History AllJustADream / WesternAnimation

** "Take This Ed and Shove It", the finale of the fourth season (and originally of the series) ended with the elderly Eddy discovering that the whole show has been apparently a series of dreams about his childhood. The canonical implications of this are dubious at best, as the show has been renewed for two more seasons; though it explains things such as {{Flanderization}}, the cast [[MiddleOfNowhereStreet never leaving the cul-de-sac]], [[MinimalistCast how we never see any characters but the main cast even at school]], and just the general vagueness of setting throughout the show.

** Subverted at the end of the "[[Recap/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]" series of episodes. Butters wakes up and starts telling his parents about the dream he had that he saved Imaginationland. His parents tell him that it really happened and they read all about it in the morning paper. [[AbusiveParents And then they ground him for saving Imaginationland instead of helping his mother clean the garage.]]

** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E16AnthologyOfInterestI Anthology of Interest I]]" it is revealed at the end that the entire episode, consisting of three scenarios generated by the professor's What-If machine, was, in fact, a scenario generated by the professor's What-If machine for what life would be like if he invented the "Finglonger" (basically a glove with a really long index finger). Strangely enough, the What-If machine seems to know things that no one else does, like the fact Fry not coming to the future would cause a universe-destroying paradox, [[CallForward because he is]] [[MyOwnGrampa his own grandpa]]. And "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]]" featured a segment that really ''was'' a dream, instead of a What-If, as the writers didn't wish to reveal Leela's true heritage at that point of the series. Also, the Professor eventually invents the Finglonger in real life (though it's ambiguous if he did invent it, or if the original scenario he was envious of someone else's invention). This all seems to imply that the What-Ifs are 'canonical hypotheticals' that would have actually happened that way if the setup was true, making them more ForWantOfANail than All Just a Dream.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** Subverted when Billy Quizboy wakes from having a dream, he's all ready to launch into an AndYouWereThere scene when he suddenly realizes the events from the dream were ''true'', screaming '''''you bastards!''''' while assaulting his so-called "friends."

** The episode "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted" revolves around Candace actually managing to bust Phineas and Ferb, resulting in them being sent to an extremely strict reform school lead by a cruel sergeant where they are brainwashed. She soon realizes how much she misses them and, along with Jeremy, ventures to break them out. But as they escape, and seemingly run into a dead end, things get increasingly weird until it's revealed that it was a dream Candace was having. She discusses it with the family the next morning, which results in them playfully guessing that Perry is a secret agent, causing government agents to bust in and take them away while Perry is told by Major Monogram he'll have to be relocated... and ''this'' turns out to be [[DreamWithinADream just a bad dream that Perry is having]]. The actual moment she realises what's going (the first time), is hilarious.

* The events of the "Night of the Living Pets" segment from the WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures episode "Toons from the Crypt" are revealed to be a nightmare of Elmyra's at the end.

* Parodied by ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'': During(and afternoon) the credits for the final episode, the HUB network ran a short using characters from the original 1980s ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' cartoon that shows ''Renegades'' as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAznMVCdBcg 80s!Duke's dream]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'':
** There were some episodes, like when Alvin had a fever or when Dave thought [[IncredibleShrinkingMan he'd shrunk]] where's he able to stand in someone's palm.
** In "Dreamlighting", after Alvin has to go to basketball on one of their dates, Brittany watches on tv "Dreamlighting" (which itself is a parody of ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}'') and dreams herself in the show.
** A ''Series/CharliesAngels'' parody episode had the Chipettes dream that they are a crime fighting team called Alvie's Angels after being knocked out by a thief in the mall.
** An episode airing in 1988. The Chipmunks were scheduled to perform at a concert at the Wall of Iron, an analogue to the Berlin Wall. While preparing for the concert, they encounter a young girl whose brother is on the other side of the wall and sneak over to find him. They get captured by the authorities and told the other side is tired of the separation as well. They then destroy the wall using the PowerOfRock and reunite everyone. Then Alvin wakes up on the plane as it's landing and sees the wall is still standing. He says "It was all just a dream...but it doesn't have to be." ([[HeartwarmingInHindsight Then a year later, it wasn't.]])

* The 1987 ''{{WesternAnimation/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' episode "Shredderville" had the Turtles supposedly taken to an alternate world where [[ItsAWonderfulPlot they never existed and thus Shredder conquered the world]], only for it to have been a dream that all four of them had at the same time.
* The events of the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 TMNT]]'' episode "Bad Day" are simply a form of MindRape conjured by the Foot Mystics.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' has one, too. In "WesternAnimation/HeavenlyPuss," Tom wangs his head and kills himself where he ends up in train station in Heaven. The boarder however won't let him through due to his chasing Jerry all the time but give Tom a change to redeem himself by getting Jerry to sign a forgiveness certificate, otherwise Tom will end up in Hell tormented by a devil looking Spike. Tom is then sent back and tries everything he can to get Jerry to sign the thing. In the end though he doesn't make the deadline and it looks like he's doomed...till he wakes up and more than glad to find it was a dream. Even kissing his worst enemy to show his gratefulness.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting The Sting]]": Fry dives in front of a space bee about to sting Leela, gets impaled and injected with venom, and dies. Leela who comes out of the incident with only a "boo-boo", tops, begins feeling horribly guilty for the loss of Fry, and [[SanitySlippage slowly descends into insanity]], going through one DreamWithinADream after another, one of which includes a musical number in which the other characters serenade her with the song "Don't Worry, Be([[JustForPun e]]) Happy." stopping with Leela [[AxCrazy trying to steal Fry's corpse and hide it under her bed to remind herself he's dead]]. At the climax, the walls are screaming "YOU KILLED FRY" at her and bees are materializing out of a broken jar of honey. It turns out it was all a coma-induced dream; Fry had come out of the incident relatively unscathed, save for the gaping hole in his chest, which was easily repaired by future-medicine, while Leela got all the venom from the bee and nearly died.

* The ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "[[PandaingToTheAudience Panda-Monium]]".

* In the episode "On the Run" of ''WesternAnimation/SagwaTheChineseSiameseCat''. At least, that's what it seems. The fact that a character exclusive to the supposed dream sequence appears at the end leaves it in the air, however.

** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E16AnthologyOfInterestI Anthology of Interest I]]" it is revealed at the end that the entire episode, consisting of three scenarios generated by the professor's What-If machine, was, in fact, a scenario generated by the professor's What-If machine for what life would be like if he invented the "Finglonger" (basically a glove with a really long index finger). Strangely enough, the What-If machine seems to know things that no one else does, like the fact Fry not coming to the future would cause a universe-destroying paradox, [[CallForward because he is]] [[MyOwnGrampa his own grandpa]]. And "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]]" featured a segment that really ''was'' a dream, instead of a What-If, as the writers didn't wish to reveal Leela's true heritage at that point of the series. Also, the Professor eventually invents the Finglonger in real life. This all seems to imply that the What-Ifs are 'canonical hypotheticals' that would have actually happened that way if the setup was true, making them more ForWantOfANail than All Just a Dream.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns]]", Smithers wakes up in his apartment to find [[ShoutOut Mr. Burns in the shower]], perfectly fine, and concludes with relief that it was all a dream. Burns then informs Smithers that they are the stars of a 60s detective show called ''Speedway Squad'', at which point Smithers wakes up again and realises, "Wait, ''that'' was all a dream!" -- Mr. Burns really has been shot. Smithers then remarks, "Hey, then maybe I ''haven't'' become a hideous drunken wreck, and --" only to realise that he's in the exact same state he started the episode in, and his mouth still tastes like an ashtray.

** Another had Marshall dream he had been hit with a shrinking, another had Rubble turn into a weredog, only for it be revealed everyone else were weredogs to. This show liked this plot device

** ANother had Marshall dream he had been hit with a shrinking, another had Rubble turn into a weredog, only for it be revealed everyone else were weredogs to. This show liked this plot device

'''Candace''': Nah, I see ''him'' all the time. ''This'' [Jeremy proposing to her], this is actually the freaky part. And it's all just been one big... [Jolts out of bed gasping] dream!

** In a Season 3 episode, Ed has a nightmare about Jonny. But then the episode ends with ''Jonny'' waking up in horror. So Ed had a dream that he was scared of Jonny, but then it's really Jonny having a dream that Ed had a dream that...he's scared of Jonny...[[LogicBomb uhm]].

'''Technician:''' No. Get out.\\

* The ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' adaptation of Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream ends this way; with the whole thing being just a dream of Mickey's after he dozed off during the middle of a picnic with his and Donald's dates.

** The [[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat TV-era episode]] ''Stone Age Felix'' starts off as a time travel episode, but it turns out to be just a dream in the end.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars'' episode "Feral Scream Part 2", Cheetor (who had taken heavy damage in the last episode) has a nightmare where the Maximals force him into the CR chamber and it messes with his recent transformations between Transmetal and Transmetal 2 forms. He awakens, only to see another transformation begin.