to ant size.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) has the appropriately titled "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles," where Shredder uses an alien crystal to shrink the foursome down to the point where things like a tiny fish are now dangerous hazards to the pint-size teens. A second episode also involves shrinking, though only Michelangelo gets shrunk this time around.
  • On an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, the cast shrinks down to rescue one of Furrball's fleas from a vicious bedbug, but not without Lampshade Hanging.
  • Tiny Toons Looniversity: In "Slay Cheese," Babs accidentally shrinks herself with a special cream in an attempt to get rid of a pimple.
  • Totally Spies!, both WHOOP and many villains utilise size modifying technology in their methods. No less than three episodes feature one or all of the girls stuck tiny sized and having to find the device needed to change back. Taken to extremes in one episode where the three of them are made microscopic.
  • The VBirds are shrunk to fit into the Dance Machine as part of their exile to Earth.
  • One episode of The Venture Bros. has a shrink-ray gun Dr. Venture designed being sold at his yard sale. A later episode has Venture and Dr. Orpheus squaring off and betting over whether science or magic was better, deciding on shrinking as a challenge. Orpheus's incantations only shrink furniture, and Venture's shrink-ray gun is defective...testing it on Billy Quizboy has disturbing results.
    • The shrink-ray has reappeared a couple of times. In "Handsome Ransom", a shrunken Sgt. Hatred stows away in a briefcase of money (complete with Benjamin Franklin camouflage) to foil a ransom scheme. The raygun fails to regrow him at the critical moment. In "The Diving Bell Vs. the Butter-Glider" the ray is used for a straight-up "Fantastic Voyage" Plot.
    • Then there is the case of Paul Entmann, a parody of Marvel's Ant-Man. He was accidentally shrunk to a few inches, ironically in an attempt to cure his also-accidental "super-gigantism" (he was also known as Humongoloid). Then he was accidentally forgotten and locked away for thirty years in an evacuated fallout shelter, left to fend off ants with a sewing needle. For some reason, he remains tiny until accidentally killed by a rocking chair a few years after being freed, even though Dr. Venture's shrink ray has a "grow" setting that has been known to actually work.
  • Most uses of the Miniaturizer by the Wild Kratts avert this trope's down sides, being a routine means for them to get up close and personal with small animals. Occasionally the Kratts and their companions, or even the Tortuga itself, play this straight, either due to them accidentally losing access to the device in question, or to a villain trapping them while shrunken.
  • The Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa episode "How the West was Shrunk" had Bat Blastagun and his gang shrink the C.O.W.-Boys (and subsequently the rest of Cowtown) using a shrink ray powered by a fragment of the comet that created Moo Mesa that was built for them by Dr. Wolfenstein.
  • Wild Wild West had an episode where Jim shrank and had to face a cat.
  • The fairies in Winx Club who have earned their Enchantix form can shrink into tiny versions of themselves. Bloom initially doesn't have this power since her Enchantix is incomplete, but she gains it after The Secret of the Lost Kingdom.
  • Practically every episode of Wild Kratts features the brothers shrinking themselves so they can investigate the lives and environments of small animals. While it's usually just a convenience, on several occasions the Miniaturizer gets broken, lost or stolen while they're small, leaving them stuck in mini-form.
  • In Wunschpunsch, The episode "Big Shrinking Spell" ivolves Bubonic and Trannia casting a spell that makes everyone (except the witch and wizard themselves) shrink whenever they touch liquid.
  • Xiaolin Showdown did both this and its opposite: Lead character Omi uses the Changing Chopsticks and the Reversing Mirror to make himself huge in order to defeat the giant Cyclops and loses. When he tries to go back to his normal size using the Changing Chopsticks only, Omi ends up much smaller than he normally is and can only shrink further. He needs the Reversing Mirror as well to fully restore himself to normal.

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