I won't buy a Volkswagen ever......just saw an advertisement using

[a kennedy]

the Mary Tyler Moore theme song for it. "You're going to make it after all" That's her song.....not for some damn advertisement, even tho it is about a woman becoming a VP of some company. It just bothers me that it's being used for advertising.

[jberryhill]

1. It was always used for advertising

The entire point of television programming is to get people to watch the ads.

VW, a car company originally inspired by Hitler, engages in deliberate emissions fraud for years in order to essentially lie about their diesel vehicles and does untold damage to the environment in the process, but it takes the use of the Mary Tyler Moore theme for you to draw the line?

[a kennedy]

7. Thanks for this info.....just makes me more pissed off. eom

[madaboutharry]

2. It can't be used without permission from the copywrite owner.

The song is now owned by EMI. I'm certain they have been paid handily for granting permission.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-mary-tyler-moore-sonny-curtis-theme-20170126-story.html

[samnsara]

3. what? you wont even buy my 1969 VW Karman Ghia automatic stickshift...

...in Lotus white?

[Iggo]

4. Oh god. The VW auto-stick.

[jmowreader]

19. You got an extra clutch control valve to go along with that?

[exboyfil]

5. I have a problem with Handel's

Messiah being used in advertising. MTM Show - not so much.

I will give you one that can be disturbing on a warped level. An old woman is seen traveling in a VW van with her family cross country. At the end it is to scatter the ashes of her husband (father/grandfather). She has a vaguely European accent.

VW, old European woman, and ashes - you can get the association. It takes a perverse mind to come up with it - both my daughter and I did in the theater. Maybe it says something about my family.

[Not Ruth]

6. They also have a Nazi connection

[Iggo]

9. So does Siemens, but nobody seems to care.

[Major Nikon]

18. I was at an industrial supply house buying a bunch of stuff

The Siemens rep offered to give me one of their promotional mugs and I told him there's no way I was going to drink out of a Siemens cup.

[elleng]

11. and I discussed it with Dad when I was shopping for my first car,

in '79. Rabbit was the best I'd found, for several reasons (and we're Jewish.) Dad said, OK, go with it, and I did. I've liked VWs ever since. (I'm now driving Dad's ' '93 Toyo Camry wagon.)

[Coventina]

17. All the German car companies do. n/t

[Binkie The Clown]

8. Really?

Millions starving in the world.
Millions without decent drinking water.
Global temperatures climbing every year, soon to make some parts of the world uninhabitable.
Pointless wars everywhere.
A madman in the White House.
Worldwide fisheries being depleted, and the oceans are dying.
Drought, disease, famine, racism, the resurgence of Nazis and other hate groups.
Racial discrimination.
Misogyny.
Healthcare costs spiraling out of reach for most people.
...etc., etc., etc.

And you get your shorts in a bunch over a TV jingle?

Really?

[a kennedy]

10. Yah, you're right.....that's why I posted this in the lounge area.....

didn't realize all the sorrow in the world was alive and well in the lounge area. Wow......gotta get an early cocktail, this IS the lounge after all. Just chill.

[Binkie The Clown]

12. When industrial civilization crumbles, the lounge will crumble with it. n/t

[TexasProgresive]

13. I hated hearing James Brown singing

Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would
So good, so good, I got you
So good, so good, I got you
So good, so good, I got you
HEY!!

In an ExLax commercial.

[SethH]

14. it's called "Top of the Food Chain"

I'm imagining she got to the top by running over her competition with her giant vehicle.

[pintobean]

15. I've never even thought about buying a Volkswagen.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I'm probably not going to buy a VW. But their use of a stupid, not very good TV theme song

will not be the reason, or even a reason.

[Laffy Kat]

20. Personally I've never gotten over that whole Volkswagen-nazi thing.

I've driven a couple of VWs before but they were purchased by my dad and I didn't realize the history of the VW.