# TV jingles spread like a social disease! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 15, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547 "2005-04-15T21:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/41 "2005-04-22T09:46:46Z")
[Whatever it is I think I see/Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!](http://www.tootsie.com/whatever.html) **NoPretentiousCodename** , I had that whole thing memorized in high school. I seem to remember there was a reason for this, but I have no idea what that might have been. ---
**Author:** ![robotic\_panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@robotic\_panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robotic_panda)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/42 "2005-04-22T11:08:03Z")
Lite Brite! Lite Brite! Play all day, and glow all night! … thats all I remember. Oh and **Mr. Blue Sky** ; since you got that horrible Juicy Fruit jingle back in my head, I have to unload another horrible gum one… Who likes Trident? I do! I do!! I DOOOOOOOO!! This one is more recent, but still… Food, Folks, and Fun! Foooood, Foooolks and Fuuuuun! You are the one, McDonalds for Foooood Foooolks and Fuuuun! The people who created this stuff should be banned from advertising… or lauded for creating such memorable ads. Maybe i’m just a sucker for repetitiveness. I’m confused now… _wanders away humming jingles_ ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/43 "2005-04-22T11:36:45Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > I drink Dr Pepper, doncha know > It’s the original taste that I love so > And the taste is making Peppers > Everywhere I go! > I’m a Pepper > He’s a Pepper > She’s a Pepper > We’re all Peppers > Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? Mmmmm. I had the hots for the Dr. Pepper guy. My memory goes all the way back to the 70’s for this PSA: Veeeeeee Deeeeeeeeeee Is for Evvvvvrybody Not just for the few; Anyone can share VD With someone nice as you… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/44 "2005-04-22T12:04:12Z")
> [@YWalker](#): > > Mmmmm. I had the hots for the Dr. Pepper guy. That was David Naughton, who went on to have a fairly prolific (if not particularly high-brow) [film and television career](http://imdb.com/name/nm0622544/). ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/45 "2005-04-22T12:57:00Z")
> [@YWalker](#): > > Veeeeeee Deeeeeeeeeee > Is for Evvvvvrybody > Not just for the few; > Anyone can share VD > With someone nice as you… I don’t think I ever heard that, but I find myself wishing I knew the tune so I could sing it to my friends. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/46 "2005-04-22T13:06:39Z")
My bologna has a first name It’s O-S-C-A-R My bologna has a second name It’s M-E-Y-E-R OooOOoh, I love to Eat it everyday And if you ask me Why, I’ll say: 'Cuz Oscar Meyer has a way With B-O-L-O-G-N-A! :: Irrelevent Republican Icon Bashing :: I remember singing about my dissatisfaction with Ronald Reagan’s first term to a satire set to this tune, ending with: “'Cuz Ronald Reagan has a way of fucking up the U-S-A!” (I can’t report my own post to the Mods, so I’ll trust one of your oversensitive types will probably do it for me… counting off the seconds until my probable reprimand… aaaaaand… one… two… three…) ---
**Author:** ![cantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@cantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cantara)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/47 "2005-04-22T14:19:33Z")
I attribute this to the start of Rap! Have you got Trouble? Wait, don’t run! This kind of [Trouble](http://www.timewarptoys.com/trouble.jpg) is lots of fun. Popamatic pops the dice pop a six and you move twice Race your men around the track and try to send the others back The game is fun for Dad and Mother and sis can trouble her mean old brother Trouble Trouble, that’s popamatic Trouble. \ By Milton Bradley (this is in Canada in the mid 70s) I think I am missing a couple of lines in there somewhere…“Look out sister, look out Jack” maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/48 "2005-04-22T14:56:44Z")
You asked for it; you got it. Toyota! > [@](#): > > I drink Dr Pepper, doncha know > It’s the original taste that I love so > And the taste is making Peppers > Everywhere I go! > I’m a Pepper > He’s a Pepper > She’s a Pepper > We’re all Peppers > Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? I drink Dr. Pepper and I’m proud 'Cause I’m part of an original crowd And if you look around these days There seems to be a Dr. Pepper craze! I’m Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, we’re all Peppers Wouldn’tcha like to be a Pepper too? And the guy was wearing a white shirt, black vest, and tan jeans, so he looked a bit like Han Solo ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/49 "2005-04-22T14:59:41Z")
Hah, you just reminded me of: Have you driven a Forrrd… LATEly? ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/50 "2005-04-22T18:24:00Z")
HONEYCOMB’S BIG YEAH YEAH YEAH it’s not small no no no Honeycomb’s got a big big taste Big big crunch in a big big bite ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/51 "2005-04-22T18:48:40Z")
I hate all of you. 😉 > [@Marlitharn](#): > > [Whatever it is I think I see/Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!](http://www.tootsie.com/whatever.html) To this day, I find myself constitutionally incapable of counting to three without mentally hearing the inflection of Mr. Owl from the “How many licks does it take” Tootsie Roll ad: “One…two-hooooooo…thrrrrrrrree… **bite** Thrrrrrree!” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/52 "2005-04-22T19:41:53Z")
> [@Katisha](#): > > To this day, I find myself constitutionally incapable of counting to three without mentally hearing the inflection of Mr. Owl from the “How many licks does it take” Tootsie Roll ad: “One…two-hooooooo…thrrrrrrrree… **bite** Thrrrrrree!” _Tootsie Roll, I really love your chocolatey chew Tootsie Roll, I think I’m in love with you Whatever it is I think I see Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!_ ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/53 "2005-04-22T19:57:49Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I don’t think I ever heard that, but I find myself wishing I knew the tune so I could sing it to my friends. 🙂 [Ask and you shall receive.](http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=avgeeks&collectionid=vd_is_for_everybody) I haven’t actually downloaded this, as I don’t have (or want) Quicktime at home right now, but they seem to have this available in several different media. It’s very surreal. It’s a beautiful, haunting tune, and makes it appear that all these beautiful, smiling people (including, IIRC, bizzare folks to include such as nuns and babies) either have VD or are just about ready to go out and get some. Since I was an incredibly naive young girl of 9 or 10 or so at the time it ran, and didn’t have a CLUE what VD was, it made it seem like all the cool people had it, and sorta made you want to be just like them… ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/54 "2005-04-22T20:03:31Z")
> [@YWalker](#): > > It’s a beautiful, haunting tune, and makes it appear that all these beautiful, smiling people (including, IIRC, bizzare folks to include such as nuns and babies) either have VD or are just about ready to go out and get some. I can’t listen here at work, but that sentence got me in trouble all on its own because I laughed too damn loud. 🙂 I should probably be ashamed of myself for laughing at the idea of nuns with venereal diseases, but I’m going to hell for so many other transgressions, what’s one more? ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/55 "2005-04-22T20:19:55Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > Oh. My. God. > > Somebody was having a LOT of fun at the ad agency that day. Actually, there was one worse than that—A Corn Nuts commercial with the slogan, “Bust a nut!” I think this was in the Eighties. I don’t remember seeing it myself, but someone metioned it in another thread some time ago. I was pretty sure they were kidding, but I googled it and it seems they weren’t. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/56 "2005-04-22T20:40:36Z")
> [@Askia](#): > > “'Cuz Ronald Reagan has a way of fucking up the U-S-A!” I must be slightly older than you, because I heard it with Jimmy Carter’s name inserted. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/57 "2005-04-30T20:18:52Z")
I can’t believe I still remember this one: > [@](#): > > We’re McNuggets, and rapping’s our thing! > We love to rap– > > ('cause they can’t sing!) They were dressed gangsta style, full of bling bling. It was hilarious. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-jingles-spread-like-a-social-disease/299547/58 "2005-05-02T14:59:10Z")
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