History LampshadeHanging / WesternAnimation

** Franchise/WonderWoman blocks a lightning bolt from Weather Wizard with her reflective (''metal'') wristbands. TheFlash is quick to point out: "There are ''so'' many reasons why that shouldn't have worked."

** In the movie ''TurtlesForever'', jokes 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.

--> '''TomCruise:''' "By taking what Muhammad had, we would all be safe from ridicule. Like Creator/TimBurton here. Imagine this, Tim: nobody could rip on you for all the rehashed movies you've made lately. There'd never be a TV show that pointed out you haven't had an original thought since Film/{{Beetlejuice}}. And you put Creator/JohnnyDepp and the same crappy music in every film. And if you're that in love with Johnny Depp you should just have sex with him already. A TV show could never say that!"

** "Lemon of Troy" piles on the [[ShoutOut [=ShoutOuts=]]] to {{Homer}}'s epics of the Trojan War: the name of the show's patriarch being an obvious, but not prominent example. Springfield's and Shelbyville's kids--ultimately, joined by their parents--feud over a disputed lemon tree. The grown-ups sneak Flanders' motor home into Shelbyville's cat-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!"

* A lot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}''''s humour comes from this trope. Given that this was the same studio as ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', which ''also'' had a ton of this humour as well.

** Rex then gives a [[HandWave]], thinking it's the one they use before?

--> '''TomCruise:''' "By taking what Muhammad had, we would all be safe from ridicule. Like Creator/TimBurton here. Imagine this, Tim: nobody could rip on you for all the rehashed movies you've made lately. There'd never be a TV show that pointed out you haven't had an original thought since Film/{{Beetlejuice}}. And you put JohnnyDepp and the same crappy music in every film. And if you're that in love with Johnny Depp you should just have sex with him already. A TV show could never say that!"

'''Joss:''' Ron here is afraid of practically everything, but does he let his fears keep him from sidekickin'? Let's face it, Kim. [[GirlsNeedRoleModels You can do anything]]. So facing all those dangers and villains, well, [[BrokenAesop it's just like you say. No big. A fella filled with that much fear always chargin' into action with you? Seems to me that's a true hero]].

** Team Impossible questioned about Ron's lack of {{Badass}} [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum Mystical Monkey Power]]:

-->'''Sokka:''' "Ya know, [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat it was really unclear.]]"

** The Simpsons even manage to lampshade themselves ''on other shows''. For example: on Creator/DavidLetterman's last show, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5tUhLpqxM&t=5m35s this clip]] about both shows' longevity:

--> '''Stan:''' Aah, my head! Why am I out here at night?
** From The Legend of the Gobblewonker:
--> '''Dipper:''' Okay, what's the problem with most monster hunts?
-->'''Soos:''' You're a side character and you die in the first five minutes of the movie! Oh wow, am I a side character? Do you ever think about stuff like that?

* In the DuckDodgers GreenLantern episode, while Dodgers expresses his delight that the ring gives him the power of flight, a bunch of regular black ducks fly behind him.

* In the introduction of ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown'', Charlie Brown is recounting the follow up to events from ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown'' where the kids and Snoopy go to France as exchange students. When Sally asks, ''And your dog? How did he get to go along?'' Charlie Brown replies, ''Who knows, who knows how he does anything he does?'' Snoopy's Walter Mitty complex is well-established, but most of the time it's taken to be his active and fanciful imagination. However, in ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'', Snoopy's very human activities including driving a car and interacting with adults (when renting said car), which make those activities far less imaginary in the context of the story. No justification or explanation is given for Snoopy's imagination bleeding into reality, which does happen occasionally but rarely in a way noticeable by adults in the world, much less visible adults on screen. Charlie just brushes it aside.

* In the introduction of ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown'', Charlie Brown is recounting the follow up to events from ''Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown'' where the kids and Snoopy go to France as exchange students. When Sally asks, "And your dog? How did he get to go along?'' Charlie Brown replies, ''Who knows, who knows how he does anything he does?'' Snoopy's Walter Mitty complex is well-established, but most of the time it's taken to be his active and fanciful imagination. However, in ''What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?'', Snoopy's very human activities including driving a car and interacting with adults (when renting said car), which make those activities far less imaginary in the context of the story. No justification or explanation is given for Snoopy's imagination bleeding into reality, which does happen occasionally but rarely in a way noticeable by adults in the world, much less visible adults on screen. Charlie just brushes it aside.

* In the MusicalEpisode of ''RockosModernLife'', Rocko wonders how everyone knows the CrowdSong. Heffer explains rehearsals were every Thursday.

* In Season 2, Episode 8 of WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels, Kanan and Rex are sent to infiltrate an Imperial starship and rescue other rebels. As Kanan asks how they're supposed to get in, an Imperial shuttle lowers in the background. Kanan deadpans, "How is it the Empire lets us keep stealing these things?"

* ''TheClevelandShow''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spider-Man The Animated Series}}'', from their take on ComicBook/TheCloneSaga:

* ''JusticeLeague'' uses this trope all the time.

** The Simpsons even manages to do lampshade themselves on other shows. For example: on Creator/DavidLetterman's last show, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5tUhLpqxM&t=5m35s this clip]] about both shows' longevity:

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

** In the episode "It's About Time," While consulting Madame Pinkie in her tent, Twilight has [[FlowerPotDrop a flower pot fall on her head]]. Pinkie immediately lampshades this by asking "Where did that come from?"