Downer Ending/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'', the first two episodes where Mother Simpson comes back have melancholy endings. In the first, Homer sits for hours on his car after Mona is forced to go away again. In the second, she's alive but he doesn't know it. Even when he tells himself she's alive (after finding a 'message' that says 'I'm OK'), none of them show any signs of believing in it and the real message is a sweet down-to-earth one that they don't find. The third of these episodes has Mona [[Killed Off for Real]], but it nonetheless ends on a more upbeat note.

** Pick ''any'' Treehouse of Horror segment. Nine times out of ten, it'll have this kind of ending. [[Played for Laughs]], of course.