"Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name / And away go troubles down the drain!"
Parodied in Futurama: "Call Robo-Rooter when you flush your towel / And we can also help with an impacted bowel."
Also - "Nobody doesn't like molten boron!"
Parodied in The Simpsons: "Call Mr. Plow, that's my name / That name again is Mr. Plow."
Parodied in Family Guy: "At Wilkins Hyundai and Subaru / We have Hyundais and Subarus."
"You don't have to be a man to love Manwich..."
"I want some fun piled on a bun. I want a Manwich, please."
"Grab Your Garmin": Evil Mapasaurus prepare to meet your DOOM! Our hero has the power, GLOVEBOX is your TOMB! Grab your GARMIN, take on the WOOOORLD!!!! Video here
The various take-offs of "The Carol of The Bells" Garmin uses around Christmas, as well:
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 ((BROKEN))Coca-Cola.
"Put the lime in the coke you nut..."
(That's actually "coconut", but let's never let the lyrics get in the way of a 'good' ad.)
"Cuz there's one thing I have found, and it's never let me down-when you stock up on joy, there's enough to go 'round..."
And how about the Discovery Channel's ((BROKEN))2010 ad campaign? Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-da, Boom-de-ah-da!
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.
"It's nothing but a Quonset hut, BUT...!" (maaaan, that thing has been earwormed for me since 1973; not just earwormed, I can see the entire damn commercial in my head. Aaugh!)
DC Area only:
"At Eastern Motors Your job's your credit..."
Ford, Hyundai, Chevy beamers, and minivans. Over 600 cars, trucks, SUV's, are you listening, man? Let Eastern Motors. . . put you in a car today. Let Eastern Motors. . . finance it all the way.
It's a song about dildoes, did you really think it would be something you want playing in your cubicle?
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We're happy little Vegemites, as bright as bright 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.
"You, you're the one ... you'd better watch your fri-ies ... or they might disappear ... before your very eyes! / You should keep your eyes on your fries..."
"The best part of wa-king up, is Folgers IN your cup!" The Rockapella version is so catchy...
"Bringin' Home the Oil", a late-'60s/early '70s Gulf Oil jingle done in the style of an Irish sea shanty, written and performed by the Clancy Brothers.
The Sleepy's commercials...
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!
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?
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!
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!
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!
((BROKEN))This Japanese commercial for something called "Hot Pepper".
"Happy peanuts soar/ over chocolate covered mountaintops/ and waterfalls of caramel/ prancing naugaut in the meadows/ sings a song of satisfaction (other person joins in)/ To the world/
(Audience member) "The whole world" (Singer) "That's right"
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!"
Funny story about that when me and my busmates were caught in a traffic jam this troper suddenly started singing the first lines in the advertisement, another busmate joined in and before we knew it the both of us sang out the whole commercial PITCH-PERFECT. The busdriver being absolutely clueless asked what song was that, our answer? "We got it off a commercial"
Dream On, when played on a Buick commercial.
"Do do do do do do do do dooooo, do do do do do do do do dooooo..."
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!
Nooooo! THOSE CHILDREN VOICES!!!
"West Hills Nissan, top of the runway, MOOOO~OOOOON Township. Call two-six-two, ninety twenty. That's two-six-to, ninety, TWENTYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
"Double your flavor, double your fun, that's the statement of the great mint in doublemint gum."
"Oh, oh, oh, ice cold milk and an Oreo Cookie. They forever go together, what a classic combination. When a dark, delicious cookie meets an icy cold sensation. Like the one and only creamy, crunchy, chocolate, O-R-E-O!"
A few for folks in Wichita (both of us, I guess...)
Freshness made to order... SPANGLES! It just tastes better!
Rusty Eck Foooooooord... you can't do better than that!
We're better, we're provin' it, you be the judge... Mel Hambleton Ford...
Mattress Firm, where's it's easy to get a great night's sleep.
Starlite Drive-In gives you more, dial five two four two four two four!
I've got a laptop.
I make music with mah friends.
HE'S GOT A LAPTOP, OOH! HE'S GOT A LAPTOP!
I've got a laptop, baby. I make music wit' mah friends.
I LOVE MY COMFY SWEATER. I LOVE MY COMFY SWEATER.
While not a song, "STINKY STINKY STINKY STINKY STINKY STINKY STINKY STINKY! HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY!"
If you're from El Paso, you know how to respond if you hear "Hi folks, I'm Dick Poe!"
Also from El Paso: "Pat Goff makes it easy to buy it your way..."
CILIT BANG CILIT BANG CILLLLLITTTTT... BANG! BANG! BANG BANG BANG!
This Japanese tuna commercial is as earwormy as it is bonkers. Which is to say, A LOT.
Cellino and Barnes, industry attornies...
For Canadians: FIVE-SIX-SEVEN, ELEVEN-ELEVEN, COME TO PIZZA PIZZA, HEY HEY HEY!
Ahem, that's NINE-SIX-SEVEN...
It's worse where I am. Here it's SEVEN-THREE-SEVEN.
I love horses, best of all the animals! The interesting thing with this jingle is that it doesn't seem to have actually been in any ads (beyond playing when you go the site for the magazine itself). Instead it's managed to spread itself around the internet as a meme on the strength of how ridiculously catchy it is.
For the old-schoolers in the Detroit area, perhaps you'd be best reminded to stay on the right track / to Nine Mile and Mack / Roy O' Brien Trucks and Cars keeps 'em coming back!
They never give you less than their best shot / When you buy a Dodge from Dick Scott!
Do any Edmontonians remember, or still hear in their head, "dial 4-73-73-73"
PIZZA 73! Pizza zone....
If you live in West Virginia (specifically Cabell County), you've had the Danny Kline commercial stuck in your head. "Danny Kline is the way to go, call 346-5990!!"
We buy any car (dot com), we buy any car (dot com), we buy any car (dot com), any any any any, we buy any car. Not quite sure what company that could possibly be advertising, but it might, just might, be We Buy Any Car.
We buy any car (dot com), any make, any model, any age, any price, from fifty quid to a hundred grand! * dance*
"Everybody in love, put your hands up..." Anyone exploring This Wiki who's been unfortunate enough to actually scroll over the banner ad has this one stuck in their head.
Given we're already had the Vegemite song, I can't believe no aussie's posted the immortal Aeroplane Jelly jingle. There was even a singalong version. I like it for dinner, I like it for tea...
Six-six-seven! Eleven-Eleven...
If you live in Miami, Florida, you're probably well aquainted with the jingle for Miami Seaquarium (If you aren't, then watch and be prepared).
It's not a song, but...too much of PBS Kids = Pampers Cruisers Poem. Eternally stuck in my head. "There once was a baby named Trish..." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
MOON SHOES! MOON SHOES! THE KID POWERED ANTI GRAVITY SHOES!
A relatively new one: "We! Are! Farmers! Bum da dum dum dum dum dum!"
The money system was changed nearly forty years ago but still in my head is "1001, 1001, get rid of those workaday blues. 1001 cleans a big, big carpet for less than half a crown!"
Who do you call when your windshield's busted? Call Giant Glass. 1-800-54-GIANT!
Anyone in the Greater Boston area should know this by heart. Ernie Boch Jr. (yeah) We've got it! Ernie Boch Jr., everything you're looking for. Come on down!
For those in the Washington, D.C. area: "Jerry's Ford makes it clear... LET THE COMPETITION BEWARE!"
For those Washingtonians who find that jingle annoying, consider yourself lucky you don't live in the Cleveland area, or you would otherwise hear something even more annoying: "Liberty's in Solon! Maple Heights! Brunswick! Parma Heights! Vermilion! OHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
For a while Cocoa Puffs, used this one: "The chocolaty taste you go...cuckoo for!"
At any given point, any radio jingle will ultimately become this, such as this one from Connecticut: "(Lite! 100! Point five!) WRCH, New Britain/Hartford!"
A national one that's no longer used: "Radio Disney, we're all ears!"
Anyone not from the U.K. will only know this one from You Tube: "Da....Da....Da, DA!!"
Mouse Trap! I guarantee, it's the craziest trap you'll ever see!
And of course, crossing over from Western Animation earworms (although they appeared in their respective commercials first):
"G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, G.I. Joe is there..."
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? We've gone this far down the page without mentioning ZOOM ZOOM?!
Sleep Countryy CANADA!
That accursed Heinekin song by the Avril Lavigne lookalike "Sing it out loud gonna get that honey' sing it out loud get away with me". IT WILL HAUNT YOUR DREAMS!
If you're ever in a group of 20-something Australians, try saying "My dad picks the fruit...". They'll do the rest.
There's more than corn in Indiana / it's the best part of Americana / and it's right within your reach / it's Indiana Beach!
Empire Carpets: 1-800-588, Two-Three-Hundred, Em-pire! (Today!) This one has been around since the 1960's, when Empire was a Chicago-only business, and the phone number didn't start with 1-800. Many folks who first heard it back then think the "1-800" ruins the meter.
The holiday jingles were just as earworm-ish.
Stanley Steemer: Call 1-800-STEEMER, Stanley Steemer gets your carpet cleaner!
Speaking of Pizza hut: "Call 648-8888..." (This number, set to the melody of the William Tell Overture, reaches Pizza Hut delivery in one or two area codes.)
Call 488-8888! Pizza Hut Delivery is really great!
A taxi ad which appeared in September '07, EVERYWHERE in Australia. "1-3-1, double 0 8. So many taxis, why wait?"
