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At its most basic, this is a song sung [[Engaging Chevrons|just to kill time]], with a fairly thin excuse. The song doesn't tell us anything about the characters or the setting, it doesn't advance the plot, it doesn't serve any obvious purpose at all besides filling out the running time. If the song ''does'' have [[Subtext]], [[Mr. Exposition|exposition]], or plot-related action, and thus plot significance, it's [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]].
 
In Indian film, an upbeat song that has no relation to the plot is called an [[The Item Numbernumber|Item Number]].
 
Frequent [[Justified Trope|justifications]] include having some or all of the characters be actors or actresses, or setting one of the scenes at a nightclub or similar. A small-scale variation on the [[Show Within a Show]].
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== Anime ==
* In the [[Hilarious Outtakes]] of the ''[[Berserk]]'' dub, Griffith's voice actor has a tendency to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXYiFFM7WH4 burst into song]. Strangely enough they somehow fit the situation.
** "Why did you do that to him?!?" [[Oklahoma!|"Cause I'm just a girl who can't say no, can't seem to say it at allllllllll..."]]
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* There is a scene in ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'' where, ''in the middle of their big emotional group therapy session,'' everyone up and starts dancing to the song "We Are Not Alone". It's a good song, lyrically, it's at least thematically appropriate to the scene in question, but [[Mood Whiplash|what the hell]]?
** In the broadcast version, that is completely random. In the uncut version, Bender shares his marijuana with the others. Cue dancing.
* ''[[Dancer in Thethe Dark]]'' uses an elaborate excuse for squeezing song-and-dance numbers into a miserable social realist film filmed under the Dogma95 rules of hand-held camera and no artificial lighting, sets: All the song and dance numbers were inside her head. Later on in the film she really performed song and dance numbers to the bemusement of everyone else.
* In an infamous scene in ''[[Beetlejuice]]'', several dinner guests are possessed, and forced to perform Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song" - which they rather enjoy.
* The dreaded "Lets Go To The Movies" song from the '80s film version of ''[[Annie]]''. It has ''[[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|absolutely no point at all]]'' aside from having a showy musical number in the film, and it is better known for being a truly hideous [[Ear Worm]].
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== Musical Theater ==
* 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]]'':
{{quote|"Hey Everybody! Lets do the Lambeth Walk!"
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* 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:
{{quote|'''Buford''': Although, that does remind me of a song. '''[["I Want" Song|I WAAAAANNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT]]'''....[[Averted Trope|nuthin']].
'''Candace''': Well, at least it was short. }}
 
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