Pancho’s Mexican Buffet: A Lost Media Mystery

Mount Molehill

This week we have a lost media mystery. I’m searching for a missing jingle for the once popular but now nearly-defunct Texas restaurant chain, Pancho’s Mexican Buffet. Does anyone else remember it? Who made it? Why can’t I find it anywhere? Does it even really exist?

Show Notes:

• Dalworth Carpet Cleaning Ad - 1994 (YouTube)
• Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Deep in the Heart of Texas (YouTube)
• Busta Rhymes - Dangerous (YouTube)
• Long Island Poison Control Center PSA (YouTube)
• G-Unit - My Buddy (YouTube)
• My Buddy Commercial (YouTube)
• Earworm (Wikipedia)
• History of Pancho's Mexican Buffet Inc.
• Pancho's Mexican Buffet 1994 Commercial - Raise the Flag (YouTube)
• Ramones - I Wanna Be Well (Feb 18th 1978) (YouTube)
• StevyFire - Pancho's Busboy (Soundcloud)
• Brewish - All You Can Eat (YouTube)
• Stuffed & Busted - Episode 1: All You Can Hear (Archive.org)
• Hey Everybody, It's Jimbo - Tex-Mex - 111 (Archive.org)
• King of the Hill - S3E19 (TikTok)
• Barry's Thoughts - Pancho's Mexican Buffett Review - March 2022 (YouTube)
• Pancho's Mexican Buffet Corpus Christi, TX. 1995 Commercial (YouTube)
• KDMX 102.9 Dallas - 30 May 2000 (Archive.org)
• Southwestern Pancho's Music (Wayback Machine)
• Kevin Toomey - The Mysterious Jingle That Changed My Life (YouTube)
• The power of nostalgia: What science tells us about longing for the past
• 5-19-2002 KDFW Local Commercials (YouTube)
• Pancho's Mexican Buffet Commercial (Raise The Flag!) (YouTube)

This episode of Mount Molehill written, produced, and edited by Chris, with music by Chris and Alex Bainter / CC BY. Any voices featured on the podcast are computer generated unless otherwise noted. Special thanks to Kevin Toomey on this episode for trying to help me out. This podcast features materials protected by the Fair Use guidelines of Section 107 of the Copyright Act. All rights reserved to the copyright owners.

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