Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

thanks to my stupid ass workplace playlist:

all the other kids with pumped up kicks say CLEVELAND ROCKS! CLEVELAND ROCKS!

maybe this is deliberate but I was cleaning out my oven the other day using a well known oven cleaner and immediately started singing 'That's what my heart yearns for now/Oven Priiiide'

haha, when I was a kid, I used to sing "thats what my stomach yearns for now/sauce on piiiieeee".

But then again I used to change the lyrics to everything, such as Echo and the Bunnymen's "put on a decent record" to the tune of "bring on the dancing horses"

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

domo arigato, D0m P4ssantino

it's the little old lady, D0m P4ssantino

http://i.imgur.com/j3YK5xm.jpg

D0menico P4ssantino
P4ssantino, that is where I'll be
D0menico P4ssantino with me

another one bites the dust?

it's time to catch the bus

(At about 1:20 mins) The chorus of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPzhUp8mWgs

to the tune of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMmxyGeEb4

Take that, Creed

was washing fever-sweaty bedclothes yesterday while singing "the secret life of ammonia"

The Winston Wolf/Harvey Keitel Direct Line advert where the guy has a bathroom leak that he's tried and failed to fix.

Keitel: "So, you've got an uncontrollable leak?"
Me: "I've got an uncontrollable leak
He's got an uncontrollable leak
I've got an uncontrollable
It's got style, it's got class
So strong, I can't let it pass
I gotta tell you all about it
I gotta scream and shout it"
Mrs aldo: "Shut the fuck up"
Me: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"
Mrs aldo: "I'm leaving"

This morning:
"Anti-matter? (Shattered)"

"Pepperidge Farm" >>> "Paper In Fire"

My kid has a book called "i dreamt I was a dinosaur" that has lines like "here is sammy stegosauraus busy foraging for food / he likes kay camarosaurus but she's in a grumpy mood" and it's impossible for me to read it without it sounding like the Nails "88 lines about 44 women"

Also just now, at the laundromat (in what must be a spiritual successor to "I'm Doin' Laundry" upthread):

Add the bleach! Add the bleach!
Get out those fuckin' stains!

Trump towers just a sign of the power
Of loving you, oh baby

Most days I have cause to sing...

I'm ah kitty in a box,

I'm ah kitty in a caaaaaaaardbooooard box

leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain
leeeet's clean the theat-er agaaaaaaaain

How does it feel to be
out of the pineapple
pizza?

So not gonna happen
So!
Not gonna happen
So not gonna happen
Anymore...

Infuriatingly, this prompt, when I'm stepping away from the desk for lunch

http://cwtuning.com/imgs/ImageTips/eng/Win_7/DisableLockWorkstation.png

gets mashed up with "Rock This Town" by the Stray Cats: "We're gonna lock this computer/lock it inside out/etc."

Whenever I see the words Pop Secret, I always prefix them with a 'gimme gimme' in my head.

Jasper Johns,
What's that flower you have on

My mom was visiting and made one of her old standby vegetarian recipes. Once again I found myself singing "couscous tacos" to the tune of "Zoot Suit Riot."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbA01F6_gns

Graham Lambkin - The Personality

i usually think of the Davy Crockett song ("king of the wild frontier") when i hear the cello here.

lol @ "gimme gimme pop secret"

pretty firmly linked to Arrested Development in my mind but that's great

I now have the phrase "take a knee" going through my head to the tune of "take on me" and I need it to stop.

Kind of the reverse of this scenario, but a thing that's been happening a lot lately is 1) I hear a two-syllable word or phrase, 2) I then sing '(two-syllable word/phrase), baby (two-syllable word/phrase)' to the tune of 'Love Shack'. Like I say, this is happening a lot. Maybe I should see a neurologist.

Shana Tova to the tune of Cuyahoga by R.E.M.

The 'ramblechat' jingle from the Adam Buxton podcast morphs into Now That We've Found Love by Third World when it gets to the 'blah blah blah' bit...

xp oh no

My dog takes one of these daily and we keep the box on top of the fridge, so whenever I get anything from the fridge I end up with ACID REDUCER, I'M NO LOSER stuck in my head
https://www.dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/image.cfm?archiveid=44680&type=img&name=a5cfbbe2-93b4-4015-ae15-5ac11ef9b948-01.jpg

It's been almost nine years since this thread started, and the sight of a midget now always prompts "girlfriend in a coma" -- the other day it was "Midget with a Smoothie" (this was a different midget than the previous years' midget with a trashbag)

sarahell is in my brain, as this is pretty much me 900% of the time. I am an amateur collector of phrases that can be sung to the tune of "Girlfriend in a Coma."

When my children were babies it was "baby in a diaper I know, I know, it's serious."

Recent other examples:

Gerbil with a carrot I know, I know...

Penguin in the men's room...

Robot with a migraine...

Ninja with some hummus...

just now: Cat that looks like Hitler, I know, I know ...

great thread

I do this with times and "Slave to the Rhythm."

Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones. Eight Twenty Seven.

EIIIIGHT TWENTY SEVENNNNNN

"lock the taskbar" is also timeless, shame on microsoft

No more lock the taskbar, I know, I know, it's serious ...

"Smiling Pizza," neighborhood pizzeria

Smiling Pizza
Smiling Pizza sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling Pizza, Smiling Pizza tell lies, and I got the proof

Every time I see a review for this show that i know nothing about:

Because I'm Nathan for You but I'm not that Nathaaaan.

See, it happened again: There was a headline on Cleveland.com reading "Surgery remove's Ohio snake's toxic, swollen venom gland" and I was all "toxic swollen venom gland, doo dah, doo dah . . ."

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"Sadly, toxic algae blooms, doo dah, doo dah"

https://www.facebook.com/NationalWildlife/photos/a.10150122178318987.297864.5644748986/10155890323003987/?type=3&theater

Oh, Camptown Races is another great one.

Often when I get myself some green tea, I'm getting it with Greensleeves playing in my head. It's best whenever it's the Leonard Cohen version.

And if I have anything with old cheese (slice, salad, whatever), it tends to go on Simon & Garfunkel's Old Friends. "Old cheese. Old cheese. Great on a toast made of fine wheats." or similar.

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--Whenever I'm in a convenience store and see Tillamook County Smokers beef jerky, I sing "Tillamook County Smokers" it in my head to the tune of Michael Jackson's "You Wanna Be Starting Something"

someone on fb posted a picture that included a visible package of Tillamook County Smokers .... I had the Michael Jackson song stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes non-stop

basically, it's not just my inexplicable phrases/songs -- I end up with other people's as well

for some reason I started hearing that to the tune of "big rock candy mountain"

oh but I had a new one last night! -- "Windows Defender" to the tune of "Ghetto Defendant" by The Clash

it was like some deep subconscious Manchurian Candidate thing, as I had not heard or even thought about that song for at least 20+ years

good one