History Main / KazoosMeanSilliness

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Prince James' favourite childhood toy was a kazoo, which he often used to blow in his twin sister Amber's face. In the episode "Two Princesses and a Baby", a de-aged James, now a goofy toddler due to a magical mishap, finds the kazoo again and resumes this action, to Amber's annoyance. [[spoiler:However, after baby-James accidentally breaks the kazoo, Amber ultimately seeks out the royal sorcerer Cedric to use magic to repair it and return it to him (as his regular self) as a birthday present.]]

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** One participant in the TerribleIntervieweesMontage in "Join The Jam" is a kazoo.

* ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'': In the successor fan game ''Toontown: Corporate Clash'', the new Level 1 Sound Gag is the kazoo. Since the premise of ''Toontown'' revolves around fun-loving Toons defeating corporate-minded robotic Cogs with NoSenseOfHumor, Toons using silliness and slapstick humour for attacks (known in the game as 'Gags') is to be expected.

* ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline'': In the successor fan game ''Toontown: Corporate Clash'', the new Level 1 Sound Gag is the kazoo. Since ''Toontown'' revolves around fun-loving Toons defeating corporate-minded robotic Cogs with NoSenseOfHumor, Toons using silliness as weapons (known in the game as 'Gags') is to be expected.

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Prince James' favourite childhood toy was a kazoo, which he often used to blow in his twin sister Amber's face. In the episode "Two Princesses and a Baby", a de-aged James, now a goofy toddler due to a magical mishap, finds the kazoo again and resumes this action, to Amber's annoyance. [[spoiler:However, after accidentally breaking the kazoo, Amber ultimately seeks out the royal sorcerer Cedric to use magic to repair it and return it to him as a birthday present.]]

** [[Music/{{Alapalooza}} "Achy Breaky Song" (a parody of "Achy Breaky Heart" by Music/BillyRayCyrus) features a chorus of kazoos at the end of the song.

* In ''VideoGame/ToontownOnline''[='s=] successor fan game ''Toontown: Corporate Clash'', the new Level 1 Sound Gag is the kazoo. Since ''Toontown'' revolves around fun-loving Toons defeating corporate-minded robotic Cogs with NoSenseOfHumor, Toons using silliness as weapons (known in the game as 'Gags') is to be expected.

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Prince James' favourite childhood toy was a kazoo, which he often used to blow in his twin sister Amber's face. In the episode "Two Princesses and a Baby", a de-aged James, now a goofy toddler, finds the kazoo again and resumes this action, to Amber's annoyance. [[spoiler:However, after accidentally breaking the kazoo, Amber ultimately seeks out the royal sorcerer Cedric to use magic to repair it and return it to him as a birthday present.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The B plot of "[[Recap/SouthParkS13E3Margaritaville Margaritaville]]" has Stan trying to return Randy's Margaritaville margarita mixer, with his quest taking him all the way to the US Treasury, whose members "consult the charts" regarding economic problems by cutting the head off a chicken and letting it run around a floor labelled with different options while one of the members plays a kazoo until the chicken finally falls over dead.

->[''as Elan is buzzing away'']\\
''"Great. He spends skill points on Perform (Kazoo), and now I need to make a Knowledge (Limits of My Own Sanity) skill check."''

* During their tenure as a duo, Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} used kazoos for comedy bits. They started out playing their intro themes during a birthday party for Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, then did Wrestling/TripleH's theme when he yelled at them to quit. They would bring out the kazoos for such bits later on, and in 2015, they even got Wrestling/SteveAustin to join in during his podcast, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJgietbNp9Y playing Austin's theme music on their kazoos while he joined them on a ukelele]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'': In [[http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=340 one gag comic]], [[ButtMonkey Rocky]] gives [[GrumpyBear Victor]] one of those huge prize checks and plays a kazoo with the announcement, and then after asking Victor what he's going to do with the money. Victor [[OffWithHisHead decapitates him]] with the check...and then cashes it.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE51TheManWhoKilledBatman The Man Who Killed Batman]]", as the coffin containing Sid is rolled into the [[AcidPool acid vat]], ComicBook/HarleyQuinn plays "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" on the kazoo. WordOfGod is that during this scene, the crew were cracking up laughing while Creator/ArleenSorkin played, [[{{Corpsing}} the rest of the cast lost it once she stopped]], and Creator/PaulDini was very happy that she nailed it in one take as he didn't think they'd be able to keep themselves composed for future takes if she hadn't.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE51TheManWhoKilledBatman The Man Who Killed Batman]]", as the coffin containing Sid is rolled into the [[AcidPool acid vat]], Harley Quinn plays "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" on the kazoo. WordOfGod is that during this scene, the crew were cracking up laughing while Creator/ArleenSorkin played, [[{{Corpsing}} the rest of the cast lost it once she stopped]], and Creator/PaulDini was very happy that she nailed it in one take.