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Serendipitous Symphony
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A character is left alone, and the soundtrack falls silent. Completely silent... that is, unless you count the dripping faucet in the corner. Oh, and there's that chirping cricket on the windowsill. Then a shishi-odoshi comes in at measure 12... In short, a sequence where natural background ambient sounds are woven together into a coherent musical piece. Can sometimes be used as nature's equivalent of the Unguided Lab Tour. This trope can be usually seen in particularly creative advertisements. In Real Life, this kind of music is called an Ostinato, though it doesn't HAVE to be just background noises; any repetition can do ("The Mysterious Ticking Noise", for example, also is an Ostinato). See also Everything Is an Instrument. May result in a Trash-Can Band. |
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In the library in the Adventure Time episode "The Real You", Finn and Jake are so inspired by the rhythm of books being opened and closed and their own Squeaky Eyes that they start a jam session so loud it gets them kicked out. | |
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In Delicatessen, Clapet and Mademoiselle Plusse's rhythmically creaking bedsprings are joined by Julie's cello playing, Madame Tapioca's rug-beating, Robert and Roger's shop work, and Marcel's bicycle pumping in unconscious synchronization. As the creaking becomes more frantic, the other noises speed up accordingly. | |
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Wings has a moment where everybody is bored because the airport is fogged in. Antonio is clinking his spoon in a coffee mug, Joe is noodling on a guitar, and Brian is flipping through a magazine. Then Lowell starts sanding the door frame nearby. His rhythmic sanding coincides with Antonio's clinking beat. Suddenly Brian starts scatting, and they're doing a full-on Bossanova number. They eventually realize what's happened and pause before continuing right on with the music. | |
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The Cheers gang burst into a spontaneous rendition of "We Will Rock You" by Queen as a result of Norm tapping his pencil. | |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "Hurricane Neddy", a hurricane blows into a harmonica shop, creating a pleasing melody. The same thing then occurs with an adjacent harpsichord shop, resulting only in a discordant thunk. In "Homey The Clown", Homer rides his unicycle along a bar, with wine glasses striking his head. The notes produced by these glasses form the opening bars of the Godfather theme. |
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Disney's 1937 short "The Old Mill". The wind, cattails slapping on a fence, etc. | |
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The A Cappella group, Toxic Audio, does a cover of Harry Nilsson's "Coconut." It starts with someone sporadically coughing. Then another member starts clearing their throat. The soprano starts sneezing in time. And suddenly the whole range of ailments becomes the background beat for "Coconut." | |
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Roseanne had an end credits segment where the guys were sitting around in the kitchen, making random noises... Which they turned into a melody... And then busted out into a full-on rendition of The Beverly Hillbillies theme song. This was probably done more for the enjoyment of the audience, rather than meant to be in-character, though (and that's not how it happened at all anyway). | |
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Multiple times in Pinocchio with the cuckoo clocks and the music boxes. | |
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A Goofy Movie started "On the Open Road" like this, with Goofy finding a harmony in the car keys tingling, the puffing of the exhaust pipe and other objects on the car before he begins singing. | |
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In Chicago, the Cell Block Tango starts as a chorus of water droplets, footsteps, and fingernails, and then evolves into an actual musical number. | |
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In Scrubs, JD once stalled for time while thinking of something special to do for Dr. Cox. As he tapped his pencil, thinking, the events around him converged into a a serendipitous symphony, which Cox assumed JD had planned out. In another episode, JD came to work wearing headphones and musing on how things seemed to go together with his music, including Doug trying to revive someone he'd killed, nurses handing clipboards back and forth, and the janitor sweeping, up to Dr. Kelso pulling his headphones off while asking the question that was the last words of the song, "Are you having a good time?" and yelling at him some for daydreaming. As JD walks away, the Janitor is singing the same song to himself. |
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Muppet Viral Videos: Popcorn Shrimp, a rendition of Gershon Kingsley's song "Popcorn". | |
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Sesame Street had a song in The '80s that was reminiscent in description of the Toxic Audio example below, entitled "Body Full of Rhythm". | |
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The Muppet Show: One sketch features a library full of Muppets who make different types of noise—coughing, chewing gum, flipping the pages of a newspaper, and the like. After Zelda Rose, playing the librarian, fails to get them to shush, she instead directs them to make the noises in a particular order, and soon they're playing the "Blue Danube" waltz (complete with Wayne and Wanda dancing by). | |
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In "Homey The Clown", Homer rides his unicycle along a bar, with wine glasses striking his head. The notes produced by these glasses form the opening bars of the Godfather theme. | |
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Happened in a 10th-season episode of Top Gear (UK), when the crew start comparing the various noises given off by their British Leyland cars. The various squeaks, rattles and clunks soon turn into a musical number... | |
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Carry On Behind: The roof of the caravan in which Professors Roland Crump and Anna Vooshka are sleeping leaks during a rainstorm. Professor Crump places saucepans and trays down to catch the drips, which fall in rhythm, causing Professor Vooskha to smile and click her fingers in time to it. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In the episode "Dude, We're Getting The Band Back Together!", one of these in a library, of all places, kicks off the number "Ain't Got Rhythm". Our heroes try to start one of these while cleaning a bathroom with toothbrushes in "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", but then the Drill Sergeant Nasty yells "And no funky rhythms!" |
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In the Popeye cartoon "Me Musical Nephews", Popeye's nephews are bored until they decide to make music with various objects in their room. | |
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"Trashing the Camp" from Tarzan is basically a Stomp number with gorillas and an elephant. | |
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"Little April Showers" from Bambi starts out with, of course, some raindrops. | |
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The sounds of New York City form the backdrop to the opening credits of Annie (2014), with a jackhammer serving as percussion. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants did this when luring party animal jellyfish out of his house. It starts with Gary's eyestalks clacking together, and builds up from there. | |
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The musical numbers in Dancer in the Dark all start this way, with machinery, trains, footsteps, etc. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has started off two musical numbers like this: "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" with the sounds of the eponymous machine; and "Apples to the Core" with rattling pans and bumps in the road, in a clear reference to "On the Open Road" above. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) while they're in the elevator on their way to the Rooftop Confrontation, Michelangelo decides to break the anxious silence by beatboxing to the dinging the elevator makes while surpassing each floor, and his brothers soon join in. | |
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In Little House on Rocky Ridge, as Laura, Almanzo and Rose pass through some city or another on their way to their new home, they get stuck in traffic with a herd of cows with bells around their necks. Rose notices that the bells play "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay," which she had gotten her parents to sing over and over again when they first set out. | |
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August Rush has this a lot. It's used to indicate that August is so highly musical that either he only hears what fits the rhythm he's thinking about, or the world itself rhythmizes around him. | |
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Homestar Runner: One Two, One Two consists entirely of a Serendipitous Symphony. The toon was released along with the MixMastah 800, a tool to mix your own Serendipitous Symphony. An Easter Egg in the Strong Bad Email "the paper" referenced this toon by starting another Serendipitous Symphony, before being cut off by Strong Bad. |
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The Song of the Cloud Forest from The Jim Henson Hour features one a little bit after the opening. | |
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