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February 01, 2005
Great New Commercial
It's for the new Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper (why is there no DOT after Dr in Dr Pepper anyway?).
This chickie is sitting across from her beau who is talking about having won the lotto and being crazy about her and all that. She takes a sip of her drink and suddenly everything he says is...
MAHNA-MANAH
followed by
DOOT-DOOOOOO-DOO-DOO-DOO
from everyone else in the commercial.
MAHNA-MANAH
DOOT-DOO-DOO-DOO
MANAH-MANAH
DOOT-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO
DOO-DOO-DOOT
DOO-DOO-DOOT
DOOT-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOO-DOOT-DOOT-DOO-OOOT-DOOT.
Those of you who watched The Muppet Show as religiously as I did will immediately recognize that and have the song stuck in your head forever, as have I since seeing that ad.
Good goin' Dr P.
Posted by bonnie at February 1, 2005 11:36 PM
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i tried to find diet cherry vanilla dr pepper today at Target and had to settle for a diet sprite zero.
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at February 2, 2005 04:17 PM
Teeeeee heeeeeeeee.
http://www.spynotebook.org/chip/archives/2005/02/curse_you_bonni.html
I made Chip's head explode!
Oh, and why is it that Shon (of http://littlearts.com fame) and Chip have now both, recently, said, "Curse you, Bonnie Gillespie," in print?
When Kris (of http://krisburtt.com fame) does it, she says, "Damn you, Bonnie and your damn quizzes!"
Hm.
I feel the love. ;)
Posted by: Bon at February 3, 2005 05:17 AM
Sean and I have been singing this all night!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Posted by: Debra at February 4, 2005 02:12 AM
no fair!!!!! We don't have those commercials here!! *pout*
But yes, damn you, Bonnie, anyway....but not in a cursed to hell way, of course. In an "I love you but why must you torture me?" way. But there are far worse things to have stuck in your head than a Muppets song. It's not a bad way to spend your day.
XOXO
Posted by: Ali at February 4, 2005 03:42 AM
"(why is there no DOT after Dr in Dr Pepper anyway?)."
Well Bon, I do have an answer for you believe it or not!
Ok, pre 1950 the product did indeed have a dot after Dr. The world changed in 1950 when Dr Pepper adopted a new slanted block-style font. The small lower case "r" consisted of a small slanted line with a dot at its upper right. To their dismay, they found that the period and the r's dot combined visually to become a colon, thus making it Di:Pepper. The easy way out was to simply drop the period. This also helped move Dr Pepper further away from any medication association.
http://www.drpep.com another at http://www.drpeppermuseum.com and another, the corporate site, at http://www.drpepper.com.
Historical information on Dr Pepper can be found in the books:
"The Legend of Dr Pepper/Seven-Up" by Jeffrey L. Rodengen, 1995, Write Stuff Syndicate, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, ISBN 0-945903-49-9, Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-060796.
"Dr Pepper King of Beverages" by Harry E. Ellis. Dallas: Dr Pepper Company, 1986. The Centennial edition of Dr Pepper history. (See also the 1980 edition.)
Posted by: Susan at February 4, 2005 06:53 PM
Greg and I were just talking about that the other day! My dad and I used to always goof around and sing it around the house. Hee hee!
Posted by: JeanNINE at March 7, 2005 11:12 AM