Stupid Statement Dance Mix

""It's too late! They already have it on YouTube! And someone even made it into a music video!""

- Ugly Betty

"Stupid. Statement. Dance. Mix.

Stupid. Statement. Dance. Mix.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Stu-Stu-Stu-Stu-Stu-Stu-StuStuStuStu."

More proof that people on the Internet have too much free time.

So, you just heard the latest stupid thing some celebrity said. It's astonishingly and hilariously stupid; in fact, every time you hear it, it gets funnier and funnier. Actually, after a while, it seems to have its own peculiar rhythm. All you need to do is loop it a few times, set it to a drumbeat, and add a couple of instruments... tada! It's a new song! Make a simple video for it, slap it on YouTube, and you're good to go!

Note that the statement does not have to be stupid. It could have odd diction, or idiosyncratic pronunciation, or something else that made it the grist in the mill of Memetic Mutation. Whatever it was, it's got a nice techno beat now. Recent Real Life examples may be Auto-Tuned to make it even more danceable. To make things even easier, there are now apps for Android and iOS that would automatically do that for you!

Compare Ear Worm, Voice Clip Song and Speedy Techno Remake. See Caramelldansen Vid and Red Zone Remix Vid for specific examples of this trope that have gotten out of hand.

Advertising

 * The Beetis, with Wilford Brimley's Diabeetus commercials.
 * There's also a Dance Mix.
 * Come on rock me Diabeetus!
 * Do you have a problem with limescale, rust, ground-in-dirt? They're a challenge for some household cleaners, but not for CILLIT BANG!
 * "I've fallen and I can't get up" has become such a pervasive meme, it was only natural that when YouTube came about, there'd be dozens of remixes about it.
 * Here's one...
 * Here's another
 * Mixed with the Sparta song
 * We all know the Atomic Bomb is very dangerous...it can burn whole buildings, if someone is careless....
 * We must all get ready now!
 * "Rap Chop" turns the Slap Chop infomercial into a catchy electro number.
 * After following the link, poke around some on DJ Steve Porter's page for more entertaining examples. My favorite: "We talkin' bout practice".
 * Hey, guess what?
 * Do You Like The Smell of Adventure?
 * Esure. Calm Down, Dear!
 * The Broccoli Wad commercial is designed this way/

Anime

 * Timotei!
 * Ever since Vegeta revealed that Goku's power level was over nine thousaaaaaand, the YouTube user Kajetokun made plenty of stupid statement dance mixes, and eventually made a musical: The Pylons Are Trap Balls.
 * Not to mention Kabuto's ninja info cards.
 * "We're jumping onto White Base. AAAAAAAH!"
 * Light letting us know that he'll "take this potato chip...AND EAT IT!!!"
 * Also: sakujosakujosakujosakujoSAKUJO!!!!
 * Both are examples of the aforementioned "Sparta Mix" and "Marisa Stole the Precious Thing" mixes, respectively.
 * Crazy Kira laugh to unfitting background music.
 * Lucky Star/Kirby Super Star is really popular.
 * People really like doing stuff with Lucky Star. More examples.
 * Heck there's stuff with Team Fortress 2 here.
 * What's the time again?
 * Yu-Gi-Oh has pretty Narmy scenes in the Japanese version, and out of them comes some catchy Ear Worms.
 * One such example is Yugi's ORE NO TAAN!.
 * Kaiba, meanwhile, has an practically an entire subgenre consisting of his use of Enemy Controller, and how easily it can be warped and put to music. To wit, here's an example of one.
 * The Japanese have the "Futae no Kiwami" meme, which consists of remixing lines from the various dubbed versions of a Calling Your Attacks scene from Rurouni Kenshin (the English dub being the most popular) into other songs. Mixes range from video game music to anime theme songs to... other remixable stupid statements.
 * "Sata andagi!"
 * Azumanga Daioh got another one: OH MY GAH!
 * PITCHA BIBITTERU HEY HEY HEY
 * Don't call this Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei remix normal! Normal is never meant in a good way! (I know, you were probably expecting me to put "This remix has left me in despair" but people write that so much I thought it'd be nice to do something different.)
 * Roy Mustang really loves them TINY MINISKIRTS!!
 * Gurren Lagann has an official Stupid Statement Dance Mix of another song with Chougattai, which is a rave-esque beat made up of bits from the heavy metal battle theme Gattai Nante Kuso Kurae.
 * Jumping onto White Base features prominently in Mobile Suit Gundam.
 * In this one, Ika-Musume finds herself singing to the Smithy Battle theme from Super Mario RPG. And it works.
 * The Kyubey Rap someone made out of sound clips from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. However, it's in Japanese, so unless you know the language you'll barely know what he's singing.
 * "Oh! Mabushii!" (Musashi Gundoh)
 * Tacos! (pulled from YouTube, you'd have to go to Nico Nico Douga to find it).
 * Amagami SS has its own Nishishishishi~.

Films

 * From 300: Sparta? This is YouTube! It was a fad at one point to take the raw techno beat and put stupid stuff on it. Just search for "Sparta remix" on YouTube, and prepare to cover your ears.
 * It's worth noting that not only do the remixes simply reuse the same techno beat, but many of them also follow the established "template" coined by the original. Hence why many of them center around other famous three(ish)-word phrases to mimic the treatment done to original "This is Sparta!" line. For example, the "THIS IS PATRICK!" one pulls it off perfectly.
 * Same tune, different clips.
 * Hey, now, the Beowulf one deserves special mention.
 * GARBAGE DAY!
 * Who told you you could eat MY cookies?
 * Gears of War 2: A GIANT WORM!
 * MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY!
 * WHO TOUCHED MY GUN!
 * This is Sparta Hotel Mario Style.
 * And in that same spirit: WHOA, WHAT IS THAT, WHAT IS THAT?! BEES!!
 * A LOVELESS MARRIAGE!?
 * THIS IS PBS!
 * I! AM! RARITY!
 * YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME!
 * SO. LONG. DENTAL PLAN! (Lisa needs braces! Lisa needs braces!)
 * C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
 * THIS IS -ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
 * Christian Bale's explosion towards the director of photography on the set of Terminator Salvation has now been turned into a remix.
 * There's even a censored version for children's parties.
 * The infamous Cluster F-Bomb scene from The King's Speech has been given this treatment...with Daft Punk, no less!
 * From The Lord of the Rings: "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" by Erwin Beekveld.
 * Also, "What are potatoes?"
 * Gandalf has decided that you shall not pass...
 * Captain Jack Sparrow has a jar of dirt.
 * And he wants to know why the rum is gone.
 * THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
 * "We know you're heeeeeere, poppet!"
 * "I'll be back."
 * There is now also a Princess Tutu version here.
 * And someone else took the song and remade the thing, Supernatural style: "Dude, where's the pie?"
 * Hot Rod has a scene where two characters start repeatedly yelling "cool beans!" at each other in various ridiculous ways, then suddenly a hip-hop beat starts backing it up. Yes, this happens in the film itself. Looks like they decided to be one step ahead of the internet.
 * A variation of this can be seen in this music video based on a couple of lines from "Silence of the Lambs." Note that while it is mostly footage from the movie, the quotes themselves only make up the chorus.
 * Muggle Pants from a line taken from Goblet of Fire. Made by the Animutation guy and his awesome sister.
 * The legendary "I drink your milkshake!" line from There Will Be Blood lends itself to a few mixes.
 * An Inverse Matrix A Sparta Remix? No, seriously. What. The. Fuck.
 * This Alice in Wonderland remix is surprisingly catchy...if not creepy.
 * ...Pretty much everything else Pogo has done, too. The reason the Alice mix is no longer on his own channel? He's been hired by Disney because his mixes are so awesome.
 * It's Not a Tumor
 * Rare in-media example: Planes Trains and Automobiles used one of these as background music/credits music, consisting of Neil's "You're messing with the wrong guy!" and Del's "Del Griffith," "Hooo-ey," and "It's over, we can laugh about it now" set to a DJish remix completely with Record Needle Scratches.
 * The end of Little Fockers
 * YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY, SIR!
 * Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain?
 * Featured in the Christian Slater movie Pump Up the Volume, where students remix an interview between the anonymous pirate DJ Happy Harry Hard-On.
 * PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN!
 * GIMMIE BACK MA SON!
 * After seeing this remix of the Iron Man 2 trailer, Jon Favreu, the director of the movie, liked it enough to contact the creator and have him do a 45-second version as an official TV spot.
 * "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!!" in a nice little starman mix.
 * Nicolas Cage wants that chocolate cake.
 * He is also a vampire. And a prickly pear. And... a lot of other things. Boner boner boner.
 * pissed BLOOD!!!
 * "Not the bees! NOT THE BEES!! AAAAAAAH!!!"
 * Not-the-bees, notthebees! OH NO NO MY EYES!
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid has The Cheese Touch
 * The theme song from Mortal Kombat could be seen as an official example, since practically every vocal (except the Title Scream) is taken from the announcer of the first game. It's still awesome, though.
 * From Jurassic Park: You shouldn't use Dodgson's name.
 * Harrison Ford wants you to get off his plane.
 * The Room has been given the dubstep treatment.
 * From Iron Man: With a box of scraps

Live-Action TV

 * I'm Wilhelmina Slater and I don't get wet.
 * Parodied on Have I Got News for You, where Charles Clarke's comments on the expenses scandal are deemed worthy of this. "Theivin' bastards!"
 * Dateline NBC with Chris Hansen: Did you say I want to put my Thang in yo mouth, in yo mouth?
 * From Chappelle's Show, FUCK-YOUR-COUCH-NIGGA-FUCK-YO-COUCH
 * "Mmmm, mmmm, bitch! Mmmm, mmmm, bitch-bitch!"
 * DarkMateria's "The Picard Song" and "The Worf Song", which can be found here. See also this music video for it.
 * The song Star Trekkin' by The Firm mostly counts, as well.
 * "Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale/Who put the tribbles in the quadrotritcale/Who put the/Who put the/Who put the/Who put the/Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?"
 * "Shut Up Wesley!"
 * Lemon Demon has a dance mix of lines from Everyday French with Pierre Escargot.
 * Also notable is the trippy Rugrats song.
 * A soundbite from an episode of Cops gave us the Break These Cuffs dance remix, set to the tune of Usher's "Love In This Club."
 * In one episode of The Secret Show, aliens spying on UZZ HQ constructed a 'music' video made of the UZZ leader announcing his name (which, as you know, is changed daily for security reasons.)
 * Stephen Colbert very explicitly stated that he would not tolerate remixes of a recent interview, announcing such intolerance mid-interview. When viewers shockingly went against his wishes, he retaliated by remixing himself.
 * Two weeks later, he made the same statement, then reiterated his statement in rhythm, to make the Reverse Psychology even more obvious.
 * RNC chairman Michael Steele accepted when Stephen challenged him to a rap battle, but he never showed up. So Stephen just had to do it for him.
 * Flight of the Conchords actually has at least one in series example: when someone at a night club comments on the lack of women with "There's too many dicks on the dance floor", we're treated to a techno Group Song composed mostly of repeating said line.
 * Parodied on Law and Order Criminal Intent, in the "WeepingWillow17 episode, itself a parody of Lonely Girl 15. When Megan Wheeler posts a plea to the (apparent) kidnappers of the titular Willow, their response inexplicably starts off with a dance mix. Along with the general Shown Their Work in that episode, the writers probably just wanted to squeeze one more in.
 * Also parodied in Fun with Dick and Jane. After our hero fights Lawrence Dobson to get to a job interview, both men find a line of dozens. Just before they go out for a drink, one of the executives calls Dick into his office. No, not to give him a job, but to call other execs in and show everyone the SSDM based on Dick's statements after his boss crashed the company he used to work for and left him holding the bag.
 * The Judoon song!
 * No, not the mind probe. (With bonus "My dreams of conquest!")
 * IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII DROPPED THE SCREEEEEEEEEEEW IN THE TUNA!
 * Kel loves orange soda.
 * Barney Fife would like to nip this trend in the bud!
 * "God Warrior" by Combichrist takes clips from the infamous episode of "Trading Spouses" regarding the ending freak out by the so called God Warrior. The music however is much darker and more aggressive then most techno or EBM (which is understandable considering that it's aggrotech) and focuses on the horrible idiocy and offensiveness of this woman.
 * Uncle Phil would like to let you know about how much he enjoys pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes.
 * I want a WALDORF SALAD!
 * Harry Hills TV Burp got in on the act with the "Jamie Rap".
 * Fictional Example. In one of the televised versions of Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford novels; Wexford discovers a body at a music festival and has to make an announcement to the crowd asking them to stay until interviewed by the police. The headline act later remixes Wexford's announcement into a dance mix and posts it to him as a ghoulish practical joke.
 * A very old example is the stalker's video from Penn and Teller Get Killed. Penn is very amused with it.
 * The Trope Namer for Narm, Six Feet Under, was turned into a Stupid Statement...Creepy Ambient Mix. Check it out.
 * Wow. He turned Narm into Nightmare Fuel.
 * No. He turned Narm into fucking brilliant Nightmare Fuel.
 * The Jack Bauer DAMMIT Dance!.
 * Jimmy Fallon does a sketch called "Remix the Clips," where he shows a few funny or outrageous YouTube clips and then has Questlove create a Stupid Statement Dance Mix from them on the spot.
 * Nago-san's Nuclear IXA-Cise Dojo. You're welcome.
 * There are many techno mixes of Father Jack saying "Drink!".
 * In an extremely rare live example, Stephen Fry, the host of Quite Interesting, or QI, a panel quiz show, flubs the line "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is ...". The other guests proceed to rib him mercilessly for the next 3-4 minutes, even coming up with a Stupid Statement Dance Mix within 30 seconds of Stephen's flubbing the line.
 * The Young Ones: Rick is still a virgin!
 * OCTAGON!
 * Remixed to Cirno's theme
 * Greg Wallace from Master Chef likes the buttery biscuit base.
 * False Arrest! False Arrest!
 * Bacon is Good for Me!
 * FlashForward brings us "Because I was LOADED, Ok!?"
 * When Paula Deen was a guest judge on Top Chef, she tells a contestant that she loves "Sucking that head."

Music
"We haven't played this one but once all this whole tour
 * The Ur Example is the composition "It's Gonna Rain" by Steve Reich, where he took part of a speech from an over-the-top street preacher and looped it...in 1965. Many of the early pioneers in the techno/trance/house genre cite Steve Reich and specifically this piece as an inspiration.
 * Reich did it again with "Come Out" in 1966.
 * Another early example was Scott Johnson's "John Somebody" which came out in the late 70's. It sampled random bits of phone conversations with friends and recordings of laughter and played guitar riffs to accompany them. Though his work wasn't necessarily to mock them, but to bring attention to the musical quality of the human voice.
 * The band Talking Heads seem to have been instrumental in the development of this trope, oddly enough:
 * An early example comes from lead singer David Byrne and frequent producer/collaborator Brian Eno: The 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is made up of songs based around samples from interviews, field recordings, or TV broadcasts. The samples weren't as 'chopped and screwed' as many of these other examples, and the focus was on sampling-as-an-instrument instead of making fun of celebrities, but the essentials are there: voice samples, played around with and used as if a vocal track, and set to a backing beat.
 * Meanwhile, the Trope Maker might come from a collaboration between keyboardist Jerry Harrison, Bootsy Collins of Parliament/Funkadelic and producer Daniel Lazerus, operating under the name Bonzo Goes to Washington. In 1984, they gave Ronald Reagan's infamous "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke a dance mix.
 * Arguable proto-example: Ice Cube wrote a song called "The Predator" in 1992, whose refrain looped Arnold Schwarzenegger's catchphrase "I'll be back," from the film Terminator.
 * 2 Live Crew. 1989. "Me So Horny." "Me love you long time." Pretty much their entire album catalogue was this trope.
 * Or Ministry - "New World Order."
 * Prince had a #1 hit single with "Batdance". The song is literally two Stupid Statement Dance Mixes mashed together: a maniacal dance beat for Batman and the Joker, with a slinky funk number for Vicki Vale. Each section also got their own 12" remix.
 * Similarly, Madonna's "Now I'm Following You" remix, based on a cover of a 1930s tune heard in Dick Tracy. Madonna even "interacts" with the movie's characters, causing an overlap with another trope.
 * One of the earliest clear examples (predating YouTube by a good ten years) has to be It's a Skull (AKA Valhalla, in the style of... a crap dance mix), which featured vocals made entirely from voice samples taken from Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity, an adventure game for the Amiga, created as an entry to Amiga Power's regular "In the style of..." competition, and later published on the coverdisk a few issues later.
 * Pre-Internet proto-example: At a 1986 Venom concert in New Jersey, the late Joe Cole, roadie for opening act Black Flag, recorded the drunken onstage banter of Cronos, singer for headlining act Venom ("It's called Newcastle Brown Ale! IT KNOCKS YOU ON YOUR FUCKIN' BACK, LET ME TELL YOU!!"), with the songs edited out. Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore released the recorded ranting as an unofficial 7'' single on his record label Ecstatic Peace, and the Beastie Boys sampled it.
 * Madonna "What the fuck do you think you're doing" techno remix
 * Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll. Naming a list of "evil" bands one after another has got a good beat to it.
 * In a very different example we have Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying's side project Austrian Death Machine. The concept is to make brutal, hardcore, thrash/metalcore songs out of Arnie quotes. It even has Chad Ackerman of Destroy the Runner performing Arnie impressions.
 * 80's mutant disco group Was (Not Was) released a dance mix of the first George Bush's "read my lips" speech under the name A Thousand Points of Night.
 * Bass Guitar giant Victor Wooten of all people has one.
 * British art-pop group The Chap, with Never a frown with Gordon Brown.
 * Some of multimedia performance group Emergency Broadcast Network's work in this vein was used as an opening act for U2 in the 90s.
 * TAS-1000's only album, A Message For Marta was all songs based around loops of answering machine messages (taken from a tape that was in a used answering machine a member purchased).
 * "I've been delayed, I've been delayed, I've been delayed, gunna be delayed"
 * "I have passed my examin-a-TION!"
 * Another proto-example would be Negativland's U2 single, which set some bootlegged outtakes of a foul-mouthed Casey Kasem to a cheesy instrumental version of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." Naturally the official release got sued out of existence.
 * Imma let you finish... but I have the best stupid statement mixes of all time, yo!
 * FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST! Made by The Avalanches from various clips from non-musical records (as well as movies).
 * Marcus Kinchin's "Dub of Doom" remix of The Nightcrawlers' "Push The Feeling On" was far more popular than the original song, to the extent that all subsequent remixes were based on his.
 * "Call My Name", an early self-released song by The Spinto Band, did this with The Childlike Empress from the film version of The Neverending Story ("Why don't you do what you dream, Bastian? Call my name! Call my name!").
 * When Paris Hilton's pop album came out, Danger Mouse and Banksy made 500 CDs with a SSDM of all the stupid things Paris has ever said and distributed them randomly in record shops in the UK amongst the real albums.
 * They Might Be Giants' "P.S.O.K." - though there is a brief chorus of sorts sung by John Flansburgh, most of the vocals are sampled stage banter from Kiss's Paul Stanley, sourced from a bootleg collection of banter entitled People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest. It mainly demonstrates how Stanley keeps using variations on the same lines show after show:

We haven't played this one in a long time

I don't think we've played this one in a long time

We haven't played this one in a long time"


 * During his Thing A Week project, Jonathan Coulton did a few of these.

News and Current Affairs

 * Ted Stevens: "The Internet is a series of tubes."
 * Aussies would remember "Pauline Pantsdown", based on remixing words spoken by politician Pauline Hanson from about ten years ago. It wasn't techno but it actually got airtime and reached #5 on the Triple J Hottest 100.
 * Even our "good friend" Jack Thompson is not immune to this phenomenon. Of course, the sheer volume of his stupid statements means you could probably get a full album out of him.
 * Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida student at a John Kerry rally: "Don't taze me, bro! Don't taze me! I didn't do anything!" Fortunately for us, they didn't listen.
 * A variation was the video for "Dirty Laundry"; instead of sound clips, it used video clips of news reporters and anchors.
 * "W's Duty" by Jonathan Coulton is a Stupid Statement Dance Mix of George W. Bush talking about duty, because Jonathan Coulton is willing to admit that it does in fact sound like a word for poop and this is in fact funny.
 * His song "Bacteria" does the same with an employee video about proper sanitation from KFC.
 * Bill Bailey remixes soundbites from politicians, especially George W. Bush, live as part of his act. And occasionally stranger things, like snippets of the weather forecast.
 * JEAN MICHEL JARRE IS A FRAAAAAUD
 * It's taken entirely too long so far to make a techno remix out of Barack Obama's most memorable quotes.
 * There have now been at least a few different attempts.
 * Though it includes a good deal of non-sampled vocals mixed in, there's the self-explanatory Autotune The News.
 * FUCK YOU DEPUTY STAGG, FUCK YOU.
 * For anyone who's not in Ireland, this is of when a Member of the Irish Parliament, Paul Gogarty, exclaimed that in the middle of a debate.
 * Former Hungarian Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcs Ã¡ny was as much parodied as he was criticized for his famous speach. The infamous lines "because we fucked it up" and "in this bitch of a country" are pretty frequent in remixes. It's even funnier when the mix is done to the tune of what was the theme song for his own electoral campaign.
 * An old one: a techno remix of Hugo Chavez (or someone imitating him) repeating the refrain "palo por ese c*** " ("get [their] ass beaten", roughly) over and over, among other controversial statements. Apparently the mix was created by his opposition, but in an ironic twist the song was adopted by his own followers.
 * And the remix of the King of Spain chewing Chavez out with approximately, "Why don't you shut up?"
 * It doesn't get any more stupid than this, when a reporter says, "He climbed to the top of Mount Everest, but... he's gay. Excuse me, he's blind." The short version, with just the stupid statement, can be found here or here and here and here and the remix can be found here and mostly here. It never ceases to be hilarious and painful.
 * Struttin' that ass.
 * Courtesy of Auto Tune the News: SO YOU CAN RUN AND TELL THAT RUN AND TELL THAT RUN AND TELL THAT HOMEBOY HO-HO-HOMEBOY!
 * Hide your kids, hide your wives, hide your kids, hide your wives, hide your kids, hide your wives, and hide your husbands cuz they be rapin' everybody out here...
 * And now, the extended iTunes version!
 * Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the promised land, it's just New Jersey
 * The "Chk-Chk Boom!" girl, a Kings Cross resident who gave a fabricated eyewitness account of a public shooting to A Current Affair complete with the aforementioned sound effect, has been turned into several dance mixes.
 * While he was watching Gaddafi's latest rant promising to destroy the pro-democratic uprising against him, Israeli musician Noy Alooshe thought that the dictator's crazy gesticulations and speech patterns reminded him of a trance party. The result: Zenga Zenga, the same speech autotuned to Pitbull's "Hey Baby." It's become popular among members of the Libyan opposition.
 * From Songify This: I WAS BANGING SEVEN GRAM ROCKS, THAT'S HOW I ROLL, WINNING!
 * For more brilliance, there's Totalcult's Fire Breathing Fists, which includes Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Membrane".
 * Anthony Weiner fans have put together several remixes of his 9/11 responders rant: autotuned, set to "Jump Around", and with epic background music.
 * At least two have come out of the Arab Spring, based on Gaddafi's "Zenga Zenga," (street by street), one featuring Shakira.
 * Nobody Canna Cross it!
 * Ain't nobody got time for that!
 * Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago's rantings at the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona, now autotuned.

Traditional Games

 * YOU! The One Who Is Grooving Now... is a mix made up of sound clips from the Star Trek the Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game.

Radio

 * Sandi Toksvig pronouncing "Eyjafjallajökull" on The News Quiz, with additional material by Andy Hamilton. This was played on the show itself the following week.

Video Games

 * "My name is Harry Mason, I'm in town on vacation. My name is Harry Mason, I'm in town on vacation."
 * Just so we do not forget ye olde classic All Your Base. Or its derivatives, like All Your Snakes.
 * Marisa Stole the Precious Thing from the Touhou games, and every remix of the song done to a series. Check out Ryuuguu Rena's version as an example.
 * There is also a remix of Marisa Stole the Precious Thing comprised entirely of sounds heard at JR Line train stations in Japan, mostly prerecorded messages like "the doors are now closing" and various station announcements.
 * And one set to a product recall announcement, of all things. Panasonic wasn't very good at making sure their kerosene heaters didn't cause carbon monoxide poisoning back in the 80s.
 * The Windows XP version is even better.
 * JEALOUS and OH SHIIII at 1:58
 * Let us not forget Victims of Science and the techno remix of lines from Portal "The Device Has Been Modified"
 * That would be an Awesome Statement Dance Mix.
 * Oracle Turret from Portal 2 relates the story of "Prometheus".
 * And Cave Johnson details what exactly he does when life gives him lemons. Cave Johnson Prototype Fire Lemon Remix v2
 * Speaking of Pylons. You must construct additional ones.
 * Earthbound + Japanese McDonald's commercial = Ronald McGiygas. And Nightmare Fuel.
 * The Touhou version.
 * Here's that same song, but with the original character doing it, with a side of (inevitable, considering who it is) Nightmare Fuel.
 * Falcon PAAAAWNCH!
 * Show me yuh moves!
 * Now we know who U.N. Owen Was! He would like to invite you to Flowering Night. He Punched The Precious Thing too.
 * The Kirby Punch, U.N. Owen, and Mc-Giygas all originated from Nico Nico Douga. The Japanese know a thing or two about stupid statement dance remixes.
 * The Red Alert 3 trailer is more a compilation of Awesome Statement Dance Mixes, but it also includes "All your base are belong to us", courtesy of George Takei.
 * The Imperial Guard Song from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
 * Likewise there is The Glarthir Song
 * "Super Bonk Land" and its many imitators over on YouTube using the Scout from Team Fortress 2.
 * While rarer, there also exist ones for the other characters, like these two for the Heavy.
 * And now the Soldier's take on it.
 * There's also a series of techno remix songs made by a user called Scoutellite that are comprised mainly of voice clips from various TF2 classes:
 * I'm Moovin Nis - Engineer
 * Surprise Buttsecks and The Brilliant Spoys - Spy
 * Snipers Godly Knife - Sniper, obviously.
 * See! - Soldier and Demoman. This song also references a popular TF2 fad.
 * Guro az! - Soldier and Sniper, with bits of Engineer later in
 * Heavy Beats Guy and Heavys New Weapon - Heavy
 * Gentlementlemen - Spy.
 * Sentry go-go down-n-up-n-dammit gotta move ­­­that gear!.
 * "Erectin' Gear". Similar to Erectin' a River, except the lyrics are pretty much The Engineer delivering a Reason You Suck Speech to the entire enemy team.
 * You would not BELIEVE how much this hurts.
 * The above is also notable for being released only a day after the release of Meet the Medic.
 * Fair warning: That last one loops twice, throws in a couple of stingers, then ear-rapes you.
 * Left Right Left Right Poo-Poo-Poo-Pootis!
 * No BGM version here.
 * And of course, Pokemon music. Hasn't got any BGM. Impressive.
 * Overtime Overtime Overtime.
 * MORE ROBBLE, LESS TROBBLE!


 * We've managed to avoid drowning!
 * Minamimoto's Zetta Mix. And while we're on the subject of stupid statements: Beat's Bwaagh Mix. That last one may turn your brain to mush. Proceed with caution.
 * Let's not forget Riiiiiiiiidge Racer, the Giant Enemy Crab and 599 U.S. dollars!
 * Giant Crab, Enemy Crab: Based on Japanese history. It makes me wonder why no paleontologists have looked for giant crab corpses in Japan.
 * It's Ridge Racer. '''RIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAAAAAACER!!
 * Nintendo actually did this in their soundtrack albums for Kirby 64 and the original Super Smash Bros. in the form of "Club Mixes".
 * From Super Smash Bros.:
 * Yoshi's Island Stage
 * How to Play
 * Bonus Game
 * Training Mode
 * From Kirby 64:
 * In the Field
 * The Bosses
 * The Ballad of Black Mesa is basically an iPod commercial composed entirely of gunfire and Quotes from Half Life 2
 * There are also ballards for Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, and Counter Strike.
 * A guy takes Counter-Strike a little too seriously, not knowing that his buddies are recording him, and gives the world The Terrible Mr. Grimshaw
 * Francis from Left 4 Dead hates everything. Except vests.
 * I CAN'T WAIT TO BOMB SOME DODONGOS!
 * And of course, the Leeroy Jenkins techno remix.
 * Valve seems to have taken them YTPMVs to heart, as the snippet of the Team Fortress 2 theme at the end of "Meet the Spy" is overlaid with sounds of the Spy stabbing the Soldier and Heavy, complete with the victims' cries. Of course the fandom is leaping onto the footage with abandon, and we should expect to see every "standard SSDM" using it out by the next month latest.
 * Every World of Warcraft player knows about the belt, leather belt, leather beltbeltbeltbeltbeltbeltbeltbelt.
 * My name is Harry Mason, I'm in town on vacation.
 * Do a Barrel Roll...to Moscow!
 * In the Metroid The Other M trailer, a mysterious black guy says two words: "Remember Me?" We will now, buddy. We will now.
 * Alternatively, he starts talking about vampires and sounds like a B-side that fell off the back of The Misfits back in 1981.
 * You are going to DPS very slowly. You are going to DPS fucking slow.
 * There's better (or would it be worse?). Angry raid leader, meet The Dolly Song.
 * Lord Jaraxxus, XT-0002 Deconstructor, Algalon the Observer, Thorim, and even the Onyxia Wipe guy have all been subjected to this by Mr. Voletron. Freaking EarWorms.
 * Dr. Robotnik has always been a Youtube Poop star, but his most popular videos involve him singing:
 * "Tomorrow I'll..."
 * "Two Great Things"
 * "It's from The Show"
 * "Robotnik's Tea Party"
 * "Why?"
 * "Planet Freedom"
 * "Robotnik Wants his Money Back"
 * And of course the actual Sonic the Hedgehog games have inspired a few:
 * "Don't Touch It!" (To the tune of "You Can't Touch This", no less.)
 * Too many phrases to list and its sequel.
 * Get a load of dis! G-G-GET A LOAD OF DIS!
 * AUG AUG AUG, AK AK AK AK! AUG AUG AUG, AK AK AK AK! AUG AUG AUG, AK AK AK AK!
 * Hailing from Super Smash Brothers: Mario, Wario... Lu-Lu-Lu- Lucario!
 * Mass Effect: There's the Priiiize Techno Porno Groove Mix. It was only a matter of time before we got the logical conclusion. "Look at this...HUMAN. I WILL SHOW YOU TRUE POWER. Sneaking into the captain's quarters...I KNOW YOU FEEL THIS."
 * Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex-Wrex-Wrex
 * BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH! BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH! BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH!
 * Ah, yes Reapers. Hi-ass Reapers!
 * Commander Shepard taught Conrad Verner to be truly EXTREME.
 * Calibrations. Calibrations. Calibrations. Can it wait for a bit? Wait. Calibrations...
 * Puzzlingly, the end-credits music for Sanitarium is a remix of various lines from the game. It may not be one statement over and over, but it's close enough to this trope to be amusingly incongruous with the rest of the game.
 * that's memes? Daijoubu da, mondai
 * A pretty epic remix of Star Trek KLINGON
 * Francis hates many things.
 * And now we have Sebastian of Dragon Age II remixed. Maker nooo, we can't go a day without that!
 * "Have you ever licked a lamppost in winter?" techno-fied, here.
 * I.M. Crazy
 * Existed in 1996 via a Lords of the Realm 2 Easter Egg. My lord. Yes? My lord. What now?
 * There are several remixes of a Let's Play for Super Kaizo World when the LPer, Proton Jon is spin-jumping on a Pokey, which is moving at an excruciatingly slow pace (rather bad, since he only has 100 seconds to complete the course). His cries of "MOVE FASTER POKEY!" have apparently undergone Memetic Mutation. "Groove faster Pokey!"

Web Series/Original

 * Chuggaaconroy's epic freakout at apparently losing 98 blue Pikmin.
 * Spoofed at more than twice by Homestar Runner, with The System Is Down, Song About Sibbie and The Cheat's indie-tronic remix of the Geddup Noise.
 * This Azumanga Daioh version of the album version of the first one created a stir a while back.
 * YTMND is made of this trope. Take a look at what they did with this gem from 3rd Rock From the Sun.
 * And this one from Lost.
 * The "Series of Tubes" remix above originated on YTMND, too (though not with the accompanying visuals). Here's the original source, for the curious.
 * This YTMND uses this trope to brutally mock Michael Richards's apology for the infamous Laugh Factory incident that probably ended his career.
 * Space Ghost Rave wouldn't be out of place at all on Adult Swim, honestly.
 * The Kitty Cat Dance.
 * Paul Fetch's repetitious and ungrammatical declaration of war against Anonymous got turned into I'M TAKIN' U SRS.
 * Youtube Poops are filled with these. They're called YTPMVs. And they could make this page on their own with their raw amount...
 * CONTAIN PINGAS
 * Most epic of them all however, is PingasBoink, a collaboration with the Scout (mentioned earlier on the page).
 * Mmmorshu. You want it? It's my
 * Half-life: Full Life Consequences remix
 * This catchy, hypnotic, and well done remix of some of Something Awful Let's Player Raocow's stream of conscious commentary while playing a Mario game.
 * There's more where that came from
 * Try this. Recommended for those who have trouble staying awake!
 * UN Owen was reeeeeeeeeeeeaally angry.
 * The folks at the mrbrown show took several soundbites from the National Day address, made by the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, and then remixed them to the rhythm of "My Humps" by the Black-Eyed peas. This one needs a bit of context first: the Prime Minister had made a jarring malapropism when he addressed an earlier podcast by the mrbrown show, in which an aspiring politician can't get his order of noodles, because the hawker has surveillance footage proof that he did not order what he had claimed to. This in itself was referencing an incident that happened during the 2006 General Elections in Singapore. The Prime Minister countered this by saying "I will say, mee siam mai hum", which means "rice vermecilli without cockles". However, the dish of mee siam is never eaten with cockles anyway, which demonstrated how out of touch the Prime Minister, and his scriptwriters, were with the people. It can be argued that he was trying to say hiam, or "chillies/spice", but who eats non-spicy mee siam anyway? At any rate, you can check it out here.
 * From Singapore, a Miss World candidate brings us the highly-localised 'Boomz' meme. And the Discovery Channel.
 * The infamous YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO reaction to Boku No Pico has been given a hardstyle mix by Japanese producer USAO.
 * Also, dubstep.
 * "We No Speak Americano" is an exceeding popular example of this, having become a Top 40 hit in the US.
 * Coppercab, a Youtuber who posts videos expressing his outrage at the treatment of redhaired people (like himself) by his peers, is a rather hilarious target for this type of thing.
 * Invoked by Peeves, who makes a Stupid Statement Dance Routine out of Ginny's Valentine card to Harry. Everybody sing it with me! His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, his hair is as dark as a blackboard...
 * In the wake of the Newgrounds' Street Fighter Collab project comes the Pound Cake Remix.
 * Strong Bad, and the fact that he will never ever ever write a song about Sibbie.
 * I. Friggin hate Sibbie....
 * The Mysterious Ticking Noise video from Potter Puppet Pals is essentially one of these.
 * "Dykes Dykes China" by vivitheg takes one of Chris-chan's most infamous rants and makes it catchy as hell.
 * There was another one, using his rant/demand for people to remove his "tour of my house" video from various websites, but it's gone now. (Anyone manage to save that one?)
 * Honeydew is a dwarf, and he's digging a hole.
 * True Capitalist gets this a lot. So much so, that its host hates it.
 * Quarter-Life's horrible grammar has even been touched by this trope, sparking a small series of Galaxy Man remixes. The original is here
 * Wolfgang, Pass auf! here. The statement, from a video called Reifenverlust, "loss of a tire," quickly became a meme in the German-speaking world. (The title, in case you were wondering, means "Wolfgang, look out!" or "Wolfgang, heads up!")
 * This thread on rpg.net is essentially a text-based version.
 * The RPG Makers decided to challenge someone to do this. This video is all you need.

Western Animation
"Reagan: well, well, well, we-we-we-we-we, well, well, well, we-we-we-we-we...
 * Homer Simpson's "Rappin' Ronnie Reagan" tape.

Homer: Hee hee. You know what? He did say "well" a lot!"

"Candace: Mom! Phineas and Ferb are digitally tuning my voice!"
 * Someone alse made one of Ralph playing an endless game of Duck, Duck, Goose, even after everyone else has long been gone in the german dub. Complete with a video loop.
 * This video uses lines from the South Park movie mixed to a techno-ish beat.
 * "I'm not your friend, buddy!"
 * "I hate you guys!"
 * Ginger kids
 * Suck my balls!
 * THEY TOOK URR JOBS!
 * The Bloodhound Gang did a variant on this with their song "Ralph Wiggum," which is a song made entirely out of quotes by, well, Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. "I'm a pop sensation," indeed. Though technically, one line was spoken to him, instead of by him.
 * From the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Three Squares and an Ed" comes Ed's Grounded Rap.
 * Even more popular, and older, is Eddy's Dickie Rap.
 * The Bagel Song, which has Luigi from the Super Mario World cartoon saying "Bagel" over and over again to the tune of "Yakkety Sax."
 * From Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - XR Remix is mostly a remix of "XR?" "XR!" and some funny clips of the guy.
 * SO. LONG. DENNAL PLAN.
 * MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE you're breaking my HEARRRRRRRRRRRT
 * ''I'm Not Your Boyfriend (dance mix) from Chowder
 * The strange part? That was actually from Cartoon Network, not some random remixer.
 * Lets see how you do against Kung Fu Cutman!
 * But-but-but-but-I am the ro-bot! I am the ro-bot!
 * Yzma would like to tell you her evil plan... to club music! SMASH IT WITH A HAMMA!
 * Dexter's dad has a few YTPM Vs dedicated to him repeating the same line over and over.
 * Punch Your Buns- Ryden Ridge Remix
 * There is not enough room on this page to list all the remixes of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, and we don't want to play favorites, but just Take Our Word for It that there a lot of them. It might be exaggerating to say every line from every episode has been incorporated into one somewhere, but only slightly.
 * Phineas and Ferb gives us a rare canon example: There Is No Candy In Me.
 * And that's not that show's only canon example


 * Spongebob SquarePants in the movie soundtrack is "Prince Paul's Bubble Party" which remixes lines on the episode Bubblestand.
 * Adventure Time another canon example is Jake make one out of the old recordings of Dad in Dads Dungeon.

Unsorted
"YouTube Comment: I just got rickrolled by some retarded kid with an orange coming out his nose..."
 * Tear open the heavens! Gather brother soul blades!. It synced perfectly enough to make a Dance Dance Revolution stepfile for simulators to it.
 * Charlie bit my finger
 * Not exactly an example of this trope as it isn't a celebrity or movie quote, but instead about how astronomer Patrick Moore plays the xylophone (or least he did till arthritis stopped him). "Par-pa-pa-pa-pa-Patrick!"
 * Robert Byrd's "Barbaric" speech got the treatment in this YTMND.
 * L Ron Hubbard said a lot of stupid things that make a great remix
 * German late-night commedian Stefan Raab has done quite a few of these, most famously involving the german chancelor singing "Go get me a bottle of beer, else I'm going on strike!"
 * Though his canonical example of the trope may just be 'Maschen-Draht-Zaun'.
 * Nafiza Ziyad, who's apparently PRESSIN CHARGES
 * Dude, you have no Koran!
 * The immortal and legendary Karl Pilkington gave us "I Could Eat a Knob at Night" from the first series of the Ricky Gervais podcast.
 * He's not the only one...
 * A more serious take on this can be found here. It takes statements made by politicians and media commentators and remixes them into songs, in order to make a statement on the power of the media.
 * Dennis Green's "The Bears are who we thought they were!" rant became the "Crown Their Ass Remix."
 * Even talking cats are not immune to this. Oh Don Piano!
 * I Rub My Roast.
 * Super Timor!
 * Developers, developers, developers, developers! (Steve Ballmer)
 * This Youtube channel is entirely based on pasting the "I'm Black Y'all" rap from the hip-hop mockumentary CB 4 over various VGM songs. With hilarious results, of course.
 * Stark Effect's Mic In-Track, an EP of techno songs based around anonymous internet-users' home recordings, which were unwittingly shared on peer-to-peer file-sharing programs due to being left in the same folder as their shared music. "Bunny Rabbits Satan Cheese And Milk" and "Eeples And Beeneenees" best fit the stupid statement dance mix formula, though "I Miss You" is actually downright sad.
 * If this statement is false, then this statement is true. And Alfred Tarski can't save you now, bitch.
 * Looks like a alien invaduh!
 * Note: The original commercial is very facepalm worthy. Don't watch it!
 * I love GIRUGAMES.
 * This isn't so much a Stupid Statement Dance Mix as it is an Incoherent Noises Dance Mix, but it still kicks ass.
 * They're making dance mixes using words from a hot-blooded tennis player? WHAT?!
 * Everything Renard has ever made.
 * Cake slop now also has its own SSDM.
 * SLAYER!
 * Here's one in Cantonese, taken from the Bus Uncle video.
 * Fall on Your Sword have produced a few, most notably Shatner on the Mount, though to be fair, a full album of stupid statement dance mixes could probably be made from but a fraction of Shatner's ramblings.
 * The Tiger Woods voicemail slowjam.
 * Here is an example of how a SSDM can be used to pay tribute to the most iconic figure in Professional Wrestling.
 * Popular British YouTuber Ashens released this video and noticed that his breaths were highly audible. (This is due to the camcorder's microphone being directly below his mouth.) So someone decided to isolate them. Then this happens. Stupid Breathing Dance Mix.
 * Ashens later reviewed a handheld game called Retieval Mankind's Batman for his popular Popstation Watch videos. He made a passing joke about how the tat looked like a fat Batarang. Then, this video happened.
 * Ashens himself made one from an old clip from Columbo. He plays it anytime he needs to show off a device's audio quality instead of playing a licensed song and risking a takedown notice.
 * Bring a chicken to the doctor.
 * Somebody call an AMBERLAMPS!
 * Whoa-oh Black Betty -AMBERLAMPS!- Yeah-ha Black Betty -AMBERLAMPS!-
 * Not a "statement" really, but a dog that makes strange noises when its owner attempts to hold it's mouth shut has inspired several remixes, including hip hop, dubstep, trololo, and of course the ubiquitous sparta mix.
 * Courtesy of Vangaurd on Current TV: Dr. Martin Ssempa who can't tell the difference between shock vidoes, coprophagia and homosexuality: Dey Eat Da Poo Poo!
 * Here are some more.
 * I'm interested in most phases of data processing
 * Do you like the smell of adventure?
 * DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY!
 * Now 20% cooler.
 * The many "We're Brothers Forever" remixes surely qualify.
 * In-universe with Willy Pete and "f**k a robot", in Empowered.
 * Here's one that spans over 75 years of video media.
 * Bill O'Reilly WE'LL DO IT LIVE! No good "The tide comes in, the tide goes out" remixes yet, though.
 * Correction!
 * How many times they take yo pitcha, Patti? THREE TIMES!!!
 * Didier Drogba's "It's a Disgrace" after Chelsea's UEFA Champions League loss.
 * This marvellous mash-up of several Alan Rickman roles.
 * Here's a "Sparta Rickroll Remix".