History Main / RepetitiveAudioGlitch

** One [[AudienceAlienatingEra later]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short called "Daffy's Inn Trouble" features the trope. In one scene, WesternAnimation/{{Daffy|Duck}} ([[DisguisedInDrag in drag]]) decides to mime to a song on a record to lure patrons into his new inn, only for the record to start skipping. Once he's caught, Daffy attempts to do a quick dance before the would-be customers began [[ProducePelting throwing produce at him]].

* One of the stock jokes in WebAnimation/YouTubePoop.

* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'': At the preview showing of ''The Dueling Cavalier'', a mishap causes the film to lose sync with the soundtrack (early sound films had the soundtrack on a phonograph record; they switched to printing the track directly on the film to avoid this very thing), leading to a scene where the villain and the DistressedDamsel speak each other's lines. This becomes a plot point, as it leads to the idea of having Kathy dub over Lena's nails-on-a-chalkboard voice.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'', the Elite Four's battle theme would loop its intro over and over if the player fought them after having the game running for a long time. This was eventually fixed in a post-release patch.

** One [[DorkAge later]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short called "Daffy's Inn Trouble" features the trope. In one scene, WesternAnimation/{{Daffy|Duck}} ([[DisguisedInDrag in drag]]) decides to mime to a song on a record to lure patrons into his new inn, only for the record to start skipping. Once he's caught, Daffy attempts to do a quick dance before the would-be customers began [[ProducePelting throwing produce at him]].

* In ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork6'', finishing the game and pressing Continue will have the intense music from the endgame playing ''everywhere'' due to missing a line of code which told the game to play the normal music in their respective areas after resuming the game. [[https://news.capcomusa.com/2022/12/13/mega-man-battle-network-legacy-collection-transmits-to-modern-platforms-on-april-14-2023/ This was announced to be fixed]] in the runup to ''[[CompilationRerelease Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection]]''.

* Most fans of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' would tell you that the boss, Flaahgra's, theme music sucked. However, this is actually due to a glitch in the American release where only the first thirty or so seconds of the song is repeated over and over again. This was corrected in the European/Australian and Trilogy versions of the game. Whether or not the theme sucks now is completely due to personal taste.

* Malakai in ''VideoGame/DarkFall''; Lights Out does this in a similar way to SHODAN whenever he speaks to Benjamin Parker.
* Lyril suffers from this in Sierra's ''VideoGame/LighthouseTheDarkBeing''. She's been bound to a life support system in a chair since the age of 4, and by the time the player meets her, Lyril speaks this way nearly 90% of the time. It's implied that this comes from her life support malfunctioning. A holographic recording proves this, as she used to speak more clearly when it was made.
* While only part electronic, a mechanimal named Diode in ''VideoGame/TheDayTheWorldBroke'' suffers this while talking, usually getting stuck on part of a word for a few seconds. He admits that it's due to overexposure to magnetism, which is suspicious considering none of the other mechanimals have this affliction.
* A rather infamous real-life example from the ''Toys/LEGOAlphaTeam'' PC game. When ran on Windows XP, all dialogue and music would loop over and over again after only a few seconds. What's worse is that this is potentially a GameBreakingBug: unless you turn off dialogue in the setting menu, the game will freeze after the "Trouble Train Depot" level because Tee Vee's speech will keep looping and the game will not progress.[[note]]If you turn dialogue back on afterwards, this bug also applies to "Trouble Sub Rescue" and "The D.O.O.M. Room" for the same reasons.[[/note]]
* Similarly, ''VideoGame/LEGOIsland'' features an infamous glitch with the Infomaniac repeating certain lines of his "Do you really want to exit?" speech. The most well-known one is "Green--red brick, you stay." Others include "Are you ready to le--", "If you select the green bri--nd?" and "If you se--leave LEGO Island?"
* In the PC port of ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', the ambient soundtrack suffers from these annoyingly often. Ironically, some of the music tracks are [[BrokenRecord intentionally recorded to sound this way]], such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lonHpHLB2Xc this one]] in the otherworld hospital.
* Near the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Rochard}}'', the lift control computer experiences one in the form of "Failfailfailfail" before lapsing into GratuitousGerman.
* In ''VideoGame/FarCry1'', especially the ''Classic'' remake, killing an enemy while they're in the middle of shooting will sometimes cause the gunshot sound to endlessly loop.

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-->-- '''Music/MilliVanilli, in [[ThatSyncingFeeling the moment that ended their musical careers]].'''

* Music/{{Blur}}'s song Peach ends in a manner which is reminiscent of a skipping record.

* On the Music/DavidBowie album ''Diamond Dogs'' "[[DownerEnding The Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family]]" ends with a mechanical voice shouting the first syllable of "brother" over and over.

* Tame Impala's "Let It Happen" has brief glitches built in, followed by a section that starts with several measures of a repetitive glitch; a new melody is then added on top of the glitch before the song reverts to its original beat.

* ''Troublegum'' by Therapy? ends in a HiddenTrack - a brief, deliberately lo-fi sounding cover of "You Are My Sunshine" that starts looping the word "away" like a skipping record after the first refrain, then eventually fades out.

* The hidden track on Music/{{Custard}}'s ''We Have the Technology" ends with a fragmentary backwards vocal loop that is presumably a reversal of the closing refrain "over and over".

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': In [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1985/ga850630.gif this]] strip, Garfield tries to trick John into think that he can sing -- until the gramophone he's using for the audio gets stuck on repeating one line.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' opens with [[LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn the song on the background skipping and revealing it was a record.]]

* "Stereo Hearts" by Gym Class Heroes uses[[labelnote:*]] And possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]][[/labelnote]] this.

* Much of [[Music/TheCaretaker The Caretaker's]] catalogue invokes this trope to illustrate [[TheFogOfAges a long-gone past full of forgotten memories.]]

* This can happen in one form or another on any given WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} corruption stream, in addition to all the other (sometimes [[HellIsThatNoise far less pleasant]] ) audio errors the corruptions tend to produce.
* Due to a glitch in his systems, Robo-Frieza from ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' occasionally locks up when speaking, causing certain syllables to repeat for a moment until he terminates that process. He freezes up when he screams [[spoiler:as Trunks slices him in half,]] and stays stuck like that [[spoiler:as he is promptly diced and atomized]].

** One [[DorkAge later]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short called "Daffy's Inn Trouble" features the trope. In one scene, [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy]] ([[DisguisedInDrag in drag]]) decides to mime to a song on a record to lure patrons into his new inn, only for the record to start skipping. Once he's caught, Daffy attempts to do a quick dance before the would-be customers began [[ProducePelting throwing produce at him]].

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-->'''Fred:''' And as I was saying, Winston tastes good...
-->'''Record:''' Like a ''(skip-skip)'' cigarette should...Like a ''(skip-skip)'' cigarette should...Like a ''(skip-skip)'' cigarette should. Like a--
-->''(Barney gives the player a [[PercussiveMaintenance "pound-pound"]])''
-->'''Record:''' ...cigarette should.
* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tOtheouM2I NSPCC spot]] from the UK features a girl's talking doll telling about how the girl's mother comes into her room "And ''punches'' her!--And ''punches'' her!--And ''punches'' her!''

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* [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1985/ga850630.gif This]] ''{{ComicStrip/Garfield}}'' strip, which has ironically become an OverusedRunningGag in the parody comic ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield''.
* Played with in a ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' comic featuring the Spook, the long-term resident of the palace dungeon. The sound of singing coming from his cell develops a repetitive audio glitch, and the guard rushes into find the cell empty except for a record player. It turns out that the Spook really was singing, audio glitch and all, and was hiding in the base of the record player with the intention of making his escape once the guard rushed off to report that he'd made an escape.
* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip has a guy tell his wife to hit their pet bird, it's stuck.
* There's a brief scene in ''ComicBook/TopTen: the Forty-Niners'' where Private Iron, a robot GI who [[WelcomeToCorneria can only say three or four different sentences]], is interrogated at the station because he was somehow implicated in a burglary. A prejudiced cop starts smacking him around, which is explicitly compared to PercussiveMaintenance; his audio starts skipping as the beating evidently continues off-panel.

* The Creator/MarxBrothers film ''Film/MonkeyBusiness'': the boys all try to get in the country claiming to be Creator/MauriceChevalier (he was on the ship and they stole his passport). To prove they're Chevalier they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YNiedDhsAs sing]]; Harpo's got a Maurice Chevalier record on a wind-up player strapped to his back, which eventually begins to wind down.

* Played for laughs with the opening song in ''Series/HannahMontana TheMovie'' where Hannah is shooting a music video and the song becomes stuck on 'Best of both... best of both....' until the sound engineer does PercussiveMaintenance to get it going again (while the dancers also loop their moves). They finish the song, the director calls cut and says he'll FixItInPost.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', the heroes are strapped into a DeathTrap driven by a record player. Fortunately, the record starts skipping, pausing the countdown for a few precious seconds. Unfortunately, Basil is too busy having a HeroicBSOD to take advantage of it.
* In ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', the recording of Haauser gets stuck repeating the [[MemeticMutation infamous words "Get your ass to Mars."]] after the laptop it's on gets shot during the brief second attack on Douglas Quaid. Later, Quaid's animatronic disguise gets stuck saying "two weeks" whenever he tries to talk, blowing his cover.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Goofy and Max attend a malfunctioning animatronic show at Lester's Possum Park (Max reacts to the show by calling it pathetic). The song ends with the lyrics, "Here at Lester's Po-- Po-- Po-- ''([[PercussiveMaintenance BANG!]])'' Possum Park!" (The version included in the official movie soundtrack features the skipping, but not the accompanying banging.)
* Used in ''Film/MeanGirls'', when Gretchen accidentally kicks the CD boombox playing "Jingle Bell Rock", causing it to get stuck on "In the fro-fro-fro-fro-fro-fro...". Her attempt at rectifying the situation accidentally results in her boyfriend getting beaned by the boombox.

* Dynomutt starts glitch-repeating a word in ''WesternAnimation/{{Scoob}}'' while explaining the original Blue Falcon's retirement and replacement with his son Brian as the new Falcon. He pauses to reveal he's doing it intentionally for emphasis before anyone can apply the appropriate corrective action.
--> '''Dynomutt:''' We still miss him very...very...very...very...
--> '''Brian:''' Oh, no. He's glitching.
--> '''Dynomutt:''' ...very-''No, I'm not.'' Let me finish. Very...very...very...much.
* The computerised-Reagan waiter at the Cafe 80s in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePart2'' does this, presumably in imitation of Max Headroom.

For old-fashioned records, the loop was usually about 1.3 to 2 seconds (due to disks usually going 45 RPM or 33 RPM). It's much shorter on [=CDs=] (less than a third of a second) due to them going at 210 RPM ''at least''.

* Audio on programs like [=iTunes=] will stutter on computers without enough RAM.

* ''WebVideo/VideoGamesAwesome'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-hgI9HfX-Y encounters a glitch like this]] while playing [[Videogame/DuckTales Ducktales Remastered]], possibly caused by multiple sound buffers gone awry.

--->'''Sachi''': Kirito, this isn't your fault-your fault-your fault-your fault-your fault-]] (heavily distorted) '''''yoooouuuuur faaaauuuult'''''- (shatters)

-->-- '''Music/MilliVanilli'''

* This was an issue that radio stations had to watch for back in the days when everything was on phonograph records with systems that automatically changed turntables. There is a [[UrbanLegends too-good-to-be-true]] story passed around in the radio industry about a DJ who set up several records to go off one-after-another live and went down to the cafeteria for lunch. The speakers in the cafeteria was playing the station and when he got there a commercial for an audio version of ''Literature/MobyDick'' was playing but the record was skipping going "dick.. dick.. dick.. dick.. dick.. dick..". The DJ rushed up the stairs to the station and upon entering the studio slapped at the record player in a panic. The record player went "dick.. dick - ''[RecordNeedleScratch]'' '''''[[UnintentionalEuphemism THAR SHE BLOWS!]]'''''"