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(Added the catchy and much quoted trio from early in the second act. Which was used, for instance, as a gavotte in “Good Omens” and has been stuck in my head ever since.) |
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[[Gilbert and Sullivan]] wrote fourteen operas together, and there's at least one [[Ear Worm]] in every one of them. For instance:
== [[Thespis]] ==
* "Olympus is now in a terrible muddle/The deputy deities all are at fault..." sticks in one's head even with the music lost.
== [[Trial By Jury]] ==
* "For I am a judge/And a good judge too..."
== [[The Sorcerer]] ==
* "Ring forth, ye bells/With clarion sound/Forget your knells/For joys abound..."
* "My name is John Wellington Wells/I'm a dealer of magic and spells..."
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** "Alas, that lovers thus should meet/Oh, pity, pity me!"
== [[H.M.S. Pinafore]] ==
* "I am the monarch of the sea/Ruler of the Queen's Na-vee/Whose praise all of Great Britain chants"/"And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts!"
* "When I was a lad I served a term/As office boy to an attorney's firm..."
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* "For he is an Englishman!"
== [[The Pirates of Penzance]] ==
* "Oh, better far to live and die/ Under the brave black flag I fly/ Than play a sanctimonious part/ With a pirate head and a pirate heart..."
* "How beautifully blue the sky, the glass is rising very high..."
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* "[[With Catlike Tread|WITH CATLIKE TREAD!]] UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL!"
== [[Patience]] ==
* "If you want a receipt [sic] for that popular mystery/Known to the world as the Heavy Dragoon..."
* "In a doleful train/Two and two we walk all day..."
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* "So go to him and say to him with compliment ironical..."
== [[Iolanthe]] ==
* "Go away madam/I should say madam/You display madam/Shocking taste..."
** Really, the entire Act I Finale.
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* "Soon as we may/Off and away/We'll commence our journey airy/Happy are we/As you can see/{{spoiler|Everyone is now a fairy}}!"
== [[Princess Ida]] ==
* "Search throughout the panorama / For a sign of royal Gama / Who today shall cross the water / With his fascinating daughter / Ida is her name!"
* "If you give me your attention I will tell you what I am/I'm a genuine philanthropist all other kinds are sham."
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* "This helmet, I suppose / Was meant to ward off blows..."
== [[The Mikado]] ==
* "If you want to know who we aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare, / We are gentlemen of Japaaaaaaaaaan..."
* "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found/I've got a little list/I've got a little list..."
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* "Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a school-girl well can be, Filled to the brim with girlish glee, Three little maids from school..."
== [[Ruddigore]] ==
* "If somebody there chanced to be/Who loved me in a manner true..."
* "Welcome, gentry/For your entry/Sets our tender hearts a-beating..."
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* "I shipped, d'ye see, on a Revenue sloop..."
== [[The Yeoman of the Guard]] ==
* "When jealous torments rack my soul/My agonies I can't control/Oh, better sit on red hot coal/Than love a heartless jade."
* "Oh a private buffoon is a lighthearted loon/If you listen to popular rumor..."
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** "Heighdy, heighdy, miserey me, lackadaydee!"
== [[The Gondoliers]] ==
* "There lived a king as I've been told/In the wonder-working days of old/When hearts were twice as good as gold/And twenty times as mellow..."
*”Oncely, twicely, oncely twicely!/ That is the style of thing precisely.”
* "Then one of us will be a queen and sit on a golden throne..."
== [[Utopia, Limited]] ==
* "In every mental lore/'Tal lore/The statement smacks of vanity..."
* "Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, / Which empties our police courts and abolishes divorces. / (Divorce is nearly obsolete in England!)"
== [[The Grand Duke]] ==
* "By the mystic regulation/Of our dark Association/Ere you open conversation/With another kindred soul/You must eat a sausage-roll!"
* "When you find you're a broken-down critter/Who is all of a trimmle and twitter/With your palette exceedingly bitter/As if you've just bitten a pill..."
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* "Take my advice - when deep in debt/Set up a bank, and play Roulette!"
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