History Main / HeyLetsPutOnAShow

-->"We've gotta have a great show, with a million laughs... and color... and a lot of lights to make it sparkle. And songs - wonderful songs. And after we get the people in that hall, we've gotta start em in laughing right away. Oh, can't you just see it... ?"

* ''SouthPark'' had "Chef Aid".

* In the {{Yugioh}} fanfiction ''FanFic/DecksFallEveryoneDies'', the characters put on a show that is meant to convince people to start dueling again. This is because [[WorldGoneMad life has gone downhill]] after the fall of dueling and the rise of dice games.

** This was a popular trope in the Land of Norman Lear. ''GoodTimes'' and ''{{Maude}}'' did similar charity amateur-hour episodes.

* KevinSmith deals with this trope [[SarcasmMode with his typical taste and refinement]] in ''ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno''.

* Parodied heavily in an article at ''TheOnion'', in which a ragtag bunch of kids band together to save their clubhouse by putting on an incredibly dark, sexual, angsty and incomprehensible avant-garde art play, including a "whore" squatting out filthy young and pre-teen boys nude with body-painted penises.

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* In the {{Yugioh}} fanfiction ''FanFic/DecksFallEveryoneDies'', the characters put on a show that is meant to convince people to start dueling again. This is because [[WorldGoneMad life has gone downhill]] after the fall of dueling and the rise of dice games.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' has an episode centered on this trope (trying to save Earth from the TV-addicted Omicronians); Fry even used the trope name directly.

* [[TheBrakShow Brak]] and his family put on a presentation of "Psychoklahoma" to save Señor Science from the disastrous results of his latest science experiment. By the time they get the money together, he's managed to save himself. This is Señor Science's SOP; every episode of his show-within-a-show ends with him desperately needing funds from the audience if he is ever to survive. Just send cash, check, or money order to...

* TheMuppets did this a few times.

* In ''OneDayAtATime'' the cast saved their building and in following seasons just put on a show for no particular reason.
** This troper seems to remember that they DID have a reason -- it was a charitable gesture meant to entertain the people at the local Senior Citizens' center every New Year's Eve.

* ''AreYouBeingServed'' did this quite a few times, usually for Mr. Grace's birthday.

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* Benefit shows in general would fit under this trope. Specifically, not as much the planned "global relief" concerts such as Live Aid or Farm Aid, but the usually smaller shows bands perform to get fast money for something (jailed/sued/evicted/etc friends needing bail/lawyers, the relatives of a late bandmate need money or a show done in memory of a late bandmate, someone sick needing money for medical bills, someone's gear got stolen or trashed, etc...).

* AreYouBeingServed did this quite a few times, usually for Mr. Grace's birthday.

* ''Babes in Arms''. Note that, although it shares this trope with the Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney movie it inspired, it's got a completely different score, plot and set of characters.

* The Battle for Barthis story arc in DominicDeegan is mostly about putting on a concert to raise money for the ruined town.

* [[TheBrakShow Brak]] and his family put on a presentation of "Psychoklahoma" to save Señor Science from the disastrous results of his latest science experiment. By the time they get the money together, he's managed to save himself. This is probably Señor Science's SOP.

* The ''[[AnneOfGreenGables Anne of Avonlea]]'' miniseries.

Made popular by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in the 1930s, but a suprisingly resilient format. A possible subtrope of this may be putting on a show with no orphanage to save. E.G. Taxi did a whole show, in which, the main cast performed song and dance numbers.

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-->-- Judy Garland, "Babes In Arms", 1939.

** In later seasons they seemed to happen more often, seemingly as an excuse to get Mrs Slocombe and Mr Humphries into ridiculous outfits and flamboyant dresses, even if the event made no sense in context of the show.

** In later seasons they seemed to happen more often, seemingly as an excuse to get Mrs Slocombe and Mr Humphries into ridiculous outfits and flamboyant dresses.

* AreYouBeingServed did this quite a few times for Mr. Grace's birthday.

* The plot of ''TheBluesBrothers''

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*Benefit shows in general would fit under this trope. Specifically, not as much the planned "global relief" concerts such as Live Aid or Farm Aid, but the usually smaller shows bands perform to get fast money for something (jailed/sued/evicted/etc friends needing bail/lawyers, the relatives of a late bandmate need money or a show done in memory of a late bandmate, someone sick needing money for medical bills, someone's gear got stolen or trashed, etc...).

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