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* ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'' episode 14, "First Date!? Hell's Zoo": Highlights include having to recapture all the animals after Lambo blows up all their cages, and Ryohei testing his strength "to the extreme" by fighting a bear—at a video game.

* An episode of ''DuckTales'' did this, when the Beagle Boys steal Gyro's furniture mover ray to steal Scrooge's money. Huey, Dewey, and Louie eventually find them but get chased away by the Beagle Boys, into a zoo. Hilarious antics include a gorilla being teleported between two lovers about to share a kiss, and an elephant being teleported in front of an elevator.

* The main characters of ''TheMightyBoosh'' are zookeepers, and some episodes deal with a problem at work.

** There's another featuring Pepe Le Pew one where the animals react to his smell.

* In ''TheFlinstones'', the title family and the Rubbles go to the zoo and of course Fred finds himself in the gorilla cage while everyone is too entertained by him being chased around to help him until Bamm-Bamm gets him out.

* In ''Oumagadoki Zoo'', Aoi Hana gets a job in a zoo. Turns out the [[HairRaisingHare director]] is cursed, can turn any animal into PettingZooPeople and [[HeroicComedicSociopath really wants to party all day.]]

* The song "Monkey Punk" (made famous by DanceDanceRevolution) is about a group of kids who go to the zoo. One sticks his tongue out at the [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys monkeys]], which upsets them, and so one monkey retaliates by stealing his ice cream and making everyone laugh at him.

* One episode of ''KingOfTheHill'' deals with Hank [[DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale being raped by a male dolphin]] at a Sea World-esque park.

HilarityInZoos is, essentially, just that sort of situation. Whenever a group of characters goes to the zoo, it's almost a given that ''something'' is going to happen. It might be played for either comedy or drama, but inevitably, as you might expect, {{an amusing circumstance of some sort occurs}}.

* ''Film/BabysDayOut'' : The whole sequence where the [[BadlyBatteredBabySitter three]] [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain bad]] [[TheChewToy guys]] try to retrieve the titular baby from a gorilla in a zoo. HilarityEnsues as they get pwned by the gorilla in each of their attempts.

* There is a very early LooneyTunes cartoon featuring Egghead (the precursor to Elmer Fudd), who eventually gets eaten by a lion—but we also take a look at all the other zoo animals as well.

* ''FierceCreatures'' takes place almost entirely at a zoo, so naturally they take advantage of it.

* ''HarryPotter and the [[MarketBasedTitle Philosopher's / Sorceror's]] Stone'': Harry's accidental wizardry let a snake out of its case and trapped Dudley in it.

* [[DrSeuss Dr. Seuss's]] ''If I Ran the Zoo''.

* There's the extremely controversial ''{{Simpsons}}'' episode "Homer vs. Dignity", where Homer gets molested by a panda.

* ''BabysDayOut'' : The whole sequence where the [[BadlyBatteredBabySitter three]] [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain bad]] [[TheChewToy guys]] try to retrieve the titular baby from a gorilla in a zoo. HilarityEnsues as they get pwned by the gorilla in each of their attempts.

* One episode of ''KingOfTheHill'' deals with Hank [[RapeIsFunnyWhenItIsMaleOnMale being raped by a male dolphin]] at a Sea World-esque park.

* Two examples from ''The Punisher'': the first, when Ma Gnucci and her {{Mooks}} pursued Frank into a zoo, and he, without much in the way of weapons, used the animals to fend them off, culminating in a darkly hilarious fate for Ma Gnucci herself. The second time is when a mook that Frank needs for information tells him about how the made man he was working for antagonized a monkey in a zoo. Said monkey proceeded to rip the guy's junk off and tossed it away, where it eventually got eaten by a vulture.

* ''Baby's Day Out'' : The whole sequence where the [[BadlyBatteredBabySitter three]] [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain bad]] [[TheChewToy guys]] try to retrieve the titular baby from a gorilla in a zoo. HilarityEnsues as they get pwned by the gorilla in each of their attempts.

* ''Sort of'' subverted in ''OsmosisJones'', in which Frank works as a zookeeper and is unwittingly exposed to a deadly virus near the monkey cage. The partial subversion is that the resulting trouble all occurs inside Frank's body, hence has nothing more to do with the zoo itself; indeed, the remainder of the film mostly takes place at his house, not at work.

* Not exactly zany, but in one ''{{Animorphs}}'' book they go to the zoo and end up having to rescue a kid who falls in the crocodile pit. Rachel ends up discovering she's allergic to crocodile DNA (ItMakesSenseInContext) It ends with a grizzly bear fighting a crocodile on national TV while scaring the crap out of an infuriatingly annoying teen star.

* ''KatekyoHitmanReborn'' episode 14, "First Date!? Hell's Zoo": Highlights include having to recapture all the animals after {{Rambo}} blows up all their cages, and Ryohei testing his strength "to the extreme" by fighting a bear—at a video game.

* An episode of ''KeroroGunsou'' had Keroro sneaking into a zoo after hours with a ray-gun that [[HumanityEnsues turns animals into humans]], with the hopes of recruiting some of the transformed animals as soldiers for his invasion.

* Two words: ''FierceCreatures''. Another few words: not nearly as funny as the zooless ''AFishCalledWanda''.

* On ''CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin's family goes to the zoo and he gets lost. Not much actually happens beside that, although Dad does run a little faster when he imagines Calvin going ''into'' the tiger pit because he likes them so much.

** Reverend Lovejoyrescues Ned Flanders from the baboon exhibit.

* There's the extremely controversial ''{{Simpsons}}'' episode "Homer vs. Dignity", where Homer gets molested by a panda. It's still regarded as a major DethroningMomentOfSuck by fans.
** Reverend Lovejoy has a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he rescues Ned Flanders from the baboon exhibit.

* ''HarryPotter and the [[MarketBasedTitle Philosopher's / Sorceror's]] Stone'': Harry's first bit of accidental wizardry involved letting a snake out of its case and trapping Dudley in it.
** Not his first. His first was making his hair grow back instantly after an awful haircut.