History RefugeInAudacity / WesternAnimation

** The FBI is fond of this trope when spying on the citizens of Springfield, adorning their surveillance vans with graphics that say things like "'''F'''lowers '''B'''y '''I'''rene", "Two Guys from Quantico Pizza",[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke The FBI headquarters are located in Quantico, VA]], just outside of Washington D.C.[[/note]], or simply "ORDINARY VAN".

* Infamously in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "22 Short Films About Springfield", when Superintendent Chalmers notices a fire raging in Skinner's kitchen, the latter claims it's actually the Aurora Borealis. Despite some initial disbelief ("At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized ''entirely'' within your kitchen?!"), Skinner is so sure of himself that Chalmers ''completely buys it'', even asking to see it.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Dances With Smurfs", Cartman accuses Wendy of slaughtering a Smurf village for Smurfberries to power the school. Her response? [[spoiler:She goes along with the story, and quits her position as student council president, so Cartman can be put there and the Casey Kasem-sounding kid can get his job as morning announcer. She even set Cartman up to look like he was an undercover spy that worked for her to infiltrate the smurf village.]] And got it made into the movie ''{{Film/Avatar}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' managed to get themselves kicked off of Saturday Morning by having such things as terrorist attacks, electrocution, torture, and culminated in an incredibly violent season finale (with a MurderSuicide to boot). Amazingly, the censors did not stop the creators from showing a full-scale battle with lots of people dying.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "The Main Man", Lois confronts Clark about his enormous success in getting stories. Clark straight up confesses to Lois about his identity as Superman and how he uses it to get leads. Lois scoffs at him and walks away.

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** "Kyle's Mom is a Bitch" is this combined with OverlyLongGag. However, the main gag is the fact that he starts ''really'' going into the insults when [[RightBehindMe Kyle's mom is standing right behind him.]] It's the ''jazz hands'' at the end while Kyle's mom is standing right behind him that really sell the final punch.

-->'''Lois''': You're a sick man, Kent.
--> '''Clark''': You asked.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Diane, whose job-of-the-moment is maintaining celebrity Twitter accounts, accidentally tweets that pop star Sextina Aquafina is getting an abortion when she herself is the one doing so. As Sextina is very much ThePrimaDonna, Diane at first thinks she'll be in hot water until Sextina, believing that there is NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, sees it as an opportunity to assert herself as a pro-choice activist. She does so by releasing a [[CrossesTheLineTwice gleefully violent song and music video]] called "Get Dat Fetus Kill Dat Fetus" where she brandishes a machine gun, and following a televised interview [[UpToEleven stages her own abortion to be broadcast on live television]] despite not actually being pregnant. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Sextina discovers she is actually pregnant but wants to keep the baby, so Diane and Princess Carolyn decide to have her PutOnABus with the eventual goal of pretending she adopted her biological child.]]

** Don Karnage's entire modus operandi relies on this, where he and his crew put on a pre-choreographed musical number that spells out how he's robbing people. This leaves his victims so confused that they don't so much as say a word of protest until after he's already left with their cargo.

-->'''Chalmers''': May I see it?
--> '''Skinner''': ...No.

** "Kyle's Mom is a bitch" is this combined with OverlyLongGag. However, the main gag is the fact that he starts ''really'' going into the insults when [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Kyle's mom is standing right behind him.]]
*** It's the ''jazz hands'' at the end while Kyle's mom is standing right behind him that really sell the final punch.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoon|s}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjiEHDCG47U Chew Chew Baby]], about [[BlackComedy a cannibal in the big city]], runs entirely on this and a decidedly boorish [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist primary viewpoint character]].

* This is part of the reason the titular boys in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' are able to get away with most of their [[OnceAnEpisode once-an-episode]] schemes. Any attempt by Candance to bust her brothers is futile because besides the laws of universe working against her to remove any physical evidence, nobody will believe that two kids to be capable of the boys' endeavors.

* Almost OnceAnEpisode, a human tells ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' that they don't look like whatever they're supposed to be disguised as. Brain invariably responds by saying that they're megalomaniacal escaped lab mice, which leads to the questioner to either laughing it off or brushing them off as weirdos. In either case the questioner lets them go without another word.

-->"You're all stupid. They're going to be looking for army guys."

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Scrooge is FakingTheDead to draw out his ArchEnemy, Flintheart Glomgold. When Glomgold shows up for the funeral for his LastDisrespects, it's in a gaudy sparkling suit, complete with dollar-sign sunglasses. Glomgold even twerks in front of Scrooge's coffin. All while set to "All I Do Is Win" by Music/DJKhaled. The other guests are furious, but are also so shocked by Glomgold's audacity that no one does anything but scowl.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E3ChildrenOfTheForce "Children of the Force"]], BountyHunter Cad Bane kidnaps a Rodian Force-sensitive infant from his mother by disguising himself as a Jedi and claiming he has to take the child from her because ''impostors posing as Jedi'' have been kidnapping other children.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Scrooge is FakingTheDead to draw out his ArchEnemy, Flintheart Glomgold. When Glomgold shows up for the funeral for his LastDisrespects, it's in a gaudy sparkling suit, complete with dollar-sign sunglasses. Glomgold evern twerks in front of Scrooge's coffin. All while set to "All I Do Is Win" by Music/DJKhaled. The other guests are furious, but are also so shocked by Glomgold's audacity that no one does anything but scowl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'', Scrooge is FakingTheDead to draw out his ArchEnemy, Flintheart Glomgold. When Glomgold shows up for the funeral for his LastDisrespects, it's in a gaudy sparkling suit, complete with dollar-sign sunglasses. Glomgold evern twerks in front of Scrooge's coffin. All while set to "All I Do Is Win" by Music/DJKhaled. The other guests are furious, but are also so shocked by Glomgold's audacity that no one does anything but scowl.