Pickles by Brian Crane for April 28, 2024

That song worms its way into my ears too.

If he starts singing ‘I just met a girl named Maria’, it might make Opal jealous.

I hated it when my sister and I were home alone and she started to sing. I would go sit outside so the neighbors would’nt think I was hitting her!

I have a terrible singing voice (tone deaf), so I try not to sing where people can hear me…

Earl is gay? (i’m joking btw)

I was listening to my Walkman one day at the fitness club. I had been listening to disco hits. My headphones were cheapies and I know others could hear what I was listening to. Just as I strolled into the men’s locker room Grace Jones was belting out her song “I Need a Man”. I thought to myself nobody better get any funny ideas! lol :-)

There’s a madness to her method.

I have been told I should sing solo, so low no one could hear me, I was also told I should be on the stage, the first one out of town,I wish I was kidding!

I hope Earl’s friend isn’t witty enough for the “yeah, you are pretty gay” reply.

That gets people cancelled, these days.

I am laughing so hard right now! Good one!

This gave me a big laugh. I can just picture Earl absent-mindedly singing that to himself….

Luckily, Opal wasn’t singing “Big Spender” from “Sweet Charity”.

I prefer the blazing John Coltrane take on “My Favorite Things” to the syrupy Julie Andrews version.

Trivia quiz: do they have the Broadway album or the 1961 movie?

Oh gtreat! now it’ll be in my head all day.

It could be worse, he could be singing “I’m just a girl who can’t say no” from Oklahoma.

“I feel pretty” was brilliantly used in Adam Sandler’s movie, “Anger Management”.

I struck up a friendship with a coworker who was singing that very same song. I told him that probably was not the best impression he wanted to make in a warehouse full of burly men.

Whenever I have an earworm I want to get rid of, I replace it with one I like. My go-to music is “The Blue Danube”, and I visualize the scene of the space plane docking with the space station in “2001 : A Space Odyssey”. For some reason, that music never annoys me.

My wife tells me, that in 47 years of marriage, I have never once sung in tune…And that’s the good news.

I cannot hear “I Feel Pretty” without seeing the muppet monster singing to himself in the mirror. Sorry can’t put link

My mother used to sing Broadway show tunes all the time. It’s one of the big reasons I know the lyrics to pretty much every major musical from the late 50s through the 70s. Thanks mom!

It must be Leonard’s birthday or the anniversary of the movie opening this week. Oh, and " I want to be in America, okay by me in America"

My worst memory of an ear worm was Donny and Marie singing I’m a little bit Country, I’m a B little bit Rock and Roll.

It stuck with me one morning in elementary school and I was old enough to know that this was NOT COOL! I was embarrassed.

My wife loves to sing as well, and has a lovely voice. It’s great.The downside is she occasionally sings country songs with lyrics about trailer trash miserable marriages. It took a while for her to reassure me the lyrics had nothing to do with her actual state of mind on our marriage.

Would work better, Earl, if ya had pink bunny slippers on. . .

“And I pity, any boy that isn’t me today!”

“Hey, I got a social disease!”

I made the mistake of watching “Green Acres” because I saw it in the list of old shows for streaming and wondered, “Is this as stupid as I remember?”

Now I can’t get, “Green Acres is where I want to be. Farm living is the life for me. …” out of my head.

And, yes, it is as stupid as I remembered.

My Mom did this too-even in the super market and it drove the teenage me crazy with embarrassment .

It’s I feel pretty, witty and bright’, not gay.

Boy, boy, crazy boy

Get cool, boy

Got a rocket in your pocket

Keep cooley cool boy

Don’t get hot

Cuz man you’ve got some high times ahead

Take it slow

And daddio you can live it up and die in bed

Earl is making Clyde very uncomfortable.

When I’m hearing an earworm too much (usually around Christmas), I change it up. Sometimes as simply as imagining it done in a Bob Dylan warble.

In the case of the G&S, “I am the model of a modern senior citizen”…then try to follow with something phonetically similar to “ I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical”

But i’m not that invested to try.

LMAO!

It’s a world of laughterA world of tearsIt’s a world of hopesAnd a world of fearsThere’s so much that we shareThat it’s time we’re awareIt’s a small world after allIt’s a small world after allIt’s a small world after allIt’s a small world after allIt’s a small, small world … OK, Group-5 start the round now!

I was singing “I’m a believer” by the Monkees when my wife asked me to stop because it was annoying her. At first I thought she was kidding……but then I saw her face!

Who knew getting in touch with your inner thespian could be so much fun!

ok……. THAT would freak me out

You go Opal!!!

I remember family drives in the car when my dad sang old songs. My brother and I would sing along even if we didn’t know the words! Those car rides on Sundays were fun when we were little ( a good 70+/- years ago). Ah, memories!

This song was the soundtrack for a Women’s Tennis Assoc. commercial, including the line, “I pity anyone who’s not as pretty as me”. Running continuously throughout the US Open, the video focused on Maria Sharapova, emphasizing her beauty & fame. Although it closed with one of her powerful serves; it was sure to bring withering criticism from feminists and all female athletes. The only thing that could save her is winning the tournament; so she did.

Earl should retaliate by serenading Opal with a few songs by Slim Whitman (i.e., Una Paloma Blanca) or Boxcar Willie (i.e., Wabash Cannonball).

Love it….lolol

Earl is so easy…….

Satan himself created an earworm: the “It’s A Small World After All” ride at Disneyland.

Heh, I do that too … sing with me now, “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” :D

I just watched my granddaughter in a production of “The Little Mermaid” yesterday, so I’ve had “Under the Sea” stuck in my head all day!

Yes, somewhere a place for us!

Opal is both cruel and unusual.

The best song of the story…

Now, thanks to his mindless singing, the people in the park believe he is!

Do you remember the arc where Opal’s singing was driving Earl nuts? His widowed friend gave him a different perspective.