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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Holy Crap" in which Peter has a band on hand to play the Sentimental Music at the appropriate moment.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': Starts to play in the background when Merida gives her speech to the three lords and her father on resolving their conflicts. It even features bagpipes!
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* Parodied in a commercial for Progressive Insurance. In it, Flo sees that Jaime is feeling down because Progressive didn't have the lowest price and the potential customer opted to go with the people who did. She admits that Progressive doesn't always have the lowest rate and that he can't win them all. Jamie smiles as Flo suggests getting an ice-cream and the music picks up as he asks if he can add sprinkles. She looks at him icily and responds "Sprinkles are for winners." The music concludes just as he says "I understand."
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* Parodied in a commercial for Progressive Insurance. In it, Flo sees that Jaime is feeling down because Progressive didn't have the lowest price and the potential customer opted to go with the people who did. She admits that Progressive doesn't always have the lowest rate and that he can't win them all. Jamie smiles as Flo suggests getting an ice-cream and the music picks up as he asks if he can add sprinkles. She looks at him icily and responds "Sprinkles are for winners." The music concludes just as he says "I understand."
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* ''Series/AirCrashInvestigation'', a.k.a ''Mayday'', ''Air Emergency'' and ''Air Disasters'', a documentary television show about [[CaptainObvious aircraft disasters]] usually plays this trope straight at emotional scenes (victim funerals, photos of the plane wreckages, the last few seconds when there's no hope, the first few seconds after the crash, etc).
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* ''Series/AirCrashInvestigation'', a.k.a ''Mayday'', ''Air Emergency'' and ''Air Disasters'', a documentary television show about [[CaptainObvious aircraft disasters]] disasters usually plays this trope straight at emotional scenes (victim funerals, photos of the plane wreckages, the last few seconds when there's no hope, the first few seconds after the crash, etc).
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Jet 2", sad electronic piano music starts playing when Mindy explains what jealousy is to Jet, and when Jet confesses his jealousy to Sean and Sydney, they apologize for what happened, and Jet learns his {{Aesop}}.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' features this in the first season when he reconnects with his former ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'' costar, giving her his TV Guide Award and humming the theme to their show himself.
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* Lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/LastManStanding'', as Eve invited her friend Cammy to stay with her family while her parents went overseas, without the approval of her parents. Cammy is good hearted but obnoxious, she plays the oboe in the band and they can often hear her from the garage. Mike managed to arrange a new place for her to stay, and had a heart-to-heart with Eve about how best to help friends in those sort of circumstances. Eve noted at the end it was an appropriate place for some sad oboe music.
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It's a prime source of ridicule largely for how "on the nose" it can be, as sitcoms rarely have a musical score except for this one scene. It can show up elsewhere under similar circumstances.
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* As evidenced by its status as former TropeNamer, ''Series/FullHouse'' used this at ''least'' OnceAnEpisode, typically delivered with AnAesop at the end of the episode.
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** The former Trope Namer, ''Series/FullHouse'', did this during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode.) Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it ''was'' the late 80s/early 90s.
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** The former Trope Namer, ''Series/FullHouse'', did this during every GoldenMoment.GoldenMoment, complete with AnAesop. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode.) Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it ''was'' the late 80s/early 90s.
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* ''Series/FullHouse'' is extremely fond of these.
** It got to the point where the SequelSeries on Netlix, ''Series/FullerHouse'', not only used it but lampshaded it.
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** It got to the point where the SequelSeries on Netlix, ''Series/FullerHouse'', not only used it but frequently lampshaded it.
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* Another non-sitcom example, ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' had a light piano cue that played throughout the series whenever Chuck and Sarah had a heart-to-heart moment.
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* The former Trope Namer, ''Series/FullHouse'', did this during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode.)
** Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it was the late 80s/early 90s.
** Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it was the late 80s/early 90s.
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* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' did use loud, soppy music frequently.
** Between this series, the TropeNamer series, ''Series/StepByStep'' and ''Series/PerfectStrangers'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
** ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less OncePerEpisode.
** Between this series, the TropeNamer series, ''Series/StepByStep'' and ''Series/PerfectStrangers'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
** ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less OncePerEpisode.
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* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' A staple of Miller-Milkis-Boyett Productions.
** ''Series/HappyDays'', ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'', ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', and ''Joanie Loves Chachi'' all used sentimental renditions of their respective theme songs to underscore emotional moments.
** The former Trope Namer, ''Series/FullHouse'', diduse loud, soppy music frequently.
** Betweenthis series, during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode.) Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TropeNamer series, TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it ''was'' the late 80s/early 90s.
** ''Series/FamilyMatters'', ''Series/StepByStep'' and''Series/PerfectStrangers'', perhaps ''Series/PerfectStrangers'' all did this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
**as well. ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less OncePerEpisode.
** ''Series/HappyDays'', ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'', ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', and ''Joanie Loves Chachi'' all used sentimental renditions of their respective theme songs to underscore emotional moments.
** The former Trope Namer, ''Series/FullHouse'', did
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* Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is apparently fond of playing sappy music during emotional scenes. This happens frequently on ''DesigningWomen'' and to a lesser extent on ''HeartsAfire''.
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* ''ProjectRunway's'' "Auf Wiedersehn" music (give or take a clarinet).
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** Between this series, the TropeNamer series, ''StepByStep'' and ''PerfectStrangers'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
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** Between this series, the TropeNamer series, ''StepByStep'' ''Series/StepByStep'' and ''PerfectStrangers'', ''Series/PerfectStrangers'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
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* ''Series/FullHouse'' does this during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' used this from time to time in its later seasons (beginning with the episode "Top O' The Mountain"). The episode "Bad Dog," in particular, makes hilarious use of this music cue by playing it when their dog runs away, only to shift to the classic heavy metal guitar closing when Beavis and Butt-Head perk up and decide to get a new dog.
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* During what was probably the funniest section of the third ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, Creator/{{Eric Idle}}'s character Merlin puts on some Full House Music to set the mood for Shrek and Artie's "little heart-to-heart."
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* During what was probably the funniest section of the third ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, Creator/{{Eric Idle}}'s character Merlin puts on some Full House Sentimental Music to set the mood for Shrek and Artie's "little heart-to-heart."
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* ''Series/FullHouse:'' The former TropeNamer. Does this during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode)
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* A pre-''Full House'' show fitting this trope was ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', where in many episodes a mellow or dramatic cue is played as Mike or Carol are offering that episode's [[AnAesop moral]].
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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Holy Crap" in which Peter has a band on hand to play the Full House Music at the appropriate moment.
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->''"Now, come on, one more time for nostalgia's sake: You come see my patient, you teach me a lesson, and then the music plays, right? In my head, it sounds like this: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyuLN4TcRc Ba-buh-buh-ba-buh-buh-buh, ba-buh-buh-ba-buh-buh-buh-buhhh]]."''
--> -- '''J.D.''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Old Friend's New Friend"
The synthesized, clarinet-heavy music which used to play under emotional moments in sitcoms.
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* During what was probably the funniest section of the third ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, Creator/{{Eric Idle}}'s character Merlin puts on some Full House Music to set the mood for Shrek and Artie's "little heart-to-heart."
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* Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is apparently fond of playing sappy music during emotional scenes. This happens frequently on ''DesigningWomen'' and to a lesser extent on ''HeartsAfire''.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' featured a particular few bars of piano music so often in emotional moments that they eventually decided to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this by having JD say that he always imagines this piece of music playing at emotional moments in his life. From that point on in the series, the music is mainly used in subversions of emotional moments.
** That music was featured so much that the actors themselves imagined that tune during emotional moments of their own lives.
* ''Series/FullHouse:'' The TropeNamer. Does this during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode)
** Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it was the late 80s/early 90s.
* ''ProjectRunway's'' "Auf Wiedersehn" music (give or take a clarinet).
* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' parodies the phenomenon in season two every time someone drops a hint that [[spoiler:Buster is actually Oscar's son instead of George Sr's]].
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' did use loud, soppy music frequently.
** Between this series, the TropeNamer series, ''StepByStep'' and ''PerfectStrangers'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
** ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less OncePerEpisode.
* ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Nearly EVERY dramatic scene was underscored with some sappy "teen drama" music. Mind you, this continued even after the characters all [[CaliforniaUniversity moved on to college.]]
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Occasionally used during the first five or so seasons, usually during a particularly dramatic Ross/Rachel moment.
** There was plenty of this in the episode where Ross's grandmother died.
** Same problem when Mr. Heckles dies in season 2 and the group leaves his apartment for the final time.
* Usually inverted by ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Emotional moments have no music at all, to contrast with the lighter moments of the show, which are usually accompanied with a light hip-hop beat.
* This seems to be a staple of ''Series/ModernFamily'', particular accompanying the ending voiceovers.
* In a non-sitcom example, ''Series/MinuteToWinIt'' does this [[OnceAnEpisode 2-3 times per episode]] when everything comes to a screeching halt so the contestant(s) can tell some kind of a sob story about their loved ones.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' was another TGIF show to use this. It was mostly used as transition music at the end of serious scenes though it was sometimes played during the scene if the scene was particularly emotional.
* Parodied in the ''Series/ThatsMyBush'' episode "Trapped In A Closet." Every moment where two trapped characters work out their issues/differences is humorously scored to the exact same sappy music.
* Beautifully averted by ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' which never used music to support scenes. Parodied in one episode where he plays pre-recorded sappy music when apologizing to Martin's girlfriend Elaine on the radio.
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' slows down the melody of the opening theme of the show at the end of the scene when Teddy finds out that her boyfriend, Spencer, is cheating on her. Most of the time, the theme music is played in a more up-tempo, cheery manner. This one of (if not the only) time the show uses this trope.
* ''Series/AirCrashInvestigation'', a.k.a ''Mayday'', ''Air Emergency'' and ''Air Disasters'', a documentary television show about [[CaptainObvious aircraft disasters]] usually plays this trope straight at emotional scenes (victim funerals, photos of the plane wreckages, the last few seconds when there's no hope, the first few seconds after the crash, etc).
* A pre-''Full House'' show fitting this trope was ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', where in many episodes a mellow or dramatic cue is played as Mike or Carol are offering that episode's [[AnAesop moral]].
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', since there's considerably less melodrama in that game than in other Final Fantasy games.
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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Holy Crap" in which Peter has a band on hand to play the Full House Music at the appropriate moment.
* Also parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Cripple Fight", when Big Gay Al is at home moping over his firing from the Mountain Scouts. We hear sappy ''Series/FullHouse'' music in the background, but Big Gay Al soon reveals that it's actually a pianist at his home playing mood appropriate music. He then asks the pianist to play something a little more upbeat.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', the same music would play during every emotional moment. In this case, it depended on the writing/performances in a given scene. Some of them averted this by being written/performed in a savvy way (usually with dry humor - a great example of them doing this brilliantly is in "Doug's Doodle").
* Believe it or not, The ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoons of the early-60's (along with the late-1980's "New" Yogi Bear Show revival) used this a lot, even in scenes where it made almost no contextual sense (such as when Yogi and Boo Boo are discussing Ranger Smith's birthday in the episode Slap Happy Birthday).
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--> -- '''J.D.''', ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Old Friend's New Friend"
The synthesized, clarinet-heavy music which used to play under emotional moments in sitcoms.
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!!Examples:
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* During what was probably the funniest section of the third ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' movie, Creator/{{Eric Idle}}'s character Merlin puts on some Full House Music to set the mood for Shrek and Artie's "little heart-to-heart."
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* Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is apparently fond of playing sappy music during emotional scenes. This happens frequently on ''DesigningWomen'' and to a lesser extent on ''HeartsAfire''.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' featured a particular few bars of piano music so often in emotional moments that they eventually decided to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this by having JD say that he always imagines this piece of music playing at emotional moments in his life. From that point on in the series, the music is mainly used in subversions of emotional moments.
** That music was featured so much that the actors themselves imagined that tune during emotional moments of their own lives.
* ''Series/FullHouse:'' The TropeNamer. Does this during every GoldenMoment. (Which, in this show, is about OncePerEpisode)
** Mind you, ''Full House'' (as well as pretty much every SitCom in the TGIF block) tended more for light bass guitar or a synthesizer on high notes over a clarinet, but it was the late 80s/early 90s.
* ''ProjectRunway's'' "Auf Wiedersehn" music (give or take a clarinet).
* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' parodies the phenomenon in season two every time someone drops a hint that [[spoiler:Buster is actually Oscar's son instead of George Sr's]].
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' did use loud, soppy music frequently.
** Between this series, the TropeNamer series, ''StepByStep'' and ''PerfectStrangers'', perhaps this trope should be renamed "Miller-Boyett Music".
** ''Family Matters'' was also quite fond of using a sappy 7-note piano riff at the end of a sad or dramatic scene, more or less OncePerEpisode.
* ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. Nearly EVERY dramatic scene was underscored with some sappy "teen drama" music. Mind you, this continued even after the characters all [[CaliforniaUniversity moved on to college.]]
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** Occasionally used during the first five or so seasons, usually during a particularly dramatic Ross/Rachel moment.
** There was plenty of this in the episode where Ross's grandmother died.
** Same problem when Mr. Heckles dies in season 2 and the group leaves his apartment for the final time.
* Usually inverted by ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Emotional moments have no music at all, to contrast with the lighter moments of the show, which are usually accompanied with a light hip-hop beat.
* This seems to be a staple of ''Series/ModernFamily'', particular accompanying the ending voiceovers.
* In a non-sitcom example, ''Series/MinuteToWinIt'' does this [[OnceAnEpisode 2-3 times per episode]] when everything comes to a screeching halt so the contestant(s) can tell some kind of a sob story about their loved ones.
* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' was another TGIF show to use this. It was mostly used as transition music at the end of serious scenes though it was sometimes played during the scene if the scene was particularly emotional.
* Parodied in the ''Series/ThatsMyBush'' episode "Trapped In A Closet." Every moment where two trapped characters work out their issues/differences is humorously scored to the exact same sappy music.
* Beautifully averted by ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' which never used music to support scenes. Parodied in one episode where he plays pre-recorded sappy music when apologizing to Martin's girlfriend Elaine on the radio.
* ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' slows down the melody of the opening theme of the show at the end of the scene when Teddy finds out that her boyfriend, Spencer, is cheating on her. Most of the time, the theme music is played in a more up-tempo, cheery manner. This one of (if not the only) time the show uses this trope.
* ''Series/AirCrashInvestigation'', a.k.a ''Mayday'', ''Air Emergency'' and ''Air Disasters'', a documentary television show about [[CaptainObvious aircraft disasters]] usually plays this trope straight at emotional scenes (victim funerals, photos of the plane wreckages, the last few seconds when there's no hope, the first few seconds after the crash, etc).
* A pre-''Full House'' show fitting this trope was ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', where in many episodes a mellow or dramatic cue is played as Mike or Carol are offering that episode's [[AnAesop moral]].
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* Averted in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', since there's considerably less melodrama in that game than in other Final Fantasy games.
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* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Holy Crap" in which Peter has a band on hand to play the Full House Music at the appropriate moment.
* Also parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Cripple Fight", when Big Gay Al is at home moping over his firing from the Mountain Scouts. We hear sappy ''Series/FullHouse'' music in the background, but Big Gay Al soon reveals that it's actually a pianist at his home playing mood appropriate music. He then asks the pianist to play something a little more upbeat.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', the same music would play during every emotional moment. In this case, it depended on the writing/performances in a given scene. Some of them averted this by being written/performed in a savvy way (usually with dry humor - a great example of them doing this brilliantly is in "Doug's Doodle").
* Believe it or not, The ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' cartoons of the early-60's (along with the late-1980's "New" Yogi Bear Show revival) used this a lot, even in scenes where it made almost no contextual sense (such as when Yogi and Boo Boo are discussing Ranger Smith's birthday in the episode Slap Happy Birthday).
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