Plagiarism?

So after a while of waiting to see if my brother would rejoin me in watching WandaVision (he stopped after Ep. 4 because it was "too Marvel"), I started watching again on my own. By this time Disney+ had forgotten that I exist, so it had lost my place and started playing episode 1 again (this is an oversimplification; it remembered which episodes I had watched but still started again on Ep. 1, possibly because when I watched it the first time I couldn't be bothered to sit through the FIFTEEN MINUTES of credits).

Anyway, I went back to the select episode screen, so the screen went black. However, the credits music kept playing and I noticed something...

© "A Newlywed Couple", © Lopez, Lopez, 2020

Do you hear it?

No?

Listen again to those first two notes...

Still nothing?

Watch this next clip (from 0:21 to skip the dialogue and intro):

© "Summer (Where do we Begin)" - Povenmire, Marsh, Olson, Barry, Hughes, 2011

Now listen again to the first two notes of the WandaVision theme.

Maybe it's more obvious in this song (important part at 0:08):

© "Bee Day" - Jacob, Jacob, Dickinson, 2013


© The Incredibles - Bird, 2004

However, listening to the opening of Bee Day made me think of this (0:31 onwards):

©  Dialogue - Juhl, 1992
Music/Lyrics - Williams, 1992

The inclusion of the above clip technically makes this a Christmas post, so it goes in the Christmas playlist

But you're probably thinking "No, it's just a coincidence. It's literally two notes." And if they were pretty much any other pair of notes, I might be inclined to believe you. However, these two notes are C and C, a note combination that appears in pretty much no other song. 

Anyone who's currently thinking Somewhere Over the Rainbow, congratulations, you know your music! But sadly not well enough. SOtR's first two notes are C-C, but they go up, whereas WV and S(WdIB) go down
© "Somewhere over the Rainbow" - Arlen, Harburg, 1939


Or maybe you're thinking of the Casualty Theme song, to which I say:
  • Do you really think an American writer has heard of Casualty?
  • Those notes (which are meant to imitate a siren) are E-B-D-A:
"Casualty Theme Music" - Freeman, 1986

If you still think it's a coincidence, just remember that Marvel has previous with Phineas and Ferb:

"Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel" - Povenmire, Marsh et al, 2013

No, not that one. This one:

© Povenmire, 2021

Just saying. 

N.B. In case you're not aware (or haven't worked it out), 'Povenmire', who is credited on most of these clips, is the same person: Dan Povenmire, TikTok star and writer/co-creator of Phineas and Ferb.

Also check out this crossover:

 
Visuals/Dialogue: Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension - Povenmire, Marsh et al, 2011;
Music: Portals, Silvestri, 2019

Look out for another post about that video soon. No, I don't know when.

It's interesting that all of these properties (P&F, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar) are all owned by the same company, who actually have a copyright law named after their own character!

You can watch WandaVision, P&F, P&F: Across The 2nd Dimension, The Incredibles, The Muppet Christmas Carol, P&F: Mission Marvel and Avengers: Endgame on Disney+. Series 35 of Casualty is available on BBC iPlayer. Dan Povenmire is available on TikTok, Cameo and YouTube. The Wizard of Oz is available on several things, but I don't know what in the UK.

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