History Main / Sexophone

* ''Film/{{Christine}}'': When Arnie watches Christine repair herself, the soundtrack is awash with sultry saxophone music, since it's basically a metaphor for a guy watching his hot girlfriend undress herself.

* A very early example occurs in Jules Massenet's 1881 opera ''Hérodiade'' (based on a novel by Creator/GustaveFlaubert). King Herod's aria "vision fugitive," about his lust for his stepdaughter Salome, features a suggestive alto saxophone part to represent his thoughts of her.

May overlap with CreepyJazzMusic when EvilIsSexy.

* Used in the phone sex ad in the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead" episode "1-900-BEAVIS".

* A very early example occurs in Jules Massenet's 1881 opera ''Hérodiade'' (based on a novel by Creator/GustaveFlaubert). King Herod's aria "vision fugitive," about his lust for his stepdaughter Salome, features a suggestive solo saxophone part to represent his thoughts of her.

* A very early example occurs in Jules Massenet's 1881 opera ''Hérodiade'' (based on a novel by Creator/GustaveFlaubert). King Herod's aria "vision fugitive," about his lust for his stepdaughter Salome, features a prominent saxophone solo to represent his thoughts of her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', this also happens when the similarly gold-plated Corus (Ilana's mech form) is cleaned off with water and also sparkles.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{EQUESTRIA GIRLS}}'', sexy sax music signals that love is in the air ([[LimitedAnimation since the characters' facial expressions can't signal that]]). First, it's played straight, then it's used for a fight scene that unexpectedly [[SlapSlapKiss turns into a love scene]]. Then it's used for a truly bizarre scene where the Moon from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' falls in love with Rarity, but she doesn't reciprocate.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode, ''Beauty and the Beet'', this is used for sexy scientist Rhoda Dendron.

** In "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1", Peter wishes for his own personal soundtrack from a genie. The music engages in some MickeyMousing, but when Peter and Lois are about to get intimate it turns into funky Sexophone music.
** And there's the two of them engaging in "phone sax", which is playing sexy saxophone songs over the phone to each other. Lois does it ''with her vagina''.

** In another episode, Peter watches a film with Creator/AllisonJanney, and a sexy sax is heard as she steps out of a cab and the camera pans upward. However, her legs seems to [[OverlyLongGag go on forever]], leading to a note that gets held for so long, the sax player has to pause a moment to catch his breath.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', [[Creator/GenndyTartakovsky (co-created by Clone Wars' showrunner),]] this also happens when the similarly gold-plated Corus (Ilana's mech form) is cleaned off with water and also sparkles.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith the device in ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''[[note]]although that ''could'' be an example of it; it's never described in enough detail as to whether it's just a relabelled saxophone or an entirely different electronic or futuristic instrument[[/note]], nor a [[CargoShip character having sex ]]''[[CargoShip with ]]''[[CargoShip a saxophone]], nor SexySaxMan, nor a sex hotline.

-->"There emerged from the car a pair of the sort of legs which soundtrack editors are unable to see without needing to slap a smoky saxophone solo all over, for reasons which no one besides soundtrack editors has ever been able to understand. In this particular case, however, the saxophone would have been silenced by the proximity of the kazoo which the same soundtrack editor would almost certainly have slapped all over [[TheAllegedCar the progress of the vehicle]]".

* Creator/ShizukaIto has played two characters with this as a {{leitmotif}}: [[FemmeFatale Irina]] [[SensualSlavs Jelavic]] from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' and [[TheTease Akeno]] [[CoolBigSis Himejima]] in ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD''.

* The BGM track from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_AiSewm454 "Can't Lose"]] combines ''both'' the Sexophone and BowChickaWowWow.

* One of the background tracks from Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruo1gLmheEU "S-Trip"]]'' just screams [[Film/{{Borat}} Sexy time]], with it being involved in fanservice, pole dancing, and food sex.

* Played when Esmeraude first appears in ''Manga/SailorMoon''.

* Jessica Rabbit's theme in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is a sultry sax riff.
* Lola Bunny's debut in ''Film/SpaceJam'' was with a sultry Jazz beat.
* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', a brief sax riff accompanies GentlemanThief Flynn Rider's seductive face, the Smolder (tm). Rapunzel remains unmoved.

* This is used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' during the infamous sex scene.
* Happened when Sasha Lafleur was first introduced in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2''.

* A saxophone solo was included in the ThemeTune from ''Film/TheInvisibleWoman1983''. It may also have been Alexa Hamilton's musical signature in the movie.
* The muted trumpet variety opens the song "All That Jazz" as the camera reveals the curvaceous Catherine Zeta-Douglas in ''Film/{{Chicago}}''.

* When Laura Kensington (a first-class FemmeFatale) shows up in ''Film/TheCurseOfTheJadeScorpion'', the music shows right up with her.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TangoAndCash'' when Cash dresses in drag to escape from a nightclub.
* The muted trumpet version is used for Marilyn Monroe in ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''. This is further expanded on when Monroe reveals to one of the main characters (who is a Saxophone player himself) that she has a "thing" for Sax players, detailing her romantic exploits with other Sax players.

* Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Waltz, which Creator/StanleyKubrick used as the opening theme in ''Film/EyesWideShut''.
* A RunningGag in TheMovie of ''Film/OurMissBrooks'' is a sexophone riff that plays every time Miss Lonelyhearts gets up from her desk and walks through the newspaper office.
* Played with, along with FeetFirstIntroduction, with a trombone in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. Turns out the owner of the sexy legs is ''playing'' it (making this an example of LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn).
* A RunningGag in ''Film/FatalInstinct''; the FemmeFatale is always accompanied by a steamy sax tune because a professional sax player follows her around, providing her with a theme tune while hiding in hallways, closets, even in her bed. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall And he's replaced by a trumpet player in one scene because he had to call in sick.]]

* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. Our introduction to Aunty Entity (played by Tina Turner) is a BlindMusician playing the saxophone for her.
* ''Film/LordOfIllusions'': "Harry's Theme", which includes a saxophone performance, is prominently featured during Harry d'Amour's love scene with Dorothea.
* Highway Superstar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kg7E2tuPg "Careful Shouting"]] from ''Film/KungFury'' appears to be an AnswerSong to GeorgeMichael's "Careless Whisper".

* ''{{Film/Deadpool|2016}}'' gets back with Vanessa at the end of the movie? [[BrickJoke Cue]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKn5BGTGMM "Careless Whisper"]].
* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' the alluring villainess, Poison Ivy, is often accompanied by a sultry, saxophone-led leitmotif in a number of her scenes. The music plays whenever she seduces her victims, usually resulting in their death by poison kiss.
* ''Film/{{Malena}}'': Malena makes her entrance with her [[SignificantHaircut new hair-do]] down the street to a sax riff.
* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' has the incredibly sleazy "The Web" playing every time the MadDoctor goes trolling for new bodies for his fiance.
* ''Film/{{Christine}}'': When Arnie watches Christine repair herself, the soundtrack is awash with sultry saxophone music, since it's basically a metaphor for a guy watching his hot girlfriend undress herself.
* [[BlackComedyRape Played for rather grim laughs]] in ''Film/PulpFiction'', where the horn-heavy ''Comanche'' by ''Music/TheRevels'' is played as Marcellus Wallace is being brutally sodomized.

* In the miniseries adaptation of James Clavell's ''Literature/NobleHouse'', one of these was used at the beginning of nearly every scene where Venus Poon showed up.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In "Tomorrow is Yesterday", an air force officer from the 20th Century is beamed on board Enterprise, and the first [[FishOutOfTemporalWater bizarre thing]] he witnesses is one of the miniskirted BridgeBunnies striding down a corridor, accompanied by a few bars of muted trumpet.
-->'''Christopher:''' ''(dumbfounded)'' A woman?
-->'''Kirk:''' Crewman.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': "The Royale" features some sexy saxophone playing when the characters of the simulation play out a romantic scene. The music is a nod to the fact that the simulation is taken from a trashy novel.
* Also happens in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy", where the Doctor programs himself to randomly daydream. Given that the Doctor's programming would make him GenreSavvy as hell about this kind of information, it's perfectly logical that an ''extremely'' exaggerated version of this trope plays when he slips into a daydream about Seven of Nine, B'Elanna, and Janeway all shamelessly flirting with him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zH6R-w2ARc&feature=related It's]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious.]]

* When [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-8-2011/the-wangover discussing]] Rep. Weiner's tweets on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', a shirtless cameraman shows up in the background playing the sax riff from Creator/GeorgeMichael‎'s song "Careless Whisper".
* Used once in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' as Buffy, under the influence of a love spell, enters the library wearing a raincoat, heels, a smile, and nothing else. Interestingly, the sax riff telegraphs her ''intent'' (to seduce Xander) every bit as much as her arrival.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' uses this once when Topanga enters the room in a sexy nightgown to show that she is finally ready to have sex with Cory, in one of her very few fanservice-y moments in the show.
* ''Series/TheMunsters'' used this at least once, when Grampa's latest invention turned Herman [[GenderBender into a woman]].
* In ''Series/FlowerBoyRamyunShop'' a sexy saxophone tune plays when Eun Bi pulls Chi Soo in for a kiss, as she was playing his own game (of seducing people because he can and then dropping them) against him.
* On ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'', a musical theme that began with this was used regularly when showing scenes of something that was sexy or wasn't actually, but they wanted to play it as it was for comedy.
* Used in the song "History is Made at Night" from the ShowWithinAShow from ''Series/{{Smash}}'', ''Bombshell''.
* Olive Snook's theme music in ''Series/PushingDaisies''.
* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. An InUniverse version occurs in "Callisto Soul", when a [[FanserviceExtra lingerie-clad dancer]] is trained by Gren with the assistance of a sax player.
-->'''Gren:''' Feel those notes nibble your neck...
* One of the late Ken Shimura's gags in live action TV was to pretend to be a doctor with Japanese gravure idols as guests, acting as patients. When he asks them to strip down to their swimsuits for examination, the jazz music starts.

* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' features a wailing saxophone song just ''prior'' to the leads having sex. They later recall they night they met, singing "a song, played on a solo saxophone..." to the tune of the riff.

* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'' has a saxophone theme during the song ''I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You'', the scene where Eva seduces Peron.

* Spoofed in ''VideoGame/Mother3'', as it is the {{leitmotif}} of the [[CampGay not-quite-so-sexy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRST8PixfA Magypsies]]. The saxophone there had a weird, reverberated, distorted kind of sound to it. Later on in the game, it even serves as [[spoiler:a MusicalSpoiler as to the true identity of Fassad as Locria, the seventh Magypsy]]. And then there's [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound Flint's attack instrument]]...
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1UbtOi2vw Muscle Blues]], which is essentially the theme song for a character's [[CampGay fairly gay Shadow]].
** The ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' comic, along with the fandub, manages to make the above so much SugarWiki/{{funn|yMoments}}ier. "I'm Kanji Tatsumi, and I enjoy naked men! Oh yeah~"
** Ayase/Alana in ''VideoGame/Persona1''. "Ow, my chest hurts!"
** Lisa/Ginko in ''VideoGame/Persona2'' also has the Tempt/Seduce like Ayase above, with the sexophone to match. She can also drag Maya and an unwilling/embarrassed Yukino to do a triple seduce... with the sexophone to match.
* A long saxophone solo is played when Fortune first appears in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. Granted, she's not particularly fanservice-happy, but she's one of only three female characters in the game.
* Makes up EVA's theme tune in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', almost as a parody.

* Krystal, at least in ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', when Fox sees her.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', a cheesy sax riff plays when the player mates in Creature Stage. If this sounds steamy to you, you'll be disappointed to find that the mating dance [[GRatedSex consists of the two creatures waving their butts at each other]].
* In the arcade game ''VideoGame/SilentScope'', a short riff plays when you find a woman in the background and point your sniper rifle at her. It helps that the character you're playing as gasps "Wow!" at the same time. (You get a bonus life point for this.)
* Here's this gem from the [=ESRB's=] description of [[VideoGame/TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]: Female patients are asked to explain their symptoms, then lift up their shirts for closer inspection. The scene contains no nudity, but a saxophone can be heard playing in the background as a male doctor makes the following remarks: "Can she really be that thin?," "dayum!," and -- after doctor's heart rate increases -- "It's only natural... I'm a straight male".
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Slayer]] has 2 [[{{Leitmotif}} themes]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9X1Ta1jN8E Haven't You Got Eyes In Your Head?]]'' from XX and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATZMR3LgIw Jack-a-Dandy]]'' from Xrd, feature a pretty wicked one.
* Martine's [[{{Leitmotif}} theme]] in ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'', reprised when Carl encounters her ghost in ''The 11th Hour''.
* Candy's theme in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' uses the muted trumpet variation.

* [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori Yagami]] has his themes which play usually jazz-themed with a sweet saxophone solo. Many of these tunes have the words "Arashi no Saxophone" ("Stormy Saxophone") in the title.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}: Music Evolved'', before or during the song "Fire" by Music/JimiHendrix, the player can substitute the saxophone from the "Eddie Kramer Orchestral Mix" for Jimi's vocals and the song would sound more instrumental and sexy... in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a game for ten-plus-year-olds]]. And this is coming from a guy whose song origins in "Fire" date back to when Noel Redding invited Jimi to stay at the house of Redding's mother at New Year's Eve and to the events that followed.
* The Plunger Thing from ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'' has this music playing while it [[DoubleEntendre plunges every enemy on the field]].
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'' has a song called "Saxy Sex".

* The sexophone riff in Creator/GeorgeMichael's "Careless Whisper" shows up whenever WebVideo/BennettTheSage has his alter ego Suave turn up. It's also used to sex up the mood or parody a HoYay riddled scene whenever Sage feels like it's appropriate.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': A RunningGag on the show is Mrs. Murawski gushing over [[CompanionCube her hand-made desk]], which often prompts a snippet of suggestive saxophone music.
* Showed up as a joke in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'': A snatch of "stripper music" plays when C-3PO first shows off his new gold plating.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', [[Creator/GenndyTartakovsky (co-created by Clone Wars' showrunner),]] this also happens when the similarly gold-plated Corus (Ilana's mech form) is cleaned off with water and also sparkles.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Shego makes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN8_FLEK8gs an entrance]] (at 1:20) as a distraction, with squealing trumpet.
* The same sexy saxophone riff shows up in all of MGM's golden age cartoons whenever an attractive female shows up, like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and shorts by Creator/TexAvery.

* Both played straight and averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. The sexophone was used both upon arrivals of attractive women, as well as various scenes involving Stimpy (e.g.a scene of him stripping off his fur before going skinny-dipping).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode, ''Beauty and the Beet'', this is used for sexy scientist Rhoda Dendron.
* One would occasionally be played for Rosie O'Gravy from ''WesternAnimation/DogCity''. Specifically whenever Ace Hart has an internal monologue in which he thinks fondly of her. Given the animated segments of the series parody classic detective stories, this is perhaps not surprising.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Party Poopers" had saxophone music briefly play when Molly Coddle tears off the dress the Cute Dolls gave her to wear at their party.
* This appears several times in a ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode where Aunt Cass gets a date.
* The Sexophone is played in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' whenever Kuzco sees Malina.

* Creator/ShizukaIto has played two characters with this as a {{leitmotif}}: [[FemmeFatale Irina]] [[SensualSlavs Jelavic]] from ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' and [[TheTease Akeno]] [[CoolBigSis Himejima]] in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD''.

* In ''LightNovel/DateALive'', nearly all of [[TheTease Kurumi Tokisaki]]'s appearances in the anime are marked with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDXTHZameXo a trumpet variant of this trope]], with her trying to seduce Shido on the go.

* ''Film/ScoobyDoo 2 - Monsters Unleashed'': A saxophone background theme started playing when Shaggy's body turned into a female body right after he licked a drop of a potion on his hand.

* The muted trumpet version is used for Marilyn Monroe in ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''. This is further expanded on when Monroe reveals to one of the main characters (Who is a Saxophone player himself) that she has a "thing" for Sax players, detailing her romantic exploits with other Sax players.

** A sexophone riff shows up when Megara says to Hercules, flirtatiously: "I'm a big tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything."
** And before that: "[[LampshadeHanging I'm a]] [[DamselInDistress damsel]]... (''GRUNT!'') I'm [[DamselInDistress in distress]]. [[TheRestShallPass I can handle this]]. Have a nice day." (''sexophone'')

-->"There emerged from the car a pair of the sort of legs which soundtrack editors are unable to see without needing to slap a smoky saxophone solo all over, for reasons which no one besides soundtrack editors has ever been able to understand. In this particular case, however, the saxophone would have been silenced by the proximity of the kazoo which the same soundtrack editor would almost certainly have slapped all over [[TheAllegedCar the progress of the vehicle]]."

*** Mike brings the riff back later when the music makes its reappearance. "Stay tuned for the obscene phone call of the day, on KPORN."
** In ''The Horrors of Spider Island'', there's a muted trumpet playing as a bikini-clad model takes a shower. Crow quips, "Those musicians who play muted trumpet solos must love these movies."

* All over the place in ''Theatre/CityOfAngels'', especially the intro to "Lost and Found."

* Here's this gem from the [=ESRB's=] description of [[VideoGame/TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]: Female patients are asked to explain their symptoms, then lift up their shirts for closer inspection. The scene contains no nudity, but a saxophone can be heard playing in the background as a male doctor makes the following remarks: "Can she really be that thin?," "dayum!," and -- after doctor's heart rate increases -- "It's only natural... I'm a straight male."

* Music/{{Prince}}, the musician: "If I want sax, I call Candy." (Candy Dulfer, a Dutch saxophone player who collaborated with Prince. Given that it's Prince, a DoubleEntendre was intended.) Candy Dulfer herself brought out an album (with the title song of the same name) called ''Saxuality'', playing on the same pun.
* Legendary saxophonist Johnny Hodges, a long-time member of the Music/DukeEllington orchestra, is ''particularly'' known for a lush and sensuous sound on that falls right into this trope. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLwmxoA9gA See his rendition of "Star-Crossed Lovers."]]

* One plays as [[KidHero Kenichi]] watches [[RobotGirl Tima]] basking in the sunlight with a dove perching on her shoulder in ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}''. You can practically smell the puberty.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode, ''Beauty and the Beet'', this is used for HotScientist Rhoda Dendron.

* Used whenever Mune Mune first appears in any given world in ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi''. Well, whenever it's not just a [[{{Gainaxing}} single timpani beat]].

* A long saxophone solo is played when Fortune first appears in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''. Granted, she's not particularly fanservice-happy, but she's one of only three female characters in the game.
* Makes up EVA's theme tune in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', almost as a parody.

* Music/GerryRafferty's "Baker Street" ''IS'' the other sexophone StandardSnippet. It's a melancholic jazz song about the gloomy London street, which the lyrics and city theme could be applied to romance, relationships, and lost loves, but listeners are more hooked to the saxophone riff performed by Raphael Ravenscroft; so much so that upon its release, saxophone sales went up just to play that riff.

-->"There emerged from the car a pair of [[ShesGotLegs the sort of legs]] which soundtrack editors are unable to see without needing to slap a smoky saxophone solo all over, for reasons which no one besides soundtrack editors has ever been able to understand. In this particular case, however, the saxophone would have been silenced by the proximity of the kazoo which the same soundtrack editor would almost certainly have slapped all over [[TheAllegedCar the progress of the vehicle]]."

* Variation: among the traits of then-President UsefulNotes/BillClinton that get played up in comedy are his saxophone playing and HandsomeLech tendencies.

* Music/{{Prince}}, the musician: "If I want sax, I call Candy." (Candy Dulfer, a Dutch saxophone player who collaborated with Prince. Given that it's Prince, a DoubleEntendre was intended.)
** Candy Dulfer herself brought out an album (with the title song of the same name) called ''Saxuality'', playing on the same pun.

A short riff on the saxophone used to indicate the arrival or presence of a [[Main/Fanservice sexy person]]. The riff can be as subtle as how loudly the music is played.

A short riff on the saxophone used to indicate the arrival or presence of a [[Fanservice sexy person]]. The riff can be as subtle as how loudly the music is played.