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(310) 555-2817. No, wait... So you have a musical number. The music is absolutely beautiful, and the instrumental part makes you want to cry or go "Awwww...". But wait, something's wrong. There is something that is keeping you from bursting into tears. What could it be? Humor. You're hearing a Mel Brooks number, not necessarily a bad thing, unless you don't like musicals.note And sometimes even if you do... This song can be described as: |
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, perhaps most audaciously, features "Sit On My Face," a rousing up-tempo choral anthem about anilingus. | |
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The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) ends with a cheerful song-and-dance salute to The End of the World as We Know It as prophesied in the Book of Revelation: "That's Armageddon!" | |
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Discussed in The Drowsy Chaperone. "Bride's Lament" is a beautiful, sad song sung by Janet van de Graaf after breaking up with her fiancé. However, the lyrics are completely ridiculous. The Man in Chair (who is listening to the cast recording of the Show Within a Show) says it's best to ignore the lyrics. | |
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While the entire show is hysterical, "You Won't Succeed On Broadway" from Spamalot is definitely one of these... especially since the song talks about Broadway shows flopping if they can't get Jews in the cast. | |
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Even High Anxiety, otherwise a nonmusical sendup of Alfred Hitchcock tropes, has Brooks performing the title number at a swank soiree. | |
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In Young Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein performs a beautiful rendition of "Puttin' On The Ritz"... until the monster's turn for the chorus comes up. And then there's the dancing. | |
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Animaniacs had "Yakko's Universe", a musical Expy of Monty Python's "Galaxy Song", with a charming uptempo orchestral arrangement straight out of a classic Disney cartoon. | |
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"Brian", from the opening of Monty Python's Life of Brian, fits this to a tee—beautiful orchestration and a fantastic singer (essentially a take-off of Shirley Bassey's performance in Goldfinger) undercut by silly graphics and increasingly silly lyrics. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has "The Galaxy Song", a light, cheery number with a lovely instrumental break...that turns out to be about an individual human's insignificance in the universe, and "Every Sperm Is Sacred," an anthemic hymn sung by Catholics of all ages (including ancient relics) about sperm. Monty Python and the Holy Grail has "Knights of the Round Table," which includes very silly choreography and increasingly painful rhymes for "Camelot." Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, perhaps most audaciously, features "Sit On My Face," a rousing up-tempo choral anthem about anilingus. |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail has "Knights of the Round Table," which includes very silly choreography and increasingly painful rhymes for "Camelot." | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day: "Sloprano", the boss theme for the battle against the Great Mighty Poo... which is also sung by said boss. The instruments are beautiful and dramatic, and the boss honestly does have a good singing voice, but the lyrics are about what you would expect for a battle against a giant literal pile of crap. | |
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Walk Hard is full of these. While some of the songs ("Guilty As Charged" comes to mind) could easily pass for a 60s Johnny Cash hit, others ("Let's Duet") are gleefully silly and filled with double entendres. | |
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Perhaps one of the best is "When the Foeman Bears His Steel" from The Pirates of Penzance, in which the Police sing a rousing song about how they're afraid of the pirates, while the women sing about how glorious their deaths will surely be, and the two choruses are combined in counterpoint, a highly-technical musical effect that is difficult to pull off. | |
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"The Cookie Chase" from Anyone Can Whistle, in which Cora's underlings try to arrest forty-nine people of any description while Fay repeatedly schemes to free them, is a gleefully overdone classical ballet pastiche in three-quarter time, with vocal sections for barbershop quartet and coloratura soprano thrown in for good measure. | |
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Phineas and Ferb has the song "Fish Out Of Water" The tone of the vocals has tearjerker in spades and the accompanying piano doesn't help either but when you realize this is a song about a literal goldfish that Buford lost while swimming in the ocean, things turn out a little differently. | |
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"Up There", from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. One of the better "I Want" Songs . . . sung by Satan. "La Resistance" is a beautifully stirring Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number in the vein of "One Day More" from Les Misérables . . . featuring lyrics such as: |
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Puppet History features a song every episode by a puppet representing a character or object relating to the topic at hand. Some of them are appropriately silly, but then some of them are overly dramatic while still sharing absurd or irreverent premises with the rest. The best examples would be the dramatic rock ballad from a train lamenting it never got to transport Abraham Lincoln; a triumphant ballad from the Olympic torch in which it screams furiously at the listener to subject themselves to ever-greater pain to win a gold medal; the Randy Newman-style chipped coin song, which may be one of the series's least outright goofy songs in its writing and performance, but nonetheless is so upfront with its Affectionate Parody and applies it to such a niche concept that it retains a good bit of inherent humor; and the tragic romantic duet between an oar and a former oar-turned-sword. | |
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Chicago has "Class", which has a beautiful melody (the sheet music notes that it should be played "quasi Franz Schubert") but is packed with swearing and grammatical errors. And the characters singing it, a murderer and a corrupt jailer, are complaining about how the world is going down the gutter. |
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The Book of Mormon is full of these: "Hasa Diga Eebowai" and "Joseph Smith, American Moses," have catchy African-style melodies and lyrics full of blasphemy and Vulgar Humor. "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" is a bombastic production number that depicts infernal torment no more than semi-seriously, including fake-Latin chanting, a Satanic guitar solo, Johnny Cochran, coffee torture and a Last Chorus Slow-Down. |
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Much the way that the 2005 version did, the 2013 stage musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman) handles the four naughty kids' demises with different musical styles befitting each child's personality, while their lyrics are pure "The Villain Sucks" Song material. The most spectacular example is probably "Juicy!", in which Violet's transformation into a blueberry is presented as a glittering, joyous Gratuitous Disco Sequence ending with a Confetti Drop over the audience...the result of her exploding in a shower of glitter. | |
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Also note the lyrics: "The leader of the Germans stood with a triumphant roar." Now consider who is the current German chancelor and imagine her acting out what the lyrics say. Or the Germany guy in Hetalia. | |
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has "The Galaxy Song", a light, cheery number with a lovely instrumental break...that turns out to be about an individual human's insignificance in the universe, and "Every Sperm Is Sacred," an anthemic hymn sung by Catholics of all ages (including ancient relics) about sperm. | |
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VeggieTales: "The Star of Christmas" has the title characters of "The Princess and the Plumber" sing a melodious love duet with absurdly unromantic plumbing-themed lyrics. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights gave us a... rousing performance of "The Night is Young, and You're So Beautiful" with all the Merry Men sitting down to enjoy the show. At the end of the song it looks like Robin has a 3-foot erection (which prompts a standing ovation from his men followed by disappointed sighs when the optical illusion is broken and they realize it was just his sword). It also had the titular "We're Men... We're Men In Tights!" |
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A famous Brooks anecdote is that Frankie Laine didn't realize Blazing Saddles was a comedy when recording the theme (Brooks said that the lyrics should be sung by "a Frankie Laine type" but the producers got the genuine article), and Brooks didn't have the heart to tell him after such a sincere performance. Hilarity ensued. Also "The French Mistake" parody of a classic 50's musical chorus, filled with Ho Yay lyrics. |
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"The Lumberjack Song" from Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the backing chorus breaks up due to the lyrics' ridiculous emphasis on transvestism. | |
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Parts of Ylvis's song, "The Fox," would genuinely have a feeling of wonder and mystery, if were not for the entire song being about something as random as wondering what sounds a fox makes, with ridiculous gibberish words (presumably "speculation" about said sounds) and a section asking if said fox would come across a horse, would it speak to it in Morse code? | |
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H.M.S. Pinafore gives us "He Is An Englishman," a number with a stirring martial melody celebrating the main character's Patriotic Fervor... until you notice the lyrics are mocking the entire concept of patriotism by explaining it means he has actively resisted temptations to be a person of any other nationality. | |
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History of the World Part I has a sort of inverted example, a Busby Berkeley Number that has all the trappings of cheerful musical comedy, and is about the Spanish Inquisition.note Nobody expects it, of course. | |
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The bread and butter of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Notable numbers include: "You Stupid Bitch" - a soliloquy of self-loathing, but some of it comes out less than poetically. Just to pile on the cringe, Rebecca has the audience sing along with her at one point. "(Tell Me I'm Okay) Patrick" - gets more silly as the number goes on, including a package playing the piano, despite the number being about desperately needing comfort and validation "The Moment Is Me" - this song's lyrics are completely earnest; it's the deliberately listless delivery that makes it this trope |
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