History Main / OrganGrinder

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: In ''Hurdy-Gurdy Hare'', BugsBunny takes over an organ grinder monkey's job after he catches the real monkey pocketing the profits, then has to contend with the monkey's gorilla friend.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: In ''Hurdy-Gurdy Hare'', BugsBunny takes over an organ grinder monkey's job after he catches the real monkey pocketing the profits.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: BugsBunny pretended to be the monkey working with an organ grinder in one of his cartoons, after he caught the real monkey pocketing the profits.

* In the Shirley Temple version of Literature/{{Heidi}}, an organ grinder's monkey makes its way to the window of the Sesemann's mansion on a cold snowy day; HilarityEnsues when Heidi is moved by both her compassion and the monkey's politeness to let it inside.

-->'''Crow:''' WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE SHUT UP THE ORGAN GRINDER?

* PrincessTutu gave us Edel. Her organ grinder was also a portable jewelry display case since she sold the trinkets.

* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' the Penguin's circus gang had an evil organ grinder amongst their ranks. (actually he was apparently very high in command) His organ contained a hand cranked machine gun. (In the Super Nintendo game based on the movie, he fires bullets at Batman and then just tries to hit Batman with the organ when he gets too close.)
** If you think about it, it was kind of a stretch, since organ grinders are usually thought of as stand-alone street entertainers rather than members of circus troupes.

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* LooneyTunes: BugsBunny pretended to be the monkey working with an organ grinder in one of his cartoons, after he caught the real monkey pocketing the profits.

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* An organ grinder appears in the "Rhapsody In Blue" segment of ''{{Fantasia}}/2000''.
* In the Droopy cartoon ''Dixieland Droopy'', Droop practices being a jazz band conductor to a record, but after he's kicked out of his home, he looks for other places to play the record, and one of them is an organ grinder's organ.

* ''LegendOfZelda'' - In ''OcarinaOfTime'', Link learns the Song of Storms from such a guy.
** In ''MajorasMask'', the Organ Grinder is part of a subquest to gain one of the masks.
** The Organ Guy makes a cameo in one or both of TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames.

* In ''BatmanReturns'' the Penguin's circus gang had an evil organ grinder amongst their ranks. (actually he was apparently very high in command) His organ contained a hand cranked machine gun. (In the Super Nintendo game based on the movie, he fires bullets at Batman and then just tries to hit Batman with the organ when he gets too close.)

* An organ grinder occasionally shows up in ''CowAndChicken'', though the monkey has since decomposed into a skeleton and the machine is literally grinding organs into powder. (It's uncertain as to whether the machine is grinding the musical instrument or body parts.)
* Monkey from ''DextersLaboratory'' had an enemy who was a hypnotic organ grinder.

* In ''BatmanReturns'' the Penguin's circus gang had an evil organ grinder amongst their ranks. (actually he was apparently very high in command) His organ contained a hand cranked machine gun.

More or less a DeadHorseTrope these days, but expect them to pop up in stories set in the 19th and early 20th century.

* BugsBunny pretended to be the monkey working with an organ grinder in one of his cartoons, after he caught the real monkey pocketing the profits.

* ''LegendOfZelda'' - In ''TheOcarinaOfTime'', Link learns the Song of Storms from such a guy.

A specific type of StreetPerformer, the Organ Grinder is a StreetMusician who would make a living turning the crank on a self-performing organ (sometimes called a hurdy-gurdy), usually with a trained monkey on a leash dancing around--alternatively, the monkey is the one turning the organ, and the human is just there to hold the leash.

* In BatmanReturns the Penguin's circus gang had an evil organ grinder amongst their ranks. (actually he was apparently very high in command) His organ contained a hand cranked machine gun.
* Tia Dalma uses an organ grinder as a signal to some of the Black Pearl pirates in PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End.

* LegendOfZelda - In ''The Ocarina of Time'', Link learns the Song of Storms from such a guy.
** In ''Majora's Mask'', the Organ Grinder is part of a subquest to gain one of the masks.

See also OneManBand. [[IThoughtItMeant Not related to ptting someone's privates in a meatgrinder.]]

See also OneManBand.

A specific type of StreetPerformer, the Organ Grinder is a StreetMusician who would make a living turning the crank on a self-performing organ--alternatively, a trained monkey is the one turning the organ, and the human is just there to hold the leash.

* BugsBunny pretended to be the monkey working with an organ grinder in one of his cartoons.

* In ''HeyArnold'' Helga gets bit by an organ grinder's monkey.