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** The same method is used in ''A Hard Day's Night''. John lampshades this by yelling "Let's put on the show right here, yeah!" before The Beatles rehearse a musical number. He was bummed that it ended up looking like he was serious.
*** However, a lot of ''A Hard Day's Night'' does avert this, since the whole movie is building up to their TV performance, [[Justified Trope|so it made sense for them]] to be "rehearsing" musical numbers. This is due in part to the band not being fans of this trope.
* Both [[Lampshaded]] and [[Subverted]] in ''[[Monty Python and
** In ''[[Spamalot]]'', the musical based on the movie, King Brian is substantially less successful. In fact, several songs in ''Spamalot'' fit in this trope: the Finland song and "Diva's Lament (What Ever Happened to My Part?)" most notably.
* Used to great effect in the film ''Cabaret,'' where the only off-stage song is a young boy who just begins to sing a capella in a cafe's garden, "Tomorrow Belongs To Me."
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