List of fourth wall breaks

The term "Breaking the fourth wall" is used to describe an acknowledgement by fictional characters that they are in fact fictional and there is an audience watching them. In such circumstances, they will point out tropes or narrative cliches, and, on occasion, they directly address the audience. Normally, the character who breaks the fourth wall the most often is Marshall, alongside other characters.
*In "Pups Make a Splash", Rubble appears and exclaims his usual catchphrase while looking at the viewers, as he skateboards over to Katie's Pet Parlor, in the beginning of the episode.
*In "Pups Save the Sea Turtles", after Alex got a crab out of his trousers, the crab goes over to the camera annoyed; however, it manages to get the iris out before the crab pinches the viewers at the end.
*In "Pup Pup Boogie", Zuma realizes he's on the roundabout and says "Uh oh!" to the viewers.
*In "Pups Save the Circus", there are two, both referencing the greatest show/act in all of Adventure Bay towards the audience. This happens with Ryder and Skye.
*In the end of "Pup a Doodle Do", Marshall asks Ryder why all their adventures can't be on TV, and Ryder says "You never know Marshall." Then Ryder looks at the audience before the iris out.
*In "Pups Fight Fire", Ryder and Mayor Goodway both say that Marshall has 11 minutes to beat the Fastest Fire Pup time, which references the average length of a PAW Patrol standard episode's runtime.
*In "Pups Get a Lift", Marshall says "Do not try that at home." This is because he was on a fast snowball, after a mishap.
*In "Pups and the Ghost Pirate", when Rubble thinks of a trick to do, one of the things he mentions was "speak", and declines by saying "We all do that". Technically, dogs don't speak in real life.
*In "Pups Save Christmas", when Skye spots the first bag of presents, Marshall and Chase look at each other during a split-screen when both race towards the bag.
*In "Pups Save a School Day", Rubble looks at the viewer when he said that he is not a backpack, after finding one of Farmer Yumi's old bandannas.
*In "Pups Save Ryder", Ryder is whistling the tune of the theme song at the beginning.
*In the beginning of "Pups Save the Penguins", Cap'n Turbot hums to the tune of the theme song.
*At the end of "Pups Save a Dolphin Pup", the PAW Patrol members look at the audience before the iris out.
*In "Pups Save an Ace", there are two:
**Marshall looks at the audience before he flies a kite.
**Skye and Ace look at the audience at the end.
*In "Pups Save a Wedding", Farmer Al and Farmer Yumi kiss, but the farmer uses his hat to prevent the audience from seeing the kiss. This was shown for obvious reasons.
*In "Pups and the Big Freeze", while arriving on the elevator before everyone else, Marshall looks at the viewers happily saying "Pretty cool, aren't I?" while the other pups laugh at his pun.
*In "Pups Save a Show", Marshall says "Wow, two patients in one day!" to the viewers.
*in "Pups Save a Mer-Pup", Cap'n Turbot shows the PAW Patrol a picture of his thumb during a photo of a Mer-Pup, but Chase is skeptical and turns to look at the audience.
*In "Pups Save the Queen Bee":
**Cap'n Turbot hums the theme song at the beginning.
**Marshall looks at the viewers at the end, before a seagull steals his treat.
*In "Pups Leave Marshall Home Alone", Rubble said that he dreamt that cats would talk, even though dogs don't talk in real life.
*In "Pups Save an Adventure", Marshall tells Alex what real firefighters do during the mission to get the latter's fire safety badge.
*In "Pups Save a Surprise", a banner was shown for PAW Patrol Appreciation Day, and on the banner shows a promotional poster of the show.
*In "Pup-Fu!", Marshall looks at the audience a few times when he's at Farmer Yumi's farm.
*At the end of "Pups Save Walinda", Cap'n Turbot looks at the audience as he says "Now that's some marvelous munchies!"
*In "Pups Save the PAW Patroller", Chase tells the audience "It's nice to have someone else doing the driving."
*In "Pups Save the Hippos":
**The conga dance plays as background music, and a few characters are dancing and singing to the tune, although it's not playing on Raimundo's radio.
**Before he went to the Lookout, Marshall looks at the viewers confused.
*In "Tracker Joins the Pups!", Tracker tells the viewers "That was a close one!" after the PAW Patroller honked the horn to a snake.
*In "Pups Save a Dragon", there were several during the entire episode:
**Ryder looks at the viewers at the beginning.
**Chase looks at the audience during his line "Did somebody say dragon?".
**After Marshall wakes up, he looks at the audience and tells them they can see him.
**The dragon in the dream breathes fire on the camera at one point.
**When the dream ends, Rubble wakes Marshall up saying he will miss the play, and the latter tells the viewers they will miss the play as well, even though the scene transitions to the play as time goes on.
**The end of the episode has Marshall saying his dragon's tail pun to the viewers, "And this is the... end." A few seconds later, the episode fades out as it reaches its end.
***Out of all episodes that have a fourth wall break in an episode, this one is the most, with six.
*In "A Pup in Sheep's Clothing", Marshall looks at the viewers at the beginning of his line "I just love gold stars."
*In "Pups Save a Robo-Saurus":
**At the beginning where all the pups eats the patties Mrs. Wingnut gave them, Earl tries to grab Marshall's. When he notices Earl just standing there, he looks at the viewer confused.
**When Earl went back to the ranch via the PAW Patroller, he looks at the viewer and tells them "Yum!" at the very end.
*In "Pups Save a Pony", Priscilla looks at the audience at the end before it irises out on her.
*At the beginning of "Pups in a Jam", before Marshall dances with a sombrero, he looks at the camera.
*In "Pups Save a Space Toy", a spinning telescope accidentally bangs Marshall in the head, and four hallucinating spinning stars spin over him. However Marshall can see the spinning stars.
*At the end of "Pups Save a Giant Plant", Marshall, Skye and Chase made eye contact to the audience.
*During the jungle scene in "Mission PAW: Pups Save the Royal Throne", Marshall jumped over rocks without a mishap, and he talks to the viewers that he hasn't tripped once, until he slips on a banana peel (thanks to Sweetie).
*In "Pups Save a Space Rock", Everest looks at the camera annoyed because of an argument between Cap'n Turbot, Francois and a space rock.
*In "Pups Save a Cloud Surfer", Cap'n Turbot looks at the camera when he said that the wind is taking Daring Danny X into the sky.
*In "Pups Save Luke Stars", before the elevator goes up with the pups, Marshall does his usual wipe-out gag, and again there were four hallucinating stars and Marshall can see them.
*At the end of "Sea Patrol: Pups Save Puplantis", an octopus snatches Cap'n Turbot's camera, and the captain mentioned that his camera has made excellent Mer-pup pictures. He then tells the audience that he'll have to wait until for the next Mer-moon.
*In "Pups Save the Kitty Rescue Crew", Mayor Humdinger makes up his own version of the theme song about his kitties, so that they can look better than the PAW Patrol.
*In "Pups Go for the Gold", Zuma and Rubble look at the screen while they are talking to Ryder about Chewington, however Marshall looks at the camera properly while he says that he loves Chewington.
*In "Pups Save an Underground Chicken":
**Ryder whistles to the tune of the theme song at the beginning while he walks to his ATV.
**Before the screen transitions back to City Hall, Skye looks at the viewer when she said "How can something so big disappear so quickly?".
**After Chase barks out his heat-sensing goggles, he looks at the viewer.
*At the end of "Pups Save the Bookmobile", Marshall looked at the screen as he says that he loves happy endings.
*In "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Tigers", Marshall looks at the viewer after he says "Tiger?" before he and the rest of the PAW Patrol (excluding Skye and Zuma) enter a volcano.
*In "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Movie Monster", Cat Marshall looks annoyed to the camera when Mayor Humdinger says to him and the rest of the kitties that he finally got control of the Gigantosaur by making it stop using a remote.
*In "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Mountain Climbers", Daring Danny X told Ryder his full name as the latter only said "Danny" during the mission briefing.
*In "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Pupmobiles", Marshall explains the possibility of why a red crab is driving his firetruck, even though dogs don't even drive in the real world.
*In "Pups Save a Rubble-Double":
**It is revealed that Ryder and the pups can breathe in space.
**This contradicts that the main story is due to taking place in Rubble's dream.
**The planet they visited could have oxygen when they landed.
**That could happen due to this episode focusing on Rubble's dream, and it could also contradict some specials and episodes like "Pups Save a Monkey-naut", due to reaching the oxygen zone.
**But this hints that it was not real, and that is a fourth wall break.
*At the end of "Pups Save the Hiding Elephants", there is a fourth wall break when the Queen bee lands on top of the photograph taken by Carlos and smiles at the audience.
*In "Pups Save a Yodeler", Mr. Wingnut looks at the camera as he said that the wolves following him think they are his leader.
*At the end of "Pups Save a Flying Farmhouse," Garbie winks to the viewers before the iris.
*At the end of "Big Truck Pups: Pups Save the Bridge", Chickaletta walks part of the bridge, and then clucks to the camera before the iris.
*In "Aqua Pups: Pups Save a Mer-Race", Moby accidentally makes an ink bomb explode, and the ink covers the camera, causing Moby to wipe the ink off the screen.
*In "Aqua Pups: Pups Save the Whale Patroller", Marshall winks at the audience during his net joke to Coral. This occurs on the second "net" word.
*In "Pups Save the Wacky Water Skiers", when Hurricane Harrigan and Cap'n Turbot head back to dry land through surfboards, the former splashes the screen, making it wet.
*In "Jungle Pups: Pups Save the Meerkat Pirates", while the pups were playing hide-and-seek, Marshall looks at the viewers as he says that everything inside the hidden jungle is so big, the pups can hide anywhere.
*In "Pups Save the Elephant Spa", one of the monkeys screams directly in front of the camera when everyone at the Elephant Spa freak out after Traveling Travis' balloon goes out of control.
*In "Pups Save a Talkative Mini Patrol":
**During Alex's dream when Sherman appears, Skye exclaims "You can talk?!" and Sherman replies with "Well, you can talk, why shouldn't I?" which Skye never thought about before. That pokes fun at PAW Patrol's logic of animals not being able to speak with the pups (as well as the Copycat and the Cat Pack) being an exception.
**When Alex and the Mini-Patrol slide down the treehouse for Ms. Marjorie's butter tarts, Little Hootie flies close to the screen, fading it to black and ending the episode.
*In "Pups Take in a Runaway Kitty!", before the Clean Up Song started, Rubble looks at the camera when saying "Hit it!" as he jumps to offscreen. It is likely he was telling a music composer to start the song.
*In "Rescue Wheels: Pups Save the Risky Race", at the beginning when Marshall hears Roxi's monster truck in the mountain, he looks towards the audience for a brief second.
*In "Pups Plus a Plucky Chicken", Chickaletta ends the episode when she looks towards the viewers and winks at the camera.
*In "Pups Save the Director", when Mr. Porter struggles to read one of his lines, he and Francois look at the camera while practicing.
*In "Pups Save the Super Cows", at the end as Marshall trips over after Bettina and Moona Lisa save Winnie Winnington, he tells the viewers that they know what Super Squirrelly Whirly says when the latter has a fall.
*In "Pups Save the Crop Circles", during another wipe-out gag, Marshall has many hallucinating spots over his head, and he can see the spots.
*In "Hum-Patrol to the Rescue":
**When Ryder calls the pups and they appear in a split-screen, Mayor Humdinger sees them and notices where they came from, and puts his hands on the camera on his side.
**In the deployment sequence, when Mayor Humdinger gets deployed, the background singers sing "Humdinger!", and Mayor Huminger commented with "That's Mayor Humdinger!" and wanted to know where they came from.
*In "Mighty Pups", Marshall looks at the viewer after he gets captured, saying that he should have been "backed up".
*In "Ready Race Rescue", there are six, which get tied with "Pups Save a Dragon":
**At the beginning, Ron Rapidfire tells the viewer to check out the race before the camera pans out to show the whole race track. Ron was most likely talking to the camera that is filming the race.
**When Lionel and Willy show up before the race, they speak to the viewer. Again, it is likely they were speaking to the camera filming the race.
**After Marshall jumps into the Whoosh's car for the first time, he looks at the viewer. This time, it was not directed at a camera filming the race.
**Riff causes a tree to fall over while she is at Jake's Mountain and the tree covers the entire camera with snow. It then clears two seconds later.
**During the second race shown, Marshall speaks to the viewer many times.
**After Marshall passes the Cheetah during the second race shown, he speaks and looks to the viewer.
***This movie has the most fourth wall breaks, with a total of six.
*In "PAW Patrol: The Movie", when Skye asks how Ryder was able to afford the Adventure City HQ, Ryder replies with "Official PAW Patrol merchandise, they sell like hot cakes", while holding a shirt up.
**The PAW Patrol shirt Ryder holds up in the new headquarters depicts official vectors of Skye, Chase and Marshall in the main series style by Guru Studio.
*The same thing happens again in "PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie" during the scene where Skye saves Cap'n Turbot's boat, only with the Mighty Pups design on the shirts. Sam Stringer puts an actual "Mighty Skye" cap on saying, "They got merch too!".
**Immediately after, Sam Stringer looks at the camera and apologizes to the parents in the audience for the new merchandise.
*In "The Crew Builds a Bridge", Rubble looks at the audience at the end when he says "Rubble & Crew, open for business!" before the fade out.
*In "The Crew Builds a Beaver Home", while driving, Camila says Rocky's main catchphrase "Green means go!"
*In "The Crew Fixes a Haunted House", there were three:
**Mayor Greatway welcome the guests (the audience) in the spooky house.
**Motor looks at the camera and says "Motor go boo!".
**At the end, Rubble & Crew wishes everyone (the audience) to have a happy Halloween.
*In "The Crew Builds Instruments", there are a couple of times where Rubble & Crew say another catchphrase:
**Before Mix paints the instruments, the entire family say, "Time for a Mix makeover!"
**After Charger puts all the decorations back up, both he and Rubble say "We are done-done-de-done!"
*In "The Crew Builds a Christmas Show", the ending is similar to "The Crew Fixes a Haunted House", except that Auntie Crane and Grandpa Gravel join in, and it is Christmas-themed.
*In "The Crew Celebrates Builder Covegiving Day", the ending is similar to the last two holiday episodes, but this episode is centered around Thanksgiving.
*Every episode is a fourth wall break as the fact Rocky is talking and looking at the viewers.
*Like Rocky's Garage, the music videos have the pups looking at the viewers.
*During the theme song, characters look at the audience at some points.
*Sometimes, whenever a character gets involved in a song, they look at the viewer.
**There were three examples: The PAW Patrol's version of "Deck the Halls" in "Pups Save Christmas", The Best of Friends in "Pups Save Friendship Day" and "We're a Pup Family" in the Rubble & Crew episode "The Crew Plans Grandpa Day".
*"Pups Save a Dragon" and "Ready Race Rescue" are the most pieces of PAW Patrol media to have the most fourth wall breaks, with a total of six.
*Because "Pups Save a Dragon" has six fourth wall breaks, Season 3 is the season with the most fourth wall breaks, with a total of 14.
**"Ready Race Rescue" is a TV movie of Season 6, which means that Season 7 is currently the least, with just one.
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PAW.Patrol.S01E16.Pups.Save.Christmas.720p.WEBRip.x264.AAC_723256.jpg|Chase and Marshall look at each other during a split-screen.
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Psaw37.png|When Farmer Al kisses Farmer Yumi, he uses his hat to prevent the viewers from seeing it.
Psas15.png|"Wow, two patients in one day!"
Crunchy.jpg|Marshall looks at the camera before a seagull steals his treat.
Surprise21.png|Actual promo art was used for the PAW Patrol Appreciation Day banner.
Screenshot 2017-03-11 at 12.01.17 AM.png|Tracker looks at the camera after the PAW Patroller honked the horn to a snake.
Save a Dragon 16.png|Ryder looks at the audience.
Save a Dragon 23.png|"Did somebody say dragon?"
Save a Dragon 28.png|Marshall telling the audience if they can see him.
Save a Dragon 244.png|Marshall tells the audience they will miss the play, but the scene transitions as time passes.
Save a Dragon 259.png|"And this is the...end."
PAW Patrol 319B Scene 4 Marshall.jpg|Marshall notices the stars swirling around his head.
Space Rock 18.jpg|Everest glares at the camera annoyed as the Turbots argue.
Vlcsnap-2019-01-31-13h29m51s206.png|"I love happy endings."
Bridge 464.png|Chickaletta bawks at the camera at the ending.
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Mer-Race 52.png|Moby wipes the screen after an ink bomb accidentally explodes.
Whale Patroller 20.png|Marshall winks at the audience, during a net joke.
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Vlcsnap-2022-01-01-14h50m46s310.png|Ryder holding a t-shirt of Marshall, Chase and Skye, with him saying that "Merchandise sells like hotcakes."
Mighty Movie 600.png|"They got merch too!"
R&C - Bridge 597.png|"Rubble & Crew, open for business!"
R&C Haunted House 311.png|The crew wishes the viewers a happy Halloween.
R&C Christmas Show 294.png|The crew wishes the viewers a merry Christmas.
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