Animated Series
- In 6teen, one episode has the six characters tell each other their most embarrassing secrets. Caitlin blabs to her boyfriend about all their secrets with the exception of hers, explaining that she couldn't ruin their relationship. When said boyfriend becomes hypnotized and blabs to the entire mall about it, her friends, as expected, were not too happy with her.
- In another episode, Wyatt composed a song about how important his friends are to him for a contest being held at the mall. When none of them show up to hear it due to various reasons, except for Nikki who is asleep, Wyatt changes the lyrics to vent out his anger. Just about every single person who heard the song would tear into Caitlin and the others for being bad friends. On the flip side, Jen and the others proceed to call Wyatt out for having humiliated them.
- The protagonists of Adventure Time get a lot of these, but most of them can be shrugged off due to the protagonists being very young. Finn is a young teenage boy who was raised by dogs, and Princess Bubblegum is a very young princess who holds the responsibility of ruling a large kingdom... and Jake is a dog. Notable examples for Finn are when he hurts all of those creatures in "Another Way," and in "Too Young," where he beats up Lemongrab and makes him cry. (Lemongrab was being an obnoxious, tyrannical asshole, but not on purpose, and he never physically hurt anybody.) Jake is a klepto, and occasionally makes statements that suggest murder, letting people burn alive, enslaving a group of mutants, and various forms of black humor.
- In "You Made Me!", Lemongrab tells off Princess Bubblegum for isolating him, and the princess realizes her mistakes, feels terrible, and tries to help the poor guy. She ends up creating a companion for him, and he ends up eating him.
- One of the biggest is when Finn sets up a fight between Flame Princess and Ice King just to get a pleasurable dream.
- With the reveal is that despite her young appearance, Bubblegum is actually centuries old, many of her morally questionable actions are shown not to be due to inexperience, but pure pragmatism. Some of the ethically dubious actions she's partaken in include sacrificing the lives of individuals, locking children away for years, and genocide.
- The Amazing World of Gumball: Gumball Watterson and Darwin give and receive their fair share of these.
- From "The Limit":Darwin: We should make cardboard cutouts of ourselves, set the car on fire, and throw it off a cliff to teach mom a lesson!
[Gumball and Anais silently stare at him, horrified]
Gumball: I think I have a better, less horrific idea.- Later in the same episode, Nicole declares that Richard has "pushed her past the limit" by actively encouraging the kids to shoplift.
- In "The Saint", after Gumball sells Alan's parents into slavery:Gumball: Am I going too far?
Darwin: No, no, no. You went too far about seven hours ago. Now you're going to prison. - A non-Watterson example in "The Law", when the Donut Sheriff lets Felicity Parham off with a warning even though she's clearly still dangerous.
Gumball: Are you nuts? That woman is an absolute menace to society!- "The Sidekick": After Darwin is put in charge, he asks Gumball for advice on what to do to get back at Tobias. Gumball says to do something petty like take something he likes. Cut to:Gumball: YOU STOLE HIS MOM?!
Darwin: What? You said to take something he likes!
Gumball: Something! Not someone! Have you gone totally nuts!? - In "The Nobody", Rob calls out Gumball and Darwin for ignoring him when he got trapped in the void in "The Void".
- From "The Limit":
- American Dragon: Jake Long: After finding out that Jake had his Dragon Chi confiscated on purpose so he could relax, his grandfather Lao Shi becomes furious. Before he can even properly begin ranting to himself about how he'll enact a punishment, Jake's younger sister Haley, who has been filling in for him, angrily tells Lao Shi off for putting all the burden of defending a magical realm on a teenage boy. Despite arguably being the stronger dragon of the two, she admits that she can't imagine doing the job for even another day, much less several years, pointing out that the position has forced Jake to constantly make personal sacrifices while receiving very little acknowledgement for the work he does. While she acknowledges Jake's choice to purposely suspend his duties was immature, she draws the line at Lao Shi calling the act self-serving. Lao Shi takes this to heart and decides to cut Jake's dragon training in half when he next sees him.Haley: He may be the American Dragon, but he's also a 14-year-old kid who just wanted a couple days off. If that makes him immature, fine. But self-serving? With all due respect to both of you, STEP OFF.
- Archer
- Sterling Archer is constantly called out on his horrible acts by other characters.
- It seems to run in the family. His mother, Malory, also gets plenty of these, especially after she starts a drug cartel in Season 5.
- Cyril has also gotten a few, mostly over his tendency to randomly shoot at anything in sight whenever he's nervous. From "Space Race":Lana: Way to go! You just shot two guys who were just minding their own damn business, and oh yeah, the only person who knew how to fly this damn thing!
- In "Stage 2", Brett makes fun of Archer for being a man with breast cancer. Archer then beats the shit out of him.
- In "El Secuestro", Pam does this to the entire cast regarding how little they cared when she got kidnapped.
- "Once Bitten" has Lana calling out Malory firstly on not sending her on the mission because she's a black woman, and then after she finds out that it's a mission to blow up an oil pipeline.
- Malory gets a ton of these in "White Elephant" after the cast finds out that ISIS was actually a rogue agency and all its members are nearly arrested for treason.
- In the pilot, Archer's Establishing Character Moment comes when Kremenski threatening to kill his mother gives him an erection.Malory: What-
Kremenski: THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! - Ray gives one to the whole cast in "Baby Shower" for how inconsiderately they behaved towards Lana.
- In the same episode, Archer gives one to Cyril after hearing one too many insults directed at Lana's donor baby.
- Ray gets one from both Archer and Lana after they find out that he had been faking paralysis the entire season.
- Arthur: In "Arthur's Big Hit", Arthur punches D.W. after she breaks his model airplane though he told her not to touch it. Needless to say, his friends and family are upset about it.Arthur: She broke my plane.
Fern: But she's just a little girl. - In the episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender "The Storm" an elderly fisherman calls out Aang on abandoning the world to 100 years of war (although the man is entirely unaware of the circumstances, and believes it to just be a result of cowardice and willful neglect of his duty as Avatar, which it was, up until the whole "frozen in an iceberg" bit).
- When Katara steals a waterbending scroll from pirates because she's jealous of Aang, Sokka calls her out on it. After it gets them captured by Zuko and the pirates, Aang tries to deny it's her fault and then Iroh pops up to point out that no, this is totally her fault.
- Also in "The Storm," this trope is used to show that most people from the Fire Nation are not Always Chaotic Evil, and that Zuko's own crew does not appreciate him acting like an idiot and a Jerkass. His lieutenant calls him out for placing his search above the safety of the crew and accuses him of having utter contempt for everyone besides himself, thus hitting Zuko's Berserk Button, when he claims that Zuko knows nothing of respect, unwittingly echoing Ozai's words to him before he gave him his scar.
- Toph calls the rest of the Gaang out in "The Western Air Temple" when they refuse to accept Zuko, despite the fact that he is currently their only hope of finding a Firebending teacher for Aang. Understandably, her friends make the argument that Toph wasn't there when Zuko hurt them. While that is true, Toph sees the bigger picture enough to remind them that they shouldn't let their personal feelings cloud their judgement.
- The whole Gaang's reaction to Jet, once they find out that he's willing to target
Fire NationEarth Kingdom civilians in addition to Fire Nation soldiers. Even Jet's own followers call him out when he plans on catching Zuko firebending rather than going straight as they planned. - Sokka gives a rather harsh one to Aang in "Bato of the Water Tribe" when he hides a map from his friends, a map that reveals where their father was at. The real reason why is that Sokka feels that Aang betrayed them when he hid the map because he didn't want him and his friends to separate yet. Afterwards, a bit later, Sokka and Katara decide to go back to Aang and apologize.
- Sequel Series The Legend of Korra has Korra, of all people, giving one to Lady of War Lin Beifong, snapping at her for being hostile towards Suyin and Opal and being unable to change. Surprisingly, these words cause Lin to shed a few tears when Korra leaves her alone.
- In "Original Airbenders" Bum-ju "gave one" to Bumi for not accepting his brother's apology.
- Mako delivers this to Korra when he and Asami reunite with her after so long when Asami let it slip that she knew what Korra has been up to due to Korra writing to her, but not to him or Bolin despite being just as worried about her well-being. Korra weakly defends that she didn't know what to write to them, which Mako refutes by saying that a simple "hello" would've sufficed.
- In the various Ben 10 series, all the main characters get hit with this trope from time to time.
- In the original series, Ben Tennyson gets slammed by Gwen in "The Alliance", while Grandpa Max gets slammed by Ben in "Ultimate Weapon".
- Ben 10: Alien Force: In the episode "In Charm's Way," after Kevin spends the entire episode being a Jerkass to Gwen, believing that she hasn't even been trying to find a way to fix his most recent mutation, Ben hits him with one of these, not only informing him that Gwen has in fact been spending every spare moment since the accident occurred trying to find a cure for him but for just automatically assuming that Gwen wasn't trying to help him in the first place:Kevin: She... she never told me.
Ben: Should she have had to? - In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episode "The Enemy of My Enemy", Magister Korwak gets pretty mad when Ben knowingly transports Argit to his training facility as bait for a superpowered Kevin. He calls Ben out on endangering recruits, not Plumbers with his plan, and not even bothering to inform him or anyone on the base about it, until after they'd come aboard.
- Big City Greens:
- In "Space Chicken", Cricket tries to launch a chicken into space as to make a good impression around his new neighbors, but they keep falling back down and mess the property of the coffee shop next door. Bill finds out and punishes his son for not heeding his advice properly by sending him to his bedroom for the rest of the day.
- In "Harvest Dinner", Cricket and Gramma are tasked by Bill to watch a pie in the window while he has Tilly get the paprika for the stew. Both are against this job and believe he gave them the job for no reason and he doesn't trust them to get the paprika, so they leave the pie unguarded and throughout a series of obstacles, bring the paprika back, only to be Out-Gambitted by Tilly. And it turns out watching the pie really was an important job, as when they were gone, the pie was stolen by the mean rooster without warning, and Bill scolds his son and mother for disobeying him and not doing their job and they could've protected it all along.
- In "Desserted", Cricket has the family order an oversized meal for dinner, then take a giant sundae challenge for dessert in order to make it free. But the rest of the family is so full they cannot even eat another bite, and Cricket knew his family wouldn't go along with the idea, so he replaced Bill's money with fake cash so they can't give up. Knowing this whole thing led to disaster, Bill calls Cricket out for making everyone miserable with their dinner.
- As any viewer of BoJack Horseman would know, BoJack is not heroic by any means, and he gets called out by other characters plenty of times for this.
- In "The Telescope," Herb calls BoJack out for not standing up for him when he got fired, and for not contacting him in the twenty years that followed.
- In "Head in the Clouds," Diane takes BoJack to task for taking Sarah Lynn on the bender that killed her, almost sleeping with a seventeen-year-old girl, and using Philbert as a way to justify his own shitty behavior.
- The episode "Xerox of a Xerox" sees BoJack get called out on his pattern of taking advantage of women less powerful than him, especially Sarah Lynn, and it's revealed he waited seventeen minutes to call for help when she was dying in order to cover his tracks.
- The Bump in the Night Christmas Episode "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" has two instants of Mr. Bumpy being called out on being unscrupulous by his best friend Squishington.
- When Mr. Bumpy reveals that he had no intention of keeping his promise to get Juaquin Gusanito Sin Manos the set of bionic arms he wanted, Squishington chides him by pointing out that it's very dishonest to break a promise.
- Near the end of the special, Mr. Bumpy tries to keep the last present to himself after stealing Santa's presents and accidentally delivering the gifts to everyone in Santa's place and brushes off Squishington's complaints of how Bumpy promised to get him the feet he wanted so he could tap dance and hasn't delivered on his promise in spite of their harrowing adventure at the North Pole. Squishington responds by calling Bumpy's conduct "uncool", which makes Bumpy realize how selfish he's been being and persuades him to give the last present to his friend in hopes of making amends. Squishington forgives his friend when the present turns out to be a tap-dancing noisemaker, enabling him to tap dance without feet.
- Buzz gets this in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command after he blows off Bonnie Lepton's feelings for him as a stereotypical Damsel in Distress situation, not even bothering to take her seriously. After she storms off, utterly crushed by Buzz's callous dismissal, Mira and Booster are looking at him with total and undisguised disappointment. When Buzz asks what did he say wrong, Mira's response is a cold "I don't even know where to begin".
- Codename: Kids Next Door has this happens to Numbuh Four in two separate episodes:
- The first time is in "Operation: M.A.T.A.D.O.R." when the rest of the team is angry at him for fighting in the Bully Fights. When Numbuh Four snaps back that he's fighting adults, they point out that they only fight the genuinely villainous ones - what the bullies do to fully innocent adults (trap them and give them Klatchian Coffee until they fly into a rage, and then fight them in a bullfight-like setting) - that crosses the line. Numbuh Four has a Heel Realization when his own father is a victim of this cruel sport, and when he ultimately saves the day, he's forgiven.
- He isn't the second time, however, in "Operation: M.I.S.S.I.O.N." In this one, he tricks the authorities at the KND base in Antarctica into freeing four dangerous villains - Mr. Boss, Count Spankulot, Stickybeard, and Soccer Mom - and then threatens them so they can compete against his dad's bowling team. All because he's sick of polishing his dad's trophies. After everything that happened, the rest of Sector V actually sided with the four villains here, and he was punished in the end. By polishing his father's new trophy, no less.
- Danny Phantom:
- In the Grand Finale movie "Phantom Planet", Sam delivers a scathing one to Danny when he is perfectly content to give up his powers and stand back as ghosts terrorize the city, Vlad extorts the city, and Danny gets to be 'normal'.Sam: You're not you anymore. You're just a-a normal kid, and a selfish one at that.
Danny: How am I selfish? Because I don't want to endanger the people I care about the most?
Sam: Danny, don't you get it? Your powers gave you a chance to change things! A chance that no one else had, and I was thrilled to help you. But now you're just one of the crowd again.
Danny: What's wrong with that?
Sam: Everything! You got to fight ghosts after school while other kids fought acne. And you don't seem to care what you gave up.
Danny: I care! I just care about you and my family more.
Sam: When you had your powers, I knew that this town was protected from evil. But now, who knows where we're headed? I'll always be your friend Danny, and I'll always be there for you. But I can't live life just sitting on the sidelines. I'm surprised you think you can.
- In the Grand Finale movie "Phantom Planet", Sam delivers a scathing one to Danny when he is perfectly content to give up his powers and stand back as ghosts terrorize the city, Vlad extorts the city, and Danny gets to be 'normal'.
- One Dexter's Laboratory has Dexter help rebuild Dynomutt at Blue Falcon's request after a battle with a foe leaves Dynomutt badly damaged. Dexter does so, but once he finds out that Dynomutt's an idiot, he dumps him and builds a sleeker, '90s Anti-Hero-type Dynomutt. When the robot goes berserk, Blue Falcon attempts to pull an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight speech, only for Dexter to sheepishly admit that this Dynomutt wasn't his Dynomutt, that he wasn't "cool". Blue Falcon tells Dexter off for thinking that, just because Dynomutt was clumsy and stupid doesn't mean he wasn't "cool".
- One episode of Doug has Doug's father admonish him after learning that he had gotten into a fight. Granted, it was mostly because Skeeter wouldn't stop talking about it and blew the entire incident way out of proportion.
- In the Duck Dodgers cartoon episode "Detained Duck", an evil counterpart of Dodgers, Drake Darkstar, attempts the old switcheroo trick to get out of prison, which eventually ends with a fight between the two which causes them to look identical. The cadet has to try and figure out which one is real and tell the prison guards. Hilariously, Dodgers starts naming off several moments where Dodgers has belittled the cadet, the evil criminal mastermind Darkstar calls him on one:Dodgers: Hey, I know! Tell 'em about the time I sold your sister to the sausage factory!
Darkstar: You sold his sister to the sausage factory? Dude, that's cold. - DuckTales (2017)
- In "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck," Huey and Louie are not quite happy when they find out that Dewey has been keeping his search for Della, their mother, a secret from them. While Huey is furious at what Dewey did, Louie can only sit down in the fetal position, looking like he's about to cry, and tell Dewey that what he did was "not okay."
- In "The Last Crash of the Sunchaser,'' Huey, Dewey, and Louie all call out Scrooge when he reveals the truth about Della. They even accuse Scrooge of being so cheap that he didn't even bother to try and find their mom, not knowing that in fact, Scrooge almost went bankrupt trying to find Della and only stopped his search when his board members forced him to.
- In the same episode, Mrs. Beakley calls out Scrooge after he snaps at Webby and tells her that she's not family.
- Towards the end of "Timephoon," Della calls out Louie for using a time machine to steal treasures from the past, which caused time to alter and the whole family to almost disappear from existence, right before she grounds her son and orders him to shut down Louie, Inc.
- For his part, Louie manages to get in his own scathing remark, replying with a spiteful "I wonder who I got that from," making it clear that he hasn't forgiven Della for the whole Spear of Selene incident that left the family believing her dead for over a decade. Most of the other characters are too shocked to even respond.
- In "How Santa Stole Christmas!", both Santa Claus and Webby lay into Scrooge when they find out that instead of helping Santa deliver presents, he has been giving everyone coal the entire night, which puts the whole world on the naughty list unintentionally.Webby: Who even uses coal anymore except to tell kids they've been bad? How could you ruin Christmas!?
- In The Fairly OddParents! "Wishology" trilogy, Timmy calls out Jorgen and Turbo Thunder for automatically assuming the Darkness was evil because it "looked scary".
- Family Guy
- In the episode "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag", Brian Griffin calls out the entire Griffin family for harassing his latest girlfriend Rita, trying to get her to reveal how old she is, and bringing her to tears in the process. Later in the same episode, Rita calls Brian out for having sex with another woman and acting like it was no big dealnote , and promptly breaks up with him.
- Similarly in another episode, Peter has his identity stolen by James Woods. James Woods impersonates Peter and claims the house, the family, and everything else belongs to him and calls the cops on Peter to kick him out. Joe appears after the call and you would think that he would arrest James Woods since Joe knew Peter for years or at least ask Peter for his identification to clear up the mess. What happens is that Joe follows the law instead and declares James Woods is telling the truth, prompting Joe to kick Peter out. Lois calls Joe out on this bullshit, but he doesn't listen due to him holding the Idiot Ball.
- Brian doesn't try to hide the fact he is willing to do anything for a drink or to sleep with a woman, but in the episode "Be Careful What You Fish For", Brian dates Emily, Stewie's preschool teacher who is far from qualified from looking after toddlers. Emily lets the kids do what they want and doesn't bother trying to keep the place clean or safe, which creates horrible conditions that Stewie tells Brian about and Brian was going to have words with Emily until he saw how hot she was. Stewie calls Brian out for his actions and after his arm got pulled off his socket by Emily and when Stewie tries to tell Lois, Brian attempts to shut Stewie up just to be able to keep dating Emily. Only when Brian finds out Emily already has a boyfriend does he decide to call the cops on her for the preschool's conditions.
- Quagmire gives a giant one to Brian, detailing pretty much every single flaw that he had. To put all of the flaws in as few words as possible, Brian is pretentious, a complete hypocrite, dishonest, a lazy moocher, and sexually promiscuous (which also leads back to the hypocrite part too).
- Meg delivers a devastating What The Hell, Family during "Seahorse Seashell Party", attacking both the way her family members behave in general and the way they treat her. Peter, Lois, and Chris are all upset when they realize how they have behaved. Because Status Quo Is God, Meg takes it all back and this is never mentioned again.
- On Franklin, Bear is not happy with Franklin in "Franklin Forgives" after he refuses to forgive Harriet after she shines up his bike, telling her that he knows she's doing it because she feels bad about what happened with Goldie, but that it won't bring Goldie back. "That's it!" he shouts and takes Franklin inside the Turtle family shed, asking if he doesn't think he's being too hard on Harriet. When Franklin tells him that he said "thank you" to Harriet, he tells him that Harriet doesn't want that, that she wants him to forgive her, that she said sorry and what she did was an accident.
- Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: In "Heart of the Undead", Mira is furious with Fang when she learns from Jabu that Fang betrayed Spear, who was reanimated as a zombie, by getting him casted out of the village. Even Fang's offspring, Spike and Sonja, are disappointed in their mother.
- Gravity Falls: Due to Dipper’s Fatal Flaw of not always thinking his actions through, he gets this a lot:
- In "Summerween", Mabel is plenty mad at Dipper when his obsession with being "cool" and "adult" in front of Wendy causes him to lose all the candy the twins and Mabel's friends were collecting for the Summerween Trickster, putting all their lives in danger.
- In "Boyz Crazy", Dipper reveals that Robbie not only stole the song he supposedly "wrote" for Wendy, but it had subliminal messages in it, and she angrily breaks up with him. Dipper then immediately asks her to hang out, only for a distraught Wendy to lay into him, too, for being so thoughtless.
- Dipper gets called out again in "Dreamscaperers" for not wanting to save Grunkle Stan's mind from the invading Bill Ciper due to Grunkle Stan's memories showing that he believes Dipper to be worthless and wants to get rid of him.
Soos: Dipper, you're a cool dude and all, but that wasn't cool, dude.- A downplayed example in "Scary-Oke" is when Mabel scolds Dipper for raising the dead in order to impress Powers and Trigger, putting the entire town in danger. To be fair, Dipper didn’t realize that there were dead remains under the Mystery Shack, and the fact that he didn't read what the forbidden spell from the journal would do.
- Mabel gets one from Bill Cipher when she nearly sells out her brother to the Big Bad just to continue to impress her Guy of the Week in "Sock Opera."
- Hazbin Hotel
- Charlie Morningstar
- When making her case about the necessity of the Hotel and her plans for redeeming demons and Sinners in the court of Heaven itself, she finds out that the exterminations were intended to be a secret known only to the higher ranking and more militant angels, and moreover that not even the angels know what the real requirements for entering Heaven are, and furiously calls them out on it. She and Emily also point out the hypocrisy of rejecting sinners who make real attempts to improve while the Exorcists are allowed to be as ruthless and bloodthirsty as possible with no repercussions because they've already "earned their place" in heaven. Finally, they point out that the Sinners have already been punished for their sins by being sent to Hell, making the Exterminations Disproportionate Retribution by definition.
- She’s on the receiving end of this in "Hazbin Hotel: Behind Closed Doors" — first by Vaggie for inviting Vox and Velvette to the hotel despite her protests, and after having accidentally put Angel and Husk in danger in an attempt to prove redemption is real to Vox and Velvette.
- She's also once again on the receiving end by none other than her girlfriend in "Silenced", being so fed up with Charlie's Genre Blindness playing into Vox's game and lies which cost the hotel's reputation.
- Charlie Morningstar
- In Invincible (2021), Mark's best friend Will's boyfriend gets kidnapped by a Mad Scientist but Mark ignores Will's pleas for help in order to focus on his relationship issues. As a result, Will's boyfriend is turned into a cyborg while he himself almost meets the same fate, which he calls Mark out for later on. However, this ends up being subverted, as his reprimand turns into a Tough Love speech encouraging him to learn from his mistakes and not give up on heroism after seeing how broken up Mark was about it all.
- Kaeloo:
- In "Let's Play Danger Island Survivor", Kaeloo forces her friends to participate in a really lame game show called "Danger Island Survivor". Everyone complains about this, and in the end, Mr. Cat snaps and ends up getting mad at Kaeloo, pointing out how stupid it is. Kaeloo gets really mad and beats him up just for expressing his opinion (which was in fact everyone else's opinion but hers). Stumpy and Quack Quack are both disgusted by her actions, and they and Mr. Cat kick her out of Smileyland (the Reset Button ensures that she's allowed back in by the next episode).
- In Episode 213, Kaeloo finds out that Mr. Cat has been seeing a therapist, and mistakenly believes that he has pulled a Heel–Face Turn. Mr. Cat (who is actually stuck in a Heel–Face Revolving Door) would much rather keep this information to himself, but Kaeloo decides to go around telling people. She gets called out on this by literally everyone including her own Split Personality.
- King of the Hill: In "Snow Job", Buck Strickland harshly calls out Lloyd Vickers after the latter's business decisions prompt all of Strickland Propane's HazMat Drivers to quit...and he doesn't even bother to stop or discourage them, naively thinking he can simply hire new drivers.Vickers: (after being asked by Joe Jack if all his friends are HazMat certified) HazMat?Buck Strickland: (on the phone with Vickers) HAZARDOUS MATERIALS!!! VICKERS, YOU MORON! YOU NEED A SPECIAL LICENSE TO DRIVE A PROPANE TRUCK!!Vickers: It's all right sir, I can get to yes. I'll hire a new batch of drivers right away.Buck Strickland: You listen to me, got-dangit, it's the got-dang height of the season! There's no drivers from here to got-dang city!! YOU'RE FIRED!!! [hangs up, then drops some change into a charity bin] Here you go, sisters.
- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts:
- "Ratland": Although she can't speak, Mandu gets the message across to Wolf by growling that she is not pleased that Wolf is keeping the clue to Kipo's family's whereabouts hidden from her. Wolf brushes her off.
- "Mulholland": When Wolf reveals that she hid Lio's map from Kipo, and that the map shows that the group has been journeying in the wrong direction, Kipo is profoundly hurt and angrily berates her for this. After Wolf tearfully reveals that she doesn't want their journey to end and them to separate, Kipo silently forgives her.
- "Mute-Eat-Mute World": Benson spends much of the episode angrily calling out Wolf for abandoning Kipo when she discovered the latter is part-Mute, especially in light of Kipo forgiving Wolf for her own transgression.
- This trope was the essential plotline for a Liberty's Kids episode where Sarah goes to Thomas Jefferson's farm and discovers that the writer of "All men are created equal..." is a slaveholder. She is understandably shocked and confronts him.
- The Looney Tunes Show: In "SuperRabbit", Jor-El calls out Superrabbit for this; pointing out that most of his current problems he has brought on himself because of his arrogance.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- The Cutie Mark Crusaders get a few from "Ponyville Confidential", but special mention goes to Big Macintosh, who was actually mad enough to chew them out for humiliating him and Applejack.
- Spike gets one from Twilight in "Owl's Well That Ends Well" after he attempts to put a fake dead mouse to make it seem as if Owlowiscious had done it.
- In "Putting Your Hoof Down," after seeing Fluttershy violently deal with a random tourist pony Rarity and Pinkie Pie call her out on her behavior. Considering her new personality though, it doesn't end well for them.
- In "A Canterlot Wedding," Twilight Sparkle is suspicious of impostor Princess Cadance's behavior, and after apparently misinterpreting one of her actions, Twilight bursts into the wedding rehearsal and accuses the princess of being outright evil. Her friends all leave without even speaking to her, and even Princess Celestia herself makes it clear she's disappointed. Then it turns out Twilight was right, that Cadance was evil...but she wasn't even the real Cadance. During the Near-Villain Victory, the impostor, Changeling Queen Chrysalis, gives a variation to the rest of the Mane Cast, stating that it was their fault for not listening to Twilight at all about her behavior. Applejack was very remorseful about this and apologized to Twilight on everypony's behalf, but she brushed it off, stating that it wasn't their fault seeing as Chrysalis fooled everypony.
- In "Inspiration Manifestation", Owlowiscious toward Spike as Rarity begins running amok with the spell, and his insistence that everything's going fine. Twilight also berates Spike at the end of the episode for taking the spellbook from the castle without asking permission.
- In "Every Little Thing She Does", Starlight panics at the thought of spending the day doing friendship lessons with the Mane Six (minus Twilight) and decides to use a mind-control spell to ease things along. It doesn't go well at all, and Twilight and the others call her on it:Twilight: "What made you think casting a spell on your friends to do your bidding was even remotely a good idea?"
Starlight: "Well, when you put it that way, it sounds really bad."
Twilight: "THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS REALLY BAD!" - In "The Summer Sun Setback", Twilight lays it real hard on her friends when she comes out to find the last Summer Sun Celebration's plans are ruined all of a sudden, and have gotten even worse when they tried to fix it themselves, meaning they lied to her about claiming everything was going fine because they didn't want her to freak out like she did early in the season. Although Twilight was upset with them for not telling the truth, she does not freak out due to her Character Development.Twilight: And you thought not telling me everything was a total disaster would avoid a freak-out?!
Spike: When you say it like that, it sounds like a really bad plan.
- O'Grady:
- In one episode, Harold helps out the Driver's Ed class by convincing the teacher to show a bunch of incredibly bloody movies about the dangers of bad driving. The movies are so horrific Iris goes up to Harold at one point and calls him a sick, twisted individual.
- Kevin does this to Beth when the school finds out she made an agreement for everyone to get new computers in exchange for going a month without sugar, without getting anyone's consent beforehand.Kevin: What have you done, Beth?
- The Penguins of Madagascar: After Kowalski confesses to the other penguins that he stole parts from Mort's "Friend-In-A-Box" in order to finish his mind-reading device, he turns it on them to see what they're thinking...Private: Oh, Kowalski... How could you?
Skipper: The sight of you makes me throw up in my beak, soldier!
Rico: Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssshhhhh! - Played for laughs in an episode of Phineas and Ferb when Perry crashes through Dr. Doofenshmirtz's door rather than just knocking. Doofenshmirtz proceeds to give Perry a lecture about not going around breaking down other people's doors, and then guilts him into paying to get the door replaced. This had a great callback in a later episode, where Perry had a KEY and Dr. Doofenshmirtz actually comments on how much nicer and easier it is now.
- Played straighter in the movie, Across the 2nd Dimension, when Phineas discovers Perry's secret identity.Phineas: (angry at Perry) So not only have you been leading a double life this whole time, but you just sat there and let us help an evil scientist open an evil portal into an evil dimension, and you did NOTHING to stop us?!
Ferb: Well, he did pee on the couch.
Doofenshmirtz: Wait a second, I just realized! (gets angry at Perry) That was a conscious choice: you peed on my couch!
(Perry grins sheepishly and shrugs in embarrassment)
- Played straighter in the movie, Across the 2nd Dimension, when Phineas discovers Perry's secret identity.
- In The Hub's Pound Puppies episode "Dogs on a Wire", resident genius Strudel becomes successful as a circus dog, and initially, her team is happy for her. However, after it gets to a point where she's willing not only to leave the Pound Puppies but also abandon her circus teammates to further her success, team leader Lucky lays into her for being selfish.
- The Powerpuff Girls (1998):
- In "Town And Out", the Professor gets a new job and moves the family from the City of Townsville to the Town of Cityville. After spotting a bank robbery, the girls ply their usual trade, doing craptons of collateral damage while catching the bank robbers (a normal day in Townsville). When they report to the mayor for congratulations, he yells at how stupid they are and that the money they recovered was a tiny fraction of the cost of the damage done.
- Buttercup gets a tongue-lashing from Bubbles, Blossom, and Ms. Keane in "Paste Makes Waste" after she bullied Elmer.
- Utonium calling out the girls for swearing in "Curses"
- Blossom is chewed out by everyone in Townsville during "Fallen Arches" when she wouldn't stop the Ministry of Pain, her reasoning being that they should "respect their elders".
- In "Super Zeroes", the Girls (attempting to be more like comic superheroes) get called out three times by three different people when they repeatedly show up late to stop a monster.
- During "What's The Big Idea", the Girlsnote get yelled at when they destroy some property.
- Bubbles gets called out by her sisters in "Bubblevicious" after she takes being 'hardcore' too far and starts beating the living hell out of innocent civilians for things like littering.
- Both Blossom and Bubbles call out Buttercup in "Makes Zen to Me" for going too rough on Fuzzy Lumpkins even after he surrendered. Later, three doctors treating Fuzzy also chew her out, even calling her a monster, causing Buttercup to run off and find some inner peace with the help of a monk.
- On Ready Jet Go!, all the other characters are this to Jet whenever he does something really dumb. For example, this line from Satellite SelfieSydney: Jet, where in the world did you get the idea to put rutabaga and garlic into a cookie?!?
- Regular Show has a few, but the most noteworthy might be the Season 6 finale "Dumped at the Altar", where Mordecai interrupts Muscle Man's wedding to give a long, rambling speech about his own love life. Everyone is disgusted and confused by this, with even the often callous Rigby calling him out on the horrible timing.Rigby: So, when I said "go with your gut", did you hear "completely lose your mind and try to dump your girlfriend at a wedding"? 'Cause that seemed to be the option you went with.
- The very first short of The Ren & Stimpy Show, "Stimpy's Invention", has Ren calling Stimpy a "sick little monkey" when the Happy Helmet is slapped onto his head. Anything else is drowned out when Stimpy activates it.
- Rick and Morty: In "Rick Potion #9", Morty has Rick concoct a love potion so he can woo Jessica, a girl he has a crush on. Because Jessica has the flu, she ends up transmitting the effects of the potion to the entire school and within a few hours, the entire world wants to have sex with Morty (though not any of Morty's family as the potion doesn't work on people with his DNA). Rick's attempts to reverse the issue eventually end up with the entire planet being irreversibly mutated into shambling Cronenberg-esque horrors and Rick and Morty end up abandoning it to live in an alternate universe where they died. Morty asks Rick about why he did this, and Rick tears Morty a new one, pointing out that what Morty was trying to do to Jessica was date rape. And he's right.Rick: Me irresponsible!? All I wanted you to do was hand me a screwdriver, Morty! You're the one who wanted me to buckle down and make a roofie juice serum, so you could roofie the poor girl at your school! You kidding me, Morty!? You're going to try and take the high road on this one? You're a creep, Morty!
- Rugrats:
- In the episode "Family Feud", when the babies run off and Chas is the only one who notices while the Pickles and DeVilles are busy arguing over petty little things, he flips out and reads them the riot act for it.
Chas: Look at you! Don't you see what you've done?! While you were insulting each other and bringing up every petty difference from your past, you've forgotten about your children, the most important thing in your insignificant lives! You ought to be ashamed!- Also, in "Naked Tommy", Betty gives one to Didi for trying to make her listen to her crackpot idol's advice after finding that Tommy's nudist phase had rubbed off on her twins.
Betty: Don't start with that hippie Lipschitz, Deed! I don't know what kind of baby commune you're trying to run here, but it's time to face facts; the sixties are over, and we lost! So just get with the program, all right?!- In "Officer Chuckie", Chuckie becomes obsessed with enforcing safety rules to the point where he doesn't let his friends do anything fun. Tommy calls him out for this after he takes Dil's bottle away (Chuckie claims he was drinking it too fast).
Tommy: That's it, Chuckie! We can't take any more of your safety rulers! You won't let us run or play in the sandbox or swing or slide or nothin'! How are we opposed to show Dil all the fun stuffs if we can't do em' no more? - Scooby-Doo:
- The Scooby-Doo Show: In "The Spirits of '76", Shaggy chides Scooby for ruining a complete dinosaur skeleton due to his lack of self-control when it came to one of its bones.
- The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo Flim-Flam; who was trying to get the house of Scooby's parents back in its proper place; gets the rest of the show's main cast angry the moment he mistakenly causes Dooville to get covered in snow during the wrong season with the magic whip he retained after Prof. Fantazmo was captured.
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: It starts right off with Scooby and the gang locked in jail because their recent mystery adventure has disrupted Crystal Cove's revenue stream (it's a supernatural tourist attraction), then episode 26 has the gang divided as Fred discovers the Mayor isn't his real dad, and Velma had kept Angel Dynamite's identity (previous Mystery Inc. member Cassidy Williams) a secret, to which the others took umbrage.
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
- "When Urkel Bots Go Bad": Steve Urkel (the guest star from the Family Matters series) gets a lot of flak from other characters in-universe due to how much damage he causes throughout the episode which starts at the museum and culminates in the Mystery Machine's destruction leading to Fred screaming Urkel's last name in anger for that.
- "A Run Cycle Through Time": Prior to the revelation that the time travel experience was not real with pretty much no damage done, Daphne calls out Shaggy and Scooby for disregarding Malcom's advice with their actions regarding giant bananas such as a peel causing a group of machines to topple over and trigger a volcanic reaction which lead to the future becoming a mess.
- "Scooby-Doo, Dog Wonder!": The female owner of the warehouse the gang visits threatens to call the cops out of rage on them if they do not leave when Dynomutt crashes the flying Falcon Car into her warehouse.
- The Sheep in the Big City episode "Fleeced to Meet You" has a sketch where the superhero Completely Powerful Guy avoids going after criminals his sidekick Wonderful Boy informs are on the loose by claiming to be completely vulnerable to the various villains' attacks and not wanting to risk getting hurt by them. Wonderful Boy responds to Completely Powerful Guy's excuses by irately pointing out that he's acting less like a hero and more like a pathetic coward.
- The Simpsons:
- "Dude, Where's my Ranch?" has Lisa crushing on a boy named Luke. She sends a girl named Clara she thinks is his girlfriend in the wrong direction so Lisa could have Luke all to herself. When Lisa realizes Clara is Luke's sister, she brings her back, but Luke angrily chews her out and breaks up with her.
- In "Tis the Fifteenth Season", Carl calls out Homer for giving Lenny some Certs for Christmas:Lenny: This gift stinks!
Carl: Homer, you're the most selfish man I know.
- South Park:
- Cartman as the Coon is called out for actions such as planning to blow up a hospital, faking pictures to blackmail someone, and teaming up with Cthulhu. With Cartman, the term hero is used loosely. Everyone is suitably disgusted with him, assuming they're not too terrified to be that way.
- Jesus questions Santa's actions when he shoots his terrorist captor in an inversion of a scene from Three Kings.Santa: I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't let him live. He shocked Santa's balls!
- In "The China Probrem", after Butters accidentally shoots a hostage in the crotch:Cartman: Aw dude, you shot him in the dick.
Butters: Huh?
Cartman: That's not cool Butters. You don't shoot a guy in the dick.
Butters: But I was just trying to stop him, and you said-
Cartman: [faces him] It doesn't matter, Butters! You never shoot a guy in the dick. Everyone knows that! Shooting a guy in the dick?? That's just, that's just weak. I can't believe you, Butters. - Chef chews out the boys for revealing that his bride-to-be Veronica is a succubus on the night before the wedding (which is true). It doesn't help that they were jealous of her. He forgives them after they send her back to the pits of Hell.
- Poor Kyle gets called out by all the children with Tourette Syndrome as well as their therapist, when he tries to point out that Cartman is just pretending to have it so he can shout vulgarities and slurs with impunity. They're furious that Kyle thinks anyone could think such a condition was fun, and go up one side him and down the other to make it very clear there's nothing fun about it. Though Thomas, the one boy with Tourette Syndrome, does come to realize Cartman is faking too.Kyle: Look, I was just suggesting that maybe this one person could control what he said, but just didn't, for fun.Teen Boy: Fun? Brrrrr! This really isn't all that fun. Brrr, brrrrrr!Thomas: You wanna know about fun? Going to public places knowing you're going to make a fool of yourself. Embarrass your parents —aw shit! My dad... finally couldn't take it anymore. He divorced my mom, said he'd still be around, but I only see him at Christmastime now. S-sh-shit! S-sh-shit! The worst part is I know how lonely my mom is. A lot of times I know she'd be better off if I was dead.
- It's not all that rare that as soon as Season 6, Kyle and especially Stan get called out by their parents or someone else. For example, in "Fun With Veal", the adults call the boys out for "saving" the baby cows from becoming veal. You can't help but side with the kids on this, though, and this is an Author Filibuster based on one of Trey's real-life traits of not eating baby animal meat. And in "The F-Word", the school staff calls the boys out for spray-painting "FAGS GET OUT" on a wall to get the annoying Harley riders out of South Park. Mayor McDaniels does this twice, one of them during the call-out.
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- In "Born Again Krabs," Squidward gives Mr. Krabs a scathing speech to this effect after he sells SpongeBob's soul to the Flying Dutchman for pocket change (a whole 62 cents), despite the fact that SpongeBob willingly put his life on the line in order to save Krabs from being taken by the Dutchman.Squidward: He stuck up for you, and you sold him out. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!
- In "Yours, Mine and Mine", Mr. Krabs angrily calls SpongeBob and Patrick out and scolds them after realizing the Patty Pal toy made them fight.Mr. Krabs: All this brawlin' is over a toy?! You shouldn't let a little trinkle of it between yous! You should be ashamed of yourselves.
- In "Dying For Pie", Mr. Krabs gives one to Squidward when it looked like SpongeBob has eaten the exploding pie.Mr. Krabs: You had to kill him. The boy cries you a sweater of tears...and you kill him. How are you gonna live with yourself?
- In "Sleepy Time", everyone except for Patrick tells SpongeBob off for appearing and annoying them in their dreams.
- In "Little Yellow Book", Mr. Krabs lays it real hard on Squidward for embarrassing SpongeBob in public with his diary secrets, and forces him to apologize. Of course, Squidward doesn't care one bit. Makes perfect sense for Mr. Krabs being the only one who did not read the diary nor become a hypocrite like the rest of the customers.
- In "Friendiversary", Mr. Krabs gives a really good one to Squidward for erasing SpongeBob's entire memory of him which also erased his memory of the combination to his safe with the secret formula inside, and forces him to un-erase it by spending time with him.
- In "Sandy, Help Us!", Narlene arrives to help Sandy with her clone that's went on a rampage. Sandy explains that she invented the clone to take out her garbage, leading Narlene to call her out, and they decide to let the clone loose on the town to live its own life.
- In "Born Again Krabs," Squidward gives Mr. Krabs a scathing speech to this effect after he sells SpongeBob's soul to the Flying Dutchman for pocket change (a whole 62 cents), despite the fact that SpongeBob willingly put his life on the line in order to save Krabs from being taken by the Dutchman.
- In the Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Here to Help", it's revealed that Moon Butterfly was the one who helped Mina build a new Solarian army in order to overthrow Queen Eclipsa. They claim that this was to prevent Mina from doing something even worse, but Star rightfully points out that a) there was no way Mina would have accomplished anything as destructive as a super-powered, nigh-immortal military force on her own and b) Mina is a genocidal psychopath who she can't possibly control. Star is proven right when they're betrayed by Mina the following episode and prove powerless to stop her.
- Star Wars Rebels, "Path of the Jedi": Yoda chides Ezra on wanting revenge against the Empire, asking if that's what he was taught was the Jedi way.
- Steven Universe:
- During the second season, there is a short arc where Garnet gives a huge one to Pearl when she finds out that the latter has been repeatedly fixing the communication hub just to continue fusing with Garnet, due to the Power High she gets when they form Sardonyx. Garnet is extremely furious with them for such manipulative behavior and betraying her trust, and it takes a few episodes for them to finally patch things up.
- Early in the third season, Steven delivers one to Lapis Lazuli, who had been... indisposed throughout Peridot's entire redemption arc and had spent an entire episode furious at said character for bringing her back to Earth. While he acknowledges that Lapis had indeed gone through a lot, he points out that Peridot did so as well, is making a huge effort to be a better person, is probably just as terrified as Lapis at the idea of being stuck on an unfamiliar planet, and has spent the entire episode trying to be amicable towards someone who clearly hates her.
- In the final season, Connie gives one to Steven after he returns from having given himself up to Homeworld in order to save her and some other humans they were trying to abduct, upset with him for seemingly giving up on their belief that they would face any dangers together. While Steven did have a point at the time since the Gems that they were fighting were able to overpower them easily, he admits that it was insensitive of him to act like being taken into space to his potential death was nothing of note, because it was clearly distressing for her and the rest of his loved ones.
- Strawberry Shortcake (Classic): The Brambleberry Fairy ends up on both sides of this trope in the episode "Sleeping Beauty". At the start, the Brambleberry Fairy delivers this to the partygoers at Princess Strawberry Rose's birth due to her lack of an invitation (which she brought upon herself with some brambleberry bushes that were planted there by her to be an anti-robbery security system). Near the end, Prince Huckleberry lectures her when he bumps into her. The latter instance is downplayed since Prince Huckleberry doesn't raise his voice during his lecture, but the Brambleberry Fairy still regrets what she did in her own moment as a result and that cements her Heel–Face Turn.
- Superbook (2011): Chris gets this quite a bit across the series—from Joy, from his mother Phoebe, from Jesus Himself—for his acts of selfishness, his overly entitled attitude, and his reckless behavior in general. One of the more heartbreaking ones comes from Joy in "Peter's Denial," while she's in the middle of a Heroic BSoD over Chris having just casually pretended not to know her, his best friend of several years, just so he can try to impress and hang out with some cool kids who think Joy's a geek for being president of the chess club.Joy: Chris...how could you do that?
Chris: Joy, those guys don't think the chess club is very cool, and you know how much I wanna—
Joy: And that makes it okay to pretend you don't (voice cracks) ...know me?
Chris: Joy...you know I'm your friend.
Joy: I thought I knew. - The Super Mario World (1991) episode "King Scoopa Koopa": Luigi and Yoshi, who have become hooked on Koopa's fast food, trade in Princess Toadstool's treasure chest to continue feeding their addiction. When Princess discovers this, she promptly calls them out on it.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): In Curse of the Evil Eye, Vernon Fenwick makes no bones about how angry he is at Blodgett losing the news van in the harbor and has him fired.
Vernon: Blodgett! Just look at the news van!Blodgett: Uh, I'm sorry, Mr., uh, Vernon.Vernon: You'll be even sorrier when you hear this—Blodgett, you're fired!Blodgett: Oh, boy. Somehow this always happens.- Splinter of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) is usually the first to call out any of the turtles whenever they screw up on a mission. While calling them out, he usually resorts to disciplining them, humiliating them in lessons made in particular for them, and even making their missions harder for them all as punishment should any of them go against his word. One example shows how short-tempered this incarnation of Splinter is when Leo decides to give his leadership position to Raph when the latter wouldn't stop running his mouth off.Leonardo: (...) I've had to make every other decision and I'm tired of it! Those guys have no idea what kind of pressure I'm under and all they do is complain. Is it too much to ask for a simple "Thank you?"
Splinter: Of course it is! Leadership is not about being appreciated, it is about responsibility. It doesn't matter that the burden is heavy, It matters that you carry it. Now go find your brothers!
- Thomas & Friends: Sir Topham Hatt (AKA the Fat Controller) would occasionally give this to his engines whenever they are naughty.
- In the Totally Spies! episode "The Fugitives", the three heroines give this to Jerry in spades while pelting him with snowballs. (His apology for not believing their innocence and trying to capture them and apply brain surgery to stop them — they didn't seem willing to accept it yet.)
- Transformers:
- In Beast Wars, after Dinobot's recent trip through the Heel–Face Revolving Door and giving the Golden Disk to Megatron, Rattrap gives this to him:
Rattrap: You know, I used to think I had you pegged. "Oh sure, he's a slag-sucking saurian, but at least you know where he stands." I guess you live and learn.- Prowl of Transformers: Animated can't seem to convince Optimus Prime that the Dinobots are alive, and thus melting them down would be wrong. Prowl says he can sense a spark, but Prime says the destructive, lumbering, fire-breathing former animatronics are too big a risk when all Prowl has to go on is his feelings. So Prowl convinces Bulkhead to sneak out with him in the middle of the night and save the Dinobots. Prime is not happy about this once he finds out, so depending on how you feel about the Dinobots, it could be a What the Hell, Hero? moment for either Prowl or Optimus; the Dinobots are living things, but they're also incredibly destructive. When they finally get around to telling Prime of this, he is not happy that they stole the Dinobots. Prowl points out that they rescued the Dinobots.
- Ratchet calls out Prowl for his destructive romp when apprehending Starscream (or rather, unbeknown to them, his clone) by pointing out the bird's nest he ruined. Given that Prowl is a Friend to All Living Things, this hit him particularly hard. Even Starscream gets in the act, with a "Not So Different" Remark.
- TFA seems to like this trope. In a flashback, Ratchet does this to Ultra Magnus and the rest of the autobots who created Omega Supreme, for making what is essentially a Tyke-Bomb Person of Mass Destruction to win the war with the Decepticons. While none of them deny that what they're doing is wrong, it's quite possible the Autobots would have lost the war without doing it.
- In "This Is Why I Hate Machines", Alpha Trion berates Sentinel Prime for his decision to fire at Omega Supreme, knowing the risks of possibly destroying Cybertron. He makes it very clear that if the decision was up to him, Sentinel wouldn't be Magnus any longer.
- Sentinel himself, despite being a Jerkass most of the time, got to call Optimus out in "Predacons Rising" when he learns Optimus kept the whole Elita-1 / Blackarachnia thing a secret from him.Sentinel: You knew about this?!
Optimus: I didn't know how to tell you.
Sentinel: Well, thanks for not spoiling the surprise. 'Cause I wouldn't wanna be, I don't know, PREPARED FOR THIS OR ANYTHING!
- Transformers: Prime has Jack call out Bulkhead for being perfectly fine with letting jerks be taken by Decepticons, twice.
- In "Legacy", Smokescreen gets called out by Arcee and Optimus for his reckless behaviour, but especially for dragging Jack along on a dangerous mission (which ended up with Jack hiding from Insections in crevice, whilst they slowly dug him out, before being rescued). Smokescreen himself admits that he deserves every word of it.
- Trollhunters: The Hero James Lake Junior is called out by Angor Rot for having stolen the ring that contains his soul and used it to control Angor instead of returning to Angor as Jim had promised.
- Played for laughs in the third season premiere of Trolls: The Beat Goes On!. Branch goes on a conspiratorial rant about how the hidden box of disguises belongs to a non-Pop troll infiltrator that needs to be rooted out. Poppy not only dismisses Branch's concerns (comically revealing that every other Pop troll has one), but she has an entire musical number that encourages everyone in the village to ignore Branch. After all the others leave, though, she quickly admits Branch is right and that he needs to help her find the infiltrator. Branch immediately calls Poppy out for the previous song (she justifies it by noting how easily Pop trolls panic, and she "had to really sell it").
- In the Unicorn Academy episode "The Vision Pool", Ava calls out Sophia for endangering herself and breaking their promise to do things together.
- Work It Out Wombats!: In "Zadie's Shell Shuffle," Zadie wants JunJun to sing about her, but with his songs, he keeps giving away her hiding places and she loses at hide and seek. She does not take losing well, and yells at JunJun for doing what she asked him to do. After he gets upset and leaves, Zeke calls Zadie out for what she did.Zeke: Snout said you were mean, Zadie.
