Spelling Song

"Oh, cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C!"

You wanna S - P - E - L - L
In a song that rhymes on a bell?
Don't despair in your lair
There are plenty of songs there
Where you can S - P - E - L - L

Compare Counting Song, Phone Number Jingle, Alphabet Song. Sometimes overlaps with Spelling for Emphasis.

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For example:

Advertising

• "Oscar Mayer Bologna Song":
  My bologna has a first name
  It's O - S - C - A - R
  My bologna has a second name
  It's M - A - Y - E - R
  • Parodied in The Simpsons by a vintage commercial starring Rainer Wolfcastle. The bratwurst the song was about had a ridiculously long second name (Schnackenpfefferhausen).
• The end of the Mister Softee jingle:
  The creamiest dreamiest soft ice cream
  You get from Mister Softee.
  For a refreshing delight supreme
  Look for Mister Softee.
  S-O-F-T Double-E, Mis-ter Softee.
• "H-O-T-W-I-R-E, hotwire.com!"
• The Free Credit Report song, or one of them, was like this. "F to the R to the E to the E to the C to the R to the EDIT..."
• "Anything is possible! We're unstoppable! Me and my girls! (B-A-R! B-I-E!)"^note Performed by Fifth Harmony, a girl group consisting of five contestants from The X Factor. Also crosses over with Music.
• "(There's always room for) J-E-L-L, O!"
• "1-877-Kars-4-Kids, K-A-R-S Kars-4-Kids..."
• From a few Reese's Puffs commercials: "R - double E - S - E - S, yes! P to the U - double F - S, yes!"

Anime

• M - I - N - A - M - I - K - E! Let's go!
• The Japanese version of Sonic X: S-O-N-I-C, go!
• The One Piece Image Song for the hidden background character Pandaman. P-A-N-D-A-M-A-N tsuyoi! P-A-N-D-A-M-A-N sugoi!
• The Image Song for Ramen Fighter Miki's Nishiyama Kankurou is entirely a spelling song. Considering the song is titled "Remember My Name Nya!", he may have his reasons for making it that way.
• From Pokémon 4Ever...
  If time goes by just hit rewind, let's Cele-b-r-a-t-e
  • From Pokémon Chronicles and the Johto Pokérap:
    P-O-K-E-M-O-N
    P-O-K-E-M-O-N, Pokémon!
  • And the Hoenn Pokerap
    "P to the O to the K-E-M-O-N"
• The song for Urara in Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Episode 20: L-O-V-E, Love, Love, Urara!
• P-R-E-C-U-R-E, song for you, let's dance, Fresh Pretty Cure!!
• H! I! N! A! HINAGIKU! Hai Hai!
• "Dragon Power Mugendai", the end credits theme song to the Dragon Ball Z movie "Dragon Ball Z: Super Senshi Gekiha!! Katsu No wa Ore da".
  D! Donna toki demo
  R! Arukitsuzukero
  A! Eien no ai wo shinjite
  GO! Tatakaeta GO! GO! GO!
  N! Enryo wa iranai Futari no mirai wa mugendai
• Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: "B! A! K! A! S-U-R-V-I-V-O-R!"
• Tenkai Knights has Beag give his "Tribute to Tributon":

  "T is for tremendous, the R it stands for rough, I is for invincible, and B's for big and buff, U is for unyielding, and T's for strength of ten, that just leaves us O and N, and now it's time to start again!"

• Funta's "S-U-K-I" for Popotan's end credits.

Asian Animation

• In the Simple Samosa episode "Doctor D", Samosa, Jalebi, and Vada block Dhokla on social media for annoying them so much, leading to him becoming a celebrity called Doctor D. When the three finally find Dhokla again, they show that there's no hard feelings by singing a song where they spell the word "dost" (Hindi for "friends"). The original Hindi lyrics say that D is for "Dhokla", O is for "omelet", S is for "special", and T is for "tasty", which is changed to the following in the first English dub (the second one translates the original lyrics):
  Samosa: F for forever, R for relations!
  Jalebi: I for immortal, E for enjoyment!
  Vada: N for neverending, D for dear!
  Samosa: S is for special!

Film

• "'Cause I'm a Blonde" from Earth Girls Are Easy:
  'Cause I'm blonde
  B-L-O-N-D
  and
  'Cause I'm a blonde
  B-L-I-N-D
  and
  'Cause I'm a blonde
  B-L-... I don't know!
• "Ode to a Rat" from Heidis Song:
  R is for your rotten disposition
  O is for the odours that you spread
  D is for the dirt, your happiest condition
  And E is for your evil eyes of red
  N is for the nausea you keep causing
  T is for the trap - we won't go into that
  Put them all together, they read rodent
  Just another fancy name for rat
• The Rescue Aid Society's anthem from Disney's The Rescuers:
  R - E - S - C - U - E
  Rescue Aid Society
  Heads held high, touch the sky
  You mean everything to me
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians:
  You spell it S - A - N - T - A - C - L - A - U - S
  Hooray for Santy Claus!
• The song "Unclefucker" from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut ended with an homage to the title song from Oklahoma
  Uncle fucker, that's U-N-C-L-E-FUCK YOU! Uncle fucker! (Suck my balls!)
• "Turtle Power" for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) :
  T-U-R-T-L-E Power!
  T-U-R-T-L-E Power!
  T-U-R-T-L-E Power!
  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
• "C-A-T Spells Cat" from Daddy Long Legs.
• "Sugar Rush" from Wreck-It Ralph:
  S - U - G - A - R! Jump into your racing car!
  It's a Sugar Rush! Sugar Rush!
• In Matilda, Miss Honey uses these to teach complicated spelling words; they treat the letters as people's names or initials. "Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. F-F-I, Mrs. C, Mrs. U, Mrs. L-T-Y!"
  Miss Trunchbull: Why are all these women married?
• The tail end of "Nobody Else But You" from A Goofy Movie dips into spelling.
  But when I start to sink,
  Hey, I'd rather go down...
  With nobody else, but...
  Y - O - U!
• "Did I Mention" from Descendants.
  My love for you is ridiculous, ridiculous
  My love is R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S, R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S
  It's ridiculous, just ridiculous
• These cut lyrics in "Gaston" from Beauty and the Beast, courtesy of LeFou.
  And his name's G-A-S... T...
  G-A-S-T-E...
  G-A-S-T-O... Oh!
  • Lampshaded in the live-action remake where he misspells Gaston and then goes on to point out that he's actually illiterate.

Literature

• In Matilda, Miss Honey teaches the children this song to spell "difficulty", to which Miss Trunchbull scoffs "Why are all these women married?".
  Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI,
  Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY.

Live-Action TV

• The "Harrigan" song (see Theatre) was altered to spell 'Gilligan'.
  • It was also altered to spell "Miami" in an episode of The Golden Girls:
  Dorothy and Rose: [when they're testing out songs to enter a contest with] "M-I-A, another M, I, M-I-A-M-I spells 'Miami Beach'!"
  Blanche: ...girls.
• Theme of The Mickey Mouse Club ("M - I - C - K - E - Y - M - O - U - S - E")
  Why? Because we like you!
  • Also parodied on the episode of Muppets Tonight guest starring Cindy Crawford. K-E-R (Are we having fun yet?) M-I-T (That's a swell university.) F-R-O-G
• "The Waffle Song" from MST3K:
  W is for the many Ways that you're served
  A is for the Admiration you deserve
  F because you're Fluffy! you're Flaky and Fun!
  and F is for the Flavor that is second to none
  L is for how Light you are, you melt in my mouth
  and E is for Eggs!
  • "The Creepy Girl Song", also from MST3K:
    C is for that feeling of uncertainty for not quite knowing what ethnic group you're from,
    R is for the gifts you give me every time you smile.
    the first E is for, uh, well, I don't really know, but
    the second E is really a grammatical thing, 'cause otherwise it would be 'Crepy Girl' and where would that leave us?
    the P is definitely NOT for platonic, and
    Y? Because I love you! Myyy Cree-hee-eepy Gi-irl!!
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? had a Song Styles in the style of The Village People, where the cast parodied Y.M.C.A. This led to Wayne Brady misspelling the name of the audience member, Howard.
  Wayne: H - O - R - W - A - R - D
• In a 1984 episode of Saturday Night Live newscaster Edwin Newman, making a guest appearance, did a bit pointing out how many American states have very generic-sounding state songs, usually including a spelling of the state's name at some point.
  • A 2004 episode featured a parody of a infomercial for a country music compilation disc called "Country Roses" that includes a track called "Here We Go Again"
    I guess I'll have another A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N
• The game show version of Monopoly used a Thematic Theme Tune that had a repeated "M-O-N-O-P-O-L-Y". The first two O's were sung by a woman who... well, sounded like she was having a big O.
• Horrible Histories' Rosa Parks song includes the lines:
  We organised a boycott of public transportation
  To win R-E-S-P-E-C-T and force new legislation
  Dreamed of the day the USA had no implementation
  Of S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-I-O-N (Spells "Segregation"!)
• K-I-D-S! Kids Incorporated! ("We're gonna have fun!", etc.)
  • Along with two other instances that also appear in the theme song.
• A show from Peru called Nubeluz did this in the the theme song in the English language pilot:
  Ay-oh-ay! Ay-oh-ah! N-U-B-E-L-U-Z!
• The Sunny Side Up Show has "Chica is Her Name O," a variant of "B-I-N-G-O."
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017) gives us "It's the Count", describing several qualities Count Olaf supposedly has:
  The "C" is for courageous, just another word for brave.
  "O!" Oh my god, what a very handsome knave.
  "U!" Unbelievable good looks and brains and heart.
  "N!" For the knowledge, 'cause I'm very, very smart.
  "T!" For the talent, which is such a crucial factor
  When you're handsome and good-looking and the world's greatest actor.

Music

• Campfire songs presented by G.O.Y.A.:
  • "I am a C":
    I am a C, I am a C - H
    I am a C - H - R - I - S - T - I - A - N
    And I have C - H - R - I - S - T in my H - E - A - R - T
    And I will L - I - V - E - E - T - E - R - N - A - L - L - Y
  • "Let Me See You Get Down":
    D-O-W-N...Let me see you get down
• Children's songs:
  • (The most current version of) "Bingo":
    B - I - N - G - O
    B - I - N - G - O
    B - I - N - G - O
    And Bingo was his name-o
  • Also, "Rattlesnake":
    R-A-T,
    T-L-E,
    S-N-A-K-E spells rattlesnake!
  • And the classic:
    K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
  • Wait, what about the Lollipop song?
    L-O-double L-I P-O-P
    Spells lollipop, lollipop
    and
    B-U-B-B-L-E-G-U-M
    Spells bubble gum, bubble gum
  • The refrain to the song "Halloween":
    H-A-double L-O/W-double E-N, spells Halloween
  • "Now I know my ABC's/Next time won't you sing with me."
• Marilyn Manson's "Burning Flag"
  We've got our A-B-Cs and our F-U-C-K
  F-U-C-K
  F-U-C-K
  • As well as (s)AIN'T
  I've got an 'F', and a 'C', and I got a 'K' too
  And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like 'U'
• "A.k.a.i-d-i-o-t" and "T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S." by The Hives
  a.k.a i-d-i-o-t, don't know who the hell I'm supposed to be, i-d-i-o-t (a.k.a i-d-i-o-t).
  a.k.a i-d-i-o-t, yeah thats me, i-d-i-o-t (a.k.a i-d-i-o-t).
  We rule the world, this is our world [x2]
  T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. [x4]
• "Be Aggressive" by Faith No More (with cheerleaders singing along):
  Be aggressive! B-E aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E!
  • Which is from a cheerleading chant that predates the song.
• "Beer Run" by George Jones and Garth Brooks.
  B Double E Double Are You In?
  • Same name, different lyrics, same spelling style: "Beer Run" by comedian Todd Snider.
• "C-I-T-Y", by John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band.
• "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S," the classic Christmas song, originally released in 1948 by country crooner Eddy Arnold and covered by countless artists in every genre in the years since. Each letter in the word "Christmas" stands for personal, religious or sentimental meaning for the singer as he reflects on the holiday (e.g, "'C' is for the Christ Child, born upon this day").
• "D.A.N.C.E" by Justice:
  Do the D-A-N-C-E
  1, 2, 3, 4, fight
  Stick to the B-E-A-T
  Get ready to ignite
  You were such a P-Y-T
  Catching all the lights
  Just easy as A-B-C
  That's how you make it right
• The chorus of "Dangerous Animals" by Arctic Monkeys
  A-N-I-M-A-L
  Makes my head pirouette
  More than I would be willing to confess
  D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S
• "D.I.S.C.O." by Ottawan:
  D-I-S-C-O! (x3)
  She is D-I-S-C-O!
• "D - I - V - O - R - C - E" by Tammy Wynette, the classic lament of a failed relationship, married to the old trick of Censorship by Spelling:
  Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E
  Becomes final today
  Me and little J-O-E
  Will be going away
  And I love you both but this will be
  Pure H-E-double-L for me
  Oh how I wish that we could stop
  This D-I-V-O-R-C-E
  • Or the Billy Connolly version...
  His Q-U-A-R-A-N-T-I-N-E starts today
  Both my wife and my wee little dog
  Will soon be hauled away
  That's why I spell out all of these words
  So as my dog can't hear
  But I must admit
  That dog is acting Q-U-E-R queer
• They Might Be Giants:
  • "Don't Let's Start" from their debut album:
    D, world destruction
    Over an overture
    N, do I need
    Apostrophe T, need this torture?
  • "S-E-X-X-Y" from Factory Showroom.
• The suitably mental "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E." by Pulp.
• The Cure's "Fire in Cairo" spells the song title in the chorus. Repeatedly.
  F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-Oh!
• "Ghettomusick" by Outkast:
  G-h-e-t-t-o-m-u-s-i-c-k stay down
  O-u-t-k-a-s-t (oooh yeah) just know that we won't play round
• "Glamorous" by Fergie:
  "G - L - A - M - O - R - O - U - S, yeah G - L - A - M - O - R - O - U - S"
• "Gloria" by Them:
  G-L-O-R-I-A! GLOOOOOOORIA!
• "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani.
  This shit is bananas.
  B-A-N-A-N-A-S.
• "If You Seek Amy" by Britney Spears. Averted, but several watchdog media groups have accused the songwriters of structuring the lyrics so that the F-word can get around the censors — ergo, "if you seek Amy" is actually "F-U-C-K M-E!"
• "The Jimbo Song" by Reverend Horton Heat.
  Chain drippin' wallet
  Above ground pool
  J-I-M-B-O!
• "Lola" by The Kinks.
  • "Yoda" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
• "R.O.C.K. in the USA" by John Mellencamp.
• "L - O - V - E" by Nat King Cole:
  L is for the way you look at me
  O is for the only one I see
  V is very, very extraordinary
  E is even more than anyone that you adore can
• Cole's lyrics might be referenced in "Love" by Mary J. Blige:
  L!
  Let's get you ready for the lovin' of a lifetime
  O!
  Our position is just to see what you can do
  V!
  Become a victim on the verge, of kickin ass now
  E!
  Just experience and you'll know what to do
• "Loverman" by Nick Cave from Let Love In manages to make it seem sinister:
  L is for LOVE, baby
  O is for ONLY you that I do
  V is for loving VIRTUALLY everything that you are
  E is for loving almost EVERYTHING that you do
  R is for RAPE me
  M is for MURDER me
  A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
  N is for KNOWING your loverman's going
  to be the answer to all of yours
• "BLIMPHT" by Bill Oddie (in the third episode of the radio series "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again") is decidedly less romantic
  B is for the beauty that I only see in you,
  L is for the laughter that I hear the whole night through,
  I is so infatuated with you, oh my dear,
  M is for the music that I hear when you are near,
  P is for the passion that I feel for you each day,
  H is for the horror if you ever went away,
  T is for the trust I put in you all else above,
  Put them all together now and that.... spells.... BLIMPHT!
• M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I to remember how to spell the US state.
• "Passion" by The Flirts.
• "L-O-N-E-L-Y" by Bobby Vinton.
• Beastie Boys' "Puttin' Shame in Your Game":
  We keep the party movin' till the broad daylight
  G-E-T-L-I-V-E AAAIGHT!
  • This was a favorite trope of the Beasties, found in songs like "The New Style" ("B-E-A-S-T-I-E / What up, Mike D.?") and "Pass the Mic" ("I'm the A-D-R-O-C-K").
• "M-O-T-H-E-R" by Howard Johnson:
  "M" is for the million things she gave me,
  "O" means only that she's growing old,
  "T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
  "H" is for her heart of purest gold;
  "E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
  "R" means right, and right she'll always be,
  Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
  A word that means the world to me.
  • Parodied in this Narbonic Sunday strip.
  • So subverted in MAD:
    M is for the Massive guilt she gave me;
    O is for the Outbursts that she had;
    T is for her Total domination;
    H is How she drove out dear old dad;
    E is for the Eunuch that she made me;
    R is my Respect she stripped away;
    Put them all together, they spell MOTHER —
    The reason I'm so fucked-up today!
  • Also subverted in an episode of the situation comedy Mama's Family, where in flashback a teenage Eunice shows up drunk at a church bazaar and, during a talent show, begins singing "M-O-T-H-E-R" with lyrics that insult and embarrass Mama, before Eunice is hauled out by security. ^note This was actually a backstory where Themla had lost her patience with Bubba (Eunice's son) after he repeatedly comes home drunk. The Harper's neighbor, Iola, sits Bubba down and explains the long-acrimonious (at best) relationship between Mama and Eunice and that the church bazaar incident was the tipping point of no return. A teen-aged actress plays a dead-on perfect impression of a young Carol Burnett playing Eunice.
  • And again parodied in a Black Comedy kind of way Batman: Arkham City by Calendar Man:
    "M" was for the murderous look she gave me.
    "O" meant only that she was weak and old.
    "T" is for her terror as she fought me.
    "H" is for her heart that I now hold.
    "E" is for her eyes swiftly dimming.
    "R" means rot, and soon rotting she will be.
    Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER",
    A word that means a corpse to me.
    Happy Mother's Day, Mommy.
  • Also parodied in Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother"^note variations exist, this version by Jerry Jeff Walker from ¡Viva Terlingua!:
    "M" is for the mudflaps you give me for my pickup truck
    "O" is for the oil I put on my hair
    "T" is for T-bird
    "H" is for Haggard
    "E" is for eggs
    And "R" is for REDNECK!
• Catatonia's 'Mother Of Misogyny':

  He was a mother of, mother of, mother of
  M-I-S-O-G-Y-N-Y, misogyny

• William Shatner's "You'll Have Time":
  Y - O - U - apostrophe - R - E - G - O - double N - A - D - I - E die
  You are gonna diiiiiiiiiieeeeee!!
• "ohmygodimonfire" by Logan Whitehurst:
  O - H - M - Y - G - O - D - I - M - O - N - F - I - R - E
  S - O - M - E - B - O - D - Y - P - U - T - M - E - O - U - T
  F - O - R - C - R - Y - I - N - G - O - U - T - L - O - U - D
  • Also used in "Robot Cat":
    Word to the R to the O to the B to the O-T-C to the A to the T
• "Rag Mop" (sometimes spelled "Ragg Mopp" due to the lyrics):
  M
  M-O
  M-O-P
  M-O-P-P
  Mopp
  M-O-P-P Mopp mopp mopp mopp
  R
  I say R-A
  R-A-G
  R-A-G-G
  Ragg
  R-A-G-G M-O-P-P, ragg mopp
  • And its parody:
  Oh, I say D
  I say D-O
  D-O-D
  D-O-D-G
  D-O-D-G-E-R-S
  Team, team, team...
  • Here's another parody, relating to online gaming:
  Q
  I said Q-U
  Q-U-I
  Q-U-I-T
  Quit!
  Q-U-I-T Quit quit quit quit
  R
  I said R-A
  R-A-G
  R-A-G-E
  Rage!
  R-A-G-E Q-U-I-T Ragequit!
• "Respect" by Otis Redding, popularized by Aretha Franklin:
  R - E - S - P - E - C - T
  Find out what it means to me
  R - E - S - P - E - C - T
  Take care, TCB
• "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers:
  S! A! T-U-R! D-A-Y! Night!
  • Parodied/Tributed here: T-H! E G-A! R-A-G! E! ( http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=42221950 )
  • The Bay City Rollers also had an accompanying chant to the tune of "This Old Man":
  B-A-Y, B-A-Y,
  B-A-Y, C-I-T-Y,
  With an R-O-double-L, E-R-S,
  Bay City Rollers are the best!''
• "Shopping", also by the Pet Shop Boys. This and "Minimal" above were mashed up together wonderfully during the 2006 tour.
• Snoop Dogg often refers to himself in his songs as "S - N - double O - P" or "D - O - double G".
• "Tennessee Girl" by Sammy Kershaw:
  I love that T-E-double N-E-double S-double E G-I-R-L.
• "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" by Elvis Presley, later covered by Travis Tritt.
• The not-often-played-on-the-radio intro to the Guess Who's "American Woman" takes its dear, sweet time spelling out the song's title.
• Parodied in "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Albuquerque": "I said A! (A!) L! (L!) B! (B!) U! (U!)...........Querque! (Querqueeeeeee!)
  • From "Young, Dumb, and Ugly": "We got three-day stubble/Our name spells trouble:/T-R-U-B-E-L!"
  • Interestingly, Albuquerque, NM was the basis of another spelling song back in 1953, done by Ralph Flanagan and his Orchestra. It was a very minor hit.
• "(I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo", by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra:
  K - A - L - A - M - A - Z - O - O - O - Oh what a gal...
• V! A! C! A! T-I-O-N! In the summer sun!
  • Fun fact: Connie Francis recorded various foreign-language versions of this song, but they kept the spelling bit the same as the English version.
    • A completely separate spelling song called "V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N" was recorded by Puffy AmiYumi (well technically, just Yumi; it was recorded as a solo song that appeared on a double album called "solosolo")
• "Microphone Fiend" by Eric B. & Rakim
  Cause I'm in E-F-F-E-C-T
  a smooth operator operating correctly
  • Also "Know Your Enemy"
    "The D88, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
    A mind of a revolutionary
• "Cheese and Onions" - The Rutles:
  Do I have to spell it out?
  C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S oh no-o-o...
  • Watch it with the animated video. It's awesome.
  • Also, in "Shangri-La". If you listen really, really hard, you can hear a background singer spelling out 'S-H-A-N-G-R-I-L-A' in the last verses. Then spoofed soon before fading out.
  La-dee-doh-dah
  La-dee-dah (S-H-A-N-G-R-I-L-A)
  Here we are
  In Shangri-La (L-E-X-I-C-O-G-R-A-P-H-E-R)
  La-dee-doo-dah (Lexicographer?!)
  La-dee-dah (Sorry, folks!)
• "Jocko Homo":
  Are we not MEN?
  WE ARE DEVO
  Are we not MEN?
  D-E-V-O
  • And, of course, that same piece of the song used in Weird Al's "Polkas on 45".
• Not a Rapper's Read a Book. (Link not worksafe!) R-E-A-D-A-B-O-O-Kaaayy!!
• Let's not forget The B-I-B-L-E.
• A song from Brite Music has lines like these:
  B-A-B-Y, that spells fun
  Because at our house we have one...
  It's easy, you see, when you can spell good as me...
  K-I-S-S spells "Hello" to me,
  H-O-M-E, Dad and Mommy,
  But most important is L-O-V-E: That spells Family!
• "B.A.D." by W.A.S.P.:
  B-A-D
  Bad, make your mom and daddy sad
  B-A-D
  Bad, It's the bloody fix you do, the bloody fix you do
  • Also "L.O.V.E. Machine":
  L-O, V-E, All I need's my love machine
• R.A.M.O.N.E.S. by Motörhead
  Misfits, twilight zone,
  R-A-M-O-N-E-S, R-A-M-O-N-E-S
  Ramones!
• 'A-U-S-T-R-A-L-I-A... Australia!'
• Morningwood's "To The Nth Degree" involves a lot of spelling of the band's name:
  M-O
  M-O-R
  M-O-R-N-I-N-G
  W-O-O-D
  • They have another one. Their song "Everybody Rules" goes:
  E-V
  E-R-Y
  B-O-D-Y
  Everybody rules!
• "Washington, DC" by Magnetic Fields:
  W-A-S-H-I-N-G
  T-O-N, baby, DC!
• Lootpack's "On Point" has two full verses of spelling. It's taken to the point where I can't even post the lyrics. Just hear it yourself.
• "Method of Modern Love" by Daryl Hall and John Oates
  • M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E, it's the method of modern love
  • Same goes for Wu-Tang Clan's "Method Man", which samples the above song:
    M-E-T, H-O-D MAAAAAAAN
• Y - M - C - A !
• Megadeth's "Hook in Mouth"
  F is for fighting, R is for red
  Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
  E, we elect them, E, we eject them
  In the land of the free and the home of the brave
  D, for your dying, O, your overture
  M, they will cover your grave with manure
  This spells out freedom, it means nothing to me
  As long as there's a P.M.R.C.
• Mercyful Fate's "Nuns Have No Fun"
  Upon a cross a nun will be hanged, she will be raped by an evil man
  Knock spikes through her hands, things will come she won't understand
  You're a nun, you haven't had no fun, living your life as a virgin queen
  I'm gonna change it, and I'll get it done, tomorrow you won't be a virgin queen
  C. U. N. T.! That's what you are! You're C. U. N. T., yeah!
• "Polysics Or Die!"
  P - O - L - Y - S - I - C - S
  Or-die-or-die-or-die-or-die!
• 3OH!3 and Katy Perry's "Starstrukk":
  L-O-V-E's just another word I never learned to pronounce.
  • ...although they actually say "love" in the previous line.
• No Doubt's "Staring Problem."
• Nickelback:
  • "S.E.X.":
    S is for the simple need,
    E is for the ecstasy,
    X is there to mark the spot, 'cause that's the one you really want!
  • In "Everything I Wanna Do", between the verses and the chorus, you can hear softly in the background the lines
    You and me sitting in a tree *-U-C-K-I-N-G.
• Fergie's "Fergalicious" manages to do this somewhat, but manages to misspell an incredibly simple word in the song - specifically, "tasty" as "tastey".
• No mention of S-S-S-S A-A-A-A F-F-F-F E-E-E-E T-T-T-T Y-Y-Y-Y?
• Eddy Arnold's "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S", covered by a lot of artists in the '50s.
  C is for the Christ child, born upon this day
  H for Herald angels in the night
  R means our Redeemer
  I means Israel
  S is for the Star that shone so bright...
• 311's "Sick Tight"
  My name is Nick, H-E-X-U-M
  • And "Juan Bond", which spells out the song's title.
• Aztec Camera's "How Men Are"
  P-E-R-S-P-E-C-T-I-V-E. It's no mystery.
• "The Mark of the Gun" by Deathstars:
  Your life spells dead
  Well, the D is for destroy (under the gun)
  The E is for enforce (under the gun)
  A is for absolute (under the gun)
  And D is for darkness
  Dead (the mark of the gun)
• Stupid, by The Sultans of Ping FC:
  You're stupid, S-T-U-P-I-D!
• "Cactus" by The Pixies has a bridge where the band chants "P! I! X! I! E! S!"
  • When David Bowie covered it, that section became "D! A! V! I! D!"
• The example above was inspired by "The Groover" by T. Rex, which begins with the band chanting "T! R! E! X!".
• Elastica's word salady "How He Wrote Elastica Man" has a chorus of the band (and Mark E. Smith - the title is a Shout-Out to The Fall's "How I Wrote Plastic Man") chanting "E! L! A! S! T! I! C! A!" while Justine Frischmann adds more vocals acrostically (e.g. E! Extra special/L! Last chance).
• From the extended club mix of "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats:
  S-A-F-E-T-Y
  Safety! Dance!
• Hot Chip has a rather weird one in "Over and Over", which is either just plain Word Salad or a brilliant statement about the stages of a relationship:
  K-I-S-S-I-N-G
  S-E-X-I-N-G
  C-A-S-I-O
  P-O-K-E
  Y-O-U
  M-E
  I
• "L-I-F-E-G-O-E-S-O-N" by Noah and the Whale. Both the trope-example and title of the song.
• Frank Sinatra's take on "Jingle Bells."
• From the second verse of "Pump It" by the Black Eyed Peas:
  B-L-A-C-K-E-Y-E-D-P to the E
  Then the A to the S
• "Super Eurobeat" by Dave Rodgers ft. Futura.
  S - 'Cause we are Super
  U - You gotta use it
  P - Is like a passion
  E-R - Euro
  E - You feel emotion
  U - Get up and down
  R - Because we are
  O - All right
  • As well as:
  S - It's only super
  U - It is up to you
  P - Play with me now
  E-R - Euro
  E - You gotta beat it
  U - Just take it easy
  R - A-Beat-C rules
  O - All right
• Madonna's "Gimme All Your Luvin" includes a cheerleader-chant-like hook:
  L-U-V! Madonna!
  Y-O-U! You wanna!
  • Also "Rescue Me":
  R-E-S-C-U-E me, only you can rescue me.
• Jay-Z's "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
  H to the izz-O, V to the izz-A
  • Also, "Money, Cash, Hoes" and its remix have verses that start out this way:
  (Jay-Z, in the original) J-A-Y, I flow sick!
  (DMX, in the original) D-M-X, and my dogs bite!
  (Memphis Bleek, in the remix) Ay yo, M-E-M-P-H-I-S Bleek!
  (Beanie Sigel, in the remix) Peep the kid from P-H-I-L-L-Y!
• The Faint's "Tale Me to the Hospital" spells the last word of its title in increments.
• Steel Panther chant the title of "Gold-Digging Whore" letter-by-letter. The E is delivered as something of an afterthought, since it doesn't fit in with the rhythm of the chant.
• The Wizard Rock song "Draco and Harry" by The Whomping Willows:
  It's Draco and Harry sitting in a tree
  S - N - O - G - G - I - N - G
  It's Draco and Harry sitting in a tree
  F - A - L - L - I - N - G in love
• Anal Cunt's "You're Gay". This line is repeated nine times throughout the whole song:
  ''Y - O - U - R - E - G - A -Y, YOU'RE GAY!"
  • It gets reprised in one of their later songs, "If You Don't Like the Village People, You're Fucking Gay"
• "Think Fast" by The Fatal Flaw features backing vocalists doing a cheerleader chant about how we're all going to die someday:
  T-H-I-N-K
  F-A-S-T that's the way
  A clock is just a bomb you see
  T-I-C-K-I-N-G
  T-H-I-N-K
  F-A-S-T don't delay
  T-I-M-E
  running out for you and me
• The backing vocals in Supernova's "Invasion" spell out the band's name.
• Sam and Kirk McGee's "C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken."
• Yellow Magic Orchestra's Technopolis
  T-E-C-H-N-O-P-O-L-I-S, Tokyo
• M.A.R.S.H.E.A.U.X. by Marsheaux, whose Looped Lyrics consist solely of the title.
• MC Mr. Napkins' "The Aggressive Bee" parodies the "be aggressive" cheerleader chant, set up by the earlier line "I'm not trying to be his cheerleader":
  The bee's aggressive
  The bee, he's aggressive
  He's B-E-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E!
• The Modern Lovers' "Girlfriend" combines this with Funetik Aksent (since Jonathan Richman elides the "d" in "girlfriend"):
  That's a girlfriend
  Said G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N
• "Hell" from Squirrel Nut Zippers:
  Now the D and A and the M and the N
  And the A and the T and the I-O-N
  Lose your face
  Lose your name
  Then get fitted for a suit of flames!
• "Hello L. O. V. E." by John Michael Montgomery.
• "What Will You Do with M-E?" by Western Flyer. The son hears his dad spelling things out over the phone so the son can't figure out what's going on, leading the son to ask:
  Hey D-A-D-D-Y, I saw M-A-M-A cry
  Say you're not going away
  Is it because of me? Have I been B-A-D?
  Please, daddy, please, can't you see
  'Cause if you leave, what will you do with M-E?
• Subverted in "I'm in Love with a Capital 'U'" by Joe Diffie:
  You got me feeling so G-U-D
  It's more better than I thought it would be
  Girl, you taught me things that I never learned in school
  I'm in love with a capital "U"
• Television's "Friction" ends with Tom Verlaine spitting "F! R! I! C! T-I-O-N!"
• Heavenly's "P.U.N.K. Girl", inevitably:
  P is for the Painful way she makes me feel some days
  U is for Utopia, the other times with her
  N is for the New wave dreams she had back in her teens
  K is for the Kid in her, my P.U.N.K. Girl
• Gang Starr's "The Planet", which has this as the chorus:
  I'm gonna make it god dammit
  Out in B-R-double-O-K-Lyn, The Planet
  • "Mostly tha Voice" is another example:
  My religion is rap
  R-A-P
  R-E-A-L-I-T-Y, G
  • Another song, "So Wassup?!" gives us:
  You say you're R-E-P-R-E-S-E-N-T-I-N-G?
  You're frontin', boy, come against me
• Rapper Webbie had a song a while back called "Independent", where the chorus goes like this:
  I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T, do you know what that mean, man?
• Frank Zappa's Mrs Pinky from Zoot Allures about a sex doll: "And it's P-I-N-K-Y, 69.94! Give her a try!''
• "E Flat Boogie" by Trouble Funk, which doubles as a partial Singer Namedrop.
  T-R-O-U-B-L-E Flat Boogie!
• "Marley Scratch" by Marley Marl and MC Shan, which spells out the name of Marley Marl, the DJ:
  Since you just heard how a DJ sound
  The name Marley Marl, I'm gon' break it down
  The "M" is for "Master of Scratch" and if the needle wants to slip, it's the needle he'll catch
  The "A" is a letter that you set apart; I wouldn't call his beats music, I would call it art
  The "R" just stands for the way he rock, which is 24/7, around the clock
  The "L" is for lyrics that I write, when put to his music, sounds out of sight
  The "E" is for every beat he makes, which sucka DJs persist to take
  Don't play with the "Y" cause it isn't a game, you ask "Why did he put the other DJs to shame?"
  After this, there shouldn't a story to tell, at the end of that, it's "M, A, R, L"!
• Frank Sinatra's version of "Jingle Bells".
• FT Island's self-titled song which repeatedly spells out their name in this manner:
  "F-T-I-S-L-A-N-D let's go!"
• The Lonely Island song "Spell It Out" parodies old-school raps that used this trope and mixes it with Toilet Humor. The words themselves are a little hard to decipher due to the beat, and reveal the narrator porks pork for money.
  "Wait, that's gross."
• "Until Death (Do Us Part)" by Front 242:
  L-O-C-K
  L-O-C-K space T-H-E space D-O-O-R space F-O-R-E-V-E-R
  F-O-R-E-V-E-R
• Mitch Miller's rendition of "You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine".
  M-I-N-E, M-I-N-E, mine,
  I'll be T-H-I-N-E, T-H-I-N-E, thine,
  And I love you,
  I love you all the T-I-M-E, time.
  You are the B-E-S-T, B-E-S-T, best
  Of all the R-E-S-T, R-E-S-T, rest,
  'Cause I love you,
  I love you all the T-I-M-E, time.
• "Loadsamoney" by Harry Enfield gives us an example of a misspelling song.
  L-O-D-S-Of-E-M-O-N-E
  What's that spell? Loadsamoney!
  Prob'ly.
• EVOL by Marina Diamandis.
  L-O-V-E, L-O-V-E
  (L-O-V-E, E-V-O-L)
  L-O-V-E, do ya love me?
  (L-O-V-E, love is evil)
• "FRIENDS" by Marshmello and Anne-Marie is about an unwanted suitor not taking the hint that the singer just sees him as a friend. Thus the chorus is literally "spelling it out" for him:
  Haven't I made it obvious?
  Haven't I made it clear?
  Want me to spell it out for you?
  F-R-I-E-N-D-S
• "Dollhouse" by Melanie Martinez.
  D-O-L-L-H-O-U-S-E
  I see things that nobody else sees
• "Going Back To Cali" by The Notorious B.I.G. has a couple of lines spelling out his own name:
  Spell my name right, B-I, double-G, I-E
  ...
  I'ma spell my name one more time, check it
  It's the N-O-T-O-R-I-O
  -U-S, you just, lay down, slow
• "Unity Rhumba" by Goodson & Vale.
  With a U, with an N, with an I-T-Y
  Unity, unity, ai-yi-yi
• "Christmas Alphabet" by Dickie Valentine.
  C is for the candy trimmed around the Christmas tree,
  H is for the happiness with all the family,
  R is for the reindeer prancing by the window pane,
  I is for the icing on the cake as sweet as sugar cane,
  S is for the stocking hanging on the chimney wall,
  T is for the toys beneath the tree so tall,
  M is for the mistletoe where everyone is kissed,
  A is for the angels who make up the Christmas list,
  S is for the Santa who makes every kid his pet,
  Be good and he'll bring you everything in your Christmas alphabet!
• "Word Up" by Cameo.
  Dial "L" for low...
  Come on, all you people say...
  W-O-R-D up - W-O-R-D up
• "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent" by Gwen Guthrie.
  Cause ain't nothin' goin' on but the rent
  You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me
  Ain't nothin' goin' on but the rent
  You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me
• "The Love You Save" by The Jackson 5.
  S is for "Save it"
  T is for "Take it slow"
  O is for "Oh, no!"
  P is for "Please, please, don't go!"
• "The Best Damn Thing" by Avril Lavigne has a bridge where she uses her name as an acrostic to spell out what she expects from a lover:
  Give me an A (always give me what I want)
  Give me a V (be very, very good to me)
  R (are you gonna treat me right?)
  I (I can put up a fight)
  Give me an L (let me hear you scream loud)
• "W.O.M.A.N." by Etta James.
  I'm a W O M one A and a N
  A woman
  A woman
• "W-O-M-A-N" by Johnny Cash.
  I just want to tell you baby, if I can I need my W-O-M-A-N
  A M-A-N needs a W-O for love or dirty boogie or the do-se-do
  And the F-E-M-A-L-E can turn a B-O-Y into a M-A-N
• "I'm a Woman" written by Leiber and Stoller.
  'Cause I'm a woman!
  W-O-M-A-N,
  I'll say it again,
• "Let's Get Serious" by Jermaine Jackson.
  S.E.R.I.O.U.S
  Baby let's get serious
  Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
• Bo Diddley:
  • "I'm a Man".
    I'm a man,
    I spell M-A-N... man.
  • "Cadillac" takes it to extremes by spelling out "Cadillac" every other line.
• Shirley Bassey's "Burn My Candle".
  There's S for Scotch
  That's so direct
  And for straight and simple sex
  I for invitation to
  A close relationship with you
  N for nothing bad, no less
  S I N that's sin I guess
• Al Green's "L-O-V-E".
• The Pearls' "Guilty".
  You’re guilty, guilty, can’t get away
  ‘Cause you’re guilty, guilty, now hear me saying
  G-U-I-L-T-Y
• Monyaka's "Go Deh Yaka".
  M-O-N-Y-A-K-A
  Spells Monyaka
  Write it pretty in the city, standing tall
  Yes
  
  M-O-N-Y-A-K-A
  Spells Monyaka
  Here to rock you in your city
• Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC spells out her stage name in "Switch":
  This switch could be infinite
  I said L to da, E to da, F to the, T to da, E to the, Y
  Because I'm so fly
  Bring it back to the E
• Happa-tai (Green Leaves)'s "Yatta!"
  G! R! DOUBLE E! N! LEAVES!
  G! R! DOUBLE E! N! LEAVES!
• The Songs of Paddington's "P-A-D-D-I-N-G-T-O-N".
• Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's "Bang Bang".
  Uh, B to the A to the N to the G to the, uh (Baby, baby, baby, bae, ba—baby)
  B to the A to the N to the G to the, hey
• "Diamonds and Pearls" by Prince:
  D to the I to the A to the M
  O to the N to the D to the pearls of love
  D to the I to the A to the M (To the M)
  O to the N to the D to the pearls of love
• Bobbie Gentry's "Mississippi Delta":
  M, I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I
  M, I, double S, I, double S, I, double P, I
• The Vocaloid song "Bitter Choco Decoration", played just before the final chorus:
  F.U.C.K.Y.O.U
• A folk song called "S-A-V-E-D".
  Oh, G-L-O-R-Y, we are S-A-V-E-D,
  H-A-P-P-Y to be F-R-double E.
  Oh, V-I-C-T-O-R-Y from the bonds of S-I-N.
  Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, tra-la-la Amen.

Newspaper Comics

• Played for Laughs in Calvin and Hobbes:
  S... For Stupendous!
  T... For Tiger, ferocity of!
  U... For Underwear, red!
  P... For Power, incredible!
  E... For Excellent physique!
  N... For... Um... Something... Hm, well, I'll come back to that...
  D... For Determination!
  U... For... Wait, how do you spell this? Is it "I"??

Professional Wrestling

• WOW Women of Wrestling had wrestling cheerleader Patti Pep of Team Spirit, whose theme song fit this trope.
  "P-A-T-T-I, P-A-T-T-I, PATTI PEP, PATTI PEP"

Puppet Shows

• Fraggle Rock: During Gobo and Wembley's duet, "Friends Till the End", Wembley says, "Let's spell it out!"
  Wembley: F...
  Gobo: Someone asks of me...
  Wembley: R...
  Gobo: You and me a team...
  Wembley: I...
  Gobo: Say we'll always be...
  Both: Friends till the E-N-D!
• " 'C' Is For Cookie" by Cookie Monster from the Sesame Street Greatest Hits Album Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites.

Radio

• Our Miss Brooks: In "Mr. Boynton's Parents", Miss Brooks is pleased to hear that Love Interest Mr. Boynton's parents find her so youthful. That is, until teachers' pets Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin arrive. To Miss Brooks' chagrin, the teenagers name her the Madison High School student's choice for "Mother away from Mother". After presenting her with a shawl the students bought for her, Walter Denton sings the song they wrote for her:
  Walter Denton:
  B is for the books she helps us study.
  R is she is righteous and so pure.
  O is for the fact that she's our buddy.
  The other O is likewise I am sure.
  K is for okay she rates about.
  S is for her sadly wrinkled brow.
  She's motherly just like Elsie the Cow.
  Miss Brooks we love you dearly!
  Miss Brooks:
  Miss Brooks
  That's me.
  (sob) I'll always be,
  Miss Brooks!
• A jingle for Radio Caroline in its Buccaneer Broadcaster heyday:
  C!-A!-R!-O!-L-I-N-E! It's Caroline! Caroline! Car-o-line!

Theatre

• Occurs (predictably enough) in several of the songs in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
• Naturally, in Oklahoma!!:
  O - K - L - A - H - O - M - A!
• "Harrigan" from the musical Fifty Miles From Boston:
  H - A - double-R - I - G - A - N spells Harrigan
• "Schadenfreude" from Avenue Q ends with "S - C - H - A - D - E - N - F - R - E - U - D - E!"
• "Tragedy" from P.D.Q. Bach's dramatic oratorio Oedipus Tex:
  Greek Chorus (in fugal counterpoint): T - R - A - G - E - D - Y, tragedy, oh, yeah...
• "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D." from Starlight Express.
• "The Name's LaGuardia" from Fiorello!, in which the title character not only spells his name but informs voters that T-A-M-M-A-N-Y "spells tyranny like R-A-T spells rat" and sings a Yiddish verse spelling his name in Hebrew letters.
• In the stage version of Mary Poppins, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is spelled not only in song, but in dance as well.
  S-U-P-E-R; C-A-L-I-F; R-A-G-I-L; I-S-T-I-C-E-X-P-I-A-L-I-D; O; C-I-O-U-S
• The Most Happy Fella has a song about "big D, little A, double L, A, S," which, of course, spells Dallas.
• Matilda has "School Song" where the alphabet is recited within a refrain, and ends with the younger children reciting the alphabet.

  So you think you're A-ble, to survive this mess by B-ing a prince or a princess
  You will soon C, there's no escaping trage-D!

• "Lumbered" from Stop the World, I Want to Get Off:
  I've been L-U-M-B-E-R-E-D lumbered,
  And I don't L-I-K-E it one small bit.
  I'm too young to be a father;
  There are lots of things I'd rather be,
  Like working down a coal P-I-T pit!
• Subverted in the opening number of the musical Leave It To Me!, in which reporters decline to spell the words "ambassador," "Moscow," "contributor," "administration" ("just put F.D.R."), "Soviet" and "Stalin."
• "Song of Love" from Once Upon a Mattress:
  With a F and a R and a E and a D
  And a F-R-E-D, Fred!
• Played with in the coda of "Free" from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum:
  Hero: Free.
  Pseudolus: Sing it!
  Hero: Free!
  Pseudolus: Spell it!
  Hero: F-R-double—
  Pseudolus: No, the long way!
  Hero: F-R-E-E!
  Both: Free!
• In The Musical of Golden Boy, "Don't Forget 127th Street" includes this parody of "M-O-T-H-E-R":
  H is for the heroin they sell here,
  A is for the alleys where kids play,
  R is for the rats that run pell-mell here,
  L is for the landlords far away,
  E is for the endless clean-up projects,
  M is for the mouldy roofs above.
  Put them all together, they spell Harlem,
  Oh yeah, the place that white folks think we love!
• Hamilton has this in the first verse of "My Shot", itself a reference to The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Going Back To Cali":
  The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.
  But damn, it's getting dark, so let me spell out the name,
  I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D
  -E-R, We are meant to be
  A colony that runs independently.
• The SpongeBob Musical has two of these of Patchy's anti-anti-pirate Protest Song "Poor Pirates", the first at the beginning...
  Let me begin with a hearty ho ho,
  And a tale that nobody tells well,
  I've not come all the way from En-C-I-N-O
  To be treated like sewage that smells
  • And the second one, repeated frequently throughout the song.
  Poor Pirates,
  P-O-O-Arrr!
• "The Ballad of Sara Berry" from 35MM: A Musical Exhibition dives into this during the titular character's murder spree — the names of the victims and the resulting consequences spell out "prom queen".
  "P" is for Patricia drinking poisoned punch
  "R" is for Raquel dashed on a rock — crunch!
  "O" is what Anne said when Sara bludgeoned her brains
  And "M" is Marianna's marinated remains

Video Games

• The song "G.I.A.N.T.E.G.G." from Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, though the singers kinda mash the "A" and "N" together so it sounds as if they're spelling it wrong.
  G-I-AN-T-E-G-G
• In "My Only Shining Star" from DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, nobody had the heart to tell them they added a few extra letters...
  D to the A to the A to the N to the N to the C to the C to the E, dance, baby!
• From Super Robot Wars MX:
  V-I-C-T-O-R-Y
• "Survival", the Varrigan Station music from MadWorld:
  S to the U to the R to the V to the I to the V to the A to the L!
• Parodied in a song that occasionally plays during the credits of You Don't Know Jack: The Ride:
  We went from M - A - R - I - A - G - E
  To D - I - V - O - R - S - D
  You broke my little H - A - R - T
  Now I'm in M - I - S - R - E
• In addition to his Theme Music Power Up, Bang also gets his own character song to the tune of his track, Kaze and Gale respectively:
  S · I · SI · G · A · M · I
  Shishigami Bang, Bang!
• In Sam & Max: The Mole, The Mob, and The Meatball, in Ted E. Bear's Mafia-Free Playland and Casino:
  N - O - M - A - F - I - A, oh baby...
• Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 gives us Nippon Ichi's Hot-Blooded song:
  N! I! S!
• Joyride by Da Shootaz, AKA the GTA theme theme does this:
  G, Grand Theft Auto, you gotta make the mark to move when you want to,
  T, Determination to steal what you can and run from the nation,
  A, Hey! Whaddya say? We automate the sequence and speed for my getaway,
• In Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Magneto's theme song:
  M-A-G-N-E-T-O. M-A-G. N-E-T-O.
• Roxie from Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 sings a song in her Gym. In the Japanese version it's "D - O - G - A - R - S" (the Japanese name for Koffing). In the English version it's "P - O - K - E - M - ON", the last two letters are said together very quickly to fit the same rhythm.
  • Pokémon X and Y brings us "F to the L to the A to the R to the E, go Team Flare go!" From one of the grunts.
• ThrillVille: Off the Rails has "T-H-R-I-L-L-V-I-L-L-E, Thrillville let's go."
• "E.G.G.M.A.N." from Sonic Adventure 2 is a subversion. You expect the word to be spelled out in the lyrics as it is in the title, but it's just sung normally.
• Daytona USA has the brief but memorable "G A M E O V E R" jingle.
• "Romantic Now", Miria Akagi's image song from THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls:
  R - O - M - A - N - T - I - C!
  R - O - M - A - N-T-I-C now! R - O - M - A - N-T-I-C!
• In the Puyo Puyo series, whenever Ringo gets excited, she tends to sing songs where she spells out the name of whatever caught her fancy at the time. In Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, she spells "S-T-A-R-SHIP!" when she first arrives on the S.S. Tetra.

Webcomics

• In "Carol of the Waa" by Brawl in the Family,
  W - A - L - U - I - G -
  I am the best, Waluigi!

Web Animation

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Cell's Villain Song after he reaches his perfect form:
  P is for "Priceless", the look upon your faces
  E is for "Extinction", all your puny races
  R for "Revolution", which will be televised
  F is for how f**ked you are, now allow me to reprise
  E is for "Eccentric", just listen to my song
  C is for "Completion", that I've waited for so long!
  T is for the "Terror", upon you I'll bestow...
  (chuckling)
  My name is Perfect Cell. And I'd like to say
  "Hello"
• Homestar Runner:
  • Homestar's "love poem" in Strong Bad Email #195:
    Homestar:
    M is for milk. The real stuff, not soy.
    A is for not-organic apples. Pesticides ahoy!
    R is raisins - they give me bad gas.
    Z is too hard, so at this one, I'll pass.
    I is for inchildas, and...
    Strong Bad: Homestar!
    Homestar: Yeah, what's up?
    Strong Bad: That's not a love poem! That is a lavishly produced grocery list!
  • "Rap Song" (accidentally feat. Peacey P), not to be confused with Crack Stuntman's Very Important Rap Song.
    Coach Z: R-A-P-S
    O-N-G, yes
    Yes, y'all, And you don't stap,
    Coach Z and Peacey P, cold rappity rap!
  • "Trogday 08" includes "The 'S is for Sucks' Dragon Song", which spells out the alphabet. However, only some of the letters got spelled out.
    Strong Bad: A long time ago, B-fore things got weird,
    Came a Dragon, a mighty dragon,
    that Everybody Feared
    Now G is for "giraffe", and H is for "Halloween"
    But I'm not Joking about this Kill-ill-Ling Machine, Na-na-na-na...
  • From the SBEmail "local news":
    Strong Bad: ♪ Ooooh,
    If you want it to be possessive, it's just I-T-S,
    But if it's supposed to be a contraction, then it's I-T-Apostrophe-S...
    Scalawag! ♫
• Humorously inverted in the middle of a Sanity Slippage Song in Dr. Horrible.
  You people all have to learn/This world is going to BURN!/ BURN!/ It's two Rs. H-O-R-R- right/ BURN!

Western Animation

• Animaniacs gives us Baloney's "Imagine Song"
  "I" is for "imagine"
  "M" is for "me"
  "A" is for the letter "a"
  "G" is for "gee"
  "I" is for..."imagine"
  "N" is for "nice"
  "E" is for "Egad!
  I said 'imagine' twice!"
  • And there's "The Acme Song"
  There's the "A", that's first,
  There's the "C", that's next.
  There's the "M", you're almost done,
  There's the "E", that's last, now spell it out,
  A-C-M-E that's fun!
  • Now backwards!
  There's the "E", that's last,
  There's the "M", that's next.
  There's the "C", you're almost done,
  There's the "A", that's first, what's first is last,
  E-M-C-A we're done!
• The opening theme of The Emperor's New School.
• From a Musical Episode of Rocko's Modern Life:
  R - E - C - Y - C - L - E Recycle!
  C - O - N - S - E - R - V - E Conserve!
  Don't you P - O - L - L - U - T - E
  Pollute the rivers sky or sea
  Or else you're gonna get what you deserve
  • Rocko eventually attempts to repeat this song to the corporate bigwigs at Conglomo, but he isn't familiar enough to remember the tune. The executives wonder why he's spelling everything.
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: "M-I-C-K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E!".
• Done in Arthur for a spelling bee:
  A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K!
• Subverted in The Simpsons, via a Throw It In!:
  I am so smart!
  S - M - R - T!
  I mean S - M - A - R - T!
  • And this song from the "Little Miss Springfield" episode (which, perhaps for the best, we only get to hear the first few lines of):
    L, the losers in her wake
    I, the income she will make
    T is for her tooth-filled mouth
    T is for her tooth-filled mouth...
  • And the classic version of the baloney song.
    Young Rainier Wolfcastle: My bratwurst has a first name, it's F-R-I-T-Z. My bratwurst has a second name, it's S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N!
    • And Homer's version:
    My bologna has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R. My bologna has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R!
  • Everybody Hates Ned Flanders song:
  F-L-A-N-D-R-S
  He's the man that I hate best!
  F-L-A
  His name is Ned!
  E-R-S
  It's a stupid name!
  F-L-A
  Don't yell at Ned!
  D-E-R
  His wife is dead!
  • When Bart retrieves his toy plane from the roof of the burlesque house:
  S-U-C-C-E-E-S
  That's the way you spell success!
  • When Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Ralph form a boy band called The Party Posse, one of their songs goes:
  I saw you last night at the spelling bee.
  I knew right then that it was L-U-V.
  Cause I can no longer be a silent "G"
  I've gotta spell out what you mean to me.
• From SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The Campfire Song song.
    Spongebob:
    C.A.M.P.F.I.R.E.S.O.N.G. song
    C.A.M.P.F.I.R.E.S.O.N.G. song
    And if you don't think that we can sing it faster then you're wrong
    But it'll help if you just sing along...
  • The "F.U.N. Song"
    F Is For Friends who do stuff together
    U Is for U and me.
    N is for N-ywhere and N-ytime at all
    Down here in the deep blue sea
    • Plankton doesn't really get it.
    Plankton:
    F is for Fire that burns down the whole town.
    U is for Uranium. BOMBS!
    N is for No survivors when you're-
• Stunt Dawgs
  D is for Danger upon which we thrive.
  A is for Action makes it fun to be alive.
  W is for Wild things we always do.
  G is for Gross stuff that's really cool.
  And S...just makes it plural!
• From the credits to Teen Titans,
  T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S. Teen Titans. Let's Go!
• Tiny Toon Adventures spoofed The Mickey Mouse Club with "The Buster Bunny Bunch", complete with "B-U-S-T-E-R B-U-N-N-Y" sequences in opening and closing theme songs.
• The intro sequence for The Comic Strip and its sub-show Mini-Monsters had this.
• Camp Lazlo
  ''L-A-Z-L-O.
  And Lazlo was his name-o.
• "Pluto's Judgement Day": "G-U-I!/L-T-Y!/Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!/Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!""
• Phineas and Ferb has a number of these, including:
  • "A-G-L-E-T, don't forget it!"
  • Candace seems to have a certain fondness for these, as she's sung no less than four of them:
  You're B-U-S-T-E-D, you are busted!

  Those B-O-Y-S are just E-V-I-L!

  You're G-O-I-N-G D-O-W-N!

  We're talking I to the N to the T-I-M-A-T-E get together
  • Don't forget Norm's ode to W-E-A-P-O-N-R-Y!
  • One of the show's last songs from the standalone O.W.C.A. special is "Bits of all of us", which spells out "Teamwork"
  You take the "T" that's very deep in "Doofenshmirtz",
  The "E" from Karen the Cat,
  Harry's got an "A" in it and Maggie's got an "M",
  So we're a team, my friends, that's that.
  So "macaw" gives us a "W",
  We get an "O" from "ocelot" (That's me!)
  We get an "R" from Harry and a "K" from Karen,
  And teamwork's what we've got.
  That's right! Teamwork's what we've got!
• The New Pink Panther Show in 1971 does this:
  So up with the curtain, now let's introduce the star,
  P-I-N-K P-A-N-T-H-E-R
• "We're the Chipmunks! C-H-I-P-M-U-N-K!"
• In the Futurama episode "The Honking", Bender sings a song that largely consists of spelling his name.
• The last line of the Cyberchase theme song spells one half of the word "Cyberchase".
  The chase is on! Let's wait/And C-Y-B-E-R-chase!

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