This gave us inspiration

Someone is inspired by another work.

They would sometimes say "This gave us inspiration!", but that's not always the case.

Another variant is where someone inspires another work.

## Examples

* Pepper Ann provides the page image.
	+ The show's character design inspired Codename: Kids Next Door, since Mr. Warburton worked on both shows.
	+ Hazelnut Middle School's mascot is an otter. Not only that, but it was first mentioned before PB&J Otter even started airing.
		- Speaking of PB&J, it was rumored that Pepper Ann inspired Butter and Jelly's (and Opal Otter's) color scheme, but that isn't the case. (Jelly appeared magenta in the earlier episodes).
* Avatar: The Last Airbender was probably inspired by Constant Payne.
* Three Delivery is basically Ketchup: Cats Who Cook- except with animesque people instead of cats, many cooking scenes removed, and a villain.
* Educational (or girls') cartoons of the 1980s were inspired by The Get-Along Gang (which is an obscure cartoon) in one way or another:
	+ Popples started out as a toy franchise for girls. Same with My Little Pony (the latter of which got *four generations* worth of toys, *Friendship is Magic* even managing to find a *male* fandom calling themselves "bronies", while the other fell into obscurity for years until it was rebooted). Ironically, *Popples* inspired a male-oriented clone in the form of Bakugan.
	+ The Bluffers had some of the same characteristics of The Get-Along Gang, except the critters were different.
* My Life Me was most likely inspired by manga, and Birch herself wants to be a manga artist.
* One-Punch Man was probably inspired by (and parodies) superhero comic books.
* One Saturday Morning was what probably inspired the five-hour blocks The CW4Kids and Vortexx.
* RWBYpet is somewhat similar plot-wise to RWBY Chibi... most of the time.
* Thankfully, this is not the case concerning Ruby, a *very* popular Jewelpet character in Japan. While her necklace (save for the cherries) *does* look like something Patty from Maple Town had, this trope was averted for the Jewelpet anime.
	+ Ironically, Sega and Sanrio feared exporting Jewelpet to America because of a similar franchise known as *Webkinz*.
* Bakugan:
	+ It had not just one, but *six* inspirations: Popples (the concept of spheres turning into animals and vice versa), Cardcaptor Sakura (how both series begin), Yu-Gi-Oh! (Bakugan is played with cards), Digimon (the concept of saving both Earth and Vestroia), Pokémon (monsters contained in spherical devices), and to a lesser extent, Beyblade (it sells well, plus Nelvana dubbed both pre-Burst Beyblade series and Bakugan).
	+ Its sister series Zoobles has Coron, and she looks somewhat similar to Ruby (though without accessories).
* Part of The Simpsons was inspired by Groening's family, the other part being the realization that Groening was about to sign away his comic strip. Long story short- he sketched the family and the rest is history.
* *Chrysanthemum* is a children's book about the titular character being bullied for being named after a flower. Multiply that, and someone "doomed her child to a lifetime of bullying" by naming him Dohvakiin. *Then* Trey Parker and Matt Stone parodied the fact that someone was named Dohvakiin in *The Stick of Truth*.
* Satoshi Tajiri based *Pokémon* around his childhood hobby (insect collecting). His said hobby may also be the reason many of the Pokémon in Kanto alone are based on insects.
* This may be how the *Beatcats* were formed. Sanrio were already experimenting with the music scene with the game/anime *Show by Rock!!* (which feature a lot of rock bands- Plasmagica included), as well as the fictional music group OTMGirls from *Aggretsuko*, yet never had a real music group until *Beatcats* debuted.

TBA.