Ever have a *non-musical* earworm?

[Koxinga]

Sometimes after hearing a bit of memorable spoken dialogue, I'll have it in my head all day. Always the most ridiculous things, however, and generally inexplicable.

Last night I caught a bit of Tim Burton's second Batman movie, with Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Walken. Two things stuck with me from the scene where the DeVito's Penguin is on a rooftop, coming on to Pfeiffer's Catwoman. He offers champagne and says in a low, grinding voice: "Touch of the bubbly?" A moment later she retorts: "I wouldn't touch you to scratch you."

All day those two bits of dialogue have been randomly popping up in my mind. Open a spreadsheet and the Penguin growls, "Touch of the bubbly?" I might as well make it my ringtone or something.

[Jayn_Newell]

All the freaking time. If it's not music it'll be a quote, or sometimes just a single word. After rewatching Dark Knight I had that mixed up with Jeff Dunham--

"Where is Dent?"
"Over there, over there, and up there."

[ivan astikov]

"The ticking crocodile catches up with us all."( or words to that effect ) from the movie "Neverland".

[KneadToKnow]

Originally Posted by Jayn_Newell

All the freaking time.

Yep. When a comedian I like has a new special, I will invariably wind up repeating certain lines from it for days if not weeks.

[Annie-Xmas]

When JFK Jr's plane went down, Dan Rather ended his broadcast by saying "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, [here his voice cracked] for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."

I can still hear the way he said it.

[DigitalC]

LISA NEEDS BRACERS!

DENTAL PLAN

Over and over again for days at a time.

[bufftabby]

All the time. It's usually random people's names. It drives me insane.

[RealityChuck]

Left left left left
Left a wife with seventeen children
In a starving condition with nothing but gingerbread left
left left left . . . .

[don't mind me]

A friend quickly and casually ordered carne guisada in a Mexican food place thirty years ago, and to this day any mention of that dish has me hearing his voice saying "Carnegie salad" for the rest of the day.

[Stauderhorse]

"Why so serious?" and "Let's put a smile on that face" (in an angry, growly voice) from The Dark Knight have been going through my head for the last few days.

[Peanut Gallery]

You know you've been lurking the Dope for too long when...



This happens to me now and then with weird usernames or phrases I see in thread titles. I can't think of one off the top of my head right now, and I'm rather pleased by that so I won't go searching...

[Dosipede]

"Kif!"
"Yes, c--ugh. Yes, captain?"
"I have made it with a woman. Inform the men."


This little sound byte resides both on my comuter hard drive and in the back of my brain.

[Freudian Slit]

Originally Posted by Koxinga

Last night I caught a bit of Tim Burton's second Batman movie, with Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christopher Walken. Two things stuck with me from the scene where the DeVito's Penguin is on a rooftop, coming on to Pfeiffer's Catwoman. He offers champagne and says in a low, grinding voice: "Touch of the bubbly?" A moment later she retorts: "I wouldn't touch you to scratch you."

Sometimes I get the Penguin in my head saying, "I played this city like a harp from hell!" And the lines about mistletoe being deadly if you eat it.

[Beware of Doug]

"Ah, Frog."
"S. Frog, sir."
"Shut up."

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Sorry to resurrect this, but today I have a non-musical earworm. A friend's kid was at a playground that had one of those metal geodesic domes. Not a bright kid, he got his tongue stuck to the frozen metal.

Anyway, it reminded me of when I was a kid and one summer a pack of girls had turned the dome in the playground into their own club house. They were all standing on it chanting "No boys allowed! No boys allowed!" and any boy who tried to climb it got the snot beat out of him.

So when I heard about my friend's kid stuck to the dome, I thought "Gee, he's lucky no girls had taken it over." And I have ever since been sitting here at my work desk, mentally chanting:

"No boys allowed! No boys allowed! No boys allowed!"

I'm a guy!

[Shawn1767]

I've been driving my wife crazy the last two days by constantly saying "You promised me dog or higher!" (Mayor Quimby)

[lizardling]

Yes. I get movie or image clips playing in my brain. Like the pink marching elephants from Dumbo.

"It puts the lotion on!"

"Lady, I *am* the bad element."

[mobo85]

My mom and I both have a running gag involving the way the King of Hyrule says "My boy..." in the oft-mocked-online opening to the CD-I game Link: The Faces of Evil.

[Eats_Crayons]

I have a (partially) non-musical earworm. Last weekend my partner and I watched Burn After Reading. There was a scene in which Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand are going to call John Malkovich to blackmail him and Brad Pitt dances across the kitchen going: "I got his NUMbah! I got his NUMbah!"

I have been doing a version of that on a daily basis ever since. For instance I had to feed the minions. *dancing* "I got the CAT food! I got the CAT food!" Next day I had to take her dog for a walk and put salt-proof dog boots on his paws. *dancing* "I got the BOOties! I got the BOOties!"

Edit: I'm annoying myself.

[Koxinga]

Am I allowed to resurrect this? 'Cause all day in my mind Missy Elliott has been insisting, "Range rover, bitch move over. Wear more ice than the bears in the polar." And I had to tell somebody.

[JpnDude]

Very often.

I love the public announcements made before events at the Disney theme parks. In Japan, they are done in Japanese (female voice) and English (male voice) and have music in the background.

I record/film these announcements as well as the event. Then I go home and listen to the announcement and watch the event on video.

[purplehorseshoe]

Originally Posted by Eats_Crayons

I have a (partially) non-musical earworm. Last weekend my partner and I watched Burn After Reading. There was a scene in which Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand are going to call John Malkovich to blackmail him and Brad Pitt dances across the kitchen going: "I got his NUMbah! I got his NUMbah!"

I have been doing a version of that on a daily basis ever since. For instance I had to feed the minions. *dancing* "I got the CAT food! I got the CAT food!" Next day I had to take her dog for a walk and put salt-proof dog boots on his paws. *dancing* "I got the BOOties! I got the BOOties!"

Edit: I'm annoying myself.

That one happens to me a lot - that exact particular scene. I'm glad this thread got resurrected. It's nice to briefly feel that, if I *am* a bit nuts, at least I'm in good company.

[Sitnam]

I deal with a very bureaucratic customer and over the course of the day I find myself saying: 'I'll be back, with the 27 b stroke 6' quite often.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Here I was thinking about starting a thread on this, and it turns out I was beaten by three years.

[jayjay]

The other day I had a freaking Short Circuit soundboard going in my head, from "NO DISASSEMBLE!" to "Number 5 is alive!" to "I am sporting a tremendous woody right now!" It was...weird. I usually get songs stuck, not movie lines.

[Son of a Rich]

Cant sleep, clown'll eat me. Cant sleep, clown'll eat me.

[Kamino Neko]

I've had 'I WANT YOU TO HIT ME AS HARD AS YOU CAN!' running through my head for days, since one of the games I'm playing has a Fight Club reference as one of the random lines spouted by the monsters. ('His name is Robert Paulson.' No, it doesn't actually make any sense in the game context.)

[psiekier]

Originally Posted by JpnDude

I love the public announcements made before events at the Disney theme parks. In Japan, they are done in Japanese (female voice) and English (male voice) and have music in the background.

"The white zone is for the loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone."

[thirdwarning]

I had Robert Browning's 'Pippa's Song' running through my head for a few weeks several years ago. It was driving me crazy, mostly because I couldn't figure out where it came from. Then I realized I was reading the biography of Teddy Roosevelt I'd gotten for Christmas - 'Mornings on Horseback', and the rhythm of the title must have triggered, 'Morning's at seven, the hillside's dew-pearled...'

[KneadToKnow]

Originally Posted by psiekier

"The white zone is for the loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone."

Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone sh!t again.

[Czarcasm]

'Tenser,' said the Tensor.
'Tenser,' said the Tensor.
'Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.'

[jharvey963]

I've had metro notices as earworms.

From London: "Mind the Gap".

From Moscow: (transliterated, probably poorly): "Ahstarozhna. Dvery zakravayatsya". In Russian: осторожны.Двери закрываются. Meaning: Be Careful. The doors are closing.

J.

[Dr. Woo]

Originally Posted by jharvey963

I've had metro notices as earworms.

From London: "Mind the Gap".

From Moscow: (transliterated, probably poorly): "Ahstarozhna. Dvery zakravayatsya". In Russian: осторожны.Двери закрываются. Meaning: Be Careful. The doors are closing.

J.

Heh. The announcement on the train in Valencia, Spain: Proxima parada . . . Alameda.

I loved how that female voice pronounced Alameda - the real Spanish way, not the way we slur the word here in California. And of course every time (several times a day) I see the word on a road sign or something I have to repeat it the Spanish way. Several times.

[Balance]

In a game last weekend, there was an item which caused the person who first picked it up to collapse and dream of being a Scottish warrior battling a horrible monster...but written for laughs. I read out the whole spiel three times, once for each team, in my best faux-Scottish accent. Bits of it have been replaying in my head ever since, especially

"Twice the size uv a mortal man, an' goin' regimental!"

These are interspersed with lines from Meet the Demoman.

Originally Posted by Czarcasm

'Tenser,' said the Tensor.
'Tenser,' said the Tensor.
'Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.'