History Main / MusicalPastiche

* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' does this a lot with "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from ''Theatre/HelloDolly'' At one point, a robot moves some of his parts to "sing" the first few notes of the refrain as something of ThemeMusicPowerUp for WALL•E.

* There was a part in the original ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon where the mutants crash into a TV Studio where a very ''PowerRangers'' type show is filming - when they exit, a suited-up actor looks at them curiously while the notes corresponding to the words "Go go Power Rangers!" start to play and then putter out.

** In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', the first few seconds of the opening cutscene music sound remarkably like something from ''Film/StarWars''.

* The Stage 1 BGM of ''VideoGame/CityConnection'' uses the intro, rhythm, and bassline of Music/ChuckBerry's "Johnny B. Goode, but the melody of Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No.1: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso". The other stage themes likewise superimpose the Tchaikovsky tune on the harmonies of various classic rock songs.

* The Stage 1 BGM of ''VideoGame/CityConnection'' uses the intro, rhythm, and bassline of Music/ChuckBerry's "Johnny B. Goode, but the melody of Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No.1: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso".
The other stage themes likewise superimpose the Tchaikovsky tune on the harmonies of various classic rock songs.

* Some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' {{Eurobeat}} arrangements do this with ''Super Eurobeat'' songs, e.g. Rute's [[https://youtu.be/CnEFQiTSHZo "The Fantasy Won't Stop Ringing"]] sets the melody of [[https://youtu.be/IeMrru0Ghoc "The Legend of KAGE"]] from ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'' to the instrumentation of [=Go2=]'s [[https://youtu.be/ANmkl3Nq8bE "Hot Hot Racing Car"]], and aki's [[https://youtu.be/zsbgkkuSJjc "Cosmic Rainbow"]], originally "Emotional Skyscraper~Cosmic Mind" from ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', interpolates April's [[https://youtu.be/Q4LjftzCU54 "The Magic I Feel"]].

* Some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' {{Eurobeat}} arrangements do this with ''Super Eurobeat'' songs, e.g. Rute's [[https://youtu.be/CnEFQiTSHZo "The Fantasy Won't Stop Ringing"]] sets the melody of [[https://youtu.be/IeMrru0Ghoc "The Legend of KAGE"]] from ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'' to the instrumentation of [=Go2=]'s [[https://youtu.be/ANmkl3Nq8bE "Hot Hot Racing Car"]], and aki's "Cosmic Rainbow", originally "Emotional Skyscraper~Cosmic Mind" from ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', interpolates parts of April's "The Magic I Feel".

* Some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' {{Eurobeat}} arrangements do this with ''Super Eurobeat'' songs, e.g. Rute's [[https://youtu.be/CnEFQiTSHZo "The Fantasy Won't Stop Ringing"]] sets the melody of "The Legend of KAGE" from ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'' to the instrumentation of [=Go2=]'s [[https://youtu.be/ANmkl3Nq8bE "Hot Hot Racing Car"]], and aki's "Cosmic Rainbow", originally "Emotional Skyscraper~Cosmic Mind" from ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', interpolates parts of April's "The Magic I Feel".

* Some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' {{Eurobeat}} arrangements do this with ''Super Eurobeat'' songs, e.g. Rute's "The Fantasy Won't Stop Ringing" sets the melody of "Legend of Kage" from ''Highly Responsive to Prayers'' to the instrumentation of [=Go2=]'s "Hot Hot Racing Car", and aki's "Cosmic Rainbow", originally "Emotional Skyscraper~Cosmic Mind" from ''Undefined Fantastic Object'', interpolates parts of April's "The Magic I Feel".

** It had several pastiches of popular songs during the show, including ''Wipeout'', ''La Bamba'', 2 Unlimited's ''No Limit'' (maybe a coincidence), and the ''Film/JamesBond'' theme (some of these, of course, are public domain).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qQQTkIUwH0 "Neon Jungle"]] is a stylistic pastiche of 80's Hi-NRG music, such as Bananarama, which the song's {{fake band}}, Mango Tango, may be a {{shoutout}} to.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2WLw-b2AUA "Tube Ride"]] is ''DD 1'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQM0QECxhjc Mission 4]] music arranged Creator/DickDale {{surf rock}} style.

* A lot of tunes from the ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' games, especially ''IV'' and ''VI'', are based on a [[RecurringRiff recurring]] bassline/chord progression, especially those of ''Adol's Theme'' and ''Selceta Forest''. Lesser pastiches include the intro of ''Ernst''(remixed from Final Battle), ''Overwater Drive''(heavily based on Beat of the Terror), ''Mountain Zone''(pastiche of both ''Palace of Solomon'' and ''Forest of Selceta'') ''Lava Zone''(resembles ''Termination'', the FinalBoss music from ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} Book I and II''), ''Defend and Escape''(includes the Ark/Napishtim's theme, ''Selceta Forest'', and even part of ''Niena'' from ''Ys V''), ''The Depth Napishtim''(in addition to using the Ark {{leitmotif}}, it also draws from ''Termination''), and ''Spread Blue View''(uses parts of ''Reconciled People'', the Port Rimorge theme).

* The Stage 1 BGM of ''VideoGame/CityConnection'' uses the intro, rhythm, and bassline of Music/Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode, but the melody of Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No.1: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso".

** In ''VideoGame/YsTheOathInFelghana'', Chester's second boss battle theme is a mashup of his leitmotif and "Chop!!", originally the midboss theme from the X68000 version of ''Ys III: Wanderers from Ys''.

** ''Sonic the Hedgehog 3'' and ''Sonic & Knuckles'' had a different music composer than the first two games, hence the absence of the original title theme, but the main boss theme is a pastiche of both the miniboss theme(the second part) and the ''Sonic 1'' boss theme(the first part, somewhat more resembles the FinalBoss version).
** ''Sonic Adventure 2'''s various level themes often echo "Live and Learn," the game's theme song.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', the first few seconds of the opening cutscene music sound remarkably like something from ''Star Wars''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' did this quite a bit.

** ''SonicTheHedgehog 3'' and ''Sonic & Knuckles'' had a different music composer than the first two games, hence the absence of the original title theme, but the main boss theme is a pastiche of both the miniboss theme(the second part) and the ''Sonic 1'' boss theme(the first part, somewhat more resembles the FinalBoss version).

* ''SonicTheHedgehog 3'' and ''Sonic & Knuckles'' had a different music composer than the first two games, hence the absence of the original title theme, but the main boss theme is a pastiche of both the miniboss theme(the second part) and the ''Sonic 1'' boss theme(the first part, somewhat more resembles the FinalBoss version).

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* ''JimmyNeutron'' is famous for making songs that sound not quite exactly like the pop or old folk songs the viewers would know.

* Bjorn "Dr. Awesome" Lynne's 2000 [[RearrangeTheSong remake]] of his {{MOD}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nykfVOkuCTU "12th Warrior"]] is stylistically reminiscent of Music/{{Europe}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw "The Final Countdown"]], especially the guitar solo at the end.

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989) had a snippet of "Scandalous" by Music/{{Prince}} worked into the otherwise somber Music/DannyElfman score.

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' pastiched ''Series/{{Batman}}'''s ThemeTune in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE_ks82chG4#t=5m22s climax battle]] of the episode "The Winged Avenger", complete with TheHitFlash, which took the form of huge comic book panels reading "POW!", "SPLAT!" and "BAM!" being smashed into the bad guy's face.

** [[https://youtu.be/frHGwz7ZhmE Natsuki's]] has a xylophone, recorder, and other "simple" instruments, fitting with her theme of being the "childish" character.