Line #83 Quotes/EarWorm


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3	[[folder:Comic Books]]
4	->''You now have the ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967 Spider-Man]]'' theme song stuck in your head for the rest of this issue. '''You're welcome.'''''
5	-->-- ''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl #1''
6	[[/folder]]
7
8	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
9	->Dory, I'm gonna get stuck now WITH THAT SONG! Now it's in my head!
10	-->-- '''Marlin''', ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''
11
12	-> '''Memory Worker #1''': When Riley doesn't care about a memory, it fades.\
13	'''Joy''': Fades?\
14	'''Memory Worker #1''': Happens to the best of them.
15	-> '''Memory Worker #2''': Except for this bad boy! (chuckles) THIS one will NEVER fade! (Both chuckle)
16	-> '''Memory''': ''Triple Dent Gum will make you smile~''
17	-> '''Joy''': The song from the gum commercial!?\
18	'''Memory Worker #2''': You know, sometimes we send that up to headquarters for no reason!\
19	'''Memory Worker #1''': Just plays in Riley's head over and over again, like a million times!
20	-->-- '''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''', [[JustifiedTrope explaining the inner workings of the brain with an Ear Worm]]
21
22	->'''Scar''': Oh Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little more bounce to it.
23	->'''Zazu''': [[Ride/ItsASmallWorld ...Iiiii'ts a small world, aaaaafter all...]]
24	->'''Scar''': [[SelfDeprecation NO, no, ANYTHING but that!]]
25	-->-- '''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'''
26
27	->''This song's gonna get stuck inside yo'\
28	This song's gonna get stuck inside yo'\
29	This song’s gonna get stuck inside yo' head\
30	This song's gonna get stuck inside yo'\
31	This song's gonna get stuck inside yo'\
32	This song's gonna get stuck inside yo' head\
33	\
34	'Cause it's so catchy, catchy\
35	It's such a catchy song\
36	Gonna make you happy, happy\
37	Don't try to fight it, sing along!\
38	\
39	This song’s gonna get stuck inside yo'\
40	This song's gonna get stuck inside yo'\
41	This song's gonna get stuck inside yo' head''
42	-->--''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie2TheSecondPart'', [[LampshadeHanging the chorus to]] [[https://youtu.be/Q_HFm54lb04 "Catchy Song"]]
43	[[/folder]]
44
45	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
46	->''Whenever I hear a beautiful song''
47	->''Why do I feel like singing along?''
48	->''Whenever I hear a catchy beat''
49	->''Why do I feel like tapping my feet?''
50	->''Whenever I hear a melody''
51	->''What happens to me is a mystery...''
52	-->-- '''Kelly''', ''Film/WeeSing in the Marvelous Musical Mansion''
53
54	->'''Lofty:''' Well then, young man. Allow me to refresh your memory, in the form of a song so ''ruinously'' catchy, it may never leave your mind.
55	->'''Wonka:''' Oh, I don’t think I want to hear that–
56	->'''Lofty:''' Too late. I've started dancing now. Once we’ve started, we can’t stop, you see.
57	-->''Oompa-Loompa-Doompadee-Doo,''
58	-->''I’ve got a tragic tale for you.''
59	-->''Oompa-Loompa-Doompadee-Dee,''
60	-->''If you are wise, you’ll listen to me.''
61	-->--'''Film/{{Wonka}}'''
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Literature]]
65	->''LEFT! LEFT! LEFT a wife and [=SEVenteen=] children in [=STARV=]ing condition with [=NOThing=] but gingerbread LEFT!''
66	-->--'''ThoseWackyNazis''', "Nothing but Gingerbread Left" by Creator/HenryKuttner
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
70	->'''Dr. Wen:''' Look, ''I've'' been attending here for three years. What makes '''YOU''' think you know better?\
71	'''Dr. Turk:''' In my gut, I ''know'' I'm right!\
72	'''Wen:''' We need to make this decision '''NOW!'''\
73	'''Turk:''' Fine, then, it's on ''you!''\
74	'''Wen:''' Yes, it is! Nurse -- '''{{Music/ERASURE}}!'''\
75	'''Nurse:''' Yes, doctor. ''([[MundaneMadeAwesome blasts "A Little Respect"]])''\
76	'''Patient:''' I hate this song!\
77	'''Turk:''' Me too, man. Me too. (gasses him)
78	-->--''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', "My Best Friend's Mistake"
79
80	->''"Do You Want To Build a Snowman? Do you wanna have the words to 'Let It Go' in your head, all the time until you die? Then come see ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}''. I ''DARE'' you!"''
81	-->--'''Katherine Ryan''', "Series/MockTheWeek", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pPMAaLo_UA&t=41s "Unlikely Film Trailers"]], season 13
82
83	->'''Doctor:''' Clara, why don't I have a radio in my TARDIS?\
84	'''Clara:''' Because you took it apart and used the pieces to build a clockwork squirrel.\
85	'''Doctor:''' ''And'' because whatever song I heard first thing in the morning, I was stuck with. Two weeks of ''Mysterious Girl'' by Peter Andre. I was begging for the brush of Death's merciful hand.
86	-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "Under the Lake"
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88
89	[[folder:Music]]
90	->''That song is driving me crazy I got to hear it again,\
91	first time I heard it I was with some friends''
92	-->-- '''Tom T. Hall''', "That song is driving me crazy"
93
94	->"Hello, hello, I am thy ear worm, thy ear worm\
95	"Hello, hello, I am thy ear worm, thy ear worm."
96	-->-- '''WiseGuys''', "Ear Worm"
97
98	->''"Hijacked auditory control''\
99	''Meme lodging worms infest''\
100	''A mind virus taking hold''\
101	''Rife with barbed hooks and trite melodies''\
102	''[[BilingualBonus Chiclete De Ouvido]]''\
103	''Loops on repeat, regurgitated''\
104	''Dry heaving chunks of aural bile''\
105	''Can't get this out, of my head''\
106	''Make it stop!"''
107	-->-- '''[[{{Pun}} Ohrwurm]]''', ''[[TechnicalDeathMetal Cephalic Carnage]]''
108
109	->''"This chorus is so freakin' catchy\
110	You will never be able to get this song out of your head (out of your head) for the rest of your life."''
111	-->"#1 Radio Single", Music/{{Psychostick}}
112
113	->''You'll hum this tune forever''
114	-->-- '''Music/DexysMidnightRunners''', "Come On Eileen"
115
116	->''Spooky scary skeletons\
117	Grow stronger as you sing\
118	But no one can deny the beat\
119	On the night of Halloween''
120	-->-- '''Music/JubyPhonic''', [[https://youtu.be/AE7QT5anSHY?si=egfvB_q1_R5eCAkz extended cover of "Spooky Scary Skeletons"]]
121	[[/folder]]
122
123	[[folder:Newspapers]]
124	->Everything they do is accompanied by the same maddening music, which plays over and over again until it drills itself into the tooth of your mind. There are said to be many levels to the video game, but I succeeded in penetrating only to the second before I realized I had to abandon Ninja Turtles that instant, or risk permanent psychic damage.
125	-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', discussing the 1989 ''VideoGame/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|1989}}'' video game in his review of [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 the first movie]].
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127
128
129	[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
130	->Why is it that I can remember a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can't remember what I just got up to do?
131	-->-- '''Dad''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
132
133	->Jeremy, I have had "[[Music/TheBeatles I Am the Walrus]]" playing in my head more or less continuously since the day I first heard it. Only in the last few years have I finally gotten it to stop.
134	-->--'''Walt''', ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''
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136
137	[[folder:Podcasts]]
138	->Ear worm! Ear worm! GET IT OUT!
139	-->-- '''Bill Corbett''', ''Podcast/RiffTrax''
140	[[/folder]]
141
142	[[folder:Theatre]]
143	->The most horrible part is, now, I can't get those damn songs out of my head.
144	-->--'''Andrew Leman''', ''[[Theatre/AShoggothOnTheRoof A Shoggoth on the Roof: A Documentary]]''
145	[[/folder]]
146
147	[[folder:Video Games]]
148	->'''Margret Moonlight:''' Riveting melody, isn't it?\
149	'''Travis Touchdown:''' Catchy as hell.
150	-->--''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''
151
152	->'''Pearl:''' ♪Al-Al-Albacore, the hotel you've been waiting for!♪
153	->'''Marina:''' NOOOOOO! Now that's going to be stuck in my head all week!
154	-->--''VideoGame/Splatoon2''
155
156	->An earworm is a tune you can't stop humming in a dream: "Baby baby baby, yeah."
157	-->-- '''Hiss Incantation''', ''VideoGame/{{Control}}''
158
159	->Parchment can burn. Oral agreements aren't worth the tongues they're waggled out upon. A song ''lingers''. [[DealWithTheDevil Raphael]] made double-sure of that: I can't forget the damned thing so long as my work's not finished.
160	-->-- '''Yuigir''', ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII''
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	[[folder:Web Original]]
164	->''"They're so annoying, all these ear worms\
165	E'en if you like the song\
166	The timing generally is wrong\
167	There's just one way to lose these ear worms\
168	Plant in someone else's head,\
169	And make it play inside their brain instead"''
170	-->-- '''Tawaki''', "[[http://tawaki.deviantart.com/gallery/23606736#/d2is4p5 All These Ear Worms]]"
171
172	->ATC was a German-based pop group made up of a Kiwi, an Italian, an Australian and a Brit. They were the accidental toilet baby of the It’s A Small World ride and Aqua. They had a couple of semi-hits, but their biggest hit was the 2000 eardrum assault called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRvGZffXhfk Around The World (La La La La La).]]" "Around The World" was a cover of a Russian pop song and it sounded like something Eiffel 65 barfed up. That song was everywhere. It was even in commercials. You know you danced to it on a box under a strobe light at an 18 and over club. Once it got in your head, it was hard to get out. Whenever I get my usual check-up at the free clinic, the free clinic doctor looks into my ears with that ear dildo thing and asks, ''"What is that crusty white stuff clinging to the walls of your ears? Jizz?"'' And I always say, ''"No doctor, it’s pieces from that La La La La song which have been there for years."''
173	-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/11/23/hot-sluts-of-the-day-60/ Michael K.]]'''
174
175	->In 1992, you couldn't get rid of the song "Achy Breaky Heart." It was the Lyme disease of music. For the entire year, it was how most radio stations told listeners that another 180 seconds had passed. If you lived in the country, this song spent more time in your ear than ear mite eggs and cousin tongues combined.
176	-->--'''{{Creator/Seanbaby}}''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-spectacular-low-points-modern-pop-culture/#ixzz31FjSSioh "The 6 Most Spectacular Low Points of Modern Pop Culture"]]
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178
179	[[folder:Web Video]]
180	->''Get it OUT!\
181	Get it OUT!\
182	Get this song out of my head!\
183	Get it OUT!\
184	Get it OUT\
185	I'll sing ''ANYTHING ELSE'' instead!!''
186	-->--'''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''' parody on "Let It Go" from ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen\|2013}}''
187
188	->It's so catchy, it's so catchy. It's so catchy it's so catchy.\
189	There's no escaping, this song's amazin' and so catchy.\
190	You'll never get it out your head.\
191	You'll sings the words until you are dead.\
192	Even when you sleep, it plays on repeat, it's so catchy.
193	-->--'''WebVideo/HonestTrailers''' parody on "Under the Sea" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''
194
195	->''This is the part where we na nana\
196	Every hit song needs a na nana\
197	You'll wake up at night screaming na nana\
198	[[NonSequitur My grandmother's nickname is Nana]]''
199	-->--'''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome'''[='s=] "[[Music/OneDirection What Makes You Beautiful]]" parody
200
201	->So, there's Billy. And you'll notice first thing, right off: This game, uhh, is ''funky cool!'' It's got this soundtrack that gets stuck in your head for fuckin' ''years''. I mean, why else would I buy this game again? It's totally pathetic. [footage of Noah bobbing to the beat] Aw, look at this guy. God.
202	-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfBayouBilly''
203
204	->You know what the infuriating thing about pop music is? Even when it's expressing the most repugnant sentiments, you just can't get it out of your head because it's so irritatingly catchy; and despite how much you hate it, or even ''because'' of how much you hate it, it just sticks in your head and you find yourself singing it to yourself against your will, and you feel like you wanna take a cheese grater to your brain to scrape it out.
205	-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', during his review of Music/ChrisBrown's "Deuces"
206
207	->You think you're trying to answer the questions on your math test, but nope, all you're thinking about is...
208	->''{{WesternAnimation/DuckTales\|1987}}, woo-oo!''
209	->You think you're playing basketball with your teammates, but nope, all you're thinking about is...
210	->''[=DuckTales=], woo-oo!''
211	->You think you're about to achieve enlightenment, the pearly gates of knowledge are opening up and all the secrets of the universe are about to be revealed... '''BUT NO! ALL YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT IS...'''
212	->''[[RuleOfThree DuckTales, woo-oo!]]''
213	-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', ''Top 11 Catchiest Theme Songs'', about the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' theme
214
215	->Good luck getting this [[Film/JurassicPark theme song]] out of your head. It will be in your brain for weeks or til you're dead.
216	-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''', singing to the tune of "Journey to the Island" from ''Film/JurassicPark''
217
218	-> [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Rolling around at the speed of]] (finishes singing) that songs's been stuck in my goddamn head like a week.
219	-->-- WebVideo/JonTron, WebVideo/GameGrumps
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221
222	[[folder:Western Animation]]
223	->''The song that you ran from is back again \
224	[[GoMadFromTheRevelation You wonder if the madness will ever end]] \
225	Trying to stop it is futile \
226	So just listen now to my Musical Doodle''
227	-->-- Lyrics to "The Musical Doodle", from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''
228
229	->Ya know, at this point, it doesn't matter. Because it keeps runnin' inside my head and it won't leave unless I blow it out. With a bullet!
230	-->-- '''Carl''', ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''
231
232	->It's so cheesy, and dumb, and catchy... and I know every word.
233	-->-- '''Sadie''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
234
235	->Great, now I have ''this'' song stuck in my head.
236	-->--'''Dr. Doofenshmirtz''', after the song "Perry the Teenage Girl" plays in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
237
238	->Please don't. I can still hear it in my sleep.
239	-->-- '''Molly''', ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcGee''
240	[[/folder]]
241
242	[[folder:Real Life]]
243	->The song has ended, but the melody lingers on.
244	--> -- '''Music/IrvingBerlin'''
245
246	->[[Music/BingCrosby Missed the Saturday dance, heard they crowded the floor]], [[BlahBlahBlah duh duh duh-duh...]]' I can almost carry a tune but I can't remember the lyrics to any song, including the inspired lyrics to our national anthem. But this song, and those notes, have been sounding in my head for over half a century, after I heard them playing at a dance hall near the army camp where I was stationed.
247	-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''
248
249	->After I saw'' Annie I'' had to hit myself on the head with a small hammer to get that stupid "Tomorrow" song out of my head.
250	-->-- '''Ian Shoales'''
251
252	->I have had '[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Winter Wrap-Up]]' stuck in my head since I woke up. Someone please, please, PLEASE kill me.
253	-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' freelancer Holden Shearer's [[https://twitter.com/holdenshearer twitter]]
254
255	->(WARNING: If you click that link, [[Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll the show]]'s theme song will play automatically and get stuck in your head for the rest of your life.)
256	-->-- '''Website/{{Cracked}}''', ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_22160_8-depressing-90s-websites-that-are-inexplicably-still-around_p2.html 8 Once Cutting-Edge Websites That Are Inexplicably Still Around]]''
257
258	->They want to kiss me or kill me. They either love it or hate it. They hate it because they can't get it out of their heads.
259	-->--'''[[Music/TheShermanBrothers Richard M. Sherman]]''' on [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks "It's a Small World"]]
260
261	->how come that whenever I get [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soGzx912Dm0 Gavin’s theme]] stuck in my head it remains there for the rest of the day
262	-->--[[https://dsknsk.tumblr.com/post/624516443190493184/how-come-that-whenever-i-get-gavins-theme-stuck This Tumblr post]] lamenting the catchiness of the {{Leitmotif}} of Gavin from ''VisualNovel/MrLoveQueensChoice''.
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