# 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:** 4
**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 28, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/61 "2016-07-28T23:50:10Z")
I was too young to remember[this 60s commercial for Apple Jacks](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNrctIuBWw) when it originally aired. Kellogg’s promotion of the cereal as the remedy for any kid regularly picked on by bullies is, from the perspective of 2016, a rather _different_ advertising strategy. ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/62 "2016-07-28T23:55:04Z")
I was too young to remember[this 60s commercial for Apple Jacks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNrctIuBWw) when it originally aired. Kellogg’s promotion of the cereal as the remedy for any kid regularly picked on by bullies is, from the perspective of 2016, a rather _different_ advertising strategy. /Corrected ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/63 "2016-07-29T02:23:15Z")
[My buddy and me.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdximU6Ao00) There was a commercial for Baby Thataway that I cannot find with the song Soon as I leave you along, Baby Thataway Off you go on your own, Baby Thataway What’s a mother to do, Baby Thataway? Do with a dickens like you, Baby Thataway. Get out of trouble and then Back into trouble again. You scoot and scat away, Baby Thataway! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/64 "2016-07-29T02:25:17Z")
Weird. I tried to post this: [Found the Colt 45 bull commercial. When I was tiny I always tried to whistle it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt87siZn9WA) I remember thinking it was hilarious. I must have been violent child. And it ate up all the rest of the post. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/65 "2016-07-29T02:42:47Z")
I recall fondly a lot of commercials that ran during Saturday morning cartoons. A few: Honeycomb Hideout (Honeycomb’s big!) Kool-Aid mascot breaking through walls Life cereal: Mikey. He hates everything! My favorites were the Time for Timer ads, PSAs run by the Food Council or something promoting healthy eating. Hungry for a hunk of cheese! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/66 "2016-07-29T02:49:18Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > I recall fondly a lot of commercials that ran during Saturday morning cartoons. A few: > > Honeycomb Hideout (Honeycomb’s big!) Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It’s not small. No! No! No! ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/67 "2016-07-29T02:55:22Z")
> [@Personal](#): > > I recall fondly a lot of commercials that ran during Saturday morning cartoons. A few: > > Honeycomb Hideout (Honeycomb’s big!) > > Kool-Aid mascot breaking through walls > > Life cereal: Mikey. He hates everything! > > My favorites were the Time for Timer ads, PSAs run by the Food Council or something promoting healthy eating. Hungry for a hunk of cheese! This talk of Saturday Morning Cartoons reminds me of this old Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle ad. Watch the ad to the very ending, it always cracked me up that they didn’t stop the cameras before the cycle just plopped over on it’s side at the end. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-H5g9WEqCc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-H5g9WEqCc) ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/68 "2016-07-30T08:41:42Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I was too young to remember[this 60s commercial for Apple Jacks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNrctIuBWw) when it originally aired. Kellogg’s promotion of the cereal as the remedy for any kid regularly picked on by bullies is, from the perspective of 2016, a rather _different_ advertising strategy. > > /Corrected In the 1990s, Kellogg’s ran a series of bizarre Apple Jacks commercials featuring a group of rebellious kids with bad attitudes, who stuck it to The Man by subsisting on a diet of Apple Jacks. “We eat what we like!” was their catchphrase. They were shunned for their cereal-centered nonconformity by family and peers alike (in [this ad](https://youtu.be/i6ObfOiIu4o) they are taunted by a young Julia Stiles). ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/69 "2016-07-30T08:52:20Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > Yeah, it might have been Lyle Wagner doing the spoof. > Meanwhile, here’s Johnny Carson spoofing that ad: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCWRyVYHBQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnCWRyVYHBQ) _Saturday Night Live_ also parodied the ad, with Martin Sheen as Robert Conrad and Bill Murray as the bully who accepts the dare. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/70 "2016-07-30T14:28:05Z")
Be warned **Personal**! If I ever meet you IRL, I will tickle you until you cannot breathe. I’ve had that damned Honeycomb song stuck in my head for TWO DAYS!!! [Honeycomb Hideout-- you listen and not get it stuck on replay.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDZK6H3d5bk) ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/71 "2016-07-30T14:31:39Z")
Foamy shaving cream commercial. I always wanted to be in that roller coaster when it slammed into the 6 foot pile of Foamy. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/72 "2016-07-30T20:20:04Z")
You’re welcome. The kicker for me is that the parents wouldn’t allow us to have sugary cereals, and I’ve never thought to by it, so I’ve never had Honeycomb. Or Lucky Charms. Or Count Chocula. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/73 "2016-07-30T22:14:09Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > And its companion piece… > “Ok, last time. This is your brain (holds up egg), and this is drugs (holds up frying pan), and this is your brain on drugs (cracks egg in frying pan). Any questions?” Shortly after my family got cable, Dad was watching some HBO program in which a comedian responded to this PSA by asking, “Yes, is that an egg in a frying pan?” My kindergarten-aged self thought this was hilarious – so much so that I shared it with my class when we had our discussion of drug dangers. 😃 My classmates and I (and a good chunk of the country, apparently) were very fond of the delivery of the elderly lady in the original [“I’VE FALLEN AND I CAN’T GET UP”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-YViin6p0) commercials. I also remember thinking that the [“Chicken Tonight”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ9M7bsx10I) commercials were really funny…unfortunately, Mom mistook my dancing during the commercials for a fondness for the actual product, and we had a pantry full of the stuff for ages. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/74 "2018-01-31T14:04:22Z")
Bump. I knew that there are recent threads on commercials you hate and on commercials that you don’t hate, but I had to search to see if there was a thread on _old_ commercials. For some reason for the past couple of days, I’ve had the “[introducing Diet Coke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRfcbkBmxo)” jingle in my head. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/75 "2018-01-31T15:02:22Z")
The first commercial I thought of was for Oscar Mayer bologna. My bologna has a first name it’s O-S-C-A-R My bologna has a second name it’s M-A-Y-E-R Oh, I love to eat it every day And if you ask me why I’ll say Cuz Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A The kid was so cute! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/76 "2018-01-31T15:05:20Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > The first commercial I thought of was for Oscar Mayer bologna. > > My bologna has a first name it’s O-S-C-A-R > > My bologna has a second name it’s M-A-Y-E-R > > Oh, I love to eat it every day > > And if you ask me why I’ll say > > Cuz Oscar Mayer has a way with > > B-O-L-O-G-N-A > > The kid was so cute! “How’s that?” He was a cutie ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/77 "2018-01-31T15:27:30Z")
[McDonalds Little Sister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4P9DA_iNdw) still gets me dusty. My little sister and I are have the same age difference. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/78 "2018-01-31T17:10:56Z")
From the central Indiana T.V. market- Bob Catterson droning Noooobody… for Bob Catterson Buick. Yes, he sold ads to other areas, but Indy ads were the originals. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/79 "2018-01-31T17:14:25Z")
[From Cleveland:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7r6A6YQdtI) “Roll on, Big O, get that juice up to Lawson’s in forty hours.” I still know every word. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/80 "2018-01-31T17:19:57Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > [McDonalds Little Sister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4P9DA_iNdw) still gets me dusty. My little sister and I are have the same age difference. And they grew up to do [coffee commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZnqBL6iYjA). 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886.md?page=5)