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Scifantasy: One example which might be of this is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. One episode, about halfway through, ends with a blood-curdling shriek of horror; the end credits—as always—are a bouncy upbeat J-Pop "Fly Me To The Moon." It's not exactly the same, because it's not simultaneous, but it's definitely jarring. Does this deserve to go here? And what about intentionally ironic ones? The example which practically catapults to mind is "We'll Meet Again" from Dr. Strangelove.
Looney Toons: Oh yeah, I think so. Sounds like the same kind of thing as the BGC example. Go ahead, put it in.
Scifantasy: Check. But is there a place for intentionally ironic mood dissonance? Come to think of it, are there more examples besides Kubrick's masterpiece?
Kendra Kirai: No, it's not like replacing the end credits with the end credits of the Power Puff Girls. it's like replacing the end credits with the power puff girls. I did it the right way when I first added the example.
YYZ: Looney Toons took this one out, and I think rightly, but it's worth preserving as an example of the "What A Wonderful World" thing:
- Third most egregious use: The trailer for the film of The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy. "What a wonderful—" KABLAM!!
Looney Toons: I did? Weird. I don't remember doing that. (Moments later) Okay, I think we had a lock failure or something, because I know that wasn't at the bottom of the examples when I added the "Fallout" one. Put it back in if you want.
BT The P: "Wonderful World" was used straight at least three times. It was the original theme for Family Matters before they switched to an original, Kermit the Frog sang it in (I think) one of the Muppet movies, and the oddest one was on Vandread of all things; they used Armstrong's version in Japan (I saw a fansub) but used a cover in the domestic release, presumably for rights reasons.
xwingace:Life on Mars S1 ep 06 played "Wonderful World" straight as well, at the end of the episode. Though at the start it is indeed used ironically. Admittedly, in the latter case it isn't really a Mood Dissonance, either.
Seven Seals: Sharing time. I actually cried at the end of Dr. Strangelove, with We'll Meet Again playing over the montage of the nuclear holocaust. It's that good a comedy.
Hmm, that's it, really. Sharing time over.
HeartBurn Kid: Deleted:
Usually found only in Anime, but rarely seen even there, and even more rarely done well.
Because even a cursory examination of the page shows that the vast majority of the examples aren't anime. This is what happens when people start drinking that Otaku kool-aid...
Pepinson: That's because half the examples here don't belong.
Sci Vo: I don't see that. Aside from the ones that are labeled as exceptions/aversions, which ones would you say don't fit?
CodeMan38: This needs to be merged into Soundtrack Dissonance, which is, if I recall, what it ended up getting renamed to before The Great Crash so that a more general article on Mood Dissonance could take its place. (Or am I getting confused again?) It seems like, at the moment, we have two divergent versions of the same article, each with edits of its own.
Zander Schubert: I've always thought that the House of Blue Leaves fight in Kill Bill had Mood Dissonance because we have high energy fighting without any music, then no action with über-exciting music, then action again without music. Is this Mood Dissonance or not?
puritybrown: Shouldn't the music examples be moved to the Lyrical Dissonance page? Also, "Mack the Knife" isn't really an example of either lyrical or mood dissonance in its original context — it didn't become jazzy or upbeat until it got translated and sung by the likes of Frank Sinatra. Look up "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" on You Tube and you'll find a bunch of 100% sinister early German recordings.
