History Main / AmazingFreakingGrace

* ''WebVideo/MandellaCatalogue'' features a slow, distorted version that sounds as though it were sung by lost souls. MemeticMutation has led it to be played over anything sufficiently spooky.

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Fun fact: Amazing Grace, like many hymns, was not married with the tune (called "New Britain") it's sung to now until sometime in the mid-19th century. Any example of it being sung to the same melody [[HollywoodHistory before then]] is an (admittedly understandable) case of artistic license. On rarer occasions, the final verse ("When we've been there ten thousand years...") may be heard in a setting before it was actually added in the late 1800s. (The original last verse was "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, / The sun forbear to shine; / But God, who call'd me here below, / Will be forever mine.", and is rarely used today.) To hear what it would have sounded like in its old tune, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSt5vnN3h4 check out this link]] of Sacred Harp singers (who also sing a lot of other old-timey hymns in a much more lively and bombastic fashion than what you might picture as typical dull church music).

[[RuleOfThree And another fun fact:]] The song is occasionally shown as being sung by American slaves prior to the Civil War, it being far more recognizable than any true "slave songs." Appropriately, it was [[http://www.snopes.com/religion/amazing.asp written by a slave trader]] after he [[TheAtoner gave up the business]] and [[HeelFaithTurn became a minister]], which is the reason for the line "That saved a wretch like me."

* ''WebVideo/MandellaCatalogue'' features a slow, distorted version that sounds as though it were sung by lost souls. MemeticMutation has led it to be played over anything sufficiently freaky.

* The first ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' game plays a cover of this song during the credits sequence (sung by Eri Kawai in the original and Joelle St. David in ''[[VideoGameRemake Yakuza Kiwami]]'').

* ''Videogame/{{Yakuza}}'' plays this song during the credits sequence.

* In ''Series/TheStand'', Frannie sings it tearfully as she sews up her father's burial shroud.

Compare SmallReferencePools. Not to be confused with ''Series/TheAmazingRace''. Nor with the film ''Film/AmazingGrace''. Nor with computer science legend Rear Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper.

* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' has this as practically [[BigBad Joseph Seed's]] {{Leitmotif}}. It's made especially eerie in the opening, where Joseph sings it [[DissonantSerenity as the helicopter he and the marshals are in crashes]], and again where he prevents the Deputy from radioing for help after the crash. On the latter occasion, there's even an unseen choir singing it in the background, providing a chilling case of SoundtrackDissonance.

--> '''Crow:''' You can't use Amazing Grace in a devil movie!

* Used at a mass in a recent ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' episode.

* Parodied in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode "Film/TouchOfSatan"; after a torch-bearing mob sings the song for a ''second'' time, Tom Servo sings, "This song is in/the public domain/that's why we used it twice!" Then it gets sung ''a third time''. Crow, meanwhile, is appalled:

* In [[the Manga/CaseClosed]] Anime/DetectiveConanFilm12FullScoreOfFear movie, Amazing Grace played a crucial role as it's being sung on concert.

* In ''Manga/CaseClosed: Full Score of Fear'' movie, Amazing Grace played a crucial role as it's being sung on concert.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan: Full Score of Fear'' movie, Amazing Grace played a crucial role as it's being sung on concert.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E3IkesWeeWee Ike's Wee Wee]]": At Ike's funeral, conducted by Father Maxi dressed as a rabbi, the piper plays [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila "Hava Nagila."]] As the boys walk away from the funeral, Kenny falls in an open grave and is crushed by the tombstone, and the funeral reconvenes around the grave, the priest changes to his normal appearance (Kenny's Catholic), and the piper plays... "Hava Nagila."

* Parody: in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Fry's imagined death has his favorite song "I'm Walking On Sunshine", also played by the bagpipes.
* Used hilariously in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', where the Joker [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA eulogizes]] the believed-to-be-dead Batman, and [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou decides to murder his supposed killer]] by sealing him into a coffin and rolling it into an acid pool. The end of the scene is accompanied by Harley Quinn playing the song ''[[Funny/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries on a kazoo]]''. Given that this is Joker, both conveying genuine sadness and savagely funny mockery of funeral tropes at the same time was likely his intended goal. When they recorded this scene, they were only able to do one take because when Arleen Sorkin (Harley) had finished, everyone was laughing too hard to do another take.
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Ike's Wee Wee": At Ike's funeral, conducted by Father Maxi dressed as a rabbi, the piper plays [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hava_Nagila "Hava Nagila."]] As the boys walk away from the funeral, Kenny falls in an open grave and is crushed by the tombstone, and the funeral reconvenes around the grave, the priest changes to his normal appearance (Kenny's Catholic), and the piper plays... "Hava Nagila."