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Because your TV shows contantly reference them. I have never had relations with Armor hotdogs, but I still know that stupid jingle.
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If they were available, would you "have relations" with a hot dog?
...and do I really want to know?
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"Hotdogs, Armor hotdogs / What kinds of kids eat Armor hotdogs? / Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks / ..."
And so on. The Simpsons has done it twice, and I've seen it elsewhere, so don't tell me it doesn't exist.
(We do get "I feel like Chicken Tonight", though.)
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Huh. I get the first one (though that ad campaign was over looong before I was really watching TV as a child) but I've never actually seen the "Chicken commercial".
I know the Simpsons episode you're referring to even: the first Thanksgiving ep, IIRC.
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No, the first Thanksgiving one is the one where Bart destroys Lisa's centrepiece. This is a later one.
The "chicken tonight" one isn't really played over here any more, but (like I imagine the Armor one there) it has entered the collecctive consciousness somewhat for its sheer awfulness.
"Doesn't this family know any songs that aren't commercials?"
(They also reference the Armor one when Skinner pretends to have a bomb strapped to his chest. But it's not a bomb. It's hot dogs. Armor hot dogs.)
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And the hotdog commercial/jingle they sung was the Oscar Meyer one, not the Armour one, when Jay Sherman was at the Simpsons house.
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Yeah, not that episode. The one I'm talking about is from (I think) "Mrs Bouvier's Lover". The one where Grandpa and then Burns both make a play for Marge's mum.
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quote:I'm more worried about why Swedes know our commercials.
- Imagine not having TV access to Comedy Central (yeah I know, *psheesh*, but humor me) - Imagine that you discover the website for Comedy Central, with 7 years worth of interviews and news stories from "The Daily Show" within a mouse's reach - Then you gradually discover that the site is supported by flash ads for every single thing you do (including doing nothing)
-Imagine arriving at the point where one invents answers to the lines stated in the commercials ("Buy suitjacket for interviews" -Uhuh, uhuh, ok, then what? "Win an internship that gets you ahead of the game" -No way?! You have me now, MasterCard! Hold me to your ample bosom of success!)
We all make sacrifices, Tim. It will pay off in the end, though, when Steve Carell takes over the Bahamas and begins the Thousand Years of Joy Nice.
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From the World Bank to Armor hotdogs to commercial jingles.
How does that happen anywhere else.
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