History Main / WaxingLyrical

** His RousingSpeech concludes "We roll tonight to the guitar bite, and for those about to rock, I salute you", from {{ACDC}}'s "For Those About to Rock".

* There was a panel of ''YoungJustice'' where the characters end up quoting "War" and lampshading it: "War?" "What is it good for?" "Absolutely ''nothing''!" "I love that song." "It's a song?" (Someone post a link - I know it's been passed around the internet quite a bit.)

* In ''TropicThunder'', Kirk Lazarus quotes the theme song to ''TheJeffersons'' as part of an inspirational speech.

* In ''TheDresdenFiles'' book, Ghost Story, Dresden tries to console Molly by saying "for everything there is a season", but Molly cuts him off by telling him to stop quoting the Bible at her. Harry counters he was actually quoting The Byrds' song Turn! Turn! Turn! (admittedly the latter is based on the former).

* In ''[[ChristmasSpecial Christmas is Here Again]]'', Buster the fox refuses to follow the others into the BigBad's hideout.

** When fighting the Thunderbolts during DarkReign, Deadpool gets shot through the left torso by the Black Widow. He sinks to the ground, wheezing "S-shot...through...the heart..." Just as the Thunderbolts think they finally got him to shut up, he springs back up with "AND YOU'RE TO BLAME! YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME!" In the same arc, Taskmaster gets in on the action while disguised as Deadpool; Black Widow asks him who he is, and he responds with "Some people call me the space cowboy... some people call me the gangster of love."
* A ''{{Simpsons}}'' comic had Milhouse auditioning for a boy band singing 'Tubthumping', before he can finish Homer throws a shoe at him, knocking him over and causing him to exclaim "I can't get up again!"

* During the "Salvation Run" mini-series, most of DC's villains were exiled to a distant planet, where they started to form separate factions. In one scene, the Joker is walking along a makeshift watchtower with Shadow Thief, complaining, "[[StealthPun There must be some way out of here!]]", in reference to the first line of BobDylan's "All Along the Watchtower [[DontExplainTheJoke "There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief."]] Lampshaded when the Joker then commented, "I must be losing my mojo, there's a joke in there somewhere and I can't find it!"
* The third issue of Archie Comics' ''ComicBook/MegaMan'' has Dr. Light tell Mega Man the following:

* In ''[[FanFic/DrunkardsWalk Drunkard's Walk]] II'', during a discussion about Doug's PinballGag combat ([[AWizardDidIt it's magic]]), one character asks "How do you think he does it?" and a second responds "I don't know." A third continues "[[{{Tommy}} What makes him so good?]]...Well, it's obvious that he's a pinball wizard. And that there has to be a twist." Neither of the other two gets it.

* Done deliberately throughout ''MoulinRouge!'' [[JustifiedTrope as part of the concept]]. Christian hastily composes a poem for Satine, and even before the music cues, it is clearly 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 "[[{{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".
* Mel Gibson's character in ''ConspiracyTheory'' uses "[[ThePolice Everything you do is magic]]" lyrics to propose to his LoveInterest -- crash and burn too.
* In ''SchoolOfRock'', Jack Black's character, trying to bluff his way through a conversation with teachers while posing as a substitute, starts reciting snatches from WhitneyHouston's "The Greatest Love of All". Someone asks "Isn't that a song?", and he denies it.

* ''[[TripleX XXX]] 2: State Of The Union'':

'''Darius Stone''': [[TupacShakur Tupac]].

* ''CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'': "Good morning starshine!...The Earth says hello!"

* MasterOfDisguise does this:

* On NotOnlyButAlso a spoof of 'A Man For All Seasons' had a scene with Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragorn delivering dialogue consisting entirely of lyrics from popular songs of the day.

* ''Weird Science'' had an episode where Lisa the genie fell in love with one of the guys and became a ClingyJealousGirl. He tells her "When you love someone, set them free", which causes Lisa to start deleting herself. Instantly his friend interrupts, saying "Don't listen to him! He's an idiot spouting bad song lyrics!"

* {{Lampshaded}} on ''[=~30 Rock~=]'':

* One episode of ''TheGoodies'' started off by quoting the White Rabbit's song from Disney's version of ''AliceInWonderland''. Bill and Graeme are sitting around the office:

* 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 'n' raised, on the playground was where I spent most of my days".

* In a first season episode of ''{{Veronica Mars}}'', "''Lord of the Bling''", Veronica explains her connection to a missing teenager with the words "We used to be friends...a long time ago." Immediately afterwards, the theme song starts playing - the opening line? "A long time ago, we used to be friends..."

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

* [[{{Newsnight}} Kirsty Wark]]'s signature gag on ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]''; for example: "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, 'It's better than yours'. Damn right it's better than yours. [[FilmAtEleven More on that story later.]]"

-->'''Rat''': [[WhoWritesThisCrap Who writes this]] [[SymbolSwearing @*!&]]?

* The original radio version of ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'' uses the same gag as the TV version, only with Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Greene: "I'm Charlotte Greene. [[WestSideStory Say it loud and there's music playing, say it soft and it's almost like praying]]."

* In ''SamAndMax: Ice Station Santa'', Sam and Max confront a giant Maimtron robot that randomly drops appropriate pop-song lyrics into its dialogue. Sam can distract it by asking it questions like "Why do fools fall in love?"

** Later in ''SamAndMax: What's New, Beelzebub?'', they meet Satan who quotes the two lines everyone knows from [[TheRollingStones Sympathy for the Devil]].

* VideoGame/HotelMario has Mario telling one of the Koopalings: [[TheRollingStones "Hey you! Get off of my cloud!"]]

* In ''MetalGearSolid 3'', if the player starts the game by saying "I like [=MGS2=]!" in the opening screen, Snake will [[SillinessSwitch be wearing a mask in the opening cutscene and greet the Major by saying "Can you hear me, Major Tom?"]]

* One ''DinosaurComics'' strip involves T-Rex [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=562 trying to hold conversations entirely in lyrics from "A Long December"]] by CountingCrows. It's [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Dromiceiomimus and Utahraptor.
* Happens in [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0358.html this strip]] of ''DarthsAndDroids''. Annie really seems to like the Broadway; that's not the first time she's done it.

* {{xkcd}} does this every now and then, prompting many readers to start quoting the comic. This, inevitably, leads to {{Flame War}}s, 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

* ''SouthPark'': In one episode the citizens of South Park are all being evicted by an oppresive Native American casino. They rise up and march and sing as one. The song includes lines such as "We are strong" and "No one can tell us were wrong" and sounds like an inspiring protest song... 'til it turns out they're singing "Love Is A Battlefield".

** In the Return of the Jedi parody, when Leia strangles Jabba, his subtitles may read "Help, I'm being strangled!" but his Jabbaspeak is the lyrics to Lady Marmalade.
*** Also later, when C3P0 is regailing the ewoks with stories, he is telling them the opening theme to TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir.

* ''VentureBros'':

** Near the end of "Three Hundred Big Boys", when the piles of war plunder catch fire, Richard Nixon yells "The loot! The loot! The loot is on fire!"

* A RobotChicken sketch featuring a crossover of TheJetsons, ''Film/IRobot'' and UnsolvedMysteries, introduces the case with the line "Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife."
** The sketch ends with a preview of the 'next episode', "Jem. Was she outrageous? Truly, truly outrageous?"

* Grim from TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy said, upon realising he was in a dream "This is not me beautiful house! This is not me beautiful wife!" and woke up to Billy chanting "Same as it ever was! Same as it ever was!"

* In TheEmperorsNewGroove, in Yzma's lair, lines from a certain song from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' appear:

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* In BeingHuman, when George finds out that his dad has died, Annie tries to give a eulogy and ends up with the lyrics to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Fight For This Love by Cheryl Cole.]]

* ''[[AcrossTheUniverse Across the Universe]]'' does this multiple times with various [[TheBeatles Beatles]] songs, "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" being perhaps the most obvious.

** 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".

** When Carter Pewterschmidt suffers a heart attack, he utters "I’m having a heart attack-ack-ack-ack! You oughta know by now!" before losing consciousness.

* [[ThePowerOfLove TV Tropes]]: In addition to trope names, [[ThisTroper tropers]] will often disguise quotes from the song or show they're discussing as banter-like natter.

** Another time, after a failed bank robbery which had Sally dressed like a biker, Tommy dressed like a sailor, and Harry dressed like a native american, they greeted Don (in uniform) and Dick (dressed like a construction worker, since he had just gotten back from a gay bar). Everybody keeps saying "Hey!" back and forth to the tune of "Macho Man".

* A RobotChicken sketch featuring a crossover of TheJetsons, IRobot and UnsolvedMysteries, introduces the case with the line "Meet George Jetson, his boy Elroy, daughter Judy, Jane his wife."

-->--''DinosaurComics'' [[http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=562 562]]

* In ''BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'', Ted's attempt at "philosophising is to recite the line "All we are is dust in the wind" from the Kansas song "Dust In The Wind". It works.

-->'''Olive:''' He's charming... You know, he's a real gentleman. You know, and it feels like - It feels like I got a love and i know that it's all mine.

* Referenced on ''HeyArnold'' his grandma says he "was born in the back of a Greyhound Bus, going down Highway 41. Grandpa Phil says that what she said is from an old hippie song.