Almost every commercial used to have a snappy tune for you to sing along to as you were bombarded by subliminal messages to buy things you don't need. Those were the good old days.
Nowadays, commercials just scream at you or confuse you with the rapidly-read fine print at the end. I wonder how much that speed reading guy gets paid. He's super fast. (NOT as fast as the Micro-Machines guy. He was the fastest. So fast, in fact, that he landed a role on Saved by the Bell as a teacher who gave impossible tests and lectures. I can still see Jessie Spano's pen making smoke as she rapidly took notes in his class.)
I really do miss good jingles though. I have an auditory memory, so they help me remember things. I can still sing most jingles from back in the day. Not that it does me much good. But it's kind of a cool party trick when you are hanging out with people from your age group. It almost becomes a trivia game.
Someone should make a game like that! A theme song and jingle trivia game. I would definitely buy that game. And even if it turns out like Scene-It and my cousin refuses to play with me, I will still love it.
Hmmm. Let's try to play via this blog. Here's a list of products/jingles that jog my memory. Do you remember them too?
Double-Mint Gum
Creepy Crawlers
My Buddy
Pepsi (there are like 10 for this one, this one was my favorite)
Dr. Pepper
Toys 'R Us (that Steve Urkel on the swing at the end!)
That's only a few. I could play this game all day. This is dangerous...
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