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Posted on 05/15/2026 10:15:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
California is pulling the plug on the wildly recognizable Kars4Kids jingle after a judge ruled the charity’s ads misled donors about who actually benefits from their money.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Gassia Apkarian found that the organization violated California false advertising and unfair competition laws by failing to disclose that donations primarily fund Orthodox Jewish programs tied to Oorah Inc., a New York- and New Jersey-based outreach organization.
The ruling was published May 8 and comes after California resident Bruce Puterbaugh sued the charity in 2021, claiming he donated his car after repeatedly hearing the famous ad and believed the proceeds would help underprivileged children in California.
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I never liked the jingle because it said: “Don ate your car today”. Don must be some kind of car eating monster.
Not to mention that the kids aren’t actually playing instruments or singing. Fake....fake...fake
Is it better than this old jingle?
“Here’s Cal Worthington and his dog SPOT!”
“GO SEE CAL, GO SEE CAL, GO SEE CAL...”
Thank you, Jesus! That jingle is torture!
‘strategy of deception’
After watching the Gravitas cologne commercial where gorgeous women swoon “if he smells this good he’s got my attention”, I finally bought some. I have not had to beat off swooning women yet. I think they tricked me.
And yes, the Kars4Kids jingle sucks. ;-)
Our long national nightmare is finally over.
Does the bottle warn you that you still have to change your underwear and brush your teeth quarterly, whether you actually need to or not?
If it doesn’t, it’s deceptive advertising.
I’ve hated those out of tune jingles for years. They just came out with a new version, a “gang sing” which sounds really rank.
That jingle has now been banned in California?
Praise God in Heaven! I haven’t listened to terrestrial radio in several years, since they removed all my live Host talk shows, but I can still hear that song playing on repeat.
It’s WORSE that one of the most notorious Ear Worms in the civilized world, that song called “It’s Small, Small World”.
**Weapons Grade - Apocalyptic Earworms, the both of them!
As soon as I hear the first few notes of that jingle, I immediately change the station. It’s insufferable.
I sing some different words when I hear it in the car. And yes, one of the words is “suck”
Some jingles were purposefully designed to be offensive once PR firms learned that they actually worked, if they were offensive people would remember them and actually increased sales.
About 30 years ago we had a man running for office named Flippo. His off key jingle was “flip the lever for flippo, flip the lever for flippo.” Very grating on the ears. BTW, he won.
Charlie Sheen was a jingle writer in the TV show Two and a Half Men. He did very well too. He had a house on the beach in Malibu, a Mercedes and a bevy of beautiful women. He was paid an obscene amount of money. On the downside in real life he had a serious drug and porn addiction problem.
““Here’s Cal Worthington and his dog SPOT!””
I always wanted to see what type of dog Cal would show up with.
Cars for kids is just really annoying, and yes I knew it was a grift from the beginning
Well in my case the warning should be you’re too f-ing old.
+1 good one
It’s not Christmas until the Gravitas commercials come on.
That’s Gravite - Gra-vee-tay.
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