I was recently over at a friends house, watching me some Survivor Guatemala (So I like *one* reality TV show, big whoop, want to fight about it?). In between watching people stab random strangers in the back for a large pile of money, I ended up seeing a commercial. The thing to realize is that my friends have a PVR, so they never watch commercials. They stopped at *this* commercial and said.
“This is what happens when we are talking to our kids”.
On comes a Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper commercial. It starts off with a girl on a date, listening to the guy talk about himself when she looks down at the drink, grabs it, and looks back at him. The guy then utters the magical words “Mahna Mahna”, followed by everyone one else saying “Doo doo daa doo”
He had me at “Mahna Mahna”.
This song has some history in my family. My brothers may tend to want that history kept in the deepest darkest closets known to man, but I am not the kind of person to repress such WONDERFUL memories.
When I was still just a young pup, my family would go on many a vacation road trip. Somewhere along the line my sister Julie and I found this song.
We could go on for HOURS. I’d start off “Mahna Mahna”, she’d respond “Doo-doo-da-doodoo”. After about hour number 8 the other siblings would finally break. This resulted in them trying to out annoy us (Brian and his wierd noises) or just general threatening. It was then we realized that we had tremendous power to annoy, and we used it as much as we could.
It got to the point, I could be walking through the house, see Julie and say “Mahna Mahna” and she’d respond right back “Doo-doo-da-doodoo”. We were a well oiled TEAM!
So, in memory of those good times, here are a few links
Dr. Pepper Cherry Vanilla Commercial
The original Muppets Short
The mp3 of the muppets
Oh, and Julie “Mahna Mahna”
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