I just saw a really funny episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that touched on this.. Cheri Oteri plays a nanny who had previously worked for years at an amusement park ride where they were always playing the same cartoon music on a loop, and she kept singing this one crazy-sounding looney tunes riff. Later Susie Essman's kid on the show turns the t.v. on and that music comes on and Cheri Oteri's character ends up having a psychotic break at that point.
That damn music has always played in my head as well... listen only at your own peril. 
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