Mood Whiplash/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

*** Done again in season 2's premiere. And again in Season 2's ''finale''. At this point its pretty much an unintentional [[Running Gag]] for the first part of a two parter to have a [[Downer Ending]], only to transition into the show's happy theme song.

** Done in-story when Twilight Sparkle realizes her "friends" aren't interested in helping her stop the [[Big Bad]].

'''Twilight:''' ''(angry)'' ...have turned into COMPLETE JERKS! }}

** The third act of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E17 Stare Master|"Stare Master"]] goes from a group of kids playing around in the woods to discovering [[Taken for Granite|the petrified body of one of the mane characters.]]

* ''[[Adventure Time]]''

** The episode "Holly Jolly Secrets". For the most part, it's a holiday episode where Finn and Jake find some of the Ice King's abandoned video tapes and decide to decipher them for "evil secrets". Many of the tapes are of the Ice King playing with his penguins, attempting to work out, and making fake news interviews with captured princesses. Then, when the Ice King barges in to reclaim his tapes, Finn quickly puts the last video in. {{spoiler|It's a video of a human professor telling the camera how he purchased a mysterious crown from a Scandinavian merchant. This crown gave him horrific visions when he put it on, frightening away his fiancée. As the clips progress, the professor becomes more and more resembling of the Ice King, his mental state deteriorating until he only wishes to find "his princess again".}} Finn and Jake's reactions are the same as the audience's.

** A less extreme version, and YMMV, but the "Little Ghost Pranksters" scene in ''Too Young''. Some fans found the scene hilarious. In summary, Finn and PB dress as [[Bedsheet Ghost|Bedsheet Ghosts]] to make Lemongrab leave. They approach him, waving their arms and making ghostly noises... and punch him in the stomach, push him onto the floor and run away laughing. The mood whiplash, for some fans, starts right when Lemongrab actually starts crying, and it's a very pitiable, soft whimpering; not the typical screeching or screaming we hear from this character. But whether the scene is sad or hilarious is up to interpretation.

* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' does this quite a lot, ''especially'' in later seasons.