“Weeeee live where yoooou live!
We’re a good friend who reeeeeally caaaares!!!
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is theeeeere!!!”
And that stupid Little Caesar’s boy band song.
If you know someone who really gnashes teeth when hearing “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better,” the original soundtrack recording from Annie Get Your Gun (with Ethel Merman) would make a demonic stocking stuffer. 
When my sister and I were kids and on dishwashing and drying duty, we would sing that to drive our mother nuts. It worked.
Not the “On Broadway” take off?? With the cute chubby black guy in the elevator?
Granted, I have TiVo, so I don’t often watch commercials, but every once in a while I’ll catch one I think is cute.
I also liked the underwear dancing guy (I can’t remember the brand name though, so I guess it wasn’t very effective huh?). I just remember the adorable black guy dancing.
It’s an ANCIENT song, made popular back in the 50s (I think, though I remember my mom having the record when I was just a wee tyke in the early 60s).
IIRC, it was two rather famous singers and/or entertainers that originally did the song, and it was cute and funny, rather like a musical version of Hepburn and Tracy. Sort of a zingers aflying kind of thing.
But then, Hepburn and Tracy may not be all that well liked among this crowed either, (sheepish grin).
I have to echo the love for the Rainbow Six commercial with the little girl singing “My Country 'Tis of Thee.” Creepy and haunting and patriotic at the same time. Good stuff.
I am, however, disappointed that it’s being used for “Rainbow Six,” and not the Red Dawn-themed anti-Russian game that just came out, of which the name escapes me.
[Way Back Machine]
Anybody remember an old episode of Barney Miller, where a guy was arrested for causing a disturbance at an ad agency? He wrecked the place because he couldn’t stand the jingle they came up with for a brand of pickles.
A rep from the ad agency came down to press charges and kept humming the jingle while the guy was in lockup just to torment him.
Then the ad rep decided not to press charges when the guy sarcasticly suggested “Why not just sing that your pickles are ko-ko-kosher?” The ad rep thought it had nice retaining value.
[/Way Back Machine]
…I revoke my dislike for that Rainbow Six commercial, after seeing a version last night where the girl just hums everything but ‘Let freedom ring…’. I will be transferring my annoyance to this version. At least the original was creepy, and therefore interesting…
I LOVED that guy! I hope they paid him well…
Hanes
Swiffer!
Swiffer good!
That dumb old McDonald’s rap song.
I don´t think I´ve stated this in the boards yet, but I have a proposal for the day the time machine is built that one of the first things to be done is go back in time, find the scummy excuse of human beign who invented the commercial jingle ,hang it from his scrotum and slap him with fish, tarring and feathering would be optional.
This is not a new problem. Back around 1981 I often used to practice my guitar to the radio, tuning either to KROQ or a standard rock station. I’d have the radio cranked up, the guitar cranked up, be congratulating myself that I had just played along with Tattooed Love Boys quite credibly for only having played guitar a couple of years, when this commercial jingle would come blasting through the speakers:
Today you want more MPG, MPG, MPG!! More MEAT, PRODUCE, GROCERIES…
It was sung in a dippy, upbeat style that would have been appropriate in 1952. God, it was awful.
There’s one for the Co-Op on at the minute that sets my teeth on edge. It’s set to the theme tune of “Jim’ll Fix it”:
“Milk chocolate was only the start of it,
Now there’s a whole range of Fair Trade Choc-o-late.
There’s Fruit and Nut, Crispy White and Dark too-ooo-ooo”
Not only is it deeply irritating, but it gets stuck in my head and goes round and round and round…DAMN IT!!! Now it’s doing it again!
Incorrect! KMart/Joe Boxer.
:smack:
Ah, same thing. Hanes, Kmart, Joe Boxer, it’s all underwear.
Father buying daughter two bunnies…no wait…6 bunnies…no wait…
VISA check card
I like the clerk using the bunny as a telephone handset though.
Daughter??? I thought that was a boy? (poor little girl, if it is).
Knowed Out-
Ever heard the Law of Reruns? “If you only ever see one episode of a television series, and then months or years later you come across the show again, it will be the same episode you’ve already seen.” You just described the only episode of Barney Miller I ever watched 
Though I remembered it as the fellow having been arrested for tearing down an advertising poster on a city bus because he didn’t like the “Crun-crun-crunchiest!” bit.
Anyway, jingles… I don’t watch TV much, so I’m not familiar with the jingles there. But I listen to a lot of radio. So my pet peeves:
1 - “1950s-style” jingles. In particular, a local drive-in burger joint’s commercial. They’ve been running the same commercial for several years now - something that’s supposed to sound like the Beach Boys, I guess. They do this simply because the place first opened in 1949. “Burgers and fries, malts and sodas/I’ll eat my share, and you eat your quota.” Indeed. What makes this particular jingle really bad, though, is the fact that the jingle is the entire commercial!. And this is a 60-second commercial. So when I’m listening to, say, a baseball game, it’s as if my radio suddenly switches itself to the “oldies” station 5 or 6 times during the game.
There was also a local optician who used a '50s-style jingle, complete with the same I-vi-IV-V chord progression that was the basis of 83% of 1950s pop music. The background music behind the singing sounded as if it was being provided by a cheesy toy Casio keyboard (with built-in drum machine!). And to make matters worse, the optician himself decided that he wanted to sing along with the jingle. It was horrible. Somebody must of said something to him, though, because after a few weeks his voice suddenly disappeared from the commercials.
2 - My other peeve, and this isn’t really about the jingles themselves, is when they hire models to pretend to play musical instruments in the TV commercial. Is it too much to ask that they bring somebody in to at least coach these models in how to hold the instrument properly?
That would be Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, radio comedians who shilled for Interwoven Socks.
How d’ya do, everybody, how d’ya do?
Gee, it’s great to say hello to all of you!
I’m Billy Jones
I’m Ernie Hare!
We’re the Interwoven Pair
How d’ya do-da-loo-da-loo-da-loo-da-loo!
First singing commercial, AFAIK.