History Main / IncessantMusicMadness

* In ''ModernFamily'', Jay gives Gloria a karaoke machine, and she keeps singing off key, to Jay's dismay. He keeps trying to break it to her gently, but in the end it's Manny who snaps and yells at her to stop. In TheStinger, Jay tries out the karaoke machine, but Manny pulls the plug and warns Jay, [[ImpliedDeathThreat "This won't be the last plug I pull"]].

* In an episode of ''TheFlintstones'', Fred and Wilma find the perfect maid/cook, and everybody's happy--except that Fred keeps singing (badly) an inane song he made up. The hired help finally quits.

* On ''InvaderZim'', as Zim flies to Earth, [=GIR=] decides to sing the "Doom Song" on the way... ''for six months straight.'' Zim is just about to lose it when they finally arrive.

* The BugsBunny cartoon "Long-Haired Hare" begins with Bugs playing various instruments (a banjo, a harp and a tuba) and singing while an opera singer is trying to rehearse, leading the opera singer to smash Bugs' instruments and beat him up.

* In a famous (or perhaps infamous) episode of ''TheGongShow'', every single act that came out on stage sang Morris Albert's "Feelings". The judges began fighting over who could gong the act first.

* One ''{{CSI}}'' case involved a garotted musician. [[spoiler:Turned out he was killed by an angry neighbour who couldn't stand the noise.]]
** This is also the plot of the ''{{Bones}}'' episode "The Wannabe in the Weeds".
** Not music, but still "incessant noise", a ''CSIMiami'' episode involves, among other murders, that of a handyman which had been electrocuted to death. Turned out that the handyman's work (to renovate a kitchen) had been going on for several months and a neighbor was sick of it enough (because it didn't let her sleep) to drive her to murder.

* In ''DarkerThanBlack'', Hei's downstairs neighbors practice for their band into the wee hours of nonstop. Averted, in that this never bothered him, either due to his zen-like calm, or the fact that he's generally never home. Un-averted, when he has Kenji Sakurai as a guest, and he complains about the noise.

* The villain in ''TheDrillerKiller'' was driven homicidally insane partly due to his wannabe rock star neighbors never shutting up.

* WebOriginal/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses gives us "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHWjEaNXPU The Most Annoying Song In The World]]".

* While Jim is working in Stamford on ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', he and Karen get into a war of this. She creaks her chair back and forth, then he starts to sing "Lovefool".
-->'''Jim:'''''(singing)'' Love me, love me. Say that you love me. ''(speaking)'' Whatever happened to [[Music/TheCardigans those guys?]]

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Survivors", the only apparent survivors of a massacre on Rana IV are an old man & his wife. Little does the Enterprise crew know that the old man is actually a nigh-omnipotent being with a terrible secret. He implants [[OminousMusicBoxTune the melody of his wife's music box]] [[TerribleTicking into Counselor Troi's mind]] in order to [[PsychicStatic distract her from delving further into his emotions]].

** In the short, "My Brilliant Revenge" from the episode, "Fox Trot", Plucky is practicing his [[Main/EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipes]] for the Acme All-Bagpipe band outside Hamton's house. Hamton is trying to watch his favorite show, ''Swine Search'', and can't hear it over Plucky's bagpipes. At first, he politely asks Plucky to stop, but Plucky ignores him and continues practicing. When Hamton misses the entire show, he destroys Plucky's bagpipes in a fit of rage. [[spoiler:At the end of the cartoon, it is revealed that Hamton taped the show.]]

* In "The Tiki Room", TheLeagueOfSTEAM deals with a tiki idol that emits a drumming sound and ''Will. Not. Shut. Up.'' Fortunately no one actually goes mad, but it does make it difficult to conduct an interrogation.

* This is how ''WelcomeToTheNHK'' starts.

* In ''[[MadMax Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome]]'', some of the kids have run off. The other kids are showing Max which direction they went, and are chanting a lament in the background. Eventually, Max yells, "Stop the noise, STOP THE NOISE!"

* There have been several instances where radio stations have a "stop the music" donation for charity, where they'll play a song that is considered annoying on repeat until their goal has been met. (The most common example is MmmBop by [[Music/Hanson]].

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Unwanted_Song The Most Unwanted Song]] combines elements that were revealed in a survey to be the least desirable elements in a song. Answers included extremely high or low voices, child singers, lyrics about cowboys, lyrics about holidays and commercial jingle lyrics; the song therefore includes a soprano rapping about cowboys and children singing holiday-themed jingles advertising Wal-Mart. [[ThatsWhatSheSaid Extremely length was another turnoff]], so it ended up being 22 minutes long.

* Cacofonix, the Bard from ''{{Asterix}}'' qualifies, so much so that this talent is often [[LoudOfWar weaponized]].

* ''ItsAWonderfulLife'': When George returns home after discovering that Billy misplaced the deposit money, he begins to mentally unravel while Janie can be heard practicing ''Hark the Herald Angels Sing'' on the piano. Eventually, he snaps and shouts, "Haven't you learned that silly tune yet? You've been playing it over and over! Now stop it! Stop it!!"

* In ''RobinHoodMenInTights'', Prince John calls for the knights to stop Robin and his men. About 50 men in suits of armor start marching into the room from all sides, the clanging of their armor getting louder and louder and ''louder''. After several minutes of this, Prince John, who has taken refuge under a table and is holding his ears, says, "I hope this is worth THE NOISE!!!"

* There have been several instances where radio stations have a "stop the music" donation for charity, where they'll play a song that is considered annoying on repeat until their goal has been met.