Take Our Word For It / Western Animation

Characters insisting you take their word for it in western animation TV.

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• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius:
  • We never really see the eponymous Twonkies in "Attack of the Twonkies" turn into their rampaging monster forms when they hear music; whenever we do so, either the camera cuts away or they transform offscreen. Possibly because there wasn't enough budget to animate such at the time.
  • When Jimmy's friends reminisce of his Epic Fails at doing "right brain" activities like art and writing, they begin to recall his attempt at an opera. The flashback effect begins as it did for his drawings and stories, but is suddenly canceled as Jimmy's friends remember just how bad it was.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "A Milhouse Divided", Luann van Houten, Milhouse's mother, answered her husband's challenge in a game of Pictionary, to draw "dignity". We don't see what she draws, but everyone in the room is impressed.
  • In "HOMR", Homer becomes super intelligent, and writes on a piece of paper proof that God doesn't exist. Ned looks at it and, and even he says it checks out.
  • Homer was broke and, desperately needing money, he dreamed about an invention that would make him instantly rich. We didn't get to see that invention, and neither did Homer.
  • In "The Last Temptation of Homer", when there was a gas leak at the nuclear plant, the gang runs for the exit, only to find that the emergency exit is actually just painted on the wall. The next thing we know, "after our miraculous escape", the gang asks for a real emergency exit... with predictable results.
  • In "Who Shot Mr. Burns: Part 1", after Homer reads that Mr. Burns thank you card was only addressed to Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie:
    Homer: (angry monotone voice) Kids, could you step outside for a sec?
    (Bart and Lisa run out of the room. Homer takes a deep breath, then shouts, but his profanity is cut off by a pipe organ. Shocked neighbors look in the Simpson house)
    Ned Flanders: Dear Lord, that's the loudest profanity I ever heard!
  • In the 400th episode "You Kent Always Say What You Want", Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Snowball V and Santa's Little Helper all hear Kent Brockman says something so horrifying, that Bart must use an Etch-A-Sketch to pass the profanity to Marge and Kent himself described it as something that "Should only be said by Satan sitting on the toilet". Ned Flanders actually said it was God's least favorite word and a super swear. We never get to see it, despite it refusing to leave the Etch-A-Sketch. All we know that the word is four syllables.
    • Also, the episode ends with Homer telling Lisa about something really bad Kent told him about FOX. Unfortunately, it gets redubbed with an announcer stating that FOX has amazing shows that everyone should watch.
  • In "24 Minutes", Bart forces Skinner to tell him a swear word he doesn't already know, in exchange for going undercover with Jimbo's gang. Skinner agrees and whispers it to him.
    Bart: Wow! That's a swear?
    Skinner: Used as a noun, it is.
  • In "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", Mr. Burns, Homer, Willie and Prof. Frink search and eventually find the Loch Ness Monster. Out of all people, Mr. Burns is the one who defeats and captures Nessie all by himself! We never learn how he did this, we just see Burns saying "I was a little worried when he swallowed me, but, well, you know the rest."
  • In "Boy Scoutz 'N The Hood" When Bart and Milhouse get a sugar high on all-syrup Squishies, Milhouse ends up with a dirty word shaved in his hair. Principal Skinner is quite appalled by it, but we never see it.
  • "Bart's Best Friend Falls In Love" begins with Bart's class watching a sex-education video starring two anthropomorphic rabbits. Narrator Troy McClure states that after the rabbits got married, then came the honeymoon. Cut to the kids yelling "Ewwwww!" as porno music plays, with Ms. Krabappel stating "She's faking it."
  • In "Love is a Many-Strangled Thing", Marge and Lisa spend some quality time together, and decide to watch movies about horses with sad-sounding titles, with one so sad Marge can't even say it. She shows the cover to Lisa who immediately breaks down in tears. The audience never gets to see the title.
  • The episode "Any Given Sundance" has the family attending the Sundance Film Festival due to the popularity of a film that Lisa made about the family. Marge concludes that after going into two films with unassuming titles yet shock value content that she'll like a movie named "Chernobyl Graveyard", believing it will contain something happy instead. We don't see it ourselves, but she soon walks out, confessing that she didn't like its content.
  • In "Bull-E", Marge shows off the dirtiest word in the English language: "bully". Moe says he thought it was going to be... something, which is censored by a long bleep as everyone in the room is shocked.
  • In "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About -- Act Three Will Shock You!", Lisa writes an apology for Homer to read about cancel culture. Homer gets the opportunity to broadcast his reading of it worldwide, and everyone is moved by it. This is done by a narration telling us that it was one of the best speeches ever written, and we only actually hear the first and last lines.
  • In the Simpsons Comics, Homer and Bart are arrested for possession of "obscene" horror comics. After they're released pending trial, Bart draws several sketches (unseen to the reader) to show Lisa the sort of material in question. As Bart shows sketch after sketch to Lisa, she remains unimpressed until the last one makes her cry "GAAAAK!" and gape in mute horror for three panels.
• An episode of Duckman was built around this joke. After talking to a sweet, beautifully voiced 911 operator over the phone, Duckman agrees to a date, only to find that she is hideous (or so we can surmise from everyone's response to seeing her). Eventually she gets a makeover, making her beautiful and causing Duckman to decide he is no longer good enough for her.
• The Weekenders, "The Perfect Weekend": Out of sheer boredom, Tino goes to a music contest Tish is in. Cut to Tish holding a trophy for winning a contest and Tino congratulating her for it.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • "Operation: B.U.T.T." subverts it. The other kids comment on a picture of Numbuh One's butt they found (basically, it's really big). They also comment on this later on when Numbuh One secures the negatives for the photo. All this time we're not shown the butt, and the ep plays out the "end transmission" end title card ... and then it shows this◊.
  • "Operation: R.A.I.N.B.O.W.S.": We see and hear Numbuh Three freaking out over a villain's plan against Rainbow Monkeys, but not the plan itself. What makes that even more disturbing than some examples is that the villain's company makes the Rainbow Monkey dolls.
  • "Operation S.N.O.W.I.N.G." does it with soup, although with added fumes to get the point across further.
• In Transformers: Animated, Optimus Prime asks Sari how the "smaller organics" are made. He listens for a few moments as Sari whispers an inaudible answer to him, then looks absolutely horrified.
• Transformers: Cyberverse has kindly old barkeep Macadam transform to break up a bar fight instigated by Megatron. Whatever he transforms into isn't seen, but it scares the robot pants right off Megatron to the point that the tyrant leader of the Decepticons is left awestruck and cowed by the sight. The best that can be said is that the shadow of Macadam's alternate mode is twice the height of any other person in the bar and is covered in guns.
• The Venture Bros.:
  • "Careers in Space", where Lt. Baldovitch is only ever shown with a face-shielding space helmet on or from behind, and it is implied that her face is catastrophically ugly, in stark contrast to her beautiful body.
  • Done again in "20 Years to Midnight" when an alien disguised as Jonas Venture Sr. gets angry over the characters lack of appreciation for saving the Earth for them and shows his true form. All that we see is their horrified faces.
  • Done in the entire series with the Monarch's hatred of Dr Venture. The only clues are in one episode The Monarch mentions hating Venture since college, and several lines which hint that it's not really a very good reason. (Venture doesn't even know what it is)
• In the Sealab 2021 episode "Neptunati", Captain Shanks does battle with the Kraken offscreen. We don't see a thing of the supposedly epic battle, but the rest of the crew is impressed enough that Quinn remarks "Anyone who missed that better just kill themselves right now!"
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Pretty much ANY time the krabby patty secret formula is read. We only see the back of the sheet when SpongeBob reads it in "Goodbye, Krabby Patty?", and Mr. Krabs cooked up a fake formula in a book in "Plankton's Army". When the formula was shown onscreen in "Krabby Road", all the ingredients were censored by nonsense gibberish.
• In the old cartoon Mighty Man and Yukk, Yukk was meant to be "the world's ugliest dog". Whenever his face (normally kept hidden under a small doghouse he wore on his head) was revealed, people would scream, mirrors would shatter, and general havoc would be wreaked, all while earthquakes rumbled and screaming sirens wailed... but the audience never once saw his face.
• South Park: One episode plays this for comedy. When the Legions of Hell do battle with 10,000 angels at the gates of Heaven, we don't see the battle at all. Instead, we just see the archangel Michael watch it and exclaim about how amazing the battle is. "Like... ten times cooler than the final battle from The Lord of the Rings films!" Of course, the animators could never create something as epic as it should be, so they made that the joke.
• In The Boondocks Christmas Episode, Huey wrote a play called "The Adventures of Black Jesus", which apparently received outstanding reviews and revolutionized theater. However, we don't get to see much of it, and a PTA protest prevents the play from ever being shown again (the high production cost may also have been a factor). All we can say is that somehow, a samurai is involved.
• Freakazoid! does this in one episode as a joke. The "Professor of Broadcast Standards" decides the show is too violent and decides to implement "Relax-O-Vision", a new system where violent scenes are replaced with calm scenery and music. After one of the fight scenes is replaced and all we see is a field of flowers, Freakazoid exclaims "I probably blew the animation budget for the whole season on that one fight..." which we never get to see.
• Danger Mouse once asked Master of Disguise Agent 57 what he really looked like. We don't see it, but DM does, and he is horrified.
• In Rocko's Modern Life Rocko is filming his dog Spunky, with constant references to "this really great trick" Spunky can do. Most of the video consists of the dog just sitting around, accompanied by Rocko's constant urging to "just wait, it's really reaally neat!", and by the time Spunky finally does do his trick the camera's battery has run out, though you do hear Rocko keep exclaiming just how amazing it is.
• On Futurama, Amy mentions that the primitive TV sets in Fry's time could never be able to show her obscene tattoo. We then get a shot of the tattoo, and sure enough, it shows up blurred in our primitive, turn-of-the-21st-Century sets.
  • Morbo the newsmonster removes his shirt (It Makes Sense in Context), and thankfully the only thing the audience sees is his co-worker screaming in horror.
  • Parodied in the Vignette Episode "Reincarnation". Each segment features something incredible (a new color of the rainbow, the secret of the universe, an incredible dance), but it's done In the Style of something that makes it so the audience can't see it (a black-and-white cartoon, an 8-bit video game that represents the secret as a single black pixel, and a Limited Animation anime).
  • Fry, being from the past, is overwhelmed by a marketing gimmick that we never get to see:
    Fry: I just saw something incredibly cool. A big floating ball that lit up with every color of the rainbow, plus some new ones that were so beautiful I fell to my knees and cried.
    Amy: Was it out in front of Discount Shoe Outlet?
    Fry: Yeah.
    Amy: They have a college kid wear that to attract customers.
• Stōked: Reef's dance moves, which are so hideously bad that they cause Lo to run away screaming, cough, and rub her eyes frantically, are not shown on screen. He calls it "White Guy Dancing Disease".
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • In "Nevermore", it's impossible to tell just what poor Dr. Light saw when Raven, who had assumed her demonic form out of rage, dragged him under her cloak, but it was clearly terrifying, so much that three seasons later, even seeing her imitate that form was enough for him to surrender and ask to be taken to jail.
  • On a similar note, in "Crash", the viewers didn't see what Gizmo saw when Raven showed him her Game Face (her back was turned) but it was enough to scare him into cooperating.
• In Teen Titans Go!, the creators trolled the audience with "The Return of Slade". The affrontment with Slade actually happens offscreen and the rest of the episode has nothing to do with him.
  Raven: And it wasn't just the fight that was amazing, in the end, so many compelling storylines came together and resolved in such a satisfying way.
  Starfire: A perfect balance of the action and drama. Along with light moments of the comedy!
  Robin: And I finally got that kiss!
  Beast Boy: Well, it's too bad people will never see any of it.
  Cyborg: No! That's a good thing, bro. It was just too epic!
• In Clerks: The Animated Series the final episode (appropriately titled "The Last Episode Ever", as it was the last episode made before the series was suddenly canceled) consists of Dante and Randal remaining in the store while incredibly interesting things happen outside. Jay and Silent Bob occasionally come in to detail everything (included are a fair with rides, an escaped gorilla, and Dante's ex-girlfriend making out with everyone in sight), and others come into the store who seem to support what Jay is reporting, but neither the clerks nor the audience ever get to see any of it.
• The Invader Zim episode "Room With A Moose" has two consecutive examples of this trope, with Zim showing Dib other places he could have used the wormhole to send him. The first is "a universe of pure itching" which is only shown as a green mist, Zim assuring Dib "you can't tell, but that stuff is really itchy", while the second is "a universe of pure dookie" which isn't shown at all, only Dib's horrified reaction visible.
• An episode of the animated version of Fraggle Rock involves "The Funniest Joke in the Universe" which makes whoever hears it laugh uncontrollably until they drink from the "Well of Forgetfulness". Everyone hears it, including Boober, who doesn't get it, and is left to be the one to go to the Well. At the end of the episode, he gets it, though. The audience never hears the joke, however, since it's only whispered in other people's ears.
• The one time Jérémie is virtualized in the digital world of Code Lyoko, his avatar is described as "ridiculous" by his friends. The audience never gets to see what Jérémie looks like on Lyoko. Whatever it is, he swears he's never going back — though, even if it may have contributed, this decision is less about his appearance and more about the fright he got from being attacked by Megatanks.
• One of the season finales from Justice League Unlimited has some of the modern-day heroes go to the Batman Beyond timeline. Modern-day Batman tries to intimidate some information out of a thug by dangling him off a ledge. Future-Batman (a.k.a. Old Master Batman) mutters "I can't believe I was ever that green. This is how you interrogate someone...." Scene fades, then we see the thug sitting on the roof with his knees drawn close to his chest, babbling the last of the Big Bad's plans, as well as confessing that he wet the bed until he was 14.
• Batman Beyond has one of its own with the assassin Curare: we never see her face, but Batman does and has a look of either shock or surprise.
  • In the pilot episode Rebirth, Powers shows the Kaznian ambassador a series of time-lapsed photos to prove the effectiveness of his flesh-eating nerve gas. The audience gets to see the first few pictures of a man with black rashes spreading over his body, then it cuts to the ambassador's horrified face.
• In one of Tex Avery MGM Cartoons about Screwy Squirrel, a scene takes place in a darkened room with lots of random sound effects. Then Screwy lights a match and proclaims, "Sure was a funny gag! Too bad you couldn't see it..."
  • In the Droopy cartoon "the Three Little Pups", one scene ends with the pursuing dogcatcher swallowing Droopy's tv set whole. A couple of scenes later, Droopy and his brothers are watching tv again, and he says to us "Now don't ask how we got the television back." Probably just intended as a wink toward cartoon continuity, but, bringing it up like that, one can't help wondering how they got it back.
• An early episode of the original G.I. Joe animated series features Destro walking into Cobra Commander's office while he's dining without his mask on. Destro is immediately horrified at the sight of Cobra Commander's face and asks him to put his hood on.
• In the Family Guy episode "Road to the Multiverse", Stewie takes Brian to a technologically-advanced alternate universe where Christianity never existed. While they're there, Stewie shows Brian this universe's version of Meg, who is much more attractive than the regular Meg. Stewie goes on to tell Brian that she's still the ugly one, and if Brian saw Lois, he would have to put his penis in a wheelchair. The audience is never shown this universe's version of Lois.
  • In another episode, Peter is trying to help Death get a date. Peter assures Death that he's not as ugly as he thinks, pulls down Death's hood and screams before pulling it back up. We don't see Death's actual face, but we do see insects scuttling around his skull.
• Danny Phantom uses this to leave it up to the viewers how Danny's human side was killed in "The Ultimate Enemy". Instead of being treated to the scene itself, we are given a Shadow Discretion Shot, and the only thing Vlad says about it? "Some things, my boy, are better left unsaid." Considered one of the most chilling moments in the show.
• In an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy there is a battle between the barbarians and Keebler elves, before the battle begins a drill sergeant advises the audience that the scene is too violent for children (despite the show being full of Family-Unfriendly Violence) so he shows the audience a koala chewing on a leaf until the battle is over. At one point he accidentally cuts back to the scene in the middle of the battle, and it is very violent.
  • Another example is Nergal Jr.'s true form. We see black skin and tentacles, but we never see anything else. However, Billy does describe it as being the most horrible thing he'd ever seen, and this is coming from a boy with the Grim Reaper for a best friend.
  • When questions arise about Irwin's Mom, who is a mummy, is married, and had a son, her husband Dick replies with "Leaving a whole lot of questions that don't need to be answered". Grim, Mandy, and their aforementioned son Irwin agree, while Billy is still curious.
• An episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law has Harvey showing footage of his client, Apache Chief's, various feats of heroism. The "footage" ends up simply being civilians describing AC's feats while not showing him at all (a satire of Hanna Barbera's Limited Animation).
• In Wakfu episode 10 ("Gobbowl Hell 1"), the girls go shopping for clothes. Walking out of the dressing room, Amalia asks Eva what she thinks of her dress — but we don't see it, only her head, her body being hidden by furniture. Evangelyne answers that "it's a bit short." One can only wonder what could be shorter than Amalia's usual Stripperific outfit.
• Dave the Barbarian:
  "And so our heroes defeated the muffin in an exciting battle, which we can't show you because it would be much too expensive for a cheap show like this."
  • And then in "Slay What?", Oswidge turns Faffy into something. On the third attempt, the only thing we can hear is a growling and gurgling sound, making Oswidge shudder and say to himself, "I did not need to see that."
• Titan Maximum: "Oh my God! Titan Maximum is raping the Statue of Unity!"
• In the Kick Buttowski episode "Gift of Wacky" Kick has Brad make him a present to give to Jackie that will make her hate him forever. It's apparently so horrible that even after the box is opened we never see what it is. Just kids running off screaming and Jackie adoring it.
• American Dad!:
  • Stan gets abandoned by his co-workers in the hands of a drug lord who wants to cut off his leg with a chainsaw. When he shows up to work safe and sound the next day, the co-workers ask how he escaped. Stan replies that his pet mouse came to his rescue.
  • Francine gets her face doused in acid. She's so unattractive that nobody wants to flirt with her, but her face is covered by various objects. And then it subverts it by showing her face right before it gets fixed...it's pretty bad.
  • A cloaked Karl Rove visits the Smiths, and at one point, Rove lifts up his cloak, showing them his naked body. We only see the family's horrified reactions, including Steve's response: "Where does your food go?"
  • During a fundraising telethon to raise money to torture suspected terrorists ends up with a terrorist threatening to blow up the entire event, Stan manages to raise enough money right as the clock nearly hits zero to torture the terrorist into giving up the code to disable the bomb and does so from behind a curtain. All you hear are screams and see the rest of the cast's disgusted reactions.
  • When Stan and Francine are out trying to make new friends, the first couple they meet Stan says they're hideous and their faces aren't shown to the audience.
  • When Stan takes Steve to Mexico to lose his virginity, he takes him to three brothels. The first has a fat double amputee, then the second has a man talking through his hands dressed as women. Stan assumes the third will be the right one a la Goldilocks; cut to them running outside while throwing up with Stan declaring "I was wrong! The third one was the worst!", leading to many other people nearby throwing up.
  • In "Shallow Vows" Roger's wedding planner persona Jeanie Gold warns Stan about looking at the "Sexy barnyard stuff" on her website. While we don't learn exactly what the content is like, Jeanie goes into explicit detail that if Stan decides to look at that content he then needs to do everything possible to scrub his hard drive clean as it's "Not for everyone" and they'd both go to jail for it.
  • The subplot of "Big Stan on Campus" has the rest of the Smiths convert their house into a bed-and-breakfast while Stan is away. One of the guests apparently crapped all over Steve's room, which Steve describes in great detail, screaming all the while. Fortunately, the audience doesn't get to see Steve's room in any detail greater than a Shadow Discretion Shot from outside the house.
• Iroh's awesome jailbreak in season three of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which viewers had watched him train for all season, was ultimately not included in the show. All we get is Zuko's arrival, after his heavily postponed Heel–Face Turn, to rescue his uncle, only to find a wrecked jail and a battered guardsman babbling, "He was like a One-Man Army!"
• In an early episode of Johnny Test, when Susan and Mary give Johnny shape-shifting powers, he turns into various things. For the last one, all we see is Susan and Mary folding their arms and glaring at him.
• God, the Devil and Bob - When the Devil disguises himself as an ordinary teenager and starts dating Bob's daughter, Bob snaps and demands God explain why he allows evil to exist in the world. The viewers are prevented from hearing the explanation by the sound of a train going past - all we hear is "like a cork circling a drain." Bob is awestruck, but God asks him to keep it under his hat, as "people are passionate about this issue."
• On at least two occasions Ed and Eddy gets to see what's underneath Double D's hat on Ed, Edd n Eddy and it's met with disgust, laughter and awe.
  • In an old online game on the website, Double D throws his hat into the air in celebration if you win playing as him. It's actually not that bad.
• On an episode of Regular Show, Rigby makes Mordecai do 10 solids (favors) in exchange for going on a double date with Eileen and Margaret. He pretty much uses all the solids to ruin Mordecai's night. The 10th is so horrible, the only part shown is a brief shot of Mordecai squatting down and making noises resembling a truck backing out, then the others' faces as he does it (though it's implied he took a shit).
• In the Polly Pocket Direct to Video special "Lunar Eclipse", the double-exposure photos taken by a camera with used film are never actually seen, but we do get comments on them.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Whatever was "not at all" what Phineas was thinking in "Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation" before Ferb flipped the blueprint.
  • Doof, Rodney and Lawrence once entered a contest to become leader of L.O.V.E.-M.U.F.F.I.N. (Lawrence misread the address of where he was supposed to go and believed he entered a contest to become king of pharmaceuticals) and, after he was hit by a ray that turned him evil, there was an event where each contestant had to scare the others with their evil glare. We never get to see Lawrence's but all characters who saw it were horrified.
  • Ferb once entered a debate championship. We never learned what he said but his opponent claimed to see the world in a different way because of that. Later, Perry somehow gave a better argument.
  • Doofenshmirtz was shown to be a terrible artist, but we don't ever get to see his paintings. And the painting Roger revealed and got destroyed by the Stain-inator was never seen either.
  • Whatever was the grand finale for Isabella's birthday party in "Happy Birthday Isabella". All we do see of it is its shadow rising over the guests, and isn't even seen for even a moment when getting zapped by the Bugs Me-inator. However, it was known to have a laser light show, fireballs, and swans, according to Phineas.
  • The Big Idea the boys built in the dark in "Blackout!".
• She-Ra: Princess of Power: In "The Price of Power", Shadow Weaver showed her face to a boy who wanted to be her apprentice. The boy's reaction suggested the face to be hideous but the viewers were never given a chance to see for themselves.
• In the My Gym Partner's a Monkey episode "That Darn Platypus", when Principal Pixiefrog and Mrs. Warthog are searching through the student body's records to see if any of them are aliens, Mrs. Warthog advises Pixiefrog not to go through Dickie Sugarjumper's file, saying simply that "it's creepy".
• In Gravity Falls, a climactic battle with claymation monsters occurs off-screen. A comment is made that animating it would be costly.
• In Mike Tyson Mysteries, in "Ty-Stunned", when Mike Tyson and the gang are solving a mystery of who killed Mrs. Ensler's husband, this is the general reaction to seeing her husband's incredibly mutilated body which they don't show onscreen:
  • When the gang sees the body for the first time in the study:
    Pigeon: Holy fuck! They cut off his head! Oh, my fucking God. What is that? Is that his dick? They cut off his dick and stuck it in his mouth! What the fuck! Where are his feet?
  • When Pigeon goes back to the study to retrieve Dr. Ensler's laptop in his desk:
    Pigeon: Oh, for Christ's sakes! What is this?! IT'S HIS STOMACH! Holy shit, they cut off his hands! What the fuck! Found his feet!
  • When Mike's agent, Deezy, goes inside the study to retrieve Dr. Ensler's keys:
    Deezy: Oh, my Lord! Why would people do this? Who did this? Hell, no! Hell, no!
• In the Biker Mice from Mars episode "A Scent, A Memory, A Far Distant Cheese", Vinnie is laughed at by Throttle, Modo, and Charley because of an Embarrassing Old Photo. We never see it, but it is said to be one of Vinnie's baby pictures and it is implied by some of the remarks made about the picture that baby Vinnie was bald and wasn't wearing a diaper in the picture.
• In an early episode of Arthur, a massive snowball fight is happening outside the school and Arthur is recruited by Buster to save Francine from the "creampuff treatment". Arthur and Buster end up delayed and when they find Francine, she tells them that thanks to their delay, she got the "powdered donut treatment" in addition to the "creampuff treatment". While the "powdered donut treatment" is a known phenomenon, it is still unknown what exactly the "creampuff treatment" is.
• In Road Rovers, we never see any of the resulting bloodshed from the titular team siccing Muzzle on the bad guys, though the Road Rovers do tend to make remarks about what they see. The team's leader Hunter at one point even quips "There goes our TV-G rating".
• Winx Club: The Winx's Enchantix transformation was not seen onscreen in Season 4, Episode 6, only getting some mocking Lampshade Hanging from Ogron.
• An episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt has the treasure hunters in a locked room filling with water, which then fades to the show's commercial spot. When the episode resumes, the crew is on top of the roof, safe and sound. Huckleberry Hound tells the viewers we'd have seen quite a rescue if not for the commercial. Lampshaded by Snooper: "Yeah. Take Huck's word for it. It was a doozy!"
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: In the episode "Solitary Alignment", Azmuth shows Ben, Gwen, and Kevin the origins of Ascalon and Sir George through a Pensieve Flashback. The last flashback Azmuth shows them is the battle between George and Dagon, where the knight cut out the being's heart to defeat it. The battle itself isn't shown, but considering that it horrified the heroes, who have seen their fair share of horrors, it probably wasn't pretty.
• Fudêncio e Seus Amigos had heavily Limited Animation and had a short production span, so sometimes this was done to avoid showing things on-screen, only having the characters talk about it. For example:
  • In an episode where zombies invade the school, they break the classroom's windows to enter inside it, but the windows themselves never appear; only a glass breaking sound effect is heard.
  • Another episode has Teacher Cudi mentioning she made an entire exposition full of drawings made by Fudêncio. His adoptive father Baltazar remarks "he took his attraction to toilets after his father". The exposition itself is only mentioned and isn't seen on-screen, only having Baltazar's line indicating that they're drawings of toilets.
• The Owl House: In the episode “Echoes of the Past,” Hooty exits his house to become portable (Porta-Hooty, as he refers to it as). Although he exits the house offscreen, the process is implied to be quite gruesome. As he’s transforming, a bunch of gross-sounding noises can be heard as the other characters are watching in horror. Once it’s over, there are organs and blood vessels everywhere where his head should be. Luz even gags. Despite all these implications, it doesn’t seem to harm Hooty at all.
• Rick and Morty: One episode sees a talking cat become the Smiths' family pet. Towards the end of the episode, Rick and Jerry take it out into the middle of the desert, then Rick does a mind scan to determine the origin of the cat's ability to talk. The audience isn't shown the answer, but upon seeing the truth Rick and Jerry freak out and banish the cat into the desert. It's so unbelievably horrifying that it makes Rick of all people almost commit suicide and show concern for Jerry's wellbeing.
• In Peter Pan & the Pirates, it's discovered that Hook keeps a portrait of his mother in his quarters. The painting is never revealed, but apparently, Mrs. Hook was a ghastly looking woman. Peter and the Lost Boys end up stealing it and using it to scare the pirates. Smee, at one point, compares the portrait to Davy Jones (or more like Mrs. Jones). Even Peter initially recoiled in horror upon first seeing it.

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