History Main / MinskyPickup

* The opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' begin with a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong slight variation]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Dada-da da da da, OI!]]

* It's in the beginning of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' theme song.

* A very close variant is used at the start of the "Dancing Rabbit Act" in ''Film.EmmetOttersJugBandChristmas''.

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, Robin Hood's song starts off like this, as does the "Welcome to Duloc" information booth.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''--From the episode where they watch ''Film/InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen'':
--> Crow: So, uh, do either of you guys know any songs about StockFootage that could get us through this?
--> Tom: Oh, I know a song about stock footage! It goes like this! Didit, da dit dit dit--EAT IT MOVIE! TAKE THIS STUPID LITTLE COCKROACH OF A FILM, ROLL IT UP SOOOOOO TIGHT, AND THEN RAM IT RIGHT UP YOUR--(breaks down sobbing).

* In ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' original radio series ("Fit the Ninth"), the "Share and Enjoy" song starts with an out-of-tune variation--and then gets worse.

* The classic ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' theme starts with [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong a variation on the Minsky Pickup]].

* The second bar of the main theme of ''[[VideoGame/WarioLand Wario Land 2]]'', note for note.

* ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' has Minsky pickups for N64 Yoshi Valley, GCN Baby Park, as well as Sweet Sweet Canyon.

* During a pep talk/demo from one burlesque dancer to another in ''Film/TheIndestructibleMan'', appropriately.

->"''Dada, da dump dump dump! I am your SingingTelegram!''" [[KilledMidSentence <BANG!>]]
-->-- '''Singing Telegram Girl''', ''Film/{{Clue}}''

* The sound when a second player joins in the fight in the original ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'' and ''Tekken 2''.

* The production of Romeo and Juliet in ''Film/HotFuzz'' ends with a rendition of Lovefool that opens and closes with the riff.

** (FWIW that particular episode used to have its own page on Wiki/TheOtherWiki.[[labelnote:*]]That page has since been deleted, with its contents moved into the table of summaries on the show's main page, making that episode's entry much longer than the couple of sentences most of the others have.[[/labelnote]])

This is the six note Intro Fanfare to a Song and Dance number. (Actually, it's a somewhat shortened version of an older 16-note intro, the shorter version being the more common these days.) Three notes of the same pitch, then up a full, up a half, up a half. "Dadum dadum dum dum!" It's rather ubiquitous, and originates from {{vaudeville}} or perhaps even earlier. In vaudeville it was known as the "Minsky Pickup" (undoubtedly named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky%27s_Burlesque Minsky's Burlesque]] and perhaps originating there), but it has also been called the "[[Music/BillBailey "Cockney Intro]]" (possibly due to the similarities between vaudeville and British {{Pantomime}} and the inevitable bleedover of routines and musical numbers).

This is the six note Intro Fanfare to a Song and Dance number. (Actually, it's a somewhat shortened version of an older 16-note intro, the shorter version being the more common these days.) Three notes of the same pitch, then up a full, up a half, up a half. "Dadum dadum dum dum!" It's rather ubiquitous, and originates from {{vaudeville}} or perhaps even earlier. In vaudeville it was known as the "Minsky Pickup" (undoubtedly named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky%27s_Burlesque Minsky's Burlesque]] and perhaps originating there), but it has also been called the "[[Music/BillBailey "Cockney Intro]]" (possibly due to the similarities between vaudeville and British [[Pantomime]] and the inevitable bleedover of routines and musical numbers).

This is the six note Intro Fanfare to a Song and Dance number. (Actually, it's a somewhat shortened version of an older 16-note intro, the shorter version being the more common these days.) Three notes of the same pitch, then up a full, up a half, up a half. "Dadum dadum dum dum!" It's rather ubiquitous, and originates from {{vaudeville}} or perhaps even earlier. In vaudeville it was known as the "Minsky Pickup" (undoubtedly named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky%27s_Burlesque Minsky's Burlesque]] and perhaps originating there), but it has also been called the "[[Music/BillBailey "Cockney Intro]]" (possibly due to the similarities between vaudeville and British [[{{Pantomime}}]] and the inevitable bleedover of routines and musical numbers).