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1* ''WesternAnimation/The7D'': In "Buckets", Happy sings Grumpy a bedtime tune not knowing that he's joined by a ghost girl that only Grumpy notices. Her lyrics are comparatively grim and paint her as a NightmareFuelStationAttendant:
2-->'''Happy:''' Let pretty pictures fill your head,\
3'''Ghost Girl:''' Like gargoyles lurking beneath your bed,\
4'''Happy:''' See peaceful visions in your sleep,\
5'''Ghost Girl:''' Like howling, red-eyed zombie sheep,\
6'''Happy:''' You drift away to the land of dreams,\
7'''Ghost Girl:''' Where nobody can hear your screams... ''(get an appropriately creepy close-up)''
8* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': When Gumball and Darwin ask the universe what is the meaning of life, the planets decide to sing an upbeat and cheerful song about how people's lives don't matter and everyone is useless, which lasts for millions of Earth years.
9** The infamous Be Your Own You from "The Copycats" has the Wattersons sing a light and optimistic song encouraging their copycats to [[BeYourself be themselves]], while also warning them that they are performing copyright infringement by copying their every move.
10* Many of the songs in ''[[Literature/TomGates The Brilliant World Of Tom Gates]]'' are used in a way that relates to the plot in some form, but it fails in “What You Gonna Do”. The titular song is used to represent Mr. Fullerman’s distractions, but the lyrics are more about fictional band Plastic Cup than said scenario. For instance, the second verse:
11-->''We are the band that is hugely influential/Our second album was mostly instrumental/What you gonna do, what you gonna do about it?/Nothing…/We are the band on the edge of a disaster/We can’t agree if our songs should go much faster/What you gonna do, what you gonna do about it?/Nothing…''
12* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
13** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Marceline's]] song about a fisherman from "Henchman":
14---> "You look so cute sitting in your boat, I wanna suck out your eyeballs and rip out your throat. I wanna suck out your eyeballs... and rip out your throat..."
15** The song she sings in "What Was Missing" also definitely counts:
16---> "Lada-da-da-da, I'm going to bury you in the ground. Lada-da-da-da, I'm going to bury you with my sound. I'm gonna drink the red from your pretty pink face..."
17** The song she and the Ice King sing together in "I Remember You". Although it spawned from a letter the Ice King wrote to her as he started forgetting her, his love of peppy drums made it sound a lot more upbeat.
18---> "This magic keeps me alive / But it's making me crazy / And I need to save you / But who's gonna save me? / Please forgive me for whatever I do / When I don't remember you."
19** Another example comes in "The Tower". While [[TheHero Finn]] is building [[StarScraper the eponymous tower]], he sings a cutesy little lullaby about [[IWillTearYourArmsOff violently ripping his father's arm off]] [[spoiler:and reattaching it to his own arm-stub.]] ''[[CoolAndUnusualPunishment He literally means to do this.]]''
20* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' gives us "It's a Dog's Life" from "Life's Ruff". The lively and catchy song is about... Luigi and King Windbag wanting to be human again after Hip and Hop turned them into dogs.
21* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
22** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN6ef0ED9aI "The Ballad of Magellan"]], a rather lively and happy-sounding song about Magellan's famous voyage around the world - the one that ended in his death. The song is ''far'' more lively than the lyrics, tune, and story (which is actually historically accurate) suggest.
23** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHi4UHT7ZKo "A Quake, A Quake!"]] is a bouncy, lively tune about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Northridge_earthquake the 1994 Northridge earthquake]], which resulted in 57 fatalities, about 8,700 injuries, and billions in property damage.
24* ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8md9x96dNE "Here Comes The Sea!"]] is an upbeat parody of "Under the Sea" about the Warners singing about how global warming shouldn't be ignored to a polar bear businessman who wants to use it for profit:
25--> "Here comes the sea, ominously. Can we stop pretending the world isn't ending and do something useful, please?"
26* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': "[[Recap/ArthurS3E1BustersBackTheBalladOfBusterBaxter The Ballad of Buster Baxter]]" has [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]] act as a one-man GreekChorus to the characters' actions and feelings. This includes a part where he sings a lively song about Buster being "a sad, sad bunny." Buster then [[BreakingTheFourthWall broke the fourth wall]] and demanded Art Garfunkel sing a more melancholy version.
27* Music by Jody Gray are great examples of this trope. Both ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} Arthur's Missing Pal]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog Clifford's Really Big Movie]]'' feature upbeat music... with downer lyrics about the protagonist's lost dog?!? In the latter, the opposite also occurs on a tribute CD: the owner of said big red dog sings upbeat lyrics about her dog to a bitter-sounding tune.
28* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': Milks this for all the laughs it can. The WhamEpisode "I Survived Jessi's Bat Mitzvah" has the upbeat electric slide "Life is a Fucked Up Mess" in which everyone laments their current troubles (which include [[spoiler:Andrew and Missy's break up as well as Jessi's mother having cheated on her father]]) while happily dancing. As soon as the song ends, everyone is awkward and sad again.
29* ''WesternAnimation/TheBluffers'': The cheerful-sounding theme song is basically just calling you names. The full version of the song that plays during the show's end credits subverts this -- about midway through, it turns into a motivational song that tells you to be tougher and never give up.
30* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'':
31** The villain's {{Leitmotif}} is a light, airy and ethereal tune [[IronicNurseryTune in the style of a lullaby]] about the coming of darkness and of the terrible Nowhere King.
32** "It's Hidin' Time" is a catchy country-style song, but its lyrics are a warning about the Beartaur and how he'll kidnap and/or eat you if you don't hide.
33** "Welcome to the Bay" is a cheery ukulele song about helping people commit suicide while carefully avoiding the use of that word.
34* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'': "Christmastime is Here" has lyrics that describe how wonderful Christmas is ("Fun for all that children call their favorite time of year") but has a very slow, almost melancholy feel to it. This makes it memorable. This acts as FridgeBrilliance as well since Christmas is supposed to be a joyful time, but Charlie Brown finds it depressing.
35* A lot of the songs from ''WesternAnimation/CheckeredNinja'' base their comedy on mixing stereotypical genre melodies with ridiculous lyrics. For instance, a song played at a Junior High Schooler party sounds like a stereotypical club track, while the lyrics are all about a guy insisting that everybody at the party needs to try his homemade pesto.
36* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': "A Day at the Races and a Night at the Opera" features an unnamed country's national anthem sound like a repeated chant of [[HehHehYouSaidX "ee-pee, tee-pee, pee-pee, poopy",]] but has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EcaGvvhIBo rather different meaning.]]
37-->'''Vlada''': You don't understand! He's singing about all the people who died in the earthquake, fire, and famine of 1805!\
38(''Audience murmurs regretfully'')\
39'''Zoltan''': Ee-pee, tee-pee, pee-pee, poopy- (''[[AesopAmnesia Audience laughs again]]'')
40* [[https://youtu.be/U_oyEAMR47E "Remember"]] from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. Sam even scoffs at it for seeming like a mindless pop song. It is actually a depressing song about how a girl was abandoned by a boy. It gets even worse when it turns out it's about Ember's ''death''. {{Fanon}} largely took it as a song about Ember committing suicide, however, WordOfGod says it isn't ''quite'' that dark, though not by much. Ember was an unpopular girl who was asked out by a boy [[StoodUp who never showed up]]. She was too exhausted to wake up when a fire broke out in her house and died. Suddenly, Ember's [[AttentionWhore need to be remembered]] and breakdown when her PopularityPower fails is [[HarsherInHindsight dramatically less amusing]].
41* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': "Captain Hero's Marriage Pact" has Foxxy Love's touching ballad in memory of her fallen bandmates, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipum8G_2fdE "Crashy Smashy Die Die Die"]].
42* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
43** A {{cutaway|gag}} scene in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E5TheClevelandLorettaQuagmire The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire]]" features [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/5547/family-guy-you-have-aids "You Have AIDS",]] a chipper barbershop quartet number that Peter sings to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin someone who has contracted AIDS]].
44** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E3WelcomeBackCarter Welcome Back, Carter]]", Peter sings a song to a soft romantic tune to "set the mood". Unfortunately, he chooses his favorite song, "Surfin' Bird".
45* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are found singing what sounds like an upbeat, cheery song about how "Smilers never lose, and frowners never win." Do you know why frowners never win? Because THE DEVIL WILL GET YOU IF YOU FROWN.
46* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
47** The cheerful reggae song about being a bureaucrat in "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E11HowHermesRequisitionedHisGrooveBack How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back]]".
48** To say nothing of the [[InsistentTerminology Xmas]] carol, "Santa Claus Is Gunning You Down".
49* In the very first [[WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}} Goodie Gremlin]] short, the gremlins sing their cheerful, happy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYy1y8SMI7A anthem]] [[VillainSong to mayhem, war, terror and chaos and]] [[CardCarryingVillain the causing thereof.]]
50-->We're the gremlins, devilish gremlins\
51We're a miserable and underhanded crew\
52We delight in dirty tricks, getting people in a fix\
53There is nothing that's too mean for us to do!
54* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[http://neilblr.com/post/142982667678 "It's Gonna Get Weird"]] is a sadly CutSong composed by Creator/NeilCicierega (the guy who created WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals) that was going to be performed by Bill Cipher in part 1 of the GrandFinale "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E18Weirdmageddon Weirdmageddon]]". It's a tune that alternates between tinkly CreepyCircusMusic and jazzy show-tune, with lyrics about Bill trying to convince the citizens of Gravity Falls he's doing them a favor by [[RealityIsOutToLunch doing weird and terrifying things to their town]].
55-->''I'm just a triangle trying to save you\
56From the delusions society gave you\
57Gravity's a lie, and so is the sky\
58Trust in the all-knowing, all-seeing eye!''
59* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': "Music/{{Addict}}" is full of this, with a hint of SoundtrackDissonance as well. It sounds like a peppy and cheery song with some silly sex and violence going on, but listening and looking a little closer (doubly so for the video, which sugarcoats nothing) tells an incredibly depressing story about Angel and Cherri being "addicted" to their lifestyles, using sex, drugs, murder, and mayhem in an attempt to ignore their pain and sadness.
60** Another one from the full show is "Poison" which keeps the same upbeat tune (until the last few lines anyways) but is even more depressing than Addict, with Angel singing about how he knows that his life and how Valentino treats him is "poisonous" but he can't escape it.
61* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} and the Holograms'' songs are almost always cheery, upbeat 80s pop. Even songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWkl12gQZuk "Who Is He Kissing?"]], which is about infidelity, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ZMxhQtEDk "Nightmare"]], about how Jem's life has become a living hell due to {{gaslighting}}, are in a peppy tone. Certain songs have fittingly slow rhythms though.
62* ''WesternAnimation/JuliusJr'': In "Smellalicious Flower", the gang tries singing Sheree's special staying awake song, which consists of original lyrics about staying awake sung to "Brahms Lullaby".
63* ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' has "Be Yourself", told entirely from Blythe's perspective. Her friend Sue wants to be just like her so she is repeatedly [[StalkerWithoutACrush following her around everywhere she goes]], set to cheerful, happy music.
64* The first verse of the Incredible Hulk's segment of the Grantray-Lawrence ''Marvel Superheroes'' show of the mid-1960s:
65-->Doc Bruce Banner\
66Belted by gamma rays\
67Turns into the Hulk\
68Ain't he unglamour-ays?
69* This is pretty much the entire gimmick of Dethklok on ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', as they render ''everything'', from the blues to a jingle for a coffee shop to a birthday song, as over-the-top death metal.
70* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE24BrightLights4 Bright Lights, Part 4]]", "We Are the Flutter Ponies" is upbeat, cheerful song about the flutter ponies easily crushing the villain.
71* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
72** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E11WinterWrapUp Winter Wrap Up]]": The cast begin [[MusicalChores singing a jolly song about]] [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows cleaning up winter to make way for spring]]. Rainbow Dash sings about awesome holidays, Pinkie about having fun and Rarity about fashion. Applejack? She's singing about possible starvation due to running out of food.
73-->'''Rainbow Dash:''' Three months of winter coolness, and awesome holidays\
74'''Pinkie Pie:''' We've kept our hoovsies warm at home, time off from work to play\
75'''Applejack:''' But the food we've stored is runnin' out, and we can't grow in this cold\
76'''Rarity:''' And even though I love my boots, this fashion's getting old...
77** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]": "Pony Pokey" is a lively and upbeat song about the Mane Six becoming dissatisfied with the Grand Galloping Gala. It's most evident during Fluttershy's verse while she's chasing the Canterlot critters:
78--->'''Pinkie Pie:''' You stomp your whole self in\
79You stomp your whole self out\
80You stomp your whole self in\
81And you stomp yourself about\
82You do the Pony Pokey and you give a little shout—\
83'''Fluttershy:''' COME OUT!\
84'''Pinkie Pie:''' That's what I'm talking about!
85** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E4OneBadApple One Bad Apple]]": "Babs Seed" is an upbeat, happy song, but it is about how the Cutie Mark Crusaders are being bullied.
86** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E1TheCutieMapPart1 "The Cutie Map – Part 1"]] has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MCGPKpHHSk "In Our Town"]], the cheerful-sounding anthem of Stalight Glimmer's [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill uber-conformist]] FalseUtopia. [[WordOfGod According to songwriter Daniel Ingram]], it was based on UsefulNotes/WorldWarII propaganda songs. The Mane Six clearly notice the dissonance, getting increasingly disturbed apart from Fluttershy, who gets caught up in the mood before Pinkie glowers at her.
87--->'''Chorus:''' In our town, in our town\
88We work as a team!\
89You can't have a nightmare\
90If you never dream!
91** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E1SchoolDazePart1 School Daze Part 1]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQpLolIAT0 The School of Friendship]]" is a cheerful song sung by Twilight on how her school is perfect, while the students and her friends are shown being miserable about running it the [=EEA=] way, though this is a case of DramaticIrony as she doesn't realize how her friends feel.
92* "Won't You Come over to My House?", best known from the famous short ''WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening''. If your memory's a bit hazy or you've never seen it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjsN-J27aU here's]] the cartoon (songs only), and [[http://froggyeve.tripod.com/comeover.html here]] are the full lyrics.
93* The Beast's song "The Jolly Woodsman" from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is as jaunty as any romp in the woods, but the lyrics involve beckoning young people to be DrivenToSuicide and join his forest permanently when life seems overwhelmingly tough.
94--> '''The Beast:''' When the fog of life surrounds you / when you feel you've lost your way / come with me and join the forest / come with me and join the flame! / Tra la la la, tra la la la / youth is such a fragile thing. / Tra la la la, tra la la la / a fragile thing is what it is."
95* ''WesternAnimation/PBAndJOtter'': In "The Singin' Kid", Jelly sings about her friends and family keeping her strong and being true to herself, while at the same time letting fame go to her head.
96* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
97** In "Meapless in Seattle", the Meaps' war song definitely counts:
98-->We we we we (whee!)\
99Are going to war (We're going to war!)\
100We're going to war (We're going to war!)\
101We we we we (whee!)\
102Are going to war (We're going to war!)\
103We're going to war (We're going to war!)\
104\
105De- de- de- de- de- de- de-\
106Destroy our enemies!\
107La- la- la- la- la- la- la-\
108Let's bring them to their knees!\
109\
110We we we we (whee!)\
111Are going to war (We're going to war!)\
112We're going to war (We're going to war!)\
113We we we we (whee!)\
114Are going to war (We're going to war!)\
115We're going to war (We're going to war!)
116** In "Norm Unleashed", Norm the Robot Man brings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3H18bkKyG8 his own cheerful song]] about conquering the Tri-State area with an array of deadly, built-in "Weaponry".
117--->If power's on your shopping list\
118Then use the elbow and the fist\
119Pummel 'em until they get the gist\
120Just make an example of\
121Representative sample of\
122And most of them will not be missed!
123** Candace sings a song called "Give Up" in "Last Train to Bustville". It's a cheerful, upbeat anthem about... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin giving up.]] ItMakesSenseInContext, since what she's giving up is her obsession with busting her brothers.
124** Baljeet and Buford's song in "Bully Bromance Break-Up" is a power ballad about the relationship between a bully and his victim.
125** In "The Baljeetles", Baljeet sings an angry heavy metal song... called "Gimme a Grade", that's all about being an overachieving conformist.
126* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' has the "Happy Happy Joy Joy Song". Although the song itself is a deliberately insipid -- though insanely catchy -- song about being happy sung by Stinky Wizzleteats (an {{Expy}} of Burl Ives), it's interspersed with his increasingly insane rantings paraphrased from Ives' role in ''{{Film/The Big Country}}.''
127-->''"I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! Why didn't you believe me?!"''
128* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', a teenaged Rick ad-libs a cheery guitar song about how his adult body is slowly dying in the garage. Amazingly, Summer is the only one at the party to take the hint.
129-->''[[LampshadeHanging Is anybody listening?]]\
130Can anyone understand?\
131Stop looking at me like that\
132And actually help me!\
133Help me!\
134HELP ME I'M GONNA DIE!''
135* The Island of Misfit Toys segment from ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'' starts with a song about the toys being unloved and missing out on the joys of Christmas, when the song itself sounds very cheerful.
136-->If we're on the island of unwanted toys, we'll miss all the fun with the girls and the boys...
137* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
138** "Christmas Time in Hell" is a joyous song with its lyrics actually matching the tune...but it's a song that sings about how the damned get the day off from being horribly tortured.
139** In the episode "The Death Camp of Tolerance", a gerbil named Lemmiwinks is forced to [[OrificeInvasion crawl up Mr. Slave's ass]] and must traverse Mr. Slave's entire digestive system and [[OrificeEvacuation crawl out the mouth]] or else he will die. Amusingly, this entire disgusting sequence is described in a song with a merry, adventurous tune [[ShoutOut reminiscent]] of the soundtrack to the 1977 AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit''.
140** ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark: Bigger, Longer & Uncut'' is built almost entirely on this trope and plays with them:
141*** "Up There": A rousing Broadway showtune about loneliness and wanting to get out of a bad place. Sung by Satan. A Satan who is [[DarkIsNotEvil not a complete monster.]]
142*** "La Resistance": "They'll cut your dick in half/ and serve it to a pig./ And though it hurts you'll laugh,/ and dance a dickless jig/ for that's the way it goes/ in war you're shat upon/ though you die, La Resistance lives on." ''Sung by a choir of eight-year-olds.'' Eight-year-olds who usually have [=IQs=] higher than their parents but with just as questionable moral compasses.
143*** "Blame Canada": A rousing march about evading personal responsibility to the extent of going to war with Canada, a country that seems to go out of its way to be America's friend. The song, however, is a satire on ''American'' tendency to scapegoat others.
144** Cartman and Cthulhu's Song from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mysterion Rises". Super cheery song about, well, [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu being friends with Cthulhu]] and going on a rampage with him. Made worse by the fact that it's a spoof of a song from ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''.
145* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
146** The "Steven and the Crystal Gems" song is in the style of classic rock-'n'-roll songs, and is an homage to ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats''. Its lyrics are quite upbeat at first but then it goes on about how Steven created an AlternateTimeline and how he watched [[AlternateSelf himself]] (including the original Steven from the start of the episode) '''die'''.
147** The song "Do it for Him/Her" from the episode Sworn to the Sword also fits this trope. The song starts as a really nice piano piece about how to fence. It quickly develops into a really nice piano piece about how worthless you are and how you should die defending the person you love, [[LadyAndKnight because (s)he's the only one who gives any meaning to your life.]]
148** The song "On the Run" starts up as an upbeat little tune, Steven's lyrics reflecting whatever he likely thought the No-Home Boys would've thought. Amethyst's turn the song around, however.
149---> '''Amethyst:''' [[spoiler: I don't care about what all the others say / Well, I guess there are some things that just never go away / I wish that I could say, "There's no better place than home" / But home's a place that I have never known."]]
150** The ending theme, "Love Like You", is a sweet little lullaby-like piano tune, and the full lyrical version is sung sweetly enough that you could hear it as just a nice, relaxing song. Except that the lyrics are actually the singer [[HeroicSelfDeprecation lamenting what a terrible person they are]] compared to the person they're singing to. Made worse when Rebecca Sugar later revealed that end theme can be read as ''herself'' having a series of epiphanies about herself in relation to all the people in her life who look to her for guidance:
151--->''I always thought I might be bad, now I'm sure that it's true\
152'Cause I think you're so good, and I'm nothing like you''
153** In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' Steven's SillyLoveSong to Connie "I'd Rather be Me with You" seems really sweet until the the viewer remembers that Steven is basically saying he doesn't know/like who he is without Connie.
154* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The song "Where's Gary?" (not "Gary Come Home") that plays over the credits of "Have You Seen This Snail?" and was released on ''The Best Day Ever'' album. It's an upbeat song about [=SpongeBob=] being sad that his beloved pet has ran away, featuring lines like "I'm so lonely all the time" and "it tortures me all night and day, what could have made you run away?"
155* When used in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Music/PuffyAmiYumi's "Shiawase" ("Happiness") sounds like a bouncy, lively song. The lyrics, however, when translated to English, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkdd91R9dBo don't seem quite so innocent.]]
156* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' did a music video of "Particle Man" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants (which the band approved of) with an odd twist. Although the lyrics were not changed, Universe Man was just as mean to Particle Man (played by Plucky) as Triangle Man was, despite what the lyrics said. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsAiCs66l40 You can see it here.]]
157* In the ''WesternAnimation/TurboFast'' episode "Turboldly Go", Chet and Smoove Move sing an upbeat, show tune-y song about them dying in space.
158* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'':
159** Some of the Silly Songs With Larry invoke this. From an 80s love ballad...about cheeseburgers to a tango...about manatees, the team purposely make the music sound completely authentic to the genre while keeping the silly lyrics.
160** The episode ''[[{{Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode4RackShackAndBenny}} Rack, Shack and Benny]]'' plays this a little more seriously with the [[MusicalExposition exposition song]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0X5YJC_fLY "Good Morning George",]] pairing a grandiose score with lyrics (mostly) pointing out how bad the chocolate factory workers have it.
161--->"Because we work real hard at the chocolate factory,\
162We start at eight, and we don't get lunch 'til three -\
163We work the whole week through, to make a buck or two,\
164So we can send them home to our families!"
165* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
166** Wander's bouncy, happy birthday song for Lord Hater in "The Birthday Boy" has some [[BlackComedy comically dark lyrics]] about impending mortality.
167--->'''Wander:''' It's your happy birthday\
168Here's your happy birthday song\
169And your birthday best be happy\
170'Cause you won't be around for long!\
171'''Sylvia:''' So try not to be so sad\
172About your impending doom\
173Someday we'll light birthday candles\
174On your frigid tomb!
175** In "My Fair Hatey", Lord Dominator's VillainSong[=/=]IAmSong "I'm the Bad Guy" combines a bouncy, jazzy tune with cheerful vocals about how she [[CardCarryingVillain loves to cause wanton mayhem and destruction and crush people's hopes.]]
176--->''Oh, it's magic\
177To watch a planet\
178Shrivel up and die!\
179\
180Oh, it's thrillin'\
181To be a villain\
182I destroy their homes\
183And then I watch them cry! ''(*demented giggling*)''\
184'Cause I'm the bad guy!''
185* ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'':
186** The song "The Violin", by Brian Dewan, is included on the album ''Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?,'' notably a [[Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego kid's show]]. It is set to decidedly upbeat, Irish-sounding music. The song's lyrics discuss a kid who is constantly trying to break away from his controlling parents' desire to make him learn the violin, getting snubbed by his crush for someone who ''does'', and then ultimately drowning in a shipwreck. It's a children's album, fun for the whole family!
187** The titular song by Rockapella could qualify, as a peppy upbeat number about an impossible-to-catch criminal and her various misdeeds.
188* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZQXNe2HpQ The Sound of Stalin]] is a catchy, upbeat song set to a generally peppier and more fast-paced version of ''My Favorite Things'' from ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', with the show's recurring kid characters doing the chorus. The ''lyrics'' to the song are TheLongList of Stalin doing all sorts of horrible, tyrannical things to cheer himself up.
189-->'''Kid Chorus''': Spying on Lenin and murdering Trotsky,\
190Vexing the West with his Communist plotsky,\
191Turning your dreams into scary nightmares,\
192'''Stalin:''' That is the way I forget all my cares!\
193\
194'''Kid Chorus:''' Feasting like Ivan while serfs live on rations,\
195Conquering dozens of satellite nations,\
196'''Stalin:''' Starting my own personality cult,\
197Doing away with those who might revolt.\
198'''Kid Chorus:''' Sending your critics to rot in Siberia,\
199That's how you get populations to fear ya,\
200Building a wall down the streets of Berlin,\
201'''Stalin:''' That kind of thing makes me flash quite a grin!

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