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- "You don't have to be a man to love Manwich..."
- As mentioned above, commercial jingles are designed to do this to the unsuspecting punter. Some of them long outlive the product they advertised by clinging parasitically in the minds of helpless citizens. Here's a British jingle from the 1980s — read this example at your own risk. The Do-Da-De-Da-Da Code by Robert Rankin has a throw-away line in chapter 37 in a passage where everyone's fingers are poised for the last big number of a gig, Fingers, Fingers, fingers. Fingers of Jonny's left hand on the neck of the wondrous guitar. Fingers of Andi Evans on the big buttons of the big recording equipment. Fingers of tom Gripping his drumsticks. Fingers of Gaz on the mic. A finger on the trigger. Two fingers of redeye from the optic. A finger of fudge is just enough. That last part is from the jingle in question:
A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat.
A finger of fudge is just enough, until it's time to eat.
It's full of Cadbury's goodness, but very small and neat.
A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat.
- Call JG Wentworth, 877-CASH-NOW!!!
- This is just the first of many, many, examples on this page of advertisers setting their phone numbers to catchy tunes to make them easier to remember, because a seven or ten-digit number doesn't stick as well as a brand name. (Of course, this particular example likely isn't done for that purpose since they used letter equivalents for their phone number...)
- JAPAN BREAK INDUSTRIES! DIAMOND CUTTA! DADADAN!
- F to the R to the E to the E, to the C, to the R, to the E-D-I-T, RE to the PORT to the dot to the com, come on, everybody, grab your bike and sing along...
Why'm I dressed up like a pirate In this restaurant?
Should've gone to freecreditreport.com...
- Hell, all the Freecreditreport.com commercials.
- One of the songs had him singing "'Free' to the 'Por(t)' to the 'Dot' to the 'Com'". Neither Freeport.com nor Freepor.com lead to this place.
- Here come Pete, He's a meeeeeat puppet! A meeeeeeat puppet! A puppet of meat! This one also wins points for being totally horrifying.
- Hot dogs... Armour Hot Dogs... the dogs you love to bite!
- 1-800-588, Two-Three-Hundred, Em-pire! (Today!)
- Call 1-800-STEEMER, Stanley Steemer gets your carpet cleaner!
- THEY'RE GONNA TASTE GREAT! THEY'RE GONNA TASTE GREAT! I CAN HEAR THE SOUND OF FROSTIES HITTIN' ME PLATE! Yes, it's annoying as hell, and yet...
- POP TARTS CRUNCH! I LOVE TO MUNCH! ...on them.
- Thank god—I thought I was the only one who remembered that!
- Chances are, if it's featured in a Guinness advert, it will stick in your head. Canny buggers, those alcohol advertising executives.
- Run catchy ads on television? BRILLIANT!
- If you have lived in the Cleveland area for long enough you have had "Garfield 12323" stuck in your head at some point. They even did a commercial boasting that their jingle has been around for over 50 years.
- Tarako tarako, tappuri tarako, tarako tarako tappuri... That it's a commercial for pasta sauce made with cod eggs doesn't help, either.
- Remember that song from the Pepsi commercials? With the little girl? oh god, ba ba buh buh ba, ba buh ba ba buh! Or Britney Spears and Bob Dole?
- Yes. God, yes. Also, I see your Britney and raise you one (set of) Spice Girls.
- Do you remember "I'd Like To Teach the World to Sing", a commercial jingle that was released as a single by popular demand? Oh right, that was for Coca-Cola.
- "Put the lime in the coke you nut..."
- And how about the Discovery Channel's newest ad campaign? Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-da!
- "Gimme a break, gimme a break. Break me off a piece of that Kit-Kat Bar!"
- "Eight seven seven three nine three. Four. Four. Four. EIGHT!"
- "Seven-seven-three, two-oh-two... LUNAAA."
- One-Eight-Hundred-fifty-four-giant...
- Whenever he performs in the Philly area, Paul Sabourin of Da Vinci's Notebook and its offshoot Paul & Storm leads a singalong of the jingle for Ideal. There's always a lot of audience participation.
- DC Area only:
"At Eastern Motors
Your job's your credit..."
- The Clapper.
"Clap on! <clap, clap>
Clap off!" <clap, clap>
- The Subway "Five Dollar Footlong" ads.
- Flea Market, Montgomery! It's just like, it's just like, it's just like, A MINI-MAWHL!
- BY MENNEN!
- It's a slinky, a slinky! Fun for girls and boys!
- Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee're happy little Vegemites, as happy as can be... See here (at 2:10) from the Australian show Good News Week to see just how that jingle can stick in the head of every Australian alive. The reactions from the American guests just add to the glee! "We are an army forged by Vegemite!" (The audience did sing the whole thing - for some reason, the broadcast cut a line out.)
- That horrible "zoom zoom zoom" ditty from the Mazda commercials.
"Za zoom zoom zoom
Za zoom zoom zoom..."
- Super Timor!
- To the melody of the William Tell Overture: "Call 648-8888..." (This number, in one or two area codes, reaches Pizza Hut delivery.)
- Then again, the William Tell Overture is an Ear Worm in its own right.
- A taxi ad which appeared in September '07, EVERYWHERE in Australia. "1-3-1, double 0 8. So many taxis, why wait?" SOMEONE. WILL. DIE
- "Ba da ba ba, I'm lovin' it!" ROAR.
- Hell, McDonalds will change its Ear Worm jingle every few years to something else, each one more inane and infuriating than the last.
"Have you had your break today?"
- "You deserve a break today at McDonald's!
- This Troper's Health teacher STILL remembers this one from way back in the day.
"Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun."
- Ahem.
- "The best part of wa-king up, is Folgers IN your cup!" The Rockapella version is so catchy...
- The Sleepy's commercials...
- 1-877-Kars-4-Kids, 1-877—ARGH!
- Just dial one-nine-hundred-nine-zero-nine-JEFF!
- Remember when D.J. Jazzy Jeff was the star? Aw hell naw!
- What do we do when Christmas is coming? GOTTA CALL SANTA, GOTTA CALL SANTA!
- Who wants Trident? I do, I do!
- Mini-Mini-Mini-Miiiini Wheats!
- Oh GOD, the Mentos commercial anyone?
- "Saaaaved byyy zeeeeeee-ro." Catchy tune - now, what's it for again?
- Good luck prying the shrill voice of the girl from the Microsoft Songsmith commercial out of your mind.
- And just to go a little retro...
- "Wanna Fanta, doncha wanna, wanna Fanta?" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOP
- This old ''Legend of Zelda advert. It leaves a firm loop of 'Deru deru deru' in your mind AND NEVER GOES AWAY. ARRRRG.
- "After these messages we'll be riiiight back!"
- WAKE UP YOU SLEEPY HEAD< YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD!
- Charms Blow Pop take one, action.[1]The fact that a director can be easily heard giving the actors their cues just makes it stick in the head more.
- One day, one night, Saturday's alright. Online's just fine. Nighttime, anytime. Get your degree. Set yourself free. Nationalllll Americannnn Universityeee!
- Anyone from the St Louis area knows this infuriating ad: "Call T-I-C-K-E-T-1 to get your traffic tickets done, T-I-C-K-E-T-1, Ticket-1, Ticket-1." What's worse is that it's a 15 second ad that airs twice in a single break. It's so addictive that even a year after I had moved away, when I got pulled over, that was the first thing in my mind.
- Frisbie Tire! There's a lot we do! What can we do for you?
- When you eat your smarties, do you eat the red ones last?
- In the 1980s the tourism board of Prince Edward Island, Canada, commissioned country legend "Stompin' Tom" Connors to write a jingle. I can't remember where my keys are, but what's the phone number for Tourism PEI?
"Eight-seven-seven, five-six-five, seven-four-two-ONE!"
- Much embarrasment accompanies this admission - but those damned Taco Bell commercials of late, about things for "Seventy-nine, Eighty-nine, Ninety-nine-ine-ine-ine!" MAKE IT STOP. Dear God, make it STOP!
- It's a big ad! My God it's big! Can't believe how big it is!
- 118 247. It may be directory heaven but it's Ear Worm hell.
- "If you need a cab, the serivce is fab, you fancy a curry, it's there in a hurry, yeah, yeah...."
- For Ventura County, CA: "Everybody knows 101 to Rose! Oxnard Auto Center! AT THE BIG SIGN!"
- BEEP-BEEP DOT COM! BEEP-BEEP DOT COM! BEEP-BEEP DOT COM! Most. Annoying. Jingle. EVER.
- Four words: For mash get Smash.
- WHEN I SAY HILLSHIRE, YOU SAY FARM. HILLSHIRE. FARM. GO MEAT.
- Yipee yi yay, mini sirloin burgers.
- And how about that Snickers commercial?
- Snap! Crackle! Pop! Rice Krispies!
- Frosted Flakes! They're mooooooore than good! THEY'RE GREAT!
- Here's our/jingle for goldfish/we wrote a song for goldfish/the wholesome snack that smiles back/until you bite their heads off...
- How about "I love the fishes 'cause they're so delicious..."
- We wanna be (umph-umph) Smi-iths Crisps...
- This troper recently got introduced to this commercial for Russ-K, and it's memetastic imitators. She's going crazy.
- CVS Pharmacy's "Ordinary Everyday Miracle" song. Oh, God...
- "Hello Mother - hello Father. Fleas, ticks, mosquitoes - really bother! I saw the package - that's why I'm writing - K9 Advantix quickly stopped all the biting!" Darn that cute puppy!
- First Energy always had a catchy theme in Ohio. Sadly, they seem to have disappeared since being a major part of the 2003 blackout. Sad. Great song.
- You save big money, you save big money, when you shop Menards!
- SING IT WITH ME, PEOPLE- "Should have gone to FREE CREDIT REPORT DOT COM, I could have seen it coming at me, like an atom bomb..."
- ONE EIGHT-HUNDREEEED... MY LEMON!
- And no one can forget: 1-800-800-8553! Where your car credit is guaranteed! BING!
- In Japan, the electronics giant Hitachi has a famous series of commercials using the catchiest song I have ever heard. Apparently, most people in Japan can sing the opening lines, "Kono ki, nan no ki, kininaru ki..."
- "Amazing siding and windows..."
- For all you southern Californians: Appliance Rescue will rescue you call 1800-APPLIANCE!
- Take Queen's "We Will Rock You", an Ear Worm in its own right, and then make it into something about Domino's Pizza serving buffalo wings. Voila.
- Abilene, Tx. Dish Networks jingle that plays every time you are on the local stations. "695-1181 Who are you with? RPM Direct." Just Google that number. the first thing in results is how annying that jingle is!
- This Japanese commercial for something called "Hot Pepper".
- Can I help you enjoy that Snickers?
- All those engineers singing the barbershop quartet version of 'Lollypop' while making Dell inspiron laptops. Lollipop, lollipop oh la-la-la lolly gah!
- Get connected, for free! (FREE!) With EDUCATION CONNECTION!
- Call Goldberg! 800-600-6014!
- "Raise your hand, raise your hand if you're Sure!" This Troper is 30, hasn't seen the ad since she was 5 and still remembers it!
- The Segata Sanshiro Theme Song. Okay, everybody together. SEGATA SANSHIRO! SEGATA SANSHIRO! SEGATA SAATAAN-SHIRO
- That theme song got its own music video, and sold about 100,000 singles. If there was a CMOA page for ads, then this would be on it.
- Home is where I want to be / the only place that feels like me...
- Let your NEW life begin, call 1-800-Get-SLIM!
- Beef. It's what's for dinner. Start that video at 0:40. You'll know.
- The Reeeeeeeeed Hooooouse, where black people and white people buy furniture.
- I am stuck on Band-Aid brand! 'Cause germs won't stick on me!
- Academy Sports and Outdoors, the right stuff, the right price! ACADEMY!
- Yipes! Stripes! Fruit Stripe Gum!
- "Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time! When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime!"
- "1-800-94-JENNY!"
- The song from the Ford Ka "Go Find It" advert. It proved to be so popular that a full version of the song was made available over iTunes!
- Russell Brand admitted in his Ponderland show that the screensaver for his brain was the Coco Pops theme tune, and that when he wasn't thinking about anything in particular, he'd hear "I'd rather have a bowl of COCO POPS!"
- "I'm squeezed in the middle, smack dab in the middle, squeezed in the middle..."
- Dream On, when played on a Buick commercial, refuses to leave This Troper's head.
- "Do do do do do do do do dooooo, do do do do do do do do dooooo..."
- Japanese boyband SMAP would like you to know that WE! ARE! IN!! O-KI-NA-WA!! *HWUUU!!!*
- Look at me, busy as a bee! Where'd I get all this energy? Ohhhh, METH!
- "Eye of the Tiger" used to be only the second or third most obnoxiously catchy song ever, but Starbucks stepped up to the plate.
- The Corn Nuts song, though hilarious at first, is easily the most vicious earworm this troper has yet encountered.
- For those in Pittsburgh, PA: "Century III Chevrolet, Lebanon Church Road, Pittsburgh (minutes from the mall)!" The jingle comes complete with lyrics along the bottom of the screen and a bouncing ball to follow!
- "1-800-SAFE-AUTO..."
- The red car and the blue car had a race — so much so they brought it back 20 years later.
- GIVE IT UP FOR EDDIE RIGGS...
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