Line #8 ThePowerOfRock/LiveActionTV


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7	%%* I was working in the lab, late one night, when my eyes beheld an eerie sight, for my monster from his slab began to rise, and suddenly, to my surprise he did the mash! He did the MonsterMash!
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9	* ''Series/The10thKingdom'' easily shows that ''We will rock you'' is the best song about sheep ever. Despite having nothing to do with sheep.
10	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Lorne believes that karaoke is the only way to put things right!
11	* Notable episodes of ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' that use this trope include "[=EagleClaw=]!" and "Pilgrim Boy!". The former has Eaglebones Falconhawk squaring off in guitar duels with his brother [=EagleClaw=] and the latter has the shapeshifting Pilgrim Boy defeat a giant potato bug by singing a touching power ballad.
12	* Subverted in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush}} Hush]]", in which only a human voice will kill the bad guys, which have taken away everyone's voices to prevent this. Willow offers to play a CD, but Giles informs her it won't do the trick. In "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling}} Once More, With Feeling]]", everything happens according to the Power of [[strike:Rock]] Showtunes.
13	* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'':
14	** ''Jeffster'' in the second-season finale, when Chuck and Morgan (who are HeterosexualLifePartners, and how!) that 'WeNeedADistraction' so he can get his sister out of danger - and Morgan has the band (backed up by a string quartet) do a world-class cover of Styx's 'Mr. Roboto' in the wedding chapel! They rock the church so hard, nobody hears a bit of ''the running gun battle in the reception area between a Special Forces team and the bad guys!'' The absolute most kick-ass moment - when one of the group sets off fireworks in the chapel. A reviewer of the episode said that the episode had so much concentrated awesome that it may be illegal in several states.
15	** Done again in the series finale. [[spoiler: Quinn has set a bomb to blow up in a concert hall once the final note of a song (part of the New World Symphony) ends, and Morgan and Casey need to buy Chuck and Sarah time to get the codes needed to shut it down. Jeff and Lester, who are now aware of their identities, show up and Morgan gets an idea. ''Just'' as the final note of the concert fades out and the bomb is set to explode comes the strains of A-Ha's "Take on Me", gaining Chuck and Sarah just enough time to deal with Quinn and stop the bomb. Epic.]]
16	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
17	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]", the DJ ''turns his rock albums into an intense sonic beam that he blasts Daleks with''.
18	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]", the Doctor had built a tricked-out boom box for Ace. At one point the Doctor and Ace use the boom box to broadcast jamming frequencies which disrupt communications among a fleet of Cybermen vessels, while listening to some jazz tapes ([[TheNthDoctor the Seventh Doctor]] is a jazz aficionado).
19	--->"I do love a [[IncrediblyLamePun jam session.]]"
20	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]", apparently the Power of Opera works to calm the {{Flying Seafood Special}}s so an imperiled spaceship can land safely.
21	** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]], our heroes are stuck in a hotel full of mutated spiders, and need to lure them all into one spot. The Doctor mentions that spiders track their food using vibrations. Ryan promptly starts playing Stormzy on the hotel's speaker system.
22	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
23	** ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' has music as the series theme and the Riders use music based attacks to finish off enemies. Falling more squarely in this trope, we have Todoroki, who uses a guitar (as did his mentor Zanki). When he visits Hibiki's world in his own series, DittoFighter [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]] joins the fun by finishing off a literal GiantEnemyCrab in an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofkJLPdB4os jam session]].
24	** The Capricorn Zodiarts from ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' applies for this trope, and not just InstrumentOfMurder, because of his other powers. Not only does he go from pretty good to EpicRocking, but his music benefits others, as shown when it allows his old friend J.K. to sing well and when it powers up the Switches of his fellow Zodiac-level Zodiarts.
25	* A ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'' sketch had an aspiring young guitarist face off in a rock duel with Satan, ultimately defeating him with a barrage of Power Chords. While Satan is portrayed as being a much better guitarist than the hero, using six arms to play a blistering solo, the youth nonetheless manages to blow the Devil's mind simply by playing the opening riff of "Smoke on the Water". With a wah-wah pedal.
26	* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' character Rudi van Disarzio, a Music/CarlosSantana / Music/JimiHendrix {{Expy}}, a "Psychedelic Monk" who embodies all the power of 70's experimental rock. Fear the power of his Fusion Lick...
27	* ''Series/TheMonkees'' episode "The Devil and Peter Tork" uses a ''Literature/TheDevilAndDanielWebster''-style DealWithTheDevil plot. Demonic pawn shop owner Mr. Zero claims he gave Peter the talent to play a golden harp in exchange for Peter's soul. However, Zero is defeated when Peter demonstrates that the true source of his ability to play the harp is his love of music.
28	* ''Series/SapphireAndSteel'' loved to do this, although they mostly used traditional songs such as sea shanties, army chants, and murder ballads. No monster can resist a rousing rendition of "Drunken Sailor" with the SoulBrotha on lead vocals and the EmoTeen TheScrappy on backup!
29	* ''Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow'' had several of these. One, "Hellfire" ('it rocketh you!') had the titular heroes in a song-vs-song challenge against the Devil. (Subversion: The last words of the song are [[spoiler: "Dude, that sucked, RUN!"]])
30	* Horribly subverted in the failed [=VH1=] show ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289828/ Strange Frequency]]''. The series was basically ''[[RecycledInSpace The Twilight Zone/Outer Limits]]'' [[MusicTropes with MUSIC!]] It was a good source of {{Narm}} ([[Music/DuranDuran John Taylor]] vs. a hotel room! The cast of ''Series/That70sShow'' vs. an evil disco!) for the week or two it was on. But there was one genuinely eerie episode: a rock star attempts to get out of a DealWithTheDevil by playing an impossible score ''that is being written by his own falling blood drops as his ill-gotten guitar's strings snap and slice at his fingers''. [[spoiler: He barely manages to finish the song when the (very irritated) devil points out that he missed a tiny symbol at the end, which means "repeat from the beginning". Cue evil laughter/BigNo.]]
31	* ''Series/StrangerThings'' used this in epic fashion twice in season 4.
32	** The first is when Max has been [[spoiler:taken by Vecna, who puts her human body in a trance as he prepares to consume her soul in the Upside Down]]. Having learned from Robin and Nancy that music is used in psychiatric care as a form of treatment, Steve, Dustin, and Lucas play Max's favorite song, Music/KateBush's "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)", to get her to snap out of it [[spoiler:before Vecna kills her]]. It works.
33	** The second is when Eddie plays Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Master of Puppets" in order to [[WeNeedADistraction distract the Demobats]] long enough to let Nancy, Steve, and Robin [[spoiler:launch their assault on Vecna]]. He and Dustin even call it the most metal concert ever.
34	* In the ''Music/TenaciousD'' TV series, the "Tribute" sketch has the boys tell a tale of defeating a demon by playing "the best song in the world," which is implied to be "Stairway to Heaven."
35	* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'':
36	** One the most powerful Artifacts in the Warehouse is the original master of Tito Puente's "Oye Como Va."
37	** Claudia had to use the whammy bar on Jimi Hendrix's guitar to stop it from playing itself and generating massive amounts of electricity.
38	%%* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' runs on Indie Rock.
39	* Another {{Toku}} example is ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'', wherein it's explained that music has always had a positive effect on dinosaurs, and humans giving it the gift of rhythm helped guide them in the right direction. Hence why they are {{Dance Battler}}s, [[spoiler:and a soothing melody has the power of, among other things, awaken Zyudenryu from long hibernations and bring Torin back to life.]]
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