Army sadly states/sometime yesterday/Captain Fielding's plane went down/north of Hudson Bay." So, he sings to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" "The U.S. Harry pays the delivery boy some extra money to have him sing it to them. On Night Court, Dan goes off on an assignment with the army and the staff at the court receives a telegram.Singing Telegrams: Fran and Maxwell are engaged / It looks like you're a loser! / She'll be happy all her days / And you'll become a boozer! She dumps him by sending the barbershop quartet to the diner where they work to sing a special message: In the same episode Monica dates Julio, who turns out to be misogynist about American women.
Rachel is humiliated as it's clearly an attempt to remind her co-worker, who Ross believes is attracted to Rachel, that she's seeing someone.
Friends: In " The One With All the Jealousy", Ross sends a barbershop quartet to Rachel's office to deliver a song about how much he loves and her and how nice it is to have a boyfriend. "Everyone" responds by delivering the information via a singing telegram who performs "Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates for Joan in front of the entire precinct. Elementary: In one episode Joan Watson asks the Hacker Collective known as "Everyone" for information about a crucial suspect. Gil, his wife Kelly, and several of the younger siblings (particularly the boys) offer their take on the romantic example Gil has set for his sons over the years and the romantic example Zach set with this latest gesture. Dad Gil heads outside to find out what they're up to, then pops back into the house a few minutes later, saying "We've got a surprise here, people." It turns out Gil's eldest son, Zach, hired a barbershop quartet to deliver flowers to wife Whitney and sing her two songs. They're getting ready for their "I Love You Day" celebration when they see four guys coming up to the house. On Bringing Up Bates, the titular family has reunited at the family home, including all the older children and their significant others. The song was set to the tune of "My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean," if memory serves. On Alice (1976), Alice dresses as a singing telegram to convince Telly Savalas to visit the diner, as Vera has claimed to have met him and no one believes her. Because Buddy is in his elf suit, Walter initially assumes Buddy is there to sing for him, calling it a "Christmas-gram." Buddy the Elf goes to the Empire State Building to meet his birth father, Walter Hobbs, who never knew Buddy was born to his late wife. Boddy blackmailed him over publicly revealing this. Professor Plum reveals that she was a patient he had an affair with, and Mr. Clue: During the blackout, a singing telegram inexplicably shows up and is promptly shot by the mystery assailant. Charlie's Angels (2000): The Angels and Bosley pose as a Swedish-themed yodel-gram group who arrive at the "wrong" address to get access to a Redstar executive and scan his retinas via a device hidden in Bosley's sousaphone. In Brazil, Sam Lowry's mother invites him to a party celebrating her latest round of plastic surgery via a Cute, but Cacophonic singing telegram, to Sam's utter bewilderment for added comedy, when the singing telegram offers to deliver a reply, Sam attempts to sing the reply! Also, because of the hopelessly bureaucracy-clogged setting, the "courier" is discovered to have arrived an hour after the party has already started. Often the singing telegram will be a barbershop quartet.ĬC: Happy, happy birthday bunny boy love's kind of funny with a bunny boy He loves me so hard He's my bundle of joy I try to go to sleep but it's just no use 'Cause all he really wants to do is reproduce Happy birthday to you Happy birthday darling Johnny Happy birthday to you. 
If this is done as a romantic gesture, the love interest will likely think it's too much. This will undoubtedly make the bad news worse. If bad news is being delivered, the cheery song will be juxtaposed with the depressing nature of the news. Expect a large crowd of people to witness it. Usually, the telegram will arrive at the most awkward or inopportune moment. When this trope does appear, it will be for a novelty message and Played for Laughs. Since telegrams have been long obsolete, these are never used for legitimate communications. The singers will run the gamut from being extremely cheerful to being more cynical and fed up with their job. The singer(s) may also wear a ridiculous costume.
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