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Author: WackyMeetsPractical

Mar 7th 2013 at 5:35:35 PM

^^ If you don't like that name, then suggest others, because the current name is only going to confuse more people like me.

^ I never said anything about ALL background music. I said music in the background because that's where it's played. I know you're referring to songs and not musical scores, so get off of that.

It's not that I'm not familiar with the concept, it's that I don't necessarily find it trope worthy. I just don't find it the least bit notable that Scooby Doo would play a song in every episode. It doesn't seem odd to me when a character who isn't normally a singer to sing a song out of nowhere. To me, that's just a feature of shows. And although that does sound trope worthy, it just doesn't make sense to leave out shows featuring musicians as characters simply because it justifies it somehow.

My main problem is that you guys claim that if the characters in a show aren't musicians, then it doesn't make sense for the to sing or play songs with lyrics in the background. But there are a lot of shows with musician characters that do the exact same thing, playing songs they've never rehearsed in places that aren't exactly appropriate, or playing their own background songs over scenes when they're not shown singing. So to me, if it's trope worthy for one sort of show, it's trope worthy for the other. If it's not trope worthy for one, then it's not trope worthy for either.