Gilligan Cut / Western Animation

"I am NOT taking the subway. …I can't believe I'm taking the subway."

Gilligan Cuts in Western Animation.

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• Hey Arnold! absolutely loves this trope. Helga in particular pretty much has it down to a Catchphrase, using it in at least three episodes ("Das Subway" (which provides the subpage image), "Dinner for Four", "Helga's Locket"):
  Helga: I am NOT taking the subway/gonna back in there, tell them the truth, and wind up washing dishes. (cut) I can't believe I'm taking the subway/I told them the truth, and I wound up washing dishes.
  • "Arnold as Cupid":
    Oscar: Don't worry, Arnold, I can't lose. (cut)…I can't believe I lost.
  • "Big Caesar":
    Gerald: No way, Arnold. There's no way we're fishing in a swan boat. (cut) I can't believe we're fishing in a swan boat.
  • "Grand Prix":
    Arnold: Stinky, we are not calling our go-cart the Mauve Avenger. (cut) ...I cannot believe we called our go-cart the Mauve Avenger.
  • "Rhonda Goes Broke":
    Rhonda: You may have lost your dignity, but I certainly haven't lost mine! There is no way I am recycling old bottles and cans to pay for my LUNCH!
    (cut to Rhonda prowling through a dumpster)
  • "New Bully on the Block": Arnold arranges a football game for Wolfgang and his old rival Ludwig where the winner takes control of the lot. The two agree to the game, but Wolfgang spots the other 4th graders about to play baseball and gets an idea. Instead of injuring each other by playing themselves, he and Ludwig will split the 4th graders into teams and coach them.
    Helga: What? Oh, no! I am NOT gonna be part of your dumb little football game! (KAPOW!; cut to Helga with a black eye) I can't believe I'm being part of their dumb little football game.
• Kaeloo:
  • One episode had Kaeloo claim that she was not in love with Mr. Cat, only for them to be on a date in the very next scene.
  • In the same episode, Kaeloo mentions that Quack Quack "happily accepted" when Stumpy asked if he could practice baby-sitting with Quack Quack as the baby. The scene cuts to Quack Quack in a tree trying to get away from Stumpy while the latter throws objects at him to get him to come down.
  • In the Halloween Episode, as Stumpy is walking into the forest:
    Kaeloo: If you find a book of magic spells with funny words in it, whatever you do, don't touch it! Is that clear?
    Stumpy: Yeah, whatever.
    (Scene cuts to Stumpy in the forest in front of the book)
    Stumpy: Wow! A book of magic spells with funny words in it that I mustn't touch! (reading from book) Zombie zombie zom, zombie zombie zombie woo!
• Family Guy
  • Double Subversion in the episode "Death is a Bitch". Death asks Peter to take over for him by crashing a plane full of people, and Peter absolutely refuses. It takes a threat on his life to finally concede.
    Peter: Forget it, Death, I'm not gonna do your dirty work! There's no way I'm getting on that plane! Absolutely no way, and that's final.
    (cut to Peter, still standing in place)
    Peter: See, I'm still here and there's nothing you can say that'll change my mind.
    Death: Either you kill them or I kill you.
    [cut to Peter on the plane]
  • In "Brian the Bachelor":
    Lois: Peter, I'm getting a little worried about Chris. All he does lately is sit alone in his room talking to that zit.
    Peter: Relax, Lois. What's a zit gonna do? Talk to him and tell him to sneak out of the house and cause trouble?
    [cut to Chris having already snuck out of the house]
    The zit: Now light it, ring the doorbell, and run like hell!
  • Subverted in "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire". Peter remarks that he and Brian shouldn't tell Cleveland that his wife is having an affair. That's the last thing they want to do. Gilligan Cut to Peter and Brian having done everything else in the world, so since there's nothing left to do, they might as well tell Cleveland that his wife had an affair.
    • And in the same episode, after Peter and Brian have found out that Quagmire was the one who slept with Loretta, Quagmire begs them not to tell Cleveland, which Peter says he won't do. Cut to Cleveland at the Griffins' house, where Peter is telling him just that.
• Freakazoid! provides a subversion. Freakazoid declares emphatically he is not going into the sewers after Cobra Queen. We cut to the sewers; the camera pans around, but Freakazoid isn't there. Cut to him sitting at home, watching Animaniacs.
  Freakazoid: (to audience) See? I said I'd never go.
  • Ultimately double subverted, however; after a commercial break, Freakazoid's down in the sewers on his way to confront Cobra Queen.
  • Later Invoked (and outright lampshaded) in "Candlejack", where Freakazoid encounters a villain who can only capture those who say his name aloud.
    Steph: Don't say his name!
    Freakazoid: You mean, don't say "Candlejack?"
    (Cut to Freakazoid being tied up with everyone else.)
    Steph: (disappointed) Freakazoid, why did you say his name?
    Freakazoid: (overly excited) 'Cuz I wanted to one of those really funny things, like in — you ever watch F Troop where Agarn says, "There's no way I'm wearing a dress! Absolutely not! No dress," and Forrest Tucker's like, "Yeah, you're wearing that dress, you're gonna wear that dress," and then they wipe — blrblrblrbllrbrl — and Agarn's wearing a dress.
    (Cut to such a scene from F Troop)
    Agarn: (in a high-pitched falsetto) Yoo-hoo! Loco Brothers! Look who's here for you!
    (Cut back to Freakazoid)
    Candlejack: Oooh, I love that bit!
• Futurama
  • Without a cut in "A Fishful of Dollars":
    Fry: What a weird dream! I'll never get back to sleep! (falls back into bed)
  • "Obsoletely Fabulous" has this gem:
    Sinclair: Why would you wanna watch TV when you can watch a snail crawl for hours on end?
    Bender: That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
    (Cut to the robots watching a snail crawl.)
    Bender: Oh, man! He's never gonna make it over that next pebble! Wait, wait! Oh, my God! He made it!
  • In "Time Keeps on Slippin'", time-skips are setting up natural Gilligan Cuts. Though oddly this is a bit of a subversion as a subplot is Fry (and the audience) trying to figure out what worked.
    Leela: (on Fry loving her) I appreciate it, but nothing you can do will ever, ever make me...
    (time-skip)
    Preacherbot: ... man and wife!
  • There is also this one, after Fry asks to enter the basketball game against the Harlem Globetrotters:
    Fry: We're 35 points ahead with two minutes left. What could possibly—
    (Time-skip to Fry holding the ball; the crowd boos as a Globetrotter takes the ball and scores)
    Marv Albert's head: Globetrotters win, 244-86.
  • The children in a localized skip:
    (Child 1 watches old man walk out of the SSI office)
    "Stupid senior citizens. Why should we have to pay for their social security benefits?"
    (local time skip to them being elderly)
    "I deserve free money!"
  • Everyone is trying to figure out how to stop the time skips:
    Hermes: I think I know how to stop the time skips. We'll just...
    (time skip to everyone in a naked conga line)
    Hermes: I don't know how this was supposed to work.
• In Garfield and Friends episode "Green Thumbs Down", when Jon complains about his grocery bill, Garfield, having heard it before, gives us this:
  Garfield: I know what Jon's going to say (Imitating Jon) Food prices are astronomical!
  Jon: Food prices are astronomical!
  Garfield: Now the "When I lived on the farm" speech.
  Jon: When I lived on the farm, we always ate fresh vegetables. We should grow them here in the garden!
  Garfield: And now he'll forget all about it.
  (Cut to Jon in the backyard, going through with his plan to grow a vegetable garden)
  Garfield: Since when does Jon have ideas of his own?
• South Park
  • "Woodland Critter Christmas":
    Narrator: So he [Stan] picked up the cubs and down the mountain he stormed, and took them to where abortions are performed.
    Stan: No, he didn't.
    Narrator: Yes, he did.
    Stan: No, he didn't!
    Narrator: Yes, he did.
    Stan: No, he didn't!
    Narrator: Yes, he... (cut) ...did!
    Stan: Aw, God damn it!
  • Used twice in "Butt Out": first, a team of cheesy motivational performers visit the school assembly to discourage smoking:
    Actors: Remember kids, if you smoke, you could grow up to be a failure. Worse yet, you could grow up to be dead! So don't believe what those evil tobacco companies tell you! Yeah, because if you don't smoke, you could grow up to be just like us!
    (cut to the four boys coughing as they desperately smoke behind the school)
    Stan: Here, gimme another one, gimme another one!
  • Also in "Butt Out":
    Kyle: If we go to the tobacco company, I know exactly what will happen: they'll take us in, and then Rob Reiner will show up with all of the townspeople holding torches or something, and there'll be a big showdown until we talk about what we learned, and changed everyone's minds, this is all following a formula!
    Stan: So it's either deal with all that, or get grounded for three weeks...
    (cut to the townspeople surrounding the tobacco company, holding flaming torches)
    Kyle: God dammit!
  • From "Tsst":
    Cartman: (Who is residing beside a trash bin in the rain) This is BULLCRAP! Mom'll break soon. I can outlast her.
    (Cut to his house, where Liane is making a calligraphic painting and he arrives)
    Cartman: Alright, I'm back.
  • "Asspen" opens with all the boys' parents having drinks together, and the Stotches saying how glad they are that Butters finally seems to have finally made some close friends. Cut to the kids watching TV, and Cartman urinating on Butters while he's asleep.
  • Done in "Weight Gain 4000":
    Cartman: I have to go home and get in shape.
    Stan: Yeah, right! You'll go and sit in front of the TV and eat cheesy poofs, ass-master!
    Cartman: Screw you, hippie!
    (cut to Cartman snacking on cheesy poofs in front of the TV)
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force does this in an episode where Frylock attempts to remove a microchip from Meatwad's body, after most of his attempts fail, Meatwad gives him a suggestion:
  Meatwad: Look, here's the solution, you want your chip so damn bad? Shrink yourself down with your gun, come in here and get it.
  Frylock: Well that's cute Meatwad, but uhh... that would never work.
  (Cut to Frylock holding a syringe and Shake near the shrink ray)
  Frylock: Ok Shake, shrink me down and inject me into Meatwad so I can get that chip.
• Drawn Together had one episode where Foxxy Love was vehemently protesting she would not run a suicide hotline, only to have her agree to it after the cut. She lampshades it by muttering "Goddamnit!".
• Played with in Courage the Cowardly Dog. Muriel decides to take Eustace and Courage on vacation, but Eustace insists that he's not getting out of his chair. Cut to a view of the boat sailing off. Then cut to Eustace sitting in the same chair on the deck of the boat. "Nope. Not getting out of this chair."
  • This is almost certainly borrowed from The Beverly Hillbillies, as mentioned above.
• The Batman provides a bit of an odd example in "Artifacts":
  Mr. Freeze: The cryo-chamber. Cold enough to put me on ice until someone wakes me up and puts me back together.
  Gray: (Who is thousands of years in the future) Still can't believe some fool woke Frost up and put him back together.
• George Shrinks. Becky asks George if anyone will mind the fact he's taken a number of parts from household objects to build his ghost catching machine. George says that they won't even miss them. Cut to Junior finding the wheels off his toy car gone, Mom noticing the vacuum cleaner has had parts ripped from it and Dad finding his tape deck has vanished.
• The Invader Zim episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" begins with Professor Membrane on a TV show explaining that any attempt to travel back in time and change history is likely to create a future that is worse for the traveler (or cause, say, a giant fish in a bear suit to attack Tokyo). The Professor finishes, "Anyone who would want to build a space-time object replacement device is a complete moron!" Of course, the next thing we see is Zim saying "Gir, the space-time object replacement device is ready!"
• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Double subverted in the episode "Born Again Krabs". Mr. Krabs prepares to take a bite out of an old, filthy, tainted patty. Just as he is about to bite down on it, the shot cuts to an ambulance, implying that Krabs was now being rushed to the hospital. As it turns out, the ambulance was only passing by the Krusty Krab. Krabs comments on it, then takes a bite out of the patty, and the cut is played straight afterwards.
  • In the episode "Idiot Box" Squidward has confronted SpongeBob and Patrick in the box when he hear noises. Squidward lets them know that he is not interested in how the noises are being made.
    Squidward: I have better things to do than pace the floor wondering how you two work this thing!
    (cut to Squidward pacing the floor)
    Squidward: How do those two work that thing?
  • Played straight in "Can You Spare a Dime?". After quitting his job, Squidward claims that the town will soon be eating out of the palm of his hand. Cut to him sitting in a box asking for change from people walking by.
  • From the episode "The Chaperone", where SpongeBob is asked to take Pearl out to her prom.
    SpongeBob: Don't worry, Mr. Krabs - I am a prom expert!
    (cuts to SpongeBob sitting at home, sulking)
    SpongeBob: Oh, Gary, I'm a prom failure...!
  • Played With in the episode "Clams", when Mr. Krabs announces he’s taking Spongebob and Squidward on a trip.
    Squidward: Where are we going? Fancy Springs?
    (cut to the three sitting in a jacuzzi)
    Mr. Krabs: No.
    (cut back to Krusty Krab)
    Squidward: Pamper Island?
    (cut to the three lying on beach towels on the sand)
    Mr. Krabs: Try again.
    (cut back to Krusty Krab)
    Squidward: Oh, oh! Old Bikini Bottom Folk Village?
    (cut to them wearing powdered wigs and colonial-style outfits)
    Mr. Krabs: Better than that!
    (cut to the three now wearing yellow rain slicker hats and jackets and holding fishing rods, standing on the deck of a beat-up boat. Squidward is now frowning)
    Squidward: Clam fishing?
  • In the episode "Money Talks" Mr. Krabs' money tells him they'd like to be spent on diapers, corn dogs, and fairy princess outfits.
    Mr. Krabs: No way! There is no way I'm spending you on diapers, corn dogs, or fairy princess outfits!
    (cut to the mall, where Mr. Krabs is now wearing a fairy princess costume and a diaper, and holding a corndog)
    Saleswoman: Did you find everything you needed?
    Mr. Krabs: Unfortunately.
  • In the episode "Sing A Song of Patrick" SpongeBob and Patrick have just sent Patrick's new song to a rock band who are about to record it, despite being openly repulsed by the lyrics.
    Band Member: Come on guys. We're gonna do this if it kills us. And one, and a two, and a—
    (cut to their graves at the cemetery)
    Funeral Director: They wanted you to have this. (presents SpongeBob and Patrick with the recorded song).
  • In the episode "Doing Time" this happens twice in a row. First SpongeBob decides to explain his situation to Patrick.
    SpongeBob : Maybe I'll go talk to Patrick. I'm sure he could use my guilt.
    (cut to Patrick outside his house)
    Patrick: Well it sounds like it's all your fault.
  • Then a few seconds later we get this:
    SpongeBob : But to get Mrs. Puff out of jail, first we have to get in jail.
    Patrick: How are we gonna do that?
    (cut to the bank)
    SpongeBob : All right! Put the money in the bag! Put it in! (SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to rob the bank. The scene plays out in hilarious failure.)
  • The episode "Krab-Borg" opens with SpongeBob watching a scary robot movie. Gary questions his wanting to watch the film because it may scare him.
    SpongeBob : What do you mean I shouldn't watch this, Gary? Scary movies don't always freak me out!
    (cut to SpongeBob shivering in bed too scared to sleep).
  • In the episode "Party Pooper Pants" SpongeBob is reading the passage in the manual about inviting only very close friends to the party.
    SpongeBob : Well you heard the man Gary. Only our closest friends.
    (cut to a random guy in his house).
    Guy: Who the barnacles is SpongeBob SquarePants? (The guy was a kindergarten classmate of SpongeBob's)
  • In the episode "No Weenies Allowed" SpongeBob is talking to the tender of the Salty Spitoon after being denied entry and instead recommends to Super Weenie Hut Jr's.
    Tender: Unless you think you're tough enough to fight me.
    SpongeBob : (opens his mouth as if to say something.)
    (cut to SpongeBob inside Weenie Hut Jr's.)
  • In the episode "Squid on Strike", SpongeBob informs Mr. Krabs that he and Squidward will be striking to demand better treatment. Unfortunately for him, being an extremely devoted employee, he's rather clueless as to what being on strike actually entails.
    SpongeBob: Me and Squidward are gonna go on strike!
    Mr. Krabs: A strike?
    SpongeBob: Yeah!
    Mr. Krabs: You mean you're gonna make picket signs?
    SpongeBob: Yeah!
    Mr. Krabs: (growing increasingly angry) And you're gonna make protest speeches?
    SpongeBob: Yeah, yeah!
    Mr. Krabs: (furious) AND YOU'RE GONNA DEMAND ME RESPECT?
    SpongeBob: YEAH!
    (Cut from a closeup of SpongeBob looking excited to a closeup of him looking absolutely devastated as a more distant shot then reveals that he and Squidward are outside the Krusty Krab)
    SpongeBob: No. NO! SQUIDWARD! You didn't tell me I was gonna get fired!
  • In the episode "Banned in Bikini Bottom", after Ms. Gristlepuss bans Krabby Patties and orders the Krusty Krab to be closed down:
    Mr. Krabs: She can't close us down.
    (cut to Spongebob, Squidward, and Mr. Krabs outside the Krusty Krab, which is now chained up with a "Closed" sign over the logo)
    Mr. Krabs: She closed us down! I'm ruined! (cries)
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: Done more than once on:
  • In the episode "Sir Ed-A-Lot", where Sarah forces the Eds to play "princess" with her:
    Eddy: Next thing you know she's gonna want a throne.
    (scene transition to later, with Sarah sitting on a makeshift throne)
    Eddy: (raises glass) A toast, to my big mouth!
  • In "Take This Ed and Shove It":
    Rolf: ROLF'S TRACTOR IS NOT FOR SALE!
    (Rolf's old, rusty, beaten up tractor is shown, with a For Sale sign next to it)
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) has this (part of a plan to steal Robotnik's materials):
    Sonic: A hedgehog never gives up.
    (cuts to middle of Robotropolis)
    Sonic: I give up!
  • Sonic Boom:
    • In "Buster":
      Amy: You should get a pet. It would help you learn to love animals. Don't you think, Sonic?
      Sonic: Yes, absolutely.
      Amy: Then you can take Sticks pet-shopping right now.
      Sonic: No, absolutely not.
      (cut to Sonic taking Sticks pet-shopping)
  • "Designated Heroes" has Sonic brag about how he put Eggman in a cage despite the others doing most of the work. One cut later, Sonic's thrown in there with him as his friends walk off.
    • Later referred to by name while used as a running gag in "Nutwork", where Sticks has come to expect Amy using the "Gilligan Flip". The Mayor finds these painful to do.
• The Simpsons:
  • While they're diving in "Sideshow Bob Roberts", Lisa gets tired of listening to the right-wing radio station and asks Homer to change it. He replies that, as driver, he picks the radio station. When she drives, then she can pick the radio station. Cut to Lisa driving the car and listening to "St. Elmo's Fire."
    Homer: Ooooh. I can't take it anymore! Let's switch back!
  • Variation on the trope in "Burns, Baby Burns". Mr. Burns's son, an uncultured slacker voiced by Rodney Dangerfield, finds his father. Appalled by Larry Burns' antics, Burns disowns him. A saddened Larry walks late at night with Homer, trying to find some way of regaining his father's love.
    Homer: Larry, there's only one sure way to make him realize how much he loves you, and that is a phony kidnapping!
    Larry: Yeah, right. I dunno. Maybe I should just leave town.
    Homer: (sing-songy) Phony kidnapping.
    Larry: Nah, I know what I gotta do. I gotta clean up my act. (dramatic music swells) No more joking around all the time, no more slacking off at work, and most important, no more booze! I know I can do it!
    (cut to Burns at his front door, holding a note)
    Burns: (reading) Your son has been kidnapped.
  • Double Subverted in "Gone Maggie Gone", when Homer accidentally leaves Maggie at a convent and they won't give her back. When coming up with a plan, Homer says he absolutely won't dress up like a nun. Cut forward to him...reaffirming he isn't dressed as a nun. Then Lisa says they don't need him to, and then he says "You sure?" and goes off-screen for a second and comes back dressed as a nun, saying that he has the costume already.
  • During a Documentary Episode titled "Springfield Up":
    Declan Desmond: Are you two considering children?
    (24-Year-Old) Homer: (scoffs) Kids? No way. You'll never see a couple of rug-rats tying me down.
    (cut to 8 years later with baby Bart and Lisa)
    (32-Year-Old) Homer: You better not put this shot after the one where I said I won't have kids. That would be a devastating edit.
  • In "King-Size Homer":
    Ralph: I heard your dad went to a restaurant and ate everything in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant.
    Lisa: Hey, my dad may have gained a little weight, but he's not some kind of food-crazed maniac.
    (Homer drives by in a stolen ice-cream truck, vigorously stuffing his face.)
  • Zig-zagged, maybe, because Homer was actually using the truck to rush to the nuclear power plant to prevent a meltdown (and eventually succeeded), but seeing as Lisa didn't know that, it was still embarrassing.
  • In "The Front":
    Lisa: It's so sad that Krusty is ashamed of his roots.
    Homer walks into the living room with a plunger on his head
    Homer: Marge, it happened again!
    Bart: What are you going to change your name to when you grow up?
    Lisa: Lois Sandborne.
    Bart: Steve Bennett.
  • In "The Princess Guide", Homer is trying to get Carl to disguise himself as a Nigerian princess Homer was meant to be looking after but lost. Cue much protesting from Carl, followed by a quick cut... to the exact same scene, with Carl saying "Thank you for listening to my objections."
  • In "Cue Detective" Homer is sent to the store with a reserve bag of money to buy the family a new washing machine. After Homer gets distracted on the way in to the store by the smell of cooking meat, he runs into a hobo who encourages him to buy a treasured barbecue grill he happens to be selling. Homer is about to seal the deal when this thought audibly comes to mind:
    Homer: Wait, Homer. Marge trusted you, so which choice should you make, the one you're supposed to, or the one everybody knows you'll make?
    (cut to Marge and the kids seeing Homer pulling the barbecue out of the trunk.)
  • "Trash Of The Titans" has Mr. Costington at a board meeting brainstorming a new summer holiday to sell holiday merchandise with. Costington decides on a love-themed holiday.
    Costington: Something like "Love Day", but not so lame.
    (cut to the Simpsons' house with Marge declaring "Happy Love Day!")
  • In "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly", after his wife Maude dies, Ned Flanders gets so despondent that he tells his sons he won't attend church, saying "I'm going to sit right here and miss church. You just watch.". Cut to Ned hurriedly driving, saying "Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!"
  • In "Mayored To The Mob", Homer works as Mayor Quimby's bodyguard, urging him to stand up to Fat Tony and the Springfield Mafia. When Fat Tony threatens him, Quimby doesn't want to leave his house, but Homer tells him "You've got to snap out of this funk, mayor. I'm gonna take you someplace where you can relax and forget all about gangsters.". Cut to them heading to a local production of Guys and Dolls, a musical about gangsters.
• In Super Mario World: "What are they going to do? Banish us to the lava pit?" One cut later....
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius
  • In "Out, Darn Spotlight":
    Jimmy: Ah, no big deal. I didn't really want to be in this play. (Cut) YOU GOTTA PUT ME IN THIS PLAY! I'LL DO ANYTHING! Even... (clears throat) Stage crew.
  • In "Beach Party Mummy"
    Carl: I'll feel better as soon as I see Miss. Fowl's sweet smiley face.
    (Cut to Carl screaming at a picture of a mummy)
• Kim Possible's brothers are suffering a bad cold and she's trying to keep them from sneezing everywhere:
  Kim: I do not want to catch this.
  (cut to Kim in bed with a cold)
  Kim: How did I catch this?
  • In the same episode, Ron and Doctor Drakken also catch colds after making similar statements.
• In the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode, "Carsick", Dave and the Chipmunks are coming home from a long car ride. Simon and Theodore are starting to feel ill, but Alvin arrogantly says, "I never get sick!" Then it cuts to show Alvin in bed with a thermometer in his mouth.
• 101 Dalmatians: The Series has several different examples of these:
  • In "Home Is Where the Bark Is", after Lucky says, "We are not moving," it cuts to show the pups moving.
  • In "Shake, Rattle and Woof", when the pups notice the animals wearing embarrassing costumes, Lucky says, "You'll never see me in one of those get-ups!" Then comes the Gilligan Cut showing Lucky in an Elvis Presley costume.
  • In "Walk a Mile In My Tracks", Pug's final test is egg-sitting. At first, Cadpig says that will be "easy-peasy"...that is until after the Gilligan Cut when it is revealed that Pug has to sit on the world's largest egg!
• In one episode of Phineas and Ferb:
  Candace: Yes, they're building something. But I've realized that the problem is I always jump the gun. So I'm gonna wait until just the right moment... (stops and looks panicked)
  Stacy: Candace? Hello?
  (cut to Candace running with her phone in her hand)
  Candace: They're on the move, I'll bust them now! I'll bust them now!
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • "The Warriors of Kyoshi": At the start of the episode, after receiving news that the Avatar has been spotted in multiple locations but has been impossible to track, Zuko states that he must be a master of evasive maneuvers. The scene then cuts to Sokka commenting on how Aang clearly has no idea where they're going.
  • "The King of Omashu": Katara tells Aang that he'll need some kind of disguise before they enter the city, and Aang sarcastically suggests that he could grow a mustache. Cut to Aang with a fake mustache and hair made of straw and Appa's fur.
  • "The Cave of Two Lovers": After the Gaang decides not to go through the tunnel:
    (an extremely large number of catapults shoot at them)
    All three main characters: AAAAHHHHH!
    (cut to them on the ground, singed)
    Sokka: Secret love cave, let's go.
  • "The Runaway": Aang solemnly gives his "Avatar promise" not to go scamming people again. Cut, and we see a montage of them doing exactly that.
  • "The Puppetmaster": The gang is staying at a creepy inn. After hearing some creaky noises arround the inn, Sokka is, of course, completely scared shitless. Talking to Momo, he says, "I know, Momo, I'm scared too, I'll never be able to sleep like this." Cut, and we see Sokka deep asleep, snoring loudly, and drooling all over the pillow.
  • "Bitter Work": Toph is trying to teach Aang Earthbending, but he's having a little trouble doing it right. When Katara suggests Toph go easy on Aang, giving him "a little nudge in the right direction" to help him learn faster, Toph answers she's going to try that. Cut to an intense Training Montage where Toph is basically going Drill Sergeant Nasty on Aang.
• The Fairly OddParents!
  • A scene from the episode "Nectar of the Odds", when Timmy wants to raise money to buy some shockingly expensive tickets from Francis to see Crash Nebula on ice:
    Wanda: How do most ten-year-olds make money?
    Timmy: A lemonade stand...oh no, there's no way, no way I'm selling...
    (cut to Timmy at the lemonade stand)
    Timmy: ... lemonade, twenty-five cents.
  • Also, earlier in the same episode, it inverts this:
    A.J.: What are you gonna do? Make three tickets appear like magic?
    (Timmy grins; cut to his home)
    Timmy: What do you mean I can't make three tickets appear like magic?!
  • And in "Foul Balled":
    Timmy: Stop laughing at my friend. You're still down by 29 runs with 1 inning left. There's no way you can catch us!
    (10 minutes later, the Bankees are one run behind the Losers)
    Chester: I can't believe they're about to catch us.
    Timmy: Hey, we got two outs.
    Chester: Only because one guy laughed himself into a coma, and another guy got traded to Boston as he rounded second.
  • In "Parent Hoods" when Timmy's parents are arrested by cops who confused them with the Souvenir Bandits because they look exactly like them:
    Timmy's Dad: We'll be out in no time. I'm confident that our American Justice System will see us through.
    (cut to Timmy's parents being tortured in prison)
    Timmy's Dad: Uh, this may take longer than I thought.
    • And later in that same episode after Timmy's Dad accidentally breaks the Sacred Silver Sharpener:
      Timmy's Dad: Now, now, darling, snugglebutt, don't worry. It was just an accident.
      Timmy: Besides, I'm confident that our Canadian Justice System will see us through.
      (cut to Timmy and his parents being tortured in prison)
      Timmy: Uh, this may take longer than I thought.
  • In the movie "Channel Chasers" when Chet Ubetcha is talking about the dangerously imitatable franchise Maho Mushi:
    Chet Ubetcha: (as a giant robot is shown on the screen) But, let's be thankful the day will never come when someone can imitate this!
    (Cut to a shot of the robot running down the street with Timmy at the controls)
    Timmy: I can't believe the day has come that we can imitate this!
  • In "Shelf Life" Timmy and Wanda are outside the Library as Timmy prepares for his book report when Cosmo appears calling the library "stupid" Wanda however is on Timmy's side and is looking forward to seeing him do his report.
    Wanda: Well I for one can't wait to see what magical, deep, and complicated piece of literature you're going to read for your report!"
    (Cut to inside the library. Timmy is reading "The Rat in the Spats" by Dr. Bruise)
    Timmy: Everyone knew Spatsville was a fun little town. There was only one rule: you could not ever frown. There are many morals to this story, but here's what I'd choose: When you come down to Spatsville (turns the page to a big "splat") don't make fun of Rat's shoes!"
  • In "Crocker of Gold" when Timmy says that he and Cosmo need to get back the pot of gold from Mr. Crocker who stole it from a leprechaun who also kidnapped Wanda & Poof.
    Timmy: Don't worry Cosmo. All we need to do is get that pot of gold back from Mr. Crocker before he spends any of it.
    (cut to Mr. Crocker at the store)
    Mr. Crocker: I spent all of it!
  • A bit later in the same episode when one of the leprechauns kidnaps Mr. Crocker Timmy gives the recommendation to follow him since he will lead them to Wanda & Poof.
    Timmy: Who knows what kid of horrible Irish torture they're being put through!
    (cut to Ireland where Wanda & Poof are enjoying themselves eating cereal)
    Wanda: I love Ireland, Poof! There is all the marshmallow cereal you can eat, and deodorant soap grows on trees!
  • In "Hex Games", Wanda assures Timmy his friends will love him, even if he loses. It immediately cuts to Chester saying they won't love Timmy if he loses.
• Danny Phantom:
  • When Danny comes up with an idea involving overshadowing Tucker:
    Tucker: No way. Forget it. Absolutely not! NO!
    (cut to a scene where Tucker is overshadowed)
  • The one in "Mystery Meat" has the (in)famous meat vs. veggie-related one.
    Danny: (in bed) Ah...Well, I'm sure everything will be back to normal by tomorrow.
    * Next day...*
    Danny: Or not. Maybe it'll be worse.
  • When Danny comes up with the idea to prevent Vlad from ever getting his ghost powers in "Master of All Time":
    Danny: I just got a great idea.
    (cut to Clockwork's tower)
    Clockwork: No Danny, it's a horrible idea.
• DuckTales (1987):
  • In "Till' Nephews Do Us Part", Scrooge says he's come to offer Millionara, "an offer she can't refuse" for some turf. Cut to the door: "What do you mean you refuse?"
  • "The Duck Who Knew Too Much" has Fenton tell his girlfriend that he'll be able to take a day off of work to go on a date with her. He says, "My boss never says no to me," but then it violently cuts to Scrooge saying "No!" to Fenton.
  • "The Uncrashable Hindentanic: Scrooge asks who on board the eponymous dirigible is smart enough to fix the malfunctioning propeller, but dumb enough to crawl out there and do it mid-flight. Cut to Launchpad agreeing to do it... once he gets done with his other assigned chores.
• From American Dad! Christmas episode "For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls":
  Stan: I promise I will not buy Steve a gun for Christmas.
  (cut to Stan handing Steve a machine gun)
  Stan: Happy Wednesday, son!
  • From the first season episode "Stan of Arabia (Part II)"
    Roger: Look, I don't know what you've heard about American girls, but we don't just jump into bed with someone we just met.
    (cut to Hayley in bed with a Saudi she just met)
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "The Ice Cream Wars", when the baby ponies approach Rocky Ripple's factory, Baby Tic-Tac-Toe is doubtful about how likely they are to get the feuding ice cream barons to see reason. Baby Lickety Split is confident that they'll easily be able to talk them into reconciling. The next scene is of Rocky Ripple angrily refusing to do this.
    Baby Lickety-Split: You kidding, Baby Tic-Tac-Toe? A bunch of cute kids like us? He'll do anything we ask.
    Rocky Ripple: Never! Fudgy McSwaine's a thief!
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
    • "Call of the Cutie": Done without a cut thanks to the Rule of Perception. With the camera close-up on her face, Apple Bloom insists that she isn't going to a party. After this, the camera zooms back out to show that the party had already started in the next room.
    • "The Cutie Mark Chronicles": When the kids get bored listening to the adult ponies' various stories, Scootaloo complains about the — to her — boring stories they've been hearing and says they need action-packed stories like Rainbow Dash's. The episode then cuts to her looking very bored as Twilight Sparkle is telling her story.
    • "Made in Manehattan": Applejack and Rarity are talking abiut how to bring back a former tradition, the Midsummer Theatre Revival, with Coco Pommel. Coco is panicking over the unpreparedness of the whole project. Rarity and Applejack reassure her, however, saying that they're all the help she needs.
      Rarity: Everything is going to be just fine.
      (cut to Rarity and Applejack with horrified looks on their faces)
      Rarity: Perhaps I spoke too soon.
  • My Little Pony Tell Your Tale: In "Zipp's Flight School", when the others hit onto the idea of getting Zipp to run a flight school, she vehemently denies that she's ever going to do that. The scene then cuts to her unenthusiastically welcoming her first flight class.
• The Owl House played it straight in "Wing It Like Witches" when Luz assures Willow that Boscha can't follow them all day. Smash Cut to them sitting outside after school, covered in all manner of graffiti.
  Luz: (shocked) She followed us around all day. SHE LITERALLY FOLLOWED US AROUND ALL DAY!!!
• Codename: Kids Next Door
  • In "Operation: CAKED-THREE", Numbuh Two explains his plan to attack the Delightful Children by using a weapon that uses "a kajillion eggs" as ammunition.
  Numbuh One: That... is... brilliant!
  (Next scene, where the team decides to store the eggs in his room)
  Numbuh One: This... is... stupid! Why did you put a kajillion eggs in my room?!
  Numbuh Two: Well, I wasn't gonna put them in my room.
  • in "Operation: VIRUS", an enraged Cree demands Numbuh 1 hand Numbuh 5 over, or she'll turn the treehouse upside down. Numbuh 1 tells her to try. Cut to the treehouse literally upside down.
  Numbuh One: (Dazed) Wow, I didn't think you could do it.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show, "Stimpy's Cartoon". When Stimpy finishes the eponymous cartoon, he rushes to arrange a meeting with (fictional) Golden Age cartoonist Wilbur Cobb. Ren quips "You're living in a dream world if you think the great Cobb'll see you!", which prompts a Match Cut to Ren in a suit, waiting with Stimpy in Wilbur Cobb's office.
• The Problem Solverz
  • Done in "Videogamez".
    Konishi: I warn you, though, the game is dangerous. Don't let it suck you in.
    Horace: No, it'll never suck us in.
    (cut to case identification card)
    "Case # 00101001: The Video Game That Sucks The Problem Solverz In."
  • And again in "Fauxboro".
    Alfe: Just don't tell Horace I've gone crazy.
    Roba: Okay, I won't.
    (cut to Roba in Horace's room)
    Roba: He's gone crazy!
• The Penguins of Madagascar
  • In the episode "Sting Operation", the title characters try to remove a hornets' nest, and fail.
    "They took us by surprise that time. Took away our greatest weapons; stealth, and superior tactics. But that ain't gonna happen twice."
    (cut to the penguins being chased by angry hornets)
    "It happened twice! IT HAPPENED TWICE!"
  • The episode "Herring Impaired" features Private and Kowalski contracting a disease which causes them to babble uncontrollably and crave fish. Skipper, while attempting to control them by repeatedly slapping them, insists that his "iron constitution" has made him immune to the disease. Rico turns away, only to realise seconds later that Skipper has stopped slapping the other two, and turns around just in time to see Skipper get crazy eyes and scream "FIIIIIISH!"
  • Also happens in "I Was a Penguin Zombie" when Kowalski, Private, and Rico believe that Skipper has died:
    Kowalski: We'll honor him the way he would've wanted: by soldiering on like men! (salutes)
    (Kowalski, Private, and Rico stand in place looking determined. Cut to the three of them at their HQ crying hysterically)
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Four Musketurtles" has Splinter tell the turtles they must play along with Leonardo's thinking he's D'Artagnan of The Three Musketeers by dressing up as musketeers themselves. Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo refuse, only for it to cut to them in the musketeer outfits.
• Batman: The Animated Series
  • Episode "Pretty Poison" has a bunch of these one after the other. In a conversation with Dent and Ivy at dinner talking about Bruce, Dent claims he is late because he is probably busy, cue the shot of Batman trying to catch a bad guy. He then comments he runs with a high class of crowd because of his wealth, cue the shot of Batman running after the bad guy. Lastly he mentions Bruce still gets his kicks, cue Batman kicking the bad guy.
  • In "Eternal Youth", Alfred insists he cannot go to the spa with Maggie. Wipe to the next scene where he is being driven by Maggie to the spa.
    Alfred: I'm being shanghaied.
  • In "Harlequinade", when Batman recruits Harley Quinn to help him stop the Joker from exploding a nuke in Gotham, Harley makes a passionate speech describing herself and Batman as two mortal enemies united in a common cause. Next scene, she's handcuffed in the Batmobile.
    Harley Quinn: I'm sensing a lack of trust.
  • In "The Terrible Trio", Warren declares his money and connections will enable him to escape punishment. Cut to him in prison garb being locked up in a dingy cell.
• Harley Quinn (2019): Harley and Ivy go from drinking and talking about how they're best friends to an immediate cut of them waking up in bed together. Twice!
• From T.U.F.F. Puppy:
  Dudley: What's he gonna do? Put us in jail?
  (cut to Dudley and Kitty in jail)
  Dudley: Wow, he put us in jail.
• Megas XLR:
  • In "Battle Royale," Jamie and Kiva are confronted by Magnamous and a number of robot guards.
    Jamie: Go get 'em, Kiva! I've got your back!
    (cut to Jamie and Kiva being thrown into a holding cell)
    Kiva: Thanks for getting my back.
  • in the finale "Rearview Mirror, Mirror" Coop is surrounded by other mechs ordering his surrender. His comment is a confident "No prob, I got this!" Immediately cut to Coop chained up and being dragged off.
• In Potsworth & Company episode "When Bubba Rules", the Nightmare Prince's Mother sent Count Bubba Bonebreaker to replace him. When asked about what he'd be, the Nightmare Prince was told he'd be a janitor. He then said he wouldn't be one even in a billion years. Cut to the next scene, where he's already doing janitor duties.
• In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, as Monkey trains Po to restrain his punches to help Kwan the Unkillable win in his last match using plates...
  Po: What if we run out of plates?
  Monkey: We're not going to run out of plates. (instant cut, Monkey looks miffed) We ran out of plates.

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: When the humans are performing a song to apologise to the mutes, Troy, Benson and Wolf attempt to win over Fun Gus.

Troy: Hey, kid, I know you can’t really come to Prahm because you’re a spore-producing organism, tethered to an abandoned science place and all, but if you could… you know I’d save a dance for you.

(Troy, Benson and Wolf pose)

(Cut to the three of them screaming and running away)

• Gravity Falls:
  • Near the start of "The Inconveniencing", Mabel teases Dipper about having a crush on Wendy.
    Dipper: Yeah, right. I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lay awake at night thinking about her. (Cut to him doing just that) Uh oh.
  • In "Irrational Treasure", during the town's "Pioneer Day" festival, Grunkle Stan causes a minor ruckus which attracts the attention of the sheriff and his deputy.
    Stan: Oh look, it's the constable. (sarcastically) What are you gonna do, throw me in ye stocks? Ahahaha!
    (cut to Stan in the stocks)
    Stan: Awww, come on!
  • At the end of "Boss Mabel", Mabel and Dipper remind Stan of the fact that he has to sing an embarrassing song if he lost the bet. Stan denies it. Cut to the credits, where Stan sings "The Stan Wrong Song" while being filmed by Mabel, Dipper, Wendy, Soos and Waddles.
  • In "A Tale of Two Stans", the part in the flashback where Stan is shown the Universe Portal
    Stan: Look, I've been around the world, okay? Whatever it is, I'll understand. (Cut) There is nothing about this that I understand!
• On Goof Troop in the episode "Slightly Dinghy," Max tries to talk PJ into asking Pete to take them fishing which he really does not want to do. This happens to him, Lampshading PJ's role in the process.
  PJ: No, forget it, Max. No way. You cannot talk me into this one! (cut to PJ about to start talking to Pete) Every time. How does he do it? Every. Single. Time.
• Fillmore!:
  Fillmore: I plan to have me a nice relaxing vacation.
  (cut to Fillmore chasing a guy riding a pig through the corridors of a Tennesseean middle school)
  • To be fair, that might qualify as a nice relaxing vacation to Fillmore. Though the whole dealing with a completely corrupt Safety Patrol and his former partner's degeneration into a bit of a doormat thing probably wasn't.
• The Magic School Bus, in "For Lunch":
  Phoebe: Go swimming in Arnold's digestive juice? Not me, no way!
  (fade to Phoebe swimming in a scuba suit)
  Phoebe: How was I supposed to know she'd have digestive juice scuba gear?
• In the first episode of Sym-Bionic Titan:
  Ilana: (hiding in a cave) If we're going to blend in with these Earthlings we'll need to know more about them. Perhaps we should go down there?
  Octus: Agreed.
  (cut to the two aliens and one semi-transparent robot appearing before a lone woman in a darkened parking lot)
  Ilana: Salutations.
  (Beat)
  Woman: ...AAAAAAAAAAAHH!
  Lance: (back in the cave) Well... that didn't work out so well.
  • In another episode, a group of soldiers on Galaluna discusses Lance's absence when he was sent to protect Ilana, and consider wherever he was facing more danger, which cuts to Lance bored out of his mind at school.
• In the Cow and Chicken episode "Chicken's First Kiss", after Cow suggests playing "Girls Chase the Boys" at the school playground and sets up a few extra rules for the game.
  Chicken: If you think us guys are gonna run around with blindfolded eyes, and get smacked by a stupid doll, and go in a stupid dumpster jail, you got another thing comin'!
  (cut to them running and screaming, chased by girls with dolls)
• In Doug when the coach announces tryouts for the school softball team.
  Doug: There's no way I'm going Skeet. No way!
  Skeeter: Yeah, but...
  Doug: And don't think you can change my mind either.
  (cut to the tryouts in the field)
• In an episode of The Weekenders where Tino's dad comes to visit, he is dared by Mrs. Dowong to get in a go-kart and when he refuses, she starts making chicken noises at him.
  Tino's Dad: Oh, so you guess I'm getting into that thing because you're making chicken noises. (Cut to Tino's dad in the go-kart) Stupid chicken noises.
• In the Recess episode "King Gus":
  Gretchen: Vince is right. I suggest we go see Gus again, I'm sure he'll listen to reason.
  (cut to Gretchen and the rest of the kids being thrown in the jungle gym prison)
  TJ: What happened?
  Gretchen: He didn't listen to reason.
  • Another one from the episode "Mama's Girl":
    Spinelli: I won't go to school, and you can't make me! You can't make me!
    (cut to Spinelli sitting at school)
    Spinelli: She made me.
• The script for the Show Within a Show on Bojack Horseman calls for Bojack to say he would never wear a sweater he got as a gift and, after a Gilligan Cut, be shown wearing it. He doesn't understand the trope and feels the need to overexplain jokes, so he wants to insert a scene in between in which he decides the sweater's not so bad.
  Bojack: Why would I say, "You'll never get me in that sweater" in this scene and then, in the very next scene, I'm wearing the sweater? Did my character suddenly forget that he didn't want to wear the sweater?
  Producer: No, see, that's actually the joke.
  Bojack: Don't explain the joke to me. I just don't understand how it's a joke.
  Producer: So you do want me to explain it to you?
  Bojack: I want you to add a scene showing how I changed my mind about the sweater so the goddamn episode makes sense!
• Tangled: The Series: In "Beyond the Corona Walls", when Rapunzel, Cass and Eugene enter Vardaros, Eugene tells them the last thing Rapunzel wants to do is be recognized. As soon as he says this, the camera cuts to one of the thieves, who recognizes Eugene and spreads the word around to the others that Flynn Rider has returned.
• In the Turbo FAST episode "Bumperdome", Chet develops a taste for danger and tries out Skidmark's experimental anti-gravity shell. When the rest of FAST are apprehensive toward letting him put himself in danger again:
  Whiplash: And get out of that shell before you crash into something. (takes off)
  Chet: I'm not gonna crash into—
  (cuts to Chet lying on his back after having crashed through a window and leaving an Impact Silhouette)
  Chet: Oh boy.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • In "Housetrap", the Belchers help Teddy at a rich person's summer home. They discover the back door is unlocked.
    Bob: I guess we can stand here for another two seconds.
    Linda: Mm-hmm, yeah. And then we'll leave
    Bob: Okay, but we're not touching anything.
    Tina: Yeah.
    Louise: Sure!
    Gene: Of course not.
    (cut to the family playing around with various items in another room in the house)
  • In "Hawk & Chick", Bob and Louise stalk a Japanese monster movie actor.
    Louise: No! He's getting on a bus!
    Bob: Well, we're not getting on a bus to follow this guy.
    (cut to Bob and Louise on the bus)
  • In "Zero Larp Thirty," Bob and Linda partake in a Downton Abbey-style LARP as servants, and Bob is invited to join the rich characters for cigars and brandy.
    Bob: I don’t like brandy or cigars. One sip, one puff, and then I’ll meet you back in our room.
    (cut to Bob enjoying himself with the rich characters)
    Bob: I love cigars and brandy! I finally get why people wanna be rich!
• Rocko's Modern Life:
  • In "Love Spanked", Rocko is horrified to learn Heffer signed him up to be a contestant on a dating show. Heffer then assures Rocko, "You probably won't even get picked." Cut to Rocko shivering nervously while on said dating show.
  • Happens in "Cruisin'" when the two get stuck as stowaways on a cruise ship full of senior citizens.
    Rocko: What a lovely mess. We're not even supposed to be on this cruise. No money, no tickets, and we're stuck here taking care of Grandpa. Now what are we gonna do, Heff?
    Heffer: Just what we're doing now. Act natural and blend in with the crowd. Who's gonna know?
    (cut to the duo in the ship's prison cell, chained to the wall)
    Rocko: "Just blend in with the crowd, Rocko. Act naturally, Rocko. Who's gonna know? WHO'S GONNA KNOW?!" WHY DID I EVER-?!! (grunts angrily)
• Elena of Avalor: In "All Heated Up", Luna says she won't go with the others to meet the rock monster. The next scene features her going there.
• M.A.S.K. used this gag in the episode "The Scarlet Empress" when T-Bob refused to convert to his scooter mode so that Scott could ride to the waterfall, but is then seen doing exactly that.
• Inverted in the Mike, Lu & Og episode "Flustering Footwear Flotsam", when Wendell is agonizing over what kind of shoes to wear.
  Wendell: For once, I'm going to make a firm decision! I'm going...to choose.
  (cut to him sitting on a Freudian Couch in Queeks' cave)
  Wendell: (sobbing) I was petrified with uncertainty!
• Franklin:
  • In "Franklin's Bad Day":
    Mom: Hmm, some fresh air. What a good idea.
    Franklin: Mom, I don't want to go outside.
    Franklin: (suddenly dressed up and ready to go out to the snow) Okay, but I'm not going to play.
  • In "Franklin's Granny," Franklin and his friends plan a fun water balloon fight.
    Franklin: I wouldn't miss it for anything. (flipping scene changer to Franklin at home) But, Mom, I can't go to Granny's tomorrow!
• In the Rocket Power episode "Big Thursday", Otto thinks about surfing during a storm and tries to rope Twister into it as well.
  Reggie: Twister, think about this!
  (a big wave splashes all four of them)
  Twister: I am absolutely not going to do this!
  (cut to Otto and Twister with their surfboards)
  Twister: So we're really going to do this?
• Happens in the Ready Jet Go! episode "Space Junk", where Sean says there is no way he is flying outside the saucer. In the next scene, he says he can't believe he's flying outside the saucer.
• There is a Family Dog episode where Skip Binsford says he is not bringing the dog on their trip to the beach. Cut to the Binsfords on the beach with their dog.
• Happens twice in the Rugrats (1991) episode, "Angelica Breaks a Leg":
  • First, after Tommy falls asleep after watching Captain Blasto, this exchange occurs:
    Lou: 20 minutes to Fishing With Stan and Orville! Sure you don't want to join me?
    Angelica: Yeah, right! I'm really gonna watch a fishing show!
    (Cut to Angelica watching "Fishing With Stan and Orville" as Lou falls asleep)
    Angelica: Guess the excitement was too much for him.
  • Then later in the episode, when Stu and Didi are forced to wait on Angelica hand and foot due to an (alleged) fractured fibula. Eventually, in the middle of the night...
    Angelica: Uncle Stu, I want some chocolate pudding.
    Stu: It's three o'clock in the morning, I'm tired, and we don't have any chocolate pudding.
    Angelica: (attempting to guilt-trip Stu) Oh! OH, the pain! *clutches leg*
    Stu: Angelica, we don't have any chocolate pudding.
    Angelica: There must be a store open somewhere...
    Stu: Angelica, I'm not going out at three in the morning to buy you chocolate pudding, and that's final.
    (Cut to Stu walking into a 24-hour convenience store)
    Stu: Where's the chocolate pudding?
• The Rocketeer: In "Songbird Soars Again", Kit says Tesh will be happy to learn she found May Songbird's plane. The next scene shows Tesh asking who May Songbird is.
• Justice League, "Eclipsed".
  Gordon Godfrey: Nothing personal, it's just showbiz. It's not like it's the end of the world.
  (cut)
  Mofear: That's exactly what it is, end of the world!
• At the end of the Droopy short, "Señor Droopy", Droopy is allowed to have anything he wants after winning the bullfight. Droopy just holds up a picture of actress and singer, Lina Romay, saying he wants her. The announcer laughs saying there was no way she would ever want him. Cut to Droopy sitting on Lina Romay's lap as she turns to the camera and say incredulously, "Oh no?" She then proceeds to stroke his hair.
  Droopy: You know what? I'm happy.
• At the beginning of the Looney Tunes short Bosko's Mechanical Man, Bosko claims that he will not help Honey wash the dishes, followed by by a fade to Bosko (who is upset here) and Honey washing the dishes.
• Teacher's Pet: The conflict of "Being Mrs. Leadready" revolves around Spot needing to think of a way to have his human persona Scott Leadready II's mother attend the parent-teacher conference. After trying to get his owner Leonard to pretend to be his mother, Leonard adamantly refuses... and in the next shot is seen at his school while still Disguised in Drag. He then runs into Spot wearing the same disguise, who apparently assumed that Leonard was sincere about his refusal.
• Pibby: Played for Drama in the trailer. After Pibby promises that she'll always be there to protect her friend Bun-Bun, the very next shot shows the latter being swallowed up by the Eldritch Abomination antagonist, with Pibby being unable to save him.
• What If…? (2021): In the first episode, "What If… Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?":
  Arnim Zola: Ah. Fräulein Carter. I was wondering when you might visit me. You're wasting your time. I will tell you nothing!
  (cut to briefing)
  Captain Carter: He told me everything.
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?: In an episode featuring competitive eater Joey Chestnut, the gang needs to use someone as bait to lure a tree monster that's sabotaging a hot dog factory, so they opt to have Scooby-Doo dress up as a hot dog-wearing dog mascot that heavily resembles him. Scooby, who's been denying any similarity to the mascot, remarks that it looks more like Shaggy. The scene immediately shifts to Scooby wearing said hot dog costume.
• Sofia the First: In "Four's a Crowd", when Sofia invites Ruby and Jade to the Flylight Pageant, she thinks that Amber will think that it's a great idea. Quick cut to Amber telling Sofia that it's a bad idea.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks:
  • "Temporal Edict": The workaholic and by-the-book Boimler is assured by his friends that the "Boimler Effect", a rule allowing crew members to loosen their schedules to avoid burnout, will be forgotten by history. Cut to "The Far Future", where Boimler is revered as a chronically tardy and corner-cutting figure.
  • "Terminal Provocations":
    • Captain Freeman insists that her crew is ready and focused. Cut to Fletcher chugging cantaloupe puree from the replicator.
    • Fletcher suggests to Mariner and Boimler that they let the corrupted isolinear core grow bigger, thrash them, then blame the whole thing on a Q so they don't get in trouble. It then cuts to Fletcher tied up with cables while the two drag the core to the nearest transporter.
    • Boimler thinks that Fletcher's transfer will be good for him. Six days later, he calls back to complain about being fired.
• In Bluey, one episode depicts the kids playing pretend with Bandit. They're pretending that Bandit is pregnant (with Bingo) and when Bingo pops out of the pouch used to carry her, they call for Lucky's Dad:
  'Bluey: Hey Lucky's Dad, can you help us out with something?
  Lucky's Dad: Yeah, no worries, mate
  (Cut to Bandit pretending to be in labour in a kiddie pool and Lucky in front of him)
  Lucky's dad: I didn't know THIS was the "something"!
• Cyberchase: In "Cool It", after Hacker sends contaminated cryoxide to Motherboard's cooling system which causes Motherboard to get sick, the only place to get more cryoxide was in Castleblanca. Inez and Matt asks the Two-Headed Sams if they can use the cryoxide. Although they did, they didn't have enough cryoxide to fix Motherboard's cooling system so they try to ask again for more, but Inez is concerned that they're going to say no. Matt replies that they won't say no. Cut to the Two-Headed Sams saying no.
  Inez: What if Sams says no? What do we do then?
  Matt: He's not going to say no.
  Inez: But what if he does? What's going to happen to Motherboard then?
  Matt: Inez, he won't say no.
  (cut to the Sam heads)
  Two-Headed Sams: NO!
• Captain Flamingo:
  • In "Deep DueDue", Milo only has two minutes to return his library book on time before 3:00 before the librarian punishes him. After seeing a runner holding his book thinking it was a race baton, Lizbeth replies to Milo that he can still make it on time. Cut to the librarian saying the exact opposite.
    Lizbeth: You can still return your book on time.
    (cut to the librarian)
    Librarian: Ha, ha, ha! He'll never make it in time!
  • In "Fun and Games", Milo is getting prepared just in case if he's gonna run into Ruth Ann. However, there is a piece of spinach stuck to his teeth. He tries to get it out, but Kirsten calls him to help. Milo hopes that her problem won't have Ruth Ann involved. Cut to Kirsten saying that Ruth Ann is involved with her problem, since she is hanging out with her other friends instead of her.
    Milo: Oh, it'll be fine. As long as it's not Ruth Ann.
    (cut to Kirsten)
    Kirsten: Captain, it's Ruth Ann!
    Milo: NO!
    Lizbeth: What do you mean, "No"? You love it when it's Ruth Ann.
    Milo: No, I don't.
    Kirsten: Captain, I'm the one who needs rescuing. Ruth Ann is just my big fat problem!
    Lizbeth: Welcome to my world.
• Duckman: Duckman pulls out a reel of his old home movies. Cornfed abruptly remembers its time for that root canal appointment he's been putting off! Cut to the projector running with Cornfed strapped down and his eyelids clamped open.
• An advertisement for Dexter's Laboratory had the meddling executive suggest the angle of "Dexter, Duke of the Dance!" He explains that "kids love the dance, and we want kids to love the Dex, so Dex dances!" Dexter begins repeating the mantra of "No Dex does not! No Dex does not!"...and then he's on the dance floor.
  Dexter: It was in my contract...
• Rock, Paper, Scissors: In "Hide and Seek", Paper is watching a film on the plane about a dog named Benny whose owner calls healthy and will live forever, Paper then says that he knows what's going to happen next and that this won't affect him, cut to him later after the time card gushing and crying over Benny's death.

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