History Main / MusicalEpisode

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1: Episode 18 from [=LDShadowLady=]'s perspective of the series, "The Blue Axolotl", features a duet between her and Scott Smajor titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5BEa7R8_aY&t=400s "Deal With Destiny"]], which takes up about a third of the episode run-time. The song itself covers the two characters making a trade between two valuable items, believing themselves to be scamming the other in the trade, only for the items they each traded for to be vital to their respective character arcs later in the series. The song even makes it into the official musical adaptation of the season!
* ''WebVideo/FeatherAdventures'': The aptly-named "Feather Adventures: The Musical" is one, with three songs being sung over the course of the video--the first song [[WithLyrics adds lyrics]] to the background music that plays at the beginning of every episode of the series, the second song is Sqaishey singing about finding mining fun, and the third song points out the entire episode is a MilestoneCelebration for being the 100th episode in the series.

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* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'''s 48th episode had them defeat a foe by singing him into submission. Even by [[WidgetSeries Bo-BoBo's standards]], it's amazingly crazy.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' doesn't have a musical episode in the main series despite having loads of Pokémon associated with singing (most notably Jigglypuff). But a "Pikachu short" titled "Gotta Dance!" fits the spirit of the trope to a tee, as the premise of the short is about the main Pokémon cast [[InvoluntaryDance involuntarily dancing]] to the "Polka O Dolka" song thanks to Meowth's [[TheMusicMeister Dancing PokéBaton]] going out of control.

* ''WebVideo/SailorMoonAbridged'' crosses this idea over with all Anime/{{Pokemon}} songs... The results [[http://www.sailormoonabridged.com/ are quite interesting.]]

%%* ''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.

* WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTotallyLegitRecap: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brp7U1cXclo&ab_channel=DWK The recap for "Horse Play"]], done non-traditionally as an entirely rap musical number with a slower chorus. The episode is filled with unusually strange and impressive editing to match the series' usual crass sense of humor, and the result is an oddly coherent production.

* The ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' Hyper Battle Video, where the characters suddenly break out into song and dance for no apparent reason as part of Smart Brain's latest plot. They {{lampshade|Hanging}} the fact that they're singing, and in the end Takumi ends up defeating the Orphenocs with a sonic blast from a radio which was causing the whole thing. [[ItWasAllJustADream And then Takumi wakes up]].

* One episode of ''LightNovel/KureNai'' depicts the characters' attempts to rehearse a musical for a local festival, which eventually leads them to come up with their own material from scratch. It turns out that [[spoiler:it is a ploy by Benika to keep Murasaki entertained - which by and far succeeds]].

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' has "The Song In Your Heart", the last episode before the two-part Season 6 finale. The episode's flashbacks tell how Snow White and Prince Charming cast a spell that caused the whole Enchanted Forest to keep bursting into song, the joy of this giving them the strength to fight against the Evil Queen. [[spoiler: The climax reveals that the magic of that spell still lives in Emma's heart, giving her the power to fight back against the Black Fairy.

!!Examples:

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'': The episode "Auraphull" featured, among other things, a [[Creator/RatPack Rat Pack-esque]] cover of the theme song, and a [[StylisticSuck fuzzy, low quality VHS recording Live-Action guitar solo.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** In "What Was Missing", Finn, Jake, BMO, Princess Bubblegum, and Marceline try to compose a song that will get past a magical gate so they can get back their stuff that was stolen by a Door Lord.
** In "Food Chain", Magic Man pranks Finn and Jake by sending them on a musical journey through the food chain.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'': "Octopede Sailors" had more songs than any other episode and could be considered this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Singing" features an outbreak of "spontaneous singing" among the citizens of Elmore.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
** "Hot Water", a parody of Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors featuring Music/CeeLoGreen as a sentient hot tub.
** The episodes "Minstrel_Krampus" and "Rubberneckers" also qualifies.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalia}}'' a core spore blows and all the animals start singing everything they say.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** Would occasionally feature songs in various segments, but one particular type--Rita and Runt--would ''always'' be a full musical, ranging from send-ups of ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' to adaptations of ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen.'' Rita was voiced by none other than Bernadette Peters, one of the biggest Broadway stars of her era, so naturally the writers wanted to [[TheCastShowoff showcase her incredible pipes.]]
** The film ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' was a full-on musical, and served as the GrandFinale for the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
** The show did a music video episode in season 3, titled "Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival": just a revue of musical numbers performed by the cast. The songs are a rap on [[ReadingIsCoolAesop how awesome libraries are]], Brain reading ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Arthur and D.W. complaining about their dad's awful cooking opera-style, and a doo-wop song about Mr. Ratburn assigning ridiculous amounts of homework.
** "The Ballad of Buster Baxter", the season 3 premiere, featuring music from Art Garfunkel that told the story of Buster returning to Elwood City after traveling with his father, and the struggles he faced discovering that things had changed there. Garfunkel himself appeared in the episode as a moose actually singing the story; at the end of the episode, everyone realizes that they had no idea where he came from.
--->'''Arthur''': MOM, THERE'S A SINGING MOOSE IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE!
** Downplayed in "Lights, Camera... Opera!" This episode features three opera performances, including a lengthy original track based on ''Carmen''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AvengerPenguins'' episode "Rock 'n Roll Penguins" consisted of musical numbers. Even the Badly Drawn Brothers got a song.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" is notable for having somewhat of an in-story justification: the story is about a villain with a hypnotic voice controlling the world through music. Probably the show's most audacious use of RefugeInAudacity.
** Although that doesn't explain Black Canary (and later, Green Arrow), breaking out into song on their own. Maybe they're just musical theatre fans. "[[LampshadeHanging Was the singing really necessary?]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens''
** The [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]] "Green Christmas" has songs, which are even lampshaded a few times.
** "Okay Karaoke" does it in standard 11-minute form, presenting it as a DiegeticMusical.
* The 2006 revival of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has this happen in the final episode "Turf Wars", including some [[VillainSong Villain Songs]] for the Nomad Rats, Hairball, Dr. Catorkian, and [[FaceHeelTurn an evil]] Harley.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'':
** Deconstructed in "Hamburger Dinner Theater" where Linda naively believes singing can make any situation better, even when they get robbed.
** Season 7 premiere "Flu-ouise" has the A-plot of Louise having a fever dream that is basically a WholePlotReference to ''The Wizard of Oz'', in which several characters in her dream (voiced by her family) sing as well as Louise herself.
** The Season 8 ChristmasEpisode "The Bleakening" ups the ante by being an hour-long musical special with seven new songs.
** The season 9 premiere "Just One of the Boyz 4 Now" has a RunningGag of Tina falling for one of the boys at the auditions, and having an ImagineSpot where he sings her a romantic pop song.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'': In "Psychoklahoma", Brak and his family put on a musical adaptation of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' episode "It's a Wonderful Half Life", Cat and Dog have a shared dream depicted as a black-and-white InkblotCartoonStyle musical.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' had "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Parts", which [[NonIndicativeName still contains spoken dialogue in addition to songs]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' did ''two'' musical episodes: "F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E." (A heavy metal opera) and "L.O.V.E." (A ''Theatre/WestSideStory''-ish musical).
* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' has one episode devoted to the school staging Cow's bizarre allegorical musical, "The Ugliest Weenie".
* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' has "In the Key of the Creek". The episode has Craig stuck inside because of rain, and the songs are him imagining an adventure at the creek.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge'' 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.)
* The 2018 ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' ChristmasEpisode, "Melted", has everyone except DM as a fan of a ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' parody of the same name, and Dawn attempting to recreate it in real life with herself as the heroine.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', of all shows, had a musical episode aptly named "Daria!" And yes, Daria sings too—well, more like talking in pitchmsot of the time, but she ''does'' sing a few lines - probably because she's just unmotivated, even in a musical. Perfectly in-character.
* ''WesternAnimation/DeadEndParanormalPark'': The episode "Phantom of the Theme Park", [[spoiler: as the result of a spell cast by Pugsley.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had its oft-quoted even to this day ''[[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2EP38 LABretto]]'' episode, which presents itself as an OriginStory chronicling Dexter's rise from birth to building his secret lab. And it's done as an ''opera''.
* ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'' had "Quadrapedia", in which a pair of metal-singing sisters capture Annabelle due to being jealous of her beauty.
** Another episode involved Dee Dee getting a song stuck in her head, where most of the lines were sung to the tune of it.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'': The Musical speaks for itself, really. Bonus for being a parody of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''.
* The ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' episode "The Pie Who Loved Me" is almost entirely sung.
* "School's Out: The Musical", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. The holiday specials also feature musical numbers.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has done several episodes which are more or less shameless pandering to old-style movie musicals (often focusing primarily on Brian and Stewie and titled "The Road to <Insert Place Here>", which is itself an homage to the Hope/Crosby "Road" movie musicals; one of these, "The Road to Rhode Island", even included a song based on the ''Road'' theme itself). A lot of the episodes have one or more musical numbers in them without quite rising to the level of "Musical Episode". And then there's "The King Is Dead", an episode about a musical ("Peter Griffin Presents a Peter Griffin Production of Peter Griffin's ''The King and I'', a Peter Griffin Joint"). It's... not much like the actual musical.
* ''WesternAnimation/FreakyStories'' chose to tell the UrbanLegend of "[[HookHand the Hook]]" as a Musical Episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** The last third of "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E18TheDevilsHandsAreIdlePlaythings The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings]]" is an opera. As sung by the cast.
** There were also musical numbers in other episodes, such as "Hell Is Other Robots".
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': This show did a ''lot'' of episodes told entirely through song.
** "The Garfield Opera" is an opera song about Garfield's eating habits, called a "Serious Cultural Moment" by the Buddy Bears.
** "The Life and Times of the Lasagna Kid" details the Lasagna Kid (Garfield) saving Mona (Penelope) in a wild-west setting.
** "The Garfield Rap" is a rap song about various {{Running Gags}}, such as kicking Odie off the table and his love of lasagna.
** "The Picnic Panic" has Garfield, Odie, and Jon dealing with ants that invade their picnic.
** In "[[SequelEpisode Another Ant Episode]]", the ants from "The Picnic Panic" [[TheBusCameBack return]] and invade Jon's house.
** "The Guy of Her Dreams" is about Penelope wishing that her dates with Garfield were more exciting.
** "The Garfield Musical" has Penelope fall in love with a rock-and-roll cat instead of Garfield.
** "Truckin' Odie" is a country song about Odie accompanying a trucker on his delivery.
** "Ode to Odie" is a rap in which Odie meets a mean dog.
** "The Ocean Blue" has Jon, Odie, and Garfield encountering a shark at the beach.
** "The Man Who Hated Cats" is a downplayed example, as while not all of it is told in rhyme like the other musicals, there are about five songs in it.
** The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segments only had one musical episode: "Kiddie Korner", where the characters sing nursery rhymes. However, they keep getting interrupted by Aloysius, who finds unwholesome things in each one.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': While the series was originally pretty song-lite, seasons 3 and 4 had multiple four-part specials that featured the cast singing at various points.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''s episode "Little Rock of Horrors". It features a very catchy swing-type tune sung by a brain eating alien. Which was sung by ''Music/{{Voltaire}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9FMOAlXlE What's Opera, Arnold?]]," an AllJustADream rendition of ''Carmen'' with the kids from the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'':
** "The Sensitive Male!" has Johnny being subjected to a parody of ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' as Jack Sheldon tries to teach him how to be more sensitive towards women.
** "Traffic Troubles" has Johnny getting sent to "Musical Comedy Traffic School" for jaywalking.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Episode 89. Interestingly, all the characters who are usually HollywoodToneDeaf were able to sing well.
* ''WesternAnimation/KappaMikey'' had "The Karaoke Episode", which involved a magic karaoke machine that forced everyone to sing instead of talk.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'''s "Rappin' Drakken" comes close to being a musical episode.
* ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' has "The Family Holiday Special", a ChristmasEpisode which features several Christmas Carols with lyrics re-worked about the episode's theme of recycling.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''
** There have been several shorts based on classical music, including "''WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville''" and "''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''".
** ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittleBops'' is a retelling of the Three Little Pigs, where the Pigs are a jazz trio and the Big Bad Wolf is a DreadfulMusician who keeps trying to muscle his way into their act.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The appropriately titled episode "Really Loud Music" is a musical, featuring no less than 14 songs, one of which is sung twice.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' has ''All Hands on Deck''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' has songs in every episode, but season 3's "Rehabklok" was more of a cohesive musical.
** ''WesternAnimation/MetalocalypseTheDoomstarRequiem: [[PunnyName A Klok Opera]]'' is more or less a rock opera, with there being very few actual spoken lines present.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has "Santa Claws", which doubles as the ChristmasEpisode.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' has a rather unique variation known as "Animal School Musical". The episode is justified in-universe as the result of a [[ItMakesSenseInContext magic wish gone wrong]] and the characters are literally ''forced'' to sing whenever the universe finds it appropriate.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' does regularly feature musical numbers, however some episodes have been full-fledged musical episodes themselves:
** The season 3 finale "Magical Mystery Cure" manages to cram seven songs into 22 minutes. It's also a WhamEpisode that sees [[spoiler:Twilight Sparkle becoming an alicorn princess.]]
** The season 4 episode "Pinkie Pride" is also a musical episode. With good reason, as Music/WeirdAlYankovic guest-stars as rival party planner Cheese Sandwich.
** The season 5 episode "Crusaders of the Lost Mark" features six songs, among some [[WhamEpisode major]] CharacterDevelopment.
** The season 6 episode "A Hearth's Warming Tail", unlike the above three, does not have a musical guest star and is not a WhamEpisode; however, it does fit the ChristmasEpisode feel.
* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'' may have songs in some episodes, but there is a full musical episode titled "Onward and Song-ward" in which Daisy has to write a song for the Woodstock Chella Palooza, all while singing along about nature with her friends (and there are four songs in total).
** The ChristmasEpisode "A Nature Carol" also qualifies and has ten songs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'' is apparently having an upcoming musical special where they must find a way to hold back hungry swarms of coral-eating starfish to save a new friend’s fragile reef home.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'''s fourth episode, "[[Recap/OverTheGardenWallChapter4SongsOfTheDarkLantern Songs of the Dark Lantern]]," has the characters arrive at a tavern where the patrons are prone to breaking out in song about everything.
* The second half of the hour long "Return of Doctor Blowhole" ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' special is a musical episode. An incident involving a power cell, a device used to turn people evil and an [=MP3=] player creates a machine that forces everyone to sing in it's field of effect. Cue the villain taking it over and the rest of the cast trying to stop it...all in song!
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'' episode "The Princess Most Fair", where the heroes and villains are teleported to a kingdom that magically compels its inhabitants to sing everything they say.
* ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' had one. Pepper Ann was auditioning for a musical at school, fell off the stage, and blacked out; when she came to her life was a musical. [[AllJustADream It turned out to be a dream]] when she came to for real.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has one or more songs per episode, but there's a number of full-fledged examples:
** "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together" has ''four'' songs, one of which was nominated for an Daytime Emmy award.
** The ChristmasEpisode would also qualify.
** The "Wizard of Odd", a WholePlotReference to ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', which has the added bonus of having its Musical Episode status {{lampshade|Hanging}}d at every possible opportunity.
** "Rollercoaster: The Musical" is a full musical episode based off the plot of the first episode, where most of the catchphrases and running gags get their own songs.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Mouse of La Mancha" is, as the title suggests, a WholePlotReference to ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'', with appropriately altered versions of the title song and "To Dream the Impossible Dream".
* The ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" has almost all the music and words played to the tune of the song.
** A number of other Popeye shorts (mainly in the Fleischer Studios era) are this as well.
* As the title indicates, "Garbage Night: The Musical" is the musical episode of ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s''.
* Except for a few sentences, the ''entire episode'' "See Me Feel Me Gnomey" of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' is [[SungThroughMusical completely in song]]. Which in this case makes it a RockOpera. In fact, the title of the episode is a reference to Music/TheWho's Music/{{Tommy}}.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'':
** "Tiny Blue Dot" is the most famous example. The basic plot is that Jet, Sean, and Sydney are bored on a hot summer day. So Carrot and Celery take them to space to show them why they chose to study Earth in the first place. There are a lot of emphasis put on the songs in this episode.
** "Lone Star", the CowboyEpisode, is a Western-flavored musical.
** "Back to Bortron 7", the one-hour special, has a total of eight songs.
** "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E11PotatoesOnMarsBortronLeprechaun Potatoes on Mars]]", which has four songs and is inspired by retro rock music.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'s'' recap of the third season in the last few minutes of the last episode (of the third season) does this.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' had the EarthDayEpisode "Zanzibar", which was lampshaded throughout ("How did you all know the words?" "We practiced every Tuesday. Didn't you see the flyers?")
--> '''Chorus:''' R-E-C-Y-C-L-E recycle!\\
C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E conserve!\\
Don't you P-O-L-L-U-T-E\\
Pollute the rivers, sky, or sea\\
Or else you're gonna get what you deserve!
** "And you know what they say..." - [[LampshadeHanging "It's going to be a song, isn't it?"]]
*** "We're a big unruly mob ..."
** ''Rocko'' writers Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh noted that with every episode they wrote (including the above "Zanzibar"), they tried to work in a musical number, even when there didn't need to be one. [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Guess what they ended up creating later.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'' did an hour-long episode called "Hair(less): The Musical".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had an episode where the rest of the babies try to teach Dil to appreciate music. To do so, they sing their own renditions (complete with reworked lyrics) of classic songs such as "Bicycle Built For Two," "You Made Me Love You," and "Pack Up Your Troubles."
** There was also the laundromat-set ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' parody "Wash/Dry Story".
* The direct-to-video film ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMusicOfTheVampire'' is essentially a musical as the Scooby gang and the feature's incidental characters break out singing throughout.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has done numerous musical episodes, usually starring Lisa:
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E3ThePresidentWorePearls The President Wore Pearls]]" is a take on ''Music/{{Evita}}'', where Lisa becomes the student body president."
-->'''Disclaimer at the end of the episode''': At the insistence of our lawyers, we have no knowledge of a musical based on the life of Eva Peron.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E13SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaAnnoyedGruntcious Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]", a Film/MaryPoppins look-a-like nanny teaches the family how to behave through songs. Often hilariously inappropriate, such as encouraging them to half-ass chores and singing about a "heartwarming scene" where Moe threatens to shoot Barney.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E12MyFairLaddy My Fair Laddy]]", Groundskeeper Willie becomes a refined gentleman thanks to the help of Lisa. It's a parody of ''Theatre/MyFairLady''.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E14YokelChords Yokel Chords]]", where Lisa educates Cletus' children, ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''-style.
** ''The Simpsons'' does ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E4TreehouseOfHorrorXX Treehouse of Horror XX]]": There's No Business Like Moe Business".
** There's also the ClipShow "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E11AllSingingAllDancing All Singing, All Dancing]]", which highlights musical numbers throughout the first eight seasons. Almost all the framing sequences are entirely in song.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS33E1TheStarOfTheBackstage The Star of the Backstage]]" is a musical episode ''about'' a musical, specifically about Marge being the stage manager of a musical in high school, and becoming one again for a repeat of that same musical.
** In addition, the show often parodies TheMusical, especially AllMusicalsAreAdaptations.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has done many musical episodes, too, including TheMovie.
** Perhaps most notably, "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E13ElementarySchoolMusical Elementary School Musical]]" in which a new kid appears who is forced by his father to treat the world like a musical. Most of the school joins in.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'' had [[http://www.snard.com/sg/ghostbill.html "Boatshow"]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** The TV movie "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS5E12AtlantisSquarePantis Atlantis SquarePantis]]" is a CharlieAndTheChocolateParody plot, where each character sings about their interests.
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS8E26HelloBikiniBottom Hello Bikini Bottom!]]" is about [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward going on tour, featuring various performances.
** "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS3E19TheSpongeWhoCouldFly The Sponge Who Could Fly]]" has three ''Peter Pan''-style songs.
** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS7E8SpongeBobsLastStand SpongeBob's Last Stand]]", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick protest the bulldozing of Jellyfish Fields, featuring "The Jellyfishing Song" and "Give Jellyfish Fields a Chance".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'': "America: Why I Love Her".
* ''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, as they're going to see his concert.
* "Bad Rap" from ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', where everyone speaks in rhyme throughout.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has an episode where they go the opera.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** The series had two music video episodes. The first was "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E51TinyToonMusicTelevision Tiny Toon Music Television]]" and the second was "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E12ToonTV Toon TV]]". Both episodes have the characters do their covers of classic songs from the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s.
** There's also "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E14MusicDay Music Day]]", an episode with [[ThreeShorts three music-themed shorts]]. In "Ruffled Ruffee", Buster does battle wih a sappy Raffi parody, in "The Horn Blows at Lunchtime", Sneezer causes assumed flatulence in the cafeteria during lunchtime when he practices his trumpet and eats limburger cheese at the same time, and in "Loon Lake", Shirley stars in a play of ''Swan Lake'' with the snooty Perfecto Prep swans.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'' is a musical '''season'''. Chris would require the contestants to sing during certain challenges, mainly [[TheGadfly to mess with them]].
%%** The episode "The Princess Pride" in ''Total Drama Action''.
* "I Have Heard the Robots Singing" from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', the first musical episode in the history of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise.
* 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 SungThroughMusical, and she and everyone else have to find a way to break the curse, all while in song.
* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales''[='=]s "Lyle the Kindly Viking" has more songs more frequently than most episodes. At one point Sven (Larry) sings a line that wasn't necessary to do so, and later admits it's a musical while he ''also sings that line.''
* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' has "My Fair Hatey", an episode in which Wander helps Lord Hater prepare to ask [[spoiler:Lord Dominator]] out on a date, while Commander Peepers teams up with Sylvia to put Dominator out of commission once and for all.
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* The ninth issue of ''ComicBook/TomorrowStories'' features a ''Greyshirt'' musical, as in a literal stage production; ''Greyshirt: Indigo Sunset'' later established that the man himself took the title role at one showing. Critics are astounded at Greyshirt's singing and dancing, claiming that he could've been another Creator/GeneKelly.

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' reworked [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Atlantica]] into this. The UnexpectedGameplayChange caused something of a BrokenBase, but it did have a Musical Boss Fight against giant Ursula.

* ''Radio/TheLandOfTheLost1943'' gives us an interesting example in "Marriage Of The Fife & Drum"- while every episode contains one or two [[SongParody Song Parodies]], "Fife & Drum" ''vastly'' increases their number and frequency, and is set in the series' resident BandLand as well.

* ''Podcast/KingFallsAM'': Episode 40 involves a [[ItMakesSenseInContext racist witch]] chanting a spell to give the [[QuirkyTown town]] of [[WeirdnessMagnet King Falls]] a snowy Christmas during an unseasonable heat wave. One of the side effects though, much to [[AgentScully Sammy's]] horror is that everyone in town who calls in to the radio station now does so in song.
* WebVideo/Mega64 (Also the 2011 ''commentary'' for "Summer Semester".)
* ''Blog/HowToHero'''s [[https://howtohero.tumblr.com/post/172611679432/howtohero-the-musical "How To Hero: The Musical!"]]
* ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'' has his 200th episode ''Borderline Forever'', as while songs have been in previous episodes, this one contains not one, not two, but four numbers in a single episode.
* The ''WebVideo/MapMen'' episode "The mystery of the squarest country" is done almost entirely in song, listening off every country in the world as they try to search for the country whose borders most resemble a square. [[spoiler:It's Egypt.]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' season 14 had two examples.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' has "The Song In Your Heart", the last episode before the two-part Season 6 finale. The episode's flashbacks tell how Snow White and Prince Charming cast a spell that caused the whole Enchanted Forest to keep bursting into song, the joy of this giving them the strength to fight against the Evil Queen. [[spoiler: The climax reveals that the magic of that spell still lives in Emma's heart, giving her the power to fight back against the [[UltimateEvil Black Fairy]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had its oft-quoted even to this day ''[[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2EP38 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''.

* Except for a few sentences, the ''entire episode'' "See Me Feel Me Gnomey" of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' is [[SungThroughMusical completely in song]]. Which in this case makes it a RockOpera. In fact, the title of the episode is a reference to Music/TheWho's Music/{{Tommy}}.

*** Surpisingly averted for "The Cow And Potato Bug Opera", which is an InNameOnly of the ''Mister Rogers'' opera. The only singing that happens is at the end of the episode, and most of the lines in said "opera" are spoken, not sung.

* ''WesternAnimation/DeadEndParanormalPark'': The episode "Phantom of the Theme Park", [[spoiler: as a result of a spell cast by pugsley.]]