Comments | eregyrn: stupid ear-worms...

eregyrn

stupid ear-worms...

Feb 18, 2011 10:53

I don't even KNOW why this got ear-wormed for me recently. Sometimes it doesn't have to make sense. (For example, last night leaving work I had a pop-song ear-wormed that [a] I don't even particularly like, and [b] I don't really think I'd heard recently, so I have no idea why it popped into my head ( Read more... )

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telepresence February 18 2011, 16:05:05 UTC

Oxy-gum!

eregyrn February 18 2011, 20:21:34 UTC

I KNOW, RIGHT?

my_tallest February 18 2011, 18:11:09 UTC

I recognized the written title and lyrics immediately, but will not be playing the video. Those neurons do not need to be excited, ever again. I m going to leave them to take the Alzheimer's plaque rather than neurons I NEED.

eregyrn February 18 2011, 20:22:11 UTC

Seriously, of all things to have that pop up in my head with relative frequency after 38 or so years, WHY THIS?

elishavah February 18 2011, 19:45:18 UTC

I'm totally not watching your thing because I never watched the original and I refuse to be earwormed. But did you see this? I assume you did, but still, shiny.

eregyrn February 18 2011, 20:23:26 UTC

See, I would bet that you might not get ear-wormed by it if you didn't actually watch it as a child and get it so deeply embedded in your brain that near 40 years later you STILL apparently have sectors of neurons devoted to remembering it. Maybe you'd be able to listen to it and said, "huh, that's nice".

I'll have to watch the trailer later and see if it's the same one that was going around last week.

elishavah February 18 2011, 21:51:58 UTC

I do not feel comfortable taking that chance! *g*

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:32:08 UTC

Oooh no, that is a new trailer! It is VERY shiny.

I am saying it right now: we are NOT seeing it in 3D.

(Did you spot the 2-second glimpse of Idris Elba? Awesome.)

barkley February 19 2011, 00:50:45 UTC

He's Marine boy blah blah blah (that's the only words I remembered, but I can sing those three words all day long!)

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:28:02 UTC

It is a DAMN catchy song. (It reminds me of "Sukiyaki", which is a Japanese pop tune that I always want to sing along to even though it's in Japanese.)

katie_m February 19 2011, 01:10:00 UTC

Land of the Lost I'm familiar with, though I'm not actually sure I ever saw that version - was there a remake at some point? But the rest, no. I did listen to the Banana Splits theme song, which was a) not familiar and b) kind of creepy. Why is the enormous dog-suited person picking up that little girl? Oh God, he's going to eat her!

(Also it kind of gave the impression that it was a furry version of the Monkees...)

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:39:49 UTC

Apparently, Land of the Lost was remade in 1991 or so? Does look more familiar?

It would not surprise me if the Banana Splits were pitched as "it'll be like the Monkees! Only with 'actual' animals! (By which I mean people in suits)." The Monkees were popular in 1966-68, while the Banana Splits debuted in 1968/69. (And the Monkees of course were a transparent attempt to capitalize on the zaniness of the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night".)