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For those pieces with well-entrenched meanings, see [[Standard Snippet]].
For a similar practice in [[Fan Fiction]], see [[Virtual Soundtrack]].
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== Advertising ==
* ''[[Let's All Go to the Lobby]]'': The jingle's [[Ear Worm]] tune is "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow".
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHhp9NEF79E This commercial] for the game ''[[Perfection]]''; the tune is "Pop Goes the Weasel", appropriately.
== Anime ==
* The final episode of [[Irresponsible Captain Tylor]] makes EPIC use of Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture for one of the greatest [[Bait and Switch]] of all time, it has to seen to be believed.
* The ending theme to ''[[Dragon Half]]'' is a medley of [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]] symphonies... with newly written lyrics about ''omelettes''. (No, seriously.)
* ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' featured Ravel's "Bolero".
* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' uses the [[Ominous Latin Chanting|"Lacrimosa"]] from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]'s ''Requiem'' in a flashback in the fourth episode. (You'll hear his name a lot on this page.)
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* Partial example: While ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' contains many original songs, the background music also includes arrangements of [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s Scherzo in E minor and Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain".
* ''[[Gattaca]]'' used a modified version of Franz Schubert's Impromptu in G-flat major, Op. 90, No. 3 with extra notes added for a concert scene involving a pianist genetically engineered with 12 fingers.
* The above examples are only a very small sample: the use of classical music in Hollywood films is VERY frequent. [https://web.archive.org/web/20040803171201/http://home.pacific.net.sg/~bchee/movies.html Here] is a more comprehensive (though not exhaustive) list.
* Trailers for films (though mostly for TV Spots) use ''Hall of the Mountain King'' A LOT. Although in the UK the music is heavily associated with the Alton Towers theme park, so it always seems odd when it turns up anywhere else- for example the recent Windows Phone 7 advert, which has confused a lot of people (especially as it includes a clip of people on a rollercoaster).
** Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" is very heavily used in trailers, particularly after a movie had debuted in theaters and is a box-office and/or critical success.
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* Whereas film lovers will identify "Also sprach Zarathustra" with ''2001'', in the mind of the wrestling fan, the song is synonymous with [[Ric Flair]].
* [[Jerry Lawler|Jerry "The King" Lawler]] has long used Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Great Gate of Kiev movement) as his entrance theme.
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler [[The Undertaker]]'s most common and well-known theme is a variation of Chopin's funeral march.
* And who can forget Doink the Clown entering to "Entry of the Gladiators"? ([[Discontinuity|as much as we wish we could]])
** [[Monster Clown|BITE YOUR TONGUE, CHURL!]]
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== Radio ==
* ''The Lone Ranger'' on both radio and television used the finale of Rossini's ''William Tell'' overture ("March of the Swiss Soldiers") as its opening theme.
** And the radio series ''[[The Green Hornet]]'' used Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Flight of the Bumblebee
*** It worked ''beautifully'', though, especially in ''[[The Lone Ranger]]''. Who can forget Liszt's "Prelude to a Silver Bullet", and Mendelssohn's "Rustler's Cave Overture"? The damn thing was ''perfect''. Few people can listen to "March of the Swiss Soldiers" without at least thinking "Hi-yo Silver!"
* The opening music to [[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue|'You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal']] is a pipe version of the Rondo from Mozart's 4th Horn Concerto.
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** Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" was always played when the Mynah Bird showed up in [[Chuck Jones]]' "Inki" series.
** Franz Liszt's second Hungarian Rhapsody just might be the most used work in [[Western Animation]]. [[Looney Tunes]] used it in "Rhapsody Rabbit", ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' used it in "Cat Concerto" (these two were so similar, each studio accused the other of plagiarism), ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' used it, and it was used in the [[Donald Duck]]/Daffy Dueling Pianos skit at the Ink & Paint Club in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' has this so [[smurfing]] much. [[wikipedia:The Smurfs (Hanna-Barbera series)|See The Other Wiki for more details.]]
* ''Roughnecks: [[Starship Troopers]] Chronicles'' uses a remix of Beethoven's "'Pathetique' Sonata #8 Op. 13".
* The [[Original Video Animation|made for video]] ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]'' had songs with music from various classical pieces, including Beethoven's ''Fifth Symphony'', Offenbach's ''Can-Can'', and Tchaikovsky's ''Dance of the Reed Flutes''. The finale took place during an opera [[Anachronism Stew|made up of selections of operettas by]] [[Gilbert and Sullivan]].
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* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' uses a portion of Vivaldi's ''Spring'' from the Four Seasons suite, a version of Johann Strauss' ''Blue Danube Waltz'', Jacques Offenbach's ''Infernal Galop'' (Can-Can) and a number of others.
** Also, the NFL song "The Lineman" is probably better known as the theme of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy than its original use.
* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' incorporates both "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and "Flight of the Bumblebee" in the opening theme along with the theme music of the original video game.
* One of the songs on the ''[[Street Fighter (animation)|Street Fighter]]'' cartoon's soundtrack is a rendition of "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", which notably plays over M. Bison's infamous "[[Memetic Mutation|YES! YES!]]" scene.
* While they did a few original songs (most notably, "Witch Doctor"), the 1960s-era [[Alvin and The Chipmunks|Chipmunks]] otherwise did mostly public domain songs, albeit their own personal takes on them (e.g., "Old Macdonald Cha-Cha-Cha").
* Invoked/parodied in an episode of ''[[American Dad]]'' when Roger joins Steve's band and plays rock n roll version of "Jimmy Cracked Corn" and "Ba Ba Black Sheep". He even goes on to say they have over a hundred hits already.
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': ''[[Wakko's Wish]]'' has a musical number sung to the tune of the second "Hungarian Rhapsody".
* The ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' opening theme is, naturally, "Pop Goes the Weasel" with different lyrics.
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