History Music / OdeToJoy

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* The heroines sing it in the end of the first ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' anime.

-->'''Michael Kamen:''' Our bad guys were [[WickedCultured lineal descendants]] of the bad guys in ''A Clockwork Orange''.

* The OAV "Manga/DragonHalf" uses this in the closing credits... along with a slew of other Beethoven pieces.

* The ''Manga/InuYasha'' episode "Battle Against the Dried-Up Demons at the Cultural Festival!" has a group of students singing about the Shikon jewel to the tune of "Ode To Joy".

** Furthermore, in ''Kindergarden'' he says that someday he'll hire an orchestra and conduct Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (of which "Ode to Joy" is one portion). In his later book ''Maybe, Maybe Not'' he tells the story of the time an orchestra actually asked him to come along for a tour so he could live his dream and give them some free publicity. It took a lot of work to learn how to actually conduct an orchestra, but he did it and said that he had the time of his life.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' had Clam ''play'' this song ''on a bottle.''* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', the computer downloads itself into Muriel's body and engages in death-defying stunts. Computer!Muriel's leitmotif is this tune.

* Used as [[spoiler: Brendan's walkout music]] during the War on the Shore in [[{{Film/Warrior}} Warrior]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', the computer downloads itself into Muriel's body and engages in death-defying stunts. Computer!Muriel's leitmotif is this tune.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' had Clam ''play'' this song ''on a bottle.''

* The favourite song of Veronica's parents in ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld''. It helps her to identify the former guide of her parents. And it's quite a MomentKiller where Roxton and Marguerite are concerned.
* Used in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSD8R-_uhA second season intro]] of ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''.
* Used in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxb0lzwnyY intro]] for the BBC's live sports coverage of Euro 96.

* Creator/RowanAtkinson is singing the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWGZdYNpaSo here]]. After the first verse though, he notices that the rest of the lyrics are missing. So what does he do? He fakes his way through the end, [[GratuitousGerman using every random German word he happens to know]].

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* The entire fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th appears in ''VideoGame/{{Forza}} Horizon 3'' as part of the in-game classical music station Timeless FM. It's also hands down [[EpicRocking the longest track in the game]].

* This is Kaworu Nagisa's {{leitmotif}} in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. He is also heard humming it in his and Shinji's first encounter. He also plays it on a piano during his introduction in the Manga. On the whole, Ode to Joy describes the plot and themes of ''Evangelion'' [[spoiler:(especially the [[AssimilationPlot Instrumentality]])]] in a rather scarily accurate, if ironic, way.
* In the ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' OVA, Yomiko is heard humming it, and is played when [[spoiler:The [[BrownNote Suicide Symphony]] is going to be broadcasted onto the entire world.]]

* The OAV "Manga/DragonHalf" uses this in the closing credits... along with a slew of other Beethoven pieces.
* Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" plays out, with original Japanese lyrics, over the closing credits of Creator/SatoshiKon's ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers''.

* Yashiro Isana hums this several times in ''Anime/{{K}}'' [[spoiler:as does the Colorless King]], particularly notable [[SoundtrackDissonance in the murder video]]. Might be an homage to Kaworu, but it might also be because [[spoiler:he's actually German]].
* The first episode of ''Anime/{{Classicaloid}}'' opens with "Ode To Joy" playing while Beethoven (yes, ''[[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven that]]'' Beethoven) passionately tries to make gyoza. This scene [[EstablishingSeriesMoment sets up the series' comedic tone]]. The song gets a remixed version in the season finale, bookending things.

* In the Beatles ''Film/{{Help}}'', the boys sing "Ode To Joy" to tame a tiger.

* Used in ''Immortal Beloved'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qWbcosJdtU amazing scene]] of the debut of the Ninth Symphony. Young Beethoven blending into the stars that were reflected off the lake really captures, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZJ1Tgf4JL8 Leonard Bernstein's words]], the "the child (Beethoven) that never grew up".

* ''Film/GetSmart'' uses an edited version in the climax, where a bomb wired to the piano will go off at the end of the piece, killing the President and many others.

* In ''Film/JohnWick'', the tune is played on an organ in a church as the main character enters.
* The climax of ''Film/FulltimeKiller'' features this tune.
* ''Film/RaisingArizona'' uses an unusual (but still pleasant) banjo/yodelling arrangement.
* This song is used in Scrat's storyline in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift''.
* An electronic rendition of the piece plays over the climactic scenes in the Bulgarian animated film ''Animation/PlanetataNaSakrovishtata''.

* This played at the end of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]] episode, Stimpy's Cartoon Show, when Ren, Stimpy, and Cobb get sentenced to the electric chair.

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* ''Ode to Joy'' plays when the last orange peg in any of the stages in VideoGame/{{Peggle}} or Peggle Nights.

* Used during the climax of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries: The Movie'', playing over [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J12zTCrF1U#t=5m28s Kaiba's uber-dragon laughing off the Big Bad's attack and counter-attacking with a massive beam of light]].
[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The effect is only improved]] by the giant "'''BUY YU-GI-OH CARDS TODAY'''" superimposed over the whole thing.

** Later on, [[spoiler:Kamen Rider Evol's Driver plays a techno remix of the chorus during the transformation sequence.]]

* Used in ''Film/DieHard'' when Hans and his men open and loot the vault to the Nakatomi Corporation. Referencing this scene, trailers for later ''Film/DieHard'' films would play the song over StuffBlowingUp.

* Very common piece in movie trailers, particularly if a film is critically and/or financially successful, for instance the Die Hard and Hot Tub Time Machine films.

The most well-known musical adaptation was written by Music/LudwigVanBeethoven, who used the text for the choral parts of his Ninth, or "Choral", Symphony. The title "Ode to Joy" is used in reference to Beethoven's melody, and indeed the Ninth as a whole, ([[AdaptationDisplacement more often than]]) it does Schiller's all-but-forgotten original poem. For those familiar with the piece, [[SugarMiki/AwesomeMusic it's not hard to understand why]].

-->--''What the choir is really singing during that one part. You know, '''that''' part.'' [[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)#Text_of_the_fourth_movement A line-by-line translation over at The Other Wiki]][[/note]]

* The first episode of ''Anime/{{Classicaloid}}'' opens with "Ode To Joy" playing while Beethoven (yes, ''[[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven that]]'' Beethoven) passionately tries to make gyoza. This scene [[EstablishingSeriesMoment sets up the series' comedic tone]].

* It appears twice in the {{LightNovel/Kampfer}} OVA, used hilariously to make an AssShove poke [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfqvgO01Sdo epic.]]

* At one point in ''Series/DueSouth'', Ray is fireman-carrying a blinded and partially crippled Frasier through the wilderness; Frasier is singing Ode To Joy, [[TheCastShowoff rather well]]. Ray, hearing something that ''isn't'' Frasier singing, tells Frasier to stop it; Frasier's indignant response is "It's BEETHOVEN! [[AndZoidberg And Shiller!]]" Another time, we see the same situation... only now Ray is singing California Dreaming, and not entirely sure about the words.