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Alma Mater Song
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An anthem sung in praise of a college, high school, or other scholastic institution. Often sung at Class Reunions. May be used to begin a Flashback to school days. The most traditional examples are based on old folk tunes. A common habit of students is making up parody, Filk-style versions of their Alma Mater Song, with the same tune and rhyme scheme but offbeat lyrics. Tropes Are Flexible, so such anthems can and often do contain ribs at the nature of the institutions they are about; either because a character is resentful of the place or because the authorities are just that shameless. Compare Football Fight Song. |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has its own hymn. Interestingly, it has no (known) set melody, as Headmaster Dumbledore tells the students to pick their own tune when singing it. Naturally, it devolves into a cacophony with no rhythm. | |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: X the Owl occasionally sings the Owl Correspondence School song, which is about loving the school and trying their best when learning their lessons. | |
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Monsters University: The anthem for the titular school is sung by the student body before the final event of the Scare Games. Unsurprisingly, it's about stilling fear into the hearts of (human) children for the good of monster society. | |
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Suits: Mike nearly exposes his fraud when he's unable to recall the Harvard school song, having not studied it in advance. Harvey saves him by claiming most people forget it, then privately tells Mike to learn it. | |
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The Dover Boys: Pimento U has an Alma Mater song that includes some Fun with Acronyms. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Kamp Krusty", the Simpson siblings are enrolled in the titular Kamp Krusty, drawn by misguided advertisement. Predictably, the summer camp's activities are far from fun. In one scene, the kids are forced to sing the hymn, capitalist rib included. | |
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Grease: The Rydell Alma Mater is followed by an unaffectionate parody. | |
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Food Wars!: The Autumn Festival opens with the Totsuki Culinary Academy anthem (Episode s3e02 in the anime). All the students join together in singing it ... except Soma Yukihira, who after six months' attendance doesn't even know the school had a song, much less what it is. | |
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Discworld: Although the lyrics have never been revealed In-Universe, Unseen University apparently has an official anthem, traditionally sung from the top of the Tower of Art by the UU choir at dawn on May Day. Since the tower is 800 feet tall, no one can hear them, but the faculty and students gather beneath the tower, count off the five minutes it takes to sing the song, and then applaud. | |
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Welcome Back, Kotter: One episode revolves around the school anthem ("Oh Buchanan My Buchanan Fair Buchanan, Oh Buchanan My Fair"), written by Mr. Woodman many years previously and updated by the Sweathogs. The characters then discover it to be plagiarized. | |
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Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: "Double Trouble", composed by John Williams to serve as Hogwarts alma mater song, is performed by the school's frog choir (conducted by Professor Flitwick) during the Welcoming Feast. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Unlike the books, the Hogwarts anthem receives a set melody that is only ever featured in one deleted scene. After the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations make their glorious entrances, Dumbledore requests all students to sing the school's hymn. It's certainly discoordinated and some students look like they rather die. |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: The student body of Shuchi'in Academy sings the school anthem at the beginning of every week during the school assembly. One of the many "Fujiwara tutors Shirogane to not suck at stuff" chapters revolves around her teaching him to sing properly so he'll stop lip-syncing. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: The radio episodes "Clay City English Teacher" and "Mr. Laythrop Returns to School" feature the Madison anthem, "O Madison". Miss Brooks adds her own lyrics in parody. | |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: "Double Trouble", composed by John Williams to serve as Hogwarts alma mater song, is performed by the school's frog choir (conducted by Professor Flitwick) during the Welcoming Feast. | |
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That'll Teach 'Em: Charles Darwin Grammar School, the fictional school in Series 3 has one. As the name of the school suggests, the song emphasizes competition in which only the best students survive. One night, the boys decide to sing a parody of it, when they were supposed to be sleeping. Naturally, this gets them into trouble with the housemaster. | |
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Lady in the Dark: During the Class Reunion that opens the second Dream Sequence, the alumni sing the Mapleton High Chorale. In "The American Way", the elementary school children of the same town sang "Mapleton, the Gem of Ohio." |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Unlike the books, the Hogwarts anthem receives a set melody that is only ever featured in one deleted scene. After the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang delegations make their glorious entrances, Dumbledore requests all students to sing the school's hymn. It's certainly discoordinated and some students look like they rather die. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle: There are two memorable school songs, representing Bullwinkle's and Capt. Peter "Wrong Way" Peachfuzz's respective schools. Bullwinkle attended Wossamatta U, while Capt. Peachfuzz is a graduate of Waxahatchie Normal—leading to a lame pun where a school reunion is described as "going back to Normal." | |
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Lean on Me: Joe Clark requires every student to know the school song and sing it on demand. He also requires no one to move during a public singing of it, which provokes a memorable scene where he chews out and then suspends a teacher for doing so. | |
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Blackadder Goes Forth: gives us a nice 'anthem' by General Melchett and Lt. George, two posh Cambridge grads. The lyrics sarcastically state nothing beats tertiary education while also mocking its cutthroat environment. | |
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Person of Interest: Harold (who attended MIT under one of his ridiculously numerous aliases) sings the school song with a former classmate. Shaw immediately snarks that Reese will be sorry that he missed that. | |
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Angel Beats!: During the graduation scene, Kanade writes one that makes reference to the fact all the characters have ended up in a high school in the afterlife after tragic deaths. She, however, parodies such songs because her lyrics stress the importance of eating mapo tofu according to the number you've received in death. | |
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George of the Jungle: Super Chicken sings with a fellow alumnus of the Harvard School of Watch Repair, also known as Tick Tock Tech. | |
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