Mundane Made Awesome/Radio
Examples of Mundane Made Awesome in Radio include:
- Parodied many times in The Goon Show, as in the following example:
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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had a moment like this in episode 20, when Arthur comes back home and finds a mysterious present: a fishbowl engraved with these words: "So long, and thanks for all the fish." The musical score gives one the impression of some legendary item.
- He later discovers an interesting message when he holds it up to his ear and taps it.
- Italian radio comedy show "610" (in Italian, spelling each digits of the title results in an insult) has a sketch based on this trope, involving "Pier Maria Carletti", a character 100 times dumber and weaker than an average man. When he ate his own vegetables after they got corrupted by an alien fuel, he gained a superpower: his strength, as well as his brain, got enhanced. But becoming 100 times stronger than he was, ironically Pier Maria Carletti becomes - therefore - like any other average guy. This didn't stop him from making a superhero costume however, resulting in the "super hero" Normalman. Also, as a twist on your usual Clark Kenting (despite both Pier Maria and Normalman wearing glasses), he has to obfuscate stupidity!
- On I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, there's a few rounds where the studio audience have to know the name of a work. What do they do? Announce that they're going to display the title of the work on the megabyte magic of their liquid-crystal satellite-linked all-purpose laser display board...which is just the producer coming on stage with a cue card. This also serves to confuse the listeners at home, who wonder why the studio audience start laughing when the title is shown.
- Also, this is mixed with Lyrical Dissonance in the round One Song To The Tune Of Another. The panellists have often sung the words of something mundane or humorous to the tune of something extravagant and melodramatic -- like The Marrow Song to the tune of There'll Always Be An England.
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