History Main / PatterSong

* "All Hail The Brain" from ''Theatre/Thirteen'' is a fast pace patter song in which Evan details his plan to get tickets to see an R-rated movie.

--> '''David:''' We've got:\\
archery\\
hiking\\
search and rescue\\
biking\\
horseback\\
training that'll save you from a heart attack\\
scuba diving\\
miming\\

football\\
limbo\\
science\\
stunting\\
pre-calc\\
spaceships\\

bomb defusal\\
no refusal\\
fantasies\\
circus trapeze\\
and fights\\
and ghosts\\
and paints\\
and snakes\\
and knives\\
and chess\\
and dance\\
and weights\\

** In ''Theatre/LeVoyageDansLaLune'', the three main characters (the prince Caprice, the king Vlan and the scientist Microscope) sing how [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOcs3-Kj2f0 travelling by ejecting yourself with a cannon is a much more effective way of travelling than by train]].

** In ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein'', the new general of the possible UrExample {{Ruritania}} in western literature, singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXfBhHgI-M his last victory]] by making the enemy army drink until they pass out.

*** There is a patter chorus, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvNzg_HLzTI Aux armes, déesses et demi-dieux!]], where the gods are calling for a revolution against the "tyrannic" rule of Jupiter (and it happened during the Second Empire, the heir of various Revolutions in those troubled French times).

** ''Les bavards'' (The Chatterboxes) featured a large number of patter songs - as we can expect from such chattering people. It includes a wife claiming (in a verbious manner) how she can stop talking whenever she wants and how she hates chatterboxes (while illustrating every flaw she criticizes); a young man listing to an old merchant the various reasons someone might need money; the same young man, complimenting at top speed the meal he has been invited to; and four merchants explaining their grievances to a judge. ''They just never stop chattering''.

But we’ve nothing that can prove it!

** ''Les deux aveugles'', where two false blind beggars try to attract charity by singing their own song. While Giraffier sings a languid serenade in minor key, Patachon sings a very joyous song on a much quicker tempo, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSBiRY-aLQ8 until the two melodies blend together and they start yelling at each other]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', the famous segment "Yakko's World" is a BigList of every country in the world (roughly), sung very quickly to a slightly modified version of "The Mexican Hat Dance". This is then spoofed with "All the Words in the English Language", set to the same tune, where Yakko rattles off a whole bunch of words beginning with "A" before cutting to the next cartoon. They cut back later with him partway through "L", starting to slow down, and finally again with him at the tail end of the "Z"s, even slower still and ready to pass out.

-->--'''Creator/GilbertAndSullivan''', "My Eyes Are Fully Open," ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}''

A common feature of TheMusical is the Patter Song, a light and rapid melody sung by a MotorMouth character – less commonly, more than one. This will often take the form of a LongList, resulting in a ListSong. Very commonly the song will involve [[TongueTwister tongue-twisters]] that test the singer’s ability to pronounce the lyrics clearly, and occasionally the ability is tested even further by raising the tempo of the song little by little until it goes at a frighteningly fast pace. A semi-patter song is a [[DownplayedTrope toned down version]] that has a patter song feel, but where the words are more important than the rapid delivery.

'''Sam:''' No they didn’t!\\

'''Jean-Pierre:''' If they didn’t, how did they didn’t?\\
'''Sam:''' If they didn’t then it’s easy,\\
’Cause they simply didn’t do it!\\

* Most of "The Brain" from ''Theatre/YoungFrankenstein'' ("His Medulla Oblongata / tells his brain stem that it’s gotta / send an impulse full of data / which creates a lot of pain"… etc).

* [[{{Pun}} Neo of Sporin]] had one in ''Series/{{Galavant}}'', called "Time Is Of The Essence," in which they [[spoiler: try to revive Gal after he'd been stabbed by Sid's sword]].

* [[IncrediblyLamePun Neo of Sporin]] had one in ''Series/{{Galavant}}'', called "Time Is Of The Essence," in which they [[spoiler: try to revive Gal after he'd been stabbed by Sid's sword]].

* ''Theatre/NatashaPierreAndTheGreatCometOf1812'' has the beginning of preparations, which instead of typical comedy, uses the format to sound vaguely ominous.