List of 4th Wall Breaks and Gags

This page lists all 4th wall breaks and gags. Some of them are both as well.

## 4th Wall Breaks

### Fanon

* In *Nice to Meet You! We're Asumi and Elizabeth*, Nijiko states that everyone had been turned back into teems/pre-teens, but after Nanette adds on to it, Jim scolds both girls, much to Asumi and Marina's angst.
* While breaking up a fight between Jim and Cheren in *The School of Hard Knocks*, Nanette comments they're late and they have to start the show.
* In *Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village*, Pudding and Carrot Cake act like they're drowning before Dragonet reminds them that they were designed as fish.
	+ In the same episode, Jessica asks Nijiko if it's safe to use a pregnant Pokémon as her floatation device, to which she replies that she's the only Water-type Pokémon the writers had given her at that point.
* In *Let's Go! Ashton and Evolite!*, Nanette states she never met Event Horizon before, especially in another universe. It is that 4th wall break, however, that she gets knocked out.
* In *Mystery at the Lighthouse*, Red, Green, Chase and Elaine answer the narrator's question about what Pokémon they have.
	+ In the same episode, Reddie says she wants to see a season 10 once Generation 9 comes out. A reculent Nanette replies that she must wait until Generation 9 is revealed, which is not for quite a while. However, the human frowns right after.
* In *Electric Shock Showdown*, Evolite says that the writers forgot about the serum scene.
	+ At the end of the same episode, James says "Drat, we wasted this episode cheering the good guys!"

### Canon

* When the characters are at a restaurant on one occasion and Dragonet is feeding her babies on the table while she eats, a rude fellow customer from another table yells at her to go feed them in the bathroom. She yells "I have the right to feed my babies wherever I \*bleep\*ing please! Let me go offscreen for a moment." A moment later, she goes offscreen and then the rude customer gets his face sprayed with milk. The swearing and squirting milk is removed in the 4Kids dub.
* During the passing of the torch prior to "A New Adventure!", Nanette freaks out when she hears Rainglow's voice.
* Event Horizon points out that her pink skin tone was inspired by Laura Ortiz from *Guardians of the Galaxy.* (A New Adventure!)
* Warrior Frosting, when she transforms for the first time, complains that she got a spandex suit instead of a pretty dress with ribbons and gloves, and that her flying abilities combined with the outfit make her look like Superman. Since Cheren and Goh mockingly laugh because said character doesn't actually exist within the Pokémon universe, this counts as breaking the 4th wall...and Nanette officially coins the phrase "Somebody broke the 4th wall." (A New Adventure!)
* Nanette tells Cheren that players of Pokémon Black and White think of him as someone who can't even keep a striaght face, to which Cheren responds with a slap on Nanette's cheek. (Legends, Go! Reflections, WHAT?!)

### Multi-Version

* At one point, when Nanette falls into the water only to get saved by Jessica, she says "Well those \*bleep\*ing writers weren't going to include scenes with me in the water!" Marina then yells at her for saying such a stupid word in a kid-friendly show.

## Gags

### Fanon

* Whenever someone makes a reference to someone being like a Cure, official or fan-made (for example, Elaine being like a recolored version of Cure Lovely), Nanette will usually scold him/her, but during major fights against villains, she instead tells him/her to "quit it or [she'll] attack [him/her]!"
* Casty will often start singsonging a rhyme that rhymes with a rude word (such as when she sings the "Miss Susie Had A Steamboat" song), but always gets cut off.
* Whenever Fubuki hears something shocking, she will open her powdered coconut milk canister, put some into a glass, add water to it, drink it, and then perform a spit take as a reference to what Pinkie Pie does in "Magical Mystery Cure."
* During the Alola arc, when their Trainers need them and call their names, Dragonet and Pumpkin Bread are often seen sunbathing transformed into Tsareena and quickly scrambling to get up and running to Nijiko and Fubuki, often forgetting to transform back.
* Rotom commonly throws huge tantrums when it doesn't get marshmallows, usually resulting in Nijiko having to drag it away by the arm out of the store or place.
* Nijiko will often express horror at seeing short Exeguutor, bald Diglett/Dugtrio, fire-type Vulpix/Ninetales (like Pixie), etc and think they're deformed. She often also complains it's freezing when it's sunny out and complains about the lack of malasadas, POG (Pinap-Oran-Grepa) juice, and taro chips at the store.

### Canon

* Sugar will commonly transform into an inanimate object (such as Nanette's ÉléChanMirror), wait for somebody to use that object, and then the object will suddenly turn pink, have a face, and talk in Sugar's voice, causing the person to shriek loudly and faint, and then her mother always scolds her. This is a reference to the *Teen Titans Go!* episode where Beast Boy turns into a cup and startles Raven when she drinks out of him.
* Whenever Citronelle's and Pumpkin Bread's eyes turn to hearts once they see Jim's Star Lucario, they start chasing him, much to Jim's embarrassment.
* When the Cures order a hot chocolate for quick calories after transforming, Momoka always yells "MAKE IT WITH WHIPPED MOOMOO CREAM AND SPRINKLES!"

### Multi-Version

* When Nijiko introduces herself as "Nijino Nijiko," usually whoever she's talking to will not believe her due to her name being perfectly alliterative and the meaning matching her appearance perfectly. She always then calls her mother and has her explain on speaker that she did in fact name her child "Nijino Nijiko," while holding out the phone with a glare and one hand on her hip, similar to a "talk to the fist" gesture.
* Whenever a reference to *Clifford The Big Red Dog* is made, in the 4Kids version (fandub as per canon), Elizabeth will get mad at whoever makes the reference since that series has a character named Emily Elizabeth.
* Whenever something goes wrong thanks to Cheren, the Trainer will often think about his actions. If scared in the middle of that, he often hides behind Bianca, much to her embarrassment.
* Starting in "Island of the Giant Pokémon" in the fanon version and an unknown episode in the canon version, Nanette may occasionally start crying, with usually Marina trying to calm her down.
* When Dragonet scolds Sugar in the 4Kids dub (fanmade per canon), she says "SHUGADORIMU!" in Leslie Carrara-Rudolph's best attempt at pronouncing it in Japanese. This all but confirms that even in the 4Kids dub, "Shugadorimu" is still Sugar's full name and Sugar is just an easier-to-pronounce nickname.

## Both

* In the 4Kids dub, Flora constantly reminds her daughter that her name isn't "Elizabeth" and it's heard that way only to American viewers.
* Ninja Dragonets, even ones that appear owned by characters of the day, are often remarked as the most useful Pokémon ever. The characters constantly have to remind whoever says this that Nintendo *did* create them as the most useful Pokémon ever - but as a tradeoff, they're domestic pets who can't survive on their own without humans and their average stats mean their moves won't be as powerful as a Pokémon that actually specializes in those moves.
* Jim and Cheren are often seen fighting (same goes for Elizabeth and Miranda), which usually makes Nanette stop the fight and remind them all that "this is a kids' show". The fanon variant of Ai, who is combined with CheerfulSteekip's Miranda Skylark there, is replaced by the Ai exclusively made by her actual creator in the canon version, but the fights between Jim and Cheren are still easily seen in that version.