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** Most of the first half of season 15 was lighthearted goofiness, often showing how stupid various characters (or the South Park-verse's inhabitants as total) are. You're Getting Older is {{spoiler|a [[Wham! Episode]] where the group breaks up, Stan's parents divorce, and Stan thinks the whole world sucks..Also Kyle and Cartman seem to be friends now}}.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' is notorious for sudden mood whiplashes, and for doing it numerous times within an episode, not just the show's infamous tear-jerker endings.
** "The Sting" is probably the best
** The funeral scene is a perfect example of this: in a matter of seconds, we go from [[Tear Jerker|Leela's]] "[[It's All My Fault]]" [[Tear Jerker|response]], [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|the Professor denying this in an attempt to comfort her]], to him [[No Indoor Voice|loudly]] telling Bender [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"I'm lying to make her feel better!"]]
** Let's not forget the episode with Fry's dog. The entire episode, you're built up to expect that he'll get his dog back, wacky hijinks ensue, and then Fry {{spoiler|discovers that his dog lived for twelve more years after he was frozen, so he had a full life, it's not right to bring him back, and the dog probably wouldn't even remember Fry anyway. Then we discover that ''the dog spent those twelve years waiting faithfully for Fry to come back, only to die of old age.''}} Good God, I'm tearing up right now. Damn you, ''Futurama''!
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* The Oscar nominated film, ''Screen Play'', starts out as a quiet romantic Japanese tale that seems to end happily, until a jilted character suddenly bursts into the stage and starts killing everyone in sight, starting with the narrator.
* Disney's ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' is a thoroughly lighthearted return to the classic Disney form, albeit with a more humorous tone almost akin to ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''... that is, until {{spoiler|Ray's death. I mean, it just comes out of nowhere, and besides, he's a ''comic relief''; since when did anyone other than a serious character ever die in a Disney film?! Incidentally, another [[Mood Whiplash]] comes when we see Ray coming back as a star right next to Evangeline- and then it's back to lightheartedness again!}}
* Disney does this with their take on ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' as well with the songs Heaven's Light and Hellfire. They're one piece back to back really. We go from Quasimodo singing about his love for Esmeralda and how lucky he is to even think he's got a shot to what is perhaps THE best Villain Song Disney's ever done. Now "A Guy Like You", the happy, bouncy tune, [[
* ''[[Schoolhouse Rock]]'''s "The Tale of Mr. Morton" ends in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|sweet]] but undeniably disorienting way, since it goes straight from Mr. Morton wallowing in despair over his inability to ask Pearl out to Pearl proposing to him (I'd pothole that to [[Fourth Date Marriage]], but it's more like Zeroth Date Marriage) and the two of them living [[Happily Ever After]]. Even the music does a 180.
* The first ''[[Star Wars]] [[Clone Wars]]'' show, when General Grievous kicks his way into the Chancellor's office to try and kidnap him. The Jedi rush the Chancellor out, leaving the clones behind to stall him in scenes of what is very nearly explicit carnage (only the lack of blood kept it from being truly horrific). Cut to the Jedi waiting for the elevator to arrive, with screams, blaster fire and ''chainsaw'' sounds coming from the office. And then one of the Jedi reaches out and pushes the elevator call button 6 times to make it get there faster.
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** Homer does it to himself when in the video store, alternating between looking at two screens, one showing a comedy and the other a [[Tear Jerker]].
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' was quite fond of this trope back in the day.
** "The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball", as the title would suggest, starts with a news announcement that hairballs became more valuable than gold. Knowing this, Ren used his feline companion Stimpy for making
** "Man's Best Friend" starts out rather cheerfully with happy Raymond Scott-like music played in the background... and then very unexpectedly cuts into a loud dramatic sting and a sinister-looking "Starring George Liquor" card.
** There's a literal in-universe example caused by a device called "the happy helmet". It's an invention of Stimpy's that can change moods from any sort of anger or sadness into absolute happiness with varying levels of intensivity.
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* The theme song for the [[Hanna-Barbera]] ''[[The Godzilla Power Hour]]''. It starts off big and epic, emphasizing how frightful a creature Godzilla is...and then they get to [[The Scrappy|Godzooky]].
* Happens barely two minutes into the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' pilot. One moment the Ponies are frolicking around, being [[Moe Moe]] and [[Tastes Like Diabetes|all other sorts of unimaginable adorable]], and then demonic dragons come flying out of the sky complete with a thunder storm and kidnap several of the ponies to become slaves.. Yup. It happens a few other times in the pilot, too; One moment they're singing, and the next, something [[Nightmare Fuel|horrific happens]].
* The first ''My Little Pony'' special featured killer dragons, an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] villain and very little fluff, and was mostly action based. The next special is considerably more
* Happens somewhat frequently in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'':
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E01 Mare in the Moon|The series premiere]] ends with a cliffhanger as the [[Big Bad]] brings about eternal night, then suddenly the happy ending tune kicks in.
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** 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.
{{quote|'''Ice King:''' ''(sobbing)'' Now you know my secret... {{spoiler|I used to wear glasses!}}}}
** 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
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' does this quite a lot, ''especially'' in later seasons.
* Mood whiplash occasionally happens in ''[[Wakfu]]''. The biggest offender would have to be the 15th episode of season one. We close on "à suivre" (French for "to be continued"), our heroes apparently engulfed in a dragon's fire breath. Then we get the episode's [[Couch Gag]], and a silly little drum ditty the gang plays on a barrel to try to wake Ruel inside.
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