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Singing Mountie
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The scene is somewhere in the Canadian North. With a backdrop of tall pine trees and majestic mountains, a dashing officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, resplendent in his Stetson and Scarlet Serge, is sharing a private moment in the great outdoors with his lady love. Giving each other lovebird looks, they croon a sentimental duet about their affection for each other. Alternatively, the Mountie, or a group of them, will randomly break into a rousing chorus, extolling in song the grandeur of their nation or the exploits of their outfit. This trope traces its origins to the 1924 Broadway operetta Rose Marie, set in the Canadian Rockies and featuring Mounties, which has received three film adaptations (in 1928, 1936 and 1954), the most iconic one being the 1936 version, which starred Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. And it is just about the only work that plays the trope completely straight. The sentimental singing style that characterizes the aforementioned duo was quite typical for Hollywood at the time, but today comes across as rather melodramatic. Generally, when singing Mounties occur in any more recent works, it will be a parody of the musical, or at any rate will be Played for Laughs. A subtrope of the Canadian Western. |
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F Troop: An entire episode, "The Singing Mountie", was devoted to such a character, RCMP "Sgt. Ramsden", played by Paul Lynde. Ramsden, who turns out to be an impostor, likes to communicate through song, which turns out to be rather annoying. This is a glaring anachronism, as the series takes place from 1865 to about 1867, when Canada was only in the process of being created (Confederation taking place on July 1, 1867), did not yet include the Northwest Territories, and the North West (not yet Royal Canadian) Mounted Police was still not a thing, being created in 1873. | |
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The 1999 live-action version of Dudley Do-Right shows Dudley and Nell singing the Genre Savvy duet "When I'm Calling You." | |
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Sesame Street: The song "When I'm Calling U" is a direct parody of the musical, with Mountie "Nelson" and young maiden "Jeanette" singing a love duet about words that start with the letter U. As is typical in this show, there is a big U in the foreground. At the very end of the song, it turns around to reveal a face and says: "Unbelievable!" | |
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The Muppet Show: In this segment, Cloris Leachman sings a medley of songs from operettas with a group of pig Mounties. | |
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Little Mary Sunshine is a 1959 musical that is an Affectionate Parody of classic operettas and musicals, in particular "Rose Marie". It is set in the Colorado rockies, and thus features a troop of "forest rangers", who however are dressed in uniforms more or less like those of the RCMP. By the end of the show, several rangers are paired off with a girl and there is even a song called "Colorado Love Call." | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: Mercilessly parodied in "The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen". Ren and Stimpy are members of the aforementioned outfit and are on a suicide mission somewhere in the Canadian wilderness. They have been ravaged by the elements and the force of nature, and Ren can't take it anymore. Stimpy attempts to animate him by having them sing "the Royal Anthem of the Kilted Yaksmen". On the repeat, their yak mounts and the creatures of the wilderness around them join in. There is a strong dissonance between the rousing tone of the singing and the cynical lyrics, sung to the tune of "My Country 'Tis of Thee": | |
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In Smokey and the Bandit 2, Buford T. Justice calls in two of his cousins to help take down the Bandit. One of them is a Canadian Mountie who sings through all of his scenes. | |
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The Loud House: In the special episode "Schooled!," a Canadian border guard sings to Lincoln about all the parts of Canadian daily life, such as moose, maple syrup, beavers, and hockey. | |
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Constable Benton Fraser of Due South sings multiple times throughout the series, and on one occasion a train car full of his fellow Mounties joins in. | |
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In the Barney & Friends home video "What a World We Share", Barney and the kids go to Canada, where they meet Monty the Mountie. Monty sings two songs with them, one about being cold and one about silly sounds. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: A chorus of Mounties accompanies the lumberjack in the "Lumberjack Song". But when his lyrics reveal an effeminate side to him and he outs himself as a transvestite, they grow fed up, break off the singing, and leave, as does the lumberjack's girlfriend. | |
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Tom & Jerry Kids: In the Droopy and Dripple short "Pooches in Peril," the father-son dog duo are RCMP officers. Wherever they go, they sing a theme song that includes the chorus "Mounties! The Mounties! Rah, rah, rah!" | |
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