# Stupid advertising jingles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543 "2018-07-25T04:55:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/41 "2019-11-12T14:16:48Z")
The radio commercial for Chamin that starts: We’ve always heard that you shouldn’t talk ab out going to the bathroom in public." No, you shouldn’t be going to the bathroom in public. And you shouldn’t talk in public about going to the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/42 "2019-11-12T14:27:29Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I wonder how many people drive their car into a tree when that stupid jingle comes on. I can see it being just the last straw to drive someone over the edge. Kubrick cut it out of the film, but it was the straw that broke Jacks’ back in The Shining. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/43 "2019-11-12T16:13:24Z")
The commercial by itself doesn’t annoy me, but now that this thread has been resurrected, there’s a commercial for toy trucks that uses the tune of _My Boyfriend’s Back_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zhffBZLu_Yg/maxresdefault.jpg "The 2019 Hess Tow Truck Rescue Team!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhffBZLu_Yg) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/44 "2019-11-12T16:24:30Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > It reminded me of another one I thought was very stupid (thankfully I haven’t heard it for a while) for Safelite: “Safelite repair, Safelite replace,” sung in a painfully off-key tune. The exact same tune is used in the German-speaking world, albeit with translated lyrics. When I heard it in Vienna, you could have knocked me down with a feather. From listening to Old-Time Radio I know that Philip Morris cigarettes had a profoundly obnoxious advertisement, consisting of The Boy With The World’s Most Obnoxious Voice screaming “PHILIP MORRIS! PHILIP MORRIS!” to a world which mysteriously failed to seek him out and feed him to the warthogs. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/45 "2019-11-12T17:32:32Z")
Fred’s Tune Up. Tune-ups, tune-ups, that’s our game F-R-E-D-S If you don’t come here, that’s a shame F-R-E-D-S 1413 Burlingame, F-R-E-D-S [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L5ElTaXbSLM/hqdefault.jpg "John Mahoney on Cheers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ElTaXbSLM) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/46 "2019-11-12T17:56:41Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > From listening to Old-Time Radio I know that Philip Morris cigarettes had a profoundly obnoxious advertisement, consisting of The Boy With The World’s Most Obnoxious Voice screaming “PHILIP MORRIS! PHILIP MORRIS!” to a world which mysteriously failed to seek him out and feed him to the warthogs. You mean [the Philip Morris Bellboy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Roventini)? ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/47 "2019-11-12T17:57:35Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I wonder how many people drive their car into a tree when that stupid jingle comes on. I can see it being just the last straw to drive someone over the edge. That’s my favorite jingle! Here, sing along -\> 1-877-Kars-4-Kids See? Just uplifting! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/48 "2019-11-12T18:15:40Z")
The insidious thing is that all the horrible jingles I remember worked. Because I remember them. And people wonder why I drink. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/49 "2019-11-12T19:04:23Z")
I find Volkswagen’s “elbow room” jingle supremely annoying, especially after hearing it more than once in every freakin’ commercial break on H2 over the weekend. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/50 "2019-11-12T19:39:04Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > An oldie but a goodie: Ace is the place with the helpful hardware _folks_. The other thing about that jingle are the variations of it: How narration is sung to the same lilt and cadence to the basic tune, but then is ( perhaps deliberately ) discordant…too many syllables. I don’t watch much TV but while I was a captive audience in a breakroom full of sports fanatics, this super annoying Coke commercial played during every commercial break during some stupid game: It depicted in slow motion-ish style, people engaged in various physical feats with a super irritating “Woo!” uttered every few seconds over the music. Another nagging question: why are ads shown during sports programming even more inane and obnoxious than usual, as in in non-sports programming? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/51 "2019-11-12T19:46:31Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Another nagging question: why are ads shown during sports programming even more inane and obnoxious than usual, as in in non-sports programming? Because they’re aimed at the ultimate LCD audience? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/52 "2019-11-12T19:49:21Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Some oldies here. > > “Chock Full o’ Nuts is that wonderful coffee > Better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy!” > > or the insipid > > “International House of Pancakes - fun to do. > International House of Pancakes - just for the fun of it, ooo.” You got it wrong – It’s “Chock Full o’Nuts is the _heavenly_ Coffee” I know. I’ve heard it a zillion times, and always with that lyric. And I _hate_ coffee. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/53 "2019-11-13T00:47:34Z")
[quote=“Cardigan, post:9, topic:818543”] Mr. Plow, oh that’s my name. That name again is Mr. Plow [/QUOTE] And the Mr. Plow jingle was parodying an old Roto-Rooter jingle: Call Roto-Rooter That’s the name! Away go troubles Down the drain! ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543/54 "2019-11-13T08:56:37Z")
When “Stuck on Band-Aid” suddenly became “Stuck on Band-Aid Brand” and they tried to make it a thing by playing the new jingle constantly until they gave up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-advertising-jingles/818543.md?page=2)