History BLAM / WesternAnimation

* ''SpongebobSquarepants'' has a few examples of random moments. A notable example would be the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fApXIjdfjyE&feature=related Davy Jones locker]] scene.

* The Sea Pony scene in ''My Little Pony: Escape from Midnight Castle''. Everything's been semi-serious up to that point, and then Megan and a Pony fall in the river, almost certainly to drown. Start Disney-style acid sequence in which they
are rescued. The whole song is never mentioned again, although the Sea Ponies themselves later help Megan and the Ponies.

* I'm surprised this one hasn't come up. The Sea Pony scene in ''My Little Pony: Escape from Midnight Castle''. Everything's been semi-serious up to that point, and then Megan and a Pony fall in the river, almost certainly to drown. Start Disney-style acid sequence in which they are rescued. The whole song is never mentioned again, although the Sea Ponies themselves later help Megan and the Ponies.
** Maybe it hasn't come up because nobody here watches My Little Pony anymore...

** This '''could''' be a reference to the fact that a fair number of the voice cast was on both shows. It may be a ShoutOut.

*** He was timing a storyboard, something that only those working in animation knows how to do. As for WHY he was doing that...

** A straighter example appears at the beginning of the episode "Continuum of Cartoon Fools", in which Dexter is seen sitting at a desk, scribbling something on a piece of paper and looking at a stopwatch while periodically making a bizarre noise that sounds like "[[http://baaaawt.ytmnd.com/ BAAAAWT]]". It's never brought up again, and we never do find out just what the ''hell'' he was doing it for.

* The old French cartoon ''{{Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea}}'' (known to English-speakers from its early 80's run on Nickelodeon) was for the most part, a serious sci-fi adventure story about a group of adventurers trying to save an underground civilization from disaster. But about once every other episode, the plot would suddenly be interrupted by a musical number performed by a group of pirates. Apart from the fact that no other characters ever sang, the pirate song felt very out of place as it featured a different art style and was much more humorous than the rest of the show. Sometimes this was followed by the pirates causing trouble for the heroes, but in several episodes the song is just dropped into the episode at random, and the pirates [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything don't actually do anything afterward.]] Sometimes they didn't even appear in the episode aside from the song.

* I'm surprised this one hasn't come up. The Sea Pony scene in ''[[{{ptitleMyLittlePony}} My Little Pony]]: Escape from Midnight Castle''. Everything's been semi-serious up to that point, and then Megan and a Pony fall in the river, almost certainly to drown. Start Disney-style acid sequence in which they are rescued. The whole song is never mentioned again, although the Sea Ponies themselves later help Megan and the Ponies.

* I'm surprised this one hasn't come up. The Sea Pony scene in ''[[My Little Pony]]: Escape from Midnight Castle''. Everything's been semi-serious up to that point, and then Megan and a Pony fall in the river, almost certainly to drown. Start Disney-style acid sequence in which they are rescued. The whole song is never mentioned again, although the Sea Ponies themselves later help Megan and the Ponies.

** The second one invokes this in-universe though... even though the audience has seen Peter fight the giant chicken before, all Lois sees is Peter disappear to fight the chicken, then return bruised and beaten, and go right back to talking about Chris' school situation as if nothing has happened.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhNoljPtok Sneakers O'Toole]] is yet another textbook example of this. Even by FamilyGuy standards it literally comes out of nowhere.
** In the soapbox derby episode, SpeedRacer and his dad are shown talking in their awfully-dubbed way, and then he says "We have no relation to this plot! Hohoho!" or something like that. Can you lampshade a BLAM?
** Some opponents of Family Guy argue that too many or all of the cutaways on Family Guy are BLAM. South Park harps on this in Cartoon Wars, calling them [[ManateeGag irrelevant and interchangeable]].
** Pretty much every episode has several BLAMs, but one that stands out is Chris reaching for the orange juice and being beckoned by a random hand, which he joins and then suddenly enters the music video for "Take On Me".
** Another is where Meg checks to see if Chris is done in the bathroom we see him sitting on the toilet with the top of his head missing and it's screwed on by a mechanical claw while "The Imperial March" from Star Wars plays.

* ''{{The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh}}'' has the horrifying [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc Heffalumps and Woozles song]]. Pooh wakes up afterwards, and the plot continues with no further reference to the dream, or even of Heffalumps and Woozles' existence in general.

*** While played straight for the film alone, it's inverted for the WinnieThePooh series as a whole, where later features would show Heffalumps and Woozles as RealAfterAll.

* Hanna-Barbera's feature ''Heidi's Song'' had not one, but two: first, Grandfather tells Heidi stories about evil spirits haunting the mountains right before she goes to sleep, leading to a DisneyAcidSequence nightmare; second, when Heidi is locked in the rat-infested basement by Fraulein Rottenmeier, the rats break into a musical sequence, with Sammy Davis Jr. as the head rat. (And for this BLAM, he gets ''second billing'' on the movie, right after Lorne Greene as Grandfather and ''before'' the girl who voices Heidi.)
* In the Chucklewood Critters TV special, "Which Witch is Which", Ranger Jones leaves his Halloween party to investigate on something, but when he does, the scene cuts to a pointless music video showing these witches that perform all these magic spells. This segment/song holds nothing to the plot at all.

*** Most of Adult Swim's tend to not be that strange. It's usually just a shot of some scenery nowadays. Sometimes it will be a minor and subtle joke, or occasionally they'll do something to say something like "you're watching Adult Swim, therefore everything is right" by having "you" be the boat and "Adult Swim" be the ocean.

* In the popular {{Disney}} show, ''{{Phineas and Ferb}}'', the popularity of the "Gitchie-Gitchie-Goo" song in one episode [[ExecutiveMeddling led the higher ups to decide]] to make the musical segways {{Once an Episode}}. That includes when it really doesn't make any sense to have a musical number whatsoever. The writers do their best of course, but sometimes there's just no way to work a song into the plot of an episode. And yet there's one there anyway.

--> '''Buford''': Nerd ain't no pinata!

* One of the Henry and June wraparounds in an episode of ''KaBlam!'' had June going to sing a pretty song, and saying how she wanted to make the show "intimate". She also said that without Henry on the show (this is the episode where he quits temporarily), she wanted to "spread her wings", but what did that do with the plot? The song was nice, the scene was funny, but what did it have to do with the episode? The scene never got mentioned again, but only one small remain- after the following short and the commercials, June was wearing a neckbrace (she crashed into the fourth wall), but it suddenly disappeared by the final wraparound. Plus, it was very out of character for her.

** The "Crack" medicine commercial parody on "A Jones For A Smith." Yeah, it works as a satire on how prescription meds can be just as bad as illegal drugs, but, like most gags in Seth [=MacFarlane's=] cartoons, it doesn't really have a relevant place in the plot. Of course, unlike a lot of gags in Seth [=MacFarlane's=] cartoons, this one has some justification in it as Stan may have been high enough to see his life as a medicine commercial (which ends with him cuddling up to a homeless man [whom Stan saw as a dog during his hallucination] on a dirty mattress in an alley).
* TheBBC Christmas animation ''The First Snow Of Winter'' is the story of an Irish duckling whose gets seperated from his family while flying south, and is befriended by a water vole. About ten minutes in, for no real reason, Voley and Sean start line-dancing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwrVECXu6c&feature=related And then an entire flock of sheep joins in]]. At the end of the scene they spin round to look at the sheep grazing as if even ''they're'' wondering if that really just happened.
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitleon0rrjvl Mr. Magoo's]] [[ChristmasSpecial Christmas]] [[AChristmasCarol Carol]]. After Old Joe meets with the undertaker, laundress, and charwoman (the last two of whom inexplicably look like witches) the four burst into a loud song for ''absolutely no reason'', proclaiming how bad they are. Not only does this take the focus completely away from the plot, not involve Scrooge at all, and [[UncannyValley look plain creepy]], but it [[CharacterDerailment goes totally against the personalities of the characters in the novel]] (who, rather than looting [[ForTheEvulz for the sake of being bad]], are making use of a convenient opportunity in order to help themselves.)

* ''{{TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh}}'' has the horrifying [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc Heffalumps and Woozles song]]. Pooh wakes up afterwards, and the plot continues with no further reference to the dream, or even of Heffalumps and Woozles' existence in general.

* ''[[WinnieThePooh Winnie The Pooh]]'' has the horrifying [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnADKgurvc Heffalumps and Woozles song]]. Pooh wakes up afterwards, and the plot continues with no further reference to the dream, or even of Heffalumps and Woozles' existence in general.

*** Either that or ''The CompleteMonster Show''.

* TheBBC Christmas animation ''The First Snow Of Winter'' is the story of an Irish duckling whose gets seperated from his family while flying south, and is befriended by a water vole. About ten minutes in, for no real reason, Voley and Sean start line-dancing. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGwrVECXu6c&feature=related And then an entire flock of sheep joins in]]. At the end of the scene they spin round to look at the sheep grazing as if even ''they're'' wondering if that really just happened.

** Or that time they [[NoFourthWall ran out of animation and the voice actors washed a car]].

** The "Crack" medicine commercial parody on "A Jones For A Smith." Yeah, it works as a satire on how prescription meds can be just as bad as illegal drugs, but, like most gags in Seth MacFarlane's cartoons, it doesn't really have a relevant place in the plot. Of course, unlike a lot of gags in Seth MacFarlane's cartoons, this one has some justification in it as Stan may have been high enough to see his life as a medicine commercial (which ends with him cuddling up to a homeless man [whom Stan saw as a dog during his hallucination] on a dirty mattress in an alley).

** Although this can be seen as a jab at how many of RodneyDangerfield (who was voicing Larry Burns)'s movies seem to end with a spontaneous party.

* The episode "Day of the Larrys" of ''TimeSquad''. After Larry builts heaps of clones of himself to minimize his amount of housework to do, the episode promptly moves on from a plot-related scene to a completely unrelevant montage in [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a place that can be only described as, well, a gay nightclub for robots.]] Not only are we unnecessarily exposed to dancing Larry clones (which is still pretty damn funny), [[HoYay one of them explictly flirting with Tuddrussell]], but it isn't at all explained [[FridgeLogic how in the world Otto and Tuddrussell got into that club if there's a bouncer at the door who kicks out anyone that isn't on the list.]] The amusing factor of the scene kind of justifies the BLAM, but it still has '''nothing''' to do with the plot.

** Before the dream, Tiger mentions the Heffalumps and Woozles and says they like to steal honey, then he leaves Pooh's house and the dream kicks in after a few minutes or so.

--> '''Buford''': Nerd ain't no pinata!* The end of ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Burns, Baby Burns". Homer and Larry have just been caught staging a kidnapping, when suddenly the whole scene turns into a party. Lampshaded when Marge asks where the music and liquor is coming from, and Homer replies, "It's a party, Marge. It doesn't have to make sense."

** This '''could''' be a reference to the fact that a fair number of the voice cast was on both shows. It may be a [[{{Shout Out}}]].

* The end of ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Burns, Baby Burns". Homer and Larry have just been caught staging a kidnapping, when suddenly the whole scene turns into a party. Lampshaded when Marge asks where the music and liquor is coming from, and Homer replies, "It's a party, Marge. It doesn't have to make sense."