(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Karaoke?

Movie or TV karaoke scenes. Great ones, preferably, but anything will do.

Top of my list--no surprise--is Bill Murray in Lost in Translation. As per the thread title, more for his Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe turn than for “More Than This.” The latter I count as third best in the film, after Scarlett Johansson’s “Brass in Pocket.”

Just as great is Portia Doubleday doing “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” in Mr. Robot. It happens just after some traumatizing event--not sure; maybe when her character Angela meets up with Whiterose--and it’s juxtaposed with a montage of fsociety trying to hack Susan Jacobs’ phone.

In The Leftovers, international assassin Kevin Garvey karaokes “Homeward Bound” as he tries to kill Patti and get back from...wherever he is; it’s that bizarre episode where he’s dead but not dead.

A friend tells me there’s a great karaoke scene Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which I still haven’t seen. There must be dozens more.

Don't know if I'd call it 'great', but there's Joseph Gordon-Levitt drunkenly assaulting "Here Comes Your Man" in 500 Days of Summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Xn2dYmqd8

Mastercut of the Booksmart karaoke scene.

i can't find any of the karaoke scenes from Xiao Wu

https://images.mubicdn.net/images/film/29/cache-91466-1610112879/image-w1280.jpg?size=800x

racking my dopey brain to decide if there's karaoke in all of Jia Zhangke's movies

All the Lost in Translation karaoke scenes--forgot about "God Save the Queen."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLXJhTDVoZQ

The revive of The Band's thread reminds me to bring up here Rinko Kikuchi performing "Sleeping" at Japanese Karaoke bar in The Brothers Bloom. (Scene not on YouTube)

Brooklyn 99 to thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbDx69MLfVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffyKY3Dj5ZE

ok second clip not technically karaoke but v funny)

I like 'em both! "It was #5--#5 killed my brother."

Poor Gale...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0VR6Kf7KQ

Long karaoke scene in Dead to Me, "Don't Leave Me This Way" then "Drive." I'm watching the first thinking "who is that, who is that?"; she's a semi-regular on the show, but watching her sing made her more familiar. It's Telma Hopkins from Dawn--Telma karaokes Thelma.

Dean & Jeff doing Kiss From A Rose on “Community” was v good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUYGRxRCCoc

Carlton’s version of Girl From Ipanema on Fresh Prince still a deep favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFimeCpWDQ8

sorry last one

Courtney from Dandy Warhols crushing “Love Hurts” in Veronica Mars S2 is very gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-jxXaEzDfA

Which reminds me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMaO3c6ZHes

Veronica bringing down the house with "One Way Or Another"

Classic Early Simpsons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9YvNUmW1kw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkmq2lR3fBM

Later Simpsons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLRTJC85c8

worst karaoke night of all time pic.twitter.com/grLHs5q0QE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 28, 2021

#onethread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqti-Sxsxk4

Actually a lipsync, but whatever...

Third season of The Handmaid's Tale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzMoCNEBKQ

Somewhat startling if you've made it this far, and you also watched The Leftovers: the most human Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia/Patti) has ever been.

Mentioned in the first post a friend telling me about a karaoke scene in Never Rarely Sometimes Always; finally saw it, worth the wait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDeWyberQRk

Bacharach karaoke in My Best Friend's Wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8sWvlBx1U

#onethread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvciE50FE70

Not on YouTube: Tina singing "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" on The Bear...I liked the little detail of her voice occasionally overloading the mic.

I'm on the final season of The Office, wanted to post Pam and Meredith doing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"; not on YouTube, so I'll post this instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzRvt9oG7zE

Wonder if Michael Caine singing Roy Orbison’s “It’s Over” in Little Voice is actually a karaoke scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBtG0gj6MxA

Speaking of the Big O, impressive that this is the Nazareth version:

Courtney from Dandy Warhols crushing “Love Hurts” in Veronica Mars S2 is very gold

"Black Is Black" in Black Mirror, which, coincidentally, I heard for probably the first time this century off the car radio a couple of weeks ago (starts at 44:00):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zyoHC8OpY

Jumped the gun there--much better is Irma Thomas's "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is" immediately after, a callback to an earlier episode.

Not on YouTube: Tina singing "Before The Next Teardrop Falls" on The Bear...I liked the little detail of her voice occasionally overloading the mic.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, August 17, 2023 7:04 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Now on YouTube (for eight months, apparently)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyAi2sJPTa4

Better Call Saul! Flashback to the night Jimmy officially becomes a lawyer (S4 finale): Ernie does "Total Eclipse of the Heart," Jimmy follows with "The Winner Takes It All," dragging Chuck on stage with him (reluctant at first, ends up loving it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9jU5YN_tw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Equy7Y0m-iA

SNL Mick Jagger Karaoke sketch

shoresy had i think 3 karaoke scenes this last season but two are on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vbtUpa4wU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxTy6j1zovo

Y'all should watch me go every Thursday

video it and put it in this thread imo

Homecoming, S2, E1: Heart's "Alone" (no YouTube clip).

Killed two Karaoke birds with one stone this week when I sang a Beach Boys song in Spanish.

"Chicas Baja"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFWxBuTG3HE Charly García, Pedro Aznar - Solo Dios Sabe