Ear Worm/Western Animation

"Great. Now I have this song stuck in my head."

—Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb

You might or might not remember these cartoons, but it's inevitable their music is stuck in your mind.

• Disney has its own page.

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Warner Bros

• Watch too many old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts and you'll get the opening and closing music stuck in your head.
  • There is one old Daffy Duck cartoon (in color, but when he was still actively daffy) where Daffy sang this theme. It's called "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down."
    • Here it is.
  • And let's not forget the clasic Bugs Bunny Show theme This Is It
  • I remember there was this one Bugs Bunny episode where he was interviewed about his past... and it featured this short song of him with three other people that made me laugh everytime. The only line I can remember is... "Now it's time to goooooooooo!"
    • It got transcribed in a FoxTrot strip once. It went like this:

Oh, we're the boys of the chorus
We hope you'll like our show
We know you're rootin' for us
But now we have to goooooooooo!

• • It seems impossible to find, but those seven notes that play whenever the minah bird (the one who does nothing but hop along) appears are unbelievably catchy.
    • "Fingal's Cave" by Felix Mendelssohn.
  • Baby Looney Tunes... for your sanity and mine, DO NOT LINK TO THE OPENING!!
  • "We are Russian gremlins/Up in the sky we're found..."
• The Batman the Animated Series theme. Especially the opening hook.
• The Batman Musical from the "Out of the Past" episode of Batman Beyond.
  • A superstitious cowardly lot...
    • It's Schway!
    • It's Schwarbage.
  • Theme Superman the Animated Series theme is just as good. Even without lyrics, you want to sing along: Superman! Superman! Suuu-perman.... Superman!
    • Here, this should help.
  • Don't forget The New Batman/Superman Adventures
  • Batman Beyond's Intro.
• The Justice League Unlimited theme song should be noted as well.
  • Found right here.
• "We're tiny, we're toony, we're all a little looney..."
  • Happy World Land, Happy World Land! Where the fun doesn't stop, at only 80 bucks a pop in beautiful Happy World Land!
• "It's time for Animaniacs! And we're zany to the max!"
  • Wakko Warner presents: "The Capitals of all 50 States".
  • And Yakko's World. "United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru..."
    • Those are hardly suprising, considering that the former is "Turkey in the Straw" and the latter is "The Mexican Hat Dance".
  • The sense of sight is what guides us right, we we go out on walks... Oh GOD, make it stop!
    • Is it me, of does that song sound suspiciously similar to Tom Lehrer's "The Irish Ballad"?
      • They're simply written in the same rather common metre; the best known example is probably the Nightmare Song from Iolanthe.
  • They parodied "The Macarena" with "Macadamia Nut". Some might say a little too well...
  • And, of course, the President Song.
  • "Be Careful What You Eat." Once you realize, that that's the frickin' can can, it just won't ever leave.
  • Cuckoo clock/ Tick-tick-tock/ Piece of chalk/ Key and lock/ Oh, du schöne/Oh, du schöne/ Oh, du schöne/ Schnitzelbank!
  • Let us introduce ourselves O people of this land!/ We are the Warner Brothers/ With Sister close at hand!/ I bet you all our wondering who is this young unknown?/ And why am I inheriting the Anvilanian throne?
  • What are We: Maybe we are dogs/ Cute little dogs/ With ears/ And little tails that we can wag/ Hey! Let's go fetch his slippers and play tag!
  • Almost every song in this show is an ear worm, like this one, this one, and this one too
• "It's called Histeria! The world premiere-ia! We dare ya to watch Histeria!"
  • "We are the Moai statues, and we stand on Easter Isle..."
• "They're Pinky and the Brain! Yes, Pinky and the Brain! One is a genius, the other's insane!"
  • "And the other one's Larry!'
  • They're laboratory mice! Their genes have been spliced! The Pinky, the Pinky and the Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain Brain!
    • Oh, how I love my cheeses! CHEEEESE from around the world!. Setting a song about cheeses to "Semper Fidelis" = genius.
  • "What we are singing/Is take off your pants..."
• "Super teen extraordinaire! Freakazoid! Freakazoid!"
  • Runs around in underwear. Freakazoid! Freakazoid!
  • In-universe, Invisibo's theme proves to be this. ("Where did he go? That Invisibo?"). It's sung to the tune of "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing".
  • "You're a meany, nasty Lobe/You're as bad as villains get..."
• The theme for Duck Dodgers. This troper doesn't even like the show, but used to flip to it just to hear the theme song. It was catchy AND addictive.
• When there's trouble you know who to call, Teen Titans! From their tower they can see it all, Teen Titans!
  • You think you can defeat me? Oh, how very droll! Well, Titans, one thing you should know. I am the one with magic powers 'round here, I am the one who runs the show!
  • "When there's trouble you know what to doooooo, CALL CYBORG! He can shoot a rocket from his shoooooe, 'CAUSE HE'S CYBORG!"
  • Nagare nagare te kita mon da, kita kara nishi e kake nuke te kite, tadori tsui ta koko wa ittai dokoooooo...
• Superhero, Static Shock
• "It doesn't matter what we do or say / 'Cause the teachers always get their way!"
• MU-CHA LU-CHA, MU-CHA LU-CHA!
• He's the Music Meister
  • Don't forget the song that Black Canary, Catwoman and Huntress did, Birds of prey
• "Dubba dubba Kids dubba dubba WB! Dubba dubba Kids dubba dubba WB!"

Nicktoons

• IT'S THE BEEEESSST DAAAAAAYYY EVERRRRRR (BEEESSST DAAAAY EVERRRRRR....)
  • "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh... who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
  • Intentional. The creators wanted to make the most irritating theme song in cartoon history.
    • Nothing on the ending theme?
  • F is for friends who do stuff together...
    • Harry Potter style!
    • This troper SOOOO did that first.
  • THE C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G SONG!
  • The techno rave from the "Jellyfish Jam" episode.
  • The Goofy Goober theme song from The Movie.
    • Which is actually "I Wanna Rock" by Music/TwistedSister. They even used the same backing track; the group shouts of "Rock!" original echoed the chorus.
    • He could mean "I'm a Goofy Goober yeah! You're a Goofy Goober yeah! We're all Goofy Goofy Goofy Goobers yeah!" It certainly qualifies.
  • This is a little ditty I call, The Campfire Song Song.
    • Let's gaaather round the campfire and sing our campfire song—Our C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G song...
      • Dun, dun , DUUUUUUUN.
  • The Krusty Krab Pizza, Is the Pizza, For you and Me!
  • The best time to wear a striped sweater.......is all the time.....
    • "Take a penny and some magic..."
  • "It's shaping up to be a wonderful holiday..."
  • And of course - Sweet, Sweet Victory.
  • "The jelly-elly-elly-elly fishing song! * clap!*
  • Round and round, the record spins all day, so listen to our musical way! Do do do do dodo do do DO do, from an episode called "Ear Worm", of all things.
  • This cover somehow managed to make that one even MORE infuriatingly catchy. "Ear Worm", indeed.
• "SECRET TUNNEL! SECRET TUNNEL! Through the mountain, secret-secret-secret-secret TUNNEL! Yeah!"
  • "Hey, I just remembered the end of that song! * plink* And dieeeeed.".
  • "secret tunnel..."
  • For that matter, anything Iroh sings. "Little Soldier Boy", "The Girls of Ba-Sing-Se", "All Seasons For Love", etc.
    • You mean, any song in the entire series. "Big bad badger moles, coming to get me, come on guys, help me out...?"
      • Yes. Yes indeed.
      • Agni help you if you get "Little Soldier Boy" stuck in your head. People will assume something's seriously wrong if you can't stop crying for no apparent reason.
    • Little soldier boy comes marching home, comes marching home... excuse me, I have something in my eye.....
  • Even the score is catchy! Specifically, the ending credits music and the Fire Nation dance party music.
    • Very much so. Including the opening theme. (naaa, na na naaa, na na naaa...)
• He's gonna catch 'em all cause he's Danny Phantom!
  • Possibly a lampshade with Ember's addicting song: Oh, EMBEEEEEEEEEEEEER! YOU WILL REMEMBEEEEEEEEEEEEEER (MY NAAAAAAAAAAAAME)!!
• The Doug theme.
  • Banging on a trashcan, drumming on a streetlight, strumming on my banjo...
    • Think big!
  • I eat my sugarrrrr cereal, but it makes my teeth bacteriaaaal...
    • Ooo Eeee Uuuu, Killer Tofu.
  • SHOOOOUUUT YOUR LUUUUNGS OUUUUT!!!!!!!!!
  • I need mo` allowance! I need mo` allowance! I need mo` allowance! WHY!? Because I do!
    • I need to buy some CDs, I need to buy some gum, I mow the grass, I clean the house, I think I deserve some...SOME MO` ALLOWANCE!
  • I'm a dog, you're a dog, EVERYBODY DO THE DOG! Betcha gonna do the dog all day long!
  • The Quailman theme.
  • Where's my sock? Where's my so-ock!
  • So if you like my style, and you wanna talk a while, just call me! (Doug! Doug! Doug!)
• "Timmy is an average kid that no one understands."
  • "You know they walk a mile just to see me smile; my shiny teeth and me!"
  • "V! I! C-K-Y! The sound of her name makes the little kids cry!"
  • "Nice! Nice! She's So Nice! She's So Nice, Nicety-Nice!"
  • "Speak up, be heard! If you don't say a word..."
  • "Funbox! A funbox! Small and square and dark! Funbox! A funbox! Check out these cool fun locks YAY!"
  • "We're pixies! We're pixies! Check out our mad wicked mixies!"'
    • "NOT PIXIES! NOT PIXIES! WE'RE LAWN GNOMES! NOT PIXIES!"
  • "Adults ruin everything! But kids would run things right! Adults ruin everything! But we know we can fight!"
  • "Lookin' like magic / Lookin' like magic / Could it be magic? / Feels like magic!"
  • ANYTHING from the guys at Flappy Bob's Learnatorium. "I'm Peppy Happy Gary!/I'm Peppy Happy Betty!/WE'RE PEPPY HAPPY PEPPY HAPPY PEPPY HAPPY HAP!"
• Witchdoctor from the Rugrats movie (though originally it was Alvin and the Chipmunks).. This troper still starts singing that song whenever she sees a monkey. "Oo ee oo ah ah ting tang wall walla bing bang!"
  • Any song from the Musical Episode
  • It's the Rugrat Rap
  • And despite being full instrumental the theme song counts
  • Cynthia! She's a really cool dancer! Cynthia! Boogie to the groove now.
  • Emika's song from the All Grown Up pilot.
• Ren and Stimpy: Happy Happy Joy Joy/ Happy Happy Joy Joy
  • What Rolls down stairs/ Alone or in Pairs/ Rolls over the Neighbor's Dog...
    • It's log, it's log, it's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
    • It's log, looog, it's better than bad IT'S GOOD!
• Rudy's got the chalk, the chalk, the chalk, Chalk Zone...
  • Hi hi hi, to you all. Who am I? Just call me Skrawl.
• Really? I actually have to post this because no one else has? "One fine day with a woof and a purr"
• WAKE UP THE MASSES! Assume the crash position, hold on tight, take a deep breath, for a cartoon cramaganza!
  • When I watch KaBlam!, I Kablammer in the morning, I Kablammer in the evening `cuz I love to KaBlaaaaam!!!!!!!!
  • "Oh Puffy Dinks, Eat `em up nice, Oh Puffy Dinks, the fat puffed rice! They're Puffy Dinks they're delicioooouuuuus!!!!!! Yo! Yo!"
  • There comes a time, in all our lives, when we need a helping hand!
  • Both ending themes.
  • I'm flying! Lighter than air! Look at me now, without a care! I'm- OOH!
• Duhduhduh duhdaduhduhduh da da duh duh duh dada duhduh!
  • How can you mention Invader Zim with mentioning GIR's Doom Song?
    • Which is right here!
  • Someone has COMBINED THE TWO! IT WON'T LEAVE MY BRAIN!
  • Bow Down! Bow Down! Be-fore the Power of San-Ta! Or be crushed! Be Crushed! By His Jolly Boots Of Doom!
• Oh here we go oh here we-Aaaaarnold!
  • Darling, you left my heart in pieces on the floor / so tell me why shouldn't I break some things of yours?
• ROOOOOCCKKKOOO'S MODERRRRN LIIIIFFFEE
  • The version by Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson of the B-52's is even more catchy...
  • "Hey, come crawl with me, like a turtle out to the bay..."
• Write to me, Stick Stickly / P.O. Box 963...
• Alone in the world was a little CatDog...
• BEAVER FEAVER!
• No love for The Penguins of Madagascar? Deh neh neh neeeh, neh neh neh neh, neh neh NEH-NEH!
• Some once told me the grass is much greener on the other side...

Cartoon Network

• Curse your sultry tones, Question!
• Every single song in Mayhem of the Music Meister. That is all.
• When there's trouble you know who to call...
  • Don't forget the Birds of Prey theme.
• "It started when an alien device did what it did; and stuck itself around his wrist with secrets that it hid..."
  • "Now he's got superpowers, he's no ordinary kid, he's Ben 10..."
  • That song somehow combines Ear Worm -ness with a rather strange set of mondegreens for this troper, who, when first hearing it, remembered certain parts as "... and stuck itself upon his wrist with secret solitid" and "fighting as heroes from outer space!"
  • This troper remembers when that series came out, Neopets did a sponsor game for it (some Memory-esque matching game), with the theme song on a loop. Grahhhhh! Years later, when she finally gave the series a shot, she was glad the theme song for the sequel was purely instrumental.
• "YOU! DIG! GIANT ROBOTS!"
  • I'd like to nominate "Theme of Damnation", otherwise known as the theme music to the REGIS Mark V.
• You take the moon, you take the sun, you take everything that seems like fun...
  • Everyone's got a song inside, waiting to be free, the beans are here to show the world, come on and follow me...
  • How do I say I love you...
• Come with me, we'll go and see, a place called Candied Island!/Who needs Candied Island? It's safer at the docks
  • Any and every song out of Flapjack's mouth. Period. He loves me, he love me!
  • Anything sung by the "singing voices." Such as "The Most beautiful man in the woooorld!"
    • Or "Flapjack realizes that nobody respects K'nuuuckles"!
• Fighting crime, trying to save the world here they come just in tiiime, the POWERPUFFFGIRLSSS!!
  • Love, love, love/ La, la, love/ La, la, love/ Makes the world go round!
• The "Homonyms" song from Robot Chicken. It's a spoof of Schoolhouse Rock, so the Ear Worm affect was probably intentional. Still... must... resist... urge... to... sing in public.
  • Speaking of Robot Chicken, what about the ending theme? Sure it's just them saying "bawk" to a little tune, but it's so catchy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr Bpl Rjbg Sw
  • And from the 3rd Star Wars special, Palpatine explains what the other 65 orders are.
  • Blue rabbits f**king...
• I'll be back, back to the past, Sam-u-rai Jack...
  • WATCH OUT!
• If at first they think it's strange they won't think twice if they don't have a brain!
  • In the land of the dead, I'm darkside royalty!
  • Also from Grim Adventures: DESTROY US ALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!! DESTROY US ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!
    • That's more of a Madness Mantra than an ear wor--OH GOD MAKE IT STOP! IT WON'T STOP PLAYING IN MY HEAD!!
  • The "Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears" jingle.
• Turn the other cheek! Turn the other cheek!
  • I hate you, Jesus, you rotten little fink! Your sermon never pleases and your parables all stink!
• It's Doc Gerbil's wooooooorld, It's Doc Gerbils wooooooooooorld.]] It's Doc Gerbil's wooooooooorld. It's Doc Gerbil's woooooooorld, It's Doc—OH GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!!!
  • THE MAN IN GAUZE, THE MAN IN GAUZE! KING RAMSES
  • "KING RAMSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
• I like your booty, but I'm not gay (Not gay) I like your booty but I'm not gay (Unh~unh~uh) I like your booty but I'm not gay (Gay sex) I like your booty but I'm not gay (Gay booty!)...
  • For some people, it would be the elevator music heard in the Powerpuff Mall.
  • "I want candy, bubblegum, and taffy..."
• The Boondocks I am the stone that the builder refused...
  • Don't forget the ending theme. Doesn't have any lyrics, but it's extremely catchy. Makes for a nice ringtone.
• YOU'RE RIDIN' THAT HOG! OOH OOH OOH!
  • Aye Aye Your Eyes Hypnotize
  • YOU ARE THE ONE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
    • Shoobadidoobadidoo! THAT'S PROFESSOR HAWK!
  • OH GOD MAKE IT STOP
  • Come on, baby, it's you and me, come on, baby, can't you see. It's got to be you and meeee...FOREVEEER
  • The opening theme, even without lyrics. And the entire opera episode.
  • THERE IS GLOOM AND DOOM AND THINGS GO BOOOOOOM!
• Rainbow monkeys, Rainbow monkeys...
  • The Spinach Inquisition, it's here and it's a hoot!
• Just another day in the life of a boy, just another day in the life of a boy...
• Madame Madame Madame Madame Madame Madame Madame Madame Foster!
  • Scratch that, any songs in Foster's are bound to work their way into your brain and stay there for years to come. Especially that god damn theme song. Are... they playing kazoos?
• I wanna kick your ass until your head falls off... then I'll kick your head and kick your ass again...
  • I'm a cucumber, I'm a cucumber, I'm a cucumber, I'm a cucumber, I'm a cucumber, please don't take me to the pickle farm!
• The ending theme tune for Code Lyoko starting Season 2, "Break Away" ("S'envoler"). Especially the instrumental part.
  • No love for "A World Without Danger"?
    • And then there's a remix of the French Theme, which is VERY catchy.
• I used to go to a human school where everyone was the same. Now I go to an animal school 'cause "Lyon's" my last name. My gym partners's a monkey!"
  • "MONKEY! MONKEY! MONKEY!"
  • "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! (Glass shatters) I'M A FRIENDLY ARMADILOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
• I can't believe I have to be the one to add this. I wanna be. I wanna be. I wanna be famous!
  • • STUCK, STUCK STUCK TO A POOOOOOOOOLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!!!
  • Any of TDWT's many song can count.
• Adventure time, C'mon, grab your friends, We'll go to very distant lands...
  • So Finn & Jake set out to find a new home...
  • Come along with me, to a town beside the sea...
  • Daddy, why did you eat my fries...
  • On a tropical island, underneath the molten lava moon...
  • I'm a tough tootin baby why hasn't anybody added this?
• So make way to start a revolution, make way we're gonna have fun tonight, make way to start a revolution...
• Usin' The Power in your face, Sendin' you back to your place, DON'T LOOK AT OUR CROTCHES WHILE WE SYNCHRONIZE OUR WATCHES!
  • "Summertime Luh-huh-uhvin, lovin' in the Summertime!" (Which actually DOES get stuck in Rigby's head, and even manifests itself into the real world so it will never leave)
  • "AW SNAP, AW SNAP! COME TO OUR MACARONI PARTY AND WE'LL TAKE A NAP!"
• SHAKE IT! BAKE IT! BOOTY QUAKE IT! ROLL IT AROUND!
• I jacked off on a doctor's face, I jacked off on a doctor's face!
  • I never meeeeeet you, but I think I loooooves you!
    • Crap, anytime Toki sings anything.
  • WHY DID YOU DRINK?!
• Mike, Lu, and Og/ On the island!/ Mike, Lu, and Og...
• 200 million years away, in my ship that hides a stowaway, bouncing back in time like a ricochet, over and over...

Other

• The Land Before Time: Big big big big water! It's very big big big big water!]
• The Pebble and the Penguin: If you're into pain and agony, (agony,) if you love the great indoors, welcome to the Good Ship Misery! The misery's all yours!
  • Look how we get along together...
• Whoever composed or wrote songs for the Woody Woodpecker cartoons must have had a keen taste in music-a lot of the older ones had a great mix of both instrumental and lyrical songs, from the opening "Crazy" song of Woody's first solo cartoon, Woody Woodpecker (AKA The Cracked Nut) to the song of the short Ski For Two, The Woody Woodpecker Song, and even The Woody Woodpecker Polka. And as for the Barber of Seville short? That belongs in a section all its own.
• All Dogs Go to Heaven 2: It feels so good to be bad!
• Pretty much any and all 80's cartoon intros ever. I still have that goddamn Filmations Ghostbusters song in my head.
• The theme song for Cyberchase.
  • This troper stopped watching that show a long time ago, but he's still singing: We got the POWAH! Of ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! Livin' in a Cyberchase...
• The Tick (animation): Dah-DWEE, Dah-Dilliyah-Dwee-dah!
• And then the 90s kicked off with a song people can't forget even if they want to: Denver, the Last Dinosaur, a show about a dinosaur who'll show you a world you never saw before. From the people who brought you the Voltron and Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs examples above, natch. World Events Productions was notorious for producing songs like this (partially, of course, as a marketing strategy).
• "Supah fighting robot! MEGA MAN!!!"
• In the Dark of the Night, Terror will find her
  • This troper finds that, and Journey to the Past stuck in her head a lot. Oh, and Once Upon a December.
    • Since this troper has this one AND "learn to do it" AND "Paris holds the key to your heart" too, I guess that means I have the entire sountrack.
  • "It's a rumor"...no..."If I can learn to"...oh screw it. Pretty much every song in this thing.
• Spider-Man "Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!"
  • Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Radioactive Spider-man
  • Or their successor: "Spec-TACular Spec-TACular Spider-Man!"
    • Even Ox thinks it's catchy.
  • Oh yes. This troper's MOTHER sings that one out loud, frequently.
  • Let's face it; that was the only good bit from the 1960s series.
  • This Troper thinks more of the Ramones version of the 60s theme than any other (even the original song itself). It's one of the biggest Ear Worms he's ever caught. And it's Badass.
  • The Simpsons Movie gave us this just-as-catchy variation: "Spider-Pig! Spider-Pig! Does whatever a Spider-Pig does..."
    • Spider-Pig is so much of an Ear Worm that it gets into your head without even hearing it. The creators decided to Throw It In because they couldn't stop singing it while working on the movie.
• DUUUN...DUN DUN DUN-DUN DUN DUN DUNDEDUNDEDO
  • Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do!
  • The sanitation folks are jolly friendly blokes, courteous and easygoing~
  • "We put the spring in Springfield!"
  • "Lisa it's your birthday!"
  • "Baby on board, how I adore..."
  • "Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?"
  • "Monorail!"
    • Mono... D'oh!
  • See my veeest
  • Nothing beats the hobo life! Stabbin' folks with my hobo knife!
  • You don't make friends with salad!
  • Canyonero-oooh!
  • Everybody in the USA hates their stupid neighbour/He's Flanders and he's really really laaaaaame!
  • "So long dental plan! Dental plan...dental plan..." "Lisa needs braces!" "Dental plan!" "Lisa needs braces!" and so on...
  • "Is there a chance the track could bend?" "I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook!" "I call the big one Bitey!"
  • "From now on the baby sleeps in the crib." "Iron helps us play!" "HOO-HOO-HOO HA HA HA!" "Hello Joe!"
  • "I am so smart, S-M-R-T!"
  • "Tonight on...'MacGyver'...'MacGyver'...'MacGyver'..."
• The themes from both 1994 and 2006 Fantastic Four cartoons are quite catchy.
  • "On an outer space adventure...they got hit by cosmic rays..."
• "Scooby-dooby-doo, where are you? We've got some work to do now..."
  • This troper dares anyone to watch Scooby-Doo on Zombie's Island and not get "IT'S TERRRROOORRRR TIME AGAIN!" stuck in their head for days.
    • Dot. After you hear that song, EVERY time is terror time!
  • "Scooooooby, a pup named Scooby-Doo! (Scooby-dooby-doo, scooby-doo)"
  • "What's new, Scooby-Doo, we're comin' after you, you're gonna solve that mystery..."
  • Scooby-Dooby-Doo! Lookin' for you! Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you?
• "Little Lulu, Little Lulu, with freckles on your skin..."
• "We are The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything/we just stay at home and lie around/and if you ask us to do anything/we'll just tell you/we don't do anything!"
  • Just about every Veggie Tales song really.
  • Everybody's got a water buffalo, yours is fast but mine is slow...
  • Keep walking, but you won't knock down our wall. Keep walking, but your plans will surely fall. It's plain to see your brains are very small if you think walking will be knocking down our wall.
• Schoolhouse Rock. If you are only a bill, sitting at conjunction junction, thinking about getting your adverbs from Lolly's, you know what I mean.
  • Suffering for Suffrage and Mr. Morton plague this troper frequently.
    • This troper had the entire liberetto of Schoolhouse Rock LIVE! playing through her head for months after performing in it.
  • This troper's mother frequently breaks out into "Conjunction Junction" at odd intervals. For me, "Interplanet Janet" is a guaranteed Ear Worm.
  • When you're in the dark and you want to see you need... SEIZURE CAUSING FLAS- I mean, ELECTRICITY E-LEC-TRI-CITY.
  • Multiply 7 times 1, I got 7 days to get that problem done.
  • The songs from Money Rock aren't as well known, but "Tyrannosaurus Debt" is damn clever.
  • When this troper was in 9th grade, back in the 80s, her teacher in Civics class announced one day that the class was assigned to memorize the preamble of the Constitution. After a few beats of us all looking at each other, we all broke into song....
    • My 5th grade class had to memorize it in the late 90s. The only rule: we couldn't sing it to the teacher.
  • I find it, quite intersting, a noun's a person, place, or thing...
  • Cause sayin' all those nouns over and over can really wear you down...
  • In-ter-jections, show ex-cite-ment, or e-mo-tion; they're generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong!" This troper will always end up thinking about this song when he hears the Hallelujah Chorus...
    • This Troper can't sing the Hallelujah Chorus. I was once at a choir rehearsal. This was all I could sing. I eventually ended up not singing at all, because all I could sing was the "Hallelujah"s.
• Otherwise known as that "Nah nanananaaah" song from Fern Gully, Wilson's Pickett's "Land of a Thousand Dances" is very, very catchy.
  • "Yo, the name is Batty/The logic is erratic..."
    • "They used and abused me, battered and bruised me"... This troper can't stop listening to it.
      • "I rock and I ramble, my brain is scrambled..." If this keeps up, this troper suspects the entire song will be quoted.
  • "Filthy brown acid rain/Pouring down like egg chow mein..."
    • ...Wait, what?
      • It's Tim Curry. It works.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Heroes in a half-shell, Turtle Power!)
  • I Love being a turtle!
    • Turtles count it off!! 1,2,3,4! Turtles! Mutants chain reaction. Turtles! Living underground. Turtles! Ninjitsu action! Turtles! It's a shell of a toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooown!!! Sorry, I'm a 90's kid.
    • Four Teenage Turtles surfed in/On a wave from the past,/It’s like the future’s a party/That these brothers just crashed./Don’t know when they’ll go home,/How long the good times will last,/But just stick around and see/These Turtles go...
• Up from the depths. 30 stories high! Breathing fire, his head in the sky...
• Hercules, people are safe when near him. Hercules, only the evil fear him. Softness in his eyes, Iron in his thighs, Virtue in his heart, Fire in every part, Of the Mighty Hercules!
  • Okay, it came out in 1963. It was a much more innocent time...
  • Oh dear lord. That thing has been earwormed for me since I was 5 years old. Hear it here, folks. (The worst part is... those aren't quite the lyrics I remember. Neither are the slightly-different lyrics sung over the end-credits. Do I just have lyrics from a later season earwormed? Aaaugh!)
• My name is Cleveland Brown! And I am proud to be right back in my hometown, with my new family!
• "It seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies and sex on TV..."
  • "Now that you're stinking rich, we'll gladly be your bitch!"
  • "Here's the plain situation! There's no negotiation with the fellas at the Freakin' FCC!"
  • "J-j-j-j-just like the bad guy/from Lethal Weapon 2/I got diplomatic immunity/so Hammer, you can't sue."
  • "All cartoons are fucking dicks, they get their kicks from being pricks, it's a quirk they just can't fix... because all cartoons are fucking dicks."
  • "A bag o' weed, a bag o' weed, everything is better with a bag o' weed..."
  • I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. Have you heard about the bird? I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word. I said the bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word...
    • How annoyed the other Griffins get with Peter singing the above song could be considered a Lampshade Hanging.
    • This Troper wishes the damn bird would eat this Ear Worm...
  • It's a wonderful daaaaayyyy for piiiiiee... You can ask all the birds in the sky...
    • And they'll tell you real sweet/with a muscial tweeeeeet...
  • I'm just a prom night dumpster baby...
  • ((BROKEN))You have AIDS sorry I wish it was something less serious
  • Whatever Brian and Stewie feels like singing
  • ((BROKEN))When Peter and Michael Moore get into a farting contest, the results are... disturbingly catchy.
  • A vasectomy's a medical procedure, one that makes you half a man (you're half a maaaaaaaaaaan)...remember when you twisted up your garden hose? Well essentially that is the plan (that is the plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan)!
• Good morning USA! I got a feeling that it's gonna be a wonderful day!
  • Ollie North, Ollie North!
• Hermes Conrad's song about the joys of Bureacracy in Futurama's "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back".
  • "When I was four there was a hurricane in Kingston town..."
  • Pop a Poppler in your mouth...
  • Super King, Clobberella, and all the rest!
  • "Go, go, go New Justice Team!"
    • "Captain Yesterday is fast, also he is from the past, not just fast but from the past, Captain Yesterdaaay!"
  • The Robo Rooter Jingle
  • We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon...
  • Trapped forever here in ROBOT HELL!
  • The theme song. No words, but... jeez.
  • Just... any song in Futurama.
• Does anyone else hate Come Sail Away by Styx as much as Cartman does?
  • IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'mmmmmmmmmm sailiiiiiiiiiing awayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!
  • Suck on my Chocolate Salty Balls... stick em in your mouth and suck em!
  • Let's not forget "Blame Canada".
  • "I'm not your guy, friend." "I'm not your friend, buddy!" "I'm not your buddy, guy!" "Let's give it up, guy." "We want." "More money."
  • "Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation..."
  • "Shut your fucking face, ((BROKEN))Uncle Fuckuhhhhh!"
  • I'm getting pretty sick of him calling my mom a--"Weeeeellllllll, Kyle's mom is a big fat bitch, she's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world..."
  • Stupid Spoiled Whore, Video Playset! Show the whole world what a slut you are!
  • "((BROKEN))But that's the way it goes; in war, you're shat upon! Though you die, La Résistance lives oooooonnnn!"
    • The Dark Reprise duet is also pretty damn catchy.
  • Mrrrrssss. Landers was a health nut, she cooked food in a wok...
  • "You guys are my best friends. Through thick and thin, we've always been together."
  • The Imagination song.
  • "((BROKEN))What would Brian Boitano do if he was here right now? He'd make a plan and follow through, that's what Brian Boitano'd do..."
  • "I will do the German Dance for you, it's fun and gay and tralala..."
  • LET'S FIGHTING LOVE!
  • All the happy people stop to say hello (get outta my way!), even though the temperature's low...
  • Lemmiwinks
  • ((BROKEN))I'm gonna make, make it right...
  • Work, Mexican, work . . .
  • Jackin' it in San Diego
• I! AM! IRON! MAN! No, not the Black Sabbath one. This one, the original.
  • This troper always found Keith Emerson's first-season theme to be even more wormish.
  • You ain't heard nothing until you've heard the theme to the crappy 1960s cartoon. It even found its way into the movie as the big, brassy background number in the casino, and as Tony's ringtone on Rhodey's phone.
    • Iron Man Tony Stark makes you feel, he's the cool exec with a heart of steel.
• "Come gather around me, space travellers, surround me... " If you're Canadian, odds are you've already recognized it.
  • But we're not Canadian. So identify it for the rest of us.
    • As you wish.
      • Thanks a lot! I'd almost forgotten Rocket Robin Hood!
• The Underdog theme. Also, the only successful use of an accordion for dramatic music that this troper can think of.
• "So you'd better come home quickly, And you'd better hide very soon, Or the bunyip's going to get you, In the bunyip moon." As scary as hell, but still very catchy.
• "George, George, George of the Jungle, strong as he can be! AHHHHHH! AHHHHHH! Watch Out for That Tree!" It's a Trope Namer for a reason.
• La da doh, du dee dee da doh - DOO DAHHH, DOO DAHHH...
• "Wow, wow, Wubbzy! Wubbzy, Wubbzy, wow, wow!"
  • God HELP you if any songs from that show get stuck in your head.
• "I'm Ziv Zoolander, ZZ for Short you Know i fight the corp i'm the Bots Master"
• God help any of you who hear the 1960s animated Captain America theme. If the tune doesn't get you, the rhymes will.
  • Oh God no! This Troper doesn't remember ever watching this show, yet somehow knows all the words!

"When Captain America throws his mighty SHIEEEELD! All those who chose to oppose his shield must YIEEEELD!

• This Troper recalls literally beating his head against a school locker to get The Smurfs theme song out. It didn't work.
  • Laa LAA lala la laa, laa la la laaaa...
• Among many others from the same show: We've got a whole wide world in our yard to explo~re...
• "Who is always on the spot? Who is? Yogi Bear!"
  • "Yogi Bear is smarter than the, average bear. Yogi Bear is always in the ranger's hair..."
• "Meet George Jetson!"
• "Come on in, come to the place where fun never ends!"
  • "Friends are there to help you get started, to give you a push on your way..."
  • "Oh, we're the ants who ruin your dinner..."
  • The Garfield specials ((BROKEN))already had some of it.
  • "We are the Buddy Bears, we always get along..."
• "We're the Chipmunks! C-H-I-P-M-U-N-K!"
  • ((BROKEN))Hey don't you know that / we're off to see the world / We're off to find our dreams The ONE song that would sometimes return to this troper's lips, even when she couldn't remember where it was from. Then she found it again.
  • We're the ones on the run/We're the girls, we're the diamond dolls/It's a ravenous world/And the ceiling is very tall/do do do do do do do-ahhhhhhhhhh... Been wriggling in my ear for over two decades now.
  • Everything's gonna be alright/ don't you be afraid when things go bump in the night
  • ((BROKEN))How do you do/ what's up with you / little brother - Mr Hyde
• ((BROKEN))"The Ant and the Aardvark."
• "Let's have a party with Charlie Brown and Snoopy; we can go dancing with Linus and Lucy!"
  • You want Peanuts ear worms? The Bootsrapped Instrumental Theme Tune, "Linus and Lucy"!
  • "They Call Him Flash, Flash, Flash, Flash, Flashbeagle!
• "Muppet Babies! We make our dreams come true!"
• Inspector Gadget has a pretty damn catchy theme song for a song that only has three words.
  • The French version actually has a full set of lyrics.
• She Ras theme song, I have to say, is even catchier than He Man and The Masters of The Universes.
  • "For the honor of love! By the power above! We have the power. We have the power, so can you!"
• "Earthworm Jim! Through the soil he did crawl!"
• Numerous Transformers songs, including:
  • The incredibly hair-metal theme tune cover by Lion. "TRANSFORMERRRRRRRS!"
    • Similarly, Stan Bush's cover.
  • Beast Wars!
  • "Dare! Dare to believe you can survive!"
  • "YOU GOT THE TOUCH! YOU GOT THE POWERRRRR! YEAH!"
  • "Instruments of Destruction! Tools of foul play!"
  • "Dare yori tsuyoku naritai! ((BROKEN))Jibun rashiku aru tame"
  • "Nothing's gonna stand in our way! Not tonight!"
  • Sadly, this troper has had the misfortune of getting three (count 'em!) opening songs stuck TOGETHER at one point
    • "Aisuru mono tameni nokosou utsukushii uchuu"
    • "Kono chikyuu, chikyuu Nerau no wa dareda"
    • "Kakenuketeku yuushi wa, Kizuna de musubareta seigi sa"
  • "Saa All I Can Do, And All You Can Do, ((BROKEN))Habatake Transform!" (The full version can be heard here.)
  • "Transformers! More than meets the eye! Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces oooof... the Decepticons!" (Long Animated version here.)
  • "TILL ALL ARE ONE!" which was recently featured in Transformers: War for Cybertron.
• Skeleton Warriors!
• Oh, we think you oughta - no, you really gotta - see the b-b-bright side of the dark side! The actual "moon" visuals might not do much for you, but the sound...
  • Speaking of Ruby Gloom, Misery's "Train Wreck" song is also a notable example.
• Captain Planet, he's our hero! Gonna take pollution down to zero!
  • "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS, CAPTAIN PLANET!!"
  • Earth!
  • FIRE!
  • Wind!
  • Water!
  • HEART!
  • Gooo PLANET!
• "You can run with us, we've got everything you need..."
• Way way back in the 1980's, secret government employees dug up famous guys and ladies and made amusing genetic copies...
• For ReBoot's opening theme to remain unmentioned is unacceptable.
  • And the Firewall opening
  • The Web invaded Mainframe, sprite and virus battled side by side, attempting to reclaim the city from the rift which opened wide...
    • "But Megabyte betrayed Bob and he threw him deep inside the pit, the pit was closed and Bob was hosed and all that he could say was 'No!'"
  • Non-musical example: ..for only 99.99.99!
• "They made a vow their mother will be found -- SONIC UNDERGROUND!" Grr...
• Anyone remember this? YO JOE!
  • And don't forget this!
  • Then there's the Sigma Six theme.
• ((BROKEN))Dr. Snuggles. Cracky series. Dreadful intro. STICKS IN YOUR HEEEAAAD.
  • Just to be REALLY cruel, here's the intro from a feature-length compilation:
• ((BROKEN))Bamse; no, it won't let go.
• ((BROKEN))Barbapapa; damn the French...
• Lucky Luke; proving that the same song can be equally annoying in six languages.
• Asterix; oh dear. I just got that one out of my head and now I had to find it again...
  • Don't forget the original song.("Asterix est là !"), not even being in French stops it to sticking to your mind.
  • What about this one?
• This one. Mask!
• Wunderbar! Das ist Amerika!
• ((BROKEN))Balt- Balthazar. Balt. Balthazar. Balt. Balthazar...
• Klondike Kat always gets his mouse.
• Sonic... he is the fastest thing alive!
• The Family Ness
• Everyone's out to find the next big clue that's gonna lead 'em to the million dollar prize!
• ((BROKEN))Sharky and George! Crimebusters of the sea!
• He's sharp, he's cool, he's nobody's fool
• Call me up, I'm your girl, ((BROKEN))toughest chick in the alien world...
• Donkey Kong Country has plenty. Here are just a few of them.
• In a world of chaos and disarray, ((BROKEN))brother and sister save the day...
• Pick a song from Corpse Bride. Any song.
• "Making Fiends, making fiends, Vendetta's always making fiends..."
  • Any song from the animated show.
    • ((BROKEN))Like this. Or this. Or this. And we can't forget this one.
• I'm too much!
  • You sure are, boys, you sure are.
    • Even better when performed by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!
• Bionic 6
• Why has it taken this long for the X-Men theme song to be mentioned?
• This animated theme from an old French wildlife TV show. Not just an Ear Worm... a colony of Ear Worms.
• Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?, oh Carmen Sandiego, where on Earth could she be...
  • Every single song from that show.
    • Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego, and Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego... it's been years since this troper has seen any of the shows on tv, and she's still got all 3 memorized.
    • About Where in the World, it must be said: "DO IT, ROCKAPELLA!"
• "Is this the '50s, or 1999?"
• The Wallace and Gromit theme song.
• It's Shaun the sheep, it's Shaun the sheep...
• The meal song from Scruff. Hoo boy, the madness starts at 0:35 and DOES NOT STOP. ((BROKEN))Watch if you dare!
• ((BROKEN))Seatbelts, everyone!!!
• In the children's video Imaginaria, one skit, "Styro the Dog", is absurdly catchy. Styy~yyro!/Styro the Dog!/He's Styro!
• RIIIIIINNNNNNNG RAIDERS!
• Say what you want about Hammerman, but at least it had a catchy theme song
• The Dreamstone had this: ((BROKEN))I used to dream myself to somewhere else each night... I dreamed in colour, 'cause I lived in black and white...
• Who can forget this one: Thunder! Thunder! Thunder! Thundercats, ho-o-o! Thundercats are on the move, Thundercats are loose! Feel the magic, hear the roar, Thundercats are loose! Thunder thunder thunder Thundercats! Thunder...
  • Partly metal, partly real Silver Hawks!
• Alias the Jester was a time traveler bold...
• ((BROKEN))Jamie! Jamie! Jamie and the magic torch!
• This troper would like to give a special mention to the obscure, yet awesome, 90's cartoon Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.
  • I'll see your Jewel Riders and raise you their "older brother," Galaxy Rangers. ((BROKEN))"No Guts No Glory" (opening theme), "Ranger are Forever" (closing credits #2), "Somewhere a Heart", "Fight To the Finish". It was to the point where the fans were begging Kosh for a soundtrack as much as they begged for episodes. Robert Mandell sure knows how to find a good soundtrack.
• ((BROKEN))Lisa it's your birthday, happy birthday Lisa... This is aided by the fact that the second person in the duet is, of course, Michael Jackson.
• Can't stop the Littles 'cause the Littles won't stop. Lord knows I've tried.
• Ovide video. Thank you. You may kill me now.
• The Marvel Superheroes have arrived! Warning: it will NEVER leave you.
  • From the Incredible Hulk segments: Doc Bruce Banner, belted by gamma rays, turned into the Hulk.... It's way too upbeat considering the storyline, but damn if the cheesyness of the song doesn't get suck in your head!
• The intro from Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot. ((BROKEN))Here.
• Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds: here.
• Around the World with Willy Fog: here.
• They dream to follow the path of the setting sun that leads to El-dorado and the ((BROKEN))Mysterious Cities of Gold
• I send my scourge, I send my sword. THUS SAITH THE LORD!
  • DELIVER US!/Hear our call/DELIVER US!/Lord Of All/Remember us/Here in this burning sand...
  • By the power of Ra! Mut, Nut, Khnum, Ptah...
  • You must look at your life... Look at your life through heaven's eyes-LAI LA LAI!
• "Greetings from the Street Boyzz!"
• Bum-ba-da-bum! Bum-ba-da-bum! The Godzilla: The Series theme.
  • SCREEEEOOOOOONK!
• ((BROKEN))"I was happy here. Unfettered and free...."
• Any song from Jem and The Holograms. "Glamour and glitter, fashion and fame. Jem! Jem is truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous"
  • In particular, I once knew someone who still remembered the theme song twenty years after last seeing the show. Watch at your own risk.
  • The mini-music videos from each episode are often earworms too, with the added bonus of being impossibly 80's. Of note are The Stingers, relatively minor characters with ditties like Perfect Match.
• Sesame Street will put songs into your head through ink and paint, too:
  • One two three FOUR FIVE! Six seven eight NINE TEN! Eleven, Twelve!
  • "Daddy Dear"
  • ((BROKEN))"Lower case n, standing on a hill. The wind is very still, for the lower case n."
  • "We all live in a capital I, in the middle of the desert, in the centre of the sky."
• Life begins after school... that's when we bend all the rules... time to hang with all my friends!
• ((BROKEN))James Bond Jr. chases SCUM... around the world!
• dun dun da-da-da-da C.O.P.S. da dun!!
• One banana two banana three banana four! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS8RVkaIM9c Oh god make it stop make it sto- hey wait is that Tigger?
• "Super 6! Super 6! They battle criminals and all their evil games!"
• I doubt many people remember Here Comes the Grump, but once you hear it, you will remember the theme song.
• Heathcliff, Heathcliff, no one should...terrify their neigborhood...
  • God that song is powerful. I completely forgot about that show even existing, it has been at least five years... and now it stuck in my head. TVTROPES THANK YOU VERY MUCH
  • The French one is just as catchy. It even has the same melody ("Isidore le citadin. Dans le ville. Crie victoire..."). By the way, "Isidore" is Heathcliff's French name.
• ((BROKEN))I'm no fool -- nosiree...
  • "You are a human animal..."
• This troper is shocked that Beetlejuice isn't listed yet.
• The theme song for The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries is ridiculously catchy.
• We're the Wickersham Brothers
• Here they are the Oddball Couple, they're a couple that's a couple of oddballs. Yeah thanks for that James Urbaniak.
• "You can run with us! We've got everything you need! Run with us! We are free!"
• Blazing Dragons, we will save the day!
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures
• Wild West C.O.W Boys of Moo Mesa
• During a game of Truth or Dare, this Trouper got to listen to someone sing the opening "La la la la la" for the Daria theme, and it's still stuck in his head.
  • Don't forget the musical episode. "MORRRNNNNNINGGGGG IN THE 'BURBS!"
• ((BROKEN))You're a mean one, Mr Grinch!
• Rickadicka tick tock tick tock tock! RIIIIIIIING ring-a-ding-ding, ring-a-ding-ding! Rick-a-dick-rick, rick-a-dick-dick, ringa-dinga-ding-ding-dooooooooooong! RIM RIM RIM RIM!
• WONDER FUN MEAT WORLD, WE MAKE YOUR MEAT JUST RIGHT! Not to mention the theme song of that show...
  • Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go,defeeeaating anny foooooe!
• Arthur and the Knights of Justice will take evil down, ride through the storm with the knights of the table round, well c'mon c'mon.
• Just 'cause I couldn't decide which of these I liked best... here's 10 for the Ear Worminess of 1!
  • And here's 10 more!
    • ((BROKEN))10 more!
• Inhumanoids! Inhumanoids! The evil that lies within!
• This troper knows by heart the Widget the World Watcher theme song in French thanks to Youtube!
• This long without mentioning ((BROKEN))the theme from Cybersix?
• In a semi-Western Animation, semi-Anime, semi-Film example, the late 1970s animated versions of The Hobbit and The Return Of The King had some Notable Original Music that was quite Ear Wormy at times. Notably "In the Valley, Ha! Ha!", "Down, Down To Goblin Town", "Funny Little Things", "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" and "Towers of the Teeth" (the latter example aided greatly by the instrumentation). Who knew orcs were such good singers?
  • Don't forget "The Greatest Adventure"
    • No mention of "Leave Tomorrow till it Comes", "Less Can Be More" or "The Bearer of the Ring, the Wearer of the Ring?" For shame.
• "It's like a moooovie, it's a B-Movie shoooooow..."
  • "I can't take this kinda pressure, "I must confess one more dusty road, it would be just a road too long..."
  • "Time flies by in the City of Light, time stands still in the country..." was stuck in This troper's head for 10 years on and off.
  • "Since you came in uninvited we'd all think you'd be delighted, this is not the time or place to hedge!"
  • This list counts for all the songs with lyrics in this movie, which are all extremely catchy.
• The Mummies Alive intro
• Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea had a few of these.
  • ((BROKEN))"Go follow Spartakus to the sun beneath the sea. We're so near to the universe which has long disappeared. Rainbow dawn on Arkadia - Shining sun beneath the sea"
  • ((BROKEN))"We're the Pirates upon the high sea. We can do such incredible deeds..."
    • Even more earworming in the original french version.
  • "Oh dance with us, we're singin' a dancin' song..."
• ((BROKEN))"On a Tiny little island in the ocean called "Pacific" There's a mixed-up group of creatures who are really quite horrific"
• "where gonna bop bop bop (hop hop hop) get rubbin at the rubber room."
• Creepy Crawlers
• "Cro was a smart boy..."
• WHEEEEEEEEEEEELED WARRIORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS !!!
  • Or in French: "SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUVE L'UUUUUUUUNIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERS !!!"
• The Robotix theme tune For a lousy Go Bots rip-off that only lasted 12 episodes, it's actually pretty good.
• "((BROKEN))Friends to the End" and "((BROKEN))I've Done It All" from the Tom and Jerry Movie. It's kind of a Guilty Pleasure for this troper.
  • No mention of ((BROKEN))I Miss You? For shame.
• Almost every episode of The Mr. Men show has at least one song that you will not be able to get out of your head.
• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
• "In every wish and dream and happy home..." Yes, I hate me too.
• Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines
• 101-Canines on the run, 101-Them doggon dogs are fun!
• "He's the greatest, he's fantastic, wherever there is danger he'll be there..."
• "Speed of lightning, roar of thunder...Underdog!"
• "Iz...Iz...Iznogoud"
• Stoked: "The summer's on! And I'll be livin' on the beach! Left my shoes and all my troubles far away!"
• And I say, "Hey!" (Hey!) What a wonderful kind of day! If we could learn to work and play! And get along with each other!
  • Having fun! Isn't hard! WHEN YOU'VE GOT A LIBRARY CARD!!!
  • Jekyll-Jekyll-HYDE-Jekyll-HYDE-HYDE-Jekyll!!! Jekyll-Jekyll-HYDE-Jekyll-HYYYYYYYDE!!!!!
  • "Just a little homework tonight!/ Just a little homework tonight!"
• "I Love to Singa...about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a... I love to singa... about a sky of blue-a or a tea for two-a, anything-a with-a swing-a to an I-Love-You-a, I-I love-a to, I-I love-a to siiiiiiiiing!"
• ((BROKEN))R-E-C-Y-C-L-E RECYCLE! An Ear Worm and a Green Aesop, all in one. (Rocko's Modern Life)
  • Speaking of recycling, there was a PSA (and educational short subject) that had one of its own: "Recycle, reduce, reuse. And close the loop..."
• Flintstones...meet The Flintstones!
• the Raw Toonage theme
• Look out new world, here we come!
  • A glorious city was built by the divinities, by Gods who saw fit to bestow the gift of a paradise...
• "Dipping, Bobbing, Diving, Alfred's always thriving, He seldom wears a frown. Dipping, Bobbing, Diving, Alfred's always thriving, You'll never keep a good duck down."
• "Well you know my name is Simon / And the things I draw come true..."
• "Conan, the Adventurer, Conan, warrior without fear/He's more powerful than any man, his legend spread across the land and sea . . ."
• Good luck trying to sing along if you don't know French, but the opening theme of Wakfu is EPIC and totally catchy.
  • Even the characters can't help whistling it within the show.
• Gordon, send us into outer space, 'cause there ain't no one like you in the Melmacian race...
• You will never, ever get "Let's Go Band/Blue" out of your head if you were in band and played it over.... and over.... and over... and then had to listen to the Beginning Band play it for two more insufferable years. Its like its traumatized you (kids can and will scream "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!" when seeing it on the program).
• Three words: Hong Kong Phooey.
• For your big fat information,this is our imagination! Any Canadians out there remember this one?
  • Wow, I haven't thought about that show in ages. And now, there's the tune...* sigh*
• "So have you seen her? She's the greatest..."
• He's cool, he's hot, like a frozen sun, he's young and fast, he's the chosen one-MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOOOOOOOOOPPPP!
• From the animated cartoon of The Cat in the Hat, ((BROKEN))this
• "What do we care about nice? What do we care about sweet? All that we care about's vice and deceit!" Is it any wonder this Non Sequitur Scene from Tom and Jerry: The Movie has spawned so many FanVids of cartoon villains singing it?
• "If you belive you must be big in order to be tough, then you should get to know me, I'll teach you all the stuff!"
  • really, any song from the specials or any season of the television series will be stuck in your head for eternity and longer!
• ((BROKEN))The Amazing Chan! That's the Chan Clan! The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan!
  • "I got the goods on you, I got the goods on you."
  • "I'm the number-one son of a number-one man, the number-one hope of a family clan..."
  • "Whodunit, whodunit, who came and stole my heart away?"
  • "Oh I-I-I-I-I've got my eye on you, yes I do!"
  • "Mystery woman, you can run away, mystery woman you'll be mine someday..."
  • "I've just got to knock on wood, things have never been so good..."
  • "So let's give a hand, for the family clan..."
• Oblongs! Oblongs! Down in the valley where a chemical spill came from the people living up on the hill...
  • Only to be expected by a theme created by They Might Be Giants
• The animated adaptation of Bucky O Hare and The Toad Wars.The introduction is catchy and a Crowning Music of Awesome.
• First you stick a rag, put it in the bag, bump-bump
• ((BROKEN))Boom da Boom, Boom Boom da Boom (House of Mouse )
• Gogo, para Presidente! Gogo!
• Stomp em in the nuts! Stomp em in the nuts! Stomp Stomp em in the nuts! Stomp em in the nuts!
• ((BROKEN))Honey Halfwitch, bright and sunny, she's as cute as a bunny
  • ((BROKEN))Looka me looka me...
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: The second-season opening. YMMV on the first.
  • Twooo Shoooes Kickin out the bluuuueeees
• Avengers, assemble! Al-ways we will fight as one, til the battle's won, with evil on the run...
• ABSOLUTELY ((BROKEN))BUS-A-LOOEY!! Probobly the most unlikely earworm to EVER leave your head.
• Jonny Quest TOS. Don't lie -– every time you heard that big band opening theme, you used your hands to drum along with it on the nearest flat surface.
• The 4Kids dub went with an average song, but us Rai English watchers spent years singing WIIIIIIIINX! YOU MAGICAL WINX! AMONG THE STARS YOU ARE WIIIIIINX! A MYSTICAL LIGHT OF FIRE! UNDER THE SIGN OF WINX!
• The Ambiguously Gay Duo! The Ambiguously Gay Duo! They are taking on evil come what may! They are fighting all crimes to save the day! They're extremely close in an ambiguous way! They're ambiguously gay! They're ambiguously gay! The Ambiguously Gay Duo!!
• If you used to watch My Little Pony, or if you read certain threads on /co/, you'll recognize SHOO BE DOO SHOO SHOO BE DO.
  • Similarly, Nothing Can Stop the Smooze
  • Who's a Silly Pony, who's a Silly Pony? Who is, you is, APPLEJACK..
  • Spell my pony's name for me - B.O.W.T.I.E - it's Bow Tie.
  • It's fun being somebody else, somebody other than me...
  • My Little Pony Tales has a few of these. Secrets, secrets, what if someone knew my secrets?
  • My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic is filled with excellent songs that will probably be stuck in your head for days, if not weeks.
    • Winter wrap-up, winter wrap-up, let's finish our holiday cheer, winter wrap-up, winter wrap-up, 'cause tomorrow spring is here!
    • Thread by thread, stitching it together...
    • All our dreams will come true right here at the Gala! (At the Gala!)
    • And pretty much everything Pinkie Pie sings, such as Giggle At The Ghosties, Evil Enchantress, Making Cupcakes, and a MLP version of Katy Perry's "California Gurls", titled "Equestria Girls".
    • Don't forget the Pony Pokey.
    • Photo Finish's theme snaps onto you pretty hard.
    • He's Flim! He's Flam! We're the world famous Flim Flam brothers! Traveling salesponies nonpareil!
    • The fire of friendship lives in our hearts...
    • Come on everypony, Smile, Smile, Smile...
    • My big brother/Best friend forever/Like two peas in a pod/We did everything together...
    • Love is in bloom, a beautiful bride, a handsome groom...
    • This day is going to be perfect...
• I'll never do it on a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree. Now what would Santa think of me if i did it on a Christmas tree?
• CANYONEROOOOOOOOOOO
• Denver the last dinosaur! He's my friend and a whole lot more!
• Punky Brewster! Come on it's just a fantasy!
  • "E...v'ry...time...I...turn around, I see the girl that turns my world around. Standing there..."
• You're standing on my neck! La-la-LA-la-la
• "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life!"
• A little known movie called "The Water Babies", has this little gem: "High, high, high, high, high cockalorum! High cockalorum! Happy to be you're company..."
• HEY-O! HEY-O! HEY-O! HEY-O! HEY-O! (There are actual lyrics to it, but this part is the most prominent, although it's only actually sung near the end.)
• "Uh-oh! Sylvanians! All your troubles soon will melt away..."
• "Felix the Cat. The wonderful, wonderful cat. Whenever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks..."
  • "Have your fun, as long as I LET you have fun! But don't forget, ((BROKEN))WHO IS THE BOSS!
  • "Sly as a fox..."
• "Class of 3000, sing!"
  • Not just the theme song either, but every freaking song that came out of the show.
• There's a party in my tummy, so yummy, so yummy yummy!
• ((BROKEN))King Kong, you know the name of, King Kong, you know the fame of, King Kong, ten times as big as a man!
• Everything's Archie!
  • "Sugar....Oh, honey, honey..."
  • "My heart went bang-shang-a-lang, bang-shang-a-lang, bang-shang-a-lang, bang bang..."
  • "Sing me, sing me, sing me. Sing me, sing me, sing me..."
• "Josie and the Pussy Cats! Long tails, and ears for hats..."
  • He told you, la...la...la! He told you, la...la...la..."
  • "Tick...tock...tick...tock..."
• Jabada, jabada, said jabada. Jabada, jabada, said jabada...
  • "How did I ever get so lucky, how did I ever get so lucky..."
  • "Too many cavities, too many cavities..."
• How was This not added yet???
• "They call him Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabber Jabberjaw (The most futuristic shark you ever saw! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk...)"
• "When in Rome, you do what the Romans do, you play like the Romans play together. You're all invited, right this way, you're gonna, meet The Roman Holidays..."
• "Bravestarr! Bravestarr!..."
• "...from my video, to my radio."
• "Casper the Friendly Ghost, the friendliest ghost you know..."
• "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (*toot*), I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (*toot*), I'm strong to the "finach", 'cause I eats me spinach, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (*toot* *toot*)!"
• "...his bank account is as rich as his name. That's rich! Richie Rich!^[1]
• The theme to The Mighty Thor cartoon from the 60's. Cross the Rainbow Bridge of Asgaaaaaaard...
• If you ever watched the Silver Surfer cartoon you'd remember its theme.
• Any song from Happily Ever After Fairy Tales for Every Child. "What's Wrong With This Picture?" comes to mind but it's hard to think of a song that weren't Ear Worm potential.
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer The Movie may not have been critically acclaimed but it has a pretty good soundtrack.
  • "What about, what about, what about his gleaming nose?"
  • "Everybody's a somebody in Santa's family tree."
  • "It's Christmas Town, Christmas Town. We're up here in the North - making toys for you until December 24th"
• "Here's a nice, normal girl in an ordinary world (Show us your fangs! Yay, Mona!)..."
• From the Good Vibes episode The D-List, the remix of Mondo saying "They took my bathing suit!" that goes viral.

They took my bathing suit!
My pride!
My pride!
I can't feel my legs!

• From the Rainbow Brite movie:

"Ev'rybody's got a part to play/To start each day in a beautiful way/Ev'ry morning when the night goes away/Ev'ry morning is a brand new day!"
"Making brand new friends.....brings a shining light to ev'ry face/Shines for all to see/To make the world a brighter place/Rainbow Brite and me..."

• From "Butterballs" of South Park: "Let's all join together and make bullying kill itself. Bullying is an ugly thing, and lets shove its face in the dirt and make bullying kill itself."
• The Nick Jr. show Bubble Guppies has quite a few under its belt. For starters there's the theme song, the Outside song and the Color song. There's also the Tree song, Season song, and the Bone song.
  • Hold your hands up high and make a pizza pie...

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