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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Look at him! He's cuter than a puppy and a kitten trying to climb into the same slipper!"''
|'''Stan Smith'''|''[[American Dad]]!''}}
This is an audience reaction to works that are strongly [[Lighter and Softer|attempting to be kid-friendly]] — using almost all the tropes of cuteness and [[Idealism Tropes|idealism]], [[Tropes Are Not Legos|like there's some kind of checklist]]. '[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saccharine Saccharine]' is the watchword. Viewers react to this with anything ranging from cutesy cuddling to violent revulsion.▼
▲{{quote|''"Look at him! He's cuter than a puppy and a kitten trying to climb into the same slipper!"''|'''Stan Smith''', ''[[American Dad]]!''}}
▲This is an audience reaction to works that are strongly [[Lighter and Softer|attempting to be kid-friendly]] — using almost all the tropes of cuteness and [[Idealism Tropes|idealism]], like there's some kind of checklist. '[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saccharine Saccharine]' is the watchword. Viewers react to this with anything ranging from cutesy cuddling to violent revulsion.
Keep in mind that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|extremely over-the-top lightness is not necessarily a bad thing]]. With proper usage, it may result in an enjoyable series wherein the cuteness is there as, essentially, an afterthought. It's when it consumes the entire series, when it puts being adorable ahead of things like actual plots or likeable characters, that it becomes a problem.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Any commercial by the Foundation for a Better Life.
* The aggressively adorable kids in the Welch's Grape Juice commercials.
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* Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtNYwHq8FM&feature=related this commercial] with "Sun Fizz"
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdRe_jtcqY&feature=relmfu Mel the Milkbar], a new granola-milk bar from Kraft. Adorable, huggable, and [[The Woobie|a MASSIVE woobie.]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QINu5v9rATo Any commercial] for Lelli Kelly, an Italian brand of girls' footwear. Befitting the brand's already garish (and borderline stereotypical) girly-girl image are the adverts showing young girls [[All Women Love Shoes|proudly wearing]] shoes either with gaudy floral bead designs, or Mary Jane school shoes with interchangeable bows and makeup to boot (pun not intended). Pity the poor little British lad who has been subjected to these [[Ear Worm]] jingles during commercial breaks on [[Nickelodeon]] or some other children's television channel, which British YouTuber [[Eddie at The LMV]] cheekily roasted in their video ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uatrSFQEjI We're Lelli Kelly, the Most Irritating Adverts]''. Eddie also criticised the company's decision to bundle their shoes with makeup, contending that they're pushing girls to grow up too fast or live up to negative stereotypes of girlhood, especially as most school districts in the UK ban girls from wearing any sort of makeup or flashy fashion accessories anyway, making the bundle pointless if not questionable.
**Averted with [https://www.bullboys.it/en/ Bull Boys], a brand of boys' footwear also owned by Lelli Kelly.
▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* [[Arina Tanemura]]'s works falls into this, possibly due to the art style. As for the stories...not so much. She does some pretty dark stuff before the happy endings including {{spoiler|a six-year-old boy committing suicide in front of his mother.}} Something like that definitely shouldn't [[Taste Like Diabetes]]. If anything, Tanemura is more like a Japanese female version of [[Don Bluth]] where she does some major [[Break the Cutie|breaking the cutie]] before they [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earn their happy endings]].
* The [[Wholesome Crossdresser|cross dressing]] toddler form of Italy, Chibitalia, from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.
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** Which doesn't even make sense because not only is said male protagonist drawn to look just as cute as the girls, cutting out the romances he shares with the girls actually makes the show LESS cute. But the anime director likely did this for the sake of a [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]. Blargh indeed.
* ''[[Hamtaro]]''.
* The titular heroine of ''[[Hayate
* ''[[Hello Kitty]]''. Pretty much anything from Sanrio or San-X, really.
* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''. The character designs and [[Slice of Life]] situations will have you fearing for your [[Memetic Mutation|nutbladder]].
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** Bonus points for nearly every character being named after something sweet namely pastries.
* Any [[Magical Girl]] anime shows can have such a diabetes syndrome - notable examples include ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' and ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]''.
** ''[[Suite Pretty Cure|Sweet Pretty Cure!]]'' It's even in the title <ref>It's actually ''Suite Pretty Cure'', but it's written the same in Japanese</ref>
* Episode 8 of ''[[Carnival Phantasm]]'' has the scene with Saber giving Shirou a birthday present, the sweetness of the scene is enough to rot your teeth.
* Hina from ''[[Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai!
== Art ==
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* Jeff Koons embodies this trope from his [https://web.archive.org/web/20140412013550/http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/lacma_bmca_08/broad_inaugural_12.htm golden statue of Michael Jackson and pet monkey Bubbles] to a [[wikipedia:Jeff Koons#Puppy 1992|40-foot puppy statue made of flowers]].
* [[Deadpool]] [[Lampshade Hanging|Hangs A Lampshade]] on this when reminiscing about {{spoiler|his ex-wife}}: "...all this 'I love you snookie pie' and 'you too honey lips face head mush mush'...go into diabetic shock just walking by the place."
* Miss Martian of the DC Universe, which is especially interesting considering she's a [[Exclusively Evil|White Martian]].
** Which leads to fans thinking she's cuter in her [[Ugly Cute|true form]].
* Lampshaded in Mark Waid's ''[[Empire (comics)|Empire]]'' with the line "I need insulin listening to you!"
* Spoofed in the ''[[Batman]]''/''[[Judge Dredd]]'' crossover, where Scarecrow sprays Judge Death with his nightmare toxin, causing Judge Death to panic wildly over the sight of adorable ponies and cutesy little animals.
* The art of Bob Oksner. All his women, no matter how competent, kick-ass or super-powered, looked ''adorable''.
* [[Carl Barks]] found Christmas stories with [[An Aesop]] like this. Unfortunately, he was so good at it, that he got assignment after assignment.
* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Lilac Rosetta Cretan Veron from ''[[The Vampoife Dood Who Lifed]]''.
▲== Fan Fiction ==
{{quote|"Lilac, you're the most sickeningly sweet person ever to grace the planet, aren't you?" Lilac didn't seem to catch the insult, and just smiled broadly, apparently under the impression that her 'influence' had reached B as well.}}
* This trope is invoked in the fanfic ''
* [[The Quincy Punk|Heathcliffe]] and [[The Ingenue|Aki]]'s relationship in ''[[One Piece:
* [[Captain Obvious|Parodied]] in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3750836/24/Parody_of_Symphonia
* Lavender Brown (over)plays being the sweet and twee child during her first year at Harworts (sic) in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[[Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived]]''. She grows out of it, though.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Annie]]''; "You're never fully dressed without a smile!" [UGH!]
* ''[[August Rush]]''. And ''how.''
* The [[John Hughes]] movie ''[[Baby's Day Out]]''. Yes, it exists, and it's 99 minutes of Baby Bink giving you diabetes by being just a cute little baby, while [[Butt Monkey|the three kidnappers that have held him for ransom]] get their butts handed to them trying to get him back.
* Isn't [http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/CDDMSheets/DarlaMS01.gif Darla] from ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' just the ''cutest'' thing? Subverted when she's [http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/ProdArt/sketches/DDimple1.jpg being] [[Enfante Terrible|evil.]]
* This is [[A Christmas Story|Ralphie's]] reaction to Aunt Clara's gift. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908063823/http://acpress.com/a_christmas_story.jpg Poor Ralphie.]
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'''Wayne''': Yeah. }}
* Parodied in the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''[[Horse Feathers]]''. Thelma Todd's character is going out with Groucho, in an attempt to steal some football signals for a rival college. She adopts an extremely cutesy and high pitched voice and says "If Big-Strong-Man don't let Icky-Baby see the football signals, Icky-Baby gonna cry!". To which Groucho somehow manages an ''even more'' cloying voice and responds "If Icky-Girl don't stop talking like that, Big-Strong-Man gonna [[Crowning Moment of Funny|kick all her teeth right down her throat]]!"
* The first half of the musical and film ''[[Mamma Mia!]]!'' is ridiculously cheerful. It is a musical based on ABBA songs, after all.
* Parodied and lampshaded in ''[[The Naked Gun|The Naked Gun: 33 1/3 - The Final Insult]]'', when Frank and his wife are in a marriage counseling session, they devolve into baby-talking pet names, at which point the therapist states "Mr. and Mrs. Drebin, please - I'm a diabetic."
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* The movie adaptation of ''[[The Lorax (film)|The Lorax]]'' has shades of this. Examples include some of the woodland critters that the Once-ler meets (especially Pipsqueak) and some of the musical numbers like "Let It Grow", which really come across as sappy and unnecessary. However, the biggest offender has to be that little 3-year old girl that gets an entire verse to herself in "Let It Grow", and is basically just there for people in and outside of the movie to adore. UGH, if that doesn't qualify for this trope, I don't know what does.
* ''[[Happy Feet]]'' to a certain extent. An entire segment of it focuses on baby penguins learning to sing (and dance in Mumble's case), so you're bound to get at least some of this. However, the sequel takes it [[Up to Eleven]] in the form of even more of a focus on baby penguins. Then there's Mumble's son Erik, who takes the cuteness factor to absolutely ridiculous heights.
* Ranjan in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book 2]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Many people react in this way to the over-the-top, frequent love scenes, love phrases and love acts in the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series.
* The late Dorothy Parker considered the [[Winnie the Pooh]] book ''The House At Pooh Corner'' to fall into this trope: "And it is that word 'hummy', my darlings, that marks the first place in ''The House at Pooh Corner'' at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up."
* How Susan's charge Twylla in ''[[
{{quote|'''Susan''': Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs.}}
* [[Love Freak|Madeline Bassett]] in [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]] stories. Even Bertie Wooster, who's hardly the poster child for cynicism, finds her more than a bit much.
* The new dog book epidemic ([[The Dog Only A Family Could Love]], [[The Pup After Mertle]], [[Marley and Me]]), adorable stories of man's best friend are this.
** In the words of one reviewer from [[Entertainment Weekly]] - "Not to be callous, but I've had it! I'm sure Oogy and Pukka are great pooches, but their cloyingly cute books are enough to give you a case of canine diabetes."
* [[Lewis Carroll]]'s lesser known duology, the ''Sylvie & Bruno'' books. The overly-cutesy perfection of the title children is probably the main reason these books are not given the same love as ''Alice''.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Lampshaded in ''[[Psych]]'' when Lassiter tries to win back his estranged wife with sugary-cutesy figurines and an equally nauseating card. When she rejects him, he takes the sugary-cutesy figurines down to the shooting range and happily blows each one away.
* ''[[Barney and Friends]]'', to anyone over the age of seven. Some of these folks become parents and the "purple freak" is forgiven as being a instant thirty minute babysitter.
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* Parodied in the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Soup Nazi". George and Elaine are disgusted by the sappy nicknames Jerry and his [[Girl of the Week]] constantly call each other. So George decides to strike back by doing the same thing with Susan. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|But the plan works too well, and Susan starts babbling like a two-year-old]].
** Also from ''Seinfeld'', a surprisingly straight example; for a show centered on four cynical [[Jerkass]]es (although Kramer and occasionally Elaine [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|could be very well-meaning]]), some of the child characters who appeared now and then could be pretty sugary. One example being the boy in the hospital Kramer accidentally donated the Yankee birthday card to.
* The [[MTV]] Miley Cyrus 2009 New Year's Special ''A Miley-Sized Surprise'': The Veronicas dressed up as fairies, a high-pitched sugary voice reading horrible poetry with the most [[Totally Radical]] [[Painful Rhyme]]s imaginable, and all the gushing about making a difference combined.
* Connie Talbot from ''Britain's Got Talent''.
* In later episodes of ''[[Family Ties]]'' we get little Andrew Keaton, the youngest of the 4 Keaton children. It even affects the politics-obsessed Alex P. Keaton
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* The Doctor's holographic family in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Real Life" start out like this, but B'Elanna tells him how unrealistic this is and he agrees to let her alter the programme to make it more realistic.
** She also invokes it by first saying, "I am stopping this before my blood sugar levels overload."
* Semi-parodied among [[The Muppets]] with Bean Bunny
** [[Your Mileage May Vary]], but the 1981 episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' with Linda Ronstadt was arguably a low point. No offense to any Ronstadt fans out there, but she wasn't really the best choice for a guest host. After so many high-spirited and even brassy celebrities who could at the very least hold their own alongside the Muppets - Peter Sellers, Dom DeLuise, Raquel Welch, even Rudolf Nureyev for goodness's sakes (and when [[Russian Guy Suffers Most|a]] ''[[Russian Guy Suffers Most|Russian]]'' [[Russian Guy Suffers Most|can appear jollier than you]]!) - Ronstadt just seems so quiet and demure (and, with that idiotic little grin, like a [[Stepford Smiler]]) that she winds up dragging down the entire show. The Muppets try their best to compensate with their trademark subversive and even ghoulish humor, and Linda's first number, Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou", is fine (although she performs it in [[Fetish Retardant|nineteenth-century "granny" underwear]] [[WTH Costuming Department|for some odd reason]]), but the finale, with her singing "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", is just too sentimentalized and pathetic to make anyone feel good, made all the worse by resident [[Jerkass]] Rizzo the Rat actually ''shedding tears'' as he listens to the song. But perhaps the worst part is that (''[[Muppets Tonight]]'' and the odd special notwithstanding) [[Downer Ending|this was one of the last episodes the Muppets ever did on network TV]].
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Adipose these], essentially ''living fat''.
** Leave it to ''[[Doctor Who]]'' to combine Tastes Like Diabetes with horror...
*** See also, Fear Her. [[Narm|"Feel the love!"]]
** Some fans complain that the Tenth Doctor and Rose got like this.
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* The end of the TV film of [[The Stand]]. King ended the book with a mix of light and dark,but the miniseries really turned up the sentimentality and happier stuff.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Presumably [[One-Eyed Doll]] was going for this with the song Ponies (probably more so with the "Fluffy version").
* In general, music falling under this trope (songs that make your teeth decay) is called "schmaltz."
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ejCD6ZR0U "Dear Mr. Jesus"] by Power Source, is a hideously overwrought Christian pop/rock song about the evils of child abuse, sung by a six-year-old girl, and it somehow made it to #61 on the Billboard charts.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Love Is...]]''. Concentrated and undiluted example.
* ''[[Family Circus]]''. almost no one but 6-year-olds and grandmothers actually finds it anything but sickeningly sweet.
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* ''[[Monty]]'' played with the trope, adding the alarmingly cute Giggles the Bear to the cast. The strip claims readership reached an all-time high, citing letters like "After reading today's 'Giggles' strip, I cut it out and cuddled it - signed, My Inner Child", and "When I saw your new character/product line 'Giggles,' I felt a peculiar stirring in my loins - signed, Comic Syndicate Executive.".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* Subverted again in [[Munchkin]] Fu with the monster card "Big Eyes, Small Mouse". Its description? 'Too cute to live. Your duty is clear'.
* Candyland.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* "She's in Love" from [[The Musical]] version of [[The Little Mermaid]]. Just...uughh.
== Toys ==
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* [[My Little Pony]], [[Ear Worm|My Little Pony...]]
** The original series wasn't so sugary. In fact the pilot cartoon was a down-right [[Sugar Apocalypse]]. Around G3 is when it really started becoming this.
** And ''[[My Little Pony:
* Littlest Pet Shop. Those eyes are ''horrifying.''
* That darn [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx6mxDIKnYs Squinkies commercial]. I cringe everytime I hear it.
* [[P.J. Sparkles]]{{context}}
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* Parodied in ''[[Diablo III]]'' with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JeQzJC-vS40 Whimsyshire] as a [[Take That]] towards complaints about early screenshots being "too colorful".
* Parodied in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'':
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* In contrast to the somber [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moy2gSOgFvU Tragic Marionette] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdtJj5hwDGc Sinful Rose's Fragrance] that play of the [[Game Over]]s of the first two [[Disgaea]] games, [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]] has the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywOADyH7JM Maritsu Evil Academy Entrance Applicant Recruiting CM Song]: a tune so peppy and cheerful that most fans suspect that the game is making fun of them for dying.
* In ''[[Rod Land]]'', absolutely everything is cute, from the characters, to the bosses, to the surrounding environment.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** There's also Fa'Lina's [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_590.php slight cynicism towards the traditional happy ending.]
* Tiny Kitten Teeth, especially the Tigerbuttah strips. It's enough cute to make your brain reboot.
* Done (in a weird way) and lampshaded in [
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' features the ever so lovable ''Squiddles''! You can even [http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MSPA-SQUIDDLE-PRINT&Category_Code=MSPA-ART buy a poster]!
** An album of its [[Show Within a Show|hypothetical soundtrack]] has also been released, and it's just as sickeningly adorable. {{spoiler|Until you listen to the [[Last-Note Nightmare|final track...]]}}
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* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Susan began physically choking after Elliot and Sarah started flirting in the same room as her.
** And then there's [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-28 this.] Justin's response two pages later sums up everything that can be said about that...
* [[The Perry Bible Fellowship]] plays with this very often: lots of strips start too sweet, but end in some horrible bloody mess.
* Narbonic passed into this territory for a while. It was lampshaded by the characters wondering if they were disturbing the readers by being all cutesy and flirting all the time. They then remembered that they were evil, so the readers could suck it.
* ''[[Life of Maid]]'' portrays most of the ''[[Touhou]]'' cast as children using a [[Super-Deformed]] art style, so excessive adorableness has to be expected. Some strips [[Up to Eleven|ramp up the cuteness even further]] [[Played for Laughs|for the sake of comedy]]. See the most [[A Worldwide Punomenon|shining]] example [https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/479087 here] at your own risk.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* At one point, the cast of ''[[The Funday Pawpet Show]]'' got annoyed with a handfull of channel dwellers who kept complaining that the show was getting too raunchy. In response they split one episode into two parts - First half was ''The Squeaky Clean Pawpet & Friends Show'' which fit this trope, followed immediatly by ''The Poink Show'' which allowed the naughty weasel to crank the raunch [[Up to Eleven]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0wEYtmmuFQ/ Cute Explosion.]
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{{quote|Too many sweet things can make your brains ''sticky'' and '''''unpalatable'''''.}}
* The ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' ending is pretty cute on its own but multiply its cuteness by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgJvKme5_U putting Moemon in it.]
* Parodied in the 'Lost Notebook' episode of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311100430/http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]'', as the notebook is 'borrowed' by its owner's younger sister to doodle in. Thus surrounding the PTSD-suffering stick figures with fluffy, cutesy-talking friendly flowers, bees, teddy bears, and unicorns who join everyone's hands for the ''We're All Friends!'' song. Naturally, once her brother takes it back, [[Grotesque Cute|things go very, very wrong]]...
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101163205/http://cuteoverload.com/ Cute Overload.] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|That is all.]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIAoEbNR14o&feature=channel_page/ These puppies. GAZE UPON THE FUZZY]
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* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' tumblr [http://askfluttershyandpinkiepie.tumblr.com/ "Ask Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie"] is more or less pure saccharine, and even given that, Fluttershy's picture of Pinkie was [[Take Our Word for It|apparently]] cute enough to induce [[Cuteness Overload]] in the party pony.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Duckman]]''. Duckman's two teddy bear assistants' Fluffy and Uranus sweeter-than-sweet behavior often results in Duckman ''literally'' pulling the stuffing out of them in the most violent way possible.
* Awww... wook at [http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/bios/babydoll/09.jpg Baby] [http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/bios/babydoll/08.jpg Doll] (''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]''). Of course, she's [[Older Than They Look|really a thirty-year-old]] [[
* The ''[[Care Bears]]'' have a reputation for this (it's what "The Dummi Bears", a [[Show Within a Show]] on ''[[Rugrats]]'', was inspired by) - and they ''are'' a group of pastel-colored teddy bears, but the extent of its Tastes Like Diabetes status is more a case of the [[Weird Al Effect]].
** Though the overbearing cuteness in the first two movies are thankfully eclipsed by the films' ''darker'' undertones which, like any series or movie with a [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]] position, pretty much kill off any chance of it being ''completely'' saccharine. Plus, in retrospect, the so-called saccharine scenes in the first two movies and the original TV series are nothing compared to the Care Bears movies and TV series of today, as well as some other kids' franchises, to say the least.
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Lethal Inspection," we get [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6196q7D251qa619oo1_400.jpg baby Bender.]
** Lampooned mercilessly in the episode "Love and Rocket", and summed up nicely by Lrrr (Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8):
{{quote|"This
*** And from the same episode, the Lovey Bears.
* Many of [[Chuck Jones]]'s pre-''Dove Boys'' shorts such as the Sniffles series. He revisited his earlier penchant for the cutesy in ''[[Feed the Kitty]].''
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* (usually) Subverted by Bubbles Utonium on ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. She can induce diabetes in one moment then kick as much ass as her sisters the next.
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' has the prison of Lightrock expose the inmates to great amounts of cuteness to bring them to reform. It got mixed results with the Trix: while in prison they swore to be even more evil once they were out, but when they were about to be brought back in two seasons after breaking out they were ''absolutely terrifies'' of being imprisoned there again.
* Roll had this reaction in the ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon to a park attendant's overly sugary demeanor and voice.
* The [[Disney Junior]] cartoon ''[[T.O.T.S.]]'' is guilty of this. In every episode, the protagonists, Pip and Freddy, deliver super-cute, [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife|neon-colored]] baby animals. And they
== Other Media ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIl23eXv20 "A Google's Wish"] by StickFreeks.
* What do you get when you mix a cat with a duck? You get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq9ytQ83Bu8 Maneki Neko-Ducku, who makes everybody happy.]
* Daria McGrain's artwork mostly shows this trope, but that doesn't excuse the fact that nearly all of her artwork is definitely NSFW.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The streetcar system in Würzburg, Germany has a chorus of little kids announcing the next stop. Downright creepy, not to mention rather difficult for non-native speakers to understand.
* One symptom of uncontrolled diabetes is excretion of glucose in the urine. Back before the development of analytical chemistry, the only way to diagnose the condition was... [[Squick|You guessed it - tasting.]]
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