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This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.


Working Title: Interrupted Musical Number: From YKTTW

Clarabell: Does it count if someone's song is interrupted by different music? I have two examples of that. Feel free to add them if they apply:

Western Animation

  • In Shrek's Swamp Karaoke Dance Special, a couple songs are cut short by other songs before they get to the juicy parts (for one, Fiona never reaches the chorus of "Like a virgin"). In particular:
    Donkey: ... When a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist / And a round thing in your face / You get ...
    Thelonious: Feelings ...

Opera

  • In an example spectacularly suited to the trope name, Wagner's legendary pair in Tristan und Isolde are singing a gargantuan love duet only to be interrupted by the king and his men, who find them nearly ... climaxing. All together now ...


Fluffyskunk: Shouldn't this be Musica Interrupta? :-3

  • Clarabell: Probably. I suggested the name, but I have essentially no knowledge of Latin grammar.

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