Clich矃artoon Jokes that Never Get Old

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Live-action sitcoms reuse popular jokes over and over the most, but "wackier" jokes still end up in cartoons over and over again. We are going to say the ones that never get old to us.

Mine would be replacing alcohol/drug addiction with junk food. Flapjack and Happy Tree Friends [Nutty] use candy. Spongebob got drunk on candy in the movie. Mac from Foster's gets high on sugar occasionally. This joke is funny no matter how many times I see it.

What's yours?
 
Clich? Cartoon Jokes that Never Get Old

Wow, that's an? original spellling of "clich?".

Anyway, I think the "Trade one addiction for another" gags can be funny at times too. Haven't seen it much tho.
 
Replacing drug/alcohol addiction with candy is pretty funny at times. It's pretty much the entire premise of Flapjack, too.
 
"Are you threatening me?"

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Old-but-amusing cartoon gags that "Total Drama Island" alone has used (see my various episode reviews in the threads on CN forum for more):

- A character trying to dive into a pool of water only for it to be seemingly hard as ice (sometimes with a "hard water" remark thrown in).

- The "running in mid-air/on a body of water to get away from something" bit.

- The old (as Garfield and Friends called it) "instant door" bit---smashing through a wall and leaving one's outline behind.

Another favorite old gag of mine: the "character appears in two places at once" bit, where someone tries to walk away from an annoying character, only for said annoying character to somehow suddenly wind up right in front of them. Entire plots seem to be built around this gag (see: various Droopy cartoons), plus a few serious cartoons made use of it (that one TNBSA episode where Superman dresses up as Batman and uses it to block the Mad Hatter from escaping), as well as an episode of "Animaniacs" (the Warners did it to Mr. Director). Bonus points if the character it's pulled on makes gasping/weird noises in shock at what happened...

Related to the above is the "character appears right behind them" bit----some character shows up right behind another character suddenly and startles them... see the Road Runner, or Speedy Gonzales (or in a serious use, Batman).

-B.
 
"Well excuuuuuuuuse me princess."
(what? It's cliched and it never gets old? You didn't say it couldn't be annoying as heck.):p

On a more logical note, I've always found funny any joke involving kids mentioning finding mom and dad's "Secret video" or something along those lines. I think there was a joke like that on Fairly Oddparents once.
 
One hero character is prompted to play Those Endearing Young Charms on a piano, unaware that there's a trigger to a high explosive set up on one of the keys.

This hero plays the first few keys correctly, but gets stuck on the very last one (the one the trigger is set up to).

The villain coaxes him to try again.

The hero tries it again, and misses the exact same key.

The villain, out of sheer frustration, shoos the hero out of the way and in an attempt to show him how it's done plays the whole passage correctly down to the very last key.

Blammo.
 
"A well done cliche is worth a hundred pounds of innovative crap" - me

Mine would have to be the "Look over there!" gag. And anything involving the fourth wall.

Oh, and this isn't really a gag, but I like the extremely cliched "Unlikely Band of Heroes" thing, too.
 
Quite a few cartoons have had jokes that take a slam at the censors, especially during the Silver age of WB cartoons and sometimes even recently like in Family Guy.
 
I probably forgot about that one, but I did like that gag. :-) Like I said, TDI did plenty of old-but-amusing gags, hence me keeping a running tally (along with the Canadianisms) in each episode review I did. :-)

-B.
 
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