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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]] 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance'' used music from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' along with several tracks from ''[[Kare Kano]]''<ref>Hideaki Anno's next series, with music by the same composer</ref> and one track from the 1979 semiclassic ''The Man Who Stole the Sun''.
* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' plays an instrumental version of "[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Over the Rainbow]]" in one of its episodes, though this is thematically relevant since it's the song a character's father used to play on his radio station in the past.
* The Ocean Group dub of ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' reused tracks from previous shows they worked on, including the ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' cartoon.
* [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]] reused parts of the soundtrack for the ''[[Captain Harlock]]'' movie ''Arcadia of my Youth'' in the 1985 ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' TV anime.
* The music created for [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids']] anime dubs would occasionally be reused in other series. Most notably, the theme which had originally been created to serve as [[One Piece|Django's]] theme was latter reused in other series, including an episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward]]''.
* [[Saban]]'s English dubs of anime series such as ''[[The Littl' Bits]]'', ''[[Maya the Bee]]'', ''[[Noozles]]'', etc., reuse many songs between each other, sometime's one show's theme tune even appears in another.
== [[Film]] ==
* The main theme of the Japanese movie ''Yumeji'' was reused as the main character's [[Leitmotif]] in ''[[In the Mood for Love]]''.
* [[James Horner]] re-used one of the minor themes from ''[[Willow]]'' in the soundtrack for ''Once Upon a Forest''.
** He also re-used parts of the ''Willow'' soundtrack yet again in ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]''.
** "Ripley's Rescue" from ''[[Aliens]]'' saw Horner re-use part of the Klingon theme from ''[[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III.]]''
** Parts of the track "Resolution And Hyperspace" from ''[[Aliens]]'' was used in ''[[Die Hard]]'' (as was a track from John Scott's score for ''[[Man On Fire]]'' - the original, not the remake).
** James Horner is notorious for his repetition - all composers do so, but rarely to that extent.
* [[John Williams]] quotes his own Yoda's Theme from ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' in ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' when the eponymous alien sees a child trick-or-treating in a Yoda costume.
* John Williams was too busy to properly do the music on ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Chamber of Secrets''. He managed to compose a few new themes ("Gilderoy Lockhart", "Moaning Myrtle", etc.) and then someone else (William Ross, specifically) was hired to create the ''Chamber of Secrets'' soundtrack out of the new themes and the themes from the previous movie, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. As a result, ''Chamber'' recycles a lot of musical cues from ''Philosopher's Stone''. For example, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHDb025oOo&t=0m41s pixie scene] uses the same music as the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rPUBXLGsdw&t=1m26s flying keys scene]. And the music from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQEcHwRCmo&t=2m38s end scene in the Great Hall] is a slightly remixed version of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIh-OmRGmU Leaving Hogwarts]" from ''Philosopher's Stone''. In fact, it seems Ross had go into Williams' non-''Potter'' work. The music used for the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWESUQUS4tI&t=3m30s Quidditch trench chase] sounds a whole lot like "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LJ3CUGSmXk&t=2m33s The Chase Through Coruscant]" from ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''. (In subsequent ''Potter'' films, music from previous installments other than "Hedwig's Theme" was used very sparingly, resulting in Voldemort having no less than three [[Leitmotif
** When the Boggart turns into a giant snake in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', John Williams quotes the snake theme from ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.
* Hans Zimmer used themes from ''[[The Rock]]'' in at least ''[[Gladiator]]'' and the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' trilogy.
** Roll Tide, from ''[[Crimson Tide]]'', is reused in ''[[Deep Blue Sea]]''.
*** Separated at birth - "Too Many Notes, Not Enough Rests" from ''Drop Zone'' and "He's A Pirate" from the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movies.
* [[Man on Fire]], [[Black Hawk Down]] and [[Gladiator]] have similar soundtracks. Justified in that all three films were directed by the Scott brothers (Riddley and Tony), and all films used the talents of Lisa Gerrard's vocals for several of the arrangements used in all three films.
* Elliot Goldenthal recycled a track from ''[[Alien]] 3'' in ''[[Batman Forever]]''.
* "Snowflake Music" is a track by Mark Mothersbaugh from the movie ''[[Bottle Rocket]]'', which was used again in ''[[Rushmore]]'', also directed by Wes Anderson.
* The music for the "Jews in Space" segment of ''[[History of the World Part One]]'' is reused as the title song for ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]''.
* Philip Glass's "Pruit Igoe" and "Prophecies" from ''[[Koyaanisqatsi]]'' are reused for Dr. Manhattan's origin flashback in ''[[Watchmen]]''.
* Soundtrack from Universal's ''[[Bride of Frankenstein]]'' were reused in ''[[Buck Rogers]]'' and ''[[Flash Gordon Serial|Flash Gordon]]'' serials.
* ''[[Kick-Ass]]'' lifts liberally from John Murphy's earlier work on ''[[Sunshine (film)|Sunshine]]'' and ''[[28 Days Later]]''.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The theme from the original Japanese version of ''[[Iron Chef]]'' was made up of score written by Hans Zimmer (“Show Me Your Firetruck”) for the ''[[Backdraft]]'' movie soundtrack.
* Some of the soundtrack from ''[[Masked Rider]]'' was later used in Saban's dub of ''[[Digimon]]'', and again in ''[[Jim Button]]''.
* The opening theme to ''[[Star Trek: The
* Some music cues from ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' have fallen under this trope:
** A remix of the ''[[Celebrity Charades]]'' theme cropped up at some point.
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* An early prize cue from ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', retired in the early 1990s, became the theme to ''[[Merv Griffin's Crosswords]]'' over 15 years later.
** Conversely, one of the other prize cues on ''Wheel'' was the theme to the 1978 version of ''[[Jeopardy!]]''
* The [[Theme Tune]] from Alex Trebek's ''[[Double Dare (1976 TV Show)||Double Dare]]'' was reused on Jim Perry's ''[[Card Sharks]]'' a year after the former's cancellation. Both shows even had virtually-identical openings.
* The theme from ''[[Fun House|College Mad House]]'' was later used on the Lifetime/PAX [[Game Show]] ''[[Shop 'til You Drop]]'' (which would later lend one of its own prize cues to ''Quicksilver'' as its theme song).
* Three of the [[ABC Family|Family Channel]]'s mid-90's game shows - ''Boggle'', ''Shuffle'' and ''Jumble'' - used the exact same [[Theme Tune]]. ([[No Budget|And the same set, host, announcer...]])
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* The theme to another one of Stewart's shows, ''[[Jackpot]]'', was later used on ''This Week in Baseball''.
* ''[[The Joe Schmo Show]]'', a parody reality-competition program by the same company and many of the same individuals who worked on ''[[The Mole (TV series)|The Mole]]'' used many of the musical themes created for that program, but without any on-screen credit to the original composer, David Michael Frank.
* ''[[What Would You Do?
* Many, many, MANY TV shows from the '50s to the '80s reused music cues, often (but not always) written for the actual series.
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* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 9'' lifts six songs directly from ''[[Mega Man 2]]''.
** The credits music for ''[[Mega Man 4]]'' is the same as ''2'''s title music.
* The theme of the first level of ''Magician Lord'' is reused as the music of the final boss of the first ''[[World Heroes]]''.
* The end theme in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' was used in ''[[Ape Escape]] 3'', albeit as part of a ''Metal Gear'' parody.
* The main theme of ''[[Metal Gear]] Acid'' is actually a countermelody from the piece "Big Shell" from the ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' soundtrack, lifted and orchestrated [[In the Style Of]] the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' theme.
* Some of the levels of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' actually reuse music from the first ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' game. Examples include:
** "Honeybloom and Honeyhop Galaxies" = "Honeyhive Galaxy"
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* ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' actually reused some of the music from both ''Galaxy'' and ''Galaxy 2''! It's especially noticable with the Ghost House music in this game.
* RTS [[Netstorm]] used a score from the mecha-game ''[[Shattered Steel]]''.
* ''[[
* A least a couple tracks from ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' were taken directly from [[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''.
* ''[[Clive Barker's Undying]]'' entire soundtrack (with the exception of the Main Theme) was shamelessly copypasted from the obscure ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' FPS ''[[Trespasser]]''.
* Tommy Tallarico's no stranger to this with his soundtracks: the Beast Engine and Beast Ride levels in ''[[Wild 9]]'' use music from ''[[MDK]]'' and ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'', and Molten Mine in ''[[Sonic Storybook Series|Sonic and the Black Knight]]'' is a rearrangement of "Action Theme" from ''Black Dawn''.
* ''[[Syphon Filter]] 2'''s revisit to the Pharcom Expo Center reuses the music from the first game.
* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'''s Mercenaries mode reused five songs from ''[[P.N.03]]'', which used the same engine.
* ''[[Super Mario XP]]'' reuses background music from various ''[[Castlevania]]'' games.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Peter Bogdanovich's ''What's Up, Doc?'' (1972) ends with an in-flight showing of the [[Looney Tunes]] short "What's Up, Doc?", in which [[Bugs Bunny]] and Elmer Fudd sing the title song, thus resulting in a [[Title Drop]], for both.
* The "Temple of the Night Hawk" roller coaster in Phantasialand (an amusement park in Germany) actually uses [[Dinosaur|"The Egg Travels"]] as the ride's background music.
** Also, compare the soundtracks of ''[[Dinosaur]]'', ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'', and ''[[Treasure Planet]]''. Notice any similarities?
* The music played during the scene from ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'' where Mad Madame Mim [[Loophole Abuse|turns into a dragon]] was actually recycled music from ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' that played during the scene where Maleficent [[One-Winged Angel|turns into]] [[Scaled Up|a um, guess...]]
** the 60s and 70s era Disney movies had a re-occuring "sad" motif. (In ''Sword in the Stone'', it plays when Wart is alone in the destroyed kitchen after being told he won't be going to London, and in ''[[Robin Hood]]'', it plays during the scene where Prince John is fuming about "The Phony King of England" after having thrown the entire town in jail for it, to name a few examples.)
** The music played during Baloo's [[Disney Death]] at the end of ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' was actually recycled from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' during the ending where the seven dwarfs put Snow White's (supposedly) dead body into the glass coffin.
* About halfway through ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', during the scene where the Genie is looking through his cookbook, a brief snippet of the song "Under the Sea" from the earlier Disney film ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' can be heard when Genie can be seen looking at a recipe for "Alaskan King Crab", causing him to pull Sebastian out of said cookbook.
* The 1958 [[Crusader Rabbit]] story arc "The Great Baseball Mystery" uses a tune called "Holiday Jaunt" (by Kurt Rehfeld) as background music in a late chapter. Three years later the tune would be the first theme for the game show [[Password]].
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