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** In one jogging montage, they played music suspiciously similar to, but legally different from, Vangelis' main theme to ''[[Chariots of Fire]]''.
*** Wasn't that sequence called "Chariots of Fur"?
* ''[[Bill Nye the Science Guy]]'' featured parodies of pop songs with scientific lyrics for its music videos, in addition to Suspiciously Similar Songs to several tunes,
* A favorite running gag on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' was to sing along to Suspiciously Similar Songs with the real song's lyrics.
* ''[[MythBusters]]'' has a number of songs that fit this trope, most blatantly an off-key version of Queen's "Keep Yourself Alive".
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** They did a Suspiciously Similar Song to ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' theme for "Motorcycle Flip", but Adam also sings a bar from it during the episode.
* ''[[The Rutles]]'', a fictional band with its own telemovie back in the late 1970s and several "reunion tours" since, have plenty of Beatles sound-alike tunes in their repertoire (not surprising, since they're a Beatles parody), all composed by Neil Innes and Eric Idle. However, EMI thought they didn't sound different enough, and, one lawsuit later, several of the songs on the original soundtrack were (and still are) legally credited to Innes, Lennon, and McCartney.
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*** Absolutely true — the generally shoddy mid-1970s bootleg ''[http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=fanbeat1§ion=1 Indian Rope Trick]]'' even listed "Cheese and Onions" as a lost Lennon demo. To be fair, Innes' take on Lennon's vocal style is uncanny.
* Sometimes this happens when a TV show is released on DVD and the production company didn't manage to secure the license to the original music<ref>
** Also, the show used [[Queen]]'s "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" rather frequently. The DVD used Suspiciously
* Likewise the soundtrack of ''[[House (TV series)|House]] M.D.'' in most non-U.S. countries is a Suspiciously Similar Song to the original.
* One episode of ''[[Zoey 101]]'' had the "Macalana", which was nearly identical to the Macarena.
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* The FLN showings of ''[[Iron Chef]]'' have had all the music of the Food Network version (originally used in the movie ''Backdraft'' of all things), replaced with royalty-free-to-Universal Suspiciously Similar Songs.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=JP&hl=ja&v=ujlWGOZc4QM theme song] to Spanish comedy series ''Los Serrano'', which became a hit single itself, was a rather brazen knockoff of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTDnM_OMlM "Pure" by The Lightning Seeds].
* The pilot episode of the American game show ''[[Bullseye (U.S. game show)
* [[Alan Thicke]] has written Suspiciously Similar Songs to themes for three different game shows:
** The 1970s game show ''[[Blank Check (TV series)|Blank Check]]'' used Quincy Jones' "Chump Change" as the theme in the pilot episode. After Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions decided to use this theme for its game show ''[[Now You See It]]'', Thicke wrote a theme with a similar melody.
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* Every single ''[[Mad TV]]'' song parody, ever. Likewise, any time the show parodied a movie or a TV show, the background music was suspiciously similar to the music most associated with the parody source.
** Which is hardly a surprise as In Living Color did the same thing years before [[Mad TV]] existed.
* The South Korean drama "Myeongweol, the Spy" has Suspiciously Similar Songs to the ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' theme and the ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)
* In the last episode of ''[[Just Cause (TV series)|Just Cause]]'', when Patrick runs in slow-motion down the street to deliver a document on time, a
* The fanfare used for the 1990s-early 2000s version of the [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount Television]] [[Vanity Plate]] is actually a Suspiciously Similar Song to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' opening theme.
** It's actually a remix of the last six notes of the rarely-heard Paramount Pictures theatrical fanfare, but does sound similar.
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* The opening theme song to ''[[Touch (TV series)|Touch]]'' sounds quite a bit like [[Radiohead]]'s "Everything In Its Right Place". This similarity is practically confirmed by the original closed captions used on the pilot episode (and still present on the Hulu stream); suffice it to say, apparently the version submitted for captioning ''did'' use the Radiohead track, before it was overdubbed for the final broadcast.
* The first theme song written for ''[[Sigmund and The Sea Monsters]]'' sounded very similar in some respects to ''I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing'' (AKA: the famous Coca-Cola "hilltop song"), so much so, that [[Sid And Marty Kroft]] were allegedly sued, leading to the creation of the show's second theme dong.
* ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'' used a ton of licensed music, but those licenses eventually expired. For syndication and DVD releases, the music was replaced. The new music tends to sound nothing like the original, except when a specific song was central to a plot point or mood. One notable example was at the end of the episode "I Want To Keep My Baby," where Johnny Fever plays James Taylor's "Your Smiling Face
* The theme used by [[PBS]]{{'}}s ''Masterpiece'' (the successor to the the world-famous ''Masterpiece Theatre'') is an entirely new piece clearly written to evoke the classic theme of the original.
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