History SuspiciouslySimilarSong / WesternAnimation

** The "I'm A Tumor" song in "Petarded" is a JHV of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus". Of course, TheSimpsonsDidIt first, using the same tune as the basis for "Dr. Zaius" in "A Fish Called Selma".

* The song "Let Me Be Your Wings" from DonBluth's ''{{Thumbelina}}'' is actually a Jimmy Harted version of the song "A Whole New World" from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''.

* WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries - its SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic theme bears a striking resemblance to a sped-up version the AaronCopland masterpiece "Fanfare for the Common Man" melded with bits the JohnWilliams theme from SupermanTheMovie. Given that the series was heavily influenced by the JohnByrne era Superman (Clark is the real person, Superman is his disguise, and Clark sees himself as a perfectly normal person who happens to have extraordinary powers), this probably wasn't unintentional.

* The main theme of [[TransformersPrime Transformers Prime]] sounds a lot like the theme of another [[Film/StarTrek sci-fi epic]].

* The opening theme for [[SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries ''Sabrina's Secret Life'']] sounds a lot like the Music/{{Pink}} song "Get the Party Started."

* Some of the music from ''MonstersInc'' is actually a JHV version of "Sing, Sing, Sing."

** It also played this one straight, in quite a lot of episodes. Who can forget "Springfield, Springfield," or the whole of the episode "Simpsoncalifragalisticexpiali(annoyed grunt)tious"? The latter was a parody of ''MaryPoppins'', and had some of the best of these you're likely to see anywhere - particularly Barney's version of "Feed the Birds" ("Buy Me a Beer") and the family's version of "Spoonful of Sugar' ('Cut Every Corner").

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' of all things has a not-quite version of [[BennyHill Yakety Sax]]. You can see it for yourself [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8iWgoOxaYU here]]. There have been many others, both with and without lyrics, ranging from Aaron Copeland's ''Rodeo'' to Sondheim showtunes to... "The Hokey-Pokey."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope when, at the opening ceremonies of a nationwide SpellingBee, celebrity moderator George Plimpton announces, "And now, our unlicensed knockoff of the Olympic anthem."
** It also played this one straight, in quite a lot of episodes. Who can forget "Springfield, Springfield," or the whole of the episode "Simpsoncalifragalisticexpiali(annoyed grunt)tious"? The latter was a parody of ''MaryPoppins'', and had some of the best of these you're likely to see anywhere - particularly Barney's version of "Feed the Birds" ("Buy Me a Beer") and the family's version of "Spoonful of Sugar' ('Cut Every Corner").

** The end of "Life on the Fast Lane" parodies the end of ''AnOfficerAndAGentleman''; you have to listen ''very'' carefully to the BGM to notice it isn't really "Up Where We Belong".
** The rambling song Homer sang in hopes of becoming a food critic was based around ''WestSideStory'''s "I Feel Pretty".

*** In turn, "Be Our Guest" resembles the titular song from ''Me and My Girl''.
** Lampshaded again during a ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' parody with a song called "Ho Hi" ("this song's not like any song you know...if Disney sues we'll claim Fair Use").
** Some earlier episodes repeatedly underscored action sequences with a pastiche of the "Axel F" theme from ''BeverlyHillsCop''. In fact, they had at least two distinct versions of it.
** Sideshow Bob's [[{{Leitmotif}} personal theme music]] is a reworked version of BernardHerrmann's ''CapeFear'' theme.
** "Lady Bouvier's Lover" closes with "The Sound of Grandpa", a knockoff of SimonAndGarfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence".
** "Flaming Moe's" has a very funny parody of the ''{{Cheers}}'' theme.
** The ''JamesBond'' parody couch gag uses an obvious knock-off of its famous opening theme.

* ''Histeria'', an educational cartoon about history, parodied a lot of songs with similar, but original, melodies. In the episode on Teddy Roosevelt, adapted versions of "Wooly Bully" (as "Bully Bully") and "Ghostbusters" (as "Trustbuster") were both used, altered enough to be free of royalties.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' used to do this in its early seasons -- ''e.g.'' "Give it Up" from the toad-licking one, which was a pastiche of "You're the One That I Want" from ''Grease''. Lately, however, they've been going with straight lyrical parodies.
** The apotheosis: Peter singing about his Diplomatic Immunity with "Can't Touch Me!", which includes the line "so Hammer you can't sue!" while talking to an animated Music/MCHammer.
*** "Can't Touch Me" used a Jimmy Hart Version of the music. However, the show has more recently been able to get the rights to almost any music they want; one aversion occurred when they couldn't get the rights to the 1967 ''Spider-Man'' cartoon theme, so they had Peter sing the ''{{Series/Batman}}'' TV show theme (owned by Fox), replacing "Batman" with "Spider-Man". It was actually much funnier that way.
*** The original MC Hammer song also uses the same bass line as "Superfreak".
** The Season 3 episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" has Peter crooning a song called "I Need a Jew", which sounds suspiciously like "When You Wish Upon a Star", from Disney's ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''. The publishers of the Disney song apparently thought so, too, as they unsuccessfully sued ''Family Guy'' producer Seth [=MacFarlane=] and composer Walter Murphy for copyright infringement.
** In the episode "Love Blactually", Brian dresses up as Snoopy for a costume party. When Peter demands that he "do the dance", Brian complies, accompanied by a Jimmy Hart Version of Vince Guaraldi's ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' theme, "Linus & Lucy".
** In "Saving Private Brian", the music in the US Army commercial is The Jimmy Hart version of the intro to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me".

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] does this all the time with their montage sequences. One notable one is a couple notes off from "Hey Ya" by Music/{{Outkast}}.

* In ''DrawnTogether'' the [[{{Leitmotif}} ukulele riff]] that sometimes accompanies Wooldoor is an obvious pastiche of a similar one from ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}''.

* A dance scene in the ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' episode "Jellyfish Jam" uses a techno song called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCIyguGtFqU Stadium Rave A]]" that sounded a LOT like "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUmAphvThQ Get Ready For This]]" ([[WeirdAlEffect A.K.A. "NBA Jam"]]) by 2 Unlimited.

*** Also a piece of music that imitates the ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' theme on "Bubble Buddy."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' did this frequently with their numerous song parodies. For example, "Yakko's Universe" is a JHV of [[MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife "The Galaxy Song."]]

* The song "Let Me Be Your Wings" from DonBluth's ''{{Thumbelina}}'' is actually a Jimmy Harted version of the song "A Whole New World" from ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}''.

* The ''[[TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack Flapjack]]'' ChristmasEpisode begins with "It's the Most Marvelous Time of the Year", which is a several notes-off version of (of course) "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year".

* The eighth episode of ''SamuraiJack'' opens with a jukebox playing the Jimmy Hart Version of Quincy Jones's "Soul Bossa Nova" (which you may recognize from ''AustinPowers'').

* In ''{{Catscratch}}'', there's a point in the show where a song very similar to "[[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda's Lullaby]]" plays... [[http://www.myspace.com/video/ricky-the-dark-underlord/zelda-39-s-lullaby-in-catscratch/106119107 No, really.]]

** Or, for those Canadians playing at home, ''[[Definition]]''.

* One episode of the Angry Beavers featured a Jimmy Hart version of "Say You'll Be There" by the Spice Girls

*** And "The President Wore Pearls," an WholePlotReference of ''{{Evita}}''. Also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the closing subtitles, which insist the producers (as advised by their lawyers) "have never heard of a musical based on the life of Eva Peron."

** Sideshow Bob's [[{{leitmotif}} personal theme music]] is a reworked version of BernardHerrmann's ''CapeFear'' theme.

** The episode where Homer becomes a hippy replaces the end theme with the bass and drums from [[TheBeatles Tomorrow Never Knows]], with a sitar playing the Simpsons theme on top - [[HilariousInHindsight several years before]] Giles Martin played the vocals and sitar of Within You Without You over the same, causing the Simpsons version to sound like a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of that.

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZB5cM_6Ru8&feature=related Chip'n Dale: Rescue Rangers theme song]] was probably intended as a spoof of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaQvBbzslJE MacGyver vignette]].

** The apotheosis: Peter singing about his Diplomatic Immunity with "Can't Touch Me!", which includes the line "so Hammer you can't sue!" while talking to an animated MCHammer.

** The Season 3 episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" has Peter crooning a song called "I Need a Jew", which sounds suspiciously like "When You Wish Upon a Star", from Disney's ''{{Pinocchio}}''. The publishers of the Disney song apparently thought so, too, as they unsuccessfully sued ''Family Guy'' producer Seth [=MacFarlane=] and composer Walter Murphy for copyright infringement.
** In the episode "Love Blactually", Brian dresses up as Snoopy for a costume party. When Peter demands that he "do the dance", Brian complies, accompanied by a Jimmy Hart Version of Vince Guaraldi's ''{{Peanuts}}'' theme, "Linus & Lucy".

* [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] does this all the time with their montage sequences. One notable one is a couple notes off from "Hey Ya" by OutKast.

** Another episode involving Schnitzel's obvious Bruce Lee parody used an equally-obvious Jimmy Hart version of the song "Eye of the Tiger".

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', "You Promised", Norbert and Daggett race around their dam on bikes to The (instrumental) Jimmy Hart Version of "I'm A Believer" by The Monkees.

* In ''DrawnTogether'' the [[{{Leitmotif}} ukulele riff]] that sometimes accompanies Wooldoor is an obvious pastiche of a similar one from ''SpongebobSquarepants''.

* ''{{Doug}}'' used Jimmy Hart versions of the Raiders March from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', for Race Canyon, Superman's ThemeTune for Quailman, the JamesBond theme for Smash Adams, the Mission Impossible theme (in ''Doug's Secret Song'' when Porkchop is sneaking into Bebe's house), a JHV of "[[MCHammer U Can't Touch This]]" in "Doug Can't Dance"(starts after Mr. Dink stubs his toe) among others,
* A dance scene in the ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Jellyfish Jam" uses a techno song called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCIyguGtFqU Stadium Rave A]]" that sounded a LOT like "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUmAphvThQ Get Ready For This]]" ([[WeirdAlEffect A.K.A. "NBA Jam"]]) by 2 Unlimited.

** For instance, there's one episode where the adults put on some Cher. The song on the stereo sounds a lot like {{Cher}}'s "Believe."
** When Stan's grandfather wanted Stan to understand how awful it is being old, his grandfather puts on a song that sounds a lot like {{Enya}}'s "Orinoco Flow".
** When Randy is incapacited from being "served" and Stan visits him in the hospital, a tune almost identical to Eminem's "Lose Yourself" starts playing.

* Pretty much the entire soundtrack to the ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" is Jimmy Hart versions of (you guessed it) songs by TheBeatles, including "A Hard Day's Night", "Eleanor Rigby", "Across the Universe", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Strawberry Fields Forever", and "The Ballad of John and Yoko".

* The finish of "Part of That World" in ''TheLittleMermaid'' ("Out of the sea / Wish I could be / Part of that world") is Ashman and [[AlanMenken Menken]] Jimmy Harting one of ''their own songs'', "Somewhere that's Green" from ''LittleShopOfHorrors'' ("Far from Skid Row / I want to go / Somewhere that's green").

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rio_sLMhRk end theme]] for ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' is a Jimmy Hart version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSsPEgZZi5Y "Step By Step"]] by NewKidsOnTheBlock.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy BillyAndMandy]]'s Big Boogie Adventure'', music that sounds ''almost'' like the ''MonkeyIsland'' theme can be heard playing during the race.

* The song "If You Can Dream" by the [[DisneyPrincess Disney Princesses]] is actually a Jimmy Harted version of Mya's "Where the Dream Takes You." Guess [[Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire which animated Disney movie]] that song is from!

* WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries - its CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme bears a striking resemblance to a sped-up version the AaronCopland masterpiece "Fanfare for the Common Man" melded with bits the JohnWilliams theme from SupermanTheMovie. Given that the series was heavily influenced by the JohnByrne era Superman (Clark is the real person, Superman is his disguise, and Clark sees himself as a perfectly normal person who happens to have extraordinary powers), this probably wasn't unintentional.
* The opening theme for [[SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries ''Sabrina's Secret Life'']] sounds a lot like the song "(I'm Coming Out So You) Better Get This Party Started."

**** Joked about it once: A Krusty Krab customer listened to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0-FwA1f60 a song]] and said (perhaps not exact quote) "I hated the REAL version of this song."

* ''{{Doug}}'' used Jimmy Hart versions of the Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Race Canyon, Superman's ThemeTune for Quailman, the JamesBond theme for Smash Adams, the Mission Impossible theme (in ''Doug's Secret Song'' when Porkchop is sneaking into Bebe's house), a JHV of "[[MCHammer U Can't Touch This]]" in "Doug Can't Dance"(starts after Mr. Dink stubs his toe) among others,

*** Also a piece of music that imitates the ''RaidersOfTheLostArk'' theme on "Bubble Buddy."

* WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries - its CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme bears a striking resemblance to a sped-up version the AaronCopland masterpiece "Fanfare for the Common Man" melded with bits the JohnWilliams theme from SupermanTheMovie. Given that the series was heavily influenced by the JohnByrne era Superman (Clark is the real person, Superman is his disguise, and Clark sees himself as a perfectly normal person who happens to have extraordinary powers), this probably wasn't unintentional.

* ''TheSimpsons'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the trope when, at the opening ceremonies of a nationwide SpellingBee, celebrity moderator George Plimpton announces, "And now, our unlicensed knockoff of the Olympic anthem."

* ''FamilyGuy'' used to do this in its early seasons -- ''e.g.'' "Give it Up" from the toad-licking one, which was a pastiche of "You're the One That I Want" from ''Grease''. Lately, however, they've been going with straight lyrical parodies.

* [[TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron Jimmy Neutron]] does this all the time with their montage sequences. One notable one is a couple notes off from "Hey Ya" by OutKast.
* ''PhineasAndFerb'', episode "Ladies and Gentlemen, Meet Max Modem!": Mr. Fletcher, practicing as Max Modem, plays a riff on a synthesizer that sounds a lot like the intro to "Bloody Tears" from the ''{{Castlevania}}'' series.

* ''{{Chowder}}'' has done this twice so far. In the episode "Grubble Gum", where Chowder's gigantic, all-consuming wad of gum starts picking up everything in its path: the background music, appropriately enough, is a lawyer-friendly version of the ''KatamariDamacy'' theme. The episode "Sniffle Ball" also has one scene blatantly parodying the classic ''SuperMarioBros'' fight with Bowser, to the tune of a variant on the classic underground theme.
** The sleepeating episode uses the first few notes of "Thriller".
** Another episode involving Schnitzel's obvious Bruce Lee parody used an equally-obvious Jimmy Hart version of the song "Eye of the Tiger".
* An early sketch in ''RobotChicken'' features {{Voltron}} in a dance-off against a Robeast to "Work It Out On The Floor", an obvious parody of DMX's "Get It On The Floor". On the DVD version and all future airing, the song is replaced with a horribly generic, lawyer-friendly take on the song.
** During their "Greatest American Hero" parody, the theme song is "Believe it or don't I'm flying around."
** Used ''in-series'' when a sketch about the Libertarian Party have them needing to use the Jimmy Hart version of various songs because they can't afford the real ones. Such as "Airborn mini-dirt" (Dust in the Wind) and "We are the Victors" (We are the Champions). They ''still'' got sued for "Friend choo-choo" (Love Train).
** A sketch about the Kraken from ''ClashOfTheTitans'' featured a Jimmy Hart version of ''[[{{Cats}} "Memory"]]''.
*** A large amount of the music used for ''RobotChicken'' are Jimmy Hart versions of many popular tunes from movies, television shows, and even video games. This makes sense as parodies are a big part of Robot Chicken.
* The Teletoon-animated seasons of ''JohnnyTest'' use their own theme song, which is a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of... ''the original Johnny Test theme song'' (from when the series was animated by Warner Bros.). The "same franchise as the original music" deal strikes again!
** Also occurs on the Cartoon Network broadcast version.
** And the Netflix Watch Instantly releases.
** Incidentally, while the original Johnny Test theme sounds highly styled after your average top 40 rock band, the second series theme song is actually a Jimmy Hart Version of "[[strike:American]] [[RuleOfFunny Canadian Idiot]]".
*** Which better describes the [[IdiotHero main character.]]
* The eighth episode of ''SamuraiJack'' opens with a jukebox playing the Jimmy Hart Version of Quincy Jones's "Soul Bossa Nova" (which you may recognize from ''AustinPowers'').
* The ''[[TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack Flapjack]]'' ChristmasEpisode begins with "It's the Most Marvelous Time of the Year", which is a several notes-off version of (of course) "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year".
* In an episode of ''TheAngryBeavers'', "You Promised", Norbert and Daggett race around their dam on bikes to The (instrumental) Jimmy Hart Version of "I'm A Believer" by The Monkees.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' does some almost indistinguishable please-don't-sue-us versions of songs like "Happy Birthday To You" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" - the latter has to be listened to very, very closely. The excuse in the director's commentary was 'we thought it'd be alright because the songs would have changed over the years'.
** Fry {{lampshades}} this during the former by singing "And you smell like one, too!", out of context from the CaptainErsatz version, but in the style of the real song. Of course, that line is not an official part of the song, so there's no copyright violation.
*** Not to mention the theme song itself is the Jimmy Hart version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOqfWj0HqNE Pierre Henry's "Psyche Rock"]].
* ''The Adventures of SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' loved throwing in Jimmy Hart versions of appropriate background music.
* Listen to the theme song of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', then listen to Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man". Tell me they don't sound similar.
** "When there's trouble you know who to call! Secret... Agent Man! Secret... Agent Man!"
* In ''DrawnTogether'' the [[{{Leitmotif}} ukulele riff]] that sometimes accompanies Wooldoor is an obvious pastiche of a similar one from ''SpongebobSquarepants''.
* Whenever another DCAU hero shows up on ''StaticShock'' they are accompanied by a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of their theme... it's even more jarring than the OffModel moments that tend to accompany them.
* ''SuperJail''--as explicitly pointed out by the bumps on AdultSwim--could not get the rights to "Love Shack", so the Warden sings the royalty-free, lawyer-friendly, not-gonna-get-sued-for-it "Love House" during the episode where they build a bar in the jail.
* One episode of the Angry Beavers featured a Jimmy Hart version of "Say You'll Be There" by the Spice Girls
* For ''TheLittleRascals' Christmas Special'', a 1979 animated holiday special featuring Our Gang, the producers didn't get the rights to use Leroy Shield's classic theme music, so the special's music composer wrote a Jimmy Hart Version of it.
* ''{{Doug}}'' used Jimmy Hart versions of the Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark, for Race Canyon, Superman's ThemeTune for Quailman, the JamesBond theme for Smash Adams, the Mission Impossible theme (in ''Doug's Secret Song'' when Porkchop is sneaking into Bebe's house), a JHV of "[[MCHammer U Can't Touch This]]" in "Doug Can't Dance"(starts after Mr. Dink stubs his toe) among others,
* A dance scene in the ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Jellyfish Jam" uses a techno song called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCIyguGtFqU Stadium Rave A]]" that sounded a LOT like "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUmAphvThQ Get Ready For This]]" ([[WeirdAlEffect A.K.A. "NBA Jam"]]) by 2 Unlimited.
** The Krusty Krab Training Video uses a soundalike for Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XovtJrxPjNw Quest for the Best]]".
*** Also a piece of music that imitates the ''RaidersOfTheLostArk'' theme on "Bubble Buddy."

* Done frequently on ''SouthPark''.
** For instance, there's one episode where the adults put on some Cher. The song on the stereo sounds a lot like {{Cher}}'s "Believe."
** When Stan's grandfather wanted Stan to understand how awful it is being old, his grandfather puts on a song that sounds a lot like {{Enya}}'s "Orinoco Flow".

* Pretty much the entire soundtrack to the ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls" is Jimmy Hart versions of (you guessed it) songs by TheBeatles, including "A Hard Day's Night", "Eleanor Rigby", "Across the Universe", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Strawberry Fields Forever", and "The Ballad of John and Yoko".

* The finish of "Part of That World" in ''TheLittleMermaid'' ("Out of the sea / Wish I could be / Part of that world") is Ashman and [[AlanMenken Menken]] Jimmy Harting one of ''their own songs'', "Somewhere that's Green" from ''LittleShopOfHorrors'' ("Far from Skid Row / I want to go / Somewhere that's green").

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rio_sLMhRk end theme]] for ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' is a Jimmy Hart version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSsPEgZZi5Y "Step By Step"]] by NewKidsOnTheBlock.
* The long-awaited ''{{Daria}}'' DVD set occasionally opts for Jimmy Hart versions in place of the more generic cues that comprise the majority of the music. One of the odder cases was Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" - MTV had apparently tried to license the original due to how important it was to the episode it appeared in, but Lauper no longer allows the song to be licensed and they were forced to do this instead.

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u7XysaEVBs&feature=related At the Gala]]" is even more obviously "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUzk2BC2Ssg&feature=fvwrel Ever After]]" from ''IntoTheWoods''.

** The scene where the sun is setting in Lesson Zero has a Jimmy Hart Version of the "Dream is Collapsing" theme from {{Inception}}.

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo76kHOICJE&feature=watch_response Find a Pet]]" is a take on "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10AMqdJUcFY&feature=player_embedded Fabulous Places]]" from the 1967 ''DrDolittle'' (fittingly, considering who sings it).

** During the scene in the episode "It's About Time" where Twilight Sparkle [[spoiler: meets a future version of herself,]] the background music is suspiciously similar to "I am the Doctor" from Series 5 and 6 of DoctorWho.

* In ''BillyAndMandy's Big Boogie Adventure'', music that sounds ''almost'' like the ''MonkeyIsland'' theme can be heard playing during the race.

** The recurring [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCzkSEH_Rls#t=2m09s "Spooky" theme]] from Series 5 has elements of "Night on Bald Mountain".

** The opening of ''Misty Island Rescue'' and the ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' theme.

* A weird sort of cross-media-type example with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBXvVaU7sfo opening to the German dub]] of the [[{{Series/MegaMan}} Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon,]] which bears some similarities to, of all things, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZlYGN5W2Yg the Cheetahmen theme]] from the deplorable {{Action52}} collection.
* An episode of ''TinyToonAdventures'' featured a parody of ''SuperMarioBros'' called ''Super Pluckio Bros.'' which played over a JHV of the overworld theme of the original ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' game. Adding to this was the fact that sound effects from the actual game were actually used in the episode.

* ''TheLooneyTunesShow''

* '''Just Missed''': SonicSatAM ''almost'' had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P10oIBNPH70 this theme]], which sounds a lot like INXS's "The One Thing."

* The theme song of ''Inspector Gadget'' is based on Grieg's ''In the Hall of the Mountain King''.
* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' featured a lot of pieces and cues that are suspiciously similar to ones from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' (most noticeable in the theme tune: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQFGH527PE TAS]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjL8WXjlGI TOS]]).
* SupermanTheAnimatedSeries - its CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme bears a striking resemblance to a sped-up version the AaronCopland masterpiece "Fanfare for the Common Man" melded with bits the JohnWilliams theme from SupermanTheMovie. Given that the series was heavily influenced by the JohnByrne era Superman (Clark is the real person, Superman is his disguise, and Clark sees himself as a perfectly normal person who happens to have extraordinary powers), this probably wasn't unintentional.

** The episode where Homer becomes a hippy replaces the end theme with the bass and drums from [[TheBeatles Tomorrow Never Knows]], with a sitar playing the Simpsons theme on top - [[HilariousInHindsight several years before]] Giles Martin played the vocals and sitar of Within You Without You over the same, causing the Simpsons version to sound like a JimmyHartVersion of that.

* The Teletoon-animated seasons of ''JohnnyTest'' use their own theme song, which is TheJimmyHartVersion of... ''the original Johnny Test theme song'' (from when the series was animated by Warner Bros.). The "same franchise as the original music" deal strikes again!

* Whenever another DCAU hero shows up on ''StaticShock'' they are accompanied by TheJimmyHartVersion of their theme... it's even more jarring than the OffModel moments that tend to accompany them.

* The opening song to ''BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeries'' is a more uptempo Jimmy Hart version of 'Back in Time' by Huey Lewis and the News, which originally came from ''Back to the Future Part II''.

** Then there's "See My Vest," Mr. Burns' PETA-unfriendly ripoff of ''{{Film/Beauty And The Beast}}'''s "Be Our Guest."

* SupermanTheAnimatedSeries - its CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme bears a striking resemblance to a sped-up version the AaronCopland masterpiece "Theme For the Common Man" melded with bits the JohnWilliams theme from SupermanTheMovie. Given that the series was heavily influenced by the JohnByrne era Superman (Clark is the real person, Superman is his disguise, and Clark sees himself as a perfectly normal person who happens to have extraordinary powers), this probably wasn't unintentional.

* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' featured a lot of pieces and cues that are suspiciously similar to ones from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' (most noticeable in the theme tune: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQFGH527PE TAS]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjL8WXjlGI TOS]]).

* The theme song of ''Inspector Gadget'' is based on Grieg's ''In the Hall of the Mountain King''.

* The theme to TheCritic was done in the style of [[GeorgeGershwin Rhapsody in Blue]].