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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* The outburst by Captain Joe in ''[[Fugitive Alien]]'' became a [[Memetic Mutation]] on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.
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'''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
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and ''[[The X-Files]]'' both tended to have [[Breather Episode|goofy/stupid episodes]] in the middle of serious, depressing [[Arc|arcs]].
* ''[[Supernatural]]'' had goofy, self-referential episodes right in the middle of incredibly dark and bleak [[Arc|arcs]]. Season Two and Three are the guiltiest of this.
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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).
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''(* flips switch* )''
'''iHawk (Groucho Marx voice):''' "Dis isn't a war, it's a moider!" }}
* [[Joss Whedon]] does this All. The. Time:
** ''[[
*** The "He is psychotic!" scene in the pilot is particularly epic.
*** It's even got an example of a character getting the brunt of the whiplash. River is dancing, actually ''happy'' for once, while the others [[Soundtrack Dissonance|are having a wild west shootout]], unbeknownst to her. Then Shepherd Book is wounded, and both the audience and River have the same reaction.
** On ''[[
*** The start of the Fred/Illyria episode also qualifies. It starts off on a light note - Wesley and Fred are [[Official Couple|together]], while Angel and Spike are arguing over [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|whether cavemen or astronauts would win in a fight]]. Then Fred starts coughing up blood...
*** After the [[Darker and Edgier]] second season plot arc of "Darla and Angel", the creative team indulged in a whimsical 3-part season ender, set in a fairytale kingdom, to deliberately offset the grimness of preceding episodes.
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*** Everything to do with the Geek Trio in Season Six has Whiplash. Just one example is in "Dead Things," when they start with a zany plan to acquire a sex slave then accidentally murder her and try to frame Buffy for it.
*** ''Storyteller'' is pretty much pure comedy... Then they get to the seal, and Buffy threatens to kill Andrew:
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'''Andrew:''' No. Because... I killed him. Because I listened to Warren and I wanted to believe it was him, but I knew it wasn't. So I killed him, and now you're gonna kill me, and... this is what Jonathan felt. ''(he starts to cry)'' }}
*** "End of Days" has a serious dialogue where Buffy and Faith contemplate the loneliness of being a Slayer ending with the following line:
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*** Or how about "Standing", Giles' song from "Once More, With Feeling", in which he realizes that he must leave Buffy so she'll learn to stand on her own? He sings as he watches Buffy going through her exercises, and as the song ends, she walks up to him, unaware of what just happened, and:
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*** Or in Selfless where we go from Anya singing about how she'll be Xander's Missus, to her impaled upon Buffy's sword?
*** Episode placement will do it too...right in the middle of the 'Angel goes bad' arc we get a wacky story of Xander casting a love spell - then back to the pain and angst.
*** In the Season One finale, the Master is [[Large Ham|hamming it up]] during an earthquake. After the shaking stops, he turns to the Anoited One and asks:
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*** Or (told you Joss loved these), the whole ending scene of "Bad Girls", where the Mayor goes through the ritual to become invulnerable.
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*** An unintentional example occurs in "The Body": the episode has no score, which adds to the harsh realism of an emotionally devastating story. Except nobody bothered to remove the loud, upbeat theme song from the end credits. It's somewhat jarring.
*** Another good example is the episode "Seeing Red" from season 6. {{spoiler|Willow and Tara finally get back together after being apart for pretty much the entire season and are shown incredibly happy for the whole episode...[[Too Happy to Live|until Warren kills Tara.]]}}
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** Even ''[[Dollhouse]]'' has some:
*** In "Omega", Echo's line upon arriving at Alpha's lair:
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*** Episode 2.11, ''Getting Closer'': Topher and Bennett's {{spoiler|[[First Kiss|kiss scene]]}}, which leaves them both giddily happy; it manages to be both Crowning Moments of [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Heartwarming]] and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Funny]] alike. Topher steps out for a minute and Claire walks in to have a conversation with Bennett that does nothing to lessen the charming atmosphere. {{spoiler|Then Topher comes back and Claire immediately pulls out a gun and blasts Bennett's brains all over him.}}
* ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' has a lot of this. The season 1 finale in particular goes from farcical to heartwarming to OH SHIT in the space of about fifteen minutes.
* The last 10 minutes of the Season 1 finale of ''[[Queer
* In a bizarre case where it's used for comedic effect, (and I may be wrong about the exact show, but I think I'm right) the old UK sketch show ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' where two politicians are in a shouting match until one of them drops dead on the stage, resulting in a line to the effect of: "How can you believe these lies! This man... * URK* ...will be sadly missed, and our condolences to his family."
* ''[[
** An example in the preceding episode "The Stolen Earth" is the [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|beautiful reunion scene]] where the Doctor and Rose notice each other and start running into each other's arms when suddenly, out of the blue, a Dalek rolls up and shoots the Doctor.
** It's not limited to the New Series, either. In ''The Green Death'', after the menace has been destroyed, the Doctor's companion announces {{spoiler|she is going to leave the Doctor and UNIT to get married and explore the Amazon. There are smiles and congratulations all round, even from the Doctor. But when the companion walks away to talk to someone else, the Doctor sadly downs his drink, leaves quietly, and drives off alone.}}
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** "A Good Man Goes to War", the mid-series finale, ends with (among other things) everyone finally learning just who River is. Cut to a card telling us the Doctor will return in Autumn with "[[Refuge in Audacity|LET'S KILL HITLER]]."
** In "The God Complex" not only do the viewers experience it at every turn but so do the characters when they are possessed.
* ''[[
* ''Tonight, on a very special episode of ''[[Popular]]'', Harrison must resolve his mixed feelings about his mother when his friends discover that she's gay...''
** ''...and Mary Cherry chains Gwyneth Paltrow's personal shopper to a pipe in the school boiler room.''
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* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' - "Sometimes a Great Notion": after discovering {{spoiler|that Earth is a radioactive wasteland}} Duala cheerfully reconciles with her estranged husband {{spoiler|then puts a bullet in her brain.}}
** Thanks to the ensuing commercial break, the mood whiplashes again so suddenly [[Crosses the Line Twice|you half expect your spine to break from it]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zcum6lPrRo The commercial itself starts at 1:58]
* ''[[
** A specific example of a beautifully-executed mid-sentence [[Mood Whiplash]] in this episode comes when Captain Darling, {{spoiler|about to go "over the top" to his likely death,}} is listing all the things he'd hoped to do when the war ended. "Go back to work at Pratt and Sons" gets an audience laugh, as does "Keeep wicket for the Croyden gentlemen", but these are followed by a brief pause and a wistful "Marry Doris". A character who'd been portrayed as just a petty comic foil to Blackadder up to that point suddenly gets humanised.
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** George gets a very similar mid-sentence whiplash.
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'''Blackadder:''' Yes, lieutenant?
'''George:''' I'm scared, sir. }}
*** There are jokes right up until Blackadder's penultimate line, but they are all extremely grim. It's called Trench Humour for a reason.
** And of course that moment moments before the end where they are lined up ready to go over the top, artillery booming in the background, when... silence falls.
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'''George:''' You don't think...
'''Baldrick:''' Maybe the war's over. Maybe it's peace!
''You actually start to feel hopeful for the characters that fate has intervened and they have escaped certain death, and then Darling says...''
'''Darling''': Thank God! We lived through it! The Great War, 1914 to 1917!
''...And we know that the First World War actually ended in 1918.'' }}
* [[That Mitchell and Webb Look]] referenced the famous Blackadder example above in the fourth series's penultimate episode, joking that they would follow suit and see the show off dramatically. Fast forward to the last sketch of the series a week later, in which Dr. Watson visits a dementia-riddled Sherlock Holmes and through a very silly exchange allows him to think he's still the cleverest mind in England. {{spoiler|Then, Holmes has a moment of clarity.}}
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* The ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' episode "Operation Briefcase" was surprisingly dark, featuring an agent actually dying (offscreen) while in Hogan's care, when most involved escapes by the skins of their teeth. Even more unpleasantly, this episode dealt with an attempt to assassinate Hitler--an attempt, as everyone should know, that failed.
** In the [[Batman Cold Open]] of another episode, the guys are meeting an Underground agent who was a [[Wholesome Crossdresser|female impersonator]] before the war. Jokes fly, then Germans crash the meeting, fire at the good guys and take off in pursuit of the Underground agent. Hogan and his men get up again, Newkirk cracks a joke at the expense of the French... and they realise that LeBeau is still on the ground and has actually been shot. Cue one of the most dramatic moments in the (usually) comedic series when Newkirk [[OOC Is Serious Business|does a 180 from]] his usual [[Deadpan Snarker]] persona and says quietly, "Colonel, my little mate's been hit."
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'''s most prominent comedy episode "Window of Opportunity" ends with one of these. The episode's all wacky time-loop fun until we find out ''why'' the archeologist is looping time; he's trying to bring his dead wife back to life, which of course leads to an outburst from the usually jovial O'Neill:
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'''O'Neill:''' I lost '''my son!''' }}
* The end of the ''[[
* ''[[
** Likewise with Dr K. At first she just seems a little strange and kinda funny, being protective about the ranger tech and even wearing bunny slippers in one episode. Though all urges to laugh at her behaviour suddenly go away when you think of her back story...
* On ''[[Deep Space 9]]'', "The Magnificent Ferengi" bounced back and forth between ridiculous and awesome repeatedly. Especially evident in the end, when Quark's team has just beaten the remaining Jem'hadar in a shoot-out and captured their Vorta leader, the triumphant mood is suddenly turned hilarious by showing the dead Vorta (reanimated with carefully-controlled electrical impulses) trying to walk into a wall, with Nog saying "I can't turn him off!"
* ''[[Night Court]]'' did this from time to time, often going all the way around back to funny in the same scene. In "Leon, We Hadly Knew Ye" Judge Harry's foster son (and recurring character) Leon successfully runs away when he can't stand his nice, but prudish new adoptive parents. He's not seen again for the rest of the season. "The Hurricane: part 2" goes all the way back around to funny again. After helping deliver the babies of four couples during a thunderstorm and blackouts Harry slips away to have a deep and emotional talk with God in front of a cross someone left in the courtroom.
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* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' lives and breathes this trope... Ahem.
* ''[[
* ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' had one episode where the Blue Ranger had to kill his girlfriend's little brother because he was killing women to cure his sister's fatal disease... Which she was already getting better from in the first place. The scene ends with him watching his girl cry over her brother (in a rubber monster costume) in the rain with this sad whistling song... And then you get a neck sprain from the series' usual jazzy nightclub-ish end theme.
* ''[[Band of Brothers]]'' did this with episode to episode continuity. The last two episodes go from finding a Nazi concentration camp to them going into Hitler's summer home and hilariously looting it of everything of value (up to and including the photo album of his summer vacations).
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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 (
* ''[[Sports Night]]'' did this too many times to list.
* ''[[News Radio]]'' tried this with the episode dedicated to Phil Hartman's death by inserting jokes to lighten the mood. It didn't work too well; the real-life tears from the cast were too overwhelming for much of the episode to be really funny.
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** In "Two Bodies In the Lab", Booth insists on staying with Brennan in her apartment after someone shot at her. At one point he notices a Foreigner CD in her music collection, and Booth and Brennan start rocking out to "Hot Blooded". Shortly after, Booth offers to get Brennan a beer. Just as he opens the refrigerator, he ends up getting the brunt of an explosion from a booby-trapped door.
** The trope is also invoked in the episode "The Hole in the Heart", in this conversation between Brennan and Angela:
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'''Brennan''': ...Yes.
'''Angela''': Yeah. [Angela starts to leave]
'''Brennan''': And... I got into bed with Booth last night.{{[[[Beat]] Long pause}}] Why aren't you saying anything?
'''Angela''': [[Shipper
* In the final episode of season two of ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' Marian was {{spoiler|brutally stabbed to death by Guy and buried miles from home}}. The first episode of season three dealt the raw and bloody emotional aftermath of this. But the ''next'' episode involves Robin laughing his head off as he hang-glides from the parapets of Nottingham Castle, and Marian was only mentioned a handful of times throughout the rest of the season.
* ''[[
* ''[[Skins]]'' did this one in series 4; sandwiched between Freddie's Episode 5 (which ends with {{spoiler|Effy slitting her wrists}}) and Effy's Episode 7 (which ends with {{spoiler|Freddie being murdered with a baseball bat by Effy's psychiatrist}}), is JJ's episode, which is an almost ''too'' saccharine love story (in which {{spoiler|JJ gets together with a colleague at the [[Sugar Bowl|confectionery wholesalers]] where he works}}). It sticks out like a sore thumb, doesn't advance most of the other arcs of the series, and is suspected by some to exist primarily because of [[Executive Meddling]].
* ''[[Babylon
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* The ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Infinite Regress", where Seven of Nine starts manifesting the personalities of people she assimilated. So in the middle of her descent into madness we get a comedy scene where she's a Ferengi trader. And then we immediately switch to pathos as she becomes the confused mother of a Starfleet officer, who was supposed to meet him at Wolf 359 (site of the big battle in "Best of Both Worlds"). And ''then'' the [[Fridge Horror]] creeps in on a sweet early scene of her as a little girl playing with Naomi Wildman, when we're reminded that this little girl was assimilated.
** Another one involving Seven of Nine manifesting other characters was when the Doctor's program is downloaded into her nanoprobes. Initially this is played for comedy, with Jeri Ryan doing a hilarous pastiche of the Doctor's pompous mannerisms. And then it suddenly turns dark when Seven learns what's happening, and she feels ''[[Mind Rape|violated]]''.
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' had the episode "Bad News" which pretty much played out as a standard infertility story where Marshall and Lilly go to a feritlity specialist to get test to see why they are having problems conceiving (we already know Lilly will get pregnant). The usual [[Hilarity Ensues]] with Marshal being locked in a bathroom having to get a sperm sample while his mother is talking to him through the door (unaware of what is going on). Robin has some bad first days at her new job where she becomes the new [[Butt Monkey]]. By the end everything seems to have worked out, Marshall and Lilly are perfectly healthy, Robin has managed to turn things around at work and we think that the episode title is just a spoof. Then at the very last minute {{spoiler|Marshall finds that his dad whom he was about to call with the good news, had a heart attack and died.}}. Marshall's reaction is a complete [[Tear Jerker]].
* [[Keeping Up Appearances]] has fun with this trope. Hyacinth shops for a second car; A crime thriller ensues. Hyacinth tries to help her sister fix her marriage; An epic foot chase ensues. Hyacinth goads Richard into repairing some electrics and babysits dogs; The dogs run away when the church is turned into a virtual war zone and explodes.
* [[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire]] had an extreme example of this in one of the final episodes. Joukaen, an [[Axe Crazy]] fire-demon learns that humans are not the corrupt lifeform he thought them to be. Therefore he confronts his lord, Donkaen, only to learn that Donkaen turned him against the humans in the first place. So in a last effort to make up for this, he fights Donkaen and [[Redemption Equals Death|gets killed]]. One second after his death, the credits roll, with a very upbeat song as background music.
* Used to chillingly good effect in the episode ''Queen of Hearts'' in ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''. King Uther initially thinks it's hilarious that Arthur has been caught making out with Guinevere in the woods ("I was young once, I know about the temptations of serving girls!") only for him to coldly banish Gwen from Camelot on pain of death once Arthur declares his love for her less than thirty seconds later.
** The episode also opens on a note of [[Mood Whiplash]] in which Guinevere's beautiful sunlit coronation is suddenly interrupted by Morgana waking up in a panic, the whole thing having been her prophetic nightmare.
** Season four premiere has Arthur, Merlin and the knights wandering in a desolate village. Tension is mounting and they don't even know what kind of monster they are looking for. Suddenly, Gwaine takes a bite from an apple, startling everyone and breaking the tension. Only for Elyan to discover dead bodies.
* [[The Doctor Oz Show]] tends to do this in episodes with serious topics. It may start off with somber conversations with women who have lost family members to cancer...and one tiny commercial break later, audience members are passing brightly colored balls representing poop through a plastic tube representing the colon, with everyone laughing and cheering at a successful "bowel movement" into a plastic bucket.
* ''[[
** In the same episode, a humorous scene in which Tyrion, Bronn, and Shae play a drinking game leads into the tragic story of {{spoiler|Tyrion's first love, and how it turned out that she was actually a prostitute his brother had hired to make a man of him, and how as punishment for marrying her, Tyrion's father made him watch as she was gang-raped by his entire garrison.}}
* [[Scream Queens]] acknowledges this very trope in its second series when John Homa is teaching the girls how to cry in scenes. One girl is told to laugh hysterically about stories she's telling at Christmas, when Homa suddenly tells her to imagine that the stories are about people who aren't alive anymore.
* Done many, many times in ''[[Frasier]]'', when a scene that is initially [[Played for Laughs]] becomes, upon further elaboration, much darker or more emotional than before. For example, Niles discovers that his wife Maris is cheating on him with his marriage counselor through a hilarious scene of [[Missed Him
** Oh God, Daphne when Niles is having heart surgery. It's terrific writing and acting because the others make the jokes and act as you would expect but Daphne is sat wondering if she is going to lose Niles not that long after they have finally finally managed to get together. Almost as good is the terrific scene with Martin who is equal parts reproachful, compassionate and understanding with her when he says "It's hard as hell for all of us".
* ''[[NCIS]]'' does this in the episode "Two-Faced" (8.20). In many episodes, the final minutes after the climax are dedicated to comedy or romantic drama, and this is what it looks like when Tony and Ziva are sitting at a bar talking about their relationships (with a colleague and a liaison CIA agent respectively) when suddenly, the music changes and then... [[Eye Scream|eyeball in the icecube]]. And their expressions: ''FUCK''.
** Kate's {{spoiler|sudden death}} at the end of Season 2 too.
* [[The Six Million Dollar Man]]: Due to a decision not to air the tragic original [[The Bionic Woman]] two-parter at the end of the season (even though it was filmed as such), viewers saw Steve grieving for Jaime one week, and then his usually happy-go-lucky, womanizing self the next week.
* ''[[
* The later seasons of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had a lot of this because during those seasons [[Cerebus Syndrome|the show had a lot more serious plotlines]] while continuing to be a sitcom, so in the more serious episodes comedy relief scenes were injected between the serious scenes. A lot of the episode had a [[Two Lines, No Waiting]] setup where one plot was comedic and one was serious.
* ''[[West Wing]]'' Has one of these, completely unintentionally. Season 1 ends with someone opening fire on the president and crowd and as the visual fades you hear "Who's been hit? Who's been hit?" and then...there's the exceedingly peppy end credits music.
** The show often does intentional versions of this trope too. The most extreme is probably "Take This Sabbath Day," where the episode alternates between the gut-wrenching, extremely dark A-plot of Bartlet debating whether or not to commute the sentence of a man on death row scheduled to be executed by midnight, and the side-splittingly hilarious B-plot of an extremely hungover Josh experiencing [[Disaster Dominoes]] while bickering with a congressional campaign manager.
* Done deliberately as part of the format in ''[[Doc Martin]]'', every episode will contain one dark, serious and weighty storyline, and one light [[Quirky Town]] style story. They will then interleave throughout the episode, often with both story lines crossing through the same scene, and leaving the viewer pretty wrung out emotionally by the end.
* An In-Universe example from [[
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''(Everyone laughs)''
'''Spencer:''' She's dead now.
''(Silence)''
'''Spencer:''' She fell out a winder!
''(Everyone laughs)''
'''Spencer:''' No, I'm kidding, she had a heart attack. }}
* The third season ''[[Modern Family]]'' episode "Virgin Territory" goes from a serious discussion and realization of girls growing up quickly to scenes where Luke and Manny, both too young to drive, try to impress a girl by slowly driving Mitch's car.
* ''[[Friends]]'' occasionally does this, and never more than in the episode "The One With the Morning After" which deals with the fall out of Ross sleeping with another woman behind Rachel's back after believing she's left him. Even though it's a fairly serious episode, the majority of it still has a few hilarious moments such as Ross and Rachel taking a brief break from their fight to order pizza and Rachel intentionally ordering anchovies mixed in with the toppings and sauce because she knows Ross hates them. However, the very last scene completely abandons the humorous aspect and goes completely serious. Even the brief moment where we see the remaining four other characters still trapped in Monica's back room is suddenly [[Played for Drama|much more serious]] as they're all somberly listening in to the conversation, with Monica and Phoebe even breaking down into tears as they all realize that their two friends' relationship is over.
* A ''[[Taxi]]'' episode had Jim buying an over-the-hill old racehorse and keeping it in his apartment. Typical Jim hijinks, but the horse inevitably dies. Jim gives it a funeral, and gives a truly sweet, moving eulogy that chokes up the rest of the cast (and plenty of viewers.)
* Done rather tastelessly in an episode of [[
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