# Favorite TV commercials from your childhood **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578 "2010-03-15T19:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Doody\_Pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@Doody\_Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doody_Pants)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/81 "2010-03-30T22:18:56Z")
When I was a kid in the 70s there was another VD PSA that I used to sing all the time. It went “Veeee Deeee… gets around” and there was some bushy-haired guy with a backpack walking away. I remember my mother telling me to stop singing it and not knowing why, lol. Another one I sang constantly was “I hanker for a hunk-a, a slab a slice a chunk-a, I hanker for a piece of cheeeese!” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/82 "2010-03-30T22:29:31Z")
_Wash your hands after going to the bathroom Wash your hands after changing baby too Cause we don’t want to get hepatitis And we don’t want hepatitis to get you Who? You!_ ---
**Author:** ![Pray\_for\_peace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pray\_for\_peace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pray_for_peace)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/83 "2010-03-30T23:02:36Z")
[Have a Coke and a Smile, Mean Joe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffOCZYX6F8) ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/84 "2010-03-30T23:33:59Z")
I seem to be almost the only one who remembers: Saturday night, Saturday night go downtown, see the sites girls and pinball, Coke in bright lights wish everyday for Saturday night Coca Cola adds life When the lights are bright Wish every day for Saturday night… and on I thought I was very clever in reversing everything I could in that. ETA: Found it! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxvF1gkMKc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxvF1gkMKc) ---
**Author:** ![Recliner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@Recliner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recliner)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/85 "2010-03-31T04:09:32Z")
I miss Little Caesar’s – not so much for the pizza (although it was cheap), but because their ads were really, really funny (and often absurdist). I’m looking for my favorite, but here’s one that’s hilariously weird. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KgMmkl0ir5U/hqdefault.jpg "Little Caesar Commercial - Classic from the '80s") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgMmkl0ir5U) Man, that’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/86 "2010-03-31T19:10:41Z")
And then there was Schaefer Beer. “Schaefer is the one beer to have when you’re having more than one.” ---
**Author:** ![Doody\_Pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@Doody\_Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doody_Pants)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/87 "2010-04-01T00:59:35Z")
Oh, I just remembered the singing pills… "we’re not candy (believe us!), even though we look so fine and dandy, when you’re sick we come in handy BUT we’re not candy! (ooooh no!) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/88 "2010-04-01T16:18:52Z")
_From the land of sky blue waters_ It was actually the bear I liked in that commercial. Someone upthread already mentioned the Nestle’s commercial with the puppet dog. I liked that one too, I think his name was Farfel(sp?) ---
**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:** [April 1, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/89 "2010-04-01T17:24:26Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Someone upthread already mentioned the Nestle’s commercial with the puppet dog. I liked that one too, I think his name was Farfel(sp?) Correct. Paul Winchell(v) and Jerry Mahoney, Farfel, as well as Mike Mahogany and Knucklehead. It still cracks me up to hear the way Farfels mouth slams shut after the word “chock, late” (WHAP!) . ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/90 "2010-04-01T18:54:50Z")
Meet Cal Worthington, and his dog Spot! Only, Spot was never a dog! ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/91 "2010-04-01T20:00:10Z")
Oh, Cal Worthington is still a touchstone in So. Cal. I don’t see commercials much any more, but Wiki says he still appears sometimes in the tv commercials. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/92 "2010-04-02T02:06:33Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > It still cracks me up to hear the way Farfels mouth slams shut after the word “chock, late” (WHAP!) I can’t find the reference now, but Jimmy Nelson didn’t mean for that to happen. But everybody thought it was funny and they left it in. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/93 "2010-04-02T05:53:58Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I can’t find the reference now, but Jimmy Nelson didn’t mean for that to happen. But everybody thought it was funny and they left it in. Cool! I didn’t know that. Who is Jimmy Nelson? I always assumed Paul Winchell was the voice of Farfel. . ---
**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:** [April 2, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/94 "2010-04-02T06:05:45Z")
Holy Cow! All my life I thought Paul Winchell, with Jerry Mahoney, Mike Mahogany, and Knucklehead, also included Farfel. Moments ago I learned that the Nestle’s Quik commercials were Jimmy Nelson, with Danny O’Day and Farfel. Possibly the most valuable knowledge I’ve gained from The Straight Dope. . ---
**Author:** ![ScatteredFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@ScatteredFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScatteredFrog)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578/95 "2010-04-04T04:44:58Z")
> [@Doody\_Pants](#): > > Could it be this one? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgZHZpiq1U](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgZHZpiq1U) Nope – again, there’s no semi-rotating creepy smiling puppet face at the end…also, IIRC, the commercial/PSA/whatever in question wasn’t animated, it was live…I could be wrong, though… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-tv-commercials-from-your-childhood/532578.md?page=4)