TeeVee Toons

Interestingly enough, I went looking for a CD I obtained in a Freecycle transaction. After listening to it once, I thought I was done and kept it as a conversation starter... : ) but the tunes are so lively, they're fun to have as background (not unlike Christmas carols - I wonder if it will put me in a buying mood - oooh Meow cat food!): they are TV tunes, that is, TV ads.
I find commercials, as much as TV series or movies, are something of a common cultural bond. Regardless if your social, racial, religious affiliations, if you've got a TV, you will have been subjected to the same ads. The fact that you like them or not is irrelevant.
These days, my mom is preoccupied with the definition of culture (it's a long story I won't get into). She likes to equate culture with artistic or scientific outputs.
I would like to submit that culture is "environmental" as much as "mental". It is a shared understanding of reality. In that sense, TV tunes are cultural icons as much as Warhol's pop art (we always come back to him...).

So get me a slinky while I drink my Coke to go with my Harmer hot dog... and hum along!