>It's a "character gets their fingers caught in

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>it's a bodyswap episode

>>90595809
Wasn't there a penis version of that joke in one show?

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>>90595809
>It's a 'character tries to go on two dates at once' episode

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>>90595873
>It's a guy and a girl body swapping episode

Name 5 cartoons that do this.

Dexter is the only one I can think of off the top of my head

>character reluctantly makes a minor sacrifice in a situation where a loved one would've otherwise been killed.
>it's portrayed as if this shows that they're selfless, rather than just that they're not a complete peice of shit.

>>90595981
Family Guy, maybe

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>it's a "Barry isn't fast enough and gets his ass kicked" episode

>>90595809
I completely forgot this was a thing. Why did they used to be so popular?

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>>90595809
>It's a "misunderstanding that could have easily been solved if the characters just talked" episode.

>it's a faggot OP thread

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>>90597481
>it's a "plot is completely established by main protagonist being a moron and doing something that sets off a series of events that wouldn't have happened had he just waited and asked someone what the button/device did" movie/episode

>>90595809
The sad thing about that is that those things are so shit than anyone stronger than a toddler can just rip those things by pulling hard.

>>90595873
Negro, those are pretty OK even if the writer is a moron. Especially if this >>90596103

>>90596761
It's still not five, but I believe Rocko did it too

>>90597623
Gravity Falls, right?

>>90596761
There's probably a TVtropes page for it. I think American Dragon did it.

>>90597924
Gravity Falls
9

>>90598024
What's the 9 supposed to mean?

>>90595809
>It's a cartoon misreprents reality by giving a happy ending to the episode episode

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>>90598040

>>90598211
Oh, right.

>>90596761
Rugrats did it too. Chuckie and Angelica wound up handcuffed together via some dumb cop playset and she lost the key so had to keep coming up with dumb excuses why she had to bring him everywhere.

The whole point of the trope is 'enemies being forced to be friends, or see things from their enemy's viewpoint' which gets done in many ways. Heck, the Futurama ep with Fry's head on Amy's body became this, too.

>It's a "protagonist is naked and has to run around, hiding in bushes etc. to avoid embarrassment" episode
>Unfortunately, the protagonist is almost never female

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>It's a "a secondary character singlehandedly saves the day" episode.

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>>90595873

>it's a bodyswap episode
>characters have the same voice despite their different bodies

>It's a "don't do drugs episode"
Batman Beyond had three seperate episodes about this, if I remember

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>It's a "Everyone get split up" episode where you get to see everyone act on their own for once

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>>90595809
>it's a "main character gets new friends and the old friends start acting like crap because of it" episode

>>90597658
>Negro, those are pretty OK

No, it's always the same "walk a day in my shoes" scenario where both characters act like insufferable cunts and make fools out of eachother's bodies. Even if you get >>90599338 it just makes it more of like the lame sitcom plot it is.

>Husband and wife switch places
>"Wow honey, staying at home and running the household really IS the tougher job"

>Siblings/friends want to be apart.
>They realize that they can't function without each other.
>This is portrayed as a healthy thing.

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>It's a "let's give a generation of kids a fetish" episode

>>90601486
if you were a boy watching this back then then you deserve whatever label your fetishes give you

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>>90599338
>Rebecca Cunningham switching bodies with Don Karnage

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>>90595809
>It's a character enters a science fair episode
>the joke is that first place is some stupid shit

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>it's a "let's travel to another dimension and meet alternative versions of ourselves" episode.

>>90602156
Whether or not hamsters can fly planes or a set of in-the-box Star Wars figures is very important stuff

>>90602156
And you can guarantee that the first place winner is gonna be a fucking fake volcano.

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>>90595809
>It's a "character all of a sudden gets rich and starts acting like a dick, only to loose it all in the end and learn a lesson" episode.

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>It's a battle of the sexes episode where the women come out on top for no discernible reason and everyone's out of character

>>90604495
Duckman has been the only show I've seen to do a "Battle of the Sexes" episode properly.

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>>90604495
This. Fuck this.

>>90600731
It's not always done with that moral in mind. Sometimes it's just for the fetish. Like Casey swapping with Rachel in the 2012 Turtles. That's what I'm into it for.

>>90595809
>their fingers caught in a Chinese finger trap for the duration of the episode

I loved how rugrats did it. Dil (I think) got his fingers stuck in one, and spent the entire episode trying to get them out. However, he'd randomly get them out by accident when gesturing or pointing at something, and would then put it back in to try and get it out again.

10 year old me found it hilarious.

>>90595809
>>it's the episode where the character wishes that he was never born, only to find out that everyone he knows has a better life without him

>>90604549
Viva Pinata has the absolute best boys vs girls episode. Chaotic has a great one two. The girl player fights as male creatures and the guy turns into hot female creatures and wins so no one knows what the fuck to think.

>>90599339
None of that shit worked. School used to have drug lessons each month, but everyone chewed dip and smoked weed.

>>90604707
I think we all know the "winner" for this bull.

>>90604837
Funny thing is, I kind of enjoyed them as a kid, but honestly, parents just need to talk to their kids, after that all fault lies in the child.

>>90604922
How many cartoons actually did this? It seems like most of them did it once.

>>90604976
I live in the South, so parents would just buy that shit for the kids. A family was murdered once because their heroin addiction got them in debt. Just killed them. Even the children.

>>90597623
>It's a "plot happens because character(s) conveniently became an idiot/asshole just to get said plot going" episode.

Or as I like to call it why I don't like MLP: FIM.

>>90604999
The one I was talking about was the FOP episode where Timmy does nice things for everyone for no reward, gets chewed out because of some minor detail, wishes he wasn't born and you know the rest.

>>90604549

Holy shit I remember that episode. Fucking gold. Most of the show was gold, but that one was definitely top 3.

>>90605158
TV Tropes says Rugrats, Hey Arnold, The Angry Beavers, CatDog, and SpongeBob also did a take on this. And all of those episodes are terrible.

>>90605246
Johnny Bravo did it. I remember that episode.

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>>90595809
>It's the "Obscure movie reference no child would ever get" episode.

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>good guy starts turning into a bad guy

>>90599455
Voltron did this in a comic and honestly was one of the better things that has come out of Legendary Defenders, a shame it wasn't an episode.

>>90605294
If my memory is correct, American Dad did this. I think the Powerpuff Girls did it too. What's the point of even referencing a movie from 1946 anyway?

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>small lie that snowballs into a bunch of big lies episode

>>90605311
Basically the "It's A Wondeful Life" episode that most cartoons. Their grandparents' wouldn't even get it!

>>90605137
I somewhat share the same feelings, wonder how many episodes like that are gonna be in this next season.

>>90605369
Not only that but they're doing it wrong, in "It's A Wondeful Life" everyone was miserable when the main character was taken out. I can say I enjoyed the Tiny Toons Christmas special for pulling it off in their own way (Buster about to jump off the film strip)

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>It's an episode where there's a bad moral that's supported by in-show fictional/unrealistic or at least very unlikely examples (most of which wouldn't even normally happen in the show but do just so this episode seems more legit) as if they are real life examples

>>90597031
100%

>>90599196
>Unfortunately, the protagonist is almost never female
I can't even think of a good example when it's just a female character.

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>It's an episode where the moral is to just be happy and accept things as they are instead of seeking personal growth and change because you'll probably just make everything worse

>>90605713
Can't think of any episode but that just sounds ridiculous

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>>90605713

>jerk character becomes nice
>he's too nice or something
>everyone wants him to be an asshole again
>"mission of the day" can only be solved when jerk character has to stop being nice

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It's a "something great happens to a character but you know it's not gonna last because of status quo" episode

>>90605779
Especially if every other interaction with this jerk character was the others wanting them to be nice.

>It's an "action girl" episode

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>its that episode where a character has to apologize for a misunderstanding that wasn't his fault
>Its that episode when a massive misunderstanding could have been avoided if you just shouted the a correction to the misinformation over the person that would have debunked their misconception so hard they infact would have probably been sorry for calling you out considering the circumstance but instead they don't insist on getting the truth out and get fucked over for no good reason throughout the rest of the episode.

I mean fucking seriously, it's so fucking easy for these characters to simply explain themselves sometimes. How about a moral about being articulate and assertive for once? God fucking damn.

>>90605779
god forbid some character development happens and they learn a healthy medium or something

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>It's a fantastic voyage episode

>>90597084
Which one?

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>It's a "Protagonists are going to a brand new place/world/carnival/ect but something stop them and you never get to see that place in the show"

>It's a "character overhears and misunderstands something" episode.

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>>90605909

>character actually gets the chance to logically explain and provide evidence and so on
>"That's the stupidest excuse I've ever heard!"

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>it's a villain team-up episode

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>>90606002
>It's named "Journey to the center of ____ "

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>It's a stranded (most likely on an island) episode where everyone dicks around but nothing really happens except for people getting angry, hungry and breaking things until people show up out of no where to save them and that's the end of that.

>It's the same episode where they almost cannibalize each other and/or really learn how to work together and afterwards never talk about it again and continue having the exact same relationship as they did before with each other.

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>>90595873
>At least I can figure out who the flash is
>...I have no idea who this is

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>>90606285
>It's a stranded episode, but gets into "Lord of the Flies" territory.

>Character gets punished painfully and publicly because of a very minor mistake/poor decision.

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>>90604483
Likewise
>It's a joke character gets incredibly power and becomes a massive asshole episode

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>>90606226
>Character feels the need to redeem themselves in that persons eyes after that instead of doubling down on their position, being mutually salty, or dismissing them as a moron

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>>90605909
>>90606109
>It's a "character misinterprets a conversation about him which out of context sounds like they are shitting on him" episode

>it's a video game episode
>someone on top of a building starts throwing barrels

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>>90604483
>It's a "dick character gets rich" episode.
>They become good.

>>90606456
>video game episode
>video game is animated in the exact same way as the show's "real world"

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>Its that episode where the character tells a forgivable lie, or makes a forgivable mistake, and it's blown out of proportion to the extent the other party is more in the wrong than they are but they still have to grovel at their feet anyway

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>Character explains something in a perfectly reasonable and easy to understand way

>"In english please?"

FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>90606361
Yeah, but of you've read it you know they got "saved" at the end

This thread picked up pretty fast

>>90595809
There's not enough of these

>>90606285
To be fair, I guess, there are a lot of times in different cartoons where a seemingly life changing experience happens but never gets brought up again

>Character gets stranded/trapped somewhere remote/sent flying into the distance/chased away.

>Are back to where they normally are the next episode with no explanation

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>>90606508
I never get why they think we're all retarded we can't get basic techno-babble or rudimentary scence talk he'll it's not just in cartoons even in business movies they spend at least 10 minutes explaining basic shit

>>90606491
Any specific examples? I know this happens, but I'm curious

>It's a "crappy romantic subplot that eventually overshadows the main plot and proceeds to ruin the show" episode

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>>90606654
>It's a love-triangle.

>>90606508
>Sniffs, adjusts glasses
>Now, according to my calculations
>If I just recalibrate the mainframe

>It's a supernatural disease episode.
>It's heavily implied to be potentially fatal, but that's never really addressed or commented upon

>>90601486
I watched that show all the time at a tender age and it didn't give me any fetishes at all. Looking back, it's a god-damned miracle

>Character gets the opportunity of a lifetime.
>Rather than trying to work out a compromise, they just drop it for their friends/family

>>90606650
I had one but I forgot it
sorry

>>90604495
the "boys vs. girls episode" is a trope that gets brought up quickly in every one of these threads, yet I can't think of a single instance of this. What shows wasn't I watching?

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>It's a circus episode

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>Something dramatic happens.
>Comic relief goes "DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN"

>>90604549
explain plz
>>90604750
Oh I member that episode of Chaotic

>>90606757
OH MY GOD RIGHT?!
LIKE IN GRAVITY FALLS
WHY DIDNT MABEL JUST GET TUTORED BY THEIR UNCLE /WITH/ DIPPER?!

>It's an apocalypse episode.

>>90606789
I think teen titans go did it

>>90606862
I guess so they could have that dramatic bus goodbye at the end as symbolism for growing up or something. That's all I got.

>It's that episode where the character finds a new hobby or interest and gets too into it and instead of learning self-discipline/balance/reevaluating their life choices they give it up for rest of their life so they can be a normie and/or give into the peer pressure of their shitty friends.
>king of the hill did this in the episode where hank learns that he likes vidya games

>>90606948
I mean you can grow up and also have a prestigious education

>The main character doesn't have any significant flaws, but you want them to learn a lesson every episode.
>You make up a new flaw that they have for one episode each.

>>90607098
And even if they wanted to do the whole end of summer goodbye, they could've just had them say they'll take the offer next year, or in a few years

>>90601486
>>It's a "let's give a generation of kids every fetish" episode
FTFY

>>90606789
The only time I've actually like it was Chipmunk Adventure, it's a race around the world with each group visiting different locals and then working together in the end, everybody's happy.
>And that awesome scene in Rome, just yes.

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>>90606876

>it's an everyone dies episode

>>90606838
Not that guy but here is the episode in question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrbYCXt8uTU&index=46&list=PL138BAE83A814C453

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>it's a time travel episode
>mc unknowingly sets the event that which their parents meet and ultimately get together

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>>90598124

>Villain and hero swap roles

>>90607720
Those can be neat

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>"I just want to be normal"
>"I don't want those powers"
>"I must literally explain what's going on around me all the time"
>"I am wasting my time doing stupid shit when people need me"

>>90598687
OP specifically said Chinese finger trap, but I get what you mean - it's a common trope.

>>90604922
The correct answer is Married With Children, though IIRC FOP did the same joke.

>>90597623
Giant Robo in the saddest way possible

>>90606534
Piggy didn't.

>>90606690
ENHANCE

>>90596761
Milo Murphys Law

>character randomly gets into a new hobby
>discovers they have an amazing natural talent for it
>they get really into it, usually enter and are about to win some big competition but some stupid reason causes them to ultimately give up the hobby and their talent is never mentioned again

>watching cartoon around someone
>character says 10 or so words that are slightly above basic words, but in the "dude that was complex and hard to understand" slightly fast manner
>"excuse me? haha what was that!"

>>90607048
>>king of the hill did this
PEGGY GETS AWAY WITH FUCKING UP THE GAME BECAUSE SHE WAS RIGHT

>>90606643
Ned's having a hard time keeping up

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>>90604922

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>>90605369
What's the point of anything, anon?

>>90605369
so some of the kids can grow up to watch the movie, rewatch the cartoon and go "oh, so that's what that was"

>>90606643
HAS ANYONE SEEN THE MOVIE TRON?

>>90597084

So it's every episode?

>>90604483
Given how often Ron pointed out troupes in Kim Posable I really thought that he was going to subvert it but he acted like every other character who got rich in a cartoon, he should have been better than that.

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>>90609198

>>90605670
The Simpsons

>>90604549
Kids Next Door had a good one.

>>90604366
OH COME ON

>>90611130
What was it?

>>90611146
Operation F.U.G.I.T.I.V.E, the episode where that sexist Scottish kid made her first appearance.

>>90606789
X-Men Evolution did it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KwbgGZuLUCE

>>90601171
>two characters switch places
>in the end they both think the other person has the harder job

>>90606789
Phineas and Ferb did it.
Spongebob had a "land creatures vs sea creatures" episode.

Why is /co/ so enamored with redemption plots?

>>90606643
American education

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>its a "everyone in the thread already took up the good replies, and you cant contribute something original" episode

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>It's a Ralph burns down the school episode.

>>90605713
South Park- any time Cartman pretends to be good
Steven Universe- Rocknaldo
The Simpsons- the one where Burns goes broke, Lisa helps him, but realizes he'll never change

>>90611610
because it makes you feel like there's more to the story than just good vs. evil

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>it's a the probability of success are extremely low
but the hero still manage to win because you shouldn't believe in probability and believe in the heart of the cards or some other bullshit episode

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>>90605779
This guy.

>>90601486
>Tropes are fetish bullshit
It's not the writer fault if you get a chubby thinking about character being flattened or inflated like a balloon.those tropes use to be Looney Tunes jokes,for fuck sake

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>>90606109
>it's a "protagonists are going to a new place/world" episode
>they actually go but it all happens off-screen you you don't see anything

>>90612236
bullshit. they're late teenagers in skintight body-suits who always get caught in some bondage or some bullshit. that is patented rocket grade fetish fuel.

>>90606109
>When are they getting to the firework factory!

>>90612236
It seems you're very new to French animation.

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>>90595809
>it's a "character makes a shitload of clones of himself" episode

>>90606109
>what is Nagasaki
This got me hot and bothered when Jin said they had already passed it

>>90605537
>Not only that but they're doing it wrong, in "It's A Wondeful Life" everyone was miserable when the main character was taken out
It's not that they're doing it wrong, it's a parody do they did the opposite of what happened in It's a Wonderful Life for humorous purposes but eventually that became the norm and it just became yet another cliche instead of a subversive parody.

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>>90612764
>And the clones have different personalities, leaving the protagonists without emotions

>it's a "side characters get their day in the spotlight" episode
>main characters keep showing up in the background doing completely unrelated things
>B side of that episode is shown from the main character's perspective

>>90607451
>MC and the crew do some shit that'd fuck up history as we know it
>it's neither addressed within the episode or ever again

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>>90613345

>>90611017
Would have been nice to have a rich Ron, wouldn't have to bring it up every episode either, just have Ron get the most expensive items on the menu as a call back and that's it.

>>90611166
I actually thought you were gonna mention the time travel episode where girls have nearly taken over the world and are forcefully converting boys into girls.

>>90611610
Because sometimes a villain comes along that fans like, want to see more of said character but know they wont unless they go good or at the very least neutral.

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>>90611661
>Its a "At least you wanted to contribute instead of shit posting" episode.

>>90611986
I only like that when we're give a very good reason, I don't know about the other characters but at least Yugi had the Millennium Puzzle working in his favor in that department.

>The hero is more physically powerful than the villain

>Likable villain tries to go good, but fails because power vacuum/being a good guy is boring/some other stupid bullshit
I understand not everyone is meant for redemption, and the idea can be well-executed, but if there isn't a good reason that they fail, the episode just feels like a waste of time.

>>90614601
>Implying a villain that gets by with his wits, resources, and connections can't compelling
>Implying the only way to be a threat is physically
>Implying Muhammed Ali could take down Al Capone because "LOL he could beat him in a fight"

>>90601557
>Not watching whatever cartoon happened to be on at the time.

>>90615159
If you had CN, you also had Disney and Nick. You could always choose the least of three evils.

>>90614781
Are you retarded? They literally didn't say it was a bad thing. So autistic

>>90602309
These are usually pretty good.

>>90615324
Tropes threads are implicitly negative unless stated otherwise. It's a fact, Jack.

>>90606364
Beelzebub did this great

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>>90595809
>It's a rule 63 episode

>>90606654
Arrow

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>Past episode is retold from the point of view of a supporting character

>>90615429
>it's a rule 63 episode and the characters behave in a realistic manner
>never

>>90615181
>Disney

Live action

>Nick

Live Action.

>>90615181
>t. Amerifat
Most cable packages in Europe only had either CN or Nick. And only the more expensive ones had Disney. I only ever watched CN and only saw a handful of Nick shows while at friends' houses. The only Disney shows I ever saw was what my home country's channels bought and aired on Saturday mornings or Sunday afternoons, and that was usually just one hour of programming.

>>90604495
>Boy vs. girls episode
>Boys that were always okay towards girls are suddenly raging sexists

>>90616968
>South Park
>Futurama
>Teen Titans GO

All come to mind, but there are probably others

>>90617097
>Chaotic
>Guys won, but only by playing female characters
>Nobody knew how to take that, even in the show

>It's a "hey everyone, let's shit on the kid/man that we know can mindrape everyone in a 30 mile radius or shoot spikes out of his body!" episode
>OH GOD, WHY DID HE ATTACK US WITH HIS POWER! HOLY FUCK, HE JUST VAPORIZED SOMEONE!
>Person with powers gets blamed for bad shit going down

>>90615389
But Furuichi wasn't an asshole, he just wanted to be treated better for once and pay back to those who bullied him.
Heck he even saves some kid.

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>It's a "Girl pretends to be a dude by talking in stereotypical baritone and going "YEAH, SPORTS!" every other sentence

>>90613909
Yugi has an ancient magic item that lets him control fate, but still needs to stall sometimes until he draws into the card to solve the current problem. Meanwhile the protagonists in subsequent shows consistently draw their ace monster on the first or second turn.

>>90606789
Kids next door did it

Also maybe My Gym Partners a Monkey

>Character has a constant goal
>Like Steve from American Dad trying to get laid
>Every episode revolving around it ends with the character not getting what they want because of shitty asspulls and events that are too improbable to believe even for a cartoon

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>It's a "Main character gets left out because his friend groups starts to hang out with a 'Cool' version of them"

>>90619268
Ah yes, the 'status quo", I quite dislike it as well.

>>90620561
It's not even that, it's the way the status quo is maintained is so shitty that it's just frustrating.

And we all know that, using the same example, Steve will never get laid, so there's no point in making episodes about it anymore. We already know the punchline, so the joke falls flat.

>>90620645
Agreed, it's funny once or twice, three times seems to much and after that you lost me. What I hate is that he actually gets a girlfriend and for some reason the show removes her.

>>90619605
getting paranoid over such things is actually pretty relatable to me

>>90605137
But that only happens with Rainbow Dash now, and she doesn't even have that many episodes

>>90605762
The classic Spongebob episode where Plankton travelled to a different world where he was in Krabs' position a thought it "wasn't worth it"

>>90606243
but don't you love seeing villains together?

>>90608692
don't leave out Simon, he was their Jesus

>>90621393
No, others are guilty for it. It was very annoying.

>>90621694
I really can't remember a single episode like that from Season 6, besides, once again, a couple of RD ones

>>90617135
Chaotic was ahead of it's time. When we will ever get a show where the boys turn into sexy monster girls again?

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>it's a school shooting episode

>>90623074
>it's a forced meme episode

>>90623074
I think Static Shock was the only one to handle that one well, although, they didn't need to add Static talking to the audience at the end.

>>90618720
>Guy crossdresses and puts on a falsetto voice and adds an -a to their name

>>90623191

pretty hot

>>90623074
I always wondered why more teen dramas and cartoons set in school don't use school shooting episodes to half the cast or fire a bunch of douchey actors by killing off their characters. Like if someone writing at Clarence or Star Vs was sick of all these supporting characters, so he decided to kill them all off in a school shooting episode.

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>>90613384
>you realize that the side characters are 100x more interesting then the main characters
>their stories are far better
>it was a one off episode and they go back to the main character again

>>90611533
I thought the way this episode handled the battle of the sexes was pretty cringy. Jean was being a huge bitch for no reason. Fuck off Jean.

>People ITT think It's A Wonderful Life is an obscure movie
>It's on TV literally every Christmas

>the protagonist is by far the blandest character

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>>90604495
fucking this. Even as a kid I smelled the bullshit.

>>90598211
Never saw it, can anybody elaborate?

>Character 1 says or does something
>Character 2 acknowledges in an unremarkable manner
>"Wow character 2, aren't you going to say your catchphrase/do your gimmick for comic effect?"

>>90605713
Would that include the Family Guy episode where Meg realized she needed to be treated like shit or her family would self destruct? Hated it

>>90622035
Not him, and I actually like some of these episodes but:
No Second Prances: Twilight acts like an asshole to Trixie despite forgiving her in her last episode
Applejack's Day Off: AJ forgets how to farm for the sake of the plot
Flutter Brutter: Zeph acts like an asshole for the sake of the plot
Spice Up Your Life: Rarity forgets her defining characteristic, and fucking namesake for the sake of the plot
The Cart Before the Ponies: All the big sisters act like assholes for the sake of the plot
28 Pranks Later: RD acts like an asshole for the sake of the plot
Times are a Changeling: Everyone is justifiably racist towards Torax, Spike betrays him for the sake of the plot
Every Little Thing She Does: Glimmer regresses and brainwashes the mane 6 for the sake of the plot
PPOV: A bunch of horses act like assholes and sink a boat for the sake of the plot

Anon never said they had to be out of character, also he said it's why he doesn't like FiM, not FiM anymore, which is understandable because the show has been using this trope since S1, though back then it was less frequent and usually due to a legitimate misunderstanding.

>>90601486
>>90607216
>It's a "Let's give a generation of kids every fetish" show
FTFY

>>90597084
>It's a Barry has to go faster episode

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>>90605137
>>90621393
>>90621694
>>90622035
>>90627627

You have to go back.

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>>90595809
>It's a "bully victim fights back and gets in trouble" episode

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>>90606109
>Be little kid from Delaware
>I actually got excited when I saw the "Simpsons are going to Delaware!" episode
>Realize it's a shitty three stories episode
>It spends about 17 seconds actually in Delaware
>mfw

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The reason I cant rewatch KOTH is because of all the "the entire community turns on hank for no reason until the last 5 minutes" episodes

completely insufferable. not even peggy episodes were this bad

>>90605410
>mom makes us watch It's A Wonderful Life every Christmas
>tfw it really isn't a wonderful life at all and George Bailey will continue to have a shit life where everything just shits all over his dreams and he'll die in that disgusting Building and Loans office that he always hated
>George's gay little piano playing brat will probably be shackled to it eternally after George dies
>the suffering will never stop

>>90640087

Bailey has a good life. In the beginning he's really cheerful, and hell, one of Potter's men tells him Bailey Building and Loan is going to be the primary concern in town, hell, Bailey's confident enough to dress Potter down at the start.

It's just that Christmas eve happens to be the worst goddamn day of his entire life, and when everything that you build starts to unravel, that's when you start questioning your choices.

That's part of what bugs me about the remakes and rip-offs. They start from a baseline position of misery. It's a wonderful life is about persevering through a bad patch by being reminded not just of the good you've brought into the world, but the people you love in the world. It's not about "suck it up and deal with your miserable existence for some goddamn reason or other."

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>It's a "enough practice will make you good enough to beat your rival in a competition" episode

I'm sure there's one out there but I would love to see an episode of something address the fact that sometimes people are just born to be better at something than you.

>>90597658
>The sad thing about that is that those things are so shit than anyone stronger than a toddler can just rip those things by pulling hard.
I see you've only encountered shit-tier finger traps.

>>90647334
Steven Universe, Back to the Barn.

ITT:Whining about filler episodes.

>>90606650
if you are okay with ponies go watch mysterious mare do well.

>>90606650
World War II.

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>>90627627
anyone who didn't realize this shit was a fantasy pony version of rocketpower is an idiot. of course the whole show was going to be this way. the real accomplishment isn't that this is a mlp cartoon that's good but that they made their Otto stand ins halfway likeable.

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>it's the same episode THREE times

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>>90649340

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>>90649362

>>90611007
>So it's every episode
It's treason then.

>Its a "Rival team are all jerks" episode

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>it's a One Small Favour episode

>>90604495
>it's a girl power character stomps the guy episode
>the guy fights back on equal footing

has any madman ever done this

>>90606654
Adventure Time

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>>90623191
>it's a multiple males attempt to do this to sneak into somewhere and the only one who succeeds is the guy who doesn't even bother with the falsetto episode

>>90651494
Story on the pic? That's rekt thread material!

>it's a military nerd character goes full Big Boss operator episode

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>>90606836
one of the many reasons to not watch anime

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>>90609748
w-what is a 'slightly above basic word'?

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>>90623191
give it to me.

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>>90649340
WHEN YOU SEE HIM IN POLAND

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>>90601486
>find out they had a vore episode
>it was fucking plants

>>90601486
>It's a "let's give a generation of kids a fetish" series
ftfy

>>90626868
nein

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>>90615445
>Done in a way which retcons the episode so that the supporting character was the hero
Fuck you Peas.

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>>90619605
>'Cool' version dies in a motorcycle accident

>>90652116
>They even have a butt/hip expansion episode (in the spinoff)
Impressive

Rocko's modern life ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE

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>it's a "protagonist 'hero' is retarded and fucking ruins everything but gets off scot-free and we're still supposed to be rooting for him because he's the protagonist" episode

>>90652087
plant vore is good though

good substitute for monster/tentacle vore

>>90652186
>Goku
Go back to writing for Death Battle.

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>>90652211
I just wanted Mandy to eat someone, is that too much to ask for?

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>>90606243
>It's a villain vs villain episode

>>90652289
that's something a simply memory wipe wouldn't fix

>>90627627
>No Second Prances: Twilight acts like an asshole to Trixie despite forgiving her in her last episode
I disagree. I would do exactly the same as Twilight did in that ep. Last time she didn't "act like an asshole" towards a redeemed villain, he joined forces with another villain.

>>90652289
>giantess/macro vore

no

>>90618720
>The entire second act of Mulan

>>90627627
>Spice Up Your Life: Rarity forgets her defining characteristic, and fucking namesake for the sake of the plot
I'd argue that her namesake meant more of a "unusually good at something" than "unusually creative at something"... Plus she did have a point: you can be creative all you want, but if she didn't advertise their restaraunt, nobody would still go there.

>>90597031
it was a family guy cutaway, not a whole episode

>>90651516
Just kids fucking around.

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>episode where a side character learns the main character's secret and joins their team

>>90652341
>preferring incapacious normal size stomach to a giantess one
absolute madman

>>90652462
>false dichotomy
absolute madman

>>90652527
>false dichotomy
its true tho

>>90651268
And then they become friends in the end all because they were beaten and are easily forgiven despite being massive pricks. If you're gonna have jerk characters at least keep them jerks for a while after.

>>90647334

There are exceptions (height for basketball players for example) but almost universally it is hard work for a long time that leads to greatness.

Talent is overrated.

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>>90624016
>show is significantly better when utilizing side characters

>>90652153
RIP Country Mac

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>it's a "main character gets a new girlfriend" episode

>its a mabel falls in love with X character again

>It's a bitch has daddy issues which is why she's a bitch episode

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>It's a "Character shows other characters their new toy but they aren't allowed to play with it" episode
Gee, I wonder what's going to happen.

>>90654562
Hello "Educated Halfrican" Malcolm Gladwell.

>>90655661
Never mommy issues, for some reason

>>90655793
Actually in Friendship is Magic, we learn the that the bitchy Diamond Tiara got her bitchiness from her mother. Hopefully future appearances of Diamond actually having her being a friend now.

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>>90655619
That's not so bad

>>90656132
I really hope Marco stays with her, I know there were lingering feelings for Star over the course of the show but he's always been pining for Jackie.

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>>90595873
its a bodyswap episode between a girl and a boy of different age groups

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>>90595809
>it's the one episode where an otherwise funny and careless series shifts into an abyss of despair and sadness.

>>90606310
only good, not-cliche bodyswap episode ever

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>It is a "character who shows no trait to like activity X engages in it for some potato reason, beating the guy who has being practicing all his life and that is cocky about his skill in said activity" episode

>>90615181
i had kika and toggo
bad
but had some good cartoons sometimes
when they actually aired

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>>90656843
source?

>>90652019
Wat.

>>90653134
>not preferring cock vore

Weak.

>>90657327
Disregard, found it eventually.

>>90656505
>It's a bodyswap episode and the boy checks his new body out in private

>>90604495
Someone's got baggage...

>>90658955

IIRC One Piece made fun of that.

and Captain Simian's Spyder's comment "i wonder what they gonna do when they'll need to go to a bathr-"

>>90606508
The worst example I've seen is still in Interstellar, in the scene where an astronaut has to dumb down the explaination of a black hole in order to explain it to ANOTHER ASTRONAUT

>>90652270

>"Goku, if we lose the tournament, we lose OUR Planet Earth, so don't fuck it up"
>Willingly steps out of the platform to fight all-out, but runs out of energy
>"Goku, don't forget the Senzu, we don't know what we're dealing with in the future"
>Goku proceeds to leaven them in the toilet
>"Goku, take care of the Mafuba urn, we need that to seal Zamasu"
>Goku proceeds to leave the urn in the time machine seconds before its destruction
>"Goku, we fixed the urn and sealed Zamasu, but where's the sealing amulet?"
>Goku left it at Master Roshi's

Let's be serious, if Goku wasn't a fucking retard, the Black/Zamasu saga wouldn't be as long as it is

>>90606477
Yeah haha I hate this.. At least pixelate it or something

>>90659167
I think in Code Lyoko, Odd and Yumi switched bodies and she even explicitly told him not to look at her bra.

"Yumi" is then later seen in different clothes...

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>>90604495

how about this one? she's good at everything but sewing.

>>90659385
The Toyotaro manga does it a bit better. Zamasu destroyed the Senzu and was too powerful for the Mafuba.

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>>90615429
>It's a genderswap episode
>The MC has a better life as a girl than as a guy

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>it's a "main character becomes a total fucking butt-monkey for an episode" episode

>>90595809
That hasn't been done in ages, why though? Have they become so obscure?

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>>90599338
>It's a body swap episode
>The voices don't swap

>>90660320
Sock Opera comes to mind.

>>90606109
>Candied Island

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>It's a fetish fuel episode

>>90611595
>Spongebob had a "land creatures vs sea creatures" episode.
and the sea creatures won but still said they lost

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>it's a "main character is an extremely petty asshole" episode
>it's also every episode

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>It's an "everyone works together to clean up the house after a party before their parents get home" episode.

>>90606456
>>90606477
>Video game episode
>BLEEP BLOOP BLEEP BLOOP

>>90660862
>Video game episode
>Show's title card music is in chiptune/8 bit

>>90606654
every single CW show

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>>90660855
>the end joke is that something obvious is left for the parents to figure out there was a house party

>>90659627
>how about this one?
man, cartoon animals wearing only shoes is so much lewder than nothing at all. It's like you know they're naked so much more.

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>It's an "don't get distracted and stay focus and you win this easily but MC fucks up becuse of a minor incident" episode

>>90661310
Example?

>>90661709
not really MC but Lord Hater

>>90601557
...heterosexual?

>>90605779
King of the Hill.

>>90606361
Is that movie in your pic any good? I'm told it's trippy kino but it just looks like Monty Python/Gilliam animation and I can't stand that shit.