#5
"Open Up Your Heart (and Let the Sunshine In)" from The Flintstones
(1965)
SONG.
One of the worst earbugs of the lot is this Chipmunks-inspired duet between "Pebbles" and "Bamm-Bamm" (Rebecca and Ricky Page, respectively) on a very weird episode of The Flintstones. The gimmick was that the kids would sing this fully formed song in spite of not being old enough to speak, which is explained when the whole episode is revealed to be but a dream. It wasn't until decades later that I realized how creepy and overtly religious it is. The original is more so, but it's still jarring to hear "children" in a cartoon sing this
CHOICE LYRIC:
"Mommy told me something
A little kid should know
It is all about the devil
And I've learned to hate him so."
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