How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
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Give me a second; it’s on the tip of my tongue.
The joke “How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Give me a second; it’s on the tip of my tongue” plays on the well-known advertising slogan for Tootsie Pops, which asks, “How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?” The slogan is associated with a long-standing, somewhat rhetorical question as it’s difficult to determine an exact number of licks due to variations in people’s licking styles.
The punchline “Give me a second; it’s on the tip of my tongue” is a play on words. The phrase “on the tip of my tongue” is commonly used to describe a situation where someone is trying to remember a piece of information that they feel they are about to recall. In the context of the joke, it humorously implies that the answer to the question is literally on the speaker’s tongue because they are in the process of licking the Tootsie Pop to find out.
It’s a reference to an old tootsie roll pop commercial. where a boy consults Mr. Turtle and wise old Mr. Owl for the answer. This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, December 16th 1982. (though initially produced many years earlier).
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtbCOpx8Sk
867. I actually counted it when I was 7 or 8 years old.
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