History Main / ThatSyncingFeeling

* DisneyChannel's ''Shorty [=McShort=]'s Shorts'' multi-part episode "Boyz on Da Run" involves the titular band [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the run]] from angry fans after their singing talents (or lack thereof) is exposed a la Milli Vanilli.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a talent scout convinces Bart and several classmates to form a BoyBand. They're all terrible singers, so their manager uses real-time AutoTune to fix their singing at their live shows. When the manager's higher-ups tell him the band is no longer marketable, he ends the band in the bluntest way possible: turning off the auto-tune in the middle of a song. Upon hearing their uncorrected singing, the crowd immediately leaves.

** In "Daffy's Inn Trouble", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck dresses as a can-can girl to attract customers to his hotel, but is exposed when the record he's lip-synching to gets stuck. Just like Ashley Simpson, he tries to cover it up with a little softshoe.

-->-- '''Rob Pilatus''', on the disastrous concert that led to Music/MilliVanilli's exposure as a fraud.

** "Pigs In a Polka" has TheBigBadWolf sneak into the ThreeLittlePigs' house by disguising himself as a beggar woman playing a violin. One peeks under his dress and discovers a record playing violin music. He switches the record to the other side, which plays an upbeat polka. The wolf immediately starts dancing and sheds his disguise in the process.

-->-- '''Fab Morvan''', on the disastrous concert that led to Music/MilliVanilli's exposure as a fraud.

* The Ashlee Simpson incident on ''SNL'' is parodied in a CutawayGag from the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E15BrianGoesBackToCollege Brian Goes Back to College]]" when "Ol' Man River" from ''{{Showboat}}'' starts playing when she opens her mouth.

* During her 2004 performance on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' Ashlee Simpson was revealed to be lip synching when her voice started singing even though she wasn't. She gave some embarrassed dance moves before walking offstage. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26CN2Q_d8EU here]].

* A number of early commercials for the Xbox Kinect didn't actually feature live gameplay; the screen displayed prerecorded video, which played while the "player" tried to awkwardly synchronize his movements with the action. A number of viewers were able to pick up on this, and it became painfully noticeable when it was found that the first Kinect games weren't even close to as responsive as originally hoped.

The performers are singing along in concert, wowing the crowd with their harmonies and lyrics. [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch But then lyrics and music start repeating in a way that only happens on records or CDs]]! The truth is out: the music and singing was all pre-recorded and the performers were merely lip-synching--and now they're [[{{Pun}} sunk]].

In 1989, German R&B and Dance duo Music/MilliVanilli, who had won a Grammy Award and was one of the most popular pop acts of the late 80s and early 90s in Europe and the U.S., were discovered to never have had sung any of their songs themselves, instead just lip-syncing and dancing along. As they performed live onstage on MTV in July 1989, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" played and [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch began to skip]], repeating the partial line "Girl, you know it's..." over and over on the speakers--in other words, [[ExampleAsThesis these guys provide the example in the description.]] . They continued to pretend to sing and dance onstage for a few more moments, then [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they both ran offstage]] when [[OhCrap they realized what was happening]]. While this didn't keep them from winning a Grammy for best new artist in February 1990, people began to wonder--especially after Charles Shaw (one of the ''actual'' singers) announced that it was a scam [[RevealingCoverup and was paid to retract those statements.]] Their poor English skills when interviewed also fueled speculation.\\

* During Music/MichaelJackson's last few TV concerts he was pretty obviously lipsynching, including that he'd cover up his mouth so people wouldn't catch on to the fact that he was mouthing along with the music.
* 1990's singer Betty Boo was famously booed off stage (Betty-booed?) when the audience realised she was lip-syching her songs to a backing tape. Her career never recovered.

* Many of the past trailers and demonstrations for Kinect had the "gameplay" prerecorded.

* In TheNineties, there was a commercial for blank audio tapes for recording (I think it was Memorex). It shows a band onstage performing while occasionally cutting to a tape playing. The announcer for the commercial says "If music is important to you, be sure to put it on the right length tape." The band's lip syncing is discovered when the tape runs out. Then the band follows suit, followed by an angry mob.

* In one episode of ''Series/AlloAllo'', Rene persuades Edith to mime to a record rather than inflict her own singing voice on the customers. Then he gets the records mixed up and she ends up having to mime as the very deep bass voice of Paul Robeson sings "Ol' Man River".

* Subverted in a ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' cartoon. Pluto discovers that he can act as a gramophone by putting his tail on the spinning record and opening his mouth. He uses this to lip-synch to a Frank Sinatra song, much to the delight of a crowd of girl dogs. Pluto's tail skips during the final chorus of the song, and he briefly panics, but he's able to correct it before any of his adoring fans notice.

* The ''RocketPower'' episode "Beach Boys & A Girl" the kids form a band but later find out they sound awful so Sam remixes their recorded audio to make them sound better and they become a hit. They're later asked to preform live but since their music isn't genuine they resort to lip-syncing. Their cover is blown and decide to end the band after their laughed off staged.

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* During Music/MichaelJackson's last few TV concerts he was pretty obviously lipsynching, including that he'd cover up his mout so people wouldn't catch on to the fact that he was mouthing along with the music.
* 1990's singer Betty Boo was famously booed off stage (Betty-booed?) when the audience realised she was lip-syching her songs to a backing tape. Her career never recovered.

* I don't think it ever came out during his life, but there's an UrbanLegend that for Music/ElvisPresley's last tour(s) one of his "backup" singers was an Elvis impersonator who was actually singing the lead melody; if Elvis got tired or forgot the lyrics the control room would switch so that the impersonator's mic was the one being sent out over the speakers.

[[ExampleAsThesis These guys provide the example in the description.]] In 1989, German R&B and Dance duo Music/MilliVanilli, who had won a Grammy Award and was one of the most popular pop acts of the late 80s and early 90s in Europe and the U.S., were discovered to never have had sung any of their songs themselves, instead just lip-syncing and dancing along. As they performed live onstage on MTV in July 1989, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" played and [[RepetitiveAudioGlitch began to skip]], repeating the partial line "Girl, you know it's..." over and over on the speakers. They continued to pretend to sing and dance onstage for a few more moments, then they both ran offstage when they realized what was happening. While this didn't keep them from winning a Grammy for best new artist in February 1990, people began to wonder--especially after Charles Shaw (one of the ''actual'' singers) announced that it was a scam [[RevealingCoverup and was paid to retract those statements.]] Their poor English skills when interviewed also fueled speculation.\\