What’s the origin of the line “We <do something> so you don’t have to!”? I’m sure I’ve heard it as the tag-line in some ad, but can’t remember what the product or service was. Was it in common use long before, and just trademarked for the ads?
Various Google searches return a million or more results, so that’s no help.
Scrubbing Bubbles. Their tagline for a long time was “We do the work, so you don’t have to!”
It’s a trademark of Scrubbing Bubbles by SC Johnson. “We work hard so you don’t have to.”
Though the phrasing is quite different, we were urged long ago to Go Greyhound, and leave the driving to us.
In the UK there’s a series of adverts for cleaning products called Flash. They use the slogan Flash does the hard work so you don’t have to.
I don’t know if its the same company called Scrubbing Bubbles above. Anyone know?
Thanks, tanstaafl and RealityChuck! I remember the ads now that I’m reminded, though I didn’t see them often. Maybe I was watching shows they weren’t targeted at.
Its definitely Scrubbing Bubbles. For years they ran an ad campaign featuring animated um, scrubbing bubbles (I remember the claymation version, though it may have been a cartoon originally), one of which was voiced by the late great Paul Winchell. He would trail off on the “…so you don’t have tooooo!” as he went down the drain.