Mocking Music: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Bedtime Stories]]'' Skeeter worries that he'll catch fire because his nephew told a story in which Skeeter's character is incinerated. On the radio, Skeeter keeps changing the station and each one is playing a fire-themed song: "Disco Inferno," "I'm On Fire," and others.

** Though it then turns to songs like "Super-Freak", "Brick House" and others while Bumblebee tries to tell him {{spoiler|that Alice isn't what she looks like. She's a Decepticon}}.

* Seen with stuff besides songs, too: like, in ''[[Modern Times]]'', [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s character is awkwardly sitting on a bench next to the parson's wife, and her stomach keeps gurgling loudly. Charlie turns on the radio for a distraction, and a commercial says, "''If you are suffering from gastritis...''"

* Occurred in the race-inverted remake of ''Guess Who's Coming To Dinner''- the [[Salt and Pepper]] father and future son-in-law are driving along in steely silence to avoid talking about the big issue on their minds. The boy turns on the radio for a distraction and goes through a rote of such situationally ironic songs as "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, "Brother Louie" by Hot Chocolate, and "Walk On The Wild Side" by Lou Reed, just as it's singing:

{{quote| And all the colored girls sang...}}

* In ''[[Better Off Dead]]'', John Cusack's character's girlfriend has just broken up with him. As he drives despondently, every radio station is playing a breakup song - he rips the radio out and hurls it out the window.

* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]''- "Who the 'ell put this on?" "It's on random... *sob*"

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==