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Sting
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Either a brief stab of music used to enhance the drama of the current situation just before an Act Break (called a "dramatic sting" when used this way), or a brief comical stab on music to enhance a punchline at the end of a scene (most famously, the so-called "rimshot" — ba-dum-bum-ching). About 95% of TV shows use them. "Sting 'em and sling 'em" is a phrase used to describe this kind of break. "Ok, we Rack Focus on the jilted bride, then sting 'em and sling 'em." When used for a cheap shock, the sting becomes a Scare Chord. If it comes at the very end of the entire episode, then it's a Stinger. A common version of Lampshade Hanging is when a character is shown to have ''heard'' the sound effect, it often crops up in the form of something like "Who keeps doing that?'' or "Ok, seriously. Knock it off." An Invoked example is when the characters themselves provide the sound effects—"Dun dun DAH!". Compare Screamer Trailer and Rimshot. Do not confuse with The Stinger. Or with the musician Sting, or the professional wrestler Sting or the film The Sting. Or that dagger used by Frodo and his Uncle, or the police tactic of pretending to be a customer for drug salesmen or prostitutes, or the pain, action, or body part that occurs at the back of a bee or wasp. Examples |
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In a promo for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit that used to air on USA Network, Richard Belzer called it, "The gavel of the judge. Some kind of collective unconscious universal sound." | |
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The first, PSX Digimon game played a happy little sting whenever you convinced a new Digimon to come join the town. Subverted when the chime starts playing, but veers off into minor key like a breaking-down music box when Ogremon abruptly makes a Villain: Exit, Stage Left instead. | |
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On an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head Beavis tells Butt-Head that he had a nightmare "where everything sucked." Butt-Head replies "But, Beavis, everything does suck!" Dramatic sting and Beavis screams. For a while, the sting was played anytime one said "sucks". | |
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Brazilian TV is fond of using a comedic sting, namely Ricky Martin screaming "UEPA!" | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Parodied in the review of 22 Brides. As the comic pulls the "We have you surrounded!" twist no less than three times in succession, the soundtrack plays a dramatic sting that gets higher pitched with each Reveal. Beginning with the King of Worms Arc, the series' post-credits storyline segments have ended with a dramatic sting, an ominous techno sound. |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) had a few, including one that was noted in the script as "DRAMATIC CHORD (SHRUBBERY)". | |
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Etrian Odyssey games will often precede the current Random Encounters theme with a jarring riff if the encounter starts off with an enemy ambush. Given that the series is known for its already-unrelenting difficulty, it basically means "prepare to die." | |
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Roseanne: Lampshaded and parodied: the family has to deal with taxes, and every time someone says the word "audit" — Dun dun daaaah! The characters then look around to see where the sound came from. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, one of Red Mage's greatest (and most annoying) obsessions is to sing out a Sting for dramatic effect any time something major occurs. | |
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In an episode of Scrubs, a loud noise during a showdown between Cox and Kelso turns out to be JD trying to break a coffee pot (stuck on his hand) against a metal pole. | |
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Toby eventually does this in Patently Stupid in the Final Round from the 5th Pack in The Jackbox Party Pack Series. | |
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At one point in Young Frankenstein, Igor supplies his own rimshot after making a "hunch" joke. In another scene in the same movie, Dr. Frankenstein stumbles upon the Awful Truth ("You don't mean?" "Yes!" "It couldn't be!" "Yes!"). Every time Frau Blucher (*WHINNY*) says "Yes!", she plays a dramatic chord on a violin she's holding. |
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Occasionally on Animaniacs, Stock Footage of Wakko doing one of these would play after a joke. | |
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Supernatural has a metallic chomping sounding sting at the end of the title sequence and when the advert breaks start. | |
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24 uses it's ticking clock effect so predictably that counts as an inversion of this trope on those rare occasions when you see the clock but don't hear the dink-donk sound effect. This is a silent sting used to indicate that someone has been Killed Off for Real. | |
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The Muppet Show: Lampshaded when Gonzo asks for a "dramatic sting" when he announces an outbreak of "cluckitis"... and gets it. Later, when Scooter mentions the disease, the sting happens again... and he and Kermit react to it. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Do you know where we could find... a shrubbery? | |
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Parodied in Freakazoid!! numerous times. The most well-known example is in "The Chip", where it cuts from Dexter receives the defective chip to guest narrator Jack Valenti saying "Bum-bum-buumm!". | |
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Ready Jet Go! episode "Diggin' Earth" Sunspot does it by drumming the air (aliens!) then hitting a shot blade as a cymbal. A response to Dr. Rafferty's "groundbreaking project" quip. | |
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DuckTales (1987) was known to have numerous stings that played before a commercial break. One of its most notable ones was the ominous 'Bum-Bum-Bum-Bum-BUUUMMM'. | |
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Elan from The Order of the Stick does this to Running Gag levels. Including one occasion when he had no way of knowing something dramatic had happened because he was elsewhere shopping for a bag. Cut to him looking at identical light-brown bags and saying "Dun, dun, dun..." | |
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The main battle theme of Persona 5, "Last Surprise", begins with a flamboyant string-based sting before the lyrics kick in. | |
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WWE's Elimination Chamber gimmick match accompanies each new entrant being released into the cage with a big, dramatic music sting and flashing spotlights going across all the cages. | |
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In Turning Red, this is used at the end of the scene where Mei turns back into a human for the first time and sits on her bed. It accompanies the bed creaking as it collapses further. | |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: The house band at Milliways gives the EmCee a sting on every one-liner. He wishes they wouldn't as he doesn't need their help, but it's in their contract. | |
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Blip: DUN! DUN! DUN! DUN! | |
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In American Dad! episode "Not Particularly Desperate Housewife", Francine looks to expand her social circle and ends up with a group of women who discuss their affairs. Whenever the Asian member says something witty or catty, we hear a snippet of Oriental music. At one point she does her thing, then Francine tries to say something, only to get interrupted as the woman holds her pose and the music keeps playing. Later on, the sting plays when she says nothing; everyone looks at her, and she remarks "I farted." Another American Dad example: Stan demands someone play a dramatic sting; the resulting music isn't dramatic enough and Stan is thoroughly disappointed. |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: Obake loves doing these. He was first shown to us with one, after all. | |
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A X-Files-esque sting was used a couple of times in "Homer vs. Patty and Selma". | |
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The Beatles had a two-note guitar sting on either pivotal parts of a story (showing there is a mysterious passenger on a ship's register in "She Loves You") or as a rimshot (the "probably made of cheaper wax" line made at Paul and John as the boys are imitating their wax figures in "Misery"). | |
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60 Minutes arguably has a sting of its own: the distinctive ticking of the Aristo stopwatch that appears to end every news story. | |
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Damages Season 3 goes crazy with this, episodes one, two, and twelve (the second to last episode) especially. | |
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Archer, episode "Skorpio" has at least three such exchanges: Also in "Sea Tunt", Cheryl hears the repeated stings, giving several Eye Takes: |
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Seinfeld had a highly distinctive one, snipped out of the first few bars of the show's theme tune: an eight-note phrase in the pentatonic minor scale played on slap electric bass, accompanied by some percussive noises. | |
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Phineas and Ferb has a sting for pretty much everything that happens Once an Episode: when Phineas announces he knows what they're going to do today, "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!"...They even have one for "fabulous", first used in "Dude We're Getting the Band Back Together" for Love Handel bassist Bobbi Fabulous. | |
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In The Sims, there are various "danger" themes that play when a burglar or raccoon shows up, a Sim or pet dies, there's a fire, or a ghost shows up. | |
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Also lampshaded in Final Fantasy XV, where Prompto will occasionally hum the victory fanfare after a battle. | |
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Saved by the Bell uses the same generic sting, regardless of the situation preceding it. | |
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Every episode of Lost will end with either this or a montage set to Source Music. | |
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NCIS has a foomp and change-to-grayscale effect. | |
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Prison Break pulls a very distinctive version of this at every single commercial break. This made sense in the first and possibly second seasons, when something dramatic would usually happen right before the ads. It became slightly jarring in later seasons when the audience is used to it, and nothing particularly important would happen before the cut. | |
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Some of Some Jerk with a Camera's episodes lift the stings from They Might Be Giants' concert intros (see above) when he needs to effect an overly-dramatic flair. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Second Contact", there's a very dramatic-sounding music clip that plays when Commander Jack Ransom scratches the purple welt on his neck. It's an auditory hint to the audience that his bug bite will cause a lot problems soon. | |
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In the "Opus" sketch on The Whitest Kids U' Know, the character Rex Bosworth sings "BUM BUM BAAAAH!!" after he reveals what Freddy must do to free himself from Mt. Everest. | |
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Evil Genius uses Stings to warn you anything that needs your immediate attention, such as an enemy agent breaking into your base or a super agent arriving into your base. | |
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Played for Laughs when Grace tells Mr. Rooney that Ferris Bueller is on line two. | |
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In Back to the Future Part III Doc trips in shock after seeing Marty and falls onto his own organ, creating a dramatic, scary tone. | |
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Potter Puppet Pals: At the end of "Ron's Disease", after Hagrid smacks Dumbledore with a cudgel with a resounding clang and otherwise no apparent effect on Dumbledore, Harry exclaims (to a sting), "OHMYGOD, he's an android!" Hagrid looks around in confusion, saying, "Wha-?" (to another sting). Dumbledore finally replies, "Yes, it's true, I am an android - a gay android." What follows is a rather original Lampshade Hanging of your typical Dun Dun DAAAH! sting, with the DAAH! lasting about five or six seconds. | |
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Birdz had a dissonant four-note synth riff that basically served as the equivalent of "Wah wah wah" horns. | |
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This, combined with zoom effect. has become a trademark of Bob's Burgers. | |
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The original series of Star Trek had stings worked into various motifs, which, like all of the music, were endlessly reused in different episodes. The king of these is probably the dramatic sting that ends the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It's at the very end of this clip. | |
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Cue The Who (if it's an opening setpiece.) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH! | |
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Before his Seven Soldiers reboot, Klarion the Witch-Boy demanded that people refer to him as "Klarion... bum bum BUM... the Witch-Boy". He even refused to help characters who did not insert the dramatic sting. (You should not be surprised that Peter David came up with this.) | |
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In an episode of Regular Show, Mordecai and Rigby watch a horror movie with "the most dramatic stings ever". Scary things happen one right after another, and a sting is played after each one. After the TV remote breaks Benson's windshield, the same sting is heard, causing Rigby to remark, "We probably should have turned the movie off." | |
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Practically every battle theme throughout the entirety of the Pokémon series begins with a quick techno sting. The sting itself varies from game to game and the type of enemy being battled, but they almost all begin with one. | |
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? enhances the drama with an excessive number of musical stings and light changes dropped into the middle of gameplay. | |
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The Victory Fanfare after a battle in Final Fantasy games. Lampshaded in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, when it starts playing after Tifa has fended off a henchman. (It turns out to be the ringtone of that henchman's cellphone.) Also lampshaded in Final Fantasy XV, where Prompto will occasionally hum the victory fanfare after a battle. |
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Parodied in CLANNAD where in episode 19, Sunohara plays around with a keyboard that has a sound-effect called 'Hair-raising.' | |
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Danger Mouse: Colonel K is addressing DM and Penfold on a Greenback plot, with a dramatic sting in three different parts of the assignment. It turns out to be Miss Boathook, Colonel K's secretary, on her piano lessons. In the first episode of the 2015 reboot, Danger Mouse is fired because the show can no longer afford to keep paying for the damage he causes in his action sequences; this news ought to be accompanied by a "Dun Dun DUN" sting, but all there is is the narrator saying "Dun Dun DUN", because they've had to save money by firing the musicians who provide the incidental music. |
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Whenever the adventure mode is chosen in Plants vs. Zombies. | |
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A Robot Chicken sketch with Barbie and Ken dolls experiencing a string of soap opera twists has three dramatic chords after nearly every sentence, and sometimes on repeat. | |
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The IT Crowd: Moss sets his phone's ringtone to the traditional "DUM-DUM-DUMMM!" sting. Naturally, it keeps going off at very appropriate (or perhaps inappropriate) times. | |
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Susan of El Goonish Shive does it here. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. | |
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Codex Equus: Played for Laughs with Moon Ray Vaughoof. One of his favorite joking methods is to play silly tunes with his guitar during funny moments, which enhances the hilarity. | |
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LoadingReadyRun used a sting from Star Trek: The Next Generation to end one of their sitcom-esque videos. | |
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Team Fortress 2 has several, and the most notorious in terms of gameplay are the domination and revenge kill stings, based off of motifs from the game's main theme tune. | |
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Used frequently in Hamish and Dougal, with constant lampshading. | |
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Parodied in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "May The Best Pet Win!", when Rainbow Dash tells her potential pets that they have to race her "through Ghastly Gorge! DUN DUN DUUUUUN!" | |
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Similar to the Doctor Who example above, both EastEnders and The Bill have very distinctive "drumbeat" stings, which punctuate the final scene of an episode at the point of a cliffhanger, and lead into the credits. | |
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Used for the sake of obscure reference when Joey picks up a duel disk in episode 27 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. | |
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One episode of Muppet Babies had Gonzo as "The Weirdo", a spoof of radio drama The Shadow. Whenever his name was mentioned, Rowlf played a dramatic sting on the piano... much to Gonzo's annoyance. | |
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Spoofed on Jimmy Two-Shoes. When Lucius ominously announces to Jimmy and Heloise that "you'll both pay", a flat and undramatic "dun dun dun" is heard...which turns out to be coming from a toy that can only make that noise. The same thing happens again when Lucius describes the Abyss of Nothingness to them, and then it returns in The Stinger when Lucius is trapped in said Abyss. | |
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CSI loves using this one, with a crescendo of ominous music at the end of an act being chopped off dramatically by a Hard Cut to black. Cue The Who (if it's an opening setpiece.) YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH! |
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Every Ace Attorney game has a "Variation" version of the game's "Pursuit" theme, which starts off with a sting before going immediately into the refrain of the track. To compare, the standard version starts with a few measures of buildup before going into the refrain. It usually plays when the player attorney had a defense that triggered the normal Pursuit theme, got that shot down, only to find new evidence that gets their momentum going again. | |
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Used often in Dead Space, including for when something falls off a shelf. | |
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Johnny Bravo has an entire episode lampshade hanging this (though it's rather more of a Scare Chord being lampshaded). | |
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Police Squad!: Parodied. Detective Drebin says his scene-ending line, and the sting plays as he looks at the camera. Then he looks away, and a second, lower-pitched sting plays. Then he looks back, and a third sting plays, and the scene finally ends. | |
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In Soul Music, the raven tries to verbally invoke this trope before revealing to Susan that her grandfather is (Dah-dah-dah-DAH!) Death. He never succeeds, as the Death of Rats keeps interrupting him, and calls him on it after Susan's gotten fed up and walked away. | |
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Last Alert: "We are from the Force Project. You'll have to come with me". Dun Dun! | |
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Animated sitcoms like Family Guy, The Simpsons and South Park love parodying this trope; the normal absence of musical chords will be made up for by the characters themselves providing the sound effects. In the Simpson's episode Rosebud, the Simpsons come into possession of Mr. Burns long lost bear BoBo. When they first get it, the camera ominously closes in on a tag with the Scare Chord that says - "100% cotton". The chord cuts off and the camera frantically searches the bear until it find a tag saying "Property Of Montgomery Burns". Cue sting. And again in the episode with Mel Gibson, Beyond Blunderdome, where Homer suggests a movie idea with a dog with shifty eyes being the villain. The end of the episode ends with a shifty eyed dog. Cue sting. In Two Bad Neighbors, the scare chord is played when Bart skateboards by the Bushes' home. Later, Marge tells Homer as long as he keeps the car filled with gas she'll be happy. Homer sighs in relief, then looks shiftily about as the camera zooms in on the car. Cue sting. A X-Files-esque sting was used a couple of times in "Homer vs. Patty and Selma". |
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Parodied in Josie and the Pussycats, after Josie has uncovered the evil plot to insert subliminal advertising messages on all of her songs. She is immediately mocked by Alexandra, who parrots her discovery and punctuates it with a sarcastic "Dun dun DAH!" sting. Then, immediately played straight when she subconsciously confirms the evil plot as being true...which is followed by an actual sting. | |
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Parodied in Strong Bad Email where Strong Bad shows Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque Too?. All of the musical cues are done by Strong Bad himself. Several stings show up when villains are introduced or even foreshadowed. | |
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Drawn Together: Frequently used. "What is this, opposite day or dramatic music sting day!?" "NEITHER!" |
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The Electric Company (1971) had a cool collection of these to conclude skits. A few were specific to certain themes, such as for Western (trumpet sounding like a horse whinny) or medieval parodies (Parody of Baroque Music, with concluding Rimshot-like bell). Even Fargo North Decoder had one that parodied the opening theme for the sketch. | |
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The Goon Show: "And then...[dramatic sting!]...nothing happened. But it happened very dramatically!" | |
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The "Dun! Dun! Dun!" happens in Super Meat Boy when a chapter is entered. It also happens at the end of the good ending. | |
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Midnight Caller: A seven-note sting taken from the theme song's bass line plays every time Jack's show goes to commercial. | |
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