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[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hey, guys!

What's the most obnoxious earwormy jingle you can think of? I need to know for ... science. Yes. Science.

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[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Kit Kat loops pretty easily.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

"It's a Small World" is a classic mental horror. And for me personally, "We Are The World" tends to get stuck inside very easily. Cheeky.

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

local to new york ones, usually, which irritate the shit out of me when I'm home but I get nostalgic and homesick for when I'm in MA:

"I gotta buy a PC... at PC Richards! *whistle*
the Food Emporium song. Seriously, look it up.

Local to MA:

"Go to Gary, the best doggone place to buy a car!"
"Come home to big Y!" (mostly only annoying because it rips off John Mellancamp's Small Town so much I'm amazed he hasn't sued)

At least in the northeast, but possibly everywhere:

"1-877-KARS4KIDS... K-A-R-S-kars4kids..." murder has been actively threatened for singing this one out loud.

Honorable mention: The guy in my icon:

"Free market! Montgomery! It's just like a mini-mall!"

[bean-bunny.livejournal.com]

Wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeeeth with pepsodent!

I'm actually not 70, I swear.

[linda-lupos.livejournal.com]

Not a jingle, but two songs:

They Might Be Giants - Nine Bowls of Soup (with a honourable mention to Seven, which is oddly terrifying)

Horrible Histories - Pachacuti (a ridiculously jaunty song about plucking someone's eyes out and such)

Without fail, whenever someone even mentions the NAMES of these songs, I get them stuck in my head. My friend even managed, one time, when I complained about having a song stuck in my head, to just give me a LOOK, and I got Pachacuti stuck in my head. Argh.

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

Call my baby lollipop...tell you why...cause he's sweeter than a cherry pie...

The most frustrating part of the song is that it's not easy to change the lyrics. You know, to sing songs at the cats. Call my kitty lollipop...tell you why...cause she's sweeter than kitty pie...makes no sense.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Sicne when does kittyspeak need to make sense? It's the only register in which words like "fuzzlebuttness" are totally valid.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

It's also impressively fast-changing. I'm not entirely sure I've ever called my cat the same name more than three times.

[childthursday.livejournal.com]

Not having to make sense is a good point. I'm kind of disturbed by the thought of kitty pie, though...the hairballs would be enormous.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I used to sing "Sugar, Sugar" to my cat Charlie with similarly stupid substitutions. I don't think cat somgs really HAVE to make sense, though ...

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Anything by Nicki Minaj or Taylor Swift.
I don't really know who Nicki Minaj is since I hate rap but I heard some of her songs and I wanted to stab my brain with an ice pick.
And Taylor Swift is annoying and ridiculously saccharine.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

For me, it's usually "Frank's 2000'' TV" from Weird Al. I suspect this is not so for most people, though.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

With Weird Al, it's usually the hamster-related ones that lodge in my brain. You know, "Harvey the Wonder Hamster" and "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From A Planet Near Mars."

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

The comet song, to the tune of Bridge Over The River Quai.

But, for me, I've found that I can eradicate any earworm by singing TMBG's Birdhouse In Your Soul a couple times, which then graciously leaves my head so I may think again. It is a magical song that really irritates other people, it seems.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

For those who are yet unafflicted:

Comet! It makes your mouth turn green!
Comet! It tastes like Lysterine!
Comet! It makes you vomet!
So eat some Comet, and vomet! With MEEEEE!

Oh, Comet! It makes your mouth turn green!
Comet! It tastes like Lysterine!
Comet! It makes you vomet!
So eat some Comet, and vomet! With MEEEEE!

O-o-o-oh, Comet! It makes your mouth turn green!
Comet! It tastes like Lysterine!
Comet! It makes you vomet!
So eat some Comet, and vomet! With MEEEEE!

[starwatcher]

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LOL for realz! Yes, I can see how aggravating repetition would be, but coming upon it the first time, and hearing the music in my head as I read the lyrics, made me *roar* with laughter.
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[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Does remind me of another earworm that may only afflict me--that Decemberween song from Homestar Runner, to the tune of O Tanenbaum. ("Decemberween, Decemberween ... Coach Z's been drinking Listerine!")

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I think you mean the Colonel Bogey March (also known, with later lyrics added, as "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball"). "Bridge Over the River Kwai" was a movie in which some of the characters whistle the tune at one point.

[mooncat75.livejournal.com]

Goring, has two but they are small, Himmler, has somethin' simlar, And Goebbels, has no balls, at all.. I learned those lyrics in my college course on WW2...and it was an extra credit question on the exam!

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

Dammit, now I have *that* stuck in my head.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Not Jingles, as such, but Bicycle Race by Queen is pretty earwormy, and I managed to earworm my entire office with Highway to the Danger Zone a couple of weeks ago just by mentioning that I had it stuck in my head.

Fuck. Just nailed myself with both of them at once :P

[acrossthelake.livejournal.com]

Anything from Weebl's Stuff is my personal favorite. I've had days recently when I've had Narwhals and Crabs alternating on a constant loop through my head.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Okay, of all the stuff on this list, the one that sticks in my head now is Magical Trevor ...

[mooncat75.livejournal.com]

For me it is 'Yellow Submarine' by the Beetles. I like the Beetles, but I CANNOT stand that song. Also, the most annoying song I currently hear all the time at work is 'I Am A Very Stylish Girl'. I shudder everytime it come on.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

"Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy..."

[starwatcher]

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The ending song between Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop --

This is the song that never ends,
Yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue singing it forever just because...

This is the song that never ends,
Yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue singing it forever just because...

This is the song that never ends,
Yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people started singing it,
Not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue singing it forever just because...


and on, and on, and on.
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[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

OH GOD HOW COULD I FORGET THAT ONE.

[kt-n-dd.livejournal.com]

That new "I'm Sexy and I Know it" song. It burns itself into your brain.
And "You Told the Drunks I Knew Karate" by Zoey Van Goey. One line and the rest of the song is in my head on repeat forever.
As for actual jingles, the chime for Supermarché Match (found in France and Belgium, mostly). They play it every 5 minutes in the store itself, so by the time that you're done shopping once, you'll always know it. This one will pop into my head at the oddest of times and then stay there.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves,
everybody's nerves--
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves,
an' this is how it goes--
(loop until told to shut up)

Also, Mario World 1-1 tends to stick in there good.