Tom Petty and Silence of the Lambs

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I write web content for a living, but I can’t come up with a succinct thread title. Apologies. Anyway, my curiosity goes like this: What examples of irony have you enjoyed when music / character/ plot cross paths on screen?

The first time I saw Silence, I was already a Petty fangirl. OK, there’s a little verbal irony to get this started. But, watching the [fictional] senator’s daughter rock out to this particular song nailed me. Yeah, she was what she was singing. No, she had no idea that she was. Better, she had no idea that she was headed for a lot worse than . . .

This is inspired by my loss of TCM. Dish and whatever powers are in negotiations that I just don’t give a flyin’ flip about. The replacement down here consists of odd old MGM flicks, and Silence is on right now.

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I’m really not sure what you’re asking here and I can’t parse that middle paragraph at all. Maybe you want to try it again?

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Double apologies.

The scene I meant to reference ~ American Girl playing on the senator’s daughter’s radio as she cruises into Bill’s radar.

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I don’t think “American Girl” and the senator’s daughter are related at all. Other than that she’s an American girl. If anything, the song choice just hints at the regularness of the senator’s daughter. She liked rocking out to Tom Petty, who didn’t?

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Oh, wait; was she a great big fat person?

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Or maybe really petty?

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Roomy through the hips?

CMC fnord!

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They were all big girls.

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lol

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As to Brooke Smith’s (the girl) later acting career and SotL, see my post here.

I don’t recall any American Girl references on the show during her tenure.