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{{quote| Billy: "Wait what?"<br />
Mandy: "Billy, if you had been [[Insane Troll Logic|paying attention the whole time you would have figured out he was obviously an Earthworm]]." }}
* In ''[[
** And if you're thinking, "Well duh, she's adopted", Mr. Krabs has previously called Pearl "his own flesh and blood." And the show never notices.
*** Maybe he says it figuratively?
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***** Squidward in Clarinetland. Trippiest. [[SpongeBob]]. Episode. Ever.
* Even though [[Ralph Bakshi]]'s animated films are more known for their adult material, some of his films, especially ''[[Heavy Traffic]]'' and ''[[Coonskin]]'', have trippy sequences that could be considered mind screw.
* ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[Perfect Hair Forever]]'': "I wish these hot dogs and cats were not symbolic of anything, and this was all just a dumb anime mindf*** !"
* ''[[Transformers]]: Beast Machines'' was more of a Heavy Mind Petting, but it was still pretty clouded with symbolism, and the fact that it could be deciphered tended to raise another problem when the message didn't go over well.
* The final episode of ''[[Teen Titans (
** It should be noted, though, that the sort of question Glen Murakami wasn't keen on answering were things about the characters' non-suited lives, and the "how did villain X get out of the [[Cardboard Prison]] last time?" sort of things that he considered unimportant, a distraction from the main plot. This was the only episode in which ''nothing'' was made sense of. (Well, Beast Boy does move on after the Terra incident - which we'd thought him over three seasons ago. The rest is pure randomness.)
* ''[[Xavier: Renegade Angel]]'' is basically one massive, nonsensical mind screw after another, until the whole thing resembles a 3D-animated acid trip [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].
* 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.
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' had an episode that only makes sense when you realize it is a [[Homage]] to ''[[The Prisoner]]'', oddly enough. The end of the episode revealed it was [[All Just a Dream]], but the Mind Screw elements make more sense because of that, and Matrix received some [[Character Development]] bordering on a [[World of Cardboard Speech]].
* ''[[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. [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|And they never speak of it again.]]
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (
{{quote| '''Lisa:''' Dad, was that your commercial?<br />
'''Homer:''' ...I don't know. }}
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*** [[Word of God]] states it's Matt Groening's [[Homage|love letter]] to eastern european animation.
** And, of course, the "Mr. Sparkle" commercial from "In Marge We Trust", where a Japanese detergent mascot that looks like Homer Simpson's head shatters a two-headed cow like glass (among other things).
** Similar to the ''[[
* The ''[[
* ''[[
* One in the Time Travel episode of ''[[
{{quote| '''NC:''' Basically, they make it back to Manhattan, but it turns out Xanatos took over in the forty years they were gone, but then it turns out that it isn't Xanatos at all, but a computer with Xanatos' memories, but then it turns out it wasn't the computer, but ''Lexington'', who was overtaken by madness, [[Overly Long Gag|but then it turns out]] that the whole thing was an illusion created by Puck to get the time medallion, but then it turns out that it was all a dream, but it may not have. Interesting? Yes. Confusing? Oh, '''hell yes'''.}}
* At the end of the ''[[Super Mario World (
{{quote| '''Luigi:''' Uh, did I catch the ball?<br />
'''Mario:''' Whaddaya mean, ''catch'' the ball? [[Baleful Polymorph|You]] ''[[Baleful Polymorph|were]]'' [[Baleful Polymorph|the ball!]] }}
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* The Canadian short ''[http://www.nfb.ca/film/La_Salla La Salla]''. 15 seconds in, the main character is shooting replica cows at paintings for no obvious reason.
* In ''[[Ugly Americans]]'', the entire episode of "G. I. Twayne" is practically a giant Mind Screw episode towards both the main character Mark Lily as well as the viewers. As it turns out the entire thing is just a pre-enactment. This screws Mark so much he shows clear paranoia at the end of the episode.
* [[Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Pretty much every episode of [[
* The [[Phineas and Ferb]] episode "Monster from the Id", though it's [[Justified Trope|justified]] by the fact that most of it is spent [[Journey to
** Here's a real [[Mind Screw]]: Doofenshmirtz hates birthdays because his parents weren't there when he was born.
* Some ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' shorts can get very nonsensical, even by cartoon standards.
* Pretty much all of ''[[
* ''[[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
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