This is a sandbox to collect Background Music wicks and sort which are lampshades so they can be added to the main page.
Fan Works
- Double Rainboom: Shout-Out: When Twilight is following the flaming trail, the Background Music briefly mimics the theme of Back to the Future.
- Finger Family Videos: What we do know is that a lot of different channels are indeed connected in the fact that a lot of similar Background Music is used.
- Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware: Soundtrack Dissonance: Sometimes the chat chooses what Background Music plays, which means this chaos can be accompanied by such songs as 'La Marseillaise', 'Soul Bossa Nova', or 'A Cruel Angel's Thesis'
- RWBY: The Abridged Series: Background Music / Climactic Music: The series has utilized a few licensed tracks here and there, but to avoid getting blocked for copyright, have mostly stuck to using original music written by Stormy's band, Eris and the Pantheon. These songs usually appear in action scenes during episodes.
Films — Animation
- Care Bears Nutcracker Suite: This Care Bears film does use the Nutcracker Suite as Background Music.
- The Curse of the Were-Rabbit:
- Holy Pipe Organ: Spoofed. During the town meeting scene, the pipe organ in the church continues to play dramatic stings after the Vicar is done talking. PC Mackintosh yells at the organist to stop and so she shuts the keyboard cover. Pipe organ music is then absent from the rest of the scene's Background Music.
- Left the Background Music On: The Vicar gives a doom-and-gloom rant about the Were-Rabbit with dramatic organ music in the background. The church organist is told to knock it off.
- Soupe Opéra: In each episode, fruit appears in a basket in a black, empty room. Then an opera woman sings "Soupe Opéra!". This sets off the Background Music, which is made up of very '90s drums with assorted weird noises. Then the fruit starts moving, cutting itself up to form animals. Once assembled, they perform an action, like eating the food or making even more weird noises. This repeats four times throughout the episode. There's no other plot.
- Spies in Disguise: Gilligan Cut: After Killian has been defeated, the Background Music swells as Walter has an "Eureka!" Moment, believing he and Lance will have their jobs reinstated. Cue a Smash Cut to Lance and Walter carrying Carboard Boxes of Unemployment and the music suddenly grinding to a halt.
Web Animation
- Mystery Skulls Animated: Mickey Mousing averted then played straight in "Hellbent", as the video begins with "Every Note" as an in-universe radio track rather than the Background Music before "Hellbent" takes over the radio and fades into the background track.
Web Videos
- Welcome to the Basement: Early-Installment Weirdness: When the show was but a babe, darker lighting was featured, as were tighter closeups, a different seating arrangement, the much reviled 'Spoiler Redacted' censor (when it was utilized for the endings of the featured films), an absence of a Title Sequence and a more curtailed use of Background Music, among other nuances.
Western Animation
- The Backyardigans: Record Needle Scratch: In "Blazing Paddles". The exciting Background Music suddenly screeches to a halt when Pablo asks "Uh...when is high noon?".
- Danger Mouse: "Play It Again, Wufgang" centres on the destruction of the world's music, which cripples our heroes since they're physically incapable of doing anything without accompanying Background Music. They finish the episode via blatantly-lampshaded Diegetic Music provided by a cassette player (which has been kept in safe storage for just such an occasion). Difficulties with cueing the right music queue lead to a hilariously climactic series of Soundtrack Dissonance, which actually causes the scene to go wrong until the right music is played.
- Pibby: Dark Reprise: The trailer opens with Learning with Pibby's theme song, a cheerful and innocent tune suitable for a cartoon for small children. Near the end, well after the true tone of the series becomes evident, the Background Music changes to a version with slow, emotionless vocals and a progressively harsher mechanical beat. In particular, as Pibby witnesses the Eldritch Abomination assume the form of BunBun, the last line is layered to sound outright demonic.
- W.I.T.C.H.: Internal Homage: Also happens with individual episodes, where the plot of a second season episode is quite similar to one from the first on the surface, but significantly Darker and Edgier. Examples include "A Service to the Community" and "Q is for Quarry" (Will jumping to conclusions about a Glamour), "Divide and Conquer" and "T is for Trauma" (a new girl comes to the heroines' school and charms the boys away from them), and rather obviously given the role of the Horn of Hypnos in both, "Walk This Way" and "G is for Garbage". In the first case, it's openly lampshaded, while in the second the same Background Music plays during the scenes in question.
