TV jingles spread like a social disease!

Whatever it is I think I see/Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!

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.

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

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…

That was David Naughton, who went on to have a fairly prolific (if not particularly high-brow) film and television career.

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. :slight_smile:

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…)

I attribute this to the start of Rap!
Have you got Trouble? Wait, don’t run!
This kind of Trouble 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.
<low quiet voice> 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?

You asked for it; you got it. Toyota!

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

Hah, you just reminded me of:

Have you driven a Forrrd… LATEly?

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

I hate all of you. :wink:

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!

Ask and you shall receive.

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…

I can’t listen here at work, but that sentence got me in trouble all on its own because I laughed too damn loud. :slight_smile:

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?

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.

I must be slightly older than you, because I heard it with Jimmy Carter’s name inserted.

I can’t believe I still remember this one:

They were dressed gangsta style, full of bling bling. It was hilarious. :smiley:

What’s good enough for other folks,
Ain’t good enough for me …
Me and my R.C., yeah! Me and my R.C. …