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Word: fixx (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...giant red zero moves around the screen while a sedated-sounding man hauntingly drones the line "Saved by zero" - financing, get it? - over and over. The jingle is actually a re-recording of a 1980s song of the same name by British new-wave band the Fixx. "It's right at that border where it's catchy enough that it gets stuck in your head, but not good enough that you like it," says Dan Sarles, a business school graduate who is among a growing legion of viewers complaining about the ad online. (See the best and worst Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Saved by Zero': The Toyota Ad That Won't Stop | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

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