Sting (music): Difference between revisions

 

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* Parodied in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' where in episode 19, Sunohara plays around with a keyboard that has a sound-effect called 'Hair-raising.'

{{quote|"What was that, Nagisa-chan? Instead of Okazaki..." DUDUDAAAAAA! "YOU LIKE ME MORE?!"}}

 

* Before his ''[[Seven Soldiers]]'' reboot, Klarion the Witch-Boy demanded that people refer to him as "Klarion... bum bum BUM... the Witch-Boy". He even refused to help characters who did not insert the dramatic sting. (You should not be surprised that [[Peter David]] came up with this.)

 

* Episode 5 of ''[https://www.wattpad.com/story/173566505-final-stand-of-death Final Stand of Death]'' has about a few of ''Dun Dun Dun!'', which annoys Debbie and Hawk. Even Spur and Redd teases in one while Hornet declares war on [[Marilyn Manson]].

{{Quote| "Okay, that is just getting on my nerves" Debbie said.

** Later, Spur and Redd teases this out after Hornet makes [[This Means War| declaration of war]], which Hawk calls them out for.

 

* At one point in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', Igor supplies his own [http://www.instantrimshot.com rimshot] after making a "hunch" joke.

** In another scene in the same movie, Dr. Frankenstein stumbles upon the Awful Truth ("You don't mean?" "Yes!" "It couldn't be!" "Yes!"). Every time Frau Blucher (*WHINNY*) says "Yes!", she plays a dramatic chord on a violin she's holding.

* Do you know where we could find... ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|a shrubbery]]?''

 

 

* ''[[CSI]]'' loves using this one, with a crescendo of ominous music at the end of an act being chopped off dramatically by a [[Hard Cut]] to black.

** Cue [[The Who]] (if it's an [[Cold Open|opening setpiece]].) '''''[[CSI: Miami|YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!]]'''''

* ''[[Prison Break]]'' pulls a very distinctive version of this at ''every single commercial break''. This made sense in the first and possibly second seasons, when something dramatic would usually happen right before the ads. It became slightly jarring in later seasons when the audience is used to it, and nothing particularly important would happen before the cut.

 

* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]'s Elimination Chamber [[Gimmick Matches|gimmick match]] accompanies each new entrant being released into the cage with a big, dramatic music sting and flashing spotlights going across all the cages.

 

* ''Extremely'' common in old-time radio shows, particularly of the mystery, horror and drama/suspense varieties.

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' had a few, including one that was noted in the script as "DRAMATIC CHORD ([[Monty Python and the Holy Grail|SHRUBBERY]])".

'''Dougal''': Count Cardula, the accordian player? }}

 

* The Victory Fanfare after a battle in ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games.

** [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: Advent Children'', when it starts playing after Tifa has fended off a henchman. (It turns out to be [[Source Music|the ringtone of that henchman's cellphone]].)

* The "Doo doo doo ''dooooo''!" whenever you [[Item Get|find an important item]] in '"[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games.

*** Neither, think of the phrase "You got the ''thiiiing!''"

*** You got the [[Item Get]] sound! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk8x-8UadnE DadadaDAAA!]

* Johnny Cage lampshade and spoof this by saying "Dun Dun Dun" in one of the cut-scene in ''[[Mortal Kombat (2011 video game)| 2011 version of Mortal Kombat]]''

 

* In ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'', one of Red Mage's greatest (and most annoying) obsessions is to sing out a Sting for dramatic effect any time something major occurs.

* Elan from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' also did this a couple of times.

* Susan of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' does it [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-08-05 here].

 

* ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]'': At the end of "Ron's Disease", {{spoiler|after Hagrid smacks Dumbledore with a cudgel with a [[Robotic Reveal|resounding clang]] and otherwise no apparent effect on Dumbledore, Harry exclaims (to a sting), "OHMYGOD, [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|he's an android]]!" Hagrid looks around in confusion, saying, "Wha-?" (to another sting). Dumbledore finally replies, "Yes, it's true, I am an android - a [[Word of Gay|gay]] android." What follows is a rather original [[Lampshade Hanging]] of your typical Dun Dun DAAAH! sting, with the DAAH! lasting about five or six seconds.}}

* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'': Parodied in the review of ''22 Brides''. As the comic pulls the "We have you surrounded!" twist no less than three times in succession, the soundtrack plays a dramatic sting that gets higher pitched with each [[Reveal]].

* The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I-mdoClMVA Dramatic Hamster].

 

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]''.

{{quote|'''Vulturo:''' More decent than ''baseball''? DUN DUN DAH!}}

* ''[[Birdz]]'' had a dissonant four-note synth riff that basically served as the equivalent of "Wah wah wah" horns.

 

* Older [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] computers sometimes play a Sting (the "Chimes of Death") when they fail a crucial hardware check on boot, with the notes of the ditty telling a savvy tech what's wrong even when video doesn't work.

** PCs are more boring, and use [[wikipedia:Power-on self-test|POST beep codes]]. In this case, if you hear anything other than a single beep, something ''very bad'' has happened.

 

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