Shared Family Quirks in Western Animation.
- In All Grown Up!, Dil is a complete eccentric, as is his father Stu.
- In Archer, both Archer and his daughter, Abbiejean, have a tendency to put up a finger if someone tries to talk to them while they're drinking something. This is actually how Archer realized Abbiejean was his child, as she first does this as a baby.
- BB3B: One episode features the twins’ Uncle Rich visiting. Their father proceeds to tell them that when he was a kid, he believed Rich was a mind-controlling alien.
- Bob's Burgers:
- Louise tends to treat random inanimate objects as a Companion Cube when she's alone or emotionally distressed, just like her father. She also gets her crazy side from her mother, including her eye twitching when she's about to lose it, something Linda wholeheartedly accepts responsibility for.
- Linda, Gayle, and Louise all share the trait of being very loud and melodramatic.
- In Dinosaur Train, Mr. Pteranodon has a whistle-like screech and calls his kids "Team Pteranodon". The episode where they meet his parents implies he picked up those habits from his mother, because she does those too.
- Dora the Explorer: Dora and her cousin Diego are both explorers and Animal Lovers.
- The DuckTales (2017) episode "Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!" shows that Della shares several character traits with other members of the Duck family:
- Most obviously, Della has the same quick temper as her twin brother Donald (and by extention their parents Hortense and Quackmore). More than once, she sabotaged her own progress by getting angry.
- She doesn't really think her plans through and she was humming her theme song when she tried to jump back to Earth, much like Dewey when he went through the booby-trapped bridge in Atlantis.
- She was a Junior Woodchuck and makes edits to her guidebook just like Huey.
- Much like Louie in the second season opener, she has noticed a pattern to her adventures. She tries to hurry her Fire-Forged Friendship with Penumbra along, just as Louie tried to skip to the "Wait, what?"
- Family Guy:
- Glenn Quagmire's illegitimate children share his "giggity" Verbal Tic.
- Peter's children from his donated sperm all share his facial appearance, his laugh, and fart jokes.
- There's a cut scene in Gravity Falls that shows Stan and Ford adjusting their glasses in the exact same way
◊. - Hazbin Hotel: Lucifer visiting the hotel quickly shows where his daughter Charlie's habit of breaking out into musical numbers comes from.
- Kaeloo:
- Stumpy and Violasse both have the tendency to ignore instructions from authority figures in favor of doing what they want, and neither of them are particularly bright. In addition, they both treat inanimate objects as if they were real people.
- Stumpy and Vitamine are both very hyperactive and have a tendency to bluntly say offensive things because they're true.
- King of the Hill:
- Played with a bit in Joseph Gribble, because he's not actually his father Dale's biological son. When Dale finally realizes this, he comes to the only conclusion: His wife was impregnated by aliens. Of course, this is the same conclusion Joseph comes to, so biological or not, Joseph is still very much Dale's son.
- Hank and his Japanese half-brother Junichiro do share a number of things such as both making an awkward adjusting-glasses-and-neck rub, being assistant managers, fondness of beer, and having a narrow urethra.
- All of Boomhauer's relatives share the same unintelligible motor-mouthed speech mannerisms.
- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Kipo and her father Lio are both huge science geeks that have a tendency to shout out factoids about their environments, both for fun and to relieve stress. When the two of them reunite and quickly start gushing about the bioluminescent insects that are lighting up a service tunnel, Benson and Dave agree that there is absolutely no doubt that Kipo is his daughter.
- Iroh from The Legend of Korra puts his hand on his chin when he's thinking in a similar way to his Grandpa Zuko.
- In Little Princess:
- The Queen and Princess both have a Sweet Tooth.
- The Princess and her Great-Uncle Walter both like to play the same games, which is why she thinks he's so cool.
- The King and his baby nephew are both gassy, though it's unknown if the baby is the King's nephew by blood or by marriage.
- The Princess and her great-aunt both own teddy bears. They even both coincidentally named their teddy bears Gilbert!
- The Loud House:
- The entire Loud family is essentially a family of Large Hams, and even Lucy, who is The Stoic, comes across as a Cold Ham. They're also determined and (especially with Lincoln) strategic, and they all like ice cream, chocolate, and pizza.
- Lucy and Lisa are both stoics.
- Lynn Sr. and Lynn Jr. both play sports (though Lynn Jr. plays a lot more sports). Lynn Sr. also tells jokes (like Luan) and plays music (like Luna, although she's a more competent musician than him).
- Getting emotional runs in the Loud family too, as Lynn Sr. and his father Leonard are both Prone to Tears. Lynn Sr. and Lori are also prone to Inelegant Blubbering.
- Lori, Leni, and Lola are all fashionistas.
- Lori and Lola both have hot tempers.
- Lori, Lynn, Lana, and Lily all fart a lot.
- The twins both like deviled eggs.
- It's implied that the Loud kids' now-dead Great-Grandma Harriet was a goth like Lucy.
- Though he's adopted, Clyde and his dads are all nervy.
- Pop-Pop is active like Lynn Jr. and cheerful like Luan. He also reads Ace Savvy like Lincoln, as revealed in a licensed comic.
- Ronnie Anne and her uncle Carlos both skateboard. She's also a prankster, just like her male cousins CJ, Carl, and Carlitos.
- Like his grandson Bobby, Hector has his ditzy moments.
- Carl takes after his grandfather Hector as he's motivated to earn as much money as possible by any means necessary. Bobby also has a scheming side, as shown in "Bo Bo Business" when he thinks up many plans to help the mercado, though he's not nearly as money-grubbing as Hector and Carl.
- Frida, Carlos, and their four children are all known to cry Ocular Gushers (though Frida does it a lot more than Carlos and the kids).
- Though only related by marriage, Bobby and his aunt Frida both cry a lot, sometimes in the most undignified of ways. It's also implied that Bobby inherited his proneness to Inelegant Blubbering from his father Arturo.
- Speaking of Arturo, he and his daughter Ronnie Anne both play video games and eat hot dogs.
- The Chang sisters, Sid and Adelaide, are both very bubbly and positive. They're also both animal lovers, as is their mother Becca.
- Zach and his parents are all Conspiracy Theorists.
- "Training Day" features a rabbit named Jazzy who chews, pees on, and claws everything in sight. This turns out to be because he was missing his brother Snazzy... who does the exact same things due to missing his brother.
- The movie reveals that Lynn Sr. had an ancestor who shares his "Ding-dang!" catchphrase. Said ancestor also had a daughter who was airheaded like Leni, one who played music like Luna, one who was a jester like Luan is a clown, one who was a brat like Lola, and one who was a genius like Lisa.
- In The Magic School Bus, most of the kids' parents that get speaking roles are shown to use their kids' catchphrases. Arnold's parents share his apprehension about field trips, Phoebe's dad compares Ms. Frizzle's parent-teacher activities to how things were done "at Phoebe's old school", and Carlos' dad is a Phrase Catcher of the First-Name Ultimatum as a result of constant bad puns.
- Martha Speaks: T.D. and his dad are both nerds.
- In Miraculous Ladybug, both Adrien and his father Gabriel have a thing for bad puns—though it's hard to tell in the latter case, since it only comes up as his villainous alter-ego Hawkmoth.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- The Apple family in general seem to all like apples and have a tendency to grow up to be farmers, while the Pear family is the same but with pears. In addition, Granny Smith, Big Mac, and Applejack were all the last in their class to get their cutie marks.
- Pinkie Pie mentions once in a song that her grandmother has a similar sense of humour to her. Pinkie Pie's sisters and parents are also all stoic and interested in geology, and she and her sister Maude both have a strange sixth sense.
- Fluttershy's parents are just as shy as her if not more.
- While Rainbow Dash and her mom Windy have somewhat different personalities (her mom being more energetic and hyper), they share a lot of the same expressions and body language.
- The Owl House:
- Both Eda and her mother Gwendolyn are fond of stashing stuff in their hair. Whilst Eda is a highly street-smart con artist, her mother is mellow but naive and is the magical equivalent of an antivaxxer.
- It's revealed near the end of the series that Amity Blight's face turning red when she gets angry is something that she inherited from her father.Odalia: (to Alador) There you go, making that face.
- Hunter has a habit of saying "Byeee" the same way as Eda, which is one of the clues that Caleb Wittebane (the man he was cloned from) was a direct ancestor of the Clawthorne family.
- A segment of Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales has Linus ranting about Sally calling him "My Sweet Babboo," then noticing that Charlie Brown signed a Christmas card to the Little Red-Haired Girl "Your Sweet Babboo".Charlie Brown: (sheepish) It's a... family expression.
- Ready Jet Go!: Jet, Carrot, and Celery all have a tendency to not keep their identities secret, and to misunderstand certain Earth expressions, sometimes taking them literally.
- The Real Ghostbusters:
- Peter's father is a Con Man, and while Peter himself isn't usually a con man, he has scammed people in the past.
- Egon's uncle Cyrus is a scientist like him, and apparently there have been other scientists in the family tree. Egon also has an ancestor named Zedekiah who had experience with the supernatural (accidentally creating a dragon) while Egon himself is a ghost hunter.)
- Rugrats:
- The twins, Phil and Lil, both like to play in the mud and eat bugs.
- Charles and his son Chuckie are both timid and squeamish.
- Charlotte and her daughter Angelica are both bossy.
- Tommy gets his kindness from his mother Didi and his bold, curious nature from Stu.
- The Simpsons:
- Both Lisa and Bart Simpson have said their father's catchphrase "d'oh" on certain occasions. (The episode "Mother Simpson" implies that Homer himself owes it to his mom, Mona.) Lisa also inherited her mother's disgruntled groan when her dad or brother are doing one of their stupid routines.
- Ned Flanders's cousins all share his speech patterns. His kids are also optimistic like their dad and spiritual like both their parents and there seems to be a family trait of giving one's kids themed names (Ned has a brother named Ted and a sister named Nediana and Ted has two daughters named Bonnie and Connie, whereas Ned's own sons are named Rod and Todd).
- Ralph Wiggum and his dad are both a bit slow.
- Maggie is mainly a normal baby but occasionally shows signs of being a Brainy Baby. Flashbacks reveal that when she was one, Lisa was just the same.
- In Spongebob Squarepants, Patrick and Gary are adopted cousins and they both have big appetites. Patrick's dad is also just as stupid as him, as were a few of his ancestors (and his older sister Sam is even more stupid), and his caveman ancestor had a big appetite too.
- On South Park, both Stan and his mother Sharon pinch their noses when they see something stupid. Which is often, since they're the Only Sane People of the kids and adults, respectively.
- Steven Universe never met his mother Rose, yet both have generally similar personalities, laugh the same way, and get stars in their eyes when excited.
- In the Tangled: The Series episode "The Way of the Willow", Rapunzel meets her maternal aunt Willow for the first time and discovers they have many things in common: they both enjoy painting, going on adventures, and running around barefoot.
- In The Weekenders, Tino and his father share the same Girly Scream and are both very neurotic. Tino also seems to have inherited his mother's snarkiness.Tino's Mum: It's like a cloning experiment gone horribly right.
- In What's with Andy?, Andy and his grandpa are both pranksters. His dad used to be a prankster too but he gave it up.
