History Main / LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand

* Has been used a few times so far in ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'':

* Episode 35 of ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'' had this in their TransformationSequence. Earlier in the episode, Makoto had to make an appointment with a dentist. Problem is, she's AfraidOfDoctors (especially upon hearing a dentist's drill), and as luck would have it, the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Jikochuu]] for this episode is made from a rotten tooth and had a giant drill as a weapon. When the girls spot the Jikochuu, they transform and start to pose for their InTheNameOfTheMoon phrase, only to then realize that Makoto/Sword ''[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/prettycure/images/9/9a/DDPC35.03.png/revision/latest?cb=20131006040622 isn't]]'' in the group pose sequence. The transformation music promptly died out when the girls found that out. The dentist meeting earlier caused Makoto to got too scared to transform upon knowing that the Jikochuu is related to dentists.

* In the 2017 anime adaptation of ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'', during the "Bothersome Country" episode, Kino takes a shower and then goes to sleep before Hermes can say something. The next morning, Kino wakes up, looks in the mirror and the soundtrack fades out in this way as Kino realizes why you don't go to bed with wet hair.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" had this occur with an old-style jukebox, one with real records in it.

** "The End of Time" does this horrifically: after [[spoiler:surviving the Master and the Time Lords]], the Doctor thinks he's cheated the four knocks prophecy that had been following him for the past eight/twenty months, and when [[spoiler:he realizes Wilf is doing the knocking]], the music fades into the show's now familiar discordant snippet that's code for "oh, ''shit''".
** Inverted in "Asylum of the Daleks", when Rory encounters all of the decommissioned Daleks and they start to wake up. One of them, the first one, stares at him and starts saying "EGGS... EGGS... EGGS..." When Rory tries to figure out exactly why it's asking about eggs, that's when the Dalek fully wakes up. It's only then [[OhCrap that Rory realizes that the Dalek]] [[CatchPhrase was trying to say "EXTERMINATE"]]...

** In "Like A Virgin", dramatic music plays as Dean tries to yank out a [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield sword in the stone]], only for this trope to occur as he fails miserably. The music cranks up again as he has another go. Nope, he still can't get it out.
** Dean giving the RousingSpeech from ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' before a mock battle at the end of "LARP and the Real Girl". Events are interrupted when someone throws a Frisbee between the two armies, then the music cranks up again so Dean can finish his speech.

* In Season 1, Episode 4 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', the BackgroundMusic cuts out a few times during Chika's GratuitousRap, and it slowly falls out of tune when Chika realizes she can't get a reaction out of Kaguya other than a polite smile.

* ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'': In the middle of the song, "At the Ball," Gus breaks down in tears when the song reaches the line where Cinderella has been banished. The orchestration pretends to wind down like a record player underneath all this.

* In the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "Amok Time", when Spock realizes that Kirk is not not dead, he grabs him by the shoulders and swings him around, beaming, as the music swells...then immediately peters out when he realizes that Bones and Chapel are standing right there watching him.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Twisted", the crew are celebrating on the holodeck when Tuvok hails the Captain to let her know about an unusual phenomenon...phenomenon...''pheeenooomeeeennnonnnnn....''

* In ''Series/TheThundermans'' episode "Weekend Guest" this happens after Max and Phoebe feed Max's mutated Venus Fly Trap a formula that will de-mutate it. As its head shrinks down the music dies down with it.

* ''Manga/LuckyStar'' often fades out the BackgroundMusic like this.

As much of a {{Comedy Trope|s}} as the RecordNeedleScratch. It's occasionally been used in serious situations, as an indicator that ''something'' has gone wrong. It can also take the form of a FallingBass.

%%* Happens in ''LightNovel/SpiceAndWolf'', of all shows.

* ''VideoGame/Pikmin'':

* The song version of "Jos Jotain Yrittää" by finish metal band Imperanon ends after a slowdown with the accordion trying to start the chorus once more and dropping into this trope.

* It happens twice in Season 2 of the Creator/NBC reality show ''Better Late Than Never''.

** In the Skypiea saga, this happens when Gan Fall reveals to the Straw Hat crew that his bird Pierre ate the Horse-Horse Fruit, and therefore can turn into a {{Pegasus}}. Triumphant music plays as Pierre transforms... and then sputters out as his less-than-majestic appearance leaves the Straw Hats disappointed.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'': after Tamatoa realizes that [[spoiler:Maui can't shapeshift anymore]], the music for "Shiny" slowly starts back up like someone starting a record up.

** Music/TenaciousD's "Deth Starr" ends in pretty much the same way.

** Very, very arguably (sorry) the same effect, only slower, happens when Music/SuicidalTendencies try to make a ballad with "Alone"...and fail.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Caboose meets an alien AI in episode "Test Your Might". When he declares that the AI's name is Santa, the triumphant music grinds to a halt, possibly just as stupefied as the rest of the team.

* ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' has one in the scene that plays after the credits [[spoiler:and leading up to the postgame]]- Olimar has returned to Planet Hocotate after collecting treasure [[WorkOffTheDebt to save his company from debt]], and the President is thanking him for doing so. Upon learning that there's ''more'' treasure on the Pikmin planet, he becomes excited and starts to yell Louie to tell him to go back with Olimar to get the remaining treasure... [[spoiler:only to find that Louie is missing, after being left on the Pikmin planet.]] Cue the music coming to a stop.

* In ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'', finishing a Grand Prix in fourth will cause the music to turn to minor, then do this.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', Groose's {{leitmotif}} evidently does not agree with Groose that the world below Skyloft should be named [[{{Egopolis}} Grooseland]].

* Music/AliceCooper's hit "School's Out" ends with a school bell ringing and kids shouting. As the shouting fades, the school bell effect undergoes the trope to transition to silence.

** In the short ''WesternAnimation/BackAlleyOproar'' WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester|TheCatAndTweetyBird}} brings in an orange female opera singing cat to take his place when plotting a grand scheme. After WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd silences the cat with a blow to the head-just as she hits the high note-we hear this effect directly.