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Ever left a movie theater with a tune in your head?

See also Western Animation for animated films.

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• From the great master himself, Jerry Goldsmith here's a bunch of ear worms.
• "I'm just a mean green mother from outer space and I'm bad"
• Bob Dylan's "The Man In Me" from The Big Lebowski.
• An earworm by Christopher Lee for your pleasure.
• John Williams was kind enough to summarize all of those ear worms we loved in one deliciously awesome arrangement. Here you go. ^{[dead link]}
• the Colonel Bogey March from The Bridge on the River Kwai. That is all.
• Don't you just want to wear a cowboy hat and ride on a horse when you hear this music?
  • Another Bernstein piece that nobody ever forgets, although it may take them until 20 seconds in to get it. Dun-Dun-Dun DuhDa Dun-Dun-Dun...
    • Even better live with the maestro himself. You know you have reached Ear Worm status when the audience are clapping and whistling to your tune!!!
• "In heaven, everything is fine. In heaven, everything is fine. In heaven, everything is fine. You've got your good things, and you've got mine..."
• There's a catchy tune in the neighbourhood... ^{[dead link]} who you gonna call?
• Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, the amazing chocolatier...
  • Oompa Loompa Doopidee Doo, I've got another ear worm for you...
    • Cheer Up Charlie and I Want it Now.
    • "The Candyman." All Things Considered did a piece on the song virus/ear worm phenomenon and cited this song, which led to tons and tons of listener mail complaining about having caught said earworm.
  • "Pure Imagination."

If you want to view Paradise Simply look around and view it...

• • Yes! the danger must be growing cuz the tropers keep on troping and they're certainly not showing ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
  • The main theme is pretty Ear Wormy.
  • I've got a GOLDEN EAR WORM...
• It's the... eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight!
  • * trumpets* GONNA FLY NOW!
• "One, two, Freddy's coming for you. Three, four, better lock the door."
  • "Five, Six, get a crucifix. Seven, Eight, stay up late. Nine, Ten, never sleep again!"
• Two words: Hello Zepp.
• Two Words: Jaws Theme (aka, if life had a soundtrack, the song you don't wanna hear swimming)
  • Also known as the 4th movement from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9/New World Symphony. It was initially meant to represent a steam engine starting up.
• Another Two Words: Halloween Theme.
  • And Silver Shamrock Novelties from Halloween III wants to remind you that there's "Eight more days till Halloween, Halloween, Halloween..."
  • And then you add lyrics...
• Rest, children, rest...
  • Once there was a pretty fly...

Leanin', leanin', safe and secure from all alarm...

• The Imperial March from Star Wars.
  • Remember the medal ceremony theme from the original Star Wars?
  • While the original opening theme is sure catchy, the song from the Mos Eisley Cantina is even more so.
  • If you think the original version of the Imperial March is an earworm, try the Kuricorder Quartet's cover. (And yes, those are indeed the people behind the Azumanga Daioh soundtrack.)
  • Duel of the Fates.
    • Corn onnnn....the cob! Corn onnnn... the kebobbb!
• Most scores by John Williams. Indiana Jones, Superman, Jurassic Park, E.T....
• The Godzilla theme. ^{[dead link]}
• Pick a song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, any song. Including "The Time Warp."

It's just a jump to the left, AND A STEP TO THE RI-I-IIIGHT!

• • I'm just a Sweet Transvestite. From Transsexual, Transylvania!
  • Science Fiction (Oooh, ooh, ooh), Double Feature. Dr. X (Oooh, ooh, ooh) will build a creature... ^{[dead link]}
    • See androids fighting (and fucking, and sucking on...) Brad and Janet...
  • "Touch-A Touch-A Touch Me".
    • Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me! I wanna be di-i-irty! Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me! Creature of the night!
  • Is there anyone who reads the words "There's a light" and doesn't suddenly find themselves humming "Over At The Frankenstein Place"?
  • Hot Patootie, bless my soul, really love that rock n roll.
  • The title song to Shock Treatment.
    • "Denton, U.S.A." and "Bitchin' in the Kitchen". O'Brien is one catchy bastard.
• While probably not its actual origin, the taunt song from Remember the Titans gets stuck in many people's heads. Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.
  • It's called "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." It's treated as a Chorus-Only Song for earworm purposes, but the verses aren't bad.
  • Remember The Titans is full of catchy music:
    • Everywhere we go-oh, people want to know-oh... Bonus points for having a snazzy dance to go with it.
    • Ain't no mountain high enough! Ain't no valley low enough!
      • The Sister Act version too.
    • "Titans Spirit".
• Who else starts humming "He's a Pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean at random times?
  • That one, and "One Day". But maybe not "One Day" if you aren't a Willabeth fan...
  • It's even more so in its Mario Paint version by Uhiwi here
  • Yo ho, all hands. Hoist the colours high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die... ^{[dead link]}
  • The end of "The Kraken". The bit with all the epic strings.
  • "Jack Sparrow".
• There is a Happy Land, far far away...
  • "When?" said the moon to the stars in the sky...
  • Also from Nick Cave, both "Straight to You" and "The Ship Song".
  • Also from Nick Cave, inexplicably-- "O'Malley's Bar". It feels like a spoken word song, but it'll get in there... oh yeah.
• Much of the stuff from the Mirror Mask soundtrack. Especially the version of "Close To You", and especially when you're trying to sleep.
• Imagine Me and You ends the movie with the same song (which is actually titled Happy Together), making it an almost sure thing for you to be singing that song for the next two hours or more.
• "The Girl From Ipanema". The elevator-music version from The Blues Brothers. And "Rawhide".
• "Vogue," Madonna. You know that scene in The Devil Wears Prada where Andie shows off her new fashionista wardrobe to her boyfriend? Yup. That song.
• Scarface: "Push It to Limit," "She's on Fire", "Vamos A Bailar" and "I'm Hot Tonight."
• WAR! Huh-huh, yeaaaaah, what is it good for, absolutely NOTHING! Say it again, oh yeah...
  • As Jackie Chan put it in Rush Hour, "EVERYBODY knows 'War'."
• "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life".
• The Space Jam theme.
  • And here is a mash-up that mixes the Space Jam theme with Funky Stars, which is pretty catchy by itself.
  • If I hit 'em high, hit 'em high, hit 'em high, if you hit 'em low, hit 'em low, hit 'em low... ^{[dead link]}
  • * clears throat* I believe i can fly !
  • Fly like an eagle, into the sea...
    • Eat the babies, who don't have enough to eat. Shoot the children, with no shoes on their feet. Drown the people, livin' in the street, oh-oh, it's a solution ...
• From Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Secret of My Succe$s, we have "Day Bow Bow". (Or, as it's more commonly known, Yello's "Oh Yeah".) ^{[dead link]}
  • Chicka... chicka-chick-aaaahhhhh...
• The Haunting Torgo Theme
• The Back to The Future theme. ^{[dead link]}
  • The power of love...is a curious thing.
  • Is this the '50s?/Or 1999?
• Allow me to introduce myself—The name's Worm. Ear Worm. Not to mention the various title themes, especially "Another Way to Die". You will not get that opening guitar riff out of your head for at least a week.
  • You know my name! You know myyyyyyy naaaaaaaame! You know my...
  • Diamonds. Are forever... they are... all that are needed to please me... they can stimu-layte and... tease me... they won't leave in the night, I've no fear, that they might. Desserrrrrtttttttt... meeeeeeee...
  • Goldfinger... He's a man, the man with the MIIIDAAAS TOUUCHHH... A SPIDER'S TOUCH!...
  • The GoldenEye opening theme. ^{[dead link]}
  • With that relentless four-note beat, the theme from On Her Majesty's Secret Service couldn't be more of an Ear Worm if it tried.
  • When you were young, and your heart was an open book...
  • Nobody does it better; makes me feel bad for the rest...
  • The world is NOOOOOOOT ENOOOOOOOOOOOUGH! But it is such a perfect place to start MY LOOOOOOOOOOVE.
  • So he strikes! Like Thunderball....
• Thanks to WALL-E, a whole new generation will go around humming "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" inanely. "And we won't come home until we've kissed the giiirrrrll!"
  • When you're standing in front of Cinderella Castle in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, sometimes they will play an instrumental version of this song. A bright, cheery, whistly tune.
  • Also the Buy 'n' Large theme, although that was probably completely intentional.
  • "It Only Takes A Moment" is kind of one too, though it's a less peppy song.
  • A MOOOOOOMEEEEENT TOOOO BEEEE LOOOOVEEEED!!
  • Also the song that plays over the end credits: Peter Gabriel's Down to Earth.
• Arrival To Earth, from Transformers?
  • That part of Scorponok.
  • "The Touch" from the original movie.
• Also, a particular part of Italian Spiderman 's music (it's the part where the long-haired guy is looked really wide-eyed at a knocked out/dead girl that had been killed by Captain Maximum.
  • The Italian Spiderman theme itself. "Itaaa-lian Spiderman... Itaaa-lian Spiderman..."
• I Try and try to forget this song but it's just so hard to do, every time I hear That Thing You Do.
• Henry Mancini, dear God, Henry Mancini. ThePinkPanther, A Shot In The Dark, Charade ^{[dead link]}, and that's just for starters...
  • Oh, man. "Baby Elephant Walk" ^{[dead link]} fits here perfectly. Talk about a song that just goes on forever in your head.
• "Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot, he was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin..."
  • "He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin..."
  • "Brave sir Robin Ran away!" "No!"
  • We're Knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're able...
  • If that wasn't bad enough, there's the entire cast recording to Spamalot. Especially Lancelot's song.
  • "We are the Knights who say, 'NI!'"
  • "Pie Jesu Domine * THUD* dona eis requiem. * THUD* "
• Also from the Pythons, every song from Meaning of Life. Especially the intro song, the penis song (which is horribly difficult not to sing at work when you get bored and remember the all the words), and Every Sperm is Sacred. But the worst offender of this trope is the Galaxy song
• "So long and thanks for all the fish, so sad that it had come to this, we tried to warn you all but oh dear..."
  • And don't forget about this right after the Earth blows up...
• Fiddler on the Roof gave us If I were a Rich Man.
  • There's another song of the same name. Gets stuck just as easily.
  • There's a Mandarin dialect Hokkien song that's hit earworm status by keeping with the premise of If I Were A Rich Man. The refrain translates into "If I had a million dollars" then goes on to talk about flying to America, or Japan, just to eat sushi...
• "I! Like! Boys!"
• The Terminator theme. Rat-tat-tat-TAT-TAT, Rat-tat-tat-TAT-TAT... ^{[dead link]}
• Jonny Greewnwood's There Will Be Blood soundtrack, consisting almost entirely of Psycho Strings.
  • For that matter, Psycho Strings themselves are an earworm.
  • Dun dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun Dun dun dun dun DUN dun dun dun Dun dun dun dun DUN dun duuun dun. Dramatic Pause. -- "Future Markets"
  • "Would you believe in the burden of sin? There's power in the blooood! Power in the blooood! Would you o'er evil a victory win? There's wonderful power in the blood! There is poooower, poooower, wonder-working power, in the bloooooood! Of the laaaaaamb! There is pooooower, pooooower, wonder-working power, in the bloooood! Of the laaaaaamb!"
• The main theme from The Exorcist, Tubular Bells. "Doo da doo da doo da-da doo da doo da da doo da doo (etc)" ^{[dead link]}
• The Saw theme music.
• Ethel Merman is the hostess with the mostess...
  • She also knows "You don't need analyzin', it is not so surprisin', ohat you feel very strange but nice..."
• Little Mary Sunshine ^{[dead link]} from the musical version of Reefer Madness. It...still won't leave.... * twitch.
  • We are just like Romeo and Juliet, we're happy, young, and bubbling with love!
• America, FUCK YEAH! Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day yeah!
  • Everyone has AIDS! AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS!
• Zydrate comes in a little glass vial.
  • A little glass vial?
    • A LITTLE GLASS VIAL!
      • And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery!
        • Ah! Ah!
          • And the Zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy
            • Ah! Ah!
              • And when the gun goes off, it sparks, and you're ready for surgery. (Surgery!)
  • Pretty much every single song from Repo! The Genetic Opera.
  • Single Mom's part of "We Started This Op'ra Shit".
  • "Needle Into a Bug" and anything Nathan sings, especially "Let The Monster Rise" and "Legal Assassin".
  • "SEVENTEEN, and I'm freer than sixteen!"
  • "Gold. It makes the world go round...". Also, "Zydrate anatomy", "Mark it Up", "We started this Op'ra Shit" and "Night Surgeon". "Cause The grave medic uses no anesthetic/ninety days delincuent gets you repo treatment/I'm the masked horror/on your street corner"
  • "How much of it's genetics? How much of it is fate? How much of it depends on the choices that we make?"
  • "REEEEEEEPO MAAAAAAAAAAAN! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPO MAAAAAN!"

Say you bought a heart or new corneas/But never managed to square away your debts/He won't bother to write or to phone you/He'll just RIP THE STILL BEATING HEART FROM YOUR CHEST!

• • "Maggots, VERMEN! You want the world for nothing! Mua ha ha ha ha I'll keep those vultures guessing!
  • "IIIIIII REEEEEMMMMMMEEEEEEEMMMMMMBBBBBBBBBEEEERRRRRRRR! Remember what you did to Marni!"
  • GRAAAAAAAAAVEEEEEESSS.
  • "AH would you like comment sir?" & " AT THE OPERA TONIGHT!" & "FROM MY WINDOW.

I CAN SEE THE WORLD FROM THERE. NAME THE STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS. COUNT THE CARS AND WATCH THE SEASONS"

• Also Sprach Zarathustra.
• "Makin' up a song about Coraline! She's a peach, she's a doll,she's a pal of mine..."
  • Not to mention Dreaming, Exploration, and the end credits. That's some fucking catchy gibberish.
• Look at me, I'm the king of New York...
  • And the WORLD! WILL! KNOW!
  • Now it's the time to SEIZE THE DAY!
  • Ain't it a fine life? Carryin' da banner trough it all!
• The song Chalte Chalte ^{[dead link]} from the Indian movie Mohabbatein.
• The Wizard of Oz:
  • "We're off to see the wizard! The wonderful wizard of Oz!"
  • "Somewhere over the Rainbow"
  • "If I only had _____" (a brain, a heart, da noive) is particularly embarassing song to be caught singing.
  • Yo-ho, oh ee oh, yo-ho, oh ee oh... It gets really catchy when the music behind it gets louder as the guards go into the castle.
  • "We represent, the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild, the lollipop guild..."
• It's... Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  • Chim-chimminy-chim-chimminy-chim-chim-cheree...
  • Just a spoonful of sugar will help the medicine go down!
  • Kill the earworm/STEP IN TIME/Kill the earworm/STEP IN TIME/Nary a reason/Nary a rhyme/Kill the earworm/STEP IN TIME!
  • Though not a peppy song, "Feed the Birds" is awfully haunting.
  • I love to laugh! Loud and long and clear! I love to laugh! It's getting worse every year!
  • Ohhhh, It's a jolly holiday with Mary...
  • "Let's go fly a kite!" Best ending theme ever!
• "Portabello road/ Portabello road/ Street where the riches of ages are stowed/ anything and everything a chap can unload is sold of the barrow in Portabello road/ you'll find what you want in the portabello road"
  • Substitutiary locomotion/It's the power that's far beyond the wildest notion/It's a weird so feared, yet wonderful to see/Substitutiary locomotion come to me. Treguna Mekoides and Tracorum Satis Dee!
  • Eglantine, Eglantine/oh how you shine! Your lot and my lot/ have got to combine! Eglantine, Eglantine...
  • When you rush around in hopeless circles/Searching everywhere for something true/You're at the age of not believing/When all the make-believe is through...
• The theme from The Bodyguard. And Iiiiiiii will always love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
• My Heart Will Go On from Titanic, it goes on and on and on and on.
  • Strangers... waiting... Up and down the boulevard... Sorry.
    • You know there's something you should know, so I'm gonna tell you so! Don't sweat it! Forget it! Enjoy the show!
• From Fright Night Come To Me by Brad Fiedel. And also Armies Of The Night by Sparks.
• Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire.
  • "O... Saya... eoooooughhhhh" ^{[dead link]} (when M.I.A. kicks in, you'll never forget this song!)
  • LATIKA'S THEME. Doesn't help that it's a very repetitive tune that is hummed.
• The Rocketeer Theme. You're welcome.
• He's LARRRRRRRGE... Really, anything from Popeye.
• You Remind me of the babe
  • What Babe?
  • The babe with the power
  • What Power?
  • The power of Voodoo
  • Who do?
  • You do
  • Do what?
  • Remind me of the babe
  • DANCE MAGIC DANCE!
• Summoning Mothra ^{[dead link]}
• The J Ralph version of "Kansas City Shuffle", from Lucky Number Slevin.
• "There are Jews in the world, there are Buddhists. There are Hindus and Mormons, and then there are those that follow Mohammed, but I've never been one of them..."
• Danny Elfman's main titles for Spider Man are part of his insidious plot to take up residence in your brain forever. Especially that madness at the beginning with the cellos.
  • Quite a lot of the stuff Elfman composes could count as an ear worm to some degree...
  • "This is Halloween! This is Halloween! Pumpkins scream in the dead of night!"
    • If that wasn't bad enough, it's the background theme in the Halloween Town Kingdom Hearts level. Good luck trying to get it out of your head after that...
• FLASH! AA-AAH! SAVIOR OF THE UNIVERSE!
• Don't you...* keyboard* ...forget about me! Don't! Don't! Don't! Don't! ^{[dead link]}
• "I like to move it, move it! I like to move it, move it! I like to move it, move it! We like to..."
  • "Move it!"
• The theme music for the movie Gremlins... really catchy, including the Gremlins' laughter.
• Come little children, I'll take you away, into a land of enchantment...
  • Or for that matter, Bette Midler's cover of "I Put A Spell On You".
• Michael Giacchino's score for the new Star Trek movie has a grade-A Ear Worm for a main theme ^{[dead link]}. It doesn't help that it's played every five minutes. Lucky thing it's awesome.
  • A lot of Giacchino's music tends to have this effect. Just go listen to any of the themes from the Speed Racer movie. Any of them. Especially "Casa Cristo" and the revamped main theme.
• The Blood of Cuchulainn.
• Marriage has come to town, laughter, color, light and sound. Life is great let's celebrate the sacred union two souls have found. ^{[dead link]}Aw heck, anything from Bride and Prejudice.
• The main theme (you know, the one played in the commercials) for Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
• MORTAL KOMBAT!
• The Mission: Impossible theme.
• Five out of three musiconomists agree that Two Steps From Hell's "Protectors of the Earth" has a 108% chance of getting stuck in your head. Fortunately, this just means that whatever you do for the rest of your day, be it taking out the garbage or enjoying your hobby of stamp collecting, will be incredibly, awesomely, EPIC.
  • "Down With The Enterprise" ^{[dead link]}, by some miracle, manages to be even more earworm-y and EPIC in equal measure.
• Anything from The Sound of Music, especially "So Long, Fairwell", "Do-Re-Mi", "The Lonely Goatherd" and "Sixteen going on Seventeen".
  • How could you possibly forget "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" That one is insidious.
• "How does she know you love her?"... damn you, Giselle.
  • "Come my little friends as we all sing a happy little working song!"
  • "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss!" Even better if you're going for Pip's version.
• Dum. Da da. Da da da da da da da da da dum...
• Pretty much anything in Grease.
  • You reign supreme, the chicks'll cream, for Greased Lightning... ^{[dead link]}
  • You better shape up! Cause I need a man! Who can keep me satisfiiiied!
    • I got chills! They're multiplyin', and I'm loooooooooooooooosing controooooooooool!
  • Tell me more! Tell me more! Did you get very far?
• From Chandi Chowk to China... Dick Richardson can't find a translation, but DAMN if it wasn't catchy.
• Sodomy... you must think it very odd of me, that I enjoy the act of sodomy. Especially dangerous because it's both maddeningly catchy and of course a pretty inappropriate thing to ever find yourself singing under your breath in public.
  • I've got one leg missing... I've got one leg missing... I've got one leg missing... How do I get around?
• I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain...
  • Make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh!
• F is Fay / Fi foh foo / F-U-C-K You You You...
  • Give her all the juice, give her all the juice, 20,000 volts in her caboose...
• Dun dun dundun dada dun da... * slide in* Dun dun dundun dada dun da...Just take those records off the shelf! ^{[dead link]}
• IT'S PARTY TIME!
• "Hey Pachuco!" and "Cuban Pete" from The Mask.
• The "Berserker" song from Clerks.
• The Beetlejuice theme. ^{[dead link]}
  • DAAAY-O ^{[dead link]}
• The main theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
• Joes Apartment:

Funky towel, towel's got the funk! Funky towel, towel's got the funk! Baby I got the loooove (baby I got the powaaaahhh!) Come on girl and rock my world, and my funky towel!

• From Music and Lyrics: I wasn't gonna fall in love again - but then POP! Goes my heart! ^{[dead link]}
• The Neverending Story... ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahh
• "You're the missing piece I need the voice inside my head".
• From Ghost (previously a hit for Herman's Hermits in the 1960s and Harry Champion in the 1910s), "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am":

Second verse same as the first!

• Xanadu... both the title song and "Magic". Oh! And "Don't Walk Away"... Wait! Also "I'm Alive"... And "All Over the World"... Oh! And "Dancin'"... Oh! And...
• Heaven, I'm in heaven...
• Highway to the danger zone! Gonna take you right into the danger zone!
  • Take me on your mighty wings, toniiiiiiiiiight!
• Washington and Davis, they made our empire grand...
• The lovely indie film Once features a huge earworm. It's a gorgeous song, but an ear worm nonetheless.
• Walking through a dream, I see you... ^{[dead link]}
• The sex sketch comedy film Can I Do It Till I Need Glasses? has a theme song that will stick in your head for hours, maybe even days, and the worst part is that it's one you definitely do not want to get caught singing.
• Say Shava Shava...
• Every. single. song. in Cannibal! The Musical, bear in mind that Trey Parker and Matt Sone made this film when they were in college
  • The sky is blue, and all the leaves are green, the sun's as warm as a baked po-ta-to! I think I know precisely what I mean, when I say 'It's a shpadoinkle day!' ^{[dead link]}
    • lets build a snowman we can make him our best friend, we can name him bob or we can name him beowulf! we can make him tall or we can make him not so t-
      • BANG!!
• Hedwig's Theme from the first Harry Potter movie.
  • From the Fake Band that plays in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, "Do the Hippogriff".
• I've had! the time of my life and I've never felt this way before...
  • I feel her breath on my face. Her body close to me..
• (Enter Jazz bassline)... Woman ^{[dead link]}, Wo-Man, Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Man! She was a thief, you gotta believe. She stole my heart and my cat!
• Rock me, sexy Jesus!
• "Tomorrow Belongs to Me", from Cabaret, and Robin Williams' parody version.
  • "Money".
• It's our secret of survival in a very nasty world! Now you see us -- now you don't! Now you hear us... now you won't...! Okay, so we lied about that last part.
  • This is from the 1996 version of The Wind in the Willows btw
• "Let's make music together! Let's make sweet harmony!"
  • Non Sequitur Scene!
• I...Seee... Youuuuu!
• Make way! Make way! Tomorrow's heading our way...
• It's An Inky Dinky Doo Dah Morning.
• No chance, no way! I won't say it, oh no! (You swoon, you sigh, why deny it, uh-oh!) It's too cliche, I won't say I'm in love.
• Kung Fu Hustle's Blade of Gu Qin. Yes, it comes in at a tragic part of the movie, but it's still damn catchy.
• Requiem For a Dream
• When the world slips you a Geoffrey, Stroke the furry wall!!
• The Karate Kid. "You're the best around! Nothing's ever gonna keep you down..."
• He made a fucking movie.... MACGRUBERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
• "This is the self-preservation society, this is the self-preservation society..."
• From Hans Zimmer: {{{1}}}
• I'm having a bad bad day, it's about time that I get my way...
• The Producers' It's Springtime for Hitler and Germany!
  • • Look it's springtime!
  • I Wann Be A Producer!
  • We. Can. Do it!
  • Along Came Bially!
  • How could you forget ze Guten Tag Hop-clop!
• The Firefighters' Choir in Bud Spencer's movie Watch Out, We're Mad won't stop haunting you for several days. Lalalala laa laa...
• Black Sheep, Come On...
  • Send you my love on a wiiire!
  • If - you waaant - to fiiight me.... HA! You're not the brightest-ah!
  • All the songs from Scott Pilgrim qualify hands down.
• Coolio's "Rollin with the homies" from Clueless
• The theme song to the schlock film Mistress Of the Apes.
• Then you go-o-o down on Skid Row!!!
• After The Fox, involving Peter Sellers, gave us this catchy little number.
• Air's "Clouds Up" from The Virgin Suicides
• Borat's version of the Kazakhstan National Anthem. Anyone who disagree is nosey Uzbek with bone in their brain.
• Even if not a lot of people liked this movie, the theme song of Police Academy is definitely badass.
• The Inquisition! (Let's begin!) The Inquisition! (Look out, Sin!)
  • The Jews are in spaaaaace!
• Shaun of the Dead has I Monster's "Blue Wrath" ^{[dead link]} as a downright infuriatingly catchy intro song.
  • *ahem* Toniiiiiiiiight, I'm gonna have mysssseeeeeeellllllf, a real good time . . .
• Possibly the only good thing to come out of Starship Troopers 3 was this catchy bit of recruitment propaganda, courtesy of the Sky Marshal.
• The D'Ampton Worm folk song from Lair of the White Worm.
• From the end credits sequence of Kill Bill Vol. 2, Maleguena Salerosa.
• I'm not sure this goes under Film, but... Try watching a Richard Simmons "Sweatin' to the oldies" 1, 2, 3, or broadway and not get at least *one* stuck in your head! "Breaking up is hard to do-" NO MORE!!!
• The Shawshank Redemption has the music that plays when the police are coming to get Captain Hadley and Warden Norton.
• Listen to this music from Pan's Labyrinth and try not to hum it for hours afterward.
• The intro of The War Wagon
• Everybody wants to rule the world...
• Something happens and I'm head over heels ^{[dead link]}...
• But I'm not gonna let them catch me, no, not gonna let them catch the Midnight Rider!
• Da da da da, da da da da, da da da dadadadadadada! ^{[dead link]}
• Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!
• Grandma, what was it like? To be on the holiday site?
• The Coming Attractions/Feature Presentation theme from Kill Bill and Grindhouse.
• Really, any of the songs used in the Beverly Hills Cop series.
• The opening credits music in Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.
• Who's strong and brave, here to save the American way? Who vows to fight, like a man, for what's right, night and day? Da da da...
• Definitely the "Theme From The Last Starfighter".
• Boggis, Bunce and Bean, one fat, one short, one lean/ These horrible crooks so different in looks, but nontheless equally mean.
• The galley music from Ben-Hur. Ramming.... SPEED!
• "I'm Shipping Off to Boston" from The Departed.
• The song Tim the Minion (dressed like a mom) sings in Despicable Me.
• Almost about every song in Rio.
• Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
• Sun goes up and the sun goes down...at my desk, I'm like the rest...all I do I wanna do with you. Not actually from the movie, but incessantly played in the trailers.
• Like the sun, we will live to rise! Like the sun, we will live and die, and then, ignite again...
• In the movie Thoughtcrimes, Brendan doesn't believe in Freya's telepathic abilities until she mentions that he'd had the Scooby Doo theme song stuck in his head all day.
• In Wayne's World, Wayne has the song "Hey Mickey" stuck in his head. He and his girlfriend sing it to expel it.
• In the movie Pontypool, the Ear Worm comes in the form of infected phrases in the English language that spread through understanding.
• In Eurotrip, Scotty's ex-girlfriend Fiona's new boyfriend's song, "Scotty Doesn't Know" (about Fiona cheating on Scotty) becomes something of an Ear Worm for the entire cast—starting with Scotty's best friend. Not only that, but it becomes a major hit all over Europe.
• "Pocket Full of Sunshine" becomes an Ear Worm for the main character, Olive, of Easy A.
• The catchy song from Three Magic Words, a short riffed on by Riff Trax, is declared an ear worm by a despondent Bill Corbett after it continues on past the short itself.

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