That Reminds Me of a Song: Difference between revisions

* Shaun Micallef shoehorned in a strange parody of this at least once (in ''World Around Him''). He did it by suddenly referring to the Pointer Sisters and neutrons. And then he claimed that that reminded him of a song, and promptly launched into a verse of said song, complete with dancers.

* [[Glee]] is ''made'' of this trope.

** Subverted hilariously when Rachel and Sunshine burst into a rendition of [[Lady Gaga|"Telephone"]] in the girls' bathroom. A few stanzas in, Sue comes in and tells them to shut up. By this point in the show, viewers are so used to random musical numbers being ignored by all the other characters that someone actually reacting to one is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' has a game called Show-Stopping Number where the players act out a scene as normal, but whenever the host hits the buzzer, they have to take the last line spoken and turn it into a Broadway-style song. So of course, Drew always tries to find the most awkward line possible.

== [[Music]] ==

* Parodied in Weird Al Yankovic's long and rambling narrative song "Albuquerque", where he's reminded of a song while his face was being torn to shreds by one dozen starving crazed weasels... which sounds remarkably similar to a guy screaming while getting his face torn to shreds by one dozen starving crazed weasels.

DAARGH! Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me! Ohhh! No, get 'em off, get 'em off! Oh, oh God, oh God! Oh, get 'em off me! Oh, oh God! Ah, Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhohhhhhhhhhh! }}

* "Simple Song" by Miley Cyrus.

* In musicals written before ''[[Oklahoma]]!'' this was ubiquitous almost to the point of every single show using this excuse to put in a song.

* In ''[[Me And My Girl]]'':

[[Hilarity Ensues|Lambeth Walk ensues.]] }}

** Pretty much any song in this musical not referring directly to Hareford sounds like it could be in any other story. "I am happy and in love with my girlfriend." "I am seducing you and you are having none of it." "When you are in love you are sometimes sad but must follow your feelings." "Love is wonderful, isn't it?" Curtain.

* ''[[The Music Man]]'' -- "Shipoopi"

** It becomes a [[Running Gag]] for Harold to distract the school board by feeding them the first line of a song and watching them sing the rest as a barbershop quartet. Here's the cue for them to sing "Lida Rose":

* A subversion of this would be Stephen Sondheim's ''Follies'', in which half the songs are numbers that the women used to sing in their days in the Zeigfeld Follies, but are used to point up the melancholy of the story.

* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', the Beadle does this with the "Sweet Polly Plunkett" song. He remarks that Lovett has an organ, and he sits down to play, to her dismay.

* Subverted in ''Brigadoon'', where the protagonist is literally reminded of a song -- he hears a phrase from it used in everyday conversation, and it suddenly reprises itself in his mind. (Used mostly in [[The Movie]].)

* In the third [[Dream Sequence]] in ''[[Lady in the Dark]]'', this little bit of dialogue is all it takes to introduce a completely irrelevant patter song:

'''Ringmaster''': Tchaikowsky! I love Russian composers! }}

* "I have a song to sing, O!" from ''The Yeoman of the Guard'' starts out like this, but by the [[Dark Reprise]] becomes heartbreakingly significant for Jack Point.

* Parodied by [[Stan Freberg]]'s ''Omaha!'', a commercial for Butter-Nut Coffee that goes on for longer than six minutes because the characters keep preempting the pitch with irrelevant songs about their favorite Nebraska city.

* Lampshaded in an episode of [[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]] -- Bill has been doing a scene in his 'Grimbling voice'. After an audience cheer at one of his jokes, he starts speaking normally, and this happens:

'''Bill:''' Showbusiness! }}

:: This leads into the song "The Show Must Go On", which continues until David Hatch tells him to stop it.

** Never mind the [[Fetish Fuel|infamous]] "Gettin' Lucky" scene...

* The very strange [[Hanna-Barbera]] adaptation of ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' is '''all''' over this trope.

** Well, he ''was'' a baby at the time. Remember how much fun ''you'' had making noise when you suddenly realized you were capable of speech. True of many other animals, too.

* There's also the infamous "Land of 1,000 Dances" scene in ''[[Fern Gully]]''.

* ''[[Gay Purr-ee]]'' is an animated musical by UPA, and in it the two lead characters are voiced by [[Judy Garland]] and Robert Goulet. You'd better ''believe'' it suffers hard from this trope.

* In the ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode ''[[Musical Episode|Zanzibar]]'', whenever Rocko mentions something, the townspeople have a song.

'''Rocko''': [[Lampshade Hanging|It's going to be a song, isn't it?]] }}

* Parodied as part of an [[Overly Long Gag]] on [[Family Guy]], when a stadium full of football players and fans sang the song "Shipoopi" ''in its entirety''. [[Subverted Trope|It actually advances the plot]] when it gets Peter kicked off the team for showboating.

* Appears in the various incarnations of ''[[My Little Pony]]''; the most recent series, ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Friendship Is Magic]]'', actually [[Averted Trope|averts]] the previous trend of having the ponies burst into song [[Once Per Episode]]. Thus far, [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Pinkie Pie appears to be the designated song starter, and had this [[Lampshaded]] with her first cue:

'''Rarity''': She is. }}

** Later, in "Dragonshy," Twilight asks the others to help Fluttershy across a crevasse, leading to Pinkie instantly bursting into a (very silly) song about jumping across crevasses. This only serves to shorten Twilight's rapidly fraying temper.

*** To be fair, the song ''did'' help Fluttershy cross the crevasse and [[Continuity Nod|helps her again in a later episode]].

** Lampshaded again in "Bridle Gossip":

'''Rainbow Dash:''' Here we go... }}

** It's something of a running gag that although sometimes other ponies will join in on the rare occasions that someone ''other'' than Pinkie Pie starts a song -- to the point of an outright [[Crowd Song]] in "The Best Night Ever" -- no-one will ''ever'' join in on Pinkie Pie's songs, and the usual result is the other ponies watching in something between fear and bewilderment.

* The intensely weird [[Raggedy Ann and Andy A Musical Adventure]] is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|very appropriately named]]. Everything gets a song in this movie. ''The question "Who are you?" gets a song in this movie''.

* Parodied in the [[Phineas and Ferb]] episode [[The Wizard of Oz|"The Wizard of Odd"]]. Coming upon Buford the Lion-Tiger-Bear (oh my!), this exchange occurs:

'''Candace''': Well, at least it was short. }}

 

** Hell, in his later review for ''The Pebble and the Penguin'' , he attempted suicide after one too many pointless musical numbers.

* The [[Necro Critic]] did this once in his review of [[Call Me Tonight]], where he mentions one of the most obvious traits of the anime, to the tune of Ode To Joy.

* [[The Spoony One]] did this in his [[Final Fantasy VIII]] review. Also to the tune of Ode To Joy.

 

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