History Main / TheElevatorFromIpanema

* Non-elevator example: in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', "Ipanema" plays in the dentist's office when Nemo is first seen in the fishtank.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', when Al is riding the elevator down to the lobby, the music playing is an "Ipanema"-style version of the main theme from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Both films were scored by Randy Newman.
* Non-elevator example: In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', António Carlos Jobim's lesser classic "Meditation (Meditação)" is heard at the main guest entrance to the castle of Duloc.
* ''Sev Trek: Pus in Boots'' (an Australian parody of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'') has a muzak version of the theme music playing in the [[PunnyName tardylift]] when our heroes are hunting down the alien.

* After a couple of playthroughs of ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', you can open the door opposite the boss's office. This leads to an elevator which goes nowhere and does nothing, except it shakes a bit to give the illusion of movement and you hear Ipanema-style music playing.

-->-'''Antônio Carlos Jobim,''' "The Girl From Ipanema" (yes, the song has actual lyrics)

->''Tall and tan and young and lovely''

->''Each one she passes goes, ah''
-->-'''"The Girl From Ipanema"''' (yes, the song has actual lyrics)

-->-"The Girl From Ipanema"''' (yes, the song has actual lyrics)

->''And when she passes Each one she passes goes, ah''

* Not necessarily elevator music, but the [[SofterAndSlowerCover softer and slower arrangement]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZHUZ65gj9s "Crimson Wings"]] in the UsefulNotes/PCEngine version of ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} IV'' sounds rather Ipanema-like.

** 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 originally wanted this to be the theme song for ''[=MacGyver=]'' (as an ActorAllusion to Richard Dean Anderson), but nobody could remember it right.

* Used in the ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Past and Future Tense".
* {{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 persuade him to give up his TenMinuteRetirement:

* The Button [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Fail]] in ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Fleeing the Complex]]'' does this trope. In the original Flash version, the music that played was a track from Newgrounds known as ''[[https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/605280 Jazz Tune in 3/4]]'', but in the release for ''The Henry Stickmin Collection'', the elevator music is instead a recomposition of Rossini's ''La gazza ladra''.

* The Button [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Fail]] in ''Fleeing the Complex'' does this trope. In the original Flash version, the music that played was a track from Newgrounds known as ''[[https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/605280 Jazz Tune in 3/4]]'', but in the release for ''VideoGame/TheHenryStickminCollection'', the elevator music is instead a recomposition of Rossini's ''La gazza ladra''.

Even to this day, lots of films and TV shows still add in music when composing elevator scenes; in part because of the RuleOfFunny (people standing up straight and not talking to one another while soothing music plays is inherently quite funny), in part because [[TheCoconutEffect the audience expects it]], and in part to avert DeadAir, as it makes the elevator ride very uncomfortable to watch (unless that's the intention of the filmmaker).

* Elevators in ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' and its ''Machinima/FreemansMindSpinoffs'' often have elevator music, at least on the office lifts (with ''Shepard's Mind'' having the "actual song piped into the elevator" variant. He even sings along in episode 7). Industrial and laborotory elevators are silent.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': A non-elevator example in “The Mall.” Occurring in the title venue, this irritates the music-loving Mittens no end -- especially when she hears a tango-inflected version of a melody from Creator/JohannesBrahms’s Third Symphony, though it’s mostly pop music from the 1950s through the 1980s that gets this treatment.

* Used in the dining room scene of ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', to make the awkward silence that much more amusing.

In RealLife, of course, it was once a common practice for elevators to have soft instrumental music piped in as a means to relax the nerves of jittery or claustrophobic passengers, this also being the rule for department stores/shopping malls and grocery stores/supermarkets. However, this fell out of favor in the 1990s and ever since the noticeably smaller number of places (including the relatively few elevators) that ''have'' music will have the actual songs rather than the instrumental knock-offs, making this in general a ForgottenTrope, and a DeadHorseTrope in the case of this song. That said, the familiar genre still survives on a few commercial services like [=SiriusXM=] satellite radio ([[https://www.siriusxm.com/escape "Escape"]]) and Muzak's successor Mood Media ("Easy Instrumentals"), ready to be piped into elevators once again at a moment's notice.

In RealLife, of course, it was once a common practice for elevators to have soft instrumental music piped in as a means to relax the nerves of jittery or claustrophobic passengers, this also being the rule for department stores/shopping malls and grocery stores/supermarkets. However, this fell out of favor in the 1990s and ever since the noticeably smaller number of places (including the relatively few elevators) that ''have'' music will have the actual songs rather than the instrumental knock-offs, making this in general a ForgottenTrope, and a DeadHorseTrope in the case of this song.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s sixth volume album features a track called Elevatorstuck which remixes the ''Homestuck'' Theme into the style of this trope, though the flashes in which it was ultimately used had nothing to do with elevators. Its usually used as background music, [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound or to infuriate and annoy people who complain]] [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn about the background music.]]