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Named for the most prolific offender and trend setter, although the phenomenon is not limited to the [[Disney Animated Canon]]. It's not even necessarily limited to animated musicals; live-action musicals can also contain a [['''Disney Acid Sequence]]''' if a musical number goes more surreal than just a random song and dance routine. Some examples here are likely to be inspired by [[Busby Berkeley Number|Busby Berkeley Numbers]]s. All examples here are prone to contain [[Deranged Animation]].

* ''[[Fantasia]]'' is not actually an example, as each musical number is its own [[Surreal Music Video|separate and self-contained animated sequence]] and not an insert in a larger plot. Nevertheless, it deserves mention for containing many of the usual elements of the [[Disney Acid Sequence]], since each of its segments is to greater or lesser extent an abstract illustration of the music being played.

* This was also done by Disney, but the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_70P4c1UVIY opening sequence] to the [[Disney Channel]] show ''[[Adventures in Wonderland]]'' (made by Eli Noyes, Jr.) certainly counts as a [[Disney Acid Sequence]].

* ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'': "A Guy Like You". The commentary track references this trope, going so far as to suggest that ''everything'' involving the three gargoyles might have been Quasimodo's imagination.

* In addition to being a [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]] and a rare ''canonical'' [[Caramelldansen Vid]], [[Phineas and Ferb]]'s [[Animesque]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgEbs4vu4_w J-Pop (Welcome to Tokyo)] is definitely one. Candace aptly sums up the audience's reaction:

* Somehow, when [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons go weird, they go ''really'' [[Deranged Animation|weird]]. The best single example would be the fever dream-esque musical sequences in the already very strange ''Galaxy Goof-Ups'' (the adventures of Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound and a couple of [[The Scrappy|wacky new characters]]... [[We Are're Still Relevant, Dammit!|but they're in space!]]) Every so often, the plot would stall for a minute or two and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GTmcF4Hl-Y&feature=colike this would happen]. Brace yourselves, for that video contains [[The Seventies]]. ALL of the Seventies.

** A rare example that the [[Disney Acid Sequence]] in question inspired its own series, which contained its own examples, which makes it the Russian dolls of animated puppets.

* "[[The Worst Witch]]". Tim Curry. The Halloween Song. So [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazingly awesome]] it deserves a [http://x-entertainment.com/messages/435.html play-by-play]{{Dead link}}.

* The [[Don Bluth]] film ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' contains one where Charlie encounters an over-the-top giant big lipped alligator who sings a bizarre song to him while doing an Esther Williams homage. It's all [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|really weird and has just about nothing to do with the story]], aside from a very brief callback later on.

** The MGM sequel ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]] 2'' features a darker [[Disney Acid Sequence]], as Carface's new ally turns out to be the Devil. During the big [[Villain Song]] "It Feels So Good to Be Bad", Red (the Devil character) makes the scenery change several times through each verse. One moment, it's a bizarre hellish barber shop, then a nightmarish roller coaster, and finally something resembling [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]].

* The ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' TV series' musical numbers tend to vary between these, [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|Big-Lipped Alligator Moments]] and normal musical numbers. A bit of a variation, since they usually refer to the plot (or current scene) within the episodes.

* A couple musical numbers from the [[Rankin/Bass Productions|Rankin-Bass]] TV specials of [[The Hobbit]] and [[The Lord of the Rings]] certainly qualify...

** "Underwater Friends", an [[The Beatles (band)|Octopus' Garden]]-esque sequence where he sings to the fishes surrounding him in his immersion tank.

** Similarly, a [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] fan who wants to meet Toki sends him a DVD of her singing a sweet song about wanting to be brutal - it segues into her and Toki singing and flying together, backed up by a chorus of candy-colored [[Eldritch AbominationsAbomination]]s.

* In the ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode "It's Never Tter made ofoo Late to Loon", Plucky Duck had to study hard for a science test the following day, and when he had to do homework about [[Albert Einstein]], he starts to daydream and imagines a scene reminiscent of the "Pink Elephants on Parade" sequence from ''Dumbo'', complete with several Einsteins running around the screen until the collide with each other and explode, doing a waltz, squirting water like a fountain, before finally turning into cars that drive around for a while until the explode again, ending the dream and causing Plucky to wake up and study harder. [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|Sorry, no]] [[Combining Mecha|monster made up of]] Albert Einstein heads, unfortunately.

* Almost any song in [[Team Umizoomi]] will have certain elements of this trope that relate to the song. (i.e. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120623194621/http://www.nickjr.com/kids-videos/umizoomi-snack-patterns.html The Snack Patterns Song])

== Other examples ==

* Both of the first two ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movies contain Disney Acid Sequences featuring Gohan. ''Dead Zone'' has "Tenkaichi Gohan" (The World's Greatest Gohan) after Gohan eats [[G-Rated Drug|an alcoholic apple]], and ''The World's Strongest'' has "Piccolo-san Daisuki" (I love Mr. Piccolo) when he falls asleep while studying. [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene|Neither really have anything to do with the movie's overall plot.]]

=== [[Film]] ===

* ''[[Hair]]'' (both [[Hair (film)|the film]] and the musical[[Hair (theatre)|original stage production]]) has a ''literal'' acid sequence in it.

* Live action example: ''[[Grease]]'', specifically the song "Beauty School Dropout", which is the climax of the movie's C-plot. Features ''Frankie Avalon'' and white-clad dancers out of nowhere - interacting with the subject of the song personally - along with an abrupt setting change.

** Similarly, the "Turn Back the Hands of Time" number in ''[[Grease 2]]'', which takes place when Stephanie apparently spaces out in the middle of the talent show and imagines singing a duet with the spirit of her [[Mysterious Protector]] in what we can only take to be Biker Heaven. Except that when Stephanie returns to reality at the end of the number, the audience is applauding and she's won the talent show (by herself, despite being part of a group act), leaving us to wonder if they all somehow experienced the whole sequence with her. And, if not, then who was really singing the male part of the duet while she was tripping out?

* Another live-action example: The [[Villain Recruitment Song]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQMVdkFDr0 "That's Motivation"] in ''[[Absolute Beginners]]'' (1986) is presented in this manner. The villain in question (played by [[David Bowie]], who also wrote the song) is an advertising executive who sees his work as selling dreams, and he's encouraging the idealistic photographer hero to become part of his all-style, no-substance world.

* The tour in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory|Willy Wonka and& the Chocolate Factory]]'' has one of these for the characters: while most of the tour involves going around a wacky candy factory (like one would in a tour), the tunnel sequence is something else ''entirely''.

* In Ken Russell's film adaptation of the stage musical ''The Boy Friend,'' daydreaming by members of the cast and crew often causes the fairly mundane production numbers -- accuratelynumbers—accurately representing what you'd see if you actually went and saw the play in a theater -- totheater—to warp into elaborate and surreal fantasies.

* The Floor Show from ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''- or the whole damn movie, for that matter. Toss in the audience-participation element, and it's a ''live performance'' [[Disney Acid Sequence]].

* In ''[[Troll (film)|Troll]]'', the [[Villain Song]] performed by Torok's minions borders on this.

=== [[Live -Action TV]] ===

* In the ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' tvTV series this was done a couple of times with some of the more surreal songs in the duo's repertoire. Most notably Pretty Prince Of Parties, which was a literal acid trip.

* Many early episodes of ''[[Sesame Street]]'' have a series of sketches on numbers (1 through 10) that involved a baker who holds in his arms that number of desserts but falls down a flight of stairs, ruining the desserts in question. The sketches started with a very flashy animated intro in which the voices of kids are heard counting up from 1 to 10, then back to 1, and finally up to the featured number in the sketch, in choral voice over, while that number, in animated form, zoomed around the screen.

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=== [[Video Games]] ===

* Video Game example (that still fits better here than in [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]): the warp zones in Meteo and Sector X in ''[[Star Fox 64]]''. You go through the gates (in the case of Meteo, ''[[Everything's Better with Spinning|while spinning out of control]]''), you end up in a hallucinogenic landscape (spacescape?), and suddenly you're halfway across the Lylat System. Talk about a [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|"wild trip"]]...

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