I was too young to rememberthis 60s commercial for Apple Jacks 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.
I was too young to rememberthis 60s commercial for Apple Jacks 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.
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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!
Weird. I tried to post this:
Found the Colt 45 bull commercial. When I was tiny I always tried to whistle it. I remember thinking it was hilarious. I must have been violent child.
And it ate up all the rest of the post.
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!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It’s not small. No! No! No!
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.
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 they are taunted by a young Julia Stiles).
Saturday Night Live also parodied the ad, with Martin Sheen as Robert Conrad and Bill Murray as the bully who accepts the dare.
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.
Foamy shaving cream commercial. I always wanted to be in that roller coaster when it slammed into the 6 foot pile of Foamy.
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.
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” commercials.
I also remember thinking that the “Chicken Tonight” 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.
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” jingle in my head.
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
McDonalds Little Sister still gets me dusty. My little sister and I are have the same age difference.
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.
From Cleveland: “Roll on, Big O, get that juice up to Lawson’s in forty hours.”
I still know every word.
And they grew up to do coffee commercials.