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This may occur for different reasons. Sometimes creators just plain don't know exactly what tone they want to give their work. Maybe the story went too far into [[Cerebus Syndrome]], and the writer is tired and horrified of the [[Crapsack World]] it has become, but while trying to reverse the process, he finds out that new, [[Darker and Edgier]] settings have a lot of fans, so he desperately tries to balance drama and comedy to keep both fanbases happy. Sometimes the new writer decides to take the series in a new direction, then into another direction and so on, until fans who have grown to be writers themselves [[Running the Asylum|take the series back to its original roots]]. Some people may just [[Follow the Leader]] too much, and when the leader changes, so too does the direction of their story. And sometimes they just don't want to stick to one setting and are forced to discard all story ideas which are too dark or too light for basic settings. [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] - when played right, it may give a series a unique, recognizable style and keep it fresh. If done badly, however, this will pretty much turn the story into a train wreck.
Compare [[Mood Whiplash]], which is a smaller version of this taking place in a single story rather than spaced out among multiple installments. [[Dude, Not Funny]] may occur if one character is lagging between transitions.
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* As ''[[Re Boot]]'', its "relative", ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' also shifted its tones frequently. Season 1 was an episodic and fairly balanced series of semi-serious and humorous stories, while season 2 was serious-toned all the way through (with some amusing moments sprinkled throughout its run, of course). Season 3, on the other hand, went from being serious, to half-serious and jovial, back to being dark again, but with some truly over-the-top comedic moments, which made not only the season, but also episode-tones shift wildly.
* ''[[Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated]]'' alternates between its largely-humorous episode stories and its [[Angst|very]] [[Darker and Edgier|different]] story arc.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' pulls this with the opening episodes of both seasons.
** Season 1 started with Nightmare Moon, who represented the pinnacle of real danger the mane six faced for the entire season; almost all other conflicts were social or moral in nature - dealing with petty jerkasses, learning lessons about friendship, and the like. While occasionally dealing with creatures like dragons, hydras, and cockatrice.
** And now, with the beginning of season 2, we've come full circle - Discord is a ''much'' nastier monster than Nightmare Moon ever was. And notably for a show like this, he ''isn't'' shamed into defeat or forgiven and redeemed - he gets put right back in the [[Fate Worse Than Death]] he crawled out of. Then you're into stories like "Pinkie Pie Babysits", "Rainbow Dash finds out that reading is fun", "Love potions cause [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity to ensue]]" and "Twilight Sparkle struggles so hard to find [[An Aesop]] [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|that her]] [[Sanity Slippage]] [[Madness Makeover|sinks into]] [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare-inducing depths]]".
** Also, Queen Chrysalis. She is a bug-pony with significant [[Body Horror]]. She manipulates the main character's brother into loving her, beats Celestia one-on-one after absorbing his love, and launches a full-scale invasion.
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' uses this trope as darker and more serious episodes are interspersed with jarringly comedic ones.
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