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-->'''Ravelli:''' I can't think of the finish.
-->'''Spalding:''' That's funny, I can't think of anything else!

-->'''Worf''': Sorry.

* In season 7 of ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', Sammy sings in the shower as Larry's trying to sleep, prompting an extremely agitated outburst. 'SHUT THE FUCK UP!'
** Cheri Oteri's appearance on ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' was as a mentally unstable nanny who was driven mad by constantly hearing the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' theme while working at an amusement park. She sings it constantly and it drives her into a murderous rage.

* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', one night at three in the morning, Sheldon decides to play the bongos, waking Leonard and Penny up. He even turns some of their dialogue into rhythmic chants to go along with his drumming.
--> '''Sheldon''': Leonard sleeps, while I play bongos!
--> '''Leonard''': No, no he doesn't.
--> '''Sheldon''': Leonard no sleep, while I play bongos!

-->'''Andy:''' ''(singing)'' Love me, love me. Say that you love me. ''(speaking)'' Whatever happened to [[Music/TheCardigans those guys?]]

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Elan often drives his teammates to this.
* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' has a strip with a Maytec security officer making a log entry about an increasing number of incidents where base personnel suddenly went berserk and attacked others or Maytec property, while Christmas muzak is playing in the background. [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20101221.html Then...]]

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* This hilarious animation from stickdeath.com called [[http://www.dirtybutton.com/animations/1000-becoming-unglued/ Becoming Unglued]].

-->'''Goslyn:''' Hi, Dad. I didn't hear you come in.
-->'''Drake:''' No, really? Gee, I heard ''you''. I bet ''the whole city'' heard you!
-->'''Goslyn:''' Great, that's just what we want. Wide exposure!

* In ''Film/FredClaus'', the elf DJ won't stop taking requests to play "Here Comes Santa Claus", so Fred shoves him into a cabinet so he can play something else. Fred switches the radio to Music/ElvisPresley's "Rubberneckin' that gets thew whole elf crew dancing. Unfortunately, it leaves the workshop in total chaos since it also causes the Elves to neglect their jobs just as Santa and efficiency expert Clyde Northcutt walk in.

* In ''Film/FredClaus'', the elf DJ won't stop taking requests to play "Here Comes Santa Claus", so Fred shoves him into a cabinet so he can play something else. Fred chooses Music/ElvisPresley's "Rubberneckin' that gets thew whole elf crew dancing, but leaves the workshop in total chaos since it also causes the Elves to neglect their jobs.

* In ''Film/FredClaus'', the elf DJ won't stop taking requests to play "Here Comes Santa Claus", so Fred shoves him into a cabinet so he can play something else. Fred chooses [[Music/ElvisPresley]]'s "Rubberneckin' that gets thew whole elf crew dancing, but leaves the workshop in total chaos since it also causes the Elves to neglect their jobs.

* In Film/FredClaus, the elf DJ won't stop taking requests to play "Here Comes Santa Claus", so Fred shoves him into a cabinet so he can play something else.

* In ''Anime/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.

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* This is how ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' starts.

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* ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': All Alice wants to do is get a good night's sleep, but Megas's "La Cucaracha" horn from right outside her house makes that impossible. Granted Coop was just trying to get her attention, but she still felt it was rude.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': The Trolls love singing and do so at every opportunity, except for grumpy Branch. While he and Poppy are camping out for the night, she starts singing "Dream a Little Dream of Me," but he cuts her off. Then she goes into a [[DisneyAcidSequence very trippy]] rendition of "Sound of Silence." Apparently touched, Branch holds out his hand, and she hands over her guitar, which he promptly tosses into the campfire.

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* Comedian, Creator/JohnMulaney has a bit about how one time at a diner, he and his friend noticed a jukebox, and decided to have some fun, put in $7, and selected 21 plays of "What's New Pussycat" by Music/TomJones. And just to throw the other patrons off, they selected "It's Not Unusual" to play after the seventh time, only to go back to "What's New Pussycat" once it it was over. The jukebox was unplugged after the 11th time.
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* The Phone Guy in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' suggests that having to play the same idiotic songs for over twenty years might be why the animatronics are so erratic. [[spoiler:Turns out he's wrong- they've been haunted by vengeful children, as revealed in later installments.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'', Vlad the Impaler's punishment before Gat and Kinzie show up to rescue him is to sit on the floor of a daycare (the signage labels it as "Tenth Circle Peniitentiary") while the children's song "The Wheels on the Bus" plays repeatedly. If you go in there as Gat he will complain that they only used the "short" version of the song, to Vlad's horror. When you do the missions where you have to rescue your allies, Vlad will once again be singing "The Wheels on the Bus" until the player rescues him. He also complains of the song in one of his collectible audio logs.

** The Cheese Shop sketch. When John Cleese's character enters, there are some guys playing Greek music and dancing. After several minutes of the annoying music in the background, he turns around and yells, "Will you shut that bloody dancing up!" and they stop playing. He started out insisting that he "liked a nice tune", and this is after several minutes trying to guess what kind of cheese the shop has [[spoiler:(none)]] displaying saint-like patience all the while.

* A Franchise/NationalLampoon comic strip had a guy with a downstairs neighbor who had the worst taste in music, who left for a couple of weeks with his phonograph playing Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" - the record started skipping, repeating "owe my soul to" over and over. Nobody could get in and shut it off, and eventually the guy ended up on the street, blank-eyed and chanting [[MadnessMantra "Owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie...Owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie..."]]

* ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'': All Alice wants to do is get a good night's sleep, but Megas's "La Cucaracha" horn from right outside her house makes that impossible.

* In the Creator/MarxBrothers film ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'', Chico plays the song "Sugar Time" on his piano, but gets stuck and keeps playing the same section over and over.
-->'''Chico:''' I can't think of the finish.
-->'''Groucho:''' That's funny, I can't think of anything else!

* A NationalLampoon comic strip had a guy with a downstairs neighbor who had the worst taste in music, who left for a couple of weeks with his phonograph playing Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sixteen Tons" - the record started skipping, repeating "owe my soul to" over and over. Nobody could get in and shut it off, and eventually the guy ended up on the street, blank-eyed and chanting [[MadnessMantra "Owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie...Owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie..."]]

* The Phone Guy in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' suggests that having to play the same idiotic songs for over twenty years might be why the animatronics are so erratic.

** In the episode "Qpid", Q turned the bridge crew into Robin Hood and his merry men. Geordie became the Alan a-Dale analog, and kept plucking annoyingly at a lute. Finally Worf had had enough, walked up, snatched the lute and smashed it against a tree (in an homage to the ''Film/AnimalHouse'' example above).

** In the 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]].

* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the Cheese Shop sketch. When John Cleese's character enters, there are some guys playing Greek music and dancing. After several minutes of the annoying music in the background, he turns around and yells, "Will you shut that bloody dancing up!" and they stop playing.
** Mind you, he started out insisting that he "liked a nice tune", and this is after several minutes trying to guess what kind of cheese the shop has[[spoiler: (none)]] displaying saint-like patience all the while. Real CrowningMomentOfFunny material.
** Also happens in the Spam sketch.

-->'''Andy:'''''(singing)'' Love me, love me. Say that you love me. ''(speaking)'' Whatever happened to [[Music/TheCardigans those guys?]]

* Hold music on telephone lines.

* There was a story in the news about a boy who was abducted and sang a song on repeat for 3 hours until [[PityTheKidnapper the kidnapper gave up and threw him out of the car.]]