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'''Chris:''' Yeah, but this is a ''reprise!'' Not a new song!|''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'', 'Walk Like An Egyptian Part One'}}

 

* In the film version of ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', Seymour and Audrey are about to go into a reprise of "Suddenly Seymour" right before the climax of the film when a Traveling Salesman cuts them off. "If you two lovebirds would stop singing for just one minute..."

* The opening section of the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, after two hectic outbursts, proceeds to a lengthy instrumental recitative, with snippets from the three earlier movements which every time are inconclusively cut off. Though the meaning of these interruptions cannot be precisely explained, after a four bar passage ''not'' borrowed from a previous movement but hinting at the real theme of the finale, the instrumental recitative proceeds quickly to a triumphant cadence, followed by an extensive development of the theme. Between this development and the actual singing of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" to this theme, the music returns to the hectic outburst that opened the movement, and a shorter version of the recitative, this time actually sung, with words which may be taken as explanation for the earlier interruptions:

* Played with in [[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]] when the opening song is reprised at the end. The villain angrily says "will you people stop singing? You've already done this song!" Except he says this ''as part of the song itself''. And the singers ignore him and go on with the song anyway.