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Author: FerdinandtheBull

Jun 19th 2011 at 12:19:14 PM

I wouldn't say ''LifeOfBrian'' is the TropeCodifier either, really. Not least because MontyPython's other movies have one song each, too ([[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "Knight of the Round Table"]] and [[MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife "Every Sperm Is Sacred"]]).

* The inevitable Bollywood number at the end of ''SlumdogMillionaire''.
* "The Inquisition," the BusbyBerkeleyNumber in ''HistoryOfTheWorldPartI''.
* ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' has Kuzco's personal theme song.
* "Magic Dance" is the only musical-style song-and-dance number in ''{{Labyrinth}}'', although there are also the music-video-esque sequences.
* DoesThisCount? -- Murray Gold of ''DoctorWho''-scoring fame wrote a radio play called ''Kafka: TheMusical'' (which starred DavidTennant) where the songs start out confined to the ShowWithinAShow, but it gradually becomes less definite that said show exists outside Kafka's head and that it's not actually the characters unexpectedly expressing themselves in song. For example, at one point Kafka's father has a number apologizing for being a WellDoneSonGuy, and Kafka bemusedly tells him it was a lovely song; his father is puzzled as if he has no idea that he just sang rather than speaking. But then he might not have. Or something. Maybe we can call this one ZigZagged.

And for the record,  "____ do(es) not a ____ make" is an OlderThanRadio MemeticMutation of the line "Stone walls do not a prison make" from Lovelace's "To Althea, from Prison" and is neither grammatically incorrect nor "pseudo"-anything. AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle.