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'''Ferb''': Hmmm.... What assurance would we have that everyone else would also break into song and do the same thing?
'''Phineas''': I don't know. I think they probably will.
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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.
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* [[Jewelpet]] Sunshine had the characters preforming [[West Side Story]] in one episode.
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* ''[[Nodwick]]'' had one of these, courtesy of Arthax and a "Scroll of Thespia".
* The ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' strip "Planet Bollywood" has the [[Doctor Who|Eleventh Doctor]] and Amy land on a planet where everyone breaks into song and dance routines.
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* 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. [[
* ''[[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—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]].
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* ''[[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 (anime)|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.
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** 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]]'' episode "The Pie Who Loved Me" (though it was a significantly shorter episode)
** Same with ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
*** [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Which was sung by]] ''[[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]]''.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' had the episode "Zanzibar".
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** Can be heard [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPnqds02lFY&feature=player_embedded here].
* ''[[Freaky Stories]]'' chose to tell the [[Urban Legend]] of "[[Hook Hand|the Hook]]" as a Musical Episode.
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* ''[[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.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Score and Music Tropes]]
[[Category:Something Completely Different]]
[[Category:Unusual Activity Episode]]
▲[[Category:Musical Episode]]
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