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The Powerpuff Girls (1998)

The Powerpuff Girls is one of Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons, debuting in 1998 (around the same year as other shows, including Ketchup: Cats Who Cook (in Japan), Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and PB&J Otter).

The titular characters are made up of sugar, spice and everything nice (not to mention an accidental dose of Chemical X). In the movie, it was revealed that Mojo Jojo partly caused the creation of the super-heroine trio. Professor Utonium, the girls' creator and father, names the girls Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. After getting into trouble with the town (as seen in the movie), they take up crimefighting.

And every time they fight crime, oftentimes whoever they beat up are sent to jail.

That makes up the plot of the original *Powerpuff Girls*- they also have an anime series and a revival.

## Tropes

* Innocent punishment: Subverted. That accidental dose of Chemical X resulted in three super-heroines being created. Ironically, it also gave Mojo Jojo his powers and a big brain to boot.
* KCA Nominee: The show is the first Cartoon Network original to be nominated for the KCAs.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Like some other Cartoon Network originals, the show aired briefly on YTV.
* Action-packed: Aside from the comedic moments that defines a Cartoon Cartoon, the original PPG fits this trope.
* Obscurity, much?: Not enough to keep the reboot from producing new episodes, but CN's not willing to air the original series, not even to promote an episode of the reboot. In other words, they're doing the same thing they did with Teen Titans: The Original Series and not airing the original series in favor of the reboot (in Teen Titans' case, Teen Titans Go!).
	+ Many episodes of the original are found on DVD if you're not into the reboot series.
	+ And as of 2020, HBO Max has the entire series.
* Wacky Science: The Powerpuff Girls have Chemical X in them. If you mess with their chemical makeup, they turn back into their original ingredients.
	+ The PPG once tried to make another teammate. What they got was someone who initially committed crimes by letting criminals free and getting called out by *her creators* for it. The one time she *did* save the day, she broke down to her base ingredients soon afterward, to her creators' dismay. Her creators being the PPG themselves, they never made another teammate again.
	+ The Powerpuff Girls Z PPG, however, avert this; if they give up their Chemical Z, they go back to being normal human beings (the PPGZ were already normal humans prior to being hit with Chemical Z rays).
Welcome to Eltingville

Evan Dorkin tried to make a series out of a comic book... but failed to produce it outside this pilot.

It is also known as "Bring Me the Head of Boba Fett", after the story of the same name, also by Dorkin.

No episode was produced outside its pilot.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: Semi-obscure, and the majority of people that know about it were fans of early Adult Swim.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Even though it was an *Adult Swim* original pilot, Williams Street had absolutely no involvement with production. Instead, CN Studios did the entire thing (not including animation, which- you guessed it- was outsourced). CN Studios later collaborated on Williams Street productions, including Korgoth of Barbaria, Black Dynamite (season 2), and the fifth season of Samurai Jack (CN Studios produced seasons 1-4 of the latter by themselves).
* Slice of Life: Outside the obligatory references to comic books, TV shows, and movies (including pop culture references that went obscure), the whole pilot is pretty much this.
* Animal World: Level 0 for the whole thing. However, Bill's TV showed clips of Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!. Josh was not amused.
* Mislabeled thing: Josh's video was this, showing Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! instead.
* Downwards Funnel: A trivia-off, checks and credit cards, *and* the toy being broken? Makes sense to break up the Eltingville Club right there.
* Medieval Setting: The opening scene. Bill even says "to Helleth with this" during said scene.
* Cartoons Mean They're For Kids: Subverted, despite being by CN Studios without any involvement from Williams Street. The subversion is more obvious because it was on *Adult Swim*.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: "Is this the end of the Eltingville Club?" was an unanswered question for the series... but it was answered in the comics.

TBA.
Pop culture

When you see something extremely popular, it's part of popular culture, or pop culture or short.

The opposite of this trope is Obscurity, much?. Examples that are neither this nor that don't go in either list. And also, keep in mind that this list only mentions pop culture in the USA. Pop culture can differ between the US and other countries.

## Things or shows that have been in pop culture

* Indie rock
* EDM (basically a form of synthpop)
* Indie pop
* Alternative rock, if you're a college student
* Classic rock, to those born in the late 1960s
* Invader Zim, due to DVD releases and a revived comic book series, but GIR is the most popular character
* SpongeBob SquarePants
* Gravity Falls, apparently
* Death Note, one of few anime on this list
* Country music to those born in the South
* Steven Universe
	+ Peridot, thanks to her tendency to call people "clods"
* Adventure Time
	+ Especially Fionna and Cake
* Regular Show
* Surprisingly, Teen Titans Go!, via hatedom
* Attack on Titan, one of few anime on this list
* Pokemon
* Star Trek
* Star WARS
* The Fairly Oddparents
* Smartphones
* Laptops (you might be using one right now)
* Rap music
* Dora the Explorer in general, not just the original series
	+ It got to the point where even the Game Grumps mentioned Dora
* Bravest Warriors
	+ Especially CatBug
* Fanart
* Phineas and Ferb
	+ They are one of few Disney Channel shows to get toys in Disney Infinity; not even Gravity Falls had this honor
* Five Nights at Freddy's
* Undertale
	+ Especially Toriel, Sans and Papyrus
* Dragon Ball Z, to the point where Dragon Ball Super, the canon sequel, made Crunchyroll's servers crash every Saturday during its run in Japan

TBA.
W.V.B.A. Inc

A trope where a Fictonal Organization is typically targetted for action, and have Big Adventures Events together, and it's a Action-packed series, yes it's normally made for wrestlers, scientists, superheroes, boxers and soldiers

Named after WVBA from the video game series *Punch-Out!!*

## Examples

* Every organization from Gundam
* Shocker from Kamen Rider
* Guy Industries from I Wanna Be The Guy it was never used in any fangames
* Trope Namer is the WVBA from Punch-Out!!
X Meets Y

A formulation primarily used to pitch a show or to quickly sum up the impression a show gives by expressing it as the sum of two separate, unrelated shows. The most famous variation is "Die Hard" on an X", where X is a different location, means of mass transportation, or *IN SPACE!!*, and so on.

It's very common in music writing — both reviews and press releases usually describe an artist as "Artist X meets Artist Y". Similarly, a work of literature may be reviewed as being the fusion of the styles of two authors; a common variation is to say that a novel is "as if X had written Y".
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Top Story; We're Changing Format!

Your favorite station has converted into another format. You hate this so much, you decide on setting up a pirate radio station.

Trope Namer is Pelswick.

## Examples

* Pelswick complained about his favorite station's format change after it changes to an all-news format.
	+ The only way he may ever get his morning rock & roll again would be with XM radio- which didn't exist at the time the trope-naming episode aired.

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We're Going on a Hunt

We're Going on a Hunt is a song that was performed by the ZingZillas in the episode Todd's Little Helper featuring Karen Geoghegan.

## Lyrics

We’re going on a hunt

We don't know what we'll find

We're creeping round the island, softly

We're going on a hunt

So don't get left behind

There's very many clues around.

Exploring all the night

Exploring all the day

And hoping that we might find treasure on the way

So join me at the front

We're going on a hunt

We're going on a hunt, hooray!

We’re going on a hunt

We don't know what we'll find

We're creeping round the island, softly

Creeping round the island

We're going on a hunt

So don't get left behind

There's very many clues around.

Exploring all the night

Exploring all the day

And hoping that we might find treasure on the way

So join me at the front

We're going on a hunt

We're going on a hunt, hooray!

We're going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

We're going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt

Going on a hunt.

Exploring all the night

Exploring all the day

And hoping that we might find treasure on the way

So join me at the front

We're going on a hunt

We're going on a hunt, hooray!

A hunt!
Try a Triangle

Written by

Try a Triangle is the 4th episode from Series 2.

## Plot

The ZingZillas have come up with a really upbeat Big Zing which celebrates Drum's drumming. They think the song is great. Over the balcony in Todd's garden, though, they notice Todd wearing an apron just like the ones the Beach Byrds wear. He can't stop to talk because he's off to work at the coconut hut. The ZingZillas rush to the coconut hut to find out what's going on. When they arrive, they discover the whole place, including DJ Loose, covered with dust sheets. Todd explains that it's spring cleaning day and so, while the Beach Byrds are off cleaning the whole island, he'll be their waiter for the day. It quickly dawns on the ZingZillas though that the Beach Byrds may well tidy away or even throw out their instruments, so they dash back to the clubhouse to rescue them. When they get there, the Beach Byrds have already made a start. Everything in the clubhouse is also covered in dust sheets. Tang, Panzee and Zak manage to get to their guitars and microphone in time but Drum is too late. The Beach Byrds have put her drums out of reach on top of the roof! Drum isn't going to be able to get her drums back in time for the Big Zing. While she is feeling sad and wandering through the jungle, Drum hears a fantastic sound coming from the glade. It's a Cajun band and one of the members is making a great clickety-clackety beat with the Cajun triangle. DJ Loose explains that there are no drums in the band because the triangle does the drum's job by tapping out the beat of the music.

Guest performers: Petite et la Gross

Big Zing: Try a Triangle (song)
Teen Titans: The Original Series

Remember the *old* Teen Titans?

You know, the ones that existed before Teen Titans Go! convinced Cartoon Network to stop airing the 2003 version altogether?

Yeah, looks like you landed on its own page, believe it or not.

The original Teen Titans (not the comic books, which are getting a separate page here) is a 2003 series for Cartoon Network and Kids' WB.

Ran for 65 episodes, unlike WB's other fare at the time, which ran as many as 52.

The 2003 series was taken off in no time at all after it was cancelled by Cartoon Network; reruns appear from time to time on Boomerang, but even *they* stopped showing them for Teen Titans Go!

Speaking of which, Teen Titans Go! has its own page.

## Tropes

* Action-packed: Though it does have its comedic moments, the original series fits this trope perfectly.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: By the time Kids' WB was shoved to The CW, Teen Titans was the last CN-aired holdout on that block.
* DC Cartoon: It's based off of DC Comics characters, so...
* Obscurity, much?: Ever since Cartoon Network took the series off, it began fading into obscurity, and continued to fade into obscurity even when Boomerang started airing reruns. And then Teen Titans Go! came and made the original series fairly, if not completely, obscure.
	+ Except for a few occasions, Cartoon Network shoved the original cartoon off its schedule altogether, in favor of the reboot.
* Fauxnime: The art style.
Talon Trot

In some **Platform Games**, characters may have trouble when trying to walk up steeper slopes or hills, often sliding off them, well, no more with this! The Talon Trot allows a character to scale those slippery slopes with ease, often also allowing to run faster and/or run without sliding sideways as you turn around.

This move is much more common in **Platform Games** or **Action-Adventure Games** than any other genre of gaming.

## Examples

* Variation in ***The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time***, you wouldn´t slide off if you keep walking without ever leave off your finger from the walk button.
	+ Goron Link in ***The Legend of Zelda: Majora Mask*** can roll up slopes at fast speed.
* In some of the **NES** and **SNES** ***Super Mario Bros.*** games such as ***Super Mario Bros. 3***, you will not slide off a hill if you keep running up them, only sliding off if you leave off the walk button.
* ***Banjo-Kazooie***is the **Trope Namer** with the move Talon Trot, consisting of Kazooie using her bird feet to scale hills that Banjo can´t. It also improves running speed and turning.
* In ***Super Mario 64*,**you can scale up slopes when crouching. Most players don´t know about this beacuse it was never mentioned in the game or other materials.
* Santi from ***Cun-Cun & Santi*** can use his spikes shoes to scale steep slopes and walk through hazardous surfaces. Similar to *Banjo-Kazooie*, this also improves running speed and turning.
* Lanky Kong in ***Donkey Kong 64*** can learn to do this when obtaining his move potion from Cranky Kong, called the Orangstand, it helps travel slopes by walking on the palms of his hands and can also be upgraded to run much faster with his special barrel.
* ***Yooka-Laylee***: Yooka can travel slopes by rolling up them while aided by Laylee. It is not indefinitely as it consumes the energy bar.
ZingZillas Theme

The ZingZillas Theme is a song that featured in every episode. The full song was performed in the episode Tang's Photo Album.

## Lyrics

Zak!

Tang!

Panzee!

Drum!

Welcome to the band (ZingZillas)

Let me show you round (ZingZillas)

Each one lends a hand (ZingZillas)

Making that ZingZilla sound!

Todd lives in the cave (ZingZillas)

We like playing loud (ZingZillas)

Sending out the waves (ZingZillas)

Making that ZingZilla sound!

Who's it gonna be?

Playing in the glade,

What you're gonna see?

They'll show us how music's made...

Beach Byrds serve the juice (ZingZillas)

When we come around (ZingZillas)

Chat to DJ Loose (ZingZillas)

Making that ZingZilla sound!

Can you hear the groans? (ZingZillas)

Booming underground (ZingZillas)

That's the Moaning Stones (ZingZillas)

Making that ZingZilla sound!

We'll be practising

For the Big Zing

'Til the time to rock

Countdown with the coconut clock!

Now you've met the band! (ZingZillas)

Now you've seen around... (ZingZillas)

Join us, lend a hand! (ZingZillas)

Making that ZingZilla sound!

## Trivia

* This song shows similarities to the following 2 pop songs, "Band On the Run" by Paul McCartney and Wings, and "It's a Living Thing!" by E.L.O..
Teletoon

If there are tropes pertaining to the French version, but *not* the English version, please put those examples on the French version's own page.

That aside, Yesteryear there was a countdown for a channel called Teletoon. Check it out here.

The very first program aired on the channel was Caillou, and something for preschoolers is rare on Cartoon Network, which Teletoon is the Canadian equivalent of.

The day continued with Ned's Newt, the English version of Donkey Kong Country, Pippi Longstocking, and a few other original series.

Due to the tropes of Canadian Content Required and Canadian Station Equals Production Company, Teletoon produces some original series, of which only a fraction went to Cartoon Network (reruns of Pecola, Johnny Test, George of the Jungle (2007), the Total Drama series, etc.)

Oh, did we say "some"? We meant, over 100.

As of 2007, Teletoon shipped its preschool shows still in-production to Treehouse TV.

In 2017, it was inducted into our 90s Rememberance Club along with sister channel YTV.

See Qubo for the former American equivalents of Teletoon, YTV, and Treehouse TV combined. See Teletoon Originals for all of Teletoon's original series.

Unfortunately, Corus finally announced in 2023 that the English Teletoon was becoming... Cartoon Network. Reportedly, the French version and the streaming service Teletoon+ (the latter of which launched the year prior) are remaining.

## Tropes

* Event Countdown: Used at launch.
* Canadian Content Required: Obviously.
* Canadian Station Equals Production Company: Teletoon was required to have produced original series. With the relaunch as Cartoon Network, it's unknown if this will still apply.
* Cartoon Appropriateness Scale: Level 2/3 during Teletoon at Night. Then again, Teletoon did produce 6teen and Total Drama, which are meant for teens and adults, yet still aired on daytime Cartoon Network!
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: The co-Trope Namer with its American counterpart. Has its own page, too. Although nowadays, the trope name became outdated (and is only kept by way of Grandfather Clause) since Teletoon actually *did* become Cartoon Network in 2023.
* Appreciates the Fans: Only for The Zimmer Twins. Everything else has little fan-made content aired on the channel itself, but this trope is still there (for example, the Grojband website allows you to make a "Wicked Cool Transition", and the My Life Me website had a manga maker).

TBA.
Brush Your Teeth

Written by

Brush Your Teeth is the 12th episode from Series 3.

## Plot

The ZingZillas wake up and ask Todd for an idea for a song. But when they switch the TV on, Todd is not there! Suddenly he dashes into shot. He has been in the bathroom brushing his teeth. The ZingZillas love brushing their teeth and they decide that they want to sing a Brush Your Teeth song. Drum already has her toothbrush ready! The others tell her to keep it safe.

In the glade, Zak and Tang watch Peter Moss play the banjolele. Although it is a little instrument, it makes a big sound and they love its fun furious music. It will be perfect for the Brush Your Teeth song. The ZingZillas gather together in the clubhouse to play Brush Your Teeth. It's a song about how much fun it is to brush your teeth! The ZingZillas love it and are really excited about playing it in the Big Zing. They think they are ready, until Drum discovers that she has lost her toothbrush - and she won't perform without it, not until they help her find it just in time for the Big Zing. Now she's ready to play the song with her toothbrush!

Guest performer: Peter Moss

Big Zing: Brush Your Teeth (song)

## Trivia

* Zak and Tang went to the glade
* This episode has the only time the ZingZillas do the movements with their toothbrushes and not their instruments.
TV Asahi

A Japanese over-the-air network best known outside Japan for broadcasting Doraemon, Crayon Shin-chan, and Pretty Cure.

The network is also known for its *Super Hero Time* block of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.

## Tropes

* Size Changing: Go-chan has only two set sizes- five times taller than a TV set, and "bigger than you", depending on what TV sets TV Asahi refer to- he can just be the size of a Jewelpet (if TV Asahi refers to the smallest models ever made) or the size of the first Gundam (if TV Asahi refers to the largest sets on the market).
* Shonen Beat: TV Asahi and Toei Animation do this with Pretty Cure, due to all the action scenes in a magical girl vibe.
* The Kanade Effect: Inverted. Most TV Asahi shows have no ending themes, and instead fill time with a cliffhanger that would be answered in the next episode. Only very rarely do TV Asahi's output have ending themes.
* Obscurity, much?: Out of all of TV Asahi's output, Maple Town is this (except in Italy).
* Action-packed: The one-two-three punch of Pretty Cure, Super Sentai and Kamen Rider. Pretty Cure is notable since it's a shoujo, yet features more action than your typical magical girl series.
* The Colbert Effect: Once a relatively obscure network outside Japan, yet some of the shows it airs (such as Sailor Moon) brought them some well-needed popularity. Doraemon also did this as well.
* Proposed and Vetoed: Toei and TV Asahi vetoed Disney's attempts to make Super Sentai more kid-friendly, which was why Disney sold Power Rangers back to Saban the first chance they could.

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The Cramp Twins

The Cramp Twins is a show from Cartoon Network Europe about the titular twins Lucien and Wayne, who live in the fictional town of Soap City, a place where most people are obsessed with cleaning, the twins' mother included.

Ran from 2001 to 2006 in its native UK, though it aired on the Fox Box and the United States' Cartoon Network for a while.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Technically subverted, but yet played straight at the same time, due to airing on both Cartoon Network *and* the Fox Box in the US.
	+ Even without the show being shared between CN and a block from 4Kids in the US, season one was aired on CBBC when its CN UK run concluded.
* Innocent punishment: Wayne usually "wins" against Lucien. The few times he doesn't, either the conflict between them for the episode ends in a draw, or *both* of them lose to someone else.
* Unrealistic stuff: Technically it's a Slice of Life cartoon (albeit one with a lot of cartoon-ish humor), but some of the characters' skin colors are of different colors, similar to Doug before it.
* Obscurity, much?: Not as much as Chloe or Station X (but it manages to be even *more* obscure than Jewelpet itself, ironically), but almost every episode has been put up on YouTube, and with Cartoon Network Europe not taking them down as of August 2017, as well as 4Kids Entertainment (the company with Saturday-morning broadcast rights for the series in the US) filing for bankruptcy in 2011, it's possible that it might remain a semi-obscure show for the foreseeable future.
	+ Not only that, but a couple episodes were released on a disc for an obscure platform known as "VideoNow"... by 4Kids themselves, alongside a couple of episodes of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their dub of Sonic X.
* Size Changing: Averted, given the nature of the show, but with a model village in an amusement park, the show gave the illusion of this happening to Wayne and Lucien.

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Wonders of Solitude

"Here's a peek into our fun-tastic kitchen. Our bakers are always busy mixing up from-scratch batters, whipping up different frosting, sprinkle decorations, and baking each and every cupcake with love."— **Sweetsie Candycream**, *Ready To Decorate*

Are you smart, energetic, proactive, and driven? If that sounds like you, then we have something for you! Life is made up of the seemingly-simple things we do that become extraordinary moments. The secret to happiness is merely enjoying them, especially for fictional characters, who constantly learn new things in many of the show's episodes.

These stories use a circular story format, presenting to the reader a chain of events. At the end of the story, the reader discovers that the characters have ended up in the same event that they started with. It is also considered a cautionary tale where the moral is that when given something out of kindness, people will continue to ask for more. The entire story is a trope-based scenario.
Tag Team

"It would be a whole lot better if everyone did their part to help. See, when a team comes together, we can accomplish incredible things."— **Deedra Featherstone**, *Helping Hands*

Yes, teamwork makes the dreamwork, but there's more to it than just throwing together a group of people and hoping for the best. Whenever a character tries to do this in every episode of a show, they encourage viewers to do the same, which means they don't know that it's impossible to get right if done all the time.

When characters engage in meaningful, fun activities that involve achieving a common goal, it brings them closer together. They start to see each other as more than just co-workers – they start to see each other as friends.
Wrecking Lives

Any task that involves a wrecking crew or construction worker tearing down facilities the nostalgic remember from their childhoods. Can also involve a con man or similar figure ruining lives.

Was originally called "Wrecking crews" before Tropes Fanon decided it was too narrow.

Also, for clarification: please don't list examples of celebrities having their careers ruined via allegations. This wiki is not a place to talk about them.

Can overlap with:

* You Are Fired: Though it's worth mentioning that being fired does not constitute total ruin for people. Only when allegations crop up does this trope overlap.
* Crocker Grading System: Multiple F's can make a student fail school.
* Permanent Room Confinement: After all, they can't get a job if they're under permanent house arrest.
* In Jail for More than Life: Once a convict is sentenced to life in prison, they can never get any job *ever* again... unless they miraculously get paroled.

And to avoid more confusion, fictional examples only. Tropes Fanon does not condone wrecking lives in any way, shape or form.

## Examples

* The Fairly Oddparents' "The Odd Odd West" has Doug Dimmadome operating a wrecking crew that works for a construction company.
* Inside Out has the Mind Workers that tear down some attractions, supposedly.
* SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Mr. Krabs Takes a Vacation", a *boy band museum* gets torn down.
* Moguro Fukuzou of *The Laughing Salesman* is in the business of dealing this trope to the people unlucky enough to be his clients.

TBA.
The Chocolate Lovers

"Okay... the truth is, I've always had a sweet tooth for chocolate. It's my only top-secret. I can't say no to it. No matter what chocolate makes us do, one thing is for sure. Life is always sweeter with chocolate."— **Callister Drizzledrops**, *Fairy Dust*

As a chocoholic, it is perfectly normal to have intense chocolate cravings. These cravings can hit at any time day or night. Don’t fight them. The best thing to do is to just willingly surrender and give into them. Chocolate is my go to. When I am having a bad day, chocolate is usually my bright side. Chocolate is what gets me through a tough work out. I tell myself if I can finish a workout without stopping, I will reward myself with some chocolate milk or ice cream. Let's be real, chocolate with milk in any form is basically equivalent to a recovery milkshake. Chocolate is my celebratory snack... it is also my snack when I am bored. Chocolate is my best friend.

Every chocoholic has a secret stash of chocolate somewhere at all times. It was a no-brainer topic with brownies at the grocery store, regardless if we already had some at home. Can’t risk running out. It is also better safe than sorry to always have chocolate syrup or hot chocolate mix on hand, just in case you run out of the good stuff. Taking a mid-day shot of chocolate syrup is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s similar to an espresso shot. I like to think of it as a little energy booster.

As chocoholics, we never get bored or tired of chocolate. Waiters look at me funny sometimes when I order chocolate ice cream with chocolate hot fudge, and a chocolate brownie. They try to talk me into getting the vanilla ice-cream so it won't be too much chocolate. Too much chocolate is a funny phrase and it is irrelevant. Chocolate keeps me grounded and reminds me not to lash out on people. It's really a sacrifice I'm making for others by consuming it. You're welcome.
The Most Awesome Videogame in the World

A game that is awesome. *Beyond* awesome. The Most Awesome Videogame in the World.

A game that is so awesome, not even E.T.: The Videogame is as fun.

An inversion is The Most Boring Videogame in the World.

## Examples

* Yandere Simulator is an example of a *debug build* being this.
* In a non-videogame variant in Teen Titans Go!, the eponymous Teen Titans can't get into the most awesome movie in Jump City *without* adult supervision. Since Beast Boy can take the form of a man...
* There's an episode of Uncle Grandpa where, in a non-videogame variant, a kid is too young to see the most awesome movie in his town. Unlike the TTG example above, this plot required actual age changing, but UG actually went too far and Philip couldn't even stay awake to watch the movie.
* In an episode of Packages from Planet X, Dan gets a package that allows him and anyone using it to alter the age of anything. There was a videogame they wanted, so they make themselves older.
* In Super Smosh, an in-show announcer hyped Robot Zombie Dinosaur Deathmatch to be this, but it turned out to be one of the most boring videogames in the world.
* Johnny Test really wanted "Toxic Battle Blast 4", but couldn't get it initially since he's 11. Not even Susan and Mary are old enough to play it, despite the fact that they don't want to anyways.
	+ And when he finally got it? He had nightmares of zombies. A *lot*.
* Super Mario Bros. due the fact that it helped popularize the Mario Bros.
	+ New Super Mario Bros. and its sequel New Super Mario Bros. 2.
* According to some, the most awesome Paper Mario game right now is Super Paper Mario. This is likely due to the powerups and the plot involving Count Bleck (and later, Dimentio).
* An unintentional example: *Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing* was declared so bad, it's good due to poor programming and being a game where you can never lose. The Angry Video Game Nerd panned this aspect, saying that "you can't release something that isn't finished".

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The Kanade Effect

The Kanade Effect happens when anime is theorized to have used its planned excess episodes for filler rather than actual plot, when suddenly the number got cut by a large amount.

Can cause Rushed Pacing if the cut episodes intended to be plot-related. An aversion of Padding Filler Z. Not to be confused with The Colbert Effect.

## Examples

* Kanade Tachibana of Angel Beats! is the Trope Namer, though for good reason- the episode count for the anime was supposed to be 26, but was later cut in half to 13, therefore eliminating a whole bunch of side characters' backstories. Rushed Pacing was averted in general, though- some OVAs were made after the series' conclusion.
* JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, in the case of the *Stardust Crusaders* OVA. The TV adaptation went on for much longer.
* Himouto! Umaru-chan got a second season because only a fraction of the manga was covered by the first 12 episodes. That's 24 episodes total. Rushed Pacing is, of course, averted.
* Code Geass ended up with the number of episodes cut in half, much to Goro Taniguchi's- and anyone who worked on the series'- chagrin. A sequel was given later on, but then came...
* Sweet Valerian, another series with designs by CLAMP. Out of the 26 episodes, only 18 were broadcast on Japanese TV. The other eight episodes that are on DVD are filler, so nothing much there.
* The exact reason why Kill la Kill got a finale OVA was to avert this and Gainax Ruined the Ending, in order to give a Satisfactory Conclusion.
* Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life: The third (and final) season has a longer runtime per episode than previous seasons to avert this.
* Toei Animation's adaptation of Kanon ended after 13 episodes, which meant its version got Rushed Pacing compared to the KyoAni adaptation.
* Speaking of Toei Animation, "your favorite place to be" got a second season that ended two episodes short of the first season's episode count. Why? Apparently TV Asahi were watching over the second season and noticed falling ratings, so they pulled the plug and refused to give it a third season.
* Jewelpet: Despite all the filler in *Magical Change*, the same season was the *only* TV season of the entire franchise to fail to get 52 episodes. That it was competing with fellow Sanrio anime Show by Rock!! did not help, either.
* Fist of the North Star: *Hokuto no Ken 2* compared to the first anime, if you forgo watching any of its filler.
* *World War Blue* only lasted three episodes. Rushed Pacing may ensue depending on your viewpoint.
* Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls lasted 13 episodes. Seems fairly standard for an anime, right? Except that those episodes are the exact same length as an 11-minute episode of Cartoon Network material, with nothing else added.
* *Doujin Work* lasted *12*, with the same problem as *SeHa Girls* above.
* Galaxy Angel had 11-minute segments, too, though they justify this by being a gag series thanks to the game it was supposed to be based on not yet coming out.
* This is the *very reason* why *Stars Align* fails to tell its entire story in anime form.
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

A Cartoon Network series spun-off from Grim & Evil, in turn spun-off from The What-A-Cartoon! Show.

The first episode has the Grim Reaper make a bet- if he wins a game of limbo, he reaps the soul of a sick hamster. If he loses, he becomes Billy & Mandy's best friend... forever.

He ultimately lost, all because he got attacked by the hamster. Naturally, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne started off as one show, Grim & Evil.

There was also going to be a television series called Underfist, but only one episode, which turned out to be their Halloween episode, was made.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Though otherwise subverted, the Grim & Evil shorts were seen on The Detour on Teletoon, since Grim & Evil was one of CN's only non-Adult Swim originals (the other being the standalone Evil Con Carne) to air on that block.
* Innocent punishment: Grim lost the bet because Billy's pet hamster *attacked* him at Mandy's command.
* Cartoons Mean They're For Kids: In-universe. The only audio from Billy's TV is either of Codename: Kids Next Door or a parody of Dora the Explorer.
* Signature work: To Maxwell Atoms during his time at Cartoon Network.
* Unrealistic stuff: Written all over the show, but the most prominent example is "The Incredible Shrinking Mandy", in which the title is ironic since Mandy grows instead of shrinks.
* Shout-out: Billy once talked about The Wild Thornberrys without mentioning it in-name (he couldn't, otherwise Nickelodeon would've sued CN).

TBA.
You Are Fired/Disney

Even the happiest place on Earth can have plots about their characters being fired.

Fox animation has its own page.

* *Pepper Ann* once got fired from the Food Barn after making a big speech (a call-back to the first episode of the whole show). She ends up passing her assignment anyway as her teacher once got fired from one of her past jobs for knitting.
* In *Quack Pack*, though just a dream, Huey, Dewey, and Louie end up passing on one of their candidates just for suggesting this trope. He later enacts revenge.
* In *Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil*, Ms. Chicarelli not only gets fired in one episode, she also has to serve detention.
	+ Pulled on the janitor after he framed Kick in another episode. Of course, this doesn't stick.
* *Austin & Ally* ended up making Dallas' firing a heaping bowl of humiliation, complete with marching band, singers, and a ton of balloons. It's even implied it usually ended with a juggling bear.
* *Phineas and Ferb*:
	+ It's likely that Doofenshmirtz was fired from his job as a bratwurst street vendor, and was a reason he became evil. That said, Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. is *owned* by the guy, so he doesn't have to put up with a firing again.
	+ OWCA has a tendency to fire *any* human (except for the Monograms and Carl) and non-animal it hires.
		- Perry himself ends up fired from OWCA due to clones of him stealing a lot of things. Luckily, he didn't have to give up his host family since he was reinstated shortly after defeating Doof *again*.
		- Major Monogram is fired by a higher-up at OWCA for a party gone wrong; his position is given to Carl. He's later reinstated, and shown he can grow his mustache back.
	+ Doofenshmirtz' brother Roger was almost recalled for being a rude person... except it turned out to a play.
* In *The Incredibles*, Bob's boss' lawyer outright tells Bob that due to hospitalizing him (his boss), he was fired. Bob's response? Get back into shape so he can fit in a superhero costume again.
* In *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, while not outright stated, because the huntsman isn't seen after his main scene, it's implied Snow White's wicked stepmother fired the huntsman who she previously hired to bring her Snow White's heart. He instead gave her the heart of a pig.
Teen Titans Go!

Teen Titans Go! is an animated series on Cartoon Network.

If you're *not* in the target demographic, then 5 times out of 10 you'll meet somebody who hates Teen Titans Go... for any reason, from the fact that Boomerang no longer shows the original Teen Titans to Cartoon Network is giving it more airtime than anything else.

Has ran for three seasons with a fourth that is currently airing, and eventually having more half-hours than Teen Titans: The Original Series.

In other words, it's Cartoon Network's answer to SpongeBob SquarePants.

See Teen Titans: The Original Series if you want the more Action-packed series.

## Tropes

* Action-packed: "Let's Get Serious" does a comedic take on this. Not only do the Teen Titans get scolded for not being serious, they get *so* serious, they can't laugh anymore.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Since Teletoon took it off for months, it's safe to say that Teen Titans Go! fits this trope partway.
* DC Cartoon: It's a spin-off of Teen Titans: The Original Series, what did you expect?
* Cartoons Mean They're For Kids: This show screams this trope, despite holding a TV-PG rating.
* KCA Nominee: Since 2015. They still lose the "Favorite Cartoon" award to SpongeBob SquarePants, largely due to the people who hate Teen Titans Go.
* The Most Awesome Videogame in the World: Since the Teen Titans couldn't get into the most awesome movie in Jump City *without* adult supervision, Robin thinks that as long as Beast Boy looks like an adult, he could take them to the movie.
* Push out the competition: Teen Titans Go! ruined everything acquisition-wise for Cartoon Network (at least, its first four seasons did). Case in point: CN in the US wasn't even interested in Yo-kai Watch (with Disney XD cancelling the Yo-kai Watch dub, it's possible CN might take over from Disney, but considering the treatment CN UK gave it, CN's moves should be watched very closely), and Beyblade: Burst moved to XD (in both the US and Canada, though Teletoon began airing the series in Canada before XD Canada did) thanks to a buyout of the broadcasting rights by Disney; as of December 2018 daytime CN no longer airs anime series (with a single exception) (anime fans are luckier on Saturday nights, thanks to Toonami). They even lost Right Now Kapow to Disney XD (though had TTG not happened, Right Now Kapow would've still aired on XD anyways).
	+ In fact, Teen Titans Go! might have actually caused Inspector Gadget (2015) to move to Netflix. That move, however, was justified as CN never aired the original Inspector Gadget anyway.
	+ After the movie came out the entire trope reversed itself to try to push out *Teen Titans Go* rather than its competition. *Adventure Time* and *Steven Universe* went out with dignity and still get occasional reruns on Cartoon Network, *Bakugan* returned with *Battle Planet* (marking the return of anime to CN in the US after over a *year*), and other shows are taking over the schedule from TTG. It's getting very likely that Teen Titans Go's sixth or seventh season may be its last and that Cartoon Network would want to move on.
Three Delivery

Also known as *Ketchup: Cats Who Cook in Chinatown*... only with humans being the majority of characters rather than animals.

The show had 26 episodes and was created by Larry Schwarz as Animation Collective's only collaboration with FatKat Studios.

Ironically, despite it being similar to Ketchup: Cats Who Cook, it's more like an action show inspired by the martial arts genre.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: In both Canada and the States. However, the level of obscurity depends on how much of a cult hit the show is in either region.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Big time in French Canada and the UK, where the show aired on Radio-Canada (though Radio-Canada commissioned the French dub), a rarity for shows that have ties to America (remember that the CBC currently doesn't air American imports) and CBBC in those respective regions.
	+ In the United States, however, this is subverted since it's a co-production with Nicktoons.
* Innocent punishment: Whenever Kong Li's magic affects anyone.
	+ Not to mention that there was one episode that involved magical fortune cookies (made from the Fu Fortune Cookie recipe). The "Monkey King" made these cookies to turn people into monkeys and make them his friends. Even main character Tobey was affected. Good news is that the cookies mostly affected kids (since most adults and teens ignored the contest, and the ones that do know about it are either holding it or don't go).
* Animal World: The "Monkey King" tried to make this show a Level 3 but was stopped by the trio.
* Just to Get a Laugh: Most of the time, the kung-fu is this. The only times the action sequences are serious are if they're relevant to the plot.
* Canadian Content Required: The show aired on YTV since the channel thought that since it was co-produced by a Canadian company, a Canadian channel must air it (and also since they co-funded the show).
* This gave us inspiration: Inverted. Schwarz was inspired by kung-fu movies when making this show.
* Dubless Series: With this mostly being limited to the Anglosphere (and French Canada), it's likely it got dubbed into few languages outside its original English.

TBA.
You Are Fired/Internet

Internet creators sometimes mess with their own characters by having their bosses fire them.

Keep in mind, for this page memes relating to this trope are best not documented here; their original source should be documented on the appropriate page instead. That said, abridged series *can* still be documented on this page.

* In a *Smosh* video, a guy is fired just before he even got to shake hands.
	+ This is the reason Ms. Frizzle drives a Magic *Hyundai* instead of a school bus in their *Magic School Bus* parody. That said, another sketch (one that shows what happens if kids' shows happened in real life) also has Ms. Frizzle let go because of reality happening.
* *Dinosaur Office* actually had a sketch that talked about downsizing.
* *asdfmovie* has a joke about someone being fired. After turning his boss into a frog and making him his wife, it ends with "You can't quit your job, you're fired!".
* *SuperMarioLogan*: Jeffy got fired at least *twice* in the series; once when he "embarrassed the entire police department", and the second for giving away free food.
	+ Speaking of the episode about Jimmy John's, Savanna got fired alongside Jeffy for stealing money out of the register. The amount she stole was close to a million.
* *Bee and Puppycat* starts out with Bee already having been fired from her last job.
* In *Cyanide and Happiness*, Peters/Spider-Dude is fired, referencing Peter Parker being threatened with firing constantly in *Spider-Man*.
	+ Every job Harry the Handsome Butcher takes, he's fired from (and when he's a police informant, he's fired by being jailed *again*).
	+ Not long before he got arrested for his "survival skills", Ted Bear is fired for angering the producers of his show.
* In *Purgatony*, going into the Soul Shredder is the afterlife equivalent of this trope.
* Matthew Santoro made a video showcasing crazy ways people managed to get put through this trope. That's all we're saying about it here, as the video speaks for itself.
* In *Channelate*, Bigamount Pictures (a parody of Paramount Pictures) fires the protagonist of the short after something we can't discuss here (the video speaks for itself, though). He's also been disowned by his family.
* This is why Kaiba lived in an orphanage in *Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series*- Kaiba fired his parents.
* Yamcha is kicked off his baseball team in *Dragon ShortZ*. Not benched, mind you, but kicked out entirely. And not because he lost every game- because, ironically enough, his team *won* every game since he joined, to the point no one is buying tickets. And thanks to League rules, he gets compensated 20 billion zenny when he's kicked out.
The Mysterious Mr. Enter

An internet critic that reviews bad cartoons (and bad episodes of good cartoons), though he also reviews MLP and good cartoons as well.

Some of his stuff, mostly reviews (not all) can be found on YouTube.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: He sometimes reviews obscure cartoons, but his reviews as a whole avert this.
	+ In fact, his review of Pixel Pinkie is the only reason why his fans have heard of it.
	+ His book (and comic) "Growing Around" is this. But if you want to read it so bad, he'll be happy to print another copy.
	+ Not to mention his My Life Me review came out when most of said series' episodes were still considered "lost".
	+ For his "Top 10 Worst Animated Shows of (insert decade here)" videos, he says that in order for a show to qualify, the show must have at least 13 episodes to prevent this.
	+ Nick-O-Rama often tackles these shows, usually obscure cartoons counted as official Nicktoons.
* Super Evil: At one point, he thought Hasbro's lawyers were this.
	+ When he reviewed Little Clowns of Happytown, he called Dr. Awful B. Bad out for this.
	+ To quote his Wayside review, "...Teletoon might actually be the single-handed reason that Canadian animation has such a rock bottom reputation this day and age."
* Size Changing: He sometimes talks about episodes of shows that use this trope.
* This gave us inspiration: He sometimes reviews what he calls "rip-offs of other shows":
	+ He says Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island is a rip-off of SpongeBob SquarePants.
	+ He also says that Pixel Pinkie is a rip-off of The Fairly OddParents.
	+ At one point, he flat-out said that while shows on Adult Swim have their own identity (he even found it hard to call King Star King a South Park clone), he felt that most of the animated shows that aired on Comedy Central that were not South Park have tried to be South Park (except Moonbeam City, which tried to be Archer according to him).
	+ At one point, he even *praised* Funimation because he thought One Piece was inappropriate for 4Kids as a whole.

TBA.