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* The outburst by Captain Joe in ''[[Fugitive Alien]]'' became a [[Memetic Mutation]] on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.
{{quote|'''Ken:''' What did I do to deserve this?
'''Captain Joe:''' (pensive) We don't deserve half the things we get. (laughs maniacally, then throws down his pen angrily) '''''You're stuck here!''''' }}
* The Pilot episode of ''[[Lost]]'' has a good example of this trope. About mid-way through the two-hour series opener, the Losties get the radio from their plane working and hear a transmission in French. After a couple seconds of them cheering that the French are coming to rescue them, Shanon translates the transmission which says in part: "I'm alone, all alone the others are dead." The Mood Whiplash makes a creepy moment far more terrifying than it already would be, and this moment basically sets the tone for the entire series.
** Possibly the most chilling moment in this show's history: in the season one finale, they're on the raft, they fire the flare--and suddenly there's a light! There's a boat! There's triumph music! They're saved! And then: {{spoiler|"Only the thing is, we're gonna have to take the boy." HOLY CRAP.}}
** On a similar note, the ''soundtrack'' for this show. A prime example is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hre5fkdq-0 "Life & Death"]: the first three minutes are a [[Tear Jerker|tearjerking]] meditation on well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|life and death]], and the last thirty seconds is you being dragged into hell.
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'' features this rather prominently, being a comedy set in a hospital where people have a tendency to die occasionally.
** The most egregious example must surely be: a pregnant couple find out that it is likely either the mother will die and their baby will live or vice versa, when the show suddenly cuts to J.D.'s fantasy {{spoiler|that they are on Candid Camera, complete with laughter and [[No Fourth Wall|pointing at the show's actual camera]]}} before cutting back to dealing with the dilemma. [[Mood Whiplash]] so strong you'll be massaging your neck for hours.
** And as a comedy set in war-torn Korea, ''[[
*** This was parodied in ''[[Futurama]]''; one episode had a robot surgeon clearly based on Alan Alda's character, which had an actual ''switch'' that it would flip to jump between jovial goofing around and war-weary angst (labelled Irreverent and Maudlin respectively).
{{quote|'''iHawk (despairingly):''' "This isn't a war...it's a murder."
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** Right after Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz {{spoiler|both beat the record for 'Star in a reasonably-priced car'}}, James May segues (complete with [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] of the mood change) into a 15 minute piece on Ayrton Senna, who would have turned 50 that year.
* The BBC Adaptation of ''Cranford'' can be quite frankly emotionally exhausting to watch. Funny and witty one moment, heart-breaking the next. Then melancholy. Then heart-warming. Then...you get the picture.
* [[The ABC]] series ''[[Hungry Beast]]'' swaps between sketches and serious current affairs, so in one episode you may have [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507063030/http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/asbestos-deaths-and-james-hardie an exposé on the continuing problems of asbestos in Australia] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120227091916/http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/great-pigeon-race a hilarious competition between Australian broadband and a pigeon] in the same episode.
* ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'' constantly whips between wacky sitcom hijinks and extremely gory supernatural horror, which can be more than a little jarring.
* ''[[Sports Night]]'' did this too many times to list.
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* Done rather tastelessly in an episode of [[America's Most Wanted]]. In the re-enactment, a desperate fugitive looking for shelter runs into an unlocked house to find two rednecks. They chase him out with baseball bats while banjo music plays and John Walsh wryly notes "They ''weren't'' in the mood for company." Then the next unlocked house he goes to has an old lady who he brutally murders.
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