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* ''[[The Simpsons (
** It also played this one straight, in quite a lot of episodes. Who can forget "Springfield, Springfield," or the whole of the episode "Simpsoncalifragalisticexpiali(annoyed grunt)tious"? The latter was a parody of ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', and had some of the best of these you're likely to see anywhere - particularly Barney's version of "Feed the Birds" ("Buy Me a Beer") and the family's version of "Spoonful of Sugar' ('Cut Every Corner").
*** And "The President Wore Pearls," an [[Whole-Plot Reference]] of ''[[
** The end of "Life on the Fast Lane" parodies the end of ''[[An Officer and
** The rambling song Homer sang in hopes of becoming a food critic was based around ''[[West Side Story]]'''s "I Feel Pretty".
** Then there's "See My Vest", Mr. Burns' PETA-unfriendly ripoff of ''[[Beauty and
*** In turn, "Be Our Guest" resembles the titular song from ''Me and My Girl''.
** Lampshaded again during a ''[[Snow White
** Some earlier episodes repeatedly underscored action sequences with a pastiche of the "Axel F" theme from ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]]''. In fact, they had at least two distinct versions of it.
** Sideshow Bob's [[Leitmotif|personal theme music]] is a reworked version of [[Bernard Herrmann]]'s ''[[Cape Fear]]'' theme.
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** "Flaming Moe's" has a very funny parody of the ''[[Cheers]]'' theme.
** The ''[[James Bond]]'' parody couch gag uses an obvious knock-off of its famous opening theme.
** The episode where Homer becomes a hippy replaces the end theme with the bass and drums from [[The Beatles (
** Several early episodes had a bit of incidental music that was a tweaked version of Edvard Grieg's [[wikipedia:Morning Mood|"Morning Mood"]] from ''Peer Gynt''; it was used to in the same manner as Grieg's original, to denote the dawning of a new day. Since the composition was in the public domain when those episodes were produced, it remains unclear why they didn't use the Grieg original. Even more confusingly, the 8th Season episode "Bart Carny" ''does'' actually use the original, untweaked "Morning Mood".
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZB5cM_6Ru8&feature=related Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers theme song] was probably intended as a spoof of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQvBbzslJE MacGyver vignette].
* ''Histeria'', an educational cartoon about history, parodied a lot of songs with similar, but original, melodies. In the episode on Teddy Roosevelt, adapted versions of "Wooly Bully" (as "Bully Bully") and "Ghostbusters" (as "Trustbuster") were both used, altered enough to be free of royalties.
* ''[[
** The apotheosis: Peter singing about his Diplomatic Immunity with "Can't Touch Me!", which includes the line "so Hammer you can't sue!" while talking to an animated [[
*** "Can't Touch Me" used a Jimmy Hart Version of the music. However, the show has more recently been able to get the rights to almost any music they want; one aversion occurred when they couldn't get the rights to the 1967 ''Spider-Man'' cartoon theme, so they had Peter sing the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV show theme (owned by Fox), replacing "Batman" with "Spider-Man". It was actually much funnier that way.
*** The original MC Hammer song also uses the same bass line as "Superfreak".
** The Season 3 episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" has Peter crooning a song called "I Need a Jew", which sounds suspiciously like "When You Wish Upon a Star", from Disney's ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]''. The publishers of the Disney song apparently thought so, too, as they unsuccessfully sued ''Family Guy'' producer Seth MacFarlane and composer Walter Murphy for copyright infringement.
** In the episode "Love Blactually", Brian dresses up as Snoopy for a costume party. When Peter demands that he "do the dance", Brian complies, accompanied by a Jimmy Hart Version of Vince Guaraldi's ''[[
** In "Saving Private Brian", the music in the US Army commercial is The Jimmy Hart version of the intro to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me".
** The "I'm A Tumor" song in "Petarded" is a JHV of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus". Of course, [[The Simpsons Did It]] first, using the same tune as the basis for "Dr. Zaius" in "A Fish Called Selma".
* [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
* ''[[
** The Perry the Platypus theme sounds an awful lot like the song "Secret Agent Man."
** "Meatloaf Surprise" features a song that starts off sounding a lot like "Wonderwall" by Oasis, except it's about the singer's love of meatloaf.
* ''[[
** The sleepeating episode uses the first few notes of "Thriller".
** Another episode involving Schnitzel's obvious Bruce Lee parody used an equally-obvious and suspiciously similar version of the song "Eye of the Tiger".
* An early sketch in ''[[
** During their "Greatest American Hero" parody, the theme song is "Believe it or don't I'm flying around."
** Used ''in-series'' when a sketch about the Libertarian Party have them needing to use the Jimmy Hart version of various songs because they can't afford the real ones. Such as "Airborn mini-dirt" (Dust in the Wind) and "We are the Victors" (We are the Champions). They ''still'' got sued for "Friend choo-choo" (Love Train).
** A sketch about the Kraken from ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' featured a Jimmy Hart version of ''[[Cats|"Memory"]]''.
*** A large amount of the music used for ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' are Jimmy Hart versions of many popular tunes from movies, television shows, and even video games. This makes sense as parodies are a big part of Robot Chicken.
* The Teletoon-animated seasons of ''[[
** Also occurs on the Cartoon Network broadcast version.
** And the Netflix Watch Instantly releases.
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** Or, for those Canadians playing at home, ''[[Definition]]''.
* The ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack|Flapjack]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] begins with "It's the Most Marvelous Time of the Year", which is a several notes-off version of (of course) "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year".
* In an episode of ''[[
** "In Search of Big Byoo-tox" featured Dag trying to avoid being seen by Norb to The Jimmy Hart Version of "Hush" by Deep Purple.
** Also, one of the instrumentals used frequently in episodes of ''The Angry Beavers'' sounds a lot like the beginning of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9XUkoJH5I Andy Williams' song, "Can't Get Used to Losing You"]. In fact, the show's soundtrack is practically a "Best of".
** One episode of the Angry Beavers featured a Jimmy Hart version of "Say You'll Be There" by the Spice Girls.
* ''[[
** Fry lampshades this during the former by singing "And you smell like one, too!", out of context from the [[Captain Ersatz]] version, but in the style of the real song. Of course, that line is not an official part of the song, so there's no copyright violation.
*** Not to mention the theme song itself is the Jimmy Hart version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE Pierre Henry's "Psyche Rock"].
* ''The Adventures of [[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' loved throwing in Jimmy Hart versions of appropriate background music.
* Listen to the theme song of ''[[Teen Titans (
** "When there's trouble you know who to call! Secret... Agent Man! Secret... Agent Man!"
* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'' the [[Leitmotif|ukulele riff]] that sometimes accompanies Wooldoor is an obvious pastiche of a similar one from ''[[
* Whenever another DCAU hero shows up on ''[[Static Shock]]'' they are accompanied by a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of their theme... it's even more jarring than the [[Off-Model]] moments that tend to accompany them.
* ''[[
* For ''[[The Little Rascals]]' Christmas Special'', a 1979 animated holiday special featuring Our Gang, the producers didn't get the rights to use Leroy Shield's classic theme music, so the special's music composer wrote a Jimmy Hart Version of it.
* ''[[Doug]]'' used Jimmy Hart versions of the Raiders March from ''[[
* A dance scene in the ''[[
** The Krusty Krab Training Video uses a soundalike for Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XovtJrxPjNw Quest for the Best]".
*** Also a piece of music that imitates the ''[[
**** Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy's official [[Leitmotif]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDTKPbwxUw The Lineman], an all-too-obvious (and very fitting) JHV of the [[Adam West]] [[Batman]] theme.
***** Joked about it once: A Krusty Krab customer listened to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0-FwA1f60 a song] and said (perhaps not exact quote) "I hated the REAL version of this song."
* Done frequently on ''[[
** For instance, there's one episode where the adults put on some Cher. The song on the stereo sounds a lot like [[
** When Stan's grandfather wanted Stan to understand how awful it is being old, his grandfather puts on a song that sounds a lot like [[
** When Randy is incapacitated from being "served" and Stan visits him in the hospital, a tune almost identical to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" starts playing.
** Subverted in the episode "Canada on Strike." The Star Wars Kid is shown, but instead of John Williams' Star Wars theme, it seems to be a knockoff. It's actually John Williams' Superman theme.
* Pretty much the entire soundtrack to the ''[[
** Also, the [[Spear Counterpart|Rowdyruff Boys]]' [[Leitmotif]] is Jimmy Harted from the PPG's theme song.
* The finish of "Part of That World" in ''[[
* The Episode Sentries of the Lost Cosmos from "[[Batman Beyond]]" is full of Jimmy Hart Star Wars music.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rio_sLMhRk end theme] for ''[[Captain Planet and
* The long-awaited ''[[
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** The crowning jewel of this is Art of the Dress, which is a Jimmy Hart version of Putting It Together.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u7XysaEVBs At the Gala]" is even more obviously "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUzk2BC2Ssg Ever After]" from ''[[Into the Woods]]''.
** The show also does a few homages to ''[[Star Wars]]'' endings of all things. "Elements of Harmony" ends with a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC91IRpYQ4A Jimmy Hart version] of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7hj6qP167k "Augie's Great Municipal Band"] and "Return of Harmony, Part 2" ends with a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4wh4FnwiAg homage] to ''A New Hope's'' ending, the music of which [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ofOHndUnI fits quite well with].
** The scene where the sun is setting in Lesson Zero has a Jimmy Hart Version of the "Dream is Collapsing" theme from [[
*** And in the scene immediately following, The Princess' Speech is emphasized by music from... ''[[The King's Speech]]''.
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo76kHOICJE Find a Pet]" is a take on "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10AMqdJUcFY Fabulous Places]" from the 1967 ''Dr. Dolittle'' (fittingly, considering who sings it).
** The music playing at Iron Will's seminar in "Putting Your Hoof Down" is actually Eye of the Tiger with one note changed.
*** In the same episode, when Fluttershy realizes she's become a monster, the Lonely Man theme from [[The Incredible Hulk (TV series)|The Incredible Hulk]] starts playing.
** During the scene in the episode "It's About Time" where Twilight Sparkle meets a future version of herself, the background music is suspiciously similar to "I am the Doctor" from Series 5 and 6 of [[
* ''[[Sym
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
* ''[[
* The song "If You Can Dream" by the [[Disney Princess|Disney Princesses]] is actually a suspiciously similar version of Mya's "Where the Dream Takes You." Guess [[Atlantis:
** Perhaps a reverse instance of [[Take That]], anyone?
* The song "I'm Gonna Make It" from [[Total Drama Island
* The Gabble Sisters' theme from ''[[
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'':
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrRBvUM39A0 The Fat Controller's theme] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paRq2i5ZYX4 Toby's theme] both share elements of Gounod's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eIk5DWUx_E "Funeral March of a Marionette"].
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** The recurring [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCzkSEH_Rls "Spooky" theme] from Series 5 has elements of "Night on Bald Mountain".
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPWTmJWeU48 Hank's theme] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRPtsJ1487w "Hail to the Chief"]
** The opening of ''Misty Island Rescue'' and the ''[[
** There was once a recurring ocarina riff during confrontation scenes, modeled closely on ''[[The Good, the Bad
* The song "Let Me Be Your Wings" from [[Don Bluth]]'s ''[[Thumbelina]]'' is actually a Jimmy Harted version of the song "A Whole New World" from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''.
* The title theme to ''The Mask'' is a JHV of one of the songs from the movie
* Some of the music from ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' is actually a JHV version of "Sing, Sing, Sing."
* In ''[[The Boondocks]]'', there's a recurring tuba motif for Uncle Ruckus that sounds a lot like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl4SoeEYHrk Jabba the Hutt's theme].
* A weird sort of cross-media-type example with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBXvVaU7sfo opening to the German dub] of the [[Mega Man (
* An episode of ''[[
* The music that plays during the credits for ''[[Action League
* ''[[
** In "To Bowl or Not to Bowl", the song "Let's Bowl" is a parody of "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAv500Q6bfA Far From Over]" by Frank Stallone.
* In ''[[Catscratch]]'', there's a point in the show where a song very similar to "[[The Legend of Zelda
* '''Just Missed''': ''[[
* The theme to [[The Critic]] was done in the style of [[George Gershwin|Rhapsody in Blue]].
* The theme song of ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' is based on Grieg's ''In the Hall of the Mountain King''.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* [[Superman: The Animated Series
* The opening theme for [[Sabrina the Animated Series|''Sabrina's Secret Life'']] sounds a lot like the [[
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