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Playground Song

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A Playground Song is a simple, vocal-only song that is popular amongst children. They usually have a relatively straightforward tempo, with the lyrics as the only real consideration. Often, they are meant to be open-ended, allowing for either improvisation or indefinite running length. Almost all infinite (or seemingly infinite) loop songs are either a Playground Song or descended from one. These songs are prone to Memetic Mutation and very few of them have a recorded origin. Some go back centuries. A lot are far darker and more cynical than media producers give children credit for, including the numerous musical Barney and Teletubbies Death Fics.
The name comes from the fact that the vast majority of the time, these songs are heard on playgrounds and in other public areas that have a lot of children. That doesn't stop them from coming up in other situations, though. "Children's Song," while a more generally accepted term, can also be applied to pretty much anything specifically aimed at prepubescent children (such as songs featured on Sesame Street and similar TV shows). This article will focus exclusively on songs that circulate through elementary schools via memes and Oral Tradition. Many of these songs are in the Public Domain, despite some of the newer playground songs explicitly referencing copyrighted works. A creator may also write their own original song to mimic the effect of a playground song, but those don't necessarily count; then again, children are likely to pick up such songs and bring them into the playground repertoire.
Trying to list all the Playground Songs out there is a mostly futile endeavor. There are just way too many of them with way too many mutations and a lot of songs pop up and fade out of existence quickly. Instead, we will only list examples of their use in fiction. Please list examples with the first entry detailing the title of the song (or, if there is no definitive title, the first stanza) and list all examples of usage/mutations under it.
Compare and contrast Nursery Rhyme and Ironic Nursery Tune. See also Mocking Sing-Song and Kissing In A Tree. Beware of Creepy Children Singing.
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This was sung on an episode of the WB sitcom Smart Guy.
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A Hi and Lois comic has the kids singing this after being told to "sing a kid's song" instead of "Like A Virgin" by Madonna.
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One episode of Chappelle's Show featured a choir performance of this song conducted by Dave, with loud diarrhea sound effects and Dave miming letting fly at the appropriate times.
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This was sung by Shari Lewis in one episode of Lamb Chop's Play-Along.
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This is sung to Marty in Madagascar.
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This is performed at the beginning of the Disney Sing-Along Songs video "Campout At Walt Disney World" as Mickey and the kids are en route to their destination of Fort Wilderness resort.
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This song appeared as a segment on several episodes of Inai Inai Baa!, going back to the Rina-chan era.
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To the tune of Happy Birthday to You!:
This is sung to Marty in Madagascar.
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In Something About Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, the boss of Olive Ocean, Gobbler, is replaced with a yellow shark meant to invoke the baby shark in the Pinkfong video, who attacks the heroes while an-to-MIDI version of the song plays in the background.
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Nicky Pike from The Baby-Sitters Club is fond of singing this on car trips, to the utter annoyance of his large family. His own variants include "Jingle bells, Santa smells, Rudolph broke his leg" and another that begins "Jingle barf", but he is cut off by his father before he can continue the latter.
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In the The Simpsons episode "Moms I'd Like To Forget", sung by the 4th grade class to the 5th grade class.
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Stephanie attempts to play this song on the recorder in one episode of Full House.
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Bing Bong's theme song from Inside Out has already become a popular playground song amongst toddlers and kindergartners, spawning a number of parodies with different lyrics, in which each of the verses after "Bing Bong, Bing Bong!" have to all rhyme with one another:
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In the Looney Tunes cartoon "Brother Brat", babysitter Porky frantically consults a child psychology book with a baby's teeth clenched on his finger — he gets the useless advice "Not only will he bite your finger, a kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you?"
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This song, Freddy's theme, is a corruption of One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. The above version is often sung at an actual playground in dream sequences before a switch to the signature boiler room that Freddy uses for his killing grounds. It has also made the rounds as an actual playground song, along with one about Jason.
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A Chinese version exists with a different tune. One known version appeared as a segment on the Chinese adaptation of Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō.
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In the Justice League episode "Wild Cards" Joker sings a variant of this while beating up Batman. Watch here:
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Robin of Teen Titans Go!! is seen reading a newspaper with the partially-obscured headlines "Batmobile lost wheel" and "Joker got away".
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Sung by The Flash in an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
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Sung by (who else?) The Joker himself in the Christmas Episode of Batman: The Animated Series.
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In the Teacher's Pet episode "Never Take Candy From A Kindergartener" Spot teases Leonard with this when a kindergarten girl gets a crush on him.
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In "Franklin Goes to Day Camp" on Franklin, Franklin and his friends sing the song.
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In the Harry Potter fanfic I'm Still Here Harry uses it as part of a ward scheme intended to discourage upper-year Slytherins from breaking into first year students' rooms, an idea which he got from Dudley singing it to him after watching Lamb Chop's Play Along as a child.
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An early For Better or for Worse comic has one of Michael's classmates singing this on the bus to a school field trip.
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Don't call it that.
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The protagonist of The Hollow Places sings it in her head in an attempt to avoid thinking of the willows, which are attracted by people thinking about them. It doesn't work that well.
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Got a nod in Calvin and Hobbes, when Calvin had an ever-exaggerating Imagine Spot about the further adventures of the meatball.
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An episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has Bloo chant this to calm down a screaming Cheese. It nearly works, but the "don't have a spoon" part gets him back to screaming.
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The girls' nursery rhyme in Tin Man, "Two little princesses dancing in a row" is the backdrop to DG's dreams about The O.Z.
Don't call it that.
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It makes an appearance in a later episode of Excel♡Saga with the lolicon doctor.
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There's an Anpanman version which ends with the characters pretending the hands are making the shapes of the titular character and Baikinman once the usual set of lyrics ends.
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A Fox Kids promo for Animaniacs did a parody of Deck The Halls as well:
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In Runaway Ralph, the title character is horrified by a version with the standard opening line, but the following continuation:
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Heffer of Rocko's Modern Life is asked briefly to speak at an impromptu funeral for Filburt's dead myna bird. He uses a variation.
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Performed by Big Bird and the Birdketeers in the 1999 Sesame Street video "Kids' Favorite Songs."
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One of the Junie B. Jones books is titled Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. P.S.: So Does May. It was also adapted into a stage show. In the book, Junie B. and some of the other characters sing the song, but Junie B. makes her up her own lyrics that involve May, a tattletale classmate that she dislikes.
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A popular Japanese playground song that appears frequently in fiction is titled Kagome, Kagome, and has absolutely nothing to do with Inuyasha; it is supposedly about a nightingale. English lyrics:
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This song also has variants that don't follow the original concept of the song. For example, one Kidsongs did a variant about a race at summer camp, and a Sesame Street book about potty training had one about wearing underwear instead of diapers.
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The song was also sung in "Go to Camp" from the PBSKids The Berenstain Bears.
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In an episode of Duncanville the family's new high tech fridge plays the song at one point, causing everyone to scream in agony except five-year old Jing who enjoys the song.
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Donald Duck sings it as Book Ends in the short "Timber".
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This song was also sung in the Wee Sing video "Grandpa's Magical Toys".
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Probably the most famous one is the one from A Nightmare on Elm Street:
This song, Freddy's theme, is a corruption of One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. The above version is often sung at an actual playground in dream sequences before a switch to the signature boiler room that Freddy uses for his killing grounds. It has also made the rounds as an actual playground song, along with one about Jason.
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This is sung by Emma Verde to Kanata Konoe in one of the stories in Love Live! School idol festival.
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Black Butler's Drocel carried an organ grinder and sang a very creepy version. A later episode focused on one of the lesser known verses.
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The "On top of spaghetti" version is used in the Cheesy Con Sing-Along in the Donkey Hodie episode "Cheesy Con", where Donkey sings about how she is allergic to parmersan cheese.
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Used as the transition song in the The Mysterious Mr. Enter video "Top 20 Worst Cartoon Theme Songs."
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The game itself is played in As the Gods Will.
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Performed on PB&J Otter as "John Jacob Jingle Otter Breath."
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A commercial for The Powerpuff Girls (1998) Christmas special Twas The Fight Before Christmas has the titular characters and the show's narrator singing a variation about the former and their fight against evil.
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In the 14th episode of HuGtto! Pretty Cure, the daycare workers sing this to calm down all of the crying babies. While it does successfully put them to sleep, it is at that point where Rita Yoshimi comes to the daycare to complain about how annoying their crying was, making her turn into a target of the Monster of the Week.
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In Robotics;Notes, the song is repeatedly sent to phones all over Japan, and is used as a symbol for the Committee of 300.
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Got a nod to in Scribblenauts.
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The song has also been covered on an album featuring Dora the Explorer and her cousin Diego, among others.
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The first episode of The Impossibles, "The Bubbler," had the titular group sing a variant of this song in concert called "Little Sally Ann." It was also sung in "The Return of the Spinner."
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Or Stimpy's version:
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Lambsy Divey from It's the Wolf! is named after this song.
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In the music album based on the Arthur special Arthur's Perfect Christmas, Arthur's little sister D.W. performs the song as follows as part of a Running Gag:
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Kimmy and Stephanie on Fuller House do a rendition, along with the clapping game that goes with it, in a season 3 episode to prove they can work as a team. It is just as nostalgic as that sounds.
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Jean Claude sings it in Rugrats in Paris after the back of Coco's dress gets ripped.
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This is sung in the bar scene of The Angry Birds Movie 2.
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Used in The Magic School Bus episodes "Rocks and Rolls" and "For Lunch".
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"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg..."
Appeared twice in The Simpsons - once sung by Bart, and once sung by Robert Goulet.
Goulet also did this one: "Jingle bells, Prickly smells, Menlo's such a drag. Ashley Girls flip their curls, and Finster is a hag."
Sung by (who else?) The Joker himself in the Christmas Episode of Batman: The Animated Series.
Sung by The Flash in an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
Batman himself in a comic in the first version of "Bizarro Comics"
Robin of Teen Titans Go!! is seen reading a newspaper with the partially-obscured headlines "Batmobile lost wheel" and "Joker got away".
It also appears in episode 521 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, in which Mike and the bots sing it during the opening credits to the film Santa Claus.
Filk-rapper The Great Luke Ski incorporated this into his "Fanboy Christmas" medley, including a second verse about other Batman characters.
This Hub promo also parodies the Batman version of Jingle Bells.
One of the Junie B. Jones books is titled Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. P.S.: So Does May. It was also adapted into a stage show. In the book, Junie B. and some of the other characters sing the song, but Junie B. makes her up her own lyrics that involve May, a tattletale classmate that she dislikes.
It has a second verse:
A Pokémon version:
Morgan sings this in the first-season Christmas episode of Boy Meets World, prompting Amy to teach her the correct lyrics.
Nicky Pike from The Baby-Sitters Club is fond of singing this on car trips, to the utter annoyance of his large family. His own variants include "Jingle bells, Santa smells, Rudolph broke his leg" and another that begins "Jingle barf", but he is cut off by his father before he can continue the latter.
The song even has a Barney variant:
There are some creative people in real life who have made a Christmas display out of it, such as this.
Tom Scott surveyed over sixty thousand people to make this video compiling as many versions of the rhyme as possible.
Spongebob Squarepants has "Jingle bells, Mermaid Man smells, Barnacle Boy laid an egg..."
An early For Better or for Worse comic has one of Michael's classmates singing this on the bus to a school field trip.
A Robot Chicken sketch has a kid sing this when the actual Batman and Robin show up, who are not amused.
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Caddyshack groundskeeper Bill Murray chants this in his usual muttering growl as he plots to kill the gopher.
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In Big Bully, Rosco sings this while beating up David.
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During the air raid drill in The Mouse That Roared, the people in the shelters start with "Nearer, My God, To Thee" and wind up singing "Mairzy Doats".
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AJ mentions that he hates this song in the My Weird School episode "Mr. Hyde is Out of His Mind!".
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Morgan sings this in the first-season Christmas episode of Boy Meets World, prompting Amy to teach her the correct lyrics.
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Bart Simpson's Guide to Life includes a version of this along with O Cannibals, O Cannibals (to the tune of O Christmas Tree) and Flakey the Leper (Frosty the Snowman)
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In The Loud House episode "A Tale of Two Tables", Lincoln gets bored sitting at the grownup table and listens in on his younger sisters at the kiddie table singing the song, with "toot" being replaced by Lana doing an armpit fart. Later, when he tries to get kicked out of the grownup table by acting inappropriate, he sings the song and produces a real fart.
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The song "Asante Sana, Squash Banana" from The Lion King (1994) is a popular playground song in many parts of Africa where Swahili is spoken. The whole song translates as "Thank you very much, squash banana, You are a baboon and I am not."
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This was used a few times in Recess, and one episode did a parody of it:
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Sung in the Tweenies episode "Flying". In between each regular verse, a new one is added:
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The 1957 Disney short "The Truth About Mother Goose" features various nursery rhymes and the origins behind them, this one included.
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This song was sung on an episode of Gullah Gullah Island, as "Binyah Is A Baby".
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It also appears in episode 521 of Mystery Science Theater 3000, in which Mike and the bots sing it during the opening credits to the film Santa Claus.
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Cindy sings it in the The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "When Pants Attack", causing Carl to remark that she must have good eyesight.
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A Pooch Café comic has Boomer start to sing this when Poncho loses his collar.
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Heartbeat slightly modified the verse (the only part sung) to fit the period, replacing the "smoking a big cigar" with "following Ringo Starr".
In the 1960s kids sang:
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The U.S. Acres short "Flights of Fantasy" had Roy sing part of this song at the beginning, modified to be about the chickens the weasel was stealing. "The rooster takes a hen, the rooster takes a hen, hi-ho the derry-o, the rooster takes a hen!" Ironically, this was in the same episode which had a "99 Bottles Of Beer" reference in the first Garfield short.
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"You're Not the Boss of Me" - a singsong schoolyard refrain of kids who don't want do something another kid says, or even a parent or teaacher if they're feeling particularly cheeky. "You're not the boss of me, you're not the boss of me, you may be the boss of you, but you're not the boss of me!" Not to be confused with the theme of Malcolm in the Middle.
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Then there's this, sung to the tune of the My Little Pony (G3) theme:
Some versions replace "And blew up the act!" with "And farted on purpose".
Another variant:
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A Pokémon version:
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Bender sings his own version in a season 1 episode of Futurama.
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Here's another popular one, named "Cinderella". There are a lot of variants, like these seven:
The "kissed a snake" variation of the rhyme is briefly seen being recited by some kids in the Language Arts Through Imagination short "How Does Sound Sound?".
In the The Berenstain Bears episode "The In-Crowd", Sister and her friends sing this song while jumping rope.
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A young Marlon tries to chant it in a scene in The Jacksons: An American Dream. Several of the kids are doing various things around the kitchen table, including homework. Before Marlon can finish the chant, Latoya cuts across him with "That's rude!" The commotion builds around the table until Joe bangs his fist on it, shutting all the kids up.
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything have performed this on a VeggieTales album.
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The "kissed a snake" variation of the rhyme is briefly seen being recited by some kids in the Language Arts Through Imagination short "How Does Sound Sound?".
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The Lion King 1 ½ (Known as "The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata" in other countries other than the USA and Canada): Referenced after Timon's song "That's All I Need". Shenzi points out there is dinner and a show (referring to Timon's musical number, and the fact that hyenas eat meerkats), and then Banzai says "And I thought beans were the only musical food!"
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Feet of Clay has an in-universe example; Vimes wants to know what kids in his old neighborhood sing when they play hopscotch, and asks a maid if it's "Salt, mustard, vinegar, pepper." She replies that that's a skipping rhyme and when they play hopscotch they sing "Billy Scuggins is a brass stud." This is based on a kid Vimes actually knew that was a Butt-Monkey, and was originally "William Scuggins is a bastard."
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Many episodes of Barney & Friends use this, most notably the Birthday Episodes for the epynomous character.
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The song appears repeatedly in the Corpse Party series.
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Sung by Brak on Cartoon Planet. Zorak shuts him up.
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A Robot Chicken sketch has a kid sing this when the actual Batman and Robin show up, who are not amused.
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A SpongeBob SquarePants book was about this.
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In Blade Runner, Roy uses bits and pieces of a counting rhyme to taunt Deckard during their final fight. It's not, strictly speaking, a playground song, but has similar formation.
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The horror comic Simon Dark has kids jumping rope and singing the repeating ditty:
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Time-traveler Claire Fraser teaches this one inadvertently to a bunch of 18th century Scots in Outlander.
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The movie Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown has Charlie Brown's camp group sing this.
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In Wayside School is Falling Down:
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In the JaidenAnimations collaboration with TheOdd1sOut "My Embarassing Old Plays" James points out how both plays Jaiden performed at Camp Operetta have a song to the tune of this.
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The song "Birthday Today" from Allegra's Window is sung to the tune of this song.
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Performed on Stanley's Dinosaur Roundup on Stanley
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The theme to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! brought fruit to this ditty (to the tune of "Yankee Doodle"):
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Wendy sings a particularly filthy version in the boy-band episode of South Park.
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In On the Banks of Plum Creek, Nellie Oleson demands the little girls play "Ring Around the Rosy" every day at recess. No exceptions.
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In "Strawberry's Big Journey" from Strawberry Shortcake, Orange Blossom leads several rounds of it.
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In Skin Horse Unity uses it to "encourage" Nick to make a difficult landing.
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush", Buffy has a dream at the beginning where a young girl sings in the playground song method to foreshadow the appearance of the episode's demons.
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Hell, even Mima's theme from Touhou 2 has become a playground song. Here it is:
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The kids in The Pacifier sing this on a car ride home, except they change it to "Shane Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt".
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The Hey Arnold! episode "Fishing Trip" has a variant called "Miss Suzie Had a Tugboat".
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The movie Disney's The Kid has the title character singing it, to the annoyance of his older self.
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Skeeter sings this in the shower in the Doug episode "Night Of The Living Dougs".
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Another lesser known one is the one from Dr. Giggles:
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Performed by Jay a couple of times in The Critic, first as part of a faux ventriloquism act with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and in a later episode, in the style of Bob Dylan.
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The Electric Company (1971) did it once, using words with "oa" in them. Paul the Gorilla spoiled it by adding a banana.
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In Friends, after Chandler gets drunk and makes out with one of Joey's sisters, then manages to convince Joey that he's honestly interested in her:
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch: In the episode "Sabrina and the Beanstalk", while Sabrina is attempting to concoct "magic jumping beans", Salem the cat pretends to read the "magical fruit" variation from a book of spells. Sabrina interrupts him after the first line by saying "Oh grow up!".
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In Ghost Stories episode 11, a collection of possessed toys circle around the heroine while singing this song (the English dub replaced it with a song to the melody of "Jesus Loves Me").
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Inuyasha makes mention of this, as children used to make fun of the heroine Kagome on account of the song.
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Spongebob Squarepants has "Jingle bells, Mermaid Man smells, Barnacle Boy laid an egg..."
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In Salute Your Shorts, Budnik uses the "musical fruit" and "good for your heart" verses at two separate points during a montage of auditions for the camp's production of Cinderella. Both times, Ug cuts him off before he can say the last word by shouting "Next!" off camera.
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On Pepper Ann, the same tune was used for the "Lotto Cat" jingle.
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