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The TVTropes Trope Finder is where you can come to ask questions like "Do we have this one?" and "What's the trope about...?" Trying to rediscover a long lost show or other medium but need a little help? Head to Media Finder and try your luck there. Want to propose a new trope? You should be over at the Trope Launch Pad.

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AussieEvil Since: Sep, 2009
2011-07-24 09:44:15

Er, not that. Something like Hey Its That Guy for music...

Bealocwealm Since: May, 2019
2011-07-24 10:22:26

Examples: In episode 8 of The Joker Blogs, Patient 4479 hums a tune as he pulls the fire alarm and saunters out of the building. The tune may be recognizable as the Joker theme from the Animated Series!

In an early episode of X-Men: Evolution, there is a slow zoom out from the swimming pool where the students are having fun. An oddly familiar theme plays — it's the theme from the X-Men animated series, rather than the Evolutions theme!

In about a dozen SMBC Theatre sketches, as well as videos all over the web, when a character gets deeply, darkly creepy, the low whining drone of Hans Zimmer's Joker theme will play.

In an Elitches Garden Halloween attraction in Denver several years ago, several recognizable themes like Tubular Bells played. One method of disguising a tune that is copyrighted is to basically 'flip' the notes upside down (makes sense if you've ever done table music). This Troper was the only one familiar enough with the original to realize that they were using a flipped version of the main theme from The Elephant Man as part of their Halloween music!

97.89.55.123 Since: Dec, 1969
2011-07-24 22:05:29

Shout Out or Standard Snippet would probably be the closest things to what you're looking for.

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