Ear Worm/Puppet Shows

Examples of Ear Worms in Puppet Shows include:

• "The Chicken Song" from Spitting Image:

Now that you've heard it once
Your brain will spring a leak,
And though you hate this song
You'll be humming it for weeks!

• • This was a parody of "Agadoo" by Black Lace. Characters in the show were heard singing snatches of it throughout the episode before it was performed by the ensemble at the end. And then it was released for real as a single.
• Lamb Chop's Play-along with Shari Lewis, Lamb Chop and Hush Puppy used "This Is The Song That Never Ends" (aka "This Is The Song That Doesn't End") as the closing theme. It's a recursive Ear Worm, so you can't even get rid of it by singing it all the way through... Any kid who grew up in the 90s has been annoyed by some kid on their camp bus starting a sing-a-long with this song, as well as "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves". Worse, if you were a camp counselor in the 90s and they started a sing-a-long and you had to try to get them to shut up. You can not call yourself an American if you don't know this song.
  • Lampshaded on the show itself, in which Shari Lewis cries out in horror when people begin to sing it, and then sends them away so she doesn't have to hear it anymore.

This is the song that never ends
It just goes on and on, my friends
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...

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