Gilbert and Sullivan wrote fourteen operas together, and there's at least one Ear Worm in every one of them. For instance:
Thespis
"Olympus is now in a terrible muddle/The deputy deities all are at fault..." sticks in one's head even with the music lost.
Trial By Jury
"For I am a judge/And a good judge too..."
The Sorcerer
"Ring forth, ye bells/With clarion sound/Forget your knells/For joys abound..."
"My name is John Wellington Wells/I'm a dealer of magic and spells..."
"Thou hast the power thy vaunted love/To sanctify all vows above..."
"Oh, I have wrought/Much evil with my spells/And ill I-I can't undo..."
"Oh, joyous boon! oh, mad delight!/Oh, sun and moon! oh, day and night!"
"Alas, that lovers thus should meet/Oh, pity, pity me!"
H.M.S. Pinafore
"I am the monarch of the sea/Ruler of the Queen's Na-vee/Whose praise all of Great Britain chants"/"And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts!"
"When I was a lad I served a term/As office boy to an attorney's firm..."
"A British tar is a soaring soul..."
"Never mind the why and wherefore/Love can level ranks, and therefore/Though his lordship's station's mighty/Though stuPENDOUS be his brain..."
"For he is an Englishman!"
The Pirates of Penzance
"Oh, better far to live and die/ Under the brave black flag I fly/ Than play a sanctimonious part/ With a pirate head and a pirate heart..."
"How beautifully blue the sky, the glass is rising very high..."
"Iiiiiiiiiiiiiii- am the very model of a modern major general..."
"When the foeman bares his steel"
"Tarantara, tarantara!"
"We uncomfortable feel"
"When you had left our pirate fold/ We tried to raise our spirits faint/ According to our custom old/ With quips and quibbles quaint..."
"When a felon's not engaged in his employment (his employment) or maturing his felonious little plans (little plans)"
"If you want a receipt [sic] for that popular mystery/Known to the world as the Heavy Dragoon..."
"In a doleful train/Two and two we walk all day..."
"If you're anxious for to shine/In the high aesthetic line/As a man of culture rare..."
"Come walk up and purchase with avidity/Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity..."
"It's clear that mediaeval art/Alone retains its zest..."
"If Saphir I choose to marry/I shall be fixed up for life..."
"So go to him and say to him with compliment ironical..."
Iolanthe
"Go away madam/I should say madam/You display madam/Shocking taste..."
Really, the entire Act I Finale.
"When you're lying awake/With a dismal headache/And repose is tabooed by anxiety..."
Be sure to check out the Todd Rundgren version.
"Soon as we may/Off and away/We'll commence our journey airy/Happy are we/As you can see/Everyone is now a fairy!"
Princess Ida
"Search throughout the panorama / For a sign of royal Gama / Who today shall cross the water / With his fascinating daughter / Ida is her name!"
"If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am/I'm a genuine philanthropist all other kinds are sham."
"Gently gently evidently we are safe so far/After scaling fence and paling here at last we are"
"This helmet, I suppose / Was meant to ward off blows..."
The Mikado
"If you want to know who we aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare, / We are gentlemen of Japaaaaaaaaaan..."
"As someday it may happen that a victim must be found/I've got a little list/I've got a little list..."
"To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock / In a pestilential prison with a life long lock / Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock / From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!" So earwormy, Pink Floyd just had to sample it.
"A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist/To nobody second/I'm certainly reckoned/A true philanthropist."
"Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a school-girl well can be, Filled to the brim with girlish glee, Three little maids from school..."
Ruddigore
"If somebody there chanced to be/Who loved me in a manner true..."
"Welcome, gentry/For your entry/Sets our tender hearts a-beating..."
"You understand/I think I do/With vigor unshaken/This step shall be taken..."
"When I'm a bad Bart. I will tell taradiddles/He'll tell taradiddles when he's a bad Bart..."
"When the night wind howls/In the chimney cowls/And the bat in the moonlight flies..."
"Henceforth all the crimes/That I find in the Times/I've promised to perpetrate daily..."
"My eyes are fully open to my awful situation/I must go at once to Roderic and make him an oration..."
"I shipped, d'ye see, on a Revenue sloop..."
The Yeoman of the Guard
"When jealous torments rack my soul/My agonies I can't control/Oh, better sit on red hot coal/Than love a heartless jade."
"Oh a private buffoon is a lighthearted loon/If you listen to popular rumor..."
"Tower warders, under orders, gallant pikemen, valiant sworders!"
"I have a song to sing, O!" "Sing me a song, O!"
"Heighdy, heighdy, miserey me, lackadaydee!"
The Gondoliers
"There lived a king as I've been told/In the wonder-working days of old/When hearts were twice as good as gold/And twenty times as mellow..."
"Then one of us will be a queen and sit on a golden throne..."
Utopia, Limited
"In every mental lore/'Tal lore/The statement smacks of vanity..."
"Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, / Which empties our police courts and abolishes divorces. / (Divorce is nearly obsolete in England!)"
The Grand Duke
"By the mystic regulation/Of our dark Association/Ere you open conversation/With another kindred soul/You must eat a sausage-roll!"
"When you find you're a broken-down critter/Who is all of a trimmle and twitter/With your palette exceedingly bitter/As if you've just bitten a pill..."
"Big bombs/Small bombs/Great guns and little ones/Put him in a pillory/Rack him with artillery..."
"Take my advice - when deep in debt/Set up a bank, and play Roulette!"
