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Vocal Range Exceeded
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Gags where someone comically tries and fails to sing a note too high or too low for them. May cause Inopportune Voice Cracking. Note that straining one's voice too much will result in a sore throat. Doing it to extremes could even necessitate surgery. Only include examples where the singing is deliberately out of range or someone discusses out of range singing. Compare Hollywood Tone-Deaf. |
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An episode of Wings had Roy singing the Star-Spangled Banner and being worried about failing to hit the high note on "wave." | |
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In an episode of Are You Being Served?, Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas are trying to sing a very high version of Happy Birthday to You!. They are not successful, and Mr. Humphries complains that his braces (suspenders) have broken because of it. | |
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Also appears in the score to Airplane!. The final, triumphant orchestration of the love theme has the female chorus audibly straining to hit the highest note. | |
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Spamalot, "The Song that Goes Like This". | |
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Unusually, Mel Brooks makes the choir singers do this during the credits to High Anxiety. | |
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While producing The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", Norman Whitfield deliberately arranged David Ruffin's lead vocal just above his actual range, requiring numerous takes to get all the high notes right and adding to the mood. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Tim Brooke-Taylor had this happen to him a lot, probably because Humphrey Littleton and Jack Dee both made him sing songs that were outside his vocal range (such as those by Meatloaf, or a-ha) For the Evulz. It also occasionally happens to others on the show, but Tim was the Butt-Monkey. | |
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Miss Piggy gets into a vocal range duel on Ride of the Valkyries with a real opera singer (Beverly Sills) at 1:55 in this video. She can't quite hit the high note. Again in The Muppet Movie when Miss Piggy is singing "Never Before, Never Again", she's straining to hit the last note. |
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In Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, he sings an ABBA medley with Gina Langland, which he is clearly having trouble doing, but which comes to a head when he reaches "Thank You for the Music" and is forced to (noticeably) drop several octaves. | |
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"Look Before You Leap" sees Frasier determined to sing a live-televised solo rendition of an aria from Rigoletto, but can't hit the high note (his accompanist says the only way he will hit the note is if he is jabbed with a pin at the right moment). He finally gives up just before the show starts, switching back to his staple of "Buttons & Bows"... for which he's forgotten the words, having been concentrating so hard on the other number. | |
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At the end of "Do, Re, Mi" from The Sound of Music, Maria sings a scale starting "do, ti, la" from middle C, and can't quite make the final "do". (This gag was not used in the movie version, where Julie Andrews concludes the number more conventionally on a high note.) | |
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The Fat Lady portrait in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tries to sing high enough to shatter a wine glass, culminating in her just shrieking at the top of her lungs. When even that doesn't succeed in shattering the glass, she just smashes it against the wall and then acts all surprised a moment later when she "notices" that it shattered. | |
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Kim Possible: "Hidden Talent" features Kim having continual problems hitting the high notes in the song she's set to sing after Ron signs her up for the school talent show. She ultimately manages to hit it as a way to break through a layer of ice keeping her trapped in Drakken's lair. | |
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In an episode of I'm Alan Partridge, Alan tries to give a rendition of "Close to You" but starts way too high, changes key several times, then just gives up. In Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, he sings an ABBA medley with Gina Langland, which he is clearly having trouble doing, but which comes to a head when he reaches "Thank You for the Music" and is forced to (noticeably) drop several octaves. |
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Regularly used on Svengoolie when his musical director Doug Graves arranges songs for Sven to sing, just a bit higher than Sven can sing. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Justin strategically averts this during his turn singing karaoke while a girl. He accounts for the higher voice he has as a girl and deliberately picks a song that has notes slightly higher than he would normally sing. | |
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Oancitizen in his musical review of The Man Who Fell to Earth: "A man, a man from MA- God damn that's high!" | |
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Todd in the Shadows notes that this tends to embarrass anyone who tries to sing A Ha's "Take On Me" on Karaoke night since few can match Morten Harket's high notes. | |
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In an episode of Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay's voice cracks out of sheer disbelief at an incompetent contestant not using a non-stick pan and screwing up the scallops, despite the recipe calling for one to be used: | |
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An early South Park episode, "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" has a bomb that is supposed to go off at a football game at half-time when the singer sings the high-F in "Lovin' You". Unfortunately, the singer is Richard Stamos (John Stamos' brother), who falls into this trope. Later, however, he is able to hit it with predictable consequences. | |
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In "Long-Haired Hare", Bugs Bunny directs pompous opera singer Giovanni Jones to sing a note far below his vocal range. | |
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Hey Arnold!: "Gerald's Tonsil" centers on Gerald having a tenor solo in school choir right after his tonsils are removed, which makes his voice low and raspy (and let them keep the same voice actor even as he entered puberty). After spending a while in denial and getting mocked for his new voice, Gerald's doctor mentions the same thing had happened to the mailman Harvey (who's voiced by Lou Rawls). Harvey advises Gerald to sing whatever he feels like, so Gerald sings a much lower version of the solo. Everyone is impressed, and several students fruitlessly attempt to imitate it backstage. | |
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In Alice in Wonderland, Alice attempts a certain note during the singing of "All in the Golden Afternoon" (better known to some as "The Flowers Song"). Alice fails, and the flowers visibly cringe. | |
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Cledus T. Judd's cover of Tim Wilson's "Ricky Tidwell's Mama" invokes this with guest vocalist Daryle Singletary, who intentionally sings notes way too deep for his vocal range (especially at the end). | |
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Again in The Muppet Movie when Miss Piggy is singing "Never Before, Never Again", she's straining to hit the last note. | |
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Frasier: "Look Before You Leap" sees Frasier determined to sing a live-televised solo rendition of an aria from Rigoletto, but can't hit the high note (his accompanist says the only way he will hit the note is if he is jabbed with a pin at the right moment). He finally gives up just before the show starts, switching back to his staple of "Buttons & Bows"... for which he's forgotten the words, having been concentrating so hard on the other number. In a Christmas episode, Martin is rehearsing "O Holy Night", but is having difficulty hitting the high note, and every time he tries Eddie buries his head. |
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Susan Alexander in Citizen Kane can't hack being an opera singer. Orson Welles went for this trope instead of Hollywood Tone-Deaf by getting a professional alto to sing a soprano part. | |
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