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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "The Music Lovers", the VillainOfTheWeek has kidnapped all of the musicians in Britain. He has his minion open the cells to demonstrate, and from one of them wafts the sound of Engelbert Humperdinck singing "Release Me".
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* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond''. While it's also a CallBack to the first ''Film/StarTrek2009'' movie, "Sabotage" by the Music/BeastieBoys is an entirely appropriate track to play while trying to sabotage hostile alien communications with ThePowerOfRock.

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* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond''. While it's also a CallBack to the first ''Film/StarTrek2009'' movie, "Sabotage" by the Music/BeastieBoys is an entirely appropriate track to play while trying to sabotage hostile alien communications with ThePowerOfRock.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'': In "[[Recap/KampKoralS1E20HelterShelterReveilleRevolution Helter Shelter]]", Sandy leads [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick to dance to an upbeat square dance tune, where the lyrics perfectly describe their actions. She even keeps up with it when Squidward interrupts and gets dragged in as well.
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** However, the flashback in "Fire + Water" shows Charlie writing a song with the repeated line, "We can be saved," which ties into that episode's theme of salvation.

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* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', guess what track is playing when the [[AsianAndNerdy nerdy Asian astronomer]] first detects the transmission of the alien ships? Music/{{REM}}'s "It's the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
** In an early trailer, the song in this scene is instead "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears, also suspiciously apropos.

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* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', guess what track is playing when the [[AsianAndNerdy nerdy Asian astronomer]] first detects the transmission of the alien ships? Music/{{REM}}'s "It's the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)".
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Fine)". In an early trailer, the song in this scene is instead "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears, also suspiciously apropos.
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* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. Lampshaded in "The Town of No Return" when TheVicar is revealed to be a foreign spy when he pulls a gun on Emma Peel and his choral singers turn out to be a tape recorder.
-->'''Fake Vicar:''' A very appropriate piece of music, Mrs. Peel. [[YouKnowTooMuch It's a requiem!]]
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Contrast SoundtrackDissonance and ThatRemindsMeOfASong, compare to BadToTheBone and MockingMusic; related to MickeyMousing. Supertrope to GospelChoirsAreJustBetter. Often overlaps with a LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn gag. Not to be confused with ProfoundByPopSong, where one purposefully quotes a song to feign intelligence.

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Contrast SoundtrackDissonance and ThatRemindsMeOfASong, compare to BadToTheBone and MockingMusic; related to MickeyMousing. Supertrope to GospelChoirsAreJustBetter. Often overlaps with a LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn gag.gag, and may provoke MusicalNumberAnnoyance. Not to be confused with ProfoundByPopSong, where one purposefully quotes a song to feign intelligence.
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* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': Fiona goes to hear her ex’s band perform in a bar. Seeing that she’s there, they debut his new song entitled “The F-Word” and dedicate it to her. It turns out to be an extended ClusterFBomb cussing her out by name for cheating on him.
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*** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]", Faith is dancing with Buffy in the Bronze to the song "Chinese Burn" by [[Music/{{Curve}}]]. The lyrics foreshadow Faith going to the dark side in the service of the [[BigBad Mayor]].

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*** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]", Faith is dancing with Buffy in the Bronze to the song "Chinese Burn" by [[Music/{{Curve}}]].Music/{{Curve}}. The lyrics foreshadow Faith going to the dark side in the service of the [[BigBad Mayor]].
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** "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Music/BlueOysterCult plays as the camera pans across the people killed in the bioweapon facility when the Captain Trips virus got free. The pan ends at a jukebox [[KillTheBackgroundMusic implying the song was playing on it]] when everyone started dying.

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** "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Music/BlueOysterCult plays as the camera pans across the people killed in the bioweapon facility when the Captain Trips virus got free. The pan ends at a jukebox [[KillTheBackgroundMusic [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn implying the song was playing on it]] when everyone started dying.
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** "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Music/BlueOysterCult plays as the camera pans across the people killed in the bioweapon facility when the Captain Trips virus got free. The pan ends at a jukebox [[KillTheBackgroundMusic implying the song was playing on it]] when everyone started dying.
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* Played with in ''45 Years''. Throughout the movie, all we know about the couple is that their wedding song was one by The Platters, though we never hear anyone say which one it is, simply referring to it as "the Platters song". At the very end of the movie, the couple have their dance to said song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", a song about [[IsntItIronic being blind to the troubles in a relationship]], and the look on the wife's face suggests she's finally hearing what the song is ''really'' about, realizing it sums up everything they've been through over the course of the film very appropriately. She has a visceral reaction to it as she yanks her hand away from her husband and begins crying as nobody notices.

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* Played with in ''45 Years''. Throughout the movie, all we know about the couple is hear that their the couple's wedding song was one by The Platters, though we never hear anyone say which one it is, simply referring to it as "the Platters song". At the very end of the movie, the couple have their dance to said song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", a song about [[IsntItIronic being blind to the troubles in a relationship]], and the look on the wife's face suggests she's finally hearing what the song is ''really'' about, realizing it sums up everything they've been through over the course of the film very appropriately. She has a visceral reaction to it as she yanks her hand away from her husband and begins crying as nobody notices.
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* Played with in ''45 Years''. Throughout the movie, all we know about the couple is that their wedding song was one by The Platters, though we never hear anyone say which one it is, simply referring to it as "the Platters song". At the very end of the movie, the couple have their dance to said song: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", a song about [[IsntItIronic being blind to the troubles in a relationship]], and the look on the wife's face suggests she's finally hearing what the song is ''really'' about, realizing it sums up everything they've been through over the course of the film very appropriately. She has a visceral reaction to it as she yanks her hand away from her husband and begins crying as nobody notices.
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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E3ExesAndOohs Exes and Oohs]]", as Blitzo and Millie prepare to [[WeddingSmashers crash]] Moxxie's ArrangedMarriage to Chaz, Blitzo hijacks Chaz's car and switches the radio to the "Wrath's #1 'F*ck You Up' Hits" station, which then plays the ''very'' apropos "Crashin' a Muthafuckin' Wedding" as [[ViolentlyProtectiveWife Millie]] goes on [[OneWomanArmy an absolutely brutal rampage]] to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue her husband from the mafia]].

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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E3ExesAndOohs Exes and Oohs]]", as Blitzo and Millie prepare to [[WeddingSmashers crash]] Moxxie's ArrangedMarriage to Chaz, Blitzo hijacks Chaz's car and switches the radio to the "Wrath's #1 'F*ck You Up' Hits" station, which then plays the ''very'' apropos "Crashin' a Muthafuckin' Wedding" as [[ViolentlyProtectiveWife [[OneWomanArmy Millie]] goes on [[OneWomanArmy [[RoaringRampageOfRescue an absolutely brutal rampage]] to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue [[ViolentlyProtectiveWife rescue her husband from the mafia]].
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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In "[[Recap/HelluvaBossS2E3ExesAndOohs Exes and Oohs]]", as Blitzo and Millie prepare to [[WeddingSmashers crash]] Moxxie's ArrangedMarriage to Chaz, Blitzo hijacks Chaz's car and switches the radio to the "Wrath's #1 'F*ck You Up' Hits" station, which then plays the ''very'' apropos "Crashin' a Muthafuckin' Wedding" as [[ViolentlyProtectiveWife Millie]] goes on [[OneWomanArmy an absolutely brutal rampage]] to [[RoaringRampageOfRescue rescue her husband from the mafia]].
-->''Giddy up, little bitch boy, you're dead''\\
''Giddy up, little bitch boy, you're dead''\\
''You tried to take him like you didn't know''\\
''He was mine, and taken, now reap what you sow''
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* In ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', an idol group is performing one of their hits when their missing member suddenly shows up dead on-stage. The lyrics to the song they were performing foreshadow this appearance, such as mentioning the black coffin that she appears in, which Himura uses to deduce that the killer was a member of the group's production team.
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** Parodied in first movie. It shows a montage of how Lars got his job at the head museum accompanied by what ''seems'' to be a generic acoustic ballad, but turns out to be an original composition that changes to start describing the specific events that are happening partway through.

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** Parodied in first movie. It shows a montage of how Lars got his job at the head museum accompanied by what ''seems'' to be a generic acoustic ballad, but turns out to be an original composition that changes partway through to start describing the specific events that are happening partway through.happening.
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* After Beth breaks up with him in ''Film/BetterOffDead'', Lane is driving in his car with the radio playing Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do." Annoyed, Lane tries changing the station, only to find even more songs about splitting up ("She's Gone" by Hall & Oates, "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon, and Linda Ronstadt's "Hurt So Bad"). So he yanks the car radio out by the roots and throws it out the window.

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