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Overly Long Tongues in Western Animation.


  • Adventure Time:
    • Marceline has this in a few of her spontaneous monster transformations.
    • Lemongrab is shown to have one in the cut scene where he's licking a rice cake. Finn and Princess Bubblegum are visibly puzzled, and a bit disturbed.
  • Animaniacs:
    • The first of Minerva Mink's many takes when she sees a male mink she's attracted to has her tongue making a huge pile on the ground.
    • Dot Warner also extends her tongue to great lengths to try to get a pastry, even when it's wrapped around her.
  • Justified in The Ant and the Aardvark. Since it's a funny cartoon, you can guess the long tongue of the anteater attracts Amusing Injuries by the ton.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: In "Deputy Droopy", a hapless safe robber gets glued to the floor, then has a stick of TNT shoved in his gob. He stretches his tongue out two miles to allow it to explode without waking the sleeping sheriff.
  • This is the defining characteristic of Tung (a frog-person from Swap Star 46) in Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy seem to have them, all the better for eating the oversized jawbreakers they're so fond of. Also count as Multipurpose Tongue, as they are strong enough that Eddy is able to balance on his.
  • Family Guy:
    • Gene Simmons again, in a brief gag—his tongue goes off screen, followed by Lois (also from off-screen): "Oh, hello, Gene..."
    • In an earlier episode, the normal-looking girl at the flag girl tryouts has her long tongue flop out when she tries to respond to Meg.
  • Mystique Sonia from Hero: 108 has a lengthy tongue, allowing her to use it in unorthodox ways.
  • Jackie Chan Adventures: This is one of the major characteristics of Tso Lan the Moon Demon, one of the members of the Big Bad Duumvirate in the second season.
  • Bubbie in The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, whose tongue is whatever length is required for the gag.
  • Mr. Bogus has one, in regards of when food is involved.
  • Speaking of Gene Simmons, long-tongued, rock god Rock Zilla from My Dad the Rock Star was not only an Expy of Gene, the show was created by Gene Simmons.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • Pinkie Pie extends her tongue longer than her body to slurp up a cake near the beginning of "Swarm of the Century".
    • Spike's also got a pretty long one, which he combines with rapid spinning to clean frosting off of his body in "Lesson Zero".
    • Mr. Tortoise-Snap is a giant tortoise whose prehensile tongue is far longer than his head and neck put together.
  • Mixels, the Lixers Tribe are known to have very long tounges, and enjoy licking stuff.
  • Ned's Newt: Newton seems to have one, mostly when he's just a small newt who has not consumed Zippo yet. This has been shown in "The Lucky Penny" and "Lummox of the Baskervilles", respectively.
  • The Penguins of Madagascar:
    • In "Mental hen" Kowalski does "beak drop" with tongue dropped to ground, off the screen and rolled away, till it hits his head from back, when hen surprised him with her clairvoyance skills. He uses his tongue as a weapon to keep dr. Blowhole from balance on his "scooter"
    • Chameleons has tongues overly long even for chameleons, in one episode King Julien pulls one chameleon's tongue across the zoo.
  • The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Gene Simmons, in full KISS regalia, extends his tongue to try and duplicate Buttercup's tongue rolling act in the episode "Nuthin' Special".
  • The Ready Jet Go! episode “Sunspot’s Sunspot" shows that Sunspot's tongue is very long.
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show: Stimpy sports one of these during the episode "The Cat That Laid the Golden Hairball" while trying to lick up hair to "hwarf".
  • Samurai Jack has Raptor from the episode "Dome of Doom", as one of seven warriors Jack fights during the finals of a Blood Sport. Raptor's main weapon is his long, prehensile tongue which he uses to pick up weapons and attack with. Unfortunately, it ends up biting him in the ass when Jack forces him to eject his tongue to take down two of the other fighters, then cuts it in half. Raptor wisely decides that retreat is the better part of valor and is the only fighter who survives the episode.
  • The Secret Saturdays: Drew Monday, Drew Saturday's Mirror Universe Evil Twin, has a prehensile tongue.
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Treehouse of Horror V", Homer messes around with the time space continuum and changes evolution drastically, and finally comes back home thinking everything is normal... only to see everyone eating by using their long frog-like tongues. He shrugs and decides that it's close enough.
    • In "Treehouse of Horror VI", Groundskeeper Willie uses his tongue in Martin's dream to asphyxiate him, killing him in the real world.
    • Mr. Burns is shown to have a long snake-like tongue. So has Homer — he once darts a lengthy tongue out to lick a stray gob of ice cream off Marge's cheek. A similar joke is also made in The Simpsons Movie.
    • Scratchy in The Itchy & Scratchy Show has a tongue so long that it can be shot via rocket to the moon without him even noticing it.
  • Lord Stingray in Superjail!. Possibly justified if he isn't human.
  • In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), Dark Mikey, Michelangelo's evil clone from the Fast Forward arc, has a tongue so long that it spends more time out of his mouth than in.
  • Teen Titans (2003):
    • Starfire has this as part of her Bizarre Alien Biology.
    • A talking alien dog had this in another episode, as shown when he licked Raven's face.
  • In The Venture Brothers Christmas episode, The Krampus crashes Rusty's party. He starts licking Triana, to her horror.
  • Becomes a real problem for the Wild Kratts when their Power Suits' chameleon disks at first cause their extra-long sticky tongues to extend every time the brothers open their mouths. The episode on termite-mound predators is also called "Termites Vs Tongues" thanks to this trope.

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