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Tycho and Gabe unleash their inner fangirls.

"Yeah, but I'm a girl. I'm supposed to swoon over gods of rock!"
Trucy Wright, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

A squee is the sound made by excited fangirls (or fanboys). The exact nature of what makes someone squee depends on the type of fan. Shippers squee when something comes up with their OTP. Comic fans squee when they get a new comic or model. Video Game fans squee at the announcement of a new game in their favourite series, or a new update. It can even be caused by meeting a favourite actor, actress, or other celebrity.

It is an excited expression of desire for the object that caused the squee, though not necessarily sexual desire. Can be triggered by Cuteness Proximity or And the Fandom Rejoiced.

In writing, it is often followed immediately by the emote *dies*, to imply that the user in question has suddenly fainted from euphoric overload. In Japanese, "Squee!" often translates to "Kyaa!"

Most likely a mutation of or derivation from "squeal". Possibly a Portmanteau of "squeal" and "glee". Any resemblance to Squick is (mostly) purely coincidental, but it is worth mentioning here that one person's Squee can be another person's Squick.

For the comic book, see Squee. Or, if it's the other guy named Squee, see Magic: The Gathering. For the rodent, see Myst III: Exile. And if you want the game company, add a "nix" to make Squeenix.

Compare The Knights Who Say "Squee!". A common result of a Shirtless Scene, Cuteness Overload, Girl on Girl Is Hot or even Guy on Guy Is Hot.

Note: This page is for In-Universe examples only. Real Life squeeing goes to Gushing About Shows You Like only.


In-Universe Examples Only:

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    Anime & Manga 
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Diamond is Unbreakable: Okuyasu performs a squeeing of excitement, followed by Josuke upon realizing a lottery ticket they picked up is a grand winner of a jackpot.
    • Stone Ocean: Gwess, while only in a good mood, squees at her "pet" parrot following her commands.
    • JoJolion: Daiya does this when having the idea of Josuke attending the same school as her.
  • This is the standard, frequently-used reaction to the female customers whenever the main characters entertain them in Ouran High School Host Club. In episode 23, the eponymous club's female patrons unleash mass quantities of Squee when they see the innocent Haruhi acting friendly with the Jerk with a Heart of Gold Casanoda. Of course, since the girls don't know the truth about Haruhi, they assume the whole thing is ripe with Ho Yay.
  • Azumanga Daioh:
    • Kaorin, regarding Miss Sakaki.
    • Sakaki, regarding cats. When she's first approached by Yamamaya, she squees so hard she starts to lag.
  • In the fourth episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, Nanoha's classmates give a slightly subdued squee when Fate is introduced. Perhaps Fate is just a Squee-Magnet.
  • In the English translation of the Strawberry Panic! manga, Shizuma's fangirls react to her by going literal "Squee".
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Jaden summons his Winged Kuriboh in a public match and the female half of the audience immediately starts fawning over the cute lil' fuzzball. The female audience does this again when Jaden pours a bag of fleas down a guy's pants, forcing him to discard them.
  • Another non-erotic example: Binbou Shimai Monogatari appears to be constructed around the squee-laden interaction between the two sisters Kyou and Asu.
  • In Kamichu!, Yurie's schoolmates watch and squee their heads off when she finally tells her love interest how she feels for him. To be fair, the whole school has worked darned hard to help her make this happen, since Yurie is one hell of a shy god.
  • Rena from Higurashi: When They Cry does this whenever she sees something she perceives as "cute". Hauu~
    • In a later arc...
      Rika: "Nipaa~!"
      Miyo: "Ni... NIPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
  • Used, and not in a good way, in School Mermaid by the eponymous mermaids. Not out of joy. It's all they can say. The effect is absolutely disturbing, considering their faces always have the same blank, eerie smile on them. Only when the 'O' mermaid gets stabbed in the arm, and, a few moments later, beaten to death with a crowbar, does her expression change.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist's Winry in response to the automail center of the universe. And a Real Life version when Vic Mignogna and Caitlin Glass improvised a proposal from Edward to Winry. There was much fangirly rejoicing.
  • K-On! leader Ritsu does a high-pitched squee twice in the first episode, when the other two main characters join her club. The other students in the main characters' class squee over Mio being voted into the role of Romeo (by a huge margin, naturally).
  • Naruto: During Team 7 introduction of themselves to Kakashi as their students, when Sakura is asked about the things she likes, she squees while looking at Sasuke.
  • Negima! Magister Negi Magi: The entire class does this when introduced to their 10-year-old teacher.
  • Haruhi-chan: When Haruhi sees Santa (well, actually Taniguchi dressed as Santa), her squee results in a Distant Reaction Shot showing entire galaxies.
  • In the Infinite Stratos anime, this trope describes the formerly-all-girls-school students' reaction when they see Ichika Orimura (their first male student) holding the hand of Charles Dunois (they're hurrying to the gym changing room) perfectly.
  • Usopp and Chopper from One Piece do this when they see Franky's new features after the timeskip. Luffy joins in on the squeeing whenever the General Franky shows up. Hell, when it showed up in Punk Hazard, practically every male present squeed in unison.
  • Inami from Wagnaria!! has a moment when she finds out that Souta doesn't use his self defense on her because it hurts (She thinks he doesn't want to hurt her)
  • Mayo Chiki!:
    • Usami does this very briefly after eating an octopus ball at the school festival in episode 6.
    • The schoolgirls often do this as well anytime Subaru is around.
  • In Bodacious Space Pirates, the members of the Space Yacht Club all Squee in unison when Lynn and Jenny have The Big Damn Kiss on board the Bentenmaru.
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: As a Running Gag in the anime, Saikawa squees whenever Kanna does something cute around her.
  • In Gate 7, Chikahito, being a Kyoto fan and history nerd, squee over Kyoto's ancient buildings, food, temples...and reincarnated people of the Sengoku era.
  • Tamayura has Riho squee when she meets Fuu for the first time.
  • In the fifth episode of Rosario + Vampire Moka does this several times when she and Tsukune look for clubs to join.
  • In Carnival Phantasm, Caster squees so hard while spying on Saber she starts rolling on the floor.
  • The long-suffering Bishōnen lads in the The Wallflower anime have to endure this every time they leave the mansion.
  • My Love Story!!: This is Nanako's reaction to the mistaken belief that Takeo and Rinko are spending the night together being intimate, when in reality they were lost in the woods.
  • In My Hero Academia, Izuku squees whenever he meets a cool hero he admires (of which there's a long list). He's downright Starstruck Speechless when he meets All Might, his idol, for the first time.
  • In Ah! My Goddess: Skuld once found a toy rocket which so appealed to her sense of cuteness that she exclaimed:
    Skuld: You are so cute I could squeal!I am! I AM going to squeal!♥ SQUEAL!
  • Smile Pre Cure:
    • In episode 1, Miyuki squees when she sees Candy for the first time due to how cute she is. In the Glitter Force dub, she asks where she can buy a plushie of her.
    • In the Glitter Force dub of episode 24, it is said verbatim by Emily/Miyuki when learning that all different kinds of fairytale characters live in Jubiland (Marchenland).
  • The Turning Red spin-off manga 4*Town 4*Real has a lot of squeeing from the titular boy band's fangirls.

    Comic Books 

    Comic Strips 
  • Sarcastically invoked in an early Garfield, where Jon excitedly announces to a grumpy Garfield that he will be getting liver for dinner; Garfield (without changing his facial expression) responds with "Oh hooray, hop about, clap paws, squeal with glee."

    Fan Works 
  • Blanket: When Taylor shrinks down into her "monkey in a tutu" form, Vista makes a noise that would possibly have broken multiple windows if there wasn't soundproofing.
  • A Crown of Stars: In chapter 27 Hikari does this after guessing that Shinji and Asuka are together after a fashion. Overwhelmed Asuka thinks this is the first time she had heard someone 'squee'
    She let out a string of ecstatic noises. It was the first time in her life Asuka had actually heard someone ‘squee’.
  • In the Jackie Chan Adventures fic Queen of All Oni, when Jade first sees the first Teachings of Eternal Shadow tablet, she purrs.
    • Happens again when she finds the second one.
  • Child of the Storm has Harry Dresden do this when he first meets the Famed In-Story Wanda Maximoff; then, hilariously, try strenuously to deny it. No one's buying it.
    • He later, apparently, did the same thing with Steve. Steve was patient.
  • In the Official Fanfiction University of MREDURE, it is established that in any continuum where "squee" is a noun, squeeing produces human-sized versions of whatever or whoever a squee is that glomp the squee-er and vanish.
    • This sounds a lot like how Drowtales said chibis are formed...
  • In this fanfic, which parodies Sues and Fangirls, Fangirls not only Squee on a regular basis, but the herds they travel in are also called Squees.
  • DC Nation universe example: Green Shield AND Speedy both do this after Mia dishes that Connor finally worked up the nerve to kiss Mia with no major angst or world-destroying crap over their heads. Made funnier by how much of a Snark Knight Shield usually is.
  • Guys Being Dudes: Spark is described as doing this upon seeing a Zapdos wall fan at the night market, which Arlo buys for him as a birthday gift.
  • Nobody Dies:
    • Rei is prone to these.
    • Maya does it somewhat often, usually involving Ritsuko.
    • And after the main cast briefly visit the Canon!Eva verse, Canon!Rei picks this up (albeit subdued) from her counterpart.
  • In Kyon: Big Damn Hero Mikuru does this after seeing a picture of Kyon in an apron.
  • In Loathing, Yaoi Fangirl Alyssa is very happy upon walking in on Kurt and Dave kissing.
    Alyssa: Ohmigod, ohmigod, I'm so sorry I just walked in like that, but I wanted to surprise Kurt with an early Christmas present, and and Oh my God, I just can't I mean, Kurt sometimes talks about a boyfriend, but he never mentions who or where the guy attends and, and! Oh. My. God! Eeek, I'm so happy! Seriously, you don't know how happy you two just made me. Kurt, don't even get me anything for Christmas, okay? Like, seriously. The mental image of you two kissing has been forever photographed into my memory, and it's like crack to me.
  • Alex frigging Mercer lets off one of these in Unfamiliar. Admittedly, it's at the sight of a large, well-stocked armory, but still. Throughout the entire fic, he continues to pronounce his love of explosives in an uncharacteristically giddy manner.
    “Missiles!” Mercer squealed. “And launchers! And guns and grenade launchers! Jackpot!”
  • In the Soul Eater fic Noir Ange Liz and Patty exchange "Squees and Kawaiis" over what Kid writes in his Diary about Crona.
  • In CSI: Death by Chocolate, Greg Sanders is a huge fan of Wonka candy, to the point that this is his reaction to actually meeting Willy Wonka.
  • Turnabout Storm: While maintaining her composure on the outside, Twilight goes full squee in her Inner Monologue after she discovers from Phoenix that those locks and chains she's been seeing lately over some ponies (Psyche-Locks) basically mean that she's become a Living Lie Detector.
  • In "Like Mother Like Skitter", both Emma and Vicky squeal with delight when their friend Taylor confesses that a boy asked her out.
  • Much of the New Zork chapter in With Strings Attached is made of squee, for fairly obvious reasons.
  • In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, when John and George are in the Border Crossroads Inn as spies to find out what's going on, they get a couple of girls in their room, one of whom is a bad guy, so they have to be sneaky about it. John, who is no longer human and no longer turned on by human women, is planning to fake having sex with his girl while attempting to get information from her telepathically. Initially she's going along with this plan, since she wasn't planning to have sex either. Alas, as soon as he takes off his cloak and reveals his wings and impressive physique, she squees all over him and gets REALLY horny. Intensely ironic Hilarity Ensues, much to John's chagrin.
    • And to make matters worse, the other woman (who's been getting it on with George) takes one look at John when she's done and also squees all over him and insists he climb into bed with her right away. While John fobs her off by pretending he can only do it once a day, George is immensely insulted.
    • Later, when John has to return to the inn to clean up after their Toilet-Fu gambit, the rest of the employees of the inn, both male and female, hang around in the background squeeing and talking about wanting to have sex with him.
  • In the Worm/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha crossover Magical Girl Lyrical Taylor the titular character tried very hard to not squee when seeing the PRT's herd of mecha-reindeer, but failed. The surrounding crowd found a costumed hero gushing over the display quite amusing.
    • Vista is apparently a big fan of magical girl shows and has a little squee moment herself on meeting Taylor.
  • Integration: This is the collective reaction of Twilight's Ponyville friends when they figure out that she and Human Flash kissed during their first date together. What makes it even funnier is that Twilight is surprised that Rainbow Dash and Applejack were even capable of squealing.
  • This Bites!: When she first lays eyes on the pillar of gold, Nami gives one so loud it knocks Cross out and sends the rest of the crew reeling.
  • In All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird, at least one scout has this reaction to the idea that both Inquisitors are making progress in their respective romance arcs.
  • The students of Skyhold Academy, in Skyhold Academy Yearbook, do this so often that one of their teachers jokingly renames the school "Squeehold Academy." In particular, this is how they express shipping their teachers.
  • In Faded Blue, it turns out that Connie's dad was a big fan of Greg Universe from back when he was a rock-star, so he goes to great lengths not to fanboy on him when they invite the Universe family over for dinner.
  • A Diplomatic Visit:
    • In chapter 3 of the sequel Diplomat at Large, Scootaloo does a spot-on impression of Twilight's squee from her story in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", when she finds her aunts are moving to Ponyville full-time.
    • As with Scootaloo in fic 2, fic 3's chapter 9 sees Celestia doing a spot-on impression of Twilight's squee from her story in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", to celebrate the news that her sister and Pharynx are expecting, much to the couple's amusement.
  • In The Weaver Option Vista is absolutely smitten when she sees the panda-like Rashan and starts making puppy dog eyes at Taylor.
  • In the The Octonauts fanfic Junior Officers chapter "On the Move, Part 2", Dashi and Deborah squee when Kitsune tells them she's pregnant.
  • Cutie Mark Crusaders 10k: Discord's eyes glisten and he actually goes "Squee!" in delight upon hearing Twilight Sparkle is finally out of the Chaos pit.
  • In this Friday Night Funkin' fan comic, Boyfriend and Pico come across two adorable puppies. When Boyfriend decides to summon Girlfriend (via a demon summoning circle) so she can see them, she squeals with delight over how cute and soft the puppies are, much to Boyfriend's amusement.
    • By the same artist, this comic has Girlfriend squealing over how cute Boyfriend looks in a small, girly sweater.
  • Maple Sugar Pretty Cure: Mei squees when she's told her parents' plan to get her her first cell phone.
    • Abby also squees in Chapter 4 over the fairies, both at the beginning when she meets them for the first time and at the end when Lulun attaches herself to her face, thanking Abby for rescuing her.
  • By the same author, Encanto fanfic Magic Number 20 has Pepa squeeing when she learns that she's going to have a baby.
  • In ''Asumi's Love Letter, Erika, Love, and Hibiki all squee when Asumi shows them her love letter.
  • BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
    • Glynda lets out one when she gets Trinity Glassfille's autograph. It's so loud it can be heard through the elevator even as it goes down.
    • Noel lets out one when she sees Zwei for the first time before taking him from Yang and cuddling the corgi.

    Film — Animated 
  • Bambi: Part of Faline's Establishing Character Moment as a colossal Genki Girl is squeeing in euphoria after Bambi finally says "Hello" to her for the first time.
  • Inside Out: Joy does a squee when Sadness tells her that she knows the way through the cavernous halls of Long Term Memory.
  • In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po wheezes in utter delight once his father activates Master Flying Rhino's armor.
    Po: I think I just peed a little...
  • Charlotte from The Princess and the Frog squees over a newspaper report that Prince Naveen is coming to town, complete with clutching the newspaper to her chest and leg-flailing.
  • Tangled: Flynn Rider, in a mocking tone, lets out a mocking "Yayyy!" after Rapunzel tells him that she likes ducklings when they arrive at the Snuggly Duckling.
  • Turning Red:
    • After Mei's female classmates discover that she is the giant red panda, she expects them to run away or shun her. Instead, they squeal with excitement because she's so cute.
    • Mei and her friends have the same reaction when they finally see 4*Town at the concert.
    • All the girls in the crowd squee as 4*Town sings a reprise of "Nobody Like U" during the ritual to seal Ming's panda away, before joining in on the song.
  • Zootopia: Clawhauser reacts with utter glee when he finds out that Chief Bogo uses the same "be a backup dancer for Gazelle" app that he does. The squee is even more intense when he goes to the Gazelle concert and sees his idol in person.

    Film — Live-Action 
  • The Avengers (2012) features both a regular and a meta example. The normally reserved Agent Coulson struggles (and fails) to avoid gushing like a fanboy about meeting Captain America, eventually bringing up the subject of his trading cards. Meta-wise, Clark Gregg (the actor who plays Coulson) admitted in an interview that the SHIELD helicarrier made him squee, even mentioning it by name and explaining that he'd never really understood the meaning of "squee!" until that moment.
  • Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux gets a massive fangasm when Immortan Joe glances at him. Later, he bursts into tears when Joe personally gives him a mission.
  • In My Fellow Americans, former presidents Douglas and Kramer show up unannounced in a car rental store, easily sending the two girls running the place into a rather strong expression of this trope.
  • Wonder Woman (2017): Diana aka Wonder Woman, while she is a grown woman and discussing serious war business with her companion Steve Trevor, goes instantly into Squee mode as she sees a baby for the very first time in her life.
  • In Little Shop of Horrors when Seymour tells Audrey he named the plant after her, she lets out an excited little squeal.
  • In Little Miss Sunshine, this is Olive's reaction when she finds out that she has qualified for the titular beauty pageant.

    Literature 
  • Time Scout:
    • When Kit and Malcolm take Margo shopping in preparation for her trip to London. She goes catnip crazy for the fancy clothes.
    • While investigating Jack the Ripper's occult connections, the Ripper Watch Team runs into Malcolm's favorite poet, William Butler Yeats. He can barely restrain from soiling himself.
  • Black Tide Rising: Faith tends to do this when presented with new ways of killing zombies, so much so that in Strands of Sorrow she's specifically ordered to not squee before being told of the tanks and other armed military vehicles at the Blount Island facility. She does it anyway, before catching herself.
  • Dork Diaries: Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey all tend to cry out "SQUEEEEE!" when they're excited about something.
  • Kylie Jean: Summer Camp Queen has Kylie and Lucy squeeing when they realize they're in the same cabin at Camp Mariposa.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Dawn squeed upon discovering that Willow and Tara were back together. She then retreated downstairs, leaving them alone.
    • Willow gave an unintelligible high-pitched squeal when Buffy's mother's paramour gave her computer upgrades for free, which Xander described as the sound she makes when she has a surge of geeker-joy.
    • Tough girl Faith gets as close to this as she'll ever get when the Mayor gives her a PS1. That more than anything else seems to be the deal maker for her working for him.
    • In the comic series, Willow asks Satsu if the sound Buffy makes during The Immodest Orgasm is the same as when she gets new shoes.
  • Castle:
    • Detective Kate Beckett becomes a fangirl when she meets Joe freaking Torre. She manages to keep the Squee out of her voice until Torre is away.
    • In Season 4 Episode 2, a killer chops the "victim", who was in the early stages of raping a girl in an alley, in half vertically. The first shot Castle and Beckett see of the suspect from a security camera shows that he's wearing a superhero costume. Castle squees with delight all episode about chasing down a superhero.
  • Doctor Who:
    • In "The Romans", Vicki emits a high-pitched sound of delight when told she can come to Rome, and does it again when she meets Nero for the first time. At the end of the story, the Doctor gets in on the act: Vicki points out to him he had changed history, having been accidentally responsible for Nero's burning of Rome. When the Doctor realises this is the truth, he gibbers and squeals in delight.
    • Often the reaction of the Doctor, his companion, or both to meeting a particularly awesome historical figure. William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and Charles Dickens all produce particularly nerdy reactions in the Doctor.
    • "The Christmas Invasion": The Doctor's voice goes all squeaky when he finds out the Sycorax are using blood control as their Mass Hypnosis method.
      "I haven't seen blood control for years!"
    • "School Reunion": This is the Doctor's reaction when he runs into former companion Sarah Jane Smith a long time after he left her.
    • "The Shakespeare Code":
      The Doctor: Come on, we can all have a good flirt later.
      Shakespeare: Is that a promise, Doctor?
      The Doctor: Oh, 57 academics just punched the air.
    • Ten(nant) did this simultaneously in and out of character over the 5th Doctor in the mini-episode "Time Crash".
      "You know... I loved being you. Back when I started at the beginning I was always trying to be old and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you."
    • In "Planet of the Dead", Dr. Malcolm Taylor of UNIT has a complete squeeing Fan Boy crush on the Doctor, having read about him for years. The Doctor decides to just roll with it if it saves the day quicker.
    • At Comic-Con 2009, John Barrowman let out a positively ear-splitting one after David Tennant kissed him. Said squee was so loud it managed to be heard over the squees of most of the DW fanbase.
    • "Vincent and the Doctor": Amy Pond unleashes her inner fangirl upon meeting Vincent van Gogh.
    • In "A Good Man Goes to War", the Eleventh Doctor is reduced to giddy incoherent squee noises when he finally finds out who River Song really is.
    • "Death in Heaven": Seb, an AI working with Missy, has this reaction when the Doctor pulls out a TARDIS key while falling out of a plane and manages to summon the TARDIS in time to save himself. Missy gets annoyed and vaporizes him.
      Seb: Permission to squeeee- [zap]
    • "The Tsuranga Conundrum": The Doctor first has a brief Knight of Squee! moment when she meets the famous General Cicero, and then she's utterly gleeful when she shows Yaz the antimatter generator powering the ship's engines.
  • In Dollhouse, Bennett Halverson has a quiet moment like this when she learns she's about to meet Topher Brink, who she has a huge geek-crush on. Topher has this afterward regarding Bennett, when he calls up himself in Victor's body.
  • Gilmore Girls:
    • "Super Cool Party People" has the girls at April's party squeeing when Loralei announces that she's taking them to the beauty shop and have them experiment with makeup. They also squee when she suggests making it a sleepover.
  • Glee: In the episode Comeback, all the New Directions girls (except for Zizes) squee like mad when Sam and his Justin Bieber tribute band perform Somebody to Love, much to Finn's shock and confusion.
  • A great example from the Christmas-cookie episode of Good Eats:
    Santa Claus: Two hours? In two hours I'll be three time zones from here! I don't have that kind of time! [touches nose, the lights flash]
    Alton Brown: What was that?
    SC: Localized temporal displacement...magic. It's now two hours later in your kitchen! Dough's ready!
    AB: Is not. [pulls the dough out and checks it] It is! Santa really is magic! *squee*
  • Parker does this by name to the mark as part of her Honey Trap in an episode of Leverage.
  • Kamen Rider Build: Sento's typical reaction to finding any new science gizmo to oogle or getting a new FullBottle to try is a delighted yelp followed by a beeline towards the thing in question. Inventing any new science gizmo himself usually leads to him doing something like a victory dance and bragging about how smart and great he is.
  • In Mad Men, Sally Draper's reaction to Don's birthday gift to her (tickets to a Beatles concert) is a classic tween-girl squee.
  • Our Miss Brooks: Harriet Conklin, being a teenage girl, squees occasionally. One such example is in "Hello, Mr. Chips", where she makes a sound of delight upon seeing the visiting English school master.
  • Parks and Recreation has the group practically cheering and squeeing when Leslie brings in Lil' Sebastian for a visit. Even Ron Swanson is quite eager to meet him.
  • In Scrubs, Turk, of all people, squees quite loudly when JD's current girlfriend happens to be the granddaughter of Billy Dee Williams (aka, Lando from Star Wars).

    Music 

    Professional Wrestling 
  • Invoked with The Rock 'n' Roll Express. They were far from the first men in wrestling to be promoted to female audience members, but, in order to distinguish them from The Fabulous Ones at the time, were marketed specifically towards teenage girls. They largely got college students, but their voices tended to be just as high pitched, all the same.

    Theatre 
  • Bye Bye Birdie has a lot of Squee-ing from Conrad Birdie's fangirls.
  • In The Granny Awards, all the members of the chorus freak out like schoolgirls when Red Riding Hood and the Rappers (a hip-hop group consisting of Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs) come up onto the stage to claim their "Best Rap" award.
  • Kingdom City has Crystal and Katie squeeing a few times when they are given parts for the play The Crucible.

    Video Games 
  • ANNO: Mutationem: Ayane lets out a positive-filled squee upon seeing Ann getting into wearing a Little Black Dress. Later, she does another after reuniting with Ann while leaping onto her and grabbing her chest.
  • In 'The Answer' storyline from Persona 3 FES there's a flashback to Akihiko-senpai in junior high after winning a boxing match. When he brushes off a recruiter from another school, his fangirls do this—"Squee!" is written in their dialogue.
  • Merrill squees at Donnic and Aveline when they get together in Dragon Age II.
  • In Hyrule Castle Town, Link in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess has a trio of fangirls who hang outside Purlo's tent. If he wins the STARS minigame, they squee whenever he talks to them (and produce hearts he can pick up).
  • Monster Prom: Zoe, being a Shipper on Deck for practically every pairing she can think of, will let out an excited "EEEEEEEEEEE!" whenever she sees something seems to confirm one of her ships or looks like it could lead lead to an exciting new ship.
  • In Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel, when you feed a Hungry Luma to fullness, it lets out the most epic squee.
  • In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Sith Inquisitor breaks their calm, sardonic demeanor when they see their ship for the first time, running to the window of the hangar to get a better look, a rare smile on their face. It’s worth noting that until recently, the Inquisitor was a slave, and this ship to them likely symbolizes the freedom they now have.
  • In Fallout: New Vegas, Veronica gives a squee if you give her a dress.
  • In Summon Night: Swordcraft Story, Sugar squees if you agree to go on a 'date' with her to a special place.
  • In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you can bring the Elder Scroll required for the main quest to the orc loremaster at the College of Winterhold once said Scroll has expended its usefulness as a Plot Coupon. This is probably the first time in history you'll get to hear an orc squee.
  • Saints Row: The Third: The Player Character does this, upon discovering that the Mayor of Steelport is Burt Reynolds, and that he wants him/her to do a mission for him. Viola even demands that you "Stop being such a fanboy." as you leave.
  • In Shining Song Starnova, Otaku turned up-and-coming Idol Singer Mika reacts to the news that she’ll be starring in a live-action adaptation of her favorite anime—as her favorite character, no less—by jumping around her producer’s office and squealing in sheer delight near the beginning of her route.
  • Kimi of High School Story tends to punctuate her dialogue with "Squee!" when she's happy.
  • In Puyo Puyo, Amitie has one when she wants to find out what Maguro's "you-know-whats" are. She shortly ends up getting disappointed. In an unlikelier scenario, Schezo will squee at the sight of Dongurigaeru or Onion Pixy, which he finds to be cute in their own ways.
  • In Sono Hanabira Ni Kuchizuke Wo this happens whenever a crowd of girls witnesses a yuri act.
  • Fate/Grand Order has a weekly radio broadcast hosted by Takahashi Rie (the voice of Mashu) and Tanaka Minami (the voice of Nitocris). In one of those broadcasts, Tsuruoka Satoshi (the voice of Gilles de Rais, Spartacus and Arash) was a guest. He was asked to shout "STELLA!!!" (Arash's Noble Phantasm), and well, this happened. Check out the hosts' reactions. Also take a look at what happened when Sakura Tange was a guest.
  • In Kings Quest (2015), Gwendolyn has this exact reaction to her grandfather's story revealing the appearance of a dragon. Her grandfather's reaction is hilariously deadpan.
    Gwendolyn: SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!
    King Graham: We did not share your excitement.

    Web Comics 

    Web Animation 
  • hololive:
    • Ina'nis Ninomae's playthrough of New Pokémon Snap is filled with giddy excitement and adorable wondrous gasps at seeing all the cute Pokemon.
    • After seeing the axolotls that various idols have collected on the JP Minecraft server, Ina was determined to find some for herself. When she finally caught some, she let out the most adorable happy tako noises.
    • Ina is also a big fan of capybaras and gets excited and completely distracted whenever one is mentioned or seen.
    • Gura Gawr does an extra hard squee during her playthrough of Devil May Cry 5 when Dante dances Michael Jackson style after getting the Faust Hat.
    • Iofifteen Airani uploaded a sketch of herself Giving Up the Ghost in a puddle of her own blood from a nosebleed reaction when Yuki Ono talked about her during his visit to Bar Robel, and she bent over backwards in excitement when she found out that I Ry S's illustrator is redjuice.
    • Kobo Maneru is prone to doing this whenever someone calls her "Princess Kobo", and Mel's "ara ara" got Kobo to giggle gleefully.
    • The usually stoic Okayu Nekomata had this reaction when Hikakin left her a video message on her third anniversary stream and when he left a Superchat in one of her subsequent talk streams.
    • While she never got to directly interact with them, Subaru Oozora was overjoyed at Usada Construction Summer Festival to finally see both Ina and Gura in person.

    Web Original 
  • The Nostalgia Critic finds himself cooing over the classic Sesame Street characters in Follow That Bird.
    • The Nostalgia Chick doesn't really do this often, preferring to mock it instead with shouts of "PUPPIES!" every now and then, but she was utterly delighted when Santa Christ gave her Othello in Kickassia.
    • She also squeed over "Dougie!" Jones in her video review of Hocus Pocus.
    • And she had a practical fangirl sugar high when injected with truth serum by Dr. C. Tease in her review of X-Men: The Animated Series.
    • JesuOtaku also did this during his and the Critic's co-op review of the Digimon Movie over seeing Seraphimon. Naturally, the Critic is not amused:
      You squee'd? Something in this movie made you squee?
    • Also in the Legend of Korra vlogs, Doug Walker's brother Rob squeed over the re-appearance of Uncle Iroh in the Spirit World in the episode "A New Spiritual Age". Twice, the second time squealing the word "Squee!".
  • When The Cinema Snob learned that the film he was watching starred Pierre Kirby (having thought he'd already seen every Kirby movie, as imdb didn't list this one), he emits the noise of a rubber duck being squeaked.
    • This backfires on him when he tries to invoke it by name in a later episode:
      Snob: [clenching] "...the hell? Where's my Squee sound?" [Tries again and 'breaks wind'; exasperated] "Great. A fart joke."
  • Also of Channel Awesome, Jew Wario of You Can Play This! is a grown man whose squee reaction to things such as cats is almost hilarious to behold.
  • A non-erotic example of squee.
  • Gaia Online's Rina does this a lot.
  • Neurotically Yours actually had FOAMY, the biggest Jerk-Ass on the internet, do this and give his COFFEE BREWER a hug.
  • Spazz and Disneyworld in Project Million.
    Spazz: Disneyworld? You mean the Disneyworld. The one that opened in 1971 housing the fourteen parks, home of the Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcott, and Hollywood Studios? Why aren't we there now?!
  • In the Siblings episode "Dog Daze of Boredom", Rob does it after Johny tells him "I think that school's warping your mind."
  • Emirichu is known for making noises like these when she's excited.
  • Chuggaaconroy finds a shiny.
  • Wizard and Boomstick of DEATH BATTLE! get a case of this when it's revealed that the 25th episode would be Superman VS Goku.
  • Gaijin Goombah has this reaction in Game Exchange when he learned Tank! Tank! Tank! was going to be released on the Wii U.
  • Youtuber iHasCupquake evokes this trope passionately and often, especially with cute animals (virtual or not).
  • Youtube animator Wolfychu tends to squee when she gets really happy or excited over something.
  • Sursum Ursa's review of The Avengers.
    Sursum Ursa: "There may come a day when I can talk calmly about [this movie]..but it is not this day, because EEEEEE!"
  • In The Heroic Review during the review of Rainbow Falls, panelist Swedely gives a massive one during his introduction when Derpy is revealed.
  • During "Teens React to Doctor Who" several are literally squealing with delight at the 50th anniversary trailer; meanwhile Bryson deadpans "I should be freaking out about this if I was like a fan, right?"
  • In episode 17 of Dragon Ball Z Abridged, King Kai is trying to talk Goku out of fighting Freeza, and failing horribly as everything he says just makes Goku want to fight Freeza even more. When King Kai says that Freeza has slaughtered billions of people Goku starts squealing out of joy.
    Goku: Eeeeeee!
    King Kai: STOP IT! Stop! Getting! Excited!
  • In one of Thomas Sanders' Vines, he walks up to a lady on a bench and does a knock-knock joke with her as Stewie; she lets out an adorable squeal when he starts the voice.
  • Two Best Friends Play: Their unrestrained fanboy gushing while playing Freedom Planet.
    • Pat does this a lot during their Dark Souls 3 Let's Play, but especially in the lead up to visiting Anor Londo.
  • Idols of Anime: In the Uta No Prince Sama review, Viga squees over her husbando, Otoya.
  • Game Grumps: In one episode of their Super Mario Sunshine series, Dan tells Arin the story of when he was invited to an orgy by his (reportedly) attractive female roommates.
    Arin: Inside your head there's like fireworks and shit going off.
    Dan: Yeah, outside I was like "oh, do tell". But on the inside I'm like AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
  • ColeyDoesThings tends to squee a lot, which is something to be expected from someone who dubs herself a "professional fangirl" of any franchise you can think of.
  • TheMermaidscales tends to squee quite frequently. This is especially true in her livestream where she celebrates reaching 12 million subscribers, where she's squeeing extra hard. You can even see it in the title of the stream itself.
  • Forever Nenaa squees quite often and passionately.

    Western Animation 
  • 6teen:
    • Kristen and Kirsten have a tendency to squee, to the annoyance of the anti-conformist Nikki who works at the Khaki Barn with them.
    Nikki: UGH! It's like hanging out with dolphins!
    • Caitlin has had her moments, too. Ironically, Nikki herself does when it's revealed that she is a (closeted) Dawg Toys fan, as big as Jen and Caitlin.
  • The 7D: This is a trait of the villainess Hildy Gloom, when she gets excited over her latest evil scheme or something she likes, she even pronounced it as "Squee!" when she tells Queen Delightful that she will replace her wallpaper with a purple plaid color pattern.
  • The Amazing World of Gumball: At the beginning of the episode "The Bros", Gumball and Darwin squeal like teenage girls three times when they discuss the best things to do for someone special. They even manage to shatter car windows with their squeals.
  • American Dad!: Francine is prone to doing this. Just one example is when she becomes a Back-Alley Doctor and has a teddy bear as her assistant.
    Dr. Bearington will assist. By being so snuggly!
    • Even better? His specialty is hugs!
  • American Dragon: Jake Long: Haley went nuts over Pooka Pooka Fun Fun Farm, annoying her brother more than a little bit.
  • Amphibia:
    • In "Anne of the Year", Anne and Sasha do this in the form of a Reactive Continuous Scream when they reunite.
    • In "The Dinner", Anne, Sasha, and Marcy do this with much enthusiasm after the three are properly reunited, much to the annoyance of the Plantars and Grime.
    Polly: (covering her ears) Human friendships are loud!
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender: Had some in-universe during the Beach Episode. Zuko takes off his shirt and the camera cuts straight to nearby bikini girls enjoying the view.
    • When "Squee" has rabies, you get the Foaming-mouth Guy.
  • Batman: The Animated Series: Harley Quinn in this clip.
  • Beetlejuice: In "Poe Pourri", Lydia goes into excited fangirl mode when B.J. introduces her to Edgar Allen Poe.
  • Ben 10: Alien Force:
    • In "Save the Last Dance", Gwen and Julie do the "Aww" variation when they see the baby Necofriggians hatching.
    • In "Vengeance of Vilgax, Part 1", Ben gives a high-pitched, enthusiastic shriek upon learning that there’s going to be a Sumo Slammers movie.
  • Braceface: Sharon and Maria do this often when they are excited. In "Vanity Fur", when Maria is chosen to model ski wear, she and Sharon squee so loudly that the agent covers her ears.
  • Catscratch: Waffle does this often. He is easily excited.
    "Splee!"
  • Codename: Kids Next Door: Nigel Uno when he finds out that Numbah 0 is his own dad.
  • Cow and Chicken: The Red Guy does this when he gets excited by something.
  • Book Revue: In this Daffy Duck cartoon, every female character and the wolf has this reaction to Frank Sinatra.
    Whistler's Mom: AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Frankie!
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Dee Dee does this constantly.
  • Histeria!: Pepper Mills does this a lot when she's excited. Which, to say, is often.
  • Family Guy: Peter Griffin performed a ridiculously high version of this in the episode Family Gay when, after having his sexuality altered by an experimental drug and returning from a reparative therapy camp, he is told by his temporary boyfriend Scott of an arrangement for his dream scenario: an 11-way.
  • Futurama: In the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Fry let out a squee when he gets Walter Koenig to use his Russian accent.
  • Gravity Falls:
    • In "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel does this in reaction to an adorable pig supposedly grunting her name.
    • Dipper in "A Tale of Two Stans". When the Author gets to the creation of the Journals, Dipper interrupts his story twice with his fanboy squeeing.
    • Mabel and Grenda do an extraordinarily loud one in "Roadside Attracton" when Candy tells them about her newfound crush on Dipper.
      Stan: Man, coyotes sound a lot worse then I remember.
    • Mabel, Candy and Grenda do this often, though in Grenda's case, it's more like a deep bellow.
  • Hailey's On It! has Kristine, whose catchphrase is an excited "EEEEEEE!"
  • Hero: 108: Mystique Sonia fits into this trope nicely. She's just a fangirl of cute things, from bunnies to flowers.
  • Inspector Gadget: The normally calm and level-headed Penny does this in "A Star is Lost" when she hears the eponymous character has been assigned to be rock star Rick Rocker's bodyguard.
  • The Jetsons: Judy Jetson often does this when she meets a guy she likes.
  • Johnny Test: 11-year old Johnny sometimes does this, usually when getting a new video game or seeing a particularly exciting invention from his sisters.
  • King of the Hill: Bobby does this once when Hank tells him he is allowed to continue growing roses as a hobby.
    • Luanne does this from to time when she's excited or intrigued by something.
  • The Loud House:
    • In "Left in the Dark", Lola squees when Lincoln gives her a tea party set to play with. Lana does the same thing when Lincoln gives her frogs to play with at the tea party.
    • In "Heavy Meddle", all of the Loud sisters squeal with delight when they realize that Lincoln's bully is a girl.
    • In "No Guts, No Glori", Lola cries out "GLIIIIITTEEEEER!!!" when she sees a cloud of glitter.
    • In "City Slickers", Lori gives two loud squees at the beginning of the episode because of how excited she is about her romantic comedy-like dream of becoming a city girl coming true.
    • In "Rocket Men", both Lincoln and Clyde squee when they learn that they're going to camp and when they get there.
  • Molly of Denali: In "Bye Bye Birdie," Molly and Trini can't stop squeeing when first meeting the puffins. Nina finally has to put a limit on the amount of squeeing permitted.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash squees over getting to hang out with the Wonderbolts in "The Best Night Ever" (and again when made team leader at the end of "Wonderbolt Academy").
    • Rainbow Dash is particularly prone to this level of excitement. Several times she's heard saying "So... AWESOME!!!" It even has its own emoticon now.
    • Pinkie Pie is also quite prone to squeeing a lot.
    • In "Sweet and Elite", Rarity manages an impressive one while getting ready to attend the Wonderbolt Derby with high-society pony Fancypants.
    • The series also features a "squeaky toy" sound effect that is associated with particularly enthusiastic grins. The fandom typically refers to this as a "squee" as well. It's heard many times, but is most often connected to a grin by Fluttershy in "The Stare Master".
    • The Cutie Mark Crusaders do this in "Just For Sidekicks" as they journey to the Crystal Empire, especially Sweetie Belle.
    • Within My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, human Pinkie Pie intuits, in her own way, Twilight's entire purpose of being there (including knowing she was a pony princess), ending on a huge squee-inducing grin.
    • Spike does one in It Ain't Easy Being Breezies, which sounds like a noise a donkey would make.
    • Discord of all characters does one, after admitting the specific reason for reforming is for Fluttershy. One that sounds like a baby babble.
    • Scootaloo gives of several squees when she meets Rainbow Dash's parents in "Parental Glideance". They're so high-pitched that she ends up shattering several plates.
  • Mysticons: Piper tends to make squeeing noises when she's excited.
  • The Owl House: Luz often does this when King does or says something she thinks is cute. She's also shown gushing at how pretty her girlfriend Amity's Bonesborough Brawl dress is in "Reaching Out"
  • Phineas and Ferb: Candace, Stacy, and Jenny have been known to do this sometimes.
    • Irving, Phineas and Ferb's biggest fan, has this reaction when he hears Phineas use his catchphrase.
  • Polly Pocket: Polly, Lila, and Shani do this with joy after hearing Melody's new single in "Tiny Power."
  • Ren & Stimpy: Happens in the first episode, as Stimpy writes his poem for a contest.
  • The Simpsons: Ned Flanders loves purple drapes.
  • Spongebob Squarepants: The title character has done this a couple of times, like the time Mr. Krabs told him he could work overtime.
  • Steven Universe:
    • In "Coach Steven", both Steven and Amethyst give a loud and extraordinarily hammy squee when they learn that Amethyst is going to fuse with Garnet.
    • In "Fusion Cuisine", Connie moans out of excitement when the doctor in her favorite TV show Under the Knife gives a dramatic Title Drop before beginning surgery, exclaiming "This show is so gooood!". It could be a non-sexual or erotic example of The Immodest Orgasm.
    • In "Know Your Fusion", Garnet of all people squees for sixteen seconds straight when she's introduced to Smoky Quartz, Steven and Amethyst's fusion.
    • In a flashback from "A Single Pale Rose", Rose Quartz squees "Peeeearl!" when Pearl agrees to go along with her plan to stage the assassination of her true identity, Pink Diamond.
  • Total Drama: Katie and Sadie are infamous for this, and Sierra's known to do so as well.
  • True and the Rainbow Kingdom: Grizelda tends to clap her hands and squeal with glee when something excites her.


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