# Earliest TV commercial you remember verbatim

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [May 25, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917 "2021-05-25T21:42:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/82 "2021-05-31T16:29:48Z")

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> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?  
> I’ve never made it without biting. Ask Mr. Owl.  
> Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?  
> Let’s find out.

For me it was every word of [Whatever It Is I Think I See…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cug1LNRAozU)

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/83 "2021-06-01T16:28:51Z")

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Boston area, around 1960. Some store, I think it was a furniture store, had the jingle:

How many cookies did Andrew eat? Andew ate eight thousand

for their telephone number, back when they used the letter-letter-number style for the first three digits so that number was AN8-8000. Every now and then it pops into my head and I have a nearly overwhelming urge to dial it, except I don’t know what the area code should be. 613 maybe?

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**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/84 "2021-06-01T21:44:50Z")

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> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#):
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> Blanche the manicurist for some dishwashing detergent: “You’re soaking in it!”

Madge!

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