# Childhood Commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886 "2016-07-25T20:53:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/21 "2016-07-26T18:39:12Z")
Mission Pak Oranges. “Say the magic word, say Mission Pak And it’s on its merry way No gift so bright, so gay, so right Give the Mission Pak magic way…” Yes. You sent a box of Oranges. And outside CA & Fla , like to Wisconsin, they were much appreciated. “Dont cook tonite- call Chicken Delight!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/22 "2016-07-26T19:09:19Z")
This is a local commercial jingle from my childhood. [Pearson Ford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PtoPsuN1lo), they stand alone at Fairmont and El Cajon. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/23 "2016-07-26T19:24:09Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I love this old [Mr. Bubble](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgBk09vhKVc) commercial. YES. Best commercial ever. “Madam, how do you dooo?” > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > This is a local commercial jingle from my childhood. > > [Pearson Ford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PtoPsuN1lo), they stand alone at Fairmont and El Cajon. This San Diego boy remembers that one well. The “I Pagliacci” commercial for Rice Krispies is considered the classic, but I prefer [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6TIsxTdrCU). (There were at least three versions: this is the jazzed-up one; there was an earlier straight version; and although I don’t remember it, there was a sing-along version which takes all the fun out of deciphering Crackle’s tongue-twisting lines.) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/24 "2016-07-27T02:09:11Z")
Kerns Bread: one puppet holds up a loaf and says, “everybody likes Kern Bre-ad.” A skinnier puppet replies, “not everybody.” What happens next varies. Sometimes a foot squashes him. Sometimes a hand grabs him. There’s one where the bigger puppet starts talking about violence in commercials. Of course the little guy gets it again. I found out the puppets were made by Jim Henson. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/25 "2016-07-27T02:19:57Z")
I’m old enough to remember Dinah Shore singing “See the USA in your Chevolet” in this commercial: [See the USA in Your Chevrolet Dinah Shore, 1953 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYX1ewPJrFU) And this one for Firestone Tires: [1963 (Circa) Firestone Commercial (Color) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md72R-LWmvU) And the original ad for Wendy’s that added a slogan to our language: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnUs2AqWvs) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/26 "2016-07-27T15:46:24Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > And this one for Firestone Tires: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md72R-LWmvU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md72R-LWmvU) I don’t remember this particular [Uniroyal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql123u7WSJo) commercial, but I do remember Uni, Roy, and Al. I do remember the [Uniroyal Tiger Paws](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOS_AS08Bc) commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Floppy\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/27 "2016-07-27T20:34:27Z")
Prell Shampoo. So thick, a pearl barely sinks to the bottom. And a local one… Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway 1-1-9-8-0 East Firestone Stanley Chevrolet ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/28 "2016-07-27T20:52:52Z")
If it says Libbys Libbys Libbys On the label label label It will be tasty tasty tasty On the table table table Also, anyone who grew up in SoCal remembers Worthington Ford. Here’s Cal Worthington and his dog Spot! “If you need a better car, go see Cal For the best deal by far, go see Cal If you want your payments low If you want to save some dough Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal.” Of course, for a long time as a child I thought they were saying “Pussy Cow”. Which kind of made sense to me because his Dog Spot was always a weird animal. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/29 "2016-07-27T21:42:53Z")
Dad: “I found this in your closet. Who taught you how to use this stuff” Son: “YOU, alright?! I learned it by watching you!” Narrator: “Parents who do drugs have children who do drugs.” ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/30 "2016-07-27T21:52:45Z")
[Operation](https://youtu.be/wxnbqazv-q0). “Take out wrenched ankle.” [she carefully removes it without triggering the buzzer] “HA … HA … HA.” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/31 "2016-07-27T22:44:37Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Also, anyone who grew up in SoCal remembers Worthington Ford. Actually, that applies to pretty much the entire West Coast. Worthington had a dealership in the Seattle area so we got the commercials too. Here’s [the first commercial in Nestle’s “Land of Chocolate” campaign](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIR_1OrWi64) from the late 60s. I seem to remember the proprietor of the chocolate house getting more peeved at the kids eating pieces of it as the ad series went on. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/32 "2016-07-27T22:48:10Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Dad: “I found this in your closet. Who taught you how to use this stuff” > > Son: “YOU, alright?! I learned it by watching you!” > > Narrator: “Parents who do drugs have children who do drugs.” Son of a…! Two-day-old thread, and I get ninja’d by an hour! > [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Also, anyone who grew up in SoCal remembers Worthington Ford. > Here’s Cal Worthington and his dog Spot! > “If you need a better car, go see Cal > For the best deal by far, go see Cal > If you want your payments low > If you want to save some dough > Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal.” > > Of course, for a long time as a child I thought they were saying “Pussy Cow”. Which kind of made sense to me because his Dog Spot was always a weird animal. Forever etched in our memories. That man was the Vin Scully of selling cars. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/33 "2016-07-27T22:55:18Z")
[I dare ya to knock this battery off](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-oLQgvcuk) [“Huungry! Hungy Jack!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZijwNtW9edo) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/34 "2016-07-27T23:16:52Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Also, anyone who grew up in SoCal remembers Worthington Ford. Even before the “Go see Cal” jingle, there was: _Worthington Ford in Long Beach Worthington Ford in Long Beach San Diego Freeway At Bellflower Boulevard._ ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/35 "2016-07-28T05:31:56Z")
> [@appleaday](#): > > Tony the Tiger, spokescritter for Frosted Flakes, “They’re GREAT!” The “great” always came out as a roar. “They’re GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!” Thurl Ravenscroft “rapping” a radio commercial circa 1960 for a Chicago car dealer on track 20 here: [http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/365-days-184---.html](http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/07/365-days-184---.html) I must’ve heard that on the radio hundreds of times. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/36 "2016-07-28T05:39:48Z")
LOL, I remember so many of these! Speaking of memorable Wendy’s commercials, though… [Swimwear!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_IIOKYl6M) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/37 "2016-07-28T11:42:59Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Milk, it does a body good. > > Pass it on. That instantly makes me think of a magazine ad version, featuring figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi in all her leggy glory. Da_yum_. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/38 "2016-07-28T11:46:16Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > LOL, I remember so many of these! Speaking of memorable Wendy’s commercials, though… > > [Swimwear!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va_IIOKYl6M) See post 19 🙂 Yes, I still quote this aloud quite often. “EES NEXT…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/39 "2016-07-28T12:37:52Z")
One more old memory. I wonder how many of us (over 55 or so) can still sing the Chef Boy-ar-dee Beefaroni song? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/euo086SUjls/hqdefault.jpg "Beefaroni TV Add 1966") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euo086SUjls) ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/40 "2016-07-28T12:40:54Z")
> [@jkellymap](#): > > see post 19 🙂 > > yes, i still quote this aloud quite often. “ees next…” veddy niiice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886.md?page=3)