History MoodWhiplash / LiveActionTV

* In Season 6 of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'', Gus broke down crying at the Gate of No Return in Senegal where slaves were sent to the New World. He said that it was the only time in his adult life that he had cried. The next cut was to Kendra (who was given the FanNickname [=KKKendra=]) who made a comment about why people in Senegal kept "breeding and breeding".

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' manages to do this so often that you would swear the entire show was bipolar. Prime example, in the episode "Revenging Angel" where John gets knocked unconscious due to a comedic accident... cue Harvey appearing in his coma-hallucination telling him that he's dying... cue John turning his ''entire reality'' into a Looney Tunes world... cue slap-stick and John asking all the main characters in his head how he should survive... cue his entire world blowing up and him flatlining. This is a one-episode example. Often the show will jump from the serious arc plotline with horrific and damaging psychological implications for the characters to good old harmless space opera fun in a very short amount of time. Admittedly the show is made of CrazyAwesome but there is a ''heavy'' emphasis on the crazy.

** ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' also had a case of internal MoodWhiplash in the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS03E11MysterySpot "Mystery Spot" (S03, E11)]]. The episode starts out like a normal GroundhogDayLoop episode in which the same Tuesday plays over and over again, with only Sam experiencing the loop; the trigger for him to start the day again is Dean's [[BlackComedy violent and unpredictable death]]. Despite the dark subject matter, the first half of the episode plays like your standard goofy comedy installment -- wacky montages, upbeat music, constant one-liners, and jokes -- until Sam figures out the Trickster is behind it, convinces him to end the loop, and Dean ''dies for real'' that Wednesday. Then the episode transitions into an incredibly dark, months-long journey with an emotionally-destroyed Sam hunting down the Trickster until he finally lays hands on him. In the end, everything is reversed, but Sam is just a ''little'' more unstable...

** The last episode of season four has a doozy, more so given that it wasn't intended to be the last regular episode at the time of broadcast. After seemingly besting their enemies, Moya takes the crew to an ocean planet for some R&R. Crichton and Aeryn are having a heart-to-heart in a boat while Moya rests in the sea nearby. Aeryn reveals that she's having Crichton's baby, Crichton proposes, Aeryn accepts, we go in for the happy ending... and suddenly an unknown ship hurtles out of the sky and shoots the boat, disintegrating both of them. D'Argo, seeing this happen from Moya's bridge, screams in horror. We cut to the end credits, which roll in silence.

* The 2020 virtually-produced special ''The Disney Family Singalong'' does this near the end, with the fast-paced, energetic [[Film/HighSchoolMusical We're All In This Together]] being followed by a slow, [[TearJerker tear jerking]] rendition of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes]], performed by Music/MichaelBuble and Music/DemiLovato

** In [[Recap/BreakingBadS513Tohajiilee To'hajiilee]], [[spoiler: Jesse, Hank and Gomez finally corner Walt red-handed with his money barrels and proceed to arrest him, with Hank elatedly informing Marie it's over. Not more than 5 minutes later, Walt's Neo-Nazi backup arrive... and by the beginning of [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias the next episode]], Gomez and Hank die and Jesse is shipped off to the Neo-Nazis for further blue meth production, with Walt even viciously revealing that he let Jane die.]]

** In [[Recap/BreakingBadS513Tohaijilee To'haijilee]], [[spoiler: Jesse, Hank and Gomez finally corner Walt red-handed with his money barrels and proceed to arrest him, with Hank elatedly informing Marie it's over. Not more than 5 minutes later, Walt's Neo-Nazi backup arrive... and by the beginning of [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias the next episode]], Gomez and Hank die and Jesse is shipped off to the Neo-Nazis for further blue meth production, with Walt even viciously revealing that he let Jane die.]]

** Part Six of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Dalek's Master Plan"]] closes with the Daleks pursing the Tardis Crew for a component for their doomsday weapon, Part Seven...features a man reporting that his Green House has gone missing, before the Tardis crew go to Hollywood where Steven is mistaken for a Keystone Kop, get chased about the studio, and then talks to Bing Crosby, before the Doctor looks directly at the audience an says "Merry Christmas"! Episode Eight; back to the Daleks!

** Part Six of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Dalek's Master Plan"]] closes with the Daleks pursing the Tardis Crew for a component for their doomsday weapon, Part Seven...features a man reporting that his Green House has gone missing, before the Tardis crew go to Hollywood where Steven is mistaken for a Keystone Kop, get chased about the studio, and then talks to Bing Crosby, before the Doctor looks directly at the audience as says "Merry Christmas"! Episode Eight; back to the Daleks!

** Part Six of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan "The Dalek's Mastr Pln"]], clsoes with the Daleks pursung the Tardis Crew for a component for their doomsday weapon, Part Seven...features a man reporting that his Green House has gone missing, before going to Hollywood where Steven is mistaken for a Keystone Kop, and talking to Bing Crosby, before the Doctor looks directly at the audience as says "Merry Christmas" to the audience! Episode Eight; back to the Daleks!

* ''Series/Baywatch'': What shall we have as the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting B-Plot]] for the ProWrestlingEpisode, where Hulk Hogan battles Ric Flair to [[SavingTheOrphanage save a Rec Center]]? How about Stephanie getting skin cancer!?

** However, one Christmas Episode that qualifies in a different way is that of ''Series/KamenRiderExAid''. The episode is mostly fairly silly, thanks in no small part to [[GenkiGirl Poppy's]] antics. But then the second half has [[spoiler:Kiriya, one of the main Riders, being brutally KilledOffForReal]] in the show's first major tragedy. The last shot of the episode is of [[spoiler:Emu clutching Kiriya's [[TransformationTrinket Gamer Driver]] while sobbing over where [[NoBodyLeftBehind his body once lay]]]]. The whiplash was so intense that it actually attracted some complaints, and even a child viewer ''wanting to hunt down Kuroto Dan for killing Kiriya.'' You can't make this up.

** The 2020 virtually-produced special ''The Disney Family Singalong'' does this near the end, with the fast-paced, energetic [[Film/HighSchoolMusical We're All In This Together]] being followed by a slow, [[TearJerker tear jerking]] rendition of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes]] , performed by Music/MichaelBuble and Music/DemiLovato

** The 2020 virtually-produced special ''The Disney Family Singalong'' does this near the end, with the fast-paced, energetic [[Film/HighSchoolMusical We're All In This Together]] being followed by a slow, [[TearJerker tear jerking]] rendition of [[Film/Cinderella A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes]] , performed by Music/MichaelBuble and Music/DemiLovato

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* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'' both tended to have [[BreatherEpisode goofy/stupid episodes]] in the middle of serious, depressing {{arc}}s.
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