20 Random Musical Numbers You Just Have to See (Like, Right Now)

Musicals are awesome. They can be disastrous, creepy, or creepier, but they all work with these strange rules where people just start singing and dancing, while we instead get weird looks when trying to make a musical meet cute happen on the subway. So you can blame people for the fact we’re not discussing musicals. Nope, instead, this Pictofact is devoted to just random musical sequences in non-musical movies. Yes, exactly like the Cuban Pete scene in The Mask, except that one didn’t make the cut. Well, it did here, in this intro, but not in the list, you get it. Alright, segue!

We’re taking a look at a bunch of musical sequences that come out of nowhere: we mean scenes where characters start singing and/or dancing, scenes that call more attention than usual to their songs, whatever fits the concept and was not that 500 Days of Summer scene we just remembered existed (and that was anticipated by the opening of 2001’s Get Over It, but whatever, who’s keeping track?). Wait, now that we’re keeping track, we just noticed we missed a lot of classics, like this one, this one, and this one, which are just the same link because we really really like that scene. Anyway, now that you've got the concept (unlike those normies that can’t sing on cue on the subway), let’s go!