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The musical number in an animated musical in which the animation stops pretending to depict things that are actually happening in the world of the film and becomes a more abstract illustration of the music. This is usually a whacked-out moment of lighting and choreography, sometimes caused by hallucinations. If it is caused by a dream, see Dream Ballet. If it is caused by substance use, see Mushroom Samba. The Disney Acid Sequence is not as common as it first seems — moments only fit this trope if they are not explainable in-universe. It shares some characteristics with the Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, in that it frequently has nothing to do to with the plot and the characters never mention it again, but a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, no matter how bizarre and random, is still assumed to have actually taken place in the film's physical reality.

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The Disney Acid Sequence can be used to good comedic effect in films which break the Fourth Wall. In general though, if the switch is too pronounced, be prepared for some genuine Nightmare Fuel.

Named for the most prolific offender and trendsetter, although the phenomenon is not limited to the Disney Animated Canon. It's not even necessarily limited to animated musicals; live-action musicals can also contain one if a musical number goes more surreal than just a random song and dance routine. Some examples here are likely to be inspired by Busby Berkeley Numbers. All examples here are prone to contain Deranged Animation.

Sub-Trope of What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs?. For trippy music videos that are not part of a larger and less surreal work, see Surreal Music Video. For an alternate take on musical scenes set to incredible visual spectacle, see Busby Berkeley Number. Compare Drunken Montage.

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Every installment of the Metro Manners PSAs, following Super Kind's Transformation Sequence, cuts to a musical sequence that takes place on highly stylized sets rather than on a bus/train like the rest of the episode. These feature surreal touches such as supersized fruits floating in the background and a mini train coming out of Super Kind's mouth. This is particularly evident in the "Seat Hogging" PSA, where all the sets are filled with brightly-colored geometric shapes. At the end of the song, it cuts back to the bus, and it's unclear whether the dance number really happened or not.

Anime and Manga

Films — Animation

Films — Live-Action

Live-Action TV

The opening sequence to the Disney Channel show Adventures in Wonderland (made by Eli Noyes, Jr.) certainly qualifies.

to the Disney Channel show Adventures in Wonderland (made by Eli Noyes, Jr.) certainly qualifies. In the Flight of the Conchords TV series this was done a couple of times with some of the more surreal songs in the duo's repertoire. Most notably Pretty Prince Of Parties, which was a literal acid trip.

Pee-wee's Playhouse qualifies as a Disney Acid Series, especially after the series moved production from New York to Los Angeles.

Music

Preschool Popstars music videos sometimes have trippy visuals, especially in the choruses: "Wash Your Hands" has the girls standing on giant bars of soap and kicking Monstrous Germs. The sky is also orange in some scenes. "I Didn't Mean to Burp" has the background changing colour and shows scenes of the Asian girl shrinking and wandering through a world of food. "Juice Box" also has multicoloured backgrounds, along with many scenes of the girls swimming in juice. "Bounce" also has the background changing colour, along with the beginning showing jello and clouds being bounced on.

Ur-Example in music: the Tone Poem Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz ends with a mad artist's non-fatal opium fantasy about a Witches' Sabbath, illustrated with proto-psychedelic music.

Puppet Shows

Sports

Although sports telecasts in the U.S. are often known for featuring bombastic graphics and the like by default, ESPN (appropriately, given its majority owner) has become increasingly prone to using elaborate CGI sequences to convey statistics about players and teams during Monday Night Football, with many of them falling into this territory.

Theater

Theme Parks

The Disney Theme Parks have quite a few, some borrowed from the movies, others original to the parks such as the "Tomorrow's Child" sequence from the Walter Cronkite version of Spaceship Earth or almost the entirety of the original Journey into Imagination (which was part of why it was so beloved). Some of the ones based on movies include: Alice in Wonderland, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin, and Winnie the Pooh.

Appropriately enough, the Disneyland night show Fantasmic! includes one of these, in the form of an updated rendition of the "Pink Elephants on Parade" sequence from Dumbo. Although, the entire show could be considered an Acid Sequence, as it is Mickey's dreams.

Across the way, Disney California Adventure has its own night show, World of Color, which could also be considered one big, long acid sequence in action.

In the E.T. Adventure ride at Universal Studios, the ending celebration sequence on the Green Planet is pretty much this, with the planet sporting very trippy-colors and featuring some quite unusual-looking creatures, including one alien that outright looks like a mushroom.

Video Games

Web Animation

Web Original

Western Animation