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** The show for many fans.
* ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode "Good Times With Weapons". The boys playing around with weapons is turned awesome with an [[Art Shift]] and the use of [[Shonen Demographic]] fighting anime tropes, complete with an upbeat [[Anime Theme Song|makeshift J-pop song]] in the background.
** The episode "D-Yikes!," a parody of ''[[
*** In that same episode, an unknown lesbian character takes a potato chip... [[Death Note (Manga)|and '''eats''' it.]]
** 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.
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** 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 ''[[
* In ''[[Perfect Hair Forever (Animation)|Perfect Hair Forever]]'', anything Astonomicat does other than sitting around is accompanied by dramatic music -- even performing a background check on a computer.
* ''[[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]]'''!!
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'''Azula''': That's a ''sharp'' outfit, Chan. Careful; you might puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving ''thousands'' to ''drown'' at ''sea''! ... Because... it's so sharp. }}
*** From the same episode, we have [[Disturbed Doves]] going along with Zuko ''[[Shirtless Scene|taking off his shirt]]''.
** "The Ember Island Players" was [[The Abridged Series|a recap of the series]] [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?|as a play]], and they represented bending with ''streamers''. It actually looks cooler than you'd think (choreography and special effects were about [[Stylistic Suck|all they had going]]). There's also the fact that most scenes parodied are accompanied by the appropriate music (ex. the recreation of {{spoiler|Aang getting hit by Azula's lightning}} has the same dramatic music playing despite how completely ''un''dramatic [[Bad Bad Acting|their performance was]]).
** 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.)
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** 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 (Animation)|Ratatouille]]'' turns SOUP-MAKING into the coolest freaking' thing ever!
** 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
* PIXAR enjoys this trick. Check out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRAfm5glLFY Carl's very precise morning routine] in ''[[Up (Film)|Up]]'', with epic music contrasted with his resigned/bored old man expression. (The music is "Habanera" from the opera ''Carmen''.)
* 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.
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* Again, half the point of ''[[Kick Buttowski]]''.
* ''[[The Boondocks (Comic Strip)|The Boondocks]]'' is doing this with ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Da90PI94w kickball]''. The actual episode does not disappoint, ending with a ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]] Z''-slash-''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''-esque final pitch.
* 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 On Drugs?|a single drop of blood stops in mid-air, turns into a pixelated block, laughs at the him, turns back into a regular drop of blood and falls back down.]]
* The pilot of ''[[Regular Show (Animation)|Regular Show]]'' offers this twice; first with the lead characters making ''cereal'' ("Milk... cereal... ''combine''...") and then with an epic game of rock, paper, scissors set to hard rock music... that summons an [[Eldritch Abomination]] after the 100th tie. The show runs on this trope. Apparently, audits destroy the fabric of reality with [[Matrix Raining Code]] and there exists anime so nonsensical that merely watching it can suck out your soul.
* The ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' episode "Less Than Hero" had the villainous Zookeeper demand his tamed crow to take the Quantum Gemerald from the Planet Express crew in a grandiose fashion, which amounted to swooping over three feet and taking it back. Fry [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this trope: "That seemed unnecessary."
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* From ''[[Voltron Force]]'' episode [[A Day in The Limelight|"The Hunkyard"]], we have an example of Hunk barbequing...ribs the size of a Buick on a customized grill the size of a church organ. His secret ingredient: jet fuel. Not only does he, predictably, burn such ribs, they launch into the air and through the ceiling, activating the Castle of Lion's missile defense system. Pidge's reaction is PRICELESS:
{{quote| '''Pidge''' (playing air guitar): GRISTLE DEFENSE SYSTEM! GRISTLE DEFENSE! GRISTLE DEFENSE! (Hunk joins.) BWAH BWAH!}}
* In the episode of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (Animation)|Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'', "An Ed Too Many," Jimmy goes [[Yandere|when Sarah starts sessing]] over Double D. He declares he's "A Lone Wolf looking for trouble," and proceeds to rip apart his teddy bear.
* The epic game of tag in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' movie.
** 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 (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' gave us this line: [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E2 The Return of Harmony Part 2|"This is my book... and I AM GOING TO READ IT!"]]
** 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!"]]
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