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Your most irritating ear worms. Mine is...

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OreoCheeseCake · 15/11/2019 09:34

"Antibiotics... they're wonderful pills, but don't ever think they'll cure all of your ills"

Yes. The antibiotics song 🤦‍♀️

I had in on a loop in my head last night and then noticed this morning, I was actually singing it out loud whilst doing the washing up...and with an embarrassing amount of enthusiasm Blush

Beat that!

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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/11/2019 12:31

"Oops, oh no - what am I gonna do?"

followed shortly by

"I have an idea! I have an idea! It's just popped into my head, I have an idea!"

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/11/2019 12:32

If anybody wants a new earworm (unlikely!), try this. It'll last you a good couple of weeks at the very least:

PollyFeather · 15/11/2019 12:58

We're gonna do it
We're gonna do it
We're gonna beat the clock before the chime

We're gonna work it
We're gonna work it
We're gonna do the job on time

Etc etc

Can't remember where it's from. The kids programme with granny Murray in it

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SheepGoesBaaa · 15/11/2019 13:03

Haha, mine is

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Bodyform, bodyform for yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Grin

Seriously though, how frigging old is that advert? .... and yet I still feel the need to sing it regularly. 🎤🤪

thenewaveragebear1983 · 15/11/2019 13:03

I get the sax intro to Mr Saxobeat in my head for several hours sometimes, I have even dreamed it. The time isn't bad but the song is awful so I hate having it pinging around in there

GrotbagsBetterLookingSister · 15/11/2019 13:07

🎶I lived a happy life til I was 10 years old
When debt landed dad in prison and our country house was sold...🎶 to the tunes of This Charming Man and Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now Grin

littlestrawby · 15/11/2019 13:13

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM you're welcome Grin

GrotbagsBetterLookingSister · 15/11/2019 13:14

🎶So Dickens take a Dickens take a bow, Heaven knows I'm miserable noooooooowah!🎶
It's been going round and round in my head for days and I'd finally got rid of it until this morning when the real version of This Charming Man came on the radio and triggered the earworm 😖Hmm

DinaCaliente · 15/11/2019 13:16

@OreoCheeseCake

Yes to the bloody antibiotics song.

I woke up singing it the other day Hmm

RavenLG · 15/11/2019 13:33

"Someone's knocking at the door, Somebody's ringing the bell"

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF!
It's in there, and has been in there every day for the past 2 years lol. It haunts me!

OreoCheeseCake · 15/11/2019 13:40
Grin

I'm sorry if I've replanted any worms 😬

@RavenLG, 😵 that gives me the ultimate rage!

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PenguinsOnParade · 15/11/2019 13:41

On the subject of phone numbers 081 811 8181 - later 0181 811 8181

And "what's going to work, TEEEEEEEAM WORK" from Wonder Pets. DD is 15 now and I've never managed to forget this one.

OreoCheeseCake · 15/11/2019 13:43

@littlestrawby lmao!! 🤣🤣

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PrincessHoneysuckle · 15/11/2019 13:43

Ain't no mountain high enough is mine today,can't get rid

PenguinsOnParade · 15/11/2019 13:46

I don't know if many others will know this one but also Roger's "Trippin' Balls" jingle in American Dad.

"Trip, trip, trippity, dem ol' Trippin' Balls."

Johnny4baby · 15/11/2019 13:49

If I were a toy....in the Smyth's advert. I will be demented soon if I hear this again!

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 15/11/2019 14:14

PenguinsOnParade oh god, I was just going to say the 081 811 8181 song from Going Live/Live and Kicking. I can just see Philip Schofield and Emma Forbes nodding along to it.

My advert ones are the Birdseye Potato Waffles (they're waffly versatile) song and the jingle form the Green Giant (ho ho ho).

Songs (or bits of them) that regularly get into my head and won't shift include the guitar lick from Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode and Joy Division Oven Gloves by Half Man Half Biscuit. Bit niche, I know, but insanely catchy considering it doesn't really have a proper tune.

onemouseplace · 15/11/2019 14:19

My earworm today is courtesy of DH who looked up that video of all the Labour politicians dancing awkwardly to D:Ream Things Can Only Get Better in 1997.

Not quite an earworm, but I can't say (or think) the words 'It's cold outside' without singing back 'there's no kind of atmosphere.'

pongopig · 15/11/2019 14:26

OP, I clicked on this thread to say ‘Antibiotics, are wonderful pills...”. I’ve been singing It for days. I feel your pain Grin

Frownette · 15/11/2019 14:36

That Jarvis Cocker common people song but with jacob rees mogg instead!

BareKneesDeCourcy · 15/11/2019 14:39

Huh. The end credits to Terrahawks haunt me quite a bit.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJ2vyXKOOE

ememem84 · 15/11/2019 14:41

Currently mine is” raa raa you are a noisy little lion, raa raa you are louder than them all....”

BiBiBirdie · 15/11/2019 14:42

Baby shark
Shudders

ememem84 · 15/11/2019 14:45

Fuck you baby shark.

The other one is the vtech toottoot fire engine sing “lets fight the fire save people with the ladder quick quick on the way to fight the big fire....”

EoinMcLovesCakeJumper · 15/11/2019 14:49

BareKneesDeCourcy is that one of the ones where the Cubes fucking CHEAT? I loved that show mainly for the closing credits, as I can't remember anything about the actual plots or characters other than one of the Zeroids being voiced by Windsor Davies.