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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", ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''}}
 
The sappy, synthesized, clarinet-heavy music which used to play under emotional moments in sitcoms.
 
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 Onon 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.
* ''[[Full House]]:'' The [[Trope Namer]]. Does this during every [[Golden Moment]].
** Mind you, ''[[Full House]]'' (as well as pretty much every [[Sit ComSitcom]] 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.
* ''[[Project Runway]]'s'' "Auf Wiedersehn" music (give or take a clarinet).
* ''[[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}}.
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' was terrible about this. Loud, soppy music actually sort of kills any emotional scenes.
** Between this series, the [[Trope Namer]] series, ''[[Step Byby Step]]'' and ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
** ''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]].
* ''[[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.
** Same problem when Mr. Heckles dies in season 1 and the group leaves his apartment for the final time.
* This is constantly used in ''[[Saved Byby the Bell]]''. The music often seems to be the same despite the content of the scene it's playing to.
* This seems to be a staple of ''[[Modern Family]]'', particular accompanying the ending voiceovers.
** 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.
** What's particularly odd is that the main instrument was (of all things) a harmonica!
* Believe it or not, The [[Yogi Bear (Animation)|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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