History Main / TheElevatorFromIpanema

In movies and TV shows (regardless of genre), when a character gets onto an elevator for any reason, the music playing on its speaker system [[StandardSnippet will almost always be]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some instrumental version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great BossaNova musician Music/AntonioCarlosJobim. (If not, it will probably be the [[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M "Theme from A Summer Place,"]] most likely referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].) [[note]] And very occasionally, it's CastYourFateToTheWind - which must be very gratifying to the estate of Music/Creator Vinceguarald! [[/note]]

* 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.

In movies and TV shows (regardless of genre), when a character gets onto an elevator for any reason, the music playing on its speaker system [[StandardSnippet will almost always be]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some instrumental version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great BossaNova musician Music/AntonioCarlosJobim. (If not, it will probably be the [[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M "Theme from A Summer Place,"]] most likely referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].)

In movies and TV shows (regardless of genre), when a character gets onto an elevator for any reason, the music playing on its speaker system [[StandardSnippet will almost always be]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some instrumental version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great BossaNova musician Music/AntonioCarlosJobim. (If not, it will probably be the "Theme from ''[[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M A Summer Place]]''", most likely referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].)

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': A non-elevator example of piped-in canned music appears 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.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5952595/7/Why-and-were Why and were]]'' Assassin Miss Alice Band discovered, when on a mission, the lifts also have very small gnomes who are moved to play soothing tunes on their elim whistles (a lot smaller than penny whistles).

* The ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake:

-->'''CJ:''' Hey, I like this song!

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* This very wiki uses it on the screen asking if you want to pass through the content curtain. The options are "Yes", "No", and "Maybe." If you choose "Maybe" you get a screen that says:

* WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. In "Denial", our heroes are in Dr. Fate's tower which looks like something created by Creator/MCEscher. They dive into an elevator to escape the VillainOfTheWeek. Said elevator starts [[MoodWhiplash playing the obligatory muzak]].

* 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.

In RealLife, of course, it was once a common practice for elevators to have soft instrumental music piped in as a means of relaxing the nerves of jittery or claustrophobic passengers. Similar background music was also widely played in office waiting rooms, supermarkets, department stores, and shopping malls, and even on radio via the "beautiful music" format. This fell out of favor in the 1990s, however, and since then the smaller number of places (including the relatively few elevators) that have piped-in music at all will generally use the original songs rather than the instrumental knock-offs, making this a largely ForgottenTrope, as well as a DeadHorseTrope in the case of this particular song.

In movies and TV shows (regardless of genre), when a character enters an elevator for any reason, the music playing on its speaker system [[StandardSnippet will almost always be]] [[http://youtu.be/urXvUmhd05k some instrumental version]] of "The Girl from Ipanema" by the great BossaNova musician Music/AntonioCarlosJobim. (If not, it will probably be the "Theme from ''[[http://youtu.be/tSsiS-v6_6M A Summer Place]]''", most likely referencing [[RelaxOVision a comfortable break from the action]].)

* Humorously used by Keith Olbermann on his sports show. The theme was that all the sports stories had gotten him riled up, and he had to leave his studio, go down to the ground floor, open the back door and let out a primal scream. All the way there and back he was muttering to himself... except when he's in the elevator, which was playing a happy, peppy number that had him smiling.

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.

Each one she passes goes, 'ah'"''

->''"Tall and tan and young and lovely''\\
''The girl from [[UsefulNotes/RioDeJaneiro Ipanema]] goes walking''\\
''And when she passes,''\\
''Each one she passes goes, ah"''
-->-- '''Music/AntonioCarlosJobim,''' "The Girl From Ipanema" (yes, the song has lyrics)

In RealLife, of course, it was once a common practice for elevators to have soft instrumental music piped in as a means of relaxing the nerves of jittery or claustrophobic passengers. Similar background music was also widely played in office waiting rooms, supermarkets, department stores, and shopping malls. However, this fell out of favor in the 1990s, and ever since then 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 particualar song.

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 [[UncomfortableElevatorMoment and not talking to one another while soothing music plays]] is inherently quite funny), in part because [[TheCoconutEffect the audience expects the music]], and in part to avert DeadAir, as it otherwise makes the elevator ride very uncomfortable to watch (unless that's the intention of the filmmaker).

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 BossaNova musician Music/AntonioCarlosJobim. (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]].)

Some trace this trope's popularity back to directors such as Creator/JohnLandis, who used it as an in-joke for every scene he shot inside an elevator.

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.

->''"Tall and tan and young and lovely''
->''The girl from [[UsefulNotes/RioDeJaneiro Ipanema]] goes walking''
->''And when she passes,''
->''Each one she passes goes, ah"''
-->-'''Music/AntonioCarlosJobim,''' "The Girl From Ipanema" (yes, the song has lyrics)

* Subverted nicely (with a bit of ActorAllusion on the side) in ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998). The lead character, played by Creator/MatthewBroderick, and others escape into an elevator, which does not play "Ipanema," but "[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Danke Schon]]".

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* There's an old joke about how people generally don't "get" the previous/next generation's music that has a father saying "if it wasn't for doctor's offices and elevators, you wouldn't know what ''good'' music was!"

* Subverted and PlayedForLaughs in ''Rutetid'', a cartoon spinoff of ComicBook/{{Pondus}}. A man and his wife leaves an elevator in shock, revealing that the music inside is played by a live black metal band. Cue this line: "I always thought elevator music was bad, but ''this''...
* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' also runs away with this trope, stuffing a string quartet inside the elevator.

* ''Fanfic/TheLife'', a ''Halo'' fanfiction, has several scenes when the characters have to take an elevator. So far, every single elevator scene has had a muzak arrangement playing in the background. There's usually lots of Lampshade Hanging from the characters involved. In fact, the A.I. running the main character's ship plays elevator music on all ship elevators with the intention of [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' city of Ankh-Morpork, as envisaged by Creator/AAPessimal, the nearest thing to a skyscraper is the unstable Tump Tower. It has prototype lifts which are ultimately powered by golems or trolls. As Assassin Miss Alice Band discovered [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5952595/7/Why-and-were when on a mission]], the lifts also have very small gnomes who are moved to play soothing tunes on their elim whistles (a lot smaller than penny whistles).

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': A non-elevator example of piped-in canned music appears 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.

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

* In ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'', the museum's elevator plays an instrumental version of Barry Manilow's "Oh Mandy"
* Used in ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005'', when the title characters shoot their way into an elevator not once, but twice in quick succession. Both times, the song is clearly playing on the speakers. (The second time is arguably funnier, due to the presence of bullet holes in the elevator walls...)

* In ''Film/AGoodDayToDieHard'', after entering an elevator, "The Girl from Ipanema" can be heard in Ukrainian.
* Done with a Steampunk elevator in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Obélix: Mission Cleopatra''.
* The ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake:
** The characters are riding in an elevator while escaping the zombies. Though the song playing in said elevator is a muzak rendition of "All Out of Love".
-->'''CJ:''' Hey, I like this song!
** Subverted earlier when the characters first arrive at the mall, where the song is a muzak version of "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby [=McFerrin=].
* Subverted nicely (with a bit of ActorAllusion on the side) in ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998). The lead character, played by Creator/MatthewBroderick, and others escape into an elevator, which does not play "Ipanema," but "[[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Danke Schon]]".
* Used in ''Film/BabePigInTheCity'', with an elevator full of animals.

* On ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', Dr. Cox and the Janitor take over the suite of a man who had been transferred out of the hospital to get some peace and quiet. After a while, [[spoiler:the Janitor has the door to the room covered with plaster and wallpaper, and when Dr. Cox puts his ear to where the door should be, the Janitor is dancing to]] "The Girl from Ipanema".
* Franchise/StargateVerse:
** In an [[HilariousOuttakes outtake]] for ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' Season 4, the actors are huddled in a corner of a Wraith set (a teleportation room in the corresponding episode). This looks so much like an UncomfortableElevatorMoment that David Hewlett [[InvokedTrope starts humming]] "The Girl from Ipanema", cracking up the others.
** 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 [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage 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.
** In the ''Series/StargateUniverse'' episode "Epilogue", the elevator at the Teneran archives, which were created by the descendants of stranded 21st century Earth time-travelers, plays a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to "The Girl from Ipanema".
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* Used hilariously in the episode "Eye of the Beholder" of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' in a shot of a swat team riding a hotel elevator, with the very uncomfortable hotel manager, altogether very awkwardly with this music playing in the background.

* Creator/TheWeatherChannel used to do a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3kkCMGWjAo "Local on the Eights"]] (or simply a Local Forecast) which showed the current weather in the viewer's region (usually sponsored by their cable or satellite provider), as well as a forecast for the next few days, so that viewers would not have to wait for their region to come up on a national forecast, or sit through international and tropical weather forecasts, in order to get a forecast pertinent to them. As everything was being shown on the screen, Muzak played in the background. The Muzak would change every so often, and in December, there was usually ''holiday'' Muzak as well.
* Similarly, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4zr0I47zg the Prevue Channel]] (later called the Magazine/TVGuide channel) used to play Muzak while it scrolled through the TV listings available from the viewer's cable or satellite provider.
* In the "Mrs Premise & Mrs Conclusion" sketch of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the two titular Pepperpots hum "Ipanema" while on hold on the telephone.

* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'': When the main characters are [[{{Hellevator}} travelling into Hell via elevator]], they hear three things: the screams of the damned, the pleasure of the masochists, and a "weird sitar version of the girl from Ipanema".

* The Trophy Mode music in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' is an "Ipanema"-style remix of the game's RecurringRiff.
* When the player enters any elevator in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', the background music changes to a suspiciously "Ipanema"-like ditty. Which creates ''horrible'' MoodWhiplash when you've just barely managed to blast your way through creepy dark areas full of creepy enemies while listening to creepy audio logs... and then you're in the elevator, and hearing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aOszMedO2M this.]] Or when you ''exit'' the elevator and find yourself facing a room full of zombie mutants that want to eat your brains.
* In ''VideoGame/Mother3'', while riding the elevator in the [[spoiler:Empire Porky Building]], you are treated to an "Ipanema"-style arrangement of the pig-masks' theme.
* There is no actual elevator music in ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', but Tasen logbooks boast that the lifts ''are'' equipped with music players and that they play such unforgettable classics as "exploding eardrums that are also on fire" and "Hel Sarie will kick you in the face".

* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 3: Shadow of Oblivion'' has a SuspiciouslySimilarSong to "Ipanema" titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjnDTdsEmgA "The Girl from Galyanna."]]
* In ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', when you enter an elevator, there is a one in ten chance that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iviwOGJkAzU this]] will play. In the remake, one of the levels has a segment which almost entirely takes place in a big elevator and which has a remade version of the tune.
* One lift in ''VideoGame/PsiOpsTheMindgateConspiracy'' plays a Muzak version of "With my mind" by Cold, part of the soundtrack for the game.
* In the Genesis game ''Zero Tolerance'', every elevator on the space station has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXaNTAD54mg this music.]]
* ''The Glorious Trainwrecks 529 in One Klik and Play Pirate Kart'' has "Ipanema" as menu music, and you get achievements for listening to it enough times.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** The [[DynamicLoading Space Elevators]] in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' come complete with Space Muzak. Specifically, they're all muzak arrangements of several of the more dramatic pieces from the game. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tAcIGhh5Yo Which makes them a lot less dramatic.]]
** 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, nightmarishly distorted elevator music while exploring a seemingly [[NothingIsScarier completely 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.]]

* The music from ''VideoGame/StarshipTitanic'' changes from majestic to tinny as you travel though the different class, suggesting the lower classes ''don't need good music.''

* ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' has this in all its elevators. If you shoot all the speakers, Caleb will say "''Thank'' you."

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the tune play in elevator during the Disco Bandit's Nemesis quest.
* ''VideoGame/ExecutiveAssault'' does this with the elevator leading to your office.
* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' plays an Ipanema-style [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHT0ueHjacM muzak ditty]] during the ElevatorActionSequence where you have to protect Alice, resulting in SoundtrackDissonance.

* ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' has the cubicle maze area in the Bureau, with a swingy, exaggerated piece of muzak that constantly plays while you're there, fitting well with the Vidbot employees that parody things from eye doctors to personnel managers.
* The warehouse elevator in ''VideoGame/PajamaSam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening'' does this.
* In the Medical level of ''VideoGame/NightmareNed'', muzak plays in a pitch black waiting room, which is the HubLevel for areas based on Ned's [[AfraidOfDoctors fear of doctors and dentists]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' does this with a bossa nova variant of the game's theme, labeled "Hotel" on the soundtrack. It plays during Mettaton's cooking show and at the MTT resort.
* In ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'', ENCOM's break room has a smooth jazz variant of the original ''Film/{{TRON}}'' theme playing in the background.
* 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.
* In the FPS sections of ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]], the elevators you used to get between floors switched between two songs, one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoxIFOoEBn0 jaunty]] and the other [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxTjDjWyew smooth and relaxing]]. Considering that you were exploring a dark building full of Velociraptors and Dilophosaurs, this made for some ''prime'' MoodWhiplash. Especially when you were hauling ass to an elevator and right as you got in, you heard [[HellIsThatNoise the horrible screech of a Raptor]]... only for the doors to close and that jaunty music to play.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has muzak on some elevators, such as the one to the Diamond City mayor's office.
* One level in ''VideoGame/RevolutionX'' (featuring Music/{{Aerosmith}}) has brief interludes in an elevator; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32oZviti5qo the music that plays]] is, fittingly, a muzak version of "Love in an Elevator".
* 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 ([[https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/track/the-elevator-bossa-nova "The Elevator Bossa Nova"]]).
* ''VideoGame/MonsterBoyAndTheCursedKingdom'' plays a soft music (aptly-named "Elevator Music") in the two big elevators connected to the village of Aeria.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'', the in-universe [=PowerPoint=] presentation that teaches the Wave Dash maneuver plays a muzak arrangement of the main theme.
* 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''.

* [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/43.html Written as a musical score, no less]] in ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic''. Whether this counts as a LampshadeHanging or not is debatable.

* ''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 opening theme song from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/377 On this page]] of ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'', the elevator plays "Fly Me to the Moon", the ''ending'' theme song from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.[[note]]Given the strip, it's almost certainly an Evangelion reference ... though a light jazz song written in the mid 1950s and covered by Frank Sinatra is exactly the sort of music one would expect to hear (an instrumental cover of) in an elevator.[[/note]]

* In ''Webcomic/BeyondTheVeil'' some salvagers have [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?comic=um-hello-_ an argument]] about the elevator muzak on a centuries-old starship.
* ''Webcomic/LetsPlay'' explicitly invokes the trope on [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/letsplay/ep-33/viewer?title_no=1218&episode_no=36 this page.]]
* The explict absence of this this is lampshaded in ''Webcomic/{{Namesake}}''. Shortly after arriving on Earth [[Literature/WizardOfOz Ozian]] native Warrick is ushered into an elevator with the rest of the main cast, excitely stating he's read about them in books by the first Wizard and the Dorothys, noting that they play music. Aside a ding of a bell for the doors and constant Vrrrr of the elevator itself, there's no sound or speach until Warrick speaks up, disapointed, much to Emma's amusement.

* When Creator/StuartAshen reviewed an [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct iPad ripoff]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJXlFcAaSIk here]]) the long loading screens gave him time to hum this.
* ''Godzilla Versus Disco Lando'': Apparently, [[Music/FrankSinatra Sinatra]]'s version plays inside Godzilla.
* How about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9vHAtM-dnc a live version]] played just for you and your fellow passengers?
* In the ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'' review of ''VideoGame/XPerts'', this classic elevator muzak is used when [=JdG=] points out that, unlike in many other games, you have to ''wait'' for an elevator to show up.
* Creator/CleolindaJones uses this in her ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 Avengers]] in Fifteen Minutes'', during the scene where Black Widow beats up Russian agents while Agent Coulson waits for her to finish.
* When Alton Brown reviewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgFeVlw2Ywg&t=3m54s useless kitchen gadgets]] for ''The Daily Dot'', the long cooking time for the Rollie Eggmaster was backed by a ballroom-style song that, if not precisely "The Girl from Ipanema", was ''very'' close to it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', the Muzak in Jack Hench's waiting room is a rather "Ipanema"-like arrangement of the ''Kim Possible'' theme song.

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

* In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'', the Devil (before he was Bowdlerized to "The Red Guy") takes an elevator from Hell to the surface world, with muzak.

* For a band that likes Death Metal, and ONLY Death Metal, Dethklok of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' certainly have an interesting choice of music in their elevators.

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 Music/AntonioCarlosJobim. (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]].)

->''The girl from Ipanema goes walking''

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

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 Antônio 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]].)

[[AC:For the best reading experience, play the music from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsoIfkNQYEg&t=42s this video]] while reading.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Parasites Lost", Fry's duel with Lord Mayor of [[ItIsPronouncedTropay 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.

* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' "Superhero Fight Club" promo starts with a bored Palmer Technologies worker in the elevator with saccharine music playing, then The Flash and Green Arrow get in there with her and she starts to {{squee}}.

* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' "Superhero Fight Club" promo starts with a bored Palmer Technologies worker in the elevator with saccharine music playing, then The Flash and Green Arrow get in there with her and she starts to {{squee}}.

* The explict absence of this this is lampshaded in ''Webcomic/{{Namesake}}. Shortly after arriving on Earth [[Literature/WizardOfOz Ozian]] native Warrick is ushered into an elevator with the rest of the main cast, excitely stating he's read about them in books by the first Wizard and the Dorothys, noting that they play music. Aside a ding of a bell for the doors and constant Vrrrr of the elevator itself, there's no sound or speach until Warrick speaks up, disapointed, much to Emma's amusement.