History Main / OrganGrinder

* ''Eden Weint Im Grab'''s ''Moritat des Leierkastenmanns'' (''Murder ballad of the OrganGrinder'') feartures one as first person narrator.

See also OneManBand.

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

* An organ grinder appears in the "Rhapsody In Blue" segment of ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: In ''Hurdy-Gurdy Hare'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny takes over an organ grinder's monkey's job after he catches the real monkey pocketing the profits.
* An organ grinder occasionally shows up in ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had an enemy who was a hypnotic organ grinder.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' Helga gets bit by an organ grinder's monkey.

* 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.
* The ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Organ Grinder's Swing" has Wimpy being one of these.

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

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* In ''Film/{{Scarface 1932}}'', there's one outside that amuses Cesca.

* ''Literature/TheThinkingMachine'': In "The Problem of the Organ Grinder", Van Dusen investigates when an organ grinder's monkey is tabbed to death while Hatch is held at knifepoint. The organ grinder is later found beaten into unconsciousness in an alleyway.

* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'' the Penguin's circus gang had an evil organ grinder amongst their ranks, and he was apparently very high in command. His organ contained a hand cranked machine gun, and 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. His very presence was also kind of a stretch, since organ grinders are usually thought of as stand-alone street entertainers rather than members of circus troupes.

* Tia Dalma uses an organ grinder as a signal to some of the Black Pearl pirates in ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End''.

* In Creator/BusterKeaton film ''Film/TheCameraman'', Buster is in hot pursuit of a story to film when he crashes right into an organ grinder and his monkey. The monkey appears to be dead, so Buster has to pay the organ grinder. The monkey is only stunned, however, and soon wakes up to make more complications for Buster.

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* Drocell Keinz in the anime adaptation of BlackButler was first introduced carrying an organ grinder which played [[IronicNurseryRhyme My Fair Lady]].

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* In ''Film/ThePoorLittleRichGirl'', the titular LonelyRichKid hears an organ grinder (without a monkey) and pays him to come into her house.

* In Creator/BusterKeaton film ''Film/TheCameraman'', Buster is in hot pursuit of a story to film when he crashes right into an organ grinder and his monkey. The monkey appears to be dead, so Buster has to pay the organ grinder. The monkey is only stunned, however, and soon wakes up to make more complications for Buster.

* In Soviet propaganda film ''Film/{{Strike}}'', an organ grinder with a dancing bear appears. He is actually a spy sent by management to spy on the striking workers.

* The first shot of ''Film/ScarletStreet'' shows an organ grinder and his monkey performing on a sidewalk. This is either {{Foreshadowing}} of or symbolism for how the milquetoast protagonist is controlled and manipulated by his FemmeFatale lover.

* One can be seen on the street in one scene of the Mexican film ''Film/SantaClaus1959''. He's easy to miss, unless you're watching the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version:

* In Margaret Sidney's ''Five Little Peppers and How They Grew'' an organ grinder stopped at their house and was offered food in lieu of money. While he scorned the brown bread and cold potatoes which were all they had, the monkey gobbled it right down. Then Phronsie, the "baby" followed him due to being fascinated by the music and the monkey and the other children had to chase after them.

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

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

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonoured}}'' has the Overseer Music Boxes, organ grinders worn by the [[ChurchMilitant foot soldiers]] of the Abby of the Everyman. The music boxes [[AntiMagic negate the magic]] of the [[HumanoidAbomination Outsider]] by creating "mathematically pure notes" and can attack with waves of sound.

* One can be seen on the street in one scene of the Mexican film ''Film/SantaClaus''. He's easy to miss, unless you're watching the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version: