Fans Beg The Cubs To Stop Playing Annoying Commercial Jingle At Wrigley
If one had a few hours free to try to list all the of the annoying commercial jingles from Chicagoland, one would be remiss not to include the locally-infamous "Luna" tune. If you're not from Chicago, you do not understand the pain, but after the jump you will. Yes, you will.
Here is a Luna commercial.
The annoying jingle is at the end:
In case you're not yet fully annoyed, try watching this story about Luna from WMAQ. They seem like nice guys:
Now the Cubs have entered into a deal with the company to play the jingle after every Cubs double. Reader Chris says this is causing him to have an unpleasant Pavlovian response whenever something good happens to the Cubbies.
It's so loud that it can be heard over the telecast and throughout the surrounding neighborhood.
I've started to develop a Pavlovian response where I cringe every time the Cubs score a run. It's gotten so bad that after I attended Wednesday night's shutout loss to the Reds where the Cubs only had 6 singles, I was slightly happy because I never had to hear that jingle.
Cubs management told the Chicago Tribune that they were keeping the jingle because only "media and bloggers" were complaining.
"People understand that we obviously don't want to get into the Jumbotron business and we don't want to add 15 million signs all over Wrigley Field, and it's with the understanding that 100 percent [of the advertising revenues] goes to player payroll," he said. "It's nothing new. We do it with home runs, stolen bases, pinch-hitters."
He went on to say that people remember the Luna tune fondly, comparing it to Chicago commercial legends like Empire Carpet, Victory Auto Wreckers and Peter Francis Geraci. (Google them.)
Reader Chris disagrees, and has asked us to link his "Stop the Luna Jingle" petition. We are prone to post anything that mentions both awful Chicago commercials and our beloved Cubbies, so here it is.
Good luck, Chris. Boop boop boop boop. Luna!
Stop the Luna Jingle at Wrigley Field [Petition Online]
People Complaining About The Luna Tune [North Side Baseball]
Chicago Cubs won't dump familiar jingle [Chicago Tribune]
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Comments:
Its stupid but hardly an annoying jingle. The mcdonalds singing fish, now that was an annoying jingle.
God. It's been so long since I've heard those commercials I'd forgotten how ANNOYING that jingle is!
Get over it. Yeah it's annoying, and yeah it interrupts my love affair with watching Alison Rosati, but it's over in five seconds and it signals something good. Get some f'ing patience and tolerance. Try to enjoy the game instead of focusing on the jingle. Be an adult.
If you want to buy the Cubs and quit the jingle, go ahead. Otherwise, shut up and let them pay the players more.
"get the cash you need in a flash at cash point"
@Trulymadlyme: I totally know the daughter of the Smith (Smithe?) furniture people. She's super-cute.
If you want a really annoying jingle, go to [www.callgoldberg.com] The dang thing repeats at least THREE times per commercial. Makes my ears bleed.
1-877-KARS 4 KIDS
K-A-R-S KARS 4 KIDS
1-877-KARS 4 KIDS
DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY
Annoying jingles? Man, I wish there were more of them. I miss jingles.
Every day's great at your Junes!
@Brendan K Babaian: That was the best jingle ever! It was like a mix between strongbad and the talking heads!
@Easton21: Um. Yeah. This is ironic. Since you're, you know, whining over someone else's opinion.
Besides, isn't that what the free market is all about? If the consumers (fans) don't watch the games, then there will be no more cubs, so if enough of them don't like something, then the cubs might do well to change things.
They get this from PC Richards in NY.
That's got nothing on the Head On or Empire Carpet commercials.
If they (companies, not just the cubs) stop the jingles, what will 'people' like Charlie Harper do for a living?
Question: If the jingles are only played (heard at?) the stadium, what's the problem? You're outdoors. It's not like tv shows with all the 'music' that's played (very loudly) over the dialogue (or just played even if there's no dialogue) so that they can shill the noisemaker after the show is over (I'm talking to you CBS - we don't need to have a CD of noise from NCIS bands).
@Brendan K Babaian: The line between stupid and annoying gets pretty thin the 40,000th time you hear it...
@Easton21: So, if you don't like something, shut up and take it? You should move to China, I think that's their national motto or something.
This is annoying? Really? Obviously they have never had to watch the PSAs SNY (NYC's Mets channel) plays for anti-smoking. Having to watch the Trach Man, and the woman with the amputated fingers. 2x every commercial break is maddening.
@Coach Cal Is My Dream Weaver: That commercial got me to break my 7 year streak without mcdonalds when I had the world's worst hangover Monday I was drawn to the golden arches
The Luna commercials are fairly recent, compared to Victory Auto Records and Empire Carpets, and the jingle is lame. Do you really want your company to be associated with annoying the crap out of 40,000 people 82 games a year? I know it makes me less likely to buy from them.
The "KARS FOR KIDS" jingle caused me to break a radio, I'd say that wins for sheer earworm horror.
As a White Sox fan I take nothing but shameful joy in this story. :)
The Luna jingle has been the same for as long back as I can remember.
There isn't a person who lives in the area, or atleast, grew up in the area who doesn't know what comes after 773-202..
This Luna jingle is a Chicago classic. Enjoy it. Live in it. It's part of you. It's part of me.
We have the equivalent in New England with Giant Auto Glass (call 1 -800 - 54 Giant!). A jingle so ubiquitous and annoying it even got a cameo in a Stephen King book and mangled by non-New Englander Anne Heche on the audio version of the book.
Living in Wrigleyville for two years cured me of being a Cubs fan and that jingle has forced me to make a promise to myself that I'll use Lumber Liquidators for my future flooring needs.
That said, why be purposefully annoying? Anything is going to be bothersome when driven into the ground, especially if that thing is already cringe-worthy.
Anyway, go Sox!
It's Eagle Man!!!
Oh, look at those low rates!
@nakedscience: Apparently we like to pick battles where we can call our opponents 'retards'. Ain't the internet grand?
that's it? i IMPLORE you to hear io's "reggeton" jingles. i don't even have optimum, i have comcast, and i STILL get them on my TV. as far as carpet goes, empire takes the cake. sorry chi-town, you lose again.
@RB_Bhoy: Heeeeey, how can you not like Empire? Installed the next day, and if you act now, you get a free turkey. Heeey. LOL
I swear that old guy sounds stoned.
They should spray paint the ivy with billboard ads.
@CrowMignon: And apparently Easton21, in the same comment, thinks saying "Be an adult." in conection with "Pick your battles, retards." is not idiotic.
@Easton21: You saw a post on a blog that you didn't agree with and so you refused to follow your own advice and "get over it"?
I pity those in your near proximity.
588-2300....EMPIRE!
Also, this is nothing compared to Eagle Man: LOOK AT THOSE LOW RATES!
@litrock: I was just gonna come in here and suggest that the Junes jingle play at the Oakland Coliseum. Thumbs up to you, sir.
@lannister80:
Or Harlem Furniture
Or Celozzi Ettleson Chevrolet
Or that old lady for the furniture store that says "On Grand Avenue!"
They should replace this with the Moo & Oink Jingle. After all "Bar-B-Que Season is upon us again!"
@Trulymadlyme: I hated how after they got an 800 number, they crammed in the word "800" super-fast at the beginning of the original jingle. So lame.
Well, it could have been the Empire carpet people.