This troper has a seriously heavy amount of this in his life. Take my high school graduation for instance should've been a great and happy day right? Wrong! because after I got back from rehearsal I found me and my family were being evicted. I graduated from High School and ended up homeless living in a hotel.

This troper's brother is ''trying to get her tested for bi-polar disorder.'' But in all fairnes, they just don't understand why she laugh at pain (if your wondering its so if she cry they can't accuse her of being a crybaby, just crazy which can be good too...) Worse when she gets her period; like, dissolves into tears and then is bursting out laughing to hitting people.

This troper once attended a puppet show meant for kids, then later that night went to see the local art centers amateur production of TheCrucible. She even commented on how mood whiplashy it was.

Same Troper as above: A new example comes from my theater class, I have two things I'm doing. One is the first scene from ''Befriending Bertha,'' the other is taken from a part of ''TheDiaryOfAnneFrank,'' you can see where this leads.

This Troper unintentionally put {{Mood Whiplash}} in chapter three of this fanfic. Right after England, Spain, France, Netherlands, my OCs, Piece}} the Straw Hats, the Supernovas, and the Shichibukai Fuel}} sang In the Dark of the Night from {{Anastasia}}, Izaya and Shizuo sing Baby by Justin Bieber and High School Host Club}} Tamaki Moment of Funny}} beat them up with a vaccum over the latter song. Injuries}} It wasn't just any vaccum, Badass}} Tamaki the Impossible}} beat them up in Audacity}} with a Bissel vaccum.

This Troper's iPod put "Hey Jude" right after Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer". It was odd.

This Troper's iPod once put a portion of Mozart's Requiem (I forget which) just before the Bullet in a Bible version of Green Day's St. Jimmy.

My iPod seems to love putting soft sad songs right after angry rock ones, and vice versa.

This Troper's played "Motteike Seifuku!(Lucky Star Theme)" right after "Sh*t is F*cked Up" by The Offspring.

This troper's iPod once played "Strange Fruit", a brilliant but incredibly depressing, mournful song about black lynchings, immediately followed by ''"Sweet Home Alabama"''. Because I was in the perfect mood to celebrate the American South at that point.

This happens to an extreme in my music library. Transitioning between Dying Fetus and the soundtrack from My Little Pony is fun.

This Troper's ipod played "Here Comes the Sun" right after "Everything You Ever."

Easiest recipe for instant MoodWhiplash: being told by the woman you love that she actually does feel the same way about you...it's just that she has a boyfriend already. This troper knows this from ''multiple'' instances.

Happened to this (other) troper last night. For some reason he's not bitter about it. Tends to happen often actually.

This troper accidentally managed to create MoodWhiplash when he started watching ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' directly after watching an episode of ''NagasareteAirantou''.

This troper did the same thing with ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' right after The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. And that's in addition to the mind-boggling amount of Mood Whiplash within ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' itself.

This troper had to wear a neck-brace after watching the first episode of ''Azumanga Daioh'' directly after ''the final episode of ''Gilgamesh''''.

An aversion: This editor deliberately refused to watch anything cheerful for the entire rest of the night after reading the last volume of ''SaiKano'', not wanting to invoke a MoodWhiplash.

This troper was watching an episode of ''{{Kekkaishi}}'' which ends with Gen dying. It's followed by an episode of ''FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood'', which began with Ed and Al searching for the panda cub belonging to the little Chinese girl. Keep in mind that unlike the first anime, ''Brotherhood'' often see-saws between comedy and drama.

This editor one-ups you both: He read ''Yotsuba&'' directly after reading ''ElfenLied''. Ouch.

I did something similar: NeonGenesisEvangelion#QUOTE#HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi#QUOTE#AzumangaDaioh

Try Watching "End of Evangelion" after watching "FLCL".

This troper watched it a few hours before going to a church super bowl party. How's that for mood whiplash?

That depends, how'd your team do?

I was rooting for the Steelers and they won.

This troper watched ElfenLied and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown right next to each other.

This troper once read LoveHina whilst listening to Kom, Susser Todd (by random chance, courtesy of iTunes on shuffle). Which meant he was laughing whilst listening to song about suicide. ''That'' took a while to explain to the family...

This troper started trying to do this deliberately, to avoid triggering excess depressive. This has involved such juxtapositions as, for instance, DeathNote and LoveHina, and the current stretch consisting of NeonGenesisEvangelion/End of Evangelion, Trigun, and HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi, in that order. Next up, looking for something complicated but cheery before ParanoiaAgent.

Similar to one of the above, this troper has been reading ''SchoolRumble'' and ''ElfenLied''. Usually, he would chide himself for reading ''SchoolRumble'' first, leaving only doom and gloom thereafter, but lately ''SchoolRumble'' has been having a mood whiplash of its own, giving this troper doom and gloom pretty much all the time. Hooray.

This other troper, on the other hand, generally ''tries'' to provoke in himself the MoodWhiplash after watching something sad, on the grounds that he's hyper-empathic and so he feels ''extremely'' like crap. He's found that a couple random episodes of ''LuckyStar'' prove surprisingly therapeutic in this effort.

This troper (and this troper's brother) generally watch two episodes of anime in the evenings, when watching ''ElfenLied'' we would ''deliberately'' follow it up with an episode of ''PaniPoniDash'' so we could calm down!

This troper's MP3 collection tends to come up with mood whiplash when set to shuffle. Including following a long, angsty epic porg rock track with a slow fadeout to a few seconds of silence with a metal track starting loud, fast, and instantly. This habit caused his previous MP3 player to be confined to the bottom of a pile of documents and be replaced with a fancy expensive new model.

If your taste is diverse enough, putting your entire music library on shuffle is a continuous case of whiplash. Case in point from this troper: Bach (baroque classical) -> Agalloch (prog-influenced metal) -> GZA (gangsta rap) -> Benedictine Monks (not-so-ominous Latin chanting).

This troper concurs. My iPod contains LinkinPark, AFI, {{Enya}} (the reigning queen of soothing music), LizPhair, and MaryChapinCarpenter, among others. Putting it on shuffle is an instant recipe for this trope.

The {{Music/Muse}} song "Unintended" is a personal favourite; quite quiet, and with a reasonable chunk of romantic longing. It caused near-fatal hilarity when it came up on shuffle immediately after Mitch Benn's "Doctor Who Girl."

99 Luftballons->Evanescence->Weird Al Show theme->Octopus's Garden->Saria's Song->The Guitar->Why Does The Sun Shine (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas->While My Guitar Gently Weeps as the shower ran cold.

This Troper's iPod does the same thing on an insane scale. Sigur Rós (soothing icelandic prog rock) #QUOTE# Of Montreal (hyper happy exciting with disco bass) #QUOTE# Nick Cave (dark brooding sortof rap) #QUOTE# Noah and the Whale (morbid but cheerful folk) #QUOTE# Black Moth Super Rainbow (LSD-laced psychadelic electronica) #QUOTE# Dungen (psychadelic Swedish folk rock with lots of flute and fiddle) #QUOTE# Beirut (Balkan-esque orchestra pieces with a wavery singer's voice) #QUOTE# The Smiths (early alternative). And this is a typical day. Gah.

This troper once suffered MoodWhiplash due to a friend renting ''GraveOfTheFireflies'' because it was anime and she didn't know that the fun kind of anime wasn't the only kind there is.

Just yesterday, I was watching an animutation when my parents rang to say that my grandpa was dying. Yep.

This troper kept switching between {{Chowder}} and GraveOfTheFireflies, experiencing MoodWhiplash about every 2 minutes.

This troper was feeling down after watching Episodes 18 and 19 of CodeGeass, and so he tried to invoke this by watching {{Clannad}} to cheer himself up. Unfortunately, he was on Fuko's arc.

More recently, a group of my friends got together after a D&D game. We watched a few episodes of {{Firefly}}, and then went straight into BattlestarGalactica. Yeah.

This troper's college anime club once decided to run an entire semester of this. Every Wednesday night we would have two episodes each of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', and... ''KodomoNoOmocha''.

Do yourself a favor and don't read ''Wolverine: First Class'' right before you start the ''MobyDick'' comics. This troper learned THAT lesson the hard way, while trying to cram...

A rather more serious mood whiplash, some of this troper's various spectacular accidents led to a friend asking if cuts on the wrist were due to self harm, treating it as a big joke: #QUOTE#"Ah come on, what do you take me for? Who does that?". The response? #QUOTE#"Um, I kinda do."

This troper once created two playlists, one of all the really sad songs, one of all the really happy songs. Then he set up an automatic playlist which alternated them...

This troper deliberately causes her own Mood Whiplash after reading, watching, or listening to anything scary, gorey, or just really really depressing. (Going so far as to make a playlist on her ipod specifically for all the bright and happy songs she scrambles for after listening to Evanescence for too long.)

This troper's musicals playlist has come up with some interesting combinations when put on shuffle. ''Sweeney Todd's'' "The Barber and His Wife" followed up by "My Girlfriend, Who Lives In Canada" from ''Avenue Q'', for example.

This troper did it to herself by immediately switching from {{Metal Gear Solid}}: "Sons of Liberty" to {{dot Hack}} GU - the sharp contrast in art style and mood caused a headache.

And for her playlist, it went from Poison's "Your Momma Don't Dance" to Heather Dale's "Mordred's Lullaby".

This troper finds MoodWhiplash a good way to fight TheTetrisEffect. In an unrelated tale from the same troper (morbid, read at your own risk), right after the funeral of one of his best friends, the rest of the Nakama came to the tropers house for pizza, pot and beer, all in loving memory of the funniest pothead we ever met.

This troper was in a rhetoric class with a rather jokey professor. We were all snickering and generally carousing it up before class when one girl, who'd missed the previous two classes, came in. The professor looked at her, said, "Hey! Where've you been?" She replied in complete deadpan, "In Phoenix attending my dad's funeral." Cue room silence and a very awkward "...Oh. You're off the hook," from the professor.

I will often walk in an extremley weird way then instantly walk normally with a very serious look on my face. I also often make funny faces followed by a serious one. I also seem to have developed a habit of scowling after laughing, even if I wasn't scowling before.

I found ''SerialExperimentsLain'' so utterly depressing and draining to watch that I had to alternate it with ''ExcelSaga'', in chunks of one episode of each.

Replace ''SerialExperimentLain'' with ''Anime/{{Monster}}'' and you have this troper's experience.

This troper had a really interesting experience when watching ''PrincessTutu''... in the breaks between reading parts of ''Anime/{{Monster}}''.

This troper purposefully tried to take the edge off having watched ''OneHourPhoto'' for the first time by watching... ''MorkAndMindy''. It actually made her feel '''''more''''' creeped out.

On a similar note, this troper tried to take the edge off a listen to ''The Grim Rapper'' by listening to ''Friend Like Me'' straight after. It... didn't work. She was in ''tears'' afterwards.

And then this troper was watching ''Jack'' on TBS, when she saw that ''The Best Of Times'' was playing on one of the Encore channels. So she switched to it during the TBS commercial breaks and then back and forth. And for those who don't understand, ''The Best Of Times'' is a rather idealistic 1980s comedy, and ''Jack'' is a TearJerker with a little comic relief. A little.

This Troper tried to watch the final episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion (not End Of Eva, but just the final episodes) while reading Lucky Star. Swirly colours.

This Troper has been putting up a series of videos on YouTube which is a collection of anime openings. I now think it was a mistake to end the 9th video that inlucded the openings for RozenMaiden, SailorMoon, StrikeWitches and TokyoMewMew with the opening to ElfenLied!

This troper purposely read FairyTail and Chibi Vampire after reading volume 6 or 7 of GhostHunt so as to get the terrifying images out of her brain before she went to sleep.

A while back, This Troper tried watching Bokurano, and found it so depressing that she had to watch a few episodes of TengenToppaGurrenLagann afterwards to cheer herself up again.

This troper has to cause Mood Whiplash for herself if she reads or watches something scary. Overactive imagination about monsters dismembering me is usually quieted by thoughts of miniature robot fluff.

This troper followed the conclusion of ''{{Simoun}}'' with several episodes of ''{{Chobits}}''. (I'm still in the "Chii doing cute things" part of the story).

At a recent anime club, one troper got to see it in action with a hilarious Hard Gay segment, followed by a depressing music video segment about a girl mourning her mother; this was immediately followed up with even more Hard Gay.

This troper's iPod seems to have a hidden {{MoodWhiplash}} setting. I've had it go from "Glitter and Be Gay" from ''Candide'' to ''Caramelldancen'' to ''Still Alive''.

Watch one of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' 's more jarring episodes (This troper recomments episode 5, 18, 19, 20, or 24), or ''End of Evangelion''. Then, watch ''Puchi Eva'' or this {{YouTube Poop}}.

This Troper's group of friends usually sits at one table before school, and we hang out, have a good time, etc. One day, near the beginning of first period, one of the girls leaves to go to her classes, and a cheesy grin from her prompts one of the guys to say "Uh, your teeth are horrible." "Yeah, THANKS." She storms out with a huff, and the whole table goes from lively conversation to '''''dead silence'''''. "What? What's going on?" "You never insult Jamie's teeth."

He did apologize afterwards, though.

This troper plans to induce mood whiplash by watching volume 4 of DeathNote (once the place he buys the series off gets more copies in stock) and immediately following it with MontyPythonsFlyingCircus (the boxed-set of which he got for Christmas)

The ''AdultSwim'' website seems to be made to do this. This troper watched the "Harvey Birdman: Attroney at Law" super-puberty episode, then the Code Geass R2 that starts with Lelouch the cell phone with Nunally. As soon as she fought the urge to give poor Lulu a hug, ''Family Guy'' started.

This Troper has had 2 recent experiences:

Said troper just started to play DeadSpace, and the gross NightmareFuel weight made him fire up Songbird and set a ''really'' long I've music playlist in order to fight off the scary factor. A pretty weird MoodWhiplash indeed.

Said troper lately has been engaged to cheesy harem and romance anime (KonoAozoraNiYakusokuWo, OtomeWaBokuNiKoishiteru, Karin, MyselfYourself, AkaneIroNiSomaruSaka, etc.). Many times, the cheesy factor is so high that after watching a couple of eps, he desperately needs to crush some Necris with its own DarkWalker in a Warfare map just to kill the mood. Sometimes even pausing Media Player Classic and firing up [=UT3=] in a whim.

This troper had MoodWhiplash when she half watched LuckyStar while reading Uzumaki, making a 2 hour long session of mood whiplash. The day before she read the first half of Uzumaki while listening to Hare Hare Yukai.

This troper was informed from an acquaintance that someone he knew was talking about committing suicide in a chat he used to frequent. Driven by a curiosity to see how things played out, and wanting to provide support if said acquaintance needed it, as well as him not feeling that he was alone in the matter, I entered the chat. After being there two hours and not typing anything, I finally typed one sentence for clarification's sake. Apparently, someone didn't see me come into the chat, because the next words that displayed on the screen were "WHERE THE HELL DID YOU COME FROM". Cue everyone active in the room bursting out into laughter, the suicide girl laughing so hard that ramen was coming out through her nose, and me being proclaimed a ninja. I felt pretty proud of myself afterward.

This troper and his cousin saw StrangerThanFiction, and then immediately after we watched The Fountain, an extremely trippy/semi-depressing Aronofsky film. This troper also watched TengenToppaGurrenLagann immediately after NeonGenesisEvangelion.

After watching the Miku Miku Dance version of Saihate (which did not have dancing) I proceded to watch it's video response, Kaito doing Caramelldansen. For bonus points, there was a video in the related videos bar called, "give it back my pants" and what looked like various vocaloids in their underwear doing the Hare Hare Yukai. Turns out it was just Dancing Samurai, but the video was still strange enough to add to the mood whiplash, so strange that I didn't want to finish it. Also, Listening to Azumanga Daioh music while playing Heli Attack Three is hilarious.

Another {{Vocaloid}} related incident occurred when this troper went from ''Regret Message'' to ''Alice Human Sacrifice''; needless to say, she went from borderline crying to being scared shitless in a matter of seconds.

This troper watched the ''Servant of Evil'' series directly after POPIPO. Of course, you could watch any happy Len song (''Give Me Back My Pants!'', ''Hot Cocoa'', ''Gemini''), click a related video...and at the end of it Len will die. He does that a lot.

For this, watch Clannad. This troper can say he was laughing two minutes after he cried.

This Troper agrees. When watching that show, he sometimes couldn't tell if the tears on his face were from the heartwrenching scene he was watching now, or from when he was laughing himself into asphyxiation a minute ago.

This troper and her parents went to go see TheWrestler, a thoroughly depressing film. On the way home, we listened to the Wicked soundtrack, starting with "One Short Day". My dad even remarked on the inappropriateness of the cheerful music.

This troper read ''{{Watchmen}}'' straight through one afternoon recently. That night he went to a comedy show. Yeah....

This troper, in one day not too long ago...good lord:

Irritable: Bad day at work.

Excited: Fortune cookie fortune - "You will soon receive pleasant news of a personal nature."

Cloud 9: A heart-shaped rock formation is left at my doorstep.

Creeped: ''No idea'' who would leave such formation at my doorstep.

Annoyed: (female) roommate comes home, sees structure, and has a Libby moment about how it ''had'' to be one of ''her'' admirers/stalkers, and that there's no way someone could be crushing on ''me''.

Nostalgic: Wonders if his ex is the heart structure sculptor, and reminisces on the good times.

{{Berserk Button}}: Remembers the last thing the ex did to him. If it is her, she'll need more rocks, to say the least.

{{Tear Jerker}}: Read {{Naruto}} Chapter 437.

This troper edits anime for Sci Fi channel sometimes. I started by watching {{Berserk}}, followed by ElfenLied and {{Gantz}}. I later watched {{DearS}} before {{Berserk}}. A more recent case was a week from this writing. A friend of mine gave me advice to watch something funny after episode 13 of CodeGeass R2 (the one where Shirley dies). I took that advice and watch the TheBoondocks episode "The Story of Catcher Freeman" after the end of that CG episode. It sure cured me right up. Afterwards, said friend who gave me the advice thanked me for taking that advice and sticking with it.

Going from seeing a performance of ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' right to watching EventHorizon.

Alternating between reading Watchmen and watching Animaniacs was a...bizarre experience to say the least.

This troper recalls once watching ''Naruto'' when she was younger and then her brother switching the channel to watch Barney, who was singing 'I Love You'; the whole thing felt like a MindRape sequence that caused her to laying on the bed ''twitching'' for two whole minutes.

this troper's brother once suggested watching the Hanna Montana movie, right after we had gotten out of Know1ng. We pounced on him precisely because of this trope.

This troper is the ''master'' of mood whiplash. It's gotten to a point where she doesn't like to laugh too much anymore because she always goes from laughing her guts out to sobbing her heart out of her ribcage...

Not sure if this counts, but this troper got one after watching two Dave Matthews Band music videos one after the other on TV: the sweet and catchy song "Dreamgirl", followed immedietly by the considerably creepy "Gravedigger". Needless to say, moods were shifted.

This troper was watching the History Channel, and they had a documentary on the 2012 prophecy. At the end of it, they said that most of predictions had a ray of hope, saying humanity could save itself, we may have a chance, things will be okay, all that. Just as the troper was feeling pretty damn good, it ended and ANOTHER 2012 documentary came on....which began by saying that mankind was totally doomed and there was nothing we could do to save ourselves. Damn you, History Channel!

Don't watch the English ''{{Berserk}}'' after watching the 4kids version of ''{{One Piece}}''. You start to form weird associations.

Oh dear god. I think I know what you're talking about.

This Troper's playlist possesses "Never Gonna Give You Up," and "Cross My Heart and Hope To Die" one after the other. One is a cheery and (due to context) funny song about everlasting love, coming from an 80's icon. The other is about self-destruction over the death of a loved one coming from a band whose songs almost all feature the singer expressing a desire for SOMEBODY to die. It alternates between happy, sad, angry. Jonathan Coulton, Flaming Lips, Metallica, Maiden, Amorphis. Indie pop and death metal, etc. etc.

As far as itunes on shuffle goes, the strangest combination of two songs this troper has gotten in a row was "Lux Aeterna" from the ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' soundtrack (an otherworldly, dissonant choral piece that's listed on the HighOctaneNightmareFuel page for a reason), and "Georgia Sings Yes" by Georgia And August Greenberg (er, a very cute-sounding six year old repeatedly singing the word "yes" over peppy moog and piano music).

This troper once received a wonderful gift from an online friend and felt absolutely wonderful. She then put her music player on random...to get the the theme for ''SchindlersList''. So much for the happy feeling.

When set to shuffle, This Troper's iPod seems determined to provoke MoodWhiplash. One noticeable example involved Jodi Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", The Beatles' "Octopus' Garden", Elvis Presley's "In The Ghetto" and, to cap things off, Bobby [=McFerrin=]'s "Don't Worry Be Happy".

This Troper had been watching the 1997 ''{{Geroge Of The Jungle}}'' film, which she always finds rather amusing. When she'd finished, she was on the way to bed (and still laughing over some things from the movie), when she noticed her dog (who'd been declared as having a heart murmur by the vet a day or two before), lying in his basket, and ''wasn't breathing''. Cue running to her parents crying, but it gets worse, when said troper later learned the {{Awful Truth}} - Macks (the dog) had died of a heart attack ''whilst she was watching the film'', and her parents were planning on keeping it secret until the next morning.

This troper's iPod decided to do this one day: ''Angel of Doom'' followed immediately by ''Motteke! Sailor Fuku''. The only way this could have been a bigger whiplash was if the iPod had chosen ''Ghost Nappa''.

This Troper had an instance of this about a week ago. Her aunt and two cousins had come to visit, and they decided to go out for pizza. After that, they got in the car, and This Troper and one of her cousins began reenacting "The Mysterious Ticking Noise". Then, they went to visit This Troper's great-grandmother, who was in the hospital, dying of kidney failure. After that? They went to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and later went shopping.

Me: *watches the end of ''Passion'' - the episode where Calendar dies* Brother, who was annoyed that I was hogging the computer: It's about time.

Oh, man. I was talking to my best friend/ex-girlfriend, performing my occasional role as the Emotional Sponge. I went from consoling her and trying to improve her mood to bing slightly creeped out when she mentioned her desire to make out with her pillow and pretend that it was with some Anime characters she liked to having her remind me that she still holds a flame for me.

In the Same week-end this troper's school won stage challenge (a big dance competition) and watched the FullMetalAlchemist episode where Maes Hughs dies. On monday this tropers freind used it to torture him "WE WON!!!" :) "Hues is dead" :( "WE WON!!!" :) "Hues is dead" :( "WE WON!!!" :) "Hues is dead" :( etc...

This troper was left depressed after NeonGenesisEvangelion (despite interpreting 25-26 as a happy ending) and had to watch the first few episodes of TTGL. THAT was the MoodWhiplash this troper was seeking.

Listen to the Main Theme of Final Fantasy IX. Then listen to Love Theme from MGS4. Warning: the mood whiplash has been known to drive the listener to suicide.

This Troper generally has an ArchiveBinge or two running alongside TV Tropes and whatever else he is doing, which gets pretty disconcerting when he starts catching up on bookmarked webcomics. At last count: Archive binges of "Most tearjerking moments of GunnerkriggCourt", SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal, and minus, along with the (in progress as of this writing) {{Megatokyo}} arc where Miho is confirmed "presumed dead", various after-battle sequences in LookingForGroup (including Richard's antics), and the arc of FreeFall where everyone gets in a big pie fight. (Most importantly: Falling down a PotHole to the MoodWhiplash page halfway through.) It's mind-numbing.

The troper also eventually had to separate the end from the rest of Matchbox 20's "The Difference" ("slow dancing on the boulevard, in the quiet moments while the city's still...") before putting it into playlists. If you've ever heard the song, you know ''exactly'' when the cutoff point was.

This troper saw ''PonyoOnACliffByTheSea'' and ''PrincessMononoke'' for the first time on the same day. Yeesh. (Several friends commented that it could have been worse; it could have been ''GraveOfTheFireflies''.)

This troper paused ''EasternPromises'', got into the car, and went to see ''Star Trek''. Russian Accent Whiplash. Similarly, going straight between NeilPatrickHarris in ''DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' to ''HowIMetYourMother'', and from thence to the 2001 concert version of ''SweeneyTodd'', was hellish. And in an actual troper tales example, my SeinfeldianConversation tends to drop others into this.

I remember a beautiful fall day when the temperature was perfect, the birds were singing in the morning, and no homework was to be had because it was time for standardized testing, so everyone was excited and cheerful. An hour later the principal came on the intercom and told us that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We made it to the gym in time to watch the South Tower be hit and both towers collapse. I was in the sixth grade.

Have you ever tried watching ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresofFlapjack'' right after ''Changeling''?

Happened to this troper while meditating to "Book of Days" by Enya on Windows Media Player. I discovered too late that I had my player set to shuffle for my entire music collection. The next song? "Bohemian Polka". Cue the opposite of meditation.

This Troper Gets mood whiplash every time he watches animal cops, '''OH MY GOD COLLAR EMBEDDED IN HIS NECK''', then cut to Smarmy sugary disney commercials... what.

After reading the VillainSong entry, this troper took some time to listen to this song and this one. It was quite unsettling to say the least.

This troper's current 'Recently Added' playlist on her iPod. All the 'effing way. The music is as follows: "Leaving in Coffins" by Psapp, "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago, "Vanilla Twilight" by Owl City, "Hill of Our Home" by Psapp, "Funhouse" by P!nk, "Does Anybody Hear Her" by Casting Crowns, "Cat and Mouse" by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey, "Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day" by Bowling for Soup, and "Piano Man" by Billy Joel to polish it all off.

"Clannnad" and "NeonGenesisEvangelion" If the in-show mood whiplash doesn't get you, watching them back to back certainly will.

Try "SerialExperimentsLain" followed by "GTO" for starters. Also, this troper, after watching "FiveCentimetersPerSecond", just had to wash out all the depression with an "Animaniacs" marathon.

This troper experinced this with his MP3 player, by having Hare Hare Yukai and Hatredcoptor play back to back. Also, purposly invoked following an ArchiveBinge of ElfenLied by watching some LuckyStar right after

A more recent example from the same troper would be when listening to his mix of musico n his laptop on shuffle; with it going from The Hellion to Asagi My Love, or alternating between playing {{Half-Life}} and {{MapleStory}} one long weekend.

Right after showing a Christmas special of {{Elf}}, the television immediately segued into LawAndOrderSVU. I and both of my roommates commented on it.

This troper's final exam for his psychology class went something like this: Last question: Suicide case study. Then right after that, the teacher wishing us a merry christmas.

This troper has rapid cycling bipolar disorder and at her worst cycled through depression (the crying kind), irritation, and urges to hurt her roommate in mere minutes during lunch in the mental hospital.

Kind of a variant on all the mp3 player shuffle instances: When I'm listening to full albums on itunes, I'll frequently neglect to put them into a new playlist, meaning after one album is finished, the first track by whatever artist is alphabetically next will immediately follow it. This can be kind of jarring when it leads to things like "My Weakness", the melancholy closing track of Moby's ''Play'', slowly fading out, then going straight to Johnathan Richman enthusiastically shouting "One two three four five six seven eight!" at the start of The Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner".

This troper had an awesome day at Carnival, only to come home and find that her slightly-under-the-weather dog actually had kidney failureand was less than a week from death.

Three weeks ago, my entire class was scolded for more than '''three hours''' by nearly all of our teachers for severe misbehavior. One of the teachers involved was our former adviser, under whom my class swept most of the school competitions and became known as the best class. Her words were absolutely dripping with disdain and disappointment, and the whole thing just made us all ashamed of ourselves. Barely a minute after we were dismissed, however, some of us got snarky again. And by the next day, it was like nothing happened.

This troper just recently started watching the Rurouni Kenshin anime after reading the manga for several volumes. Not only does the anime's lighthearted tone feel NOTHING like the serious action and high drama the manga had to offer (with a bit of humor thrown in), but the biggest mood whiplash of all comes from the first theme song, "Freckles." Just try and listen to it without going "WTF?" ten seconds in.

This Troper has a ''huge'' emotional attachment to CuantaVida, and so this has happened a couple times.

I ended up reading page 86 twice before understanding it. Upon the first reading, I was relieved to tears that was not injured during Rojo's attack. Helllloooooo, best mood (and sleep!) ever! The next morning, I read comments, a friend's reaction text, and the page again and realized that -- oh, shit -- yes he was. He'd been left blinded. Goodbyyyyeee, best mood ever... :That morning was a Monday morning.

Then, there was page 88. In fact the ''entire day'' was a series of Mood Whiplashes:

Bad Start: Ash Wednesday Mass.

Feeling Better: Browsing the Internet

Bombshell: Seeing at 2AM that page 88 is up after some funny videos. I dive in headfirst. find out that Sniper's dead. I do not sleep that night.

Remedy: For part of that night, I watch FamilyGuy and RobotChicken to get my mind off the page.

Regression: And then I spend the rest of it crying to sad songs.

This troper came to the Whoniverse by way of ''Torchwood'' (oh, the shame!) So after finishing "Children of Earth," she tried to find out more about that Captain Jack fellow...and suddenly it all got better.

This troper's Speech class was doing informative topic speeches in class. The first speech: a somber presentation on human sex trafficking. The second? Ranch dressing. Yeah...

Ya know what? Teenage hormones are the worst mood whiplash. Ever.

This troper thought of himself at football as just another normal person, and has low self-esteem. When we got at choosing the team captains, there were two nominated people, when we start choosing, someone suddenly: ->Friend: Hey, can I vote for someone else than the nominated?" ->Oh... Ok ->Friend: I vote for *troper's name here*

I win the votation for %70 of the votes. Plus calling me by my first name (they always call me by my nickname), and BAM, out of nowhere, Im the captain. So I get home, being all happy, to discover my dear blue-eyed 8 years old dobermann Max "The Good Dog", who I had raised since was just a small puppy, was dead. And had to bury him on my own since my parents were out on a trip to another city. You know, there IS a God out there, but hes a FUCKING. ASSHOLE.

That is ... kind of NightmareFuel for this cat-owning troper.

When this troper was six years old, he beat his sister and baby-sitter at a board-game. Not long after, I was so happy about winning that I couldn't sleep. My babysitter heard my TV, and he came in and pinned me to a wall, yelling the whole time. The next day I looked at my bruises, and I swore to myself that I'd never play a game of candy-land ever again.

Between me and my dad, my dad was bugging me about needing to exercise and I was getting mad (and feeling like I was about to cry) and my dad attempted to make a joke out of it: #QUOTE# Dad: Oh look, she's getting mad at me, because I'm trying to get her to do something good for her. #QUOTE# (I chuckle) #QUOTE# Dad: Oh, she's upset cause I'm only doing what's best for her, that I know best. #QUOTE# Me: ... And we've circled back into anger.

This troper has an experience: me and my friends were all eating lunch together in the cafeteria at school, cracking really awful puns, and that was when two groups gathered in the middle of the cafeteria and started the ''mother of all fights'', and for a few minutes, we were thrown into something like a lesser form of the Battle of Hogwarts, from the DAYD-verse.

This troper experienced something similar when he was sitting in a restaurant, talking and laughing with a friend, when suddenly two groups of soccer hooligans started beating the crap out of each other at the table right beside ours.

My [=MP4=] recently had a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. "Luka", a song about abuse (either child or spousal) went on, and right after that came "Wake Up Call", about a guy shooting his girlfriend. It also played "How To Save A Life" right after a friend told me about her attempted suicide, and "America Fuck Yeah" when I was in the middle of a rant on why America sucks and people should stop idealizing it.

With my iPod on shuffle, TheMoodyBlues was immediately followed by... {{Slayer}}. It was jarring, that's all I'm going to say.

This troper has had a nice, calming CelticWoman song be followed by a Nickelback song.

The list of the last songs this troper bought off iTunes swings wildly around... it starts with [=RuPaul=] and features Patrick Wolf, Madonna and Angelspit.

When this troper puts her iPod on shuffle, this happens. Cue Lady Gaga's "LoveGame" right after Green Day's "Restless Heart Syndrome". Or anything NIN then anything Gaga. Wow.

This troper had one last night, as I'm sure many other people did. He went to a concert and had the time of his life, including his favourite song being played and being able to meet some of the members afterwards. He arrived back home, unbelievably happy, to the news that his favourite singer, Ronnie James Dio, had died.

This editor, on a Youtube music video binge, once went from listening to "Tunak Tunak Tun" to listening to "Further". Wow.

This troper has had some depression, some mood swings and various other problems for about a year and a half now, and normally got at least one period of feeling very sad for no specific reason every day. It's almost like the sad feelings NEEDS to get out at least once a day. If the day starts bad, it ends nice, if it starts bad, ends nice. Most extremely when troper is with friends, she is happy before she visits them, happy when with them, having a wonderful time ... and upon going home, mood goes straight into sadness for no other reason than apparently, she hasn't had the sad period that day, and everything had has been bottling up without her feeling it due to happiness, and therefore comes in such huge amounts it ends in a long period of crying. Today started bad, and thus; nice evening today.

Want a recipe for instant Main/MoodWhiplash? If you're depressed, click this. NOW.

Try listening to "Still Alive" before listening to the "Bacon Man Song"

My dad is afflicted with this, frequently bouncing between high spirited ("Congrats on that good test score!"), enraged pottymouth(to be specific, the poop in a urinal type of potty), maliciously sarcastic, and what he calls "unpleasant". That is, he tells me that he will no longer yell at me (Yay!...right?), but he reserves the right to be "unpleasant" to everybody (One step forward, two steps back, much?). You may be unsurprised to know that he drove me to a suicidal state at a very young age, and that my psychiatrist (who was supposed to counsel me and my parents as a family, but dad believes that everyone else needs help, not him, so he stopped attending sessions) has completely given up on helping my dad, in order to focus his energies in helping those who ''want'' to be helped.

One weekend of AdultSwim goes from the episode where Winry learns the truth about her parents' death to Yoshimori helping a ghost pass on by making the best cake in the world within the span of an hour. Huh?

This troper went from happy after finishing {{InuYasha}} to really depressed after finishing ZetaGundam, CasshernSins, RomeoXJuliet and NabariNoOu anime all at once. Ouch.

This troper saw 3 episodes of Azumangah Daioh, then Saw V, then went to see the remake of Karate Kid in the cinema with his little cousin and then saw Saw VI at home with lights off. Weird day

Wake up in the morning feeling like P-Diddy, stumbling into the kitchen to find that there is no more bread, finding a twenty dollar bill on the way to the grocery store, get rejected by all your friends when inviting them over to your house, be reunited with an old friend, get into a fight with your other friend, recive a text from that guy you like and then recive the news that your grandpa slipped on the stairs and is in the hospital. EH.

FullMonty was on TV. Literally the moment the gnome scene finished, an ad popped up that said 3,000 children will die of dehydration. We couldn't stop laughing.

Here's a fun game! Need some background music? Go over to the MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness page. Click one of the links under the "Level 1" list. After the song is done, scroll down and click one from under the "Level 11" list. Continuously alternate between 1 and 11 level songs.

In college, this troper watched, for the first time and one after the other, ThePrincessBride and {{Kids}}. The resulting emotional state was...weird.

A girl from my school who liked me eagerly gave me her number... The following day she treated me coldly and seemingly got together with another guy. She was going to be my first girlfriend. Days later, another girl who likes me started hanging around with me... But then I find out she already has a boyfriend. Talk about unlucky.

This troper's MP3 player seems to enjoy doing this. When set to shuffle once, it started off with Okkusenman. (Which for those who don't know, is a song about a guy reflecting on his carefree days as a kid, set to the Wily Castle 1&2 theme from Megaman 2.) The next song to come up is Billy in Despair, the second ending theme to the DeathNote anime, which is what can only be described as a heavy metal/hip hop hybrid about, well, the Death Note. After that came Caramelldansen Speedycake Remix, followed by the Zero-Two battle theme. (Zero-Two being a giant bleeding eyeball with wings and a halo.) After ''that,'' it jumps to the hyper Frontier Brain theme from Pokemon Platinum, and finishes off with 16 Melodies, the credits theme to Mother 3 (Which follows some pretty big mood whiplash in the game itself.) Needless to say, it took a while to grasp what the hell just happened.

This troper accidentally did this to the females who were helping with the middle school talent show. She was singing 'Defying Gravity'--or, for those of you not in the know, triumph incarnate. Climax of the song...and she runs off stage, sobbing. Yeah. Bad day.

This guy was watching an episode of some show on Discovery Health about a hospital where they treat really overweight people (we're talking 600+ lbs. here). In this show, they would always talk about how getting a liposuction was "giving up", and how sad it was that someone was leaving their care. The message was somewhat undermined when every first ad in every commercial break was for a show that lionized the heroic doctors that performed liposuctions and gave people their lives back.

This troper invokes Mood Whiplash on herself through her Ipod/Computer. One minute Britney Spears 'I'm A Slave 4 U" the next Fools Of Damnation by Epica. Or even "This Love" by The Veronicas then "In Another Life" by the same pair of woman. What Goes Around to Another Song by Justin Timberlake happened today. You get my point.

Actually if you think about something too much/too little you can give yourself your own mood whiplash. One momant "Yay My Long Term Crush Loves Me Back" next momant "No He Doesn't He Hasn't Done X Y and Z and therefore he doesn't". Then go back to "But he Did do A B C so he must love me" then turn around again and be like "But is that enough to make me feel loved" Sad again...Over and over and over again!

This troper remembers the time when he is crying at the end of AngelBeats. Then he went on suggested to watch the entire saga of HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences and get tear in the end. Then he went out from his room and see {{Idiocracy}} in the television. This troper didn't see Idiocracy before. He cried (after laughter, for different reasons).

This Troper (Meyers07) starts watching OreImo episode 1 and 2 and thinks, "Hey! Isn't loving little sister is cute?" to his anime club. Then he suggests another sister-love titles. He receives suggestions such as AkiSora and KanaLittleSister. Then he starts Let's Playing the latter. TearJerker ensues.

This troper was on a forum where our discussion was dissolving in to a proper {{Hurricane Of Puns}} when a new guy posts to say that one of our posters had killed them selves... You could almost hear the soundtrack come to a screeching halt.

This troper was in a classroom on her second day of fourth grade, learning how to take care of the two class pets with the rest of the fourth graders. We needed to learn to pet them gently and set up who took them over vacation. One short speech by the principal later, two children were sobbing the hallway with the teacher, and parents were already showing up to pick up their kids. The date? September 11, 2001.

This troper usually listens to classic rock on the car stereo. Mood whiplash sets in after his church's Good Friday Tenebrae service in Latin. In fact, nothing sounds better than silence on that night.

This troper was spending the evening out with her friends, just generally having a great time going places. Cue about the third email from her ex saying that he wanted to have a serious talk about what our lives could've been like if I hadn't broken up with him.

On this troper's iPod the last 5 downloads was this in spades. Michael Buble ballad, Weird Al polka medley, Celtic Woman fiddle piece, Real Folk Blues from Cowboy Bebop and ends with a Daniel Bedingfield remix.

This troper was in a production of Schoolhouse Rock Live! in high school. After an awesome opening night, the whole cast went to Village Inn to celebrate, riding the high of a stellar performance and in generally euphoric moods. About halfway through our meals, I received a call from my grandparents, asking where I was so they could pick me up. Thirty minutes later, I was at the hospital with the rest of my family, and an hour after that, my mother died. Needless to say, that earlier elation had long left me.

Due to a large natural disaster in this troper's home country (namely, the 2011 Brisbane flood), almost all television channels had rolling news updates replacing normal programming, about the large-scale destruction. Apart from the children's channels. Which made channel surfing a particularly interesting experience...

Watching Australia Flood Disaster 2011, sit com (How I Met Your Mother, Till Death, Scrubs, maybe even Friends too) watch some more disaster and then back to sitcom, a second of disaster and then The Simpsons and then flood disaster.

OR alternatively, my favorite artist blows away all the charts, top them around the world, does well, is talkative to her fans + thankful and going to two movies in two days, with my family and my friends...flash forward to me finding out one of my favourite facebook friends unfriended me for no good valid reason besides her being a bitch. Why does this keep happening to me!...and my friend wants to move out of her own house because her parents suck at life and it's goign to be hard to see her after she moves out....but it's a new year and feeling generally positive about it again.

Or sending your favourite boy in the whole grade 7 roses for 7 years on valantines day 09 and then being rejected because you were to over the top with your passion and you ultiimately not getting together with him by the end of the year, but being happy because you'd meet some new people in the new year.

Invariable result of watching any show on the computer. Every time a dramatic scene comes on, just at the crucial moment... '''''Virus Database Has Been Updated!!!'''''

The radio: This troper heard "Jar of Hearts" a tearful ballad about a cheating man. Then she heard "Hips Don't Lie", an uproarious cheery latin dance tune.

This Troper experianced it today actually. The night before, I had learned that beloved leopard gecko had died of natural causes. The next day, after a decent day of school, I learned that I was accepted into my first choice college. We buried her later today, followed by my favorite food: steak!

This troper has this stat at max level. One moment he's happy-go-lucky. Next thing you know, he's calling everyone a fuckwad.

During a recent sale, I decided to get 2 GCN games I hadn't played but wanted to: ''EternalDarkness'' and ''CustomRobo'' (I also got Okami PS2, but not the point). I'll tell you how the shift between playing the two works.

OK, neither worked and I had to exchange them (For MGS3 and Pikmin). I did find Custom Robo again, and the endgame is very much an example.

This troper has the fan translation {{Mother 3}} on an emulator on his computer. Whenever he is on the computer, he has a tendency to check {{Homestuck}}. So he jumps between Mother 3 and Homestuck a lot and it's very disconcerting really. Also, his iTunes has a bunch of Homestuck albums, a few cheery happy chiptunes, and... the Mother 3 Love Theme.

This Troper was in a role play today. After a long, tense argument about whether or not I should follow a character who ran away, I said, "I'm going to go watch TV." I walked into the other room, sat down, and watched MY LITTLE PONY! :D

This troper, after being stressed out by playing Burger Restaurant 3, quit and pulled up a video of It's a Small World.

This troper and her friends raided ICC the moment the Heroic Version became available to us. We beat it, and watched the final cutscene of the raid in silence. The moment the cutscene was over however, the only thing heard over Ventrillo was our tank, yelling "I CALL THE BADASS MOUNT!"

This troper was in a production of ''OurTown'' in high school and during the wedding scene in Act II, it was staged that I was sitting next to the actress who played Mrs. Soames, who got very loud during this scene. The first time we rehearsed it, the techies put my chair a tad too close to Mrs. Soames' chair, so when she was going on about how wonderful the wedding was, I, in a quick bout of improv, began to move my chair farther away from her to move closer to the cast member on my left. The director thought it was hilarious and insisted I do it in the actual show. Come the weekend of the show, it got the biggest (and if I recall, only) group laugh of the night, which is for the best since (assuming you know the play) things go very somber during the third act.

In the second act of Grease, we decided to play Hopelessly Devoted to You, then Shakin' at the High School Hop, then, Raining on Prom Night.

This troper was talking online to a friend. I was telling her about the toffee I'd made, which had actually cut my finger several times because the shape of the cases the toffees were in had gave them all really sharp spikes. She sympathised, hugged me, and I then changed the subject back to the music video we'd been discussing with the following line: "So, you were saying about the ad being for a whore rather than a sex doll?"

This troperette just experienced some this morning while watching the news: They started with coverage of the damage from last night's severe weather across the southeast, which included what they're already calling one of the worst tornado outbreaks in United States history, then cut to one of their anchors in London for more coverage of the upcoming royal wedding, then after that cut back to the weatherman who was reporting more severe storms today from Florida all the way up into New York with the possibility of producing ''more'' tornadoes (oh how wonderful). It wouldn't have been so bad if those two stories hadn't been all they were reporting on.

This troper had two cases in his school's version of DiscoInferno:

The first one serious, when Jack and Tom crashed the car, we didn't have the dialog of Tom trying to stop it so it was just the crash. After that, there was a long blackout before the news announcement, usually we had music playing during blackouts but not this time.

The second was a great source of {{Narm}}, when Heathcliffe came to kill Jack, not only did he not have a gun (which would make sense, since kids are watching, but we still had the song "Hot Stuff"), but during the blackout after Jack's supposed death, we had the cheery main theme playing.

This troper once went to the park with two of her older friends, and we had a good time... at first. I don't remember what happened to cause the MoodWhiplash, but the trip to the park ended with me being jabbed in the stomach with a skateboard, being told that I was annoying, and me running home crying. My mother was enraged.

Last February I got very upset at school and was taken out for a day. Because Mom banned the computer from me, I called the police. (Don't worry, neither of my parents were locked up.) The next day was the Valentine's Dance, and I had a blast, especially with my friends Matt and Corey. I was laughing my head off, especially at Corey's parody of ''Bat Country.''

Another iPod Shuffle example. It's my preferance to have my iPod on shuffle whenever I listen to it, so I've had more than a few cases of Musical Mood Whiplash. But perhaps the most bizarre example was coming from this song straight into this one. Even me, who's used to regular mood whiplash from my iPod, couldn't help but be slightly amused by the contrast.

Also, a case of me (Same troper) doing this on purpose; Right after watching GraveOfTheFireflies I watched an episode of TheITCrowd, in an attempt to put a stop to my InelegantBlubbering caused by the former. It didn't really work, it only led me to be both giggling at what I was currently watching while still in tears over what I'd watched moments before.

This troper watching that you tube video of the dog staring at cupcakes: Ahahahaha .... (cowers) stop staring please!