Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 20, 2025

Don’t want to just hit the mute button? Have it your way.

Mostly watch programs delayed and ff the ads.

That king shown in those commercials is a bit scary!

Still not as annoying as the Progressive commercials.

Have it your way.

I haven’t heard the “Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us” jungle lately!

Lately the most annoying commercial is the car finance commercial – “make the deal your self”. If the mute button didn’t already exist, this would definitely inspire it!

Remember the annoying “Oh thank heaven for Seven-Eleven”? I swore, back in the late 60s that I’d NEVER shop there again. And I haven’t.

Can’t be as worse as the jingle for Liberty Mutual.

Any ad with a rap soundtrack

An idiotic ad for garbage ‘food’. BTW, whatever happened to the “GREAT” MEATLESS ‘hamburger’ that Burger King was promoting?

A catchy jingle is one of the most powerful tools in the advertising arsenal. One wonders why they are not used as much these days. I can still remember the tune and words to the “I love Bosco” ad and the tune to Picopay toothbrush, even though I haven’t heard them for some 60 years or so.

And for those of us in BC: “Dollar Forty-nine Day- Woodward’s” will bring back memories.

I still haven’t been able to shake “Head On. Apply directly to the forehead.”

It takes two hands to handle a whopper, the two fisted burger from Burger King! Is that the one? I hear that, and I’ve just got to have a couple of ’em!

Colonial Penn Life Insurance. “Nine ninety five a month.”

Fisher Investments. “If you have $500,000 or more, call us.”

They have caused my mute button to wear out….

I don’t watch much commercial TV, but I do listen to a morning radio news show.

1-877-KARS-4-KIDS!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhgh!!!!! I can’t reach for the radio fast enough to turn it off. It’s worse when I fall asleep and wake up to that infernal ear worm.

But he will miss the inauguration! Today is the end of one of the worst presidents in US history!

From Romper Room.“Romper, bomper, stomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?”.

No “Big King” mascot staring in the window?

What about the Liberty Mutual jingle? I change the channel. I also have sworn to never purchase Liberty Mutual products.

I’ll never fall for that catchy jingle’s tricks. It’s much more cringey than the Charmin ads.

Try listening to Canon in D and then the old BK “Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce” jingle. Pretty similar.

I guess hold the pickle and hold the lettuce does upset… some of us.

There’s a Burger King jingle?

My Buddy, the doll for boys, had the worst jingle. 1984-85

♫ The song that doesn’t end … ♫

There was an old Sherlock Holmes movie wherein the villain placed a poisonous spider on his victims. The bite caused such pain that the victims threw themselves off rooftops.

I have to turn down the volume every time a Jardiance or KARS-4KIDS commercial comes on.

It isn’t as bad as others.

Commercials are the reason I only watch Netflix streaming and never listen to the radio.

SO true

I didn’t mind the original ‘Have it your way’ Burger King commercials from the ‘70 (Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce…’). What’s being referenced here are the new commercials that use this jingle only with different lyrics. Each one features a guy with an annoying voice singing about various Burger King products, with the lyrics sounding made up as he goes along.

Pastis is right: The jingle is sung so off-key, it’s awful. Then, when they say ‘you rule,’ it sounds like they’re calling Ja Rule!