Although it's not in the video (I don't think it is, anyway), Andrew 8-8000 is a reference to the jingle that ran forever on local radio and TV for Adams&Swett carpet cleaning:

"How many cookies did Andrew eat,
Andrew ate 8000
How do you keep your carpets neat
Call ANdrew 8-8000"

It ran back in the days when telephone exchanges used letters.

Andrew Ate 8000 Jingle

By Ryan Connolly on Wed, 10/28/2015 - 10:42am.

The jingle actually goes:

"How many cookies did Andrew eat?
Andrew ate 8,000
How did he get his carpet clean?
He called Andrew 8-8000" (which is 268-8000)

So the cookie eating is linked to the carpet, as 8,000 cookies will indeed make a lot of crumbs! The thing is I don't remember the name of the company, only the catchy jingle.

My Flabber Is Officially Gasted

By Suldog on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 6:20pm.

That is the biggest slice of awesome pie ever!

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

How could they leave out the

By anon on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 9:41pm.

How could they leave out the Aquarium and the MoS?

Where the hell is Bobs Furnichah?!

By anon on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:26pm.

what -- no love for Bob's wicked pissa furnichah?!

I doubt it!

By Lecil on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:59pm.

(And yeah, that's a quote from the video!) ;)

I nearly blew a gasket at the

By anononono on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 12:28am.

I nearly blew a gasket at the WLVI jingle.

I also thought I was the only one who remembered Dean's home furniture.

??

By Judy on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 6:57am.

When did Curly grow a beard?!

nice.

By John-W on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:24am.

They got LightandLeisurethePUUURRRPLEBILLLDING! in there, so I'm happy. My jingle is jangled.

Good stuff.

By Spatch on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 2:03pm.

I think I first lost it at THEPURRRRRPLEBUILLLLDING. And kept losing it.

Was surprised there was no mention of National Lumbah, "Wait til you see us!" On the other hand, their ad campaign usually consisted of people singing the jingle slightly off-key, so maybe the guys wanted to avoid repetition and they more than made up for it with the Evening Magazine tapdancer and LIVIN' 56.

Terrific all around, though.

I think attempting the WGBH

By Meaghan W on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 9:41am.

I think attempting the WGBH sound was my favorite part

Fantastic!

By Sally on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 10:22am.

I'm only sorry that apparently they never spent a summer working on the Cape so we could have "HEY! Wherrrreya goin?..."

I'm a real go-getter

By adamg on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:15am.

Also, I soar like an eagle:

And remember when phone companies tried to get us to make more calls?

BayBanks (plural) Card

By Ron Newman on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 11:49am.

This commercial goes back to the days when BayBanks (plural) were a rather loose and not entirely well-organized collection of smaller banks that had all agreed to use a common brand name.

More than sending your voice...

By Dani B. on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 10:36am.

A commercial with the full New England Telephone jingle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfEEkf-LSHc

Can someone make a GIF the

By got2trotlibrarian on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 4:20pm.

Can someone make a GIF the guy on the right dancing/singing the Giant Glass jingle (seconds 25-28)- love it! These guys are great!

MORE!!!!!

By deirdre murphy on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:21am.

"Everyone shops at Mals (shops at Mals); all the guys and gals (guys and gals)!!!!!!!
Dating myself

Where the meat falls off the bone ...

By adamg on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 9:38am.

Not a jingle, but I can't get that one out of my head, especially not when I'm on 93 and go through the tunnel, because that thing used to play incessantly back when the Central Artery was still up and you'd get stuck in the tunnel and all the stations would be replaced by "Tunnel Radio," which apparently was perpetually sponsored by Tony Floramo's.

Good God, they even remembered the Silver Lake Dodge jingle

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