Diverse earworm solutions.

With regular "strip"-style titles, there's a wide variety of levels of quality. From waste of ink to near genius, and everything in between. But with the slightly rarer one-panel titles, there seems to be very little ground. Either you have classic and legendary, like Far Side, and Bizarro, or you have mindless tripe, like Family Circus and Marmaduke. Thankfully, my local papers don't carry many of these titles, so I only end up reading them when they happen to be on the same page as others that I'd rather read (and I usually look at them first to get it out of the way). The Better Half is mediocre at best, and even though I probably only see it 3 or 4 times a week at most, it seems like it recycles its own jokes more often than any other title out there. But even I am baffled at how the following two gags ended up being published within the same week:



Granted, the first gag mentions "songs" in general (and then I saw her face... now AAAHM a BE-LEEE-VAAHH!!), and the second specifies ads and themes from television (staaaanding taaaaaaall, on the wiiiiiings of my dreams...), but it's still two different punchlines for the same joke, and neither of them is all that funny. But maybe the real question is, if you had a choice between a vacuum cleaner attachment or surgery to get rid of those earworms, which woud you choose?