History SoundtrackDissonance / WesternAnimation

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans'', each episode has a different genre for its songs and background music, which is rarely the one you'd expect from the episode's setting. A cowboy episode set to hip-hop, or an Ancient Greece episode set to samba, are such examples of that.

** There's also the episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE8TheForgotten The Forgotten]]". Gotham City is a steel-clad, faux-1940s metropolis, so you'd expect to hear overly dramatic classical music (which we do) or else jazz and/or showtunes (which we sometimes do). But in this episode the action shifts to some sort of arid, rocky landscape out west (could be South Dakota, or maybe Wyoming) so that Batman can capture some [[CorruptHick Corrupt Hicks]] who have kidnapped and enslaved homeless people in order to mine gold. The hicks' theme is as "frontier" as all-get-out, with rapidly-played harmonicas and a booming basso guitar straight out of a Western movie.

** In Lemonhope Part 2, Princess Bubblegum is singing a cheerful tune talking about how Lemonhope will be the savior of his lemon people, only for the song to be done [[spoiler: over Lemonhope walking through the desolate ruins of Ooo a thousand years in the future, the Candy Kingdom as a bombed-out ruin of a formerly thriving metropolis, the Ice Kingdom nowhere to be seen, Lemon Castle looking like it was abandoned shortly after Lemonhope left, and him ultimately climbing into a bed after turning off his biosuit, presumably to die from old age]].

** "The Nuisance": The Wattersons [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext transform into real people after becoming model citizens]]. [[BodyHorror Bones crack, faces break, body parts twist themselves into all manner of unnatural shapes]] and the family spends the entire sequence screaming in vain for the dreadful pain to stop. But it's the peaceful music playing throughout the scene that cements the horror.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has the upbeat and cheerful ending theme "Do It All Again", which is about Cricket getting in various disasters throughout his day.

-->We we we we (whee!)
-->Are going to war (We're going to war!)
-->We're going to war (We're going to war!)
-->We we we we (whee!)
-->Are going to war (We're going to war!)
-->We're going to war (We're going to war!)

-->De- de- de- de- de- de- de-
-->Destroy our enemies!
-->La- la- la- la- la- la- la-
-->Let's bring them to their knees!

** The [[TastesLikeDiabetes Meaps']] song in "Meapless in Seattle" definitely counts:

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'': In "Drones", Beavis's confession to Butt-Head about being drugged, raped, thrown under a bridge and intimidated into silence by a school grief counselor is set to Music/Deadmau5's "Ghosts 'n' Stuff".

* Happens sometimes during ''WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans''. A cowboy episode set to hip-hop, or an Ancient Greece episode set to samba, are such examples of that.

* The song played in the cartoon ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-a_cZxq3I Monkey Love]]'' is called "[[http://www.huapala.org/Tahiti/Vahine_Anamite.html Vahine Anamite]]", a song written by Eddie Lund about Indo-Chinese women working so very hard in Tahiti... and it's played in a story about InterspeciesRomance with a sailor and the [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys monkey princess]]! Really?

--->Marge: I wanna make sure the kids don't hear. When I was young, I always hated knowing my parents were fighting.\\

** Finn's up beat tune in The Tower: ''Baby's building a tower into space/ Space is were he's gonna find dad/ [[SanitySlippage 'Cause Daddy's got an arm/ And baby's gonna harm his arm/ By tearing it off of his dad]]''

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants" episode "Plankton", where Plankton carries around a record player which he uses to play dramatic music to accompany his EvilLaugh. At one point, he stars the music and starts laughing before realising he has turned on a children's alphabet song, which is quickly remedied by playing the other side of the record.

** One of the happiest, cheeriest themes heard frequently throughout the series is a upbeat flute-played tune that would be right at home in a circus... which also happens to be [[MonsterClown The Joker's]] theme music. He sometimes [[ThemeTuneCameo whistles it]].

** In the episode "Interview with a Platypus" while Candace is being chased by a herd of angry animals, accompanied by an upbeat song called "Perfect Day".

** The show's upbeat, bouncy theme tune can sometimes come off as this when it plays over the credits of an episode that ends on a downbeat or BlackComedy note.

** Finn's up beat tune in The Tower: ''Baby's building a tower into space/ Space is were we'll find dad/ [[SanitySlippage 'Cause Daddy's got an arm/ And baby's gonna harm his arm/ By ripping it right off of his body]]''

** In "Marge on the Lam" Ruth Powers prepares for a thrill-seeking night of pushing Marge's boundaries and slams a cassette into her car stereo, only for it to start playing "Sunshine and Lollypops". She quickly corrects it to the intended song - "Welcome to the Jungle". Later on Chief Wiggum also sets up some music for a gritty car chase, and again comes up with "Sunshine and Lollipops". In this case this is apparently the exact song that he intended.

** In the episode "Interview with a Platypus" while Candace is being chased by a herd of angry animals, accompanied by an upbeat song called "Perfect Day".

** In "War of The Simpsons", the morning after Homer makes a fool of himself after getting drunk at a party, Marge drags him into the car and puts on a tape of the Mexican hat dance and starts arguing with him, presumably so the kids can't hear them. However, they're staring out the window...
--->'''Bart:''' ''(forebodingly)'' They're fighting in the car again...\\