"there ain't no bugs on me" commercial

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNlt0D_xba4

People think the dog in this commercial is cute. It's bad grammar. Bad grammar is not cute.

Pretty sure it's a parody of a southern song, hence the bad grammar and why people overlook it.

That was my favorite commercial as a little kid! That dog is so adorable and looks just like the puppy we had back then I like this version even more, however:

There may be bugs on some of you mugs. But theyre aint no bugs on me!

I remember that there was a whole slew of commercials back then that featured that particular breed of white puppy.

Remember thinking at the time that "some Madison Avenue firm must have had a focus group, and brought in folks from a cross section of America to look at slides of puppies to find out which breed the majority voted as cutest.

That was the most memorable of that slew of commercials.

The blue grass band the Austin Lounge Lizards even quoted the ditty in some other song they did at that time (cant recall which one).

I'm dyslexic & grew up in the deep south so I never had excellent grammar & don't get bothered by others using it wrong.

I'm too impressed by a singing dog to quibble over its grammar.

It might be correct "dog grammar," anyway......

...at the time, I made my own parody of this song where the lyrics were changed to the topic of VD... ¬_¬

I am a very mature person.



Off topic: Woo! 5500 posts!

Grammer?

You want grammer?

In song?

Would the old blues classic have sounded better if it were "nobody is aware of the difficulties I have observed" (nobody knows the troubles I seen)?

Would Mick Jagger have sounded better if he had sung "I cant get any satisfaction"?

The Beatles didn't sing it as "Its the evening of a hard day". They sang "Its been a hard day's night" (slaughtering grammar more ways than one).

And while we are on the topic of dogs...would the King have sounded better if he sung "you are not anything other than....a hound dog!"???????????????

Answer me that! Mr smartypants Grammar Nazi!

Bad grammar is commonly used in songs for meter effect. "don't" for "doesn't" is commonly used in songs for meter effect. However "there are no bugs on me" is the same amount of syllables as "there ain't no bugs on me".