History Main / BRollRebus

* It has become exceedingly common to find Website/YouTube "music videos" in which it's nothing more than an UsefulNotes/MP3 of the song played to a slideshow of clips related to individual lyrics. A particular example comes up in a video to Jonathan Coulton's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlwFpz9s_I Mandelbrot Set]] song.

* After Website/YouTube music videos dedicated to expressing the lyrics in plain pictures, parodies began to flood in with the same principle, but of misheard/parodied lyrics instead, [[HilarityEnsues to hilarious effect]].

* During the infamous, {{narm}}tastic [[MemeticMutation "Hackers On Steroids"]] piece, the LA Fox 11 team liken Anonymous to terrorists and cut to a van exploding for no reason that has anything to do with the story. Unfortunately they cut back to the studio before Michael Caine could appear and tell them they were [[TheItalianJob only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.]]

[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=BRollRebus Related]] to compulsive hyperlinking [[http://www.adhd-report.com/biopsychiatry/bio_4.html syndrome]] - the inclination to turn ''[[Administrivia/AllBlueEntry every]]'' word in text into a [[http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ hyperlink]], even if there's [[CaptainObvious no need for explanations]] and the link [[PornWithoutPlot is not used to make any point]] or minimal research is necessary anyway. Usually observed on [[BeePeople fans]] of Wiki/TheOtherWiki, probably just because the wiki engine [[Administrivia/TextFormattingRules makes cross-linking so easy]]. We have it JustForFun on Website/ThisVeryWiki... if interested, jump over to Administrivia/AllBlueEntry.

[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=BRollRebus Related]] to compulsive hyperlinking [[http://www.adhd-report.com/biopsychiatry/bio_4.html syndrome]] - the inclination to turn ''[[Administrivia/AllBlueEntry every]]'' word in text into a [[http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ hyperlink]], even if there's [[CaptainObvious no need for explanations]] and the link [[PornWithoutPlot is not used to make any point]] or [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready minimal research is necessary anyway]]. Usually observed on [[BeePeople fans]] of Wiki/TheOtherWiki, probably just because the wiki engine [[Administrivia/TextFormattingRules makes cross-linking so easy]]. We have it JustForFun on Website/ThisVeryWiki... if interested, jump over to Administrivia/AllBlueEntry.

[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=BRollRebus Related]] to compulsive hyperlinking [[http://www.adhd-report.com/biopsychiatry/bio_4.html syndrome]] - the inclination to turn ''[[Administrivia/AllBlueEntry every]]'' word in text into a [[http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ hyperlink]], even if there's [[CaptainObvious no need for explanations]] and the link [[PornWithoutPlot is not used to make any point]] or [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready minimal research is necessary anyway]]. Usually observed on [[BeePeople fans]] of Wiki/TheOtherWiki, probably just because the wiki engine [[Administrivia/TextFormattingRules makes cross-linking so easy]]. We have it JustForFun on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki... if interested, jump over to Administrivia/AllBlueEntry.

* The phenomenon of "literal dancing" is related, in that the dancer mimes the words to the song regardless of how metaphorical or otherwise they are. It was the subject of a hilarious routine by Peter Kay, featuring [[ReverseFunnyAneurysm "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley]], a song especially amenable to this.

[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=BRollRebus Related]] to compulsive hyperlinking [[http://www.adhd-report.com/biopsychiatry/bio_4.html syndrome]] - the inclination to turn ''[[Administrivia/AllBlueEntry every]]'' word in text into a [[http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ hyperlink]], even if there's [[CaptainObvious no need for explanations]] and the link [[PornWithoutPlot is not used to make any point]] or [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready minimal research is necessary anyway]]. Usually observed on [[BeePeople fans]] of Wiki/TheOtherWiki, probably just because the wiki engine [[Administrivia/TextFormattingRules makes cross-linking so easy]]. We have it JustForFun on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki... if interested, jump over to AllBlueEntry.

[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/relatedsearch.php?term=BRollRebus Related]] to compulsive hyperlinking [[http://www.adhd-report.com/biopsychiatry/bio_4.html syndrome]] - the inclination to turn ''[[AllBlueEntry every]]'' word in text into a [[http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ hyperlink]], even if there's [[CaptainObvious no need for explanations]] and the link [[PornWithoutPlot is not used to make any point]] or [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready minimal research is necessary anyway]]. Usually observed on [[BeePeople fans]] of Wiki/TheOtherWiki, probably just because the wiki engine [[Administrivia/TextFormattingRules makes cross-linking so easy]]. We have it JustForFun on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki... if interested, jump over to AllBlueEntry.

** British Comedian David Armand (performing as Austrian interpretive dancer Johann Lippowitz) got famous for doing this dancing to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn". His increasingly angry reactions to the line "You're a little late" are a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

-->'''Co-anchor:''' "Thank you, Tom."

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Frontline}}'', Mike explains the concept to his niece Rebecca when she's doing her work experience, and her response presents her as more GenreSavvy about the show he works on than he is: she asks if that's why every time they do a story involving gay people they splice in footage from the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Later in the episode, the show does exactly that, preceding a story about a gay teacher allegedly sacked based on discrimination.

-->'''Tom Voiceguy:''' "Some people say things are bad. [footage of people walking] But others, like thing expert Jane [=McExpert=] [footage of Jane at a computer], say things are good. [Jane: "[[NarrationEcho Things are good.]]"] At any rate [footage of people again], time [pause over shot of watch] and tide [pause over shot of ocean] wait for no man [shot of man]. Tom Voiceguy, ABZ News, Philadelphia."

* Employed to great lengths by Warner Bros. in their ads for the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Golden Collection DVD boxset, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRpdqAPUxW4 here]]. For instance, "a 24-karat collection..." is illustrated with a clip of a plane dropping [[VisualPun a bunch of carrots]] into a compartment, and the line "so if you're hungry for great cartoons, now you can get your fill" is illustrated with clips of Sylvester luring a monkey with a banana, pieces of cheese raining down over Speedy Gonzales' Mexican mice friends, Sylvester shoving Tweety into his mouth, and Daffy Duck as a cowboy eyeing a milkshake.

* Employed to great lengths by Warner Bros. in their ads for the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Golden Collection DVD boxset, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRpdqAPUxW4 here]]. For instance, the line "a 24-karat collection of Looney Tunes favorites" is illustrated with a clip of a plane dropping [[VisualPun a bunch of carrots]] into a compartment, and "so if you're hungry for great cartoons, now you can get your fill" is illustrated with clips of Sylvester luring a monkey with a banana, pieces of cheese raining down over Speedy Gonzales' Mexican mice friends, Sylvester shoving Tweety into his mouth, and Daffy Duck as a cowboy eyeing a milkshake.

* Employed to great lengths by Warner Bros. in their ads for the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Golden Collection DVD boxset. For instance, the line "a 24-karat collection of Looney Tunes favorites" is illustrated with a clip of a plane dropping [[VisualPun a bunch of carrots]] into a compartment, and "so if you're hungry for great cartoons, now you can get your fill" is illustrated with clips of Sylvester luring a monkey with a banana, pieces of cheese raining down over Speedy Gonzales' Mexican mice friends, Sylvester shoving Tweety into his mouth, and Daffy Duck as a cowboy eyeing a milkshake.

** The Legs & Co. dancers on Series/TopOfThePops were famous for this to the point that people would joke that you could figure out what song was playing with the TV muted. This was actually used as a round on Never Mind the Buzzcocks at one point.

** Johann Lippowitz got famous for doing this (in a routine called 'Karaoke for the Deaf') to Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn". His increasingly angry reactions to the line "You're a little late" are a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
** The Legs & Co. dancers on Series/TopOfThePops were famous for this to the point that people would joke that you could figure out what song was playing with the TV muted.