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* Comedian [[Frank Sidebottom]] once performed a sketch in which he claimed that 'after the first six notes you have to pay royalties'. He proceeded to perform a cover-version of the ''[[Star Wars]]'' theme tune, with a handful of notes played a semitone off at the times in the tune where they would sound the most agonizingly painful.
* Similarly, a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch featured Jon Lovitz as the host of a program presenting an unauthorized adaptation of Disney's "Snow White", who explains that it's legally not plagiarism as long as every third note is different.
** In another ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, fake soap opera [https://web.archive.org/web/20130802055051/http://www.nbc.com/assets/video/widget/widget.html?vid=1396627 The Californians] uses a poor man's version of America's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5J54RVZjYs Ventura Highway]" during the between-scene bumpers. For those who recognize what the music is supposed to sound like, it also serves as a nice little in-joke...Since the main theme of the sketch revolves around stereotypical surfer-accented blondes making repeated references to the Los Angeles street grid/highway system.
* Parodied by Harry Hill in ''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' in a segment where he mocks a wildlife show for using a cheap rendition of the [[James Bond]] theme, [http://harryhilllizard.ytmnd.com/ as shown here].
* [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Spv3WoyQFWo This video] contains what can be described as the Suspiciously Similar Song to the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' theme tune.
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