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* This one would be a borderline [[BLAM]] if the whole damn movie wasn't completely nuts: the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdvO0tmNjGo impromptu dance-off] [[Product Placement|at McDonalds]] in ''[[Mac and Me]]''.
* Even [[Alfred Hitchcock]] succumbed to this: the 1956 remake of ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', which showcases Doris Day singing "Que Sera, Sera" ''multiple times'', ultimately using it {{spoiler|in a game of Marco Polo so our protagonists can locate their kidnapped offspring}}.
* In several ''[[Marx Brothers]]'' movies, Harpo and/or Chico would get one of these as an excuse to play their characteristic
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]'': The ''longest song in the movie'': "Broadway Melody" / "Gotta Dance!!!"
* Parodied in ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]'': Swan's infamous "Snowman" song, which he sings at the worst times. The second time, though, one of the group loses it and just shoots him halfway through it.
* The Floor Show in ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''.
* Richard Tauber's films were just a string of these. No
* The Mamushka scene in [[The Addams Family]] movie. It's an entertaining variation, but the entire movie does kinda ''stop'' for it.
== [[Literature]] ==
* This trope is a staple of [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s writing and it can be a bit grating for some. The intrepid heroes will wander into a distant land and suddenly break out into ubi sunt poetry. Next, they'll discover the long-lost shiny and go off on a stanza or two of ye olde [[Nursery Rhyme]]. The different styles of poetry are often matched to different cultures/contexts, and some of them don't really come out of
* Tolkien's contemporary [[Gormenghast|Mervyn Peake]] was also in the habit of doing this, using whatever literary device was most expedient in order to drop his nonsense rhymes onto the page - usually apropos of absolutely nothing.
* All over ''[[Redwall]]'', to the point where it seems each book has to have at least one song and a feast.
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* "Wunderbar" from ''Kiss Me, Kate''.
** "Too Darn Hot" as well, but only in the film: the live show features it later, and incorporates it into the story.
* Subverted in ''Brigadoon'', where the protagonist is literally reminded of a
* 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:
{{quote|'''Ringmaster''': Charming, charming! Who wrote that music?
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** Though this one is not a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]], as she does mention how she's been away "for far too long" (quoting her last number) the next time she talks to Arthur.
** The song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UM1W-40n4Q "Finland"], however, is a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]], as it's not even remotely related to anything else in the play, only existing because the performers misheard the narrator.
* [[Bertolt Brecht]] made this into an art form, having
* The protagonist of the musical ''Seesaw'', studying obscure passages of New York State law, is advised to read it in rhythm to make it easier to remember. In short order, "Chapter 54, Number 1909" has turned into a big production number.
* Dr. Kitchell in ''[[Bells Are Ringing]]'' wants to be a songwriter, and constantly takes innocent conversational phrases as cues to burst into song.
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* Parodied in ''[[Mitch Benn]]'s Crimes Against Music''; Robin Ince either [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the silliness of his asking whether Mitch has a song about this week's topic, or just asks the question with so much sarcasm it amounts to the same thing.
* 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]]
{{quote|'''Bill:''' Thank you, thank you! You're my kind of people!
'''Crowd:''' What kind of people?
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** But if you skip straight to the solution of that puzzle instead of hearing the song out, you're severely missing the point of these games.
* Replace "song" with "puzzle" and you've got ''[[Professor Layton]]'' in a nutshell.
** Especially since they use that exact
** And at the strangest times, too...
** Which gets severely lampshaded in later games.
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** Well, there's also "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat" from ''[[The Aristocats]]''.
** And ''[[Snow White (Disney film)|Snow White]]'''s "Whistle While You Work."
** ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]'' had a singing turtle as a narrator, who found any excuse to introduce a musical number into the story. The hero just made the princess
** We all know someone who feels "Human Again" from ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' and "Morning Report" from ''[[The Lion King]]'' were un-needed additions to their respective films, since the movies didn't have them originally. They aren't terrible songs, nor ''completely'' irrelevant (they're both in the stage versions of the respective movies, too). Neither of them exactly advanced the plot or provided much if any character development, but both were intended to be in the original production (and are in the Special Editions). Ditto with ''[[Pocahontas]]''' "If I Never Knew You", which does almost nothing but just be the love song for the film.
* In ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', there is at least an excuse: [[The Beatles]] need to use [[The Power of Rock]] to defeat the [[Card-Carrying Villain|Blue]] [[
* There's a strange scene in ''[[The Jetsons]]'' movie where Judy and her [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Blue Skinned Space Hunk]] start to sing a song in a Holodeck, and the entire plot is completely derailed so that we can watch a [[Disney Acid Sequence]] set to a Tiffany song. It's [[Better Than It Sounds]].
* "Silver and Gold" from the classic ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'' [[Christmas Special]] qualifies, as it has almost nothing to do with the story, or with the character (Yukon Cornelius) that inspired the narrator (Sam the snowman voiced by Burl Ives) to sing it.
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{{quote|'''Pinkie Pie:''' And that wicked Enchantress, Zecora, lives there doing her evil... stuff! She's so evil, I even wrote a song about her...
'''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
** Another lampshading in ''A Friend In Deed''. Part of Pinkie's "checklist" to making a new friend is "sing random song out of nowhere".
* ''[[Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer]]'', big time. Anything that doesn't have to do with talking about fruitcake, they're singing about it.
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