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* ''[[Teen Titans (
** On the flip side, if the intro song was in Japanese, that meant the episode would be wacky (featuring Mad Mod, Larry, etc.)
** The "best" example of this would be when they aired prehaps the darkest episode in the series, involving the end of the world, a demon coming to conquear earth, a villian ressurected from hell, Raven being informed she's destined to end the world, and prehaps an implied rape. Then the next episode is about Beast boy working at a [[McDonald's]] like place, fighting evil Tofu.....
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*** In Season Four, before the three part season finale featuring {{spoiler|the end of the world through Raven}}, we have Mother Mae Eye, whom is a witch who basically made everything the Titans see an acid trip through pie.
*** Season Five didn't really have any "silly" episodes before their Series Finale.
* ''[[
** An episode that reveals the largest city in the entire Earth Kingdom is ruled by a [[Government Conspiracy]] that has no intention of helping them win the war is followed with an episode about [[Day in
** And one of the shorts in that [[Day in
** The whole Ba Sing Se arc has a lot of [[Mood Whiplash]]. Take the episode "Lake Laogai" -- {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Jet]]}} has just been left for dead in the shadowy headquarters of the Dai Li in what many fans consider one of the darkest and saddest moments of the season, if not the whole series. What follows immediately after? The triumphant return of {{spoiler|Appa}}, complete with uplifting music and a dramatic rescue; and a joyous, tearful reunion between Aang and his beloved companion. And {{spoiler|Jet}} is never even mentioned again until the thrid season.
** Season 3 has the ninth episode. It's a [[Breather Episode]] after one with a slight [[Downer Ending]] and before an event the show had been leading up to for a full 20 episodes. The episode also contains ''internal'' [[Mood Whiplash]]: Aang has some weird dreams, then a ''[[Nightmare Dreams|freakish and creepy]]'' one, then a bunch of '''[[Mushroom Samba|crazy hallucinations]]'''!
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** "The Chase." Starts with no one getting any sleep and yelling at each other and ends with {{spoiler|Iroh being hit by lightning fired by Azula, and Zuko refusing to let the group help him because he's so distraught.}}
** During the [[Grand Finale]], there's a scene where Sokka uses an absolutely ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious]]'' announcement over the intercom ("Everyone please proceed to the bomb bay for hot cakes and sweet cream. We have a very special birthday to celebrate!") to get the crew of the airship he and his friends are taking over out of the way. You know, the airship that's part of the fleet Fire Lord Ozai is using {{spoiler|to commit fiery genocide on the entire Earth Kingdom.}} Oh. The best part? ''It's actually some guy's birthday.''
* ''[[
* ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
* ''[[Garfield His 9 Lives]]'' goes from standard [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] humour, to a surreal take on the Garden of Eden story, to a [[Tear Jerker|sad story]] about a pianist's first cat, to a [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare inducing scenario]] involving a lab cat, to a tribute to [[Krazy Kat]]. And at the end Garfield meets God. If you think that's bad, try to find the graphic novel it was based on. Most of the stories made it into the animated special, but not the one that ends with Garfield, drawn as a realistic orange tabby that's [[Mind Screw|either driven crazy by time travel or possessed by evil spirits,]] leaping with fangs bared and claws outstretched right into the face of his owner, an elderly woman. (Who's not even looking at him, and saying "come play with maw maw" right as he's pouncing.)
* ''[[
* Speaking of Transformers and mood whiplash between sequels, ''[[
** Speaking of "Code of Hero", we have Dinobot's last conversation where the Maximals are solemnly discussing Dinobot's sacrifice and Rattrap speaks up in a [[Call Back]] to a previous conversation they had that episode about where Dinobot stands. Still in pain, he says "upwind of you for preference", putting a smile on Rattrap's face, knowing his best friend won't let his imminent death stop their verbal sparring matches.
** This happens a ''lot'' with the [[Bilingual Bonus]] substitution cipher that is cybertronix. For example, there is one passage in the Transformer equivalent of the bible, quoted in the dialogue as "And a great dragon was cast out onto the earth, and his followers with him", something treated with appropriate religious and prophetic weight. Translating the onscreen text, however, reveals that the sentence continued "two corks, one fork, and a bowl of beans between them".
* ''[[
* ''[[
** The show stuck to this trope since season 5, with episodes such as "Kenny Dies", "Raisins", and "Guitar Queer-O", dealing with the death of a friend, a painful break-up, and the drama between good friends respectively.
** 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}}.
* ''[[
** "The Sting" is probably the best example -- you could be severely depressed, sniffling, and in agonizing pain as a guilt-consumed Leela descends into madness, her hopes dashed for the THIRD time, yet laugh your ass off as her warped mind imagines the entire crew launching into a broadway-style musical number, complete with flashing lights, and then be knocked into a shivering, sobbing mess by the following scene.
** 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!"]]
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** Or the episode where Fry is weeping at the revelation of {{spoiler|how much his brother loved and missed him}}... while in the background Bender collects enough skeletons for a Mousketeers reunion.
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' does this on occasion
** One notable example being the episode "Kid Stuff," which manages it with one line of dialog. After a relatively lighthearted adventure featuring magically pre-teen versions of [[Wonder Woman]], [[
** And it's followed almost immediately with the scene of Mordred, a shriveled old man, being taken care of by his mother. In contrast to how he was in the entire episode as a kid, it's kind of a shock.
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
* 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
* 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, [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|comes out of nowhere]] between two very dramatic scenes, the latter including Phoebus nearly dying and Quasi learning that Esmerelda loves him instead. All during the ''burning of Paris''. Ow, my neck!
* ''[[
* 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.
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' begins with a [[Humongous Mecha]] space battle presented in the tried and true [[Space Opera]] style. This lasts for over seven minutes as female lead Kiva Andru runs off with the enemy's [[Super Prototype]] and tries to send it back in time a few years so it can change the desperate last stand in favor of humanity. The alien forces attack, and things go wrong. After the title and commercial break, cut to two ''[[Clerks]]''-style slackers from New Jersey...
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Season 22 Episode 3's [[Couch Gag]] intro. It goes from the standard sequence, then becomes a meta reference to the show's animation process in South Korea, [[Deconstruction|interpreted by graffiti artist Banksy as a sweatshop]]. Warning: High Octane Depression Fuel.
** 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 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 hairballs -- it goes fine up until he learns that Stimpy has overused his hairball gland. He, Stimpy and a Kowalski lookalike named Bubba all start tearing up. [[Gainax Ending|Out of nowhere, Ren and Stimpy state that it's over and start singing and dancing cheerfully while happy jazz music plays in the background.]]
** "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.
** "Sven Hoek" features Ren acting insanely angry when describing how he's going to hurt Sven and Stimpy before stating perfectly normally that he has to pee.
* ''[[
** The two-parter where Stewie kills Lois. For the first 8 minutes, it's the usual post-cancellation FG humor, and then, Stewie sneaks aboard onto the cruise ship and shoots Lois, who appears to have died as Stewie intended, and fell from the ship into the ocean. [[Tear Jerker|Joe had to call off the 6-day search for her, and a year has passed since.]] Brian finds out that Stewie killed Lois, suspicion from Quagmire, Cleveland, and Joe falls on Peter when he recently takes a life-insurance policy on her, Stewie throws away his gun and drawing of himself killing Lois, and Peter's friends find the evidence and believe that ''Peter'' did it, leading to Peter's testimony in court. He was found guilty, but then, Lois shows up, alive, and tells everyone that Stewie killed her.
** Part 2 reveals how Lois came back to Quahog. She was saved by a Merman, which isn't the kind of what you had in mind. Lois lost her memory and worked at a summer camp for fat kids, preventing them from eating each other. She then meets a man named Derek, who was a White Supremacist. At a meeting, Lois' opinion gets her a bottle to the head, restoring her memories. Stewie then holds his own family hostage, [[Tear Jerker|kills Cleveland]], and forces Brian at gun point to do as he says and later on, drive him to the CIA, where a [[Crossover]] with ''[[
** Despite how dark the two-parter was, there were some funny stuff between all of the drama, even though most of the funny stuff were cutaway gags.
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' had an episode with alternating scenes of Dot and Bob's wedding preparations and Glitch-Bob slowly ''dying'' in the Supercomputer. [[Unexplained Recovery|He got better,]] [[It Got Worse|but then it got a LOT worse.]]
* ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* 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 sweet--though still dark.
* Happens somewhat frequently in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
*** 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]].
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'''Twilight:''' ''(angry)'' ...have turned into COMPLETE JERKS! }}
** The third act of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** The song "Becoming Popular (The Pony Everypony Should Know)" from the episode ''Sweet and Elite'' is a very upbeat tune about Rarity's happiness at being accepted into high society...until the last bit, when it suddenly turns very somber and somewhat saddening as she realises she is just too exhausted to complete her friend's birthday dress in time.
** The episode "Baby Cakes". One somewhat short scene in the second half of it could be considered a shout out to horror movies in general, what with creepy children laughter and SOMETHING CRAWLING ON THE CEILING! Oh, did I mention the plot is Pinkie Pie babysitting children?
* A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWQU1nP61Ms cartoon] simply called ''The Snow Man'' (no, not [[The Snowman|that one]]) starts out with sickeningly sweet Disneyesque cheeriness and dancing. {{spoiler|Then suddenly, the snowman comes to life with its blank snow face melting into a monster face and it goes on a rampage trying to kill everyone.}}
* ''[[
** 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|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
* Mood whiplash occasionally happens in ''[[
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