History Main / ThatRemindsMeOfASong

* ''Guys and Dolls'' -- "I Love You (A Bushel and a Peck)". Probably applies to any of the songs Adelaide sings with the Hot Box Girls.

** Later in the episode, when Pinkie Pie has lost her ability to speak due to a curse, she asks Fluttershy, who has been cursed to have a [[BadassBaritone comically deep voice]], to sing it for her.

** The show's earlier seasons feature a RunningGag of the main gang lamenting to [[IntergenerationalFriendship Chef]] about their problems, who offers to "sing a little song" to help them out. Unfortunately, since Chef is a LovableSexManiac, all of his advice ends up devolving into his singing about "[[IntercourseWithYou making sweet love down by the fire]]": for instance, a song about accepting people despite their differences turns into a celebration of women's bodies. It helps that Chef is voiced by Music/IsaacHayes, whose own career was based on songs of that nature.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' had the three main boys as baits for a group of alligators at a volcano on a tropical island. Suddenly, the boys start singing "Wooly Bully" to entertain the natives and alligators as the [[DistaffCounterpart Chipettes]] arrive for the rescue.

* The Mamushka scene in Series/TheAddamsFamily movie. It's an entertaining variation, but the entire movie does kinda ''stop'' for it.

* ''[[Radio/IntergalacticalMagicalRadio The Wacky Musical Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Intergalactical Magical Radio]]'' has some songs that come out of nowhere and have nothing to do with the audio play's overall plot of the gang travelling through space to respond to the aliens' distress signal, some of the most blatant examples including "Be Cheerful, Be Perky" (where Birdie the Early Bird sings advice on how to be polite and well-behaved), "Do Monsters Know How to Rock and Roll?" (where the gang ask if monsters know how to boogie after Ronald sees a werewolf constellation, their question answered by a vampire who contacts them through the radio just to teach them a dance called the Zombie Lurch) and "Lima Beans" (where Grimace sings about having dreams that involve vegetables).

* In the JukeboxMusical ''Across the Universe'', a number of Beatles songs that didn't fit the plot of the film are shoehorned in by way of being performed by Sadie's band. Still subverted once with "Oh! Darling", which turned out to be bizarrely relevant to Sadie & Jojo. The same method is used in ''Film/AHardDaysNight''. John lampshades this by yelling "Let's put on the show right here, yeah!" before The Beatles rehearse a musical number. He was bummed that it ended up looking like he was serious. However, a lot of ''A Hard Day's Night'' does avert this, since the whole movie is building up to their TV performance, [[JustifiedTrope so it made sense for them]] to be "rehearsing" musical numbers. This is due in part to the band not being fans of this trope.

** And ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'''s "Whistle While You Work." Though in that case, it's more of a tune the dwarfs sing while... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin working]], obviously.

* [[FanNickname Sweetie Bot]] says this almost word for word in the ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' episode "Neigh, Soul Sister".

** "Trashing the Camp" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}''.

* "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be", a brief musical number around halfway through ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', begins with this exact phrase. From then on it's up to the player to get his crew, who all [[RhymesOnADime rhyme on a dime]], to stop singing and get back to work. [[spoiler:The solution is to feed them the phrase "We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange", which [[LeastRhymableWord they can't rhyme]].]] But if you skip straight to the solution of that puzzle instead of hearing the song out, you're severely missing [[RuleOfFunny the point of these games]].

** The show's earlier seasons feature a RunningGag of the main gang lamenting to [[IntergenerationalFriendship Chef]] about their problems, who offers to "sing a little song" to help them out. Unfortunately, since Chef is a LovableSexManiac, all of his advice ends up devolving into his singing about "making sweet love down by the fire": for instance, a song about accepting people despite their differences turns into a celebration of women's bodies. It helps that Chef is voiced by Music/IsaacHayes, whose own career was based on songs of that nature.

* "A Pirate I Was Meant To Be", a brief musical number around halfway through ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', begins with this exact phrase. From then on it's up to the player to get his crew, who all [[RhymesOnADime rhyme on a dime]], to stop singing and get back to work. [[spoiler:The solution is to feed them the phrase "We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange", which [[LeastRhymableWord they can't rhyme]].]] But if you skip straight to the solution of that puzzle instead of hearing the song out, you're severely missing the point of these games.

** Alice speaks to the Mad Hatter about an upcoming softball game. The Hatter remarks that he plays left field because he's "always out in left field." Cue a song about the Hatter being nuts, complete with surreal imagery. He then moves on as if nothing had happened.

* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'', being a musical series, utilitzed this trope often. For instance, in "The Trouble With Truman", Johnny tells a joke about Sherman and Rusty, and the punchline to it turns out to be the characters starting up a song. And in "Kate Loves A Parade", the penguins sing "I feel a song coming on!" tight before the song starts.

* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' episode "Kate Loves A Parade" uses the "I feel a song coming on!" variant.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'': "I feel a song coming on!"

* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' episode "Kate Loves A Parade" uses the "I feel a song coming on!" variant.

It still shows up here and there, often as the BreakawayPopHit, but is mostly a DiscreditedTrope. Modern musicals are specifically ''not'' supposed to do this anymore, except as a parody. For a more advanced version of this trope, one that is so out-of-nowhere that it borders on a MindScrew, yet is never treated as anything the least bit weird by the characters and never mentioned again, see BigLippedAlligatorMoment.

** "Trashing the Camp" from ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}''.
** "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat" from ''Disney/TheAristocats''.
** And ''Disney/SnowWhite'''s "Whistle While You Work." Though in that case, it's more of a tune the dwarfs sing while... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin working]], obviously.
** Neither of the songs added to ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/TheLionKing'' for their TurnOfTheMillennium Platinum Edition DVD and VHS releases, ''[=BatB=]''[='=]s "Human Again" and ''TLK'''s "Morning Report", exactly advanced the plot, or provided much if any character development. Consequently, they disappeared again for the 3D conversions, and the prints and home video releases struck from the same masters.[[note]]Plus, the ''[=BatB=]'' 25th Anniversary Edition DVD only includes the 2010 restoration of the Original Theatrical Version, while the 2D Blu-Ray and Digital HD copy released under the same banner (Disney didn't release a 3D disc under it) bury the Extended Edition in the extras.[[/note]]
** Lampshaded in ''Disney/{{Moana}}'', when the greedy, self-absorbed GiantEnemyCrab Tamatoa feels the need to talk about how great he is "in song form" and breaks into his VillainSong "Shiny". Justified in that Maui had Moana make him do so as a diversion to get his hook back so he can shapeshift again, and ultimately subverted when Maui turns out to be out of practice, leading Tamatoa to turn it into a TheHeroSucksSong while delivering a CurbStompBattle.

* ''WebVideo/TheMarkRemark'': If something reminds Martin of a song, he will sing it. Anything from merely saying the word "{{Disney/Frozen}}" to Wrestling/JohnCena almost quoting [[{{Music/Chumbawamba}} "Tubthumping"]] verbatim.

* Used to great effect in the film ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}'', where the only off-stage song is from a young boy who just begins to sing a capella in a cafe's garden, "Tomorrow Belongs To Me."

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut How Inside Out]] [[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded Should Have Ended]]'', Bing Bong blows Joy's mind with the fact that people are living inside her mind and them starts singing [[Music/SimpleMinds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"]]. Ironically, [[Film/TheBreakfastClub the movie said song is from]] had a very similar scene of this nature.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut How Inside Out]] [[WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded Should Have Ended]]'', Bing Bong blows Joy's mind with the fact that people are living inside her mind and them starts singing [[Music/SimpleMinds "Don't You (Forget About Me)"]]. Ironically, [[Film/TheBreakfastClub the movie said song is from]] had a very similar scene using a different song.