Line #69 Main/NationalAnthem


1	-> ''"Nanny Ogg reasoned that it would be easy money because national anthems only ever have one verse or, rather, all have the same second verse, which goes 'nur'hnur'mur'nur nur, hnur'nur'nur, hnur' at some length until everyone remembers the last line of the first verse and sings it as loudly as they can."''
2	-->-- ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''
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4	A national anthem is essentially the ThemeSong of an entire country, usually (but not always) officially recognized by the government. Due to their iconic status they tend to show up in media a lot.
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6	The usage may vary: Sometimes they are used straight, as a kind of RegionalRiff or because the story takes place in a context (such as a sports event or ceremony) where a national anthem would normally be played. Often fictional countries are given equally fictional National Anthems. Sometimes real ones (or the tendency for people to sing them very badly) are mocked.
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8	A common (and TruthInTelevision) joke is that no one knows all the verses of their national anthem. Usually [[SecondVerseCurse only one or two verses are sung]], and the contents of later verses might often shock people.[[note]]For instance, Germany only sings the third verse of their national anthem ("Unity, justice and freedom...") and has [[CanonDiscontinuity officially retired]], but not outlawed, the first two verses. The first one, "''Deutschland, Deutschland über alles...''", while ''intended'' by the original author as a wish for German unity (that is, the Germans thinking of themselves as Germans first and Bavarians/Thuringians/Prussians/etc. second), has taken on a little more [[TakeOverTheWorld ominous]] cast in the wider world at large thanks to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne certain]] prominent [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo historical events]] that Germany rather understandably would like to not repeat. The fact that [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Nazis]] also mandated using only this verse and then the Party hymn "''Der Horst-Wessel-Lied''" at public events, and that said verse describes territorial boundaries that Germany is forbidden by treaty from ever seeking again didn't help the association.The second verse, "''Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue, Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang''" is retired more because it just doesn't have the ''gravitas'' to hold as a national anthem, as well as having a little ValuesDissonance, as it praises German women, German wine and German song.[[/note]]
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10	Some songs are NOT National Anthems but are often confused for them.
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12	Many countries with monarchies also has a separate Royal Anthem that is basically the monarch's personal {{Leitmotif}}. The UK is somewhat unusual in that the royal anthem is also the national anthem. This is tied to individual countries of the UK all having their own ''de facto'' anthem, played at sporting events. For more, see UsefulNotes/BritishNationalAnthems.
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14	See also PatrioticFervor. Quite often involves a kind of SceneryPorn in the lyrics.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	!!!A national anthem being used straight:
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24	* One strip in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' plays with the fact that the National Anthems of England and Liechtenstein have the very same melody, based in a [[TruthInTelevision real football event]] the characters were reenacting.
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28	* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Penny’s mom is the featured soloist for "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the start of "The Baseball Game." It becomes a 14-minute long production number, complete with yodeling choir backup.
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32	* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'':
33	** [[ThoseWackyNazis The German officers]] at Rick's are singing ''Die Wacht am Rhein'', effectively lording their superiority over everyone; in response, the infuriated French expatriates, sympathizers, and loyalists drown them out with ''La Marseillaise''. (Actually, ''Die Wacht am Rhein'' wasn't the Third Reich's national anthem, but ''Das Horst-Wessel-Lied'' was under copyright to the Nazi Party, and Warner Brothers would have been forced to pay royalties to them (the movie was produced before Pearl Harbor), so they changed it out. It still worked, however, because ''Die Wacht am Rhein'' is specifically a German patriotic anthem about ''fighting against the French''.)
34	** The ''Horst-Wessel-Lied'' was the anthem of the ''Nazi Party'', not of Germany itself during World War II, although it was played at official functions after the ''Deutschlandlied'' as a kind of second national anthem.
35	* A similar juxtaposition of ''Die Wacht am Rhein'' and ''La Marseillaise'' occurred in ''Film/TheGrandIllusion'' when first the prison camp guards and then the prisoners of war (and not just the French ones) react to the news that Fort Douaumont (near Verdun) was taken by their side by intoning their respective patriotic song. During World War I ''Die Wacht am Rhein'' was indeed played and sung a lot in Germany, having the advantage of a more dramatic tune then the official Prussian and German anthem, ''Heil Dir im Siegerkranz'', which uses the same tune as ''God Save the King (or Queen)''. (French actor Marcel Dalio has the distinction of appearing in both films).
36	* ''Film/RockyIV'' plays the Soviet National Anthem.
37	* The film of ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' features the Soviet National Anthem being sung by the crew of ''Red October'' when the silent drive is first engaged, resulting in Jonesy, the sonar operator of ''USS Dallas'', hearing a brief snatch of this on his sonar. It's also playing in Admiral Padorin's office.
38	* In ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'', ''The Star Spangled Banner'' is performed before the Super Bowl. What is unique about the performance is that it is using the lyrics from the ''fourth'' verse of the song, including lyrics ''"...and conquer we must, for our cause it is just..."'' This verse has rarely if ''ever'' been performed at such events.
39	* In ''Film/{{Waterloo}}'', Music/NinoRota used ''Deutschlandlied'' as a menacing and ominous {{Leitmotif}} for Field Marschal Blücher and the Prussian army. This is [[AnachronismStew wrong on several levels]], as Music/JosephHaydn's tune at the time of the battle (1815) was used only as the '''Austrian''' anthem, the text of the ''Deutschlandlied'' was only written in 1841, it only became the official German (not Prussian) national anthem in 1922, and the national anthem of Prussia actually was ''Heil Dir im Siegerkranz'', which is set to the tune of ''God Save the King''.
40	* In the Irish film ''Film/TheWindThatShakesTheBarley'', the main characters have been imprisoned in a small jail by the British Army, and as one of their number is taken away for torture, they sing Amhrán na bhFiann, the song that would become the national anthem in 1926, to help him endure. (Though using the modern Irish lyrics is a slight anachronism - while it's possible he was working on them as early as 1917, Liam Ó Rinn's lyrics wouldn't be published until 1923.)
41	* In ''Film/LaVieEnRose'', a [[CircusBrat young Edith Piaf]] is told to "do something" for the crowd by her street performer [[{{Jerkass}} father]], and after a brief hesitation, she lets loose with a brassy, powerful rendition of "La Marseillaise." See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCE0GDeClbs here]].
42	* The main characters in ''Film/CanadianBacon'' mock the Canadian national anthem when they visit for a hockey game. No one cares, until the Americans insult [[BerserkButton Canadian beer]]...
43	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/ToraToraTora''. The band at Pearl Harbor is playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" when the Japanese attack, and the conductor makes them finish up quickly before they run for their lives.
44	** RealityIsUnrealistic: this is what happened ''exactly'' onboard USS Nevada during the attack in the RealLife.
45	* "Hatikvah" appears three times in ''Film/Exodus1960'' as a {{Leitmotif}}. First, it is played in an epic, orchestrated instrumental version as the Jews aboard the Exodus throw the food overboard (initiating a hunger strike) and hoist the flag of Israel. Secondly, it's played on a car radio in a jazz-influenced arrangement when [[spoiler:Akiva dies of his wounds.]] In the last instance, it's sung as a spontaneous CrowdSong after Partition is announced.
46	* In ''Film/HeartAndSouls'', Thomas is helping his supernatural friends complete their UnfinishedBusiness, and one of them, Harrison, died before he could sing for an audience. Having just crashed into a B.B. King concert without a plan, Thomas hastily walks on stage and asks the audience to stand for the national anthem before the main show.
47	* In ''Film/EuropaEuropa'', Solly and the rest of the Hitler Youth boys sing the ''Deutschlandlied'' in tears after hearing a radio broadcast about the Sixth Army's defeat at Stalingrad.
48	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the first 4 bars of the Canadian national anthem is on the wall of a music classroom.
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52	* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheStand'', a virus wipes out 99% of the population of America (and presumably the rest of the world). The survivors group in Boulder and try to form a state. At the end of their first meeting, they sing "The Star-Spangled Banner", which leaves half of the people in tears, since America is no more.
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56	* ''Series/CanadasWorstHandyman'': In the final episode of season 4, the contestants briefly take a break from the final group challenge to sing "O Canada".
57	* ''Series/CandidCamera'' once did a prank where they set up a fake Canadian border crossing in the middle of nowhere in the United States, and then proceeded to harass victims who happen to use that road into singing "O Canada" (which of course, since the road is used by Americans, many don't even know the lyrics to), among other things.
58	* ''Series/TheStand1994'': At the end of part 3 of the mini-series, "The Betrayal," the group in Boulder stand and sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" as a moment of solidarity with one another and of quiet defiance against the evil forces trying to take over what's left of America.
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62	* In Tchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture'' and many movie scores, such as that to Sergey Bondarchuk's ''Waterloo'' (1970), "La Marseillaise" is used as a {{Leitmotif}} for Napoleon, his Empire and/or his Army. This is actually incorrect - the tune was banned for most of his reign (the official anthem of the First Empire was "Veillons au salut de l'Empire"), and Napoleon only suffered it to be played again when France was invaded in 1814.
63	** The ''1812 Overture'' incorporates elements of the ''[[AnachronismStew God Save the Czar]]'' to signify Russian triumph; however, that was only adopted as the Russian national anthem in 1833 (and may not even have existed as text or tune in 1812). As this was frowned upon during the Soviet era, the tune from another piece of popular patriotic music was often substituted in its place when it was performed in USSR. Ironically, the music that was substituted comes from the opera ''A Life for the Tsar'' (retitled ''Ivan Sussanin'' after 1917), composed by ardent monarchist Mikhail Glinka.
64	* UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}'s unofficial national anthem [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_gamla,_du_fria "Du gamla, du fria"]] has been covered by several Swedish rock and HeavyMetal bands.
65	** The UpdatedRerelease of Music/{{Sabaton}}'s ''The Art of War'' includes a live recording of the band playing "Du gamla, du fria" as an AudienceParticipationSong at the opening of the Sweden Rock Festival.
66	** Music/{{Destiny}} plays it as the last track on their 1991 album ''Nothing Left to Fear''.
67	* On the Music/{{Queen}} album ''A Night at the Opera'' Brian May plays a guitar rendition of "God Save the Queen."
68	* Music/LeningradCowboys:
69	** The live version of "Sally Is Something Else" on ''Live In Prowinzz'' has the Finnish national anthem as a prolonged outro.
70	** Their polka cover of Music/ZZTop's "Gimme All Your Lovin'" weaves a snippet of the Russian national anthem into the chorus.
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74	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'' used the Chinese National Anthem (March of the Volunteers) during the intro and ending of the Chinese campaign.
75	* The theme to ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'' is the real national anthem of Nazi Germany, "The Horst Wessel Song".
76	* The {{Platform/GBA}} port of VideoGame/{{Wings}} plays the German national anthem if you choose to fly for the Kaiser.
77	* One of the soundtracks of ''Stupid Invaders'' (the video game adapted from ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'') is a [[TheElevatorFromIpanema Muzak-like]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFkalWOWJJ0 Marseillaise]].
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81	* The Terrance and Phillip episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' "Not Without My Anus" used the song "O Canada" as a plot device.
82	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' after resolving the conflict the town decides to celebrate by joining hands and singing ''Oh Canada!'' on the grounds that it's much more peaceful than ''The Star Spangled Banner''.
83	* The first notes of the hymn of France, la Marseillaise, can be heard on several occasions in the French cartoon ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches''; notably in the title card of the "French Fries" episode.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'':
85	** The first episode has Rigodon nervously humming "la Marseillaise" while waiting for Fog to answer the door when he goes to Fog's house to be interviewed about the position of butler. In the same episode, Fog hums "Rule Britannia" while on his way to the Reform Club. (This reflect their different nationalities. Fog is British, while Rigodon is French.)
86	** Whenever a country's British Consulate makes an appearance (usually because Dix and Bully are checking up on the arrest warrant for Fog, whom Dix believes robbed the Bank of England shortly before he started his journey) the first few bars of "God Save the Queen" [[note]]as in Queen Victoria since the series is set in 1872[[/note]] can be heard.
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91	* During the 1964 [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames Summer Olympics]] in Tokyo, Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila had won, but the Japanese orchestra played their national anthem during his victory rather than Ethiopia's because they didn't know it (and didn't expect an Ethiopian to win).
92	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7Bn7kPkLo Lift Every Voice and Sing]]" is considered to be the African-American National Anthem. Specifically, some people actually treated it as ''the'' anthem of the USA before Congress decided on an official one, and even then ''Lift Every Voice And Sing'' was a considered if obviously rejected choice. The song ''wasn't'' intended to be a national anthem, African American or otherwise, when written but was meant to inspire hope after several high profile lynchings. It "ascended" to national anthem "contender", along with some others like ''America the Beautiful'', as an alternative to ''The Star-Spangled Banner'', which abolitionists found offensive and everyone found difficult to properly sing because of the wide range it demanded.
93	* Before the adoption of the third verse of the ''Deutschlandlied'' as the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952, the 1948 Carnival song ''[[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trizonesien-Song Wir sind die Eingeborenen von Trizonesien]]'' ("We're the Aborigines of Trizonesia") was used at many sports events involving teams from West Germany (then the "Trizone" consisiting of the British, French and U.S. zones of occupation).
94	* The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem French National Assembly]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRvm0AgvJNY spontaneously began singing La Marseillaise]] in response to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2015_%C3%8Ele-de-France_attacks 2 terrorist attacks in the same week of January 2015]] (which included the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_shooting Charlie Hebdo Shootings]]). It was as if to make a statement that despite being in their nation's {{darkest hour}} since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII until a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks few months later]], and again [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack the following year]], France will not abandon [[WideEyedIdealist its ideals in retaliation to these attacks]]. Nonetheless, they soon passed their own verstion of the [[BigBrotherIsWatching PATRIOT act]].
95	* "Hatikvah" is not only the national anthem of Israel, but the de facto anthem of the Jewish people.
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99	!!!A fictional national anthem:
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103	* ''Anime/TheBigO'': Union has its own national anthem, which sounds more or less like a SuspiciouslySimilarSong of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise."
104	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has "All Hail Britannia" the Britannian national anthem, which is in English, though you'd never be able to guess by listening to it.
105	* ''Anime/MacrossPlus'' regales us with the National Anthem of Macross.
106	* In ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'', the Free Planets Alliance has an English national anthem, titled "Free Flag, Free People, Revolution of the Heart".
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112	* In the classic Creator/MelBrooks sketch, the 2000-year-old man recalls that his cave's national anthem was "Let 'Em All Go To Hell Except Cave 76".
113	* Music/LesLuthiers give us two examples: the "Song to the Independence of Feudalia" (a country as independent as you'd expect from its name), and "La Comision", in which HilarityEnsues when two corrupt politicians and one inept musician have to modify the national anthem of their (unnamed) country to include propaganda for the ruling party.
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119	* In ComicStrip/LilAbner's comics, there's the [[CrapsackWorld unhappy kingdom]] of Lower Slobbovia, which has the following national anthem:
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121	->We are citizens of Slobbovia\
122	(Oh, that this should be happening to us!)\
123	We are giving you back to the Indians\
124	(But they are refusing, of cuss!)\
125	PTUI on you, Slobbovia!\
126	We are hating your icebound coast\
127	Of all the countries in the world\
128	WE ARE HATING SLOBBOVIA MOST!!\
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134	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the national anthem assigned to the {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica is a thinly disguised version of Bok van Blerk's ''Afrikanerhart'' anthem. It isn't an ''official'' anthem on either world. But people moved to sing it put real passion into the words. More than they do into the ''official'' anthem. [[note]] go [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9onD3JCg1A&list=PLIa36ETako3MaZaw7-I0qEuflOniBvTWd&index=1 here]] for a listen. The translation from Afrikaans isn't brilliant but you get a general idea.[[/note]]
135	** Meanwhile the largly disregarded black people of [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Rimwards Howondaland]] have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrGfTQH5HY&list=PLIa36ETako3MaZaw7-I0qEuflOniBvTWd&index=1 their own anthem]]. The [[StateSec BOSS]] don't like it very much and it's illegal. It begins ''n'kosi sikeleli' Wondaland...''
136	** And [[TykeBomb a young student]] of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] language and culture, invited to join expat Rodinians in Ankh-Morpork as part of her teaching, finds the evening finishes on the Great Hymn Of Rodinia. She listens, watching the people around her draw close and clasping hands or arms or shoulders in unity, are singing at least ''three'' different versions. Lieutenant Irena Politeka of the Air Watch, for instance, singing of "the Communist ideal" and of "treading unafraid the path where the Man of Iron did lead". And that Captain Olga Romanoff, also of the Air Watch, singing about "the loving fatherly wisdom of the Tsar", while other went a carefully non-committal third way that just referred to ''Sacred Mother Rodinia''. But that ''everybody'' came together on the lines about "Great Rus people, eternally unified" and "Sing to the Motherland!" [[note]] The various evolutions of the Russian national anthem across a century: especially the lyrical changes in the 1944-adapted anthem. But with some pre-1917 Tsarism thrown in...[[/note]]
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143	* ''Film/TopSecret'' has a fake East German national anthem. The real one is actually kind of neat.
144	-->Hail, hail East Germany, land of fruit and grape\
145	Land where you'll regret if you try to escape\
146	No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at [[UsefulNotes/BerlinWall the wall]]\
147	Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn't first.
148	* [[Film/DuckSoup Hail! Hail Freedonia! Land of the brave! And! Free!]]
149	* There have been two or three implications (no more than that!) in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' that the Imperial National Anthem is ''actually the Imperial March''.
150	* In ''Film/{{Borat}},'' the title character sings the "Kazakhstan National Anthem," the first verse of which is as follows:
151	-->Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.\
152	All other countries are run by little girls.\
153	Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.\
154	Other countries have inferior potassium.
155	* The movie version of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' gives us the national anthem of Genovia (which oddly enough is in English):
156	-->Genovia,\
157	The land I call my home,\
158	Genovia, Genovia!\
159	Forever will your banner wave!
160	* ''Film/{{Water 1985}}''. The natives of the Caribbean island of Cascara imitate various swimming styles when singing their anthem, as they're all descended from shipwrecked sailors.
161	* In ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird'', [[Series/SesameStreet Oscar the Grouch]] has the Grouch Anthem (for which you stay sitting down, naturally).
162	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'': When it looks like they've succeeded, the bad guys sing a round of the Pottsylvania national anthem "Hail, Hail Pottsylvania".
163	* The movie adaptation of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRspqsOb-pY The Horn of Plenty]] as Panem's national anthem.
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169	* The anthem of [[Literature/TheMouseThatRoared Grand Fenwick]] is basically ''Men of Harlech'' with the serial numbers filed off.
170	* Creator/TerryPratchett loves this trope.
171	** Borogravia is given a national anthem in ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment''. It starts off "Awake!", which Vimes notes is never a good sign, and is basically about how the Borogravians are prepared to slaughter all their enemies, i.e. everyone else in the world.
172	** So as to conform to the opening quote, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqCbOJc6RU Ankh-Morpork National Anthem]] has a second verse that LITERALLY goes "nrh, nrh, nrh, nrh..." because [[SecondVerseCurse no one is expected to remember it]].
173	--->We bankrupt all invaders, we sell them souvenirs
174	--->We ner ner ner ner ner, hner ner hner by the ears
175	--->Er hner we ner ner ner ner ner
176	--->Ner ner her ner ner ner hner the ner
177	--->Er ner ner hner ner, nher hner ner ner (etc.)
178	--->Ner hner ner, your gleaming swords
179	--->We mortgaged to the hilt
180	--->Morporkia! Morporkia!
181	--->Hner ner ner ner ner ner
182	--->We can rule you wholesale
183	--->Credit where it's due.
184	** Meanwhile, an army officer notes that anyone actually ''knowing'' the full anthem [[PatrioticFervor is highly suspicious]].
185	* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' has "Oceania, 'Tis For Thee," as memorably realized by Dominic Muldowney.
186	* ''Literature/AnimalFarm'' has "Beasts of England." It is replaced by a different song after ThePurge. This reflects the way Stalin replaced the cosmopolitan ''Internationale'' with the more nationalist (and at first Stalin-adulating) ''State Hymn of the Soviet Union'' in 1944.
187	* In one of John Sladek's satirical science fiction novels it's mentioned that some people are singing different lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner", viz:
188	-->Ofay can you pee
189	-->By the dong's surly blight
190	-->What you probably inhaled
191	-->At the toilet's last cleaning
192	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
193	** In ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'', the young Coriolanus Snow is initially the only one of the students selected to be mentors in the Tenth Hunger Games who knows all the words to the Capitol anthem, "Gem of Panem". This is because he has been subjected to his grandmother singing along to a recording of it every day for more than a decade.
194	** In the original trilogy, "the anthem" plays on several occasions, notably at the end of each day in the arena when the Capitol seal is projected into the sky, along with the faces of any tributes who've died within the last 24 hours. The title of this anthem is not revealed in the books, but the piece of music used as "the anthem" in the films is called "Horn of Plenty".
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199	* ''Series/TheBarrier'': New Spain has a new national anthem, titled "Volveremos", which the children detained by Alma are made to sing on a regular basis. A snippet of it also plays right before a televised announcement from the President in the finale. The gist of the two verses that have been sung onscreen is "we are getting a chance to restore our country to its former glory, let's work on it together". The government's idea of "former glory" is heavily implied to be UsefulNotes/TheFrancoRegime.
200	* The original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|1978}}'' theme was used as the basis for the anthem of the Twelve Colonies in the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 reimagined series]]. Before unification, each Colony had its own anthem. We hear that of ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' on couple occasions.
201	* The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Take Me Out To the Holosuite" has, (what is assumed to be) the Federation national anthem played before the game.
202	* The ''Series/TheJewsAreComing'' Eurovision Nazis sktech had Germany's 1979 Eurovision entry, Music/DschinghisKhan, used as the Nazi German anthem.
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206	* Wrestling/TruthMartini's PowerStable, The House Of Truth, has it's own "national anthem" that is basically about the virtues of not wearing pants. In Wrestling/RingOfHonor it was sung to the tune of ''America the Beautiful'' by Wrestling/ScarlettBordeaux, earning {{c\|rowdchant}}hants of "USA".[[/folder]]
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209	* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'':
210	** In "The Sleeping Prince" Seagoon becomes the president of a fictional republic. A RunningGag involves the playing of "Our glorious National Anthem". According to a later documentary, Creator/SpikeMilligan complained that the original version sounded far too good, and asked for it to be changed so that [[StylisticSuck only one instrument was playing at a time.]]
211	** Another episode plays the drumroll that the audience would associate with ''God Save the Queen'', only for the tune to segue into Bloodnok's {{leitmotif}}.
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215	* In the Music/StephenSondheim musical Theatre/{{Assassins}}, Samuel Byck tells us of the "other national anthem", which is actually a metaphor for the emptiness of the American dream.
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220	* ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' contained a casette tape which played the Zanzibar Land National Anthem. If soldiers heard this, they'd freeze in place to salute for the duration of the song (which lasted thirty seconds - presumably it was the song's opening or final bars). If played too often, the tape will warp and skip, and soldiers will stop responding to it and merely investigate the source of the music. There's a fanfic where Snake was actually singing it, and wrote the lyrics. The anthem sounds suspiciously like ''We Wish You a Merry Christmas'', of all things.
221	-->'''[=YouTube=] commenter:''': Big Boss wishes you a Merry Christmas!\
222	'''Another [=YouTube=] commenter:''' Is it just a coincidence that the song sounds like this and that in [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]] it's revealed that Big Boss believes in Santa Claus?
223	* In one of his winquotes in ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars: Dual Strike'', Olaf sings the Blue Moon national anthem, which is apparently "O Canada" with Blue Moon instead of Canada. Seriously, it goes "Oh, Blue Moon, my home and native land..."
224	* In ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'', after [[spoiler: destroying the Aegir fleet]], the pilots in the air begin to sing the Usean anthem, complete with "WOOHOO!" at the end.
225	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' there is ''Cactus Jack'', the theme that plays during [[PresidentEvil President Deling's]] speech near the beginning of the game.
226	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
227	** In the ''Stormblood'' expansion, [[TheEmpire Garlean soldiers]] sing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMpN_izTc3k "The Garlean Territorial Anthem for Gyr Abania and Surrounding States: The Measure of Our Reach"]] as the son of the emperor heads to his throne. It's later revealed that this is a bastardized rewriting of the ''Ala Mhigan'' national anthem, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJm7ad2tJw8 "The Measure of His Reach"]]. [[spoiler:After reclaiming Ala Mhigo from the Empire, the resistance sings the true anthem in celebration]].
228	** In the ''Endwalker'' expansion, we hear the anthem for Garlemald itself; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1dsS4hf4Ew "Home Beyond the Horizon"]], a melancholy remix of [[{{Leitmotif}} "Imperial Will"]] that sings about the Garleans' stolen homeland and their hope of one day reclaiming it and everything else stolen from their ancestors.
229	* ''VideoGame/{{Helldivers}} 2'' gives us the [[OneWorldOrder Super-Earth]] National Anthem, a moving paean to the [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny ideals]] of the nation.
230	* ''VideoGame/RepublicTheRevolution'' uses the national anthem of its fictional setting of a country, Novistrana, as its main menu theme. It was composed by James Hannigan, written in an [[{{Fictionary}} invented language]], and performed by a professional operatic soprano, Miranda Keys.
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234	[[folder:Web Animation]]
235	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE32FlagDay flag day]]", Strong Bad introduces the national anthem of his personal micro-nation [[{{Egopolis}} Strong Badia]].
236	-->''Come to the place where the tropical breezes blow\
237	Come to the coolest place I know\
238	The people are so great\
239	But really there's only me\
240	And that means I'm so great\
241	And also there's The Cheat\
242	Oh there's The Cheat in the place where the tropical breeze blow\
243	The Cheat in the coolest place I know\
244	The Ones are always Cold\
245	And the parties last all night\
246	And there's probably lots of chocolate\
247	And Population: Tire\
248	Population Tiiiiiire!''
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251	[[folder:Web Original]]
252	* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Wilbur wrote one for the country that he founded, L'Manburg, to the tune of "Hallelujah". It was sung multiple times on the server, for [[DarkReprise various]] [[DespairEventHorizon reasons]].
253	* In 2016, during the controversy over "Star Spangled Banner" as the US National Anthem, [[https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-our-national-anthem-to-sonic-adventure-2-s-city-escape there was a petition]] to replace the anthem with "Escape from the City" from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Seriously!
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256	[[folder:Western Animation]]
257	* And ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has the Fire Nation national anthem sung by ForeignWrestlingHeel Fire Nation Man in ''The Blind Bandit''.
258	-->"Firelord! My Flame burns for thee!"
259	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Bender enters the Olympics as a competitor from the fictional country Robonia. At the medals ceremony, he sings its national anthem:
260	-->Hail, hail Robonia\
261	A land I didn't make up
262	** Everyone is asked to rise for the Decapodian national anthem before a bout of Claw-Plach. Said anthem turns out to be the traditional ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' fight music.
263	* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' called "Hail Doofania!", Doofenshmirtz writes the national anthem for Doofania, a city he builds for himself to get away from his brother.
264	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "King Yakko," the {{Anvil\|OnHead}}ania national anthem, which simply consists of singing "Anvilania" three times to music that puts listeners to sleep, is featured.
265	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' episode "Sultans of Swat", Mike introduces the natives to baseball and tries to start a game by singing "The Star-Spangled Banner", only for her friends to sing their island's own anthem.
266	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has a scene of Jimmy singing the Miseryville anthem. We only hear the first part before he gets interrupted, but what we hear is hilariously bleak.
267	-->"Miiseerry and Griieef! Paaiin With Nooo Reliieef!"
268	* In the ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E14Jaws Jaw$!]]", Dewey prepares to dive in the money bin, as Louie does his best Olympic commentator voice claiming him to be the diver from Dewdonia. Huey also briefly sings their anthem[[note]]Oh, Dewdonia/Land of the few./Home of the duck/Clothed all in blue.[[/note]].
269	* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In one episode, Fearless Leader and Boris Badenov celebrate by singing the Pottsylvanian national anthem.
270	-->''Hail Pottsylvania!\
271	Hail to the black and blue!\
272	Hail Pottsylvania!\
273	[[CardCarryingVillain Sneaky and crooked through and through!]]''
274	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace'' episode "The Big Feud", Kurt Blobberts sings his planet's national anthem as a part of a heritage project. However, his species isn't all that clever, so their national anthem just consists of yelling the words "NATIONAL ANTHEM! NATIONAL ANTHEM!" over and over.
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277	!!!Songs that are not national anthems but sometimes confused for them:
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280
281	* In at least one movie, ''The Internationale'' was called the Soviet Anthem -- and "The Internationale" was the Soviet Anthem from the founding of the USSR to 1944. However, there is nothing ''national'' about ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Internationale]]'', so it was replaced with a real national anthem, whose melody is now used for the Russian national anthem. Of course, the USSR was most interesting after WWII. The anthem used to be a poem about Stalin's glory and badass -ness. UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev unpersoned UsefulNotes/JosephStalin and for 24 years, the USSR had a national anthem with a tune but no words. [[AwesomeMusic/NationalAnthem An awesome tune]], but still...no words.
282	* Used for a gag in the Australian film ''Film/TheDish'': the US ambassador to Australia is attending a reception in the middle-of-nowhere township of Parkes, since the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory local radio telescope]] is to be used to relay the TV broadcast from [[UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} Apollo 11]] the next day. The MC announces the US national anthem, and the ambassador straightens up and puts his hand on his heart, only for the [[TooDumbToLive clueless local band]] to launch into the theme tune for ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''. Cue very awkward looks all round.
283	* "Rule Britania" will sometimes be used as a British theme in place of "God Save the Queen", probably less because "God Save the Queen" uses the same tune as "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and the national anthem of Liechtenstein, but because "Rule Britannia" has the more rousing tune and projects a nationalist message rather than one of loyalty to one's monarch. ("My Country 'Tis of Thee" is virtually unknown outside the United States, which led to it being turned into ''Heil Dir im Siegerkranz'' (the royal Prussian and imperial German anthem) in the German dub of ''Film/TheGreatRace''.
284	* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'': Everybody say it with me now: '''''Edelweiss is NOT the national anthem of Austria.''''' It was a song written ''exclusively'' for the movie, though it sometimes suffers AdaptationDisplacement and the song gets put into stage revivals anyway.
285	* In ''Film/{{Zulu}}'', the Welsh soldiers sing "Men of Harlech". ''Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau'' (translating to "Land of My Fathers") is the Welsh anthem. "Harlech" is a better song, so RuleOfCool.
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289
290	* In Jules Verne's ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'', a group of Americans, in a moment of Patriotic Fervor, sings "Yankee Doodle''. Admittedly, at the time Verne was writing, the United States did not have a national anthem.
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295	* In one episode of ''Series/EinHerzUndEineSeele'', Alfred Tetzlaff sings the Horst-Wessel-Lied. Now, the actual German national anthem only consists of the third verse. As to be expected from Alfred, though, he starts with the first verse which, like the second verse, was banned after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII for being blatantly nationalist. His son-in-law Michael who comes from UsefulNotes/EastGermany taunts him by claiming that it's for both [[UsefulNotes/TheBonnRepublic West]] and UsefulNotes/EastGermany because it mentions Germany twice in the first line.
296	* In the television film ''Raid On Entebbe,'' the [[UsefulNotes/IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles IDF commando team]] on the flight to the rescue mission, in a moment of PatrioticFervor (and perhaps as a SongOfCourage) sing "Hine Ma Tov." This isn't Israel's NationalAnthem, that would be "Hatikva," but "Hine Ma Tov" is a beloved song in Israel and among Jews everywhere. It's reprised at the end, [[spoiler:when the hostages land safely in Israel]].
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300	[[folder:Real Life]]
301	* At the 1920 Olympic Games "O Sole Mio" was performed instead of the Italian national anthem.
302	* Apparently many seem to be under the impression that "Waltzing Matilda" is the Australian national anthem. There have been genuine calls to make it the Australian anthem, however, and it is thought of by some as an "unofficial national anthem". Under conservative Malcolm Fraser's Prime Ministership, ''Waltzing Matilda'' was one of ''four'' official Australian National Anthems, as well as the current "Advance Australia Fair", "God Save the Queen", and... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg some other one]]. This confused situation was instituted due to a conservative desire to retain "God Save the Queen" (swapped by previous PM Whitlam for what exists now), and was basically a quirky compromise. (Eventually, Australia adopted the same, less-quirky compromise as Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth, whereby "God Save the Queen" is the country's "royal anthem" used for state occasions where the monarch or viceroy is there; this leaves "Waltzing Matilda" entirely out of luck.)
303	* Due to the difficulty of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (as well as the fact that, true story, it wasn't adopted until 1931 as the official Anthem), earlier works may have "My Country, 'Tis of Thee",[[note]]which is ToTheTuneOf "God Save the Queen/King," for extra confusion[[/note]] "Hail, Columbia", "America the Beautiful" or "The Stars and Stripes Forever" instead.
304	** The fact that "The Star-Spangled Banner" wasn't adopted until 1931 may very well be why certain American sporting events founded before then, such as the [[UsefulNotes/HorseRacing Kentucky Derby, Preakness]], and the [[UsefulNotes/IndyCar Indianapolis 500]], are well known for including their ''state'' anthems in their ceremonies to this day. Or in the case of the Indy 500, a song closely associated with the state; "Back Home Again in Indiana" is actually ''NOT'' the official state anthem.[[note]]Indiana's ''official'' state song is "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away".[[/note]]
305	* "Flower of Scotland" is used more often than "Scotland the Brave" for the anthem of Scotland, especially during sports. That's because, while there is no official anthem, there was a poll conducted by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and it beat out "Scotland the Brave".
306	* In UsefulNotes/RugbyUnion tests, Ireland's national team sings "Ireland's Call", an anthem written specifically for them, as the team represents both Northern Ireland[[note]]for whom the national anthem would be "God Save the Queen", as it is part of the UK[[/note]] and the Republic of Ireland[[note]]whose national anthem is ''Amhrán na bhFiann'', whose English-language title is "The Soldier's Song"[[/note]]. In countries where rugby is popular but other contact with Ireland is infrequent, such as the "Tri Nations" of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, "Ireland's Call" is often confused for Ireland's national anthem.
307	** To be more accurate, the Ireland team will sing one or two anthems depending on where the game is played. If it's in the Republic (pretty much always in UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}}), the Republic's anthem is sung first, followed by "Ireland's Call". Outside the Republic, including very rare home matches in Northern Ireland, only "Ireland's Call" is sung.
308	* See above for the status of the ''Horst Wessel Song'' in Nazi Germany. To be fair, the Nazis always had their party anthem played or sung as a follow-up whenever the ''Deutschlandlied'' was performed, and they did run the country.
309	* Outside of Denmark, ''Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast'' ("King Christian stood by the high mast") is often thought to be the Danish national anthem, but it is in fact the '''royal''' anthem. The actual national anthem is ''Der er et yndigt land'' ("There is a lovely country").
310	* While Scotland and Wales have their own official national anthems, England lacks one. Quite often it is assumed that Edward Elgar's ''Pomp and Circumstance Number One'' (with words, "Land of Hope and Glory") is England's anthem. It isn't. Similarly, the musical setting of William Blake's ''Jerusalem'' is sung with enough passion by organisations as disparate as the Labour Party, the Women's Institute, and at England's rugby union fixtures, for it to be a valid contender. It isn't, either.
311	** For added confusion there's the Commonwealth Games, where England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland compete as separate nations and thus need separate anthems; and the other nations aren't keen on the "UK = England" implications of England keeping "God Save The Queen". Currently England use "Jerusalem" after a vote in 2010, taking over from "Land Of Hope And Glory". Northern Ireland uses "Danny Boy" (a lyrical interpretation of ''Londonderry Air'').
312	* Then there is the furore in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica that emerged over two patriotic anthems performed by Afrikaaner singer Bok van Blerk. ''Afrikanerhart'' and ''De la Rey'', both ballads about the doomed cause of the Boer War, caused alarm in the new majority black government and were taken as signs that the whites were getting mutinous. The chorus of ''De la Rey'', with a repeating line calling for a man with the stature of General de La Rey to come and lead the Boer people today in their hour of need, was especially alarming and caused both songs to be banned from performance on public radio as "inflammatory". But they caught the imagination of Afrikaaners and if they are sung at a gathering of expats, for instance, they are sung with real fire and passion. This alarms some people and is cheered by others. South Africa's actual NationalAnthem is a fusion of two songs, "Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika" (in English, "God Save Africa") and "The Call of South Africa", and the lyrics are in Xhosa (first two lines), Zulu (second two lines), Sethoso (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza), and English (fourth stanza). Because it combines two songs, it shifts key in the middle... and is still easier to sing than "The Star-Spangled Banner".
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316	!!!Occasions where the inability to sing your national anthem is mocked:
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318	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
319	* Back on ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', in one of the [[WellDoneSonGuy Canada]] strips... well, isn't exactly the inability of his people of ''sing'' his anthem, but their inability of ''coordinately'' sing the anthem in ''the same language''...
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322	[[folder:Film]]
323	* In ''Film/TheNakedGun'', Lt. Frank Drebin pretends to be the famous opera singer Enrico Palazzo, and proceeds to sing the American anthem painfully out of key, much to the real one's abject horror.
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326	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
327	* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'':
328	** The aliens start to sing their home-world's anthem in one episode. None of them can remember the lyrics after the first few lines so they just sort of hum it until they reach the end, which they all remember as "something something ...spaceship!"
329	** They also screw up the American anthem in the episode "Red, White, & Dick", which is about them discovering PatrioticFervor. Note they had somehow never heard it after having lived on Earth in America for six years, which is just one example of how the FishOutOfWater premise had been stretched beyond all logic by that point.
330	* An episode of ''Series/ThirtyRock'' included a flashback where Tracy attempts to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a sporting event. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCHxszId80E here]] for the results.
331	* In a ''Series/HannahMontana'' episode (fittingly titled "O Say, Can You Remember the Words?"), Miley had been partnered with Oliver to perform ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', but in the meantime, had to perform the U.S. anthem at a sporting event. She gets her wires crossed and accidentally sings one line as "Through yonder window breaks", and it falls apart from there.
332	* A ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' episode has Tori singing the Star Spangled Banner at a college basketball game and all her friends warn her that forgetting the lyrics would be a OnceDoneNeverForgotten moment for her. When Tori sings it, she doesn't mess up the words, but the school's mascot, a large St. Bernard, ends up dragging her across the stadium halfway through the song.
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335	[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
336	* On ''The Satanic Sketches'' album, Series/TheDGeneration mocks the inability of Australians to remember the words of "Advance Australia Fair. After asking everyone to be upstanding for the national anthem, they begin singing:
337	-->Australians all, let us rejoice,\
338	For something, something free
339	** Adam Hill jokingly refers to how no one remembers the lyrics to the second verse in his sketch where is sets Advance Australia Fair to the tune of the Jimmy Barnes's "Working Class Man" [[note]]which is widely agreed to be superior to the correct version[[/note]]
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342	[[folder:Western Animation]]
343	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Lisa on Ice", Krusty the Clown tries to sing the American anthem at Bart and Lisa's hockey game, but it doesn't go well. As he gets booed, he mutters "I shouldn't have turned down those cue cards...".
344	* A RunningGag in the ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' episode "Salute to Sports" has Goofy trying to sing the national anthem, only to sing another song instead. He finally gets it eventually, but the episode ends before he can finish the first line.
345	-->Oh, the national anthem goes like this, doo-dah, doo-dah\
346	The national anthem goes like this, oh the doo-dah day
347	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy wishes for his fairies to switch his terrible singing voice with that of Chip Skylark's. Unfortunately for Chip, he was due to sing at the World Series that night.
348	* During the Equestrian Games in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Spike the Dragon volunteers to sing the winning competitor's national anthem to try and atone for an earlier failure with lighting the torch. But he volunteered before hearing that it was ''Cloudsdale'' that won and he never heard their anthem before. His attempt at adlib fails miserably and he's booed off the field.
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351	[[folder:Real Life]]
352	* Former Conservative Secretary of State for Wales John Redwood has never lived down his attempt to fake his way through the Welsh National Anthem at a televised event in 1993. Although, to his credit, he did later learn the words. His successor, William Hague, didn't want to repeat that experience, so asked a civil servant in Wales, Ffion Jenkins, to teach him the words. Hague then married her. Presumably he was grateful for Redwood's slip up.
353	* The New Zealand All Blacks rugby team were criticised in 1994 for not singing along with the national anthem at the beginning of tests. [[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/33773/the-all-blacks-and-the-anthem This famous Bob Brockie cartoon]] makes several suggestions why.
354	* Televised sporting events. Some of the more notable screw-ups for the US Anthem are as follows:
355	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naZzJcxmpak Carl Lewis]]. He tried his hardest, but man...
356	** In 1968, Music/ArethaFranklin was invited to sing the anthem at a televised baseball game. She turned it into a gospel hymn in a long, loose rubato style with plenty of melismatic improvisation. This was at the height of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, and "patriotic Americans" were furious at what they saw as sacrilege in the name of leftist, Black Power and anti-war subversion of [[Film/DrStrangelove our precious bodily fluids]]. Someone even wrote an outraged letter to ''TV Guide''. It was just Aretha being Aretha. She did it again in 2016 at a Lions-Vikings game, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1EAYvC5ns stretched it out to almost five minutes]], and both teams had to repeat their warmup.
357	** Also in 1968, Music/JoseFeliciano was asked to sing the anthem at Game 5 of the Cardinals/Tigers World series. As a blind Puerto Rican American, Feliciano took this very seriously and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ZQawbo4Mo his version]] was intended as grateful, thoughtful, even dreamlike. There were no cheers from the stands, j8ust booing and ominous rumbling. "Real, patriotic" Americans were outraged. Most record stores stopped selling his records, and most radio stations stopped playing him. But an unauthorized recording actually hit the ''Billboard'' charts and sold over 50,000 copies in Detroit alone. On October 14, 2012, Feliciano [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gfeGjrN1s once again sang the anthem]] at the NLCS, and this time no one booed.
358	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhbpeL-8sY Rosseanne Barr]] did a satirical version at a Padres game in 1990... It didn't go over well.
359	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q98BuAX2T0U Kate DeLuna]] takes the opportunity to show off a bit. The crowd doesn't like it.
360	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkI7F5u1BGY R. Kelly]] tries to sex it up a little.
361	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMQvP0SX3ls This woman]] at a hockey game forgets the words part-way in, leading her to retreat and get cue cards. But then, when she comes back out, [[LaserGuidedKarma she slips on the ice]].
362	** At the 2011 Super Bowl, Christina Aguilera did a pretty good job with the actual singing part... but the lines she missed were definitely noticeable.
363	** Not exactly a screwup, but: At Game 4 of the 2011 World Series, Creator/ZooeyDeschanel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aPvL-lty4Y sang it in her typically soulful, kind of melancholic way]]. This caused a bit of controversy among those expecting a more traditional, "triumphant" rendition[[note]]ten years after the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11 attacks]], heavily triumphalist versions of the anthem were still in vogue[[/note]], and led to criticisms of her version as too quiet and "dirge-like" and therefore [[SeriousBusiness unpatriotic]]. Never mind that the "Star-Spangled Banner" is actually kind of a bittersweet song if you look at the lyrics (it boils down to "Oh my God, oh my God, we're going to lose this battle...but wait! There's the flag! We haven't lost...yet.", which is the story of the Battle of Fort [=McHenry=]. They do win, by the way...but not for a few more hours).
364	** Not a screw-up, but at an NHL game in Montreal, the Canadian audience (not all, but a noticeable portion) ''booed'' the US anthem[[note]] This took place shortly after the controversial announcement that the NHL commissioner (an American) would not support the reformation of the Quebec Nordiques, either as a new team or by moving one of the struggling American teams to Canada.[[/note]]. The commentators spent the rest of the game apologizing for it.
365	* Possibly an intentional screw-up: Sweden hosted the world cup in skiing. Norway won, and the Norwegian national anthem had to be performed. The Swedish band managed to get the ''chords wrong'', and the result was so lame, it resulted in a lot of snarks and insults from the Norwegian side. Only to underline the point that not even the ''harmonies'' of a national anthem should be messed with.
366	* Spanish bicyclist Alberto Contador, upon winning the 2009 Tour de France and the 2011 Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) had the wrong national anthem played in his honour [[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/giro-plays-wrong-anthem-for-champion-contador both times]].
367	* There's a film of a basketball game opening that occasionally gets shown on ESPN where a young man gets to the third line, messes up the lyrics very badly and lets out a sorrowful "Oh, shiiiiiit!" It happened in 1993.
368	* Just like their northern neigbhours, there have been instances in which the Mexican National Anthem has been screwed over by whomever sings it. In all cases, it ends badly for the singers or the band screwing it up.[[note]][[SeriousBusiness On the very least, those who play it badly will get a fine slapped]]. Worst case scenario will end up with [[ProducePelting things thrown at them]], insults, and becoming a permanent source of mockery, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a fine from the Mexican government]].[[/note]] Notable examples of this:
369	** Julio Preciado, a famed Banda singer, was apparently drunk[[note]]or at least he sounded like this. Julio Preciado blamed the stadium's audio for his poor performance[[/note]] when singing the National Anthem [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We0nFX51qu4 during the opening of the 2009 Serie del Caribe]] (A baseball tournament between the Caribbean Spanish speaking countries). [[EpicFail His interpretation was so terrible, and so hated]], that he got booed off the stadium. And also he was fined by the Mexican government.
370	** Julión Álvarez, another Banda singer, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe4xdmfpLT0 who botched, quite badly]], the Mexican anthem in an NFL exhibition match in Mexico in 2016, by removing a lot of the stanzas from it, to the visible confusion of the audience in the stadium.
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