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* You would think that after having done that countless times ''[[
** If you were going to pose for a statue that potentially hundreds of people would see for the next 12 hours, wouldn't you strike the most impressive pose possible? And if you could get a do-over every 24 hours, why not do it better?
** Plus, they have an interest in maintaining their camouflage, and preserving a threatening image.
* According to director Brad Bird, The Incredibles was built to be a combination of "the mundane and the fantastic". It indeed did its job well,
* Various characters in ''[[
{{quote| '''Professor Membrane''': Quiet, son! I'm making ''(large field of electricity crackles)''... toast!}}
** Also the episode title (rendered in foot-high solid lettering, one word at a time, while spinning through space) -- "ZIM EATS WAFFLES"
** And also the episode "Germs", where Zim embarks on the vital and life-threatening mission of... ''cleaning his house''.
** The one episode where Dib gets powers, and showed off how awesome it was by sliding from the 2nd floor to the first, ''outside of his house'', threw toast, butter, and orange juice in the air, all forming to make breakfast, which he also ate in the air.
** Another Zim example, this one from a crossover: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1JIAcbCbs this scene] in ''[[Nicktoons Unite!|Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' has him bragging about mundane tools as if they were killer weapons of destruction (complete with fanfare):
{{quote| '''Zim''': Eh, this squeaky toy will do you no good. You need the plunger '''''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|OF DOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!]]'''''}}
** 5 words: "''A room...'''with a moose!'''''"
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{{quote| '''Video Clerk''': If that movie isn't in our drop box by the time we open tomorrow, you're gonna have to paaaaaaayyyyy..... '' '''late fees!''' ''}}
** There was one episode where GIR threw a sandwich at Dib's head. He threw it so hard that it sent Dib ''flying through the air and crashing through the wall of the nearest building.''
* ''[[
** "Procrastination". As the name implies, SpongeBob grapples with his denial for hesitation in writing a 800-word essay. In one of his many time-wasting gimmicks, he spends an implied ludicrous amount of time and effort writing the "The" at the start of the paper, so the sequence ends up just looking "awesome" instead of being the [[Hard Work Montage]] it initially appears to be.
** The opening scene of ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'' features a dramatic scene based around the "crisis" of a customer being given a Krabby Patty without cheese, complete with a slow-motion sequence of SpongeBob putting some cheese into the patty. It's a [[Dream Sequence]], but still...
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** '''[[Memetic Mutation|"CHOCOLATE?! CHOCOLATE!!!!"]]'''
** The show for many fans.
* ''[[
** The episode "D-Yikes!," a parody of ''[[300
*** In that same episode, an unknown lesbian character takes a potato chip... [[Death Note
** Lice Capades is worth a mention. "KEL-LAY!" And cutting to the lice being blown away and horribly dying -- while the kid who got the lice is taking a shower and washing his hair.
** There's also the Cartoon Wars episodes. In one example, after Stan learns that an Islamic terrorist attack may result from a portrayal of Mohammed in ''[[
** "It'll be the end of the world! ... of Warcraft."
*** In fact, the entirety "Make Love, Not Warcraft" fits this trope by somehow making the quest to kill one high-level [[World of Warcraft]] [[Griefer]] completely epic. Semi-justifiable, since this one player has somehow broken WoW's [[PvP]] rules, can kill ''Admins'', and seems to be determined to kill every player in the game so many times that they get extremely frustrated and never want to play again.
{{quote| (holding up a thumb drive) "Behold... the Sword of a Thousand Truths!"}}
* Doctor Orpheus, in ''[[
** "Greetings, Pumpkin, I am at Mr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself! There are four puddings in the fridge. You may enjoy the contents of one of them. Dinner at six"
** Monarch henchmen 21 and 24 manage to make [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOP0CBKtPw putting on their uniforms and getting into a car] awesome by singing "Mars, Bringer Of War."
*** Granted, doing that in perfect synch with each other while being out of earshot is pretty awesome.
* Done occasionally in ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
* In ''[[
* ''[[Rocket Power]]'' replaces such things as [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] with [[Narm|embarassingly exaggerated]] attempts at [[Rule of Cool|being cool]], especially in regard to extreme sports (being the premise of the show). Or, as the show puts it '''[[Totally Radical|sick]]'''!!
* Mildly spoofed in ''[[
{{quote| '''Sokka''': I do believe it's my turn. I'm going to spend my vacation... IN THE LIBRARY!!!}}
** Azula also employs the trope a couple of times during the third-season [[Beach Episode]] by taking the [[Serious Business|same approach]] to beach volleyball and flirting with boys that she takes to world domination. It involves [[Elemental Powers|fire]], [[Screaming Warrior|loud declarations]], and ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]]''.
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** There's also when they were invading the Earth Kingdom palace and Sokka tried to kick down a big fancy door. He gives it a flying kick with a [[Stock Footage]]-esque background... and the door doesn't budge an inch.
** Sokka's Haiku Battle (which the background music made it seem more like a Rap Battle.)
* The duel over dumplings between Shifu and Po in ''[[
* ''[[WALL-E]]'' somehow manages to make the act of ''{{spoiler|a fat guy standing up}}'' look unbelievably awesome. Complete with Richard Strauss' ''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'' (AKA "That really epic monolith music from the beginning of ''[[
** Also the character M-O. He doesn't have an [[Arm Cannon]], a [[Creepy Monotone]] or the ability to be able to [[Friend to All Living Things|befriend every robot]] he's just a small obsessive [[Neat Freak]], but Pixar was still able to make him as awesome as possible.
* ''[[
** Ratatouille in general could be considered the personification of this trope. As Pixar themselves said, it stars a rat (an animal liked by few and outright hated by many) who spends his time cooking (a subject that is not well known for its excitment), and is set in [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys|France]]. It was one of the best reviewed films of its year.
* PIXAR enjoys this trick. Check out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRAfm5glLFY Carl's very precise morning routine] in ''[[Up (
* Ninja Handyman, from ''[[Planet Sketch]]'', solves mundane problems and, [[Rule of Cool|being a ninja]], has to behave as if he had saved the day, big time.
* Most [[
* In an episode of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' after the Scotsman has rescued Jack from a bunch of sirens they have a series of contests to decide who would be the one to row back. The contests culminated in a thumbwrestling match, complete with close-ups on their thumbs and faces all while in slow motion.
* ''[[The Tick]]'''s speeches.
** Especially, "''Arthur!'' I'm doing ''laundry!''" which may very well be one of the defining moments for this trope.
* ''[[
** "This looks like a job for...''the vacuum cleaner!''" (Followed by him cleaning the room by ''riding'' the vacuum cleaner.)
** "I'm more than alright! I'm ''DANNY FENTON!''" (Cue dramatic lighting.)
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** With a pair of threes no less.
* ''[[Fillmore]]'' was ''built'' on this trope. Middle school is [[Serious Business]]!
* ''[[
** "Raging Bully": After accidentally causing Buford to drop Ice Cream on himself, Phineas is challenged to a duel, and the entire episode has them set up a boxing ring, going through a Rocky-style training montage... all for a thumb war! THE MOST EPIC THUMB WAR EVER, even with an overly excited commentator!
** One episode features dramatic zooming and music whenever a character announces something they're going to do; one time there's nothing to actually zoom in on but a random patch of sky, forcing Ferb to jump in at the last moment.
** From the movie we have a song about how everything, including blinking, breathing and sitting on a chair, is [http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=-iSQSnSI-so better with Perry.] Although this becomes a [[Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across
* John Redcorn on ''[[
** There is the episode where Hank is constipated. Probably the only episode of any show that can make ''pooping'' a dramatic and climactic event that ends the episode on a ridiculously positive note. The climax: when Hank flushes, [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Beethoven's 9th starts playing.]]
* ''[[
** The one where a disinfection work turns into a major, ''dramatic'' action scene, with every trope played straight for maximum hilarity.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (
** Did we mention the [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|large, fire-breathing dragon]]? Because there's a large, fire-breathing dragon.
* In ''[[Justice League:
{{quote| "I'm going to fly out now and recon [[Genius Loci|this thing]]. When I get back, we'll work out a strategy. ''Are you with me?''<br />
''[Cue assembled multitudes of hard-bitten warriors, cheering loudly for the idea of sitting around for a while, and then figuring out what they're going to do later on that afternoon]'' }}
* Again, half the point of ''[[Kick Buttowski]]''.
* ''[[
* In ''[[We Are the Strange]]'', a dying mook sees his own blood gushing out before its eyes, then [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
* The pilot of ''[[
* The ''[[
** From "Prisoner of Benda", we have Professor Farnsworth's declaration "I'm afraid we need to use... ''math!''", complete with dramatic zoom-in and music.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sweesters Virtual Room]]'', a series where ''every'' episode is the [[Bottle Episode]], has an istance of this when a simple ''thumb war'' [[Serious Business|becomes the most epic thing in the universe.]] Complete with a [[Big No]] in [[Slow Motion]] at the end. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It's exactly as cheesy as it sounds.]]
* ''[[Megas XLR]]''. Coop makes the simple act of pushing a button awesome, by smashing it with his ''face''.
** Also, the Context-Sensitive-Big-Red-Button that changes episode to episode. It's even changed ''twice'' in the ''same episode''.
* From ''[[Voltron Force]]'' episode [[A Day in
{{quote| '''Pidge''' (playing air guitar): GRISTLE DEFENSE SYSTEM! GRISTLE DEFENSE! GRISTLE DEFENSE! (Hunk joins.) BWAH BWAH!}}
* In the episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
* The epic game of tag in ''[[
** Moments in the series include the professor swallowing a pea, the townspeople saving the day by ripping open the packages of a collector, the girls eating broccoli, and Mojo breaking a loaf of bread over a robot's head.
* The second season premiere of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** And before that, [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E1 The Return of Harmony Part 1|"Eternal chaos comes with chocolate rain, you guys! CHOCOLATE RAIN!"]]
** [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E4 Luna Eclipsed|"It's time for me to do what I do best - lecture her!"]]
** "[[Shout-Out|With Celestia as my witness]] ''[[Gone
*** This is also a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] (Rarity vowing to make up with her baby sister) and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] (Rarity admitting she was wrong).
** From "Green Isn't Your Color": Pinkie Pie's gonna take an apple...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQnSdXh0syE and eat it.]
** Pinkie Pie as Chancellor Puddinghead in "Hearth's Warming Eve": "In the name of the earth ponies, I think I'm gonna name this new place...uh...DIRTVILLE!"
** Granny Smith's preparations for Zap Apple Jam-making in "Family Appreciation Day", especially the scene where she acts like a drill sergeant towards a bunch of jam-jars.
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Dr. Weird''': Gentlemen! Behold! The thermo... stat! *epic zoom in*<br />
'''Steve''': That's been there.<br />
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'''Steve''': Is it on?<br />
'''Dr. Weird''': You... tell me! *maniacal laughter* {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Oh, oh, WAIT!]] [[Played for Laughs|*bursts into flame*]]}} }}
* ''[[
* In ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (
* ''[[
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