9/1/2023 0 Comments Brief intermission musicNear the end of the episode, Spike's final encounter with the actual villain of the episode has him testily listening in for the sound of whistling while the villain is trying to give his Motive Rant. Played for Laughs in "Cowboy Funk", where Spike's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Andy has a leitmotif that opens with a very distinctive whistle track that starts playing just before he appears.Same thing in "Jupiter Jazz", with Gren's saxophone tune.The episode "Sympathy for the Devil" begins with jazz music playing over a dream that Spike is having, but when he wakes up we see the music is being played by a kid in the bar he was in.Happens a couple of times in Cowboy Bebop:.In one ad, Drebin enters a nightclub and knocks down the band playing the theme music. Red Rock Cider was advertised on UK television in the late 1980s/early 1990s with a series of ads paying homage to Police Squad!/ The Naked Gun, complete with Leslie Nielsen reprising his role as Drebin and the original Police Squad! theme playing in the background.The entire commercial is silent except for the Background Music, which is provided by a singer whom the entertaining man gets on stage with. A Heineken commercial opens with a man walking in who is clearly the life of the party.Cut to the just-off-camera musicians, who start playing again when the waiter delivers the customer's steak. but when the waiter walks past the customer's table, he makes a gesture and the music winds down. In a US Beef Board ad, the usual music (Aaron Copland's "Hoe-down") plays as a waiter brings a steak to a customer. Another version has the same thing done with dramatic piano music that hits a bad note as soon as someone says something insulting, at which point the camera shows us that a person was playing the piano in the background.Doubles as a parody of the typical "Mom's the best" commercials.However, a fourth kid is seen a second later switching off the stereo and the music ends. A Tyson commercial plays with this by having a group of three kids playing video games spontaneously stand up and praise one kid's mom for making them the ready-to-serve chicken wings while dramatic music plays in the background.The inversion is Diegetic Switch, when the music goes from in-universe to soundtrack. Contrast Medium Awareness, for when a character is actually hearing the soundtrack. Not related to Leave the Camera Running, where the camera is set in the same scene for a very long time even if nothing's happening. Compare Diegetic Visual Effects, its visual counterpart. A humorous variation of Source Music (which is any instance where the music the audience hears is actually in the scene).Ĭompare Diegetic Soundtrack Usage, for when the show's theme tune is performed within the show. Bonus points if a second character apologetically turns the music off. Meta-joke wherein the Background Music builds to a dramatic pace, and one of the characters suddenly turns around and complains about the loud music - revealing that what you thought was part of the soundtrack was music actually playing in the show.
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