Tell Me Your Age, Without Telling Me Your Age, Using Contemporaneous Ad and TV Show Slogans

There was a second verse, too:

You can have your flame-broiled Whopper
fresh with everything on top or
any way you think is proper
have it your way!

My wording for the first line feels a bit off, but I think I’m pretty close otherwise. :slight_smile:

Out of the night,
When the full moon is bright,
Comes the horseman known as Zorro!

My earliest recollection of any TV show lyrics. Original series had already ended and had been in re-runs for several years by the time I got hooked on it one summer (circa 1964 or '65), but it was fresh and new to me!

It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile.

I wanna pop [pop-pop], I wanna Shasta!

I thought that was “Rampart”

Could be. I only know what it sounded like to my little ears.

Ooh! Ooh! Ooooooooh Ooh!! Mr Kotter! Mr. Kotter!!!

Who can identify this parody character, ordering in a bar,

       “Whiskey … in a dirty glass

Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

Good e-e-e-evening. Submitted for your approval: Bang zoom!, you’ve got a lot of ‘splainin’ to do…and that’s the way it is!

McDonald’s is your kind of place. They serve you rattlesnakes, throw milkshakes in your face, they steal your parking place.

Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce.
Shut-up, lady, you upset us.
All that we are asking is you throw it away.

I hate Bosco
It isn’t good for me
Mommy puts it in my milk
To try and poison me
I fooled Mommy
I put it in her tea
Now I have no mommy
To try and poison me

Steve Austin. Astronaut. A man barely alive.
We can rebuild him. We have the technology.
We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic watermelon man.
We can make him better than he was. Better. Stronger. Faster.

You guys doing parodies? How about

“You’ll wonder where the people went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.”

What rolls down stairs
Alone or in pairs
And over your neighbors’ dog?

What’s great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It’s log, log, log

It’s log
It’s log

It’s big
It’s heavy
It’s wood

It’s better than good!

It’s log
It’s log

Everyone wants a log
You’re gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log

whistle
LOG FROM BLAMMO

Meow meow meow meow
meow meow meow meow
meow meow
meow meow
meow meow meow meow

You get three feet
for your two legs
on Western Airlines!

Recognize the show this is from?

Oh boy

Nosmo King

(Pittsburgh specific I think)

Me and my RC
Me and my RC
What’s good enough for other folks
ain’t good enough for me!

and my RC… (ad infinitum)

Saturday night, Saturday night,
Going downtown, to see the sights
Girls and pinball, and Coke in bright lights
Wish everyday was Saturday night.

“Dooooown goes the curtain…
And back up again with The Three Stooges!”