Line #66 Main/SpoofingInTheRain


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2	[[caption-width-right:288: [[Characters/SesameStreetOtherMuppets Bert]] is [[Main/{{Pun}} C]]-ingin' in the rain!]]
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4	->''"I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain! What a glorious feelin'-- ''(acid rain burns through umbrella)'' Aaah! It burns like a Glasgow bikini wax! Gaaah!"''
5	-->-- '''Groundskeeper Willie''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E7BrawlInTheFamily Brawl in the Family]]"
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7	A StockParody in the {{Musical}} and {{Comedy}} genre. [[HappyRain Whenever it starts raining you may rest assured that someone will begin to sing and dance around]], often in the vicinity of a street and a lantern post, on which he will swing himself around. Musical lightpost spins (even without rain) are a common allusion that make their way into all sorts of media.
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9	Always a ShoutOut to Creator/GeneKelly in his iconic song and dance number in ''Film/SinginInTheRain (1952)'', even though the song itself is much older and was used in other Hollywood musicals before, though not quite as memorable.
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12	!! Examples:
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17	* A 2005 Volkswagen commercial featured a recreation of the scene, except it was [[TheDeadRiseToAdvertise Gene Kelly]] breakdancing to a remix of the song.
18	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fs-5OdWbRE&ab_channel=ChuckD%27sAll-NewClassicTVClubhouse A Nestle Quik commercial from the eighties]] showed a kid gleefully puddle-jumping and twirling his umbrella to an instrumental version of the song. (The idea being that on cold, wet mornings, hot Nestle Quik hit the spot.)
19	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CNO-iJ1KOw&ab_channel=hoshishiro A GE commercial]] featured an elephant in the jungle tap-dancing to the song.
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23	* ''Manga/PrincessJellyfish'': This is one of several Hollywood movies spoofed during the opening theme for the anime.
24	* Not quite a parody but decidedly an homage: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byAfC5yW_hw "Moses"]] is an anime short about a ghost girl and a pair of ghost tap-shoes. The music in the background is "Moses Supposes" from the movie, as sung by Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor. The background is filled with references to the movie, including the street and lamppost where Kelly danced during his iconic title number, posters for the movie, the wind-machine that figured in "You Were Meant For Me" and the cloth dummy that O'Connor tossed about in "Make 'Em Laugh", among others.
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28	* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheMagicCarpet'' Cacofonix makes the sky rain by singing this song.
29	* ''ComicBook/EmilkaSza'': In one scene when Emily is overpower with joy she start swining around lantern, miming Kelly in the movie.
30	* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'': One issue starts with Krusty the Clown doing a parody of the famous scene of ''Singing in the Rain'' but,, [[CallBack thanks to his illiteracy]], instead of getting a ton of ping pong balls harmlessly dumped on him, he gets a ton of bowling balls down on his head knocking him into a coma and kickstarting the plot.
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34	* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'': A Don Martin gag has a character waiting for the bus when it suddenly starts raining. When he begins to sing and dance "I'm Singing in the Rain", [[spoiler:it's not actually rain, but a bunch of people on a roof holding their annual spitting contest. One guy informs us: "I haven't got the heart to tell him."]]
35	* A Roz Chast cartoon shows a guy doing the routine, while folks in the foreground cluck their tongues and remark that he'll catch cold with his careless behavior.
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39	* In ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', rain is the one thing that quenches Raindrops's HairTriggerTemper, and so she often celebrates the temporary relief by singing and dancing in the rain.
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43	* ''WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons'': During the Daltons' MushroomSamba [[BusbyBerkeleyNumber Hollywood spectacle]] [[DisneyAcidSequence dream sequence]], they sing and dance "Singin' in the Rain" during a rainfall (and dress like Creator/GeneKelly too).
44	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'': After seeing his date home, Fender starts singing about "Slippin' on the Oil".
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48	* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'': Perhaps the most infamous and horrific example of this song-and-dance number; Alex sings and dances the song [[SoundtrackDissonance while beating up an author and raping his wife.]] This isn't present [[Literature/AClockworkOrange in the original novel]], and [[ThrowItIn was ad-libbed]] by Creator/MalcolmMcDowell -- reportedly no royalties were paid for it either. Gene Kelly was angry about this usage and once refused to shake hands with [=McDowell=] as a result.
49	* ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain'': ''Singin' in the Rain'' is one of the movies the Pink Panther imitates during the animated opening credits.
50	* ''Film/ShanghaiKnights'': While Jackie Chan is beating up villains with an umbrella, the musical arrangement quotes "Singin' in the Rain".
51	* Austin does the routine in the opening titles of ''Film/AustinPowersInGoldmember''.
52	* In the original ''Film/{{Fame}}'', one student does a soft-shoe in a puddle while singing the song.
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56	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/MovingPictures'', there's a scene where movie mogul CMOT Dibbler is gripped by the Magic of Holy Wood and starts singing and dancing in the rain, swinging off lampposts and bemusing a passing policeman just like Gene Kelly. Notably, because the Magic of Holy Wood can do only so much, he's not celebrating being in love but the imminent debut of his biggest box office success yet.
57	--> "Must be off 'is nut, if you ask me," said Nobby. "Singing in the rain like that."
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61	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In ''"The One With Phoebe's Husband"'', Ross performs the dance while the song plays.
62	-->'''Old lady''': Somebody got some tonight.\
63	'''Ross''': Twice!
64	* Done in a ''Creator/MorecambeAndWise'' sketch, with Ernie as Gene Kelly and Eric as the policeman. The joke is that it's clearly not raining. And that, despite this, Eric keeps getting soaked.
65	* Being a JukeboxMusical show in which showtunes are extremely prominent, it's not surprising that even ''Series/{{Glee}}'' did [[http://gleeperformances.tumblr.com/post/9947915079/singing-in-the-rain-umbrella its own take on the iconic tune]], combining it with "[[Music/{{Rihanna}} Umbrella]]" to represent Will and New Directions (represented by SpecialGuest Creator/GwynethPaltrow as Holly Holiday) coming together at the end of "The Substitute".
66	** In the same episode, as part of Will's [[FeverDreamEpisode fever dream]], he and Mike Chang do a close imitation of "Make 'Em Laugh."
67	* When Seann William Scott hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', he tried in [[http://snltranscripts.jt.org/01/01bmono.phtml his monologue]] to say "[[NeverLiveItDown there's more to me than just]] [[UrineTrouble getting peed on]]. Yeah yeah, or drinking a beer that has some guy's sperm in it." referring to infamous moments of the first two ''Film/AmericanPie''. So there's three of his ancestors in the film business facing similar beer situations, including a ''Singin' in the Rain'' spoof with him singing "There's semen in the beer..."
68	** One time when Creator/JosephGordonLevitt hosted SNL, he actually re-enacted "Make 'Em Laugh", complete with getting knocked over by boards and doing backflips off of walls.
69	* ''Series/KenanAndKel'' had Kel Kimbel in ''Drinkin' Orange Rain''.
70	* ''Series/TheGoodies'' do this in the episode "Saturday Night Grease" during the final chase scene, as everyone (even the police who are chasing them) stops to sing and dance in the rain like Gene Kelly, complete with an instrumental version of the tune.
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74	* ''Series/SesameStreet'': One sketch had Grover perform ''"Singin' in the Rain"'' in front of a film crew directed by Prairie Dawn, but each time he starts, the type of weather is wrong.
75	* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': When Creator/GeneKelly was a guest on the show in 1981, the Muppets wanted him to perform ''"Singin' in the Rain"'', but before the show starts, Kelly informs them that he won't do it, since the people are ''"sick of that song by now"'', causing a mass panic among the Muppets. Eventually he gave in and sang it backstage.
76	** When Creator/RichLittle was a guest in 1978, he performed the song--in raincoats--along with Fozzie Bear.
77	** The film is referenced a ''lot'' in Creator/JimHenson's work. It comes as no surprise that Kermit named it his favorite movie during a 1991 CNN interview.
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81	* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E5NothingToFear Nothing to Fear]]", Doofus sings a song titled "Eatin' in the Rain", based on "Singin' in the Rain".
82	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
83	** In ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E25WhoShotMrBurnsPartOne Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One]]'', Mr. Burns climbs a lamp post in the same way Gene Kelly did.
84	** In ''"Brawl in the Family"'', Groundskeeper Willie sings and dances around in acid rain.
85	* While a somewhat different melody, the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cexO84_6JY "Slippin' On the Ice"]] in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' is clearly meant to parody this song.
86	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' episode "Doug's Dog's Date", Porkchop performs the dance in the rain on his way home after his date.
87	* WesternAnimation/Paddington1975 does this in the 1980 special ''Paddington Goes to the Movies''. (In a step-by-step recreation of Gene Kelly's choreography...with Kelly's blessing!)
88	* This is done with Jimmy Five, among several other stock movie parodies, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVM8ZLNcqv4 the opening sequence]] to the ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' movie ''Cinegibi''. The joke is that the following scene shows Jimmy with a cold.
89	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay does this in his student film. He promptly gets struck by lightning.
90	* In ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'', this is one of many famous movie scenes parodied during Grizzly's RousingSpeech about movie-going in the episode "Shush Ninjas".
91	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleShow'', Fred Flamingo's episode is a send-up of this, with Fred tap-dancing in a rainstorm. At one point, he even spins around on a lamppost.
92	* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbRollercoasterTheMusical Rollercoaster: The Musical]]" has a shot during its first song ("Hey Ferb") that spoofs the film, among other famous musicals.
93	* The music video for the ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' version of Lou Bega's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjERnmcjbAE Mambo No. 5]]" features characters from the show mimicking the scene during the second chorus.
94	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "On Your Marks", Tender Taps jumps onto a lamp post while dancing, and then strikes Gene Kelly's iconic pose.
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