Waxing Lyrical / Webcomics

• Irregular Webcomic! does this in this strip, which incorporates a number of Duran Duran lyrics, and this strip, in which the transcript of Galileo's trial consists of the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody.
• In Elf Only Inn this was actually a plot point, where Slave made a big deal about someone stealing her (his?) poetry, only later was forced to admit she'd stolen all her poetry from a certain well-known singer.
• One Dinosaur Comics strip involves T-Rex trying to hold conversations entirely in lyrics from "A Long December" by Counting Crows. Lampshaded by Dromiceiomimus and Utahraptor.
  "Come on T-Rex, passing off lyrics as conversation ONLY AMUSES YOURSELF."
• Happens in this strip of Darths & Droids. Annie really seems to like the Broadway; that's not the first time she's done it.
  • Meanwhile, Jim is riffing off the Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush duet "Don't Give Up".
• xkcd does this every now and then, prompting many readers to start quoting the comic. This, inevitably, leads to Flame Wars, they get in one little fight and my mom got scared and said YOU'RE MOVIN' WITH YOUR AUNTIE AND YOUR UNCLE IN BEL AIR
• Mentl in The Challenges of Zona is a mage who can use favorite song lyrics as powerful spells. Examples: he sent blasts of fire by singing "Great Balls of Fire", and can travel between dimensions by singing "Get Back to where you once belonged"
• Times Like This has many examples of this trope, including:
  • Cassie concluding a graduation speech with words from Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten".
  • A court jester performing "I'm Henry VIII, I Am" for... King Henry VIII.
  • Cassie reading lyrics from Rush's "Tom Sawyer" to Mark Twain (who thinks it's a book review).
• In the second Li'l Mell storyline, a running gag involves Sergio trying to write his own playground songs, based on Simon & Garfunkel, and Mell telling him they're terrible. In the end, Sergio wonders if they'll see Homeschool Joe again and Mell says she told him "Me and Sergio are down by the schoolyard".
• Level 30 Psychiatry: It turns out Tails' theme from Sonic Adventure was a pretty accurate psychiatric assessment.
• In this Questionable Content strip, when Hannelore expresses boredom with her work and wants to practice drumming, Faye quips that Hannelore don't wanna work and just wanna bang on her drum all day. Hannelore and Dora don't get it.
• In Worst of the Time Lords, the Tenth Doctor gives the following explanation for the First Doctor:
  Ten: I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • After getting hit with a Crushing Despair spell, the giant devil whines about his old high school buddies going on to become men of wealth and taste.
  • Haley telling Hinjo that they need to retreat:
    Haley: When I was a little girl, my daddy taught me the words of a very wise man: "You've got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run".
    Elan: Amen.
    Belkar: The man makes some fine roast chicken.
• One Nineteen-Ninety-Something strip has Joel and Aaron lamenting Lindsay's latest sucker of a boyfriend - only to realize by the end that they've been quoting Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison."
• In one Saffron And Sage comic, Coriander tells the group information about Dwarves. Including the fact that the men like to form raiding parties and that the women glow. This all turns out to be a set up for Saffron to say "We'll go through the land down under, where women glow and men plunder".
• Housepets!:
  • After crashing King's (formerly known as Joel Robinson) wedding Pete quotes Simon and Garfunkel.
  • Kitsune goes so far as to manifest a karaoke machine to remind Tarot You can't always get what you waaaant.
• In Last Res0rt Jigsaw hacks her stepsister's script in order to Rickroll her protest speech.
• Strange School: Chicka, does this with the Vocaloid song, "Matryoshka":

  KALINKA, MALINKA, SNAPPED LIKE A BOWSTRING!
  TELL ME, TELL ME, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

• Penny Arcade: In one strip, Tycho's discussion of the Snyder cut is derailed when he mentions 'SEO' (search engine optimization) and Gabe assumes it's related to REO Speedwagon.
  Gabe: Well, I can't fight this feeling anymore.
  Tycho: Don't you fucking dare.
  Gabe: Honestly? I've forgotten what I started fighting for.
  Tycho: God damn you. You piece of shit. Now the strip is over!
• In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, when Dana is taken to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and asked to tell her story, she recites the third verse of "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman.
• The Monster of the Week episode based on "Millennium", and therefore set on New Year's Eve 1999, ends with Scully saying "Life is just a party, Mulder, and parties weren't meant to last."

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