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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before he asked Creator/KimBasinger, Music/TomPetty's original choice to play the dead woman was Creator/SharonStone. Petty wanted a raving beauty to play the corpse so it would make sense why his character keeps her around.
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The webcomic ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' features a scene where Peter dances with MJ the Friday evening after Creator/JoeQuesada announces plans to erase their marriage. The song being played is Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Peter points out the irony of the song's lyrics[[note]]mis-reproduced; the chorus says "one more '''time''' to '''kill''' the pain", rather than "one more ''night'' to ''feel'' the pain"[[/note]], but MJ informs him the song's actually about smoking pot.
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* TheOphelia: The image of Kim Basinger sinking into the water towards the end of the video may be a tad reminiscent to Ophelia's death scene in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
* SpotOfTea: Costumer Donna [=O'Neal=] soaked Kim Basinger's wedding dress in tea in order to get the particular color that it became in the finished video.
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"Mary Jane's Last Dance" is a 1993 song written by Music/TomPetty and performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their GreatestHitsAlbum. It rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard Top 20 hit of the 1990s. It also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks. It's {{music video}} can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 here]].
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"Mary Jane's Last Dance" is a 1993 song written by Music/TomPetty and performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their GreatestHitsAlbum. It rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard Top 20 hit of the 1990s. It also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks. It's Its {{music video}} can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 here]].
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* MusicVideoOvershadowing: A love song about leaving childhood behind, or perhaps marijuana. Video: [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable A mortician takes home the corpse of Kim Basinger for a romantic dinner]].
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* MusicVideoOvershadowing: A love song Song -- a bittersweet number about leaving childhood behind, the end of childhood, the one that got away, or perhaps marijuana. Video: maybe just pot. Music video -- [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable A mortician takes home has a romantic dinner with the corpse of Kim Basinger for a romantic dinner]].Basinger]].
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* ZippingUpTheBodybag: When Tom Petty first unzips the body bag in the morgue, Kim Basinger appears to be wearing a holographic/iridescent shade of lipstick, a violet or blue based one. Meanwhile, the eye-shadow that she sports is an all over the lid color; a slight wash of a brown-y taupe.
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* DiesWideOpen: The very last shot of the video has Kim Basinger managing to resurface from the [[UnderTheSea ocean water]] with her eyes open.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before he asked Creator/KimBasinger, Music/TomPetty's original choice to play the dead woman was Creator/SharonStone. Petty wanted a raving beauty to play the corpse so it would make sense why his character keeps her around.
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* DistaffCounterpart: You would be blameless if you immediately thought that the basic concept of a corpse being manipulated and escorted reminded you of ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''.
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* FairytaleWeddingDress: Kim Basinger wears what appears to be a Western style dress with a long sleeved, square neckline, [[PimpedOutDress lace bodice]], and a [[ShowgirlSkirt ruffled floor-length skirt]].
* GothicHorror: The video's thought-provoking, quasi-Gothic style is reminiscent of the works of Creator/TimBurton. The video however, was actually directed by Keir [=McFarlane=].
* HerosClassicCar: Tom Petty drives either a 1955 Cadillac or a 1955 Chevrolet (either a Bel Air or Two-Ten).
* ILoveTheDead: The music video has similarities with the Creator/CharlesBukowski short story "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice", which is about two drunks who steal a corpse out of the back of a hearse as a prank only to discover that it's a beautiful naked woman.
* LipstickAndLoadMontage: Tom Petty applies a shade of "Carmen" or "Gabrielle" [[UsefulNotes/CocoChanel brand]] of red lipstick on Kim Basinger while at the dinner table.
* GothicHorror: The video's thought-provoking, quasi-Gothic style is reminiscent of the works of Creator/TimBurton. The video however, was actually directed by Keir [=McFarlane=].
* HerosClassicCar: Tom Petty drives either a 1955 Cadillac or a 1955 Chevrolet (either a Bel Air or Two-Ten).
* ILoveTheDead: The music video has similarities with the Creator/CharlesBukowski short story "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice", which is about two drunks who steal a corpse out of the back of a hearse as a prank only to discover that it's a beautiful naked woman.
* LipstickAndLoadMontage: Tom Petty applies a shade of "Carmen" or "Gabrielle" [[UsefulNotes/CocoChanel brand]] of red lipstick on Kim Basinger while at the dinner table.
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* OldDarkHouse: The house that Tom Petty takes Kim Basinger to is a Victorian style house. It has a strong Maurice Noble or Creator/ChuckJones style to it, from the tapered bottom and [[DeliberatelyMonochrome monochrome]] lighting.
* TheOphelia: The image of Kim Basinger sinking into the water towards the end of the video may be a tad reminiscent to Ophelia's death scene in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
* SpotOfTea: Costumer Donna [=O'Neal=] soaked Kim Basinger's wedding dress in tea in order to get the particular color that it became in the finished video.
* TheOphelia: The image of Kim Basinger sinking into the water towards the end of the video may be a tad reminiscent to Ophelia's death scene in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
* SpotOfTea: Costumer Donna [=O'Neal=] soaked Kim Basinger's wedding dress in tea in order to get the particular color that it became in the finished video.
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* WightInAWeddingDress: The image of the dead woman wearing a wedding dress in a room full of wax candles is loosely based on a passage from the Creator/CharlesDickens novel ''Literature/GreatExpectations''.
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Mary Jane's Last Dance is a 1993 song written by Music/TomPetty and performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their GreatestHitsAlbum. It rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard Top 20 hit of the 1990s. It also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks. It's {{music video}} can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 here]].
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'''''Mary Jane's Last Dance''''' is a 1993 song written by Music/TomPetty and performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their GreatestHitsAlbum. It rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard Top 20 hit of the 1990s. It also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks. It's {{music video}} can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 here]].
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* EpicRiff: Many, such as "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "American Girl".
* FrivolousLawsuit: Petty quoted the trope word-for-word when mentioning why he never took legal action in response to the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong similarities]] between the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' song "Dani California" and his song "Mary Jane's Last Dance," Dance", adding that most songs sound similar.
* HarsherInHindsight: The lyric in "Mary Jane's Last Dance", "One more time to kill the pain", considering Tom Petty died of an overdose of fentanyl, and earlier than that when the bassist on the song, Howie Epstein, died from years of heroin abuse.
* MisattributedSong: Music/TomPetty doesn't have a song called "Low" (or [[RefrainFromAssuming "Like Being Stoned"]] for that matter), that was Cracker. The confusion presumably stems from the song having sort of a similar rhythm to "Mary Jane's Last Dance". The confusion has apparently become [[http://300songs.com/2010/08/10/24-low-cracker-musings-on-why-hits-are-written-fast-big-dipper-was-slow-kol-and-our-special-ops-pigeons/ a big pet peeve]] of Cracker vocalist David Lowery.
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* MusicVideoOvershadowing: Song: A love song about leaving childhood behind, or perhaps marijuana. Video: [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable A mortician takes home the corpse of Kim Basinger for a romantic dinner]].
* NightmareFuel: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" has Tom Petty as a morgue worker who steals the corpse of a beautiful woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger) and takes it home with him, which he dresses up, eats with, and does other things to, before finally dumping her in the ocean. The worst part? At the end, she opens her eyes.
* Quotes/NotStayingForBreakfast: ->''It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone\\
I hit the last number, I walked to the road.''
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Many fans of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have noted the striking similarity between "Dani California" and Music/TomPetty's song "Mary Jane's Last Dance." Petty noted this when asked on the matter but chose not to take legal action, stating that there are enough {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s in America and that "pretty much all songs sound similar."
* DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop: If you work as a mortician, you should bring female corpses home, just because they're so damn beautiful.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: While marijuana is involved in the song, the music video is about Petty as a morgue assistant who takes home the corpse of a woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger) for a dinner date. Necrophiliac sex with her is the "last dance". Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell said, "My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song.
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The webcomic ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' features a sceee where Peter dances with MJ the Friday evening after Creator/JoeQuesada announces plans to erase their marriage. The song being played is Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Peter points out the irony of the song's lyrics[[note]]mis-reproduced; the chorus says "one more '''time''' to '''kill''' the pain", rather than "one more ''night'' to ''feel'' the pain"[[/note]], but MJ informs him the song's actually about smoking pot.
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The webcomic ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' features a sceee scene where Peter dances with MJ the Friday evening after Creator/JoeQuesada announces plans to erase their marriage. The song being played is Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Peter points out the irony of the song's lyrics[[note]]mis-reproduced; the chorus says "one more '''time''' to '''kill''' the pain", rather than "one more ''night'' to ''feel'' the pain"[[/note]], but MJ informs him the song's actually about smoking pot.
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* MisattributedSong: Music/TomPetty doesn't have a song called "Low" (or [[RefrainFromAssuming "Like Being Stoned"]] for that matter), that was Cracker. The confusion presumably stems from the song having sort of a similar rhythm to "Mary Jane's Last Dance". The confusion has apparently become [[http://300songs.com/2010/08/10/24-low-cracker-musings-on-why-hits-are-written-fast-big-dipper-was-slow-kol-and-our-special-ops-pigeons/ a big pet peeve]] of Cracker vocalist David Lowery.
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"Mary Jane's Last Dance" is a 1993 song written by Music/TomPetty and performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their GreatestHitsAlbum. It rose to No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's first Billboard Top 20 hit of the 1990s. It also topped the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for two weeks. It's music video can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aowSGxim_O8 here]].
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* Quotes/TheDrifter: ->"Well she moved down here, age of eighteen,\\
She blew the boys away, was more than they'd seen\\
I was introduced and we both started grooving.\\
She said, I dig you baby but I've got to keep moving\\
on, keep moving on."
-->--'''Music/TomPetty''', "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
* DropDeadGorgeous: The famous music video for Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" features Creator/KimBasinger's corpse receiving quite a lot of MaleGaze before Petty's character takes it on an actual date.
* EpicRiff: Many, such as "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "American Girl".
* FrivolousLawsuit: Petty quoted the trope word-for-word when mentioning why he never took legal action in response to the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong similarities]] between the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' song "Dani California" and his song "Mary Jane's Last Dance," Dance", adding that most songs sound similar.
* HarsherInHindsight: The lyric in "Mary Jane's Last Dance", "One more time to kill the pain", considering Tom Petty died of an overdose of fentanyl, and earlier than that when the bassist on the song, Howie Epstein, died from years of heroin abuse.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: The music video tells the story of a mortician who takes home the corpse of a young woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger), and has a relatively lovely romantic evening with her. The song's chorus features the line, "Last dance with Mary Jane."
* MusicVideoOvershadowing: Song: A love song about leaving childhood behind, or perhaps marijuana. Video: [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable A mortician takes home the corpse of Kim Basinger for a romantic dinner]].
* NightmareFuel: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" has Tom Petty as a morgue worker who steals the corpse of a beautiful woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger) and takes it home with him, which he dresses up, eats with, and does other things to, before finally dumping her in the ocean. The worst part? At the end, she opens her eyes.
* Quotes/NotStayingForBreakfast: ->''It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone\\
I hit the last number, I walked to the road.''
-->-- '''Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers''', "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The webcomic ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' features a sceee where Peter dances with MJ the Friday evening after Creator/JoeQuesada announces plans to erase their marriage. The song being played is Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Peter points out the irony of the song's lyrics[[note]]mis-reproduced; the chorus says "one more '''time''' to '''kill''' the pain", rather than "one more ''night'' to ''feel'' the pain"[[/note]], but MJ informs him the song's actually about smoking pot.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Many fans of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have noted the striking similarity between "Dani California" and Music/TomPetty's song "Mary Jane's Last Dance." Petty noted this when asked on the matter but chose not to take legal action, stating that there are enough {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s in America and that "pretty much all songs sound similar."
* DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop: If you work as a mortician, you should bring female corpses home, just because they're so damn beautiful.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: While marijuana is involved in the song, the music video is about Petty as a morgue assistant who takes home the corpse of a woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger) for a dinner date. Necrophiliac sex with her is the "last dance". Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell said, "My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song.
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* Quotes/TheDrifter: ->"Well she moved down here, age of eighteen,\\
She blew the boys away, was more than they'd seen\\
I was introduced and we both started grooving.\\
She said, I dig you baby but I've got to keep moving\\
on, keep moving on."
-->--'''Music/TomPetty''', "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
* DropDeadGorgeous: The famous music video for Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" features Creator/KimBasinger's corpse receiving quite a lot of MaleGaze before Petty's character takes it on an actual date.
* EpicRiff: Many, such as "Mary Jane's Last Dance" and "American Girl".
* FrivolousLawsuit: Petty quoted the trope word-for-word when mentioning why he never took legal action in response to the [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong similarities]] between the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' song "Dani California" and his song "Mary Jane's Last Dance," Dance", adding that most songs sound similar.
* HarsherInHindsight: The lyric in "Mary Jane's Last Dance", "One more time to kill the pain", considering Tom Petty died of an overdose of fentanyl, and earlier than that when the bassist on the song, Howie Epstein, died from years of heroin abuse.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: The music video tells the story of a mortician who takes home the corpse of a young woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger), and has a relatively lovely romantic evening with her. The song's chorus features the line, "Last dance with Mary Jane."
* MusicVideoOvershadowing: Song: A love song about leaving childhood behind, or perhaps marijuana. Video: [[MummiesAtTheDinnerTable A mortician takes home the corpse of Kim Basinger for a romantic dinner]].
* NightmareFuel: "Mary Jane's Last Dance" has Tom Petty as a morgue worker who steals the corpse of a beautiful woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger) and takes it home with him, which he dresses up, eats with, and does other things to, before finally dumping her in the ocean. The worst part? At the end, she opens her eyes.
* Quotes/NotStayingForBreakfast: ->''It was too cold to cry when I woke up alone\\
I hit the last number, I walked to the road.''
-->-- '''Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers''', "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The webcomic ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' features a sceee where Peter dances with MJ the Friday evening after Creator/JoeQuesada announces plans to erase their marriage. The song being played is Music/TomPetty and the Heartbreakers' "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Peter points out the irony of the song's lyrics[[note]]mis-reproduced; the chorus says "one more '''time''' to '''kill''' the pain", rather than "one more ''night'' to ''feel'' the pain"[[/note]], but MJ informs him the song's actually about smoking pot.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Many fans of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers have noted the striking similarity between "Dani California" and Music/TomPetty's song "Mary Jane's Last Dance." Petty noted this when asked on the matter but chose not to take legal action, stating that there are enough {{Frivolous Lawsuit}}s in America and that "pretty much all songs sound similar."
* DarthWiki/WarpThatAesop: If you work as a mortician, you should bring female corpses home, just because they're so damn beautiful.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: While marijuana is involved in the song, the music video is about Petty as a morgue assistant who takes home the corpse of a woman (played by Creator/KimBasinger) for a dinner date. Necrophiliac sex with her is the "last dance". Heartbreaker guitarist Mike Campbell said, "My take on it is it can be whatever you want it to be. A lot of people think it's a drug reference, and if that's what you want to think, it very well could be, but it could also just be a goodbye love song.
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