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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E12AuntMiriamTheInsideStory Aunt Miriam]]", the Pickles family gets a telegram from Miriam, Grandpa Lou's cousin. Stu asks the delivery boy if it's a singing telegram, but the delivery boy tells him it's just a regular telegram. Stu asks the delivery boy if he could sing it anyway, and the delivery boy does so and tells Stu that he actually gets asked that question a lot.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'': In "[[Recap/RugratsS2E12AuntMiriamTheInsideStory Aunt Miriam]]", the Pickles family gets a telegram from Miriam, Grandpa Lou's cousin. Stu asks the delivery boy if it's a singing telegram, but the delivery boy tells him it's just a regular telegram. Stu asks the delivery boy if he could sing it anyway, and the delivery boy does so and tells Stu that he actually gets asked that question a lot.
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* ''Series/UnderTheUmbrellaTree'': In one episode, Holly and Iggy get a job delivering singing telegrams to parties in funny costumes. HilarityEnsues. First they go to a child's cowboy-themed birthday party, but get lassoed and forced to sing the telegram four times; then they go to a baby shower and get their noses pinched by the baby; then they go to a wedding dressed as a gorilla and a banana (because the groom "drives [the bride] bananas" and she wants to be the [[IncrediblyLamePun "gorilla his dreams"]]), but Holly's mask gets stuck and she's mistaken for a real gorilla, captured and sent to the zoo; then they go to a party celebrating a woman's success on her diet, dressed as a hamburger and fries, but the woman is so hungry that she [[MeatOVision hallucinates them as real food]] and tries to eat them.

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* ''Series/UnderTheUmbrellaTree'': In one episode, Holly and Iggy get a job delivering singing telegrams to parties in funny costumes. HilarityEnsues. First they go to a child's cowboy-themed birthday party, but get lassoed and forced to sing the telegram four times; then they go to a baby shower and get their noses pinched by the baby; then they go to a wedding dressed as a gorilla and a banana (because the groom "drives [the bride] bananas" and she wants to be the [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} "gorilla his dreams"]]), but Holly's mask gets stuck and she's mistaken for a real gorilla, captured and sent to the zoo; then they go to a party celebrating a woman's success on her diet, dressed as a hamburger and fries, but the woman is so hungry that she [[MeatOVision hallucinates them as real food]] and tries to eat them.
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* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "[[Recap/FriendsS3E12TheOneWithAllTheJealousy The One With All the Jealousy]]", Ross sends a barbershop quartet to Rachel's office to deliver a song about how much he loves and her and how nice it is to have a boyfriend. Rachel is humiliated as it's clearly an attempt to remind her co-worker, who Ross believes is attracted to Rachel, that she's seeing someone. In the same episode Monica dates Julio, who turns out to be misogynist about American women. She dumps him by sending the barbershop quartet to the diner where they work to sing a special message:

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* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': In "[[Recap/FriendsS3E12TheOneWithAllTheJealousy The One With All the Jealousy]]", Ross sends a barbershop quartet to Rachel's office to deliver a song about how much he loves and her and how nice it is to have a boyfriend. Rachel is humiliated as it's clearly an attempt to remind her co-worker, who Ross believes is attracted to Rachel, that she's seeing someone. In the same episode Monica dates Julio, who turns out to be misogynist misogynistic about American women. She dumps him by sending the barbershop quartet to the diner where they work to sing a special message:
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->''"Duh duh, duh duh duh duh! I. Am. Your singing telegram!"'' (BANG)

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->''"Duh duh, duh duh duh duh! ->''"[[MinskyPickup Dudut, dudut dut dut!]] I. Am. Your singing telegram!"'' (BANG)
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->''"Duh duh, duh duh duh duh! I. Am. Your singing telegram!" [BANG]''

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->''"Duh duh, duh duh duh duh! I. Am. Your singing telegram!" [BANG]''telegram!"'' (BANG)
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->''"[[MinskyPickup Duh duh, duh duh duh duh!]] I. Am. Your singing telegram!" [BANG]''

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->''"[[MinskyPickup Duh ->''"Duh duh, duh duh duh duh!]] duh! I. Am. Your singing telegram!" [BANG]''

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