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* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVersusTheWorld'': In the first episode of season one, the first contestant is silhouetted as they enter, gradually revealed by a rising curtain. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's majestic "Wellington's Victory" plays while the camera focuses on sparkly high-heeled shoes and a long, elegant dress -- a WholeCostumeReference to UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales -- only for the music to falter and stops when the contestant is revealed as Baga Chipz, a British DragQueen known for bawdy humour, not fashion and style.

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* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVersusTheWorld'': ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVsTheWorld'': In the first episode of season one, the first contestant is silhouetted as they enter, gradually revealed by a rising curtain. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's majestic "Wellington's Victory" plays while the camera focuses on sparkly high-heeled shoes and a long, elegant dress -- a WholeCostumeReference to UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales -- only for the music to falter and stops when the contestant is revealed as Baga Chipz, a British DragQueen known for bawdy humour, not fashion and style.
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* ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceUKVersusTheWorld'': In the first episode of season one, the first contestant is silhouetted as they enter, gradually revealed by a rising curtain. Music/LudwigVanBeethoven's majestic "Wellington's Victory" plays while the camera focuses on sparkly high-heeled shoes and a long, elegant dress -- a WholeCostumeReference to UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales -- only for the music to falter and stops when the contestant is revealed as Baga Chipz, a British DragQueen known for bawdy humour, not fashion and style.
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* One PSA starts by showing a photo of a baby set to Brahm’s Lullaby. Just seconds in, the song begins to slow to a halt as it gradually fades into another photo of a different malnourished child, then fading to the words “BIAFRA”. The worst part about this PSA is that it lasts roughly ''one minute'', meaning you’ll probably never hear Brahm’s Lullaby the same way again.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E34PuppyPalooza Puppy Palooza]]," the music swells as Molly and her dad rush to the truck to make it to the Ookami's kennel. But it dies again as Walter throws the truck into reverse and gets the tires stuck in the mud.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheCaveOfTwoLovers The Cave of Two Lovers]]": Uncle Iroh accidentaly poisons himself when trying to brew tea from a wild bush, but soon after finds some berries that could serve as a cure. A soft, calming music plays while he explains that they can cure the poison... and then goes away when he mentions they could also be a different kind of berries that cause blindness.
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* The Sheep Strike in ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' has "La Marseillaise" as background music, which deflates as the sheep explode.
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** In one of the Big Finish audio dramas, Leela is shot and is just starting on her death speech when [[FailedAttemptAtDrama Romana points out that it only winged her and she's fine]]. The dramatic background music immediately grinds to a halt.
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* ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}: The jukebox in the malt shop is hastily unplugged out of concern that the banned rock n'roll music coming from it could be heard outside, and the song continues for a second before finally going silent. Oddly enough, when the jukebox is re-activated a minute later, it starts again from the beginning, despite the fact that record players of that era usually just played on from wherever the needle was dropped.
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* The quartet playing at Snidely's garden party in the [[Film/DudleyDoRight live-action Dudley Do-Right film]] trail off when they hear a motorbike gradually getting louder, which turns out to be Dudley when he clears the wall and lands amongst the gathering as part of his FaceHeelTurn.
* ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'': The musicians playing at Camp's party have the sense of timing to haphazardly stop playing after Ace eventually emerges from the bathroom with his pants wet and shredded (which is a NoodleIncident InUniverse, but not for the audience).

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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'':
** When Biff marches in to throw George [=McFly=] out of the diner, someone else in the room apparently had enough sense of dramatic tension to unplug the jukebox at that ''exact'' moment.
** An even straighter example at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance near the end of the film, when Marty is playing [[StableTimeLoop Johnny B. Goode]] with the dance's live band. Marty gets so into the music [[ChewingTheScenery that he starts playing insanely]] -- the other band members, confused and somewhat appalled, simply stop following along and Marty continues solo. He finally notices when his last ear-piercing note ends and the ENTIRE room is just staring at him gormlessly like he's a crazy person.

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** *** When Biff marches in to throw George [=McFly=] out of the diner, someone else in the room apparently had enough sense of dramatic tension to unplug the jukebox at that ''exact'' moment.
** *** An even straighter example at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance near the end of the film, when Marty is playing [[StableTimeLoop Johnny B. Goode]] with the dance's live band. Marty gets so into the music [[ChewingTheScenery that he starts playing insanely]] -- the other band members, confused and somewhat appalled, simply stop following along and Marty continues solo. He finally notices when his last ear-piercing note ends and the ENTIRE room is just staring at him gormlessly like he's a crazy person.person.
** ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII'': At the Hill Valley town festival on September 5th, 1885, Doc and Clara are dancing when Buford Tannen points a derringer pistol at Doc's back. Clara agrees to a dance with Buford in an attempt to defuse the situation, till a lecherous comment from him leads her to kick him in his shin, and he shoves her to the ground, making the band stop and Buford is about to shoot Doc before Marty intervenes by throwing a pie-tin as a frisbee at Buford. This, in turn, leads to a tense standoff between Marty and Buford where they agree to a duel before Marshall Strickland intervenes, telling them to stand down and asking the band to resume playing music.


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* ''Film/FoolsRushIn'': Isabel invites Alex to a family dinner to introduce him to her Mexican-American family. After they arrive, the music stops when they see he's white, and it only starts again when Isabel's ex-boyfriend Chuy asks the band to resume.
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* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': In "The Middle Years," John daydreams a FantasySequence in which his comely new widow neighbor dances seductively and then opens her long coat, the better to show off her tight and skimpy red dress. Classic strip-tease music is heard while she does so -- but when John's wife Ellen calls out to interrupt his reverie, the strip-tease music quickly winds down until it stops.

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* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': In "The Middle Years," John daydreams a FantasySequence in which his comely new widow neighbor dances seductively and then [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn opens her long coat, the better to show off her tight and skimpy red dress. Classic strip-tease music is heard while she does so so]] -- but when John's wife Ellen calls out to interrupt his reverie, the strip-tease music quickly winds down until it stops.
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* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': In "The Middle Years," John daydreams a FantasySequence in which his comely new widow neighbor dances seductively and then opens her long coat, the better to show off her tight and skimpy red dress. Classic strip-tease music is heard while she does so -- but when John's wife Ellen calls out to interrupt his reverie, the strip-tease music quickly winds down until it stops.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' does this a few times:

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* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' does this quite a few times:



** In "Neptune's Spatula", when Neptune sees the less-than-impressive results of making Spongebob a god.

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** In "I Was a Teenage Gary", Squidward accidentally injects [=Spongebob=] with snail plasma meant for Gary, causing him to exhibit snail-like traits before turning into one himself. In one such scene, [=SpongeBob=] starts walking at a snail's pace, causing his voice ''and'' the background music to gradually slow down.
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Gary, you're getting a lot... ''faaaaster''.
** In "Neptune's Spatula", when Neptune sees the less-than-impressive results of making Spongebob [=Spongebob=] a god.
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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': "Ego Death", the theme accompanying the fight between [[ComicBook/XMen Magneto]] and [[Manga/{{AKIRA}} Tetsuo]], suddenly becomes much more stripped down before finally petering out after [[spoiler:Tetsuo's SuicideByCop ends with him getting shot in the head by Magneto]].
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* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'':

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* In season 3 of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRaceDownUnder'', one episode ends unexpectedly when a contestant faints immediately before the usual "lip sync battle" to avoid elimination. The next episode uses this for a CreditsGag, with the opening music grinding to a halt and the credits cutting to [=RuPaul=], sitting alone at the judges' desk, before the rescheduled lip sync starts.
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* PlayedForHorror in ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives''. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1kkSkXSgi4&list=PLLETAMxb4wBIcBTFnpvy4bRMn361HQos_&index=9 December 30, 1999]]" has the music from the 1998 Creator/KlaskyCsupo VanityPlate slow down to a crawl as Splaat's eyes turn completely pitch black.
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** Occurs again in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesAimToBeAPokemonMaster'' when Ash and Misty are having a fishing contest over a wild Clauncher. They cast their lines, the triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBzQ51Bss0 "I Got A Pokémon"]] theme from the original series starts playing, only to peter out during the TimeCompressionMontage as his {{mons}} start falling asleep.

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** Occurs again in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesAimToBeAPokemonMaster'' ''Anime/PokemonToBeAPokemonMaster'' when Ash and Misty are having a fishing contest over a wild Clauncher. They cast their lines, the triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBzQ51Bss0 "I Got A Pokémon"]] theme from the original series starts playing, only to peter out during the TimeCompressionMontage as his {{mons}} start falling asleep.
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** Inverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" when Rory encounters all of the decommissioned Daleks and they start to wake up. One of them, the first one, stares at him and starts saying "EGGS... EGGS... EGGS..." When Rory tries to figure out exactly why it's asking about eggs, that's when the Dalek fully wakes up. It's only then [[OhCrap that Rory realizes that the Dalek was trying to say]] "[[{{Catchphrase}} EXTERMINATE]]"...

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** Inverted in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" when Rory encounters all of the decommissioned Daleks and they start to wake up. One of them, the first one, stares at him and starts saying "EGGS... EGGS... EGGS..." When Rory tries to figure out exactly why it's asking about eggs, that's when the Dalek fully wakes up. It's only then [[OhCrap that Rory realizes that the Dalek was trying to say]] "[[{{Catchphrase}} EXTERMINATE]]"..."EXTERMINATE"...

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* A 2019 radio ad for Bounty paper towels features the song "Red Red Wine" by [=UB40=]. The song dies down when it's implied that the unseen person spilled their red wine but after they are told to use a Bounty paper towel to clean it up, the song picks back up.

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A 2019 radio ad for Bounty paper towels features the song "Red Red Wine" by [=UB40=]. The song dies down when it's implied that the unseen person spilled their red wine but after they are told to use a Bounty paper towel to clean it up, the song picks back up.




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* ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames'': Usually, the song played in Jump Forever ("Drifting Away" by default, but also the one chosen in a later session) will play at the same speed as that of the swinging rope. But once Wario inevitably trips on, the music's speed and pitch deflates until total silence and the minigame ends.
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* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "Best Day Ever", the boastful and proud Beacon Academy theme peters out the first time when Yang is hit in the face with a tomato, then later drones and crashes to a halt when Nora throws a pie at Weiss's face, kicking off the epic FoodFight. They even left it in the soundtrack!

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "Best Day Ever", the boastful and proud Beacon Academy theme peters out the first time episode of Volume 2, Ruby's speech about planning the best day ever for her team's final day before the new semester begins is accompanied by the uplifting and swelling theme that's associated with showing off Beacon Academy. However, Yang's response is a terrible pun about kicking off "the semester with a yang", which results in the music suddenly going off-key and staggering to a discordant halt. It then resumes when Yang is Ruby continues her speech. When Weiss stands up to make a speech of her own, a new bombastic theme begins; however, she and the music barely get started before she's hit in the face by a pie that's meant for Yang. The music gives up and winds down with a tomato, then later drones and crashes to a halt when comedic woodwind sign-off that ends with the culprit, Nora throws a pie trying to point fingers at Weiss's face, kicking off the epic FoodFight. They even left it her team, who have frozen in the soundtrack!classic MonkeyMoralityPose.

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* In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', getting a D or E rank on a mission will cause the normal version of the main theme to be replaced by a tune that sounds like a horrible elementary/high school band trying to play the same theme after the initial lead up.

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** In ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', this also happens to the victory fanfare if you fail a mission.



* In ''VideoGame/SonicForces'', this happens to the victory fanfare if you fail a mission.
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* Happens a couple times in ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'':

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', after capturing the Super Star, the Koopa Troop celebrate with a wild party, complete with a heavy metal band rocking out. While hyping his minions, Bowser announces that his plans for conquest are going to start with marrying Peach in a "fairy tale wedding" (and he uses those exact words). Hearing this, all of the minions, including the ones in the band, quiet down in confusion.
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* Used in Season 2 of the cooking competition ''Next Level Chef''. In one episode, Matt failed to grab potatoes for his dish, but he cheers up upon hearing the mid-round ingredient is a starch (assuming it would be potatoes)... only for the music to gradually slow down when he sees the ingredient he has to use is ''plantains''.
* Twice in ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace All-Stars'' Season 7.
** Creator/JinkxMonsoon's werkroom entrance has the music grind to a halt as she stands there and says "[[BadBadActing ...Line?]]"
** One of Trinity the Tuck's impersonations for the season's Snatch Game is Creator/LeslieJordan. When Creator/RuPaul introduces "Leslie", he can't quite reach the podium, and the music comes to a stop when the camera shows only the top of his head.
-->'''Leslie!Trinity:''' Can somebody get me a booster?
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* ''WebAnimation/LooneyTunesIntroBloopers'': Usually, the Looney Tunes theme will slow to a halt whenever the wrong letters and logos show up.
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* ''Series/BarRescue'': Happens upon TheReveal of the redo of Underground Wonder Bar, when they zoom in on owner Lonie. While the rest of the staff is celebrating, she is ''not'' happy.
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** Occurs again in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesAimToBeAPokemonMaster'' when Ash and Misty are having a fishing contest over a wild Clauncher. They cast their lines, the triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PBzQ51Bss0 "I Got A Pokémon"]] theme from the original series starts playing, only to peter out during the TimeCompressionMontage as his {{mons}} start falling asleep.
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* ''[[VideoGame/{{Burnout}} Burnout Paradise]]'': The Hunter Calvary Bootlegger and its toy counterpart both come with a horn that resembles the [[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard General Lee]]. Wrecking or having a driveaway accident[[note]]By triggering a cinematic crash with all the wheels still intact.[[/note]] while the horn is playing, it suddently stops.

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