History Main / CartoonJuggling

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales(1987)'' has an episode called "Jungle Duck" where Mrs. Beakley teaches Huey, Dewey, and Louie how to juggle (depicted as shower juggling).
--> '''Mrs. Beakley''': Start off with one, that's easy to do. Add one more and now you've got two. Two plus one as hard as it can be, but oh so quick, I'm juggling three.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', during the bubbles scene in the bathroom, Patrick is seen shower juggling bubbles.

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* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 2'', Diddy Kong's idle animation is him doing a cascade with four balls.

The cascade is the easiest to learn, but looks chaotic at first glance. Because of the props passing in front of the juggler, it's a little more of a pain to draw. In reality only even numbers of props pass between hands. Odd numbers are divided by two and juggled in each hand[[note]]Four ball juggling is juggling two balls in each hand at the same time, six balls are three in each hand, etc.[[/note]]. The more props you juggle the higher you have to throw them to give yourself time to handle them all. The current record (as of 2014) for balls/beanbags is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBRf_WFt08 13 balls with 15 catches]].

* In Sonic Unleashed [[http://youtu.be/8jfsJXX-D1s?t=9m9s "Sonic does the shower with one hand and two objects."]]

The cascade is the easiest to learn, but looks chaotic at first glance. Because of the props passing in front of the juggler, it's a little more of a pain to draw.

* In WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie, during the bubbles scene in the bathroom, Patrick is seen shower juggling bubbles.

** ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe has the Clown Acrobat enemies, which juggle two balls shower-style. When inhaled, they give the Circus ability, which, amongst other things, allows Kirby to juggle pins cascade-style.

* In ''Videogame/UltimaVI''
** The jugglers (including Blaine, who can join your party), do a cascade.

* In ''SuperMarioRPG'', Knife Guy's idle animation is endless juggling, cascade-style.

* In ''UltimaVI'', the jugglers (including Blaine, who can join your party), do a cascade.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3317 Pooch does the arc]] much to Percy's displeasure.

You'll also notice that cartoon jugglers tend to use props which are all the same color. This saves on animation - if you do the juggling shower (circle), you would have to draw panels to take each different-colored prop all the way around. With all the balls being the same color, [[LimitedAnimation you only have to animate until the point where the next prop starts]] - with three balls for example, you only have to draw 1/3 as many frames. In RealLife props are different colors because it adds to the presentation.

* In the circus episode of ''InspectorGadget'', Penny is seen doing a cascade with apples.

* Skee-bo is shown juggling in the opening to ''[[WesternAnimation/JoJosCircus JoJo's Circus]]''.
* In one of his cartoons, TheGreatGrapeApe juggles cars in the arc style, but it makes him dizzy.
* The modern [[PaulMcCartney MPL]] VanityPlate uses a juggler. In animated form, we see a cascade of three, with the end position and still an arc.

* Shaggy does this in the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' episode "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair", as he and Scooby baffle Mano Tiki Tia.

* Also subverted in a ''CalvinAndHobbes'' strip:

'''Calvin:''' [[FromACertainPointOfView Notice I didn't say I could do it for very long.]]\\

'''Calvin:''' Notice I didn't say I could do it for very long.\\

* The Juggler trainer class sprite in ''{{Pokemon}}'' does an arc with four pokeballs.

You'll also notice that cartoon jugglers tend to use props which are all the same color. This saves on animation - if you do the juggling shower (circle), you would have to draw panels to take each different-colored prop all the way around. With all the balls being the same color, [[LimitedAnimation you only have to animate until the point where the next prop starts]] - with three balls for example, you only have to draw 1/3 as many frames.