# What's That Song in That Cheerio's Commercial?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 5, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-in-that-cheerios-commercial/570225 "2011-02-05T00:32:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-in-that-cheerios-commercial/570225/1 "2011-02-05T00:32:22Z")

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There’s a Cheerio’s commercial with the guy who’s all goofy for building birdhouses, and there’s this whistled song in the back ground that’s been boring into my ear drums since I heard it. But I can’t place it, and I don’t know what the song is. I almost think I might have heard the first bit of it in an old Little Rascals / Our Gang thing, but I could be wrong.

Any help?

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**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-in-that-cheerios-commercial/570225/2 "2011-02-05T01:05:17Z")

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Maybe _With a little bit of luck_?

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu38CP5OfLY)

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNkWWy750rA)

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-in-that-cheerios-commercial/570225/3 "2011-02-05T03:18:09Z")

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[Listen to the Mockingbird.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiFt47CsXo) It dates back to at least the Civil War.

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**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:** [February 5, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-in-that-cheerios-commercial/570225/4 "2011-02-05T05:53:50Z")

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“Listen To The Mockingbird” is the [Three Stooges theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfGWPpPy0uw), so that’s where the OP knows it from, probably.

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-song-in-that-cheerios-commercial/570225/5 "2011-02-05T12:38:46Z")

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Stooges! Of course.

Pardon me whilst I whistle.