History Main / TheElevatorFromIpanema

* An Australian comedy duo called TheUmbilicalBrothers have a skit that entails a ride in an elevator. As there's no elevator prop, entering the elevator is signaled with a vocal beatbox of "The Girl from Ipanema".

* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'': [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0023.html First Age elevators]] still play music [[RagnarokProofing after a millennium of disuse]]. Not exactly "elevator muzak", though -- it's the theme song from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

* [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/377 On this page]] of ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', the elevator plays "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Fly Me to the Moon]]".

* In ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', when you enter an elevator, there is a one in ten chance that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iviwOGJkAzU this]] will play. In the remake, there is one level which almost entirely takes place in a big elevator and which has a remade version of the tune.

* In ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', when you enter an elevator, there is a one in ten chance that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iviwOGJkAzU this]] will play.

If a character enters an elevator for any reason, the music playing on its speaker system -- regardless of the program's genre -- [[StandardSnippet is almost always]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim. (If not, it's probably the "Theme from ''[[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M A Summer Place,]]''" which would probably be referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].) Of course, few if any elevators nowadays actually ''have'' music piped in anymore, making this something of a DeadHorseTrope.

* {{Subverted}} and {{lampshaded}} in ''Fanfic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy''. In the 6th episode, there is an elevator moment, in which a bossa nova-ish version of the opening for the first season of ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'', "Smile Go Go", played instead of the obligatory "Girl from Ipanema". Chiara asks why is it so, and Hakuo responds it was too overused.

* This trope is also ''averted'' in an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1''. Sam Carter and Jack O'Neill are standing in one of the lifts at the SGC, having a bit of an UncomfortableElevatorMoment, and Sam starts humming [[ThemeTuneCameo the show's]] ''ThemeSong''. Behind-the-scene commentary reveals that Amanda Tapping originaly wanted this to be the theme song for ''MacGyver'' (as an ActorAllusion to Richard Dean Anderson), but nobody could remember it right.

* {{Lampshaded}} in the ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Mastodon in the Room". Sweets is playing "The Girl from Ipanema" on the piano when Caroline calls him to convince him to give up his TenMinuteRetirement:

* The ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' episode "Chuck vs. The Nemesis". Especially comical because the elevator in question seems to be a coded-access elevator in a super-secret government facility.

* The Trophy Mode music in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros. Brawl'' is an "Ipanema"-style remix of the game's RecurringRiff.

** A shout-out to the first game in Miranda's loyalty mission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': the team must take a particularly long elevator ride with elevator music playing in the background. Miranda slams the elevator's console with an omni-tool, and the elevator speeds up and the music stops. She ''really'' must mean business.
** And in the ''Project Overlord'' DLC for the same game, the elevator music makes a comeback, while Shepard's team is investigating a crashed Geth ship. Hilarious, nightmarish-ly distorted elevator music while exploring a seemingly [[NothingIsScarier completley dead ship]]. [[spoiler: It's even funnier [[BrickJoke the second time]] when you go back through that part of the ship later, with the same distorted music, while fighting off hordes of hacked Geth.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesGrimm'' pausing the game in any episode from the seventh onward results in a tinny muzak rendition of the opening theme. The style and tinniness make it clear that this trope is being invoked.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', the muzak in Jack Hench's waiting room is a rather Ipanema-like arrangement of the Kim Possible theme song.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', [[TheBusCameBack Treeflower returns to the forest]], only she is no longer the carefree NewAgeRetroHippie she was in her earlier appearance. Instead, she writes "elevator music" and wears a suit, since her retro sixties band fell out of favor and broke up. [[spoiler:She is also dating [[NoAccountingForTaste Truckee the Shrew.]]]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Parasites Lost", Fry's duel with Lord Mayor of [[ItsPronouncedTropay Colón]] is set to a thrilling swashbuckling piece, except for the part in the middle when they enter an elevator. During which, they fight in silence.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' the muzak playing in the dentist's office waiting room in "Doug's Dental Dilemma" was an elevator music-reendition of in-universe rock song "Killer Tofu".

Some choose to trace this back to directors such as John Landis, who used it as an in-joke in every scene he shot in an elevator. This is usually an integral part of an UncomfortableElevatorMoment.

If a character enters an elevator for any reason, the muzak playing on its speaker system -- regardless of the program's genre -- [[StandardSnippet is almost always]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim. (If not, it's probably the "Theme from ''[[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M A Summer Place,]]''" which would probably be referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].) Of course, few if any elevators nowadays actually ''have'' muzak piped in anymore, making this something of a DeadHorseTrope.

If a character enters an elevator for any reason, the muzak playing on its speaker system -- regardless of the program's genre -- [[StandardSnippet is almost always]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim. (If not, it's probably the "Theme from ''[[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M A Summer Place,]]'' which would probably be referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].) Of course, few if any elevators nowadays actually ''have'' muzak piped in anymore, making this something of a DeadHorseTrope.

If a character enters an elevator for any reason, the muzak playing on its speaker system -- regardless of the program's genre -- [[StandardSnippet is almost always]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim. (If not, it's probably the "Theme from [[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M ''A Summer Place''",]] which would probably be referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].) Of course, few if any elevators nowadays actually ''have'' muzak piped in anymore, making this something of a DeadHorseTrope.

* ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' has a mission where you have to take an elevator to shut down a comms jammer. As you go up, and down the elevator, you're treated to gleeful muzak. Keep in mind this is while the city you are currently in is being NUKED FROM SUB-ORBIT.

* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 3: Shadow of Oblivion'' has a SuspiciouslySimilarSong version of "Ipanema" titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bZVY2wWVU "The Girl from Galyana"]].

* In the Genesis game ''Zero Tolerance'', every elevator on the space station has this music.

* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses put it to good use in the [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/6719-1-year-anniversary-video One Year Anniversary brawl]].

* The elevators in ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 64]]'' feature elevator muzak arrangements of the film's ThemeTune. Strangely, these were absent from the game's spiritual successor ''VideoGame//PerfectDark''.

* The elevators in ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 64]]'' feature elevator muzak arrangements of the film's ThemeTune.

* In ''TheMatrixReloaded'', music that vaguely resembles "The Girl from Ipanema" can be heard after Neo and company get off an elevator, en route to meeting with the Merovingian.

* The ''Film/{{Dawn of the Dead|2004}}'' remake:

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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'' has Ipanema-esque bossa nova music in the Parker Center elevators. One of these tunes was [[RecycledSoundtrack reused]] for the lobby music in ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 6''.

* Subverted nicely in ''[[Film/{{Godzilla}} Godzilla (1998)]]''. The lead character, played by MatthewBroderick, and others escape into an elevator, which does not play "Ipanema," but "[[FerrisBuellersDayOff Danke Schon.]]"