History Main / MockingMusic

* Done depressingly in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' - while Hobbes tries to relax with the radio, the [[RuleOfThree three]] songs he hears are ''[[GarfieldSpecials So Long Old Friend]]'', ''[[Music/TheBeatles Yesterday]]'', and ''Missin' You''.
** Also inverted - when they reunite, the radio plays ''[[GarfieldSpecials Together Again]]''

* Done depressingly in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' - while Hobbes tries to relax with the radio, the [[RuleOfThree three]] songs he hears are ''[[GarfieldSpecials So Long Old Friend]]'', ''[[TheBeatles Yesterday]]'', and ''Missin' You''.

* Seen with stuff besides songs, too: like, in ''Film/ModernTimes'', CharlieChaplin's character is awkwardly sitting on a bench next to the parson's wife, and her stomach keeps gurgling loudly. Charlie turns on the radio for a distraction, and a commercial says, "''If you are suffering from gastritis...''"

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* In the film version of ''Film/SilentHill'', Rose wakes up after being scared to the point of passing out by [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel screaming, crying, burning,]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090427134533/silent/images/a/a3/Greychildfilm.jpg BABIES.]] When she wakes up, a jukebox in the back just HAS to start playing, what else, "Ring of Fire" by JohnnyCash.

* Seen with stuff besides songs, too: like, in ''ModernTimes'', CharlieChaplin's character is awkwardly sitting on a bench next to the parson's wife, and her stomach keeps gurgling loudly. Charlie turns on the radio for a distraction, and a commercial says, "''If you are suffering from gastritis...''"

* From ''GoodOmens'': "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me..." Unfortunately for rogue demon Crowley, it's more likely than you think.

* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons''. Homer, frustrated by his inability to get tickets to the Springfield Atoms game, turns on the radio to hear the song "Two Tickets to Paradise" by Eddie Money. At first he is unhappy, but soon starts singing along and playing air guitar.

* "Songs About Rain" by Gary Allan devotes its entire chorus to listing all the sad songs the singer hears on the radio while trying not to think about his breakup. (The title is because all of the songs have "rain" in their titles, e.g. "[[ElvisPresley Kentucky Rain]].")

** In "Bart Gets an Elephant", when Marge makes the entire family clean the house:

--->'''Bart''': Amen, Ernie.

* In an episode of ''DharmaAndGreg'', after Greg learns that [[spoiler: Dharma has kissed another man]], every song on the radio mentions [[spoiler: infidelity]].

* In an episode of ''Dharma&Greg'', after Greg learns that [[spoiler: Dharma has kissed another man]], every song on the radio mentions [[spoiler: infidelity]].

* ''GuessWho'', Ashton Kutcher's character Simon and Bernie Mac's character Percy are driving along, as every song on the radio references tacial tension

** Though it then turns to songs like "Super-Freak", "Brick House" and others while Bumblebee tries to tell him that Alice isn't what she looks like. [[spoiler: A Decepticon]].

* ''{{Transformers}}: Revenge of the Fallen'' fits this trope. When Sam is being seduced by a girl at college, Bumblebee's response is to manipulate the radio so songs like "Your Cheating Heart" start playing constantly.

* Occurred in the race-inverted remake of ''Guess Who's Coming To Dinner''- the SaltAndPepper father and future son-in-law are driving along in steely silence to avoid talking about the big issue on their minds. The boy turns on the radio for a distraction and goes through a rote of such situationally ironic songs as
** ''Ebony and Ivory'' by Paul [=McCartney=] and Stevie Wonder
** ''Brother Louie'' by Hot Chocolate
** ''Walk On The Wild Side'' By Lou Reed, just as it's singing:

* In the film version of ''SilentHill'', Rose wakes up after being scared to the point of passing out by [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel screaming, crying, burning,]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090427134533/silent/images/a/a3/Greychildfilm.jpg BABIES.]] When she wakes up, a jukebox in the back just HAS to start playing, what else, 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash.
* In the second season of TheWire, Ziggy is sitting in the bar, getting as drunk as possible because he got a letter saying that he'd inadvertently got some woman pregnant. As he's relating this, the jukebox is playing ''Love Child'', by TheSupremes. He was being pranked by someone in the bar.
* An example of Mocking Music pops up ''in an actual song'': In PetShopBoys' "I Want To Wake Up", the narrator, distraught over his unrequited feelings for the song's subject, turns on his kitchen radio and hears "songs like 'Tainted Love' and 'Love Is Strange'". [[SanitySlippageSong It doesn't end well.]]
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Related to ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere.

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