< Ear Worm

Ear Worm/Theater

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.
—Ian Shoales
  • If you change your mind, I'm the first in line, baby I'm still free, Take a Chance on Me...
    • I've been cheated by you, since I don't know when...
    • What's the name of the game?
    • Money, Money, Money must be funny in a rich man's world...
    • Honey, honey, how he thrills me.
    • Gimme! Gimme! Gimme a man after midnight! Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
  • Chess. All of it.
    • One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble...
    • My lands only borders lie around (Dramatic Pause) MY HEART
    • It's the red flag up against stars and stripes, but we're peace loving types.
    • Yes I'm the Arbiter, I know the score, From square one I'll be watching all sixty-four!
  • Master of the house, quick to catch your eye...
    • A worm can roll a stone! A bee can sting a bear!
    • Do you hear the people sing?
    • One day more. Another day another destiny. This never-ending road to calvary. These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time one day more.
    • At the end of the day you're another day older! And that's all you can say for the life of the poor!
    • Lovely ladies, waiting for a bite! Waiting for the customers who only come at night!
      • Rich men, poor men, leaders of the land; see them with their trousers off, they're never quite as grand!
    • A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.
    • Red; the blood of angry men. Black; The dark of ages past...
  • The Internet is really, really great...
    • ...FOR PORN!
    • If you were gay, that'd be ok....
    • It sucks to be me!
    • S-C-H-A-D-E-N-F-R-E-U-D-E!
    • I'm not wearing underwear today!
    • The more you ruv someone, the more you want to kill him...
    • You can be as loud as the hell you want, when you're makin' loooove!
    • When you help others, you can't help helping yourself!
    • Everyone's a little bit racist today!
    • I don't know how I know, but I'm gonna FIND MY PURPOSE!!!
    • Oh, oh, IIIIIIIIIIII Wish you could meet my GIRLFRIEND, My GIRLFRIEND who lives in CANADA...
  • These are probably the worst pies in London...
    • It's priest, have a little priest...
    • And though I'll think of you, I guess, until the day I die...
    • T'was Pirelli's Miracle Elixir...
    • Swing your razor wiiiiide, Sweeney! Hold it to the skiiiiiiiiiiies!
    • Incidentally, dearie. You know Mrs. Mooney? Sales have been so dreary, poor thing is penniless. What about that loony...
    • WEEEEEE AAAAALL DESERVE TO DIE!!!!
    • Pretty women! Pretty women!
    • "Ladies and gentlemn, may I have your attention pleeeease!"
    • Said she took the poison, she did! Never said that she died, poor fool, poor thing!
    • I'LL STEAAAAAAL YOU, JOHAAAAAAAANNA
    • There's a hole in the earth like a great black pit...
      • And it's filled with people who are filled with SHIT...
  • The Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore.
  • To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing, the need to ex-PRESS, to communicate, to going against the grain, going in-SANE, going ma-a-a-a-a-d...
    • Christmas Bells
    • HOW DO YOU DOCUMENT REAL LIFE WHEN REAL LIFE'S GETTING MORE LIKE FICTION EACH DAY...
    • Leap of faith...
    • I think they meant it, when they said you can't buy love...
    • Today 4 U
    • Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred MIN-utes!
    • And you should hear her beat!" "You earned this on the street?" "It was my lucky day today, in A-ve-nue A...
    • Do you know the waaaay...to Santa Fe?
    • Cause we're LIVING IN AMERICA, AT THE END OF THE MILLENIUM!
    • You're sweet, wanna hit the street, wanna wail at the moon like a cat in heat, just take meeee...OOOOOUUT, TONIGHT!
    • Isn't it enough that I scratch your ever itch?" "Bitch!
    • "Take me baby, or leave me"
    • Why did Mimi knock on Roger's door and Collins choose that phone booth back where Angel set up his drums...
    • this troper's surprised that this was never mentioned "NO DAY BUT TOOOOODAYYYYY"
  • Rossini was a master at creating these -- for this troper, nothing comes close to "Una voce poco fa."
    • Forget that - nothing, but nothing holds a candle to "Largo al factotum." "Laaa, la la la la la la la la la LA laaa... Figaro la, Figaro qua, Figaro su, Figaro giu..."
      • Then, of course, there are his overtures. "William Tell" and "Barber of Seville" are particularly difficult to remove from your brain once they get a foothold.
  • La Donna e' Mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto.
  • This troper so does love Spamalot... but if I so much as think of a song from it, ANY song, it is stuck in her head for a week. "His Name Is Lancelot" is an especially persistent ear worm.
    • ... why did you have to go and say that?
    • And "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" (part of the chorus actually involves whistling)...and "Run Away"...and "He Is Not Dead Yet"...
    • Once in every show, there comes a song like this...
    • They won't care if it's witty, or everything looks pretty, they'll simply say it's shitty and refuse... Gaaah, I can barely keep up with that song but it gets stuck in my head for days at a time!
    • "I am coming too, my name will be Sir Fred! I'll be your musician 'cause I'm not yet dead!" And then they eat the minstrels.
  • This troper is currently doing Bye Bye Birdie. "WE LOVE YOU CONRAD, OH YES WE DO, WE LOVE YOU CONRAD, AND WE'LL BE TRUE"... boom, oh sorry, I just tried to shoot myself.
  • "Sit down, John..."
  • Anything and everything from Wicked. Especially 'Popular' and 'No Good Deed'. This troper hasn't had anything else in her head for months.
    • "I'm flying high, defying gravity!"
    • Who cares about earworms, "when you're dancing through liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife!"
    • LOATHING. UNADULTERATED LOATHING.
    • "Eleka nahmen nahmen\Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen\Eleka nahmen nahmen\Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen" On endless repeat!
    • Wonderful, they called me wonderful!
    • One short day, in the Emerald Cityyyyyyyy...!
    • AND JUST FOR THIS MOMENT, AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE...
    • NO GOOD DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED GOES UNPUNIIIIISHED!!
    • Not to forget "For Good," which is sung by at least one middle school choir a year.
  • Springtime For Hitler
    • "Keep it Light, Keep it Bright, Keep it GAY!" was a meme among me and my friends after watching the newer film.
    • "Haben sie gehort das deutsche baaand!"
  • "Candide"
  • In the Heights
    • Anything that Lin-Manuel Miranda raps.
    • "I'll be downtowwwwwn!"
    • "When I was a child I stayed wide awake, climbed to the highest place on every fire escape!"
    • "Alza la bandera, la bandera Dominicana! Alza la bandera, la bandera Puertoriquena! Alza la bandera, la bandera Mejicana! Alza la bandera, la bandera Cubana!"
      • "Parriba esa bandera! HEY! Alzala donde quiera! HEY! Recuerdo de mi tierra! HEY!"
    • "Honk your horn if ya want it!"
    • "Anything at all can happen just before the sunrise..."
    • Not to mention the irresistible urge to click along with "As The Sun Goes Down", which many a rude audience member did when the show was playing.
    • "No pare, SIGUE SIGUE!"
    • "The hydrants are open, cool breezes blow."
  • The Phantom of the Opera. And "Angel of Music". And "Prima Donna". And "Masquerade"...
    • Dare you trust the music of the niiiiiiiight? Actually, any song from Phantom sticks in this troper's head with some regularity. Masquerade! Paper faces on parade!
    • The Phantom of the Opera is here... Inside my mind.
    • Far too many notes for my taste...
    • The trumpets of Carthage resound, hear Romans now and tremble...
  • Phantom's sequel Love Never Dies also has its fair share.
  • Reefer Madness The Musical has a couple, notable Listen to Jesus Jimmy.
  • Hatred of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals in general owes a lot to his penchant for Ear Worm songs; the fact that musical themes are frequently reprised in his shows doesn't help. A common joke is that his songs are ear worms because they get drummed into your head all night long. Before Phantom, of course, there was "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" (Evita) and "Memory" (Cats).
    • Oh! Well! I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as magical Mr. Mistophiles?
    • Lest we forget "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Earworm the Musical (TM)! And the worst part is that there's no book to speak of, so all you remember is... those songs. Listen to ((BROKEN))"Go Go Go Joseph", ((BROKEN))"Those Canaan Days", and ((BROKEN))"Benjamin Calypso" at your own risk.
      • "...It was red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and maube and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and grey and purple and white and pink and orange and blue."
      • "Poor, poor, Joseph, whatcha gonna do?"
      • "There's one more angel in heaven, there's one more star in the sky...."
      • "Pottiphar had very few cares, he was one of Egypt's millionaires..."
      • "Who's the thief who's the thief?"
      • "I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain, to see for certian, what I thought I knew..."
    • "Jesus Christ Superstar" - "Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho" "I don't Know How To Love Him" and "Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Who are you? What have you sacrificed?"
      • The bass riff in "Heaven on Their Minds" ("Dun dun-dun DUN dun-da-dum, dun dun-dun DUN dun-da-dum") will never leave your head once it's made itself cozy.
      • "Christ, you know I love you, did you see I waved? I believe in you and God, so tell me that I'm saved."
      • "What's the buzz? Tell me, what's a-happening?"
    • "Mongo-Jerry and Rrrrrummple-Teaser!"
    • "The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat!"
  • After having 'Zydrate Anatomy' from 'Repo! The Genetic Opera' stuck in her head for three days, this troper broke down and bought the soundtrack. 'Infected' and 'Mark it up' have joined a rotating earworm infestation.
    • Tonight it's curtains/You're the night surgeon!
  • 'Tanz der Vampire' is FULL OF THESE to a positively unholy level, and rendered worse for most English speakers based on the fact that it's impossible to get a good version in English. There's the finale, "Wenn Liebe In Dir Ist", and, most lethally... "Tot zu sein ist komisch". "Tot zu sein" is possibly the most aggressive earworm this troper has ever encountered, even more so in its ((BROKEN))jazzy Act II reprise. Simple, repetitive tune, clear refrain... oh yes. Just try getting it out of your head. This troper has given up and made it her audition piece.
  • "Die Schatten werden langer/und doch Alle bleibe blind und stumm!"
  • Gerard Presgurvic's Roméo et Juliette gives the world "Verone", which has the unusual property of possessing its wormiest properties in the little string flourishes in the chorus, not the main tune.
  • The Cannon Song from Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera has maybe ((BROKEN))the stickiest horn riff in musical history.
  • It's time to join the family business.... That and Together again for the first time... have not left this troper's head since he saw Young Frankenstein on Broadway. He also made the mistake of buying the soundtrack. It will never leave!
    • For this troper it was "Transylvania Mania". Also, "He VAS my BOOOOOOOYFRIIIIEND!"
  • Hairspray. Need more? Well, let's start with "Good Morning Baaaaaaltimore/Every day's like an oooo-pen door!/Every night is a faaaaan-ta-syyyyyy, every sound's like a syyyyym-pho-nyyyy...", and go from there. Other Egregious offenders are "I Can Hear The Bells," "The New Girl In Town," and the (admittedly awesome) "You Can't Stop The Beat." Listen at your peril: these will never. Leave. Your head.
  • Altar Boyz! viewers beware. "Rhythm In Me" will be running through your head for up to two weeks after you've seen the show.
  • Every single song from Grease, but especially "Summer Nights," "Greased Lightnin'," and "Sandra Dee."
    • Look at me, I'm Saaandra Deee!
    • "We go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong!"
  • "Put on your Sunday clothes when you feel down and ooooout..." Made infinitely more earwormy by its use in WALL-E.
  • The hills are alive...
    • Do, a deer, a female deer...
    • Rodgers and Hammerstein's music is one of this troper's favorite things.
    • "So long, Farewell, Aufwiedersehn, Adeiu." Actually almost every song from The Sound of Music gets stuck in this toper's head.
    • You are sixteen going on seventeen, baby it's time to think...
    • Edelweiss . . . edelweiss . . .
    • .....TIIIIILL YOOOUUU FIIIIND.........YOOOOOOOOUUUUUR DREEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!!!!!
    • High on a hill was a lonely goatherd, lady-odelay-ee-odelay-hee-hoo...
  • Lights up in Washington Heights! Up at the break of day, I wake up and I've got this little punk I've got to chase away... The video is In The Height's original cast's Tony performance, so it's a combo of In the Heights and 96,000. Still, the whole show gets stuck in your head.
    • 96,000! 96,000! We'll get the dough and once we get going we're never gonna stop!
    • Piragua, piragua, new block of ice, piragua...damn, now I've got that song stuck in my head AND I want a snowcone!
  • When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way...
    • I feel pretty! Oh, so pretty! I feel pretty and witty and BRIIIIGHT!
    • Mariiiaaaaaaa, I've just met a girl named Mariiaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
    • Boy, boy, crazy boy, stay cool boy! Got a rocket in your pocket? Keep coolly-cool boy...
    • I want to be in Amer-i-ca!
      • Everything's right in Amer-i-ca! (If you are white in Amer-i-ca!)
    • Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke, ya gotta understand!
  • Just about any song from My Fair Lady.
    • "And where is that BLASTED, SOGGY PLAIN?!" "IN SPAIN!"
  • ((BROKEN))Oh, when it's your wedding day, and my music starts to play, I can guarantee the love will find you!
  • "Into the woods, it's time to go, it may be all in vain I know. Into the woods but even so, I have to start my journey!" The worst part about this musical? You will have it stuck in your head, but the lyrics are so complex that you'll mostly be muttering through the words in a vast mist. So get the soundtrack. And memorize.
    • "I SORT OF HATE DO ASK IT BUT DO YOU HAVE A BASKET" Just that part. Stuck in my head for months.
    • "Hello, little girl...what's your rush? You're missing all the floweeerrrsss...the sun won't set for hours...take your time..."
    • "Greens, greens, nothing but greens! Parsley, peppers, cabbages, and celery, asparagus and watercress and fiddleferns and lettuce..."
    • "And I know things now, many valuable things, that I hadn't thought to explore..."
    • "See, it's YOUR fault!" "No!" "So it's your fault!" "No!" "Yes it is!" "It's not!" "It's true!" "Wait a minute--but I only stole the gold to get my cow back from YOU!"
    • "Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome, and heir to a throne?" "You are everything maidens could wish for!" "Then why no--" "Would I know?" "The girl must be mad!" "You know nothing of madness--till you're climbing her hair and you see her up there as you're nearing her, all the while hearing her--"
    • Ahhhhhh, ah, ahhhhhh, ah-ah, ah-ahhhh...
    • "THERE ARE GIANTS IN THE SKY! BUUUUUM... There are big tall terrible giants in the skyyy... buuummm..."
    • "I'm the hitch! I'm what no one believes, I'm the witch!"
    • "Anything can happen in the woods--may I kiss you? Any moment we could be crushed--don't feel rushed."
    • "He's a very smart prince. He's a prince who prepares. Knowing this time I'd run from him, he's spread pitch on the stairs..."
    • "High in a tower she sits by the hour..."
    • "Careful the things you say, children will listen~"
    • "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGONY!"
    • "Not a sigh and not a sorrow, tenderness and laughter! Joy today and bliss tomorrow and forever after!"
    • "No more curses you can't undo, left by fathers you never knew! No more quests... No more feelings... Time to shut the door. Just--no more..."
  • Urinetown: Run freedom run! Freedom run away! My friends, you have to run run-a run-a run, freedom run away!
    • "Better hope your pennies / add up to the fee / We can't have you peeing for free..."
    • Weeeellll, it's a hard, cold, tumble-of-a-tourney/ Worthy of a gurney/ A bum-ble-down...
  • "Story of my life! Booted from the hall! Told to go away! Tumbled off the wall! That's the story of my life!
    • Sing a song, yes a travel song, when you gotta go somewhere...
    • THINGS ARE LOOKING UUUUUUUUP HERE IN DULOOOOOOOOC!!!!
    • Never take it down, never take it down! Raise it way up hiiiiiigh....
  • Omigod, omigod you guys!
    • "Keep it Po-si-tive! as you slap her to the floor..."
  • TENTACLES! TENTACLES!, CTHULHU! CTHULHU!
  • The majority of the songs from Just So, a little-known musical based off of Rudyard Kipling's stories.
  • 'Comedy Tonight', 'My Bride' and 'Everybody Ought to Have a Maid' from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
  • The Ballads of Booth, Guiteau, and Czolgosz from Assassins.
    • "Czolgosz, working man, born in the middle of Michigan...."
    • And it's another national anthem playing, not the one you cheer at the ballpark...
    • It's wintertime in Washington/Too cold for the stomach in Washington/I go down to Miami, kill Roosevelt!
    • Everybody's got the right to some suunshiiine...
    • I am going to the lordy, I am so glad/I am going to the lordy, I am so glad/ I am going to the lordy, glory hallelujah...
  • Fame! I'm gonna live foreveeeer!
  • "The Guilty Ones," "Mama Who Bore Me," "The Bitch of Living," "Totally F*** ed," and "The Word of Your Body" from Spring Awakening.
    • Awful sweet to be a little butterfly...
    • Where I go, when I go there...
  • On a clear blue day. I can see
- see
- - see
- - - see
A very long way

Ash: That's your best Henry Winkler?!

    • Oh I'm a bit part de-hemon, a small time misfit...
  • "Quando m'en vo'" from Puccini's La Boheme. Jonathan Larson would agree.
  • It took this long to mention Cole Porter?
    • "Where is the life that late I led? Where is it now? Totally dead."
    • "IT'S FRIENDSHIP! FRIENDSHIP! JUST A PERFECT BLENDSHIP"
    • "I want to row on the crew, Mama! That's the thing I want to do, Mama!"
    • "Anything goes!" two years later and everyone involved in the production we did of Anything goes is still capable of singing the entire show. This song in particular gets sung REALLY loud.
  • Beedle dee, dee dee dee, TWO LADIES!
    • "Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome..."
  • Carousel. Especially the Carousel Waltz and the enormously anthemic You'll Never Walk Alone.
  • ((BROKEN))Why would a fellow want a girl like her, so obviously unusual? Why can't a fellow ever once prefer a usual girl like me?
    • Ten minutes ago I saw you, I looked up when you came through the door. My head started reeling, you gave me the feeling, the room had no ceiling or floor!
    • In my own little corner in my own little chair I can be whatever I want to be...
  • This could mean, DANGER. I'm falling in love, falling in love, falling in love... with Hermione Granger.
    • Back to witches and wizards and magical beasts, to goblins and ghosts and to magical feasts!
      • It's all that I want and it's all that I need, at Hogwarts, Hogwarts!
    • Baby, you're not alone, 'cause you're here with me, and nothing's ever gonna bring us down, 'cause nothing can keep me from loving you, and you know it's true...
    • You're tall and fun and pretty, you're really really skinny... CHO CHANG! (or Ginny, whichever you prefer)
      • You're cuter than a guinea pig, wanna take you up to Winnepeg THAT'S IN CANADA!!!
    • Okay, I just wanna say thanks to TV Tropes right now because if not THIS ONE PARTICULAR SECTION, I never would've found out about the awesomeness that is AVPM. Thank you guys SO MUCH. * hugs*
    • 'Cause IIIIIII ammmmm the coolest girl in the whole wide world...
    • I'm HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER and I'm the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
    • The coolest girl on the face of the planet/THE COOLEST BITCH ON EARTH, GODDAMMIT!
    • There's no way we're gonna settle with sorrow Leave right now if you think this ain't real...
    • "Well, don't you tell me to go, say I'm the one/D-d-d-do ya think I'm dumb?/Sorry, did I just stutter?"
    • Hermione can't draw, Hermione can't draw, Hermione cannot draaaaaaaaaaaaaw...
    • "There will always be guys like Potter/Who quench the flame like its a game with drops of water..."
  • Many, many songs from Chicago are these. Especially "Cell Block Tango". "He had it comin', he only had himself to blame. If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it, I bet you would've done the same!"
    • "Mister Cellophane shoulda been my name, Mister Cellophane, 'cause you can look right through me, walk right by me, and never know I'm theeere..."
    • "Come on babe, why don't we paint the town...and all that jazz..."
    • "Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both/Oh yes they both, oh yes they both/Reached for the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun/Yes, they both reached for the gun - FOR THE GUN!"
    • The name on everybody's lips is gonna be...ROXIE!
  • The unproduced Batman musical has one of these that's 13 MINUTES LONG. "And I see it all! I see it all, the devils are rising! As all of the angels are starting to fall!
  • "He's a MU-sic man!" "He's a what?" "He's a WHAT?" "He's a MU-sic man!" And it only gets worse from there. Oooh, ya got earworms my friends, earworms with a capital "E" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for POOL!
    • Shipoopi is so earwormy even Family Guy got in on it.
    • Ohhh there's nothing halfway about the Iowa way to treat you...
    • Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, cheepcheepcheep, talk a lot, pick a little more...
  • Speaking of Cats, this troper actually has the RUSSIAN versions of some of the songs stuck in her head. Currently, it's Rum Tum Tugger.
  • Several from The Drowsy Chaperone, but it's "Toledo Surprise" that gets the Lampshade Hanging:

Janet: Why are we dancing? Our dreams are in tatters!
Robert: Yes, yes... but the tune is so infectious!

    • MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY
    • Then you got a tole-then you got a tole-then you got a tole-SURPRISE!
  • Little shop... Little shop... Little shop of horrors...
    • "Take a glance and look around/A lotta folks deserve to diiiiiie! (A lootta folks deserve to die!)"
    • Feed me! (does it have to be human?) Feed me! (does it have to be MINE?)
    • Don't it go to show you never know
    • We're closed for renovations today!
    • Seymour, look: it's six-o-CLOOOOOOOOCK
    • I'm just a mean, green motha', from outta space!
    • I am your dentist, and I enjoy the career that I picked!
    • Don't be fooled if I should chuckle like a sappy, happy dope, it's just the gas....
    • Suddenly Seymoooooooooour!!!
  • Most of Homemade Fusion particularly this opening number
  • The heat is on in Saigon. The girls are hotter 'n' hell... It's been stuck in my head for over a week now.
    • For still, I still believe...
    • So stay with me and hold me tight, and dance like it's the last night... of the WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD.
    • Not to mention how annoyingly catchy "What a Waste" is. I don't like that song, but GAAH it gets stuck in your head.
      • "Acid marijuana and hash / will you high in a flash / let's go and see what he means!"
  • Despite the unhumability of Frank's songs, the main recurring tune of Merrily We Roll Along is rather catchy, at any tempo.
    • This is especially notable since said plot point was Stephen Sondheim commenting on how his own work was criticized as being "unhummable".
  • "God Said" from Leonard Bernstein's Mass may be the catchiest song written in 7/8 time.
  • E-very-thing to-day is thoroughly mo-dern! (Check your personality!)
    • ..."When the floor wax that we bought from you arrived here Monday morning we discovered upon usage that the fumes should have a warning"...
    • FORGET ABOUT THE BOY!
  • THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DAAAAAME, NOTHING IN THE WOOOOORLD
    • I'm as corny as Kansas in August, I am as normal as blueberry pie~
  • Hair (theatre). At least the original Broadway and the re-make. This troper has been known to break out singing both the title songs and "Let the Sunshine In" at random intervals of the day. However, she suspects that "Aquarius" is probably the worst offender for the general population. "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. The age of Aquarius. Aquariuuuuus..."
  • "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" from Sweet Charity.
    • "Hey, big spender! (BUM BUM BA-DAH!) Spend a little time with me . . ."
  • "Don't Tamper With My Sister" from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
  • "It's just a jump to the left..." As awkward as it is to get songs from The Rocky Horror Show (yes people, it was a stage musical before it was a movie), "The Time Warp," "Eddy's Teddy," and "Touch-a Touch-a Touch Me" get stuck in this Troper's head on a regular basis.
    • Try having Sweet Transvestite stuck in your head.
    • This troper has been known to shout, "Dammit, Janet!" at exceedingly inappropriate times.
  • Ragtime appears to have lodged itself in this troper's family's brains forever.
    • "Giving the nation a/New syncopation/The people called it ragtime!"
    • "Now it's the CRIME OF THE CENTURY, CRIME OF THE CENTURY, giving the world a thrill!"
    • "See my people/Well here's my theory/Of what this country/Is moving toward/Every worker/A cog in motion/Well that's the notion of Henry Ford!"
      • "Hallelujah, praise the maker...of the Model T!" "Speed up the belt, speed up the belt, Sam!"
    • "Where have I been/How did we change/Caught in this strange/New music?"
    • "Ain't this the kind o' weather for smackin' leather, for PLAYIN' BASEBALL!"
    • "I--was--a/maker of the silhouettes who made a small improvement/A little book of silhouettes that simulated movement/Well, people seemed to like it, soon the money's going clink/And I'm Buffalo Nickel Photoplay Inc.!"
    • "We can never go back to befoooooore"
  • Vote YES! Vote YES! Vote for independency!/Someone oughta open up a window!
  • Verdi: "Diiiiiiio, che nell'alma infodere armor"
  • The Secret Garden: The stage musical version.
    • It's a maze this garden, it's a maze of ways, mean't to lead a soul astray! Take a left and then take a left again, How a soul can find the way!
    • High on a hill sits a big old house with something wrong inside it...
  • Fiddler on the Roof IS this trope. "Matchmaker, Matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch!"
  • ((BROKEN))I love you, I love you, I love everything about you...and I swear it's true, I love you...* sniff*
  • "Vesti la giubba/E la faccia infarina/La gente paga, e rider vuole qua/E se Arlecchin t'invola Colombina/Ridi, Pagliaccio, e ognun applaudirà..."
  • People say it's quite unlikely the two of us would stick, I just tell them Hey! It's Me and My Dick
    • 'Cuz we're Locked and loaded/Oh, so devoted./ Low and Demoted/TOTES JUST TOTED we're finally ready, so ready to go!
    • It's a hot little joint called the Land of the Dicks!
    • Every night at the stroke of threeeeeee... the pussies gather!
    • Even though I was blind before/I realized that there is so much more/And it was always deep down in the core of me/I know it now
      • Double earworm goes to the dum dum. dum dum. ostinato at the beginning.
  • I WANNA BE A STARSHIP RANGER! I'M GONNA DO EVERYTHING I CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! TO ALWAYS BE A STARSHIP RAAAAAANGEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!
    • You gotta kiiiick it up a notch... Best. Villain Song. EVER.
      • Both of versions of them.
    • So I say "Nooooooooo, to status quoooooooooo."
    • So you gotta get up, gotta get back, get back up!
    • Oh, you don't know you, the way I do...
    • And it miiiight be something different from the things that you may know/You can't denyyyyyyy there's something special when you see the night sky glow!
    • What are these hideous creatues?/Disgusting, so gross!
  • 13 everything switches 13! everything turns around
    • Here comes the Tooooooooooooooongue!
      • I'm a GOOD girl, I don't DO that
    • Everything Charlotte says is a lie...
  • The (somewhat forgotten) Ira Gershwin/Kurt Weill play Lady in the Dark features a few earworms during the circus dream:
    • "The greatest show on earth/It's full of thrills and mirth/You'll get your money's worth/Come one, come all"
    • "There's Malichevsky, Rubinstein, Arensky and Tchaikovsky/Sapelnikoff, Dmitriev, Tscherepin, Kryjanowsky..."
      • Incidentally, this completely irrelevant ditty about Russian composers is actually what prompted Tom Lehrer to write "The Elements"
    • "Poor Jenny, bright as a penny/Her equal would be hard to find"
    • In fact, one of the principal plot devices of the play is Liza's inability to identify a specific ear worm from her childhood ("My Ship"). Her rediscovery of certain memories associated with this song are central to her psychoanalysis.
  • "We Dance" from Once On This Island. Asaka, grow me a garden...
  • Newsies in general. Especially Santa Fe
  • The Easter Chorus of Cavalleria Rusticana.
  • Pretty much anything written by Mozart, but a special mention goes to Papageno.
  • "Come back with us, to the Middle Ages, And hear the story we've rehearsed. A heartwarming story of a Medieval Minstrel by the name of Blondel, and the Monarch he served so faithfully, King Richard The First." Blondel
  • [[[Don Giovanni]]] - Là ci darem la mano, Là mi dirai di si, Vedi, non è lontano; Partiam, ben mio, da qui... ...OH GOD GET IT OUT
    • Don Gio VAAAAAAAAAAA Ani!!
    • Sweet Sheebus, this troper had Batti batti stuck in her head for A YEAR AND A HALF. AAAGH.
  • Anyone else have the Queen of the Night aria refuse to leave their brainwaves?
  • Company is a horrible offender for this troper.
    • "Bobby come on over for dinner! We'll be so glad to see you!"
    • "You could drive a person crazy, you could drive a person mad!"
    • "Have I got a girl for you! Wait till you meet her!"
  • The Book of Mormon:
    • Two by two, we're marching door to door, 'cause God loves Mormons and he wants some more
      • Orlaaaandooooo, I love you, Orlandooooooo...
    • Hello, my name is Elder Price, and I would like to share with you the most amazing book. And the reprise at the end: Hello, my name is Elder Matumbo...
    • Raise your middle finger to the sky and curse his rotten name! Hasa Diga Eebowai!
    • It's something I've foreseen, now that I'm 19. I'll do something incredible that blows God's freakin' MIIIIIIIINNND!
    • I BELIEVEEEE that God lives on a planet called Kolob.
    • Turn it off! Like a light switch, just go flick. It's a cool little Mormon trick. We do it all the time...
  • My hormones are freakin' out and I think I'm gonna blow! 'Cuz we're Locked and loaded/Oh, so devoted./ {{[[[The Chew Toy]] Low and Demoted}} TOTES JUST TOTED we're finally ready, so ready to go!
  • Porgy and Bess: Summer...tiiiiiime when the livin' is ea-syyy. Fish are jumpin'... and the cotton is high...
  • Black Butler the Musical: Either of them!
    • "Shinigami Haken Kyoukai Desu!" It will never leave!
    • "Keiyaku wa musubare anata wa MY LORD"
    • "Black and White" also counts. As well as "Checkmate"
  • Bat Boy: The Musical:
    • "And we'll get a post office box, and we'll get a front gate that locks, and we're gonna stay with my cousins awhile..."
  • Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson:
    • "Populism, yeah, yeah!"
    • "Do-do-do-do di-do-dah-do de do-da do..."
  • Dig down deep and save your soul! Grave mistakes will take their toll! Every sin is entered in, heaven comes with discipline!
    • Off to Wonderland, where never never finds you! Ten thousand friends to make an ecstasy of motion!
    • Do you remember, the day that you met me, I swear it was yesterday, I knew with a glance...
    • Plain Jane fatass, guilty of swallowing Jenny Craig whole...
  • OLD MAN RIVER...DAT OLD MAN RIVER...
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