The 'commercial jingles' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word commercial jingles. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

March 7th, 2010

Using the universe to exact my revenge

Around the turn of the century (I’ve decided to call the time period between 1999-2001 the turn of the century), I worked in customer service. The job was thankless but I met a bunch of great people — BFK, Al, the cutest girl on Earth™, and Michelle. We had a lot of fun. But it [...]

December 11th, 2007

The Onion hates the Free credit report dot com commercial

The Onion’s A.V. Club on hating the free credit report.com commercial. I still claim that song is the catchiest jingle in ages.

November 26th, 2007

If you lived in my head this is what you would hear

Well I married my dreamgirl I married my dreamgirl But she didn’t tell me her credit was bad So now instead of living in a pleasant suburb We’re living in the basement at her mom and dad’s No we can’t get a loan for a respectable home Just because my girl defaulted on some old [...]

April 15th, 2002

all time queen

while trying to come up with some propaganda for a product ella and i decided on a “makes your life easier” sort of spin. i started singing some jingle. . . “something something makes your life easier.” she thought i was nuts. then the more i sang it the more convinced she was that it [...]

June 21st, 2001

terror in the denim

thanks to the delightful dara you can now view the terrifying, horrible levi’s commercial for your very own self. my favorite is the little kid with the puzzled look on his face. scary ain’t it?

June 21st, 2001

just do it, start the commotion

i’ve notice lately that my very favorite commercial is on tv all the time now. that makes me happy. . . because i really, really love that “Start the Commotion” song. i must hear that commercial 34 times during the today show alone! oh happy day. in other commercial news i have yet to see [...]

June 18th, 2001

i’m comin’ out

i just saw the most terrifying commerical ever on tv. it was freaky weird and i can’t believe someone paid money to make something so weird. it’s got all these fit chickies (and one guy’s) mid-drifts all ablaze . . . belly buttons hanging out in all their aerobicized glory. but then things get freaky, [...]