# Earliest TV commercial you remember verbatim **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [May 25, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917 "2021-05-25T21:42:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/42 "2021-05-26T21:03:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > “I’m not eating it!” > > “Well I’m not eating it!” > > “Give it to Mikey” > > “He’s eating it! He likes it!” “What this stuff?” “Some new cereal. 'Sposta be good for you.” “You gonna try it?” “I’m not gonna try it - you try it!” “Let’s get Mikey.” “Yeah -he won’t eat it. He hates everything.” “He likes it! Hey, Mikey!” Now having Mikey not eat it - I’m not sure what that would prove. He doesn’t like good stuff, so not eating Life would prove nothing about the taste of the cereal. I guess I’m questioning the scientic method used by 8 year olds. And have been since the commmercial was new. (In the intertests of full disclosure, I have been eating Life for breakfast since the 70s.) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/43 "2021-05-27T03:27:49Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Get Dr. Ross dog food and do him the favor. It’s got more meat, and its got more flavor. Its got more meat to make him feel the way he sho–uld. Dr. Ross dog food is doggone good. Woof! > > It was a song, so it was easier to remember. It was also animated, and the last two sentences were sung by a Scottish terrier in a deep baritone. I remembering this often, with a silly grin on my face. Didn’t it sometimes run during the weekly Gillette Boxing matches? Fun Factoid: Dr. Ross was a real person, a Spokane veterinarian. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/44 "2021-05-27T07:13:12Z")
"Hot dogs! ARMOUR hot dogs! "What kinds of kids eat Armour hot dogs? "Fat kids! skinny kids! "Kids who climb on rocks! "Tough kids! Sissy kids! "Even kids with chicken pox! "Eat hot dogs! "ARMOUR hot dogs! "The dogs "Kids "Love "To "Eeeeat! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/45 "2021-05-27T07:41:53Z")
I was just humming this one to myself and I think the last line should be: "The dogs "Kids "Love "To “Biiiiite!” ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/46 "2021-05-27T10:57:03Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > "The dogs > > "Kids > > "Love > > "To > > “Biiiiite!” I always thought the last word was “Munch!”. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/47 "2021-05-27T11:21:17Z")
If station idents count, then it’s probably footage of a grain elevator set to the five-second jingle, “[CKOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKOS-TV) is lookin’ good on you!” I bet @Northern_Piper knows what I’m talking about. If station idents don’t count, then it’s the “I can’t get over Ovaltine!” commercial, whose lyrics and melody I can sing perfectly to the present day. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tWbuVq-QNPk/maxresdefault.jpg "Ovaltine "I Can't Get Over Ovaltine" commercial (1985)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWbuVq-QNPk) There are some even earlier commercials I remember, but probably not in their entirety. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/48 "2021-05-27T12:58:57Z")
I was thinking of this one on the bus this morning \*Once there was a boy who was an engineer. Choo Choo Charlie was his name we hear. He had an engine and he sure had fun. He had Good and Plenty candy to make his train run Charlie says, “Love my Good and Plenty.” Charlie says, “Really rings a bell.” Charlie says, “Love my Good and Plenty, don’t know any other candy that I love so well.”\* Love so well? Charlie probably spent a lot of time correcting other people’s grammar. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/49 "2021-05-27T14:02:33Z")
Sometimes you feel like a nut, Sometimes you don’t! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/50 "2021-05-27T14:16:52Z")
Local Baltimore dairy commercial, circa 1964: Milk and butter and eggs and cheese Fresh from the farm to you. So, if you don’t own a cow Call Cloverland now, it’s NO(rth)9-2222. [(Featuring very early Jim Henson work)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soCHae6p198&ab_channel=TheJimHensonCompanyTheJimHensonCompany) 1960’s Baltimore had some boffo commercials/jingles. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/51 "2021-05-27T15:22:27Z")
There’s an otter-ly fantastic place Waiting for you in Otter Space So come with us in our otter-mobile There’s an otter-matic shift on the steering wheel And you can fly… Otter Pops, Otter Pops You get 'em at the grocery store ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/52 "2021-05-27T16:08:51Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > I bet @Northern_Piper knows what I’m talking about. I certainly do! 😀 “The Shamrock station” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/53 "2021-05-27T16:10:11Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I always thought the last word was “Munch!”. I think it was “Bite” , to flip around the idea of a dog biting a person? ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/54 "2021-05-27T18:02:55Z")
It was. Girls at my elementary school had a hand clap game that was done to an extended version of the Oreo commercial. That was forty years ago, and I still remember the chant and movements. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/55 "2021-05-27T18:06:18Z")
"Lite Brite Making things with light What a sight Making things with Lite Brite! (spoken) Lite Brite! The colorful pegs that let you make beautiful patterns with light!" (Repeat of jingle) ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/56 "2021-05-27T18:55:47Z")
I’m pretty sure it was “bite,” too. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/57 "2021-05-27T19:03:23Z")
And it was! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3fQwJdXFQlU/hqdefault.jpg "VINTAGE 1967 ARMOUR HOT DOGS COMMERCIAL - KIDS MARCHING & SINGING") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fQwJdXFQlU) ---
**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:** [May 27, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/58 "2021-05-27T19:06:20Z")
There’s a cooking show on local (Toronto) TV in which the host pronounces “Worcestershire” as “Wor-SHES-ter-shy-er.” Every time he does it, I want to scream “LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY, FER CHRISSAKES!” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/59 "2021-05-27T19:33:04Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > I remembering this often, with a silly grin on my face. Didn’t it sometimes run during the weekly Gillette Boxing matches? Ha, don’t know. I know I didn’t watch boxing matches as a kid, and neither did my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/60 "2021-05-27T21:18:07Z")
I remember a Duncan Hines cake mix commercial where they are doing a blind taste test, and the guy says: “This, to me, is what a cake, to me, should taste like“ Just a weird thing to say, and they used it in their commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917/61 "2021-05-27T22:31:27Z")
Where’s Merlin now? Daddy, come clean! In the kitchen with Mom Playing “music machine” Beep beep beep beep. Clearly Mom had too much time on her hands. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-tv-commercial-you-remember-verbatim/942917.md?page=4)