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i agree the lyrics are genius. but they won't get out of my bloody head. seriously, i haven't slept for a week. —kgoonie, commenting about the Garmin "Carol Of The Bells" ads on Youtube

If you are annoyed by commercials, the sticky songs they use make it even worse. Jingles were big in the 1950s and 1960s.

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• "When I wake up in the morning I'm still asleep I really don't want no toast / I want no water no tea or no cereal / Give me a yogurt drink I'm wanting first"
• I am Stuck on Band-Aid Brand cuz BAND-AID'S STUCK ON ME!!
• "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:
    • Squirrel, from 2009
    • Nutcracker also from 2009
    • One for all, from 2008
    • Coffee shop also from 2008
    • Unibrow, from 2007
    • Moose, also from 2007
• 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 ((BROKEN))Free((BROKEN))credit((BROKEN))report.com ((BROKEN))commercials.
• Hot dogs... Armour Hot Dogs... the dogs you love to bite!
• Ragu "Chicken Tonight" sauces: I feel like Chicken Tonight, like Chicken Tonight...
• "Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener..."
  • "...'cause Oscar-Meyer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A"
• 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.
• 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!
• ((BROKEN))Tarako tarako, tappuri tarako, tarako tarako tappuri... That it's a commercial for pasta sauce made with cod eggs doesn't help, either.
  • Tarako! Tarako! Tappuri Tarako!
• 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. ^{[dead link]}
  • "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? ^{[dead link]} 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!"
  • Used hilariously in an episode of "The Office" in which Andy Bernard remembers the jingle but not the product.
• 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.
• The ((BROKEN))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!
• "HOT POCKET!"
• Slinky: It's a slinky, a slinky! Fun for girls and boys!
  • The slinky pull-toys: video here
  • Parodied: an episode of Ren & Stimpy features LOG...from BLAMMO! ((BROKEN))Don't you want a log?
  • Parodied: It's dildo, it's dildo... {NSFW }
• 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.

"Za zoom zoom zoom Za zoom zoom zoom..."

• Super Timor!
• Bunnings Warehouse! Lowest prices are just the beginning. Na na na!
• McDonald's changes its Ear Worm jingle every few years to something else, each one more inane and infuriating than the last.
  • Ba da ba ba, I'm lovin' it!"

"Have you had your break today?"

• • "You deserve a break today at McDonald's!
  • "Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun." (This one only ran for a year and a half in the mid-1980s, but it's one of the most enduring ear worms in advertising.)
  • "At McDonaaaaaalds, we do it all for you-ou-ou!"
  • "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..."
  • "Give me back that Filet-O-Fish! Give me that fish!"
  • And as much as we want to, we cannot forget their butchering of "Do You Believe In Magic?". Far too many kids in The Nineties heard that version before the original...
  • "Big Mac McDLT a Quarter Pounder with some cheese..."
  • At least one troper has one of the newer Happy Meal jingles stuck in their head.

Bebe Bao made a list Of every birthday wish But when she started to see Her friends and her family She said, what else could one girl need?

• • For Christmas 2010 we have the Falalala song.
  • We're busy doing nothing, working the whole day through, trying to find lots of things not to do...
• Meow Mix cat food: "Meow-meow-meow-meow, meow-meow-meow-meow, meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow-meow!"
• "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!
• Who wants Trident? I do, I do!
• Mini-Mini-Mini-Miiiini Wheats!
• Oh GOD, the Mentos commercial anyone?

DOO DOO DOO DOOOO DOO DOO, DOO-WAAAAH!

• • The avian version....
• "Saaaaved byyy zeeeeeee-ro." Catchy tune - now, what's it for again?
  • It's a song by The Fixx. But some company thought using just the "saved by zero" parts (no other lyrics) would be excellent to sell 0% financing.
• Good luck prying the shrill voice of the girl from the Microsoft Songsmith commercial out of your mind.
  • I'm singing along with my laptop, making up new songs!
    • OH DEAR CHRIST IT HURTS SO MUCH
• And just to go a little retro...

Pop, pop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is...

• "Wanna Fanta, doncha wanna, wanna Fanta?" AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOP
  • Trust the Japanese to substitute this with a different earworm. "SAN-NEN * -GUMI!!" "*** -SENSEI!!"
• This old The Legend of Zelda a Link To T He Past advert. It leaves a firm loop of 'Deru deru deru' in your mind AND NEVER GOES AWAY. ARRRRG.
  • They're a girl?!
  • By the way, if I was Michael Jackson, I'd sue Nintendo for this.
• "After these messages we'll be riiiight back!"
• WAKE UP YOU SLEEPY HEAD< YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD! ^{[dead link]}
• 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? - the jingle that kept M&Ms from getting any market penetration in Canada for years.
• 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!"

• • Stompin' Tom also wrote a jingle for a tire store in Sudbury. There's a statue of Stompin' Tom in Sudbury to this day.
• Much embarrassment accompanies this admission - but those damned Taco Bell commercials of late^[when?], 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...."
  • "118 24 7 send them a text, it's directory heaven, want a kitchen extension, a pizza or pension, a plumber or sparks, or a place to see sharks"
• 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.
  • bang bang, choo choo train, eat lunch meat on the aeroplane!
• Yipee yi yay, mini sirloin burgers.
  • Mini buffalo ranch chicken sandwich!
• 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 ((BROKEN))this commercial for Russ-K, and it's memetastic imitators. She's going crazy.
• CVS Pharmacy's "Ordinary Everyday Miracle" song. Oh, God...
• "((BROKEN))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!
• Hey there kids, come gather round, see what just skipped into town! Just Skip It, Skip It...
• And no one can forget: ((BROKEN))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!
• ((BROKEN))This Japanese commercial for something called "Hot Pepper".
  • ((BROKEN))Kaela Kimura teams up with the Charlie Brown crew to sell you coupons for gourmet restaurants in Japan, made into a catalog called Hot Pepper. Hotto peppa, pi-pa-pe-pa-pi, pe-pa-pe-pa-pi-pa-pe-pa-p-ARRRRGHHHH
• Can I help you enjoy that Snickers?
  • "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"
• 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 Coldseal Windows jingles, dear ((BROKEN))Gods.
• 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!
• ((BROKEN))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!
• ((BROKEN))"Pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time! When pizza's on a bagel, you can eat pizza anytime!"
• 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..."
  • 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..."
  • I can't imagine what that is.
• 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!
  • 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!"
• The red car and the blue car had a race -- so much so they brought it back 20 years later.
• LEMME HEAR IT FOR EDDIE RIGGS...
  • HELL YEAH!
• What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs?
• The Hess Truck's back and it's better-than-ever / To the RESCUE this year / The Hess Truck's here!
• Who broke the copier, copier, copier, copier...?
  • I think it was Jenifer, Jenifer, Jenifer...
    • Chill out, some paper got jammed! Some of my paper got jammed!
      • And I used Toner!
• "I want my babyback babyback babyback babyback..."
  • "Chili's Babyback ribs, Chili's babyback ribs, barbaque sauce." Thank you very much for reminding me of the rest of the commercial.
• "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..."
• Made with Brewer's Gold!
• Go Compaaaare! Go Compaaaaaare! When een doubt, check them out, Go Compaaaaaaare!
  • GO COMPAAAARE, GO COMPAAAAARE!
• I.
  • Love.
    • Football on TV.
• 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.
• An old commercial I'm SURE you've heard.
  • "I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?"
• Hate something/Change something/Hate soemthing/change something/MAKE SOMETHING BETTER
• 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!
  • ((BROKEN))Stand up and tell 'em you're from Detroit!
    • The Syracuse version.
  • Speaking of Detroit, let's not forget the classic Faygo Boat Song. "And thaaaat's whyyyy weeee... make Faygo."
  • "No job's too big / No job's too small / Call Father and Son / We'll do it all!"
  • "You've got an uncle in the furniture business..."
  • "You gotta have art...all you really need is art..."
  • "Me and Dawg want you to go to Telllllleeeeeegraaaaaaph Rooooooooad riiiiiiiiiight nooooooooooooooow -- GET A GOOD DEAL!"
  • "Remember it starts with a double 'A' / A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K!"
  • "Come on, everybody, get it done, you know the one...Call 1-800-HANSONS...get it done!"
• You'll wonder where the yellow went, When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.
  • "I know where it went - on me tongue, that's where!" - Jasper Carrott
• Now hands that do dishes can feel soft as your face, With mild green Fairy Liquid.
• I'm a secret lemonade drinker (R. White's, R. White's)...
• "Whatever it is I think I see / Becomes a Tootsie Roll to me!"
• "Sometimes you feel like a nut / Sometimes you don't..."
• * "We love baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet..."
• WHEN YOU CAN DRIVE A TRUCK...YA GOT A JOB MY FRIEND! "Call 1-800. 551! 8900!"
• "Green Police! Green Police!"
• "Everyone loooves Marineland!"
• 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*
• "So kiss a little longer...stay close a little longer...hold tight a little longer...longer with Big Red..."
  • Catchy enough that Verizon Wireless appropriated it for ((BROKEN))this parody spot in 2010.
• "Juicy Fruit, it's gonna move ya, the juice's song it gets right too ya"
• "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.
• "Yum yum Bumblebee, Bumblebee Tuna..."
• NEW CUPCAKE PEBBLES PARTY IN A BOX IT'S YUMMY LIKE A CUPCAKE MAKES YOU WANNA ROCK
• From the Philippines: Nakaligo ka na ba sa dagat ng basura... Even if you don't understand the lyrics, it will not leave you.
• ((BROKEN))Mahhhh name's Ice Cream Jones, I'm bringin' the kids my Ice Cream Cones (the crunchy part of this nutritious breakfast!)
• 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).
• "Have You Driven A Ford Lately?"
• "I wear no pants! I weeeeaaaar no pants!"
  • And guess what the advertisement is for...PANTS!!!
• A non-musical Example. "Hi, I'm Roni DEUTCH!"
• Brusha, brusha, brusha. Here's the new Ipana with a brand new flavor. It's dandy for your teeth!
  • Damn you, Grease!
• Everyone's a Fruit & Nut case...
• If you're old enough, Pete Ellis Dodge deserves a special place in Hell for permanently searing its address into a generation of fragile ears.
• Another Australian one: "Louie da fly, I'm Louie da fly! Straight from rubbish tip to you!"
• I LOVE eggs.
• The motherfucking Cash Point commercials!
• "Do, do, do, do, do, do a dollop 'a Daisy."
• "See Mack Mack if you're credit is whack whack."
• Ever wondered how "I like Ike became a meme? Here's the answer.
• h-o-t-w-i-r-e, hotwire dot com!
• 1-800-267-2001, Alarm Force! This Troper heard a classmate sing the jingle for an entire school term.
• That stupid Sultana Bran mutilation. "They grow it on the grape-vine - makes ______ _____ taste so fine."
• This Snuggie commercial.
  • ((BROKEN))Heeeeeeey Ma-carena! Aie!
• An Indian Safe Sex PSA is extremely catchy, campy, and hilarious all at the same time in a Bollywood "way".
• "Ashley Madison, find your lovers here..." And when that got old, they switched to a Schoolhouse Rock parody...
• "Genesis does! You can't do this on Nintendo! Genesis does!"
• 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!
• That National Science Foundation PSA that every kid must have seen in the late 80s/early 90s: ((BROKEN))"Astronomy, biology, chemistry, zoology, SCI-ENCE AND TECH-NO-LO-GY! It's fun, you'll see!"
• Cracker Jack: from the 1950s and '60s.
• 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!"
• CROSSFIRE! CROSSFIRE! CROSSFIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
• PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI PUDDI
• 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!
• Nihon Break Kogyou! Steel Ball: DA DA DA!
• 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!"
• Those of us in Oklahoma are undoubtedly familiar with the B.C. Clark Jewelers Christmas jingle. (And now it's running in your head...) "Jewelry is the gift to give, cause it's the gift that'll live and live..." (and now it's DEFINITELY running in your head.)
• ((BROKEN))We! Are! Farmers! Bum ba-dum bum bum bum bum!
• One from the UK - Jacobs' TREEEEEOOOOH!!!!! Not one, not two, but three tropes in it...
• "(Ho, ho, ho.) Green Giant"
• "Frosted Lucky Charms, they're magically delicious"
• 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..."
  • "My Little Pony, My Little Pony..."
  • "Transformers! More than meets the eye..."
  • "Jem! Jem is excitement! Ooh, Jem! Jem is adventure!..."
• Barbie has had numerous ones over the decades; too many to list here.
• Huggies training pants: "I'm a big kid now."
• "Users are losers, and losers are users, so don't use drugs, DON'T USE DRUGS!"
• "It's that chocolaty coated, ice cream loaded, big and thick, no room for a stick. WHAT WOULD YOU DO-O-O FOR A KLONDIKE BAR?"
• "Here's Cal Worthington, and his dog Spot!..."
  • Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal!
• J-E-L-L...O!
• Expedia! (dot COOOOOM!)
• Yahoo.com: YAHOOOOOOOOO!
• "Nick-nick-nick-nick-n-nick-nick-nick, NIC-KE-LODEOOOOOON!"
• 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!
• Courtesy of Boost Mobile: "Good luck, good luck! It's a big, big day! Good luck, good luck! Harold's on his way..."
• Even Japanese Scooter commercials from the past are not spared. this compilation is great! Here's a List based on the compilation's timeline:
  • 0:00 to 0:30- Jingle for Honda RoadPal with Sophie Loren (1977).
  • 4:30 to 4:59 (repeated again in 6:00 to 6:14)- Jingle for Honda DJ-1 (1986).
  • 6:15 to 6:44- Jingle for Honda PAX (1986, this one is this troper's fave).
• Peri peri chicken chicken sub
• Every Australian knows this annoying jingle...GO HARVEY NORMAN! GOOOOOOO!!!!!!
  • This troper hates this ad so much that if he hears those twatty groupies he'll have a spaz attack.
• Not really a jingle, but the Wii/3DS 1 + 1/2 second ident has the BING!! noise that never gets out of your head.
  • Except the early Wii ident that just has the i's bowing.
    • The DS startup/ident noise (including the D Si startup) is slightly less annoying.
• Dublin, Berkeley, San Lorenzo, Cupertino, San Jose
  • And the older, equally ear-wormy jingle from before they opened their Dublin store.
• "Mentos...the fresh-maker"
• The Aqua-Velva jingle.
• "On the Automile, route one in Norwich! My name is Ernie Boch Jr, COME ON DOWN!"
• ""Water Country! Water Country! Water Country! Have some fun!"
• "Juicy Fruit, the taste, the taste, the taste is gonna moooooove yaaaaa!"
• "Pizza Hut, MAKIN' IT GREAT!"
• "MORNING LESCUE! MOOOOOOOORING LES-CUE!..."
• "Na-bis-co! (ding!)"
• In-universe example in Macross Frontier that became an internet meme: "Nyan, nyan, nyan, nyan, ni hao, nyan! GOHJASU, DERISHASU, DEKARUCHAAAA!"

Phone numbers set to music

• JG Wentworth: 877-CASH-NOW!!!
  • And the newest version may be even worse/better.
• 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?"
• ((BROKEN))1-877-Kars-4-Kids, 1-877--ARGH!
• Call 8 2-5 2-5 2-5! The Denver Post guaranteed classified...
• 0-800-double 0 - 1066
• "1-800-SAFE-AUTO..."
• Coldseal Windows 0800 double two double one double five!
• ((BROKEN))"1-800-94-JENNY!"
• "Call 1-800-EAST-WEST"
• "1-3-double OH-6-triple 5-0-6".
  • Well, at least I'll never forget the number, even if I forget how to read and write.
• "The Heavy Hitters are all you need, call 1-800-LAW-1333!"
• Regional example from ITV in the UK: "Ring YTV's Christmas Line on Leeds double four-eight-one-NINE-NINE!
• For those of us in the US state of Illinois..."United Auto Insurance...773-202-5000 We've got you covered...Chicago!
• It's a pillow, it's a pet... its a pillow PET!

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