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The triangle is a percussion instrument made of metal (usually steel) shaped like itself, played by hitting it with a stick. Of all musical instruments, the triangle has a reputation as the worst and most pathetic of all. If you're given a triangle in a school band, you know that the teacher doesn't think much of your musical skills (or doesn't like you) and you will get very little to do in concerts. The image comes about from how it's only possible to make a few notes with a triangle, meaning it's hard to be noticeably good at it, it doesn't have much of a noise besides metallic dinging and it's also not much to look at. As it doesn't have many moving parts or expensive skins to maintain, it is also a popular instrument to trust children with, giving it the image of a child's toy and nothing more. It's entirely possible to play precise notes and make it sound good with practice, but the stigma lingers. In Real Life, professional symphony orchestras and military concert bands have percussionists who spend years of post-secondary study mastering the precise, rhythmic playing of percussion instruments such as the triangle (along with a range of other struck instruments). Percussionists have to count carefully and play with confidence. This is often the Signature Instrument of the Butt-Monkey, The Chew Toy or The Ditz. For tropes regarding other instruments portrayed negatively, see Nobody Loves the Bassist and Dumb and Drummer. |
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BoJack Horseman: Inverted in "Hooray! Todd Episode!" in which Todd joins an orchestra as a triangle player, receiving rapturous applause for his extremely simple solo note, which ends the piece. He is hailed as one of the most accomplished people the orchestra has ever seen, and the orchestra gets very worried when they think he won't get there to play the note in time. | |
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The Simpsons: When the whole school band minus three end up playing tardy by getting unnecessary surgery, Martin with his triangle only looks good in comparison to Ralph with a flute up his nose. | |
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Characters Welcome: Elena Skopetos's "Orchestra Conductor Is Totally Sleeping With The Triangle Player" has a conductor shrug off her orchestra's beautiful music except for the simplistic triangle solos — not because the triangle actually sounds good, but because she's banging the new triangle player Marco. She awkwardly shoehorns more triangle sounds into the arrangement at the expense of everyone else. | |
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Discussed and actively defied by YourMovieSucks.org in his review of The Lion King (2019). Adam points out that while the triangle was present in the opening song "The Circle of Life" in the original animated film, the remake completely removes the triangle from the same song. He lists this as a point against the remake, explaining that the triangle actually adds a subtle effect to the original version that the remake sorely lacks. He even goes as far as to wonder if Hans Zimmer has a persona vendetta against triangles given how much he removed their presence in the remake's soundtrack. | |
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Last Place Comics: A man has a recurring dream in which triangles are popular. | |
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In The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in the episode "Orchestra," when the twins are playing in an orchestra, while Cody diligently practices his violin, Zach's practice consists of striking the triangle a few times since he will only play at the very beginning and very end of the concert. | |
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In the Cro episode "Play It Again, Cro... Not!", Phil has put together a marching band that includes Mojo playing the triangle. A Running Gag in the episode consists of Mojo getting interrupted before he can play his triangle. | |
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Averted in Déraciné. While the triangle is indeed played by the youngest child, Rozsa, she's proud to have a role in the group's performance of Scarborough Fair and no one treats her any less for it. Marie even directly compliments the sound. Rozsa's also front and center from the player's perspective during the performance, so the triangle's role in the song is more or less impossible to miss. | |
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Doraemon: In The Doraemons Special, the eponymous group wants to perform in a band, but Doraemon is a Dreadful Musician and keeps on ruining the whole group's performance. Not wanting to leave him out, his friends end up giving him a triangle so that he can play alongside them without making too much disruptive noise. Although this backfires at the end when, at the day of the performance, the whole group aside from Doraemon are too tired to perform, leaving the triangle as the sole instrument. | |
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The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley: The fact that he is a very avid triangle player is more evidence that Ed Grimley is a very weird CloudCuckoolander. | |
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The Cramp Twins: Wendy deliberately gives Lucien a triangle as his assigned instrument to spite him. | |
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In one episode Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Cookie, being a tech guy, thought that for music class he could simply play his computer. The teacher told him he must use a real instrument. He tried with the recorder, but was horrible at it, then with a drum but it was too heavy for him, (and ended smashing his teacher with it). At the end, as he couldn't play any other instrument, he was given a triangle, which he thought was perfect. | |
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In The Muppet Christmas Carol, during the Christmas Past scene in Fozziwig's party, a shot shows Animal at his drum set looking utterly dismayed at having to ding a little triangle in accompaniment with the more refined music. He can't hold it off for too long and breaks into a drum solo that gets the party much more raucous. | |
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Donkey Kong 64 gives the big and simple minded Chunky Kong a triangle as his instrument in the DK Crew. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In he episode "One Man Banned", Timmy tries for the school band, and after several failed at attempts, picks up a traingle, but when even this causes disasters to occur, he's banned from the band. To show people he has talent, he wishes that he would be famous for his triangle playing and adopts the persona "Timmy Triangle," and when he tries to play a concert without the magic of Cosmo and Wanda, he fails miserably. Cosmo himself used to play the "electric triangle" in his high school garage band. It did nothing but result in electric shocks to him. |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: The titular instrument of "The Triangle" doesn't feature much but serves to underscore how the one it's assigned to, Gumball, feels inadequate and upstaged by Darwin. "The Fridge" has a montage of all Gumball's failures that week, one of which was when he was assigned the triangle for band practice. He fails to hit the ONLY note he had to hit. |
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Saturday Night Live Kristen Wiig created the character Triangle Sally. In her best-known appearance, she appeared in a skit for "The Worst of Soul Train," with the song "I Have a Triangle." The host reveals Triangle Sally died after that performance "and we did not edit it out." In the "Waking Up with Kimye" skit Kanye West (portrayed by Jay Pharoah) starts out by presenting the Kardashian family, "all playing musical instruments matched to their abilities! We got Khloé on triangle (plink!), Kourtney on triangle (plink!), Kendall on a box of rice, Rob on a Simon, Kris Jenner will be clapping on her own hands," and finally: The “Holiday Pageant� sketch from 2012 pairs Martin Short with Paul McCartney as Caleb and Monty, who are auditioning together with an original song for a community center’s Christmas pageant. Caleb is the singer while Monty is an idiot who wants to sing but is only supposed to play the triangle because according to Caleb, Monty can’t sing (“I have the million dollar voice and you are a lump!� - Caleb). The first time they perform the song, Monty misses his cue, and the second time, he plays too soon. Fed up, Caleb quits and tells Monty, “Good luck with your solo career!�. Monty then asks if he can sing, and the interviewer agrees, which is a segue to Paul performing “Wonderful Christmastime� on the stage previously hidden behind the sketch background. Played with in the famous cowbell skit with a similar one-note instrument. Blue Öyster Cult is recording "Don't Fear the Reaper", and Gene Frenkle (Will Ferrell) is playing the cowbell obnoxiously loudly. But producer Bruce Dickinson (Christopher Walken) repeatedly asks for more cowbell. |
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One pop-up scenario in Bitlife has you pick an instrument to learn in music class. If you select "Triangle," you'll realize how boring the triangle is. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: In order to further the joke about the character being perceived to be terrible in-universe, one of the endings depicts a Glam Rock version of Mr. Hippo playing the triangle as opposed to an instrument more fitting of an 80s rock band. | |
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The opening sequence of Blackadder Goes Forth featured the regular cast as part of a military parade. At the end of the sequence, after the band has finished playing, we see a scruffy-looking Private Baldrick briefly making a jangling noise on a triangle. | |
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A sketch in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme plays on the simplicity of the triangle in a different way. A young man wishes to be The Apprentice to the world's greatest triangle-maker, who he ranks as above Stradivarius. His training consisted of making four triangles ("bend, and bend, and string, and..." *ting!*), each of which was supposedly better than the last until his master claimed he had outdone him, and the apprentice insisted this was due to the careful training he'd been given over the past few minutes. Then they made a hundred more and stopped for lunch. | |
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When Frasier is tasked to write a theme song for his radio show, he promises Roz that there will be a part for her guitar-playing boyfriend. Eventually, he creates an over-the top song requiring a choir, a full backing orchestra and Niles doing a spoken-word part in the recording booth, but he forgets about the guitar-playing dude. He does get included in the recording after being given a triangle... and thinking it looks complicated. | |
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In Season 3 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch Sabrina uses a magical penny to dissuade Valerie from becoming a second string cheerleader. When she backs out of tryouts, Valerie signs up for Orchestra Club instead. | |
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