History Main / ToTheTuneOF

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this several times. Whether a given song from the show counts as this trope or straight-up parody mostly depends on [[WeirdAlEffect how obscure the originals were]]:

* There are a few song numbers from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriendsAllEnginesGo'' that are sung in the tune of older children's songs, such as "Old McColl Had a Farm" (sung in the tune of the similar-named "Old MacDonald had a Farm") and "Music is Everywhere" (which is sung to the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus").

* ''The Twelfth of Never'', a song that's made popular by Johnny Mathis, lifted its tune wholesale from the folk song ''The Riddle Song, aka I Gave My Love A Cherry''

** The tune for "A Bag of Weed" is "Me Ol' Bamboo" from ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang.''

* While WesternAnimation/TheBackyardigans usually have original music, the song ''What Do You Do With A Scurvy Pirate?'' is a filk of the shanty classic ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Sailor Drunken Sailor]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' -- "O Whacking Day" is strong LyricalDissonance for Americans and Germans familiar with the yuletide hymn "O Christmas Tree"/"O Tannenbaum", less so for Britons who know the bloodthirsty lyrics of the revolutionary hymn of the same tune, "The Red Flag" (to give you a taste, the first two lines are "The People's flag is deepest red/it shrouded oft our martyred dead").
** The climax of "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" involves the children and adults of Springfield performing a CounterpointDuet to the tune of "Kids" from ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie''.
** In "The Boys of Bummer", Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney sing [[Music/TheJGeilsBand "Bart Stinks"]] when Bart becomes a townwide pariah.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did this several times. The tune for "The FCC Song" is from ''Take Me Along'', an old Broadway musical. The tune for "A Bag of Weed" is "Me Ol' Bamboo" from ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.'' Whether a given song from the show counts as this trope or straight-up parody mostly depends on [[WeirdAlEffect how obscure the originals were]].

* Solarstone's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE80EivmL04 Part of Me]]" is based on the tune of the Celtic standard "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZAlG0xokS4 "She Moved Through The Fair]]".

* One of the ending tunes of CampCandy is sung to the tune of ''On Top of Ol' Smokey''

* Lena's friend-iversary song in the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!" was sung to the tune of the William Tell Overture.

* The melody of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyH-2amZlWY Daddy DJ]]" has been used in at least three other songs: the infamous "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y DotA]]" by Basshunter "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3CxhBIrBho All I Ever Wanted]]" (which is seen as an updated version of [=DotA=], and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaNwvukxz64 Pretty Rave Girl]]" by [=S3rl=].

* ''Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs'' and its sequels take the tunes of old classic children's songs and provide humorous lyrics to them, often relating to an average child's life.

* ''Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs'' and its sequels take old classic children's songs and provide humorous lyrics to them, often relating to an average child's life

* A 1992 commercial for Magna Doodle had a jingle [[https://youtu.be/hxjGZHAbSC4 to the tune of "Yankee Doodle"]]. The same tune is used

* In an Issue of ''The Simpsons'' Comics, Krusty makes the family the stars of a Musical Production, but since they open the same day, so do not have time to write Music, he gets them to improvise lyrics with this method.

* "La tribu de Dana" is a French song that topped the charts in the 90's, about a battle between Gauls and Cimmerians, to the tune of "Tri Martolod". The original is a folk song about three sailors.

** Finnish children learn both the ABC song and the star song (called "Tuiki tuiki tähtönen"). There was a third song to the same tune, "Lapsukaisten koululaulu" (starting with "koska meitä käsketään"). It's been pretty much forgotten about, probably because it's basically propaganda of 50's values.

* In 1998, there was an American spin-off series of [[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Noddy]] called ''Series/TheNoddyShop''. The songs for the show were well-known melodies with new words added to them.

* WesternAnimation/LittleEinsteins do this as well, one episode has Annie singing “ I Love Balloons” to “En Kleine Nachtmusik”.
* Malaysian preschool cartoon “Didi and Friends” did this to B-I-N-G-O, changing it into a song about a ''cat''. Dog lovers are not pleased.

* "Solidarity Forever" is to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic set the words of "[[Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies The Ballad of Jed Clampett]]" to the tune of "Money for Nothing" by Music/DireStraits, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4SDhrTPOiI like so]].

* In an Issue of ''The Simpsons'' Comics, Krustie makes the family the stars of a Musical Production, but since they open the same day, so do not have time to write Music, he gets them to improvise lyrics with this method.