TV Commercial Earworms
10We’ve all got 'em. If you watched the typical amount of TV for an American kid, at least one infernally catchy jingle has taken up permanent residence in some dank corner of your mind. Let’s make this a safe space where we can all share our demons and perhaps exorcise them. (Or maybe pick up some new ones. Toying with forces like these is not without its risks.)
My wife can attest that I sing the Tato Skins commercial around the house at least once a day. I don’t even think I’ve ever actually eaten them.
Another product I’ve never used but never forgotten, Robotix busted out the technofunk jams:
Come to think of it, I’ve never had Löwenbräu, either. Pretty sure it was off the market by the time I came of drinking age. But this series of commercials seemed like the height of adult sophistication to me:
Like all cities at the time, St. Louis was a hotbed of local jinglage, too. I can’t find any TV commercials for Art Haack Buick, but I certainly heard this jingle on the radio all the time back then - and in my brain all the time since then:
What diabolical jingleers have staked a lifelong claim on your valuable mental real estate? I’ve shown you mine. You show me yours. Together we can beat this. I hope. God, I hope.
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Plop, plop, fizz, fizz…
BTW, Löwenbräu fans, check out this piece on The Soul Battles of 70s Macrobrew between the duelling Budweiser and Löwenbräu jingles, sung by Lou Rawls and Arthur Prysock, respectively. TIL that the Löwenbräu jingle was written by Bill Backer, who also wrote “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”.
/youtube Hudson 32700
@compunaut Whoa! Just a mild-mannered commercial, moving briskly along, then - POW! That baritone!
‘When you hear the jingle, the rumble and the roar,
And you think that your transmission
Is coming through the floor-
There’s no need to worry, we’ll fix it just like new-
At Sunshine Automatic, on Robinson Avenue!’
-Orlando, FL, ca. 1959.
@matthew Oh, I wanted a Monchhichi so bad. And you’ve dredged it all back up.
@matthew you’re young.
Feed him Dr. Ross dog food, do him a favor
It’s got more meat and it’s got more flavor
It’s got more meat to make him feel the way he should
Dr. Ross dog food is doggone good!
Woof!
11 hours and no mentos? come on meh…
@thismyusername Three minutes?!?! Were they hoping to make the Billboard charts with this?
This Colgate Pump commercial has been running through my head pretty much constantly for 30 years:
I had no idea there was a British version:
I learned just now from the above British version that it’s a Madness song:
It’s like I’m very slowly solving a particularly boring mystery.
(Fortunately?) I think most of my permanent ear worms hatched from Looney Tunes.
@pitamuffin Empire had the superior spokesman, but I’ve always given the jingle edge to Lincoln Carpeting. I still hum it when I’m walking places.
/youtube brillcream
/youtube I’d love to be an Oscar Mayer weiner
/youtube Go See Cal
"Doesn’t matter what comes,
Fresh goes better with life
With Mentos fresh and full of life.
Nothing gets to you,
Staying fresh, staying cool
With Mentos fresh and full of life.
Fresh goes better (Mentos freshness!)
Fresh goes better
With Mentos fresh and full of life!"
Mentos. The Freshmaker.
Juicy Fruit, It’s gonna move ya
I apologize to all in advance for this, but the mere question of tv jingle earworms got this fucking piece of shit song going in my head again, so y’all might as well suffer as much as I am now:
There was no way to ‘mute’ the TV without getting up & turning the volume knob. We had to watch those old commercials.
/youtube zest fully clean
/youtube my buddy commercial
I can’t find a video, just audio but this jingle used to be on TV commercials also.
Cragin and Pike Insurance Agency jingle
@daveinwarsh Stars for the song and Dinah Shore. Chevys are just meh though.