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** As awesome as many of the protaganist's victories were, it was even more awesome when one of the shorts' recurring [[Butt Monkey|Butt Monkeys]] finally got a victory over them (granted they were usually villains, but their sheer [[Harmless Villain|harmlessness]] and [[Affably Evil|likable]] qualities made you desire at least one moment of triumph over their smug foes). Elmer Fudd (eg. ''Rabbit Rampage'', ''Hare Brush'') and Daffy Duck, even post-Flanderization (eg. ''Ducking The Devil'', ''Mucho Locos'') perhaps scored the most frequent and most satisfying victories.

*** To elaborate, ''Ducking The Devil'' involves Daffy luring the escaped Tasmanian Devil back to his zoo for a cash reward of "five hundred Gs"; Daffy succeeds, and when Taz snatches up a dropped dollar, Daffy charges into the Devil's cage, [[Curb Stomp Battle|attacks him and WINS]].

*** ''Mucho Locos'' exists as perhaps the only cartoon where a foe actually defeats [[Invincible Hero|Speedy Gonzales]], with Daffy whacking him with a mallet after hearing him tell one to many stories about "El Stupid Duck".

*** ''Rabbit Rampage'' basically involves Elmer beating Bugs at his own game he used on Daffy in ''Duck Amuck'', taking the animator's chair and using his brush to morph Bugs and the cartoon to [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|all manners of innovative torture]].

*** My personal favorite is ''To Duck...or Not to Duck'', with Elmer Fudd facing Daffy in a boxing match with another duck as the referee. Naturally, things are pretty skewed against him, starting from when the referee demonstrates all the illegal moves on him. Except at the end of the fight, Elmer points out that Daffy had done a few of those moves, and demonstrates the whole routine again against Daffy and the referee ''at the same time''.

*** And of course Elmer {{spoiler|seemingly}} killing the wabbit in the most dramatic and atmospheric manner possible in '''What's Opera Doc''', avoiding crossing [[Moral Event Horizon]] by [[My God, What Have I Done?|breaking into remorseful tears straight afterwards]].

** Sylvester gets a Crowning Moment in the Chuck Jones cartoon ''The Fraidy Cat''. Porky Pig and his pet Sylvester find themselves in a haunted house, where the mice terrorize Sylvester by throwing knives, bowling balls and other weapons at him and Porky. Porky, of course, is oblivious to the threat, until, fed up with Sylvester's seeming cowardice, heads into the kitchen to confront the source of Sylvester's fears. The mice end up leading him to the executioner's block, and Porky, tied up under a mass of ropes, can only hold a sign saying, "You were right, Sylvester." Sylvester runs to the hills, only to be confronted by his conscience(a pale blue Sylvester standing next to a reader-board). His conscience points out that Porky raised him from a kitten, and then shows a comparative size chart of Sylvester and a mouse, and finally produces a sign reading, "Now get in there and fight! Fight! FIGHT!!!". This starts Sylvester getting riled up, to the point where he runs up to a tree, rips off a limb with his bare hands and brandishes it like a club--before discarding the limb and [[Beyond the Impossible|uprooting the whole tree]] and charging back to the haunted house to kick mouse butt!

* Although ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' isn't much of a movie, its heroine earns a lot of points with this troper when she grabs a [[Mook]]'s mace and takes a swing at the villain. She earns more when, at the movie's climax, she announces her arrival on the scene by declaring boldly, "I will not serve a false king!" and then knocking the villain clean out of the building by swinging a timber at him.

** ''Scooby-Doo and the Boo Brothers'' have the titular Boo Brothers, having acted as [[Plucky Comic Relief]] beforehand, fight against the ghost of the southern colonel, and for all of their antics, manage to chase him off. That's quite a feat for a trio that previously were merely expies for the [[Three Stooges]].

** Scooby himself gets one in the series ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''. He pretty much single-handedly '''destroys''' an evil robotic counterpart himself using a forklift while spouting [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] in what is essentially a [[Shout-Out]] to both ''[[Alien|Aliens]]'' and the ''[[Terminator]]''.

 

* In the ''[[Birdman]]'' episode bearing his name, Number One definitively cements his position as Birdman's greatest foe. After capturing Birdman, he gets [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and blasts [[Non-Human Sidekick|Avenger]] with a laser before returning to base, heading off (or so he believes at the moment) the one factor that has ruined almost every other villain in the series. The whole episode is arguably the series' Crowning Moment, if such a thing is possible.

* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' in the "Dr. Sinister" episode. Fred and Barney, shanghaied into a terrifying [[James Bond]] like adventure, about to cast into a literally bottomless pit on the orders of the aforementioned [[Big Bad]]. In a desperate move to try to save themselves, Barney gets the idea of hitting the [[Mook]] about to throw them a judo chop. It works perfectly and the action gets wild and wooly as Fred and Barney start taking on a whole army of goons with "a Judo Chop Chop!" before making a break for it in a glorious chase, judo chopping all opposition until they use Sinister's treadmill trap against them for a spectacular knockout blow against the villains.

* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' had a Moment for Gargamel in the opening credits for the syndicated ''Smurfs' Adventures'':

** Actually, I believe that scene was from a special episode from the previous season of the show -- possibly that dealing with the Olympics, which I never saw fully.

*** Just to invoke a touch of [[Fridge Logic]], when Gargy intones this spell--he is * standing* on a mountain.

* ''Rugrats'': It's easy to say that whenever Chuckie Finster and/or his dad, Chaz, lose their usual docile nature, it's a Crowning Moment right there. Chaz's big one comes in the episode ''Family Feud'': when arguments over tastes in movies lead to Tommy's parents getting into a feud with Phil and Lil's, the babies attempt to reconcile them, only for it to get worse when items the babies give them are mistaken as gifts from their normal families. When the babies decide to run away, Chaz is the only one who realizes it and lets the other parents know. When they ''still'' argue, Chaz blows up and delivers a ''[[Reason You Suck Speech]]'' that their petty arguments lead them to forget what matters most: their kids.

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': The ending for ''Rocko's Happy Sack''.

'''Filburt:''' (nervous) That'll be one dollar and fifty cents, please... }}

 

* In ''[[My Little Pony]] And Friends'', one of the serials involves the Ponies staving off the approach of a city from another dimension -- and this was a [[Animation Age Ghetto|completely nonviolent adventure show]] for girls. If stopping an ''extradimensional invasion'' without any violence at all isn't awesome, this troper doesn't know what is.

** By these standards, the Flutter Ponies' defeat of the [[Big Bad]] in the episode "Bright Lights" is truly made of Girl Power Awesome:

''we're impossible to catch!'' }}

* ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' when Linus gives his recitation of the Shepherds' vision of the angels' announcement of Jesus' birth. The scene has a moving power that rivets you to the screen regardless of your beliefs, regardless of the fact it's a [[Talking Heads]] scene.

* Bloo from ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]],'' in the episode "I Only Have Surprise For You", when he arranged a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to humiliate his friend Mac while celebrating his birthday, a move that just made him more of a [[Jerkass]] to some, but, to this troper at least, proved that a character often portrayed as having the IQ of a walnut, actually has some [[Genius Ditz|genius tendencies,]] when he's not being a [[Cloudcuckoolander]].

** The 1st of a [[Three Shorts|Two Shorts Format episode,]] entitled "Where There's A Wilt There's A Way," is mostly just 15 minutes of Wilt missing a basketball game on TV doing favors for people because of his inability to say no, even getting him into ''jail'' and ''escaping'' '''twice.''' So at the end he gets back to Foster's, grabs Bloo a bowl of chips (the favor which, keep in mind, if Bloo hadn't asked in the first place, Wilt could have seen the entire game uninterrupted,) sits down the ''very moment the game ends,'' Bloo pettily complains that he didn't get the right flavor of chips and demands that he go back and get the right kind, and Wilt finally snaps and delivers a '''[[Big No|CLUSTER BIG NO.]]'''

** More Foster's Moments of Awesome - Mac gets one in "My So-Called Wife" just before the climactic jet-car duel. Bloo himself is terrified, and suggests that Mac simply drive them both and the jet-car out of there, but Mac responds with a grim speech about how the whole contest has become about truth, and honour, etc...Bloo comments bewilderedly, "What do you mean?" Mac's response? "I. DON'T. KNOW." And he slams the pedal to the metal...

** "My So-Called Wife" also features Coco's Moment of Awesome. Following the fiery conclusion of the jet-car duel, she and Herriman are plummeting from the heavens to what seems like certain doom. She promptly grabs Herriman, pops open a parachute from nowhere, and saves them both in style.

** And how could anyone forget Frankie's Moment of Awesome in "Frankie My Dear"? Having realised what a loathsome sleazeball her good-looking date really is, she faces him with a face like stone as he desperately tries to convince her otherwise, before concluding, "Hey, Frankie...did I ever tell you how awesome you look in that dress?" Without a word, Frankie balls her hands together, cracks her knuckles...and launches a piledriver straight into the camera lens and punches him out.

* After Korgoth from ''[[Korgoth of Barbaria]]'' effortlessly disposes of a group of [[Mook|mooks]] he is threatened by a [[Giant Mook]]. When the big guy goes on for too long, Korgoth responds by ripping off all the skin on the front of his body, ([[Talk to the Fist|mid-threat, no less]]) then reaches onto the bar, tosses a batch of alcohol into the open wound, then sets the guy on fire. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=rPXHI2h-K-M Scene here].

* The climax of most Super Secret [[Secret Squirrel]] episodes is basically Secret doing something awesome to outsmart the villain, but Secret beating [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgiq3EsmlCM One Ton], a villainous panda who Secret can't harm, since panda's are endangered and harming them is illegal, was the best. Instead of hurting him, Secret just sits on his head, not doing anything, nonchalantly jumping out of the way every time One Ton takes a swing, [[Deadly Dodging|causing him to beat himself up instead]]. One Ton finally decides to smash him with a car, which, of course, just ends with One Ton knocked out and Secret arresting him... for illegally endangering a panda.

*** Somewhat dampened, though, by the ''massive'' [[Idiot Ball]] that caused the titular opponent to fall for SS's last trick. An even slightly more intelligent Rodney would most certainly have {{spoiler|taken one look at the "congratulatory belt", recognized it as the very bomb his assistant had strapped to Morocco earlier (or at the very least as an obvious bomb), said "Y'all must think I'm some sorta fool," and tossed the thing over his shoulder}}.

* The American ''[[Street Fighter]]'' cartoon had a few, one comes when Bison is fighting both Cammy and Chun-Li. Cammy attacks, screaming all the injustices Bison has done to her, and he just knocks her away with "Business is business!" Then Chun-Li attacks as well, yelling "[[You Killed My Father]]", to which Bison responds:

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xVOR2BTO0 Megabyte and Bob jamming on their electric guitars at Enzo's birthday party] on ''[[Re Boot]]''. Hey, Megabyte's a [[Magnificent Bastard]]; he ''lives'' for scenes like this. May be a [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] and as well a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], due to the awesome riffs, and the crazy juxtaposition of the villain engaging in a rock-off with [[The Hero]].

** Also: Any time a protagonist says "I don't think so!" you know that the villain's just crossed a line and is in trouble.

** Puss in Boots does so many awesome things that it's hard to pick just one. Nonetheless, there's a scene where Puss decides to repay his debt to Shrek by staying behind to stall the enemy guards chasing the heroes and then disarms the guards (figuratively) by making [[Puppy Dog Eyes|an adorable sad kitten face]]. Before they can regain their senses, he whips out his rapier and goes to town on them.

* Althought ''[[Shrek|Shrek the Third]]'' wasn't all that better than the second one, it had its moments. The final battle between Shrek and Prince Charming, whose motivation is the search for his "Happily Ever After", ends with this exchange:

'''Shrek''': ''"Well, I guess you'll have to keep looking. Because I'm not giving up mine." *punches Charming into the air*'' }}

** Or the scene in which Queen Lilly breaks all of the princesses out of jail. By knocking down a stone wall with her head. Twice.

* Rare for a [[Disney Death]] to be a Moment of Awesome, but, lo and behold: "[[Titan A.E.|I FINISHED MY NAP!]]"

* In ''[[Anastasia]]'', Anastasia/Anya has one:

** Depending on [[Your Mileage May Vary|your mileage]], Dmitri's Crowning Moment comes either a few minutes prior when he disproves Rasputin's "[[Nothing Can Save Us Now|No one can save you now!]]" by [[Dynamic Entry|punching him in the face]], or earlier in the film when he steals Dowager Empress Marie's car, kidnaps her, and argues her into going to see Anya mostly by pure stubbornness, all in the name of [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|making his beloved happy]].

* The first season finale of ''[[Megas XLR]]'': both Coop driving out of the Glorft ship, and {{spoiler|teleporting his drink into their ship, ''[[No Waterproofing in the Future|causing a chain reaction that sucks the entire thing into another dimension]]''}}.

** What about when he launched the Converted EMP Missle Refridgerator filled with Rock pops and Soda into the [[Eldritch Abomination]] he awakened himself by trying to jump start the cable reception with MEGAS and the end result of the goop from said creature corroding the [[Wave Motion Gun]] of the Glorft.

** How about the ''series'' finale? The final words spoken in the episode pretty much sum it up (paraphrased)

{{spoiler|'''Coop''': "Did you really think anyone ''else'' was gonna do it?"}} }}

*** Actually, that was from the first season finale as well. Still kinda cool, though.

** The Regis Mark V. It was a walking Moment of Awesome.

* Season 1, Episode 6 of ''[[Spawn]]: The Animated Series''. Spawn gets one when he surfs on the antagonist's van, Clown gets one with this line:

** Clown gets another one when he reveals his true nature. Up until this point, he's been an obnoxious, trash-talking sidekick, but Spawn finally pushes him one step too far, and he announces "you don't know who you're dealin' with... but it's time you found out". Everyone who knew the comic book knew what was coming, and it didn't disappoint: he gruesomely changes into Violator, and ''everything'' about his mannerisms changes. Now he speaks telepathically in a much more formal, darker tone that's almost totally devoid of humor (starting with the ominous line "now begins your training"), while laying down not only Spawn's first defeat in a fight, but a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] at that. And the original HBO broadcast went one step further than the DVD's. Initially, his voice was a constantly shifting [[Voice of the Legion]] with both male and female elements; it practically required closed captioning to make out, but it really, really made Violator feel completely non-human. They switched to a more hissing, decipherable voice in reruns and DVD's that lost a little bit of the effect, but either way, it was the perfect demonstration that Clown's really, really [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] after all.

** Shortly afterwards, we have Spawn's utter wtfpwnage of Overkill and Tony Twist. After a brutal battle where Overkill solidly defeats Spawn (but not without getting a piece of rebar [[Eye Scream|right through his artificial eye]]), Overkill is being repaired... cue Spawn interrupting. Shortly after, Spawn pays Tony Twist, Overkill's boss, a visit and lets loose a bag full of {{spoiler|Overkill's severed limbs and part of his face,}} followed by shooting Twist's goons in the legs and [[Oh Crap|making Twist shit himself.]]

* Every chase scene in ''[[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron]]''. Not to mention when Little Creek came out of nowhere and jumped the Colonel when he was about to shoot Spirit. It ends with the epic leap of Spirit and Little Creek over the massive canyon.

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'': The episode featuring the eight adamantium (y' know, the stuff that ''Wolverine's skeleton and claws are made out of'') robots, when Jack calls for strength enough to defeat the last... and the blow he deals is enough to make a robot say, just before utter destruction:

** Samurai versus Ninja.

** The entirety of III. Jack in Feudal Japanese armor versus an army of robotic drones. The end result is too awesome for words. It ends with a pan shot of Jack on top of a mountain of enemies, covered in <s>blood</s> oil, waving the flag of the allies we was protecting. The end of the three part pilot, and the intro for many to just how amazing Samurai Jack was going to be.

** "Jack and the Spartans". Samurai Jack plus Frank Miller's ''300''. [[HSQ|Holy SHIT]].

** Episode XXXIV, "Jack and the Swamp Creature". In a bid to find another route to the past, Jack is led by a loudmouthed hermit, who is [[Paper-Thin Disguise|totally not]] Aku in disguise, to find the Armor of the Titan, Chronos. Jack faces numerous obstacles, but succeeds in gathering the helmet and gauntlets. The Hermit then summons Chronos to destroy Jack, berating the Samurai for [[Good Is Dumb|being so stupid]]- until Chronos begins to fall apart. Jack emerges from the swamp, holding up the Eye of Chronos- the crystal from the helmet- and calls out Aku for his own complacency and laziness, telling how he saw the trap coming, before hacking at Aku with his magic sword. Aku manages to escape, but with the Eye, Jack may have the tool he needs to finish him once and for all.

** Episode XIV "Jack Learns to Jump Good". The beginning has Aku in a field taunting Jack by playing keep away with a time portal. The ending sees Jack returning, only now having gained the ability to [[In a Single Bound|jump very very good]].

([[Shut UP, Hannibal|Jack lunges 50 feet in the air at Aku]])<br />

'''Aku:''' "YOU CAN FLY?!"<br />

** Episode XLVII ''The Princess and the Bounty Hunters'': The entire episode is about five bounty hunters teaming up in order to take down Jack. They're all made out to be pretty awesome. Jack himself only shows up in the last minute of the episode, with no dialogue, and proceeds to completely demolish them before leaving.

** "Jack and the Lava Monster". Jack is attacked by a Norse warrior turned into the titular lava monster. At one moment Jack decides that their fight is pointless and decides to leave but the the monster '''pleads''' him to carry on as to fall in fair combat is the only way for him to rid himself of the curse and to ascend to Valhalla. Jack ''agrees''.

'''Jack:''' (ominously) "Do not worry. I have only begun to fight!" }}

** What about when he takes out the world's three greatest archers while blindfolded and then {{spoiler|sacrifices a chance at going home to rid the world of the evil wishing well}} in VII ''Jack and the Three Blind Archers''?

*** Also a crowning moment for Steve: ''Lavate los manos!''

** Hayley has one in ''Meter Maid'' when she gets back at Roger for painting a nude picture of her, let Steve borrow it and not telling him it was his sister, and auctioning it.

'''Roger''': Think you got a shot porn star? Bring it! (Hayley punches him in the gut) I wasn't ready. (Falls to the floor in a fetal position, wrapping his arms around his stomach) That how Houdini died. }}

** Also Stan's plan to save Roger from an autopsy in "Office Spaceman".

* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'': Austin's solo during his song on "Tale of the Mighty Knights". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqIBnpVfCI Oh, all the things... All the things the goblin has grabbed...]

* [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Corpse Bride]]'':

** Emily gets one during the final fight sequence -- Barkis has got Victor down for the count, goes to stab him -- {{spoiler|and Emily steps in front of him and takes the blow. (And this might just be this troper's opinion, but she's pretty sure that the rip in Emily's dress indicates this is how Barkis KILLED her.)}}

** Victor's is "Take. Your Hands. Off Her." Though really, the fight sequence could qualify -- up until Emily's Moment of Awesome, he successfully holds off Barkis, armed with a sword, with a FORK. In fact, Barkis never touches him, but Victor scores at least THREE hits on him!

** Let's not forget another Moment of Awesome for Supes in his other Fleischer short "the Bulleteers". Some gangsters with a rocket car are destroying various buildings, and the car has sprouted wings and is heading toward the Treasury when Supes literally ''punches'' the car out of the way and sends it flying out of control.

* ''[[Superjail]]'': The Warden gets one in the pilot episode when he reveals his [[Xanatos Gambit]] against the Twins. Made even more awesome in that this in the ''only'' time during the course of the series thus far in which a member of the Superjail staff actually scares the everloving crap out of the Twins.

'''Twin A:''' Bravo to you.<br />

'''Twin B:''' We love the new uniforms.<br />

** While it doubles as [[Nightmare Fuel]], the entire sequence of the first 9 plagues, along with the amazing musical number, featuring a [[Dark Reprise]] of the song "''All I Ever Wanted''," is nothing more than awesome, even if it is one of the scariest things God has done since leveling Sodom and Gomorrah. The song itself is great, especially the lyrics, such as "I sent my scourge! I sent my sword! Thus sayeth the Lord!" [[Nightmare Fuel|The 10th plague though...]]

* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'': In "100 Percensus", Captain K'Nuckles is constantly bothered by Flapjack to take a census and be accounted for. K'Nuckles, being K'Nuckles, thinks Flapjack wants him to count to four, which he can't do. Eventually, he comes around and takes the census, only to find that Stormalong has been taken over by pirates. He gives the census to the pirate captain [[It Makes Sense in Context|(long story)]], who then proceeds to mock it:

'''Captain K'nuckles''': I can't count to four, ''[[Let's Get Dangerous|but I can count to three.]]'' }}

** Cue a crew of 100 pirates getting pushed off the docks of Stormalong by a very frustrated adventurer, three at a time.

* Beethoven urinating on the bully guard dog Killer in [[Beethoven the Animated Series]].

* ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' - in ''Cleveland Junior's Cherry Bomb'', there was a scene where Cleveland, upset by his son's pledge of virginity, asks his step-daughter's boyfriend Federline to get him laid. Federline takes Cleveland, Jr. to the mall and sends him after a group of easy-looking women. The boy tells them that they need to improve their self-image, which prompts Federline to slap him. Cleveland, Jr., [[Beware the Nice Ones|of all people]], ''grabs Federline by the collar and threatens him.'' Federline is visibly intimidated.

** Oh, come on! ''Nobody'' is going to mention the time when the guys' wives all teamed up to give an abusive woman a beat-down? Double-points for Lester's wife and her flying tackle.

** Cleveland Jr. does this CONSTANTLY. Who can forget his rap battle with Kenny West?

* [[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]] has a good half of what Antauri does, especially when he {{spoiler|returns as the silver monkey.}}

** Nova's refusal to give up on Sprx in the final episode to the point of being a Determinator. {{spoiler|Crosses into heartwarming when he finally comes back.}}

** Gibson ''drilling Mandarin's claw off'' in an effort to save Otto.

* ''[[Chaotic]]''. Nothing is as awesome as facing down ''an entire wave of melted polar ice'' all by yourself, casting a time-freezing spell to keep the whole world and everyone in it from being drowned, and then getting frozen inside the subsequent ice in the process. [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to end all [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroic Sacrifices]]...that is, until the most recent episode, wherein the power of the First Tree was drawn upon to completely obliterate Vitog, thus saving Perim again. After that, {{spoiler|Tangath Toborn}} did indeed deserve to "go to a world where an old warrior like him can live to fight another day". Besides being quite the [[Tear Jerker]], it also included a very nice [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]:

** Tom's victories over Codemasters Crellen and Hotekk were pretty sweet, even more so with the fact that Tom is the only known character on the show to beat two codemasters.

* No love for [[Storm Hawks]]? What about Stork's sequence in the episode "Fire and Ice"? First, he evades the (pissed-off) Raptors, then, back on the ship, they finally catch up. He looks his usual, pessimistic, paranoid self, until, well...Oh, this could be bad...''for them''. He begins loosing off traps on them until they find him at the bridge, and, well, his 'last request' pretty much sums up the scene. "Get off my ship." Cue violent ejection of the Raptors.

** What about the The Lesson? The Storm Hanks managed to whup the Cyclonians one on one, or in the case of Stork vs the Raptors one on three, who were beefed up on enhancement crystals by using moves they learned through playing carvinal games. Aerrow's was the best, he pulled of a [[Batman Gambit]] by giving his skimmer a huge speed making the Dark Ace think he was running away until he saw that Aerrow had him at point blank range on his own skimmer.

Aerrow: How else? We've been training.(Blasts the Dark with his Lighting Claw Maneuver). }}

* In ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', Nicole's [[Badass]]-ness in "The DVD". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU3NNTxfDxs\]

* ''From [[Johnny Test]], Dukey's rant at Johnny, Susan, Mary, and Hugh for risking their lives for money. Plus getting Hugh to think he's only imagining Dukey was talking.

* [[The Magic School Bus]]. [[The So-Called Coward|Arnold]] fighting against a freking ''T-REX''! Granted, he was "grown up" at the time, but still- that was a T-REX!!!!