History MindScrew / WesternAnimation

--> '''NC:''' I think my favorite episode is the one called “Future Tense,” where Goliath arrives in the future and all hell broke loose as Xanatos has apparently taken over. [[spoiler:Trying to set things right, all the gargoyles get killed and slaughtered by Xanatos’ army.]] But then it turns out Xanatos is really a computer with all the memories of the original person. But THEN it turns out it wasn’t Xanatos at all; it was Lexington, who’s become overtaken by madness. BUT THEN it turns out it was all an illusion by Puck to try and get a mythical emblem from Goliath. AND THEN it turns out it may or may not have been a dream. AND THEN it turns out that Goliath is a woman! (A Photoshopped image of Goliath in drag appears with a dramatic music sting) Okay, that didn’t happen, but you get the idea.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', where an advertising company produces a TV advert for Homer's plowing service, featuring [[WhatWereTheySellingAgain an opera-singing woman screaming at a snow-globe before smashing it on the pavement]]. [[LeFilmArtistique In black and white]]. The family's response sums it up well.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has this built into its plot structure. Act I starts out with a fairly simple, straightforward, and every-day situation (learning to play guitar, getting tickets to a concert, throwing a friend a surprise birthday party, etc.), but by Act III, the characters' normal actions will usually have broken reality, woke up some kind of EldritchAbomination, caused them to travel through time, or any other bizarre circumstance. And as soon as that dilemma is solved, the characters more-or-less brush it off in order to return their focus to whatever the mundane inciting incident was. Case in point: the pilot episode has Mordecai and Rigby play RockPaperScissors over a chair, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext them tying 100 times in a row ends up summoning a black hole]], and once they solve that by intentionally breaking the tie, the duo starts playing the game ''again'' to decide who gets to drive the golf cart while cleaning up the aftermath.

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is a show where characters die and ''come back in the same episode with no explanation''. It's set up as a show where ''cameras are watching them''. [[WidgetSeries Really think about how completely insane that is.]] Xandir claims to have died 4 million times to save his girlfriend...and he's gay. Everyone makes fun of Xandir for being gay even though EveryoneIsBi. They never care that Captain Hero has had sex with women, men, children, animals, dead bodies, robots, and family members. "A Very Special Drawn Together After School Special" is insane even by the standards of their show, as it features the characters doing roleplaying within roleplaying for Xandir to come out to his parents, [[ShaggyDogStory which is completely pointless anyway.]]

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/PerfectHairForever'': "I wish these hot dogs and cats were not symbolic of anything, and this was all just a dumb anime mindf*** !"

*** WordOfGod states it's Matt Groening's [[{{Homage}} love letter]] to eastern european animation.

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has this built into its plot structure. Act I starts out with a fairly simple, straightforward, and every-day situation (learning to play guitar, getting tickets to a concert, throwing a friend a surprise birthday party, etc.), but by Act III, the characters' normal actions will usually have broken reality, woke up some kind of EldritchAbomination, caused them to travel through time, or any other bizarre circumstance. And as soon as that dilemma is solved, the characters more-or-less brush it off in order to return their focus to whatever the mundane inciting incident was. Case in point: the pilot episode has Mordecai and Rigby play RockPaperScissors over a chair, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext them tying 100 times in a row ends up summoning a black hole]], and once they solve that by intentionally breaking the tie, the duo starts playing the game ''again'' to decide who get to drive the golf cart while cleaning up the aftermath.

'''Mario:''' Whaddaya mean, ''catch'' the ball? [[BalefulPolymorph You]] ''[[BalefulPolymorph were]]'' [[BalefulPolymorph the ball!]]