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** ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'' has eight songs, not counting the deleted one ("Mysterious Force").

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* The first ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' film had one epic performance number in the form of "[[NonAppearingTitle Equestria Girls]]", but little else in the way of character-performed songs. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks The sequel]], however, went full-on musical with its BattleOfTheBands plot.
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Once in a while, a show will shake things up and do SomethingCompletelyDifferent. One way of doing that is by turning the show into TheMusical for an episode.

* On the heels of the success of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', FOX had a musical week including ''{{Series/Fringe}}''. Which turned out to be a NoirEpisode as well -- a ''double'' case of SomethingCompletelyDifferent. The noir musical was simply the fictional story within a FramingDevice.

* ''Series/Lucifer2016'' often includes scenes of the cast singing but [[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E10BloodyCelestialKaraokeJam season five's "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam" is actually structured as a musical. [[AWizardDidIt God visiting his sons on Earth leads to the people around them breaking into musical numbers which they forget as soon as they're done singing]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had its oft-quoted even to this day ''[[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2E38 LABretto]]'' episode, which presents itself as an origin story chronicling Dexter's rise from birth to building his secret lab. And it's done as an ''opera''.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had its oft-quoted even to this day ''[=LABretto=]'' episode, which presents itself as an origin story chronicling Dexter's rise from birth to building his secret lab. And it's done as an ''opera''.

* ''Series/ChicagoHope'' had the fourth-season episode "Brain Salad Surgery". Dr. Aaron Shutt suffered a brain aneurysm that caused him to hallucinate the rest of the hospital staff singing and dancing.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had the [[GreenAesop Earth Day]] episode "Zanzibar", which was lampshaded throughout ("How did you all know the words?" "We practiced every Tuesday. Didn't you see the flyers?")

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "Rollercoaster: The Musical!"

%%* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' "The Musical". ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The entire episode is a pitch Shawn is giving to a playwright for a musical, so everything's in his CloudCuckoolander head.

->'''Phineas:''' So what do you say? We'll do all the same things, but we'll break into spontaneous singing and choreography with no discernible music source!\\

* Once in a while, in TheSeventies, ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' would invite an opera singer friend of Mr. Rogers named John Reardon, and the episode, entirely set in the Land of Make-Believe and featuring a lofty plot line, would resemble a musical or light opera, with all of the characters singing their lines.
** One particularly epic example tells the story of the Wicked Knife and Fork (a man with a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin giant knife and fork on his tunic]]) kidnapping Purple Twirling Kitty atop Spoon Mountain, prompting Prince Extraordinary (son of King Kittypuss and Queen Mumsiebelle) and Park Services Director [[AerithAndBob Betty Green]] to mount a rescue mission. [[MundaneMadeAwesome It's far more awesome than you'd you think]], and even manages to be {{Troperiffic}}, working in FreudianExcuse, DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife, BiggerOnTheInside, LoveRedeems, AnAesop about helping all those in need regardless of their status, and even GondorCallsForAid and BigDamnHeroes, all in about eighteen minutes.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' "The Musical". ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The entire episode is a pitch Shawn is giving to a playwright for a musical, so everything's in his CloudCuckoolander head.

* The first ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' film had an epic performance number in the form of "[[NonAppearingTitle Equestria Girls]]", but little else in the way of character-performed songs. [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks The sequel]], however, went full-on musical with its BattleOfTheBands plot.

* LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun did this in his ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' series, for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KPvl9jFTJk the ninth episode]] which was aptly titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The All Singing Episode"]]. From around the one minute mark up to the end of the second level of the episode at 16 minutes, his commentary is delivered (save for a couple of brief lines) entirely through song in time with the music of the game. This accomplishment didn't go unrecognized, as the episode has over ''6 million'' views, several times that of the episodes released next to it.
** [[UpToEleven Even more impressively]], eight years later during his revisit of the game for the [[SelfImposedChallenge No Sunflower challenge]] series, he did a sequel in the form of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHWNe2qp9kA episode 10, "The All-Singing Episode 2!"]] in which he delivers commentary in song with the game's music as he did in the original... over the course of all ''23'' minutes of the episode, from start to finish, only speaking in whisper for the final 15 or so seconds of the episode.

* On the heels of the success of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', FOX had a musical week including ''{{Series/Fringe}}''. Which turned out to be a NoirEpisode as well-- a ''double'' case of SomethingCompletelyDifferent. And it was justified in that the noir musical was simply the fictional story within a FramingDevice.

** Actually, as the behind-the-scenes DVD material shows, some of the show's VFX were produced cheaply by manipulating miniatures on poles in front of a green screen, so the play version might be more of a self-referential parody.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' "The Musical". ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Somewhat justified in that the entire episode is a pitch Shawn is giving to a playwright for a musical, so everything's in his CloudCuckoolander head.
* ''Series/RaisingHope''. The episode about Burt turning out to be Jewish.

* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' had a musical episode. Justified because the reason they were singing was to communicate with Will's girlfriend, who had been [[spoiler:infected with a musical parasite]].

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* ''WebAnimation/BrawlOfTheObjects'': BOTO's Next Star. 'Nuff said.
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** "Red Vs. Blue: the Musical!" features the obligatory [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] why everyone's singing to begin with, Church especially isn't happy about it. Of course, this is all justified as a retelling of their early adventures to the troops on Chorus by [[CampGay Donut]].

* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz''[='=]s 200th episode ''Borderline Forever'' is basically this, as it contains not one, not two, but four numbers in a single episode.

** The ChristmasEpisode "Green Christmas" is this. It is even lampshaded a few times.
** Done again in standard 11-minute form with "Okay Karaoke", but is presented as a DiegeticMusical.

* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' had "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Parts".

* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' has "In the Key of the Creek". A somewhat justified example in that the episode has Craig stuck inside because of rain, and the songs are him imagining an adventure at the creek.
* In one episode of ''Curious George'' called "Sock Opera Monkey", George does a puppet show of the opera ''Hansel and Gretel'' to a recording of the music. In another, "Go West, Young Monkey", although he doesn't sing, several other characters do. (Most of this is a dream sequence.)

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E8MrGreg Mr. Greg]]", which doubled as a serious CharacterDevelopment episode where Greg and Pearl finally hash out their feelings about Steven's MissingMom Rose Quartz (the three of them were in a LoveTriangle that Greg won with little effort) and finally becoming friends during a trip to [[BigApplesauce Empire City]]. There's also "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E6LastOneOutOfBeachCity Last One Out of Beach City]]", which doesn't have the characters sing, but the usual background music is replaced with songs by indie rock musician Mike Krol, which is justified as they're going to see his concert.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has an episode where they go the opera (similar to the Hey Arnold! episode)

** The episode "The Princess Pride" in ''Total Drama Action''.

* Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'' has a song worth always sixty to seventy seconds, but the most important musical episode with the longest musical number is called "The Vamp-Opera" in which Vee attempts to use a hybrid spell to help with her writer's block, only to accidentally turn the world into a Sung-through musical and she and everyone else have to find a way to break the curse... all while in song!
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' had "Lyle the Kindly Viking". One moment [[PlayingWith plays with this]] when Sven (Larry) sings a line that wasn't necessary to do so, which later goes UpToEleven when he admits it's a musical while he ''also sings that line.''

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Though not really an episode of the show nor even canonical to it, the stage show ''Pokémon Live!'' would seem to fit in this trope.
** "Gotta Dance!", the short before the sixth movie.

* "Bad Rap" from ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''.

* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' has "In the Key of the Creek". A somewhat justified example in that the episode has Craig stuck inside because of rain, and the songa are him imagining an adventure at the creek.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13501363/36/Chaos-Effect]]'': The prologue to Battle City is a musical episode, much to [[SelfInsert Edwin's]] annoyance, as his position of being someone from outside the ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' universe means that he's the only one [[MusicalWorldHypotheses totally aware of the sudden music and singing when no one else is]].

* ''Series/Lucifer2016'' often includes scenes of the cast singing but season five's "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam" is actually structured as a musical. God visiting his sons on Earth leads to the people around them breaking into musical numbers which they forget as soon as they're done singing.

** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E134SpongeBobsLastStand SpongeBob's Last Stand]]", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick protest the bulldozing of Jellyfish Fields, featuring "The Jellyfishing Song" and "Give Jellyfish Fields a Chance".

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' has a few based on classical music, including "''WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville''" and "''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''".

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' had a brief interlude in [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=40342&name=narbonic_plus one storyline]] to perform [[http://www.narbonic.com/MadbloodBattleAnthem.mp3 the Madblood Battle Anthem]].

** One particularly epic example tells the story of the Wicked Knife and Fork (a man with a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin giant knife and fork on his tunic]]) kidnapping Purple Twirling Kitty atop Spoon Mountain, prompting Prince Extraordinary (son of King Kittypuss and Queen Mumsiebelle) and Park Services Director [[AerithAndBob Betty Green]] to mount a rescue mission. [[MundaneMadeAwesome It's far more awesome than you'd you think]], and even manages to be {{Troperiffic}}, working in FreudianExcuse, DesperatelySeekingAPurposeInLife, BiggerOnTheInside, LoveRedeems, AnAesop about [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped helping all those in need regardless of their status]], and even GondorCallsForAid and BigDamnHeroes, all in about eighteen minutes.

** The last third of "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" is an opera. As sung by the cast.

** ''The Simpsons'' does ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS214TreehouseOfHorrorXX Treehouse of Horror XX: There's No Business Like Moe Business]]".