Mind Screw/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** The fact that the creator Peter Chung seems to actually know what's going on, but deliberately stops himself when he starts explaining it is either very annoying or very liberating depending on how you look at it.

** None of this is helped by the fact that each episode is a self-contained story that is clearly already in progress, with no recap and zero exposition. That or a Yungian nightmare, take your pick, either one is both valid and complete bullshit.

{{quote|Billy: "Wait what?"

Mandy: "Billy, if you had been [[Insane Troll Logic|paying attention the whole time you would have figured out he was obviously an Earthworm]]." }}

* The episode of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'', "Deja Cruise". To make a long story short, it was like the girls' dreams were having dreams. The WOOHP contract may as well have this clause on it: "CAUTION: Prolonged employment at this occupation may cause you to lose the ability to differentiate between fantasy and reality."

** I just thought it was a virtual reality.

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'': in "One Plus One Equals Ed", the titular trio try and know everything so they can become super-smart and famous. In their quest for knowledge, however, all of reality breaks down- trees are flat as cardboard, Eddy eats the sun, Nazz turns into a dinosaur, and on and on. The madness only ends when the Eds are flying on a balloon that gets popped by the animator's giant pencil. [[Non Sequitur Scene|And they never speak of it again.]]

{{quote|'''Lisa:''' Dad, was that your commercial?

'''Homer:''' ...I don't know. }}

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Sting", in which Leela's perception of reality becomes more and more deranged, with events that turn out to be dreams, a hallucination of a morbidly cheerful musical number, a ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' parody, and descent into obsessive insanity. It turns out {{spoiler|everything in the episode since the bee attack was her nightmare.}}

* ''[[The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]'' is probably one of the most [[Mind Screw]]iest western animation films ever. And unlike [[Fritz the Cat (animation)|the film it's a sequel to]], [[Ralph Bakshi]] had absolutely nothing to do with it.

* Pretty much all of ''[[Adventure Time]]''. Good luck trying to understand any of it!

* ''[[Regular Show]]'', which usually starts out with a fairly simple, straightforward, and every-day plot (learning to play guitar, getting tickets to a concert, throwing a friend a surprise birthday party, etc), but by the last few minutes of the episode, their totally normal actions will usually have [[Divide by Zero|broken reality]], woke up some kind of [[Eldritch Abomination]], traveled through time, or they've ended up getting attacked by something. Usually something really messed up. And the really screwy thing is that after the cosmic horror part is solved, it's usually only an afterthought, at which point the characters focus on the normal subplot that got them into it.

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