History LampshadeHanging / WesternAnimation

*** This becomes HilariousInHindsight now that [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8783011/Speed-of-light-broken-at-CERN-scientists-claim.html particles that have gone faster than the speed of light have been found.]]

'''Salty:''' To keep your mouth shut! And because the longer we stay here, the more people are gonna question how a fisherman, with no engineering background, managed to build a sophisticated talking fish-robot.

'''Stewie:''' Brian, I'm 1!\\
'''Brian:''' Still?\\

** In a Season 6 episode, Stewie brought up this point upon meeting Brian's son, "How can you have a thirteen year old son when you yourself are only seven?" Brian immediately lampshades it with, "Well Stewie, if you don't like it, go on the internet and complain."

** When Moe got plastic surgery and became a soap opera star, his face was crushed by a falling back drop and reverted [[StatusQuoIsGod back to its original form]]. Moe began asking why that happened, stated it didn't make any sense, and the episode immediately ended.

-->'''Lisa:''' Don't worry, Bart. It seems like every week something odd happens to the Simpsons. My advice is to ride it out, make the occasional smart-alec quip, and by next week we'll be back to where we started from, ready for another wacky adventure.\\

-->'''Sharon:''' I'm unhappy too, we both are, obviously. How much longer can we keep doing this? It's like the same shit just happens over and over and then in a week it just resets until it happens again. Every week it's just the same story and it just keeps getting more and more ridiculous!

-->[[spoiler: Zuko]]: "Did Jet just die?"

'''Archer:''' No, do NOT say the Chekhov gun Cyril! THAT, sir, is a facile argument!\\

* ''Series/TheMightyDucks'' had a scene where after two of the six main characters have been captured by the Villain of the Week and a third has been sucked through the TV into an alternate dimension, one of the remaining characters says, If we keep losing teammates, this show's gonna be called ''The Mighty '''Duck'''''. (Or words to that effect.) Nosedive also tends to cross the line into [[NoFourthWall No Fourth Wall]] territory, as he?s been shown to hear flashback music and have enough {{Genre Savv|y}}iness to recognize a really friggin' ObviousTrap.
* ''[=~SpongeBob SquarePants~=]'' has [=SpongeBob=] annoying Squidward in Squidward's house. Randomly, Patrick just appears in the room. When Squidward asks why Patrick's there, he simple goes, "I'm funny." {{Rule of Funny}}, much?

'''Bullwinkle:''' In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.

** They even lampshade Zuko's status as the series' undisputed EstrogenBrigadeBait when he rips off his shirt in "The Beach", causing a bunch of birds to fly past from out of nowhere and a bunch of girls to start giggling over him.

* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', David Xanatos needs some way to lure the magical Coyote to him. To do this, he puts Goliath, Angela, Elisa, and Bronx in a DeathTrap to make the being intervene to save them. Xanatos and his robot lovingly describe the trap to the heroes and Xanatos cannot resist noting, "It's my first stab at [[SuperVillain clichéd villainy]]; how am I doing?"

'''Brian:''' Besides, aren't you getting a little old for a teddy bear?
'''Stewie:''' Brian, I'm 1!
'''Brian:''' Still?

*** Very subtly {{hand waived}} in a later episode, when it is revealed that Bender's arms are capable of movement completely independent of the rest of his body, and seem to possess some measure of artificial intelligence.

-->Sokka: "I don't know, [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat it was really unclear.]]"

-->[[spoiler: Suki]]: "Did Jet just die?"

*** Originally, the clone character was intended to constantly lampshade the stranger aspects of the show, but the staff decided [[Don'tExplainTheJoke that would be annoying as all hell]] and [[TheScrappy dropped it]].
** Amid numerous [[ShoutOut [=ShoutOuts=]]] to [[{{Homer}} Homer's]] [[OlderThanDirt epics of the Trojan War]] (one of which, presumably, would be the name of the show's patriarch)--in the episode "Lemon of Troy", in which Springfield and Shelbyville kids...and, ultimately, their parents also--feud over a disputed lemon tree, the grown-ups sneak Flanders' motor home into Shelbyville's car-impound-lot fortress: by appearing to leave their vehicle abandoned in a hospital zone. As the tow truck [[TrojanHorse drags them toward the forbidden destination]], Homer Simpson exults, "No one in history has '''ever''' done anything this clever!"

*** Originally, the clone character was intended to constantly lampshade the stranger aspects of the show, but the staff decided [[TheScrappy that would be annoying as all hell]] and dropped it.

-->"Did Jet just die?" "I don't know, [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat it was really unclear.]]"

* ''DannyPhantom'' has done this at least twice, once hanging the lampshade at how things were getting predictable ("... we learn some [moral]... or some nonsense and then we go home..") and more brilliantly Dark Danny pointing out how obvious his PaperThinDisguise was. Also in the same one where Clockwork points out Dark Danny (in disguise as his younger, non-evil self) and says something like "See? He's back to his proper time and ''apparently'' not evil." David Carradine, you rock.

* ''DuckTales'' did this all the time, even in the FiveEpisodePilot. For example, Scrooge jumps into a pile of coins and starts swimming through it like usual, and his nephews try to do the same but just land on top of the pile, then wonder how he does it.

* Several episodes of ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' revolved around adding a new mutant to the cast (such as the Frogs), and the main characters, who were notorious for breaking the FourthWall, would comment on the seemingly unending stream of mutated characters they seemed to run into.

** In the movie ''TurtlesForever'', there jokes that poke fun at BreakingTheFourthWall. For three times the 87 cartoon Raphael breaks the 4th wall, a villain from the 03 series, Hun, looks at the screen with a look that says "WTF" on his face. The 3rd time he gets mad and grabs Raphael and shouts "Why do you keep doing that? Who are you talking to? There's no one there!" Similarly, as an in-joke as to how the original Mirage turtles narrated certain story arcs, the 87 and 03 turtles actually hear the Mirage Leonardo narrating a fight and ask who he's talking to.
* Quite popular in ''{{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}'', usually accompanied by "this raises a lot of questions that ''we don't need to talk about''," and [[MST3KMantra "It's best not to think about it."]]

* In a certain ''LooneyTunes'' short, Bugs Bunny, while falling towards water after being blasted into the sky by a [[NonFatalExplosions non-fatal explosion]], says "I hope that's SoftWater down there".

* ''VentureBros'' frequently points out the fact that henchmen #21 and #24 never die. For example; in the episode "Lepidopterists", #21 and #24 point out to Henchman #1 that they would never die, unlike the other henchmen. Also, in the same episode, Dr. Girlfriend asked Monarch why he keeps using 21 and 24, he replied "I know it sounds crazy, but they both have that rare blend of 'expendable' and 'invulnerable' that makes for a perfect henchman."

* ''{{Buzz Lightyear of Star Command}}'' does this on occasion.

* In ''{{Gargoyles}}'', David Xanatos needs some way to lure the magical Coyote to him. To do this, he puts Goliath, Angela, Elisa and Bronx in a DeathTrap to make the being intervene to save them. Xanatos and his robot lovingly describe the trap to the heroes and Xanatos cannot resist noting, "It's my first stab at [[SuperVillain clichéd villainy]]; how am I doing?"

* ''{{Phineas and Ferb}}'' has a {{running gag}} based around this:

* ''[=~Avatar: The Last Airbender~=]'':

* ''Series/TheMightyDucks'' had a scene where after two of the six main characters have been captured by the Villain of the Week and a third has been sucked through the TV into an alternate dimension, one of the remaining characters says, If we keep losing teammates, this show's gonna be called ''The Mighty '''Duck'''''. (Or words to that effect.) Nosedive also tends to cross the line into [[NoFourthWall No Fourth Wall]] territory, as he?s been shown to hear flashback music and have enough [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] to recognize a really friggin' [[ObviousTrap obvious trap]].

'''Patrick:''' Hey, if we're underwater, how can there be a -- ''(fire promptly goes out)'' I'm cold.

* ''{{Dave the Barbarian}}'' features this frequently. An example:

-->'''Ron: ''(is being pecked)'' AHHH! THIS IS JUST SO RANDOM!!!

** Another Lampshade from the same movie, Kim shows up to stop the villains and...

--> '''Drakken''': [[CrowningMomentOfFunny I don't know]].


** Shego: "If [[DrowningPit the pit]] is bottomless, than how do you fill it with water?"

* Once on ''{{Beavis and Butthead}}'', Beavis asked Butthead to change the channel on a video they particularly disliked. Butthead responded "Why bother? All we seem to get on this TV is bad videos."
* In an episode of ''DarkwingDuck'' titled "[[TwinPeaks Twin Beaks]]", alien plants are creating clone duplicates of everyone, exactly as in ''{{Invasion of the Body Snatchers}}'', only [[AffectionateParody sillier]].

* ''[[LiloAndStitchTheSeries Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'', episode "Poxy": Jumba brings the heavily modified dune buggy into his and Pleakley's room to prepare for Lilo and Stitch's journey inside of Pleakley to retrieve the experiment making him sick. While Jumba is explaining the plan, Lilo asks, "Hey, how'd you get the buggy in here?" Jumba responds, "Oh, simple... um, is not important."

* ''{{The Fairly OddParents}}'' occasionally uses this trope. In one particular episode, Cosmo and Wanda (while in goldfish form, inside their bowl) are preparing for a romantic dinner, and Cosmo attempts to light the candles on the dinner table by rubbing two magic wands together. Timmy walks into the room and asks the couple, "What's new?" just as Cosmo succeeds in lighting the candle. Wanda glances at the flame skeptically, then answers, "Um, the laws of physics?"

** Double points given, in that ''Mission Hill'' was greenlit because the WB (later the CW) wanted their own animated show like many other channels at the time (''SouthPark'' / ComedyCentral, ''TheSimpsons'' / {{Fox}}), but ignored what their demographic was.

* In an episode of ''JusticeLeague'', WonderWoman blocks a lightning bolt from Weather Wizard with her reflective (''metal'') wristbands. The Flash is quick to point out: "There are ''so'' many reasons why that shouldn't have worked."

* Tom and Jerry the movie, believe it or not, Lampshaded ''SuddenlyVoiced'' by '''''TOM AND JERRY!'''''
-->Tom:I'm Tom.
-->Jerry:I'm Jerry.

-->Both:YOU TALKED!

* This happens many times in ''FamilyGuy'', one example being in the episode "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air". Peter points out that his doctor's voice sounds an awful lot like his father-in-law's (the two characters share a voice actor). Mr. Pewterschmidt then enters the room from nowhere and proceeds to talk to Dr. Hartman, commenting on how they do have very similar voices, and how no one has ever noticed since they have not had any previous extended interaction.

* ''KimPossible'' constantly lampshades itself during most of its run. For example:

** Kim gets her own in "A Sitch in Time" when she corners the villains, but they boast they have a advantage against her, being she's outnumbered (as Drakken sneaks up from behind her).
-->'''Kim:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh what? Like]] [[DeadpanSnarker I'm supposed to be surprised]] that Drakken is right behind me?\\
'''Drakken:''' How does she always do that??

* Tom and Jerry the movie, believe it or not, Lampshaded ''SuddendlyVoiced'' by '''''TOM AND JERRY!'''''

* ''{{Spider-Man The Animated Series}}'':
-->'''Spider-Man:''' [[TheCloneSaga This]] [[DiscontinuityNod is]] [[TakeThat starting to sound like a bad comic book plot!]]

** In "Go, Stewie, Go", Stewie reveals he was pretending to be female through transvestitism (to get a female only part) during a live scene of Jolly Farm.

** From "Spies Reminescent of Us":

* Peter is watching the news and a story comes on that gives him an idea to solve the problem-of-the-week. Then the news presenter says: "Coming up in the next half-hour: our in-depth look at conveniently placed news reports in television shows. But first, Peter - watch out for that skateboard." Peter then stands up and slips on a skateboard that had no reason to be there and wasn't there earlier.

** Bart becomes a "Junior Camper" (a Boy Scout): Lisa, Bart and Homer are watching an episode of Itchy and Scratchy, Bart notes that the scene was unrealistic. Lisa defends the cartoon, reminding Bart that cartoons don't need to be 100% accurate all the time. Though Homer is watching with them in the living room, as Lisa speaks, an intentionally mis-edited Homer is seen clearly walking outdoors past the window. This is an acknowledgement of the many inconsistencies that crop up throughout the show's history, and how the authors don't intend to make the show consistent.

** In the movie ''Turtles Forever'', there jokes that poke fun at BreakingTheFourthWall. For three times the 87 cartoon Rapheal breaks the 4th wall, a villain from the 03 series, Hun, looks at the screen with a look that says "WTF" on his face. The 3rd time he gets mad and grabs Rapheal and shouts "Why do you keep doing that? Who are you talking to? There's no one there!" Similarly, as an in-joke as to how the original Mirage turtles narrated certain story arcs, the 87 and 03 turtles actually hear the Mirage Leonardo narrating a fight and ask who he's talking to.

** In the episode "Why I Must Be a Cruscatean In Love", Leela and Amy harp on Fry and Bender for being lazy, Leela making a point of Fry's beer belly. Amy points out that Bender's "belly" is bloated and his door won't close. She pauses, then adds, "...and that doesn't even make sense."

* ''Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series'' had a scene where after two of the six main characters have been captured by the Villain of the Week and a third has been sucked through the TV into an alternate dimension, one of the remaining characters says, ?If we keep losing teammates, this show's gonna be called ''The Mighty '''Duck'''.? (Or words to that effect.) Nosedive also tends to cross the line into [[NoFourthWall No Fourth Wall]] territory, as he?s been shown to hear flashback music and have enough [[GenreSavvy Genre Savviness]] to recognize a really friggin' [[ObviousTrap obvious trap]].
* ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' has [=SpongeBob=] annoying Squidward in Squidward's house. Randomly, Patrick just appears in the room. When Squidward asks why Patrick's there, he simple goes, "I'm funny." {{Rule of Funny}}, much?

** Ron commenting on how every girl he seems to get close to for the most part happen to be [[ActionGirl Action Girls]].

** Kim gets her own in "A Sitch in Time" when she corners the villians, but they boast they have a advantage against her, being she's outnumbered (as Drakken sneaks up from behind her).

** Not to mention the episode in which Kim's [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor from a hundred years ago, Miriam "Mim" Possible]], stopped Shego's [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor "Ms. Go"]] from stealing a device created by [[IdenticalGrandson Dr. Dementor's ancestor]], but a photo taken by [[IdenticalGrandson Wade's ancestor, who was ten at the time]], made it look like Mim had stolen it, so she was arrested by [[IdenticalGrandson Barkin's ancestor, Constable Barkin]], while [[IdenticalGrandson Ron's ancestor ate one of the first nachos]] or something like that. Also, [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect Wade figured out]] that the device which Ms. Go tried to steal was due to blow up exactly fifteen minutes from when they finished uncovering all of the backstory. Ron's [[BeyondTheImpossible every other LINE]] was a lampshade. [[spoiler:Of course, it was AllADream.]]

* In an episode of ''{{Superman}}: The Animated Series'' three members of The Legion of Super Heroes follow Brainiac back a thousand years in time to stop him killing a teenaged Clark. Saturn Girl says Clark will need a disguise, to which Clark says "like a pair of glasses would fool anyone". Chameleon Boy a few moments later shapeshifts into Superman to illustrate what they were saying Clark was going to become, to which Clark says "Red underpants? Now I know you are crazy!"

* ''KaBlam!'' does this a lot with their stars, Henry and June. From explaining the "anvil accordion squash", "the bongo run", "cartoons not feeling pain (except Henry)", and so many others that we lost count.

* JohnnyTest loves hanging lampshades in regards to stories and their own recurring plotlines. In [[WackyRacers Johnny Boat Racers]] after being joined in racing a rowing crew by Mr. Black, Mr. White, his sisters, and Bling Bling Boy, Johnny lampshades the fact that they get joined by at least two more, one of them a talking cat. Moments later Mr. Mittens and [[spoiler: Steve McCool]]. Also, Bling Bling Boy lampshades the fact that he'll never get Susan to kiss him by winning the race, but likes being a part of them anyways because they're always fun.
* In an episode of ''TheSpectacularSpiderman'', Black Cat tries to convince Spidey to join her in criminal pursuits, and when he's in his Black Costume at their next meeting, she immediately assumes that he's agreed to her proposal and made an EvilCostumeSwitch.

** The [[WillTheyOrWontThey will-they-or-won't-they]] relationship between Kim and Ron is lampshaded by commenting on a similar couple in the ShowWithinAShow ''[[AllMyCircuits Agony County]]'' before the [[UnCancelled original]] GrandFinale.