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Parodies of Fire
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A Stock Parody where a character is in a rush to get somewhere on foot and the iconic theme music from Chariots of Fire starts playing. It has become standing "running" theme music in general much like the Jeopardy! theme song (or in Britain, the jingle from Countdown) has become standard "thinking" music, to the point where "this music plays while people sprint" is all that many people know about the original film. Often the scene using this trope will start to go in slow-motion when the Chariots theme begins (despite slow-motion being rather sparingly used in the original film; most often the music played during race scenes in regular speed), and sometimes the character will start to mimic Eric Liddel's long strides, loping gait, and/or head tilt as well. Not surprisingly, Chariots of Fire is the name of this piece of music note the song is called 'Titles', due to being played over the titles in the movie. The original was composed and performed by Vangelis, who also did a lot of the music for Blade Runner. The use of their tune as a parody or as generic running music has become well known even among those who have never seen Chariots of Fire or even who couldn't identify it by name - see also Parody Displacement. Examples |
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A rare literary example occurs in Bloodsucking Fiends. During the turkey-bowling event at Tom's night job, one of the bowlers imagines the theme to Chariots of Fire playing as he lines up his shot. Then it all goes wrong. | |
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In the film Madagascar, the theme plays when Alex and Marty find each other after getting shipwrecked in Madagascar, and run towards each other in slow motion. Then Alex gets angry and starts chasing Marty... still in slow motion. | |
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National Lampoon's Vacation uses this, as the Griswolds run toward the entrance of Wally World. | |
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Neil Patrick Harris and Max Casella are involved in this in an episode of Doogie Howser, M.D. | |
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The Simpsons: In the Itchy and Scratchy cartoon shown in "Lisa's First Word" the theme can be heard while Scratchy is running during an Olympic game. | |
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The live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has this as the Grinch participates in a potato-sack race. | |
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Happens in Happy Gilmore during one of the slow-motion running golf swings. | |
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Seen in the Rocko's Modern Life episode "From Here to Maternity," as Filburt attempts to beat a stork to the O-Town Hospital, when running to the main entrance, everything then goes into slow-motion as a sound-alike of the Chariots of Fire theme plays, as Filburt manages to run ahead of the stork. But then the music stops (with Record Needle Scratch) and the speed returns to normal when the stork catches up and swipes Filburt's glasses so he can't see where he's going. | |
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Sesame Street had a parody named Chariots of Fur, with Grover running to the theme until he dropped from exhaustion. | |
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In the Joueur du Grenier episode about the Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue video game, the theme is used in background while mocking the simplistic and stiff walking animation of the player character. | |
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Donkey Hodie used a sound-alike version in "The Breakfast Bowl", during a scene in which Donkey and Panda race each other with cereal boxes. | |
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The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer featured a brief sketch spoofing the film, consisting of Vic and Bob running across Scarborough beach, where Vic is overtaken by Bob, who is revealed to have asparaguses for legs. | |
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Good Burger uses this when Ed and Dexter deliver a burger to Shaquille O'Neal. | |
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The Loud House: Lincoln Loud sadly walking down a hallway in the episode "Ties That Bind", with a transparent closeup of him superimposed over himself as he does so. | |
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Near the end of The Lion King (1994), we see Simba running across the desert on the way back to Pride Rock so he can challenge his Evil Uncle Scar for the throne, with a faded closeup of his paws running in slow motion as he does so. And in The Lion King Oneanda Half, we see Pumbaa do the same thing... ...except that he is running in slow motion on purpose so that Timon would catch up with him and help Simba defeat Scar and reclaim his title as the rightful king. | |
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Fraggle Rock: Gobo and Wembley run three races in "Wembley and the Great Race". During the final race, a slight rearrangement of the "Chariots of Fire'' theme is heard as we get slow-motion views of Gobo and Wembley running. | |
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In the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "Dreamlighting" (which itself is a parody of Moonlighting), Jeanette/Ms. DaPest runs to catch a bottle of explosive rocket fuel before it hits the ground; the sequence is played in slow-motion and is accompanied by a very slight rearrangement of the Chariots of Fire theme. | |
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Bruce Almighty does this as Bruce runs in front of a line of kids and pours milk over their heads. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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A version of this music plays in Mr. Mom during the company picnic which includes a short footrace with everyone wearing diving flippers. True to form the entire race is shown in slow-motion. | |
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Done in Are We Done Yet?, as the doctor power-walks to the family's house. There's no slow motion here since he is speedwalking and not running. | |
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QWOP plays the first few bars of "Chariots of Fire" when you get to running speed, or more accurately IF you get to running speed. | |
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Who's the Boss? plays this while Tony is in a swimming race. | |
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During his playthrough of Dead Space 2, Jesse Cox encountered a trio of glitched Necromorphs running in place. It immediately reminded him of Chariots of Fire, prompting him to sing the song as he fires at them. | |
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In The Smurfs (1981) cartoon special "The Smurfic Games", Clumsy strains to reach the finish line at the end of the Smurfathlon while a slight rearrangement of the Chariots of Fire theme tune plays. | |
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Used in a trailer for MarleyAndMe. | |
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