# Commercials that worked on you

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-worked-on-you/796188>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 12, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-worked-on-you/796188 "2017-09-12T18:42:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-worked-on-you/796188/21 "2017-09-14T02:21:46Z")

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The old (1990s?) commercial with the gorgeous blonde eating Cheetos and wiping her hand on the back of her hot-pants…resulting in gross orange stains on the ass everyone was ogling…convinced me to never eat Cheetos again. Does that count?

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**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-worked-on-you/796188/22 "2017-09-14T03:34:33Z")

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> [@stillownedbysetters](#):
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> The one that sticks in my mind is the Dairy Queen ad with the river of chocolate flowing through a landscape of sweet things. I can’t count how many times that ad got me to grab my purse and keys and make a trip to my nearby Dairy Queen.
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> Was I satisfied? Hey, it was Dairy Queen, what’s not to like?

Wow – I’d forgotten about those “In the Land of Dairy Queen …” commercials from the 1980s until I read your post. I just watched some on YouTube, and they’re still highly effective. It was a great advertising campaign. Too late now to go to DQ, though.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-worked-on-you/796188/23 "2017-09-15T17:45:40Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> The old (1990s?) commercial with the gorgeous blonde eating Cheetos and wiping her hand on the back of her hot-pants…resulting in gross orange stains on the ass everyone was ogling…convinced me to never eat Cheetos again. Does that count?

There’s a current one where the dad turns on a blacklight and everyone is smeared with orange from sneaking Cheetos. Including the kids’ mouths. Thinking about what they are usually scanning for makes it vaguely icky.

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**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-worked-on-you/796188/24 "2017-09-15T18:13:58Z")

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Dollar shave club snagged me with their first round of (web-only?) ads.

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