History Main / WaxingLyrical

(...)

'''Shivers:''' HAVE THAT [[NWordPrivileges BROTHER]] IN THE CUT, WHERE THE WOOD AT?

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': When R.K. Maroon asks Eddie Valiant what he knows about show business, Eddie replies, "Only that there's no business like it. No business I know".

** In "Best Gift Ever" we hear that Twilight Sparkle has "made a list and checked it twice".

** In "Best Gift Ever" we hear that Twilight has "made a list and checked it twice".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof," Fluttershy realizes, "[[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland I'm late! For a very important date!]]" Bonus points for her being reminded by a rabbit with a pocket watch.

* Done deliberately throughout ''Film/MoulinRouge'' [[JustifiedTrope as part of]] [[MusicalWorldHypotheses the concept]]. Christian hastily composes a poem for Satine, and even before the music cues, it is clearly Music/EltonJohn's "Your Song". Zidler tries to convince the Duke to stay with what, before the farce of a song starts, may be the most lascivious recital of lyrics from "[[Music/{{Madonna}} Like A Virgin]]" I've ever heard. And the central theme of the story is simply the final line of Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy".

* A running gag in ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' is Captain Mauch repeatedly quoting Music/{{TLC}} lyrics. Gamble and Hoitz repeatedly attempt to [[LampshadeHanging call him out on it]] but he remains oblivious.

* This exchange from an issue of ''Franchise/JusticeLeague'' upon discovering a familiar face:

* ''Film/BillAndTed'':

* After the 2014 Oscar ceremony, when his song "Happy" from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe2'' lost the Best Original Song category to "Let It Go" from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', [[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/pharrell-oscars-loss-decided-article-1.1734194 Pharrell Williams expressed his feelings]]:

* Luna from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' often sprinkles her sentences with lyrics to rock songs.

* In ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt''

** ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' has some fun with the lyrics of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town": Quoth the Raven tells Susan "You'd better watch out"; Death, in his role as Hogfather, is able to ensure some kids see him, because [[AC:I know when they are peeping]], and he asks if checking the list twice is sufficient. In the same book, the magical and dizzyingly fast sleigh ride prompts Albert to mutter sarcastically "Oh, what fun."
** ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' is absolutely ''loaded'' with musical references, such as Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler telling some would-be musicians "So you want to be a Music With Rocks In It Star? [[Music/TheByrds Then listen now to what I say...]]"
** In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', Fred Colon comments on the trouble in Koom Valley with the immortal question "War, Nobby, huh. What is it good for"? Nobby Nobbs proceeds to [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder try and come up with an answer]].
** In ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', Ridcully claims he's not fit to jump off Lancre Bridge like he was in his youth, saying "I was young and foolish then". Granny Weatherwax retorts "Well? You're [[Music/TheyMightBeGiants old and foolish now]]."
** In ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', Ridcully's reaction to stormclouds ''finally'' arriving in the Disc's FantasyCounterpartCulture Australia is "[[Music/MenAtWork Can you hear that thunder? We'd better take cover.]]" In the same book, Fair Go Dibbler's list of people he ''doesn't'' want to send back where they came from includes "me mate Duncan, [[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/slimdusty/duncan.html 'cos Duncan's me mate]]".

** "On the destruction of the Daleks: The endless armies will burn! [[Music/KatyPerry And I am dancing through the fire, because I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roooaaaaar!]]"

* The first episode of the eminently forgettable ''Family Dog'' had exactly one funny moment, when one character says to the ButtMonkey dog, "It just goes to show you, you can't always get what you wa-ant."

** The Electrochemistry skill will reference Music/FatboySlim's "Funk Soul Brother", as you [[spoiler:extract the bullet which has punched a hole in the Hanged Man's basal ganglia]]:

** The Electrochemistry skill will reference Music/FatBoySilm's "Funk Soul Brother", as you [[spoiler:extract the bullet which has punched a hole in the Hanged Man's basal ganglia]]:

'''Dweeb:''' I am the '''walrus''', goo goo joob!

--->'''Wonder Woman:''' Abra Kadabra!\\

-->'''Break Man:''' What are ''you''? Dr. Light's assistant? His ''weapon''? ''His son?!''\\

-->'''Dr. Eggman:''' [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 I will destroy the blue one, you know!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvERHiTfx9w He's an obstacle that always gets in my way!]]

-->'''Dr. Eggman:''' Here it comes, rodent! Right from the show!\\

-->'''Knuckles:''' Eggman and Wily, huh? Where are they? I want first crack at them!\\

--> '''Aladdin:''' I just got here... hopped off the plane at L.A.X... with my dream and um... my cardigan. I mean... it's the land of fame excess... I was kinda worried I wasn't going to fit in.
--> '''Jasmine:''' Are you... are those the lyrics to Miley Cyrus's 'Party in the USA'?
--> '''Aladdin:''' ... maybe.

-->'''Donkey:''' You love this woman, don't ya?\\

-->'''Eli''': It doesn't have to make sense. It's faith, it's faith. It's the flower of light in the field of darkness that's giving me the strength to carry on. You understand?\\
'''Solara''': Is that from your book?\\
'''Eli''': No, it's, uh, Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison.\\
'''Solara''': What?

---> ‘“There must be some way out of here,’ said the [[TheTrickster joker]] to the thief”.’

---> "‘Because,’ said Sabbath. ‘Because because because because because. Because of the wonderful things I does.’"

--> “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor,” I began singing, only to make Maria stop and stare at me. After a few more lines, I flashed her a broad grin and asked, “Won’t you be my neighbor?”

-->'''Rat''': [[Music/TheRollingStones You can't always get what you won, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you knead]].\\

'''Rat''': {{Who writes this|Crap}} [[SymbolSwearing @*!&]]?

-->'''Robin Ince''': Do we know what the chances of anything coming from Mars are?
-->'''Monica Grady''': I think they're about [[Music/JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds a million to one]].

-->'''Og''': Does an optical illusion feel an, oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of him, under the hide of him? Does an optical illusion feel the beat-beat-beat of the tom-tom in the roaring traffic's boom, in his lonely room?\\

'''Og''': Yes, and what's worse, smoke keeps coming out of me eyes.\\
'''Finian''': You go round and round like an elevator lost in the tide?

-->'''Yakko''': We need to cooperate here. Wakko, you take the high road. Dot, you take the low road. As for me, I'll be in Scotland before ye. Whatever that means.

-->--''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=562 562]][[note]]The song is by Music/CountingCrows — [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs "A Long December"]][[/note]]

-->'''Homer:''' D'oh![[note]](or maybe "[[{{Pun}} Doe)!"]][[/note]]\\

-->'''Music/MickJagger:''' [[Music/TheRollingStones Cheer up Homer, it's only Rock 'n' Roll Camp.]]\\

-->'''Homer:''' So, if you take ''that'' bottle down, and pass ''it'' around...\\

-->'''Announcer 1:''' He's killing him softly with his saw.\\

-->'''Lovejoy:''' This house is a very, very, very fine house.

-->'''Sgt. Yates''': How many people at the Monster Mash?\\
'''Officer''': Most of the town, sir. It's a graveyard smash.\\
'''Officer 2''': Look, whatever we do, we'd better hurry. It gets on in a flash.

-->'''Lois''': Annie? Are you okay? ... Are you okay? ... Are you okay, Annie?
-->'''Chris''': What's wrong with her?
-->'''Lois''': She was hit by-She was struck by a smooth criminal.
-->'''Chris''': That was fun, mom. We don't usually get to do stuff like that together.

--> '''Dr Venture:''' You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute.
--> '''The Monarch:''' Yeah, well get used to it.
--> '''Dr Venture:''' I want to tell her that I love her, but the point is probably moot.
--> '''The Monarch:''' ... Are you reciting ''Jessie's Girl''?

--->'''Blossom''': Well, it's like the song goes - the love you take is equal to... equal to... oh, who cares, it's by some dumb old band anyway.

---> '''Princess:''' ''Help!'' I need somebody! Help! Not just anybody!

---> '''Narrator:''' I guess the love you take IS equal to the love you make!

--->'''Mayor''': [[Music/JerryLeeLewis Goodness gracious! Great ball of fire!]]

---> '''Robot Santa:''' You've been very naughty, Fry and Leela. I checked my list.
--->'''Fry:''' Well, check it twice!\\

-->'''Elevator Steward:''' Maintenance shaft 7 serving...
-->'''Professor:''' Shut your mouth.
-->'''Elevator Steward:''' I'm just talking about the shaft.

-->'''Robot Psychiatrist:''' You're suffering from a breakdown. [[Music/MCHammer Now stop, hammertime.]] ''(activates the "treatment", which is basically hitting the patient with a hammer.)''

--->'''Dr. Drakken''': Your Nana is a bad grandmother...
--->'''Kim''': Shut yo' mouth!
--->'''Dr. Drakken''': [[Film/{{Shaft}} I'm just talkin' about Nana.]]

--->'''Kim''': And Bingo was his name-o.

--->'''Rocko:''' Why he never liked me, I'll never know, and Dingo was his name...
--->'''Heffer & Filbert:''' Oh.

-->'''Kris Kringle:''' You better watch out. You better not cry, you better not pout.
-->'''Children:''' Why?
-->'''Kris Kringle:''' I'm telling you why! Because ''I'' came to town.

--> '''Principal''': (shocked) The leader of the band!
--> '''Student''': His blood runs through my instrument! (plays the saxophone as blood spurts out)

--->'''Tchang Zu:''' My palace! These humans have paved my paradise and constructed a...
--->'''Ratso:''' Uh, [[Music/JoniMitchell parking lot]]?

--> '''Reporter in the field''': Well, Tom, I'm told that she fell on ''all the single dollars."
--> '''Tom''': ALL the single dollars?
--> '''Reporter in the field''': ALL the single dollars!
--> '''Tom''': (despairingly) ''Bills, bills, bills...''

* In ''Fanfic/DisneyHigh'', {{Disney/Aladdin}} mistakenly believes that Jasmine will only date someone who knows all the lyrics to an album by Music/MileyCyrus by heart. When they are talking at a party and he tries to convince her he's really an Arabian prince who's only moved to the US recently, he desperately comes up with this:

* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Ultron is able to take lines from a ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' song and turn them into a BadassBoast about his status as TheUnfettered. Used to especially chilling effect in the trailer, where the song is played hauntingly throughout, only to transition to his voice near the end.

** The New Series Adventures novel ''Silhouette'' has a brief CallBack to the ''Disney/TheLionKing'' moment in "The Christmas Invasion" (below). The Twelfth Doctor is trying to convince a HumanWeapon EmotionBomb to amplify the positive emotions surrounding him, rather than the negative ones, and asks "Can you feel the love tonight?" He breaks off for a moment, then decides that wherever it came from, it works.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "A Bird in the Hoof," Fluttershy realizes, "[[Disney/AliceInWonderland I'm late! For a very important date!]]" Bonus points for her being reminded by a rabbit with a pocket watch.

--->'''Goering:''' [[IKissYourHand I kiss mein Fuehrer's hand!]] I kiss [[Disney/DerFuehrersFace right in der Fuehrer's face!]]

* In ''Film/EasyA'', Olive receives a greeting card that plays Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful Of Sunshine", and then the song becomes a huge {{earworm}} for her. Later on, when she's lying to her best friend about having spent the weekend with a college boy, one of the lyrics slips into the conversation:

** On the Doctor: He dances in the moonlight, everybody's feeling warm and bright!
** On Martha: [[Music/{{Aqua}} Dr Jones, Dr Jones, calling Dr Jones, Dr Jones, Dr Jones, get up now!]]

*** [[Music/ProcolHarum I skipped the light fandango and turned cartwheels across the floor]]!
*** I've been undressed by the Could've Been Kings and seen some things that a Dalek ain't supposed to see! I've been to the Skaro Degradations but I've never been to meeeee!
** On the destruction of the Daleks: The endless armies will burn! [[Music/KatyPerry And I am dancing through the fire, because I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roooaaaaar!]]