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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': "I don't want to [[WorldWarIII set the world on fire]]..." (This is a deliberate case of SoundtrackDissonance.)

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': "I don't want to [[WorldWarIII set the world on fire]]..." (This is a deliberate case of SoundtrackDissonance.)



** Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Start Me Up" for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows 95. Note the BrokenAesop variant here; the next line to the song, not appearing in the commercial itself, is "You make a grown man cry." Another line not used is "I can't compete", which [[IsntItIronic some snarkier types have found quite amusing]] in light of Microsoft's apparent monopolistic ambitions, coupled with notorious quality control problems (especially in the area of security).

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** Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "Start Me Up" for UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows Platform/MicrosoftWindows 95. Note the BrokenAesop variant here; the next line to the song, not appearing in the commercial itself, is "You make a grown man cry." Another line not used is "I can't compete", which [[IsntItIronic some snarkier types have found quite amusing]] in light of Microsoft's apparent monopolistic ambitions, coupled with notorious quality control problems (especially in the area of security).



-->Big Mac McDLT a Quarter Pounder with some cheese Filet-O-Fish a hamburger a cheeseburger a Happy Meal etc.

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-->Big Mac McDLT [=McDLT=] a Quarter Pounder with some cheese Filet-O-Fish a hamburger a cheeseburger a Happy Meal etc.



* British Gas uses an instrumental version of "The Universal" by {{Music/Blur}}.

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* British Gas uses an instrumental version of "The Universal" by {{Music/Blur}}.Music/{{Blur}}.



* A 2014 commercial for Apple's iPhone 5 uses the song "Ooh La La" by {{Music/Goldfrapp}}. Of course, this is fitting seeing as how the lyrics start with "Dial up my number..."

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* A 2014 commercial for Apple's iPhone 5 uses the song "Ooh La La" by {{Music/Goldfrapp}}.Music/{{Goldfrapp}}. Of course, this is fitting seeing as how the lyrics start with "Dial up my number..."



* Music/IrvingBerlin repurposed his own song "Any Yams Today" for the war effort during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, creating the classic "WesternAnimation/AnyBondsToday".

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* Music/IrvingBerlin repurposed his own song "Any Yams Today" for the war effort during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, creating the classic "WesternAnimation/AnyBondsToday".
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* The official trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Minions2TheRiseOfGru'' used "Lose Yourself" by Eminem for some reason.
* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig zagged]] with the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe4'' which uses "Sweet Child O Mine" by Music/GunsAndRoses and "Maneater" by Music/JohnHallAndDarylOates; the first makes sense since it's over footage of Gru's new son, but the second is played during a fight with a honey badger.

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* The official trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Minions2TheRiseOfGru'' ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'' used "Lose Yourself" by Eminem for some reason.
* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig zagged]] with the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe4'' which uses "Sweet Child O Mine" by Music/GunsAndRoses Music/GunsNRoses and "Maneater" by Music/JohnHallAndDarylOates; Music/DarylHallAndJohnOates; the first makes sense since it's over footage of Gru's new son, but the second is played during a fight with a honey badger.

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Don't think it over...

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Don't think it over...
* The official trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Minions2TheRiseOfGru'' used "Lose Yourself" by Eminem for some reason.
* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig zagged]] with the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe4'' which uses "Sweet Child O Mine" by Music/GunsAndRoses and "Maneater" by Music/JohnHallAndDarylOates; the first makes sense since it's over footage of Gru's new son, but the second is played during a fight with a honey badger.
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* Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork TV channel used a reworded version of "Mony Mony" for their 1992 [[https://youtu.be/HTWvz2Gbuuc "Yeah!"]] network promo.

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* Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork TV channel used a reworded version of "Mony Mony" for their 1992 [[https://youtu.be/HTWvz2Gbuuc "Yeah!"]] network promo.promo.
* An in-universe example in the ''Series/EerieIndiana'' episode "Zombies in [=PJs=]", when the World o' Stuff store's SubliminalSeduction leads to Marshall dreaming about Music/TheSupremes lookalikes singing a jingle to the tune of "Stop! In the Name of Love":
-->Shop! At the World o' Stuff,\\
Because you need the stuff.\\
Shop! At the World o' Stuff,\\
You just can't get enough.\\
Don't think it over...
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* The UsefulNotes/{{Atari 5200}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL1kiD0tRyE commercial for]] ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' repurposed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTi0XViw074 the opening theme from]] ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou''.

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* The UsefulNotes/{{Atari Platform/{{Atari 5200}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL1kiD0tRyE commercial for]] ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' repurposed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTi0XViw074 the opening theme from]] ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou''.
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* "Anticipation" by Carly Simon, used by Heinz to advertise the thickness and richness of its line of kinds of ketchup in TheSeventies. Played straight, the idea was that, due to its thickness, it poured slowly and was worth the wait.

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* "Anticipation" by Carly Simon, used by Heinz to advertise the thickness and richness of its line of kinds of ketchup in TheSeventies.The70s. Played straight, the idea was that, due to its thickness, it poured slowly and was worth the wait.



* Music/{{Blondie}}'s "One Way Or Another" has been used so many times, for the same illustrative purpose, that now (unless you were introduced to it via ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' or Music/OneDirection) it's almost impossible to hear the song without thinking about somebody trying to open a stubborn bottle lid, crawling around the floor looking for a missing contact lens, trying to get some Doritos out of a vending machine, or the ComedicSociopathy of ''Series/CutthroatKitchen''.

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* Music/{{Blondie}}'s Music/{{Blondie|Band}}'s "One Way Or Another" has been used so many times, for the same illustrative purpose, that now (unless you were introduced to it via ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' or Music/OneDirection) it's almost impossible to hear the song without thinking about somebody trying to open a stubborn bottle lid, crawling around the floor looking for a missing contact lens, trying to get some Doritos out of a vending machine, or the ComedicSociopathy of ''Series/CutthroatKitchen''.



** Pepsi was big about rock/pop star endorsements in TheEighties; other songs they used via their original performers and rewritten lyrics included "[[Music/DavidBowie Modern Love,]]" [[Music/MichaelJackson "Billie Jean", and "Bad"]]. Another was set to the tune of Glenn Frey's "[[Series/MiamiVice You Belong to the City]]".

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** Pepsi was big about rock/pop star endorsements in TheEighties; The80s; other songs they used via their original performers and rewritten lyrics included "[[Music/DavidBowie Modern Love,]]" [[Music/MichaelJackson "Billie Jean", and "Bad"]]. Another was set to the tune of Glenn Frey's "[[Series/MiamiVice You Belong to the City]]".



* Kids from TheEighties remember the song "Happy Together" less by the Turtles and more by General Mills trying to sell us Golden Grahams.

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* Kids from TheEighties The80s remember the song "Happy Together" less by the Turtles and more by General Mills trying to sell us Golden Grahams.



* Sometime in the early [[TheNineties 1990s]], Domino's Pizza ran ads for their buffalo wings which turned the chorus of "We Will Rock You" into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-GAD_Qs5g "Gotta be, gotta be Domino's (Buffalo Wings)"]].

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* Sometime in the early [[TheNineties [[The90s 1990s]], Domino's Pizza ran ads for their buffalo wings which turned the chorus of "We Will Rock You" into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-GAD_Qs5g "Gotta be, gotta be Domino's (Buffalo Wings)"]].



* While arguably most of the "product-specific lyrics" versions of this trope are with classic rock or older pop songs, the Southern US discount furniture chain Rooms To Go has jumped on board with a version of the Music/TheBlackEyedPeas song "My Humps" rewritten to be about storage containers (sample lyric: "Whatcha gonna do with all that stuff/All that stuff, that's quite enough!"). This commercial has seen a lot of airplay on Southern NBC affiliates in the latter part of TheNewTens with a song that is barely a decade old.

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* While arguably most of the "product-specific lyrics" versions of this trope are with classic rock or older pop songs, the Southern US discount furniture chain Rooms To Go has jumped on board with a version of the Music/TheBlackEyedPeas song "My Humps" rewritten to be about storage containers (sample lyric: "Whatcha gonna do with all that stuff/All that stuff, that's quite enough!"). This commercial has seen a lot of airplay on Southern NBC affiliates in the latter part of TheNewTens TheNew10s with a song that is barely a decade old.
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* In 1971, Melanie Safka wrote the song "Look What They Done to My Song, Ma", about this very trope and how much it sucks to write a song that means something to you, and then, having someone taking that song and turning it into something completely unrelated. So, obviously, in the 1980s the Quaker Oats Company used a version of that song in their commercials for Instant Oatmeal, with the revised lyrics "Look what they've done to my oatmeal".

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* In 1971, Melanie Safka wrote the song "Look What They Done to My Song, Ma", about this very trope and how much it sucks to write a song that means something to you, and then, having someone taking that song and turning it into something completely unrelated. So, obviously, in the 1980s the Quaker Oats Company [[Irony used a version of that song in their commercials for Instant Oatmeal, Oatmeal]], with the revised lyrics "Look what they've done to my oatmeal".
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* Cadbury did an ad for their Caramello Koala candy bars where the mascot sang a jingle spoofing the Music/{{Donovan}} song "Mellow Yellow".

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* Cadbury did an ad for their Caramello Koala candy bars where the mascot sang a jingle spoofing the Music/{{Donovan}} song "Mellow Yellow".Yellow".
* Australia's Creator/SevenNetwork TV channel used a reworded version of "Mony Mony" for their 1992 [[https://youtu.be/HTWvz2Gbuuc "Yeah!"]] network promo.
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* A non-commercial version of the BrokenAesop effect can be found in the "Kidz Bop" [=CDs=]. These take songs that are popular on the radio and re-record them with children doing the lyrics; presumably, because some [[ExecutiveMeddling studio executive]] feared that ''Avril Lavigne'' may have been too hard-edged for children on her own. However, the actual ''content'' of said lyrics is almost entirely unchanged, resulting in songs about sex, drugs, suicide, and misogyny (among other things) being marketed toward kids. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20051030145853/http://www.teevee.net/archive/2004/10/04/index.html Chris Rywalt has pointed this out.]]

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* A non-commercial version of the BrokenAesop effect can be found in the "Kidz Bop" Music/KidzBop [=CDs=]. These take songs that are popular on the radio and re-record them with children doing the lyrics; presumably, because some [[ExecutiveMeddling studio executive]] feared that ''Avril Lavigne'' may have been too hard-edged for children on her own. However, the actual ''content'' of said lyrics is almost entirely unchanged, resulting in songs about sex, drugs, suicide, and misogyny (among other things) being marketed toward kids. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20051030145853/http://www.teevee.net/archive/2004/10/04/index.html Chris Rywalt has pointed this out.]]
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* The Music/MotleyCrue song "Kickstart My Heart" (about heroin overdose) was apparently played during the preview of the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' (a Pixar film), most likely chosen for the "engine" sound at the start of the song and it's fast tempo. If only those parents knew that Nikki Sixx's heroin overdose convinced them to go to a children's movie...

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* The Music/MotleyCrue song "Kickstart My Heart" (about heroin overdose) was apparently played during the preview of the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' (a Pixar film), film ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', most likely chosen for the "engine" sound at the start of the song and it's fast tempo. If only those parents knew that Nikki Sixx's heroin overdose convinced them to go to a children's movie...
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* "Billericay Dickie" is a naughty song by [[Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads Ian Dury]] about a despicable man (as told by the author himself on numberous occasions) and his "sexual relations" with women, what usually nowadays known as rape. So naturally you take the lyrics out, replace them with new ones in the same cadence, and you get one of the most iconic and long-running (1988-2010) series of Australian commercials for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAV3ZmQuEeY Ajax Spray & Wipe]] starring Paula Duncan, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCiKWv-9HE every]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrkp0nHrsYI single]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSx5TxxF6I one]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBqde_ElqE of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQbMexoU_E them]] with a variation of "Billericay Dickie" as their main theme.

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* "Billericay Dickie" is a naughty song by [[Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads Ian Dury]] about a despicable man (as told by the author himself on numberous occasions) and his "sexual relations" with women, what usually nowadays known as rape. So naturally you take the lyrics out, replace them with new ones in the same cadence, and you get one of the most iconic and long-running (1988-2010) series of Australian commercials for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAV3ZmQuEeY Ajax Spray & Wipe]] starring Paula Duncan, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCiKWv-9HE every]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrkp0nHrsYI single]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSx5TxxF6I one]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBqde_ElqE of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQbMexoU_E them]] with a variation of "Billericay Dickie" as their main theme.theme.
* Cadbury did an ad for their Caramello Koala candy bars where the mascot sang a jingle spoofing the Music/{{Donovan}} song "Mellow Yellow".
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* The [=DiVinyls=]' "I Touch Myself", ADateWithRosiePalms song, was repurposed as a song to raise up breast cancer awareness following lead singer Chrissy Amphlett's death in 2013, with various artists such as Olivia Newton-John covering it.

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* The [=DiVinyls=]' "I Touch Myself", ADateWithRosiePalms song, a song about masturbation, was repurposed as a song to raise up breast cancer awareness following lead singer Chrissy Amphlett's death in 2013, with various artists such as Olivia Newton-John covering it.
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** The most notable one is Butterfly by Smile.DK, which is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDFg1PsNb8 often used]] for toy cellphones. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBZCxrPFlU It was even used for an official toy]] for the Korean release of ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure''.

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** The most notable one is Butterfly by [[Music/SmileDK Smile.DK, dk]], which is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqDFg1PsNb8 often used]] for toy cellphones. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBZCxrPFlU It was even used for an official toy]] for the Korean release of ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure''.
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* A trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' uses Music/{{NSYNC}}'s "It's Gonna Be Me" with a line edited from "You might been hurt, babe" to "You might been hurt, Mei".

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* A trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' uses Music/{{NSYNC}}'s "It's Gonna Be Me" with a line edited from "You might been hurt, babe" to "You might been hurt, Mei".Mei".
* "Billericay Dickie" is a naughty song by [[Music/IanDuryAndTheBlockheads Ian Dury]] about a despicable man (as told by the author himself on numberous occasions) and his "sexual relations" with women, what usually nowadays known as rape. So naturally you take the lyrics out, replace them with new ones in the same cadence, and you get one of the most iconic and long-running (1988-2010) series of Australian commercials for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAV3ZmQuEeY Ajax Spray & Wipe]] starring Paula Duncan, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCiKWv-9HE every]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrkp0nHrsYI single]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSx5TxxF6I one]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBqde_ElqE of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQbMexoU_E them]] with a variation of "Billericay Dickie" as their main theme.

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* "I Melt With You" in ''any'' commercial involving melted food products. Or Hershey's chocolate bars, which people generally don't want to melt.

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* Modern English's "I Melt With You" in ''any'' commercial involving melted food products. Or Hershey's chocolate bars, which people generally don't want to melt.The song itself is about [[IntercourseWithYou making love]] during a nuclear holocaust.



** Hershey's has been using lite pop covers of in some of their ads (like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSu5g600A0 this one]]) for Hershey Bars, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpP51j74Iyg a jolly Christmasy version]] for the holiday season.



* Hershey's has been using lite pop covers of Modern English's "I Melt With You" in some of their adverts (like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSu5g600A0 this one]]) for Hershey Bars, including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpP51j74Iyg a jolly Christmasy version]] for the holiday season. The song itself is about [[IntercourseWithYou making love]] during a nuclear holocaust.
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* "I Melt With You" in ''any'' commercial involving melted food products.

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* "I Melt With You" in ''any'' commercial involving melted food products. Or Hershey's chocolate bars, which people generally don't want to melt.
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Contrast with TopTenJingle. Compare MoodyTrailerCoverSong, TheCoverChangesTheMeaning, RewrittenPopVersion, IsntItIronic and RealSongThemeTune.

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Contrast with TopTenJingle. Compare MoodyTrailerCoverSong, TheCoverChangesTheMeaning, RewrittenPopVersion, IsntItIronic and IsntItIronic, RealSongThemeTune.
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* OlderThanTelevision, believe it or not. Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians had a hit song in 1932 that went "let's have another cup of coffee, let's have another piece of pie" and in the late 40s Nescafe began using "let's have another cup of coffee, let's have a cup of Nescafe", doubling as CoveredUp for a generation of baby boomers who know the commercial better than the song.

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* OlderThanTelevision, believe it or not. Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians had a hit song in 1932 that went "let's have another cup of coffee, let's have another piece of pie" and in the late 40s Nescafe began using "let's have another cup of coffee, let's have a cup of Nescafe", doubling as CoveredUp for a generation of baby boomers who know the commercial better than the song.song.
* A trailer for ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' uses Music/{{NSYNC}}'s "It's Gonna Be Me" with a line edited from "You might been hurt, babe" to "You might been hurt, Mei".
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** Some of these toys play Music/ToyBox's "Tarzan and Jane".

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** Some of these toys play Music/ToyBox's {{Music/Toy-Box}}'s "Tarzan and Jane".
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** Some of these toys play {{Music/Toy-Box}}'s "Tarzan and Jane".

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** Some of these toys play {{Music/Toy-Box}}'s Music/ToyBox's "Tarzan and Jane".
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** Some of these toys play Toy-Box's "Tarzan and Jane".

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** Some of these toys play Toy-Box's {{Music/Toy-Box}}'s "Tarzan and Jane".

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