Basic Trope: A song or tune that gets stuck in someone's head.
- Straight: Alice's song "I Love You, Bob" weasels into Charlie's brain and stays there all morning.
- Exaggerated: The whole town whistles the tune to "I Love You, Bob" on a regular basis.
- Downplayed: "I Love You, Bob" is a catchy song and gets into people's heads, but they forget about it after a little while.
- Justified: Alice studied the key components of songs that become Ear Worms, and wrote a song that incorporates all of them.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: It looks like someone has Alice's song stuck in their head, but they actually just have a headache.
- Double Subverted: ...which was caused by listening to "I Love You, Bob" too much.
- Parodied:
- "I Love You, Bob" causes anyone who listens to it to get addicted. People who have it in their heads exhibit symptoms that closely parallel drug addiction.
- "I Love You, Bob" is a literal worm that creeps into the listener's ear and causes mild brain damage.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: "I Love You, Bob" isn't particularly catchy.
- Enforced: Alice's sponsors wanted her to create a catchy tune they could use in advertisements.
- Lampshaded: "I Love You, Bob is so catchy! I can't get it out of my head!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice intentionally tries to make "I Love You, Bob" the least catchy song ever.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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