Lampshade Hanging/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* In an episode of ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' titled "[[Twin Peaks|Twin Beaks]]", alien plants are creating clone duplicates of everyone, exactly as in ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'', only [[Affectionate Parody|sillier]].

{{quote|'''Gosalyn:''' That plot doesn't sounds so cliché when it's happening to you!}}

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]''

** Hanging the lampshade at how things were getting predictable [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World|("... we learn some]][[Aesop|moral]][[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World|... or some nonsense and then we go home..")]]

** At the end of "Reign Storm", Danny is confused about several things, but when he questions them, Sam tells him that it doesn't matter.

* ''[[DuckTales]]'' did this all the time, even in the [[Five Episode Pilot]]. For example, Scrooge [[Pooled Funds|jumps into a pile of coins and starts swimming through it like usual]], and his nephews try to do the same but just land on top of the pile, then wonder how he does it. In the very first episode, Scrooge tells his nephews to "[[Four-Fingered Hands|Give him four]]"

** In "A Mile In My Shoes", Cosmo and Wanda (while in goldfish form, inside their bowl) are preparing for a romantic dinner, and Cosmo attempts to light the candles on the dinner table by rubbing two magic wands together. Timmy walks into the room and asks the couple, "What's new?" just as Cosmo succeeds in lighting the candle. Wanda glances at the flame skeptically, then answers, "Um, the laws of physics?" To be fair, he was using [[A Wizard Did It|magic wands]].

** A later feat is to lampshade the frequent use of the [[Idiot Ball]].

'''Archer:''' No, do ''not'' say [[Chekhov's Gun|the Chekhov gun]], Cyril! THAT, sir, is a facile argument!<br />

'''Wodehouse:''' Also woefully esoteric. }}

* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' does this more or less every episode:

{{quote|'''Backyardigan (often Pablo):''' Oh look! A(n) x!

 

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