# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/81 "2018-01-31T19:03:09Z")
Technically a PSA…but [Time for Timer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jgo5ea_zc) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/82 "2018-01-31T19:43:07Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > Technically a PSA…but [Time for Timer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jgo5ea_zc) Ha! Good one. In the same vein, there’s [Yuck Mouth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponLpfItrkg) “I’ve got roast beef in my teeth and some chicken too Ouch that’s a cavity! Hey, that’s new!” ---
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/83 "2018-01-31T19:57:22Z")
[Mister Yuck is mean. Mister Yuck is green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ). ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/84 "2018-01-31T20:03:34Z")
[You’ve got an uncle in the furniture business- Joshua Doore- Joshua Doore!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljb0-08HW1g) ---
**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, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/85 "2018-01-31T20:11:58Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [You’ve got an uncle in the furniture business- Joshua Doore- Joshua Doore!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljb0-08HW1g) Wow, what a description: “Joshua Doore was later found dead, mafia involvement was suspected.” ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/86 "2018-01-31T20:21:40Z")
I always thought this Captain America PSA was pretty cool and wondered why they never made a Captain America cartoon like they did Spidey and his Amazing Friends. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4xgfjjisjYU/hqdefault.jpg "Captain America on saving energy (1980)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgfjjisjYU) The Crest Team was pretty cool too. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0fLTh0IVOkQ/hqdefault.jpg "the Cavity Creeps") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fLTh0IVOkQ) Looking at it now, those gals on the Crest Team are kind of sexy. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/87 "2018-01-31T21:10:50Z")
One of the first Pop Tarts commercials, circa 1964: Fruit vendor, pushing his cart through the streets of old New York and crying “STRAW-ber-RIES! BLUE-ber-RIES! CHE-e-e-e-e-er-RIES!” Volkswagen had a bunch of them, f’rinstance: [TV commercial film for Volkswagen Beetle "Funeral" 1969 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPLNhqca0Qc&list=PLUbztKeKuMnZahqGXSGaRu-A2LetNahEv&index=12) Opel commercial ca. 1966 with a baby elephant, set to this tune: [Baby Elephant Walk - Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J05KebsWME) Alka-Seltzer also had a bunch of good ones, f’rinstance: [Famous Alka-Seltzer "No Matter What Shape" TV Commercial - from 1966! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQvWEpFhuc) Noxema shaving cream: [1960's Noxema Medicated Shave Cream Commercial - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdbLXe2j1tI) Hai Karate aftershave: [Hai Karate - vintage TV commercial - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtwh3nQP5Uo) 007 aftershave: [60's Aftershave Commercial - 007, The License to kill . . . women - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sbCauLP9Q) BF Goodrich: [BF Goodrich "Radial Age" ad, late 1960s - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ikQNHfQ2c) Butternut coffee: [BORIS KARLOFF COFFEE - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sMRR_COTAw) (there was one with Cesar Romero and one with Gary Cooper, too). These two, back to back: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKBMdkWc9E) and [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r78PRXlgOI) Folger’s coffee: [Folgers -- Mrs. Olson hushes a husband - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1U8wOBRhCQ) And **this gem** , from when I was in high school: [classic vw beetle commercial ft. Edwin Buzz Aldrin - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT3UOsQJFNQ) ---
**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/88 "2018-01-31T21:32:30Z")
[The earliest computer commercial I remember](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LR1Xvvch18). ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/89 "2018-01-31T22:59:02Z")
I’m going to take the low road…a commercial that I don’t remember fondly. It aired while I was living in California, around 1958 or 1959. It had a mechanical butler who served a tray of coffee. (The coffee was the product being advertised.) For some reason, that butler creeped me out. I used to have nightmares where he would be in my closet, bowing out with the tray of coffee with malevolent intent. It was like a TZ episode. The nightmares persisted for years. Can anyone remember a commercial like that? The only thing I recall is the butler gliding out like he was on wheels or on a track. Boy, it still gives me the shivers 60 years later. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/90 "2018-01-31T23:42:04Z")
[588-2300 Empire!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp9Kwe0v7L4) They’re no longer limited to the Chicago area and have since added an 800-prefix. I wonder why they didn’t get an 888-prefix instead. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/91 "2018-01-31T23:44:40Z")
[It’s shaike ‘n’ baike an’ ah heylped.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGA1RHEmxTc) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/92 "2018-02-01T00:16:57Z")
Meow Mix commercials used to make my baby sister cry. It was a cat singing “Meow meow meow meow meow” ( repeat ). For years we went around singing that to her, making her cry. Charlie The Tuna ads were always funny. And then “Chicken of the Sea”. “Riceroni the San Francisco treat”. “Who wears short shorts, we wear short shorts”(nair) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/93 "2018-02-01T01:16:10Z")
Cancer sticks for women: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chNheegvO4) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/94 "2018-02-01T02:32:28Z")
I can’t believe I didn’t see this thread the first time around. My favorite was a commercial for [Odd Ogg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbCq4qOBOs). Link is to a video showing the toy, not the commercial. Odd Ogg, Half Turtle and Half Frog I have a DVD set full of commercials from about 1950 - 1970, which has this one, and also Rockin’ Sockin’ Robots. Great DVD set, especially for the cancer stick commercials with opera singers and sports stars. ---
**Author:** ![betterlifethroughchemistry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/betterlifethroughchemistry/32/3094_2.png) [@betterlifethroughchemistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betterlifethroughchemistry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/95 "2018-02-01T02:40:17Z")
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuHGeCMd4E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuHGeCMd4E) ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/96 "2018-02-01T03:04:34Z")
Choosy Mothers choose Jif. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/97 "2018-02-01T03:14:10Z")
I distinctly remember the _Baby Alive_ commercials. Particularly the [Juice and Cookies Baby Alive.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTtiFnJIUU) In the studio: “You know what the song needs? A superfluous key modulation at nine seconds.” “Why?” “Why NOT?!” [sucks up gigantic rail of coke] ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/98 "2018-02-01T04:02:25Z")
When I was little I wanted [Good and Plenty.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I) when I was a bit older I wanted a [Serta](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I). Not really sure what it was but I really wanted one. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/99 "2018-02-01T05:31:39Z")
Ovaltine and Nesquik were for the unrefined children; I was a suave [Bosco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-aCP3SVu-Q) and [Cocoa Marsh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYMB498DxY) kid. But, for subtle, _sophisticated_ vintage advertising, it’s hard to beat Philadelphia’s [_Krass_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiOtX2MyPxk) [Bros.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMm900V3g8w) adverts. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886/100 "2018-02-01T07:14:17Z")
I remember: Morris (the finicky 9-lives cat) Mr. Whipple Madge the Manicurist Ring around the collar The San Francisco Treat Sorry, Charlie Ancient Chinese Secret Stove Top, instead of potatoes Good to the last drop Folger’s Crystals Plop, plop, fizz, fizz How to spell relief Era detergent being disturbingly proud of how well they clean bloodstains The sensation of a York Peppermint Patty Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t Underoos Cavity Creeps What comes between Brooke Shields and her Calvins [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/childhood-commercials/760886.md?page=6)