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{{quote|''"Nanny Ogg reasoned that it would be easy money because national anthems only ever have one verse or, rather, all have the same second verse, which goes 'nur'hnur'mur'nur nur, hnur'nur'nur, hnur' at some length until everyone remembers the last line of the first verse and sings it as loudly as they can."''
|''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]''}}
A '''National Anthem''' is like the
The usage may vary: Sometimes they are used straight, as a kind of [[Regional Riff]] or because the story takes place in a context (such as a sports event or ceremony) where a '''National Anthem''' would normally be played. Often fictional countries are given equally fictional National Anthems. Sometimes real ones (or the tendency for people to sing them very badly) are mocked.
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Some songs are ''not'' National Anthems but are often confused for them.
Many countries with monarchies also has a separate Royal Anthem that is basically the monarch's personal [[Leitmotif]]. The UK is somewhat unusual in that the royal anthem is also the '''National Anthem'''. This is tied to individual countries of the UK all having their own de facto
See also [[Patriotic Fervor]]. Quite often involves a kind of [[Scenery Porn]] in the lyrics and, if used by a broadcast station during [[Sign Off]], may be accompanied by visual Scenery Porn or [[Station Ident]]s.
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* The film of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' features the Soviet National Anthem being sung by the crew of ''Red October'' when the silent drive is first engaged, resulting in Jonesy, the sonar operator of ''USS Dallas'', hearing a brief snatch of this on his sonar.
* Also in ''Waterloo'', Nino Rota uses ''Deutschlandlied'' as a menacing and ominous [[Leitmotif]] for Field Marschal Blücher and the Prussian army. This is [[Anachronism Stew|wrong on several levels]], as [[Joseph Haydn]]'s tune at the time of the battle (1815) was used only as the '''Austrian''' anthem, the text of the ''Deutschlandlied'' was only written in 1841, it only became the official German national anthem in 1922, and the national anthem of Prussia actually was ''Heil Dir im Siegerkranz'', which is set to the tune of ''God Save the King''.
* In the Irish film ''[[The Wind That Shakes the Barley]]'', the main characters have been imprisoned in a small jail by the British Army, and as one of their number is taken away for torture, they sing the Irish National Anthem, "Amhrán na bhFiann", to help him endure. However, "Amhrán na bhFiann" was not adopted as the national anthem until 1926,
* In ''La Vie En Rose'', a [[Circus Brat|young Edith Piaf]] is told to "do something" for the crowd by her street performer [[Jerkass|father]], and after a brief hesitation, she lets loose with a brassy, powerful rendition of "La Marseillaise." See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCE0GDeClbs here].
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=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Command & Conquer
* The theme to ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'' is the real national anthem of Nazi Germany, "The Horst Wessel Song"
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* ''[[Macross Plus]]'' regales us with the National Anthem of Macross.
* ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' has "Revolution of the Heart" for the Free Planets Alliance, which is in English albeit grammatically off.
=== [[Comedy]] ===▼
* In the classic [[Mel Brooks]] sketch, the 2000-year-old man recalls that his cave's national anthem was "Let 'Em All Go To Hell Except Cave 76".▼
* [[Les Luthiers]] give us two examples: the "Song to the Independence of Feudalia" (a country as independent as you'd expect from its name), and "La Comision", in which [[Hilarity Ensues]] when two corrupt politicians and one inept musician have to modify the national anthem of their (unnamed) country to include propaganda for the ruling party.▼
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[Top Secret]]'' has a fake East German national anthem. The real one is actually kind of neat.
{{quote|''Hail, hail East Germany, land of fruit and grape
''Land where you'll regret if you try to escape
''No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall
''Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn't first. }}
* [[Duck Soup|Hail! Hail Freedonia! Land of the brave! And! Free!]]
* There have been two or three implications (no more than that!) in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' EU that the Imperial National Anthem is ''actually the Imperial March''.
* In ''[[Borat]],'' the title character sings the "Kazakhstan National Anthem," the first verse of which is as follows:
{{quote|''Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
''All other countries are run by little girls.
''Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
''Other countries have inferior potassium. }}
* The movie version of ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' gives us the national anthem of Genovia (which oddly enough is in English):
{{quote|''Genovia,
''The land I call my home,
''Genovia, Genovia!
''Forever will your banner wave! }}
* ''[[Water]]''. The natives of the Caribbean island of Cascara imitate various swimming styles when singing their anthem, as they're all descended from shipwrecked sailors.
* In ''[[Follow That Bird]]'', [[Sesame Street|Oscar the Grouch]] has the Grouch Anthem (for which you stay sitting down, naturally).
* ''The Adventures of [[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' introduces Pottsylvania's.
* The movie adaptation of ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRspqsOb-pY The Horn of Plenty] as Panem's national anthem.
=== [[Literature]] ===
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** Borogravia is given a National Anthem in ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]''
** So as to conform to the opening quote, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqCbOJc6RU Ankh-Morpork National Anthem] has a second verse that ''literally'' goes "nrh, nrh, nrh, nrh..." because [[Second Verse Curse|no one is expected to remember it]].
{{quote|''We bankrupt all invaders, we sell them souvenirs
''We ner ner ner ner ner, hner ner hner by the ears
''Er hner we ner ner ner ner ner
''Ner ner her ner ner ner hner the ner
''Er ner ner hner ner, nher hner ner ner (etc.)
''Ner hner ner, your gleaming swords
''We mortgaged to the hilt
''Morporkia! Morporkia!
''Hner ner ner ner ner ner
''We can rule you wholesale
''Credit where it's due. }}
* ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' has "Oceania, 'Tis For Thee," as memorably realized by Dominic Muldowney.
* ''[[Animal Farm]]'' has "Beasts of England." It is replaced by a different song after [[The Purge]].
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
*
* The ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Take Me Out To the Holosuite" has, (what is assumed to be) the Federation national anthem played before the game.
=== [[Radio]] ===
* In one episode of ''[[The Goon Show]]'', Seagoon becomes the president of a fictional republic. A [[Running Gag]] involves the playing of "Our glorious National Anthem". According to a later documentary, [[Spike Milligan]] complained that the original version sounded far too good, and asked for it to be changed so that [[Stylistic Suck|only one instrument was playing at a time.]]
▲=== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ===
▲* In the classic [[Mel Brooks]] sketch, the 2000-year-old man recalls that his cave's national anthem was "Let 'Em All Go To Hell Except Cave 76".
▲* [[Les Luthiers]] give us two examples: the "Song to the Independence of Feudalia" (a country as independent as you'd expect from its name), and "La Comision", in which [[Hilarity Ensues]] when two corrupt politicians and one inept musician have to modify the national anthem of their (unnamed) country to include propaganda for the ruling party.
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* In the [[Stephen Sondheim]] musical ''[[Assassins (theatre)|Assassins]]'', Samuel Byck tells us of the "other National Anthem", which is actually a metaphor for the emptiness of the American dream.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[Metal Gear]] 2: Solid Snake'' contained a
* In one of his winquotes in ''[[Advance Wars]]: Dual Strike'', Olaf sings the Blue Moon national anthem, which is apparently "O Canada" with Blue Moon instead of Canada. Seriously, it goes "Oh, Blue Moon, my home and native land..."
* In ''Ace Combat 04'', after {{spoiler|destroying the Aegir fleet}}, the pilots in the air begin to sing the Usean anthem, complete with "WOOHOO!" at the end.
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{{quote|"Firelord! My Flame burns for thee!"}}
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Bender enters the Olympics as a competitor from the fictional country Robonia. At the medals ceremony, he sings its national anthem:
{{quote|''Hail, hail Robonia
''A land I didn't make up }}
* In the episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' called "Hail Doofania!", Doofenshmirtz writes the national anthem for Doofania, a city he builds for himself to get away from his brother.
==Songs that are not national anthems but sometimes confused for them==
=== [[Film]] ===
* In at least one movie, ''The Internationale'' was called the Soviet Anthem—and "The Internationale" was the Soviet Anthem from the founding of the USSR to 1944. However, there is nothing ''national'' about ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Internationale]]'', so it was replaced with a real national anthem, whose melody is now used for the Russian national anthem. Of course, the USSR was most interesting after WWII. The anthem used to be a poem about Stalin's glory and [[Badass]]
* Used for a gag in the Australian film ''[[The Dish]]'': the US ambassador to Australia is attending a reception in the middle-of-nowhere township of Parkes, since the [[wikipedia:Parkes Observatory|local radio telescope]] is to be used to relay the TV broadcast from [[NASA|Apollo 11]] the next day. The MC announces the US national anthem, and the ambassador straightens up and puts his hand on his heart, only for the [[Too Dumb to Live|clueless local band]] to launch into the theme tune for ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]''. Cue very awkward looks all round.
* "Rule
* Everybody say it with me now:
* In ''[[Zulu]]'', the Welsh soldiers sing 'Men of Harlech'. 'Land of my Fathers' is the Welsh anthem. 'Harlech' is a better song, so [[Rule of Cool]].
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In Jules Verne's ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]'', a group of Americans, in a moment of Patriotic Fervor, sings "Yankee Doodle
=== [[Real Life]] ===
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=== [[Film]] ===
* In ''[[The Naked Gun]]'', Lt. Frank Drebin pretends to be the famous opera singer Enrico Palazzo, and proceeds to sing the American anthem painfully out of key, much to the real
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* The aliens on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' start to sing their home
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
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* Televised sporting events. Some of the more notable screw-ups for the US Anthem are as follows:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naZzJcxmpak Carl Lewis]. He tried his hardest, but man...
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhbpeL-8sY
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q98BuAX2T0U Kate DeLuna] takes the opportunity to show off a bit. The crowd doesn't like it.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkI7F5u1BGY R. Kelly] tries to sex it up a little.
** At the 2011 Super Bowl, [[Christina Aguilera]] did a pretty good job with the actual singing part... but the lines she missed were definitely noticeable.
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