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{{quote|''Now, come on, one more time for nostalgia's sake: You come see my patient, you teach me a lesson, and then the music plays, right? In my head, it sounds like this: Ba-buh-buh-ba-buh-buh-buh, ba-buh-buh-ba-buh-buh-buh-buhhh.''<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyuLN4TcRc Listen here.]</ref>|'''J.D.''', "My Old Friend's New Friend", ''[[ |
{{quote|''Now, come on, one more time for nostalgia's sake: You come see my patient, you teach me a lesson, and then the music plays, right? In my head, it sounds like this: Ba-buh-buh-ba-buh-buh-buh, ba-buh-buh-ba-buh-buh-buh-buhhh.''<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyuLN4TcRc Listen here.]</ref>|'''J.D.''', "My Old Friend's New Friend", ''[[Scrubs]]''}} |
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The sappy, synthesized, clarinet-heavy music which used to play under emotional moments in sitcoms. |
The sappy, synthesized, clarinet-heavy music which used to play under emotional moments in sitcoms. |
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Named for [[Full House|the worst offender]], although ''[[Scrubs]]'' was pretty damn close. They snapped out of it though. Not to be confused with ''[[House (TV)|House]]''. Or House Music, a [[Exactly What It Says |
Named for [[Full House|the worst offender]], although ''[[Scrubs]]'' was pretty damn close. They snapped out of it though. Not to be confused with ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''. Or House Music, a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|type of music]] that developed out of disco in the [[The Eighties|mid to late 80's]]. |
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** That music was featured so much that the actors themselves imagined that tune during emotional moments of their own lives. |
** That music was featured so much that the actors themselves imagined that tune during emotional moments of their own lives. |
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* ''[[Full House]]:'' The [[Trope Namer]]. Does this during every [[Golden Moment]]. |
* ''[[Full House]]:'' The [[Trope Namer]]. Does this during every [[Golden Moment]]. |
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** Mind you, ''[[Full House]]'' (as well as pretty much every [[ |
** Mind you, ''[[Full House]]'' (as well as pretty much every [[Sitcom]] in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it was the late 80s/early 90s. |
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* ''[[Project Runway]]'s'' "Auf Wiedersehn" music (give or take a clarinet). |
* ''[[Project Runway]]'s'' "Auf Wiedersehn" music (give or take a clarinet). |
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* ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' parodied this music when in season two many hints are dropped that {{spoiler|Buster is actually Oscar's son, not George Sr's}}. |
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' parodied this music when in season two many hints are dropped that {{spoiler|Buster is actually Oscar's son, not George Sr's}}. |
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* ''[[Family Matters]]'' was terrible about this. Loud, soppy music actually sort of kills any emotional scenes. |
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' was terrible about this. Loud, soppy music actually sort of kills any emotional scenes. |
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** Between this series, the [[Trope Namer]] series, ''[[Step |
** Between this series, the [[Trope Namer]] series, ''[[Step by Step]]'' and ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music". |
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** ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less [[Once Per Episode]]. |
** ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less [[Once Per Episode]]. |
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* ''[[Friends]]'' had plenty of this in the episode where Ross's grandmother died. This wasn't the only problem of the episode. The grandma's moment of death was literally played for laughs and [[The Fun in Funeral]] segments hardly worked together with the sappy and fake emotional moments during which the Full House Music plays. |
* ''[[Friends]]'' had plenty of this in the episode where Ross's grandmother died. This wasn't the only problem of the episode. The grandma's moment of death was literally played for laughs and [[The Fun in Funeral]] segments hardly worked together with the sappy and fake emotional moments during which the Full House Music plays. |
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** Same problem when Mr. Heckles dies in season 1 and the group leaves his apartment for the final time. |
** Same problem when Mr. Heckles dies in season 1 and the group leaves his apartment for the final time. |
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* This is constantly used in ''[[Saved |
* This is constantly used in ''[[Saved by the Bell]]''. The music often seems to be the same despite the content of the scene it's playing to. |
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* This seems to be a staple of ''[[Modern Family]]'', particular accompanying the ending voiceovers. |
* This seems to be a staple of ''[[Modern Family]]'', particular accompanying the ending voiceovers. |
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** Still, it's less about being dramatic then the others. |
** Still, it's less about being dramatic then the others. |
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* In ''[[Doug]]'', the same music would play during every emotional moment. |
* In ''[[Doug]]'', the same music would play during every emotional moment. |
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** What's particularly odd is that the main instrument was (of all things) a harmonica! |
** What's particularly odd is that the main instrument was (of all things) a harmonica! |
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* Believe it or not, The [[ |
* Believe it or not, The [[Yogi Bear]] cartoons of the early-60's (along with the late-1980's "New" Yogi Bear Show revival) used this a lot, even in scenes where it made almost no contextual sense (such as when Yogi and Boo Boo are discussing Ranger Smith's birthday in the episode Slap Happy Birthday). |
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