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{{quote|''"Jonathan Morris has a dream: to be the first male Knicks City Dancer. There's only one problem...''
'''WHIRRRP!!'''
''...He's the President of the United States!"''
|''The Modern Humorist'', [http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0203/moviecliche/ "Movie Trailer Cliché Theater"]}}
The plot is moving at a predictable pace toward a foregone conclusion. Suddenly, something shocking happens, disrupting the action and going off somewhere totally unexpected. With the sound of a record needle pulled violently across an album, the [[BGM|background music]], along with everything else, comes to a screeching halt.
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[[Discredited Trope|It's hard to use this straight anymore]], with [[Musicalis Interruptus]] having gradually replaced it.
Please note that if you wish to use the sound in a bit of your own, just buy ([https://web.archive.org/web/20110902044013/http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=29938 or get]) a prerecorded version. It's insanely hard to actually produce this noise.
A variant is [[Letting the Air Out of the Band]], which happens when you cut the juice to the rotation motor without disabling the needle.
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== Advertising ==
* A commercial was released by Blockbuster in 1993 starring: "This was to be the year. Dan Marino, eleven year veteran quarterback was to surpass 290 career touchdowns, 3200 completions, and 40,000 yards..." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql1KadeP7aE\]
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== Fan
* ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'
* ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'' does this toward the end.
{{quote|"[[Tempting Fate|roane wil nevr make it in2 r fotress curc! hes nevr gona be able 2]]! muhahhaa!" sad the bron haird wman but ten tha [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness|council]] herd a rcord scatch becus i had just [[Freudian Slip|cum inside them]]! "[[Big No|NOOOOO]]!" eylld all 4 of ten!"}}
* This ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDfBZVm891w fan comic] has a scratch right as Canada registers his [[Epic Fail|massive]] [[Freudian Slip]] while talking to Ukraine.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* This happens in ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]'', when Chong starts playing the song "Secret Tunnel" about half a season ahead of schedule. He gives the excuse that he's "baked like an apple pie right now, man."▼
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== Videogames ==
* Played straight in
* Heard in ''[[Perfect Dark]] Zero'' when you activate the fire alarm in the dance club.
* In ''[[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light]]'', if the player dies, the background music will end with an abrupt record scratch before the screen goes to black.
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==
* And to prove that this trope even functions in a silent medium, there's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130603093320/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070711 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
** And [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091224 this one], as well.
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{{quote|Skkkrrrrrreeeee! (An attempt to render the sound of a phonographic needle skittering across a record through the medium of the alphabet, to signify a "whoa, hold on there little doggy!" reaction.)}}
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' loves this trope, using it in [http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Sound_Effects at least ten cartoons so far]. They use a distinctly different sound effect for it than most works.
▲* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'': When Tristan arrives with his motorbike.
▲* This happens in [[Avatar: The Abridged Series]], when Chong starts playing the song "Secret Tunnel" about half a season ahead of schedule. He gives the excuse that he's "baked like an apple pie right now, man."
* [[Doctor Steel]] used it in ''The Dr. Steel Christmas Special''.
{{quote|"My Christmas tree is simply overflowing with kind gifts. Thank you, ever so much. I simply cannot wait until Christmas. And so... <skrrrrtt!> I won't!"}}
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