What songs or jingles get stuck in your head interminably and make you crazy?

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Answers

Right now I can't stop hearing "what would you do-ooh-ooh for a klondike bar?" and I haven't seen one of those commericals in years. Also bothersome is the evil pepsi jingle: "ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba...the joy of cola!"

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

I love the song on the Audi commercial where the car drives through a puddle in front of a church where a wedding has just taken place and as the water splashes they go into super-slow motion for a few seconds... It's from the Bulgarian Women's Choir, it's called "Polegnala E Toudora", and it works SO well in this commercial. I get that song stuck in my head on a routine basis.

Oh, here. Audi A6 One Second

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Being an addict of CBS's whorish summer reality programming, I regularly start singing "Hey-dee-ho-dee-heydee-ho-dee-hi-aye-ho-dee- do-dee-day" from Survivor ALL DAY. And of course, the crappy Survivor companion, Big Brother's Eurotrashy theme song imbeds itself in my brain all the damn time. Live cause you're living today feel the thrill of life and don't be afraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaid! And that guitar riff they play between segments or after commercials! Aurgh.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

The Jerry Seinfeld "bass lick". Gurrrooom-pah-pah-pow. Maddening, eventually. One ex-BF had it as a computer sound. For everything.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Who let the dogs out? Who? Who?

Stupid song.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Today, for some reason, I keep hearing "what do you do with a drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor, what do you do with a drunken sailor, so early in the mornnnning." Can't think why.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

Giggle. I get that Dog sound stuck in my head aaaaaaall day...but if I sing it aloud, somebody always answers back!

-- Anonymous, September 19, 2000

My latest is the radio commercial for some drink, Virgin VaVaVoom.... "Virgin puts the voom in your vava!"

Where is my vava, and how can I have the voom removed?

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

tonight I walked into my friend's room singing, "The touch (the touch), the feel (the feel), of cotton, the fabric of our lives..."

she gave me SUCH a Look.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

my almost three-year-old will sing "shop shoppin, shoppin at Ross" all day, only it sounds like "top toppin, toppin a wogs".

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

Mallory, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who gets those themes stuck in her head. When Survivor was on I spent the whole next day with that pseudo-tribal rhythm jingle in my head. Now it's Big Brother.. I don't even *like* Big Brother, but I watch it sometimes, and that awful song gets stuck in my head every time. Your description of it was perfect.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

All mine are from, like, the 70s. "Me and my Arrow...Takin' the high road..." has been haunting me for awhile, but for some reason I'm currently plagued by "Fanta...flavors...taste so good that it's FUUUUNNN to be thirsty!" Consequently, I'm in a state of perpetual orange soda lust. And nostalgia.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

April, I am SO GLAD that I am not the only one who 1) knows "Me and My Arrow" (where IS my copy of "The Point"?) and 2) who still will break out into "Fanta Fanta's just a bottle of fun...."

I scared the shit out of a friend about 6 years ago by suddenly singing the theme from Villa Alegre... which launching this whole, strange fondness of ours for trying to one-up eachother with obscure childhood pop culture references. Hilarious 6 years ago... not so strange now.... :)

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

"Dr. Pepper, so misunderstood..."

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

Oma, that's so strange. Klee -- I sing the cotton song, too! And I hate it! And "The best part of waking up, is Folger's in your cup." And who doesn't sing the Mentos song? I like the ones where they try to get all soulful. Like there's this local commercial for "Capitol Chevy Geo", and it has this guy in a recording studio, pressing the headphone to his ear, and all he sings is "Capitol Chevy Geo", but he makes it sound like a song about a broken heart or something. Paul says, "He looks like he's taking a shit."

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

There was this theme song for etoys.com that was this simple little minor key folk-y guitar tune and someone humming along with it. It was always on the Today show. I shouldn't even watch TV in the morning cause I'm so impressionable right after I first wake up. It worked its way deep into my brain and even though they haven't shown it for a while, it's as if I'm hearing it right now.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 2000

I gotta go with Lisa D and Jill on this one...the soft drink ones get me every time. Dr. Pepper ROCKS! I honestly think I'd buy a collection of their commercials on tape, that's how bent they've made me. But hey...that kid that does the baba...ba...ba..ba thing is really good. The year Coca-cola did that Christmastime thing "I'd like to buy the world a Coke..." I swore I was going to take a shot at the next coke truck I saw. Jeez. I felt brain-f**ked...humming it in the shower...driving...typing...mowing the lawn. Aaaaah!

-- Anonymous, September 21, 2000

This isn't a jingle, but if I hear one more car dealer scream from the TV, "WE'RE DEALINNNNNNN!!" I'll just die. But that doesn't stop us from screaming it out in our house, at inappropriate moments. - "did you get the mail?" - "WE'RE DEALINNNN!"

I don't think that "we're dealinn" thing can be local. It's just "too good" - eckk

-- Anonymous, September 21, 2000

Not that I like all of these by any means. But haunting they are. Then again, I wanted to go into advertising once upon a time...

"I am stuck on Band-Aid, cuz Band-Aids stuck on me."
"Brush your breath, Brush your breath, Brush your breath with Dentine!"
"Oh-o-o-oh what a feeling! Toyota!"
"[sung] On some weekend when its raining and your mother is complaining 'cause your hanging around just tiddling your thumbs... Tell your mom that you've been itching to do something in the kitchen and, oh yes, the mess will be a minumum. And the thing that's going to please her is that you make it in the freezer, and nothing could be easier to fix. Now just watch while I go through it: all you really need to do it is some kind of juice and just a few toothpicks! [spoken] Now all you need is some juice and ice cube tray. Pour the juice in the tray and cover it with a plastic wrap. Caa-a-a-refully place the toothpicks through the plastic and in a few hours...stacks! of! snacks! [sung] Don't wait until it rains before you try this healthy trick. You'll have a fun time making Sunshine on a Stick!"
"Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Peter Paul Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don't...because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't."
"Apple Jacks, Apple Jacks, Cinnamon toasty that's what it packs[?] Apple-tasty, crunchy too. Kelllogs' Apple Jacks!"
"Cheese, glorious cheese! So and lucious. Cheese, marvelous cheese, makes everything scrumptious. What else is so versatile? Real cheese is always a hit, its cheese, cheese, versatile cheese....GLORIOUS CHEESE!!" (Velveeta ripping off _Oliver_?)
"Sometimes You Need A Little Finesse, Sometimes You Need A Lot!"
"Ch-ch-ch-CHIA!",br> "Like a rock."
"I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan. And never let you forget you're a man. Because I'm a woman, En-jo-li (to the tune of W- o-m-a-n by Peggy Lee)."
"Shake, shake, shake your chicken."
"(Kids:) We are Flinstone's kids, 10 million strong (littler kid voice:) and groo-ooo-owwing!"
"I like tuna, I like liver, Meow Mix, Meow Mix, please deliver." (or "Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow...")
"Here's to good friends, tonight is kind of special. The beer will pour..."
"By....MENNEN."
"She wears short-shorts..."
"Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is..."
"My bologna has a first name...it's O-s-c-a-r..."
"I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper..."

This one isn't a jingle, but I hear it in my head all the time: "Bacon, bacon, bacon...I smell bacon! *gasp of delight* Is that bacon?! *sniff whiff* I...Can't...REEEEEEAD!" I think it is for Beggin' Strips.

Also: I can't believe I ate the whole thing. Wow, I coulda had a V-8. How'd you like a nice Hawaiian PUNCH? Excuse me...are those BUGLE BOY jeans that you're wearing? Aren't you glad you use Dial? (Don't you wish everyone did?) AArgh! Ah, yer a strong man, John. Aye, but a mite stronger than I care to be! That's why I use Irish Spring, the Deodorant Soap! Raise your hand if you're SURE! When *I* bite into a York Peppermint Patty...I get the sensation... Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon? They're grrrrrreeeat!

Boy : Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootie Pop ?
Mr. Owl : Let's find out. (unwraps it and licks it once...) One ... (twice...) Ta-whoooo ... (bites into it, SCRUNNNCH...) thrrrree... ahem... *three*. (hands back stick) (Boy looks sad)

Curse you, Madison Avenue.

-- Anonymous, September 21, 2000

Oh my god, meant to ask about the LDS (Mormon) commercials. I don't know if they run them anymore, or if they were local or national, but I doubt the run the same ones at any rate. OK. Remember this one?

[Setting: Grandfather and grandson are fishing in a boat.]
Grandson: "Grandpa, yesterday Jimmy said I was "prejudiced."
Grandfather: "Er, do you know what "prejudiced" is?"
"No."
"Well, "prejudiced" is when you react to someone because of their religion or their culture."
"But I don't do tha-a-a-aat."
"Hmmmm. *pause* Who is Jimmy?"
"Oh, Jimmy's one of my Jewish friends!"
"Well then you are prejudiced, because you think of Jimmy as one of your Jewish friends, and not your friend."

You go, Grandpa.

-- Anonymous, September 21, 2000

Uh, Milla? You said you WANTED to go into advertising at one time? Well, don't look now, but I think advertising went into you instead. I've never encountered anyone with your recall. I'm impressed. I'm at the CRS stage of life, however, so don't let my endorsement go to your head. But you're good...real good.

-- Anonymous, September 21, 2000

Wow Milla, you brought back a complete jingle memory for me...

"here's to good friends/tonight is kinda special/the beer we'll pour/must say something more somehow/so tonight/let it be Lowenbrau"

Did y'all watch Soul Train back in the day? I still sing that Sta-sof- fro jingle & the Classy Curl one too, and those haven't been on TV for like 15 years.

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

"Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the mor-or-orn- ing. Nothing could be be sweeter than my sweetie when I meet her in the mor-or-orn-ing. .." That's the tune, but the words are some I used to hear from the Army guys (warning, vulgarity ahead) "nothing could be finer than to be in her vagina, in the mor-or-orn-ing, nothing could be sweeter then when my peter meets her in the mor-or- orn-ing." Over and over.

Oh, I am so ashamed.

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

Milla...."ch, ch, ch, Chia" *snort*

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

oh, what I like about the Chia family of products is they have never updated their ads. Here comes Christmas. Here come the Chia pets. Here comes the kid in the "Sansabelt"...yoohoo

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

Dammit, Milla, I DREAMED some of those jingles last night, you poo- head!

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

I think it's super-cool when they use the same ads forever. That's why Chia rules.

Starmama: I used to sing "Posner, positively beautiful" all the time during Soul Train. I mean, when I wasn't going "It's the SOOOOOOOUUUUL TRAIN!"

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

Dawn, I've said it before and I'll say it again: you don't want to live in my head.

I didn't go into advertising because [a] I have degrees in both English and in Fine Art. I couldn't chose whether to go into copywriting or graphics, but could not do both and, more importantly, [b] I interned in the agency that was the one primarily responsible for the RJR Joe Camel campaign. Tbey say now that it wasn't aimed at children, but it was. Liars. They also knew about the scrotum face thing. Also, I had issues with selling products people don't need or want with cleverly deceptive visuals, copy that didn't say anything disputable but implied qualities the product demonstrably lacked, and, well, in short, I didn't dig making money lying 24/7.

I do think advertising as a whole is a form of pop art (Brillo and Campbell's crossed over beautifully, *snark*), but you don't get to work on the really stellar accounts that shape public consciousness and contribute something new and creative very often. Usually it's all mindless stuff like "double your pleasure, double your fun" and "I've fallen and I can't get up!" and "where's the beef?" and "picky people pick Peter Pan peanut butter, it's the peanut butter picky people pick". No, I am wrong...those aren't utterly mindless. Those at least were NOTICED. Usually, at least at first and in the average agency, you work on local-only ads that are completely innocuous and, if you do get one that has national exposure, it's probably for carcinogens and the graphics show happy smiling people frolicking in piles of autumn leaves or something. WHAT-EV-ER.

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

Local jingles amuse me the most.

Examples: "Faaabbbbrrrriiiccclllaaaaand, Fabricland!" - The epitome of cruddy Canadian jingles. "Mighty Taco, Mighty Taco, Mighty Taco..." - A Buffalo-area commercial.

One of my all-time favourite jingles was for Mr. Submarine, which is a Canadian sub shop chain. It contained the line, "you'd be right to put the bite on Mr. Submarine." It still makes me giggle even though the commercial was retired a million years ago.

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

Ha - glad I found this thread. Maggie - my 3 year old woke me up this morning singing that Fabric Land theme (you know you watch too much tv when...) There's another really annoying Canadian theme for a place called United Furniture Warehouse, whose spokesperson is one of the guys from Barney Miller (?!)

One of the strangest jingles I've heard was for some convenience store whose catch line was "Don't dilly dally get to Pakistani Danny's"

-- Anonymous, September 22, 2000

Have you hear the Hartz Mountain Dog Food (Radio) commercial where the president of the company goes down on the assembly line with a spoon and samples the product as it comes by? "Oh my, *smack, smack* the gravy 'n bits is just right! Ooh, but the creamed chicken is extra good this morning! Good job!" And so on. What makes it funny is that the guy speaking has a very refined...well, presidential voice, ya know? At the end he'd say: "I always make sure my business is going to the dogs!" And that slogan was painted on the back of their trucks, too. Pretty funny.

-- Anonymous, September 23, 2000

Tap the Rockeeeeeeeeeees! Coors Light!

You make the world taste better, you make the world taste beeeeeeeetter!

What would you do-oo-oo for a Klondike bar?

Let's work together c'mon c'mon lets work together!

Oh I wish I was an Oscar Mayer weiner...

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2000

N E S T L E S, Nestles makes the very best, chawk-let!

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2000

And who can forget the famous Coke commercial: I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony and lalala (I forget the middle part) Coke, it's the real thing.

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2000

Thank yew, East' Bunny. Bawk bawk!!

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Do you know the muffin man? James

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Yeah. He lives on Drury Lane.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

I believe the eToys theme is the one that gets stuck in my head the most. Anyone know where I could get a recording of it!

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

Isn't the e-toys theme that re-recording of "Somewhere Under the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" from the Meet Joe Black soundtrack? It was played over the closing credits in the film and should be the last song on the soundtrack.

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2000

The "We're Dealin' !" Guy is Fred Ricart, who boasts the nation's largest auto dealership right here in good ol' Columbus Ohio. And yes, he IS obnoxious and a shamless perpetrator of tacky tasteless and nepotistic commercials starring him (ususally playing a guitar and trying to "rock") or his wife (zero talent, ususally dressed in some god-awful outfit).

Of course, the most annoying car dealer jingle EVER has got to be the one from Cal Worthington and his dog Spot. ("Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal!"

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2001

This isn't really a commercial jingle, but I walk around all day humming the theme to "Super Mario Brothers", even though I haven't played it for, oh, 8 years or so.

"But Ironhead, whats this thingie for?"

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2001

Alright, who else thought that the "Go See Cal" jingle was actually "Pussy Cow, Pussy Cow, Pussy Cow"?

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2001

Oh, my gosh! First, I swear that I thought they were saying "Pussy Cow", too. Second, I used to hum the part where Mario went up into the clouds. (Not sure which game that was.)

-- Anonymous, March 09, 2001

I'm forever singing jingles...am well-known for this in my family (my stepfather, when interviewed the morning of my wedding, warned my now- husband of my habit...) The wackiest display of this affliction had to be back in the mid-80s, when Honda had a series of commercials that always ended with a mostly-female chorus singing Honnnn-daaaaah at the end of each ad. I decided it would be funny to have a cat named Honda who would come running each time the commercials aired. I ended up with a Siamese-mix (how appropriate) named Honda...who really did perk up her ears at those commercials.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2001

That stupid Ortega commercial where they start singing and dancing, and the song doesn't rhyme in the begging and it looks like Ortega man wants to BONE the mother...please tell me you know this commercial....

mother:"one lb of hamberger sits in my fridge, and "whats for dinner mom?" is the question i hear"

Horny ortega man: "m'am have you heard of ortega brand tacos something something yadda yadda yadda their fast and their fun"

It's just so annoying and i hate it and i gets stuck in my head.

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2001

- "BA DA BOP BA BA DA BOP DA TJ MAXX!" has been stuck in my head for years. "Never, never the same place twice! Yesterday, this week, next Saturday night! You get the MAXX for the minimum, minimum price!"

- "At your service... Service Merchandise!" was popular around Christmas.

- Every time I hear Fur Elise I think of the McDonald's commercial with a girl at a piano recital... "Oh how I wish I was already there, instead of here, playing this song. I would have a big chocolate shake, a cheeseburger, and also WHOOPS and also fries..."

Currently we've been singing "Thirty-one metro Detroit Ford dealers... THINK FORD FIRST!" around the apartment. There are a couple different melodies depending on which cars the commercial is for (i.e. an Explorer, a Taurus, etc.). It's Motown, it's catchy...

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2001