Suspiciously Similar Song/Web Original

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Examples of Suspiciously Similar Songs in Web Original works include:

  • When a Web Animation series reaches a certain level of success (typically when it starts selling DVDs), the creator often goes back and removes any copyright infringement that was safe when the series was unknown. Bonus Stage is a good example: Matt eventually removed a multitude of unauthorized cameos from his earlier episodes (such as one by the Homestar Runner cast) and replaced the ska song in the credits with an instrumental facsimile called "Total Soundalike."
    • Speaking of Homestar Runner, one of the earliest Homestar toons ("Marshmallow's Last Stand") featured a snipet of the theme fom The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly. When the toon was released on DVD, the audio was changed to a JHV of the tune. Lampshaded by Matt Chapman (as Homestar) in the commentary when he tells Mike Chapman "don't listen to this part, we're gonna change it." when the original audio can be head in the backound.
      • Lampshaded somewhat in the cartoon "On Break", in which Mike and Matt perform an a-capella rendition of "Yakety Sax" that ends somewhat differently from the original song. Afterwards, one of them asks, "Does it end different?"
    • Another would be Zero Punctuation, which originally featured segments of various "appropriate" songs during the opening and closing credits. Lampshaded at the start of the first episode with the new theme music.
  • The intro music to CollegeHumor's retrogaming series Bleep Bloop is The Jimmy Hart Version of The Legend of Zelda theme.
  • Because YouTube is so ridiculously litigious about the use of music in parodies, parodists like Venetian Princess now have to find someone like Steve Goldstein to write a Jimmy Hart Version for them. Example here.
  • Used regularly on How It Should Have Ended to imitate the themes of the movies they're parodying, featuring "The Stuff" ("The Touch"), and the Terminator beat with an extra note.
  • Improv Everywhere's video of their Ghostbusters operation uses a Jimmy Hart version of the Ghostbusters theme.
    • Also, rather than use "Who Let The Dogs Out?" for their Invisible Dogs operation, one of their number composed "The Dogs Were Let Out By Whom?"
  • The song in Charlie the Unicorn 3 is a knock-off of "Under The Sea" from The Little Mermaid, but with a middle-eight based on the "Pokérap".
  • Since the Mega64 crew couldn't use "Walkie Talkie Man" by Steriogram for their Elite Beat Agents skit, Josh Jones, theri composer made a similar sounding version with Word Salad Lyrics.
  • The intro of Nyan Cat bears some resemblance with the organ intro of Light my Fire by The Doors.
  • The video Wiley vs. Rhodes uses melodies very similar to the Merrie Melodies theme "Merrily We Roll Along" in the intro and the Looney Tunes theme "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" in the ending. Justified since the video was a homage to the Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner cartoons.
  • A tune that often shows up in The Annoying Orange is really similar to one of the battle tunes from Serious Sam: Second Encounter.
  • Ashens uses a vaguely (emphasis on vaguely) Star Wars theme style song when reviewing bootleg Star Wars merchandise. This is accompanied by a text scroll with several references to the badly translated box writing on said bootlegs.
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