# Childhood Commercials

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886 "2016-07-25T20:53:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/1 "2016-07-25T20:53:58Z")

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What commercials do you fondly (or not) remember from your childhood?

I remember:

The Folgers Dancers  
[http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/28666/folgers-a-dancers-morning](http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/28666/folgers-a-dancers-morning)

Socker Boppers  
[http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/27394/socker-boppers](http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/27394/socker-boppers)

Baby Bottle Pop  
[http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/23758/baby-bottle-pop](http://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/23758/baby-bottle-pop)

All the “Got Milk?” ads were a bully/jerk gets karmic justice in the form of being out of/unable to get a drink of milk after, usually, eating something.

The Pringles ad with the kid on the island.

The one were the little girl want’s Chef Boyardee, her mom says no and the can rolls home after them.

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/2 "2016-07-25T21:21:03Z")

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Santa zipping around the snow on the Norelco electric shaver. When we saw that, we knew it (Christmas) was getting close!

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**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/3 "2016-07-25T22:38:54Z")

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I love this old [Mr. Bubble](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgBk09vhKVc) commercial.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/4 "2016-07-26T00:55:31Z")

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According to my mom, one of my first complete sentences was, “Ten o’clock, time for Chocks!”

Chocks was a brand of vitamins for kids.

I vaguely remember a bird coming out of a cuckoo clock and saying it.

I loved Choo-Choo Charlie, Sonny and his “Coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs!” and yes, I adored the Frito Bandito, and I don’t care who knows it. “_Ay-yi-yi-yi, I am the Frito Bandito…_”

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/5 "2016-07-26T01:17:11Z")

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Milk, it does a body good.

Pass it on.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/6 "2016-07-26T01:26:44Z")

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I remember feeling really bad for the Trix rabbit- he tried so hard to get a bowl of cereal, only to get it taken away by those rude kids who’d say “silly rabbit, Trix are for kids”. And I thought, let him have some damn Trix already–it’s his cereal, his picture’s on the box!

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/7 "2016-07-26T13:07:39Z")

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There are many commercials with songs that all we kids used to love to sing along with, such as the Fig Newton commercial with the dancing fig

“Ooey gooey rich and chewy inside  
Golden flakey tender cakey outside  
Wrap the inside in the outside  
Is it good? Darn tootin’!”

I was sure **teela brown’s** Mr. Bubble link was going to be to the '70s era commercial that had the song "Mr. Bubble in the tub’ll get ya squeaky clean. . . "  
“There are lots of chewy Rolos in a roll for you . . .”  
“Hot dogs! Armour hot dogs! What kind of kid eats Armour hot dogs?”  
A couple that I hated because they scared the crap out of me:

An anti smoking commercial by the American Heart Assoc. that had this creepy ass song

“To get right to the heart of the matter. Where there’s smoke WHERE THERE"S SMOKE!”  
And then there’s [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwA_58KIEcs) commercial for the movie _Suspiria_ \<shudder\> I’ve mentioned that one here before and just as back then, I can’t really bring myself to watch the whole clip.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/8 "2016-07-26T14:04:09Z")

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I want my Maypo!

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/9 "2016-07-26T14:10:21Z")

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[Dancing Rolo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlXA4tS9pl8) commercial.

ISTR a commercial for Doral cigarettes that featured a dancing box of Dorals and the jingle ♬ \*Taste me, taste me! Come on and taste me! That’s all Doral asks. \* ♬

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/10 "2016-07-26T14:12:25Z")

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[Sparkletts Water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budeaznVEQo)

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/11 "2016-07-26T14:55:29Z")

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A commercial for Jergen’s Lotion where the lady’s hand turns into a pinecone. I thought it was a cactus but youtube says pinecone.

The margarine commercials where people bit into the bread with margarine on it and a crown appeared on their head. Can’t think of the brand.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/12 "2016-07-26T15:03:26Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> [Sparkletts Water](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=budeaznVEQo)

Yeah, Leon!😛

Ohmigosh I had totally forgotten about Sparkletts and that commercial. I loved that chlorinated goodness. Are they still around?

There were a lot of commercials with songs I didn’t realize were based on real songs until I heard them years later.

I didn’t know [Volare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnWHQCgByWg)  
really was a popular song.

or [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve04-BcEP94) stupid song.

or that [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q0P94wyBYk) is a take off of a Peggy Lee song.

They don’t make commercials like they used to :mad:

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/13 "2016-07-26T15:04:52Z")

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> [@AllShookDown](#):
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> A commercial for Jergen’s Lotion where the lady’s hand turns into a pinecone. I thought it was a cactus but youtube says pinecone.
> 
> The margarine commercials where people bit into the bread with margarine on it and a crown appeared on their head. Can’t think of the brand.

Imperial Margarine!

I always loved the Skittle Pool commercial with Don Adams. “Salesman, huh? What do you sell?” “Skittle Pool!”

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/14 "2016-07-26T15:24:31Z")

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Chiffon margarine. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”\<thunder and lightning\>

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/15 "2016-07-26T15:33:46Z")

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Tony the Tiger, spokescritter for Frosted Flakes, “They’re GREAT!” The “great” always came out as a roar.

There was a beverage commercial (kool-aid?) in which a bunch of kids are drinking it and start giggling like maniacs. I was afraid if I drank that stuff I’d turn into a loony giggler, too.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/16 "2016-07-26T15:40:53Z")

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> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> Yeah, Leon!😛
> 
> Ohmigosh I had totally forgotten about Sparkletts and that commercial. I loved that chlorinated goodness. Are they still around?

[Yes.](https://www.sparkletts.com)

> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> There were a lot of commercials with songs I didn’t realize were based on real songs until I heard them years later.
> 
> I didn’t know [Volare](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnWHQCgByWg)  
> really was a popular song.
> 
> or [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve04-BcEP94) stupid song.
> 
> or that [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q0P94wyBYk) is a take off of a Peggy Lee song.
> 
> They don’t make commercials like they used to :mad:

Yep, a lot of commercials had jingles based on popular tunes. (I have _Volare_ on a Dean Martin CD.)

Before my time, but it either ran for a long time or was remade. [Buckle up for safety](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Ujv0KmbXc) was a re-wording of [_Buckle Down, Winsocki_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C6F5HSpaQM)

[Get on Suzuki](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nJ-0YUaIo) was [_Get Happy_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-rBZREQMw)

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/17 "2016-07-26T15:46:28Z")

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[Freakies cereal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5fNTzoKRvs)

[Musical Freakies cereal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8mbxZBl3k)

[Quisp and Quake cereals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxQDXsJNXqo)

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/18 "2016-07-26T16:59:13Z")

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[Hefty, Hefty, Hefty!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJdQfjaRAG0)

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/19 "2016-07-26T17:14:43Z")

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[Dayvear!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CaMUfxVJVQ) I think that might be my favorite.

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**Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/20 "2016-07-26T18:04:13Z")

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Dunkin’ Donuts, it’s worth the trip!

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