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)

Don’t think I’ve ever looked at the menu of an Indian restaurant without singing “Vindaloo!” to the tune of ABBA’s “Waterloo.”

totally owned by the actual lyrics of "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" for me

OTM

Here’s your ticket
Hear the drummer get triptych

Or substitute on the first line instead of you prefer

whenever i see last posted by ilxor "One Eye Open" I get "I'm Not Losing Sleep" by Julian Cope stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes

“Born Under Punches”/The Jerk
“Take a look at these cans!”

Lol, nice.

This is still a problem for me.

Various things get sandwiched into Hall & Oates' Maneater these days:

Whoa-oh here she comes
Watch out boy, she'll raise your boat
Whoa-oh here she comes
She's an airbladder

Me dealing with a constipated dog that I was walking last week had an rewrite of the Shoop Shoop song in my head.

"Is it in the street?
Oh no, that's just some sticks
Is it by his feet?
Oh no, that's melted Twix
If you wanna no
The dogg didn't go
It's still in his butt"

oh my God, that's super-relevant to my life right now.

*ugly kid joe voice* "10 things I still hate about you!"

(needs a "still" to work, in my head)

We watch a lot of Dodger games in my house and whenever Kike Hernandez comes to bat my wife sings “Kike, do you love me?”

it's a good day for you to learn alt-0233

Ha - sorry. Kee-kay.

I read right past that and wondered why he was coming to beat your wife.

"It's your turn..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LED83F8tW10

I was vaguely thinking of making spaghetti carbonara for dinner.

Now my head is like, "going to carbonara in my mind."

Can't you see the bacon

lol

in my mouth, it's paaasta carbonaara

Someone in my social media orbit posted something about how the way to deal with pandemic isolation plus winter isolation is to "think like a Norwegian."

And of course we all went off on a long mental vacation singing that to the tune of "Walk Like an Egyptian."

“How I got COVID,” to the tune of “How I Got Over”

Could also be “How I Got Rona,” I guess

whenever I see this thread I think of that Burger King ad with little people cowboys singing “Buffalo mini sirloin burgers” over a campfire

I’m currently reading Yoon Ha Lee’s Revenant Gun, every time I pick it up I start singing the title to the tune of The Who’s “Eminence Front” to myself.

I keep singing rona to the tune of Craig Mclachlan's Mona.

Recent thread gets High Plains Drifter by the beastie boys stuck in my head “read me my rights, as if I didn’t know this / threw me in the tank with TRUMP GOT COVID”

Ha, will now start singing Rona to Bo Diddley's "Mona."

every time I see the word “hotelier” in my head I hear Juvenile saying it

I feel like it happens w a couple of other words too, but that’s the one that makes me irl lol

I guess I'm sadly unaware of Bo Diddley's stuff - hadn't realised it was a cover! Thanks James.

“How I got COVID,” to the tune of “How I Got Over”

― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, October 10, 2020 4:15 PM (yesterday)

haha now -- 2nd level -- "How I got COVID" to the tune of "Crimson and Clover"

A few years back I glimpsed a story on the news where the headline was “Bizarre Manspreading Assault” (presumably, per Google, this one), for some reason my brain immediately inserted that phrase into the scansion of Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open The Door”, and ever since I’ve found myself intermittently singing “bizarre manspreading assault” under my breath to the melody of the Townshend song entirely unprompted by any reminder of manspreading or “Let My Love Open The Door”’s existence.
(I guess I could’ve posted that in this thread at any point since 2017 but this is the first time since then that an instance of the described phenomenon has lined up closely enough with a thread revive for me to a) Remember the thread’s existence and b) Not go “aww, man, I know this has happened to be before, I just can’t think of how or with what song.”)

wowwww

‘Mats
Wait, they don’t love you like I love you
#OneThread

Pinky & the Brain obviously already have an iconic theme song, but also: to the tune of "Blame it on the Rain."

there was a buttermilk culture/in the heart of the refrigerator

♬ "Demonyms spoken in claasss todayyyyyy" ♬

POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots

POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots

it's the new Oktoberfest Pretzels
they're 2 for 7 bucks
...

I mean, as the threadstarter I had absolutely no hopes for it. Turns out Lindelof did the right thing in the end, which I didn't expect in the slightest. Happy to have expectations undone.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, October 17, 2020 12:53 PM (three hours ago)

“I AM THE GOD OF THREADSTARTING!”

lol x2

big RAGGS aka the

The name of a certain lawyer who used to be mayor of NYC to the tune of “Gary, Indiana.” Been doing this since he WAS mayor, I think, don’t believe I posted it before/zingposting.

We watch a lot of Dodger games in my house and whenever Kike Hernandez comes to bat my wife sings “Kike, do you love me?”

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:20 PM (four weeks ago)

At this point in our household, "Randy Arozarena" is always sung to the tune of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

"Certified Lover Boy" reminds me of "Sugar pie honey bunch" from the Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself"

Lots of phrases that fit the meter of “Vamos a la Playa”

"Charlemagne" to the tune of Lou Reed singing "Sally Mae" on "Foggy Notion."

wait, he isn't actually singing Charlemagne????????

Didn't the Windows icon for the top-level folder used to be 'My Computer'? I swear at some point it changed to 'This PC' without me noticing, because I've only recently caught myself unconsciously saying 'This PC be Warren G' when I open it.

Hahahahaha