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{{quote|'''Phineas''': So what do you say? We’ll do all the same things, but we’ll break into spontaneous singing and choreography with no discernible music source!<br />
'''Ferb''': Hmmm.... What assurance would we have that everyone else would also break into song and do the same thing?<br />
'''Phineas''': I don't know. I think they probably will.|''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]],'' "Rollercoaster: The Musical!"}}
|''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''|"Rollercoaster: The Musical!"}}
 
Once in a while, a show will shake things up and do [[Something Completely Different]]. One way of doing that is by turning the show into a [[The Musical]] for an episode.
 
A [['''Musical Episode]]''' is structured around the cast breaking into song (and possibly dance) throughout the episode. It might use an in-universe [[Justified Trope|justification]], such as a [[Battle of the Bands]], some sort of [[Applied Phlebotinum|weirdness]], or a new [[The Music Meister|character causing]] [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|all this cheery singing]]. Alternately, it can play like a Broadway show where it's just taken for granted that some events will be dramatized through song and dance.
 
Opinions on a [['''Musical Episode]]''' can differ wildly. Many will enjoy the up-beat, unexpected change of pace, while many will dis-like it for that very reason. Also, like any premise, the songs and choreography have to be good, or else you're doomed from the start.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* One episode of ''[[Kurenai (Light Novel)|Kure-nai]]'' depicts the characters' attempts to rehearse a musical for a local festival, which eventually leads them to come up with their own material from scratch. It turns out that {{spoiler|it is a ploy by Benika to keep Murasaki entertained - which by and far succeeds}}.
* ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' had a [[Image Song|Character Song]] episode at the end of its infamous [[Filler|Island/Africa]] arc.
* ''[[Kanamemo]]'''s fourth episode would be an amusing little story about the Fuhshin News employees attempting to get to the pool on its own, but the anime takes it a step further and adds song and dance numbers to the mix. No explanation is given for the singing.
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* [[One Piece]]: The TV Special Dance Carnival could be considered a dance episode (Dance special?). It starts on the aptly called Mirrorball Island. While trying to escape the Marines, Jango hypnotizes everyone to dance 'till they drop. Including the Straw Hats. Hilarity Issues.
* The [[Gag Dub|English dub]] of [[Duel Masters]] randomly has Shobu and Kokujo be forced to come up with an inspirational song before they can duel.
* ''[[Bobobo-Bo BoboboboBo-bobo]]'''s 48th episode had them defeat a foe by singing him into submission. Even by [[Widget Series|Bo-BoBo's standards]], it's amazingly crazy.
* [[Jewelpet]] Sunshine had the characters preforming [[West Side Story]] in one episode.
 
== [[ComicsComic Books]] ==
* ''[[Nodwick]]'' had one of these, courtesy of Arthax and a "Scroll of Thespia".
* The ''[[Doctor Who Magazine (Magazine)|Doctor Who Magazine]]'' strip "Planet Bollywood" has the [[Doctor Who (TV)|Eleventh Doctor]] and Amy land on a planet where everyone breaks into song and dance routines.
* The ninth issue of ''[[Tomorrow Stories]]'' featured a ''Greyshirt'' musical, as in a literal stage production; ''Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset'' later established that the man himself took the title role at one showing. Critics are astounded at Greyshirt's singing and dancing, claiming that he could've been another [[Gene Kelly]].
* The story ''Deadbeats!'' from ''[[Hack Slash|Hack/Slash Trailers: Part 2]]''. It involves zombies invading Broadway.
 
== [[Fan FictionWorks]] ==
* Several of the ''[[Calvin At Camp (Fanfic)|Calvin Atat Camp]]'' episodes, notably the movie parodies, are musicals.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Slumber Party Massacre II]]'', where the villain is a spectral rockstar whose main weapon is an electric guitar outfitted with a drill. [[BLAMNon Sequitur Episode|It's a very weird and random sequel]].
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''Spellsinger'', the fifth book of [[Avalon: Web of Magic]]. A benefit concert and singing contest insert about three songs into the book...through just printing the lyrics in the text. Some of the songs were [[Defictionalized]] and released on CD to promote the book.
* ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' by [[John M. Ford]] is a [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel in the form of a [[Musical Episode]]. All the songs are [[Pastiche|pastichespastiche]]s of pre-existing songs so they'll be recognizable in text. Unfortunately this also means that filming it would probably be a massive copyright violation.
* The [[Dragonriders of Pern]] novels ''Dragonsong'', ''Dragonsinger'', and (to a lesser extent) ''Dragondrums'', by [[Anne McCaffrey]] all are about harpers, so it's justified that she presents the lyrics to many of their songs. (This happens to a lesser extent in her previous Pern books too.)
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S6 E7/E07 Once More, With Feeling|Once More, With Feeling]]" from the sixth season of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' - a fan favourite and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. The episode bizarrely sends up the musical genre (and its respective subgenres) as a whole, musical and dance genres from rock to ballet, and (in typical [[Joss Whedon]] fashion) the series itself with wicked glee, yet also manages to fit plot and [[Character Development]] in as well ''and'' come up with a plausible (for ''Buffy'') explanation for why everyone's singing.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_fcXR6t14k&feature=related THEY GOT THE MUSTARD OUT!]
** It was so well-known it made it into Channel4's top 100 musicals at number 13, above such notables as ''[[Les Misérables (Theatretheatre)|Les Misérables]]'' and ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''...
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' had two, actually. The funny one that parodied the "battle of the bands" type trope, and the (in some ways) more serious "Bitter Suite" episode.
* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' did one in which Raven discovers that a talent scout is visiting her school, and thus everyone is breaking into song to impress the scout, whom they all mistakenly believe is the janitor.
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*** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"I've got chicken soup, delicious chicken soup soup ..." *cue Ren screaming in terror*]]
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' did a musical episode (from the musicians of ''[[Avenue Q]]'') based on the premise that a patient had an aneurysm that was making her hear singing when people talked. All the musical sequences were from her point of view, and after she goes into surgery, the music stops.
* ''[[Seventh7th Heaven]]'' had a Valentine's Day episode that was also a musical, called [https://web.archive.org/web/20100429110253/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/7th_heaven/red_socks.php Red Socks].
* ''[[X -Play]]'', a video game review show, did a ''surprisingly'' not horrible musical episode.
* [[Eli Stone]] has musical numbers in most of its episodes.
* ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'' had an episode in which Dewey turns his parents fight into an ''opera''. The episode is appropriately entitled "Dewey's Opera".
* ''[[Lexx]]'' had its musical episode in ''Brigadoom''. In it the crew of Lexx encounters a mysterious theater floating in space and ends up performing Kai's backstory on stage. Of particular interest is the use of theater-grade special effects, so that a fleet of spaceships is represented by people waving miniatures on poles instead of the show's usual computer-generated effects.
** Actually, as the behind-the-scenes DVD material shows, some of the show's VFX were produced cheaply by manipulating miniatures on poles in front of a green screen, so the play version might be more of a self-referential parody.
* ''[[Tracy Beaker]]'' did one.
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'''s 100th episode was a musical called, quite predictably, ''That '70s Musical'', only instead of singing songs written specially for the show, the characters sang some of the most famous seventies' songs, as well as the Turtles' "Happy Together" from the sixties. {{spoiler|The singing scenes take place in Fez's imagination.}}
* ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]'' had one. Similarly to the ''[[Scrubs]]'' example, it was from the point of view of a patient.
* The ''[[Two Pints of Lager and Aa Packet of Crisps]]'' episode 'When Janet Met Jonny'.
* Once in a while, in [[The Seventies]], ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood]]'' would invite an opera singer friend of Mr. Rogers named John Reardon, and the episode, entirely set in the Land of Make-Believe and featuring a lofty plot line, would resemble a musical or light opera, with all of the characters singing their lines.
* ''Sesame Street'' did an episode like this once.
* The ''[[Kamen Rider Faiz]]'' Hyper Battle Video, where the characters suddenly break out into song and dance for no apparent reason as part of Smart Brain's latest plot. They [[Lampshade]] the fact that they're singing, and in the end Takumi ends up defeating the Orphenocs with a sonic blast from a radio which was causing the whole thing. [[It Was All Just a Dream|And then Takumi wakes up]].
* ''[[Chicago Hope (TV)|Chicago Hope]]'' had the fourth-season episode "Brain Salad Surgery". Dr. Aaron Shutt suffered a brain aneurysm that caused him to hallucinate the rest of the hospital staff singing and dancing.
* On the heels of the success of ''[[Glee]]'', FOX had a musical week including ''[[Fringe]]''. Which turned out to be a [[Noir Episode]] as well-- awell—a ''double'' case of [[Something Completely Different]]. And it was justified in that the noir musical was simply the fictional story within a [[Framing Device]].
* ''[[ItsIt's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' had its musical episode where Charlie actually wrote and then directed a musical, not that his friends would let it be that simple
* ''[[Good Times]]'' had 2. One doubled as a [[Christmas Episode]] while the plot of the other was a talent show to raise money for a daycare center in their building.
* Done in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]''.
* Every episode of [[Glee]]. Justified because it IS show choir.
* [[Ally McBeal]] had one at the end of season 3. Randy Newman wrote part of the music for this.
* [[Oz]] has one of sorts. Series 5, episode 3 'Variety' has a central theme about variety shows and each of the narrator segments, usually occupied by Hill's musings about the theme is instead one of the characters singing in various different musical styles.
* The second season of [[Community (TV)|Community]] had "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" which, since it was also their homage to Will Vinton's [[Claymation]] Christmas specials, had several short songs, and the third season [[Christmas Episode]] episode "Regional Holiday Music" was a blatant [[Glee]] parody.
* Every episode of ''The Fresh Beat Band.'' Justified because it is about a band.
* Every episode of ''The Wiggles.'' Justified for the same reason.
* [[Sanctuary]] had a musical episode. Justified because the reason they were singing was to communicate with Will's girlfriend, who had been {{spoiler|infected with a musical parasite}}.
* The ''Land of the Luvvies'' episode in [[The Legend of Dick and Dom]] features a much-feared tribe of [[Luvvies]] who [[The Music Meister|spread song and dance]] through the neighbourhood.
* [[Little HowardsHoward's Big Question]] has an episode called ''Can We Sing For A Whole Episode?''.
* Every episode of ''[[Cop Rock]]''; justified what with it being, you know, a ''musical''.
* ''[[Smash]]''; see above, plus it's set in the world of musical theatre.
 
== [[Radio]] ==
* Episode three of the [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio drama "[[Big Finish Doctor Who (Radio)/Recap/043 Doctor Who and the Pirates/Recap|Doctor Who and the Pirates]]". As the story is being told through the framing device of the Sixth Doctor and Evelyn telling the story to one of Evelyn's students, it already contains a bit of storytelling silliness (Evelyn doesn't remember all the pirates' names, so she makes up obviously fake ones for the less-important characters), but when the Doctor takes his turn at telling the story, he decides, for [[Large Ham]] reasons, to deliver it in the form of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical. You could say that he's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdDXQ2h1Pc the very model of a Gallifreyan buccaneer].
** As far as [[Cliff Hanger|Cliff Hangers]]s go, this one is one of the most interesting:
{{quote| '''Evelyn''': Oh no! You ''are'' going to sing!<br />
'''The Doctor''': Well yes! I am! Llaaa-''{{[[[Interrupted Byby the End]] cliffhanger theme music plays. Episode ends.}}]'' }}
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[Penny Arcade]] did this at least [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/11/14/ once].
* [[Instant Classic]], which has had [https://web.archive.org/web/20090220131357/http://www.instantclassic.net/story.php?comicID=100 background scoring] in it before, composed and created an [https://web.archive.org/web/20090410183359/http://www.instantclassic.net/story.php?comicID=207 actual musical number] to play along with the comic as it was read.
* [[Brawl in The Family (Webcomic)|Brawl in Thethe Family]] did it five times, soon to be six. The first was for Christmas 2008, a parody of [[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Animationanimation)|You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch]]. The second was for Comic 200. The next three were for Christmas 2010, and the next one for Christmas 2012.
* [[Narbonic]] had a brief interlude in [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=40342&name=narbonic_plus one storyline] to perform [http://www.narbonic.com/MadbloodBattleAnthem.mp3 the Madblood Battle Anthem].
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Fans]]!'' did this -- completethis—complete with fully-voiced MP3s linked beneath the panels -- mostlypanels—mostly as a homage to ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. Again, there is [[Character Development]] as the cast is forced to sing their hearts out; in contrast to the generally painful revelations in ''Buffy'', however, this mostly helps ''restore'' the characters' spirits, reminding them why they do what they do. The arc's title, "Makin' 'Em Sing", hints at the fact that the entire thing was orchestrated by people eager to learn what the cast have been hiding recently.
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' had a [[Musical Episode]] in the Strong Bad Email [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail125.html Rock Opera].
** Later parodied in [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail139.html portrait]. Strong Bad announces that this email will be a musical email, proceeds to start singing the email, then gives up after a few words.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112131845/http://www.homestarrunner.com/onetwo.html This little number].
* ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'' crosses this idea over with all [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]] songs... The results [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023114729/http://www.sailormoonabridged.com/ are quite interesting.]
* ''[[Last Exile Abridged]]'' gives us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LCdDAaldg this beauty,] which is not terribly surprising given that Unwardil is a musician. She Who Must Be Obeyed later makes him summarize the episodes properly.
* ''[[Princess Tutu Abridged]]'' did this for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m-ndZnL-Bw Episode 12]. Everyone was going out of their vocal range and/or having trouble with character voices and still manages to be enjoyable. Particularly a song about the famed reveal and ensuing [[Please Put Some Clothes On|results]].
* [[The Legend of Neil]] did one in its second season.
* [[The Guild]] has done a number of videos that could qualify as a Musical Episode.
* [[The BatterysBattery's Down]] is a musical webseries, which means every episode is a musical episode.
* ''The [[Doctor Steel|Dr. Steel]] Show'', Episode 3.
* ''[[I'm a Marvel And ImI'm ADCa DC]]'' did this in honor of their hundredth video. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPh8aIdR-4 CONTINUITY!]
* [[Brows Held High]] did a David Bowie themed musical episode for the movie [[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]. This is probably the only internet review show to have this type of episode.
** [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|Not...]] [[Les Misérables|quite...]]
*** Another one is [[Stuff You Like]] episode 10: a review of [[Les Misérables]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102171132/http://blip.tv/stuffyoulike/stuff-you-like-10-les-miserables-in-song-5459594 To the tune of One Day More.] [[The Cast Showoff|In parts.]]
** [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s [[Moulin Rouge]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925104344/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/33417-nostalgia-critic-musical-review-moulin-rouge review,] which also featured cameos from [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]], [[BrentalflossBrental Floss]] and others.
* [[The Twilight Chronicles]] - The Premonition is considered a musical episode, however, only one musical number ("All Out of Love") is featured. Spenser Doherty's song "Cup of Coffee" was overdubbed with the real song due to his off-key singing and Gen Borg just danced to her song.
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Musical Episode]], huh? Try a ''Musical [[Boss Fight]].'' [[ConkersConker's Bad Fur Day (Video Game)|"I, am, the Great Mighty Poo..."]]
** [[Ear Worm|"... and I'm going to throw my shit at you, a huge supply of thish, comes from my chocolate starfish..."]]
*** [[Crowning Music of Awesome|"... how about some scat, you little twat?"]]
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts II (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts II]]'' also had a Musical Boss Fight, and a pretty good one at that. Sure, [[The Little Mermaid|Atlantica]]'s [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] has caused a [[Broken Base]], but nonetheless, the fight against {{spoiler|the giant Ursula}} was nothing short of masterful.
* In [[Chibi-Robo!]], almost everything you do causes a seemingly-random string of notes to play in addition to the background music.
* The final boss of [[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]], while [[Quieter Than Silence|not having any music playing while you fight]], has you {{spoiler|casting spells in the correct order}}. If you speed footage of this battle up, {{spoiler|the notes each spell gives off, played in the correct order, [[Fridge Brilliance|is the credits theme]]}}.
* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas: OogiesOogie's Revenge]] has you defeating bosses with a singing retort going between the characters the entire time.
* The ''entirety'' [[Epic Mickey]] 2 is reportedly going to be one of these.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Squidbillies]]'': "America: Why I Love Her".
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' has done countless [[Musical Episode|musical episodes]], including "[[Evita|The President Wore Pearls]]", "[[Mary Poppins|Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]], "[[My Fair Lady|My Fair Laddy]]," "[[The Sound of Music|Yokel Chords]]", "[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Treehouse of Horror XX: There's No Business Like Moe Business]]." and "Elemental School Musical".
** In addition, the show often parodies [[The Musical]], especially [[All Musicals Are Adaptations]]. See the former article for more information.
** There's also the [[Clip Show]] "All Singing, All Dancing," which highlights musical numbers throughout the first eight seasons. Almost all the framing sequences are entirely in song.
* ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' has done many [[Musical Episode|musical episodes]], too.
** Including [[The Movie]].
* The last third of ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'''s "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is an opera. As sung by the cast.
* ''[[Daria]]'', of all shows, had a musical episode aptly named "Daria!" And yes, Daria sings too.
** To be more accurate, she doesn't sing as such. More does the Rex Harrison talking/singing thing. Although her Dad and Trent have a killer heroic Duet...
*** She mainly talks in pitch instead of singing, but she ''does'' sing a few lines. Probably because she's just unmotivated, even in a musical. Perfectly in-character.
* "School's Out: The Musical", an episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]''.
* Except for possibly a few sentences, the ''entire episode'' "See Me Feel Me Gnomey" of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' is completely in song.
** Which in this case makes it a [[Rock Opera]]. In fact, the title of the episode is a reference to [[The Who]]'s [[Tommy]].
** Same with the ''[[Evil Con Carne (Animation)|Evil Con Carne]]'' episode "The Pie Who Loved Me" (though it was a significantly shorter episode)
** Same with ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Animation)|The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' episode "Little Rock of Horrors", which incidentally aired together with the above Evil Con Carne episode. It features a very catchy swing-type tune sung by a brain eating alien.
*** [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Which was sung by]] ''[[Voltaire (Musicmusician)|Voltaire]]''.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' had the episode "Zanzibar".
{{quote| "R-E-C-Y-C-L-E recycle!<br />
C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E conserve! <br />
don't you P-O-L-L-U-T-E<br />
pollute the rivers sky or sea<br />
or else your gonna get what you deserve" }}
** "And you know what they say..." - [[Lampshade Hanging|"It's going to be a song, isn't it?"]]
*** "We're a big unruly mob ..."
** ''Rocko'' writers Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh noted that with every episode they wrote (including the above "Zanzibar") they tried to work in a musical number, even when there didn't need to be one. [[Phineas and Ferb|Guess what they ended up working on later.]]
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' did ''two'' musical episodes: F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E. (A heavy metal opera) and L.O.V.E. (A West Side Story-ish musical).
* ''[[Pepper Ann]]'' had one. Pepper Ann was auditioning for a musical at school, fell off the stage, and blacked out; when she came to her life was a musical. [[All Just a Dream|It turned out to be a dream]] when she came to for real.
* ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' did a music video episode: just a series of musical numbers performed by the cast. It goes on about how wonderful libraries are. The songs range from the slightly embarrassing pseudo-rap "Library Card" to Brain's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiB4dMwDFtg Crowning Moment of Awesome]...
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'''s "Rappin' Drakken" comes close to being a musical episode.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' includes an episode told mostly in rhymes, like a Dr Seuss story.
* ''[[Ruby Gloom]]'' did an hour-long episode called "Hair(less): The Musical".
* The ''[[Batman: theThe Brave And The Bold (Animation)|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister" is notable for having somewhat of an in-story justification: the story is about a villain with a hypnotic voice controlling the world through music. Probably the show's most audacious use of [[Refuge in Audacity]].
** Although that doesn't explain Black Canary (and later, Green Arrow), breaking out into song on their own. Maybe they're just musical theatre fans.
*** "[[Lampshade Hanging|Was the singing really necessary?]]"
*** It also helps that the Music Meister is voiced and sung by {{spoiler|Neil Patrick Harris.}}
** Can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPnqds02lFY&feature=player_embedded here].
* ''[[Freaky Stories (Animation)|Freaky Stories]]'' chose to tell the [[Urban Legend]] of "[[Hook Hand|the Hook]]" as a [[Musical Episode]].
* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'s'{{'}}s recap of the third season in the last few minutes of the last episode (of the third season) does this, to the [[Major-General Song]].
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' has one or more songs per episode, not joking, but there's a number of full-fledged examples:
** "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together" has ''four'' songs, one of which was nominated for an Emmy.
** The [[Christmas Episode]] would also qualify.
** The "Wizard of Odd", a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] to [[The Wizard of Oz]], which has the added bonus of having it's Musical Episode status [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] at every possible opportunity.
*** "Rollercoaster: The Musical" is a full musical episode based off the plot of the first episode, where most of the catch-phrases and running gags get their own songs.
*** The movie "Across The Second Dimension" would probably also qualify, with eight songs, not counting the deleted one ("Mysterious Force").
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' had an episode where the rest of the babies try to teach Dil to appreciate music. To do so, they sing their own renditions (complete with reworked lyrics) of classic songs such as "Bicycle Built For Two," "You Make Me Love You," and "Pack Up Your Troubles."
** There was also the laundromat-set ''[[West Side Story]]'' parody "Wash/Dry Story".
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' had "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9FMOAlXlE What's Opera, Arnold?]," an [[All Just a Dream]] rendition of ''Carmen'' with the kids from the show.
* ''[[Bugs Bunny]]'' had a few based on classical music, including "''[[Rabbit of Seville]]''" and "''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]''".
* ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' had its oft-quoted even to this day ''[[LA Bretto]]'' episode, which presents itself as an origin story chronicling Dexter's rise from birth to building his secret lab.
{{quote| "Hellooo, dear brother! What have you got there?"<br />
"Nothing! Nothing! You only see air!"<br />
"Don't be silly, I love you very much!"<br />
(smash!) "I guess I shouldn't touch." }}
 
{{quote| "Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo, what does this button do?"<br />
"Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo, what does this button do?"<br />
(pushes Dexter's belly button. Dexter cries.)<br />
"Now I know that this button does: it make my brother cry." }}
* ''[[Cow and Chicken (Animation)|Cow and Chicken]]'' has one episode devoted to the school staging Cow's bizarre allegorical musical, "The Ugliest Weenie".
* ''[[Clone High]]'' had "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Parts".
* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' is a musical '''season'''. Oh yeah, and it's required.
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' has ''All Hands on Deck''
* In one episode of ''[[Animalia (Animation)|Animalia]]'' a core spore blows and all the animals start singing everything they say.
* In one episode of ''Curious George'' called "Sock Opera Monkey", George does a puppet show of the opera ''Hansel and Gretel'' to a recording of the music. In another, "Go West, Young Monkey", although he doesn't sing, several other characters do. (Most of this is a dream sequence.)
* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' has ''Hot Water'', a parody of [[Little Shop of Horrors]] featuring [[Cee Lo Green]] as a sentient hot tub
* ''[[The EmperorsEmperor's New School (Animation)|The Emperors New School]]'': The Musical speaks for itself, really. Bonus for being a parody of ''[[High School Musical]]''.
* "Bad Rap" from ''[[The Super Mario Bros Super Show]]''.
* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' had "Boatshow".
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