History Main / ThatRemindsMeOfASong

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut How Inside Out]] [[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded Should Have Ended]]'', Bing Bong blows Joy's mind with the fact that people are living inside her mind and them starts singing [[Music/SimpleMinds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"]]. Ironically, [[Film/TheBreakfastClub the movie said song is from]] had a very similar scene, as mentioned above.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut How Inside Out]] [[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded Should Have Ended]]'', Bing Bong blows Joy's mind with the fact that people are living inside her mind and them starts singing [[Music/SimpleMinds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"]]. Ironically, [[Film/TheBreakfastClub the movie said song is from]] had a very similar scene.

---> '''Bing Bong''': [[spoiler: Joy, we're stuck down here.]] We might as well be on another planet.
---> '''Joy''': [[EurekaMoment Another planet?]] ''(starts singing)'' Who's your friend who likes to play?
---> ''(Bing Bong then looks shocked. He then decides to sing along)''
---> '''Bing Bong''': His rocket makes you yell, "Hooray!"
---> ''[[spoiler:(Bing Bong's song-powered rocket chimes feebly in the distance; Joy and Bing Bong run off in its direction while keeping on singing to localize it)]]''

* Happens twice in the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' series. First, in the third film, the possums begin singing "[[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Christmas, Don't Be Late]]" after swallowing poison gas that makes them sound like chipmunks. Then, in the fourth film, Manny sang "The Candy Man" from ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' when trying to ignore the illusions that turn out to be piranhas. There's also that one scene in the second film, where [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the heroes run from carrion birds singing "Food, Glorious Food."]] In that instance, it can likely be chalked up to RuleOfFunny, as the main group seems just as confused in a lampshade hanging way.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' goes to impressive lengths to avoid this; characters almost ''never'' announce their segues into songs, the songs themselves are generally reserved for slower-paced [[BreatherEpisode Breather Episodes]], and the ones that do happen in MythArc-important episodes are always relevant to the plot, such as Yellow Diamond’s VillainSong being used to explain her EvilPlan and motivations.

* Replace "song" with "puzzle" and you've got ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'' in a nutshell.

* With the exception of the "Theme Song," all of the songs in ''Fanfic/MyLittleUnicorn'' are there just to be there. Most of the songs were removed in subsequent revisions, although that's more because Creator/DakariKingMykan believed that they were the reason the older versions were removed, as Fanfiction.net has a (rarely-enforced) rule against using copyrighted songs. As Website/DeviantArt does not have the same limitations, that version retains the songs. ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsFailure'' and other fics by Mykan also regularly use and abuse this trope.

* With the exception of the "Theme Song," all of the songs in ''Fanfic/MyLittleUnicorn'' are there just to be there. Most of the songs were removed in subsequent revisions, although that's more because Mykan believed that they were the reason the older versions were removed, as Fanfiction.net has a (rarely-enforced) rule against using copyrighted songs. As Website/DeviantArt does not have the same limitations, that version retains the songs.

The "out of the blue" musical number is a cliche often associated with Indian or "Bollywood" motion pictures. There is an incorrect stereotype that suggests every Bollywood film needs to have one or more musical numbers featuring upbeat songs
that have little or no relation to the plot, usually featuring an [[{{Fanservice}} attractive young singer]]. The term for this is an [[TheItemNumber Item Number]]. There are enough Bollywood films without musical numbers to make this a discredited stereotype, but "That Reminds Me of a Song" is still a trope often associated with the genre.

Frequent {{justifi|edTrope}}cations include having some or all of the characters be actors or actresses, or setting one of the scenes at a nightclub or similar. It may also overlap with HeyLetsPutOnAShow, giving the characters an opportunity to "rehearse" the numbers they'll need to perform. A small-scale variation on the ShowWithinAShow.

** And ''Disney/SnowWhite'''s "Whistle While You Work." Though in that case, it's more of a tune the dwarfs sing while... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin work]], obviously.

** And ''Disney/SnowWhite'''s "Whistle While You Work."

** Lampshaded in ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', when the greedy, self-absorbed GiantEnemyCrab Tamatoa feels the need to talk about how great he is "in song form" and breaks into his VillainSong "Shiny".

* ''A Pirate I Was Meant To Be'', a brief musical number around halfway through ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', begins with this exact phrase. From then on it's up to the player to get his crew, who all [[RhymesOnADime rhyme on a dime]], to stop singing and get back to work. [[spoiler:The solution is to feed them the phrase "We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange", which [[LeastRhymableWord they can't rhyme]].]] But if you skip straight to the solution of that puzzle instead of hearing the song out, you're severely missing the point of these games.

* The very strange Creator/HannaBarbera adaptation of ''Literature/CharlottesWeb'' is '''all''' over this trope.
-->"I Can TALK! Just like all the other animals! Let me sing about it for three whole minutes!!!"

* ''WesternAnimation/GrandmaGotRunOverByAReindeer'', big time. Anything that doesn't have to do with talking about fruitcake, they're singing about it.

---> ''[Bing Bong then looks shocked. He then decides to sing along]''

---> ''[[spoiler:[Bing Bong's song-powered rocket chimes feebly in the distance; Joy and Bing Bong run off in its direction while keeping on singing to localize it]]]''

---> '''Joy''': [[EurekaMoment Another planet?]] (starts singing) Who's your friend who likes to play?
---> (Bing Bong then looks shocked. He then decides to sing along)

---> [[spoiler:(Bing Bong's song-powered rocket chimes feebly in the distance; Joy and Bing Bong run off in its direction while keeping on singing to localize it)]]

---> [[spoiler:(Bing Bong's song-powered rocket chimes feebly in the distance; Joy and Bing Bong run off in its direction while keeping on singing to localize it]]

* In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "different town", Strong Bad randomly bursts into song while listing all the ways he'd make Free Country USA different.

And the Stick would be this big ol' tree\\
That'd try to eat everybody, except the Cheat and me!

---> '''Joy''': Another planet? (starts singing) Who's your friend who likes to play?

* There's a strange scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' movie where Judy and her [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Hunk]] start to sing a song in a Holodeck, and the entire plot is completely derailed so that we can watch a DisneyAcidSequence set to a Tiffany song. This comes across as a MythologyGag to the episode of the series in which teen heartthrob Jet Screamer sings the song "Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah".

* Even Creator/AlfredHitchcock succumbed to this: the 1956 remake of ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'', which showcases Doris Day singing "Que Sera, Sera" ''multiple times'', ultimately using it [[spoiler:in a game of Marco Polo so our protagonists can locate their kidnapped offspring]].

* Happens in ''Series/PushingDaisies'' with Olive singing "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and another episode with the song "Birdhouse in Your Soul." In this case they're a chance for KristinChenoweth to show off.

This trope most often occurs when a composer wrote a really keen song. Or if there is a big star in the movie who must have a solo. Or the director has a favorite song that he wants to put in the movie. Unfortunately, there is really no way to inject the song into the story in the traditional "burst into song" way. So, the writer often gives us the immortal line "That reminds me of a song," or something similar and the character sits down at a piano or hops up on the stage to sing a little ditty that has... '''no''' plot significance whatsoever. ("Let's rehearse the ___ number" or "Let's film our music video" or "Let's dance to ___" and then doing exactly that are also popular.)