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** In the episode "Sheen's Brain", Jimmy gives Sheen a brain gain helmet in order to boost his IQ. It backfires when it not only causes his brain to keep growing until it would eventually explode, he also develops psychic powers and [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
** In the special "Win, Lose, and Kaboom!", in which Jimmy and his friends were taken into an intergalactic game show, the gang faced against the Needleheads in the ''Series/FearFactor'' style game, "Can You Eat This?". For the Needleheads' turn, one was challenged to eat a banana cream pie, which caused his head to explode.
** In the special "Win, Lose, and Kaboom!", in which Jimmy and his friends were taken into an intergalactic game show, the gang faced against the Needleheads in the ''Series/FearFactor'' style game, "Can You Eat This?". For the Needleheads' turn, one was challenged to eat a banana cream pie, which caused his head to explode.
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** In the episode "Sheen's Brain", "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS2E8SheensBrain Sheen's Brain]]", Jimmy gives Sheen a brain gain helmet in order to boost his IQ. It backfires when it not only causes his brain to keep growing until it would eventually explode, he also develops psychic powers and [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
** Inthe special "Win, "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGeniusS2E18WinLoseAndKaboom Win, Lose, and Kaboom!", Kaboom!]]", in which Jimmy and his friends were are taken into an intergalactic game show, the gang faced faces against the Needleheads in the ''Series/FearFactor'' style game, ''Series/FearFactor''-style game "Can You Eat This?". For the Needleheads' turn, one was is challenged to eat a banana cream pie, which caused causes his head to explode.
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** In "Dope & Faith", Stan makes a new friend only to be told that he's an Atheist, which heavily conflicts with Stan's ultra-Christian worldview ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn at the time]]). He calls the CIA to ask if the machine they were working on that projects an image of the Christian God into a person's brain was ready yet; clearly, it wasn't as the last test subject was shown to be sans head.
** A pretty spectacularly gory one in the climax of "Cops & Roger", where Roger drops his elbow onto the head of the bad guy as he falls from the ceiling of a warehouse, shown four times with increasingly gruesome close-ups. The episode ends a scene later with Roger asking Stan if that guy was okay. He even says what everyone watching was thinking: "That was unexpected."
** A pretty spectacularly gory one in the climax of "Cops & Roger", where Roger drops his elbow onto the head of the bad guy as he falls from the ceiling of a warehouse, shown four times with increasingly gruesome close-ups. The episode ends a scene later with Roger asking Stan if that guy was okay. He even says what everyone watching was thinking: "That was unexpected."
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** In "Dope "[[Recap/AmericanDadS4E3DopeAndFaith Dope & Faith", Faith]]", Stan makes a new friend only to be told that he's an Atheist, atheist, which heavily conflicts with Stan's ultra-Christian worldview ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn at the time]]). He calls the CIA to ask if the machine they were they're working on that projects an image of the Christian God into a person's brain was is ready yet; clearly, it wasn't isn't, as the last test subject was is shown to be sans head.
** A pretty spectacularly gory one in the climax of"Cops "[[Recap/AmericanDadS6E14CopsAndRoger Cops & Roger", where Roger]]" when Roger drops his elbow onto the head of the bad guy as he falls from the ceiling of a warehouse, shown four times with increasingly gruesome close-ups. The episode ends a scene later with Roger asking Stan if that guy was okay. He even says what everyone watching was thinking: "That was unexpected."
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Bender's head explodes after Creator/GeorgeTakei accidentally activates his SelfDestructMechanism.
** "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" introduces Malfunctioning Eddie, a neurotic robot used-car salesman whose head would explode when startled or excited. He shows up later in "Insane in the Mainframe" as a robot asylum inmate, where his condition is brought under control with medication (he only experiences a tiny explosion on his shoulder).
** Leela manages to make Robot Santa's head explode via LogicBomb but another one pops right up and he claims he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones".
** In "The Farnsworth Parabox", one of the alternate universes that appears is one where the normally organic characters are robots. When Robot Fry asks Leela if she'll go out with him, she tells him "Access denied" and his head explodes.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Scary-oke", Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies' heads to explode.
** "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" introduces Malfunctioning Eddie, a neurotic robot used-car salesman whose head would explode when startled or excited. He shows up later in "Insane in the Mainframe" as a robot asylum inmate, where his condition is brought under control with medication (he only experiences a tiny explosion on his shoulder).
** Leela manages to make Robot Santa's head explode via LogicBomb but another one pops right up and he claims he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones".
** In "The Farnsworth Parabox", one of the alternate universes that appears is one where the normally organic characters are robots. When Robot Fry asks Leela if she'll go out with him, she tells him "Access denied" and his head explodes.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "Scary-oke", Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies' heads to explode.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Bender's head explodes after Creator/GeorgeTakei accidentally activates his SelfDestructMechanism.
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**"Put "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E7PutYourHeadOnMyShoulder Put Your Head On on My Shoulder" Shoulder]]" introduces Malfunctioning Eddie, a neurotic robot used-car salesman whose head would explode when startled or excited. He shows up later in "Insane in the Mainframe" as a robot asylum inmate, where his condition is brought under control with medication (he only experiences a tiny explosion on his shoulder).
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E3ATaleOfTwoSantas A Tale of Two Santas]]", Leela manages to make Robot Santa's head explode viaLogicBomb LogicBomb, but another one pops right up up, and he claims that he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones".
** In"The "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E11WhereNoFanHasGoneBefore Where No Fan Has Gone Before]]", Bender's head explodes after Creator/GeorgeTakei accidentally activates his SelfDestructMechanism.
** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E15TheFarnsworthParabox The FarnsworthParabox", Parabox]]", one of the alternate universes {{alternate universe}}s that appears is one where the normally organic characters are robots. When Robot Fry asks Leela if she'll go out with him, she tells him "Access denied" and his head explodes.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode"Scary-oke", "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E1Scaryoke Scary-oke]]", Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies' heads to explode.
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** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E3ATaleOfTwoSantas A Tale of Two Santas]]", Leela manages to make Robot Santa's head explode via
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* In an episode of “WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries”, some tiny aliens give one of their frisbee-sized ships to pawnshop owner Jack Jeebs in exchange for the location of MIB headquarters. When the ship accidentally ends up Jeebs’ mouth, Agent K threatens to activate its self-destruct mechanism if he doesn’t reveal the location of the aliens. When Jeebs’ refuses to comply, K activates the mechanism, invoking for trope. This is more of an AmusingInjury for Jeebs, as he’s an alien with the ability to regrow his entire head, and is outraged that K destroyed his recently obtained merchandise.
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--->'''Jeebs:''' You broke it, you bought it!\\
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* In an episode of “WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries”, ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', some tiny aliens give one of their frisbee-sized ships to pawnshop owner Jack Jeebs in exchange for the location of MIB headquarters. When the ship accidentally ends up Jeebs’ Jeebs' mouth, Agent K threatens to activate its self-destruct mechanism if he doesn’t doesn't reveal the location of the aliens. When Jeebs’ Jeebs refuses to comply, K activates the mechanism, invoking for trope. This is more of an AmusingInjury {{Amusing Injur|ies}}y for Jeebs, as he’s he's an alien with [[GoodThingYouCanHeal the ability to regrow his entire head, head]], and is outraged that K destroyed his recently obtained merchandise.
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' Jerry sticks an air hose in Tom's mouth and it swells to massive size, then the duckling Little Quacker pops his head with a pin. Tom recovers.
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' cartoon, Jerry sticks an air hose in Tom's mouth and it swells to massive size, then the duckling Little Quacker pops his head with a pin. Tom recovers.
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** In "Gee Whiz", Carl is hit with a flaming arrow fired by Music/TedNugent. After the Nooge tells him "Don't move!", Carl's head explodes. [[BrickJoke Then a rainbow comes out.]]
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** In "Gee Whiz", Carl is hit with a flaming arrow fired by Music/TedNugent. After the Nooge Ted tells him "Don't move!", Carl's but Carl is distracted by the prospect of getting an autograph from "The Nooge" and does so anyway, leading to his head explodes. [[BrickJoke exploding. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Then a rainbow comes out.]]
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** A THX sound test in one episode made one unlucky moviegoer's head pop.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror X", spoofing the [=Y2K=] furor, Homer and Bart toss themselves out of the airlock from a spaceship filled with C-list actors, comedians, and has-been celebrities (it was already [[HurlItIntoTheSun headed for the Sun]], but staying even one more minute was so much worse). While in the vacuum of space, their heads swell up, they sigh in their few last moments of blissful silence, [[GoryDiscretionShot and their heads go "pop!" off-screen]].
** In the season six episode "And Maggie Makes Three", when Homer is telling the story of Maggie Bart takes over and Homer's head explodes after being told he was going to have another child.
** According to the episode "Lisa's Wedding", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there would be robots that looked completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext When Homer is the only one on Earth to make it into heaven after correctly predicting the apocalypse]], an angel tells him that he can have anything he wants, instantly. Homer, being Homer, silently wishes for the angel's head to explode. It does and (Homer) laughs hysterically while it grows back. The angel then punishes Homer by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment making him live next to the kiddie pool for all eternity.]]
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror X", spoofing the [=Y2K=] furor, Homer and Bart toss themselves out of the airlock from a spaceship filled with C-list actors, comedians, and has-been celebrities (it was already [[HurlItIntoTheSun headed for the Sun]], but staying even one more minute was so much worse). While in the vacuum of space, their heads swell up, they sigh in their few last moments of blissful silence, [[GoryDiscretionShot and their heads go "pop!" off-screen]].
** In the season six episode "And Maggie Makes Three", when Homer is telling the story of Maggie Bart takes over and Homer's head explodes after being told he was going to have another child.
** According to the episode "Lisa's Wedding", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there would be robots that looked completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext When Homer is the only one on Earth to make it into heaven after correctly predicting the apocalypse]], an angel tells him that he can have anything he wants, instantly. Homer, being Homer, silently wishes for the angel's head to explode. It does and (Homer) laughs hysterically while it grows back. The angel then punishes Homer by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment making him live next to the kiddie pool for all eternity.]]
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** A THX sound test in one episode made makes one unlucky moviegoer's head pop.
** In"WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror X", spoofing "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E13AndMaggieMakesThree And Maggie Makes Three]]", when Homer is telling the [=Y2K=] furor, story of Maggie, Bart takes over and Homer's head explodes after being told he was going to have another child.
** According to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there will be robots that look completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X]]", Homer and Bart toss themselves out of the airlock from a spaceship filled with C-list actors, comedians, and has-been celebrities (it was already [[HurlItIntoTheSun headed for the Sun]], but staying even one more minute was so much worse). While in the vacuum of space, their heads swell up, they sigh in their few last moments of blissful silence, [[GoryDiscretionShot and their heads go "pop!" off-screen]].
** Inthe season six episode "And Maggie Makes Three", when Homer is telling the story of Maggie Bart takes over and Homer's head explodes after being told he was going to have another child.
** According to the episode "Lisa's Wedding", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there would be robots that looked completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
**"[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E19ThankGodItsDoomsday Thank God it's Doomsday]]", [[ItMakesSenseInContext When when Homer is the only one on Earth to make it into heaven after correctly predicting the apocalypse]], an angel tells him that he can have anything he wants, instantly. Homer, being Homer, silently wishes for the angel's head to explode. It does and (Homer) laughs hysterically while it grows back. The angel then punishes Homer by [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment making him live next to the kiddie pool for all eternity.]]eternity]].
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** According to "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E19LisasWedding Lisa's Wedding]]", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there will be robots that look completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X]]", Homer and Bart toss themselves out of the airlock from a spaceship filled with C-list actors, comedians, and has-been celebrities (it was already [[HurlItIntoTheSun headed for the Sun]], but staying even one more minute was so much worse). While in the vacuum of space, their heads swell up, they sigh in their few last moments of blissful silence, [[GoryDiscretionShot and their heads go "pop!" off-screen]].
** In
** According to the episode "Lisa's Wedding", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there would be robots that looked completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
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** A juror's head explodes after hearing a complement to the ChewbaccaDefense in "Chef Aid".
** [[MemeticMutation Tay Zonday's]] head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down in "Canada on Strike". Complete with dramatic music and everything. He manages to blow the critter's head off with his gun before he croaks.
** The future guns in "Go God Go". They fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
** Happens to Glenn in "Night of the Living Homeless" thanks to Randy's animosity towards destitute people.
** Cartman's head explodes in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" after he finds out that KFC has been banned from Colorado. ([[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better, though.]])
** [[MemeticMutation Tay Zonday's]] head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down in "Canada on Strike". Complete with dramatic music and everything. He manages to blow the critter's head off with his gun before he croaks.
** The future guns in "Go God Go". They fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
** Happens to Glenn in "Night of the Living Homeless" thanks to Randy's animosity towards destitute people.
** Cartman's head explodes in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" after he finds out that KFC has been banned from Colorado. ([[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better, though.]])
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** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E11RogerEbertShouldLayOffTheFattyFoods Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods]]".
** A juror's head explodes after hearing a complement to the ChewbaccaDefense in"Chef Aid".
"[[Recap/SouthParkS2E14ChefAid Chef Aid]]".
** The future guns in "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E12GoGodGo Go God Go]]" fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[MemeticMutation Tay Zonday's]] head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down in"Canada "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E4CanadaOnStrike Canada on Strike".Strike]]". Complete with dramatic music and everything. He manages to blow the critter's head off with his gun before he croaks.
** The future guns in "Go God Go". They fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
** Happens to Glenn in "Night "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E7NightOfTheLivingHomeless Night of the Living Homeless" Homeless]]" thanks to Randy's animosity towards destitute people.
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** Cartman's head explodes in"Medicinal "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E3MedicinalFriedChicken Medicinal Fried Chicken" Chicken]]" after he finds out that KFC has been banned from Colorado. ([[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better, though.]])though]].)
** A juror's head explodes after hearing a complement to the ChewbaccaDefense in
** The future guns in "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E12GoGodGo Go God Go]]" fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[MemeticMutation Tay Zonday's]] head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down in
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
** Cartman's head explodes in
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* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, robot heads tend to get exploded one way or another. In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Luthor reveals he has a kill switch for [[spoiler:AMAZO--excuse me, "[[NotUsingTheZWord the android]]"]], and uses it in this fashion... but by this point, a simple head asplosion just makes him ''mad''.
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* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, robot heads tend to get exploded one way or another. In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Luthor reveals he has a kill switch for [[spoiler:AMAZO--excuse me, "[[NotUsingTheZWord the android]]"]], and uses it in this fashion... but by this point, a simple head asplosion just makes him ''mad''.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BlobMonster Plasmus]] is pretty much a giant head on legs when Raven makes him explode, so while it's not technically bloody it's still messy, graphic and complete with gunky splatters right back in Raven's face.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', [[BlobMonster Plasmus]] is pretty much a giant head on legs when Raven makes him explode, so while it's not technically bloody it's still messy, graphic and complete with gunky splatters right back in Raven's face.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode “Scary-oke”, Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies’ heads to explode.
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** In "The Farnsworth Parabox", one of the alternate universes that appears is one where the normally organic characters are robots. When Robot Fry asks Leela if she'll go out with him, she tells him "Access denied" and his head explodes.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode“Scary-oke”, "Scary-oke", Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies’ zombies' heads to explode.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode
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** Later, in the penultimate episode of Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[spoiler:Suyin Beifong [[ExtraOreDinary wraps her metal armor]] around [[TheBrute P'Li's]] head just as the [[ColdSniper sniper]] is about to shoot Lin. Cut to GoryDiscretionShot...and then, cut back to the ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill smoking crater]]'' where there'd been a 6'8" firebender moments before]].
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** Later, in the penultimate episode of Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[spoiler:Suyin Beifong [[ExtraOreDinary wraps her metal armor]] around [[TheBrute P'Li's]] head just as the [[ColdSniper sniper]] is about to shoot Lin. Cut to GoryDiscretionShot...and then, cut back to the ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill ''[[NotEnoughToBury smoking crater]]'' where there'd been a 6'8" firebender moments before]].
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* In the Avatarverse, [[spoiler:having one's chi blocked at the wrong moment appears to be an (explosive) AchillesHeel for [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]]]].
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* In the Avatarverse, [[spoiler:having ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirBender'', having one's chi blocked at the wrong moment appears to be an (explosive) AchillesHeel for [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]]]].combustionbenders]].
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[[YourHeadASplode Heads blowing up]] in WesternAnimation.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'':
** In the episode "Sheen's Brain", Jimmy gives Sheen a brain gain helmet in order to boost his IQ. It backfires when it not only causes his brain to keep growing until it would eventually explode, he also develops psychic powers and [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
** In the special "Win, Lose, and Kaboom!", in which Jimmy and his friends were taken into an intergalactic game show, the gang faced against the Needleheads in the ''Series/FearFactor'' style game, "Can You Eat This?". For the Needleheads' turn, one was challenged to eat a banana cream pie, which caused his head to explode.
* Darwin's head pops like a balloon on three occasions on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** In "Dope & Faith", Stan makes a new friend only to be told that he's an Atheist, which heavily conflicts with Stan's ultra-Christian worldview ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn at the time]]). He calls the CIA to ask if the machine they were working on that projects an image of the Christian God into a person's brain was ready yet; clearly, it wasn't as the last test subject was shown to be sans head.
** A pretty spectacularly gory one in the climax of "Cops & Roger", where Roger drops his elbow onto the head of the bad guy as he falls from the ceiling of a warehouse, shown four times with increasingly gruesome close-ups. The episode ends a scene later with Roger asking Stan if that guy was okay. He even says what everyone watching was thinking: "That was unexpected."
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'':
** In "Kidney Car", after a particularly inane rant from Master Shake near the end of the episode, involving Carl's new car being sucked into a jet engine Shake had affixed on his car (which happened to be Carl's ''old'' car), Carl's head explodes.
--->'''Meatwad:''' Why'd he do that?\\
'''Master Shake:''' Why wouldn't he?
** In "Gee Whiz", Carl is hit with a flaming arrow fired by Music/TedNugent. After the Nooge tells him "Don't move!", Carl's head explodes. [[BrickJoke Then a rainbow comes out.]]
* In the Avatarverse, [[spoiler:having one's chi blocked at the wrong moment appears to be an (explosive) AchillesHeel for [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]]]].
** First, there was the fate of [[spoiler:[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Combustion Man]]]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', after [[spoiler:Sokka hit him in the [[ThirdEye light chakra]] with a boomerang]].
** Later, in the penultimate episode of Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[spoiler:Suyin Beifong [[ExtraOreDinary wraps her metal armor]] around [[TheBrute P'Li's]] head just as the [[ColdSniper sniper]] is about to shoot Lin. Cut to GoryDiscretionShot...and then, cut back to the ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill smoking crater]]'' where there'd been a 6'8" firebender moments before]].
* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' involves characters' heads exploding whenever they hear a surprising fact. Of course, this being a cartoon, their heads are back to normal in the next shot.
* This happens from time to time on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''. They include Creator/JimCarrey, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, [[Music/{{Oasis}} Liam and Noel Gallagher]], [[Franchise/StarWars Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew]], Creator/AlPacino, Creator/KeanuReeves, and [[Series/MadAboutYou Paul Reiser]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet Garbage Ballet]]", because of her disastrous kiss with Brendan, Molly drew in her comic Fista-Puffs kissing Kite Boy and [[FacialHorror his face melting]]. She rewinds time to wipe her lips and kiss him again, only for his face to melt again, then she rewinds time again to blow him a kiss, only for his head to explode as she screams in terror.
* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, robot heads tend to get exploded one way or another. In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Luthor reveals he has a kill switch for [[spoiler:AMAZO--excuse me, "[[NotUsingTheZWord the android]]"]], and uses it in this fashion... but by this point, a simple head asplosion just makes him ''mad''.
* Creator/TexAvery often used exploding heads--always resulting in BloodlessCarnage as a form of LaserGuidedKarma--as a common gag in his MGM shorts. Some examples:
** Spike's head explodes twice in the WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} shorts ''Wags to Riches'' and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Millionaire Droopy]]''--the same two scenes in each.
*** Spike's head first explodes after masquerading as a press photographer. After rigging a camera with a mortar shell in place of film, he points it in [=Droopy=]'s direction. The camera immediately swivels around in Spike's direction, then gets fired straight into his melon. After the photo is taken, Spike leaves with a blanket hovering over an empty space where his head used to be.
*** The second time comes up when Spike sets up a shotgun to fire when a bathroom door opens. [=Droopy=] enters and immediately leaves the bathroom, but nothing happens each time. When Spike opens it... yeah. The carnage is initially hidden by the bathroom wall, then is further obfuscated by a card conveniently located on an easily accessible table.
** In ''The Chump Champ'', [[SameCharacterButDifferent Gorgeous Gorillawitz]] attempts to rig a potato-sack race by depositing a CartoonBomb into [=Droopy=]'s sack. The bomb promptly defuses before [=Droopy=] enters the scene. After the race ends, which [=Droopy=] wins easily, the bomb detonates as soon as Gorillawitz peeks into the sack, and we see nothing but air as he looks toward the audience.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': A cutaway gag shows Peter's head exploding after he eats half a fudgsicle in one bite.
** In another episode, a cutaway gag has customers' heads exploding after eating cupcakes that were baked by Peter. It also makes Peter a ''literal'' LethalChef.
** In "Chap Stewie" Stewie puts a box containing Peter's PornStash out on the curb to be picked up by Goodwill. Chris opens it, then screams in joy and his head explodes. He's perfectly fine later, where he announces that it took him three years to look at all of it.
* Done in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks'', specifically it was Clamantha, after finding out that the girls knew about the party crashers. However, she is just a head so she blew herself up.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Bender's head explodes after Creator/GeorgeTakei accidentally activates his SelfDestructMechanism.
** "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" introduces Malfunctioning Eddie, a neurotic robot used-car salesman whose head would explode when startled or excited. He shows up later in "Insane in the Mainframe" as a robot asylum inmate, where his condition is brought under control with medication (he only experiences a tiny explosion on his shoulder).
** Leela manages to make Robot Santa's head explode via LogicBomb but another one pops right up and he claims he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode “Scary-oke”, Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies’ heads to explode.
* Variation on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Lucius gets so angry at Beezy that his head rockets off his shoulders and flies around.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is once trapped in the fast food restaurant to which he was exiled prior to the first episode, and all exits are programmed to make him swell up and explode if he tries to leave. Every time he even thought about escaping, a small child would shout, "He's gonna 'splode, momma!"
** Also happens to Gir in "Bad, Bad, Rubber Piggy", after spotting a [[LogicBomb flaw]] in Zim's plot to assassinate Dib via TimeTravel.
--->'''Gir:''' Wait... if you destroy Dib in the past, then he won't ever be your enemy. Then you wouldn't have to send the robot back to destroy him, and then he WILL be your enemy, so then you WILL have to send a robot BACK... *head explodes*
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Spies", [[spoiler: [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength Bad Kaeloo]] gives a BearHug to Stumpy, Quack Quack [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]]. She squeezes too hard and their heads explode, which is [[HollywoodHealing somehow fixed by bandages]].]]
** In another episode, Mr. Cat has an allergic reaction, and as a result, his head swells up and explodes offscreen.
* At least in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', the main character's head explodes briefly into a mushroom cloud.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSummerBelongsToYou Summer Belongs to You]]", Isabella tries to get [[ObliviousToLove Phineas]] to notice her for most of the time they're in Paris. After he makes a statement about Candace and Jeremy being together, Isabella's head explodes in frustration (which turns out to be a DaydreamSurprise).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "The Last [=LaserDisc=] Player", when the [=LaserDisc=] guardian reveals its true form, it creates a high-decibel noise that causes one of the members of the VHS society to have his head explode while he's entranced by [=LaserDisc=]'s 44.1 kilohertz sample rate.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "Ren's Brain" ends with every single person's head exploding, blowing up Earth in the process. "And thus endeth the Republican Party as we know it," says the narrator.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** In the episode "Maurice Was Caught", little orphan Annie is given Mars for her sweet sixteen party, and upon visiting it, trips and loses her spacesuit helmet. Cue ExplosiveDecompression of her head.
** During another episode, several math students' heads exploded after being taught that the imaginary number ''i'' was the square root of ''-1''.
--->''"I don't get it! ... Oh, '''now''' I--(boom)"''
** In one sketch, Franchise/{{Batman}} sentences ComicBook/TheJoker to death row and he's executed via electric chair. When his face has been burnt away and he appears to be dead, his body suddenly spasms and his head explodes.
** In a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' sketch, Ron Weasley mixes a potion wrongly and drinks it. After a brief OhCrap, his teeth quadruple in size and shoot out like bullets and his head explodes.
* One early episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' involves Rocko buying groceries at a very deep discount. The only shopping cart available for him is missing some wheels. The grinding sound it makes is so annoying, one shopper pulls his ears so hard in frustration that his head pops like a balloon.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'', human psychic Carl goes up against an alien "brain bug" and, in the battle of minds, the brain bug follows this trope quite messily, as it is essentially a large mobile brain. Carl later has the obligatory PsychicNosebleed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** A THX sound test in one episode made one unlucky moviegoer's head pop.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror X", spoofing the [=Y2K=] furor, Homer and Bart toss themselves out of the airlock from a spaceship filled with C-list actors, comedians, and has-been celebrities (it was already [[HurlItIntoTheSun headed for the Sun]], but staying even one more minute was so much worse). While in the vacuum of space, their heads swell up, they sigh in their few last moments of blissful silence, [[GoryDiscretionShot and their heads go "pop!" off-screen]].
** In the season six episode "And Maggie Makes Three", when Homer is telling the story of Maggie Bart takes over and Homer's head explodes after being told he was going to have another child.
** According to the episode "Lisa's Wedding", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there would be robots that looked completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': [[spoiler:The robot Scaramouche ended up having his head blown off by Aku, [[ItMakesSenseInContext after Aku was misinformed by Scaramouche with]] [[LockedOutOfTheLoop an outdated piece of information that Jack had lost his sword]].]]
* Towards the end of the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Let's Play Musical Friends", when Orbot and Cubot confront Nominatus, the episode's BigBad, they play a game of [[RockPaperScissors Rock]], [[{{Calvinball}} Donut, Thursday]] to determine who gets to fight him. Nominatus is baffled at the stupidity of the game, and further observation confuses him to the point where his head explodes from logical errors.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** A juror's head explodes after hearing a complement to the ChewbaccaDefense in "Chef Aid".
** [[MemeticMutation Tay Zonday's]] head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down in "Canada on Strike". Complete with dramatic music and everything. He manages to blow the critter's head off with his gun before he croaks.
** The future guns in "Go God Go". They fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
** Happens to Glenn in "Night of the Living Homeless" thanks to Randy's animosity towards destitute people.
** Cartman's head explodes in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" after he finds out that KFC has been banned from Colorado. ([[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better, though.]])
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E19FoolsInAprilNeptunesSpatula Fools in April]]", Squidward's head explodes [[GaggingOnYourWords while trying to say sorry to SpongeBob]].
** A variant in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E20HookyMermaidManAndBarnacleBoyII Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II]]": when the Atomic Flounder is offended by [=SpongeBob=] suggesting that he could go back to villainy at any time, he unintentionally breathes radiation on Barnacle Boy's face. Barnacle Boy's head glows red before exploding into a miniature mushroom cloud, [[AshFace leaving it a burnt husk]].
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E20SpongeBobMeetsTheStranglerPranksALot Pranks a Lot]]", Patrick falls victim to the exploding gum prank. Of course, only [[TheDitz Patrick]] could fall for a prank while knowing he just entered a store that sells prank items.
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E9TheKrustySpongeSingASongOfPatrick Sing a Song of Patrick]]", a guy's head explodes from listening to Patrick's horrible song being played off the radio station's antenna. Another guy nearby who didn't suffer the same fate calls him lucky.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BlobMonster Plasmus]] is pretty much a giant head on legs when Raven makes him explode, so while it's not technically bloody it's still messy, graphic and complete with gunky splatters right back in Raven's face.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' Jerry sticks an air hose in Tom's mouth and it swells to massive size, then the duckling Little Quacker pops his head with a pin. Tom recovers.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'', Dr. Fox uses a shuttle to train Unikitty and Puppycorn for space travel, during which Unikitty and Puppycorn's heads inflate and explode.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Good Bad Guy", Hater's head explodes when [[spoiler:Major Threat makes a remark heavily implying that Tumbleweed, the guy who inspired his HeelFaceTurn, really ''is'' the same person as Wander]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'':
** In the episode "Sheen's Brain", Jimmy gives Sheen a brain gain helmet in order to boost his IQ. It backfires when it not only causes his brain to keep growing until it would eventually explode, he also develops psychic powers and [[AGodAmI a god complex]].
** In the special "Win, Lose, and Kaboom!", in which Jimmy and his friends were taken into an intergalactic game show, the gang faced against the Needleheads in the ''Series/FearFactor'' style game, "Can You Eat This?". For the Needleheads' turn, one was challenged to eat a banana cream pie, which caused his head to explode.
* Darwin's head pops like a balloon on three occasions on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** In "Dope & Faith", Stan makes a new friend only to be told that he's an Atheist, which heavily conflicts with Stan's ultra-Christian worldview ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn at the time]]). He calls the CIA to ask if the machine they were working on that projects an image of the Christian God into a person's brain was ready yet; clearly, it wasn't as the last test subject was shown to be sans head.
** A pretty spectacularly gory one in the climax of "Cops & Roger", where Roger drops his elbow onto the head of the bad guy as he falls from the ceiling of a warehouse, shown four times with increasingly gruesome close-ups. The episode ends a scene later with Roger asking Stan if that guy was okay. He even says what everyone watching was thinking: "That was unexpected."
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'':
** In "Kidney Car", after a particularly inane rant from Master Shake near the end of the episode, involving Carl's new car being sucked into a jet engine Shake had affixed on his car (which happened to be Carl's ''old'' car), Carl's head explodes.
--->'''Meatwad:''' Why'd he do that?\\
'''Master Shake:''' Why wouldn't he?
** In "Gee Whiz", Carl is hit with a flaming arrow fired by Music/TedNugent. After the Nooge tells him "Don't move!", Carl's head explodes. [[BrickJoke Then a rainbow comes out.]]
* In the Avatarverse, [[spoiler:having one's chi blocked at the wrong moment appears to be an (explosive) AchillesHeel for [[HavingABlast combustionbenders]]]].
** First, there was the fate of [[spoiler:[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Combustion Man]]]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', after [[spoiler:Sokka hit him in the [[ThirdEye light chakra]] with a boomerang]].
** Later, in the penultimate episode of Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', [[spoiler:Suyin Beifong [[ExtraOreDinary wraps her metal armor]] around [[TheBrute P'Li's]] head just as the [[ColdSniper sniper]] is about to shoot Lin. Cut to GoryDiscretionShot...and then, cut back to the ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill smoking crater]]'' where there'd been a 6'8" firebender moments before]].
* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' involves characters' heads exploding whenever they hear a surprising fact. Of course, this being a cartoon, their heads are back to normal in the next shot.
* This happens from time to time on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''. They include Creator/JimCarrey, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, [[Music/{{Oasis}} Liam and Noel Gallagher]], [[Franchise/StarWars Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew]], Creator/AlPacino, Creator/KeanuReeves, and [[Series/MadAboutYou Paul Reiser]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E4GarbageBallet Garbage Ballet]]", because of her disastrous kiss with Brendan, Molly drew in her comic Fista-Puffs kissing Kite Boy and [[FacialHorror his face melting]]. She rewinds time to wipe her lips and kiss him again, only for his face to melt again, then she rewinds time again to blow him a kiss, only for his head to explode as she screams in terror.
* In the Franchise/{{DCAU}}, robot heads tend to get exploded one way or another. In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Luthor reveals he has a kill switch for [[spoiler:AMAZO--excuse me, "[[NotUsingTheZWord the android]]"]], and uses it in this fashion... but by this point, a simple head asplosion just makes him ''mad''.
* Creator/TexAvery often used exploding heads--always resulting in BloodlessCarnage as a form of LaserGuidedKarma--as a common gag in his MGM shorts. Some examples:
** Spike's head explodes twice in the WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} shorts ''Wags to Riches'' and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Millionaire Droopy]]''--the same two scenes in each.
*** Spike's head first explodes after masquerading as a press photographer. After rigging a camera with a mortar shell in place of film, he points it in [=Droopy=]'s direction. The camera immediately swivels around in Spike's direction, then gets fired straight into his melon. After the photo is taken, Spike leaves with a blanket hovering over an empty space where his head used to be.
*** The second time comes up when Spike sets up a shotgun to fire when a bathroom door opens. [=Droopy=] enters and immediately leaves the bathroom, but nothing happens each time. When Spike opens it... yeah. The carnage is initially hidden by the bathroom wall, then is further obfuscated by a card conveniently located on an easily accessible table.
** In ''The Chump Champ'', [[SameCharacterButDifferent Gorgeous Gorillawitz]] attempts to rig a potato-sack race by depositing a CartoonBomb into [=Droopy=]'s sack. The bomb promptly defuses before [=Droopy=] enters the scene. After the race ends, which [=Droopy=] wins easily, the bomb detonates as soon as Gorillawitz peeks into the sack, and we see nothing but air as he looks toward the audience.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': A cutaway gag shows Peter's head exploding after he eats half a fudgsicle in one bite.
** In another episode, a cutaway gag has customers' heads exploding after eating cupcakes that were baked by Peter. It also makes Peter a ''literal'' LethalChef.
** In "Chap Stewie" Stewie puts a box containing Peter's PornStash out on the curb to be picked up by Goodwill. Chris opens it, then screams in joy and his head explodes. He's perfectly fine later, where he announces that it took him three years to look at all of it.
* Done in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FishHooks'', specifically it was Clamantha, after finding out that the girls knew about the party crashers. However, she is just a head so she blew herself up.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Bender's head explodes after Creator/GeorgeTakei accidentally activates his SelfDestructMechanism.
** "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" introduces Malfunctioning Eddie, a neurotic robot used-car salesman whose head would explode when startled or excited. He shows up later in "Insane in the Mainframe" as a robot asylum inmate, where his condition is brought under control with medication (he only experiences a tiny explosion on his shoulder).
** Leela manages to make Robot Santa's head explode via LogicBomb but another one pops right up and he claims he was built with "paradox-absorbing crumple zones".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode “Scary-oke”, Dipper, Mabel and Stan defeat a horde of zombies by singing a three-part karaoke chorus, causing the zombies’ heads to explode.
* Variation on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': Lucius gets so angry at Beezy that his head rockets off his shoulders and flies around.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is once trapped in the fast food restaurant to which he was exiled prior to the first episode, and all exits are programmed to make him swell up and explode if he tries to leave. Every time he even thought about escaping, a small child would shout, "He's gonna 'splode, momma!"
** Also happens to Gir in "Bad, Bad, Rubber Piggy", after spotting a [[LogicBomb flaw]] in Zim's plot to assassinate Dib via TimeTravel.
--->'''Gir:''' Wait... if you destroy Dib in the past, then he won't ever be your enemy. Then you wouldn't have to send the robot back to destroy him, and then he WILL be your enemy, so then you WILL have to send a robot BACK... *head explodes*
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Spies", [[spoiler: [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength Bad Kaeloo]] gives a BearHug to Stumpy, Quack Quack [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther and Mr. Cat]]. She squeezes too hard and their heads explode, which is [[HollywoodHealing somehow fixed by bandages]].]]
** In another episode, Mr. Cat has an allergic reaction, and as a result, his head swells up and explodes offscreen.
* At least in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', the main character's head explodes briefly into a mushroom cloud.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbSummerBelongsToYou Summer Belongs to You]]", Isabella tries to get [[ObliviousToLove Phineas]] to notice her for most of the time they're in Paris. After he makes a statement about Candace and Jeremy being together, Isabella's head explodes in frustration (which turns out to be a DaydreamSurprise).
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "The Last [=LaserDisc=] Player", when the [=LaserDisc=] guardian reveals its true form, it creates a high-decibel noise that causes one of the members of the VHS society to have his head explode while he's entranced by [=LaserDisc=]'s 44.1 kilohertz sample rate.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "Ren's Brain" ends with every single person's head exploding, blowing up Earth in the process. "And thus endeth the Republican Party as we know it," says the narrator.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'':
** In the episode "Maurice Was Caught", little orphan Annie is given Mars for her sweet sixteen party, and upon visiting it, trips and loses her spacesuit helmet. Cue ExplosiveDecompression of her head.
** During another episode, several math students' heads exploded after being taught that the imaginary number ''i'' was the square root of ''-1''.
--->''"I don't get it! ... Oh, '''now''' I--(boom)"''
** In one sketch, Franchise/{{Batman}} sentences ComicBook/TheJoker to death row and he's executed via electric chair. When his face has been burnt away and he appears to be dead, his body suddenly spasms and his head explodes.
** In a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' sketch, Ron Weasley mixes a potion wrongly and drinks it. After a brief OhCrap, his teeth quadruple in size and shoot out like bullets and his head explodes.
* One early episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' involves Rocko buying groceries at a very deep discount. The only shopping cart available for him is missing some wheels. The grinding sound it makes is so annoying, one shopper pulls his ears so hard in frustration that his head pops like a balloon.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RoughnecksStarshipTroopersChronicles'', human psychic Carl goes up against an alien "brain bug" and, in the battle of minds, the brain bug follows this trope quite messily, as it is essentially a large mobile brain. Carl later has the obligatory PsychicNosebleed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** A THX sound test in one episode made one unlucky moviegoer's head pop.
** In "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror X", spoofing the [=Y2K=] furor, Homer and Bart toss themselves out of the airlock from a spaceship filled with C-list actors, comedians, and has-been celebrities (it was already [[HurlItIntoTheSun headed for the Sun]], but staying even one more minute was so much worse). While in the vacuum of space, their heads swell up, they sigh in their few last moments of blissful silence, [[GoryDiscretionShot and their heads go "pop!" off-screen]].
** In the season six episode "And Maggie Makes Three", when Homer is telling the story of Maggie Bart takes over and Homer's head explodes after being told he was going to have another child.
** According to the episode "Lisa's Wedding", aired in [[TheNineties 1995]], [[IWantMyJetpack by 2010 there would be robots that looked completely human]] with one notable flaw; when they cry, their heads spark, explode and melt.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': [[spoiler:The robot Scaramouche ended up having his head blown off by Aku, [[ItMakesSenseInContext after Aku was misinformed by Scaramouche with]] [[LockedOutOfTheLoop an outdated piece of information that Jack had lost his sword]].]]
* Towards the end of the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode "Let's Play Musical Friends", when Orbot and Cubot confront Nominatus, the episode's BigBad, they play a game of [[RockPaperScissors Rock]], [[{{Calvinball}} Donut, Thursday]] to determine who gets to fight him. Nominatus is baffled at the stupidity of the game, and further observation confuses him to the point where his head explodes from logical errors.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** A juror's head explodes after hearing a complement to the ChewbaccaDefense in "Chef Aid".
** [[MemeticMutation Tay Zonday's]] head explodes after the "Dramatic Chipmunk" stares him down in "Canada on Strike". Complete with dramatic music and everything. He manages to blow the critter's head off with his gun before he croaks.
** The future guns in "Go God Go". They fire a dart into the target that, after a few seconds, causes their head to explode.
** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny's death]] at the Plane'arium in "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods".
** Happens to Glenn in "Night of the Living Homeless" thanks to Randy's animosity towards destitute people.
** Cartman's head explodes in "Medicinal Fried Chicken" after he finds out that KFC has been banned from Colorado. ([[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better, though.]])
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E19FoolsInAprilNeptunesSpatula Fools in April]]", Squidward's head explodes [[GaggingOnYourWords while trying to say sorry to SpongeBob]].
** A variant in "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E20HookyMermaidManAndBarnacleBoyII Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II]]": when the Atomic Flounder is offended by [=SpongeBob=] suggesting that he could go back to villainy at any time, he unintentionally breathes radiation on Barnacle Boy's face. Barnacle Boy's head glows red before exploding into a miniature mushroom cloud, [[AshFace leaving it a burnt husk]].
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E20SpongeBobMeetsTheStranglerPranksALot Pranks a Lot]]", Patrick falls victim to the exploding gum prank. Of course, only [[TheDitz Patrick]] could fall for a prank while knowing he just entered a store that sells prank items.
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E9TheKrustySpongeSingASongOfPatrick Sing a Song of Patrick]]", a guy's head explodes from listening to Patrick's horrible song being played off the radio station's antenna. Another guy nearby who didn't suffer the same fate calls him lucky.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BlobMonster Plasmus]] is pretty much a giant head on legs when Raven makes him explode, so while it's not technically bloody it's still messy, graphic and complete with gunky splatters right back in Raven's face.
* In one ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' Jerry sticks an air hose in Tom's mouth and it swells to massive size, then the duckling Little Quacker pops his head with a pin. Tom recovers.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'', Dr. Fox uses a shuttle to train Unikitty and Puppycorn for space travel, during which Unikitty and Puppycorn's heads inflate and explode.
* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Good Bad Guy", Hater's head explodes when [[spoiler:Major Threat makes a remark heavily implying that Tumbleweed, the guy who inspired his HeelFaceTurn, really ''is'' the same person as Wander]].
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