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* The 100th episode of ''[[Weebl and Bob]]'' actually ends with {{spoiler|the death of Donkey, Chris the Ninja Pirate's wife.}}

** Inverted in the following episode, which revolves around Weebl, Bob, and Chris attending Donkey's funeral. [[The Fun in Funeral|Cue Mr. Teeth.]]

* [[Tales From the Table]] started off very comedic and ends in a surprising and depressing way.

* The flash series "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony]]: [[Portal (series)|Thinking With Portals]], is a lighthearted comedy crossover between MLP and ''Portal'', and features each of the Mane Cast (and the Princesses) having lighthearted hijinks with portal guns. The final episode, which will involve Twilight getting her revenge for being the [[Butt Monkey]] for the entire series, is stated to be ''much'' more serious than the rest of the series, the author admitting some of it may end up veering into [[Grimdark]] territory. {{spoiler|However, the author has personally leaked that in the end, [[Everybody Lives|everpony lives]].}}

** [[An Aesop|Appreciate your happier moments while you can]] as [[Easy Come, Easy Go|they don't last forever.]] Presumably, [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|even kids have to learn that at some point.]]

** Actually ended up subverted in a rather off-hand way in a cartoon based loosely on another children's graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, which takes place in the same universe.

* The classic ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "[[What's Opera, Doc?]]" is mostly a goofy parody of opera tropes combined with [[Bugs Bunny]]'s typical slapstick and [[Attractive Bent Gender]] gags. {{spoiler|Then Elmer kills him. Bugs does revive long enough to deliver the last line though:}}

* The infamous (within its fandom, at least) "Holly Jolly Secrets" [[Christmas Special]] of ''[[Adventure Time]]''. It is about the heroes Finn and Jake watching a bunch of videotapes made by their arch-enemy and [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]], the Ice King. The whole time, Finn and Jake continue because they believe the Ice King has hidden "evil secrets" in the tapes. Once the Ice King finds out that they are watching his tapes, he tries to stop them, but fails to prevent them from putting the last tape in their VCR. At that point all he can do is watch in horror as {{spoiler|Finn and Jake discover that ''he used to wear glasses,'' but more importantly that he used to be a normal human being who was driven insane and transformed by a supernatural artifact that he'd bought. They watch the young Ice King lose his mind}}. Before this, the Ice King had almost always been a funny character, and plenty of things that were [[Played for Laughs]] in the past [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|were made tragic by this revelation.]] The writers seem to understand this and have given the character a break so far. Or possibly they don't know what to do with him. In addition, the other tapes before the last one are usually the Ice King saying or doing hilarious things, but some of them show him sitting around his house, crying, although that still seems to be [[Played for Laughs]].

* If any episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has a character change in a positive way, or gain something nice, and they keep it near the end of the episode, expect it be suddenly yanked away. The Status Quo must be preserved. That said, there were two notable exceptions: {{spoiler|Barney recovering from his alcoholism (although the writers eventually undid this) and Millhouse's parents remarrying in the 19th season (whether the writers will undo ''this'' remains to be seen).}}