It's one of the downsides to being a sports fan. You watch the same programming all the time, and you get hammered with the same commercials all the time. The right commercial can stick in your head like the way the kids laughed at you when you peed yourself in 2nd grade.

The most infamous time of year for this is the NCAA basketball tournament, as everyone watches CBS for 12 hours a day, for four consecutive days, and no one at CBS has the basic human decency to think ahead and mix up the commercials a little bit (my boycott of Coke Zero continues). Those who watched every game of the World Series would like have a few words with Frank Caliendo, too.

The NFL is not without their issues along the same lines. The one that's brutalizing me this year is Subway's "Five Dollar Foot-loooooooong," but apparently, that's not the one that's getting the goat of the rest of the nation. I don't know that I've ever seen an actual AP article about how people hate a commercial before.

The commercial in question? Toyota's "Saved by Zero" campaign.

Bad news, gang. It's not stopping. Toyota's extending their little financing deal, and thus, they're extending the amount of time that this commercial will be pumping through your television set.

I called my local Toyota dealership and asked them, and even if you buy a brand new Toyota, there's no way for you to get away from the "Saved by Zero" jingle. You're taking it in the ear, no matter what. It's like herpes.

Of course, the all-time heavyweight champion in this category is John Mellencamp's, "This is Our Country," the song that was supposed to make Chevy trucks seem more ... I don't know, American. Mellencamp still gives me night terrors, and if I ever see him, I'm going to follow him around with my laptop, playing the "Saved by Zero" song in his ear for five consecutive hours.

Gracias, Kissing Suzy Kolber.

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