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[[caption-width-right:279:Who looks like a puppet when out of the sea?]]

So you're watching your favorite SaturdayMorningCartoon, all the bright and colorful characters are bouncing across the screen, and... oh hey, one of them is a puppet now. Or a clay-animated doll. Or a stop-motion figurine. Or a guy in a [[StylisticSuck purposely bad costume]].

This is the Medium Shift Gag, a joke that plays on the audience's expectations for a show to keep to a certain medium, but catches them by surprise when suddenly the world they've been witnessing is viewed through a strange and different new light, if only momentarily.

Usually MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. Differs from MediumBlending, which usually involves two or more different media constantly mixing together in the same work, while a medium shift gag involves a quick and abrupt change that's PlayedForLaughs.

Compare FisherKingdom.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Animation]]
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In episode 64, Paddi is trapped in a giant can by Wolffy and ticks him off by singing a song. Wolffy then gets angry, resulting in an InfernalBackground that is clearly live-action as he goes to open up the can and grab Paddi out of it.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'':
** In two of the anime episodes, the art suddenly changes to manga style for a while.
** There is also the scene where it shifts to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' style animation for Amarao's haircut.
* Claymation is used as a form of censorship in the ''Literature/MagiciansAcademy'' anime adaptation, also [[TooHotForTV not appearing in the DVD]].
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': Whenever a ghost is killed, it switches to a live action shot of a paper mache model of the ghost exploding. Also there is a blink and you miss it scene in the [[BeachEpisode beach episode]] where the animation shifts to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for a quick scene.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' decide to go without smoking dope to see how it feels, and as they sit around a table and the effects wear off, the strip goes from pen & ink to photographs of people made up to look like them. They get bored very quickly and revert to their old selves.
* In ''ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures'', when Mario and Luigi read the [[PokemonSpeak "Yoshi]] [[LampshadeHanging Language Series"]] book, the comic briefly swaps into a parody of a ''Literature/DickAndJane''-style educational textbook.
* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' #45 has a one-off panel of four of the Scavengers, where the usual art has been replaced with a photo of their real-life G1 toys in a field.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'' does this with an ImagineSpot of what George and Harold's lives would be like if they were put into separate classes, which is all done with sock puppets.
* ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho2008'' does this twice. First, when Horton hears the yelp and wonders what could be on the speck, the resulting ImagineSpot is traditionally animated in a style resembling Dr. Seuss' illustrations. Later, the film briefly shifts from [[AllCGICartoon CGI]] into more traditional 2D {{animesque}} animation as Horton imagines himself as a ninja sworn to protect the tiny world on the clover and take it to Mount Nool, complete with LipLock.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePhantomTollbooth'' has Milo get distracted by this, reversing through the titular tollbooth back into live-action, then forward into animation repeatedly until the tollbooth admonishes him for holding up traffic.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AnnieHall'' has a brief animated ImagineSpot with Alvy and the Wicked Queen from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', after he says that he always goes for the wrong woman.
* ''Film/BetterOffDead'' has gag sequences in both clay and regular animation, representing the teenaged protagonist's bizarre daydreams about dancing hamburgers and so forth.
* In ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', after the ''Heart of Gold'' uses the infinite improbability drive, everything and everyone in the ship briefly turns into yarn. The actors are all replaced by stop-motion yarn figures for this gag.
* ''Film/StayTuned'': Roy and Helen are TrappedInTVLand; at one point they're in a cartoon as mice (in a sequence directed by Creator/ChuckJones).
* When Jeff recounts the legend of Cthulhu in ''Film/TheLastLovecraftRelicOfCthulhu'' it switched to a comic-book style animation.
* In ''Film/BigManJapan,'' during the final fight scene, live action and realistic but very strange CGI shifts into what looks like a ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' knock-off. The deadly monster becomes a goofy guy in a red suit. This can be interpreted as the protagonist's fevered visions before death or something even stranger.
* ''Film/DaveMadeAMaze'': One of the many rooms in the maze turns all the human characters into [[HandPuppet paper bag puppets]]. Leaving the room turns them back into humans. The Minotaur [[spoiler:can turn back at-will.]]
* ''Film/KillBill'' does this twice. The film switches to black and white for the fight scene between The Bride and the Crazy 88 (Done in order to avoid an NC-17 rating, according to director Quentin Tarantino) and switches to a comic-book style animation when showing the origin of crime boss O-Ren Ishii.
* ''Film/{{The Marvels|2023}}'': Much like on the TV series ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'', Kamala's fan-fiction is done in the style of traditional hand-drawn animation.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* When Mark's tripping on DMT in ''Literature/DeadMensTrousers'', the text changes to a comic-strip for a page.
* ''Literature/LivInTheFuture'': When Liv visits one of Alix's neighbors, the house's interior and occupants are presented as a screenshot from ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' with Liv as the only drawn element. She lampshades how bizarre the change in appearance is.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheAfterparty'': As part of its GenreRoulette premise, one episode is a surreal girl’s night out story told in 2D animation.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' has had several instances of this:
** "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas" was done entirely in stop motion animation to go along with Abed's breakdown.
** In "Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism", when Jeff and Shirley get into a fight over foosball, their anger is expressed via an abrupt shift to an {{animesque}} cartoon sequence.
** In "Digital Estate Planning", most of the action is on 8-bit avatars of the characters as they play a video game.
** In "Intro to Felt Surrogacy" about half the scenes have the main characters as muppets, since the Study Group is recounting a story via puppet-therapy.
** "G.I. Jeff" is mostly animated in a dated, low-quality fashion that fits the episode's title- with little interludes of stop animation from fake Toys/GIJoe action figures.
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' did this unexpectedly.
** An episode of Season 3 revolved around the characters using LSD to take a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, which naturally involved a lot of MindScrew. At one point they find William Bell in his office, at which point everything turns into a cartoon. Walter outright wonders why Bell is a cartoon, only for him to point out that he's now a cartoon as well. This also helped cover up that [[Creator/LeonardNimoy Bell's actor]] was too busy to appear in person.
** Another episode had Walter trying to remember a long-forgotten password, and his [[MushroomSamba LSD-influenced thought process]] is shown as a stop-motion animation with whimsical music, in a ShoutOut to Creator/MontyPython.
* One episode of ''Series/HomeImprovement'' had a Christmas DreamSequence done in stop-motion animation reminiscent of ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer''
* Non-joke version (sort of) in ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'', with a brief sequence of Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt as stop motion characters in a ''WesternAnimation/CamberwickGreen'' sequence caused by the drugs Sam Tyler was being fed while in his coma.
* In ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'', Randy was given some drugs and [[POVCam saw the world]] in clay animation.
* The full version of the musical number "Tongue Tied" from ''Series/RedDwarf'' includes a clay-animated sequence.
** "Back in the Red, Part 3" sees the crew trying to escape a computer simulation. On pulling it off, they end up in the claymation screen saver for a time.
* During the period it was part of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', this was a feature of "Series/TVFunhouse". More recently, one of the Digital Shorts had the characters from "TV Funhouse" segment "The Ambiguously Gay Duo" transformed into live-action versions of themselves.
* ''{{Series/Farscape}}'' did an episode where Crichton started hallucinating everything happening in a Looney Tunes Coyote and Road Runner type of cartoon.
* ''Series/BlackBooks'' at one point has all the characters turn into puppets. One DVD extra has a "mini-series" made completely of these puppets.
* In one episode of ''Series/That70sShow'', the guys are discussing ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' and they briefly appear as cartoon characters.
** For one ChristmasEpisode, Kelso has a dream that he's in a StopMotion Creator/RankinBass special.
* In the final episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Rose's account of what really happened to Charlie is presented as a CGI cartoon.
* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' has a crossover with ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' in which the LD characters end up on Pike's ''Enterprise''. In some sense, the entire episode functions as this trope, allowing the viewer to see the LD voice actors in costume for the first time, but it's most pronounced at the end, when the SNW characters are shown in ''Lower Decks''-style animation. The effect is suggested to be a side effect of some particularly potent Orion booze.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The rabbit mascot of ''Nintendo Badge Arcade'' turns from a cartoon character into a realistic pink bunny when discussing the game's use of {{microtransactions}} ("You need real money to play. And by 'real', I mean ''this'' kind of real.")
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'':
** Used for an AprilFoolsDay prank in "Bowling, Now With Explosions!" with live-action puppets.
** In the second-season ''Again'' episode "Catch These Hands," the afterlife is shown as an UncannyValley CGI dimension where the characters have realistic human heads and limbs and everyone speaks in {{expospeak|Gag}}.
** PlayedForDrama in ''WebAnimation/BattleForBFDI'', where the rapidly-depleting budget causes the animation style to shift from the standard style to UsefulNotes/MSPaint, to papermation, to the actual [[{{Storyboard}} storyboard]], until Flower rectifies the chaos by donating the $50,000 she was given the episode prior.
* Used in episode two and three of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' with the art direction taking a turn toward a more anime-esque style. The first when Ruby starts to fangirl over the other students weapons, the second occasion comes toward the end of the episode when Ruby and her sister, Yang, begin play-fighting (complete with [[BigBallOfViolence Big Ball of Violence]])
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Hoofstuck}}'', when Pinkie Pie agrees to answer the CMC's questions, the picture turns into a Tumblr-style "Blog/AskAPony" image, with textboxes. When Fluttershy retreats into her imagination, the whole comic shifts into a black-and-white ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' homage, with Fluttersleuth engaging in some absurd puzzle solving on the side.
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', a webcomic drawn in simplistic stick-figure style, [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0339.html one strip]] features some police investigating a murder. A police artist sketches the perpetrators based on eyewitness accounts and produces an extremely realistic drawing... then gets fired for "not knowing how to draw a face".
* ''Webcomic/ThinkingTooMuchToThinkPositively'': In "[[https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/high-definition-world/ High Definition World]], Xan mentions that her vision is a little blurry and [[GlassesCuriosity tries on a friend's new glasses]]. The next panel is a photograph. The NewsPost below the comic jokes that Xan had previously considered the comic's simplified cartoony style to be "realistic".
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Aside from an animated title sequence, ''WebVideo/TheCartoonMan'' is entirely live action for its first half hour, with all "cartoon" elements being portrayed with cheesy physical effects. Then suddenly, Roy removes his sunglasses to reveal a pair of 2-D animated eyes. This begins the use of animated effects throughout the movie's last act and the sequel.
* The entire Season 2 of ''WebVideo/WorldsGreatestAdventures'' seems to be built around this trope. Thus episode 1 is told with stop-motion puppets (because Maggie had accidentally activated the camera's [[HandWave puppet filter]]), episodes 2 and 3 are in chalkboard-like 2D animation, etc.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' occasionally cuts to stop motion or puppetry for brief moments. One episode had a dancing minotaur baby in conspicuous CGI, whose appearance freaked out the other characters in an InUniverse example of the UncannyValley effect.
** One notable and hilarious example was in the episode "The Shopping Spree" where the cast spend so much money that ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall the show couldn't afford to be animated]]''. What follows is footage of the ''voice actors'' starting a plan to have a car wash to raise enough money to at least get the animation back.
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has several cases of MediumBlending that are brought up very suddenly for the sake of [[SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror both humor and horror]]:
** In "'Courage in the Big Stinkin' City", Courage walks in on a young girl playing a violin from behind. As soon as Courage lets his guard own, she turns around and makes a claymation NightmareFace.
** In "[[Recap/CourageTheCowardlyDogS4E52RemembranceOfCouragePastPerfect Perfect]]", one of Courage's AnxietyDreams is a ''very'' bizarre figure (seemingly Eustace's bugle given a human head on the end) animated in CGI.
* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'': The opening sequence from the first two seasons begins with the camera going through a live-action room before stopping on a green computer and the animated sequence in which it is played.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In the "Road to the Multiverse" episode, Brian and Stewie find themselves in a dimension where they are a live-action dog and baby, and instead of commenting on it, they merely state that the universe scares them, and they immediately leave.
** In "Let's Go To The Hop", Peter claims he tried drugs once and "it got way too real". [[CutawayGag Cut to]] live-action footage of a guy in Peter's clothes and a fake Peter head looking at his hands and declaring that he's "freaking out".
** "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington" has Peter claim that his company's profits are "higher than Creator/AlyssaMilano." The scene immediately zooms out to Milano's live-action living room, where she already has a lawyer in the process of suing the Fox network.
** During the show's adaptation of ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' shots of Chris/Luke training on Dagoba are intercut with shots taken directly from Film/RockyIV of Ivan Drago training.
** In one episode a sex scene between Peter and Lois is represented by [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext a live action]] Wrestling/DwayneJohnson [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext bashing their action figures together.]]
* The punchline of the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "WesternAnimation/RabbitHood" is that Myth/RobinHood has been [=MIA=] for most of the film, and when he finally appears, it's live-action footage of Creator/ErrolFlynn from ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood''. A dumbfounded Bugs comments, "That's silly, it couldn't be him!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius''[=/=]''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' crossover episodes, ''WesternAnimation/TheJimmyTimmyPowerHour'', had fun with this. In the second, Sheen jumped back and forth between CGI and 2D animated "worlds", shouting, "I'm bulgy! Now I'm flat! I'm bulgy! I'm flat!"
** The ''Fairly [=OddParents=]'' episode "Channel Chasers", though mostly in the show's normal 2D animation (and full of {{Art Shift}}s, given the TrappedInTVLand plot), features a brief segment where the characters appear on a preschool TV show, turning them into ''Sesame Street''-style Muppets (in fact, when they jump through the TV, a hand can be seen pulling their puppet forms out of frame).
-->'''Cosmo:''' I've never ''felt'' more alive! ...Get it? "Felt?"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In one segment in the 2010 ChristmasEpisode, everybody in Maggie's dream was a [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]]-like "Fluppet" instead of a cartoon character, with the exception of special live-action guest Music/KatyPerry.
** In "Treehouse of Horror VI", Homer entered "the third dimension" and became CGI 3D, as did Bart when he went into that dimension to rescue Homer.
** "Treehouse of Horror IX" had Bart and Lisa TrappedInTVLand, at one point interrupting ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee''.
** One episode had the opening re-enacted by live actors, originally made as a promo for [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky One]].
** One CouchGag was a parody of the ''Series/BreakingBad'' opening, being watched by a live-action Walt and Jesse.
** A CouchGag was done in StopMotion by the team behind ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''.
* Very frequently used in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''. Some examples:
** The show occasionally shifts from a cartoon to a [[StylisticSuck cheap puppet show]]. One episode in particular is "Pressure", in which [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Squidward and Sandy all leave the ocean, and when they arrive on dry land...they are lousy toys or models propped up as puppets. The only exception, of which, is Squidward, whose puppet looks disturbingly like the actual Squidward.
** In "Hooky", The fishermen who try to catch [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are live-action. Also, there are photos of dried fish at a gift shop, a can of tuna, and a jar of mayonnaise.
*** Also in the exact same episode, sometime during 2001, Nickelodeon ran a promotional stunt for [[WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] that involved him interrupting various Nick shows and altering them in some way. For this episode in particular, he would interrupt the scene where [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick make a sailor's promise to Mr. Krabs and briefly turn the three characters into puppet versions of themselves. No footage of this moment could be found for over fifteen years, until someone uploaded a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1xhvsKJoY recording]] of the scene in 2017.
** The multiple cuts to [[GrossUpCloseUp an extreme close-up of a buzzing horsefly]] in "Wormy".
** A slightly disturbing example from "Krusty Love":
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' ''Mrs.'' Puff? Aw, she's married.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Oh no, Mr. Krabs, she's single.
-->'''Mr. Krabs:''' Then what happened to Mr. Puff?
-->''[cut to someone turning on a lamp made out of a pufferfish]''
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' She doesn't like to talk about it.
** In "[=SpongeGuard=] on Duty", [=SpongeBob=] imagines being a lifeguard, represented by live-action footage of a person in a [=SpongeBob=] mascot costume standing in a lifeguard tower.
** There's also the classic scene in "Graveyard Shift" in which Squidward wonders who was flickering the lights throughout an episode, and the camera shifts to see Film/{{Nosferatu}} turning the lights on and off.
-->''"Nosferatu!"''
** In "Dying For Pie", when the bomb finally goes off, it cuts to live-action [[StockFootage Stock Footage]] of an underwater atomic explosion.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' featured a scene reshot in flashy CGI, to make fun of Creator/GeorgeLucas adding CGI effects to the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy.
** The episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" is presented as a documentary about the boys' disastrous field trip. At one point a disclaimer card introduces a {{Dramatization}} of events and suddenly Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny are live [[DawsonCasting adult]] actors in a real boat filmed on a real lake.
** There are other live action segments in the show, such as the shop teacher's deceased wife, the Japanese woman in the brainwashing segments of the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Chinpokomon]] show and most fake commercials.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "The Contest", had fantasy segments based on ''South Park'', ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'', ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' and ''WesternAnimation/DrKatzProfessionalTherapist''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
** In the closing credits of an episode, Hoss Delgado wakes up as a live action puppet in a Cartoon Network dumpster.
** In ''[[TheMovie Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure]]'', there's a scene where the protagonists go into the "Hole of Oddities" and turn into hand puppets.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E18AFriendInDeed A Friend in Deed]]", Pinkie Pie's imagination is in felt animation.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]", [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Cheese Sandwich]]'s rubber chicken Boneless and Pinkie's pet alligator Gummy are briefly rendered in live-action during a musical number.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord Make New Friends But Keep Discord]]", the dimension Discord threatens to throw Tree Hugger in is live-action as well, this time a Mexican sockpuppet walking around with a kid's drawing for a background. The dimension was original supposed to show a herd of real life ponies, but the executives nixed that for "being too ''weird''"
* The Creator/TexAvery MGM cartoon ''Lucky Ducky'' has a scene where two hunters chase a duckling past a sign, and suddenly find themselves in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black and white]]. Doubling back, they notice that the sign reads "Technicolor ends here".
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' did this on more than one occasion. "Operation: C.L.U.E.S." involves a "dramatization" of a crime where a fat live-action man plays the part of Numbuh 3's sister.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** The episode, "Tri-Stone Area", which is set in the Stone Age had cutaways of the show's creators, Creator/DanPovenmire and Creator/JeffSwampyMarsh in deliberately choppy photoanimation explaining what was going on.
** In the first season, and on occasion afterwards, the show would use live-action photography in place of backgrounds, most notably in "Candace Loses Her Head", when they go to Mt. Rushmore, actual photographs of the monument are used.
** In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse'', the characters are on an alien ship as it reaches warp speed, and Baljeet notes that exceeding the speed of light will cause reality to break down and make the gang regress back to their basic forms... which here means the rough animation, then the storyboard. It escalates to the point where we see the show's creators in the process of pitching that scene. And then it goes back to the gang, who stand there staring at the audience for a while, utterly confused by what just happened, before agreeing to never discuss it ever again.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' already has loads of MediumBlending, but still manages this trope by occasionally having ''individual characters'' change medium: for instance, a twister in "The Storm" ends up making a bunch of characters have their individual mediums scattered between each other. Not to mention "The Money" having the animation's budget degrading along with the Wattersons' own to the point the quality starts degrading by the second, eventually reduced to ''panning over the storyboard'', until they finally [[ItMakesSenseInContext sell out]]. In "The Night," the chinkin Sussie has a nightmare of waking up at the end of the filming a scene as the actress playing her (Aurelie Charbonnier) and [[HumansAreUgly freaks out over looking like a monster]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': The season 1 finale has a part of the episode done as puppets.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** In "Weirdmageddon", Dipper and Wendy at one point drive through a weirdness bubble that turns them briefly into [[ArtShift a variety of styles]] - including their live-action voice actors! This is especially odd given that 12-year-old Dipper's voice actor, Jason Ritter, was 36 at the time and had a beard.
** In “Little Gift Shop of Horrors” at the end of the "Clay Day" segment, Soos is turned into a clay figure who resembles WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}.
** In the end credits of “Sock Opera”, Mabel has a dream where Dipper, Stan, Fiddleford and herself are featured as live-action puppets.
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'':
** "The Matchmaker" features Sylvia chasing Wander (bearing a love letter from Lord Hater to Lord Dominator) through a number of alternate dimensions, culminating in one where Sylvia and Wander are replaced by a live-action still of their voice actors April Winchell and Jack [=McBrayer=].
** "The New Toy" features a ParodyCommercial for Hater's H.A.T.E.R.V., done as a live-action segment.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' ended with an actor playing the Warden as a hobo in the real world. Another one featured Jailbot's dream of being a real boy and going fishing with the Warden, rendered in [[UncannyValley creepily realistic]] CG.
* In Episode 34 of ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', Sonic has to wake up from his alarm beeping. He goes from his [[BlankWhiteVoid happier place]], to his HappyPlace, to where he's sleeping, to a live-action man dressed up in a bad Sonic costume and throwing a bag in the garbage.
-->'''Creator/RogerCraigSmith''': (As Sonic) Whoops, one too many.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClashARama'': In the episode celebrating the fifth anniversary of ''VideoGame/ClashOfClans'', it's shown that using a spell past the throw-by date may cause, "in extreme cases, a sudden change in animation style". This happens thrice in the same episode with the same spell, a memory spell. First, a villager's memory gets puppet show visuals, then a Wall Breaker's is done in 2-D claymation, then a Builder's memory is shown in cut paper animation (sort of like ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'').
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': In the short ''Love Among the Toons'' (from the episode "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E32SpringInACMEAcres Spring in Acme Acres]]"), God shows Cupid (Elmer Fudd) the chaos Condord's been causing by having him look through photos in a View-Master, and the pictures are rendered in live-action with clay/plasticine models, similar to those from real View-Master reels.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' short "Pink, Plunk, Plink" ends with the Panther conducting the theme from the movie, and being applauded by the only person in the audience - a live-action Henry Mancini.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'':
** In the short "Goofy's Grandma", Mickey encounters an enormous live-action spider living in Goofy's shack.
** In "Yodelberg", a yeti is about to be buried in an avalanche, with the POV shot of said avalanche being live-action.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Monster Party", [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool Elsa, Phantasma and Sibella]] are drawn to resemble ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' for a brief gag. [[LineBoil Their outlines even wobble]].
* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'': In one episode, the villains are the Stink Aardvarks, who consider themselves superior to the regular aardvarks. We then cut to a photo of a real aardvark with a cartoon face on it, asking [[LampshadeHanging “Is this really necessary?”]]. He then proceeds to show up twice more in the episode, commenting on the Stink Aardvark’s FantasticRacism and complimenting Yang for demolishing their traditions “Way to go Yang. Stick it to them.”

* ''WesternAnimation/YOLOCrystalFantasy'', in “The Terry Cup”, Sarah was crying in the bathroom at the Terry cup after her recent break-up, but then a toilet gnome by the name of Queeklebum comes out of the toilet, and tries to cheer her up with a little drink. But as Sarah takes it, Queekleblum warns her that drink was poison, and floats off. After taking that drink, Rachel’s vision starts to twist, and rushes to the exit, as soon as she walks out, she’s suddenly in a dark empty room, in live-action, while being played by Miachel Cusack. Then suddenly an emotional song starts to play, and Sarah begins to start dancing, until it cuts to reality, where Rachel has been drunk dancing across the party floor.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'' very frequently inserts live-action objects into its episodes as a joke. Some particular uses of MediumBlending:
** Near the end of "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E8TerrorAt20000Leagues Terror at 20,000 Leagues]]", as Patrick is traveling through the TV, he's shown edited into various odd live-action programs and runs into animated characters with photorealistic fish heads.
** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E21ThePatrickShowSellsOutNeptunesBall Neptune's Ball]]", after Patrick overinflates two whoopie cushions, we see [[StylisticSuck intentionally low-quality stock footage]] of a live-action nuclear bomb explosion.
** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E22DadsStacheStashARootGaloot Dad's Stache Stash]]" briefly shows Patrick standing next to a live-action luxury car.
** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E25WhichWitchIsWhichGetOffMyLawnie Get Off My Lawnie]]", an eye wash product briefly gives Granny Tentacles live-action human eyes as a side effect.
** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E1ThePatrickShowCashesInStarGames The Patrick Show Cashes In]]", when Squidina shows off Patrick's paintings, her arm is a live-action puppet edited in.
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