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Not to be confused with the group that sang [[Sonic CD|Sonic Boom]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Lucky Star]]'', during the race scene, had a suspiciously ''[[Initial D]]'' sounding song , One time in episode 2 there was a ''Gun Buster'' parody, with a knockoff of the opening song, "Active Heart", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emq0Xf6zVDw seriously] , and in episode 17 there was a parody of Cat's Eye using a knockoff of [http://video.yahoo.com/watch/622059/2944980 the ending theme]{{Dead link}} , but with Kagami as an extra.
* [[Joe Hisaishi]] pretty much plays around with one or two melodies for the entire soundtrack of ''[[
** There is also a section of 'Ashitaka and San' ([[Princess Mononoke]]) that sounds very similar to part of 'Ano Natsu E/Inochi no Namae' ([[Spirited Away]]).
* The ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' episode "Pierrot le Fou" includes a brilliant pastiche by [[Yoko Kanno]] of [[Pink Floyd]]'s "On the Run". (This is actually a legitimate cover; it's even listed on the soundtrack as "On the Run" with the original writers credited.)
* Occurs early in the first episode of Gundam 0083 when Kou, Burning, Kieth and Alan are having a staged Mobile Suit battle to test a new attachment for the GM. The show's first theme is played with a different tempo for effect.
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* The Japanese version of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' reused a musical score from ''[[Cyber Team in Akihabara]]'', and both series share the same composer, Shinkichi Mitsumune. And for comparisons sake [http://soundcloud.com/theshugotv/cyberteam-in-akihabara-bgm The Cyberteam version] and the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvbdz8yYW0 Yu-Gi-Oh! version].
== [[
* The [[Musical Episode]] of ''[[Nodwick]]'' consists of parody lyrics reflecting the goings-on, sung to the tunes of famous pop and rock songs (as explained by the author's foot notes). The author even has the [[Villain Song|villain's number]] [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|break the fourth wall]] to explain that this is Fair Use and he's safe from lawsuits.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' (1989) had a snippet of "Scandalous" by Prince worked into the otherwise somber Danny Elfman score.
** Not that the song isn't fairly somber in its own way, especially when used in the film.
* The music originally composed for the Sarlacc Pit battle in ''[[Star Wars]]'' (Sail Barge Assault Alternate, released as a bonus track) is quite different from the music heard in the film, but the film music is kind of a pastiche of the original(the middle part and the ending are almost identical).
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** The "Victory Celebration" music from the special edition of ''Return of the Jedi'' sounds rather similar to the ''Superman'' love theme, of course also written by John Williams.
* The theme from ''[[True Romance]]'' (''You're so Cool'' by [[Hans Zimmer]]) is near identical to Gassenhauer by Carl Orff.
* Also by [[Hans Zimmer]], "Parley" from ''[[Pirates Of The Carribbean]]: At World's End'' is a pastiche of Ennio Morricone's music. In fact, the entire scene where the two groups slowly walk towards each other is an [[Homage]] to [[Spaghetti Western
== [[Live
* ''[[Good Eats]]'' does this a lot. Its simple, ten-note Surf Rock theme tune has been morphed into everything from the theme to ''[[The X-Files]]'', the [[Jeopardy Thinking Music]], and a sea chanty, to "Theme from A Summer Place" and a heavy rock riff for guitar and Hammond.
* When a comedy character is being sneaky, adapting his theme music into a parody of the themes from the [[James Bond]] films, ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'', or ''[[The Saint]]'' is almost a requirement. (These three actually have a lot in common musically, so it's possible to hit all three in one parody).
* One that almost happened on TV: ''[[Square One TV]]'' was originally going to be called "That's Mathematics", and [[Tom Lehrer]] wrote a theme song for it, to the tune of "That's Entertainment". But in the end, the name of the show was changed so the song wasn't used. Then, Lehrer brought the song back for a celebration of Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, but due to copyright, had to write his own tune to it (which keeps basically the same rhythm and style).
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' pastiched ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'''s [[Theme Tune]] in the climax battle of the episode "The Winged Avenger", complete with [[The Hit Flash]], which took the form of huge comic book panels reading "SOCK!" and "POW!" being smashed into the bad guy's face.
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** This editor's mother used to argue with her that it was the same tune, only arranged differently. Her mother didn't believe it until they did a special on it as the series was ending.
* ''[[Spitting Image]]'' did this a lot. The best remembered is "The Chicken Song", which sounds very similar to "Agadoo" by Black Lace.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' had a just-different-enough version of "Sing, Sing, Sing" for the big scene in "Triangle".
* [[Sesame Street]] did this for most of its parody songs, using the same rhythm with a different tune, eg "Rebel L", a pastiche of Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell". Of course because PBS doesn't have the funding for licensing fees.
== [[Music]] ==
* There have been several spoof rock bands which parody specific songs or styles of music, but not all of these can be called pastiches. There are at least two bands that blur the line between pastiche and parody.{{context}}
* The Hee Bee Gee Bees parodied numerous bands of the 70s and 80s, often very closely pastiching the original melodies.
* [[The Rutles]], originally seen in a TV [[Mockumentary]], pastiched [[The Beatles]]. In some cases the pastiche was almost too close for comfort, as in the case of "Get Up and Go", which was almost banned from the soundtrack CD because of its resemblance to "Get Back". Fortunately [[Paul McCartney]] saw the joke, to the extent of performing the song himself.
* [[Richard Cheese]] has made a career off of the discovery that profanity-filled metal and rap songs become intrinsically hilarious when played as extremely white-bread Lounge Music.
* While the world thinks of him as strictly a parody artist, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s songs are actually split about half and half between parody works and pastiches.
** Not just from critics. Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo's frontman, wrote a letter to Weird Al, congratulating him for writing the perfect Devo song.
* Variation 22 from Beethoven's 32 variations on a theme by Diabelli is a pastiche of the aria "Notte e giorno faticar" from Mozart's ''Don Giovanni''.
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== [[Theater]] ==
* ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' uses a bit of the melody from "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in connection with the ruby slippers. On the length of the snippet of melody: it's ''just'' enough to avoid copyright
** It also uses the chords of "No One Mourns the Wicked" and its overture as a [[Recurring Riff|recurring theme]], and intersperses it with "For Good", which itself incorporates the chord theme, in the finale ultimo.
* The 1971 version of ''[[No, No, Nanette]]'' does this three times in a row with "I Want To Be Happy."
* In ''[[The Music Man]]'', the melodies of "Goodnight, My Someone" and "Seventy Six Trombones" are pastiches of each other. This is made obvious by a reprise which switches between the two songs with every other line.
* Similarly, in [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''Mass'', the ''a capella'' chorale "Almighty Father" is based on a slower version of the "In nomine Patris" which precedes it.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Remixer AmIEviL did a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWhIatbXWM mashup] of Stage 5's theme from ''[[Blaster Master]]'' and Bomb Man's theme from ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''.
* The final battle theme of ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' is an [[Ominous Pipe Organ]] rearrangement of Bowser's theme in the style of Bach's "Toccata & Fugue".
* The music for ''[[Quest for Yrolg]]'' is a minor-key and more metal-y rendition of the [[Quest for Glory]] march.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'' was fond of it, turning its short theme song into jungle drums, French provincial folk music, rock and roll, and a few other styles.
** Other pastiches included the "clockwork" version(heard in Cuckoo Clock Caper and a couple other episodes), "Hail to the Chief", part of the song "New York, New York" mixed with the IG theme, and the "chase theme", which obviously pastiches the ''[[Knight Rider]]'' theme song. And the theme itself is a pastiche of Edward Grieg's "In the Halls of the Mountain King" and Irving Berlin's "Puttin' on the Ritz".
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has often done this with its main theme during the closing credits of an episode. For instance, in a police-themed episode the song was turned into an homage to the ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'' theme music, and in the Australia-themed episode the song was accompanied by a didgeridoo.
** There was even one episode where the credits theme was done a capella, complete with video.
* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' did this quite a bit.
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** "Hey La" for another.
** AKA, [[The Jimmy Hart Version|The Jimmy Neutron Version?]]
* ''[[The Fairly
** "Real and Scary" song from one of their Halloween specials has a riff [and a visual gag] that is reminiscent of [[Michael Jackson]]'s "Thriller".
** There are several of the aforementioned ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' riffs.
** There's a riff on Popeye using beets rather than spinach.
* This troper remembers a part in the original ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' cartoon where the mutants crash into a TV Studio where a very ''[[Power Rangers]]'' type show is filming - when they exit, a suited-up actor looks at them curiously while the notes corresponding to the words "Go go Power Rangers!" start to play and then putter out.
* The theme from ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' uses the exact same tune as Moonbaby's "Here We Go", just with different lyrics. Later episodes only used the instrumental of the song, maybe due to legal reasons.
* ''[[WALL-E]]'' does this a lot with "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'' At one point, a robot moves some of his parts to "sing" the first few notes of the refrain as something of [[Theme Music Power-Up]] for WALL-E.
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