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Works drawn in a simplistic or cartoonish style may feature a piece of art, often including a person, drawn in what we would consider a much more detailed or realistic style. Almost invariably, some character will remark on how unrealistic that art is, or how bad the artist's grasp of anatomy must
▲Works drawn in a simplistic or cartoonish style may feature a piece of art, often including a person, drawn in what we would consider a much more detailed or realistic style. Almost invariably, some character will remark on how unrealistic that art is, or how bad the artist's grasp of anatomy must be-- why would anyone give people ''[[Four Fingered Hands|five fingers]]''?
Largely a subtrope of [[Stylistic Self Parody]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Parodied in the anime version of ''[[Shaman King]]'', where a member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] makes a portrait of one robber in a 70's [[Shojo]] style (a style more detailed than the cartoony [[Shonen]] of the series - but not by much). And two of the heroes (besides the artist) are the only ones who see the portrait and the aforementioned robber and confirm the likeness.
* Used in the 4-koma short comics at the back of the manga adaptation of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', which were far less detailed than the actual manga. The shorts also featured strips on "how to draw characters" which were three panels long (the last reserved for the punchline) and even simpler than the 4-koma themselves.
** A couple of strips centered on Doctor J inventing a de-chibifier ray and using it on Heero. Unfortunately for him, it only affects his head and leaves the rest of him super-deformed, looking pretty strange.
* Happens in ''[[
* Inverted by ''[[Ika Musume]]'', where Takeru draws a picture of Ika, which looks exactly the same as her. Takeru complains that it looks too "manga-like," while Ika argues that she doesn't have such a simplistic face. (Of course, she does.)
** It's also played straight with Ika Musume's (realistic-looking) portraits. Combined with the above, it comes as a bit of a [[Mind Screw]].
* ''[[Busou Renkin]]'' plays this straight when Kazuki draws a picture of Chouno to show around the school while they try to track him down. It's in incredibly detailed style and both Tokiko and Chouno himself are taken aback by it. That said, Kazuki did put [[Hot
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html This] strip of ''[[
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140207122756/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20080202.html This] strip of ''[[Walkyverse|Joyce and Walky]]''. "My art teacher wants me to stop making up anatomy that doesn't exist." "Were you drawing lips again?"
** As that statement implies, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120825192935/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000924.html that wasn't the first time.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101128064552/http://starslip.com/2008/01/31/starslip-number-708/ This] strip of ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'', where the characters ridicule court sketches.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825010119/http://doctorcatmd.com/2011-06-03/doctor-cat-art-critic This] ''[[Doctor Cat]]'', though it's closer than others.
* ''[[Cyanide
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Parodied in an [[Abridged Series]] of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' (no, [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[South Park]]'' "Free Willzyx" featured forensic sketches of the main characters [https://web.archive.org/web/20100208125239/http://www.southparkstudios.com/media/wallpaper//913_Composite_Sketch_1280x1024.jpg in a realistic style]. Of course, when those sketches were shown to residents of the town, nobody could recognize who they were supposed to be of.
** Though one woman thought Cartman looked like [[Dakota Fanning]].
* A scene from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in which Homer worries that his children could turn into "hideous freaks, with pink skin and five fingers on each hand", followed by a shot of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in a more 'realistic' cartoon style than usual, plays a slight twist on the same basic joke.
** Another gag involved Lisa explaining to Bart, thanks to evolution, humans would have an extra digit on their hands in several thousand years. She then shows Bart a picture of a five fingered hand, prompting Bart to hold up his own four fingered hand and comment on the weirdness of having five fingers.
** Another time, during a Treehouse of Horror episode, Homer ended up in a parallel dimension that led him to the real world, <s>keeping his cartoony features in</s> rendered in 3D graphics amidst live action.
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* On one episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' had Peter mention that he took some drugs once, and everything got "''way'' too real." Cut to a ''live action'' scene of a fat guy in Peter's clothes on a bench, wearing a fake Peter head, looking at his hands and declaring he was "freaking out".
** There was also the ''Road To Multiverse'' episode where Stewie and Brian go to the real world briefly. Stewie comments on it feeling weird before pushing the button to jump to another universe. They were portrayed by a real toddler and a real dog.
* In ''[[
** Live-action humans actually do exist in the Spongebob universe, so this may not qualify as a
** When Spongebob imagined himself as a lifeguard, he saw himself as a guy dressed in a Spongebob costume. Also Larry the Lobster's reflection in one episode was that of a boiled lobster.
** When Spongebob and Patrick leave the water, they're usually "portrayed" by an actual sponge and starfish in live action footage.
*** [[Roger Rabbit Effect|Except in]] [[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie|the movie]]
* ''[[
* When a picture of [[Elvis Presley]] appears on ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'', it's a photograph of the real article, rather than a drawing done in the film's unique style.
** There's also some live-action footage from a 50's monster movie about a giant spider.
* In the "Wacky Delly" episode of ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' Filburt is helping to design the cheese character for the titular new cartoon, and draws a realistic (Even by [[Real Life]] standards) picture of a cheese wedge. Rocko is amazed, but Heffer quickly decides to "improve" it by erasing it and drawing a crude cheese-like stick figure which becomes the actual design for the cheese.
* In ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Babs left Buster to go to New York, and Buster was stuck trying to find a replacement co-host. One of the prospects was a normal, unanthropomorphic rabbit. It didn't last.
* On the ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' episode "Heroes", a news report on the plane that the duo shot down shows a police sketch of them drawn in a more realistic style. The duo themselves were too sleepy to comment.
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