Stupid Statement Dance Mix

"It's too late! They already have it on YouTube! And someone even made it into a music video!"

— Ugly Betty

Someone just heard the latest stupid, astonishingly weird, or catchy thing some celebrity said. All they need to do is loop it a few times, set it to a drumbeat, and add a couple of instruments, possibly Auto-Tune it, and ta-da! It's a new song!

Then they make a simple video for it, and slap it on YouTube.

Compare Voice Clip Song and Speedy Techno Remake. See Caramelldansen Vid for specific examples of this trope that have gotten out of hand. Subtrope of Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!, although it can be done just in audio instead of video.

Examples:

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Advertising

The Beetis, with Wilford Brimley's Diabeetus commercials.
- There's also a Dance Mix.
  - Come on rock me Diabeetus!
Do you have a problem with limescale, rust, ground-in-dirt? They're a challenge for some household cleaners, but not for CILLIT BANG!
- A strange in-universe example with USA's answer to Cillit Bang, EASY-OFF BAM!!
"I've fallen and I can't get up" has become such a pervasive meme, it was only natural that when YouTube came about, there'd be dozens of remixes about it.
- Here's one.
- Here's another.
- Mixed with the Sparta song.
- Slant Six & The Jumpstarts did a pre-Internet SSDM of it on the Dr. Demento radio show back in 1990.
- DJ Porter combined it with Wilford Brimley and Hoveround adverts
- Remixed to Cybotron's "Clear".
- Another Hoveround/Beetis/Life Call mix.
We all know the Atomic Bomb is very dangerous...it can burn whole buildings, if someone is careless....
- We must all get ready now!
"Rap Chop" turns the Slap Chop infomercial into a catchy electro number.
- After following the link, poke around some on DJ Steve Porter's page for more entertaining examples. Example: "We talkin' 'bout practice".
- Hey, guess what?
Do You Like The Smell of Adventure?
Esure. Calm Down, Dear!
The Broccoli Wad commercial is designed this way.
A case of the company actually contacting someone to make a remix of William Shatner and the danger of turkey deep fryers: Dingle Dangle.
The stadium techno song Stylophonia by Two Little Boys uses voice clips of Stylophone advertising spokesman Rolf Harris from his Stylophone demo record as well as his rendition of the folk song also titled "Two Little Boys", although the actual instrument is only used for 7 seconds.
The Money Shop Song, featuring the "petrol guy"!
In Japan, ads for a tabletop game called Doraemon: Battle Dome has become the source of a number of these, usually combined with Manipulative Editing and mixed to Touhou Project music. Example.
- On that topic, it seems that there was a trend to take a random commercial or sets of commercials for a product and make one of these, set to random music from Touhou and beatmania's Red Zone. The notorious Ran Ran Ruu appears to be a case of this.
Volkswagen remixes the opening sequence from Singin' in the Rain.
The intro of Dan Bell's Crystal River Mall & Warren Mall documentary video, part of his Dead Mall Series, mixes a Gelson's supermarket commercial with a future funk track by Dan Mason. "Jams! Jams! Jams! Jams!"
A 2001 commercial for Fruity Pebbles cereal did this with Fred Flintstone's signature "Barney! My Pebbles!"
As of 2020, Freeform's ads for movies shown as part of the channel's "Funday" block do this with random clips from the movie(s) they're promoting. Here is an example featuring Wreck-It Ralph.

Anime

Higurashi: When They Cry has this gem, set to UN Owen Was Her: [1]
Dragon Ball Z: Ever since Vegeta revealed that Goku's power level was over nine thousaaaaaand, the YouTube user Kajetokun made plenty of stupid statement dance mixes, and eventually made a musical: The Pylons Are Trap Balls.
- Team Four Star have had a lot of fun parodying in the way GT-Vegeta pronounces 'Moustache'.
Naruto: Kabuto's ninja info cards.
Death Note: Light letting us know that he'll "take this potato chip...AND EAT IT!!!"
- Here's another one [2]
- Also: sakujosakujosakujosakujoSAKUJO!!!!
  - Both are examples of the aforementioned "Sparta Mix" and "Marisa Stole the Precious Thing" mixes, respectively.
  - Crazy Kira laugh to unfitting background music.
Lucky Star/Kirby Super Star is really popular.
People really like doing stuff with Lucky Star. More examples.
- Heck there's stuff with Team Fortress 2 here.
  - What's the time again?
Yu-Gi-Oh! has pretty Narmy scenes in the Japanese version, and out of them comes some catchy Ear Worms.
- One such example is Yugi's ORE NO TAAN!.
- Kaiba, meanwhile, has an practically an entire subgenre consisting of his use of Enemy Controller, and how easily it can be warped and put to music. To wit, here's an example of one. vanilla.ice, of Vaguely Recalling JoJo fame, released a music video based on the Enemy Controller meme starring Yoshikage Kira.
- Here's a Bakura remix, too.
The Japanese have the "Futae no Kiwami" meme, which consists of remixing lines from the various dubbed versions of a Calling Your Attacks scene from Rurouni Kenshin (the English dub being the most popular) into other songs. Mixes range from video game music to anime theme songs to... other remixable stupid statements.
Azumanga Daioh:
- "Sata andagi!"
- The show got another one: OH MY GAH!
Toradora!: PITCHA BIBITTERU HEY HEY HEY
Don't call this Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei remix normal! Normal is never meant in a good way! (I know, you were probably expecting me to put "This remix has left me in despair" but people write that so much I thought it'd be nice to do something different.)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Roy Mustang really loves them TINY MINISKIRTS!!
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has an official Stupid Statement Dance Mix of another song with Chougattai, which is a rave-esque beat made up of bits from the heavy metal battle theme Gattai Nante Kuso Kurae.
Mobile Suit Gundam: "We're jumping onto White Base. AAAAAAAH!"
Squid Girl: In this one, Ika-Musume finds herself singing to the Smithy Battle theme from Super Mario RPG. And it works.
The Kyubey Rap someone made out of sound clips from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. However, it's in Japanese, so unless you know the language you'll barely know what he's singing.
- It appears Mami got one too. WARNING: It's chock-full of spoilers.
"Oh! Mabushii!" (Musashi Gundoh)
Saki: Tacos! (pulled from YouTube, you'd have to go to Nico Nico Douga to find it).
Amagami SS has its own Nishishishishi~.
Little Witch Academia: Akko Goes 'Yay!'
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō has "A Video In Which A Kid Has A Musical Poop", which uses a clip from the end of "If You Can Use The Toilet, You're A Pantsman!" where a boy uses a toilet-training timer that has Shimajiro's voice. It's been popular enough to spawn parodies using other franchises.
KonoSuba gives us this lovely little ode to Stuff Blowing Up: "Bakuretsu! Bakuretsu! La La La~" ^Translation:"Explosions! Explosions! La La La~" Megumin's introduction was also given one.
Fist of the North Star: "Omae wa mou shindeiru."

Comedy

Among the new songs written for Monty Python's farewell performance was the "Nudge Rap/Theme From Blackmail", which doubled as a SSDM of their "Nudge Nudge" skit and a segue into their "Blackmail" skit.

Comic Books

An in-universe example from Empowered. Willy Pete, an unstoppable fire elemental, brutally murders a group of heroes. Disappointed that they were killed before he could have sex with them, he then turns to the team's barely-functioning robot member, whose camera is broadcasting footage. "All right. I'll fuck a robot." Then, one volume later, on the internet: "Fuc* a robot/Fuc* a robot/Fuck a robot..."

Fan Works

In Fractured, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands crossover, Samantha Shepard mocks the Citadel Council over their refusal to deal with the Reapers who are by now attacking another galaxy because they were driven off by the Trans-Galactic Republic and its superior firepower. In-Universe, her tirade becomes one of these, called "Reaper Problem." It even comes up later!
Code MENT got one named after Lelouch's famous "YING!". The creator of the song, Illunex, also made one for Purpleeye's Abrigdement of One Piece.
From Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, we get "Would You Like This Baby?". While mostly original, it does contain a clip of Lanipator saying "Hi, I'm Lanipator" from a video Lani had uploaded four years previously.
And now of course there's Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged expanding its glorious "Moustache" moment from Vegeta into a full blown dance song. It will not leave your head any soon.
The Mysterious Ticking Noise video from Potter Puppet Pals is essentially one of these.

Films — Animation

This Alice in Wonderland remix is surprisingly catchy... if not creepy.
- ...Pretty much everything else Pogo has done, too. The reason the Alice mix is no longer on his own channel? He's been hired by Disney because his mixes are so awesome.
- Much more quality on his YouTube kinda "channel" with this one. Say What Again.
In-Universe version in Turbo, where a kid's comment when seeing that titular turbo-propelled Snail ("That snail is fast!") became first a YouTube hit and then a blockbuster reaggetonesque song.
Also in-universe, Hotel Transylvania 2 has Mavis discovering what Drac was doing while travelling with her son (his grandson) through a video centered around Drac's assessment that the kid's mom was "Nutsy Koo-Koo".
The memetic "Yee!" dialogue from the Italian version of Dingo Pictures' Dinosaur Adventure has been remixed about as many times as "SPARTA!". And yes, there is a combination of the two memes. "What the hell is going on here?" also has a Sparta remix.
Toy Story: Buzz, look an alien!
My Neighbor Totoro: "KANTAAAAAA!", which remixes the scene where Satsuki and Mei's grandmother screams at Kanta after he makes fun of the house for being haunted to "I Will Always Love You".
Simba's Howl, which is mainly a remix of young Simba laughing from The Lion King (1994).
The LEGO Batman Movie: I'm Batman, I'm Awesome, Got a 9 Pack, which is Batman bragging his swagoo to Barbara Gordon after putting Joker in the Phantom Zone. ^note

Films — Live-Action

From 300: "THIS! IS! SPARTA!!!" The quote became the Trope Codifier for Stupid Statement Dance Mix and proved to be so popular that it became an Internet Stock Parody, with people taking the raw techno beat and remixing other three(ish)-word phrases on top of it
- THIS IS PATRICK!" (SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Hey, now, the Beowulf one deserves special mention.
- GARBAGE DAY! (Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2)
- Who told you you could eat MY cookies? (Jingle All the Way)
- MAYBE IT'S FRIENDLY! and Food EATS PEOPLE!(Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- WHO TOUCHED MY GUN! (Team Fortress 2)
- This is Sparta Hotel Mario Style. (Hotel Mario)
  - And in that same spirit: WHOA, WHAT IS THAT, WHAT IS THAT?! BEES!! (The Wicker Man (2006))
- FIRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEDDDDDD-DUH!!!! (The Cat in the Hat)
- A LOVELESS MARRIAGE!? (Everybody Loves Raymond)
- THIS IS PBS!
- I! AM! RARITY! (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
- SO. LONG. DENTAL PLAN! (Lisa needs braces! Lisa needs braces!) (The Simpsons)
- C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! (Killer Instinct)
- THIS IS -ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD! (Futurama)
- We've Got Dodgson Here! (Jurassic Park)
- You know people are running out of things to make into Sparta remixes when there's one for color bars. Yes, really.
- "TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING!" from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 mixed with Rainbow Dash's "Tactical Rainboom" from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Lesson Zero".
Christian Bale's explosion towards the director of photography on the set of Terminator Salvation has now been turned into a remix.
- There's even a censored version for children's parties.
The infamous Cluster F-Bomb scene from The King's Speech has been given this treatment...with Daft Punk, no less!
- And again, by the man who brought you Buttery Biscuit Base!
From The Lord of the Rings: "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" by Erwin Beekveld (now officially acknowledged).
- Also, "What are potatoes?"
- Gandalf has decided that you shall not pass...
- TBS once made one to promote their airings of The Lord of the Rings, remixing Laid Back's "White Horse" with Gandalf quotes.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Captain Jack Sparrow having a jar of dirt and asking Elizabeth Swann why the rum is gone made it the Trope Maker predating "This is Sparta" by three years.
- THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
- "We know you're heeeeeere, poppet!"
- "I'll be back."
- There is now also a Princess Tutu version here.
- And someone else took the song and remade the thing, Supernatural style: "Dude, where's the pie?"
Hot Rod has a scene where two characters start repeatedly yelling "cool beans!" at each other in various ridiculous ways, then suddenly a hip-hop beat starts backing it up. Yes, this happens in the film itself. Looks like they decided to be one step ahead of the internet.
A variation of this can be seen in this music video based on a couple of lines from Silence of the Lambs. Note that while it is mostly footage from the movie, the quotes themselves only make up the chorus.
Muggle Pants from a line taken from Goblet of Fire. Made by the Animutation guy and his awesome sister.
- Then of course, if Harry Potter is dead... N-YEAH HA HA!!.
- A Sparta one.
- One YouTube has spawned a couple more from the lips of McGonagall and Filch
The legendary "I drink your milkshake!" line from There Will Be Blood lends itself to a few mixes.
- ~~An Inverse Matrix~~ A Sparta Remix.
Kindergarten Cop: It's not a tumah!
Rare in-media example: Planes, Trains and Automobiles used one of these as background music/credits music, consisting of Neil's "You're messing with the wrong guy!" and Del's "Del Griffith," "Hooo-ey," and "It's over, we can laugh about it now" set to a DJish remix completely with Record Needle Scratches.
The end of Little Fockers.
In Baby Driver, Baby likes to do this in-universe, recording snippets of people's conversations and remixing them into songs. Early in the film, we see him making one out of Buddy calling him "retarded", and Doc's pointed reply: "'Retarded' means 'slow'. Was he slow?". Unfortunately, Bats thinks he's a police informant when he finds his tape recorder, so he has to play the tape to the crew to prove he's not a snitch.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory:
- YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY, SIR!
- Oh, so you like Willy Wonka Stupid Statement Dance Mixes? Tell me how this one enlightens your day. Thanks, Gene Wilder.
Another Srsly Sirius, from Office Space. Yeaaaah..
William Shatner commentating on the opening scene of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: "Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain?"
- Vic Mignogna had a field day with this, and here is the result.
Featured in the Christian Slater movie Pump Up the Volume, where students remix an interview between the anonymous pirate DJ "Happy Harry Hard-On" and Mr Deaver, guidance councillor. David Deaver speaking ♫.
After seeing this remix of the Iron Man 2 trailer, Jon Favreau, the director of the movie, liked it enough to contact the creator and have him do a 45-second version as an official TV spot.
Suburban Commando: "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!!" in a nice little starman mix.
- ...and another with "Let It Go"!
Nicolas Cage wants that chocolate cake.
- He is also a vampire. And a prickly pear. And... a lot of other things. Boner boner boner.
- pissed BLOOD!!!
- The Wicker Man (2006): "Not the bees! NOT THE BEES!! AAAAAAAH!!!"
- Not-the-bees, notthebees! OH NO NO MY EYES!
- Run Run NotTheBees
Diary of a Wimpy Kid has The Cheese Touch
The theme song from Mortal Kombat: The Movie could be seen as an official example, since practically every vocal (except the Title Scream) is taken from the announcer of the first game. It's still awesome, though.
From Jurassic Park: You shouldn't use Dodgson's name.
- Even in a Sparta remix?
Air Force One: President Jack Ryan wants you to get off his plane.
The Room has been given the most glorious treatment.
From Iron Man: With a box of scraps
Judge Dredd: YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!!! Thank Attack of the Show!.
In the Loop: Malcolm Tucker threatens someone with this:
If you want to try and turn (your resignation from politics) into some kind of anti-war protest, expect to hear your little "Mountain of conflict" soundbite everywhere, from ringtones to a dance-mix on YouTube.
Another official example would be "Brain Dance" by Martini Ranch, which extensively samples dialogue from BrainDead and is the end credits song for the movie itself.
An official one was made to promote Full Metal Jacket. It reached #2 in the UK charts.
Batman does one in-universe at the Penguin's mayoral campaign rally in Batman Returns, complete with D.J. Scratch.
Joel Edinberg's "Roe Deer", based around dialogue from independent horror movie TEN, specifically a scene in which The Religious Fanatic earnestly rattles off a Long List of which animals The Bible permits one to eat. The remix was actually made by the film's sound recordist while the film was still in production, as a morale-boosting surprise for the cast and crew. Though the song isn't heard anywhere in the film itself, it appears as a "bonus track" on the official soundtrack album.
In retribution to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me namedropping them, The Alan Parsons Project remixed one of their songs to add in Dr. Evil quotes.
Here's a fragment of one from The Dark Knight Rises: LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Thirty points to the troper who finds the full version.
Decoded Feedback's "Relic" is based around a voice clip from the film The Relic:
The skull is empty; the entire brain appears to have fallen out or been extracted through this hole/ Blood pressure,heartbeat/ Blood pressure heartbeat
The skull is empty/ The skull is empty/ Blood pressure, heartbeat/ The skull is empty
The soundtrack for The Fifth Element features a track at the very end of the CD that is composed of essentially nothing but dialogue from the film.
The soundtrack for The Animatrix has this for Morpheus' explanation of the red and blue pills, repeating their names over and over in variations..
- Also done in "The Red Pill" by Scratch-D vs. H-Bomb.
KMFDM's "Oh Look" is one of these for The Atomic Cafe. "Duck, and cover!"
The aforementioned swedemason of PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN! fame has made several:
- Ransom: Tom Mullen would like you to give him back his son.
- Withnail and I: The formerly-silent police officer would like you to "GET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN!"
Skinny Puppy's "Sleeping Beast" mixes up samples from Dr. Helen Caldicott's nuclear war documentary If You Love This Planet:
There'll be-There'll be millions of corpses (4x). There'll be nobody (2x). The art, the literature? Everything will be gone (2x).
Piero Montanari made an early example of this trope in 1993 with his "Totò Rap", used in the ending credits of a broadcast about famous Italian comedian and poet Totò. Montanari used several samples from Totò's films set to a simple but enjoyable beat.
Dave Bowman's "By god, it's full of stars" monologue from 2001: A Space Odyssey was SSDM'ed by Solarstone in the intro and title track of their Rain Stars Eternal album.
"The Swamp of Secrecy" by Project Pitchfork samples various statements from a UFO documentary.
Real Hardcore" by Delta 9 does this with dialogue from Miller's Crossing:
Put one in his brain. Put one in his brain. Put one in his brain. Then he's dead.
Star Wars:
- I Have The High Ground
  - Now has a version made using clips from The Clone Wars.
  - Now has a Christmas remix set to the tune of "Jingle Bells".
- Hello from the Dark Side
- Padawan (Gotta Train 'Em All!)
- Palpatine's "Do it!".
  - Now has a version with visuals.
- Obi-Wan's "Hello there!".
- Mace Windu's "Take a seat."
- (This is where) The Fun Begins
The Terminator: Fuck You, Asshole (NSFW)
An In-Universe example occurs in the Ultra Series parody movie, Ultraman Zearth. The MYDO theme consists entirely of the words "MYDO" repeated in a loop.
"MYDO, MY-DO, MY-MY-MY-DO,MYDO, MYYYYYYYDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Ricardo Autobahn, bless him, wherever and whoever he is, presents The Golden Age of Video.

Literature

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Peeves makes a Stupid Statement Dance Routine out of Ginny's Valentine card to Harry. Everybody sing it with me! "His eyes are as green as a fresh-pickled toad, his hair is as dark as a blackboard..."
Solarstone's "Sky" incorporates an SSDM of a passage read from A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering The Art of Oneironautics.

Live-Action TV

Ugly Betty: I'm Wilhelmina Slater and I don't get wet.
Parodied on Have I Got News for You, where Charles Kennedy's comments on the expenses scandal are deemed worthy of this. "Thievin' thievin' bastards!"^note"I couldn't possibly comment."
Dateline NBC with Chris Hansen: Did you say I want to put my Thang in yo mouth, in yo mouth?
This song, which is a remix of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
From Chappelle's Show, FUCK-YO-COUCH!
- "Mmmm, mmmm, bitch! Mmmm, mmmm, bitch-bitch!"
Star Trek: The Original Series:
- The song Star Trekkin' by The Firm mostly counts, as well.
- "Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale/Who put the tribbles in the quadrotritcale/Who put the/Who put the/Who put the/Who put the/Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?"
A song consisting of various sound bites from "The Trouble With Tribbles", focusing mostly on the "bisexual, reproducing at will" part.
Star Trek: The Next Generation:
- DarkMateria's "The Picard Song" and "The Worf Song", which can be found here. See also this music video for it.
- From the episode "Symbiosis", Denise Crosby's almost seductive delivery of the line "Drugs can make you feel good" makes it quite easy to take out of context.
- "Shut up, Wesley!"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- "Allamaraine"
Star Trek: Voyager
- Tuvok has one too.
Lemon Demon has a dance mix of lines from All That's Everyday French with Pierre Escargot.
- Also notable is the trippy Rugrats song.
A soundbite from an episode of COPS gave us the Break These Cuffs dance remix, set to the tune of Usher's "Love In This Club."
The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert very explicitly stated that he would not tolerate remixes of a recent interview, announcing such intolerance mid-interview. When viewers shockingly went against his wishes, he retaliated by remixing himself.
- Two weeks later, he made the same statement, then reiterated his statement in rhythm, to make the Reverse Psychology even more obvious.
- RNC chairman Michael Steele accepted when Stephen challenged him to a rap battle, but he never showed up. So Stephen just had to do it for him.
Flight of the Conchords actually has at least one in series example: when someone at a night club comments on the lack of women with "There's too many dicks on the dance floor", we're treated to a techno Group Song composed mostly of repeating said line.
Parodied on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, in the "WeepingWillow17" episode, itself a parody of lonelygirl15. When Megan Wheeler posts a plea to the (apparent) kidnappers of the titular Willow, their response inexplicably starts off with a dance mix. Along with the general Shown Their Work in that episode, the writers probably just wanted to squeeze one more in.
- Also parodied in Fun with Dick and Jane. After our hero fights Lawrence Dobson to get to a job interview, both men find a line of dozens. Just before they go out for a drink, one of the executives calls Dick into his office. No, not to give him a job, but to call other execs in and show everyone the SSDM based on Dick's statements after his boss crashed the company he used to work for and left him holding the bag.
How I Met Your Mother:
- Parodied: Ted gets one of his Bitter Wedding Speeches turned into one. It goes viral in Finland.
Doctor Who: The Judoon song!
- No, not the mind probe. (With bonus "My dreams of conquest!")
- How many nimons have you seen today?
Kenan & Kel gives us this gem: [[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]] DROPPED THE SCREEEEEEEEEEEW IN THE TUNA!
- Kel loves orange soda.
Barney Fife from The Andry Griffith Show would like to nip this trend in the bud!
"God Warrior" by Combichrist takes clips from the infamous episode of "Trading Spouses" regarding the ending freak out by the so called God Warrior. The music however is much darker and more aggressive then most techno or EBM (which is understandable considering that it's aggrotech) and focuses on the horrible idiocy and offensiveness of this woman.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Uncle Phil would like to let you know about how much he enjoys pillowy mounds of mashed potatoes.
Done hilariously on the Modern Family episode "Little Bo Peep," in which some sick bastard auto-tunes Phil.
Fawlty Towers: "I want a WALDORF SALAD!"
Harry Hill's TV Burp got in on the act with the "Jamie Rap".
Fictional Example. In one of the televised versions of Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford novels; Wexford discovers a body at a music festival and has to make an announcement to the crowd asking them to stay until interviewed by the police. The headline act later remixes Wexford's announcement into a dance mix and posts it to him as a ghoulish practical joke.
A very old example is the stalker's video from Penn & Teller Get Killed. Penn is very amused with it.
The Trope Namer for Narm, Six Feet Under, was turned into a Stupid Statement...Creepy Ambient Mix. Check it out.
24: The Jack Bauer DAMMIT Dance!.
Jimmy Fallon does a sketch called "Remix the Clips," where he shows a few funny or outrageous YouTube clips and then has Questlove create a Stupid Statement Dance Mix from them on the spot.
In Japan, Kamen Rider Blade reached Fountain of Memes status due to its actors' weird acting and garbled enunciation that turned many lines in the beginning of the series into amusing gibberish. It has naturally spawned plenty of mixes and mashups with memes of the time. Behold.
Kamen Rider Kiva: Nago-san's Nuclear IXA-Cise Dojo. You're welcome.
Father Ted: There are many techno mixes of Father Jack saying "Drink!".
In an extremely rare live example, Stephen Fry, then host of Quite Interesting, or QI, a panel quiz show, flubs the line "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is...". The other guests proceed to rib him mercilessly for the next 3-4 minutes, even coming up with a Stupid Statement Dance Mix within 30 seconds of Stephen flubbing the line.
- And when, discussing a formula for the number of times you can fold a sheet of paper, he explained in all seriousness that "what you need is length and thickness," the entire panel warned him that this would be a dance mix tomorrow.
The Young Ones: Rick is still a virgin!
Jack Black's appearance on Sesame Street in which he teaches viewers what an octagon is has become the source for YTPMVs on YouTube. Many remixes have been made from it using various songs from anime and video games, and these three medleys by a team of users are the biggest examples. Even Jack Black himself left a comment on one of the medleys via his channel JablinskiGames.
JablinskiGames: Good
- The unofficial DVD and soundtrack of the 1970s CBS special A Special Sesame Street Christmas features one of these called "Your Imagination", credited to "Michael Jackson and DJ Oscar". It's a rather flimsy attempt to create new material featuring Jackson, whose role in the special is merely a minute-long cameo despite the fact that he appears on both the DVD and soundtrack covers.
  Ryan Roe: So here’s how you make a DVD bonus feature: 1. Take a freeze frame of Michael Jackson and a photo of Oscar the Grouch. 2. Edit Michael Jackson’s few lines of dialogue to make it sound like a song about the joys of imagination. 3. Throw some fuzzy pink confetti animation in the background. 4. EVERYBODY DANCE
The "Kitchen Gun" and "Toilet Grenade" segments from The Peter Serafinowicz Show are also heavily remixed in YTPMVs a lot.
Greg Wallace from Masterchef likes the buttery biscuit base.
Smoking Gun Presents Worlds Dumbest: False Arrest! False Arrest!
Wife Swap: Bacon is Good for Me!
FlashForward (2009) brings us "Because I was LOADED, Ok!?"
When Paula Deen was a guest judge on Top Chef, she tells a contestant that she loves "Sucking that head."
In a case of taking it to a new level, this was done by PBS themselves to pay tribute to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. ("Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?") They've since done this to Julia Child and Bob Ross, with hopefully more to come in the future.
- Here's one for The Joy of Painting. "Let's paint some happy little clouds... Let's paint some happy little trees..."
Brooklyn Nine-Nine, In-Universe example: Street punks pull this on Diaz while she and Santiago are trying to recruit them into the Junior Police program.
Family Matters has the "Do the Urkel" rap: "Do the Urkel! Do-do-duh-do-duh-do-do the Urkel!"
The X-Files: Scully Likes Science.
This shows up in-universe in an episode of Castle, "Meme is Murder" - Castle wanted the video for his latest book to go viral on the internet, and well, it did. It just wasn't the video he expected.
The first episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt explains the central conceit of the show via news broadcast that segues into a dance remix of said broadcast... which is then used as the show's Theme Tune for future episodes. The guy in the broadcast is also revealed to have received brief online fame for that, and tries to comfort Titus once a botched interview of his gets the same treatment.
In House of Cards (US), Frank Underwood goes on CNN to debate with Martin Spinella, head of the teachers' union. Frank makes a gaffe on the air, which naturally gets subject to a viral YouTube remix.
In the Finnish show, Ennätystehdas, Olli Hokkanen tried to get a national record of drinking Coca-Cola. He failed his attempt and complained that the drink was "too acidic" for him. His exact phrasing was "Nyt ei pysty. Liian hapokasta." This became a meme in Finland, and one guy then made this.
The Finnish soap opera Salatut elämät has had dozens of SSDM's made out of lines said by the characters. Among the very first was "I am thinking of Oona here" from 2006, using a line uttered by Laura Kiviranta about her daughter. However, the majority of remixes made of the series use lines from the characters Seppo Taalasmaa and Ismo Laitela. Examples:
- DJ Kybermato's rendition of Seppo preparing to make moonshine: "Yeast, yeast, packet of yeast (...) About six kilos of sugar, from that lots of joy to the maker, put that in a bottle, and it'll turn out good..."
- Ismo complaining about his son having thrown him out of his home, set to the tune of "Zombie" by Cedistran2: "Now open the door, open the door, open, open, 'pen 'pen 'pen..."
Absolutely Fabulous was the basis for a Pet Shop Boys song of the same name.
RuPaul's Drag Race: Coco Montrese decides to throw a little shade to be real cute. I don't get cute, I get drop dead gorgeous.
Faerie Tale Theatre: Hello, I'm Shelley Duvall
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah managed to make an entire rap song composed entirely of Donald Trump's tweets. As Roy Wood, Jr. puts it:
Roy: You could make an entire rap song with just Donald Trump quotes. All you need is a dope beat.
From Odd Squad: Need a stethoscope? Tongue depressors? Antiseptic ointment? Call Dr. O! She's a specialist on everything that you don't know!!
Game of Thrones has "A Song of Vanilla Ice and Fire", a parody of "Ice Ice Baby" composed of show voice clips.
In 1995, Tom Green interviewed a man on the street who became belligerent when asked where he was going. Over two decades later, Tom turned it into a song called "None Of Your Business"
Sex-O-Sonique's 1997 house single "I Thought It Was You", in addition to the Title Drop sourced from a Herbie Hancock song of the same name, samples several lines from a 1978 episode of The Sweeney, "The Bigger They Are", notably "What are you staring at?" and "Man, you're positively hostile!". The B-Side, "Funk It Up", uses Joan Collins' line "Your trendy disco is dying!" from the film The Bitch, also released in 1978.
After season 4 of Stranger Things was released, the remix "Chrissy Wake Up" became extremely popular online.

Music

The Ur-Example is the composition "It's Gonna Rain" by Steve Reich, where he took part of a speech from an over-the-top street preacher and looped it...in 1965. Many of the early pioneers in the techno/trance/house genre cite Steve Reich and specifically this piece as an inspiration.
- Reich did it again with "Come Out" in 1966.
Another early example was Scott Johnson's "John Somebody" which came out in the late 70s. It sampled random bits of phone conversations with friends and recordings of laughter and played guitar riffs to accompany them. Though his work wasn't necessarily to mock them, but to bring attention to the musical quality of the human voice.
The band Talking Heads seem to have been instrumental in the development of this trope, oddly enough:
- An early example comes from lead singer David Byrne and frequent producer/collaborator Brian Eno: The 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is made up of songs based around samples from interviews, field recordings, or TV broadcasts. The samples weren't as "chopped and screwed" as many of these other examples, and the focus was on sampling-as-an-instrument instead of making fun of celebrities, but the essentials are there: voice samples, played around with and used as if a vocal track, and set to a backing beat.
- Meanwhile, the Trope Maker might come from a collaboration between keyboardist Jerry Harrison, Bootsy Collins of Parliament/Funkadelic and producer Daniel Lazerus, operating under the name Bonzo Goes to Washington. In 1984, they gave Ronald Reagan's infamous "We begin bombing in five minutes" joke a dance mix.
Also in 1984, Time Zone (Johnny Rotten and Afrika Bambaataa) first recorded their classic rap World Destruction, then made it into a dance mix version featuring, among other things, a sample of then-Presidential candidate Walter Mondale saying "Mr. Reagan has a thing about arms control."
Also running for President in 1984 was Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose iconic address to the Democratic Convention and one of his "Free South Africa" speeches were sampled by Stetsasonic for 1987's A.F.R.I.C.A.
Arguable proto-example: Ice Cube wrote a song called "The Predator" in 1992, whose refrain looped Arnold Schwarzenegger's catchphrase "I'll be back," from The Terminator.
- 2 Live Crew. 1989. "Me So Horny." "Me love you long time.", which also samples "Gonna do that thing. What we gonna do? Oh sock it to me. (orgasmic moan)" from the Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up?. Pretty much their entire album catalogue was this trope.
- Or Ministry - "New World Order."
Prince had a #1 hit single in 1989 with "Batdance" from his Batman album. The song is literally two Stupid Statement Dance Mixes mashed together: a maniacal dance beat for Batman and the Joker, with a slinky funk number for Vicki Vale. Each section also got their own 12" remix.
- Here's a transcript of the early part of the song, just to give you a taste of how schizoid it really is: "[guitar riff] 'Oh, I got a live one here! Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!' [marimba] [guitar riff] 'GET THE FUNK UP!' 'BATMAN!' 'GET THE FUNK UP!' 'BATMAN!' 'GET THE FUNK UP!' 'Go-Go-Go with a smile! [percussive beat] 'BAT-DANCE!' 'Do it!' [saxophone riff]..."
Similarly, Madonna's "Now I'm Following You" remix on I'm Breathless, based on a cover of a 1930s tune heard in Dick Tracy. Madonna even "interacts" with the movie's characters, causing an overlap with another trope.
- This one nearly rivals "Batdance" for sheer outrageousness: "[comically slowed-down voice] My feet...My feet...might be falling out of - [comically sped-up, "chipmunked" tape-player voice]..."
- There's a weird one on the B side of the original "Like a Prayer". Madonna recites the Act of Contrition, a prayer for forgiveness — and immediately loses her temper.
One of the earliest clear examples (predating YouTube by a good ten years) has to be It's a Skull (AKA Valhalla, in the style of... a crap dance mix), which featured vocals made entirely from voice samples taken from Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity, an adventure game for the Amiga, created as an entry to Amiga Power's regular "In the style of..." competition, and later published on the coverdisk a few issues later.
Pre-Internet proto-example: At a 1986 Venom concert in New Jersey, the late Joe Cole, roadie for opening act Black Flag, recorded the drunken onstage banter of Cronos, singer for headlining act Venom ("It's called Newcastle Brown Ale! IT KNOCKS YOU ON YOUR FUCKIN' BACK, LET ME TELL YOU!!"), with the songs edited out. Sonic Youth leader Thurston Moore released the recorded ranting as an unofficial 7'' single on his record label Ecstatic Peace, and the Beastie Boys sampled it.
There's an entire subgenre of using Stupid Statement Dance Mixes as a Take That, Critics!: wrapping their words up in the very music they're rallying against:
- Madonna "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" techno remix
- In Henry Rollins' stand up special, Up For It, he made fun of various genres of electronic music due to a perceived lack of quality in the music itself and because he thought it takes little to no talent to produce. Dubstep artist SKisM sampled bits of this rant in his track, "Rave Review." Before him was AC Slater's "Play the Record Again" and Steve Porter.
  Hit the drum sample!
- Mylo's "Destroy Rock & Roll" is a slight subversion, sampling a list of "evil" rock/pop acts from the early '80s.
  - Played straight by "Drop The Pressure" (NSFW).
In a very different example we have Tim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying's side project Austrian Death Machine. The concept is to make brutal, hardcore, thrash/metalcore songs out of Arnie quotes. It even has Chad Ackerman of Destroy the Runner performing Arnie impressions.
80s mutant disco group Was (Not Was) released a dance mix of the first George Bush's "read my lips" speech under the name A Thousand Points of Night.
"Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce.
Bass Guitar giant Victor Wooten of all people has one.
British art-pop group The Chap, with Never a frown with Gordon Brown.
Some of multimedia performance group Emergency Broadcast Network's work in this vein was used as an opening act for U2 in the 90s.
TAS-1000's only album, A Message For Marta was all songs based around loops of answering machine messages (taken from a tape that was in a used answering machine a member purchased).
- "I've been delayed, I've been delayed, I've been delayed, gunna be delayed"
- "I have passed my examin-a-TION!"
Negativland's U2 single set some bootlegged outtakes of a foul-mouthed Casey Kasem to a cheesy instrumental version of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." Naturally the official release got sued out of existence.
- Negativland has done a number of these over the years. The best known and most controversial is probably "Christianity Is Stupid" in which a recording of Rev. Estus Pirkle, speaking in a self-produced 1971 film about what life under Godless communism would be like, is taken out of context and re-edited.
Imma let you finish... but I have the best stupid statement mixes of all time, yo!
FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST! Made by The Avalanches from various clips from non-musical records (as well as movies).
- And now we have another example in "Subways", sampling its titular vocals from an old punk song of the same name. "You walk on the subwaaay, it moves aroooound..."
Marcus Kinchin's "Dub of Doom" remix of The Nightcrawlers' "Push The Feeling On" was far more popular than the original song, to the extent that all subsequent remixes were based on his.
"Call My Name", an early self-released song by The Spinto Band, did this with The Childlike Empress from the film version of The NeverEnding Story ("Why don't you do what you dream, Bastian? Call my name! Call my name!").
When Paris Hilton's pop album came out, Danger Mouse and Banksy made 500 CDs with a SSDM of all the stupid things Paris has ever said and distributed them randomly in record shops in the UK amongst the real albums.
They Might Be Giants' "P.S.O.K." - though there is a brief chorus of sorts sung by John Flansburgh, most of the vocals are sampled stage banter from Kiss's Paul Stanley, sourced from a bootleg collection of banter entitled People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest. It mainly demonstrates how Stanley keeps using variations on the same lines show after show:
We haven't played this one but once all this whole tour
We haven't played this one in a long time
I don't think we've played this one in a long time
We haven't played this one in a long time
Roughly 80% of Fatboy Slim's music is this, such as:
- "What They're Looking For"
- "Right Here, Right Now" (sampling dialogue from Strange Days)
- "The Rockafeller Skank" (sampling an introduction to a Vinyl Dogs record by Lord Finesse)
- "Drop The Hate" (sampling an old church sermon)
- "Michael Jackson" (sampling a Negativland song of the same name, and in the beginning, an old punk record)
- "Kailfornia" (the human vocals show up about halfway through the track)
- "Sho Nuff" (sampling an old Andre Williams record)
- "The World Went Down" (sampling a protest rally)
- "Soul Surfing" (sampling an old reggae record)
- "Fucking In Heaven" (NSFW)
- "The River Card" (also NSFW)
- The first minute and 26 seconds of his remix of "King Of Snake" by Underworld.
- "Machines Can Do The Work" (sampling an old IBM advertisement)
- His remix of "I Get Live" by Mike and Charlie (sampling a Method Man interview). Yeah, he loves doing these.
German techno band Scooter delighted us with hits like "Hyper, hyper" and "How much is the fish?".
"Director's Cut" by '89 Skratch Gangstaz mixes various Arnold Schwarzenegger lines into the track.
German DJ group Noisy Stylus remixes the Powerpuff Girls episode "Beat Your Greens" into the track "Broccoli Wars".
Handsome Boy Modeling School's So...How's Your Girl? includes two short SSDMs of an episode of the sitcom Get A Life, which the group got their name from: "Look At This Face (Oh My God, They're Gorgeous!)" and "Modeling Sucks".
Covenant's "Painamplifier"("Put your life in a pain-a pain-a pain-a pain amplifier") and "Shelter"("The atom bomb explodes again!"... :BAAAOOOM: :BAAAOOOM: :BAAAOOOM: for the rest of the song)
Paul Hardcastle's lone 1985 hit "19" sampled a documentary about The Vietnam War, the song's name coming from one sample which stated that the average Vietnam soldier was 19 years old at the time^note. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's quite horrifying.
Saigon, Saigon, S-S-S-S-S-S-Saigon. N-N-N-N-Nine-Nine, N-N-N-N-Nineteen.
Music/Nickelback: Look at this photograph. Every time I do it makes me laugh. Every time I do it makes me laugh. Every time I do it makes me laugh. When I laugh it makes me laugh. Every time I laugh it makes me laugh...
Smash Mouth: Well, the years start coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming...
Garbage released as a B-side a techno remix of a woman saying "I'm Really Into Techno, and that's about it."
Sunshine by UK house group Umboza: "Bambo Bambo Bambo Bambo Bambole Bamboleo! Bambole Bamboleo!", sampled from The Gipsy Kings' 1987 hit.
"Ricky" by Remarc and Lewi Cifer, a Jungle track sampling Ricky's death scene from Boyz n the Hood.
4hero's lone hit, "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare", is based around a spoken-word sample from Think's 1971 song "Once You Understand", in which the police inform the eponymous Mr. Kirk that his son Robert has died of an overdose. Captain Kirk and The Masochist did likewise in "Your Son Is Dead" and "OD", respectively.
Josh Wink's "Don't Laugh" consists of a laugh track looped over a techno beat and 303 bassline. "Are You There", "How's Your Evening So Far", and others do similar.
"Acid Pants" by Orbital featuring Sparks.
When the laugh track starts, then the fun starts! Then the fun starts. Then the fun starts. Then the fun starts...
Trip Theory's "Time's Up" SSDM's the lyric "Think of how many week shows you slept through? Time's up, sorry I kept you." from Eric B. & Rakim's "I Know You Got Soul". "It Can Be Done (But Only I Can Do It)" does likewise with a different lyric from the same song. Much earlier, "IKYGS" was the source of the title lyric in M/A/R/R/S' "Pump Up the Volume".
Chris Walsh and Dave Beran's "Shake", the remix of which was used in Grand Theft Auto III, samples a clip of a woman saying "Baby shake, shake, shake" from an unknown source.
A stand-up routine from Mike Epps was remixed into the rather catchy hook for Bad Meets Evil's "I'm On Everything". "Syrup, painkillers, cigarette, weed..."
Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" got this treatment in "Bassgasm" by Techmaster PEB ("Bbbbbbbbbbass!"), and "Here We Go Again" by DJ Schwede.
Another proto-internet example is The Orb's 1991 hit "Little Fluffy Clouds," an ambient track which remixed samples of an interview with singer Rickie Lee Jones, loopy from a head cold, describing her childhood in Arizona.
S'Express's acid house hit "Theme From S'Express" is another pre-Internet example, revolving mainly around the Title Drop of TZ's 1983 single "I've Got The Hots For You", along with a dozen other samples from obscure sources.
Armand van Helden's "The Funk Phenomena" derives its repeating Title Drop from the Method Man & Redman song "How High", in addition to sampling up "Who is He (And What is He To You)?" by Creative Source and "Don't Throw My Love Around" by Cooly's Hot Box.
Apollo 440's "Cold Rock the Mic" remixes the guitar hook of Led Zeppelin's "The Wanton Song" throughout, and the line "Aiyyo man, pull over" from the intro of Run–D.M.C.'s "P Upon A Tree" during the spoken-word verses.
Information Society's pre-Internet "A Knife And a Fork" samples the first two tracks of the Disney children's record Acting Out The ABC's over the breakbeat of Sly and the Family Stone's "You Can Make It If You Try" and the bassline of James Brown's "Give It Up or Turn It Loose".
Utah Saints' signature song "Something Good" is built around the vocal hook "Ooh, I just know that something good is gonna happen" from Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting".
On the album The Happiness Project, multi-instrumentalist Charles Spearin interviews his neighbors about happiness and converts their responses into music. One of the songs that most fits the SSDM formula is "Vittoria": First Vittoria, a young girl, is asked if she has fun at school, then an inarticulate bout of ums, ahs, and likes in the middle of her response is playfully turned into a jazz melody - "when it's like - when it's like, uh - when it's um, like - like, um...".
"Mike" by Snake Chain is inspired by a viral clip where a park attendant attempts to fake being run over by a stationary vehicle over the phone to police. Rather than directly sampling the clip, they simply have vocalist Kate Mahony mimic the woman's frantic cries of "Miiiiike!" and "He's running me over!" as the song's only lyrics.

News and Current Affairs

In 1989 Belgian newbeat group Brussels Sound Revolution sampled statements of Belgian politician Paul Vanden Boeynants after he had been kidnapped into the song "Qui?". They even made a music video of it, where someone in a bandaged head with sunglasses imitates him, still recognizable due to his iconic pipe.
V.I.M.'s 1991 song "Maggie's Last Party" is one of then-former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sampling from a speech presumably criticizing the rave scene.
Also prior to YouTube, in 2000 German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder got a sample of his saying "Get me a beer or I'll go on strike!" added to some polka.
This is Evolution Control Committee's entire schtick, especially with their infamous song "Rocked by Rape", which spliced together a number of also infamous Dan Rather clips.

Aussies would remember "Pauline Pantsdown", based on remixing words spoken by politician Pauline Hanson in the 1990s. It wasn't techno but it actually got airtime and reached #5 on the Triple J Hottest 100.
Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida student at a John Kerry rally: "Don't taze me, bro! Don't taze me! I didn't do anything!" Fortunately for us, they didn't listen.
A variation was the video for "Dirty Laundry"; instead of sound clips, it used video clips of news reporters and anchors.
During his Thing A Week project, Jonathan Coulton did a few of these.
- "W's Duty" by Jonathan Coulton is a Stupid Statement Dance Mix of George W. Bush talking about duty, because Jonathan Coulton is willing to admit that it does in fact sound like a word for poop and this is in fact funny.
- His first Thing a Week, "See You All In Hell", also falls under this.
- His song "Bacteria" (from before Thing A Week) does the same with an employee video about proper sanitation from KFC.
Bill Bailey remixes soundbites from politicians, especially George W. Bush, live as part of his act. And occasionally stranger things, like snippets of the weather forecast.
- Jean-Michel Jarre IS A FRAAAAAUD
GWB's many statements over those eight long painful years just begged to be SSDM'd. Even Neil Young got in on it. In his 2006 release Living With War, the song "Let's Impeach the President"^note includes a coda in which a 100-voice chorus shouts "FLIP!.... FLOP!" over soundbites of Shrub saying first one thing, then another, about the 9-11 attacks, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
It's taken entirely too long so far to make a techno remix out of Barack Obama's most memorable quotes.
- There have now been at least a few different attempts.
Though it includes a good deal of non-sampled vocals mixed in, there's the self-explanatory Auto-Tune the News.
FUCK YOU DEPUTY STAGG, FUCK YOU.
- For anyone who's not in Ireland, this is of when a Member of the Irish Parliament, Paul Gogarty, exclaimed that in the middle of a debate.
Former Hungarian Prime Minister, Ferenc GyurcsÃ¡ny was as much parodied as he was criticized for his famous speach. The infamous lines "because we fucked it up" and "in this bitch of a country" are pretty frequent in remixes. It's even funnier when the mix is done to the tune of what was the theme song for his own electoral campaign.
An old one: a techno remix of Hugo Chavez (or someone imitating him) repeating the refrain "palo por ese c*** " ("get [their] ass beaten", roughly) over and over, among other controversial statements. Apparently the mix was created by his opposition, but in an ironic twist the song was adopted by his own followers.
- And the remix of the King of Spain chewing Chavez out with approximately, "Why don't you shut up?"
It doesn't get any more stupid than this, when a reporter says, "He climbed to the top of Mount Everest, but... he's gay. Excuse me, he's blind." The short version, with just the stupid statement, can be found here or here and here and here and the remix can be found here and mostly here. It never ceases to be hilarious and painful.
Struttin' that ass.
Courtesy of Auto-Tune the News, most likely the Trope Codifier, the "Bed Intruder Song", SO YOU CAN RUN AND TELL THAT RUN AND TELL THAT RUN AND TELL THAT HOMEBOY HO-HO-HOMEBOY!
- Hide your kids, hide your wives, hide your kids, hide your wives, hide your kids, hide your wives, and hide your husbands cuz they be rapin' everybody out here...
  - And now, the extended iTunes version!
- Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the promised land, it's just New Jersey.
- smash, Smash, SMASH!, courtesy of Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker.
The "Chk-Chk Boom!" girl, a Kings Cross resident who gave a fabricated eyewitness account of a public shooting to A Current Affair complete with the aforementioned sound effect, has been turned into several dance mixes.
Here's a genuine eyewitness account of a foiled gas station robbery, from Kansas City resident Diana Radcliff, set to an Autotune that earned her and the group international viral notoriety.
While he was watching Muammar Gaddafi's latest rant promising to destroy the pro-democratic uprising against him, Israeli musician Noy Alooshe thought that the dictator's crazy gesticulations and speech patterns reminded him of a trance party. The result: Zenga Zenga, the same speech autotuned to Pitbull's "Hey Baby." It's become popular among members of the Libyan opposition.
From Songify This: I WAS BANGING SEVEN GRAM ROCKS, THAT'S HOW I ROLL, WINNING!
- For more brilliance, there's Totalcult's Fire Breathing Fists, which includes Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Membrane".
Anthony Weiner fans have put together several remixes of his 9/11 responders rant: autotuned, set to "Jump Around", and with epic background music.
At least two have come out of The Arab Spring, based on Gaddafi's "Zenga Zenga," (street by street), one featuring Shakira.
Nobody Canna Cross it!
Ain't nobody got time for that!
Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago's rantings at the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona, now autotuned.
A remix of Christian Bale's big freakout on the set of Terminator Salvation.
The "Binders Full Of Women Song"
You've got, you've got Muslamic ray-guns...
Dead giveaway, deeead giveaway...
A relaxing cup of café con leche...
The Nick Clegg Apology Song: I'm Sorry
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wants to tell us about Developers Developers Developers Developers.
A Brazilian woman complained on how a social welfare program barely left her money, even to buy some pants for her 16-year old as the price is "over R$300". Of course this fits under a catchy beat.
Donald Trump has made a pledge to be the greatest potato god ever created.
Chanty Binx was remixed after an infamous video of her interesting debate tactics was discovered.
The trance song Friendship 7 by DJ Spyhunter remixes a voice clip from John Glenn's Mercury Friendship 7 space mission:
They're round a little, they're coming by the capsule, and they look like little stars, a whole shower of them coming by, by, by, by, by..."
Alex Jones, an (in)famous conspiracy theorist and (less importantly) radio host, made some comments about Donald Trump fighting 'goblins' (a metaphor for globalists? Who knows), which of course became a (fairly well made, to be honest) song.
- The producer of that video has also made other remixes, Trump and Jones being his most popular targets.
- 2017 brings us GGGAAAYYY FFFRRROOOGGGZZZ!!!^note
Theresa May is known for repeating Strong and Stable in her speeches.
Front Line Assembly's "Overkill" utilizes clips of reporter Bob Considine describing the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg via electric chair.
Skinny Puppy's "Far Too Frail", from the same Remission EP/album as the aforementioned "Sleeping Beast", remixes a clip from Ronald Reagan's 1984 speech about pornography upon signing the Child Protection Act, alongside the sample "They're alive, they're human beings!" from Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt.
Young activist Greta Thunberg received an Important Statement Metal Mix, and loved it.
In 2010, French journalist Nathanaël de Rincquesen got this treatment from Madeon after his report of the dangers of "meuporg" addiction.
Electronic music artist and left-wing YouTuber Patricia Taxxon's track 'WE | ARE | WHO | WE | ARE' takes as its backing track a progressively more autotuned version of Prison Planet conspiracist and right-wing commentator Paul Joseph Watson ranting that 'Conservativism is the new counter-culture'. As he continues to speak, his words are gradually turned into music until the actual song lyrics come in - 'we are who we are/we are who we are/forever/we're perfect as stars/we're perfect as stars/forever'
As part of his podcast, conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro recited some of the lyrics to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's controversial Intercourse with You song "WAP". Naturally, it went memetic, and people started setting it to the beat of the original song.
"Weird Al" Yankovic created one based on the Donald Trump-Joe Biden televised debate called "America Is Doomed, The Musical."
During the GameStop short squeeze in January 2021, an unprecedented raising of retailer GameStop's stocks caused the hedge funds who greedily bet on them bankrupting to suddenly lose billions over the course of the week. CNBC host Jim Cramer parrots the "official" response of the subreddit, r/wallstreetbets, "We like the stock! We like the stock!" to explain to another financial expert on how Plausible Deniability is on the redditors' side regarding the accustions of collusion against the hedge funds. Naturally the internet, still riding the high of the stock craze ran with it.
During the COVID 19 crisis, Australian state Premier Dan Andrews warned Victorian citizens to not invite their friends over and "get on the beers" to prevent the spread of the virus. Music duo Mashd N Kutcher took samples of this speech, and made a song with the exact opposite message. It reached 39 on the ARIA charts and, like the Pauline Pantsdown remix before it, managed to get onto Triple J's Hottest 100. Unlike Pauline Pantsdown, Dan Andrews appears to be amused by it and even introduced it on the Hottest 100 countdown.
During the defamation trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, part of Heard's testimony was "...my dog stepped on a bee." There are several SSDM's of this, as can bee seen from a web search.
The 1996 techno single "Twister" by Storm Chasers (Joey Gardner) samples a variety of radio tornado warnings along with the dialogue "It's a twister! It's a twister!" from The Wizard of Oz.
When the Finns Party experienced a massive swing in the Finnish parliamentary election of 2011, jumping from five seats to 39 seats, party leader Timo Soini used the word jytky of the event. The unusual expression was soon turned into an SSDM, using the DJ Lussu "Siika" remix (mentioned below under Web Videos) as a base.

Pro Wrestling

When Candice Michelle Took a Level in Badass in 2007, challenging Melina for the Women's Championship, WWE composer Jim Johnston took her previous entrance theme "What Love Is" (a fairly straightforward R&B number with a rap breakdown toward the end) and remixed it into a new version that started out like the old one and sounded like it for about four seconds, but then veered off into wacko repetition mode and stayed like that for the rest of the song; with its mind-numbing techno beat and ad nauseam repetitions of "Move your body", "Raise your hands up", and "All eyes on muh-muh-muh-muh-muh-me!", it's easy to interpret this as a parody of Stupid Statement Dance Mixes...but no, it's dead serious. (You can hear the "What Love Is" remix on the 2008 album WWE The Music Volume 8.)

Radio

Sandi Toksvig pronouncing "Eyjafjallajökull" on The News Quiz, with additional material by Andy Hamilton. This was played on the show itself the following week.
The immortal and legendary Karl Pilkington gave us "I Could Eat a Knob at Night" from the first series of The Ricky Gervais Show podcast. Example.
Back in 2000, The Jim Rome Show received a tape of a remix of frequent caller John in C-Town set to music, prominently featuring the phrase "Lunch with the monkey". ^note
The end of Big Finish Doctor Who's "The Holy Terror" contains a crowd chant from the story ("ALL HAIL FROBISHER, ALL HAIL THE BIG TALKING BIRD') set to a driving Eurotechno beat as an Easter Egg.
An artist called DruBoogie has been featured on Opie & Anthony, remixing both clips from the show and from popular internet videos.
- Another remix played on the show was a remix of Bob Kelly breaking his knee ("I broke my knee, man!")
The final episode of the 2015 Vote Now Show ended with a Stupid Statement Dance Mix of all the "best" quotes from the election campaign.
A collection of Mo Rocca's ums and stammers, characteristic of his sorting out the answers aloud, were turned into one for one of the roundup review episodes of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Video Games

StarCraft stands out for having an official Stupid Statement Dance Mix, Radio Free Zerg featuring the Overmind.
- Speaking of Pylons. You must construct additional ones.
- Similarly, the expansion to Warcraft II gave us "I'm a Medieval Man", featuring soundbytes from the first game.
Zero Wing: Ye olde classic All Your Base. ^note Or its derivatives, like All Your Snakes.
LEGO The Lord of the Rings and LEGO Dimensions have an item you can unlock that plays a techno remix of various lines from the game. It also acts as a disco ball and (in the former game) lights up dark caves. And makes nearby figures rock out.
Marisa Stole the Precious Thing from the Touhou Project games, and every remix of the song done to a series. Check out Ryuuguu Rena's version as an example.
- There is also a remix of Marisa Stole the Precious Thing composed entirely of sounds heard at JR East train stations in Japan, mostly prerecorded messages like "the doors are now closing" and various station announcements.
- And one set to a product recall announcement, of all things. Panasonic wasn't very good at making sure their kerosene heaters didn't cause carbon monoxide poisoning back in the 80s.
- The Windows XP version is even better.
- JEALOUS and OH SHIIII at 1:58
- Overdrive by IOSYS. "O-overdrive, O-o-overdri-drive... Rabbits are rabbits are rabbits are rabbits are rabbits are red-eyed red-eyed red-eyed... Inaba is Inaba is Inaba is Rabbit ears rabbit ears rabbit ears..." LOL.
Victims of Science and the techno remix of lines from Portal "The Device Has Been Modified"
- Oracle Turret from Portal 2 relates the story of "Prometheus".
- "You Monster" from the same creator.
- And Cave Johnson details what exactly he does when life gives him lemons. Cave Johnson Prototype Fire Lemon Remix v2
- There's also Cake Is Gone by swatdojo.
EarthBound (1994) + Japanese McDonald's commercial = Ronald McGiygas.
- The Touhou Project version.
  - Here's that same song, but with the original character doing it, with a side of (inevitable, considering who it is) Nightmare Fuel.
Super Smash Bros.: Falcon PAAAAWNCH!
- Show me yuh moves!
- Now we know who U.N. Owen Was! He would like to invite you to Flowering Night. He Punched The Precious Thing too.
The Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 trailer is more a compilation of Awesome Statement Dance Mixes, but it also includes "All your base are belong to us", courtesy of George Takei.
- The original Command & Conquer: Red Alert also had a few; some of the songs, particularly "Radio 2", were given remixes adding in random quotes from in-game units and cutscenes.
The Elder Scrolls:
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: DAGOTHWAVE
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion:
"Super Bonk Land" and its many imitators over on YouTube using the Scout from Team Fortress 2.
- While rarer, there also exist ones for the other characters, like these two for the Heavy.
- And now the Soldier's take on it.
- There's also a series of techno remix songs made by a user called Scoutellite that are composed mainly of voice clips from various TF2 classes:
  - I'm Moovin Nis - Engineer
  - Surprise Buttsecks and The Brilliant Spoys - Spy
  - Snipers Godly Knife - Sniper.
  - See! - Soldier and Demoman. This song also references a popular TF2 fad.
  - Guro az! - Soldier and Sniper, with bits of Engineer later in
  - Heavy Beats Guy and Heavys New Weapon - Heavy
  - Gentlementlemen - Spy.
- Sentry go-go down-n-up-n-dammit gotta move that gear!.
- "Erectin' Gear". Similar to Erectin' a River, except the lyrics are pretty much The Engineer delivering a "Reason You Suck" Speech to the entire enemy team.
- You would not BELIEVE how much this hurts.
  - The above is also notable for being released only a day after the release of Meet the Medic.
  - Fair warning: That last one loops twice, throws in a couple of stingers, then ear-rapes you.
- Left Right Left Right Poo-Poo-Poo-Pootis!
  - No BGM version here.
- Try this.
- And of course, Pokémon music. Hasn't got any BGM. Impressive.
  - RED Team wants to battle!
- Overtime Overtime Overtime.
- MORE RUBBLE, LESS TROUBLE!
- TF2 Jingle Bells.
- NightMen, or Wriggle Nightbug's theme sung by Gentlemen.
- OH BOY, let's not forget the MONTH FIRST series. This is a bunch of TF2 voice clips thrown together to form various songs from the Touhou Project series.
- Perfected Fight Money.
- As BONUS DUCKS! shows us, even minor characters have plenty of remix-worthy lines.
- Even the developer commentary is far from from immune, as seen in Stop a Gaben and Faster Stronger Better Gaben.
- This remix of Moskau feat. Heavy and Sandvich.
- SEDUCE ME! (Spy addressing Scout^*It Makes Sense in Context, to the tune of "Can't Touch This")
- We need a Dispenser is a remix of the opening of Chibi Maruko-chan focusing on the Dispenser.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty: We've managed to avoid drowning!
The World Ends with You: Minamimoto's Zetta Mix. And while we're on the subject of stupid statements: Beat's Bwaagh Mix. That last one may turn your brain to mush. Proceed with caution.
''Ridge Racer:
- Riiiiiiiiidge Racer, the Giant Enemy Crab and 599 U.S. dollars!
- Giant Crab, Enemy Crab: Based on Japanese history. It makes me wonder why no paleontologists have looked for giant crab corpses in Japan.
- It's Ridge Racer. '''RIIIIIIIIIIIIDGE RAAAAAAAAACER!!
Nintendo actually did this in their soundtrack albums for Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards and the original Super Smash Bros. in the form of "Club Mixes".
- From Super Smash Bros.:
- From Kirby 64:
  - In the Field
  - The Bosses
The Ballad of Black Mesa is basically an iPod commercial composed entirely of gunfire and Quotes from Half-Life 2.
- There are also ballards for Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, and Counter-Strike.
A guy takes Counter-Strike a little too seriously, not knowing that his buddies are recording him, and gives the world The Terrible Mr. Grimshaw
Francis from Left 4 Dead hates everything. Except vests.
The Legend Of Zelda C Di Games: I CAN'T WAIT TO BOMB SOME DODONGOS!
- (To the beat of "Poker Face) "Join me, Link, Join me Link, and I will make Your Face! the greatest in Kordai!"
Valve seems to have taken them YTPMVs to heart, as the snippet of the Team Fortress 2 theme at the end of "Meet the Spy" is overlaid with sounds of the Spy stabbing the Soldier and Heavy, complete with the victims' cries. Of course the fandom is leaping onto the footage with abandon, and we should expect to see every "standard SSDM" using it out by the next month latest.
Silent Hill: My name is Harry Mason, I'm in town on vacation.
- GenericCAW version
Star Fox 64: Do a Barrel Roll...to Moscow!
In the Metroid: Other M trailer, a mysterious black guy says two words: "Remember Me?" We will now, buddy. We will now.
- Alternatively, he starts talking about vampires and sounds like a B-side that fell off the back of The Misfits back in 1981.
Fallout 3: TUNNEL SNAKES RULE!
World of Warcraft: Lord Jaraxxus, XT-0002 Deconstructor, Algalon the Observer, Thorim, and even the Onyxia Wipe guy have all been subjected to this by Mr. Voletron. Freaking Ear Worms.
- If that wasn't enough, here is Hearthstone's take on the trope, featuring Grim Trapping.
  - And here's Uther Vs. Uther. Paladin mirror matches have never been this catchy.
- Every player knows about the belt, leather belt, leather beltbeltbeltbeltbeltbeltbeltbelt.
- The Leeroy Jenkins techno remix.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Dr. Robotnik has always been a YouTube Poop star, but his most popular videos involve him singing:
- "Tomorrow I'll..."
- "Two Great Things"
- "It's from The Show"
- "Robotnik's Tea Party"
- "Why?"
- "Planet Freedom"
- "Robotnik Wants his Money Back"
- "This is Not a What"
- "Robotnik Rock"
- "Getaway Submarine"
Thanks to Shadow from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), "Don't Touch It!" (To the Tune of... "You Can't Touch This", no less.)
- From Silver, GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT-
Counter-Strike: AUG AUG AUG, AK AK AK AK! AUG AUG AUG, AK AK AK AK! AUG AUG AUG, AK AK AK AK!
Hailing from Super Smash Bros.: Mario, Wario... Lu-Lu-Lu- Lucario!
Mass Effect: There's the Priiiize ~~Techno~~ Porno Groove Mix. It was only a matter of time before we got the logical conclusion. "Look at this...HUMAN. I WILL SHOW YOU TRUE POWER. Sneaking into the captain's quarters...I KNOW YOU FEEL THIS."
- Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex-Wrex-Wrex
- BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH! BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH! BIG! STUPID! JELLYFISH!
- Ah, yes Reapers. Hi-ass Reapers!
- Commander Shepard taught Conrad Verner to be truly EXTREME.
- Calibrations. Calibrations. Calibrations. Can it wait for a bit? Wait. Calibrations...
Puzzlingly, the end-credits music for Sanitarium is a remix of various lines from the game. It may not be one statement over and over, but it's close enough to this trope to be amusingly incongruous with the rest of the game.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron: that's memes? Daijoubu da, mondai.
A pretty epic remix of Star Trek KLINGON.
Sebastian of Dragon Age II remixed. Maker nooo, we can't go a day without that!
Dragon Age: Origins: "Have you ever licked a lamppost in winter?" techno-fied, here.
I. M. Meen: I.M. Crazy.
Existed in 1996 via a Lords of the Realm 2 Easter Egg. My lord. Yes? My lord. What now?
There are several remixes of a Let's Play for Kaizo Mario World when the LPer, Proton Jon is spin-jumping on a Pokey, which is moving at an excruciatingly slow pace (rather bad, since he only has 100 seconds to complete the course). His cries of "MOVE FASTER POKEY!" have apparently undergone Memetic Mutation. "Groove faster Pokey!"
There is also a Baldur's Gate Gather Your Party Remix.
Hyperdimension Neptunia: Blanc / White Heart's "Thunder Tits" remark gets a Sparta remix.
Hideki Naganuma of Jet Set Radio fame often makes these as BGM tracks. Examples of this are "Sweet Soul Brother" and "Funky Dealer" from Jet Set Radio Future. Makes sense when you learn that he lists Fatboy Slim as an lnfluence.
Deadly Premonition's Michael Tillotson only speaks in rhyme to begin with, so he's ripe for this treatment: "Francis. Francis. Mr. Francis York Morgan. York Morgan. York Morgan. So says Mr. Stewart.
Halo 2: "Never Surrender".
Double Dragon: "The Entrance of Abobo, The Giant" from the arranged OST does this with the arcade game's sound effects.
Leading Cyber from beatmania IIDX and certain DanceDanceRevolution installments invokes this during the break, the hardest part of the song: "Digi-digital storm going to rock your brain, Digi-digital storm going to rock your brain, Digi-digital storm, Digi-digital storm, Digi-digi-digi-digi-didididididi". The sample previously appeared in the 1996 hard trance track "Typhiko" by Welcome, which also did this with "Rock your body to the beat, come on now".
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: "I have the power of the creator. And the power of the power of the power of the power..."
- "Grooving With Dormammu".
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain mixes Kazuhira Miller's extremely cheesy "They played us like a damn fiddle!" and "Start talking, bitch!" lines in Ground Zeroes with Donna Burke's "Sins of the Father" for a truly hilarious song.
Snake: What a load of bullshit.
- With Phantom Pain's release, the same uploader slipped in Skull Face's infamous "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?" for added hilarity.
An In-Universe example from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, in which Handsome Jack takes the deceased Merriff's final ECHO log, in which he despairs over the fact that the Big Bad extorted him into betraying his allies, to a pair of familiar-looking DJs, who turn it into this trope: "I'm the biggest arse on the moon!".
Defense of the Ancients: Feel it in your bones.
PAYDAY 2's Halloween 2015 update added a new track which remixes Houston's "Don't act dumb!" into one of these. It's a bit out of place with the other music tracks, since this one sounds rather silly.
Big Beat Mario does this with a number of Hotel Mario's memetic lines, such as "You know what they say, all toasters toast toast!"
Cybermorph: "Where did YOU learn to fly?"
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location gives us Exotic Butters, courtesy of a rhetorical question by Markiplier. And believe us, that's not the only Stupid Statement Dance Mix on YouTube.
The song "Work Harder" from LISA consists of nothing but a repeated sample of Delin's grunt from Shenmue II with some drums.
From Dr. Vahlen's voice line advising the Commander about the use of explosives in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis not only made a remix of Dr. Vahlen's infamous line, but two remixes.
Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Computer Game: Theme from The Circus" and "Computer Game: Theme from The Invader" are proto-examples utilizing the sound effects of Circus and Space Invaders, respectively.
Hollow Knight has "Bapanada, Mobadis", which starts as a mix of NPC voice clips over Hot Butter's "Popcorn" but evolves into a "City of Tears" Speedy Techno Remake, and "Nested", a similar SSDM based on "Reflection".
The background music for Lars' Adventure consists entirely of this.
"[[Earth...terminated]]", a 1997 MOD song by Rave-o-Tek, does this with EVA's "Nuclear warhead approaching" warning from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn.
Deltarune Chapter 2: Most of the songs with Spamton's leitmotif also incorporate a vocal sample of his catchphrase. By the time you finish the game, the phrase "NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A BIG SHOT" will be thoroughly burned into your brain.

Web Animation

Spoofed at more than twice by Homestar Runner:
- The System Is Down, Song About Sibbie and The Cheat's indie-tronic remix of the Geddup Noise.
- This Azumanga Daioh version of the album version of the first one created a stir a while back.
- I miss video games. I miss my mom.
YouTube Poops are filled with these. They're called YTPMVs. And they could make this page on their own with their raw amount.
- CONTAIN PINGAS
- Most epic of them all however, is PingasBoink, a collaboration with the Scout (mentioned earlier on the page).
- Mmmorshu. You want it? It's my
Half-life: Full Life Consequences remix
- Quarter-Life's horrible grammar has even been touched by this trope, sparking a small series of Galaxy Man remixes. The original is here
Bee and Puppycat: You took too long. Now all your candy's gone. That's what happens.
In the wake of the Newgrounds' Street Fighter Collab project comes the Pound Cake Remix.
In a rare example of an official Stupid Statement Dance Mix, ASDF Movie released Beep Beep, I'm a Sheep alongside asdfmovie10, which featured the original line.
The Kitty Cat Dance.
Kizuna Ai's narration of Resident Evil came with quite a few F-bombs (and she didn't seem to understand what she was saying). A remix was made of her yelling "Fuck you."
hololive: Done frequently online to the likes of Korone and the Hololive EN crew, the most notable example being "Pop On Rocks", which turns something as simple as Amelia Watson reading a Dr. Seuss book into a full-on rap. This was later noticed by not only Amelia, but resident shinigami rapper, Mori Calliope, who covered the song on a karaoke stream.

Webcomics

The Homestuck soundtrack has a few, such as "Busting Makes Me Feel Good" and "JOHN, DO THE WINDY THING!"
In Leftover Soup, Ellen's backstory is that when she discoveredher roomie/boyfriend was cheating on her, she sent him a vicious voicemail, threatening to, among other things, "Shit directly into your living brain!" and "Cram a scorpion up your urethra!" A week later, there was a video on YouTube titled "Answering Machine Bitch," with her rant set to dubstep music. Jamie can't believe it's her.

Web Videos

YOU! The One Who Is Grooving Now... is a mix made up of sound clips from the Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game.
Chuggaaconroy:
- His epic freakout at apparently losing 98 blue Pikmin, set to Lava Reef Zone Act 1.
- There's another one from him finding a Phanpy. He acknowledged it in The Runaway Guys.
YTMND is made of this trope.
- Take a look at what they did with this gem from 3rd Rock from the Sun.
- And this one from Lost.
- The "Series of Tubes" remix above originated on YTMND, too (though not with the accompanying visuals). Here's the original source, for the curious.
- This YTMND uses this trope to brutally mock Michael Richards's apology for the infamous Laugh Factory incident that probably ended his career.
- Space Ghost Rave wouldn't be out of place at all on Adult Swim, honestly.
Paul Fetch's repetitious and ungrammatical declaration of war against Anonymous got turned into I'M TAKIN' U SRS.
Let's Player raocow's stream-of-conscious style of game commentary has inspired a whole bunch of these. Seriously, so many.
Try this. Recommended for those who have trouble staying awake! Can't sleep, clown will eat me. UN Owen was reeeeeeeeeeeeaally angry.
The folks at the mrbrown show took several soundbites from the National Day address, made by the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, and then remixed them to the rhythm of "My Humps" by the Black-Eyed peas. This one needs a bit of context first: the Prime Minister had made a jarring malapropism when he addressed an earlier podcast by the mrbrown show, in which an aspiring politician can't get his order of noodles, because the hawker has surveillance footage proof that he did not order what he had claimed to. This in itself was referencing an incident that happened during the 2006 General Elections in Singapore. The Prime Minister countered this by saying "I will say, mee siam mai hum", which means "rice vermecilli without cockles". However, the dish of mee siam is never eaten with cockles anyway, which demonstrated how out of touch the Prime Minister, and his scriptwriters, were with the people. It can be argued that he was trying to say hiam, or "chillies/spice", but who eats non-spicy mee siam anyway? At any rate, you can check it out here.
From Singapore, a Miss World candidate brings us the highly-localised 'Boomz' meme. And the Discovery Channel.
The infamous YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO reaction to Boku No Pico has been given a hardstyle mix by Japanese producer USAO. Also, dubstep.
"We No Speak Americano" is an exceeding popular example of this, having become a Top 40 hit in the US.
Coppercab, a YouTuber who posts videos expressing his outrage at the treatment of redhaired people (like himself) by his peers, is a rather hilarious target for this type of thing.
"Dykes Dykes China" by vivitheg takes one of Chris-chan's most infamous rants and makes it catchy as hell.
- There was another one, using her rant/demand for people to remove her "tour of my house" video from various websites, but it's gone now. (Anyone manage to save that one?)
- You can find a lot of these. If you're on the cwcki, chances are the article you're reading has one posted on it.
Honeydew is a dwarf, and he's digging a hole.
Ghost of True Capitalist gets a lot of these from his "fans". And he haaaaates every last one of 'em. ''Melting Pot of Alcohol" is probably the most (in)famous.
Wolfgang, Pass auf! here. The statement, from a video called Reifenverlust, "loss of a tire," quickly became a meme in the German-speaking world. (The title, in case you were wondering, means "Wolfgang, look out!" or "Wolfgang, heads up!")
The RPG Makers decided to challenge someone to do this. This video is all you need.
The "Kids React" series on YouTube has the remix of kids reacting to Nyan Cat.
I Made This For You from the video 'Hot Koolaid'.
The Game Grumps have inspired tons of these, to the point that one fan has compiled six unofficial albums, with 30 or more songs each, and that's barely scratching the surface.
- There have even been a couple in the show itself, made by resident video editor Barry. Most notably, in a playthrough of Mario Party, Jon requested that Barry remix Arin sobbing (as Princess Peach) "Iwonttakeyourjewelsanymorewhatthefuckyoucanhavethemallbackifyouwant!" The result was glorious.
- One fan remixed some of Arin's quotes from the The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask playthrough into a song, which the Grumps enjoyed a ton and made a habit of singing several times on the show.
- Frequent compilations editor, Sbassbear, has made several, such as Diddle Kid (with animation by Ryan Storm) from Arin coming up with things DK could mean while playing Super Mario Odyssey, and various quotes remixed quotes and sudden singing from various games, which was viewed by the Grumps. Allie notes a pattern.
  Allie: Arin, do you think it's weird how often you sing songs about sucking dicks?
JonTron himself has done a couple in his some of the Disney Bootlegs episode of his own show. The first is a remix of himself uttering a Big "OMG!" set to the tune of Circle of Life, in reaction to Simba hanging himself in the Game Over screen of one of the bootlegs. The other is a remix of one of Hitler's speeches to the tune of Hakuna Matata; the speech stays in German, but Jon provides fake subtitles for it.
- You could have called this game 'Bird vs. Camel' and no-one would have argued with you!

In YourMovieSucks.org's review of Cool Cat Saves the Kids, Adam made a beat of Erik Estrada's hammy exclamation of "That kid kicked sand in Cool Cat's face!"
Pure Pwnage: BOOM, HEADSHOT!
Hitler Rants is the gift that keeps on giving, both the usual parodies and more complicated endeavors like Gentleman or Nazi Rock Anthem.
YouTuber MaverickHunterZero75 played with this in his "Top 10 Least Favorite Boss Battles" countdown. While talking about the Komodo Brothers tank battle from Crash Bash, he lampshades that he could make a song from the constant "YOU FAIL!" line, and he did exactly that, creating a small remix of the line using the Gourmet Race theme from Kirby Superstar. See here.
MaverickHunterZero75: "Heck, you can make a song using every single time you hear that. And I did just that!"
DarkSydePhil, who doesn't really like Hideo Kojima, once complained that the credits to Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty contained too many references to his name, joking that even the title should have more Kojima in it. His anti-fan club, the Kojima World Order, took that and just ran with it.
YouTube user Wileyk209zback has compiled the ones he's done from several YouTube Poops over the years into an "album".
Pea Tea 64 loooooooooves making these. Here are some examples.
Back when the "You Are An Idiot" website was still relevant it got its own remix.
Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube.
- One of the viewers made one of these out of a scammer saying to him "Just wait a moment, just wait a moment, sir," among other things, which he subsequently began using a snippet of as intro or intermission music for his videos.
- And another one, sometimes used at the end of the videos: "What do you think, I'm a fool here, bro?"
Twitch streamer Penta played a clip of a dance remix of his shipping comments about the NoPixel characters Wrangler, Peachingle, and Alan Crane, that included soundbites of Penta's impressions of Crane and Peachingle.
Penta: This song...this song does not need to exist. [chuckles] This does not need to exist. This is not something—
[continues playing song]
Penta: I guess it does, though.
Popular British YouTuber ashens released this video and noticed that his breaths were highly audible. (This is due to the camcorder's microphone being directly below his mouth.) So someone decided to isolate them. Then this happens. Stupid Breathing Dance Mix.
- Ashens later reviewed a handheld game called Retieval Mankind's Batman for his popular Popstation Watch videos. He made a passing joke about how the tat looked like a fat Batarang. Then, this video happened.
- Ashens himself made one from an old clip from Columbo. He plays it anytime he needs to show off a device's audio quality instead of playing a licensed song and risking a takedown notice.
Two Finnish guys went ice fishing in 2008, catching a two kilogram whitefish, which one of them found absolutely amazing. The rest is history.
In the late 2000's, some Finnish guys filmed a group of preteen boys acting tough on their skateboards. One of the boys explained the act of sex with, "Well put the dick in the pussy ahh-ahh!" A remix was quickly made of this, with about 660,000 views as of August 2022.

Western Animation

The Boondocks: "A Pimp Named Slickback"
The Secret Show: In "Secret Spider", aliens within the titular spider (which is actually an alien ship) make a rap track with a few of the names used by Changed Daily from past episodes.
SpongeBob SquarePants: WUMBOOOOOO WUMBOOOOOO WUMBO-BO-BO-BO (Not a YouTube video, but it doesn't really matter)
- Is mayonnaise an instrument?
- A canon example: in the movie soundtrack is "Prince Paul's Bubble Party" which remixes lines on the episode Bubblestand.
An in-universe example happens in Fanboy and Chum Chum episode "Put That Cookie Down", where the song is made up of permutations of the Dollar-nator saving the same phrase as the episode's title.
The Simpsons: Homer Simpson's "Rappin' Ronnie Reagan" tape.
Reagan: Well, well, well, we-we-we-we-we, well, well, well, we-we-we-we-we...
Homer: Hee hee. You know what? He did say "well" a lot!
- Someone else made one of Ralph playing an endless game of Duck, Duck, Goose, even after everyone else has long been gone in the German dub. Complete with a video loop.
- Parodied in the show with "Auto-Tune Disaster Victim".
- YouTube user Dankmus has a whole channel full of nothing but Simpsons-related SSDMs. Go nuts.
This video uses lines from the South Park movie mixed to a techno-ish beat.
- "I'm not your friend, buddy!"
- "I hate you guys!"
- Ginger kids
- Suck my balls!
- THEY TOOK URR JOBS!
- "Retard alert!" (French dub)
The Bloodhound Gang did a variant on this with their song "Ralph Wiggum," which is a song made entirely out of quotes by, well, Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons. "I'm a pop sensation," indeed. Though technically, one line was spoken to him, instead of by him.
From the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Three Squares and an Ed" comes Ed's Grounded Rap.
- Even more popular, and older, is Eddy's Dickie Rap.
The Bagel Song, which has Luigi from the Super Mario World cartoon saying "Bagel" over and over again to the tune of "Yakkety Sax."
From Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - XR Remix is mostly a remix of "XR?" "XR!" and some funny clips of the guy.
An in-universe example on Gravity Falls: in Dipper's tale from "Bottomless Pit!", Dipper finds out to his dismay that Soos made a remix of his puberty-cracked voice.
I'm Not Your Boyfriend (dance mix) from Chowder
- The strange part? That was actually from Cartoon Network, not some random remixer.
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears): Lets see how you do against Kung Fu Cutman!
- He's getting my poweeerrrrrsssss!
My Life as a Teenage Robot: But-but-but-but-I am the ro-bot! I am the ro-bot!
The Emperor's New Groove: Yzma would like to tell you her evil plan... to club music! SMASH IT WITH A HAMMA!
Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter's dad has a few YTPMVs dedicated to him repeating the same line over and over.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and we don't want to play favorites, but just Take Our Word for It that there a lot of them. It might be exaggerating to say every line from every episode has been incorporated into one somewhere, but only slightly.
- One particularly noteworthy example is 'Avast Fluttershy's Ass' which, rather than reworking Fluttershy's lines into lyrics, reworks miniscule samples of them (and a few sound effects, such as her kicking a vase) into the melody. Also uses her "Flutterguy" voice to provide bass. It actually became so popular that it received multiple remixes and inspired several imitators.
- The mane theme itself gets this treatment in the opening of Equestria Girls.
- Fluttershy's infamous "You're... going.. to LOVE ME!" speech was given the "SPARTA!" treatment.
- "Night of Pony" sets MLP samples to the Speedy Techno Remix of the Touhou Project song "Flowering Night".
- "The Saddle Row Review" has an in-universe example when Twilight and the others chant "sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep" to DJ Pon-3's upstairs techno beats while sweeping Rarity's new Manehattan boutique. Not surprisingly, the fandom were quick to re-mix it.
Phineas and Ferb gives us several rare canon examples:
- There Is No Candy In Me.
- A bizarrely heartwarming one between Candace and Jeremy.^note
- Lots of Me, a rap derived from the Madness Mantra of the zombie pharmacists.
- The digital remix of the viral video of Doofenshmirtz skating into a toilet (originally from "Tip of the Day") shown in "This is Your Backstory".
- Let's not forget this one.
  Candace: Mom! Phineas and Ferb are digitally tuning my voice!
Aqua Teen Hunger Force also has a canon example, which serves as the end credits song. Three words: Dancing is Forbidden.
Adventure Time:
- A canon example has Jake make one out of the old recordings of Dad in Dad's Dungeon.
- Jake's "Bacon Pancakes" song got a very catchy mashup with "Empire State of Mind".
- Punch Your Buns- Ryden Ridge Remix [3]
The Cleveland Show: Rallo and Junior made a remix video of Donna throwing frappuccino in Cleveland's face.
The Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Star on Wheels" has a Beastie Boys-style rap that uses Marco's cry that Star is in "trouble, trouble, t-t-t-trouble! as a beat.
Transformers: Prime:
- It's like a turducken!
- There was also one for the DNGS, and another one for All Hail Starscream! - in all cases, made by The Hub themselves, and used in ads for the Huboom block.
- An In-Universe example - Soundwave does it to Optimus Prime while being interrogated. Miko's quick to lampshade:
  Whoa! Optimus Prime, the remix.
Cartoon Network used to run bumpers with remixes based on catch phrases of Looney Tunes characters; "Wascally Wemix"(Elmer Fudd), "Pork Jam"(Porky Pig) and "Mars Forever"(Marvin the Martian). Also this tribute to Atom Ant, combining Atom Ant's Catchphrase ("Up and at'em, Atom Ant!") with clips from a '50s educational film about atomic bomb safety.
Tumblr user "chongthenomad" made several from The Legend of Korra, the most famous being a remix of Tahno's "private lessons" line.
In-universe example in Code Lyoko: "BREAK BREAK BREAK DANCE!"
Scooby-Doo: Scooby's Mystery Mix by Craig DeGraff and E.J. Dick.
I think it's groovy. I-I-I think it's groovy. Groovy, guys. Groovy, guys. Really! Oh no, he's losing control!
Hey Arnold! seemed particularly fond of using these for end credits music. For example: Slippage.
King of the Hill:
- "Turn Down for Hwat!"
- "Hotdog.jpg"
Rick and Morty: Somebody summoned a Mr. Meeseeks and asked if he could inspire a wonderfully hilarious ear worm in their honor. Mr. Meeseeks' reply: "CAAAAAAAN DO!" This one has an impressive amount of effort put into it compared to many other SSDMs, including real instrumentation and even a key change partway through.
- For those wanting more, the same creator has another, so just "Get Your Shit Together".
Garfield and Friends:
- "You Are A Pirate (Wanted: Wade version)", a remix of "You Are A Pirate" and sound clips from the U.S. Acres segment "Wanted: Wade".
- "Time To Aloysius Pig!", remixing dialogue of Aloysius Pig from U.S. Acres from all of his episodes to the song "Time to Air!".
Gravity Falls: Inverse example in "Bottomless Pit!", where Soos makes a mix using Dipper’s "squeaky puberty voice."

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Tear open the heavens! Gather brother soul blades!. It synced perfectly enough to make a DanceDanceRevolution stepfile for simulators to it.
Charlie bit my finger
Not exactly an example of this trope as it isn't a celebrity or movie quote, but instead about how astronomer Patrick Moore plays the xylophone (or least he did till arthritis stopped him). "Par-pa-pa-pa-pa-Patrick!"
Robert Byrd's "Barbaric" speech got the treatment in this YTMND.
L. Ron Hubbard said a lot of stupid things that make a great remix
German late-night commedian Stefan Raab has done quite a few of these, most famously involving the german chancelor singing "Go get me a bottle of beer, else I'm going on strike!"
- Though his canonical example of the trope may just be 'Maschen-Draht-Zaun'.
Nafiza Ziyad, who's apparently PRESSIN CHARGES
Dude, you have no Koran!
A more serious take on this can be found here. It takes statements made by politicians and media commentators and remixes them into songs, in order to make a statement on the power of the media.
Dennis Green's "The Bears are who we thought they were!" rant became the "Crown Their Ass Remix."
Even talking cats are not immune to this. Oh Don Piano!
- "Oh My Dog" by Synth-Pop duo Reed & Caroline is based on the same source material- as a slight variation on the trope, they don't use the original audio, but the cat's "words" are used as song lyrics. The result just sounds like a trippy song with Word Salad Lyrics if you're not familiar with the meme. Naturally live performances include projected videos of the cat.
I Rub My Roast.
Super Timor!
Developers, developers, developers, developers! (Steve Ballmer)
This YouTube channel is entirely based on pasting the "I'm Black Y'all" rap from the hip-hop mockumentary CB 4 over various VGM songs. With hilarious results, of course.
Stark Effect's Mic In-Track, an EP of techno songs based around anonymous internet-users' home recordings, which were unwittingly shared on peer-to-peer file-sharing programs due to being left in the same folder as their shared music. "Bunny Rabbits Satan Cheese And Milk" and "Eeples And Beeneenees" best fit the stupid statement dance mix formula. "I Miss You", juxtaposing a woman's simple love message with an unrelated recording of a man pleading for an ex to take him back, is actually kind of sad.
If this statement is false, then this statement is true. And Alfred Tarski can't save you now, bitch.
Looks like a alien invaduh!
- I love GIRUGAMES.
This isn't so much a Stupid Statement Dance Mix as it is an Incoherent Noises Dance Mix, but it still kicks ass.
They're making dance mixes using words from a hot-blooded tennis player? WHAT?!
Everything Renard has ever made.
Cake slop now also has its own SSDM.
SLAYER!
Here's one in Cantonese, taken from the Bus Uncle video.
Fall on Your Sword have produced a few, most notably Shatner on the Mount, though to be fair, a full album of Stupid Statement Dance Mixes could probably be made from but a fraction of Shatner's ramblings.
The Tiger Woods voicemail slowjam.
Here is an example of how a SSDM can be used to pay tribute to the most iconic figure in Professional Wrestling.
Bring a chicken to the doctor.
Somebody call an AMBERLAMPS!
- Whoa-oh Black Betty -AMBERLAMPS!- Yeah-ha Black Betty -AMBERLAMPS!-
Not a "statement" really, but a dog that makes strange noises when its owner attempts to hold its mouth shut has inspired several remixes, including hip hop, dubstep, trololo, and of course the ubiquitous sparta mix.
Courtesy of Vangaurd on Current TV: Dr. Martin Ssempa who can't tell the difference between shock videos, coprophagia and homosexuality: Dey Eat Da Poo Poo!
- Here are some more.
I'm interested in most phases of data processing
Do you like the smell of adventure?
DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY!
- Now 20% cooler.
The many "We're Brothers Forever" remixes surely qualify.
Here's one that spans over 75 years of video media.
Bill O'Reilly WE'LL DO IT LIVE! No good "The tide comes in, the tide goes out" remixes yet, though.
- Correction!
How many times they take yo pitcha, Patti? THREE TIMES!!!
Didier Drogba's "It's a Disgrace" after Chelsea's UEFA Champions League loss.
Footballer Charlie Austin went viral in November 2018 after someone took a post-match interview in which he disparaged the referee, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdxZjRHq2SM and set it to]] "Parklife" by Blur.
- Fulham manager Scott Parker similarly went viral in August 2020 after someone noticed that his post-match interview following Fulham's playoff final win over Brentford sounded like a song by The Streets.
This marvellous mash-up of several Alan Rickman roles.
Here's a "Sparta Rickroll Remix".
Symphony of Science videos are videos made in this manner using quotes from various scientists as a homage to science.
YouTube Comment: I just got rickrolled by some retarded kid with an orange coming out his nose...
I got bronchitis - ain’t nobody got time for that!
- There's another one!
Politician Howard Dean's surprisingly enthusiastic speech after the 2004 Iowa Caucus (he came in third, after investing very heavily in the state) spawned a number of dance remixes.
Believe it or not, these were made far before the internet. Take a look at Mozart's canon Leck Mich Im Arsch, a song where the only lyrics are a particularly amusing line from Götz von Berlichingen repeated over and over.
Ladies and Germs, behold the Farting Preacher Dance Remix. Clearly, we as a society have reached the pinnacle of something here, it's just hard to say what.
A genre of video from Japan called "gachimuchi" (a Japanese term for big, muscular men) involves making a Stupid Statement Dance Mix out of gay porn, mostly those involving adult film star Billy Herrington. The results are... weird.
Swedemason, the creator of Jungle All The Way (aka the "PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN" song) has an entire YouTube channel full of these. One of them, "MasterChef Synesthesia" aka "Buttery Biscuit Bass", actually made the UK Top 40 and even became an Ascended Meme.
"I shit my pants last night", or how to turn a baseball player's story about his Potty Failure into a hilarious and surprisingly catchy song.
9+10=21 Dubstep Remix.
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"I am not an atomic playboy". Admiral William H.P. Blandy recited the phrase while making a speech regarding the underwater atomic bomb testing at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Then in the 80s, someone stumbled upon footage of the speech. The result was several stupid statement dance mixes centered around this one particular sentence.
"HUGH MUNGUS WOT‽"
"Regardless of the scoreboard..." Both inspirational and memetic, courtesy of Apollos Hester.
A recruitment video posted by a Texas sorority became memetic due to presenting their pledge chant in an unintentionally creepy way. Eventually said chant received a hip hop remix.
This thread on rpg.net is essentially a text-based version.
In one sermon, televangelist Kenneth Copeland called upon "the wind of God" to destroy the COVID-19 Pandemic - YouTube comedy channel wtfbrahh provided a hip hop styled remix
Paula White's 2020 election night prayer, in heavy metal style, dance music style, and hip-hop style. Also to the tune of Eminem's "Lose Yourself".