History Main / RecordNeedleScratch

* A common Internet [[MemeticMutation meme]] (First started on Website/FourChan, now usually seen on Website/{{Tumblr}}) involves someone posting a screencap from a piece of media featuring a random scene (Often an amusing one), accompanied with the following caption:

* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. This is used in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llF2HEJAYB0 Scammer Expected $5,000 But Grandma Buys A Scooter]]" when his Granny Edna character is the middle of thanking "Amazon" for having given her $5,000 that she used to buy a scooter complete with a schmaltzy piano tune playing in the background and the scammer tells her she has to send the money back.

* Bizarrely averted by ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. When Morpheus's team breaks into club Hel, The Merovingian shouts for silence. The scene then cuts to a [=DJ=] scratching on two turntables looking up...then hitting the "stop" button on his deck. This is noted in the {{Podcast/Rifftrax}} of this film as well.

* And to prove that this trope even functions in a silent medium, there's [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070711 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip, wherein Aylee's interruption of a story told by another character includes a panel showing an actual record player with the appropriate WrittenSoundEffect.

* In the first episode of Series 44 of ''Radio/TheNowShow'', David Quantick's monologue on The Proms has a record needle scratch when he reveals they aren't playing any modern music. The monologue is then interrupted by Steve Punt pointing out that a modern audience won't recognise it ("No-one listens to vinyl any more except [[Music/MitchBenn Mitch]], and he lives in a caravan!") Quantick suggests a CD stuttering as a replacement, but that's not modern enough either, so they eventually go for "the sound of an UsefulNotes/MP3 not playing", and the monologue resumes:

The plot is moving at a predictable pace toward a foregone conclusion. Suddenly, something shocking happens, disrupting the action and going off somewhere totally unexpected. With the sound of a phonograph needle being pulled violently across a vinyl record, the BackgroundMusic, along with everything else, comes to a [[IncrediblyLamePun screeching halt]].

The plot is moving at a predictable pace toward a foregone conclusion. Suddenly, something shocking happens, disrupting the action and going off somewhere totally unexpected. With the sound of a phonograph needle being pulled violently across a vinyl record, the BackgroundMusic, along with everything else, comes to a screeching halt.

* Music/{{Anathema}}'s "Judgement" [[LastNoteNightmare suddenly ends with this]].

A variant is LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand, which happens when you cut the juice to the rotation motor without jerking the needle. Do not confuse with MusicalisInterruptus. Compare ScreechingStop. Depending on the circumstances, the MomentKiller may be responsible. When it's BackgroundMusic going silent, see SuddenSoundtrackStop. Can be used to accompany a humorous DoubleTake. Related to BrokenRecord, a gag based on the RepetitiveAudioGlitch that happens when a vinyl record gets a scratch and starts to skip and repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat....

** A less subtle version of this happened in the 2010 parade during presentation of the ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' float. Right when the hosts paused after giving a description of the float, one of these played as the Milton [=DeLugg=] score gave way to a disco song, which served as a cue for the Minions to "steal" the scaled-down Statue of Liberty. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmsnvOQMT28 See it here.]]

* In-movie example in ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'' as a terrified Mrs. Pingleton bursts into Motormouth Maybelle's record store to grab her daughter away, and yanks the needle off a record.

* In-movie example in ''Film/{{Hairspray}}'' as a terrified Mrs. Pingleton bursts into Motormouth Maybelle's record store to grab her daughter away, and yanks the needle off a record.

** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod Like Angels Put in Hell by God]]": Louis de Pointe du Lac listens to Lestat's song "Come to Me" (which Lestat had sent to him as a Valentine's Day gift) on his gramophone, which features Lestat's mistress Antoinette Brown as the vocalist. The tune isn't even halfway done before a fuming Louis removes the needle from the disc, grabs the record and storms out the door. After six years of giving Lestat the SilentTreatment, Louis is finally going to confront his boyfriend.

''Bonnie''': Oh yeah. Since they were kids. Kinda like you and Kairi.\\

A variant is LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand, which happens when you cut the juice to the rotation motor without jerking the needle. Do not confuse with MusicalisInterruptus. Compare ScreechingStop. Depending on the circumstances, the MomentKiller may be responsible. When it's BackgroundMusic going silent, see SuddenSoundtrackStop. Can be used to accompany a humorous DoubleTake. Related to BrokenRecord, a gag based on the effect that happens when a vinyl record gets a scratch and starts to skip and repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat....

** In the fifth episode, Flanagan and Allen's "Underneath the Arches" is playing on the gramophone, but it suddenly halts when Lestat de Lioncourt lifts the needle from the record. It's an aural cue to viewers that shit is about the hit the fan in this scene.
** In the sixth episode, Louis de Pointe du Lac listens to Lestat's song "Come to Me" (which Lestat had sent to him as a Valentine's Day gift) on his gramophone, which features Lestat's mistress Antoinette Brown as the vocalist. The tune isn't even halfway done before a fuming Louis removes the needle from the disc, grabs the record and storms out the door. After six years of giving Lestat the SilentTreatment, Louis is finally going to confront his boyfriend.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', [[PlayerCharacter Zagreus]] attempting to [[spoiler:[[ShopliftAndDie steal from Charon]]]] results in the BackgroundMusic doing this. Only after Zagreus has had a proper OhCrap moment as he realizes [[BonusBoss who he's angered]] does the music return as a BossRemix.