Actually Pretty Funny / Western Animation

• American Dad!:
  • In one episode, there's a running gag with a busboy who says "It was kinda funny" after someone says Dude, Not Funny!.
  • In another episode, after Steve takes the last cookie, Roger pranks him by making him think that he's adopted and that he was really a child who went missing at a boat show years ago. He destroys all the baby photos of Steve and get him to put on a blonde wig and a sailor suit to go and meet his "birth parents." Upon realizing the truth, Steve admits that he legitimately thinks that it was a totally hilarious prank.
• On Arthur, in "Pageant Problems" D.W. tricks Arthur into performing as the chimp for a two-person poem she wrote for her preschool's pageant by pretending that none of her friends or classmates would agree to perform the poem for her. Afterward, Arthur talks with her classmates, who loved his performance and says that he bets they wished they hadn't refused her offer and nobody has any idea what he's talking about. His friends rib him for being tricked by D.W. He says he's going to get her back, but Francine says that D.W. is just too smart. He admits the whole thing was pretty funny and they crack each other up acting like chimps.
• Archer:
  • The mainframe is infected with a virus that shuts down all the computers. And displays an animation of a cartoon pirate with a catchy tune.
    Archer: (bursts out laughing)
    Malory: You think this is funny?
    Archer: Do you not?
  • And in "White Nights":
    Malory: Go see Krieger this instant!
    Archer: I don't need a doctor, mother. Katya doesn't have VD.
    Malory: You haven't had sex with her?
    Archer: (sarcastically) Oh, ha ha. For your— (beat) That was pretty good.
  • When Cyril shows up to rescue everyone in a tank, Pam calls him "Michael Du-cockless." Cyril laughs, as did everyone else but Archer, who was furious that Pam said it before he could — though that might have been what Cyril was laughing at.
  • Pam gives Archer a pretty aggravated tirade for basically stowing her in a space cargo hold for sex purposes, but can't help laughing and saying "Nice!" when he refers to Katya as "R-2-Double-D-2".
  • In "The Papal Chase," Archer finds himself riding on top of a speeding car and shouting commands while holding a lit lighter:
    Archer: Lana, head toward Swiss Guard HQ!
    Lana: What, while you request "Free Bird?"
    Archer: (laughs sarcastically) Actually, that was pretty good — for you, at least...
  • Pam does it to herself, oddly enough, in "A Going Concern." Freshly returned from a Noodle Incident that got her deported from Jamaica, she spends the episode immersing herself in Rasta culture. When Archer tries and fails to think of a clever insult, she sportingly supplies one, chuckling at it as Archer walks away.
    Archer: God, would you give it a rest, uh... damn, I had something for this.
    Pam: Blob Marley. [Beat] Heh.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: In a season 1 episode, Katara, then a novice but potentially powerful waterbender who is frustrated that she can't master the art faster, wants to buy an instructional scroll on waterbending from a pirate captain. The captain sets a very high price on the scroll: 200 gold pieces. Aang privately tells Katara that pirates love haggling over prices, and takes over negotiating for the scroll. He makes his offer to the pirate: a single copper piece. The pirate is truly amused by the sheer audacity and Aang's chutzpah, and genuinely laughs at the whole situation. When Aang makes a second offer of two copper pieces, however, the pirate is no longer so amused, saying a joke isn't as funny if you repeat it.
• On the PBS version of The Berenstain Bears, once they get over the initial shock, this is Mama and Papa's reaction to the "Trouble with Grownups" play. With the idea that turnabout is fair play when Mama and Papa dress up as the cubs.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • In "Crawlspace", Bob has been complaining about Linda's nagging by calling her "Nagatha Christie". He later apologizes... saying he should have thought of something more clever, like "Secretary of Nagriculture", which gets a laugh out of Linda and her father and makes Linda admit "that was a good one".
  • In "The Belchies", when Bob and Linda discover Tina's diary entry that details how she, Gene and Louise snuck off to the abandoned taffy factory, there's an unrelated aside that states, "Also, if boys had uteruses, they'd be called 'duderuses'", which, despite their worries about their kids, Bob gets a chuckle out of.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In the pilot episode, when Gaia welcomes the team to Hope Island after first summoning them, Wheeler immediately calls her "lady" and casually demands an explanation. Despite acknowledging that it took the drama out of the moment, Gaia is more amused than irritated by his insouciance.
• In the Netflix series Castlevania (2017), Trevor (who is born from a long lineage of Vampire Hunters) and Alucard (being Dracula's son) frequently trade barbs and threats with one another, but do have their moments when they make one another laugh.
  Alucard: I'm disturbed to find that I had more of a childhood than you did.
  Trevor: And your dad's fucking Dracula!
  [both laugh]
• Believe it or not, some of the celebrities that were portrayed on Celebrity Deathmatch enjoyed how they were parodied:
  • Both "Weird Al" Yankovic and Steven Spielberg enjoyed their appearances on the show, despite them ultimately losing their respective fights. In the case of the former, he would often show his fight against Al Gore during his live tours.
  • Howard Stern enjoyed his fight against Kathie Lee Gifford so much that he got a second appearance on the show.
  • Jennifer Lopez was a fan of her fight against Dolly Parton, but she was confused as to why the show gave her (Lopez) a different accent.
  • Tommy Lee was a fan of his fight and victory against Ron Jeremy.
• In Central Park, Season 1 "Dog Spray Afternoon", when Cole shows Helen a new trick he taught Shampagne, placing a stick on his nose to make it look like he has a mustache, Helen almost smiles at it until she goes back to being serious. This moment is what changed her mind about killing Shampagne.
• From Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • In the climax of "Operation: T.H.E.S.H.O.G.U.N.", Numbuh Four bursts into Shogun Roquefort's throne room, only to find the villain sprawled out on the floor, Numbuh Two having defeated him already. Numbuh Two apparently has made a Face–Heel Turn, and starts to threaten Numbuh Four. Numbuh Four nervously starts to plead with his friend, saying he'll fight him if he has to... And then Numbuh Two bursts out laughing, saying he couldn't believe Numbuh Four actually believed him. Then Roquefort chuckles, and says, "You gotta admit, that was kinda funny...". Numbuh Four is not amused, as he crowns Roquefort on the head with a loose chunk of cheese, knocking him out.
  • In "Operation: B.U.T.T." after Numbuh One quits the team (for no apparent reason) his teammates are upset, confused, and in Numbuh Three's case, crying. Then they find out that the reason was that the Delightful Children from Down the Lane had blackmailed him, threatening to put a photograph of his bare behind in the school paper. All of a sudden, they started to get the giggles, and Numbuh Two started making all sorts of jokes about a big butt, until Numbuh Five (who was usually the first one to call him out for his bad jokes) burst out laughing. (They got over it in time to help him fight the villains later, however.)
• One episode of Disenchantment has Luci and Elfo become roommates, with Luci being (unsurprisingly) a terrible person to live with. When Elfo demands some say in how the house is run due to being his roommate and Luci responds with "Then get out of my room, mate", Elfo can't help but admit it was a funny and clever response.
• In one episode, Doug finds himself in hot water with Assistant Principal, Mr. Bone, when the school paper runs a cartoon that he drew making fun of the Mystery Meat in the school cafeteria, and he actually bans the paper. The whole thing ends up getting defused in the end when the principal calls Mr. Bone saying he saw the cartoon and thought it was really funny.
• In "Emmy's Dream House" from Dragon Tales, Emmy is bossing everyone around when it comes to building the treehouse. Zak and Wheezie try to theme the steps in black and white like a piano, but she dumps red paint on them and it also gets on Zak and Wheezie's toes. Wheezie tells her that they didn't like the way she re-painted their steps. "Or our toenails!" comments Zak, lifting his foot, though Wheezie comments "Actually, I thought the toenails were kinda pretty."
• In one episode of The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, George and Harold create a comic book focusing on a joke version of the school's local Gentle Giant Bo. Bo thinks the comic is hilarious, though this doesn't stop Melvin from attempting to use the comic to gaslight him into thinking George and Harold hate him and are only using him.
• Family Guy:
  • In "The Thin White Line", Brian becomes a drug dog for the Quahog police but soon becomes addicted to cocaine. When Joe kicks him off the force, an irritated Brian tells a fellow cop who had previously done an Officer O'Hara impression to show his Joe imitation to his boss. The cop notes that it's not as good as his Irish impression before saying "Look at me, I'm Joe! My legs don't work, but I make up for it by having a very strong upper body!" Joe laughs and acknowledges that he does say that.
  • In "Ocean's Three and a Half", mob thugs come to beat up Joe Swanson, bringing a message from their boss that if he doesn't pay his debt to them, he'll make Joe into a "Swanson frozen dinner". Joe can't help chuckling a little at that.
  • In the climax of "And Then There Were Fewer", Tom Tucker gets dogpiled after being accused of being the murderer of James Woods and several other guests. He manages to get one defiant punch against Joe's face, leading to this exchange as he's being further restrained:
    Joe: Just for that, when the movie of this story comes out, I'm gonna make sure Adrien Brody plays you.
    Tom: I guess that means you don't want anyone to see it!
    (everyone laughs)
  • In "Peter's Sister", Peter plans to get revenge on his sister Karen - who happens to be a pro wrestler named Heavy Flo - by disguising himself as a female wrestler and beating her in the ring. Lois scolds him for being ridiculous, before hearing that he's chosen "Maxie Patty" as his own stage name. Lois stops herself and admits that that's a pretty clever pun.
• In "Franklin and the Mooseratops" from Franklin and Friends, Mr. Fox can't help but chuckle at one point at Franklin and Bear's antics as mooseratops (wearing branches on their heads as antlers), even though everyone's getting a bit annoyed with him and neither he nor Mr. Owl really want to encourage them.
• Futurama:
  • "Bender Gets Made" has Bender (working at a restaurant) attempt to swindle the Donbot by pocketing a large amount of change, lying that the Donbot only gave him a fifty-dollar-bill rather than a hundred-dollar bill. When one of his goons asks Bender if he's trying to steal from a mafia boss, Bender simply responds "I'm trying, but he ain't makin' it easy." Though the two goons are outraged, the Donbot laughs, and, impressed at Bender's boldness, actually gives him a sizeable tip and offers him a job.
  • In "Where the Buggalo Roam", Leo Wong tells the story of how the Native Martians were "scammed" out of most of the planet by trading it for a single bead. Leela chastises the group for laughing at the story, despite admitting that it is funny.
  • In the revival episode "Saturday Morning Fun Pit", Richard Nixon's head plays censorship-happy Media Watchdog to a G.I. Joe parody, but comments that their Nebulous Evil Organisation "ACRONYM", "A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men", is "clever" and doesn't change anything about it.
  • In "The Inhuman Torch", Leela, Fry and Bender have to rescue several miners who are trapped in a helium mine. Bender takes advantage of their Helium Speech by suggesting that they sing "Camptown Races" to keep their spirits up. Even Leela can't hide her laughter.
• House of Mouse: Pete seems to have developed this regarding his and Mickey's interactions. After watching an episode of himself and Mickey racing up a mountain that involved him constantly getting hurt (including being repeatedly mauled by a polar bear) he is seen laughing at it and calling it "delightfully entertaining".
• Gaz from Invader Zim is usually disdainful of her brother's obsession with Zim, but in one episode when Zim is sent into absolute hysterics after Dib hits him with a muffin (which she had initially dubbed "horrible") she snickers and comments that "Actually, that was kind of funny."
• King of the Hill:
  • Next of Shin, With Hank and the guys, Cotton tells them about how he's having another baby. He makes fun of Hank's narrow urethra and tells them his is so wide, he could pass a child himself. Dale laughs hard at that, while the other guys stare at him (though it's debatable whether his laughter was genuine as he's known to be a major suck up to Cotton).
  • An Officer And A Gentle Boy has Cotton taking over a military academy he thinks has gone soft, including an attempt to toughen up Bobby by sending him to the academy. Nothing Cotton does works on Bobby, including locking him up in isolation in a small concrete bunker to try and break his spirit. Bobby dealt with it by napping. A frustrated Cotton complains to Hank that Bobby is 'mush' and Hank observes that you can't break mush, meaning Bobby will always have the advantage against people like Cotton try to force other people to comply. After a moment's thought, Cotton is the one who bursts out laughing, imagining Bobby driving the Japanese crazy in a POW camp with his easygoing and unbothered nature.
• In Littlest Pet Shop (2012), episode "Frenemies", Zoe and Pepper get competitive each planning a different party for Penny Ling. When Pepper explains her clown rodeo party plan, she includes a moment where Zoe would get hit with pies, then she admits she's just kidding (or is she?). Then Zoe explains her tea party plan, and has her comeback:
  Zoe: And last but not least, there'll be a dunked skunk dunking booth with Pepper at the dunking tank.
  Pepper: WHAT?! What does a dunking booth have to do with a tea party?
  Zoe: Nothing. I just want to see you get dunked.
  Pepper: Well, that is— heh, it's kinda funny, actually.
• Zigzagged in the Looney Tunes episode Robin Hood Daffy. After getting angry at Porky for laughing at his expense, Daffy starts laughing too for a few seconds... But then he gets angry again and says, "Aw, knock it off! How jolly can you get?" This is a parody of a similar scene from the Errol Flynn The Adventures of Robin Hood.
• Mamemo: In one episode, Mamemo covers the green cow father with her toys, and then goes to sit down with the green cow mother. The green cow father angrily walks over to them, only for them to start laughing. The camera then pans out to show he's laughing along with them.
• M.A.S.K.:
  • At the end of the episode "Mystery of the Rings", after Scott Trakker is chewed out by his father Matt for disobeying him and is told that he'll be grounded, Scott's robot friend T-Bob asks to take Scott's picture because it may be the last time they see Scott smile for a while. T-Bob's statement gets a chuckle out of Matt.
  • In "Bad Vibrations", Gloria Baker asks Scott how he cleaned the ice cream off of T-Bob after he got covered in it while M.A.S.K. was looking for the last of Julian Long's vibration bombs. Scott hesitates before sheepishly answering that he didn't like seeing all the ice cream on T-Bob go to waste, so he ate it. After Matt Trakker and the other members of M.A.S.K. laugh, Scott eventually starts laughing with them.
• From Milo Murphy's Law:
  Lieutenant Tennant: (mumbling, mockingly) I'm Colonel Niblet, I have to stop everything just so I can...
  (stops as Colonel Niblet walks on-screen)
  Colonel Niblet: ... actually, that was pretty good. It sounded just like me. (leaves)
  Lieutenant Tennant: (mumbling, mockingly) Actually, that was pretty good. It sounded just like me.
  Colonel Niblet: YOU'RE BLOWING MY MIND, LIEUTENANT!
• Motorcity: When Chuck is hanging around his crush Claire, who won't give him the time of day, he refers to his cyborg story as "cyboring". Claire manages a chuckle then tries to hide it sheepishly.
• In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Discord makes Pinkie Pie laugh by doing a little dance◊ on the head of an image of Twilight Sparkle. The fans certainly found that animation amusing.
  • In the episode "Baby Cakes", Pinkie Pie becomes the victim of a running gag. The only way the foals she's babysitting will quiet down is if flour gets dumped on her (in one case while she was soaking wet). At the episode's end, the foals do the flour gag to themselves to cheer up Pinkie. She admits they were right, that is funny.
  • In an earlier episode, "Griffon the Brush Off", Pinkie applies this to her love of pranks by pranking ponies in such a way that it evokes this reaction. She won't pull a prank on someone who's sensitive enough to take even a harmless prank seriously, which is why she aborts a prank when Fluttershy winds up the one it would have hit.
  • In "Twilight's Kingdom Part 2", Tirek admits Discord's stained glass window of the two of them (Depicting one holding a gleaming sword and the other holding a baguette) is quite amusing.
• The Patrick Star Show: In "The Wrath of Shmandor", the Shmandorian president admits that Patrick farting after eating a lot of chili dogs is pretty funny, even if it badly influenced the Shmandorians.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • In "The Mane Event", Blossom goes into seclusion after Buttercup and Bubbles butcher her hair just as a multi-eyed monster is rampaging Townsville. The Professor convinces Blossom to laugh along with everyone, and it works for her, as the Monster is laughing so hard that its eyes are all shut, giving the girls the chance to knock it into space. And Blossom gets the last laugh on her sisters at the end.
  • Similarly in "A Made Up Story", Blossom is the only denizen of Townsville who had not fallen victim to Mask-Scara's reign of defacing people and signs with cosmetics... up until the end, when she falls victim to a Humiliation Conga and now everyone is laughing at her.
• Used on Quack Pack in the episode "Shrunken Heroes". Donald Duck plays a prank on his and Daisy's egotistical boss Kent Powers by replacing his bug spray with maple syrup, causing Kent to attract bugs instead of making them go away. Daisy's response is to say "You didn't" in a somewhat disapproving tone before bursting into laughter.
• Recess:
  • Spinelli accidentally calls Miss Grotke "Mama" in the middle of the playground. The other kids immediately burst out laughing. Her friends try to hold back for a few seconds but they burst out laughing with everyone else. Next up is Ms. Finster who orders everyone to stop laughing on the megaphone — but she cracks within seconds too.
  • In another episode, Miss Grotke assigns the kids a project on Ancient Civilizations.
    TJ: Ancient Civilizations? You mean like back when Finster was a kid?
    Miss Grotke: We're talking about thousands of years ago, TJ... not hundreds (chuckles).
• In an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, Peter is captured by the ghost of Casey Jones and forced to stoke a train's furnace with coal. The only thing the ghost ever says to Peter is "More coal!" Peter finally decides to make the most of the experience and starts singing "Sixteen Tons" as he shovels coal. The ghost looks back at him and smiles. (This is also clever foreshadowing that the ghost isn't evil.)
• In "What's the Time, Hickory?" from Rhyme Time Town, time keeps rapidly switching between day and night. Daisy and Cole tell Dish and Spoon they're going to go talk to Hickory to find out what's going on. Dish says to tell him that if it's some kind of joke, then it's not funny. Spoon, however, giggles and says that it is a bit funny.
• In Rick and Morty, when Rick goes on yet another nihilistic rant, claiming that nothing that happens is special because it happens across multiple different dimensions, in an attempt to bully the family into shame and subservience, Summer responds thusly:
  Summer: Including this? (farts)
  Rick: Yes! (Beat) Which is not to say that, subjectively, it wasn't funny...
• Rocket Power had one episode wherein Sammy made a game that made him into The Ace and made his friends look like total dorks (Aside from Reggie). While the kids get offended at their portrayals, they giggle at a game over being "You have been trapped in one of Rumando's boring sixties flashbacks", and laugh at a Tito expy giving some vague "Ancient Hawaiian saying" (Even Ray laughed at that one). Tito thought it was funny (aside from that one part), and by the end, the characters learn to laugh at their hilarious portrayals.
• In an episode of Sabrina: The Animated Series, Sabrina gets her wisdom teeth removed by magic with the result that she starts being brutally honest to everyone around her. In one scene, Sabrina responds to one of Gem's insults with "Oh, real funny, Gem! ...actually, it was pretty funny."
• The Simpsons:
  • During a parole hearing in "Cape Feare", Chief Wiggum is forced to admit this about one of Sideshow Bob's remarks, after finally getting the joke.
    Wiggum: Sideshow Bob has no decency! He called me "Chief Piggum!"
    [entire courtroom laughs]
    Wiggum: Ha ha, oh, now I get it. Ha, that's good.
  • Another scene in "Cape Feare", Bart somehow got an embarrassing tattoo that reads "Wide Load" tattooed onto Homer's butt. This had the entire Simpsons family laughing at the tattoo (except for Homer) where even Marge chuckled at the sight.
  • Similarly in "Deep Space Homer", Marge chastises Bart for writing on the back of Homer's head, but when Homer turns and inadvertently shows her the message ("Insert Brain Here"), she has to hold back her laughter, and actually does laugh when Homer frantically tries to see it, resulting in him spinning on the floor Curly-style.
  • In the "Treehouse of Horror IX" segment "Hell Toupee", Chief Wiggum 'kills' Homer's homicidal toupee:
    Chief Wiggum: Now, that's what I call a bad hair day!
    [general laughter]
    Marge: May I remind you that two people are dead? Oh, wait, I just got it! [laughs]
  • In "Sideshow Bob Roberts", during Sideshow Bob's campaign for Mayor, Bart has this reaction to Bob's suggestion that "Councilman Les Whinen should do more thinking and less whinin'!" despite knowing that Les Whinen doesn't exist.
  • In "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge", Marge is watching one of the kids' cartoons after it supposedly leads Maggie to attack Homer with a hammer. She is left in disgust by the violence, while Homer, despite still suffering from head injuries, is tittering quietly to himself. After she issues a complaint to the studios, they respond by making a squirrel caricature of her being killed by the stars, leaving Homer in hysterics.
  • In the intro to "Treehouse of Horror VIII", the Fox Censor is seen hard at work on a script for The Simpsons, episode 5F02 (that very episode). As he comes to each line that he decides to remove, he says "No" and crosses the offending line out. Then he reads part of it that he seems to find very funny — it makes him laugh out loud for a few seconds — but then he quickly regains his composure and crosses it out too, saying "No" again.
  • In "Dead Putting Society", Homer and Ned Flanders hold a bet over their sons' mini-golf tournament. Bart and Todd declare it a draw but due to Exact Words (Ned preferred the terminology "the father of the boy who doesn't win" instead of "loses"), they both end up having to mow the other's lawn while wearing their wife's best Sunday dress. Homer goes along with it because he thinks it'll humiliate Flanders, but Ned ends up having fun, saying it reminds him of his college days.
  • In "New Kids on the Blecch", when Bart, Milhouse, Nelson and Ralph start a boy band, the band’s manager, L.T. Smash, goes to New York to destroy MAD upon finding out they’re going to be mocked in a upcoming issue. In the end, when boys find out, they’re all upset because they loved the idea of being made fun of by Mad.
  • In the end of "Itchy and Scratchy Land" Marge tries to state that their whole experience proves that violence isn't funny, but Lisa counters that it can be funny if it happens to somebody else. She then demonstrates by lobbing a shoe at Bart. Marge then sends Lisa to her room, but not before laughing first.
  • In "Dude, Where's My Ranch?", Homer writes a song, "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders", about how he despises Flanders. As it becomes a hit, Ned and his sons are seen singing along when it's playing on the radio.
• South Park: In this exchange from "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery":
  Stan: Come on, fatass, we have to go!
  Cartman: Ay! Don't call me fat!
  [Cartman's mom laughs]
  Cartman: Mom, don't laugh!
  Cartman's Mom: I'm sorry, hun'.
  Cartman: I can't go with you guys now.
  Stan: Yes you can, Porky.
  [Cartman's mom laughs harder]
  Cartman: Mom, seriously!
  Cartman's Mom: That's not funny, boys. Eric's not fat, he's big-boned.
  Kyle: He must have a huge bone in his ass then!
  [Cartman's mom laughs hysterically]
  Cartman: GOD DAMN IT, MOM!
  • A later episode has Kenny eating so many antacid tablets (which he thought were mints) that when he washes them off with a glass of water, he explodes from the resulting reaction. Kyle and Stan find this extremely funny that they share a laugh with everyone else in the room, instead of calling out their catchphrases.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • One episode has Karen show Plankton a montage of all his humiliating defeats by Krabs. The last one, where Plankton is left a blubbering wreck after Krabs can't even be bothered with him, always cracks her up.
  • In the episode "April Fools", this is how each customer, in turn, reacts to SpongeBob's harmless pranks, culminating in one of the show's most memorable scenes:
    SpongeBob: April Fools'!
    Customer: [angrily grabbing SpongeBob's shirt] WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY DRINK?!!
    SpongeBob: [trying not to laugh] I... I...
    Customer: YOU WHAT?!!
    SpongeBob: You asked for a couple of ice cubes in your drink, and I only put in one!
    [beat]
    Customer: I guess that is pretty funny. [chuckles and walks away]
  • Subverted in "Squirrel Jokes", and then later played straight:
    • Sandy's reaction to the titular "jokes" (which are little more than racist insults) is a very justified Dude, Not Funny!, and after one performance too many, she pretends to have suddenly found them funny in order to lure SpongeBob to the Treedome. Once there, she starts Playing Up the Stereotype of the "dumb squirrel" she's portrayed as in SpongeBob's act, and accidentally-on-purpose tortures him into dropping said act.
    • At the end of the episode, SpongeBob manages to come up with a softer and wider-ranging version of the act that elicits this reaction from his entire audience.
    SpongeBob: [referring to fish] How can a creature that spends so much time in the water smell so bad?! I mean, really! [imitating a fish] "Soap! Soap! What is? Soap!"
    [the entire audience, most of whom are fish, laugh hysterically]
  • In "The Chaperone", after SpongeBob triggers a Disaster Dominoes at Pearl's prom, Pearl gets upset at him for ruining everything, but cools off after an ashamed SpongeBob gets even more upset and runs away crying. While trying to lure SpongeBob back for another dance, Pearl admits, "Actually, it was kinda funny when that hot dog landed in Judy's hair".
  • "The Great Snail Race" ends with SpongeBob making Squidward a trophy as an apology for blowing his chance to win the titular snail race. Squidward is genuinely ecstatic and thankful... until he sees they misspelled his last name Tentacles as Tortellini, resulting in him quipping deadpan, "Will I ever win?" followed by everyone, himself included, laughing.
• Steven Universe:
  • In "Island Adventure", after Steven's first time activating a Warp Pad, shapeshifter Amethyst screams, having transformed into a giant fly, much to Steven's horror. Afterward, the following exchange occurs:
    Pearl: Amethyst, that wasn't funny!
    Garnet: Eh, it was a little funny.
    Pearl: Regardless...
  • In "Gem Harvest", the Gems are trying to butter up to Greg's cousin Andy. In the interest of "combining as many celebrations in the human lifespan" as possible, the Gems bring a wedding cake, a balloon for a baby shower, and a tombstone with Andy's name on it to the family dinner. Andy looks annoyed and baffled at all this before busting out laughing.
• Teen Titans Go!:
  • Raven actually finds Robin's "Uncle Jokes" from the titular episode to be funny.
  • Robin's ventriloquist act in "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star" has Robin mocking the Justice League members who are the judges through a dummy of himself. The judges find the jokes so hilarious that Robin is admitted to the final round.
• Thomas & Friends:
  • In "Dirty Work", Diesel spreads insulting stories about the other engines to try and frame Duck. When Gordon, James, and Henry confront Duck about calling them "a galloping sausage", "rusty red scrap iron", and "old square wheels", respectively, Duck simply tells The Fat Controller that the names are so fitting he only wishes he could take the credit. The Fat Controller himself almost chokes, trying not to laugh.
  • "Donald's Duck": a tiff between Duck and Donald starts a playful prank war between the railwaymen. First Duck's crew leaves a duckling in Donald's tender — and the amused crew keeps her around as a sort of pet. Then Donald's crew leaves an egg under Duck's bunker at night, and Donald insists he laid it. This is enough to make Duck laugh and tell Donald he's won.
• Inverted and then invoked in one Tom and Jerry cartoon, where Jerry writes a humorous book about his experiences with Tom. Tom is at first incredibly angry about it and the jokes the book makes at his expense... Until he learns that Jerry requested to share the rather large check from the publisher with him. Then he suddenly finds the book hilarious.
  • One episode has Jerry using an invisibility potion to terrorize Tom, culminating in shaving off much of his fur... just in time for the invisibility to run out, at which point Tom vengefully returns the favor. Then they look at themselves. The episode ends with both of them rolling in laughter.
  • Inversely invoked and then inverted in Jerry's Diary, where Tom laughs off the first incident described in the titular diary, but then becomes steamed as he reads about Jerry's other slights against him.
• Transformers: Prime: Apparently, some Cybertronians (Autobot and Decepticon) find Raf's. GIFs of dancing animals funny.
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat had an episode called "The Punderground", where Felix ends up on an island called Mirthless. The king of Mirthless has outlawed puns, but is eventually tricked by Felix into making a pun on the phrase "cat got your tongue". When the king realizes that he just made a pun, he laughs hysterically and decides to repeal his law against puns.
• Young Justice:
  • Batman shows Ollie and Dinah (who are dating) a video from the Cave's security footage. It shows Dinah having a sparring session with Superboy... and then suddenly making out with him. The two act horrified, and Dinah quickly says that that never happened, before the tape reveals that "Dinah" was actually Superboy's Shapeshifter girlfriend, M'gann, engaging in some kind of roleplaying game. Dinah is still understandably pissed, but Ollie finds it hilarious.
  • Season 2 has Sportsmaster and Cheshire go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to kill Black Manta and Aqualad as payback for killing Artemis. When Sportsmaster learns that the entire thing is a con meant to slip a pair of moles into Manta's organization which he also fell for, he finds it hilarious and even helps out:
  Sportsmaster: So you and Aqualad are playing Manta and The Light for chumps. Hah! I can live with that, baby girl!