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** "Doomsday" goes from a tearful farewell between Rose and the Doctor to the Doctor and Donna, wearing a bridal gown, shouting "What?!" at each other at increasing volume when she suddenly appears in the TARDIS.
*** The episode before, "Army of Ghosts," had a very large mood whiplash as well, with the Doctor being told by the Cybermen that "The Sphere is not ours." {{spoiler|It was made by the Daleks, so the whiplash is from "This is bad," to "We're all gonna die."}}
** Amy Pond goes through one herself in "Cold Blood" {{spoiler|her fiancé Rory is killed, causing her to become inconsolable from grief. But then he is absorbed by the [[Buffy
** "The Big Bang" does this so much, it'll leave your head spinning {{spoiler|that is, if your head isn't already spinning from all the timey-wimey bits. Seriously, the episode starts with the universe in shambles and Rory holding Amy's body, [[Tear Jerker|begging her to laugh]], when the Doctor pops out of midair holding a mop and wearing a fez. He pops in and out three times while explaining that Amy is actually not entirely dead, [[Captain Obvious|it's the end of the universe,]] and Rory needs to go down to the Pandorica to let the Doctor out. The rest of the episode consists of the Doctor getting killed in the future, the TARDIS exploding with River in it, River getting rescued, more fez jokes, the Doctor getting killed, the Doctor actually not being dead, but he's going to be erased from time instead, the actual process of being erased from time, and then the Doctor gets unerased from time, and gets to come to Amy's wedding and dance really extremely badly.}} It's hard work, this show is.
** Also, in "Partners in Crime", when Donna and the Doctor are both chasing the head of Adipose and her hostage. Donna is watching through the door window, and the Doctor is watching through the window in the wall across from the door. There's a very serious questioning going on. Then the Doctor and Donna catch sight of each other. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Then, mid-word, Donna realizes that they've been noticed. Cue chase scene.
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* [[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.
* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' has an episode where the guys are listening to a [[Video Will]] Pierce's mom left behind on a CD. The first track on Pierce's mother's CD is a recording of her pleading with him to understand the finality of death. The second track is hardcore gangsta rap.
* 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.
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