History Main / DisneyAcidSequence

* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' qualifies as a Disney Acid ''Series'', especially after the series moved production from New York to Los Angeles.

* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': In "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS2E7Burial Burial]]" the adult Misty reluctantly gets inside a sensory-deprivation tank as part of a therapeutic treatment0. It takes her about 7 seconds inside it for her mind to go into a full-blown musical number starring [[spoiler:Creator/JohnCameron Mitchell as her parrot]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was to have a]] DreamSequence set to jazz music where Helen Parr dreamt about her husband cheating on her with hundreds of silhouetted, beautiful women in order to highlight her suspicions about her husband's behavior, but it was cut due to length and the fact that they would never get away with so blatantly stating what Helen's fears were in a Disney film.

* A big example of this trope is in the video game ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', in a scene describing the creation of Hyrule. Illia and Link are in a pitch black... space. They then see 3 Dark Links by a tree on a lone random hill in said endless pitch black area. Illia then [[spoiler: grabs a knife tries to KILL LINK]] and Link then [[spoiler:kills Illia with the Master Sword.]] Link then gets [[UncannyValley creepy]] white eyes and joins the dark links. Then about 100 Illias fall from the sky around Link and the sequence ends. [[NightmareFuel Holy crap.]]

* In the 2012 adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', the Once-ler's VillainSong uses images that would seem rather improbable if taken literally, such as trees being felled by noise from a gigantic set of speakers or the Once-ler sprinkling pepper on the Lorax as if to eat him while singing about survival of the fittest, to metaphorically depict the growth of the Once-ler's company and his increasing self-delusion.

** Many early episodes have a series of sketches on numbers (1 through 10) that involved a baker who holds in his arms that number of desserts but falls down a flight of stairs, ruining the desserts in question. The sketches started with a very flashy animated intro in which the voices of kids are heard counting up from 1 to 10, then back to 1, and finally up to the featured number in the sketch, in choral voiceover, while that number, in animated form, zoomed around the screen. There's a good chance those were made by John and Faith Hubley of Storyboard Films. [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=John+Hubley+sesame+street They did a lot of Sesame Street and Electric Company video trips]], including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLbSongrzEY this beloved classic]].

* ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' was the first Creator/RagdollProductions cartoon to do this.

** Here's the ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcbRgr4dt6I version.]]

** In a more recent episode, "One Trick Sponge", [=SpongeBob=] goes around town trying to get people to see a magic trick he just figured out. When he gives up and decides to do it in front of a group of rocks and twigs, it's revealed that the magic trick was one of these.

** Also on the ship later, Anastasia is seeing butterflies and her family in a pleasant meadow while, in actuality, she is on a ship in a storm. Quickly changes to horror when [[spoiler: her family and the pleasant meadow turn into demons and Hell, respectively]]. This is just one of many attempts that the BigBad tries to employ to destroy her, but still.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* In ''Film/{{Troll}}'', the VillainSong performed by Torok's minions borders on this.

* Creator/DrSeuss:
** The 1972 Depatie-Freleng special version of ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHat'' had two sequences in it, one for the song "I'm a Punk", and another for "A Cat in a Hat".
** The 1977 special ''WesternAnimation/HalloweenIsGrinchNight'' has a major example: the [[SignatureScene infamous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFaBvL72a8 Paraphernalia Wagon]].
** There is an acid sequence towards the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrinchGrinchesTheCatInTheHat'', courtesy of the Grinch. This acid trip was played on the Cat while some very unfitting and wild Dixieland music played.

** The 1972 Depatie-Freleng special version of ''WesternAnimation/TheCatInTheHat'' had two sequences in it, one for the song "I'm a Punk", and another for "A Cat in a Hat"

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': "Mother Knows Best" is downplayed, but too much is happening that isn't physically possible for it to taken for ''literally'' happening like that. Like the dozens of candles that suddenly appear on the stairs (there wasn't enough time for Gothel to have put them there); the spotlight (in a time before electricity...) controlled by Gothel and how she makes projections (ruffians, poison ivy) in it; she cannot have had enough time to have painted the red "man with pointy teeth" on the floor. Note that Gothel is usually regarded NOT to be a witch (which would be the only reasonable explanation for everything to be happening exactly as shown).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': The song "Cutting Edge" (a.k.a. "[[RefrainFromAssuming More, More, More]]"), which involves, among other things, a singing table lamp somersaulting through outer space. Of course, this is a movie where ''every'' character is an inanimate object. (We're not sure whether that makes it better or worse.)

** The best single example would be the fever dream-esque musical sequences in the already very strange ''Galaxy Goof-Ups'' (the adventures of Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound and a couple of [[TheScrappy wacky new characters]]... [[WereStillRelevantDammit but they're in space]]!). Every so often, the plot would stall for a minute or two and they would go disco-dancing for no apparent reason.

* In ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', the stoner Spencer gets abducted by Freddy through the TV, accompanied by psychedelic visuals that leak out of the screen, set to [[Music/IronButterfly Iron Butterfly's]] ''In A Gadda Da Vida''.

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%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** The single song is this trope turned UpToEleven and manages to be both sad and creepy at the same time. It helps that [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]] sings it.

* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'': "Dancing Under The Golden Rainbow" from "The Golden Crunchdoodles" takes place on a yellow background for the entire duration of the song, rather than the backgrounds that are usually seen in the show. Not helping matters is that this sequence occurs right after a scene depicting Donkey and Panda with tired eyes.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQx_KMoCgJU The torture dance sequence.]] Mista, Fugo, and Narancia, having captured the living severed head of the rival gang member Zucchero, are trying to interrogate him, and when he refuses to say anything [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption (because he's not capable of saying anything)]], they hang him from a fish hook ''by his eyelid'' and then [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment suddenly start playing music and dancing]] for absolutely no good reason while the helpless Zucchero is ForcedToWatch. It's implied the psychedelic visuals in the anime are actually Zucchero starting to hallucinate from the prolonged torture.

* ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyHodie'': "Dancing Under The Golden Rainbow" from "The Golden Crunchdoodles" takes place on a yellow background for the entire duration of the song, rather than the backgrounds that are usually seen in the show. Not helping matters is that this sequence occurs right after a scene depicting Donkey and Panda with tired eyes.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4TedkQP_hM Call Upon the Sea Ponies]] from [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials Rescue from Midnight Castle]]''. This one is distinctly happening in real time- the Sea Ponies are helping Megan and Applejack get back to the surface of the lake- although it’s still trippy.
** From [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends the series proper]], the number "Imagine You Were Friends". The art style goes from "somewhat refined even with animation errors" to "this looks like it was drawn by a four-year old".
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE12TheGhostOfParadiseEstate2 The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 2]]": The scene where the ghost chases the characters out of the house involves some very bizarre visuals, including a ghostly wall seizing a pony in its mouth, the specter taking on horrifying shapes as it chases the characters around, and a shot of moving, colorful shapes with no evident relation to anything else.

* The party song from ''[[WesternAnimation/KatyLaOruga Katy the Caterpillar]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' has one, courtesy of ComicBook/TheJoker in his VillainSong, "WheresTheFunInThat". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4zlC8jAISk It has to be seen to be believed.]] Justified, as Joker has just become a RealityWarper.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': "A Guy Like You". The commentary track references this trope, going so far as to suggest that ''everything'' involving the three gargoyles might be Quasimodo's imagination. [[FridgeHorror (Well, when you spend your whole life alone in a bell tower...)]] On an even darker note, "Hellfire" is a decidedly non-comedic VillainSong version of this.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQx_KMoCgJU The torture dance sequence.]] Mista, Fugo, and Narancia, having captured the living severed head of the rival gang member Zucchero, are trying to interrogate him, and when he refuses to say anything [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption (because he's not capable of saying anything)]], they hang him from a fish hook ''by his eyelid'' and then [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment suddenly start playing music and dancing]] for absolutely no good reason while the helpless Zucchero is ForcedToWatch. It's implied the psychedelic visuals in the anime are actually Zucchero starting to hallucinate from the prolonged torture.