The Take

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• Animal Reaction Shot: Even the dog reacts.
• Aside Glance: Whatever happened is so outrageous, the character breaks the fourth wall to glance at the audience.
• Delayed Reaction: A character takes their sweet time to realize what happened or its implications.
• Double Take: The character ignores the event at first, only noticing it at second sight.
• Eye Take: The take, but focusing on the character's eyes.
• Face Fault: The event causes a character to faint in response.
• Gasp!: The auditive equivalent of the take.
• Glasses Pull: Putting on/pulling off glasses is the reaction to whatever just happened.
• Love Can Make You Gonk: Seeing someone attractive deforms the character's face to Gonk levels.
• People Fall Off Chairs: Whatever happened causes a sitting character to fail off their seat.
• Reaction Shot: The action cuts away to show a character reacting to something, but there's no gag involved.
• Shrug Take: The character merely shrugs off whatever they just witnessed.
• Spit Take: The event makes a character violently spit out whatever they were drinking.
• Wild Take: The cartoonish version of the take, when the character's anatomy is warped to reflect their reaction.

• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Whenever the characters do comedic takes, their eyes shift from normal to Black Bead Eyes.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stardust Crusaders: In the fight against N'Doul, Iggy develops a comical expression upon realizing that Jotaro is about to toss him straight over to their opponent.
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: Upon finding a winning lottery ticket of five million and taking a few seconds to verify it, Josuke and Okuyasu react with comical hysteria as they celebrate their findings.
  • Golden Wind: After the fight against Ghiaccio, Narancia arrives to see Giorno performing Harmful Healing on Mista, but their ludicrous positioning causes him to have a shocked expression with a Thunder Shock as he passes by on a boat without the two noticing.
  • Stone Ocean: As Ungalo is enjoying himself watching his Bohemian Rhapsody run rampant around the world, he sees one book hasn't been affected, then instantly reacts with horror upon realizing the heroes found a way to nullify his ability.
  • Steel Ball Run: In the midst of a spending spree to prevent a transflormation curse, Gyro is told his recently purchased building turned out be a hotel and receives over thirty million dollars, adding more to the total that has to be discarded, to the utmost frustration thrown upon his face.
    Gyro: WHAT?! We have even more cash now?!
  • JoJolion: When attempting to get information out of Karera, Josuke follows her to a restroom and sees her in the midst of Making Love in All the Wrong Places, silently making a dumbfounded expression as Karera calls him a dummy.
  • The JoJoLands: After Usagi recovers following the fight against Bobby Jean and Lulu, he wakes up find himself and Dragona together in an MRI and reacts with joy while Charming Man is standing with a complete deadpan expression to what he's seeing.
• My Hero Academia: On the first day of class at UA, Bakugo's utterly gobsmacked facial expression when he sees the formerly-Quirkless Izuku use his newly-acquired power in front of him for the first time.

• Laurel and Hardy's shtick employed all kinds of takes, e.g. the Spit Take and Laurel's specialty, the Delayed Reaction.

• Miraculous Ladybug: Rift Wars: One of Chat Noir's complaints about the newest recruit of Ladybug is said hero's utter lameness — being the type to write "Gorillaz fanfiction in his underwear". Chat Noir gets a "Who told you about that?!" for an answer, and both he and Ladybug stare bewildered at the new Peacock wielder. Joke and Receive, indeed.

My Hero Academia

• I am not Done (MHA): It happens to Momo in "Powerless". Her book falls from her hands in absolute disbelief that Izuku managed to defeat her classmate.

• Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The first time Phoebe and Podcast test the franchise's iconic Proton Pack, the scene alternates between the proton ray obliterating the target (a handful of bottles on top of a discarded wheel tire) and the kids' awed faces. Phoebe also seems to have had a lot of fun firing the stuff.
• The Master of Disguise: Fabbrizio Disguisey responds with a take after his son Pistachio's Verbal Tic makes him waxes the lyrics of a song. It's not his son's echolalia that surprises him but the fact Pistachio dares to choose a woman with a small butt despite his family's fetish.

• Bicolor: The plot officially kicks off when Félix is forced to sit beside Lucas in class. The latter is quick to realize that the aggressive yellow-skinned kid everyone says is a delinquent is about to be his table companion for a while, so his eyes shrink in terror, and he mentally starts yelling "No, no, no".
• Worm: While trying to convince Parian to truly commit to the cause, Tattletale mentions engaging in intimate moments as part of said commitment. This prompts Parian to look at her as if she just grew a second head.
  Tattletale: Commitment on a mental level, P. That's more than just coming to meetings. You don't have to like us, but respect us, get to know us, trust us and maybe allow for the occasional intimate moment.
  [Parian's head snaps around to stare at Tattletale]

• The Beatles: Get Back: Ringo wakes up with a hilariously shocked expression when Linda does a Rimshot while he was napping.
• Loki (2021): In "Glorious Purpose", Loki barges in on Miss Minutes and Ravonna's interrogation of Victor, saying he needs the former's help to finish the Throughput Multiplier faster. The camera cuts to Victor, Ravonna, and Miss Minutes all turning to look at Loki in surprised confusion, with Ravonna tilting her head and Miss Minutes blinking with a cartoony sound effect.

• ANNO: Mutationem: In the ending scene, as Ayane playfully asks Ann to do a Bridal Carry with her, Ann initially refuses until Ayane responds by comically crying, with Ann deciding to go along with it as she does an annoyed expression while Ayane happily does a V-Sign.
• Higurashi: When They Cry: Just after everyone makes it safely through a particularly rough patch of the plot, one character is Tempting Fate by thinking just that. The Idiot Ball falls on her hands and she decides to become reckless and race on a hill with twisted roads, which make it difficult to notice pesky things such as incoming trucks. Someone else warns her but she dismisses them. When the truth quite literally hits her, there's a take showing the utter shock on her face.
• Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour: In the opening introduction, Wario, Waluigi, and Bowser perform a multi-take of an Oh, Crap! moments before a Bob-omb detonates near them.
• No More Heroes: During Jeane's Fast-Forward Gag, Travis reacts with comical horror at learning she's his sister, was a victim of being molested, and his father was the one responsible for it.
• Saturn Bomberman: The opening sequence ends with everyone having a Mass "Oh, Crap!" as Bomberman accidentally tosses a big bomb into a volcano.

• Mystery Skulls Animated: In "Freaking Out", the ghost has apparently been out of it for so long that he's forgotten a few of the basics of human life. While crossing the street, he actually stops and squints at something bright... namely, the oncoming headlights of an 18-wheeler. He promptly gets creamed by it once he realizes what's barreling down at him, complete with a classic Take reaction—it's one of the very few times in the series that the iconic head-bob actually stops cold.

• Sleipnir: Equine Invader from Jupiter:
  • As Fred and Akash—Clint's assistants at NASA—are being escorted to a top-secret military base, they speculate that Clint has befriended General Kincaid and intends to have them killed for not warning him about the meteor/UFO/giant alien horse that made Earthfall at his family's farm. When they enter the room and are jubilantly greeted by Clint, who exclaims he's happy to see them, both of them sport looks of utter disbelief on their faces.
  • When Fred sprays Fenrir in the face with a fire extinguisher, the cyborg canine Bioweapon Beast pauses to level an unamused Death Glare at him before trying to eat him.

• Reaction videos, popular on YouTube, are essentially extended takes. Their format consists of one or more people watching some material (put in the B-Roll for the audience's benefit) and then pausing it when something stirs a strong emotion in them. This is followed by commenting on what they just saw/heard. On occasion, it's the opposite that prompts the pausing — something should have provoked a reaction but failed to do so. Reaction videos might include Reaction Shots but also any other of The Take's sub-tropes. On occasion, this type of video causes the reacted-at material to go viral (e.g., Jinjer).

• Daria: Most of the time, the eponymous character defied this trope by rarely reacting to the other characters' antics. At most, she sports a subtle change of facial expression. The only time something is groundbreaking enough to prompt her to make a Double Take is in one episode of another cartoon. "Sporting Goods" from Beavis and Butt-Head, to be precise.
• Garfield and Friends: In the episode "The Secrets Of The Animated Cartoon", Garfield mentions while speaking to the audience that he has a particular dislike of cartoon characters who overreact with Wild Takes (which, ironically, describes the hypochondriac Wade Duck on the same show pretty well). The Take itself is parodied — its ridiculously-Delayed Reaction variant, in particular. Book tells Bo that aliens disguised as bottles of dishwashing liquid are invading Earth. Months later, in the middle of winter, Bo's brain finally catches up and he flees in terror after screaming: "Dishwashing liquid?! Aw no, man!". Kind of an In-Universe, Played for Laughs version of Fridge Horror.
• Megas XLR: In "Dude, Where's My Head", Gorrath stands with a bewildered expression at watching Megas act out of control while they're in the midst of fighting.
• Teen Titans (2003): Whenever the characters—the titular team more often than not—react to something comedic going on, they change into a chibi Super-Deformed style with exaggerated expressions on which the camera lingers.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Invoked and parodied in the second segment of "Inside Plucky Duck", the tiny toons are receiving a lecture on Cartoon Wild Takes. Given that Bugs is teaching them the basic ones, Plucky Duck is unimpressed, so he attempts one of the complex techniques (taught by Daffy in an advanced class) as his grand finale for his pop quiz. The problem? Plucky gets stuck as a legged, giant eyeball after trying his hand at the Clampett Corneal Catastrophe.
• Tom and Jerry: Mammy Two-Shoes screams in fear and climbs onto nearby furniture (usually, a stool) whenever she spots Jerry. She then demands Tom that he get rid of the pest.