# Commercials you love/still remember **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418 "2002-11-12T11:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/41 "2002-11-15T21:24:20Z")
**vivalostwages** , I don’t live there anymore (wish I did), but yup, I grew up there! Hey, while we are on the subject of commercials, what is with that series of ads that says “chewie stops the chatter”. Now, some of them are pretty funny, but still - the premise is basically: fill your child’s mouth with our sweet chewy food and they will shut up. That seems a hell of a message to be spreading to Mr and Mrs Average Parent. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/42 "2002-11-15T21:28:11Z")
Okay, for old candy bar ads, how about ads for **Marathon** candy bars, that last “a good long time” (and aren’t sold anymore). Or the old “Whatchamacallit” ads. Move over, Abbot and Costello! The joke is, the candy bar is called “Whatchamacallit!” Confusion and hilarity ensue! Hubba Bubba ads with the “gum fighter”? And while not candy, how about “Have a notha nutter butter peanut butter sandwich cookie - by Banisco!” _“Nabisco!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/43 "2002-11-15T22:29:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darkrabbit \* > \*\*Isn’t there a parody of this one where the kid hands a sumo wrestler a coke and after the sumo wrestler chuggs it down he walks away, only to turn and throw the kid his dripping wet sumo-thong? > \*\* SCTV, If’n I recall. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/44 "2002-11-15T22:57:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > \*\*I also seem to remember a product/service/company advertising with one of those old style phone numbers. (HU3-2700 sung as “Hudson three two seven hundreeeed!”) Anyone remember what that was for? And why they were still using a word based prefix into the mid-seventies? \*\* Magikist carpet cleaners. I suspect that they used the original word based prefix because it had been part of their advertising for so long that it had become identified with the company. Just like the [Magikist lips signs](http://condor.depaul.edu/~tseneca/signs/lips.htm) which used to be all over Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/45 "2002-11-16T00:09:05Z")
The Miller Lite adds with john Madden, Bubba Smith and the gang. They stpped them before I was old enough to legaly drink. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/46 "2002-11-19T14:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jorel \* > \*\*Oh, I liked the Alaska Airlines ones too. SkyHigh Airlines was parody. The guy was on the phone tree and he kept getting transferred to a different computer. Finally he gets a human being and he asks her “are you a computer?” and she says brightly, “no, but I can connect you to one” and does. > > I also like the Wheaties commercials > > (baseball player) “before I swing for the bleacher seaties, I get the eaties for my wheaties” \*\* I seem to recall former 76er Darryl Dawkins doing one of these, and the jingle was “before I slam my gorilla dunkies, I get the eaties for my Wheaties.” Dawkins had names for all his slam dunks, and the “Gorilla Dunk” was one of them. ---
**Author:** ![welby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@welby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/47 "2002-11-19T15:29:57Z")
Anyone remember the commercials of **Linkets**? Kind of a Lego rip off. I always liked the song. Something about Linket kids building a better world. Man I loved that commercial. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/48 "2002-11-19T17:15:36Z")
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener! That is what I’d truly like to be-eeeee-eeeeee! Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener! Every one would be in love with me! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I’m glad I’m not an Oscar Mayer Wiener! That’s something that I’d never want to be-eeeee-eeeee! Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener! There would soon be nothing left of me! See the USA… In a Chevrolet! Dirt can’t hide From intensified Tide. And, last but not least, the chorus from the Slinky song: It’s Slinky! It’s Slinky! Oh! What a wonderful toy! It’s Slinky! It’s Slinky! Oh! What a wonderful toy! It’s fun for a girl and a boy! It’s fun for a girl and a boy! Swampbear, who hopes to return to reality shortly. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/49 "2002-11-19T17:32:25Z")
I loved the old Little Cesar ads… My favorite one’s premise was that other chains might give you an extra box with your pizza, and the customer asks “What do I do with an extra box?” The guy behind the counter is the very weird Air Traffic Controller from Airplane! who suggests origami…“It’s a pteradactyl! Caw! Caw!” That and the one Pop-Tart spot a few years back: “Dear Bob, Wer’re hot for you, love, Pop-Tarts” with the catchy music… ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/50 "2002-11-19T17:32:43Z")
What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs all over your neighbor’s dog? Great for a snack, sits on your back Log! Log! Log! It’s LOOOOG, It’s LOOOOG it’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood It’s LOOOOG, It’s LOOOOG it’s better than bad – it’s good! C’mon & get your log, You’re gonna love it log! (Log, from BLAMMO!) (Ok, not a real commercial, but something I remember fondly!) BTW, thanks Lurkmeister…I wasn’t expecting anyone else to remember that! ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/51 "2002-11-19T19:20:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\*Okay, for old candy bar ads, how about ads for **Marathon** candy bars, that last “a good long time” (and aren’t sold anymore). > > Or the old “Whatchamacallit” ads. Move over, Abbot and Costello! The joke is, the candy bar is called “Whatchamacallit!” Confusion and hilarity ensue! > > Hubba Bubba ads with the “gum fighter”? > > And while not candy, how about “Have a notha nutter butter peanut butter sandwich cookie - by Banisco!” _“Nabisco!”_ \*\* You must have been watching the same Saturday morning cartoon lineup I was watching. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/52 "2002-11-19T19:53:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aenea \* > \*\*Pete Ellis Dodge, > > Long Beach Freeway > > Firestone Exit > > Southgate > Remember Cal Worthington and his dog Spot, anyone? \*\* Of course! How could anyone who lived in southern California some time during the seventies or eighties _not_ remember those? We have a similar thing here in north Texas and Oklahoma - a fellow named Larry Battison (“Battison AutoCenter, Downtown Duncan [Oklahoma]”). I will remember his company’s phone numer 'til the day I die… not to mention the guy in the panda suit waving and the flashing hazard lights! … but this is about my _favourite_ commercials, not the ones I loathe, right? I absolutely love the Oregon Lottery commercial that’s a reality-TV show parody: “Who Can Spend 30 Days in a Trailer With Mr. T?” “T need a foot rub! Who gonna give Mr. T a foot rub?” Another favourite of mine is THQ’s ad for the _Evil Dead_ video game where the guy trys to get his hand replaced with a chainsaw like Ash in _Evil Dead_. “Help! Bruce Campbell’s chasing me!” > [@](#): > > _Beadalin mentioned:_ > **For recent commercials, I have yet to see a Snickers “Not going anywhere for awhile?” ad that doesn’t make me giggle. Especially the panda one.** “That’s great, but who are the Chefs?” ESPN has had some good commercials over the years, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418/53 "2002-11-20T00:43:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by psiekier \* > \*\* > > “That’s great, but who are the Chefs?” > > \*\* “Awww…Great googily moogily!” At least I think that’s what the Chiefs AKA Chefs groundskeeper said when the player pointed out his mistake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-love-still-remember/136418.md?page=2)