Quotes / Suspiciously Similar Song

Nirvana stole the riff from KJ;
KJ stole the riff from Damned;
Damned stole the riff from the Moody Blues;
Moody Blues stole the riff from Chuck Berry;
Chuck Berry stole the riff from Glen Miller; [sic]
Glen Miller stole the riff from Gershwin;
Gershwin stole the riff from an Irish folk song;
The Irish stole the riff from a Medieval knight chant;
Medieval knights stole the riff from a Hebrew prayer;
The Hebrews stole the riff from Pagan priests;
Pagans stole the riff from sub-Saharan aborigines;
Aborigines stole the riff from Australopithecus Africanus;
Australopithecus Africanus, after eating too many beans one night, created the riff...

—A YouTube comment on Killing Joke - Eighties, deconstructing the concept.

(Tama plays a very similar sounding song)
Kagura: Sounds like Rocky.
Gintoki: She's playing a Rocky-ish theme.
Kagura: It sounds similar, but...
Gintoki: It's the stuffs adults worry about, you know, like getting into trouble if you use the real theme.

—Gintama

Couldn't get the rights
To "I'm a Believer"
But it was in Shrek
So like us, too!

—Obscurus Lupa on "It's Our World", the theme to Foodfight!

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