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)

lol i picked up "Burn to Death" off a misheard-lyrics site circa 2005 and it absolutely defines the song to me. terrifying.

lol, yeah, I hope it hasn't permanently ruined the song for me (e.g. that thing where I can't not hear Falco sing 'hot potatoes, hot potatoes').

Van Halen's "Hot for Treacher" is an all time favorite, the well known classic about Roth's fetish for fish n chips

Whenever these are around, I sing the name like the Pixies’ “Caribou”:

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Van Halen's "Hot for Treacher" is an all time favorite, the well known classic about Roth's fetish for fish n chips

lol i'm just going to take it all the way to being a boastful metaphor concerning his rock-star success: "I've got it made, I've got it made, I've got it made - I'm Arthur Treacher." sort of an "i think i'm Big Meech, Larry Hoover" type thing, but fast-food fish-n-chip related.

surprised to learn there is exactly one Arthur Treacher's establishment left. also that "Arthur Treacher" was a successful British actor whose affiliation with the company was kept vague. i think i'd always figured he was like ColoneL Sanders, or possibly Captain D.

lol wow. I never ate there either - just walked by one in the mall many times as a then fish-hating youth.

oh wow he was Constable Jones in Mary Poppins!

I think it’s “Got it bad, got it bad…” etc though admitttedly Roth’s accent makes it sound kinda funny

it is, but I misheard it as "made" the first time and have never entirely shaken it.

I wanna take you to a fig bar! Fig bar! Fig bar!

Morrissey is a Racist = Sheena is a Punk Rocker

I've just seen Perry Anderson's name on the homepage and sung it to the tune of 'Welcome Home (Sanitarium)' by Metallica.

“I’m in the Meal Deal” to the tune of We’re in the Money or, sometimes I’m Every Woman.

Haha

To the tune of ZZ Top's 'Velcro Fly"

"Do the Remko Scha"

MERV-13 to the tune of "Dancing Queen"

"kwisatz haderach" to the tune of "get back, honky cat"

I also have a stove box in the garage with everything written in english/spanish/french; whenever I see 'estufa' I hear guy picciotto singing it at the beginning of 'exit only'

Fettucine

Allo
Aalo-o-o-
Sunt eu picasso...

(from the Numa Numa yay song)

Whenever I see an album by Julian Bream, classical guitarist:

Julian Bream
Bream boat queen
Queen of all my dreams

Wamsutta

Wamsutta, wamsutta, bam a lam
Wamsutta, wamsutta, bam a lam

Hot takes -> "Hot Freaks", GBV

gaslighting -> “Nightclubbing”

Things that I say to the tune of “Eminence Front,” Part I pic.twitter.com/i7tA37rpwY

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 29, 2022

Not the same thing, but when I think of PJ Harvey's line "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water" I follow it with "Come Mr tallyman, tally me banana."

Brisk Money
Put your Filas on

"Bomb calorimeter" makes me hum "Ein Keloheinu."

whenever i cook white rice the first thing i hear is lou reed shouting "WHITE RICE" like the intro to white light.

Verizon admonishments to pay online -- "your bill is just a click away" --->> chorus of Gimme Shelter

I can Creames Fartpoop
if I can't hold you tonight

I will too often find myself wandering around the apartment singing "I don't know where my phone is...." to the tune of that Nelly Furtado songs, which is double bad 'cos now I can't find my phone and I'm singing a Nelly Furtado song........
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:31 PM

oh see mine is "I want to know where phone is, I want you to show me" dunno if that's worse
― sarahell, Friday, September 4, 2020 7:15 AM

"Where is my phone" for me is sung to the tune of "Where is my Mind?"
― tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, September 4, 2020 8:41 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No no guys, it's to the tune of 'Where is the Love?'
― emil.y, Friday, September 4, 2020 8:52 AM

Today I found myself doing a Dylan / "Tight Connection" thing: "Has anybody SEEN my phone? Has anybody seen MY phone?..."

I sing "Here I go again on my phone" to the tune of Whitesnake a lot

I’ve been known to say to myself “Got phone… in pocket,” à la the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket” (which feels like an extremely dorky thing to do).

Cuz I've got one phone in my pocket
And the other one is giving a peace sign

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

― how's life, Monday, July 25, 2016 6:12 AM (five years ago)

i actually think of this on a semi-regular basis ... so today, to that same Doors song ...

she's a

BOMP! BOMP!

genderqueer lesbian frog

Ritorna, Madonna

to Whiney's favorite .... Kokomo

the new Fujiya Miyagi

That ain't no Portrait of a Lady
No portrait of your baby, your woman, your friend
That ain't no Portrait of a Lady, no way
But maybe it's a way for us to end

this is the POWER OF THE DOG (to the tune of this is the rhythm of the night)

mia wasikowska, mia mia wasikowska (to the tune of mr. dobbalina)

You can find me In the Cut

leche de coco to the first 5 notes of the funkytown melody

Oooh, I love the way you love the way you love me
There's nowhere else I'd rather be (la-di-la-di-liee-eee-eeeye)
Oooh, to feel the way I feel with your arms around me
I only wish that you could see-eeee The Spy Who Loved Me (Loved me)
Woah-ooh-oh-oooh-oh, The Spy Who Loved Me

"The Story of a Canceled Teen" to the tune of "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

I sing “I’ve been learning to troll” to the opening line of “Mama Mia”

I know when that hotline bling
It can only mean one thing
Diarrhea

Goodbye, Suzy Creamcheese
Who could hang a name on you?

Ask any Honda owner who's often left alone all by herself

When I walk my dog, he likes to kick and scrape with his back paws after he, well, poops. Which is a problem if I'm on somebody's lawn. And then one day I had a certain playlist on. So now in these situations, I like to croon quietly to myself--

No diggity (I got to bag it up)

(reading laundry care instructions)

“Tumble dry LOW, LOW, LOW, LOW…”

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Every time my partner says "darling", I think (and sometimes say) "we're up against it." Which is a problem, because darling is my partner's go-to when addressing me.

The thing is, I don't even like 'Major Leagues' that much. But it's lodged in my head somehow.

A friend was obsessed with switching out love for lunch: Lunch Will Keep Us Togwether, Lunch Will Tear Us Apart, The Greatest Lunch of All, Stop in the Name of Lunch, When a Man Lunches a Woman....

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:23 PM

A big lunch one for me is "break for lunch" => Break 4 Love by Raze

Can’t remember if I posted these above, but I do the same thing with “Armenia” for “America” (God Bless Armenia, etc) and — the coup de grace — “asshole” for “angel”:

JUST CALL ME ASSHOLE
OF THE MORNING, ASSHOLE!

https://xkcd.com/2665/