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* [[AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] tends to do this quite a lot, most often when a comic's dialogue gives him a decent opening.

-->'''Mick Jager:''' Cheer up Homer, it's only Rock n Roll Camp.\\

* In ''EasyA'', Olive spends the better part of a weekend playing around with a musical greeting card that plays Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful Of Sunshine". Later on, when she's lying to her best friend about having spent the weekend with a college boy, one of the lyrics to the song slips into the conversation:

* In EasyA, Olive spends the better part of a weekend playing around with a musical greeting card that plays Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful Of Sunshine". Later on, when she's lying to her best friend about having spent the weekend with a college boy, one of the lyrics to the song slips into the conversation:

-->'''Finn:''' [[JoniMitchell A parking lot]]?

* Occurs on occasion in the [[IncrediblyLamePun puntacular Sunday strips]] of ''PearlsBeforeSwine'', where the setup for the jokes can lead to strange reconstructions of song lyrics. For example, Rat tells Pig about how he entered a bread-kneading competition, lost, and didn't even get to keep the bread dough that he kneaded, which prompts Pig to reply with this gem.
-->'''Pig''': You can't always get what you won, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you knead.

* [[DirkGently Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]] has a scene involving a horse in a bathroom.

--->'''The Doctor''': It's really very simple, Jo. I am he, and he is me.

* {{xkcd}} does this every now and then, prompting many readers to start quoting the comic. This, inevitably, leads to FlameWars, they get in one little fight and my mom got scared and said YOU'RE MOVIN' WITH YOUR AUNTIE AND YOUR UNCLE IN BEL AIR

** More recently, JD consoled a woman who's husband was dying with the theme from Facts of Life.

* The {{DVD Commentary}} for ''{{Lost}}'', "A Tale of Two Cities" (which is basically a producer and an actress cracking jokes - they even call it "our [[MST3K Mystery Science 3000]]"):

-->'''Dave''': Uh, "Who's the black private dick, a sex machine to all the chicks"?

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdLgUPgq8-g This Commercial]] by Nortel features a CEO giving a rather bizarre inspirational speech to his company, which turns out to be the Beatles' "Come Together".
* One advert for Virgin Media has the narrator reciting the lyrics to "Our House" by Madness.

** In the Return of the Jedi parody, when Lea starngles Jabba, his subtitles may read "Help I'm being strangles!" but his Jabbaspeak is the lyrics to Lady Marmalade.

-->'''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.

'''Children:''' Why?\\

** And when Homer pretends to be a robot in a robot fighting competition he defeats one robot using a buzzsaw by [[HoistedByHisOwnPetard using its own weapon against it]], leading to this commentary:

-->'''Homer:''' D'oh! [[hottip:* :(or maybe [[IncrediblyLamePun "Doe!")]]]]
-->'''Lisa:''' A deer!
-->'''Marge:''' A ''female'' deer!

-->'''Mick Jager:''' Cheer up Homer, it's only Rock n Roll Camp.
-->'''Homer:''' But I like it...

--->'''Homer:''' So, if you take ''that'' bottle down, and pass ''it'' around...
--->'''Apu:''' Yes, yes, I know. There will be 47 bottles of beer on the wall!

** In ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', Fred Colon comments on the trouble in Koom Valley with the immortal question "War, Nobby, huh. What is it good for"? This being Discworld, where [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder rhetorical questions never caught on]], Nobby answers the question with things like "Freeing slaves" and "Protecting yourself from a totalitarian aggressor"
* In the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse novel ''The Eleventh Tiger'', the Doctor and his companions are staying at a 19th century ''gongfu'' school. (Note that Ian and Barbara are from ten years before the song came out, but the Doctor clearly recognises the accidental reference):

** In the Fifth/Seventh team-up ''Cold Fusion'', Chris Cwej is posing as an Australian, and describes living in a close-knit community in a sunny suburb, where everyone pops in and out of each others' houses, before concluding "With a little understanding, you can find the perfect blend and that's when good {{Neighbours}} become good friends". Real Australian Tegan doesn't get the reference, having come from a time before "Neighbours" began, but does spot he's talking nonsense.
** And in the Eighth Doctor novel ''Camera Obscura'', the Doctor quotes "All Along the Watchtower" while trying to escape a creepy EldritchLocation with a man who ''[[NoYay literally]]'' [[OrganTheft stole his]] [[HeartTrauma heart]]:

* In the 3D episode of ''{{Chuck}}'', in trying to think fast, Chuck calls himself a drummer and then says: "I'm the little drummer boy...Come they told me...ba... rumpa..bombom"
* One episode of ''TheGoodies'' started off by quoting the White Rabbit's song from Disney's version of ''AliceInWonderland''. Bill and Graham are sitting around the office:
--> '''Graham''': He's late.

--> '''Graham''': No time to say hello.

--> '''Graham and Bill''': ''(together)'' He's late, he's late, he's late, eeh eeh!
* In ''{{The Fresh Prince of Bel Air}}'', Will recites a few lines of the show's theme song in formal-sounding prose to a judge. "Your honour, in West Philadelphia born in raised, on the playground was where I spent most of my days".

* [[ThePowerOfLove TV Tropes]]

* In ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Grim has a nightmare that he's in a spooky house with a monster wife. He screams, "This is not my beautiful house! This is not my beautiful wife!" and is then woken up by Billy shouting "Same as it ever was same as it ever was same as it ever was -"