Reading that other commercials thread made me think of quite a few commercials from my constant tv watching days that I don’t see anymore.
First, I miss the Carvel ads. They don’t have Carvel stores in California, so I guess thats why there is no ads. Cookie Puss, where are you?
Time to Make the Donuts. I miss the cute old guy. Do they still make those commercials?
An old commercial for channel 6 news. It would travel their news van around the city as if it were filmed by a guy taking his family to see the sites. Every time the van went by you heard a funny voice say “There goes that news van again.”
Krass Brothers. There was this clothing store on South Street that every Saturday morning during cartoons would advertise. God knows who thought that was a good target audience, but it was on for years, so it must have worked. Anyway, this old guy would come on and yell about the great clothes they had at his store, then a gaggle of females would come out and rip his clothes off.
Last, but surely not least. Ok, I don’t remember the name of the store. But, it was a commercial for a furniture store. Every commercial would feature this old guy among a bunch of people in different circumstances. Then there would be a flash and everyone would be gone except for the old guy. He would look around and say “Hey, where did every body go?” Then the voice over guy would say they went to Bekins, or whatever the name of the store was. That was my favorite.
The Cal Worthington commercials. He had a chain of auto dealerships and he would wear these wierd clothes and have strange animals on the commercials.
I think it was Federated with “Fred Rated” who went around smashing the crap out of stereo equipment and the like.
Oh yes, one of the few good things to come out of The Church of JC & LDS(did I say that? Remember the commercial that was kind of like a musical, some old guy singing, “Who broke my win-dow!?” and the kid sings back, “Telling the truth isn’t gonna be ea-sy!” That used to crack me up.
“Teaching without words and work without doing are understood by very few.”
-Tao Te Ching
Crazy Eddie
An electronics store. Just a loud mouthed guy yelling sometimes throwing money.“With prices so low, it’s craaaazzyyy” or something like that
so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. what’s so amazing about really deep thoughts? Tori Amos
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing” is Alka-Seltzer. Millions of dollars they spent on that campaign that ran for years and still you don’t remember the advertiser. Is that responsible viewing, I ask you?
Seriously, I think they ultimately dropped that campaign because people were responding to and remembering the catch phrase more than they were the product. Case in point.
What do I miss? Santa on the Norelco and anything by Stan Freberg.
Please do NOT stir up Shake-n-Bake memories. We were a family of Southerners living in the North when this spot ran. Couldn’t distance myself from the hicks in that ad fast enough.
For the record, no real Southerner ever sounded like that. Except for Alabamians and we never liked them much anyway.
I was mulling over my potential reply to this Q and, interestingly, I realized that 3 of my 5 seem to be for the same product! (or family of products, rather.)
Here are my faves:
“I’m the SpotMaker, I live in your dishwasher, spotting and streaking glasses and dishes!.. Oh No! Calgonite!!”
“That’s right, SpotMaker, Calgonite!”
(NO offense intended to anyone. I know that this is not considered PC anymore.)
2) “How do you get your shirts so clean,
Mr. Lee?”
“Ancient Chinese secret…”
“My husband… some hot shot! Here’s his Ancient Chinese secret… Calgon!”
“Calgon… Take me awaaay!!”
“Don’t take the car!!
You’ll kill yoursellllff!!”
(Always a poignant message: Do NOT drink and drive! But that commercial is a comical classic)
The Coca Cola “Teach the World to Sing” commercial. I miss seeing that one at Christmas time. But maybe they still play it and I just don’t watch enough TV at this time of year.
Anyone who was in the DC area in the eighties will remember:
“At All Six Morton’s!”
Also there was a furniture store whose name I have forgotten; the announcement of the locations at the end was rattled off incredibly fast, like the Federal Express guy only played straight.
Falcon, my wife and I love the Beggin’ Strips commercial too (even though we don’t have a dog). “It’s gotta be bacon because only one thing smells like bacon and that’s BACON!”
Remember the commercial that was kind of like a musical, some old guy singing, “Who broke my win-dow!?” and the kid sings back, “Telling the truth isn’t gonna be ea-sy!” That used to crack me up.