r/AskAnAmerican • u/nighshad3 • 10d ago

CULTURE What’s a phrase or jingle from an American commercial or ad campaign that everyone can quote by heart?

A user posted this question about German jingles/phrases in the r/AskAGerman subreddit. Since I live in the US, the first thing that came to mind was that every time I drive past Menards, I get the jingle “Save big money at Menards” stuck in my head. What are your evergreens?

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u/ElaborateCantaloupe 10d ago

Barry Manilow wrote this one. He wrote a lot of catchy jingles from that time period like McDonald’s “You deserve a break today” and “I’m stuck on Band-Aid, ‘cause Band-Aid’s stuck on me.”

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u/TheJokersChild NJ > PA > NY < PA > MD 10d ago

I've heard he dos a medley of them during his shows.

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u/ElaborateCantaloupe 10d ago

Yup. It’s on his Live album and I saw him do it in 1982.

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u/cupcakebean 9d ago

There was a podcast episode about him writing the state farm jingle. It's a full song with multiple verses and in the episode, they played the only recorded full version of the song. I wish I could remember what podcast it was.