Psycho Strings: Difference between revisions

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* Used famously in ([[Trope Namer|duh]]) ''[[Psycho]]''. Alfred Hitchcock supposedly wanted the murder scene to be totally silent, but film composer [[Bernard Herrmann]] had a better idea.

** And the very same strings are used whenever ''[[Carrie]]'' uses her telekinetic powers.

** This was later sent up in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when Homer hears the strings from ''Psycho'' while lost in the woods... but it turns out to be [[Left the Background Music On|an orchestra driving by on a bus]].

** This was later sent up in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer hears the strings from ''Psycho'' while lost in the woods... but it turns out to be [[Left the Background Music On|an orchestra driving by on a bus]].

*** Used in "Bob Next Door" when Homer, Lisa, and Walt enter a room and find hundreds of pictures of Bart that have knives stabbed into them.

** A similar-sounding variation of the shrieking violins plays several times in ''[[Maximum Overdrive]]'' when the machines are trying to kill someone. But then, [[So Bad It's Good|considering the nature of the movie]] and the fact that it's a "horror" movie [[Narm|that's not scary at all]], the Psycho Strings come across as sort of a [[Large Ham]].

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* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar the Last Airbender]]'', several of the scenes in the series finale, featuring {{spoiler|Azula's [[Villainous Breakdown]]}}, are accompanied by these.

* [[Kim Possible]] does it twice, once with Bonnie taking a shower as a homage to [[Psycho]]'s famous scene, and again when music from the film plays after Ron falls off his bike and water comes from his head.

* Hilariously lampshaded in [[The Simpsons]], in the episode ''The Springfield Files'', when Homer hears the strings from Psycho while lost in the woods... {{spoiler|but it turns out to be an orchestra driving by on a bus}}.

* Hilariously lampshaded in [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]], in the episode ''The Springfield Files'', when Homer hears the strings from Psycho while lost in the woods... {{spoiler|but it turns out to be an orchestra driving by on a bus}}.

* Heard twice in ''[[Invader Zim]],'' once when an old lady throws up sawdust on GIR in "Door to Door", and again during one of Dib's crazy fits in "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom".