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  • The Amazing World of Gumball: Happens to Richard Watterson all the time, especially in the newer seasons.
  • In the final episode of Amphibia, Sasha and Grime attempt to have a stoic, dignified goodbye between two battle-hardened soldiers. It quickly devolves into hysterical bawling about how much they're going to miss each other.
  • Animaniacs: Skippy Squirrel bawls inelegantly as he watches the death of the title character's mother and the wildfire scene in "Bumbie the Dearest Deer" (a parody of Bambi). He does this again after Slappy explains that no one gets hurt in cartoons, when they fly to Tucumcari, New Mexico to meet Veena Waleen (who acted as, well, Bumbie's Mom), and when they watch an in-flight movie of an "Old Yeller" parody named "Old Yellow".
    (Skippy sniffles, wiping his nose with his paw.)
    Slappy: Ohhhh (handing tissue), use a tissue.
    (Skippy, shown with red, puffy eyes and runny nose, blows hard on the tissue, which covers him.)
  • Arcane: A distressingly realistic and dramatic example. After being left behind by Vi and the rest of the gang to sit out the rescue mission for Vander, Powder has a tantrum in her room, complete with saliva and snot running down her face.
  • In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Azula's last appearance is this overlapping with Broken Tears. At first, there was incoherent, furious screaming, but within seconds it devolved into sobbing.
  • Batman: The Animated Series: Harley Quinn comically (and loudly) sobs and blows her nose during the Joker's famous eulogy scene in "The Man Who Killed Batman".
  • Blaze and the Monster Machines:
    • Starla bawls loudly twice in the episode "The Driving Force". The first time she cries is when she finds out her piston is missing and again when she gets depressed over possibly not ever getting it back again.
    • Crusher has a tendency to cry in a very undignified manner if things do not go his way.
  • In an episode of The Boondocks, Jazmine does this out of guilt after Grandad sneaks her, Huey and Riley into a movie without paying. After watching a guilt-slinging anti-piracy ad she has tears and snot running down her face.
  • Classic Disney Shorts:
    • Pluto the Pup is shown to be prone to this in several episodes, most notably "A Gentleman's Gentleman" and "Pluto and the Armadillo." In the former short, he is even shown making a Stan Laurel face.
    • In "Symphony Hour," Pete's character, an Italian man named Sylvester Macaroni, is outright sobbing like Pagliacci at the end of Mickey Mouse's performance because the instruments are all damaged from an elevator accident, making the performance of Von Suppé's "Light Cavalry Overture" sound like Spike Jones' parody thereof, and Macaroni is convinced that his reputation is shot. He cheers up immediately when it turns out that the audience loves it.
    • "Donald Duck and the Gorilla" ends with both title characters being affected by tear gas and crying their eyes out in each other's arms.
    • In "Hockey Homicide," the Loose Leafs' goalie bursts into tears and throws a tantrum when a puck gets past him. And apparently, the hockey rink is so cold that the goalie's tears freeze on his face.
    • Goofy, who is rather inelegant to begin with, has his moments as well. One crowing example is "Goofy and Wilbur," wherein Goofy sheds some very undignified tears when he thinks he's lost his grasshopper friend Wilbur forever.
  • In the Darkwing Duck episode "Dead Duck", Launchpad cries loudly and messily when returning from Darkwing's funeral.
  • Family Guy:
    • Stewie does this near the end of the episode "New Kidney in Town", with literal rivers of snot pouring from his nose. Brian even makes mention of how gross it is when Stewie tries to hug him.
    • Joe Swanson does it at the Drunken Clam in an earlier episode, after trying to catch a thief who stole money raised for a boy's surgery. (He got the money but lost the perp.) This actually causes the other guys to slowly exit the bar through increasingly unlikely ways to get clear of him.
  • In the classic short film Feed the Kitty, Marc Anthony goes into a massive blubbering fit after believing Pussyfoot has been baked into a cookie. He goes into yet another one when he's handed a cookie in the shape of a kitten. Thankfully the kitten turns out to be safe.
  • The Flintstones: The Great Gazoo weeps noisily when he realizes his planet's leaders have sent him back in time to the Stone Age.
  • The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Billy does this in the episode "Tricycle of Terror," when Irwin, Pud'n, and Sperg tease him about his tricycle.
  • Hey Arnold!:
    • Helga Pataki's older sister Olga is infamous for this. She does it in every single episode where she appears, and often over inconsequential things like getting a B+ on an otherwise perfect report card. Making it worse, her thick black mascara always runs.
    • Helga may have some of this as well, though hers is not nearly as frequent or profuse as Olga's. See episodes like "The Subway," when she thinks, quote, "We're all gonna starve to death and get eaten by rats!"
    • Minus the runny makeup, Harold sometimes experiences this. It's often in the midst of one of his meltdowns that begin with, "AHHHH! MOMMY!" In "Weighing Harold," he became so upset at being called fat that he wept uncontrollably onto the blacktop. In "What's Opera, Arnold?" he also sang a parody of "Vesti la giubba" from Pagliacci, bawling just as much as any hammy tenor, and in other episodes, the music of that aria tends to underscore his blubbering fits.
  • Kaeloo: Kaeloo is prone to babbling unintelligible gibberish through her sobs when she cries.
  • The Legend of Korra: Bolin does this in the episode "The Spirit of Competition". Ocular Gushers, rivers of snot, the whole deal. And then he runs away from the offending sight. Although, if you saw the girl you had a crush on and just went on a date with kissing your brother, you’d probably be pretty distraught too.
  • Littlest Pet Shop (2012): Let's just say whenever Penny Ling cries, she loses all her cuteness and leave it at that.
  • The Loud House: Lori Loud and her boyfriend Bobby Santiago. In "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos", they both weep uncontrollably in each other's arms at the prospect of Bobby being away for the weekend, to the point where Lori's brother Lincoln and Bobby's sister Ronnie Anne have to drag them apart. In Lori's case, this trope overlaps with Your Makeup Is Running.
    • This seems to run in the Loud family, as Lori's dad, Lynn Sr., is also shown crying this way in episodes like "Garage Banned," "Breaking Dad," or "Can't Hardly Wait", and it's implied that she got her penchant for this from him. "Camped!" implies that he got it from his dad Leonard.
    • The spin-off The Casagrandes shows Bobby reduced to hysterical weeping in episodes like "Stress Test" and "Operation Dad". Much like Lori, inelegant blubbering seems to run in the Santiago family, since his dad Arturo also breaks down sobbing in "Teacher's Fret" after his soccer team loses the big game.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Done by Rarity (entirely on purpose to irritate her captors) in "A Dog And Pony Show" when one of the Diamond Dogs call her a "mule".
    • In "Baby Cakes", this is how Pinkie Pie, who was so eager to babysit month-old foals and prove she has what it takes, ultimately reacts when she realizes just how in over her mane she is.
    • Fluttershy is reduced to blatant tears, running away in embarrassment when her wingpower is measured far lower than everypony else's in "Hurricane Fluttershy". Then there's the scene where the animals are comforting her. She looks up, her eyes are red and her face is covered with grass.
    • Rainbow Dash gets like this in "Tanks for the Memories", right after Fluttershy says to her that she can't spend her first winter with Tank, her crying over her not letting Tank to hibernate ends up causing Fluttershy, Pinkie Pienote  and Rarity to end up crying too.
    • In stark contrast to his earlier tears shed at Twilight Sparkle's coronation, Shining Armour ends up bawling like this, at Matilda and Cranky-Doodle's wedding in "Slice Of Life".
  • Played for Laughs in Phineas and Ferb episode "The Baljeatles", where Baljeet lets out an ear-piercing "Fail Wail" that annoys the brothers and Candace to no end.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
    • Bubbles does this in "All Chalked Up". No red, puffy eyes, but it is quite loud.
    • Professor Utonium sobs loudly and messily in "Reeking Havoc" during a flashback when he lost the chili-cooking contest.
    • Buttercup in "Cover Up" when her blanket is lost and ends up sounding just like Tommy Pickles (who shares her voice actress) when she does so.
    • The entire town in "City Of Frownsville" after Lou Gubrious unleashes a ray that makes anyone who is hit by it do this.
    • Bubbles in "Little Miss Interprets", when she mistakenly assumes the Professor wants to abandon her and her sisters. She wails so much that most of what she says is unintelligible.
    • Big Billy does this in "Slave The Day" after receiving a "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Blossom, and in "Aspirations" after finding out that Sedusa never cared about him or the rest of the Gangreen Gang.
    • Bunny in "Twisted Sister" blubbers loudly and indecipherably when being told she isn't cut out to be a Powerpuff Girl.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (2016):
    • Bubbles does this in "Bubbles of the Opera" after she gets a bad school photo, complete with a wrinkly face.
    • Bubbles bawls inelegantly again in "Odd Bubbles Out" after her argument with Donny that apparently went on for two hours straight, with red, puffy, bloodshot eyes and all.
    • The Professor wailed loudly after Sapna Nehru dumped him in the episode "Arachno-Romance".
    • Some bullfighters bawled and sobbed in "The Stayover" after the bull ran away.
    • Eddie in "In The Garden Of Good And Eddie" after Bubbles yelled at her.
  • The Proud Family has LaCieniga Boulevardez, who cries like this in "Love Thy Neighbor" when she starts feeling insecure over her enormous feet, and in "Culture Shock" when she learns that she's switching families with the Gross sisters.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show has Stimpy, whose blubbering is as inelegant as they come.note  First there's the Army episode during the tear gas training scene, but even that doesn't compare to the episode where he loses his "son"...
  • South Park:
  • Space Goofs: Candy dissolves into half a minute of this in "The Thing from Beyond" when the aliens get lost in the woods.
    • Bud does this in “The Flyling” three times: First when Etno calls him out for cheating in a game of chess, second when he and the fly Cry Laughing, and third when the fly decides to leave the house.
    • Gorgious does this in “Holiday Heave Ho” when Etno’s mouse trap decapitates his teddy bear. Directly Played Straight in the 2nd Italian dub, where Gorgious is simply reduced to just sobbing.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
    • Mr. Krabs does it in the episode "Clams" after a clam ate his dollar, to the point where his eyes become literal faucets.
    • Patrick in "Nature Pants" while SpongeBob is giving his stuff away and leaving. He is on the verge of losing his best friend after all.
  • Star vs. the Forces of Evil: There was a good amount of this trope at the beginning of "The Bounce Lounge". When they got the news that the Bounce Lounge is closing, Star and Pony Head cry Ocular Gushers of tears and rainbows, respectively. Star even left some snot on Marco’s sweater when she was crying on it.
  • Stickin' Around: Russell does this when mourning over the death of "Castina" (really Stacy's cast in a costume) in "Wimbled' Uh", which annoys Lance. He does it again in "Goodbye, Adios, Sayonara Bradley" when he thinks Bradley is going to leave Latchkey Garden Apartments.
  • In the VeggieTales video, "Silly Sing Along 2: The End of Silliness?". Larry bursts into this after he told Jimmy Gourd that Archibald Asparagus has canceled "Silly Songs with Larry" until further notice.
  • Work It Out Wombats!: In "Zoom In Zadie," Mr. E cries hysterically when he is unable to paint a square.

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