# Let's remember our favorite 70s TV commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883 "2006-02-10T17:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/1 "2006-02-10T17:57:55Z")
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” “You ate it, Ralph.” “Mama mia, that’s a spicy meatball.” “Hey, they left their keys in the car. Let’s go for a riiiiide!” ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/2 "2006-02-10T18:02:14Z")
To-oo GET right to the heart of the matter, where there’s smoke, where there’s smoke, where there’s smoke! Where there’s smoke there’s fire and the danger of heart and lung disease. Johnny Smoke! Johnny Smoke! Join the unhooked generation. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/3 "2006-02-10T18:07:43Z")
I’m not sure if this is from the late 70s or early 80s, but: “Hector, get up and go to school!” “I don’t wanna go to school.” “But you have to go to school.” (Later, in school…) “Hector, read the next page.” “Jonny went to the wah… wah… I don’t wanna do dis.” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/4 "2006-02-10T18:19:41Z")
I seem to remember a commercial about some guy who got chocolate on some other guy’s peanut butter. Does anyone remember this? It’s probably pretty obscure. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/5 "2006-02-10T18:22:49Z")
Early celebrity sightings (mostly '70s, IIRC): \*\*John Travolta \*\* singing “I am stuck on band-aid, 'cause Band-Aid’s stuck on me!” **Farrah Fawcett** watching **Joe Namath** “get creamed”. And a PSA: The anti-smoking ad, “Like father, like son? Think about it, won’t you?” (could be late '60s) ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/6 "2006-02-10T18:23:59Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > I seem to remember a commercial about some guy who got chocolate on some other guy’s peanut butter. Does anyone remember this? It’s probably pretty obscure. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (great campaign!) ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/7 "2006-02-10T18:25:10Z")
Never heard of them. (Like I said, must be pretty obscure.) ---
**Author:** ![squeekster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@squeekster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeekster)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/8 "2006-02-10T18:25:39Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > I seem to remember a commercial about some guy who got chocolate on some other guy’s peanut butter. Does anyone remember this? It’s probably pretty obscure. That was a commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. “Hey, you got chocolate in my peanut butter. No, you got peanut butter on my chocolate.” (Or something like that.) I always loved the ones for Wendy’s with Clara Peller. “Hey, Where’s the Beef?” ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/9 "2006-02-10T18:29:59Z")
“Oh, I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…I’d like to buy the world a Coke…” “I’m a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too!” (The Dr. Pepper one might be early 80s-my memory is a bit fuzzy) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/10 "2006-02-10T18:41:27Z")
Probably late-70s. “Choo-Choo Charlie…” “Don’t squeeze the Charmin!” “Butter? Parkaaaaay.” And Schoolhouse Rock. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/11 "2006-02-10T18:49:23Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > And a PSA: The anti-smoking ad, “Like father, like son? Think about it, won’t you?” (could be late '60s) Holy crap, that brings me back! “He likes it! Hey Mikey!” “Pretty sneaky, sis.” Anyone remember this?: The camera pans along a long table. In the background are the sounds of a dinner party. The table is overladen with all sorts of delicious foods. When the camera gets to the end of the table, we see Starvin’ Marvin eating gruel from a wooden bowl. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/12 "2006-02-10T19:00:54Z")
(song) - “You’ve come a long way baby, to get where you’ve got to today. You’ve got your own cigarette now, baby. You’ve come a long, long way!” Virginia Slims - the choice of the bra burners. Remember “Aim” toothpaste? The spokeslady seemed belligerantly defensive in saying, “Aim has fluoride, Aim fights cavities.” Anita Bryant insisting, “Aw-range juice is NOT jus’ fa’ brefix anymore.” ---
**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/13 "2006-02-10T19:10:13Z")
“Only _you_ can prevent forest fires” gave me a bad case of paranoia when I was a kid. “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down” “Hey, you sank my battleship!” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/14 "2006-02-10T20:13:10Z")
This was for an anti-perspirant, maybe Mitchum. It was supposed to be so strong you could didn’t have to use it every day. Anyhow, it had a guy with no shirt sitting up in bed proudly announcing, “I didn’t use my anti-perspirant yesterday, and I may not use it today!” Just plain weird! ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/15 "2006-02-10T20:27:31Z")
Would you believe it? I’m cleaning my oven! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/16 "2006-02-10T20:38:13Z")
The Reese’s peanut butter cups commercials were a favorite of mine. As well as Almond Joy and Mounds - “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.” And for some reason I really loved the Chuck Wagon dog food commercials with the little chuck wagon rolling around the kitchen. And I loved the article a few years back on The Onion. [Family Dog Suspected Cause of Miniature Chuck-Wagon Disaster](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29638) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/17 "2006-02-10T20:41:33Z")
[/Florence Henderson] Oh Fab! We’re glad we came back to you… They’re always doing something good to Fab, it’s true! Oh, Fab! We’re glad they put lemon-freshened Borax in you! [/Florence Henderson] Also, Sandy Duncan in a wheat field (for Wheat Thins). ---
**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/18 "2006-02-10T20:43:55Z")
“Calgon, take me away.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/19 "2006-02-10T21:00:18Z")
There was the one with Gene Shallit’s long lost brother playing pool, and just as he’s taking his shot, a spectator bites into a Dorito. The pool player slips and rips the pool table felt. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop? Let’s find out. One. Two-hoo. Three. _crunch_ Three. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883/20 "2006-02-10T21:15:26Z")
Crying Indians\* as Miss Molly American dumps what has to be a weeks worth of garbage outside of her speeding car. “Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down!” Rosie, the Quicker Picker-Upper. (In case you didn’t know, “Rosie” was the person who directed the Village People vehicle “Can’t Stop the Music”). \*Now “Native Americans”, but in 1972 they were “Indians” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-remember-our-favorite-70s-tv-commercials/343883.md?page=2)