Mind Screw/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* ''[[ReBoot]]'' had an episode that only makes sense when you realize it is a [[Homage]] to ''[[The Prisoner]]'', oddly enough. The end of the episode revealed it was [[All Just a Dream]], but the Mind Screw elements make more sense because of that, and Matrix received some [[Character Development]] bordering on a [[World of Cardboard Speech]].

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'': in "One Plus One Equals Ed", the titular trio try and know everything so they can become super-smart and famous. In their quest for knowledge, however, all of reality breaks down- trees are flat as cardboard, Eddy eats the sun, Nazz turns into a dinosaur, and on and on. The madness only ends when the Eds are flying on a balloon that gets popped by the animator's giant pencil. [[Non Sequitur Scene|And they never speak of it again.]]

{{quote|'''Lisa:''' Dad, was that your commercial?

'''Homer:''' ...I don't know. }}

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Sting", in which Leela's perception of reality becomes more and more deranged, with events that turn out to be dreams, a hallucination of a morbidly cheerful musical number, a ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' parody, and descent into obsessive insanity. It turns out {{spoiler|everything in the episode since the bee attack was her nightmare.}}

* ''[[The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat]]'' is probably one of the most [[Mind Screw]]iest western animation films ever. And unlike [[Fritz the Cat (animation)|the film it's a sequel to]], [[Ralph Bakshi]] had absolutely nothing to do with it.

* Pretty much all of ''[[Adventure Time]]''. Good luck trying to understand any of it!

* ''[[Regular Show]]'', which usually starts out with a fairly simple, straightforward, and every-day plot (learning to play guitar, getting tickets to a concert, throwing a friend a surprise birthday party, etc), but by the last few minutes of the episode, their totally normal actions will usually have [[Divide by Zero|broken reality]], woke up some kind of [[Eldritch Abomination]], traveled through time, or they've ended up getting attacked by something. Usually something really messed up. And the really screwy thing is that after the cosmic horror part is solved, it's usually only an afterthought, at which point the characters focus on the normal subplot that got them into it.

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