History DaydreamSurprise / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': Mordecai and Rigby give Muscle Man a fake lottery ticket and try to tell him and he shoves them into a lottery machine, throws it over the wall and explodes. In Season 8, Benson leaves the Space Tree to return to Earth where he gets locked out of his apartment. After a long time passes, he watches the tape his employees gave him and then regrets leaving space and he makes a run for the nearest exit, and he finds out that his miserable life on Earth was a simulation and decides to stay in space.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E3TheDoomsdaySanction The Doomsday Sanction]]", B-list villain Milo's GovernmentConspiracy bosses tell him that he's being fired, so in a rage, he pulls out a massive gun and terminates them one after another until all are dead... and then we [[IndulgentFantasySegue cut back to reality]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Butterfly Effect", a vast majority of the episode turns out to be one caused by the chemicals from Lisa's experiment.

** "Evillustrator" starts with [[ContinuityNod two previous akumatized villains]] chasing after Marinette and successfully capturing her...only for her to be saved by a superhero version of her classmate Nathaniel, with her [[RescueRomance confessing her love for him]] right after. Naturally, this is quickly revealed to be Nathaniel's daydream (which he's also drawing as a comic).
** "Frozer" begins with Adrien (as Cat Noir) presenting a rose to Ladybug and professing his love. He then reveals his secret identity to her and suggests that the two run away to an island together and adopt a hamster...then it cuts back to reality, with Cat Noir still presenting the rose to Ladybug, who rejects it.
*** Interestingly, the same episode ends with Marinette (a.k.a. Ladybug) confessing her love for Adrien. He admits he feels the same way, and she starts talking about getting married and adopting a hamster...and then she snaps back and it turns out she didn't say any of that.

** In the opening of "Out to Launch", Candace works up the nerve to ask [[NiceGuy Jeremy]] out to a dance. In [[OutOfCharacterMoment an uncharacteristically sneering tone]], he turns her down and then starts laughing at her. Everyone in the food court, and eventually ''all of Danville'', [[CircleOfShame starts laughing at her]], too. Then [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Earth explodes]], and we cut to Candace telling her friend Stacy that that's ''why'' she can't ask Jeremy to the dance.

** In "Isabella and the Temple of Sap" (the POVSequel to "Bubble Boys"), when Isabella asks Phineas "What'cha doin'?", he sudden confesses his love for Isabella. Then he turns into a centaur (for some reason - a play on AllGirlsLikePonies perhaps?), Isabella jumps on his back and they ride away together. Turns out she was just daydreaming, and she didn't even hear his real response. Apparently, she and her fellow Fireside Girls refer to this as her going to "Phineas-Land."
** In "Summer Belongs To You!", Phineas frustrates Isabella so much with his ObliviousToLove behavior that [[YourHeadAsplode her head explodes.]] He reacts with a horrified "Isabella!" Of course, she's just so frustrated that she's ''imagining'' her head exploding, and Phineas's shout was just him trying to get her attention.
* Midway through the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "Mama's Girl", Spinelli has become the laughingstock of the school after accidentally calling the kids' teacher Ms. Grotke "Mama" and announces that she is going to run away from school/home. When T.J. asks her where she could go, Spinelli says "somewhere far far away" where no one will ever call her a "mama's girl" again. We then cut to Spinelli alone in a tower somewhere in the Alaskan tundra with no one for miles. Just as she's getting used to her new surroundings a voice suddenly calls: "Is mama's little girl ready for school?" Cut to Spinelli [[AllJustADream waking up in bed]] to the sound of her mother telling to get up.

** In the episode "Burns, Baby Burns", the police have Homer trapped in a building, believing that he kidnapped Mr. Burns' long-lost son. The rest of the family watches the siege on TV when suddenly Homer bursts out of the building and is cut down by a hail of gunfire. The Simpsons scream in horror... and it turns out to be Channel 6's computer simulation of the event.
-->'''Kent Brockman:''' Now here's what it would look like if they killed him with baseballs... ''(bonking sounds and Homer's grunts of pain can be heard in the background)''
** At the end of "Funeral for a Fiend", the Simpsons are about to celebrate foiling Sideshow Bob's latest scheme with a cake, only for him to jump out of it and kill them all. Then it cuts to Bob in prison imagining the whole thing while laughing maniacally to himself.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderNightmaresAndDaydreams Nightmares and Daydreams]]", a sleep-deprived Aang finally breaks down and confesses his love for Katara... [[ShipTease or not]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Power Animal", a band of gnomes capture Finn and try to use his boundless energy and enthusiasm to power their doomsday device. The last device is powered by Finn's thoughts and imagination, but Finn manages to break out and escape with Jake... then it cuts to Finn, still trapped in a LotusEaterMachine.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. Marcus, a [[DirtyCop corrupt Enforcer]] in the pay of Silco, is given one of Jinx's grenades to present as "evidence" to frame another party for the murder of several Enforcers by Jinx. Marcus supposedly pulls the pin, [[TakingYouWithMe killing both himself and Silco]]. Immediately after, we see that it was all in Marcus's head. Silco immediately lampshades it.
-->'''Silco:''' ''(mockingly)'' Hmm? Imagining yourself the hero?
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "Nightmares and Daydreams," a sleep-deprived Aang finally breaks down and confesses his love for Katara...[[ShipTease or not.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Swimming Fool", Cricket attempts to dive off [[HighDiveHijinks the high dive]] at the community swimming pool. Cricket gets to the top of the high dive, dives off, and hits the pool like a meteorite. When the water clears, Cricket discovers that he has shattered to pieces upon hitting the water and belts out a BigNo. SmashCut back to Cricket still standing at the top of the high dive and deciding against diving off.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', Season 1 "[[Recap/CentralParkS1E5DogSprayAfternoon Dog Spray Afternoon]]", when Helen is going to kill Shampagne, she throws a stick into a busy street for him to fetch as he breaks free from his leash. The camera zooms in on Helen's face as we hear Shampagne panicking in the steet, but then the camera zooms out to reveal she was just imagining it before she does it for real. But she's unable to do it for real after remembering how Cole took care of Shampagne.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', Danny and his father fail to change the filters on the ecto-filtrator as recommended, with disastrous consequences...that turn out to be a computer simulation of what happens to the ecto-filtrator if you don't change the filters on it as recommended. When Danny asks why his father has this computer simulation, Jack replies that it's to remind Danny how important it is to change the filters on the ecto-filtrator.

** They parodied ''Scrubs'' fondness of the trope, with Peter appearing to shoot himself in the head after hearing something he didn't want to do. Flash back to Peter, who then [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this with, "Oh, I was just having one of those ''Scrubs'' fantasy moments."
** Lampshaded in the episodes "Stewie Kills Lois" and "Lois Kills Stewie". When Peter and Lois go on a cruise without Stewie, Stewie then uses a virtual reality program to see what it would have been like if he had killed Lois in revenge.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Obsoletely Fabulous", most of the episode is Bender's OpinionChangingDream, which was given to him by an upgrade.
* It's been mentioned elsewhere, but in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', B-list villain Milo's CorruptCorporateExecutive bosses screw him over once too often, so in a rage, he pulls out a massive gun and terminates them one after another until all are dead...and then we [[IndulgentFantasySegue cut back to reality]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Burns, Baby Burns", the police have Homer trapped in a building, believing that he kidnapped Mr. Burns' long-lost son. The rest of the family watches the siege on TV when suddenly Homer bursts out of the building and is cut down by a hail of gunfire. The Simpsons scream in horror...and it turns out to be Channel 6's computer simulation of the event.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode ''Obsoletely Fabulous'', most of the episode is Bender's dream as a reaction to his upgrade.