Medalist very quickly went from "Oh this is cute and well written" to one of my favorites of all time. Such a great story, beautifully animated, and well voice acted.
Now I need old timey western tabletop campaigns with player piano mimics.
It could even be the "pest disposal!"
Some black-hatted Bart ambles in looking to make trouble and the barkeep seats them next to the "peeany" and suddenly the piano roll stops all the other cowboys, wranglers and regular townsfolk turn their backs. They've seen it before, it's not worth the nightmares.
The keys shift and split and widen into a maw as they sharpen into yellowed and blackened teeth. The sound that follows is a combination of squelching flesh, a brief and suddenly silenced scream, and a piano with all the keys struck at once with great force. The piano roll starts out slow, muffled, like something is stuck between the mallets and strings. Then clearer and speeding towards its regular tempo, the only sign anything happened is the notes on the scroll look freshly printed with blood but that soon dries and darkens to black.
The finale. I'd watched so many shows where the ending was perfect for the show but wasn't ultimately "happily ever after." Whether that was the direction of the writing or idiots in the executive suite
Steven Universe Future, Owl House, Gravity Falls, etc.
Star vs really is a "happily ever after" and made it work within the bounds of the show. Very little lampshading or deus ex machina hand waving.
1.3 on IMDB