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9->''O listen to him and his saxophone\
10 Our musical genital unicorn\
11 He's very well hung with his golden horn''
12-->-- '''Music/LeonardCohen''', "Song of Destruction"
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14A short riff on the saxophone used to indicate the arrival or presence of a sexy person. The riff can be as subtle as how loudly the music is played.
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16The muted trumpet can be used to similar effect.
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18The history of this trope comes from the fact that jazz and R&B were played in brothels and burlesque houses. The musicians were supposed to play music to, ahem, enhance the experience. Many jazz musicians' nicknames were often euphemisms, like [[ICallHimMisterHappy Jelly Roll]] Morton, which reflected their roots as brothel musicians.
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20A SisterTrope to BowChickaWowWow.
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22Compare other {{Mood Motif}}s.
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24May overlap with CreepyJazzMusic.
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26JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith the device in ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''[[note]]although that ''could'' be an example of it; it's never described in enough detail as to whether it's just a relabelled saxophone or an entirely different electronic or futuristic instrument[[/note]], nor a [[CargoShip character having sex ]]''[[CargoShip with ]]''[[CargoShip a saxophone]], nor SexySaxMan - though this trope can certainly apply to the music they play with their sax - nor a sex hotline.
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29!!Examples:
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33[[folder:Advertising]]
34* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61n_kkRRHA ad]] for Zoosk features a woman fantasizing about a sexy scene with a guy, accompanied by a sultry saxophone riff. And the riff promptly cuts off as soon as they smack their skulls into each other during an attempted kiss, and again when he bumps her head into a bedpost.
35* Advertising/LongLongMan, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsJyCyGBSI series of ads for a Japanese brand of gummy candies]], chronicles the love story of a woman who's having doubts about her boyfriend's choice of the shorter variety of the gummy when she sees another man preferring the longer variety, with "Long, Long Maaaaaannnn~" being sung in the background. Cue sax riff.
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38[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
39* Ouka's theme song from ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight'' is a song called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwiWAohAE5g "You Want To Have Me As Your Pet, Don't You..."]]''
40* In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' OVA series, Urd's first appearance features a song titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeN8v8tzMww "Sexy Dynamite"]].
41* The BGM track from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_AiSewm454 "Can't Lose"]] combines ''both'' the Sexophone and BowChickaWowWow.
42* ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'': Kuroko attempts to trick Mikoto into drinking out of a thermos laced with aphrodisiacs, but ends up dosing herself instead. Ten seconds later, the sax is playing on the soundtrack as she desperately tries to convince Mikoto to change into her swimsuit while they clean the pool.
43* In ''Literature/DateALive'', nearly all of [[TheTease Kurumi Tokisaki]]'s appearances in the anime are marked with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDXTHZameXo a trumpet variant of this trope]], with her trying to seduce Shido on the go.
44* Appears with frequency in ''Manga/DragonBall'' whenever [[LovableSexManiac Master Roshi]] gets into sexual antics with Bulma, Launch or any attractive woman he happens to catch the eye of. Also heard with Bulma and Yamcha's early relationship, which is PlayedForLaughs considering Yamcha's considerable fear of women at the time.
45* ''Anime/IrresponsibleCaptainTylor'' plays this at Harumi's introduction.
46* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'''s Madoka Ayukawa plays one mean sax. She is, of course, the more mature leg of the LoveTriangle. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8fFKdwCXlc Madoka no Teema]]"
47* One is used as Fujiko’s theme in the Anime/LupinIII franchise during her more sexual and seductive scenes.
48* Used whenever Mune Mune first appears in any given world in ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi''. Well, whenever it's not just a single timpani beat.
49* One plays as [[KidHero Kenichi]] watches [[RobotGirl Tima]] basking in the sunlight with a dove perching on her shoulder in ''Anime/Metropolis2001''. You can practically smell the puberty.
50* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
51** Naruto with this whenever he does the Sexy Jutsu, where he transforms into an attractive scantily-clad woman to induce nosebleeds in men.
52** It's also played every time something [[{{Camp}} overly]] [[{{Narm}} melodramatic]] happens, and for some reason every time a joke's punchline involves a ridiculously oversized animal.
53* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
54** Features heavily in Nico Robin's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR-Ks3h2Zzw theme.]]
55** This type of music also plays in the background when [[TheVamp Kalifa]] seduces Sanji.
56* One of the background tracks from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruo1gLmheEU "S-Trip"]]'' just screams [[Film/{{Borat}} Sexy time]], with it being involved in fanservice, pole dancing, and food sex.
57* In the first episode of ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'', Fuutarou enters [[TrashOfTheTitans Ichika's room]] for the first time, and tries to pull her out of bed so they can start studying. It begins playing when she reveals that [[SleepsInTheNude she's not wearing clothes]] and has to ask Yotsuba to find her some in the mess.
58%%* Played when Esmeraude first appears in ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
59* The saxophone is [[MsFanservice Rouge's]] {{leitmotif}} in both the Japanese version and the 4Kids dub of ''Anime/SonicX''.
60* This occasionally plays in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. For example, in the scene where [=B3-NK1=] sticks his sword into Robonyan to find a screw.
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63[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
64* Happened when Sasha Lafleur was first introduced in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven2''.
65* Plays when Milo first meets Helga Sinclair in ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire''.
66* This is used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' during the infamous sex scene.
67* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'':
68** A sexophone riff shows up when Megara says to Hercules, flirtatiously: "I'm a big tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything".
69** And before that: "[[LampshadeHanging I'm a]] [[DamselInDistress damsel]]... (''GRUNT!'') I'm [[DamselInDistress in distress]]. [[TheRestShallPass I can handle this]]. Have a nice day" .(''sexophone'')
70* Lola Bunny's debut in ''Film/SpaceJam'' was with a sultry Jazz beat.
71* In Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', a brief sax riff accompanies GentlemanThief Flynn Rider's seductive face, the Smolder (tm). Rapunzel remains unmoved.
72* Jessica Rabbit's theme in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is a sultry sax riff.
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75[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
76* Played with, along with FeetFirstIntroduction, with a trombone in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. Turns out the owner of the sexy legs is ''playing'' it (making this an example of LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn).
77* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' the alluring villainess, Poison Ivy, is often accompanied by a sultry, saxophone-led leitmotif in a number of her scenes. The music plays whenever she seduces her victims, usually resulting in their death by poison kiss.
78* The love theme from ''Film/BladeRunner'', composed by Vangelis and featuring a sax performance by Dick Morrissey.
79* ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'' has the incredibly sleazy "The Web" playing every time the MadDoctor goes trolling for new bodies for his fiance.
80* The muted trumpet variety opens the song "All That Jazz" as the camera reveals the curvaceous Catherine Zeta-Douglas in ''Film/{{Chicago}}''.
81* ''Film/{{Christine}}'': When Arnie watches Christine repair herself, the soundtrack is awash with sultry saxophone music,[[note]] Harlem Nocturne by The Viscounts specifically.[[/note]] since it's basically a metaphor for a guy watching his hot girlfriend undress herself.
82* When Laura Kensington (a first-class FemmeFatale) shows up in ''Film/TheCurseOfTheJadeScorpion'', the music shows right up with her.
83* {{Film/Deadpool|2016}} gets back with Vanessa at the end of the movie. [[BrickJoke Cue]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDKn5BGTGMM "Careless Whisper"]].
84* Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Waltz, which Creator/StanleyKubrick used as the opening theme in ''Film/EyesWideShut''.
85* A RunningGag in ''Film/FatalInstinct''; the FemmeFatale is always accompanied by a steamy sax tune because a professional sax player follows her around, providing her with a theme tune while hiding in hallways, closets, even in her bed. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall And he's replaced by a trumpet player in one scene because he had to call in sick.]]
86* A saxophone solo was included in the ThemeTune from ''Film/TheInvisibleWoman1983''. It may also have been Alexa Hamilton's musical signature in the movie.
87* Film/JamesBond:
88** Used in ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' when Pussy Galore's Flying Circus leave their planes.
89** In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', there's such a recurring theme for the girls of Piz Gloria.
90** Also heard in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' when Bond arrives in Las Vegas.
91** In ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', when Bond woos a belly dancer to steal her a golden bullet of Scaramanga that she uses as "charm" on her navel.
92** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', Bond hitches a ride with some attractive CIA agents who took him to Felix Leiter after pretending to kidnap him. Cue the sexy sax.
93** "All Time High", the theme to ''{{Film/Octopussy}}'', begins with a sexy riff.
94* Highway Superstar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8kg7E2tuPg "Careful Shouting"]] from ''Film/KungFury'' appears to be an AnswerSong to Music/GeorgeMichael's "Careless Whisper".
95* ''Film/LordOfIllusions'': "Harry's Theme", which includes a saxophone performance, is prominently featured during Harry d'Amour's love scene with Dorothea.
96* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'': Our introduction to Aunty Entity (played by Tina Turner) is a BlindMusician playing the saxophone for her.
97* ''Film/{{Malena}}'': Malena makes her entrance with her [[SignificantHaircut new hair-do]] down the street to a sax riff.
98* Spoofed in ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3'', as the camera pans up the FemmeFatale's ankles... to her knees... to her ankles...
99* A RunningGag in TheMovie of ''Film/OurMissBrooks'' is a sexophone riff that plays every time Miss Lonelyhearts gets up from her desk and walks through the newspaper office.
100* The main theme from ''Film/PlanetTerror'', which plays over Cherry's go-go dance routine, and later given the action treatment in "Cherry's Dance of Death" when she has her big ass-kicking scene later in the movie.
101* Sargeant Calahan's scenes were often accompanied by this in the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series.
102* [[BlackComedyRape Played for rather grim laughs]] in ''Film/PulpFiction'', where the horn-heavy ''Comanche'' by ''Music/TheRevels'' is played as Marcellus Wallace is being brutally sodomized.
103* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'': A saxophone background theme started playing when Shaggy's body turned into a female body right after he licked a drop of a potion on his hand.
104* The muted trumpet version is used for Marilyn Monroe in ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''. This is further expanded on when Monroe reveals to one of the main characters (who is a Saxophone player himself) that she has a "thing" for Sax players, detailing her romantic exploits with other Sax players.
105* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/TangoAndCash'' when Cash dresses in drag to escape from a nightclub.
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108[[folder:Literature]]
109* In the novel ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'', the hedonistic {{dystopia}} actually renamed the musical instrument the sexophone. (That is if it really is the same instrument and not something...different.)
110* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in Creator/DouglasAdams' ''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'':
111-->"There emerged from the car a pair of the sort of legs which soundtrack editors are unable to see without needing to slap a smoky saxophone solo all over, for reasons which no one besides soundtrack editors has ever been able to understand. In this particular case, however, the saxophone would have been silenced by the proximity of the [[KazoosMeanSilliness kazoo]] which the same soundtrack editor would almost certainly have slapped all over [[TheAllegedCar the progress of the vehicle]]".
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114[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
115* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' uses this once when Topanga enters the room in a sexy nightgown to show that she is finally ready to have sex with Cory, in one of her very few fanservice-y moments in the show.
116* Used once in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' as Buffy, under the influence of a love spell, enters the library wearing a raincoat, heels, a smile, and nothing else. Interestingly, the sax riff telegraphs her ''intent'' (to seduce Xander) every bit as much as her arrival.
117* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. An InUniverse version occurs in "Callisto Soul", when a [[FanserviceExtra lingerie-clad dancer]] is trained by Gren with the assistance of a sax player.
118-->'''Gren:''' Feel those notes nibble your neck...
119* When [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-8-2011/the-wangover discussing]] Rep. Weiner's tweets on ''Series/TheDailyShow'', a shirtless cameraman shows up in the background playing the sax riff from Creator/GeorgeMichael‎'s song "Careless Whisper".
120* The [[https://youtu.be/WHVF_E1_rkU second version of the closing ident]] for MTE—an imprint of [[Creator/{{Universal}} MCA Television]]—used in the early to mid [[TheNineties 1990s]], was typically punctuated by a saucy saxophone riff. Among the series that used this was Creator/{{HBO}} series ''Series/DreamOn''.
121* In ''Series/FlowerBoyRamyunShop'' a sexy saxophone tune plays when Eun Bi pulls Chi Soo in for a kiss, as she was playing his own game (of seducing people because he can and then dropping them) against him.
122* On ''Series/TheJoeSchmoShow'', a musical theme that began with this was used regularly when showing scenes of something that was sexy or wasn't actually, but they wanted to play it as it was for comedy.
123* ''Series/TheMunsters'' used this at least once, when Grampa's latest invention turned Herman [[GenderBender into a woman]].
124* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has made a few jokes about this.
125** In ''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'', this type of music plays (as the VillainProtagonist trolls for potential victims) and Tom Servo quips, "It's a sleazy morning out there. You're listening to KPORN, ''Holmes and Reems in the Morning'', playing sleazy, slutty music all morning long. Here's one by Skinny and the Sweat Beads..."
126*** Mike brings the riff back later when the music makes its reappearance. "Stay tuned for the obscene phone call of the day, on KPORN".
127** In ''The Horrors of Spider Island'', there's a muted trumpet playing as a bikini-clad model takes a shower. Crow quips, "Those musicians who play muted trumpet solos must love these movies".
128*** And "I wasn't even being sexy until the dirty sax music started!"
129** Tom Servo was prone to doing the mute-trumpet riff on occasion, to add sexual subtext to the scene where it really didn't belong. His voice actor, Kevin Murphy, continues the tradition in various Podcast/RiffTrax.
130* In the miniseries adaptation of James Clavell's ''Literature/NobleHouse'', one of these was used at the beginning of nearly every scene where Venus Poon showed up.
131* Used a ''lot'' in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', along with copious amounts of GaussianGirl and HotWind whenever an attractive female character is first introduced.
132* Used in the song "History is Made at Night" from the ShowWithinAShow from ''Series/{{Smash}}'', ''Bombshell''.
133* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXp3AMgbG6k theme tune]] to ''Series/SquareOneTV'' (not the [[RearrangeTheSong remixed version]], which replaced it with a synthesizer).
134* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
135** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In "Tomorrow is Yesterday", an air force officer from the 20th Century is beamed on board Enterprise, and the first [[FishOutOfTemporalWater bizarre thing]] he witnesses is one of the miniskirted BridgeBunnies striding down a corridor, accompanied by a few bars of muted trumpet.
136--->'''Christopher:''' ''(dumbfounded)'' A woman?
137--->'''Kirk:''' Crewman.
138** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': "The Royale" features some sexy saxophone playing when the characters of the simulation play out a romantic scene. The music is a nod to the fact that the simulation is taken from a trashy novel.
139** Also happens in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy", where the Doctor programs himself to randomly daydream. Given that the Doctor's programming would make him GenreSavvy as hell about this kind of information, it's perfectly logical that an ''extremely'' exaggerated version of this trope plays when he slips into a daydream about Seven of Nine, B'Elanna, and Janeway all shamelessly flirting with him. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zH6R-w2ARc&feature=related It's]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments hilarious.]]
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142[[folder:Music]]
143* Music/BillyJoel's "Christie Lee" crosses over with this in an interesting way, as Joe the saxophonist finds out to his misfortune.
144* Music/GeorgeMichael's "Careless Whisper" ''IS'' the sexophone StandardSnippet. Arguably a case of LyricalDissonance, as the song is really about the terrible guilt and shame the narrator feels from cheating on a lover.
145* Music/GerryRafferty's "Baker Street" ''IS'' the other sexophone StandardSnippet. It's a melancholic jazz song about the gloomy London street, which the lyrics and city theme could be applied to romance, relationships, and lost loves, but listeners are more hooked to the particularly long saxophone riff - played as a solo for eight bars between each set of verses - performed by Raphael Ravenscroft; so much so that upon its release, saxophone sales went up just to play that riff.
146* Glenn Frey's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-I8OpCnv4 The One You Love]]" opens with a pretty lengthy and sensuous sax solo that it's been used in many television shows as either a ReadyForLovemaking signal or the introducing shot to a seedy place.
147* Music/JasonDerulo's "Talk Dirty", though the girls in the video are clearly playing trumpets.
148* "You Got It All" by Music/TheJets is a serenade to a SecondLove with a saxophone riff in its intro.
149* Music/FifthHarmony's "Worth It", which, as many have pointed out when it first came out, sounds quite a bit like "Talk Dirty".
150* Music/EttaJames' song "I Just Want To Make Love To You" features a prominent saxophone throughout. Many might recognise the song from the FemaleGaze Diet Coke commercials.
151* If you think "Destination Calabria" by Alex Gaudino, sung by Crystal Waters, is not this in its saxophone, it's just because you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq4OtRsdXls haven't see the music video.]]
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154[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
155* This is one of Wrestling/{{Aksana}}'s theme songs.
156* In a rare male version, this was the theme music for "wrestling porn star" Wrestling/ValVenis.
157* Before that, that was the theme music for The Model Rick Martel. Venis's theme is actually Martel's theme sped up.
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160[[folder:Sports]]
161* In contrast to the high-energy "walk-up music" used by most baseball players, starting in May 2014, Oakland Athletics outfielder Josh Reddick opted for "Careless Whisper" by Music/GeorgeMichael. [[http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2063308-josh-reddick-using-whams-careless-whisper-as-at-bat-music-turns-into-huge-hit The fans seem to approve.]]
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164[[folder:Theatre]]
165* All over the place in ''Theatre/CityOfAngels'', especially the intro to "Lost and Found".
166* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'' has a saxophone theme during the song ''I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You'', the scene where Eva seduces Peron.
167* ''Theatre/FunnyGirl'': It's part of a nightclub act rather than something more ''risque'', but the fairly stripperiffic song "Cornet Man" is unsurprisingly about a man who plays the cornet (basically a mellower-sounding version of the trumpet). Also, some of the lyrics can be taken as double-entendres suggesting the Cornet Man has reasons other than simply a "gig" to "leave his wife and kiddies" and go on the road, though it's not clear whether these were intentional or the song has fallen victim to HaveAGayOldTime syndrome.
168* One of the strippers the young Gypsy Rose Lee meets in ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}'' uses a trumpet as part of her routine.
169--> ''"I (bump) and I (bump), and I , (bump), (bump), (bump), but I do it with a horn!"''
170* A very early example occurs in Jules Massenet's 1881 opera ''Hérodiade'' (based on a story by Creator/GustaveFlaubert). King Herod's aria "vision fugitive," about his lust for his stepdaughter Salome, features a suggestive alto saxophone part to represent his thoughts of her.
171* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'' features a wailing saxophone song just ''prior'' to the leads having sex. They later recall they night they met, singing "a song, played on a solo saxophone..." to the tune of the riff.
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174[[folder:Video Games]]
175* Martine's [[{{Leitmotif}} theme]] in ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'', reprised when Carl encounters her ghost in ''The 11th Hour''.
176* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' plays a sexophone riff whenever the hero finishes a mission that ends with getting a kiss from one of the girls.
177* ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'': A sax riff plays whenever a successful kiss is made.
178* In ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' a very sultry (but hectic) jazz piece with heavy sax plays as the leitmotif for the [[Series/TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]] character. It's also used in the scene where Emily takes off her shirt to show that she doesn't have the Raincoat Killer's tattoo on her back, which betrays [[{{Fanservice}} that scene's real purpose]].
179* Candy's theme in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' uses the muted trumpet variation.
180* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}: Music Evolved'', before or during the song "Fire" by Music/JimiHendrix, the player can substitute the saxophone from the "Eddie Kramer Orchestral Mix" for Jimi's vocals and the song would sound more instrumental and sexy... in [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids a game for ten-plus-year-olds]]. And this is coming from a guy whose song origins in "Fire" date back to when Noel Redding invited Jimi to stay at the house of Redding's mother at New Year's Eve and to the events that followed.
181* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Slayer]] has 2 [[{{Leitmotif}} themes]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9X1Ta1jN8E Haven't You Got Eyes In Your Head?]]'' from XX and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AATZMR3LgIw Jack-a-Dandy]]'' from Xrd, feature a pretty wicked one.
182* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Iori Yagami has his themes which play usually jazz-themed with a sweet saxophone solo. Many of these tunes have the words "Arashi no Saxophone" ("Stormy Saxophone") in the title.
183* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'' has a song called "Saxy Sex".
184* The Consort in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' is introduced with a saxophone solo, while the camera follows her lower backside up a staircase.
185* '' VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'':
186** A long saxophone solo is played when Fortune first appears in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. Granted, she's not particularly fanservice-happy, but she's one of only three female characters in the game.
187** Makes up EVA's theme tune in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', almost as a parody.
188* Spoofed in ''VideoGame/Mother3'', as it is the {{leitmotif}} of the [[CampGay not-quite-so-sexy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRST8PixfA Magypsies]]. The saxophone there had a weird, reverberated, distorted kind of sound to it. Later on in the game, it even serves as [[spoiler:a MusicalSpoiler as to the true identity of Fassad as Locria, the seventh Magypsy]]. And then there's [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound Flint's attack instrument]]...
189* The Plunger Thing from ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'' has this music playing while it [[DoubleEntendre plunges every enemy on the field]].
190* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
191** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' has the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1UbtOi2vw Muscle Blues]], which is essentially the theme song for a character's [[CampGay fairly gay Shadow]].
192** The ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' comic, along with the fandub, manages to make the above so much SugarWiki/{{funn|yMoments}}ier. "I'm Kanji Tatsumi, and I enjoy naked men! Oh yeah~"
193** Ayase/Alana in ''VideoGame/Persona1''. "Ow, my chest hurts!"
194** Lisa/Ginko in ''VideoGame/Persona2'' also has the Tempt/Seduce like Ayase above, with the sexophone to match. She can also drag Maya and an unwilling/embarrassed Yukino to do a triple seduce... with the sexophone to match.
195* ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'':
196** This plays when using the move Attract.
197** The moves Disarming Voice and Captivate also involve sax riffs.
198* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'', the romance cut scenes end with this playing.
199* In the arcade game ''VideoGame/SilentScope'', a short riff plays when you find a woman in the background and point your sniper rifle at her. It helps that the character you're playing as gasps "Wow!" at the same time. (You get a bonus life point for this.)
200* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'', this often happens when [[FairCop Carmelita Fox]] shows up.
201* In ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', a cheesy sax riff plays when the player mates in Creature Stage. If this sounds steamy to you, you'll be disappointed to find that the mating dance [[GRatedSex consists of the two creatures waving their butts at each other]].
202* Here's this gem from the [=ESRB's=] description of ''[[VideoGame/TraumaCenter Trauma Team]]'': Female patients are asked to explain their symptoms, then lift up their shirts for closer inspection. The scene contains no nudity, but a saxophone can be heard playing in the background as a male doctor makes the following remarks: "Can she really be that thin?," "dayum!," and -- after doctor's heart rate increases -- "It's only natural... I'm a straight male".
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206* In ''WebAnimation/EquestriaGirls'', sexy sax music signals that love is in the air ([[LimitedAnimation since the characters' facial expressions can't signal that]]). First, it's played straight, then it's used for a fight scene that unexpectedly [[SlapSlapKiss turns into a love scene]]. Then it's used for a truly bizarre scene where the Moon from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' falls in love with Rarity, but she doesn't reciprocate.
207* The trope is name-dropped directly in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' episode 'Exes and Oohs', as well as played straight during Chaz's song to Moxxie.
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211* Lampshaded by Ben and Kerry of 2funnybastards.com and Hamilton, Ontario's Y108: "What is Kenny G. doing in everyone's bedroom ever?"
212%%* [[http://koti.phnet.fi/santamik/sexophone.swf This.]]
213%%** Also, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws this]].
214* Website/{{Cracked}}'s summary of the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' movies includes this line:
215-->Two naked men appear and come after her. Luckily, no saxophones are playing at the time, so it becomes an action movie.
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219* The sexophone riff in Creator/GeorgeMichael's "Careless Whisper" shows up whenever WebVideo/BennettTheSage has his alter ego Suave turn up. It's also used to sex up the mood or parody a HoYay riddled scene whenever Sage feels like it's appropriate.
220* In ''WebVideo/CodeGeassTheAbridgedSeries'', Kallen's shower-phone call has "extremely suggestive jazz music" playing.
221* The background music in ''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spooning With Spoony]]''.
222* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' also features "Careless Whisper"'s sexophone during particularly HoYay-filled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7xvk1ykg2Y scenes]].
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226* The same three-note sting is played every time someone on ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' looks "sexy", whether female or male.
227* Used in the phone sex ad in the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode "1-900-BEAVIS".
228* This appears several times in a ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'' episode where Aunt Cass gets a date.
229* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Party Poopers" had saxophone music briefly play when Molly Coddle tears off the dress the Cute Dolls gave her to wear at their party.
230* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E2BeautyAndTheBeet Beauty and the Beet]]", this is used for sexy scientist Rhoda Dendron.
231* One would occasionally be played for Rosie O'Gravy from ''WesternAnimation/DogCity''. Specifically whenever Ace Hart has an internal monologue in which he thinks fondly of her. Given the animated segments of the series parody classic detective stories, this is perhaps not surprising.
232* The Sexophone is played in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' whenever Kuzco sees Malina.
233* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
234** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E21FamilyGuyViewerMailOne Family Guy Viewer Mail #1]]", Peter wishes for his own personal soundtrack from a genie. The music engages in some MickeyMousing, but when Peter and Lois are about to get intimate it turns into funky Sexophone music.
235** Then there's the two of them engaging in [[{{Pun}} "phone sax"]], which is playing sexy saxophone songs over the phone to each other. Lois does it ''with her vagina''.
236--->'''Peter:''' Don't wash the mouthpiece.
237** In another episode, Peter watches a film with Creator/AllisonJanney, and a sexy sax is heard as she steps out of a cab and the camera pans upward. However, her legs seem to [[OverlyLongGag go on forever]], leading to a note that gets held for so long, the sax player has to pause a moment to catch his breath.
238* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Shego makes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN8_FLEK8gs an entrance]] (at 1:20) as a distraction, with squealing trumpet.
239* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': A RunningGag on the show is Mrs. Murawski gushing over [[CompanionCube her hand-made desk]], which often prompts a snippet of suggestive saxophone music.
240* Both played straight and averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow''. The sexophone was used both upon arrivals of attractive women, as well as various scenes involving Stimpy (e.g.a scene of him stripping off his fur before going skinny-dipping).
241* Showed up as a joke in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'': A snatch of "stripper music" plays when C-3PO first shows off his new gold plating.
242* In ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'' (co-created by ''Clone Wars''' [[Creator/GenndyTartakovsky showrunner]]), this also happens when the similarly gold-plated Corus (Ilana's mech form) is cleaned off with water and also sparkles.
243* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' used this a lot, ''Animaniacs'' especially (like whenever Minerva Mink and Hello Nurse were around).
244* The same sexy saxophone riff shows up in all of MGM's golden age cartoons whenever an attractive female shows up, like ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and shorts by Creator/TexAvery.
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248* Former President UsefulNotes/BillClinton:
249** Two of his traits that get played up in comedy are his saxophone playing and HandsomeLech tendencies.
250** And then there's that one time he was [[http://clinton6.nara.gov/1994/01/1994-01-09-presidents-remarks-to-foreign-service-staffs-brussels.html given a saxophone by the mayor of Adolphe Sax's hometown]] where the mayor (clearly not a native speaker of English) uttered the phrase "[[AccidentalInnuendo instrument]] [[GratuitousEnglish of Sax]]".
251* Music/{{Prince}}, the musician: "If I want sax, I call Candy". (Candy Dulfer, a Dutch saxophone player who collaborated with Prince. Given that it's Prince, a DoubleEntendre was intended.) Candy Dulfer herself brought out an album (with the title song of the same name) called ''Saxuality'', playing on the same pun.
252* Legendary saxophonist Johnny Hodges, a long-time member of the Music/DukeEllington orchestra, is ''particularly'' known for a lush and sensuous sound on that falls right into this trope. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOLwmxoA9gA See his rendition of "Star-Crossed Lovers"]].
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