Super 5 Hour Rip-Off

Tripredacus

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Have you seen those 5 Hour Energy commercials? One has been on TV recently during hockey games. I don't typically watch the hockey game, but listen to the TV feed because I'm doing other things. Well I've been hearing this 5 Hour Energy commercial lately and have noticed they stole a song! Here is the commercial:



You can tell near the end of the video there is a background song. Some may pick it up right away, others maybe think it is familiar for some reason.


If you haven't figured it out yet, it is the music from the Mini-Game in Super Mario 3 on NES. Unfortunately I cannot find a video for that specific game, but it also appears in a remake:

 
I can't find it on youtube,but there was a local commercial that the cable company was running a few years ago for some child rehab clinic which used the intro theme from the nes game Wizards and Warriors.No remix or anything,just ripped it straight from the nes game.
 
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