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-->'''Harper Row''': "[[Series/{{Batman}} Na na na na na na na na Batgirls!]]"

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* In one of the [[ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse Amalgamverse]] comics following the Marvel vs. DC crossover, Spider-Boy also sings his own version of the song about how {{Toyetic}} he is.

* In an early installment of the ''MickeyMouse'' comic strip, "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo" (the character's theme song from the cartoons) is shown playing on a phonograph.

* ''DC Comics Bombshells'' #19 has a variation:

--->"Squirrel Girl, Squirrel Girl! She's a human and also a squirrel! Can she climb up a tree? Yes she can, easily. That's whyyyy Her name is Squirrel Girl!"

* Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the melody of "The Bells of Notre-Dame" is played many times throughout the sound track, including in other songs.

* In WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie, Music/GreenDay make a cameo playing the Simpsons theme.

* In ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'', John Wilkes Booth is heard humming a bit of "The Ballad of Booth" before talking with Lee Harvey Oswald.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash has the English Dub theme songs in his I-Tunes Library that the Pokedex can play. Several of the sidestories also feature a few of these:

* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "Ruby Rose", Ruby is listening to the show's theme song through headphones in one scene.

* An issue of the 2019 volume of ''Comicbook/IronMan'' features a LotusEaterMachine sequence that has the lyrics of the 60s ''[[WesternAnimation/MarvelSuperHeroes Iron Man]]'' cartoon theme shown on-panel.
* The final issue of Saladin Ahmed's ''Comicbook/{{Exiles}}'' run has a scene where Wolvie is briefly trapped in a timeline based on the 90s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon, complete with the theme song:

* In ''Series/BalalaTheFairies'', the theme song is their transformation music. Even the toys made for the show play it.

* One of the first times {{Deadpool}} breaks the FourthWall is when on his way to fight [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]] he starts singing the theme song from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk''.

* One of the first times {{Deadpool}} breaks the FourthWall is when on his way to fight TheHulk he starts singing the theme song from ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk''.

-->'Faith of the Heart' blared from the com system.\\

-->-- '''Marge Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Bart Gets Famous", after hearing Bart whistle The Simpsons theme song while coming into the kitchen.

* In ''X-Men: Phoenix Season'' the mansion's doorbell is the tune of the old "Pryde of the X-Men" pilot.

* MrDeity's cellphone plays the ''MrDeity'' theme song.

* In Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines, Ash has the English Dub theme songs in his I-Tunes Library that the Pokedex can play. Several of the sidestories also feature a few of these:

* In Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines, Ash has the English Dub theme songs in his I-Tunes Library that the Pokedex can play

* The BackstreetBoys' video for "Larger Than Life" features an audio medley of the group's earlier singles, presented to sound like someone flipping through several radio stations.

Not the same thing as TitleThemeDrop, which is when a title theme is also used in the context of the work itself such as if a remix of the title theme plays when fighting the final boss of a video game, though there may be some overlap at times, if both are used within the same work. Basically, if a character hums the theme tune, a band plays it or it's on a ringtone or something -- if it's diegetic-- then it's this trope. If the theme song plays as the soundtrack over the episode, then it's a TitleThemeDrop. If the ''lyrics'' of the theme tune (or any other song) are used in dialogue, it's WaxingLyrical. See also ThemeMusicPowerUp.

* The video to [[FiftyCent 50 Cent's]] "I'll Still Kill" has an earlier single, "I Get Money" playing on a TV in the intro.

* In ''X-Men: Phoenix Season'' the mansion's doorbell is the tune of the old "Pryde of the X-Men" pilot

* Near the beginning of ''CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint hums his own theme music; the exact same music that was the BGM of the previous scene.

* In ''Marvel Double Shot'' #2, [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] is shown singing the theme song from the 60's ''Iron Man'' cartoon while in the shower.