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Can become an [[Overly Long Gag]] if held ridiculously long—and it often ''is''—unless, of course, it's not meant to be a gag at all. A parodic version, for instance, would demonstrate just how unbearably long the character is holding that note for, and other characters will probably try to stop it. Doesn't have to be the last note of the song, by the way—long notes tend to appear in the middle of the song as well.
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== Parodic Examples ==
* ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'' has the song "Canaan Days." The end features the brothers holding a note for a very long time, running out of breath (possibly making a joke about cigarettes), ''and then resuming the note.''▼
▲* [[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]] has the song "Canaan Days." The end features the brothers holding a note for a very long time, running out of breath (possibly making a joke about cigarettes), ''and then resuming the note.''
* ''[[The Three Caballeros]]'' has Panchito singing the last note of the title song to the annoyance of the other members, who precede to do everything in their power to stop him. Nothing works.
* The end of [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song ''[[Spy Hard]]'', has him singing an incredibly ''high'' note for so long, that '''his head [[Your Head Asplode|explodes]]!'''
** Which itself is a parody of the theme from the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movie ''[[Thunderball]]'' sung by Tom Jones, who (according to a debunked legend) held the final note so long he passed out.
** Which is in turn a shout-out to the them from the earlier ''[[James Bond]]'' movie ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' sung by Matt Monroe, who held the last note of that song considerably longer than Jones did.
* ''[[Shrek]]'' had a similar gag to ''Spy Hard''
** It's worth pointing out that that last note is also horrendously off-key. Cameron Diaz was unable to hit the note, much less sustain it, so they had to bring in a professional opera singer to do the singing part there. Y'know what they say: [[Hollywood Tone Deaf|it takes a very good singer to sound that bad]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jst_T8k8Ojc Martin Short] on ''Late Night With David Letterman'' (which Nathan Lane mirrors to the T for some reason).
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** This scene was directly referenced in the ''[[SCTV]]'' "Godfather" parody, with Luciano Pavarotti (John Candy) holding an extended high note.
* In ''Klondike Casanova'' Olive Oyl pulls this off, her neck stretching all the while, as Popeye runs back to the kitchen to whip up sandwiches for the hungry crowd.
* In ''[[¡Three Amigos!
* Given how much <s>[[PDQ Bach]]</s> Peter Schickele loves the [[Overly Long Gag]], it's not surprising that he has a bunch of these.
** Parodied in ''The Stoned Guest'': Carmen Ghia takes a breath in the middle of a long note and a voice cries, "I heard that!" In one of her duets with Donna Ribalda, an [[Intermission]] is taken as they hold their penultimate note ("Have you got a stopwatch?").
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* The Israeli band Kaveret's mock-tango "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7_7HPjY3BA Sugar in the Tea]" includes several instances of this. In the album version, another band member interjects the main instance with a sarcastic "In case of a genuine alarm..." - and then the singer goes on for a while more.
* [[Sesame Street|"L'AMOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]][[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]][[Carmen|OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR-"]][[Nightmare Fuel|(face explodes)]]
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== Straight Examples ==
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* Freddy Curci of Sheriff holds a falsetto YOOOOOOOOOUUUUU for 26 seconds at the end of "When I'm With You."
* The last note in the song ''Meditation'' from the musical version of ''[[Shenandoah]]''.
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== People Who Just Like To Hold Very Long Notes ==
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