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Musical Slapstick Montage

A favorite of movies and movie trailers, this is a montage in which various characters get hurt in various ways, the "ouch" moments falling right on the beat of a fast-paced (usually classical) musical piece — or "Yakety Sax" — such as the Can-Can or Sabre Dance.

Examples:

Film

Wall E had a sequence in which a love-struck WALL-E tries to impress Eve, to the somewhat-unlikely accompaniment of Louis Armstrong's "La Vie en Rose".
Space Chimps.
Madagascar, Surf's Up, and The Wild.

Live-Action Television

America's Funniest Home Videos.
The Benny Hill Show uses now-Standard Snippet "Yakety Sax", and a very fast-paced version of "Fur Elise".

Puppet Shows

Muppets Tonight's Greatest "Hits".

Video Games

Part of the end credit sequence from God Hand.

Western Animation

Tom and Jerry.
In the Beetlejuice episode "It's A Big, Big, Big, Big, Ape", Beetlejuice invokes one of these to cross a stretch of dangerous jungle.

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Montages

Nations of the World Montage