Freudian Slip / Western Animation

• Alphablocks: In one episode, I, A, and W are trying to be cops, but I can never get the phrase "I arrest you in the name of the law" right. When arresting U for disobeying a "keep off the grass" sign, she accidentally says, "in the name of the lawn", and when arresting him for disobeying a No Animals Allowed sign, she says, "in the name of the paw".
  I: (frustrated) "I mean law!"
• Arthur:
  • In "Nerves of Steal", Buster shoplifted something and was paranoid about getting caught when he and Arthur returned to the store. "Lemme just get these Lawbreakers—Jawbreakers!" Later, he accidentally says his stomach is "guilty" instead of "queasy" when trying to play sick, and calls Arthur's room his "cell".
  • In another episode:
    Mr. Ratburn: Arthur? Do you have a headache?
    Arthur: Do I! …I mean, no…
  • In "Buster's Breathless", Francine learns that Buster has asthma and is paranoid about catching it off him, so when she asks him for her pencil and pen, she accidentally says, "penicillin".
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • In the second season, Azula's plan to capture Zuko and Iroh by acting like they were being brought back home honorably is ruined by a single soldier accidentally saying "prisoners" instead of "guests". She is rightly pissed.
  • In the finale, Zuko wants to defeat their arch nemesis, the Fatherlord.
• Big City Greens: Twice in "Chipwrecked". First, Cricket sees Tilly mopping and says "How's the mopping" but rephrases himself and continues with "water drawing", because he is secretly using his family to do his job for him and does not want them to find out. A similar treatment is given to Chip Whistler when he gets a call from his father and tells him he was skipping work because he was busy trying to destroy the Greens because of it, but stops before he finishes the word "Greens" and replaces it with "a work problem", because he's trying to keep his vendetta a secret from his father who is unaware he lied to him.
• Bozo: The World's Most Famous Clown pulls one off deliberately for a gag. Bozo had been operating a mechanical monster and the police are about to arrest him for the mayhem caused. A movie director stops the arrest as it belonged to his studio and he called Bozo's performance wonderful. Bozo quips "Y'hear that, Butch? I'm a real live movie actress!"
• Central Park: In "Episode One", when Bitsy starts to make her case about razing the park, she greets the audience with "Hello, everymoney—er, everybody".
• Clone High: Subverted with Cleo's "sex o'clock", she points out that it was not a slip of "six o'clock", and that she really did mean to say "sex o'clock".
• Darkwing Duck slips to Morgana MacCawber, "We're investigating a crime spree, and you're the prime seduction... uh, suspect!"
• In Spring Unsprung, Alistair steps between Bunny and a would-be suitor, snapping, "Dude, she's with me!"
  Alistair: Ah, I—I mean… standing… right here… with me.
  [cut to the other students' unconvinced expressions]
• The Fairly OddParents!: In one of the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts, Cosmo catches the Fairy Flu, which causes him to lose control of his magic. One of his sneezes turns Timmy's head into a toilet. As Wanda changes him back, she accidentally calls him "Toitey".
• Family Guy,
  • In one episode, Meg is dating a nudist. Her mother slips "Now, Meg, no need to get so testes… testy! Nuts! I mean crap!".
  • When Meg goes to the meeting of the Lesbian Alliance, she says: "Hi, you gays… guys… girls."
  • Lois says to Chris: "Meet me in the ten inches or less line—items!"
  • In the episode "Jerome Is the New Black", Peter finds out that Lois used to date his new friend, Jerome and gets jealous. Lois says: "You're being silly! I mean, Jerome and I dated over 12 inches ago!"
  • Peter: "Lois, our relationship can not be measured in nipples and dimes… nickels and boobs… money."
  • Stewie: "Wanna go ride the tea bags? ...I mean, tea cups...? Tea bags...?"
  • Stewie (to Lauren Conrad): Do you need a gay friend on the show-a friend on the show?
  • In "North by North Quahog", Brian and Stewie go to talk to Tom Tucker about his son Jake bringing vodka to the school dance and blaming Chris for it. Jake also has a literal upside down face. Despite vowing not to mention it, Brian says that “this whole situation has turned his life upside-down face”, prompting an Oh, Crap! from Brian and a hilarious Death Glare from Stewie.
• In the Justice League episode "Hereafter", Superman is apparently disintegrated. Batman concludes that something else must have happened because the disintegration left no traces behind and insists that he isn't really dead, but after his attempts to confirm his suspicions come up empty his confidence starts to waver as he addresses Superman's memorial:
  Batman: Despite our differences, I have nothing but respect for you. I hope you knew... know that.
• In My Life as a Teenage Robot, Brad, while explaining the concept of puberty to Jenny, demonstrates its effects on girls by showing pictures of a girl named Sally who grew up into a rather buxom scientist. Later, while Jenny’s body is being altered by malware, including causing her chestplate to warp and expand, Brad says “what’s the hurry, Sally—I mean Jenny”.
• Pinkie Pie talking about a fancy ornament causes Cranky Doodle Donkey to have one about Matilda in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  Pinkie Pie: It's awfully pretty.
  Cranky: Yes, she was.
  Pinkie Pie: Huh?
  Cranky: I mean, it was, I mean, it is, yes, it's pretty, now put it down!
• The Owl House: In "Yesterday's Lie", "Creepy Luz"/Vee slips up and briefly calls Luz's mother Camila "Mom" when she's not impersonating Luz.
• Phineas and Ferb: In "Summer Belongs To You" as Isabella is trying to convince Phineas to not give up hope, she begins to say, "Well, that's not the Phineas Flynn I fell in..." only to embarrassingly correct her thought: "...to this situation with."
• The 1944 Popeye cartoon "Puppet Love" has a deliberate Freudian Slip. Popeye finds out Bluto crossed him with Olive with a Popeye marionette, so he knocks Bluto out and uses him as a marionette, staging an attempt on Olive's life. As Popeye jumps into to the "rescue":
  Popeye: Unhand that swine, you girl! Er, that girl, you swine!
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Pee Pee G's", one of the girls tries to say that she and her sisters were "preoccupied" with trying to determine who wet their shared bed, but accidentally says they were "pee-occupied".
• In the 1993 revival of Secret Squirrel, Secret is assigned to bring in Won Ton, a rampaging panda, without hurting him as he's an endangered species. Secret decides to try psychoanalysis, but it doesn't work—Won Ton shoves him in the filing cabinet.
  Secret: (emerging all bent and creased) Is my Freudian slip showing?
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Fear of Flying", when Principal Skinner was at a psychiatrist's office, he mentions his "beloved smother—mother!"
  • In "Lisa's Sax", during Bart's first day of school, Skinner introduces himself to the new intake of students as "Principal Sinner", and, when they burst out laughing, mutters, "Oh, that does it, I've lost them forever."
  • And in "The Last Temptation of Homer" when Homer is trying to avoid his attractive new co-worker Mindy and unexpectedly ends up in an elevator with her: "I guess we'll be going down together, I mean getting off together, I mean... That's okay, I'll just press the button for the stimulator."
  • In "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife", when Marge's Romance Novel–inspired daydream is interrupted by Lisa's saxophone practice, she says "Lisa, stop blowing my sex! I mean stop blowing your sax! Your sax! Stop it!"
  • In "Lady Bouvier's Lover", when Marge's mother started dating Mr. Burns, Homer didn't even catch himself.
    Marge: He's evil. But I guess if he makes my mother happy, that's what's important.
    Homer: That's right, money. Your money's happiness is all that moneys.
  • Parodied and played for drama in "Brake My Wife, Please", when Marge reaches her breaking point after becoming the family's "full-time chauffeur" when Homer loses his license, resulting in a few "accidents" that make Homer think she's subconsciously plotting to kill him. Her response only confirms his fears.
    Homer: It's like you hate me, your own husband.
    Marge: That's ridiculous. I don't like you. I mean, hate you! HATE YOU! HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!!
    Homer: (genuinely hurt) I've heard that from co-workers, strangers on the street, even my own children. But I never thought I'd hear it from you.
• The Smurfs (1981)
  • In "Gargamel the Generous", Gargamel tries to hide the fact that his sudden niceness to the Smurfs is because he wants the diamonds that they have found, though he accidentally refers to Papa Smurf as "Papa Diamonds".
  • Hogatha, in "The Fake Smurf", when she thinks she has poisoned the Smurfs' soup, refuses the soup when Greedy tries to force her to eat it, saying, "I'm on a low-poison diet."
• In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "A Flea In Her Dome", Sandy picks up a flea after returning from Texas. During the party SpongeBob and Patrick throw for her, Sandy itches like crazy and can't stop scratching.
  Sandy: (opens a gift box and takes out a purple sandboard) A new itch board? I mean, a new snowboard? Boy, I sure can't wait to scratch this down chafe mountain.
  SpongeBob: Don't you mean ride this down Scab Mountain?
  Sandy: Thank you very rawness, SpongeBob and Pat.
  SpongeBob: Uh, you're welcome, Sandy. Hey, uh, are you still up for some karate chops?
  Sandy: (Still scratching her neck) Rashy sore. I mean, sure.
  • Also invoked in "Plankton!" with this exchange:
  Plankton: Tomorrow's my birthday.(Blows party horn) And do you know what I'd like more than anything in the whole wide world?
  Spongebob: Um...a booster seat?
  Plankton: A booster seat, hot dog! I mean...no.
• Steven Universe: In "Sworn to the Sword", when singing to Connie about how she should dedicate herself to Steven, Pearl repeatedly substitutes "her" for "him" (as she's thinking about her past with Rose Quartz). Finally, in the the middle of a heated argument with Steven which is ostensibly about Connie, Pearl blurts out "Why won't you just let me do this for you, Rose?! I... I mean... let her... do this. Why won't you let Connie do this... for you...?"
  • Afterwards, Steven consoles Pearl and helps her with some emotional closure:
    Steven: Hey... Pearl? I didn't mean to mess up your training, but all that "you're nothing" talk was really freaking me out.
    Connie: Did Rose make you feel like you were nothing?
    Pearl [laughs nervously]: Rose made me feel... like I was everything. [Pearl wipes her tears away] I see now, how deeply you care about each other. That will make you both great knights.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012):
  • Donatello accidentally slips up when he's trying to convince April to try some pizza gyoza.
    Donnie: Just try one! Sometimes things that don’t seem like they go together actually make a great couple! [realises what he just said] I mean food.
  • Donnie slips again in "The Gauntlet", refering to April as 'my April', before verbally backspacing to 'our April', and then finally settling on just 'April'.
• In Teen Titans Johnny Rancid was the lowest tier criminal to ever appear; just a violent jerk with a motorcycle and a small laser gun. Then he gets the power to rewrite the rules of reality and turns the world into a gothic hellscape.
  Raven: Cool... I mean oops.
• In the Total Drama season three finale, Heather tries to express that she despises Alejandro, but says love instead.
• 12 oz. Mouse: There are several points where characters reflexively say things which reveal they know more than they’re letting on, such as Liquor nervously warning Roostre that he’s “too close to resetting everything” and hurriedly changing the subject when what he said is noticed. This happening a few too many times is part of what makes Fitz realize there’s something weird about the city, like the fact that he doesn’t actually remember ever moving there...
• In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Bad Neighbors", Lord Hater and Commander Peepers are hiding out in a suburban cul-de-sac while plotting how to stop Lord Dominator's rampage across the galaxy, and Peepers accuses his boss of getting side-tracked by a rivalry with Emperor Awesome (who just so happens to be living across the way from them).
  Peepers: Sir, is this one of those things where you obsess over something to cover up the real issue?!
  Hater: Of course not! I just refuse to be publicly humiliated by Dominator... I mean, Domi-neighbor... our dumb neighbor!
• One of the most famous examples in Xiaolin Showdown:
  Jack Spicer: [after defeating the monks and the Black Vipers] Say, who are all these people?
  Jessie: We're the Black Vipers, the most elite all-girl gang to ever roam these wild plains.
  Viper Girl: And since you have defeated us, our law demands that you inherit leadership of the Black Vipers.
  Jack: Yes... I guess this makes me QUEEN!
  [everybody stares]
  Jack: Uh... king.

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