Chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot pie...

[emw]

...also known as annoying association. Let me explain. There was an episode (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-160/epid-17417/) of Just Shoot Me where Maya's brother was pretending to be slow so that he would be doted on by his family. In that episode he says the phrase "chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie" a few times in a very annoying manner.

Now I've seen that episode one time. I've seen the show maybe 10 times. Yet every time I actually eat chicken pot pie (which I did last night) that phrase runs through my head.

How does this happen? Anyone else care to share annoying things that stick in your head for no reason?

[Blue Velvet]

Anyone else care to share annoying things that stick in your head for no reason?

It's always some annoying song you hear on the radio that you can't just shake from your mind...

Language is a virus.

[gwuMACaddict]

yesterday i couldn't stop singing "she's a lady" by tom jones. :D

[apple2991]

There was an episode (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-160/epid-17417/) of Just Shoot Me where Maya's brother was pretending to be slow so that he would be doted on by his family. In that episode he says the phrase "chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie" a few times in a very annoying manner.


I remember that episode very well, and I, also, watched the show only sparingly. Everytime I hear the phrase "chicken pot pie", my mind does the exact same thing. And I was only 13 when I saw it.

[virividox]

yesterday i couldn't stop singing "she's a lady" by tom jones. :D

NOW YOU GOT ME STARTED DAMN YOU

[blackfox]

On a broad scale, I am constantly amazed (and annoyed) that I manage to know by heart the lyrics to a multitude of songs and jingles that I don't like in the least, from some classic rock song, to Brittany Spears or NKOTB, to a toilet-cleaner advert.

Relatedly, I am somewhat amazed that even though I do not watch TV, or listen to the radio, I still seem vaguely aware of pop culture phenomenon, such as the characters of "sex and the city" or what have you.

I bow to my corporate overlords.

[Lacero]

"This is the song that never ends... it just goes on and on and on..."

[Peyote]

"This is the song that never ends... it just goes on and on and on..."

...my friends...

[zelmo]

I remember that episode very well, and I, also, watched the show only sparingly. Everytime I hear the phrase "chicken pot pie", my mind does the exact same thing. And I was only 13 when I saw it.

This may be the only episode of that show that I actually watched all the way through. David Cross played the brother, and he was hysterical, as usual. Every time I hear the phrase "chicken pot pie" I think about it. I can still hear his annoying voice as it reaches the upper register on the word "pie." :p

[zelmo]

NOW YOU GOT ME STARTED DAMN YOU

Me too!

"...whoa, whoa, whoa, she's a lady. Talkin' about my little lady..." :eek:

[clayj]

This may be the only episode of that show that I actually watched all the way through. David Cross played the brother, and he was hysterical, as usual. Every time I hear the phrase "chicken pot pie" I think about it. I can still hear his annoying voice as it reaches the upper register on the word "pie." :pMy favorite bit from that episode (besides "Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pieeeeeeee") was the part where Donny is behaving normally in front of Maya, trying to seduce her... then Elliot walks in. As Slow Donny, Donny says "My pants are tight!", then mouths "for you" so that only Maya can see it. :)

Classic episode of an otherwise ho-hum show.

[gwuMACaddict]

see! 'she's a lday' is so easy to hum and sing along too...


*singing to bluevelvet*
whoa whoa whoa, shes a laaaaaady
:D

[apple2991]

...my friends...

Some people started singing it not knowing what it was....

[ExoticFish]

...my friends...

...some people starting singing it not knowing what it means, but we'll continue singing it forever just because This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends, some people started singing it not knowing what it means, but we'll continue singing it forever just because This is the song.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! :D

[Blue Velvet]

see! 'she's a lday' is so easy to hum and sing along too...


*singing to bluevelvet*
whoa whoa whoa, shes a laaaaaady
:D


Aaargh... stop!
Swine... :D

I'll be singing Tom Jones on the tube home tonight...
Quick! Where's my shuffle -- make the bad man go away!

[emw]

yesterday i couldn't stop singing "she's a lady" by tom jones. :DAh, yes. One of my favorites... :D

[emw]

My favorite bit from that episode (besides "Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pieeeeeeee") was the part where Donny is behaving normally in front of Maya, trying to seduce her... then Elliot walks in. As Slow Donny, Donny says "My pants are tight!", then mouths "for you" so that only Maya can see it. :)

Classic episode of an otherwise ho-hum show.HA HA. I had forgotten that part. Fantastic!

[SFVCyclone]

I think people actually keep singing those "annoying" songs because they actually like it. Like that new song "Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee, I said to my self that I didn't like it but i actually sang the words when i was bored and now that i think of it, it is a pretty cool song. Oh yeah and the chicken pot pie from marie callendars is real good, just dont know what you guys are talking about, :)

[Thom_Edwards]

cuz we are the aqua teens. make the homies say ho and the girlies wanna scream. aqua teen hunger force. number 1 in the hood, g.


how'd you like to have that going through your head for 2 straight days? welcome to my world....


my name is shake-zula, the mic rula............

[Doctor Q]

The reason that the chicken pot pie memory sticks with you is that you have no other important memory about it. Your brain is looking in its huge associative-memory mass storage device for anything related to whatever you are currently experiencing, and it finds nothing more interesting in the file drawer except a reference to Just Shoot Me. But don't worry. If you get food poisoning from a chicken pot pie, or meet a new friend named Joe ChickenPotPie, you'll have a new association to replace it! :)

I've noticed that once I see/hear a spoof of a movie scene or song, I can't help thinking of it when I see the real one.

Mentioning a song or singing a few bars and making it stick in some other poor victim's brain is called "song tag". It's best with well-known, simple, and highly repetitive songs. The theory, which isn't quite true, is that if you infect somebody else with the song that is stuck in your head, it'll leave your brain and stop driving you crazy.

It's fun to stay at the Y, M C A, it's fun to stay at the Y, M C A. Tag!

[virividox]

WHOAH WHOAH SHES A LADY!!!

still singing it...

[emw]

It's fun to stay at the Y, M C A, it's fun to stay at the Y, M C A. Tag!And I used to think you were such a nice guy... ;)

It could be worse. I have a 4 year old daughter, so things that go through my mind are songs like

Cruella DeVille, Cruella DeVille, if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will...

and

Rain, rain, go away, come again another day...

So I can really only tag some other poor sap parent who has to listen to that crap. :D

[jsw]

I have a targeted virus that I can't pass on.

My daughter has been singing the following:

"There's a chicken in my pants, oh yeah.

There's a chicken in my pants, oh yeah.

I'm tellin' you: there's a chicken in my pants, uh uh.

I don't know how it got there but it's tickling my legs."

I have no freaking idea where this song came from, and, since it has evolved over the past couple of days, I have to conclude it's an original. It also has its own dance now.

While it was beginning to annoy me, it does have the protective effect of keeping other viral tunes out. Reading the thread, yes, I did get a bit of "whoa-oh whoa-oh whoa, she's a laaady", but it faded fast, like someone turned down the volume. Then up came "Chicken in my Pants" to take over.

If I just knew the right Euro-techno music to set it to, I could probably make millions and thus pass the virus on to you all. As it stands though, I suffer alone.

[wdlove]

I also just had a delicious Chicken Pot Pie last Sunday at Charley's.

I often have things that run through my head, mind racing. Just like a joke, can't remember one at the moment. As mentioned, jingles from commercials are common. Which is exactly what the ad agency wants.

[Doctor Q]

I have a targeted virus that I can't pass on.You could switch to "The ants go marching", but maybe that wouldn't be much better.

[emw]

You could switch to "The ants go marching", but maybe that wouldn't be much better.Or combine them so that the "ants go marching in my pants, oh yeah!"

BTW - jsw, your daughter hasn't been hanging out with Duff-Man, has she ...oh, yeah!

[dotnina]

emw – I know exactly which episode of "Just Shoot Me" you’re talking about! In fact, when I saw the title of the read, I silently re-read “chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot pie” multiple times in the voice of the "Just Shoot Me" guy! :D

You know what else always gets stuck in my head? Have you ever been to a restaurant, and they come to sing this "Happy Birthday" song that goes ...

"Happy happy birthday, may all your dreams come true, happy happy birthday, [something something too]!" I can't remember the end of it right now, but it seems like every restaurant sings it now … aaaah!

[emw]

You know what else always gets stuck in my head? Have you ever been to a restaurant, and they come to sing this "Happy Birthday" song that goes ...

"Happy happy birthday, may all your dreams come true, happy happy birthday, [something something too]!" I can't remember the end of it right now, but it seems like every restaurant sings it now … aaaah!You know why? The original "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday..." is copyrighted (http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.htm).

[yellow]

I find that the commercial with Harry Connick (and his weird-ass hairdo) smarming cellular service horrid and unwatchable.. the nasty sounding jingle at the end just seems to STICK itself in my brain and it takes like a gallon of beer to wash it out!

[blackfox]

...SNIP... and it takes like a gallon of beer to wash it out!
So it's not entirely bad, right?

[Doctor Q]

Or combine them so that the "ants go marching in my pants, oh yeah!"A shorter combination would be "the pants go marching...", which would go nicely with a great Golden Book named The House That Had Enough (http://www.alibris.com/books/isbn/030710253X/The%20House%20That%20Had%20Enough) by P. E. King. A favorite at our house. Description: "Tired of being mistreated, Anne's furniture, clothes, and house decide to leave until she promises to take better care of them."

Sorry to get off the chicken pot pie topic, but this thread is fun whether on-topic or off!

More on-topic: "But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, I just don't think he'd understand, And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart, He might blow up and kill this man." Repeat ad nauseum (which I think might be less than twice).

[emw]

Sorry to get off the chicken pot pie topic, but this thread is fun whether on-topic or off!That's what I'd hoped. But I'm a little disturbed that you can actually quote Billy Ray Cyrus. Or, I suppose, that I know that song is by Billy Ray Cyrus. But most especially, that I have that song by BRC. On my iPod. :eek:

[Doctor Q]

But I'm a little disturbed that you can actually quote Billy Ray Cyrus."Quoting" starts with a Q, so I should be good at it. In fact, I just quoted YOU quite well!

On my iPod.When Apple was playing the iPod commercial with Ride, by The Vines, that little bit of music kept repeating in my head: Ride with me, Ride with me, Ride with me, ow ow, Ride with me, OK that's enough, Ride with me, make it stop!, Ride with me, ...

[Peyote]

You know why? The original "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday..." is copyrighted (http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.htm).


So if a song is copyrighted, employees at a restaurant can't sing it? Maybe...but it seems unlikely. Seems more plausable to me that the original Happy Birthday song is boring, so restaurants have their own songs that are a lot more fun for the patrons

[emw]

So if a song is copyrighted, employees at a restaurant can't sing it? Maybe...but it seems unlikely. Seems more plausable to me that the original Happy Birthday song is boring, so restaurants have their own songs that are a lot more fun for the patronsI thought that it meant they couldn't sing it without paying royalties - boring or not.

[Blackheart]

Oh wow, I thought I was the only crazy person who thought of that Just Shoot Me line whenever anyone said "chicken pot pie"

"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pieeeeeee"

[Lacero]

Where can I download this episode? Just give me season number episode number, and I can search for it myself.

[emw]

Oh wow, I thought I was the only crazy person who thought of that Just Shoot Me line whenever anyone said "chicken pot pie"

"chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pieeeeeee"And now there are even more who have been tainted, damned forevermore... MUWAHAHAHAHA!

[emw]

Where can I download this episode? Just give me season number episode number, and I can search for it myself.I think all that information is in the link in my first post... at least the episode title.

[pseudobrit]

867-5309

Good luck getting that out of your head.

[clayj]

867-5309

Good luck getting that out of your head.Strangely enough, that's not the first time I've heard that number tonight. At the bar I was just at, some girl was talking about how she met this great guy and she got his number... sho nuff, it was 867-5309. Everyone was laughing hysterically until she realized he'd fake-numbered her.

[pseudobrit]

I'll go off-topic here by um, talking about chicken pot pie.

I hail from Lancaster County, the home of chicken pot pie. This is where pot pie is real pot pie. Original pot pie. Not this frozen food garbage they try to call "pot pie."

If you think of this when you think of pot pie:

http://www.swansonmeals.com/WebPortals/Portals/0/Products640x480/Pot%20Pies/7oz/Swanson%20Chicken%20Pot%20Pie.jpg

Then you don't know what pot pie is. Above is a picture of a chicken pie. I blame the frozen food industry for deceiving us all with the "pot" when this is clearly a chicken pie pan pie.

There is no crust or peas in chicken pot pie and you don't bake it in a pie pan.

It's broth, a pinch of saffron, squares of thick dough, peeled quartered potatoes and chicken breast meat slowly cooked in -- a pot (!) and nothing else save maybe carrots & onions. Purists stick with the noodles, potatoes and chicken. That's real, genuine, Lancaster pot pie.

So now when you're eating "pot pie" you can think instead about how you're not really eating pot pie. And you can think of 867-5309.

[emw]

I'm so ashamed. Here I thought chicken pot pie was the big pie o' chicken and vegetables I bought at Costco... :D

[Lacero]

My mouth is watering just looking at that pie.

http://www.tidningen.aland.net/gallery/temp/04081309382365.jpg

[pseudobrit]

My mouth is watering just looking at that pie.

If I only had a photo of shoofly pie... mmmmmm...

[HiRez]

If you get food poisoning from a chicken pot pie, or meet a new friend named Joe ChickenPotPieI actually did get food poisoning from a frozen chicken pot pie, about 15 years ago, and I can't stand to eat, smell, or look at them to this day. (It's very possibly I got stomach flu from something else, but the pie was in the same place at the same time and will always get all the blame). And I also always remember that stupid chicken pot pie phrase as well, and I will say that whenever I see one, thinking of the time I threw up all night after eating one! It's hard to shake. :rolleyes:

[chanoc]

This is what's known as a meme. :eek:

[mcadam]

Sorry for being an ignorant Dane, please enlighten me... I'm getting very curious... and hungry - what is a real chicken pot pie then?

A

[Roger1]

hmm.
When I started reading this thread, I immediatly thought to myself

"Badger, Badger, Badger!" for some reason.

[clayj]

Sorry to do this to y'all, but this little tune popped into my head in the elevator while returning from Starbucks just now:

Doo, doo-doo, doo-doo
Inspector Gadget
Doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, DOO-DOO

Enjoy. :)

[pseudobrit]

Sorry for being an ignorant Dane, please enlighten me... I'm getting very curious... and hungry - what is a real chicken pot pie then?

A

I already answered this.

It's broth, a pinch of saffron, squares of thick dough, peeled quartered potatoes and chicken breast meat slowly cooked in -- a pot (!) and nothing else save maybe carrots & onions. Purists stick with the noodles, potatoes and chicken. That's real, genuine, Lancaster pot pie.

You don't have a chicken pot pie. You have chicken pot pie. It isn't a pie. It's pot pie. It's more like a soup or stew.

[Blackheart]

Sorry to do this to y'all, but this little tune popped into my head in the elevator while returning from Starbucks just now:

Doo, doo-doo, doo-doo
Inspector Gadget
Doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, DOO-DOO

Enjoy. :)

Fantastic show... or at least it was when I was younger. I haven't seen it in many years.

[r6girl]

"if it weren't for my horse, i never would have spent that year in college."

now, who knows where that's from? :) i think of that every time something gets stuck in my head.

marianne

[clayj]

"if it weren't for my horse, i never would have spent that year in college."

now, who knows where that's from? :) i think of that every time something gets stuck in my head.

marianneLewis Black said it, but I don't know the context.

[Mudbug]

I went through an entire week in high school where i whistled the "happy birthday" song constantly. I still really can't explain it, since it was months away from my own, and didn't know anyone at the time who was having a birthday.

As for random associations, any time someone says the phrase "both kinds" I automatically follow up with "country and western" from the line in The Blues Brothers. I can't shake it.

[njmac]

also: choppin' broccoli, choppin' broccolee, choppin' broccolay .

another one: "once, twice, fwee times a wady"

and others from that SNL episode but I can't think of the others right now but I always think of Eddie Murphy when I hear them. I was about 10 when I saw that episode.

I always think of pot pie as "chicken pot,chicken pot, chicken pot pie!!!"

[r6girl]

Lewis Black said it, but I don't know the context.

that's it! it's one of his comedy routines from the late 90's. he describes it as the kind of thing that just gets in your head and can essentially cause an aneurysm if you think about it too hard and try to make sense of it. :D

[clayj]

another one: "once, twice, fwee times a wady" Pretty sure that was "Unce, dice, dee dimes a dady"... :)

[njmac]

Pretty sure that was "Unce, dice, dee dimes a dady"... :)

oh yeah! that's it. I miss SNL with Eddy Murphy.

[Black&Tan]

My favorite part of the Jsut Shoot Me episode was the discussion about the vaccuum tubes and sending tennis balls through the lines.

Oh and to add to our collective misery, two gems...

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful ship...

and

Ring ring ring ring ring banana phone. Ring ring ring ring ring banana phone

[ToddW]

a few years ago i had that damn song by n-sync bye bye bye i hated that song, but i just couldn't get it out of my head.

[emw]

Lucky for me, my daughter decided she wanted to watch a Christmas music video. Woo hoo.

You better watch out, you better not cry...

[zelmo]

My wife mentioned to me that she went to lunch with her Mom yesterday, and she had a chicken pot pie. I immediately thought of David Cross on the Just Shoot Me episode, then this thread.

So....bump.

[LimeiBook86]

...also known as annoying association. Let me explain. There was an episode (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServlet/showid-160/epid-17417/) of Just Shoot Me...
Hahaha! I love that episode. That character is great, the last episode he is in is the funniest...haha :D :cool:

My favorite part of the Jsut Shoot Me episode was the discussion about the vaccuum tubes and sending tennis balls through the lines.

No it's magnets! :p haha

[zelmo]

Amazing! I really get a kick out of this thread. Nice to see it poke it's head out of the ground now and again.

how did you ever find it?:confused:

[SamIchi]

Chicken Pot Pie is so bad for you.

[emw]

Chicken Pot Pie is so bad for you.
How do you figure? Noodles, chicken, potatoes, potentially some vegetables. It's practically health food.

Unless, of course, you're referring to the over-processed frozen stuff shown previously in this thread. Then, well, probably.

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, my oh my what a wonderful day...

Tag.

[DZ/015]

My youngest child is currently infatuated with "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly". It's not really a song, unless you've seen the old cartoon narrated by Burl Ives. He doesn't really sing, but a guitar strums along to the words.

I wonder if anyone ever found a fly in their chicken pot pie?

[BakedBeans]

magical trevor - now thats not a song to get stuck in your he....... oh SHEIIIITTTEE

[SamIchi]

How do you figure? Noodles, chicken, potatoes, potentially some vegetables. It's practically health food.

Unless, of course, you're referring to the over-processed frozen stuff shown previously in this thread. Then, well, probably.

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, my oh my what a wonderful day...

Tag.

That's exactly what I was referring to. I've never had a "real" chicken pot pie.

[iRachel]

My youngest child is currently infatuated with "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly". It's not really a song, unless you've seen the old cartoon narrated by Burl Ives. He doesn't really sing, but a guitar strums along to the words.



Hehehe - my cousin and I used to love that song when we were kids...it was on a record that we had with a bunch of other song that we loved, but I'm sure drove our parents nuts...like "There's a frog on a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea!" Tag....

[joepunk]

I used to sing "I'm going nuts with Eagle Nuts" (repeat as necessary) in the car when I was young.

[LimeiBook86]

magical trevor - now thats not a song to get stuck in your he....... oh SHEIIIITTTEE

No! I honestly just got that song out of my head! :eek: Noooo! *goes insane*
...you might think his new trick is sick, sawing a pigeon in half with a stick...
;)

[Black&Tan]

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, my oh my what a wonderful day...



Plenty of sunshine, heading my way, zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay.

Oh Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder, it's the truth....

Okay, I'll stop now.

Pretty sad that this film will never see the light of day, at least in the United States. There were some wonderful characters and animations. Brer rabbit and Brer Fox....

Must be careful not to offend....

P.S. - vacuuum. vacuuum.